After Divorce, I Can Hear the Future

"Where is Liu Qing?"

Excusing himself from the crowd, Lu Liang left the venue, suddenly realizing that there was a woman's figure missing among the people.

"Just as you were revealing the surprise, Mr. Liu had already left," Xu Jiawei replied.

"Most successful people have benefitted from the bonus of the times." Lu Liang chuckled lightly, not taking it too seriously.

He once thought that Lotus, managed by Liu Qing, would become Tianxing's biggest domestic competitor.

It seems he overestimated Liu Qing, without a mature supply system, a launch price of nearly 700,000 for a coupe can be understood.

But for the second car, they still couldn't let go of the old supercar brand from the UK, setting such a high price was purely courting death.

After all, like NIO, daring to sell at high prices is backed by the concept of battery swapping, and they've already gone public in the U.S., allowing them to finance from the market.

In contrast, Lotus has nothing, and being held by Lenovo has excluded it from Geely's system, leaving only sentiments.

First earn the market, then make money.

Who knows if Liu Qing is being unrealistic or blinded by resentment, even thinking of challenging Tianxing Yao Guang.

Yao Guang, relying on the most mature new energy industry chain system nationwide, with Lu Liang being the talent scout for those suppliers.

He can get every part at the lowest price, an advantage even Tesla and BYD can only look up to, what does Lotus count as?

However, this also shows that DiDi's success relies on the bonus of the times, on the accumulation of resources, related to Liu Qing but not much.

At noon, twelve o'clock, 23 minutes after Yao Guang was launched, the reservation volume broke 10,000, but in the first hour of 37 minutes, the total volume was only 13,500 units.

The news sparked a heated discussion among netizens, as the predicted large reservation volume obviously fell short.

"Only 13,500 units, why so few?"

"You're even more clueless than Lu Liang, honestly think 350,000 isn't a luxury car?"

"Don't look at how online people average annual income of millions, but in reality, few have a monthly income over 10,000."

"After all, this price matches the BMW X3, Audi Q5, Mercedes GLC, how many BBAs are there in reality?"

"Oh no, I thought it would be like Tianshu, where I could be a scalper and sell at a high price, can I get a refund for the 10,000 deposit?"

"Ridiculous, stop dreaming, back when Tianshu was launched, there was a rush to place orders, Liangzi was willing to refund at the time, but he also stated, never again, either give up the 10,000 deposit or honestly buy the car."

"Mr. Lu, please, save the children~~"

A lot of people who couldn't afford the car but wanted to be scalpers were @ Lu Liang, hoping he would show mercy again.

Yet all messages vanished into thin air, making even onlookers unable to muster any sympathy.

Trying to be a villain but ended up as a fool. One could only say, karma eventually comes around, heaven spares no one.

That afternoon, many capital institution leaders arrived in Su City, including domestic ones like Bank of China, Citic, Redwood, Golden Sand River, and international ones like Softbank, Temasek, BlackRock, Vanguard, etc.

Without exception, all were for the Tianxing Automobile open financing conference on the afternoon of the 20th.

Because Yao Guang's success means Tianxing Automobile has firmly seated as the top among domestic luxury brands, Tianshu's success was no accident.

Though the 48 billion US dollar valuation is somewhat inflated, capital institutions often consider not just internal factors but external ones as well.

The sales of Tianxing Automobile's two cars and the market acceptance belong to internal factors, while Lu Liang's presence belongs to external factors.

Just like Tesla's market cap returning to 200 billion US dollars, already surpassing the century-old General Motors and Ford Group.

In terms of actual company value and brand effect, Tesla is definitely far inferior to General Motors and Ford.

But Musk excels at stirring things up, not only launching the Starlink Program but also clamoring about migrating to Mars.

Other companies provide personal empowerment through their brands, while Tesla is Musk empowering the brand.

Tianxing Automobile is also Lu Liang empowering the brand, especially considering his main occupation is in the financial industry.

Once Tianxing Automobile is listed, its price-earnings ratio will definitely look up to Tesla, perhaps even surpassing it.

At that time, 48 billion US dollars would not only become the market cap but might even add another zero.

So the institutions assess that it's not too late to get on board now, there's still profit to be made.

"What enthusiasm indeed."

Lu Liang learned this with a peculiar smile on his face, "I wonder if their tears will fall when the divestiture plan is announced?"

"Certainly not." Wang Xiaofeng shook his head, if the growth momentum is maintained, by the fastest by the end of next year, Tianxing Automobile will achieve profitability.

So even if Tianxing Automobile doesn't go public but simply spins off General Tianxing's equity to list independently, the investment institutions won't lose.

"You don't understand them, earning less is equivalent to losing money."

Lu Liang joked with a smile, "Profit sharing is worth just a few bucks, listing and selling equity is where the big money is."

After this round of financing, Tianxing Automobile's development is no longer short of funds; it's also sufficient to sustain till the day it becomes profitable.

Lu Liang plans to extract General Tianxing's equity and join forces with General Motors to push General Tianxing to land on NASDAQ.

In the new energy field, his ultimate target has always been Tesla.

But Tesla's toughest challenge is not only its tri-electric coordination technology but also its unrivaled influence in the capital market.

Even though it's been shorted by Lu Liang several times before, with its market cap even once falling below 100 billion USD, none of it caused fundamental damage.

Because offline and online are two-dimensional battlefields, unless absolute power is formed to crush, it's difficult to use offline influence to impact Tesla's online capital position.

Therefore, to completely defeat Tesla, merely focusing efforts in the offline market is insufficient; forming a direct competitive relationship online would be best.

Pushing General Tianxing's listing is precisely to confront Tesla head-to-head in the online market.

Only when defeated in its two most proficient fields will it be truly a failure.

Otherwise, it's like Guan Gong fighting Qin Qiong, not belonging to the same era, how can one judge who is stronger?

Although Lu Liang mentioned this market is enormous, so large that even with just East Country, it could birth several luxury brands and numerous affordable brands, Tianxing and Tesla don't necessarily have to be competitors.

But three years later, Tesla's 1.2 trillion US dollar market cap remains a thorn in his heart.

Take Apple as an example; the global market only has Android and Apple phones, yet even now its market cap is just over 900 billion USD.

The 1.2 trillion USD Tesla, what kind of behemoth is that, Lu Liang can't imagine, so he has to crush it.

Tesla must fall from the pedestal for Tianxing to have a chance to become the new god.

Taking a step back, deploying national resources to develop electric cars, there's no reason to let a foreign enterprise harvest the biggest peach.

At dusk, Lu Liang concluded his meetings, left the company, and initially set short, medium, and long-term strategic goals.

Short-term, build phase two factories to increase production capacity, striving to compress delivery cycle to within eight weeks.

Medium-term, join forces with General Motors to promote General Tianxing's listing in the U.S., face Tesla head-to-head.

Long-term, research and develop incremental, plug-in hybrid, hybrid, and internal combustion engine technologies to maintain competitiveness.

At night, Lu Liang returned to the hotel, without visiting Li Manli's place, planning to give Little Lu a break tonight.

Just after a shower, lying in bed scrolling through his phone, he suddenly received a message: "How have you been lately? Have you thought about me?"

"Yes, not a day goes by without thinking."

Lu Liang couldn't help but laugh, opened his friend circle, and saw a rich and generous girl.

Since Tian Xi joined the Qingyu Nian group as the female lead, they hadn't been in touch for a long time.

Mutual contact was minimal, because messages usually sent over half an hour later, even if Lu Liang saw them, he'd read without replying.

"Liar, you miss me, why didn't you contact?" Tian Xi sent a panda-eye expression pack.

"Thinking in stolen moments, but afraid to disturb your filming, so I dare not contact." Lu Liang said with a smile.

"Really?"

"Genuine."

"I'm filming at Huayi Brothers' studio."

Lu Liang clicked his tongue and looked out the window, roughly towards the southeast, there was a film base.

Initially, Tianxing District almost settled there, but the space was too small, and ancient buildings couldn't be demolished, so it was abandoned.

"Why? No words? Playing cool?" Tian Xi continuously sent voice messages, sounding increasingly aggrieved, albeit she hinted so strongly.

Lu Liang thought for a moment, then got up to stretch his waist, feeling he could still withstand, he said with a smile, "I'll send someone to pick you up, I happen to stay nearby."

"Alright." Tian Xi beamed, immediately sending over detailed location: "Send me the car's license plate when you arrive, I'll sneak out, the director won't allow me to leave during filming."