Chapter 341 Xiao Zhang's Schoolmate's Famous Scene
The media said that Li Bin was one of the three men standing behind Hu Weiwei, and coincidentally, Xie Jingxing was also one of them.

Starting from the Jiaotong University Entrepreneurship Camp last year, from the two parties investing in the Mobike project to the introduction of Didi’s shareholding, the event related to new energy vehicle manufacturing has finally come true today.

"This is Mr. Yan, the person in charge of Didi's strategic investment business." Xie Jingxing helped to introduce.

"Mr. Yan, Didi's support for Mobike is obvious to all. Please continue to take care of us in the future."

Li Bin extended his arms and said with a friendly smile: "We financial investors are the ones who benefit from the benefits, and we must thank you."

"The future of the Mobike project lies in Hu Weiwei's hands, and it requires the sincere cooperation of all investors."

Yan Wenhua shook hands with him calmly, and the two of them were carried in a fancy sedan chair, speaking politely and seemingly meaningless words.

Xie Jingxing listened attentively without interrupting and nodded from time to time. Hu Weiwei observed his expressions and followed his example, listening patiently.

There is a difference between a hipster and a fool. She knows very well what the capital bureau behind Mobike is planning, but from the beginning of the year to now, Li Bin has invested in Dida Hitch twice in a row in his personal capacity and through his Yiche.com platform.

Didi Hitch was originally a group buying platform that was struggling to survive after experiencing the war of thousands of group buying platforms. Last year, it saw the merger of Ele.me and Dianping.com and Baidu's full acquisition of Nuomi.com. The entire group buying war was divided into three parts and there was no place for it to survive.

With no other options, it transformed into the online car-hailing business, just like Baidu Waimai, taking advantage of the fact that the big two were preparing for war and hiding for a while. It also took a different approach and specialized in the "carpooling business" segment, trying to avoid the battle between Didi and Uber China to the greatest extent possible.

Didi's carpooling business has actually been successful with this more extreme low-end business approach than Didi's. Without considering that Didi and Uber's subsidies are too fierce, the aftermath alone makes it difficult for them to raise money in the capital market. The business growth rate is quite impressive and the development momentum is good.

Against this backdrop, Yan Wenhua had reason to be dissatisfied with the fact that Li Bin invested in two rounds of Didi and Uber to take up the remaining 10% of the online ride-hailing market share.

We agreed to work together to develop new energy vehicles, but you turned around and supported our competitors. This is why Cheng Wei used the excuse of being busy and did not show up in person today. Liu Qing wanted to have a good talk with him in person, but was angered by his dirty talk.

Li Bin may also be unhappy. I just founded NIO at the end of last year and agreed to start financing this year and then we can talk about it. As a result, you quietly announced the establishment of your own car manufacturing business.

——They chose a crappy brand name called D1, and they want to be the market leader? Are the homophonic puns funny? It’s ridiculous!
So the two of them can stand here and have a friendly conversation at this moment, no matter what they talk about specifically, even if it is just about which store’s fruit plate watermelon is not sweet, it is very meaningful!

Xie Jingxing could only listen and could not say anything. Putting aside the complicated relationship with Tencent and Alibaba, which was in opposition and cooperation at the same time, even in the field of transportation, Taihe's investment in Huolala had just completed a round A financing of 3000 million US dollars.

There is no way. As long as Didi wants to monopolize, or any company wants to monopolize the market, such embarrassing situations are inevitable.

"There shouldn't be anything to do after the press conference, right? How about we go somewhere else to chat?"

Seeing that Li Bin and Yan Wenhua were getting into the conversation and were about to get down to business, Hu Weiwei made a timely suggestion, paving the way for both parties.

Xie Jingxing raised his eyebrows: "I just remembered that you have been to Beijing before. You should show your hospitality as a host in Beijing."

"No problem. It depends on what you want to play and eat." Hu Weiwei asked.

Li Bin was familiar with the place and said enthusiastically, "Let's go to your little yard. We can buy some vegetables on the way. How about having mutton hotpot for lunch?"

"Very reliable. I saw a video of Hu Weiwei playing guitar in a small yard on WeChat Moments. It seems she even planted a grape trellis, right?"

Yan Wenhua commented with emotion: "It's true that what kind of founder decides what kind of project. No wonder Mobike's shared bikes look different from other shared bikes when parked on the roadside. They are full of sentiment."

Allowing the two men to tease her, Hu Weiwei raised her hand to tuck the hair around her ears, blinked and glanced at Xie Jingxing, the teardrop mole under her eyes made her face look innocent, gentle and a little casual.

For men like Li Bin and Yan Wenhua, the appearance of the opposite sex doesn’t matter, but the emotional value must be full.

But Xie Jingxing seemed to be an exception. From the beginning, he neither liked nor hated this set of ideas, and he always looked at her indifferently without any fluctuation.

“Tell Zheng Zhe that I respect quantitative trading models but I respect the market more. The market trend over the past six months has not met any trading factors, so I must intervene in subjective investment strategies when necessary!”

The four of them drove to Hu Weiwei's bungalow. She, Yan Wenhua and Li Bin went to the supermarket to buy some food, while Xie Jingxing stayed in the car to answer the phone.

After buying groceries, two men walked behind her carrying large bags of food. She returned to the parking lot first with a few cups of milk tea and vaguely heard a conversation coming from the car.

Just as he was hesitating whether to stand there and wait for a while, Xie Jingxing hung up the phone, leaned out of the car window with his hand and asked, "What did you buy?"

"Yinshan Tea's Longjing Milk Green Tea is delicious." Hu Weiwei pointed to the packaging bag in her hand, which had a white background and a black print with the facial makeup of a female role in a play.

The two milk tea brands Yinshan and Budu have not only led the national fashion trend since the Paris Fashion Week at the beginning of the year, but also inexplicably hit the health factor by using only milk + tea ingredients. In addition, they have sponsored CCTV's traditional cultural variety show "Chengyi Conference" and collaborated with the Forbidden City.

Yinshan Tea is extremely popular in Beijing. As Budu has yet to open a store in Beijing, people cannot get a taste of it even though they want to. Some people even take the high-speed train to Zhengzhou to drink it.

Hu Weiwei got into the car and said, "Our publicity department proposed to collaborate with Yinshan Tea Language."

"I'm not in charge of their marketing operations now. You can talk to Cui A Liu directly." Xie Jing Xing opened the straw and drank the milk tea.

"I heard from her that you didn't attend the Jiaotong University Entrepreneurship Camp this year. We're not the first and last batch of students you've taught, are we?"

Without waiting for a response, Hu Weiwei jumped back to the previous topic without any connection: "Budu's tone is more suitable for a joint venture with Mobike."

Xie Jingxing did not comment, thinking about the call from Tang Man just now. The liquidation operation of the Grapefruit Capital Active Investment Strategy Securities Team, which lasted for more than a month, was completed and the stock market was completely cleared. The net profit was 1537 billion yuan. Counting various prepaid taxes and leverage rates, the total profit was several billion higher.

As the old saying goes, "safe money brings peace of mind", but for him it is the exact opposite. "Safety brings anxiety", the kind of anxiety that comes with having money.

While he was racking his brains to think of how to spend the money, Zheng Zhe, the investment manager of the Grapefruit quantitative trading team, added to the confusion. He agreed that the stock market bubble was too high and the subsequent investment strategy tended to be conservative to prevent the risk of profit drawdown.

However, we do not approve of the boss's simple and crude intervention through subjective judgment.

"Hey, what are you thinking about?" Hu Weiwei poked his arm to remind him.

The straw made a swishing sound, and Xie Jingxing came back to his senses and squeezed the empty milk tea cup: "What's wrong?"

"I heard that you are getting married, congratulations." Hu Weiwei looked at the small mirror on the roof sun visor.

Xie Jingxing stretched his hand out of the window and aimed at the trash can not far away and threw it hard. The breeze blew the milk tea cup in the air and it deviated from its trajectory and fell to the ground with a plop.

"Thank you." He pushed the door open with a dejected grin, got out of the car and went to pick up the cup.

"..."

Hu Weiwei was speechless, looking at Xie Jingxing's back, holding up the milk tea with both hands and sipping it, her eyes, which were made more innocent and casual by the teardrop mole under her eyes.

She really wanted to attend his wedding, just out of curiosity, what kind of woman would he be willing to marry in a formal ceremony... Was it a marriage between two families or was it because of love... Liu'er didn't receive an invitation either, she seemed to be very busy with work recently...

"Domestic traditional car brands are less competitive, and the tariff costs of foreign brands in China remain high, so we can believe that a new energy car brand comparable to Tesla will emerge in China."

Yan Wenhua and Li Bin walked back to the parking lot side by side, carrying large bags of food, and their conversation naturally escalated to the main topic.

Xie Jingxing helped put the food into the trunk and joined the conversation, adding his analysis: "The key is that Tesla's performance in the capital market in the past two years has been too good, and no other company in the industry can match it."

"This is difficult for the capital market to accept. We all know that the new energy vehicle market is large enough to accommodate the second and third unicorn brands, and we know even more clearly that Musk is an uncontrollable founder."

Xie Jingxing closed the trunk door manually with a muffled sound, and corrected, "So it's not that we can believe that there will be a new energy vehicle brand comparable to Tesla in China, but that the entire domestic capital industry cannot tolerate Musk's inability to invest in Tesla, and needs to successfully replicate a new energy vehicle project that can make a lot of money."

Yan Wenhua and Li Bin were both silent. Ever since Musk came to Shanghai last year and personally handed over the Model S car keys to the first batch of Tesla users in China, new energy vehicles have become a market that all relevant parties in China, from capital to the car manufacturing industry, have been scratching their heads in anxiety.

Whether new energy will carry the strategic dream of smart cars or overtake others to achieve glory for the domestic automobile industry, these are all matters for the future.

The reason why we are all gathered here today is that this thing is really profitable. Tesla is making a lot of money, so we can make money too!

Everyone knew that they had the same expectations, but Xie Jingxing's words were a brainless move. If you don't let me eat, I will copy you and force myself to eat. He had a bit of the temperament of a grumpy old man.

"NIO has established subsidiary research institutes in Germany, the UK and the US this year, and is preparing to hire the designer of BMW i series models as the design director. I plan to spend 100 billion yuan in two years to make the first model."

After finding out that Marshal Xie's style of doing things was exactly the same as the rumors said, Li Bin stopped pretending and just came clean, trying his best to be as ostentatious as possible.

Aren’t you rich and love to spend money? What a coincidence! Investing in NIO is a perfect match for you!
As for the embarrassment with Didi, he even took investment from his lifelong enemy Li Xiang, so these minor details didn't matter to him.

Yan Wenhua didn't care at all. Didi Taxi would at most make him feel disgusted, but it would never become a real crisis in his life.

"I personally invested $1.5 million in NIO, and Hillhouse Capital, Shunwei Capital, and Li Xiang have successively invested $1 million in the past six months."

Hu Weiwei sat in the driver's seat quietly playing the role of driver. The atmosphere in the car entered the rhythm of a work meeting. Li Bin sat in the back seat, holding the front seat with one hand, while his body slightly leaning towards Yan Wenhua.

He controlled his excitement a little and said, "Then I recently talked to Tencent and Liu Qiangdong separately, and they also want to invest in it, so I think we should just do a formal A round of financing, and you can join together."

A car-making plan that didn't even exist on the PPT was able to attract Zhang Lei of Hillhouse Capital, Shunwei Capital of Xiaomi, Li Xiang of Autohome, Didi of Tencent, JD.com, and Xie Jingxing of Xiyou.

It is hard not to be excited by such an investment lineup. At the same time, it also shows the desire of domestic capital for new energy vehicles. Li Bin did some mental calculations and continued, "Tencent has 3000 million US dollars, JD.com has 2000 million, and you two can also pool 5000 million?"

"Zhang Zetian?" Xie Jingxing smiled inexplicably.

Li Bin was stunned and didn't understand what was going on. He thought to himself, are you having a relationship with Brother Qiangdong's concubine?

"Don't try to get together. Let's see how much equity NIO can squeeze out. I'll take whatever you can take and the rest."

Xie Jingxing sat in the passenger seat and looked back at Yan Wenhua with a smile, then turned his gaze to the road ahead: "After the mobile Internet boom, it will be advanced manufacturing."

"I bet hundreds of billions of funds on the semiconductor manufacturing industry, and the new energy vehicle manufacturing industry. It's not good to be so far away from each other, only 100 billion."

The legendary Li Bin came to visit and talked about new energy vehicles for twenty minutes. My husband only took 15 seconds to think and said yes - the innocent and lovely schoolmate Xiao Zhang last year can now talk about this famous scene.

As a senior, he would have to earn dozens of times more to continue to be the man she couldn't get. Xie Jingxing had a bad taste in his mouth.

(End of this chapter)