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Chapter 1444: Chapter 1290: Mobilization (Please subscribe!)
The next day.
Early in the morning.
Pan Yue went to pick up the bride.
Luckily,
Dou Jiao did not live in the downtown area, otherwise, today being a Saturday, the roads in Beijing could easily become congested. If there were any delays, making the guests wait could be quite embarrassing.
For this.
The pick-up location was chosen to be Dou Jiao’s grandfather’s ancestral home.
From picking up to sending off,
no need to enter the city.
...
At eight in the morning.
On the outskirts of Beijing.
A long wedding convoy was driving on the road.
Pedestrians stopped one after another,
some even crazily taking photos with their mobile phones.
This scene,
even in Beijing, was not common.
Because the leading six vehicles were not any Rolls-Royces, Mercedez-Benzs, BMWs, or Cayenne Audis, but uniformly top-of-the-line ’March’ models, their huge, fierce bodies fully impactful visually.
Stripped-down price of sixteen million RMB.
After all the procedures were completed,
close to twenty million RMB, rightly can be called the ’number one civilian luxury car’ domestically. There are more expensive ones, but among those manufactured in Huaxia, ’March’ is undisputedly the most expensive.
The entire Beijing,
does not have more than twenty, probably some second-generation rich getting married.
Out of these six,
two belonged to Chai Ren and Zheng Lin.
Bao Kaiyu and Zhai Zhihua also each bought one at the beginning of this month as a form of repayment. Last month, they made so much money on the Myanmar stock, and had liked this Myanmar-series car for a long time. As soon as they had money, they supported it.
Moreover,
Chai Ren,
Zheng Lin,
Tang Qing,
Tang Kai,
Wangsa,
Wei Jun,
these people in the circle each owned one or several ’March’ cars, and still driving cars worth several millions felt quite inadequate; at least sometimes when needed, there’s no need to borrow.
What’s more,
the safety performance of this car is really top-notch.
In the promotional video.
When a cement tanker truck ran over, it couldn’t even crush the alloy steel frame of this car. In terms of crash resistance, it’s almost at the ’stay away if you value your life’ level; any ordinary car that collides with it will soon understand what it means to be an ant shaking a tree.
The most important thing is,
it retains its value very well.
Probably because there are no competitors.
This car,
up to now,
has not dropped even a single yuan in price, even with the company citing rises in labor, materials, and research and development costs, the price went up by three hundred thousand RMB since it was first released, and it is considered quite the talk of the industry.
It’s not just this car.
Even other models of the company,
are just as proudly uncompromising.
They never reduce their prices.
Logically,
such a car company should have been critically challenged by consumer data, unfortunately, consumers also seem to have a bit of a ’masochistic’ tendency. Seeing not a penny drop in price, it instead ignited many people’s buying passion.
Moreover, they are fearless.
Because it is a Myanmar company, its cars are almost not worried about sales, as most are resold back to Myanmar and sell incredibly well. They have a stable and almost monopolistic market, which emboldens them to be this ’arrogant’.
...
In the car.
Next to Pan Yue,
was his groomsmen at the wedding—Shen Yi.
As Pan Yue’s childhood friend, when getting married, it was natural for Pan Yue to recruit him. Due to being busy with work, he even added a night shift yesterday and didn’t take Tang Qing’s airplane. He arrived in Beijing only at one in the morning.
"You guys, finally achieving your happy ending," sighed Shen Yi.
"You should hurry up too," said Pan Yue.
"No rush, we’ll talk when it’s less busy." Shen Yi’s reason seemed perfunctory, but it was also factual. As the youngest vice president of Comet Group, his daily workload was indeed substantial. 𝘯𝑜𝘷𝘱𝘶𝘣.𝘤𝘰𝑚
Pan Yue pouted.
"You might be busy, but so is my Jiaojiao."
"Hehe, indeed."
"What’s the matter? You seem distracted. Still thinking about your uncle’s situation?" Pan Yue noticed Shen Yi’s difference, who had been quite reticent.
"You know."
Shen Yi smiled.
"Of course, I know. We are all insiders. It’s a good thing. You should be happy about it. But looking at your expression, it seems like your uncle has been demoted."
This time.
Shen Yi’s father, Shen Wen.
Finally passed a significant checkpoint.
From deputy to full.
However.
It wasn’t in Shanghai.
Instead, he was transferred to another province to serve as the second in command.
He was at the same level as Pan Yue’s second uncle, which was a great step forward, although the province he was going to was not an economically developed one, nor was it coastal or inland, but close to Myanmar, in Yunnan Province.
It was genuinely a significant step forward.
"I just feel that we’ll see each other less, and it makes me sentimental." Shen Yi wasn’t power-hungry, otherwise he wouldn’t have gone into business and worked for others. He didn’t care much about his father’s position.
He only knew.
Just do your own thing well.
This distant transfer.
His mother would definitely have to move there too, which made him somewhat reluctant. Although he could often fly there and video call, it was still different compared to being in the same city.
"That’s why you should get married early. Once you have a family, you won’t have time to be sentimental."
"..."
What kind of twisted logic is that?
"By the way, how’s your wine selling business going?" Shen Yi changed the subject.
Speaking of which.
Pan Yue nodded and then shook his head.
"The profit is okay, but I’m not planning to continue." Previously, he thought he could do it, starting a business, dealing in the wine business. Later, Tang Kai gave him a considerable share of fruit wine, and he made some money.
But.
The more he earned.
The more he felt it lacked technical content, just a mere trafficker. Although Dou Jiao never said anything, through regular chats, Dou Jiao hinted intentionally or unintentionally that this kind of business wouldn’t last long.
Being told by his own wife.
Pan Yue didn’t feel it was a blow to his pride.
Instead, he seriously reflected that his business indeed had issues and it couldn’t bring pride to Dou Jiao, knowing her status as the president of Tianyan Group was extremely dazzling.
His contacts.
Were all large companies, large groups.
And numerous vibrant innovative enterprises. According to Tianyan’s evaluation standards, his company was hardly of any value, just engaging in low-end arbitrage business.
Thus.
Pan Yue made up his mind.
To start anew.
He refused to believe.
That he couldn’t carve out a career for himself. Of course, he also wasn’t foolish, knowing to leverage his strengths. Previously selling wine was purely not to rely on his family, but looking at Chai Ren, looking at Zheng Lin.
And looking at those like Bao Kaiyu who are second-generation wealthy.
Relying on family.
They still thrived tremendously.
At worst, earn some money, then discuss investing in other dreams. As for what to do, he would discuss it with Dou Jiao later. In business aspects, he admitted he was far inferior to Dou Jiao at this moment.
Listening to his wife.
Wasn’t shameful.
"That’s good, selling wine, you couldn’t use any of your own family resources anyway. If you are to do something, do something where your family can help. Listen more to your uncle, aunt, and Jiaojiao’s opinions," Shen Yi nodded.
Previously.
Pan Yue roamed alone, full of youthful vigor. As a friend, he never commented on his business. Now, with a family, he needed to settle his future career direction.
Pan Yue nodded.
"I understand that. By the way, when your Comet Group goes public, I plan to subscribe in the Hong Kong Stocks. Does your company have any restrictions on executives buying? Want to join?"
"No restrictions."
"Really looking forward to seeing how much Comet Group can rise."
"It’s still early to hope for that now. What you should be looking forward to now is your Jiaojiao."
"Indeed."
