Chapter 29: Self-produced And Self-sold Domestic Car
Chen Ziwen is the store manager of the Shanghai Ford Automotive Specialty Store, and he has been working in the shop for two years already.
But because Ford Motor Company sent a new parachuted appointee, his store manager position was gone, and he was even squeezed out by the parachuted new store manager,
Since the other party was a foreigner, he could only resign in extreme anger.
However, after resigning, he found it very difficult to find a store manager position at an automotive dealership,
Especially at foreigners’ automotive dealerships,
So after he inquired with his sales friends at various foreigners’ automotive dealerships,
He then learned the reason he couldn’t get hired by foreigners’ automotive companies: because he had argued with the parachuted new foreigner store manager at his previous Ford Automotive Specialty Store,
So the other party used his foreigner connections to blacklist him in the industry.
It was also because of this that he had been unemployed for almost a month, and during this month, he had experienced all sorts of life’s vicissitudes and the feeling of people turning cold when one falls from grace,
Just when he was at his most dejected and preparing to change careers to survive,
He was found by Butler Liu Xing through connections and was recruited into He Feiyang’s automotive factory to serve as the new store manager of the specialty store.
For the opportunity to re-enter the automotive sales industry,
Chen Ziwen, who was at a low point in life, was in a very joyful mood.
“That Butler Liu! May I ask which foreigners’ company’s car your Zhou Young Master plans to agent for sales?”
“Is it Buick, Pontiac, Citroën, Lincoln, Cadillac, Chevrolet, or Mercedes-Benz and BMW, or Ford cars?”
“It won’t be Nissan cars, right? Their car quality isn’t very good!”
So after accepting Butler Liu Xing’s recruitment, he was also full of enthusiasm and ambition, ready to show his skills,
So he curiously asked Butler Liu Xing, who was taking him to the new automotive specialty store to take up the post.
“Domestic cars!”
But Butler Liu Xing’s expression was quite strange as he responded.
“.”
Chen Ziwen.
He, who had originally been elated, was immediately left dumbfounded by this unexpected answer.
“Domestic cars?”
“When did we domestically have our own domestic brand cars?”
“Why haven’t I, who has done automotive sales for two years, heard any insider news about it?”
Immediately, Chen Ziwen asked in surprise.
“It’s our Fourth Young Master’s self-produced and self-sold domestic cars!”
Butler Liu Xing responded again with a complicated expression,
Actually, not to mention an outsider like Chen Ziwen being surprised, even he, the old butler of the Zhou Family, felt very complicated—what on earth was Zhou Wenhua thinking?
To suddenly start making a domestic car brand for no reason,
You know, currently domestically, whether it’s the international metropolis Shanghai, or Northern Tianjin and Beiping, or Changsha, Wuhan, Nanning, and other major cities, the automotive sales champions aren’t all dominated by foreigners?
Domestic cars, apart from Minsheng Automotive Factory under a certain young marshal which once produced a truck,
There was no follow-up, especially after the Japanese Army occupied Northeast, it went bankrupt and was forgotten.
So regarding building a domestic brand, even an outsider like Butler Liu Xing felt it was unreliable.
However, as someone whose salary had already been raised fivefold,
He was willing to thoroughly carry out Zhou Wenhua’s orders,
“Butler Liu, you’re joking with me!”
“Self-produced and self-sold domestic cars? Do we domestically have the capability and technical talent for that?”
“Right now, all our automotive parts are purchased from foreigners, especially car engines—even the so-called domestic buses now procure engines and parts from foreigners!”
“So how can we do self-produced and self-sold?”
But after reacting, Chen Ziwen was full of shock and hurriedly pressed for an answer.
“You just need to be responsible for car sales, follow my Young Master’s instructions for car promotion, and know what to say and what not to say during reporter interviews!”
“As for my Young Master’s domestic cars, they are already completed and can be sold at any time!”
“You’ll know when the time comes! For detailed situations, or wait until the Young Master comes to the shop, then you can ask him in person!”
“As for me, I’m just responsible for carrying out my Young Master’s instructions, and I don’t know much either!”
Regarding Chen Ziwen’s fussing, Butler Liu Xing responded very directly.
“.”
Chen Ziwen.
Since Butler Liu Xing had answered so straightforwardly, what more could he ask?
So in the end, Chen Ziwen felt his ambitions doused with a basin of cold water, making him suddenly disheartened.
Domestic cars, or self-produced and self-sold domestic cars,
Would there be customers buying them?
Even if there are customers buying, would many buy?
And what if the parts and engines used in domestic cars are cut off by foreigners?
Then how to continue self-produced and self-sold?
What exactly is this Zhou Family’s Fourth Young Master thinking?
Could it be that on a whim, with an outsider’s identity, he threw himself into the self-deluded self-produced and self-sold domestic car research and development industry?
Then how long can I work?
Won’t I be unemployed again soon?
After Chen Ziwen lost his confidence in showing his skills and achieving great accomplishments, his mind immediately started to wander with random thoughts.
And he became worried about his future and financial future.
But when he followed Butler Liu Xing to Zhou Wenhua’s newly established domestic car dealership,
As soon as he entered the car showroom, he was stunned by the four very new and fashionable, and good-looking cars in front of him.
“Hiss! What brand is this?”
“So fashionable and with beautiful styling! I’ve never seen such a pretty car before?”
“New model cars researched and produced by which foreigners’ country?”
“How much is the price?”
“If only I had one too, it’s really nice-looking!”
Then, Chen Ziwen was amazed by the four cars that Zhou Wenhua had personally assembled and modified, praising them endlessly,
And he kept chattering non-stop around these four new model cars, as if they were some great treasures, unable to take his eyes off them or bear to touch them.
Because he was truly deeply attracted by the new model styling of these four cars.
He just didn’t know how the performance of these four cars was.
“These are new model cars that my Young Master personally researched and developed, which is the new domestic brand car that our automotive dealership, as I just told you, will vigorously promote and sell— the nation’s first self-produced and self-sold car!”
Just as Chen Ziwen was excitedly observing these four new model cars in the car showroom with a face full of delight,
Butler Liu Xing responded calmly.
“What!”
“These are the boss’s own self-produced and self-sold new model cars?”
“Real or fake?”
“The styling of these models is better-looking, more aesthetic, and newer than any foreigner car on the market now!”
Hearing this, Chen Ziwen immediately exclaimed in shock,
Because he couldn’t imagine that these four cars with such good-looking and trendy styling were actually designed and self-produced and self-sold by his new boss Zhou Wenhua.
So his shock was imaginable.
