wavenovel Chapter 8: Can you drive a luxury car at will?
Chapter 8: Can you drive a luxury car at will?
The May Day holiday has passed in the blink of an eye.
Zhou Lang, Michelle, and Tian Wei spent two days in Qingdao.
Laoshan Mountain, Beer Museum, bathing beach, underwater world... a quick tour, eating and drinking, checking off attractions and sightseeing.
Back in Shushui City, the required mileage of 500 kilometers for the "relying entirely on physical skills" method has been met.
On the last day of the holiday, Zhou Lang and Tian Wei test drove four cars and successfully earned a cash reward.
[Ding! A special used luxury car dealership (10% stake) has been awarded, with annual profit dividends of approximately 800,000 yuan.]
[When driving a used car, there's a chance you'll get the same brand new model!]
"System sworn brother, I'll kowtow to you sometime." Zhou Lang chuckled inwardly.
About half an hour later, his WeChat automatically accepted a new friend request.
【MoMo-Fast Cars】: Boss, sorry to bother you.
[MoMo - Speedy Luxury Cars]: The two co-founders just had a meeting with us. They have officially stepped down from the day-to-day management of Speedy, and will now report store matters to you.
【MoMo - Speedster Luxury Cars】: Would you like to come to the store sometime to give me some guidance on our work? (Flowers) (Clenched fist)
[Zhou Lang]: I'll go there this afternoon.
【MoMo - Speedster Luxury Cars】: Boss, could you please send us your location? We'll come pick you up.
Two o'clock in the afternoon.
Zhou Lang waited near the bus stop at the entrance of the residential area.
A three-wheeled electric tricycle, wobbling and rattling, drove up and stopped in front of him.
"Hey, Xiao Zhou, waiting for the bus?"
The person who was driving the old man's car was his neighbor in the same building, Aunt Wang.
"Where are you going? I'll give you a ride," said Aunt Wang warmly.
Zhou Lang glanced at the rusted rims, broken headlights, dented rear bumper, and several peeling paint spots of the old-fashioned car; it was clearly a battle-hardened vehicle, scarred and battered...
The worst part is that Aunt Wang didn't even open the side mirror...
He shook his head inwardly a thousand times.
"No, no, ma'am, my friend is here to pick me up."
"Hey kid, why are you being so polite? Come on, come on up."
Zhou Lang repeatedly refused, and just then, a sedan with a hood ornament drove up in the lane.
A black Maybach S480, with its hazard lights flashing, slowly pulled up next to the bus stop.
"Boss Zhou."
An employee of the Speedway got out of the passenger seat. He was wearing a black suit, white gloves, and a badge with the company's metal logo. He respectfully opened the rear door.
"Xiao Zhou, this...this is your friend?" Aunt Wang stammered.
She doesn't know many cars, but the upright Mercedes-Benz logo is very famous.
Then she remembered her daughter's words: "Keep your distance from cars you don't recognize, keep your distance from oddly shaped cars, and keep your distance from cars that are particularly long."
"Xiao Zhou, you're busy, I have to pick up my grandson... Hey, I'd better stay away from cars like yours."
As Grandma Wang reversed, the old man's car made a creaking sound, and when it moved, it seemed as if the wheels were square, clattering and speeding away.
Zhou Lang glanced at the rear door of the car in front of him. The triangular window wasn't on the door. Hmm, it was a real Maybach.
One second he's hitching a ride on his neighbor's cheap electric car, the next he's being chauffeured around in a Maybach. That's quite a leap...
He looked down at his 39-yuan short-sleeved shirt with free shipping.
It seems like my personality doesn't quite match that of this 150 million yuan D-class luxury executive sedan.
Zhou Lang got into the car, sitting in the back of a spacious and comfortable luxury car for the first time.
The two-tone interior, featuring Macchiato Beige and Pearl Amber Brown, exudes a premium feel.
Actually, he really wanted to take a couple of photos.
In particular, include the Maybach logo, shaped like a triangular rice dumpling, inside the car in the photo.
However, after thinking about it, Zhou Lang gave up and laughed at himself, realizing that he needed to gradually change his mindset.
Originally an ordinary, unremarkable worker, after acquiring the Money Power System, the vast wealth that was once light-years away from him is now within his grasp step by step.
He will gradually get used to these things.
……
Upon arriving at the Speed Party store, twenty or thirty employees, all in uniform, lined up outside to welcome us.
Among the employees, Zhou Lang also saw the salesperson who had received him during the holiday.
When their eyes met, the salesperson's eyes widened suddenly.
"What?! How... how could it be him?"
His colleague nudged him with his elbow: "What's wrong? You look like you've seen a ghost. Do you know the new boss?"
"A few days ago, the new boss came to the store for an undercover investigation, and I was the one who received him..."
"Huh? The new boss likes to pull off this undercover operation?"
"Oh no, oh no, this is probably a troublesome boss who likes to cause problems..."
At the front of the line were a man and a woman, both around thirty years old.
"Boss, this is Momo, the one who contacted you on WeChat."
Mo Mo wore gold-rimmed glasses and had her hair half-tied up.
Amidst the uniforms of all the female employees, she was the only one wearing her own everyday clothes—a nude-colored knitted bodycon skirt.
She pointed to the young man next to her: "This is the store manager, Kong Xiangfeng, who is currently in charge of the store's specific operations."
"Hello." Zhou Lang nodded and shook hands with them.
He was actually a little confused. It was agreed that he would only get 10% of the shares, so how come the whole store was listening to him?
Store manager Kong Xiangfeng seemed to have prepared a plan in advance, saying, "Boss, you've just taken over, and there may be many things to sort out. The store has prepared some handover materials for you to review."
"Let's take a look now."
At the far end of the first floor of the store, there is a separate tea room for receiving guests.
Kong Xiangfeng and Momo invited Zhou Lang in and presented him with some documents and briefings.
"The company's future development will depend on your leadership, boss."
Store Manager Kong respectfully said, "As for the specific details, Momo and I are currently each in charge of one section."
My main responsibility is to buy and sell cars;
MoMo has built a social media influencer account with millions of followers across the internet. She usually posts car-related jokes and edits car-collecting vlogs.
Thanks to the traffic she generated, Speedypa suffered continuous losses a few years ago due to the impact of masks and new energy vehicles.
After successfully launching our self-media matrix, our company, Jisu Pai, became a well-known online celebrity brand throughout the province, achieving a turnaround from loss to profit.
Zhou Lang read a few pages; it was written clearly and concisely, and he understood it pretty well.
This high-speed used luxury car dealership was founded by two rich second-generation individuals.
They each hold 10% of the shares, while the remaining shares are invested by their elders.
These elders all own much larger businesses, and the funds they invest in the used car dealership are just a tiny bit of "spare money" in their hands.
The behind-the-scenes financiers were too lazy to manage this "small-scale" operation, so they only distributed dividends and did not intervene. The management rights were entirely in the hands of the two rich second-generation heirs.
The two rich kids are so close they're practically inseparable. A few years ago, they started this "Extreme Speed" used luxury car dealership, partly to practice their skills as an entrepreneur and partly to have a chance to play with all sorts of different cars.
There's a saying that goes: Never start a company with your best friend.
Once the initial excitement wore off, their conflicts and disagreements deepened, eventually escalating into heated arguments where neither was willing to back down.
If things continued like this, their once-strong friendship was likely to fall apart, so they decisively cut their losses and both withdrew from the management.
This is why Zhou Lang, with the system's support, managed to get a good deal.
This also reflects the complex and murky nature of the used luxury car market: the "founder" boss who usually hangs out in the shop may not actually have substantial financial resources, and is merely a front man pushed to the forefront. But behind him are many truly powerful investors who provide investment and dividends, secretly supporting him and smoothing things over.
Zhou Lang continued flipping through the briefing.
Last year, the store's total revenue reached over 2 million yuan.
Turnover does not equal profit; the net profit margin for used cars is around 4%.
Speedy is perfectly positioned to capitalize on this trend, generating nearly 300 million yuan in revenue and maintaining a stable annual net profit of 10 million yuan.
With dividends due in March or April next year, Zhou Lang can sit back and collect around 80 yuan after tax.
"Let's put aside the fact that we'll only receive the 80 yuan a year later."
Zhou Lang then pulled out another inventory list of cars in the store.
The Speedway showroom regularly stocks nearly 100 luxury cars, most of which are pure gasoline vehicles with an original price of over 30 yuan.
And another powerful effect of the "entirely reliant on movement" money ability is—
When driving a used car, there's a chance you might get a brand new one of the same model!