Chapter 139: We Should Join Forces

Nie Hongwu, the president of Tianqi Pharmaceutical Company, naturally saw all these reports.

However, Tianmu Eye Drops are biological agents, and the finished product has a shelf life of only two months, so it is certainly impossible to use them for export.

If Tianqi Pharmaceutical wants to expand its overseas sales market, it can only consider cooperating with overseas pharmaceutical companies or building its own branch factories abroad.

The former was rejected by Su Xin.

The latter is not yet the right time.

Therefore, Nie Hongwu simply ignored the voices of overseas netizens and focused on the Long Country market.

According to various data such as the number of nearsighted people in Long Country and the number of new cases each year, the daily production capacity of 1 million units planned by Nie Hongwu can almost meet the demand of the entire Long Country.

Even if overseas netizens come to Long Country to buy Tianmu Eye Drops, it will not cause too much of a run on the supply in the Long Country region.

Of course, this refers to the supply situation after the popularity of Tianmu Eye Drops fades in the future.

As for now.

Let everyone scramble to buy them.

It is impossible to satisfy everyone all at once.

……

At the same time.

The intelligent driving pilots in five countries, including Yingjiang Country, gradually gained recognition from more and more people under the attention of the citizens of the five countries and netizens from many other countries.

After several rounds of discussions, the five countries finally decided to open up intelligent driving on the roads in batches.

This news greatly stimulated everyone's enthusiasm for the Xiaozhi Driving System.

Since the five countries including Yingjiang Country have also begun to expand their open areas, it will inevitably be the same as Long Country, slowly opening up nationwide.

Seeing this, some other countries, under the call of surging public opinion, had no choice but to introduce pilot policies for intelligent driving one after another and welcome Tianqi Equipment Company to open branch companies.

Fu Benjing prepared an overseas expansion plan and sent it to both Su Xin and Liu Qingli.

After receiving approval from Liu Qingli, he immediately began to arrange negotiations with the officials of various countries and established branch companies in multiple countries in succession.

As long as these branch companies are established and the laws and policies of each country are gradually improved, car models equipped with the Xiaozhi Driving System will be able to enter these countries.

This is a huge piece of good news for car companies that have intelligent driving models.

For Tianqi Equipment Company, it is also a good omen for the global popularization of the Xiaozhi Driving System.

……

Yingjiang Country, Luoshan City.

In a Goyadi 4S dealership in the city, people walked in one after another, commenting on or viewing various car models with great interest.

A twelve or thirteen-year-old boy pointed to the road across from the floor-to-ceiling glass window and asked:

"Daddy, why don't we go buy a Fude Automobile? Aren't Yingjiang Country's cars much more advanced than Long Country's?"

His father was a middle-aged man with blonde hair and blue eyes. He looked across the road in the direction of his son's finger, where there was a Fude Automobile 4S dealership, but the entrance and the interior of the store were slightly deserted, far less lively than Goyadi.

The blonde man ruffled his son's hair and said: "Now, Long Country cars are the most advanced. Including Fude Automobile, the core technology of many car companies comes from Long Country."

"Oh."

The boy responded, then asked again: "Isn't Yingjiang Country the most powerful and advanced country in the world? So, have we been surpassed by Long Country now?"

The blonde man shook his head slightly:

"No, Yingjiang Country is still the most powerful country; it's just that the automotive industry is temporarily lagging behind."

The boy continued to press:

"But, since we are also using Long Country technology, the cars should be no different, so why not support Yingjiang Country cars?"

The blonde man shook his head firmly:

"No, no, no! Long Country cars are the coolest now. Their prices aren't much different, so of course I want to buy a Long Country car."

Originally, when Long Country cars were exported to overseas countries, due to tariffs, the costs would be significantly higher than those of local car companies in each country.

However, because the production sites for Thor Battery are all in Long Country, local car companies in various countries importing Thor Battery from Long Country also face high tariffs and transportation costs, which offsets much of the gap in import tariffs for Long Country cars.

In addition, the licensing fee for the Xiaozhi Driving System is also 10,000 more expensive than for Long Country cars, which also balanced out a large part of the tariffs officially imposed on Long Country intelligent driving models.

Overall, the costs for local car companies in various countries are actually not much lower than those of Long Country cars.

This also makes Long Country cars quite competitive in various countries; although they haven't beaten the car companies of various countries into submission, their sales are by no means weak.

"Oh."

The boy nodded, half-understanding.

In his small heart, a seed was quietly planted—Long Country cars are more advanced and cooler than those of Yingjiang Country.

Similar scenes are happening all over the world, which makes the reputation of Long Country cars gradually louder and louder, and they are being accepted by more and more people.

……

Mutuhei, as the largest city in the south of Beer Country and the third-largest city in the country, is one of the most prosperous and modern metropolises in all of Europe, and is also known as the most magnificent palace culture center of Beer Country.

At the same time, it is also the headquarters of the world-famous luxury car brand Junma.

This day.

In a small conference hall of a five-star hotel in Mutuhei, Keleiqi Hadun, the president of Junma Automobile, and senior executives from several major car companies from all over the world gathered secretly.

"Gentlemen, we have never sat together like this before, discussing how to deal with an enemy."

Keleiqi said with a solemn face:

"Tianqi Energy Company has monopolized the global power battery supply. There is no way around it; his technology is too far ahead. We see no hope of catching up and can only shamelessly cooperate with him."

"Now, Tianqi Equipment Company has developed the Xiaozhi Driving System and deliberately only licenses it to some car companies, squeezing the survival space of the rest of us car companies smaller and smaller."

"Although we can temporarily avoid the Xiaozhi Driving System by relying on price advantages and grab a portion of the low-end market to survive, if this continues, we will sooner or later be on a dead end."

"Moreover, I believe Su Xin is a thorough nationalist. He only wants to support Long Country car companies. The reason he maintains varying degrees of cooperation with major car companies now is just to avoid our fierce resistance."

"According to the Long Country saying, this is called boiling a frog in warm water, or breaking them one by one."

"From the very beginning, he told us we would have fair cooperation, dispelling our doubts and making us unable to commit to resisting the Thor Battery with everything we had."

"Everyone has seen the situation that followed."

"They say it's a unified supply price, but we have to transport the Thor Batteries back ourselves after purchasing them in Long Country; the costs, risks, and time delays involved are all borne by us."

"That would be one thing; after all, he is a Long Country enterprise and holds a monopoly on Solid-state Battery Technology, so it is reasonable that he doesn't want to bear extra costs, and no matter how dissatisfied we are, we can only accept it."

"But afterwards..."

"The Xiaozhi Driving System was also treated with discrimination."

"To use a Long Country expression, this move of his is called 'driving the tiger to devour the wolf'; they have united with the five major car companies including Feichi and Mutian, along with several major car companies in Long Country, to enjoy the dividends of intelligent driving, while shutting us out."

"Behind all these actions, it fully demonstrates Su Xin's wolfish ambition."

"He wants to suppress us first, letting Long Country car companies and the five car companies including Feichi seize our market together, forcing us to our deaths step by step."

"Afterwards, he will create a gap between the Long Country car companies and the five major car companies including Feichi, and slowly seize all of their markets as well."

"In the end, surely only Long Country car companies will master the top-tier technology and become the mainstream in the mid-to-high-end market, while the local car companies of other countries will at best be able to barely survive by occupying the lowest-end market."

"The senior management of Feichi car company can also see through Su Xin's tricks, but they simply cannot bear to give up the benefits brought by the Thor Battery and intelligent driving, nor can they bear to lose their current market and sales volume."

"They feel that if they fall out with Su Xin, they will only be completely abandoned by the market and have no way out but death."

"But we are different."

Keleqi's expression was solemn as he looked around the room:

"The predicaments faced by our few car companies are similar; sales are constantly declining, especially for mid-to-high-end models, which have been almost completely wiped out."

"We are already at a dead end ahead."

"To break the deadlock, the only way is to break the monopoly of the Thor Battery or the Xiaozhi Driving System."

"Everyone, it is time for us to join forces."