Chapter 3106

Seeing that Ye Chen didn't mind revealing his identity in front of his future wife and stepson, He Yuanjiang breathed a sigh of relief.

He has been upright all his life and loves Han Meiqing truly, just wanting to live with her and spend the rest of his life together. So he didn't hope that every time he faced Ye Chen in front of his wife, he would still treat him as the Xiao family's son-in-law who knew some Feng Shui and made friends with some local dignitaries by virtue of Feng Shui and Zhou Yi.

Acting, he is not good at it, and lying even more so.

But if Ye Chen refused, he could fully understand and respect it, but he didn't expect Ye Chen to agree so quickly.

At this time, He Yuanjiang didn't know that Ye Chen actually wanted to take this family of four, which had just formed a new family, under his command.

Carrying a relaxed and happy mood, he and Ye Chen came to the half-mountain villa in Xiangxieli.

The An family had already prepared a banquet and waited. From the moment they saw Ye Chen's car going up the mountain, the three uncles, the aunt, and Li Yalin all went out to wait for the welcome.

Grandfather and grandmother originally wanted to come out, but the temperature in Jin Ling had dropped a lot recently, and the sky had darkened, so the children were afraid that they would catch a cold, so they didn't let them come out no matter what.

Before the car stopped, Ye Chen saw the five people waiting for him.

He was a little surprised and a little unbearable. After all, they were all elders, and they were all waiting here for him. This formation was a bit too heavy in terms of etiquette.

But the An family didn't think it was heavy.

After all, Ye Chen saved the An family twice from fire and water. This kindness, how can it be made up by seniority.

Li Yalin is even more so.

If Ye Chen hadn't saved his life, his corpse full of bullet holes would probably have rotted in the American land where burial is implemented long ago.

Ye Chen parked the car, got off with He Yuanjiang, and the eldest uncle had already taken the first step forward, smiling and shouting: "Chen'er!"

Ye Chen hurriedly called them one by one: "Eldest uncle, second uncle, third uncle, aunt, Detective Li."

After finishing, he hurriedly introduced He Yuanjiang beside him: "Let me introduce to the five, this is my mother's alumnus before she died, Professor He Yuanjiang, Professor He, who worked in Wall Street before, later came to Jin Ling, teaching and educating people at Jin Ling Finance and Economics University."

The second uncle An Kaifeng, who has been responsible for the An family's external affairs, nodded immediately and said: "Professor He, I have heard of your great name in Wall Street before. Everyone says that you are the most poisonous-eyed Asian in Wall Street investment banks. I have heard many of your brilliant achievements!"

He Yuanjiang said seriously: "Mr. An is too polite. Speaking of investment vision, among the people I know, no one can compare to Chengxi. In front of her, I am just a primary school student."

After speaking, he felt that mentioning the name of An Chengxi, who had passed away, in front of the An family was somewhat impolite, so he apologized: "Sorry."

After saying sorry, He Yuanjiang didn't want to elaborate on the reason. The An family must understand this kind of thing, and he didn't need to make it too clear to hurt the An family again.

However, in the eyes of the An family, An Chengxi had passed away for twenty years after all, and their mentality had long been calmly accepted. So when He Yuanjiang mentioned her name, no one felt offended. After all, He Yuanjiang was also An Chengxi's alumnus and friend.

Ye Chen intended to introduce He Yuanjiang, so he said: "Uncle He, my second uncle often shows up, you should recognize him, right?"

He Yuanjiang nodded: "Mr. An Kaifeng, I naturally recognize him, long admired, long admired!"

An Kaifeng said politely: "Professor He is overpraised."

After speaking, the two shook hands politely.

Ye Chen introduced the eldest uncle, third uncle, and aunt to He Yuanjiang, followed by Li Yalin.

Unexpectedly, when Ye Chen was about to introduce Li Yalin to He Yuanjiang, He Yuanjiang took the first step and said: "This must be the Detective Li known as the light of the Chinese! I have read many of your interviews and reports, and I admire you very much!"

Li Yalin smiled modestly: "I am just a detective, far from being the light of the Chinese. The achievements and contributions of the few of you are much greater than mine."

"Where, where." He Yuanjiang said seriously: "For us Chinese, and even the entire Asian, it is not difficult to make money in North America, but it is indeed not easy to get the recognition of the whole society there. Many open and secret exclusions and discrimination, so many years only Chinese in the United States know it. You can get the recognition of Western mainstream society, it is indeed worthy of being the light of the Chinese."

He Yuanjiang's words made several An family members feel the same.

The United States is actually far from as beautiful as their media described.

Especially the social life of ethnic minorities in the United States will inevitably encounter many indescribable discrimination. Black people and Korean Americans who hold together are a little better. Those who don't hold together, and even those who are keen on pitting their own people, are in deep water and internal and external troubles in that environment.

Ye Chen hasn't been to the United States many times since he was a child, and he doesn't know much about the environment there, but looking at the way these people feel the same, he knows that He Yuanjiang's words are not false.

At this time, only hearing the grandmother inside couldn't help but open the door and say: "It's quite cold outside, why don't you come in quickly, don't let Chen'er and the guests stand outside for a long time."

Ye Chen smiled and called out: "Grandmother!"

Grandmother nodded, smiled and beckoned: "Come in, it's time to eat."

"Eh!"

Ye Chen responded, and the few people walked into the villa.

Grandfather also greeted him at this time and said to Ye Chen: "Chen'er, have you been okay in Jin Ling these days?"

Ye Chen smiled: "Very good, Jin Ling is very safe."

As he spoke, Ye Chen introduced He Yuanjiang to his grandfather and grandmother.

Knowing that he was the alumnus and friend of the eldest daughter, the two elders were naturally very enthusiastic. The whole family invited He Yuanjiang to sit at the dining table. The grandfather told several sons: "Professor He is your sister's classmate and friend, you must accompany him to drink a few cups."

After speaking, he said to He Yuanjiang: "Professor He, if you have a good drinking capacity, drink more, if you don't, drink less. Everything follows your heart and will. There are no rules on how to drink at our dining table."

Although He Yuanjiang rarely drinks, his drinking capacity is good. Seeing the An family today, he was happy in his heart, so he agreed without hesitation.

Grandfather asked Ye Chen again: "Chen'er, you also drink two cups, if not, let your aunt drive you back to the city later."

Ye Chen smiled: "No need, grandfather, they are all our own people under the mountain, I will ask Hong Wu to drive me back."

Grandfather laughed and said: "That's great, you drink, then I will also drink a cup!"

Grandmother said quickly: "You still drink, who forgot that the brain is drunk and has Alzheimer's?"

Grandfather apologized with a smile: "My eldest grandson is here, it doesn't matter if I drink a cup, what's more, Professor He is also here, so I have to drink two cups."

Grandmother rolled her eyes at him: "Are you adding code yourself?"

Ye Chen smiled: "Grandmother, you don't have to worry, let grandfather drink two cups, it's okay."

Grandmother naturally knows that the precious grandson gave the grandfather good medicinal pills, and the grandfather's body had long been healed, so drinking a little wine didn't matter at all. So she didn't insist anymore, just reminded the grandfather: "It's thanks to Chen'er speaking for you, you only need to drink two cups, you can't drink more."

Grandfather immediately beamed: "Enough, enough, two cups are enough!"

The eldest uncle on the side had the most eyesight and hurriedly filled a cup. Grandfather immediately picked up the wine glass with lightning speed and said with a smile: "Come, the first cup of wine, welcome Professor He to be a guest at home!"

Everyone raised their glasses one after another.

After the dinner started and the first cup of wine went down, Ye Chen went straight to the topic: "Grandfather, eldest uncle, second uncle, how did you do with the investment you made in Yanjing this time?"

Grandfather smiled: "Negotiated a few more big projects, it will be officially announced soon, let your second uncle introduce it to you in detail."

An Kaifeng took over the conversation and said: "Didn't we already decide to invest in a power battery-related enterprise last time? This time in Yanjing, we happened to encounter the listing of Leimi Automobile. Internet companies cross-border car manufacturing, selling more than a year's production capacity in one month after listing, it is indeed remarkable, and it is indeed impressive to make people look at domestic brands with admiration. So we simply took over a new energy vehicle manufacturing company."

An Kaifeng talked about the An family's industrial layout with Ye Chen, using "we", because now the An family has reached a consensus that more than half of the An family will be left to Ye Chen in the future, so he is not only the An family's grandson, but also the An family's major shareholder.

Ye Chen didn't think in this direction, he just felt very surprised.

When he returned from the United States last time, the An family only had plans to start a new energy vehicle brand. He didn't expect that they would take over directly now?

Thinking of this, he hurriedly asked: "Second uncle, you said take over, is it directly acquired one?"

"Yes." An Kaifeng nodded and said: "There is a new energy vehicle company whose capital chain has a big problem, looking for financing everywhere. I discussed with your eldest uncle, the valuation is not high anyway, just tens of billions of US dollars, and now there is a debt crisis, the founding team closed the production line and all ran out to find money to save their lives. It happened that I met their CEO in Yanjing, so I just chatted about it, and took it all for 30 billion US dollars."

Ye Chen nodded, 30 billion US dollars is indeed not much, it is like drizzle to himself, and it is not much to the An family.

At this time, He Yuanjiang on the side couldn't help but ask: "Is the new energy vehicle company Mr. An mentioned Gaoheng?"

"Eh?" An Kaifeng asked in surprise: "Does Professor He know this enterprise?"

He Yuanjiang nodded: "I've heard of it. I heard long ago that they were in a debt crisis, and their sales have not been very good. Coupled with the fact that the production line was closed some time ago, I think they can only sell themselves to save their lives."

Ye Chen added at this time: "Uncle He has a very deep study of the domestic new energy market. We chatted simply last time, and many of his views are indeed very admirable to me, especially his overtaking on a curve, which left a deep impression on me. I originally wanted to arrange for everyone to meet after Uncle He's wedding, but I was really impatient, so I arranged it as soon as you returned."

An Kaifeng said: "Since Professor He knows so much about new energy, I really want to hear Professor He analyze the current new energy situation and give us some guidance."

As he spoke, An Kaifeng added: "To tell you the truth, the An family rarely involves manufacturing, but this time we invested in power batteries, invested in vehicle manufacturing, invested in domestic chip research and development, and commercial aerospace. Basically, they are all manufacturing, mainly hoping to make some contributions within our power to China's manufacturing industry. If we can hatch some good enterprises and get some economic returns, that would be even better;"

"But to tell you the truth, to really talk about how to operate a large plate of manufacturing with tens of thousands of people, I am still confused until now, especially vehicle manufacturing. This Gaoheng is our wholly-owned acquisition. Next, after they handle the debt problem and equity transfer problem, we have to invest another sum of money to start production. But I haven't considered it well yet, whether to keep the original team to continue operating for a period of time, or just kill them all and replace them with new ones. I don't know what high opinion Professor He has?"

He Yuanjiang thought for a while and said: "Gaoheng's problem, I personally feel that it is still in the product positioning. The main product relies on constant material stacking to increase its value, but the high unit price means sales will definitely not go up. And in the high unit price field, there is competition from traditional luxury cars. As long as the product power cannot keep up, it will be difficult to open the market;"

"And their product design is not too mature to tell the truth. Once they fall into the circle of niche aesthetics, they will inevitably further compress their living space;"

"But the Leimi you mentioned just now is completely different. Their positioning is quite precise and ruthless, and the product design is also good. Putting aside whether there is a problem of borrowing, their product appearance is indeed in line with mainstream aesthetics;"

After a pause, He Yuanjiang added: "So if you let me judge personally, I tend to divide Gaoheng's team into two. The production end should be retained first to ensure that the production line can run at any time, but the design end, marketing, and market end should be replaced as much as possible. And even the brand should be completely changed. Although you bought Gaoheng, you can't use Gaoheng's brand anymore, because the news of their bankruptcy was once popular, and people know that this brand is not going to work, so the brand value has become a negative value, far less than redoing one."

An Kaifeng asked again: "Then what do you think, if we rebuild a brand, how should the main product be positioned?"

He Yuanjiang said: "That is bound to grab the market with products with the highest sales and the highest market share."

As he spoke, He Yuanjiang said: "Many companies like to do vertical segments to reduce pressure and increase success rate when starting a business. They feel that the competition for e-commerce platforms is too great, so they just get a small mall or applet, choose segments like maternal and child, wine, and daily chemicals. But once they do this, they will never be able to become a big platform, and they may even have to live under others' ecology for a lifetime. Cars are the same;"

"Almost every company that decides to make cars feels that the competition for new energy cars around 200,000 is the greatest. There is Tesla, a hegemon that sells hundreds of thousands of cars a year, and a bunch of domestic new forces inside. So some companies aim at the sinking market of 20,000 to 30,000 or 50,000 to 60,000 as soon as they come, and some companies want to find an entry point from the mid-to-high-end market of 500,000 to 600,000. But as long as they hold such a mentality, although they may achieve success in segments, they may never be able to win giants like Tesla;"

"Tesla's market value at its peak exceeded one trillion US dollars. Today, the new energy concept has cooled down, and its market value is still more than 500 billion US dollars. The market value of all domestic new forces combined is not as good as it is now. I don't mean to worship foreign things and feel that Tesla is how powerful, I just feel that many companies always say they are stronger than it at press conferences, but they are instinctively avoiding its edge. If someone else comes to engage in new energy, I might also suggest them to do so, but the An family is different."

Speaking of this, He Yuanjiang said very seriously: "The An family's own capital strength is strong, and Ye Chen and the Ye family's funds are far from comparable to domestic new energy car companies. And Ye Chen has Yisu Shipping in his hands, and the number and volume of roll-on/roll-off ships are in the forefront of the world. Now the An family has laid out power batteries and acquired Gaoheng Automobile. Since this is the case, why not integrate resources and truly make new energy bigger and stronger?"