At this moment, Michelle, the manager of the team, called Alice to tell Alice that a new sponsorship contract with Michelin Tyres had been signed, and that in the new sponsorship contract, Michelin Tyres, in addition to all the tires used by the team for daily racing and training, would also sponsor the team's annual cost of $1.3 million.

One million and three hundred thousand dollars, Michelin is really willing to spend this big money, Alice smiled and shook her head, this sponsorship fee is estimated to be the highest sponsorship fee given by Michelin among the teams in the World Superbike Championship, right? Michelin's mind, hehe

Since the matter has been resolved, it is also time for Zhang Lan and Xiao Chenxi to return to China, before leaving, Zhang Lan once again told Alice that the action in the Soviet Union should be accelerated, and the three of them rushed to the Soviet Union together in September, Alice nodded, so that Zhang Lan did not have to worry about it at all, and promised that she would get things done before the two of them went to the Soviet Union.

After getting off the plane at Beijing International Airport, Xiao Chenxi did not go home after returning to China, but went back to Peking University directly, and there were still a few days before the final exam. Zhang Lan thought about it for a while, anyway, Xiao Chenxi's exam didn't take a few days, so she simply stayed in Beijing and waited for Xiao Chenxi to finish the exam, and the two went home together.

When I went home, it was already mid-July, and unfortunately, Zhang Lan's first-grade to second-year entrance exams were delayed, and when she came back, the school had already ended the exam holiday. After the unlucky Zhang Lan went home, she was grabbed by her mother and severely criticized, and she was given a lesson in ideological and political education.

Although this matter is not a big deal in Zhang Lan's opinion, in order not to become the first unlucky person in the county who scored first in the school but repeated the grade because he did not take the entrance exam, Zhang Lan had to be grabbed by his mother one night, and he was reluctant to come to the principal's house. Participated in the school-wide promotion make-up exam held exclusively for him.

What's a little funny is that it's just Zhang Lan's exam alone, but the school has arranged two teachers to invigilate the exam, so that Zhang Lan can't help but want to laugh while filling in the answers on the paper. Fortunately, this time Zhang Lan didn't make any mistakes, and she successfully got full marks in all three subjects. I was promoted to the second grade again with the first grade in the school.

Zhang Zongjun and Yang Zhi finally breathed a sigh of relief, if this bastard thing was really forced to repeat a grade by the school because he failed to take the exam, then the faces of the two of them were really lost by this guy, and they were embarrassed to raise their heads to look at people when they went out to walk on the road.

In the past two months, the good news that kept coming can be regarded as indirectly dispelling the anger in Zhang Zongjun's heart.

First of all, Alice (China) Brake System Manufacturing Co., Ltd. was officially established. This is a company specializing in the production and sales of composite ceramic brake systems for the international highest-end racing market, well, his market is so small, it is estimated that any company will feel a headache when it sees it, but the extent to which the customers of this company are rich, and let all the people drool, because the customers of this company are the various racing teams in the top international events, as well as some of the backbone car modification enthusiasts who only pursue performance and do not care about money at all, as for the domestic market, it is a pity. The state has not yet allowed vehicles of this level of modification to be on the road, and no one will come up with the money to buy a Mercedes-Benz to change the brakes.

Secondly, the Ford Motor Group's Jaguar Racing became the second team to adopt the composite ceramic brake system after the Ferrari team, and the two teams that also used the composite ceramic brake system set off a storm on the Formula 1 circuit, and the new composite ceramic brake system let all the teams know its strong combat effectiveness.

According to Alice when she called Zhang Lan one day, Bill. Ford also complained to Alice because she didn't find the Jaguar team to cooperate with first, blaming her for such a good cooperative relationship between the two groups, why didn't they find their Jaguar first but found Ferrari to cooperate?

Zhang Lan couldn't help but burst into laughter when she heard Alice tell her the news. Ford, this guy is complaining that Alice didn't work with him first. Rather, complaining about the frustrating imbalance that Ferrari can use this new braking system for free, while the Jaguar team has to pay for it out of their own pockets?

Come to think of it, the team has to spend more than $1 million a year on this. Although the annual expenses of a fleet are tens of millions of dollars, a million dollars can still do a lot of things, such as enough to support a few very good women. Of course, Ford has a reason to complain. Fortunately, Zhang Lan took into account that the cooperation between the two groups has been very good, so Alice lowered the supply price to the Jaguar team. Ford's horn is talking.

After Scuderia Ferrari and Jaguar. Subsequently, McLaren, Williams and other old F1 powerhouses also abandoned the original braking system used by their own teams and replaced them with composite ceramic braking systems produced by Alice Brake Company.

The performance of the teams that adopted the new composite ceramic brake system was significantly improved compared to the previous one, which also pushed the teams that did not adopt this braking system to actively or passively establish a partnership with Alice Brake Systems.

Soon after the F1 teams began to adopt this new composite ceramic braking system, this trend began to gradually spread from the formula racing field to the WRC and GT circuits, and finally spread from the four-wheeled car field to the two-wheeled motorcycle racing field at a wind-like speed.

What people didn't expect was that Zhang Lan originally expected that this brake, which may not have much sales in the international top car modification industry, was also sold in full swing, and the monthly sales volume was equivalent to the use of three F1 teams in a month, which made Zhang Lan and Xiao Chenxi stupid in surprise.

"These guys in the United States and Europe are so fucking rich!" Zhang Lan counted the banknotes while worrying about the increasingly tight production capacity, which has now increased to four production lines, but the production capacity is still tight, and the strong demand in the market and the serious lack of production capacity have also made the price of this product rise a lot in the market. But raising prices is not the way to go, and increasing production is the king. The new four production lines are under construction overtime, and it is estimated that after these four production lines are completed and put into operation, they will basically be able to achieve the balance between supply and demand, without the need to work overtime as now.

Of course. There is good news, there are inevitably a few flies and mosquitoes and other things to annoy you, during which some interesting things also happened, such as I don't know how this matter was seen by a ceramic floor tile manufacturer, seeing that the ceramic brake was so popular by the newspaper, I began to use my brain: ceramic floor tiles and ceramic brakes are ceramic, right? Can you also engage in this ceramic brake? As a result, this guy who came to Alice's company to learn from the experience before he understood the difference between bricks and brakes was laughing at his peers for a while.

Another example is that a company that produces brake systems in an island country tries to visit the production line of Alice Brake Company in the name of cooperation.

Zhang Lan knows too well what these guys have in mind. Ignoring the slogans of Sino-Japanese friendship and common development shouted in the mouths of these guys, Zhang Lan ordered the guards to take big sticks and drive them out mercilessly: Xiao'er, want to steal something? There are no doors!

Despite this, Zhang Lan still strengthened the company's security inspection and confidentiality work, the production formula and process of the product were strictly preserved, and the production process was also readjusted by Xiao Chenxi, which not only strengthened the automation while being more conducive to confidentiality, but also increased the production efficiency to a certain extent.

If you are not afraid of thieves stealing, you are afraid of thieves, who knows if these guys here will come up with the method of buying the company's employees to "take" away the technology they have worked so hard to research after this plan fails? People's hearts are unpredictable, Zhang Lan is not sure if the company has such a bastard thing that sees money.

"Dad. Do you want to get a car? One night in September, after dinner, Zhang Lan asked mysteriously.

"Cars?" Zhang Zongjun's heart trembled, although he already had this premonition, but did he come too quickly? His face pretended to be indifferent, "Why did you suddenly think of making cars again, aren't our motorcycles very well produced?" The situation has been even better for several years than it was last year. ”

"According to my estimate," Zhang said, "the domestic motorcycle market will boom for about four to five years." After that, the market will be quickly saturated, and the price of motorcycles will drop rapidly, and in the end, it is likely that the price will drop to a fraction of the current terminal price. ”

"Unlikely, right?" Zhang Zongjun is very skeptical, "Although this year is a lot of private motorcycle companies. At that time, it is certain that everyone will compete to reduce the price, but it will not be so bad, right? ”

"Hehe," Zhang Lan shook his head with a smile, the situation in China is still unclear? In 1996, the price of 125CC motorcycles, which could still be sold for nearly 20,000, was reduced to more than 8,000, and then it fell rapidly. Finally, some second- and third-tier motorcycle brands can even reduce the price of motorcycles of this displacement to about 3,000 to 4,000.

These two years are the last profiteering time of the motorcycle industry, and after two years, after the Chongqing motorcycle gangs flocked to rise, all motorcycle companies began to live a hard life, especially after the major cities in China began to limit motorcycles, everyone's life is even more bitter. The only way out, one is to transform, to a more high-end motorcycle, and the other is to develop in the direction of a more complex upstream industry, that is: automobiles.

"Dad," Xiao Chenxi handed Zhang Zongjun two pieces of information, "These two pieces of information, one is our domestic policy guidelines for the development of motorcycles, you have seen it before, and now you can see something different; This is the development trend of China's motorcycle market and the development trend of automobiles in the next 15 years, which Sister Alice asked the RAND Corporation, the most famous think tank in the United States. ”

Well, the previous information is true, and the analysis data of the so-called RAND think tank in the back is made up blindly, and it was Xiao Chenxi who put on the hat of the RAND Corporation after polishing and adjusting it according to Zhang Lan's economic development in the next 15 years.

But I have to say that the hat of the RAND Corporation is still very capable of bluffing, at least Zhang Zongjun did not suspect that this analysis report made by Xiao Chenxi that Xiao Chenxi claimed to be made by Alice at a high price from the RAND Company, but in fact, it was made up by his two little guys. Of course, the two little guys have already colluded with Alice in this matter, in case the whim of Zongjun and Alice discuss together, they leak the stuffing.

The reason why Zhang Zongjun knew about the RAND Corporation was completely accidental, that is, when Brigadier Wang came to arrange a military liaison a while ago, he accidentally told Zhang Zongjun about the analysis of the Gulf War by the RAND Think Tank, and his accurate analysis shocked Zhang Zongjun. It was precisely this time that Zhang Zongjun remembered this company, which is famous in international political and military circles for its accurate predictions and analysis, and this analysis report made by a company that claims to be a think tank of the US government.

"That's right," Zhang Zongjun frowned, "What does Alice mean?" ”

"Sister Alice also means this," Xiao Chenxi said, "The technical content of motorcycles is too low, if everyone flocks up to engage in motorcycles, it will inevitably cause large-scale price reductions, and it is even very likely to lose money, Sister Alice means that our company will develop motorcycles to the high-end market, and then enter the automotive industry." After thinking about it, she added, "Yesterday, Sister Alice and I talked on the phone, saying that she would come to China in a few days to discuss this issue with you." (To be continued, if you want to know what will happen next, please log in to the www.qidian.com, more chapters, support the author, support genuine reading!) )