88: Orders exploded! Yes, the official website exploded too!

After the press conference ended, Lu Shenwei personally thanked the various automotive media outlets.

"This is District Chief, he has millions of fans across the entire network."

Listening to Zhou Cun's introduction, Lu Shenwei said half-jokingly, "You look much thinner than in your videos."

"Director Lu is not as serious as he looked on stage," District Chief replied with a chuckle.

"This is Lord Lian, she said you helped her before."

Lord Lian?

Lu Shenwei looked at the familiar-looking young woman and asked in confusion, "Aren't you working at the Ford 4S dealership? A part-time streamer?"

"I'm full-time now. After you stood up for me and ordered that Raptor from me last time, I was bullied by a few old salespeople, so I just quit."

Lu Shenwei frowned and said, "Isn't that bullying? Director Zhou, do you guys handle this kind of thing?"

He had originally only wanted to help Ruan Ling vent her frustration, but he hadn't expected it to backfire.

Zhou Wen said seriously, "If Miss Ruan wants justice, it's simple: go back to work, and we will rectify that 4S dealership."

He couldn't be bothered to help others, but he definitely had to help Lu Shenwei.

Lord Lian waved her hand and said, "Being a streamer is pretty good now. Going back means dealing with complicated interpersonal relationships. If Director Lu really wants to help me, why not give me a few more car purchase quotas?"

"No problem, I'll give you priority for 20," Lu Shenwei said casually.

Upon hearing this, District Chief became anxious: "Director Lu, you can't favor one over the other just because you see a beauty."

"District Chief gets 20 as well. I'll be relying on everyone's support for the upcoming sales period, so thank you in advance," Lu Shenwei said with a chuckle.

Lord Lian and District Chief politely responded: "Director Lu, while Long Xia's cars are great, you also need to expand your offline stores."

Lu Shenwei nodded and said, "There were many agricultural machinery direct-sale stores in the countryside before."

"That doesn't count. I'm talking about direct-sale stores similar to 4S dealerships, opened in the city center," District Chief reminded him.

Lu Shenwei pondered, "Let's first look at the online order volume within a week. If it can exceed 10,000 units, then we'll consider it."

"Director Lu, you don't drive much, do you?" District Chief asked.

Lu Shenwei nodded and said, "I usually live in the dormitory, so I don't need a car."

This... a billionaire living in a dormitory?

"Director Lu, stop joking. Based on my many years of experience in car reviews, it's hard to say about the improved model, but the performance model will sell at least 100,000 units," District Chief thought for a moment.

Lu Shenwei asked in surprise, "100,000? In a week?"

"Yes, I'm afraid you still don't understand how much car enthusiasts love small pickup trucks."

Hearing District Chief say this, Lu Shenwei immediately had the thought of adjusting the production speed.

The reason he desperately piled on configurations and lowered the selling price was because he was afraid of having no sales.

After seeing off the car reviewers, Lu Shenwei immediately gathered Ma Quanlin and the others to study the sales strategy.

"Purely online sales definitely won't work; offline stores must also be expanded."

"Chairman, the car reviewers are right, but we must also be conservative in our estimates. 100,000 orders in a week—honestly, I have never seen any car model with such high sales."

"Blind expansion is not advisable, but we cannot remain indifferent to the new situation. Uncle Wang, you are responsible for restarting those sales points in the countryside."

"Zhou Cun, keep monitoring the official website sales. Tomorrow at noon, let's look at the 24-hour pre-order data before deciding whether to expand production. Uncle Ma, you are responsible for receiving the enterprises that come to visit."

Less than half an hour after the new car launch ended, the phones in the Julong Steel office were almost being blown up.

Some car companies were asking if they could cooperate; others wanted to open direct-sale stores for the longmao small car.

Some wanted to secure the national agency for the longmao small car to help Julong Steel sell cars, and there were also many car reviewers who hadn't been in contact before who wanted to seek cooperation.

"Take out 10 performance-model longmao small cars for the cooperating car media, urge them to release their car review videos as soon as possible to further stimulate consumers."

Lu Shenwei made all the arrangements, but he didn't know that this storm would sweep across the entire Dragon Xia.

As 12:00 noon arrived, countless car enthusiasts waited on the Julong Steel official website.

[Holy crap! It's frozen! The page won't even move.]

[I have gigabit fiber optics, and it's lagging like crazy!]

[Damn it! What kind of trashy website is Julong Steel's? The pre-order page won't load.]

[They don't accept offline pre-orders, and the online site is frozen solid. Does Julong Steel not want to sell cars?]

"Chairman, the official website has crashed."

Zhou Cun hurriedly found Lu Shenwei, and the latter asked in surprise, "Crashed? How is that possible?"

The Julong Steel official website had been upgraded once before and had the processing capacity for millions of real-time visits. Could it be that the traffic now exceeded one million?

The programmer pulled up the website's backend data, and Lu Shenwei gasped.

This... I'm afraid there are tens of millions of visits, right?

"Many IPs have launched cyberattacks; I'm afraid they were all instigated by competitors," Zhou Cun said.

Lu Shenwei said casually, "Excluding those launching attacks and hogging the server's computing power, there are at least seven or eight million normal visitors."

Does the longmao small car have so many fans?

"Chairman, our information team can resolve the issue in 20 minutes."

"Hurry up and restore it to normal; don't keep the customers waiting too long."

More than ten minutes later, the Julong Steel official website returned to normal, but the 100,000 units of inventory released were sold out in less than two minutes.

[Is this fake? I just refreshed and there were still tens of thousands of units in stock. It was gone in the time it took to take a sip of water?]

[Limited to 2 cars per person. I registered 10 accounts in one go and only managed to buy 4.]

[Screw you! My order was squeezed out by people like you.]

[Julong Steel is awesome. Other car companies ask for a 10% deposit first, but Julong Steel asks for the full payment right away.]

[Can't be mad, right? Even with this, you might not be able to grab one.]

[Look at this lucky person's luck, order number 00006!]

[Damn you, my heart hurts. Watching you guys grab the cars is more painful than killing me!]

[Stop crying, damn it. My order number is over 70,000; I won't get the car until the month after next.]

Netizens were complaining crazily, and the car review media were in an even worse situation than them.

[I'm stunned. What is Julong Steel doing? First the website crashes, and after finally fixing it, the inventory is sold out in seconds?]

[Hunger marketing? Julong Steel is playing this game too?]

[Have you all forgotten that Julong Steel previously restricted even steel pipe sales, let alone the longmao small car?]

[Has anyone in the car review circle gotten a car?]

[District Chief and Lord Lian are Julong Steel's designated review media; they must have them.]

[Brother Hu missed out on a fortune just to mooch a meal.]

[Brother Hu: Don't talk about it, I've already cried myself unconscious in the restroom.]

To help Lord Lian and the others gain fans, Lu Shenwei specially approved two test cars for District Chief and Lord Lian, the only two on the entire network.

"Brothers, look at what's behind me?"

Lord Lian stepped aside with a grin, revealing the tough-looking longmao small car behind her.

[What is prestige? This is it!]

[Press conference in the morning, you get the car in the afternoon—I can only say, awesome!]

[Don't just stand there, streamer, start the test! Hurry up and get it done!]