Chapter Twenty-Eight: North American Black Cloud Branch

Now the name of Bao Zixuan at MIT is considered a celebrity, and after he proposed the genius idea of Industry 4.0, he immediately received the attention of the school, and even many well-known professors joined in the discussion of this topic.

After a week of learning, **** Xuan's theoretical knowledge and broadened his ideas were widely recognized by the classmates. Even after class, there are more and more people who communicate with him, but everyone is new to contact and doesn't know him very well. Most of the topics discussed were limited to mechanical engineering and CNC machine tools. In fact, he also has to observe the abilities of these people to see if they can be used for themselves.

At the end of the week, Bao Zixuan returned to the company, and next Monday would be the opening day of the North American branch of Heiyun Company. It's impossible for him, the boss, to be a hands-off shopkeeper. After the good performance of the Asian market and the Canadian market, after reaching an agreement with Pan Jianwen, Bao Zixuan transported 200 game consoles to Canada by plane, and the follow-up orders reached more than 4,000 units; Pan Jianwen is a noble man who started by himself, and he can't forget his roots.

Two of Black Cloud's games, Heung Kong Cube and Pac-Man, have kept dealers in the world's largest market paying attention to Black Cloud's dynamics in the U.S. market. In the past, many people wanted to get the agency right, and even many enterprises and institutions went to Xiangjiang to negotiate, but they refused on the grounds of production capacity problems and the chairman of the board of directors going to the United States to personally examine the market.

I heard that the North American branch of Black Cloud Games will open in Cambridge next Monday, and the flights to Boston are very popular these days.

Hiroshi Hashimoto is now taking Bao Zixuan to visit the company, in fact, Hiroshi Hashimoto sometimes sighs that this young boss's decentralization is something that he can't understand in RB's original company. As long as the equipment provides a model or performance, the rest does not matter, and so far there is basically no management of the company's renovation process and accounting for the decoration cost. It's just that he and Jiro Gujo, an employee who has just been in the company for less than a month, are in charge, plus at most the two bodyguards he brought. Although I didn't embezzle in the process, I was still asked out to play often.

Bao Zixuan looked at this office building with a total of 3,000 square meters, and the black clouds were about to set sail from here in the United States. The company has changed a lot from a week ago. The entrance has been replaced with the signboard of the Black Cloud Company.

The first floor has been fully opened, in addition to the front desk and reception hall, there is a game experience hall covering an area of 500 square meters. It is not open to the public, but only for the company's engineers and agents to experience. Looking at the 40 game consoles that were temporarily assembled, Bao Zixuan went to experience it, and the operation performance was able to meet the requirements of customers.

The second floor has been divided into a hardware office area, and in the future, it will be responsible for the research and development of hardware, and Jiro Furujo will be directly appointed as the director here. The third floor is the software development department, which is currently headed by Hiroshi Hashimoto. On the fourth floor is the conference room and the office of the company's management, who is currently alone. The 5th floor is the area where the five of them rest, and the company that doesn't want to live here provides accommodation fees, so Hiroshi Hashimoto and Jiro Furujo still live in the company. Let's get a girlfriend and move out in the future, this is the idea of the two of them.

After visiting the company, Bao Zixuan came to his own office on the fourth floor. Looking at the financial statements handed over to him by Hiroshi Hashimoto and Jiro Guru, this is a newly recruited financial officer, a middle-aged woman in her 40s, adhering to the consistent characteristics of Heiyun Company's recruitment, looks a little embarrassed, but the start-up company, no matter how high the salary is, it is difficult to recruit those female employees who are both beautiful and intelligent. So the female employees in Heiyun are the kind of people who don't look good, but there is really no problem with their ability, otherwise they would be sorry for this salary.

Looking at this professional financial statement, Bao Zixuan is still very satisfied with this financial officer. Organized and accurate. This is the minimum requirement for a financial officer, but there are a few that can be achieved!

The construction period was fast, but the cost was 1.3 times the normal one. This is also something that cannot be helped, there will be gains and losses. You make the workers work overtime desperately, and the wages are not greatly increased, and you sue the union. Trade unions in the U.S. will teach you how to behave.

The production cost here is still much higher than that of Xiangjiang, but the assembly of 40 game consoles actually costs the equivalent of 150~180 units in Xiangjiang, and the laboratory and R&D institutions can only be set up here in the future, otherwise the cost is too high. Thinking about the popularity of the two games in other markets during this period of time, Bao Zixuan immediately called Zhao Tingting in Xiangjiang. He had a new plan.

After Zhao Tingting received a call from her boss, she began to introduce the construction and production capacity of the factory to Bao Zixuan. Hearing these buns, Zixuan was quite satisfied.

Bao Zixuan: "Mr. Zhao, how many machines do we have in stock now, and what is the daily production capacity." ”

Zhao Tingting: "We now have 1,580 Xiangjiang cube game machines in stock and 1,800 Pac-Man. It can produce 600 units per day when the raw materials are sufficient. ”

Bao Zixuan: "You go to contact Air Cargo right now, transport 500 units of Xiangjiang Cube, 700 units of Pac-Man to Boston, USA, and you must come here next Tuesday, it doesn't matter if you add some more money." Immediately start increasing the procurement of raw materials, and increase efforts to recruit workers, I will send 10,000 game consoles to the United States at a time next time. You immediately contact the shipping company, and I will charter their ship to load our cargo and get to the United States as soon as possible. ”

Bao Zixuan doesn't care about the task, but in Xiangjiang Heiyun, the employees are going to die. A total of three Boeing 747 cargo planes were used to transport the cargo. This adds $200 per machine to the cost.

Zhao Tingting came to the Dongjia Shipping Company, which has been operating shipping from the United States to Xiangjiang for a long time. In this era, Xiangjiang has four well-known ship kings. And Dong Haoyun, the founder of Dongjia Shipping Company, is one of the four ship kings. Now the shipping industry is already a little tired due to the impact of the oil crisis, and the export advantage of Xiangjiang is becoming lower and lower, and the shipping industry of Xiangjiang is not very good.

At this time, Tan Jiashun, the business manager in Dong Haoyun's office, was reporting to him. Tan Jiashun is 42 years old this year, and has never left since he entered the Dongjia Shipping Company at the age of 16, during which he also audited a marketing course at Xiangjiang University. At this time, Secretary Dong Haoyun walked into the office and said that Miss Zhao of Heiyun Game Company came to find Manager Tan for something.

In fact, what Bao Zixuan didn't know was that Tan Jiashun and Zhao Tingting were half classmates, and Zhao Tingting handed over all the shipping business of Black Cloud Games to Tan Jiashun, but this is also a normal thing. After hearing the name of Heiyun Games, Dong Haoyun said: "It's the customer you just said that has a lot of business in the past month and has a particularly good reputation." ”

Bao Zixuan decided at the beginning that he could not default on the freight freight and the construction fee of the builder. Therefore, no matter where Heiyun ships the goods, half of the deposit will be paid in advance, and the customer will pay the balance immediately after signing and accepting. He just wants to make everyone who works with him not want to lose him as a customer.

Tan Jiashun: "Yes, boss. This Miss Zhao is the deputy general manager of Heiyun, and he is responsible for the operation of Xiangjiang. It was my classmate when I was studying at Heung Kong University. Their boss is now developing the U.S. market, and it seems to have succeeded. It should have come to us to deliver the goods. ”

Dong Haoyun smiled and said, "This is a good thing! Go quickly! Don't let people wait for a long time." ”

In the reception room. "Why did Mr. Zhao come to me today, I invited you several times and you haven't come;" Tan Jiashun said with a smile.

In fact, Zhao Tingting knew that she was in the company, so she had to be called formally, "Isn't there something I need to ask Manager Tan for help? ”

Tan Jiashun: "How come, you are now my God of Wealth." Say it, whatever I can do!"

Zhao Tingting: "I hope to ship a batch of game consoles directly from Xiangjiang to the United States in 10 days, and the time is more urgent, I hope you can do your best to ensure our freight speed, and do not want to ship other things, to fully protect us, can you do it." We can pay extra for shipping. Coming back from the United States, a group of machines will follow the ship back. The main thing is that this time the amount is a bit large, and it is also an order from the boss himself. ”

Tan Jiashun: "It's not a big problem, but how big a boat is needed." ”

Zhao Tingting: "Within 10,000 tons, it depends on how much we can produce these days." ”

Tan Jiashun: "Then it's no problem, we can do our best to protect it, rest assured." ”

So the two communicated around the freight and time, and Zhao Tingting returned to the company and immediately asked the finance department to remit a deposit of 2 million to the shipping company. made Dong Haoyun want to see the boss of this black cloud company, who is it. It's so refreshing to do business. This also left a good impression on Black Cloud Games in front of all the freight companies in Xiangjiang.