"What's going on over there in Taikoo Shing now?" Although Xu Zhi's residence was exposed in the newspaper, he was not sure if Taikoo Shing's property could stop the group of reporters.

He Guoyuan said: "It's basically fallen, and the property called to say that many reporters sneaked in, but fortunately, there was no one at home, and they all returned in vain." ”

Xu Zhi said: "Can't the security guards prevent them?"

He Guoyuan shook his head and said: "There are thousands of households in Taikoo Forest, and the number of people is even more than 10,000, and the security guards don't know everyone, and it is easy for these reporters to get the owner's card, so ......."

"Understood. Xu Zhi nodded and said: "Arrange someone to contact the intermediary company and find me a villa, not the kind in the middle of the mountain, just an ordinary villa area, the kind with strict security." ”

He Guoyuan nodded and said, "Okay, no problem." ”

Xu Zhi sighed and said, "Okay, that's it, I'll stay in the office for one night today, and hold a high-level meeting of the company tomorrow morning." ”

......

The next day, Midea held the largest management meeting, including general manager He Guoyuan, financial manager Yang Xin, purchasing manager Li Guangyuan, and several chief engineers of game and refrigerator research and development.

"At present, the company's total orders in the United States and RB exceed 40,000 units, of which 82% are Xiangjiang cubes, because of the production capacity, the current orders in the American market are produced by the American foundry, RB is responsible for Xiangjiang's own factory, at present, the factory's production capacity has exceeded 5,000 units per month. ”

At the beginning of the meeting, He Guoyuan introduced the company's orders to everyone, glanced at Xu Zhi, and said: "But now our company has identified several dealers in Europe, and their orders have begun to gradually increase, and the same is true in Southeast Asia, so finding foundry in Xiangjiang has become the most urgent thing at present." ”

Xu Zhi nodded and said: "Yes, we need our own factory, but there is no need to produce all by ourselves, because our Midea is positioned as a high-tech company, and the energy of a company is also limited, our main task is to develop new games and develop sales markets, and to produce this piece, as long as we find a foundry with reliable quality, all of them will be handed over to production."

In addition, the cost of foundry in the United States is too high, before our production is insufficient, the order is too urgent, now all this is slowly slowing down, I intend to gradually transfer all the production capacity in the United States to Xiangjiang, so that the scale of the foundry will be very large, please determine the foundry home, the negotiation will be very beneficial to us, can appropriately lower the price, but must be prepared for quality control, do not look at our company now has a lot of orders, but if there is a big problem with the product, it is enough for our company to go back directly to the past, all start again。 ”

"Understood!" everyone nodded in unison.

"There is also the issue of procurement. Xu Zhi glanced at Li Guangyuan, the purchasing manager, and said: "At present, the purchase volume of our factory has been very large, and some products, such as displays, have to bypass the dealer and go directly to the manufacturer for negotiation." ”

Li Guangyuan nodded and said: "We have already done this again, and now the arcade monitors currently in production are purchased directly from the RCA factory and Panasonic factory in Taiwan, and the price is 25% cheaper than that of Xiangjiang, and in terms of motherboards, we have also found a factory from RB, and the price is 20% cheaper than that of Texas Instruments." However, all the procurement of OEM orders from the U.S. side is not under our control......"

"Soon it will return, after the order from the United States returns to Xiangjiang, although it will be produced by the foundry, the purchase right will return to us, so that our purchase volume will also increase exponentially, and you will have the confidence to negotiate in the future." Xu Zhi said with a smile.

This is also why Xu Zhi wants to quickly bring the order back to Xiangjiang, Midea is not familiar with life in the United States, and the production capacity handed over to the American factory can only be set at a purchase price, except for the motherboard, everything else is purchased by the American foundry itself, which is very large in vain, but it is very suitable for the idea of new enterprises.

On the Xiangjiang side, in the OEM agreement signed with the foundry, in addition to some relatively cheap leftovers, large accessories such as displays, main structural frames, electrical components, panels, etc. are all responsible for Midea, on the one hand, the quality can be controlled, and on the other hand, the unified procurement can reduce the purchase price at the lowest.

"Well, you must pay attention to the OEM thing, it is important to control the cost, but quality is everything. ”

Xu Zhi asked He Guoyuan again: "How about the tank battle and Pac-Man?"

He Guoyuan said: "The code of the map has been done, and now the thing is to design the graphic design of each map, which is more time-consuming. ”

"There's no hurry, you have to do it well before you can take it out. Xu Zhi nodded and smiled, he had played tank battles countless times in his previous life, and there were more than a hundred maps on his previous Xiaobawang game console, and now Midea's engineers are mapping and the rules of the game.

Different maps will have different difficulty, different enemies, different rewards, all need to be sorted after determining the difficulty to be considered successful, and Pac-Man Xu Zhi basically never played in his previous life, he proposed the rules of the game, and all other details are naturally perfected by the engineers below.

Xu Zhi asked again: "What happened to the refrigerator?"

Cao Lizhong, who is in charge of the refrigerator, said: "At present, according to market research, we have decided to develop a double-door refrigerator with a volume of 155 liters, and we are still determining which compressor to use. ”

Xu Zhi waved and stopped: "Wait, there is one thing I want to reveal first, a company in the United States is called York, have any of you heard of it?"

Cao Lizhong said: "York air conditioning, I have heard that this company used to be the boss in the field of refrigeration, but it has declined recently, but it is still good in the field of industrial refrigeration." ”

"Yes. Xu Zhi smiled: "When I was in the United States, I had contact with this company, and it is possible that our company will buy their refrigerator business." ”

"Acquisition!" Everyone was a little surprised, even He Guoyuan, who originally thought that Midea's refrigerator was a diversified attempt, but he didn't expect the boss to buy the refrigerator business of a well-known American company.

Although according to Cao Lizhong's words, this company has declined, but the emaciated camel is bigger than a horse, and it is much bigger than his new company, which has only been established for less than a year!

Xu Zhi ignored everyone's reactions, and roughly said his conversation with York Company in the United States, and when he heard that millions of dollars of funds were going to be used, everyone became silent.

Cao Lizhong frowned and asked, "Then if this is the case, does our department still need to develop new refrigerators?"

Xu Zhi said with a smile: "Of course, this matter cannot be decided at present, and it involves a transaction of millions of dollars, and the negotiation may take a year and a half, and then take a step back, even if I buy back their department business tomorrow, what you should develop is still research and development, the most important thing for a company is research and development capabilities, and high-end technology cannot be bought back by buying." ”

Cao Lizhong asked again: "What about the compressor? Do you want to use York's compressor?"

Xu Zhi thought for a while and said: "Use it, whether you buy the production line or the department, the compressor technology will always be in hand, and you will have your own production technology, and you will not be restricted by all kinds of restrictions." ”

He Guoyuan frowned and said: "If that's the case, I'm worried that after York finds out, he will rely on this sky-high asking price." ”

Xu Zhidao: "For the time being, do you think that if you buy a complete compressor from other brands, you will not be slaughtered?

Besides, my principle is very simple, York will either sell the entire department to me, or only sell technology, and I can't just break it up, I can't buy such a large production line alone, but I don't have my own market sales channels, so there is no sky-high asking price, I don't agree, and their company can only put the production line in the factory for scrapping. ”

He Guoyuan thought for a while, nodded and said, "That's the truth." ”

Xu Zhi said: "First send someone to the United States to retrieve their compressor samples, bring back dozens of them, we will test the performance in Xiangjiang, although the other party is a famous brand, but I still only believe in my own data."

In addition, according to the external dimensions and technical parameters of this compressor, we look for similar products in the market, and strive to have two or three backup options, so that if something really happens, it will not become out of control. ”

Cao Lizhong nodded and agreed: "Okay, I will arrange someone to do it!"