Chapter 185: Kill the Wolf
But Liu Xiao also has doubts, because although Sidney said it so mysteriously, it may not be true, in case he came to fool himself, it would not be beautiful for him to move in such a hurry.
Liu Xiao found that since he took over the soft alliance, it was not as easy to believe others as before, and what others said, he would always involuntarily think in both positive and negative directions, but even so, he had calculated thousands of calculations, but in the end, he was calculated by others, which made Liu Xiao have to be more careful.
If what Sidney said is true, what should he do, follow the thoughts of those people and take the opportunity to promote the products of the soft alliance to the world, so that the strategic level becomes the new safety standard, or do not stand still and continue to observe for a period of time, so as not to let himself become a pawn of others? If you choose the former, the soft alliance can quickly become the leader of the industry, but the soft alliance will also become the safety target of others, whether the soft alliance is ready in this regard, Liu Xiao is not very confident in his heart; and if he chooses the latter, the soft alliance can still continue to work steadily according to the deployment in the future, but it will lose a good opportunity for rapid development.
If what Sidney said is not true, then what is the purpose of his fooling himself? Liu Xiao thought for a moment, it was nothing more than to provide himself with some wrong information, so that he could be agitated, and the first thing that the soft alliance would do in order to quickly occupy the market was definitely to reduce the price, and it was difficult to say whether Sidney was a lobbyist for those ZF.
"Alas, what a headache!" Liu Xiao grabbed his head and walked towards the company, he was a little undecided now, back in the office, he called Boss Xiong, and wanted to consult Boss Xiong's opinion, after all, he is the company's major shareholder, and the company must consider Boss Xiong's opinion if it wants to make major decisions.
Boss Xiong was still in Feng Ming at this time, busy with the affairs of the development zone, hearing Liu Xiao's words, he didn't say anything, he pondered for a while, and then asked Liu Xiao rhetorically, "What are you afraid of? When you took over the soft alliance, the soft alliance was just a group of dragons without a leader, internal and external difficulties, now there is such a good opportunity, why don't you go and give it a fight? It's a big deal that you and I will start all over again, life is just a few decades, how many times can you encounter such an opportunity?"
"I understand what you mean!" Liu Xiao knew what Boss Xiong meant, he was more interested in opportunities, not everyone has such an opportunity to become an industry leader, if life can't live a wonderful life, Boss Xiong thinks it will be a pity.
"However, as a person who has come over, I have to warn you!" Boss Xiong was a little serious when he said this, "Don't think that those people only have these means, they can use some places to buy the products of the soft alliance at a low price, it is difficult to say that they will not use these relationships to exert some other pressure on the soft alliance!"
Liu Xiao was stunned for a moment, and then understood what Boss Xiong meant, the Xiong family has been in business for generations, and he has never seen any strong winds and waves, since Boss Xiong dares to say this, it means that this kind of thing is very likely to happen, which makes Liu Xiao a little worried, he is not afraid of anything, he is afraid that when he rushes forward, someone will trip your leg behind your back.
"You don't have to worry too much, I'm just guessing, but we have to take into account all kinds of bad results and take precautions!" Boss Xiong hopes that what he says will not happen, he has fought with those foreign companies over the years, and has suffered a lot of losses in this regard.
"I know!" Liu Xiao responded, it seems that even if it is very beneficial to himself, it is not so easy to do a good job of him, "I will pay attention!"
"Okay, you can call me if there is anything, I can't say anything else, but in this regard, I have a little more experience than you, and I can help you with your staff officers!" Since Boss Xiong acquired the Soft Alliance, this is the first time that he has taken the initiative to ask about the Soft Alliance.
"With you to check it, then I'll rest assured!" Liu Xiao smiled, said a few more polite words to Boss Xiong, and hung up the phone.
Even if you want to fight, you have to have a fighting routine, you can't go into battle in a daze, Liu Xiao is worried about this now, he is good at gambling, the development history of the soft alliance in his hands can be said to be a gambling history, he gambled to win the black hat conference, and he gambled to win the hacker attack in Estonia, but this time it seems a little tricky, because he doesn't know who to bet with. It's a gamble for yourself and yourself, but it's not yourself who decides the outcome of the game.
After thinking about it for a long time, Liu Xiao suddenly got inspired and got up from the chair, "Damn, since you don't know who to gamble with, then sit in the village by yourself!", after speaking, Liu Xiao went out and went straight to Shang Yue, he wanted to discuss it with Shang Yue.
Shang Yue was busy at this time, and after receiving so many orders at once, her subordinate department was the busiest.
Liu Xiao didn't dare to delay Shang Yue's time, and directly clarified his intentions, and said: "Shang Yue, let me ask you something, you said that we should set up a ring and let the world's hacker masters come to find the vulnerabilities in our products, how about it?"
Shang Yue put down the work in his hand and looked up at Liu Xiao, "Why did you suddenly think of this!", after thinking for a while, "It's okay to set up a ring, but I don't think it's needed yet, first, we have a professional testing department, and second, our products have just been promoted, so we should let the market test him first, and it's not too late to set up a ring after continuing to improve some more." Otherwise, if too many loopholes are found, it will not be beneficial to the future promotion of our products!"
"I've also taken this into consideration!" Liu Xiao paused, "It's just that I think that with the next promotion, our products will sooner or later become other people's safety targets, rather than letting others do it secretly, it is better for us to set ourselves as targets first." There are two advantages to this, first, our future development needs to have a team that responds quickly, Experienced technical team to deal with the sudden product security crisis, but this is our weakest link at present, and I think these things should be kept up from the beginning of the promotion, otherwise it will definitely become a shackle in the future, and this ring can just exercise this team; 。 ”
"What you said makes sense!" Shang Yue nodded and continued to be busy with his own business, "Then you can decide, I don't have any opinions!", it is estimated that there are too many things at hand, Shang Yue no longer cares about arguing with Liu Xiao, and feels that it is almost the same, so he passed it very happily!
Liu Xiao came to Shang Yue, originally thinking that Shang Yue would be responsible for this matter, but now when he saw that Shang Yue was so busy, he didn't care about it, so he had to say: "Then this matter is settled, you can get busy first!"
Out of Shang Yue's office, Liu Xiaojing walked into the company's computer room, and several network administrators were happy when they saw Liu Xiao.
Liu Xiao swept the computer room, "Do we still have vacant servers now?"
"Yes!" the person in charge of the network management nodded, "We have multiple backup servers, which are basically useless!"
"That's good!" Liu Xiao nodded, "Draw one out, you guys do a good job of server security settings, I'm useful!"
"No problem!" several network administrators patted their chests, "Even if Mr. Liu doesn't explain specifically, we will also make all the servers in the best security state." ”
"Okay, then let's hurry up!" Liu Xiao smiled, "I'm going to use it in the next two days!", after speaking, Liu Xiao walked out of the computer room, took out his mobile phone and began to call Li Yicheng.
Li Yicheng received a call from Liu Xiao and looked very happy, "Liu Xiao, what's the matter?"
"There's one thing, I want to ask Brother Li for your help!" Liu Xiao smiled.
"What do you call this, it's too outward!" Li Yicheng laughed on the phone, "You have something to order, just say, what's the matter?"
"That's it!" Liu Xiao sorted out his thoughts, "Now isn't our soft alliance starting to promote a few high-end security products, this is different from the personal security system we cooperated, it does not have anti-virus function, although those customers will be equipped with their own anti-virus software, but I am still a little worried, in the future, if there is a virus specifically for soft alliance products, then we may be more passive, this kind of thing has happened before." You are the best at anti-virus, so I would like to ask you to help me figure out a way to see if I can add some ingredients that are immune to viruses to our products. ”
"This ......" Li Yicheng pondered, "Okay, I'll leave this matter to me, I'll find a way for you to come out as soon as possible!"
"That's great!" Liu Xiao was very pleased, "I thank you in advance!"
"If you see you like this again, I won't help you with this!" Li Yicheng laughed.
"Okay, then I'll wait for your good news!" Liu Xiao also laughed.
"Don't worry, those of us who are engaged in anti-virus, which one doesn't have the stuff at the bottom of the box, but it can't be put on anti-virus products, otherwise we won't have anything to eat, don't worry, this time I will use all my goods on your products, and I promise to satisfy you!"
Liu Xiao didn't bother to inquire about the unspoken rules of the anti-virus world, just smiled and said: "Okay, okay, then I can do it with confidence!", Liu Xiao also made the last virus incident scared, in fact, all the products of the soft alliance after that, under Liu Xiao's request, are designed with a backup or recovery plan when infected with the virus, but in order to further improve, Liu Xiao still asked Li Yicheng for help, if he can make his product not infected by the virus, or the probability of infection is greatly reduced, that is the best.
After hanging up the phone, Liu Xiao walked towards the laboratory again, he had to design a set of plans for the ring to comprehensively detect all the problems that may exist in the product. Only if the product itself is excellent, the soft alliance can be regarded as having the first conditions to fight big with a small fight, otherwise even if the soft alliance takes this opportunity to achieve a great leap forward and become a leader in the industry, as long as there is a little problem in the future, it will also fall out of the original form of the soft alliance, which Liu Xiao does not want to see, not that he does not dare to fight, there is a mountain of gold in front of him, and those who are not moved are fools. But Liu Xiao knows how to do what he can, otherwise Jin Shan didn't move, but let Jin Shan crush himself into a cripple, and the gains outweigh the losses. According to the plan formulated by Liu Xiao at the beginning, he wanted to move the gold mountain steadily and step by step, but now someone has to let himself move the entire gold mountain at once, so what should he do, only to accumulate strength, so that he has the power to move the whole mountain, so that his products are flawless, this is the accumulation of power that Liu Xiao thinks.
After working for a long time, Liu Xiao had just figured out a clue when he heard someone knocking on the door of the laboratory, and it was the head of the business department standing outside the door.
As soon as Liu Xiao came out, the business supervisor said, "Mr. Liu, things are a little bad!"
"What's wrong?" these words made Liu Xiao stunned, "You say specific!"
"Those foreign-funded enterprises that have ordered our products, except for Russia's Skiko, several others have to unsubscribe!" The duck in the mouth was about to take off again, and the door of the business executive's brain was sweating.
"Is there such a thing?" Liu Xiao was slightly surprised, and then laughed, "Great, I still wish they all returned, you tell them that they can be refunded, but according to the agreement, the deposit is non-refundable." ”
"Mr. Liu!" The business director's eyes widened, this Liu Xiao can't be stupid, this deposit is only a few dollars, if people really want to push the order, the loss is hundreds of millions of dollars, maybe more, "Shall we reduce the price a little and save it again?"
"No!" Liu Xiao raised his hand, "Let them retreat, tell Stepco, they can also retreat, it's best to retreat!"
"Mr. Liu, this is not the time to talk angry!" The business director is dying, how could Liu Xiao say that.
"Do you think I'm angry?" Liu Xiao looked at the business director with a smile, "Actually, I didn't plan to sell it to them in the first place, that's why I offered such a high price, and they can accept such a high price, which means that they don't really plan to order our products!"
"Ah......" The business director couldn't figure out Liu Xiao's thoughts, this is going around and around, as for it, can't you just sell it quickly.
"You go and inform Shang Yue, tell her to stop the goods of these companies, and then let her go to the conference room, let's have an impromptu meeting!" Liu Xiao finished instructing, turned around and entered the laboratory again, and as soon as he sorted out half of the work, he paced towards the conference room. He was happy now, at least it showed that Sidney was telling the truth.
"These companies first buy our products at a high price, and then return them collectively, these are actually all things they have already discussed, it is a strategy, what is the purpose?" Liu Xiao looked at the several supervisors sitting in the conference room, " The purpose is to create an illusion for us, first let us think that our products are very marketable, but in the end we are happy in vain, this huge contrast, will prompt us to think, and even begin to doubt and deny our products, and once we have this illusion, everyone think about it, what will be the first step we make?
Everyone looked at Liu Xiao with wide eyes, Liu Xiao's joke was a bit big, how could this be that the other party said that it had been discussed in advance, and the deposit they lost was not a small amount.
However, everyone still followed Liu Xiao's train of thought and said, "Reduce the price!"
"That's right, it's a price reduction!" Liu Xiao bowed, "Then have you ever thought about what they are trying so hard to make us reduce the price?" Liu Xiao looked at the business director, "I remember that you did an analysis for me two days ago, you can talk about it first." ”
"In order to get our goods at a low price?In order to eat a large number of our goods?" The business director said that it was not as sure as the previous two days, those ZF overreported the number of orders, he dared to suspect that the other party wanted to get more goods at a low price, but now the customer wants to return the goods, spare a little more circle, he is a little confused.
"Is there any other reason besides this?" Liu Xiao looked at him with a smile, "Otherwise, you can explain to me again, tell me where the extra reports in those places come from?"
The business executive grabbed his cheeks, if he asked so, it was really possible, these people were too cunning, and they almost put themselves in.
"We want to make more profits, and they want to eat a lot of our goods, but they don't want to spend any money. Liu Xiao looked at everyone with a smile, "Let's think about it, let's see if there is any way for them to obediently spend money to buy our goods!"
Everyone was silent, not so much because they couldn't think of a way, but because they couldn't figure out Liu Xiao's assertion, which was too out of tune.
"Forget it, it doesn't matter if you can't figure it out, then let's maintain the status quo. The price is still the same, if they come to order, we will order, we will return we will return, anyway, we are not in a hurry, just the profit of these domestic orders, it is enough for us to hold on for a long time. Liu Xiao saw that everyone couldn't come up with an idea, so he had to do it first, "But I have to remind everyone, don't panic, because the opponent's tricks are not only these, as long as we can't lower the ideal price in their hearts, they will continue to toss, this is a psychological game, whoever can hold it can get the greatest benefit!"
Everyone nodded, although they couldn't figure it out, but everyone also thought that it was a good strategy to respond to all changes with no change.
"Then let's talk about the next topic!" Liu Xiao just said with a smile: "Actually, I also mentioned just now, that is, the number of orders placed by some ZF to us far exceeds the actual number of them used. The business executives have already investigated, and it is some foreign-funded enterprises that have made promises to ZF in these places, and they buy the excess amount on the order at twice the price. Let's see what to do, do you sell it to them like this, or come up with a plan?"
Shang Yue pondered, said: "The price we sell to ourselves ZF, the profit is already very thin, if you count the various costs of our upgrades and maintenance in the future, in fact, we don't make any money, we are in order to seize the market, will sell products at this price in China, if we have not established a very complete agency channel and after-sales network in China before, we would not dare to make this price." But if these foreign-funded enterprises resell our products abroad, then we will definitely lose, just to establish a set of after-sales network abroad, and maintain the normal operation of this network, this cost, we can not afford. ”
Everyone nodded, in fact, the business director was worried about this before, which is why everyone can agree with Liu Xiao's outrageous price of 400,000.
"Then let's come up with a plan!" Liu Xiao said, and when he was done, he heard someone knock on the door of the conference room, "Come in!"
The reception MM walked up to Liu Xiao, "Mr. Liu, there is someone outside, I have to see you!"
"What's the matter?" asked Liu Xiao.
"He said he was going to apply!" MM said.
Liu Xiaoyi frowned, "Then you can take him to the personnel department!"
"No, he has to see you, he said......" MM paused, "He said he was going to apply for the technical director of the soft alliance!"
As soon as these words came out, the most unexpected thing was Shang Yue, she raised her head and looked at the reception MM.
Liu Xiao didn't think about it, and said: "Then you tell him, just say that our technical director is already there, and he is very competent, if he wants to apply for other positions, he should submit his resume to the personnel department, otherwise please find another job!"
MM responded, took two steps, turned around again, and said: "Mr. Liu, you better go and see him, I'm afraid I won't be able to get him away, he has to see you, and he claims to be the West Poison Killer Wolf!"
"Ahh