No matter how many years later, no matter what kind of glory and wealth Marten himself enjoyed in the future, deep down, he always remembered that evening when he was waiting for the end of school.

A big Ben picked him up from the envious eyes of his friends and walked away.

It was the first time in his life that he saw Daben, and it was also the first time he went to a seemingly formal French restaurant, and ate foie gras, snails, and other good things that could only be eaten in Hong Kong dollars to entertain foreign guests.

As a fourth-grade elementary school student, he watched the young man who was only seven years older than him be able to talk and laugh with his father and Director Qiao, and the other party's attitude was very kind, almost flattering.

He even said, "We are not here to manage Hong Kong businessmen, but to serve Hong Kong businessmen." In order to better open up, we need to learn from the West and build a service-oriented government".

Of course, it can only be said in private at the wine table, and it must not be in public.

All this left an indelible imprint on Ma Teng's young heart, and when he tried to catch up with his predecessors later, he had to sigh over and over again: Your uncle will always be your uncle.

Anyway, the guests and hosts enjoyed themselves that night, and all the people in the Shajiao Development Zone expressed their full cooperation, and also listened to some suggestions from Gu Biao on the reception of the upcoming Japanese-funded delegation.

This kind of obedience was not bought by Gu Biao with money, but by convincing the other party. After all, neither Director Qiao nor Director Ma have had much contact with him, and he must be more familiar with Gu Biao in business.

A few words of incisive insight can make the listener take out a small notebook and record it from the bottom of his heart, and he also sighs that Gu Shao is really well-informed.

"Gu ...... Brother Gu, you must have been to many countries, right?" Ma Teng, who was unscrupulous, finally couldn't help it, and asked curiously despite his father's coercion.

"What do adults talk and children say!" Director Ma made a gesture to beat his son.

But he was blocked by the magnanimous Gu Biao, and changed to a kind touch to kill.

It's like inspecting work in a TV series and meeting children.

"Children should study hard and study hard, and there will be opportunities in the future. What is going abroad, when you reach my age, it will be worthless. ”

What Gu Biao said was the truth.

It's a pity that the audience didn't believe it, and thought that Gu Biao was pretending to be forced.

……

After making friends with the local grassroots and understanding the situation clearly, the next day, some senior executives of CITIC Trust, including the boss, went to Shenzhen one after another.

Gu Biao had no choice but to report the latest situation with Han Ting and participate in the reception banquet.

The boss was very satisfied with Gu Biao's performance, and found an opportunity to call Gu Biao at the reception banquet alone, and instructed according to tomorrow's reception list:

"Xiao Gu, tomorrow, in addition to Chairman Inada and Chairman Ukawa, the two heads of Mitsui and Sumitomo Foundation, there will be many heads of industrial companies controlled by them.

These include Konosuke Matsushita, Chairman of Matsushita Electric, and Akio Morita, Chairman of Sony Electronics. These two are half of your peers, and they may be invited by Chairman Inada and Yuchuan to evaluate the actual operation of Hanle Electronics and the future market competitiveness. After all, in terms of technology and products, you are relatively good at explaining. ”

Gu Biao said: "Boss, don't worry, I promise to complete the task." ”

The boss smiled charmingly: "Xiao Gu, on my side, don't be as restrained as you are at your deputy director's." We are an enterprise management, there is no superiority and subordinate, and the wording can be more commercial in the future. ”

Gu Biao: "Okay, boss." ”

The boss smiled and patted him on the shoulder: "That's right, especially in front of foreigners, you can't behave obediently - this is your business, not the country's business, I value this very much." ”

At around 9 o'clock in the morning of the next day, Gu Biao and Han Ting were in the office of Hanle Electronics Factory, making final preparations.

They will not go to the airport to pick them up because they are shareholders and management of the invested company and should not be too attentive to investors.

Therefore, the boss asked the boss to personally pick up Inada and Chairman Yuchuan and others, and when they arrived at the factory, Gu Biao and others came forward.

About half an hour later, a long convoy came in a long way, all of them Mercedes-Benz - he said that he couldn't fly his luxury cars from China, so these cars should have been borrowed in advance by the boss in Guangdong.

At the end of the 50s, there were the first Mercedes-Benz buses in China, which were exclusively for foreign guests at the Canton Fair, and even the leaders of the country did not have to sit (leaders sat on the red flag). This is also a tradition of more than 20 years, so to receive important foreign guests in eastern Guangdong, they will borrow Mercedes-Benz from Yuezhou Bus Company.

As the Mercedes-Benz convoy stopped, the boss took the lead in getting out of the car and personally received the presidents of the two major consortiums.

"Chairman Inada and Chairman Ukawa, this is the target enterprise that CITIC Trust invested in when it issued its first Hong Kong dollar bond. Hanle Electronics, if you are concerned about the latest electronic entertainment product trends in the market, you should have heard of this brand. At present, it is the number one brand in the market of public game consoles. ”

Chairman Inada of the Mitsui Chaebol is already old, an old man in his 70s, with age spots on his face and bald hair.

Moreover, after all, the chaebol is different from the industrialists, and is not sensitive to the trends of new technologies and new consumer trends, so that the electronic arcade product has appeared in the book for half a year, and they still do not understand it very well - they are here to investigate, not the party that is carefully prepared to be reviewed.

"Morita-kun, how is this brand?" asked Chairman Inada as he turned sideways and tapped the ground twice with his crutches.

Immediately in the back row, a middle-aged and elderly man in his 50s stepped forward, and it was none other than Akio Morita, the founder and chairman of Sony Electronics. He walked up to the major shareholder and explained:

"It's very good, the electronic arcade machine is a new entertainment facility, originally only produced by Atari in the United States, and it has been around for two years.

However, we said that the owners of entertainment venues in China are generally conservative, feeling that these equipment are expensive and too risky, and do not dare to try to introduce them easily. However, Xiangjiang's Hanle Electronics seized the opportunity to create a new category of arcade machines called 'shooting games' on the basis of the Americans' design, occupying a new market in one fell swoop.

At present, only Taidong Electric's products compete with it, but the monthly sales volume is less than one-third of that of Hanle Electronics. In addition, I just heard two days ago that Hanle Electronics has launched a new product, which has innovated the way to play, and the first reaction of the market is very good, and Taidong Electric has to chase again. ”

"I didn't expect that the Chinese are also very creative." "Two years ago, when you Sony came up with ALK-MAN, I heard public opinion all over the world say that our electronics company is leading the benchmark of 'trend' and 'cool' among young people. Now it seems that Morita Jun still has to work hard. ”

"You're right, we at Sony are also working on it, but we don't have any plans to get involved in the console industry at the moment. Akio Morita replied.

Naturally, Chairman Ukawa, the chairman of the Sumitomo Foundation, would discuss with his friends, but his attitude was much lower, because the business owner he invested in was older than him and was much more respected in his home country.

That is the 86-year-old founder of Matsushita Electric, Mr. Konosuke Matsushita.

He not only has to walk on crutches, but also has a life secretary to help him.

"Morita Jun is too modest, you have done a very good job, the era is your young people after all. Since last year, at my behing, we have set up a 'Sony Research Institute', and we will take apart and study any new products and ideas that your company has. ”

Akio Morita was commented on by Konosuke Matsushita in public, and he was very flattered, and he couldn't laugh or cry.

Being copied and reversely researched is something that no company wants to see.

But Konosuke Matsushita was the idol of Akio Morita when he was young, after all, the age difference between the two was nearly 30 years old, Matsushita started his business after World War I, and Morita's Sony was founded after World War II, a generation behind.

It is a very honorable thing to be counter-studied by one's own idols after all.

However, Konosuke Matsushita's words also lightly dismissed the responsibility to express his opinion - he was openly saying that he did not know anything about these new entertainment electronic products, so that Chairman Ugawa asked Akio Morita if he had any questions.

He just wants to observe quietly, and he doesn't want to judge everything. At this age, people are basically so open-minded that they don't bother to criticize young people.

The boss grasped the rhythm of the visit throughout the whole process and was quite satisfied with the result.

At least the top management of the Japanese side has admitted that CITIC Trust has invested in a high-tech company with great potential, and the new trust funds have played an important role in the company's rapid expansion of market share, acceleration of R&D investment, and shortening the product launch cycle in the initial stage.

After a cursory look at the production line equipment and the latest "tank war" prototype, the boss introduced the person in charge of the factory to the wealthy businessman:

This is Miss Han Ting, the general manager of Hanle Electronics, who is responsible for the daily operation of the company. This is Mr. Gu Biao, an early shareholder, and the initiator of the company's early ideas.

This is Mr. Yan Lei, the head of the technical department, who used to teach in the Department of Applied Mathematics of Zhejiang University, and we have also taken out the elite soldiers of various teaching and scientific research units, and have made a lot of efforts to transform academic achievements into actual productivity. ”

Matsushita Konosuke glanced at Yan Lei on the ground, noncommittal.

And Akio Morita observed the reaction of his predecessors and was also a little alert.

He stepped out of the crowd and took the lead in asking: "This Mr. Yan, I would like to ask, what do you think is the main reason why the 'Thunderbolt Fighter' and 'Tank Battle' can be popular in the market? Or, what points do you think of your company's design elements that detonated the final market sales? Don't worry, I don't want to learn from you, we Sony ourselves have already analyzed it, I just want to verify with you to see if the hero sees the same." ”

The translator accompanying the boss was about to help translate, but Han Ting had already spoken in advance and finished the translation in unison.

Then almost as soon as Akio Morita asked, Han Ting translated and replied: "Mr. Yan said that he is a technician and is only responsible for realizing ideas, so I'm very sorry." ”

Akio Morita was stunned: "Don't you have a creative department in your company? It's incredible, how can an entertainment electronics company without a professional creative department be sustainable." Could it be that when these few brilliant ideas run out, they will eat the old book?"

Han Ting still translated his words loudly at a speed that was only three words behind Akio Morita. It's just that Han Ting's voice is very pleasant, and it makes people unable to get angry.

The boss was suddenly a little embarrassed, and gave a stern look to the subordinate next to him who was specifically responsible for the investment accounting business, as if to blame them for not preparing in advance for the possible points of interest of him.

However, his subordinates were also in a dilemma.

No one has ever dealt with the cutting-edge electronics companies, and who knows what the core competitiveness they care about the most?

At this moment, Gu Biao opened his mouth to refute, and directly used Japanese:

"Mr. Akio Morita, I beg my pardon to agree with you - when Steve Jobs founded Apple four years ago, there was no dedicated creative department, so do you think that the Apple-II computer is not easy to use and not cool enough?

There are a large number of such consumer electronics companies in Silicon Valley, and it is not only the closed-loop model of the company, but also the only sustainable development model of the electronic entertainment company. Being open is not the same as being unsustainable. ”

"Openness doesn't mean unsustainable?" Akio Morita chewed on Gu Ao's famous quote and thought it was quite meaningful, and even forgot to ask Gu Biao why he knew Japanese.