After getting the source code and circuit design from Tomohiro Nishikaku, and taking a bunch of half-finished sample photos, Gu Biao specially withdrew cash and stuffed the other party with 4 million yen, even if the deal was two - the yen originally had a denomination of 10,000 sheets, so it was equivalent to 4 stacks, which was very inconspicuous. (Since 84, there has been 10,000 yen for the "Fukuzawa Yukichi" avatar version, and the old version from the 60s is still used)

Both sides are afraid of exposure, so they don't know it.

After talking about all this, it was already late at night when I returned to my hotel in downtown Tokyo.

After Gu Wei rested, the next morning, he waited for the domestic negotiation supervisors, who were also from the Foreign Affairs Bureau of the First Ministry of Machinery. However, it is the Discipline Supervision Division, not the Operations Division, which is under the supervision of the Director-General.

Therefore, he can only put aside the matter of the video game console for a while and complete the official signing work here.

The surname is Shi, a flat-headed man in his 30s, with no characteristics and no smiles. After Gu Biao and Yang Xin received each other, they briefly and orally reported the negotiation process in the past few days, and played the necessary recording highlights to prove their innocence.

Section Chief Shi listened to the recording clip of Mitsui Sushi trying to bribe Gu Biao in private, and when he heard Gu Biao's righteous and stern refusal, he was also slightly embarrassed.

"That Mitsui Sushi actually said to give you a personal rebate of 200,000 US dollars? Comrade Xiao Gu is worthy of being a good comrade made of special materials, and such a heavy sugar-coated cannonball can't corrode you. I didn't say anything, I vouched for all the procedural evidence here, let's sign the contract as soon as possible. ”

On the other hand, He Ziqiang has also finalized the details of the legal terms in the past few days, and in the afternoon of the same day, the group officially signed a technology licensing fee agreement - a tripartite agreement, and the Chinese side has not only the enterprise, but also the seal of the government department for the record.

Mitsui Sushi didn't see how unwilling he was, but his expression was a little grizzled. At this point, he still patted Gu Ao's shoulder with admiration: "Gu Sang, you are the most honest person I have ever met." Although you made me lose money, I still admire you. ”

The final signing ceremony, of course, is also a formal negotiation process, so this sentence will naturally be recorded.

Gu Xiao replied very politically correctly: "That's because President Mitsui doesn't do much business with us Chinese, and you will know in the future that we Chinese are all made of special materials, and we are all so clean." ”

Everything fell into place, and Section Chief Shi would be able to return to China the next day.

Gu Biao might stay for a few more days and go to Xiangjiang for a turn, so he discussed it with him tactfully.

Chief Shi was also reasonable (on the other hand, an official like him who supervised the work rarely had the opportunity to come to developed countries), so he was accommodating.

He only made two requests: there should be no reimbursement of entertainment expenses in the next few days, and he must go back to report his itinerary before going to work next Monday.

Gu Biao said no problem.

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After sending Section Chief Shi away, Yang Xin asked privately: "Brother Gu, what are your plans for the Yuben Electric Appliance Factory that you inspected that day?"

Of course, Gu Biao would not tell all the inside story, but only selectively found an excuse: "Within the scope of legality, let's do some private work." He said that I don't care about the money I make, let's earn it ourselves.

It is difficult to register a business in China nowadays, so it may be necessary to use the shell of lawyer Lin. The biggest advantage of the company registered in Xiangjiang is that the business scope is very flexible, and with a slight change, the business can be expanded immediately. ”

In 1979, there was no company law or a joint-stock company (later referred to as a "limited company").

Some are only self-employed, as well as township enterprises.

This is the status quo of the first anniversary after the change, and everything is slow.

The first private enterprise in China with a shareholding nature will not be founded by Qiren Mu in February next year. Then others waited for the case to come to light, and then they gradually became bolder.

Gu Biao doesn't want to be a typical example of this up-and-coming bird and being caught in the future. Therefore, he would rather stay up and never formally establish any personally funded joint-stock entity in China before Mu Zhong.

The laws in Xiangjiang are much more relaxed, and the commercial management department is almost indifferent to the cross-circle operation of enterprises. Go to the place where you register and declare the change, and a company can "change careers".

For example, this year, the famous real estate tycoon and Boss Lei of Kowloon Construction said that he was going to enter the entertainment industry, and then directly took the signboard of Kowloon Construction and established a subsidiary film company, distribution company, and cinema company overnight......

Later, the "Golden Princess" theater that cultivated John Woo and Tsui Hark was born in this way.

Think about it a few decades later, Wang Xlin, who is also engaged in real estate in the mainland, wanted to replicate this route, but it took many years to get a complete media industry license.

Yang Xin didn't know much about business, so he just kindly reminded: "Brother Gu, are you going to invest in the company in Xiangjiang and then go back to the mainland to produce products? I heard that according to the current national policy, the factories on the Snake K side seem to be tax-free for Hong Kong investment, and they can be exempted for many years. ”

Today's special economic zone and Shenzhen City are not tax-free for the whole territory, but a piece of about 10 square kilometers of Snake K Industrial Zone has been set up as a pilot project to let Hong Kong capital come and set up factories, and no taxes will be required for five years. The rest of the Shenzhen Stock Exchange will not officially apply these preferential policies until the second quarter of next year.

The SEZs are also being run step by step and expanding step by step.

Gu Biao knows that there are enough hard-working and skilled workers in China nowadays, and if the processing plant is set up in China, it can indeed save a lot of money - the salary of domestic assembly workers and welders is at most a few yuan a day, even in the Special Economic Zone.

(Gu Biao can't afford to use SMT placement machines, and now it is not mature, it is the most high-end technology in the United States, and it only entered Wanwan and South Korea in the 80s.) ）

And the cheapest manual black workers in Xiangjiang now have a salary of 50 Hong Kong dollars a day. Excellent electronics factory welders who can ensure that they are not soldered will be offered at least 200 a day. (Later, after the popularization of SMT, with automatic wave soldering/reflow soldering, the wages of electronics factory workers declined, because the craftsmanship was no longer important.) ）

However, after Gu Biao inquired a little about the relevant policies, he found that there was one of the biggest problems with setting up the factory in Shenzhen - the Z80 CPU chip of the American company could not enter the country through formal channels.

The reason for this is exchange controls.

This is also the reason why in the 80s, the development of the domestic electronics industry was far inferior to Wanwan and South Korea.

At that time, the country was very welcoming to sell things to foreigners to earn foreign exchange.

But if in the process of earning foreign exchange, you have to first import foreign raw materials, process them and then export them, and earn a price difference, then it will be very troublesome.

What the country is most afraid of is that the imported materials cannot be used strictly in accordance with the original declared purpose - for example, if Gu Biao wants to open a game console factory, he declares to buy 1,000 pieces of Z80 CPU, and each piece consumes 150 US dollars in foreign exchange; if it does export 1,000 game consoles in the end, each priced at 500 US dollars, then that's it.

I'm afraid that only 800 units were exported in the end, and 200 units were secretly sold at a high price in China, and even the 200 pieces of the difference in duty-free Z80 were used for the production of color TV/automatic washing machine control panels - in that way, all imported materials were not used to earn foreign exchange, but were "degenerate" "consumed" by the Chinese themselves.

This was very taboo for the state, because the orientation at that time was that "all foreign exchange should be used to create more foreign exchange, not for the luxury of the people". At the same time, if it is misappropriated for personal use, it also involves a suspicion of "tax evasion and smuggling".

If it takes 15 years, this problem is easy to solve.

Because statistical means, the perfection of the rule of law, and technical monitoring have all come up.

Make an isolated bonded processing zone, such as the Pu D Free Trade Zone in Hujiang and the Kun S Free Trade Zone in Gusu, to ensure that the materials imported into these areas are not allowed to flow into other parts of the country, and are only allowed to enter and exit the original port after processing in the bonded area. Everything that is bought with foreign exchange can only be used to earn foreign exchange, not for the people themselves.

But talking about bonding in 79 is obviously too impractical.

Therefore, to build a factory in China, the biggest bottleneck is "only to build a factory where all raw materials can be supplied in China", if the raw materials have to be imported, it will be over.

In the same period, Wanwan and South Korea obviously have no such concerns, Wanwan has a population of less than 20 million, and South Korea has only 30 or 40 million. They are very easy to co-ordinate, since they bet on the national (regional transport) to engage in the electronics industry, they will import hundreds of millions of pieces of Intel and other top chip giants every year of various high-precision raw materials.

Even if 20 to 30 million pieces are really used to produce national consumer goods in the end, as long as the remaining hundreds of millions of dollars are all exported, Wanwan and South Korea will not be afraid of foreign exchange drying up.

Under the determination of this kind of flooding, betting on Samsung/LG or TSMC/Foxconn for the development of the country/region can indeed produce results. You don't see that after more than ten years of such a desperate bet, Samsung alone will be able to drive one-third of South Korea's GDP.

After more than ten years of upstream and downstream development in the industrial chain, the two places finally began to develop their own chips, and later Samsung and TSMC were also quite successful. It was not until 17 years that ZTE broke out in China, and ZTE was stuck in the chip embargo case.

However, the road between Wanwan and South Korea is obviously not suitable for the national conditions of the mainland -- with the Chinese people's thirst for electronic products that were scarce at that time, I am afraid that hundreds of millions of Intel products will pour in, and our domestic demand market can digest them, and the country's foreign exchange reserves will be completely emptied.

And even if it monopolizes the world's electronics industry, the size of the industry will not support an economy of a billion people. is reluctant to disrupt the overall situation of foreign exchange control for this industry.

Gu thought about it again and again, and felt that it was still too risky to go to Shenzhen to set up a factory.

In the end, he vaguely finalized an idea:

"Maybe we can only consider the two-stage processing layout - whether it is to find a factory in China to commission processing, or to get an affiliated electronics factory by yourself, and make semi-finished products that 'do not need to use Z80 CPU'. Then it was shipped to Yuben. In the name of a Hong Kong-funded company, we will set up a small-scale assembly workshop and hire a few workers.

These people are only responsible for soldering the CPU to the circuit board, then firing the program and testing the whole machine, and then packaging and shipping. In this way, it doesn't take many people, and the high salary here is endured. In the future, it may develop into a small local company that provides after-sales service. As long as the sales volume can hold up, cost is not an issue. ”

Gu Biao was also impressed by his own brain hole.

In this way, before leaving Yueben, he only needs to think about how to develop a spokesperson here, and set up a small workshop team for testing and assembly, and get a batch of Z80 chips to purchase authorization.

There is still a lack of a spokesperson who is resident in the book.

"No matter, first get the first batch of Z80 sources, this thing is not sold to individual users, it must be a corporate customer who has declared its use. The Americans are really lenient, and they don't sell the goods after taking the money, lest they be used by hostile forces to do bad things. ”

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