Chapter 444: Coming to Apliu Street Again
At the intersection of Apliu Street and Gui Ling Street, a black nanny car is parked there. A man with a Chinese face in the car was constantly giving various instructions through the microphone on the headphones.
The man with such a stern face is Li Xuan's new security captain Li Guangming. He is a Senior Inspector who retired early from the VIP Protection Unit of the Hong Kong Police Force and has extensive experience in urban conservation. In recent years, law and order in Hong Kong has been deteriorating.
For example, the year before last, Wang Dehui, the owner of Chinachem Real Estate, was kidnapped, and the kidnappers extorted $11 million from Wang Dehui's wife, Gong Ruxin. Last year, there was another robbery of the Baosheng Bank's cash solution car in Hong Kong, and the robbers successfully robbed 140 million yen in cash.
On May 1 this year, a police and bandit battle was staged in the downtown area of Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon. After the bandits robbed a watch worth 2 million Hong Kong dollars from Faithful Watch Company, a fierce gun battle broke out with the police who came to round him up.
In fact, the Hong Kong police have already learned the relevant information in advance and have planted a net in advance. The arrogant robbers were still able to calmly break out, causing an uproar in the entire Hong Kong society. From 1 May to the present, there have been robberies in Hong Kong in Lai Chi Kok and robbery of vehicles and vehicles with funds from the Transport Department. The robbers have succeeded one after another, but the Hong Kong Police Force is at a loss.
Li Xuan holds the title of the richest man in the world, and it is simply a humanoid vault. In order to ensure that nothing goes wrong, the number of bodyguards guarding Li Xuan has been urgently doubled recently.
For the security department, they naturally want Li Xuan to stay at home all day, so that their pressure will be much less. What they don't like the most is like today, Li Xuan suddenly told him that he wanted to go out shopping in private. This temporary arrangement is the most frustrating for security personnel.
But Li Xuan is the boss, he spent a lot of money to raise so many bodyguards, not to make himself a puppet of the bodyguards, and they have to dictate where to go. Where not to go. Since the bodyguards have received a high salary, they must overcome all difficulties and protect Li Xuan in any situation.
"Jaguar, where are you now?" Li Guangming made contact with the convoy that was following Li Xuan.
Li Xuan came out to play privately today, so naturally he would not take the extended version of the Cadillac, but chose an ordinary Volvo car. The car is not designed to be bulletproof like that luxury Cadillac. Even an AK47 could not penetrate the steel plate at close range. It's just an ordinary car. This made Li Guangming have to worry a little more. Because in the event of an accident, it is difficult for the car to buy too much reaction time for the escort vehicles that follow around.
"Team Lee, Li Sheng's car has just driven past the Tai Sang Bank Building on Nathan Road, and is about to turn into Cheung Shawan Road. Li Sheng and Miss Ho would get off at the intersection of Gui-Lam Street and walk to Apliu Street, and everything is normal now!" Li Guangming's headset quickly returned to the car radio.
Li Sheng's car was still a few minutes away, and Li Guangming began to contact the plainclothes bodyguard team that was already waiting at the intersection of Gui-Lin Street to get them ready.
At this moment, He Qing carefully looked at the man sitting next to him, a painted plaid shirt and a pair of light blue denim pants. He wears a pair of white canvas shoes on his feet. No matter how you look at this person, he can't be connected with the "God of Wealth Li", who has a net worth of more than 100 billion Hong Kong dollars.
"I'm walking on the street like this, don't I look like a handsome student, no one should recognize it!" Li Xuan found that He Qing was looking at himself, so he simply put on a pair of green film glasses pinned to his chest shirt pocket.
Li Xuan is actually not short-sighted, and he has never worn glasses. In order to change the shape this time, the image designer specially matched him with a pair of flat mirrors. His current style is 108,000 miles away from the luxurious and steady "God of Wealth Li" in the eyes of everyone. In this way, his face with a high exposure rate will not be recognized as soon as he hits the street.
"How can anyone say that he is very handsome. You're so thick-skinned!" He Qing covered his mouth and smiled. Ever since he was kissed by Li Xuan before, he was messed up and down. She seems to have accepted her fate a little, and her attitude towards Li Xuan is much more intimate.
"Let's go, Yaliao Street is known as a man's paradise! If you don't have a handsome guy like me by your side, a big beauty like you will easily be rubbed with oil when you come here!" Li Xuan said alarmistly.
At this time, the car had stopped at the entrance of Gui-Lin Street, which is a pedestrian street. Get off at Cheung Sha Wan Road and walk west along Kwai Lam Street for dozens of meters, and the next intersection is Hong Kong's famous electronic street - Apliu Street.
"Miss Zhong was targeted by you, a big pervert, in the first place, and then had to commit herself to you!" He Qing naturally grabbed Li Xuan's arm and suddenly smiled at him delicately.
The love story of Li Xuan and Chung Chuhong is naturally widely circulated in Hong Kong, and their first encounter on Apliu Street is rumored to be a good story. But here and now. Li Xuan was suddenly mentioned by his little lover, and he couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed.
The shame on Li Xuan's face was quickly covered by Huaxin's cheekiness, and he took the opportunity to hug He Qing's little waist: "How can a righteous gentleman like me be a pervert, he must be a hero who saves beauty!
In fact, after He Qing spoke just now, he felt embarrassed. She suddenly realized that she was so bold that she had become a vixen who destroyed other people's feelings. She could pretend to be an ostrich hypnotizing herself, but just because she didn't think about it didn't mean it didn't happen.
All this is the fault of the showman in front of him, since he already has a wife, why do he deliberately provoke himself. Thinking of this, He Qing found a place to vent his anger, and couldn't help but reach out and twist Li Xuan's arm fiercely.
Li Xuan gasped in pain instantly, and turned his head innocently to look at He Qing, not knowing where he had offended this little girl.
"Do you think I'm a bad woman?" said Ho Qing in disgust.
A woman's mood is like a June day, and she changes when she says it. Li Xuan didn't know what happened to this little girl in his arms, but at this time, he had to stop the responsibility on his head.
"You haven't become bad, but you're too pure! I can't run away after being stuck to me as a big bad wolf, so I have to be slowly eaten into my stomach one bite at a time!"
He Qing glanced at him angrily: "You are really self-aware!"
"We're here to go shopping today, can you stop studying those complicated problems that are cut and sorted out?"
Li Xuan hugged his family in his arms. He bowed his head and kissed her lightly on the forehead. He Qing also seemed to have found a reason to excuse himself, burying those unpleasant questions aside.
If Tung Choi Street in Mong Kok is known as Hong Kong's women's street, it is full of cosmetics, hanging ornaments, clothing and other items that women like. Then Apliu Street in Sham Shui Po is an out-and-out men's street, which is the most famous electronic product distribution center in Hong Kong.
A few days ago, when Li Xuan watched a movie with He Qing, she played with the arcade machine of "Tank Wars" in the movie theater. So Li Xuan suddenly had a whim today. Dragged her to Yaliao Street to buy a game console.
Walking on Apliu Street, the proportion of boys is obviously much higher than that of girls, and most of them are young people. There are stalls on both sides of the street, and there are a few stalls selling all kinds of small items and delicacies parked in the middle of the road.
A few years ago, most of the stalls on both sides of the road were selling all kinds of wires and plugs, rechargeable batteries, and circuit board parts removed from discarded household appliances. And now all over the place, there are a variety of game cartridges that come into view.
Among them is the original GameBoy game cartridge with a display attached. There are also cartridges for FC consoles, and most of them are not genuine cartridges. For Oriental Games, the profit of game cartridges has always been higher than that of game consoles.
Oriental Games has always adopted a strategy of small profits and quick sales for various game consoles, such as the original GameBoy manufacturing cost as much as $8, but the factory price was only set at $10. After going out for post-advertising, marketing and other expenses, the profit margin is less than 20%.
This is still under the premise that Oriental Game Company realizes large-scale production, and the cost control of small batch production of those cottage factories is definitely not as good as that of Oriental Company. They want to compete with the original. Concessions have to be made on price, so the profit margins are actually very low.
In contrast, the investment in game cartridges is less. The technical threshold is not high, and it is far more cost-effective than the imitation of game consoles with high input and low output. In order to maximize profits, Oriental Games rarely combines multiple games into the same cartridge. But those copycat factories don't have this concern at all, and there are all kinds of eight-in-one, sixteen-in-one, and even thirty-two-in-one cassettes.
If you only have to pay the same amount of money as a genuine cassette. You can play 32 games at the same time, and players will naturally flock to it. And the reason why genuine game cartridges are expensive is because they contain the value of the new ideas of the game author. But for pirates, their R&D investment is zero, as long as the production cost is removed. The rest is net profit.
"The bad guy is coming, run!"
I don't know who shouted, and the whole street suddenly became commotion. The fixed stalls on both sides of the road are all approved by the government, but the car stalls parked randomly in the middle of the road are all illegally operated without a license.
One of the most important tasks of these guerrilla bosses every day is to hide from the policemen who come to enforce the law! Dozens of trolleys immediately began to run wildly, and pedestrians dodged one after another, causing the whole street to jump.
And inadvertently, in front of Li Xuan and He Qing, a row of people composed of four or five people had already appeared. They hugged Li Xuan and took refuge on the side of the road, while at the same time desperately isolating all kinds of chaos on the periphery.
In fact, the team that came to enforce the law this time was not to deal with these unlicensed street vendors, but to target those fixed street vendors on the street.
Although the slashing incident of an employee of Oriental Commercial Company was solved within 10 hours of the incident, because the suspect voluntarily surrendered. But this incident has given the Eastern Bloc an excellent excuse to put pressure on the relevant departments of the Hong Kong government.
These lawbreakers who infringe on the rights have now become arrogant to the point of threatening the personal safety of the employees of the Eastern Bloc, and if the Hong Kong government does not take strong action to crack down on them, it will really be a bit too much to say.
In fact, the Eastern Bloc has long noticed the proliferation of pirated game cartridges and software CDs in the vicinity of Apliu Street, but it has never found a cure. Every time Dongfang Company made a report, the law enforcement department would symbolically send people to sweep it, but it still resurfaced after the rumors passed.
And if the Eastern Bloc comes forward to gather evidence and then send all these small traders to court, although it can win the lawsuit, it will lose the hearts and minds of the people.
Because everyone is more willing to sympathize with the weak, your "God of Wealth Li" has a family fortune of more than 100 billion, and you are still unwilling to give a way out of life for the street vendors who sleep in the open to earn hard-earned money, which is too cold-blooded and unkind to the rich!
In the face of such an opponent who is not at the same level at all, the Eastern Bloc has to take into account public opinion, and instead becomes constrained. But this time, after the employee of the Oriental Trading Company was slashed, the situation happened to be reversed.
The Eastern Bloc is now a victim, and even retaliation is a matter of course. If the famous "God of Wealth Li" swallows his anger and has no temper at all, he will be looked down upon.
But the Eastern Bloc is also inconvenient to do it personally, and dealing with these small traders is actually a very troublesome process. The Eastern Bloc prefers to let the authorities come forward to clean up and ban it, and hide behind the scenes and watch from the sidelines.
Sure enough, when law enforcement officers began to confiscate the dazzling array of illegal copycat game cartridges from the first stall, the female owner of the stall immediately began to spill. The owners of the other stalls realized that the situation was not right, and immediately began to sort out the pirated cartridges on their respective stalls.
Because of the existence of the Eastern Bloc, Hong Kong has become a well-known mecca for the game industry in the world. The piracy trade in the vicinity of Apliu Street has not only attracted local game enthusiasts, but also developed into a distribution center in Asia. Many merchants from Southeast Asia, South Asia, and even Eastern Europe have come here to find low-cost game cartridges.
Although the main market of Oriental Game Company has always been developed countries such as North America, Western Europe, and Japan. The protection of intellectual property rights in these regions is generally relatively well-developed, and there is no basis for piracy to survive.
However, after years of hard work, the company has established a relatively complete distribution network in these major markets. The focus of the Eastern Group's next development will be to shift to the second-tier markets that have been neglected before. In these areas, the Eastern Bloc is bound to engage in hand-to-hand combat with piracy. Therefore, dismantling the distribution network of pirated copies is a very important step in this battle! (To be continued......