All afternoon, Xia Yu soaked in the Internet to check things in the MP3 industry.

At this time, there are a lot of such news, and there are some reports on the technology channel of the portal website and the IT shopping guide product channel, but most of them are scattered and scattered, and there are many products introduced and few industries.

He needed to quickly understand two things: first, the supply chain, the main link of MP3 production, and second, what the market is currently progressing towards.

In fact, what is more important in judging an industry is the future profit margin and life cycle of the MP3 market, which is difficult to draw conclusions directly from reports, and more depends on vision.

Well, with a decade of experience born again, this part is the easiest for him.

Soon, he quickly made two tables as he was customary.

The first is the core supply chain, which is classified in detail according to the main control decoding chips, flash memory chips, PCB boards, as well as glass sheets, shells, some functional modules, headphones and other main components, leaving room to find reasonable manufacturers or channels;

The second is a list of mainstream manufacturers, mainly the types of products they have launched on the market, characteristics, positioning and pricing, main sales channels and market distribution, and follow-up plans. Again, leave room for detailed comparisons and analysis.

If anyone sees these two tables listed from a high school student's subordinates almost without thinking about it, regardless of the specific content of the investigation and analysis, I am afraid that they will also be shocked.

Compared with the content itself, this kind of analytical logic and framework represents a super high degree of commercial interpretation judgment.

But for Xia Yu, who did a lot of similar project analysis before his rebirth, this set of things is completely familiar.

I have to say that the information that can be found on the Internet now is indeed far less abundant than in previous lives. At this time, many companies are not used to moving their situation online.

Well, the big companies are fine, but most of the small companies in Nanyue Province that are not well-known do not have this energy. However, in the manufacturing industry, many of them really rely on these small companies.

Moreover, Baidu, including Google's search function at this time, really worries Xia Yu, who is used to the powerful search era in his previous life.

"Hey, it's 04 years after all......"

In the next two years, as more and more websites like Alibaba's Huaguo Yellow Pages and World Factory Network will become more and more expensive, most companies will be able to find basic information and contact information online.

Except for a small number of company information and press releases, Xia Yu could only try to find useful information between the lines of a large number of media reports, and fill in the two forms little by little.

In the middle, Zhang Tianhe, the kid, called again, saying that he was going to play ball in the evening, and he had already called several people.

There was no way, he continued to hang up the phone in a grudge, but promised to go tomorrow.

To be honest, for these friends from high school, Xia Yu is still a little weird in his heart, looking forward to meeting, but subconsciously wanting to avoid it.

Maybe it's because the contact is less and less rusty later?

……

At four o'clock, Xia Mingde drove over to pick him up, and the workload was less than a third of the work.

But he knows that it is difficult to find much information from the Internet in the latter part, so he still has to really talk to people in the industry and visit in person.

Xia Mingde's old cattle processing factory is located in the Peninsula Industrial Park outside the Fourth Ring Road in Nancheng, which is more than half an hour's drive from Xia Yu's house near the East Third Ring Road.

This is a small corner of the district-level industrial park, where a large number of processing plants and production workshops are located, half of which are toys and daily necessities, and the rest are all electronics, such as earphones, U disks, plastic shells, and low-level chips......

Most of them are simple assembly processing or components, and they are mainly workshop-style workshops, and only a few have large factories.

Xia Mingde's USB flash drive processing factory also has one here, so Xia Yu has also been here several times. Of course, it was the first time after being reborn, and the familiar and unfamiliar freshness made him a little moved.

Even if it is the simplest production and processing, this breath of the industrial age, as well as the unique sense of science and technology of electronic products, also makes Xia Yu, who is interested in these things, slightly excited.

The car drove until it came to a stop in front of a large brown iron gate.

Xia Yu got out of the car and looked at it, behind the door was a small courtyard, on one side were two simple small bungalows, and behind it was a processing workshop covering an area of eighty or ninety square meters. The door to the workshop was closed, but human voices could be faintly heard.

A middle-aged man greeted him.

This person has a big buck tooth, but his head is dressed neatly, and he said, "Mr. Xia, you can come here, I have been waiting for a long time." ”

It's the cow that Uncle said came with him.

Xia Yu had a vague impression of him, this person's business is not big or small, it is similar to that of the uncle after removing those shops, and he still has a net worth of two or three million. I don't know why I want to take this top 300,000 arrears.

Xia Mingde stepped forward and was not polite: "Yo Niu is right, didn't you say that it will be five o'clock? I turned around casually last time, and I will take a look again when I have time today." ”

The middle-aged man noticed Xia Yu at this time. originally thought that he was Xia Mingde's follower, but looking at the two of them, they didn't seem to be, the key was that they looked a little alike.

"My nephew, Xia Yu", Xia Mingde pulled him over: "Come to Xiaoyu and get to know Mr. Niu." ”

Xia Yu subconsciously stretched out his right hand forward: "Hello Mr. Niu."

Niu was slightly stunned, quickly stretched out his hand and shook it, and said: "It turned out to be Professor Xia's Xiaoyu, Mr. Xia didn't mention that you are smart, and you are really a talent!

Xia Yu had already realized that he was a little professional just now, but after all, he was past the age of a little boy selling cuteness, so he simply said: "Thank you Mr. Niu for the compliment, I will be promoted to the third year soon, and I will be in the first middle school." ”

Xia Mingde also took it: "Okay, let's go in and have a look." What time do you get off work?"

The cow followed: "Just a few tails to live, not much." My rule here is to leave work at seven o'clock."

The three of them entered the workshop, Xia Yu looked over and saw more than 20 people busy everywhere.

Most of them stood and did not stop working, wearing hats, masks, aprons, and translucent white gloves on their hands, holding tweezers or soldering irons on a flat work bench.

Looking at the past, on one side are all kinds of materials, which are basically molded things, and on the other side is a rectangular saucer with assembled MP3 products piled up.

He stepped forward and saw at a glance the PCB board, various chips, capacitors and resistors, shells, display screens and other parts, as well as adhesive glue.

The workbench is quite clean, and everyone is very cool to operate, so they should all be qualified or even skilled workers.

There are fewer people on the other side, and in addition to the assembly workers, there are two others who are responsible for testing and inspection.

The three of them walked around the entire workshop, and occasionally Xia Mingde would whisper something or something.

To be honest, Xia Mingde's USB flash drive assembly and production business is similar to this side in terms of technology and operation. However, he has been doing it for a few years, and his reputation and channels are solid, and his orders are relatively stable.

And the scale of his side is also larger, the two factories together have about 150 people, both have a general person in charge of production management, and a technical person in charge who was hired with a high salary three years ago, and a director-level product leader.

In total, there are more than 10 skilled workers who can check the gates, and they are generally called "technicians" or "technicians", and they have signed formal long contracts.

This industry is not big, but it is not small, and there are net profits of seven or eight hundred thousand a year.

Xia Mingde registered the company three years ago, called Mingde Electronics, he himself accounted for more than eighty percent of the shares, and the other eight percent were a friend who did business in the early days, and the remaining more than one percent were distributed to the management.

Xia Yu kept following the two of them, staring at the workers who were operating, and mentally estimated the work speed of these people. It seems that if the accessories of this process are supplied, it will take less than half an hour for a worker to assemble an MP3 that has been initially rolled off the production line.

Suddenly, a voice shouted: "Huh, why is this machine hanging, didn't it be repaired just a few days ago?" Liu Gong, help me take a look!"

Looking over, it was a young man in a blue coat, worried about a machine. Looking at his position, he should be doing a test.

"What's the matter? What's the noise?" A twenty-seven or eighteen-year-old young man ran out, glanced at Niu Gensheng and them, hurriedly ran over there, and whispered: "Xiao Xu, didn't you see Boss Niu come over with guests, what are you yelling about?"

The man obviously didn't notice, turned his head and saw Niu Gensheng and a few people coming, his heart suddenly sudden, and he muttered: "Liu Gong, this aging instrument is broken again......

"I can't handle this thing, just call the factory quickly, what are you yelling about!"

Xia Yu and a few people also walked here, he glanced at the machine, it turned out to be a small xenon arc lamp aging test box, it looks quite old, I don't know how long it has been used.

This kind of testing machine uses a long-arc xenon lamp as a light source to simulate and enhance natural light and other accelerated material aging, mainly to test the weather resistance of plastics and rubbers.

He walked over and looked, well, this is the same old-fashioned machine that used to be used decades ago. Although it has been improved, its nature has not changed, and it is not used to use the new alloy and material developed specifically for the hernia lamp, which is very easy to produce deposits near the electrode, which affects the energy transmission and reduces the life of the lamp.

The other people in the workshop saw that Xia Yu came over with Niu Gen, and they didn't say anything, but Xia Yu took the initiative to come up and said: "This test box, do you want to change the hernia lamp every half a month, such an old machine, should it be replaced with a new one?

Niu Xianglai's face froze, this is a second-hand item he bought a few months ago for a new order, and when others introduced it to him, they said that it would be okay to use it for five years.

The young man who seemed to be in charge in the back stood up and said: "Isn't this kind of detector too powerful, and it needs to be changed often?" But as soon as these words came out, he realized that he must have been fooled by someone before the cow came, and he didn't know how to do it, and he was also played by the person who sold the machine and the lamp as a fool.

Looking at the ugly look on his face again, he wanted to slap himself twice.

Without much stopping, a few people walked outside to the hut, and the young man followed. introduced Liu Mingsheng, a technician here.

A girl in her early twenties came out, made tea, and left the house without speaking.

A few people chatted in the room.

Xia Yu didn't speak at this time, mainly listening, occasionally interjecting a few sentences, mostly about various accessory brand channels. Niu Gensheng thought he was an insider, and he didn't dare to hide it, so he told Xia Yu one by one, but he didn't know much, after all, the main business was not here.

Liu Mingsheng probably knew that the factory was going to change hands at this time, but Xia Mingde had also seen it a few times, so it was not a contradiction. Besides, it is not easy to go after signing the contract, and I will add two sentences from time to time.

Because he is an insider, Liu Mingsheng's introduction is stronger than that of Niu Follow, and this person speaks clearly and calmly. Xia Yu silently remembered it in his heart.

In fact, like many small workshops here, this workshop is basically only responsible for the final equipment, and the core components are provided by the orderer, and only a small number of orderers will authorize them to purchase by themselves.

Even so, Xia Yu also got a lot of news that could not be found on the Internet, especially the channel and market reaction, and some opinions from other people in this industry.

It can be heard that with the opening of the market and the entry of large companies, the space for some miscellaneous MP3s is much smaller.

The most common 128M flash memory space machine,Now the pure assembly cost is also 300 yuan,256MB version plus 50,This is all ready-made、General brand chip scheme、PCB board,You don't need to open the mold to find a solution directly to assemble。

After deducting channel fees and profit margins, the retail sales are basically six or seven hundred, which is almost the same as the pricing of large and medium-sized brand products.

As soon as there are fewer orders, it will be more difficult to make money, factory rents have to be paid, and workers' wages have to be opened, and many people have already considered quitting.

After coming out of the factory, the two got into the car, and Xia Mingde asked, "What's wrong Xiaoyu, is this trying to do business?"

He had already seen that Xia Yu was different from before, and this time he was really interested.

Xia Yu didn't hide it from him, he didn't know when he would have to wait for the first pot of gold without his uncle's support, he didn't want to wait for a step now, and replied directly: "Yes." Uncle, your family has a big business, do you want to give me practice in this factory?"

Xia Mingshun was stunned for a moment and asked, "You don't go to school anymore?"

"Uncle, your two factories are much larger than this, and I haven't seen you running into the workshop every day. ”

"I'm different, isn't there Lao Zhao staring at the processing piece? Besides, the U disk now has a good market prospect, and the order is not too worried. ”

This is true, Xia Yu knows that the USB flash drive market will be quite good in the next ten years, and the profit is not very large, but the growth is steady.

He knew that the uncle was not short of the 300,000 at least now, and said, "I really want to try." I don't have more than half a month left in this summer vacation, and I can be busy surviving for a while. Besides, doesn't my sister-in-law want me to go to college in the United States, there is only one year left, and I want to exercise. The U.S. doesn't talk about textbooks. ”

"Then I didn't let the students open a factory, at most it was an internship!" Xia Mingde muttered in his heart, but he didn't go to school when he was sixteen years old and started to run small businesses, but it was nothing.

Besides, no matter how much the factory is tossed, the lease contract and skilled workers can't run, and there is not much money left.

But such a factory will definitely not attract the interest of this kid!

Thinking of this, he asked again: "You definitely don't want to manage this assembly plant, do you want to be a brand? That's not a trouble, the channels behind the early distribution are all going to throw money, have you thought about it? And you are so optimistic about the MP3 market?"

To do a brand, it is not a simple assembly and processing, to establish your own brand, but also to hit the market! This difficulty is not ordinary, the key is that the competition will be very fierce, and there is a huge risk, which is like assembly to earn not much but stable.

Xia Yu guessed that Uncle would definitely ask here, so he didn't panic, and said honestly: "Uncle, I've been studying for a while." Anyway, it's only a year, just be an uncle, can you lend it to me? Or you have a big share, and I'll work for you!"

Xia Mingde really hurt this nephew, and as soon as his heart moved, he said, "Okay, play it for you!"

He smacked it and said, "This factory is still 300,000 yuan, even if you borrowed it from me! If you can't pay it back in the future, sell yourself to me and do it with me! In this way, I'll bring Li Dezhi over to help you, and then give 50,000 yuan of working capital, and then talk about the follow-up funds." After a while, you'll come up with a charter here, and I'll give you some idea of what to do with the parts. ”

Xia Yu was happy when he heard it, Uncle is really supportive!