Chapter 529: High Tech on a Screwdriver
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"Computer!" Tan Jing has been listening, and did not interject, now she has learned smartly, no longer asking Hong Tao about things, if there is something she doesn't understand, she will consult Hong Tao in private, but the word Hong Tao said made her a little surprised.
"Computer?" Nina should know this kind of thing, but she couldn't imagine that Hong Tao would actually want to do this, and open a factory to do it, in this era, computers are just like satellites in the eyes of ordinary people, and they are not something that ordinary people can understand.
"What's electricity?" Kuroko didn't even understand the word, and his own brain wasn't very easy to use, let alone a computer.
"I can't tell you a sentence or two, I'll write it down for you, and then call back to your lawyer, and ask him to help you inquire where to buy these things, remember, you have to talk directly to the manufacturer, don't find a dealer!" Hong Tao took out a piece of stationery, brushed and wrote on it, from the name of the manufacturer to the model of various originals, he wrote a lot in a while, and then handed it to Nina. The reason why he didn't give it to Kuroko was because he gave it to him for nothing, and he didn't know any of the words on it.
"The last time you asked us to buy the stocks, there were these two companies...... Is it an American company?" Nina looked at the piece of paper and discovered the mystery.
"That's right, it's all American companies, after contacting, you will return to China, and then I will tell you how to build this factory. Tan Jing, let's go, drive me to Zhongguancun for a walk, if it weren't for today's incident, I would have forgotten about it!" Hong Tao didn't wait for Nina and Heizi to digest and absorb these things, they wouldn't be able to figure it out for a while. He now remembered an important problem, there was a very lucrative industry he hadn't set foot in, and he had been thinking about it a few years ago, but as a result, he had forgotten about the car accident, which was damn good!
As a person who has been reborn from the 21st century, no matter what industry you did in your previous life, you should always have been exposed to the computer. Especially for a master like Hong Tao, who had opened an Internet café and rented a counter in Hailong in his previous life, he couldn't be more familiar with computers. Since the early nineties, personal computers have gradually appeared in China, and the first group of people and operators to eat crabs are concentrated in Zhongguancun.
Hong Tao plans to let Nina and Heizi build a computer assembly factory in Canada, import computer accessories from the United States, and then reassemble them in Canada, put a new trademark on them, and then export them to his foreign-funded company in the form of a complete machine, and then reassemble and debug them in China, and then sell them to those companies in China that have import qualifications.
Why should we export the whole machine instead of exporting parts directly? There is the issue of paying taxes here, and Canada, like the United States, has very strict control over taxes. You can start a legal gang, but don't expect to evade taxes, as long as the local tax department finds out, it will be the same as killing their own father, 100% of the time you will fight with you. The export of complete machines is a high value-added industry, and the United States and Canada have subsidies or tax reduction policies, while the export of parts is low value-added, and the tax rate is higher and not cost-effective.
And after having the brand of the whole machine, Nina they can also sell locally in Canada, no matter what the sales volume is, it is finally a regular enterprise, which sounds much better in name, and can also use various investment methods to avoid personal income tax, which has a hundred benefits and no harm.
So why do you have to sell to those domestic companies that are qualified to import? This is the problem of foreign exchange, and what Hong Tao needs is not renminbi, but foreign currency. The U.S. dollar, Canadian dollar, Japanese yen, and British pound are all currencies that can be circulated in North America. If you buy it to an ordinary domestic company, then the payment received is all RMB, which is not the same as selling your ass to go to the kiln and tossing and playing, it is meaningless to him, so he must sell to those companies that have import qualifications, and he has to collect US dollars.
Where can I find this kind of company? It's easy to do, Ms. Jiang hasn't resigned yet, she and her colleagues can help with this, and the boys in the leather bag company in the past also have this kind of way in their hands. This is not an imported contraband, it is a high-tech product, and the state only encourages it without restrictions, and it is not very difficult to operate.
Now all Hong Tao needs to do is to find a suitable company office location and store in Zhongguancun, and then sit back and wait for these procedures to be completed. This factory is just a front, a place to provide a foothold for Sergey, Xiao Wu and their brothers in the future. If you can do it, of course, it is better, if you can't do it, as long as you can maintain it, you can achieve the original purpose.
Coming to Zhongguancun again, it is very different from when Hong Tao came when he was a child, although there is no high-tech park, at least it no longer looks like a wilderness. Gone are the vast expanses of wasteland, replaced by compounds of scientific research institutes, and all sorts of small street frontages and markets.
In fact, in the 90s, the computer was already on a small scale in Zhongguancun. These scientific research institutions and tertiary companies run by colleges and universities have long brought this thing in, but the current mainstream is still those models for research, scientific research, and teaching, and the concept of personal computers has not yet been popularized, and the main factor here is the price problem.
A 286 sells for nearly 10,000 yuan, the latest 386 computer is close to 20,000 yuan a piece, and the 486 chip has just been successfully developed. Even if there is, no one buys it, the hardware is there, and it is useless to buy it back without software, and if you want to make personal computers really enter thousands of households, you have to wait for those pirated software to bloom everywhere in order to drive the sales of the entire personal computer.
Another important factor is that before 1990, the state still had very strict control over computer products, and there was a special "Computer Product Import License," which imposed high tariffs on most foreign products, with the aim of protecting our country's own computer industry. However, this problem is no longer a problem, and at the beginning of the year, the state abolished this licensing system and significantly reduced import tariffs on computer products. Moreover, in this year, computer giants such as IBM, AST, and Compaq have not yet landed in China, so it is still very profitable to import computers at this time.
Hong Tao has not considered doing piracy business as well, and he also has this advantage. You can ask my father for help in cracking those software, and there must be some of his colleagues who are studying this topic, even if the teacher can't pull down his face to do it, isn't there still a student? There are also salespeople, and there are so many little brothers in Xiaowu, each of whom is a qualified pirate salesman. And as long as Hong Tao brings them to Zhongguancun, then there will be no room for other people to sell pirated copies, and the entire market will have to be occupied by them, there is no other reason, just be able to fight!
But then again, no matter how much money you make, it's still RMB after all, and that thing is of little use to Hong Tao. As long as the health care product factory is put into operation, it is better than how many pirated disks are sold, and the small money will flow into the pocket, so there is no need to spend this effort for the money. There are those manpower and material resources that are better put in the transport fleet, and the money earned by that industry is not less than that of making piracy, and it is above board, and it is justified everywhere. When he is capable of serious business, Hong Tao will never think about the evil crooked, after all, he is not a bastard, and on the whole, he is still a normal person.
Since it is to sell computers, it must be found a place with the strongest commercial atmosphere, and if you want to say that in Zhongguancun in the 90s, the commercial atmosphere is the strongest, and it must be the Sihai Electronics Market. Its location is just north of the Lili Sea Dragon Building, which is no longer there and has become the main road of the Fourth Ring Road. However, in the 90s, there was no Fourth Ring Road, and it was still a greenhouse, and hundreds of merchants were crowded into it, from a screw to a professional server, all of which were sold here.
Each stall is basically one or two people, and if you want to buy a complete machine, the stall owner will run all over the market to help you find the necessary accessories. Then I will save it for you with a screwdriver, and then I will install the pirated software for you, and in less than two hours, the profit of one or two thousand yuan will be in hand, this is the power of knowledge. In this year, not to mention being able to save computers and install DOS, if you can name all this accessory, you are already a computer professional. After all, this thing is still a new thing in China, and few people have access to it except for a small number of college students and researchers.
The origin of the Four Seas Market is simple, it was originally an ice cellar, and later it became a free market specializing in vegetables, fish and meat. Later, as Zhongguancun gradually became an electronic street, the local government simply renovated the vegetable greenhouse and re-leased it to those merchants who operated computer accessories and electronic products, and it became the first large-scale computer accessories market in the history of Zhongguancun.
"Hey, buddy, how much does this floppy drive cost?" Hong Tao took Tan Jing to wander around this big market at this time, while trying to see if there was a suitable place to rent, while picking up various computer accessories from the stalls passing by and asking the price, which was also doing market research.
"600! IBM original, come to you?" A young man with black-rimmed glasses poked his head out from behind the counter, first glanced at Tan Jing vigorously, and found that there was a tall Hong Tao standing beside her, before he reluctantly withdrew his eyes from Tan Jing. (The novel "Rebirth and Diving into a Dream" will have more fresh content on the official WeChat platform, and there will be 100 lucky draw gifts for everyone!Open WeChat now, click on the "+" sign in the upper right corner "Add Friends", search for the official account "qdread" and follow, hurry up!) R1152