"How is Marvel's situation now?" Li Mo suddenly asked after learning about Io's situation.

"What else, I don't know how many people have been killed by them," Todd said lamentingly.

Marvel actually went public, listing is a circle of money, the boss eats meat, and the employees drink some soup, such as allotments, dividends, bonuses, you have to give a little bit, but nothing.

Originally, ninety percent of Marvel's essence was acquired by Li Mo, and as a result, all employees were even less motivated. Many of Todd's former colleagues approached Todd and wanted to move to Io Studios. Todd couldn't just agree, Io Studio's purpose was to streamline the government, Todd only recruited two dozen particularly talented people, and the others all declined.

"Boss, if it goes on like this, Marvel will last for three or four years at most, and then it will go out of business. Todd sighed again, after all, he had also worked at Marvel for several years, and he still had some feelings.

Li Mo scratched his eyebrows.

Over the years, he has acquired many companies and brands from various companies under his name.

Quality companies or brands, such as Maybelline and Lanko, generally try to keep their "authenticity" as much as possible.

A high-quality company or brand, but there are some small situations for the time being, such as Namco, and some adjustments are made slightly.

Some companies that are bankrupt or close to bankruptcy will carry out drastic rectification.

There are also downstream enterprises, so many companies in Yi Group, domestic and foreign, with a total of only 100,000 employees, but Baohua is immediately like Foxconn, and the number of employees has expanded rapidly. But for the time being, the number of employees is very small in terms of the turnover of each company. In this case, first, Li Mo tried his best to maintain the practice of streamlining the administration and not letting the companies become bloated. The second is to outsource a lot of business to various downstream enterprises, which may involve more than one million employees.

However, downstream enterprises do not need to worry about how much God Li Mo, give the price, give the quality standard requirements, meet the quality, and satisfy the price, everyone will cooperate. If the quality does not meet the requirements, and the price is not satisfied, everyone will bow to the dog, anyway, there are not too many enterprises with poor benefits at home and abroad.

What the companies grasp is the quality of the salesmen, inspectors and technicians who are in contact with the downstream enterprises for testing, so as to prevent these people from colluding with the downstream enterprises to pit the parent company.

Marvel has only just been listed, and now it is impossible to acquire it.

However, Li Mo thought about it just now and found that even if Marvel went bankrupt and reorganized a few years later, it might not have the value of acquisition.

The main thing is that the essence has been taken down by itself, but it is very troublesome to reorganize Marvel.

So he said, "Leave them alone, we'll just do our own thing." ”

Li Mo went to Qualcomm and Yibao to see it again.

Of course, with the advent of mobile phones, the employees of both companies are also full of energy.

The treatment of all companies under Li Mo's name is okay, but the treatment is okay, if the company has no future, the employees still have no bottom in their hearts. Over the years, Li Mo has invested too much money in the communication equipment and chip industry, and if there is no return, various employees will inevitably be a little uneasy.

Jobs held another press conference.

The counterattack is coming.

First of all, a reporter asked: "Jobs, it is rumored that because of Li, you Yihua are suspected of discriminating against Japan." ”

There is only one sales channel for IH mobile phones, and that is to sell them in major outlets.

Even in China, there are more than 300 direct sales stores, which is enough to meet the purchase of the majority of customers.

As for the areas where there are no direct sales stores, such as the vast areas of Africa, do you expect the people of various poor countries in Africa to spend more than 1,000 dollars to buy mobile phones?

But there is one exception.

In the whole Southeast Asia and Northeast Asia, Yili has only China, South Korea, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei, and the region is Xiangjiang.

Myanmar, Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia are too poor and if you really want to buy them, you can come to China or Thailand to buy them, Indonesia can go to Malaysia or Brunei to buy them, and the Philippines can forget it.

However, there is one country that cannot be ignored, and that is Japan.

Since there is no outlet store, IH phones will not be released in Japan.

Japanese people are obsessed with electronics, and some people have an idea. It is not cost-effective to deliberately go to China for a mobile phone, but you can ask someone to bring it from China. And don't rush to buy a mobile phone at the official exchange rate, first exchange it for yuan on the black market, and then go to the outlets to buy a mobile phone with the yuan, so that you can buy a regular version of the phone for 88,000-100,000 yen ($700-800), and for 130,000-170,000 yen ($1,050-1,350), you can buy a luxury version of the phone, and pay some slight tariffs, which is cheaper than buying in other countries.

But I'm stupid, it's definitely not cost-effective to buy it at China's official exchange rate.

If there is no one, you can also partner with several people and send one person to China to buy, even if it costs a little travel money, it is still cheaper than buying in other countries.

Not to mention, there are really people who are tempted, adopt these two ideas, and go to China to buy mobile phones and bring them back to Japan.

So much so that the people of various customs in China laughed and laughed, Yili's matter has not yet ended, and the mobile phone is here again.

This is "not angry".

There are many Japanese who angrily denounce these people for their incompetence, and then say that Yihua is discriminatory.

And they also heard the news that since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Yili, Yimei and Yihua have joined forces to send people to Moscow, St. Petersburg and other major Russian cities to negotiate with direct sales stores.

Are we Japanese inferior to a chaotic Russia?

The Koreans took the opportunity to add fuel to the fire, the Chinese still have smart people, you Japan did so many cruel things decades ago, this hatred, can the Chinese forget? This is self-inflicted.

The truth has nothing to do with national enmity......

Jobs replied, "Ladies and gentlemen, as a company, how dare you ignore the fact that the country with the second largest GDP has little conflict with the Japanese industry in terms of communication equipment. The main reason for this is the high housing prices in Japan, which have skyrocketed several times since 1980, and the prices in major cities have exploded by more than ten times or twenty times. Although Japan has undergone industrial adjustment after 90 years, it was not until the end of last year, that is, a month ago, that it began to decline in earnest. As you know, the purpose of Yili, Yimei and Yihua is to buy shops and shop outlets, and the cost of shops accounts for a large proportion. Japan's high housing prices discouraged Yihua, so it did not enter the Japanese market. However, we at Yihua are also discussing this issue and plan to rent a few shops as direct sales stores to solve the problems of Japanese customers. ”

Anyway, for a long time in the future, Li Mo will not buy shops in Japan. Because Japan since this year, housing prices have continued to decline, until 05 years, only to fall to the level of 82 years of Japanese housing prices, from the perspective of investment, at least after entering the new century, buying a house in Japan will not lose too much.

When the reporters thought of Japan's housing prices, they were silent one by one.

Another reporter asked: "Why are the prices of Yili, Yimei and Yihua lower in China than in foreign countries, and is Li a nationalist?"

Nationalism is often a positive term in China, but abroad, it is definitely a derogatory term.

Jobs said, "Lee is not a nationalist...... What you said is that you are using China's black market exchange rate to calculate the difference between the two, and I have no right to comment on China's exchange rate policy, but whether it is Yihua or Yili, it is not cheap, but cost. ”

Jobs talked about the monthly payment for each outlet store, staff salaries, utilities, taxes, but also customs duties, shipping costs, and so on.

In comparison, the cost of Chinese outlets is certainly much smaller, so it makes sense to sell cheaply, and Jobs said: "Even if the black market exchange rate is not a normal exchange rate, I don't think it's a normal exchange rate." ”

"Jobs, is Yihua an American company, or is it a Chinese company?"

"What you are talking about is nothing more than that Li is Chinese. No matter what kind of Chinese person Li is, let me ask you, what kind of feelings does Li have for the United States? Even people like Li should be rejected, I don't know why we in the United States can be called an inclusive and open country?"

Not to mention anything else, outside, Mozi Fund is taking the dividends of various stocks to distribute a large number of daily necessities to the poor people in the United States.

Another fund, which also holds some funds, bails out fans in need.

"Guys, I won't talk about Li, where is this located?" Jobs pointed to his feet: "This is the land of the United States, and Yihua will be headquartered in the United States, so it will have to pay taxes in the United States." If you treat others as friends, they will treat you as friends. You will see others as enemies, and others will treat you as enemies. Lee treated us as friends, and we should treat him as friends. Yihua is very simple, it can be placed in the United States, it can also be placed in Xiangjiang, and it can also be placed in Germany, which regards Li as a benefactor......"

Everyone was speechless again.

Is it useful to care about this?

It's really urgent, Li Mo can move Yihua to other countries at any time, could it be that if he moves to Germany, the mobile phone can't be sold in the United States?

Another reporter asked: "Jobs, according to some users, your mobile phone reception signal is far less than that of Big Brother." ”

"It's a fact that mobile phones are a little lacking in the ability to receive signals, but with the laying of various 2G base stations, this problem can be quickly solved. Even though the signal is a little bad, are you willing to travel around with Big Brother?"

Not only has the weight of Big Brother not been solved, but even if the same battery is placed on Big Brother, it is only equivalent to one-third of the standby time of the mobile phone, which is also very troublesome.

"Jobs, this new mobile phone is a unique product, are you Yihua suspected of monopoly?"

The question got to the point.

"If Yihua wants to monopolize, the first batch of Yihua's products will be shipped not one million units, but two million units...... Thank you. Jobs said.

It's not two million units, Yihua will discuss with Qualcomm and others, and everyone will work together to further reduce the cost, and then reduce the price of each mobile phone by $400...... That's it, Yihua and the companies still have some profits, so that the companies that sell big brothers have no tears to cry.

That's called a real monopoly.

But this can't be said, otherwise customers will be disgusted.

Jobs added: "And we at Yihua have also invited Motorola, Ericsson, Nokia, Siemens, and Asus to discuss cooperation. ”

Wow, there was an uproar below, and this is a piece of exciting news.

Not only the six major companies, but also Yibao, Qualcomm, TSMC, Baohua, and CLP Fang also sent representatives over, and a total of 11 major companies have negotiated.

Li Mo and other representatives of 11 companies sat down and said: "During this time, there have been some public opinions that are very bad for Yihua. ”

Some of them were created by right-wingers who were disgusted with China, and some of them were created by some Chinese...... In a letter written by the famous scholar He Xin to the chief designer in 92, there is this paragraph:

I am convinced that after the election, whether the Republican Party is in power or the Democratic Party is in power, its China policy will become more severe. This is because, as analyzed above, whether or not we can destroy, disintegrate, and subdue China has a bearing on the United States' dominance and control over the Asia-Pacific region as a whole, as well as on the strategic position and fundamental national interests of the United States in the world. This is a battle of grand strategy, a struggle between the survival and decline of the country. We must not have too many illusions about this and be naïve in the international political struggle...... The United States is a nation of the financial bourgeoisie, a nation that believes in the philosophy of the strong and the philosophy of the jungle. The United States never sympathizes with the weak, and never has mercy on the weak. Worshipping only the successful and the strong is one of the basic principles of American culture. Since the founding of the United States, its entire diplomatic history has been a history of negotiating and making friends with the strong, while constantly bullying the weak and the losers. Recently, I have noticed that defectors such as ** have suggested to their American masters that there should be constant pressure on China, because the Chinese regime cannot withstand it. She believes that Bush's current policy toward China is appeasement and wrong. It is precisely because there is such public opinion and suggestions of traitors of the first class abroad that the American Democratic Party has vigorously criticized Bush's China policy, and its clamor for intensifying pressure on China has become increasingly arrogant.

History has a famous emperor named Chai Rong.

In China, there are also two famous female jackals, the current is **, and the future is that quiet.

Behind her there was a large group of people, called pro-democracy activists.

These people have struggled all their lives to bring down China, and of course, it is impossible for these people to see the good of China.

With the end of the August 9 Incident, a large number of pro-democracy activists fled to the United States.

After arriving in the United States, I learned that there was still a super-rich man in China...... In 89 and early 90, they didn't make any moves, and Li Mo was blinded, and he didn't know how deep Li Mo's pool was, so he didn't say anything.

But since the second half of the 90s, these people have begun to desperately attack and smear Li Mo.

Li Mo didn't hear it, in his heart, these people not only betrayed the country to seek glory, forgot their ancestors, but also a group of mad dogs. If you ignore them, they bite and bite, and there will be no interest in biting you. But the more you ignore them, the more energetic they get.

The mobile phone came out, and these people came back and talked nonsense in the media.

Of course, there is also the credit of these giants here.

"Over the years, I have bowed my head to poverty, to the old and weak, to kindness, to justice, to law, and to morality, but I have never bowed my head to power, to evil, and to crooked doors...... Some people say I'm the best collaborator, so why can't you work with me in a different way?"

Representatives of the four giants were thoughtful.

Li Mo will not bow to them, and they will not bow to Li Mo.

The representative of Siemens asked, "Li, how to cooperate?"

"Patent Granted!"

To use Yihua's technology, you must pay a patent licensing fee, but Yihua has no intention of blocking patents.

Of course, giving money is also a must.

The Motorola representative asked, "Lee, how much is the licensing fee?"

"For less than 2 million units, the licensing fee for each mobile phone is $250, for 2 million to 4 million units, it is $200, and for more than 4 million units, it is only $150. ”

"Li, aren't you killing people?"

"Hehe, hehe," Li Mo looked at him and sneered.

In 90 years, how much money did Yi Group spend to buy patent licensing fees? These companies all took Yi Group's money, especially Motorola, and their company alone took hundreds of millions of dollars!

It's Yihua's turn to charge, isn't it funny to say that he slaughtered people.

And several giants have no way at all, this is not the original Yi Group to buy patents, you don't sell others to sell, can not form a monopoly, but now Yihua's mobile phone technology has formed a monopoly. If you don't talk, other companies do, and will happily watch that you don't negotiate, and in this way, there will be one less competitor.

The old god Li Mo was there, but his eyes were fixed on Nokia's negotiator, and he was thinking about the patent fees of Nokia in his previous life.

Nokia brick machine was famous, but it was shot to death by the smart phone, in fact, Nokia is not dead, and the annual patent fee alone can get five or six billion euros, 16 years Nokia sued Apple, Apple had to honestly pay 2 billion US dollars to Nokia, and Samsung obediently paid more than 300 million euros to Nokia every year.

Jump, there will be a time to jump in the future!

But for the moment, Li Mo's asking price is indeed too ruthless.

The four giants didn't dare to go, and the price was too high to negotiate, but they still had to talk.

After three days of painstaking negotiations, the final eleven companies reached an agreement.

First, Yihua and other companies must pay $150 in patent fees to Yihua and Qualcomm within 1 million units to authorize all existing mobile phone technologies, which will be reduced to $100 for between 1 million and 4 million units, and $76 for more than 4 million units.

Not to Yihua alone, Qualcomm, TSMC, Asus and Baohua all have some patents, but the main patents are controlled by Yihua and Qualcomm.

Of course, it dropped to $76, which is a price that several giants can tolerate. The giants also did not think of the future horror sales of mobile phones, in their hearts, there can be a sales of twenty or thirty million units, it would be very good, and then think about Yihua's mobile phone, the patent licensing fees spent, and research and development costs, Yihua does not seem to have much benefit.

After all, Yihua Qualcomm has spent billions of dollars on patents, and more than a billion dollars have been spent on research and development of various technologies over the years.

It's not just mobile phone technology, but the money is really spent.

If you want to pick fruits without spending a penny, is Li Mo so stupid?

Second, the authorization of Yibao games, ten dollars for a game is too expensive, after many negotiations, and finally reached an agreement, within one million mobile phones, each game needs to pay a license fee of ten dollars to Yibao, within four million units, it will be reduced to eight dollars, more than four million units, it will be reduced to six dollars.

Why is this number of phones being pursued?

It's also a must.

Now these giants definitely can't imagine the future of 3G, 4G machines, and can't imagine that the future 3G mobile phone can fall into a only a few hundred dollars, less than a hundred dollars. But the general trend is that with the maturity of technology, the price of mobile phones will inevitably become cheaper and cheaper, and the cheaper the easier it is to popularize.

Article 3, six companies to form a mobile phone alliance, that is, Yihua in the past ten years, without the consent of the alliance, shall not be authorized to Yihua, Asus, Motorola, Ericsson, Nokia, Siemens, any company other than any company, so that this industry to form an alliance-style monopoly, so that each company can maintain the maximum profit.

This article is mainly aimed at Japanese companies.

Ten years is hard to say, there are too many variables, but in these five years, the Japanese do not want to enter the mobile phone industry.

Fourth, you can promote your own company's products, but you must not denigrate the products of the other five companies in any form.

Article 5, among Li Mo's various mobile phone appearance patents, these companies are allowed to pick out ten appearance patents for free, otherwise there will be trouble, which is nothing more than a flip cover, a straight board, and a skateboard, and if it is not done well, it will infringe on Yihua's appearance patent.

There are several other agreements, and the price of batteries in China Power Square is too much, so the four giants strongly demand that the batteries supplied by China Power Square must be at the same price as those supplied to Yihua batteries. In this way, a battery can save at least more than 20 US dollars, and two batteries for a mobile phone can save more than 40 US dollars, which is equivalent to saving more than 40 US dollars in patent licensing fees. The price sold by CLP Fang to Yihua was not cheap, but after paying the expensive patent licensing fee, I had to think of good things and comfort myself......

There are also foundry intentions with Qualcomm and Baohua, Yi Group over the years, the biggest success is to establish a good quality brand, at least in the toy industry popular saying, want low production costs, and want good product quality, please Yile OEM.

Several giants then hit Qualcomm with their ideas, which is actually TSMC and Baohua foundry, and the same, the foundry fee must be the same.

There are a total of more than a dozen agreements, some of which are only intent agreements.

After the signing of the agreement, representatives of the ten companies held another press conference...... You know, a monopolistic alliance has emerged. Some companies that want to enter the market, after hearing this news, it is like a bolt from the blue. There is also an unrelated company, which is also like a funeral examine......