It is rare for the weather to be sunny today, and the sky is cloudless after the rain. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The rain has made the earth less scorching, and the sea breeze has blown away the remaining heat in the air, making it feel very comfortable.

The Taiyu Building in Kwun Tong Industrial Zone is also in a festive atmosphere. Ribbons hang from the top of the building and connect to the surrounding low walls, decorating the entire building like a blooming flower.

Colorful flags are scattered all around, waving in the wind.

Outside the entrance on the first floor, an administrator directs his men to hang a banner.

On the bright red satin, a line of apricot yellow characters is printed: "Warmly celebrate the establishment of Lok Ma Chau Electronic Industrial Park and thank you meeting".

In the hall, people come and go, and they are busy arranging the venue. Hang colored lanterns, install rotating spotlights, place microphones, and debug audio equipment. From time to time, a car with the word "restaurant" will stop at the door, and then take the plates of exquisite food and wine from the car and deliver them to the table covered with snow-white tablecloths against the wall of the hall.

At the main entrance, a square table is also placed, and several staff members are carefully stacking the glass glass layer by layer to form a two-meter-high wine tower.

In order to prepare for tonight's celebration banquet, the reception desk was temporarily converted into a bar, and bartenders invited from several high-end bars in Hong Kong were working hard to wipe wine glasses and bartending utensils, and moved boxes of high-end red wine and white wine behind the counter, waiting for the evening to show their skills.

Bursts of aroma came from the staff cafeteria on the second floor and filled the entire building along the corridor.

This is a celebrity chef invited from major hotels and restaurants, who are preparing a sumptuous meal tonight. For tonight's celebration banquet, a variety of precious ingredients have been sent in an endless stream since the past few days, including traditional Chinese dishes such as abalone and bird's nest, French dishes such as steak in red wine and fried fresh shellfish with foie gras, Japanese dishes such as tempura, sashimi, and sushi, and Western dishes such as beef panyaki.

Chinese, French, American, Italian and other delicacies, everything is available.

The aroma is overflowing, inevitably arousing people's cravings, and the employees who come and go in the company are beaming, secretly swallowing their saliva, discerning from the smell what kind of food is there, looking forward to a feast in the evening.

When people meet each other, they often blurt out words such as "do you know, I heard about ......", "...... great thing", "I can't imagine ......", "our boss is really capable......", and everyone has an irrepressible smile on their faces.

From after 4 p.m., people came to the evening banquet one after another.

Most of these are small suppliers begging for food from military divisions such as Taiyu Technology, New Era, and Suteng Commerce, out of the idea of flattery, they came the earliest, and most of them came with quotas, children, dressed in festive costumes, and the whole family went out, and took the initiative to report to the reception desk after coming, sent a thick red envelope gift, and solemnly signed the name on the reception book.

Taiyu is fully prepared, in addition to transferring a large number of young staff from Taiyu Technology, New Era, Suteng Commerce, etc., and also inviting a group of students from several Chinese universities and girls' high schools, after emergency training for half a day, they will temporarily serve as receptions.

Each guest who arrives will be received by a special person to prevent the guests from feeling coldly received.

At about half-past five, a blue Chevrolet sedan with a shiny wax body sped up, and when it approached the entrance of the building, it suddenly slowed down, and the wheels rubbed against the ground, making a screeching sound.

“**！ Edmund, you drive slowly, this is not America! And you have to remember that this is on the left, and if you're not used to it, it's better to leave it to me! "Andy. Pan was thrown by the sudden brakes, almost hit the windshield, and shouted angrily.

"Sorry, I remembered the wrong place, I almost drove it. Don't worry, I'll be driving at the age of twelve, and it's not a problem to stay right or left. Edmund apologized very sincerely, saw the dense ribbons next to him from the car window, and then looked up at the roof of the building, and saw the light box advertisement on the top of the building. The light box has two kinds of logos in Chinese and English, and the square words he looks familiar with but dare not confirm them, but the English letters are correct.

taiyoo!

That's right, this is it.

Edmund skillfully flicked the steering wheel, the car swerved, and in Andy's angry roar, he skillfully turned the car and drove into the parking lot of the building.

"Are there so many rich people in Hong Kong? So many cars have been parked, and many of them are expensive famous cars! Edmund whistled, flicked his tail, and pulled into the parking space without pause.

"There are not so many rich people in Hong Kong, but all the rich people in Hong Kong have come here!" Andy warned, "Taiyu Technology has a big background, and it is said that the Chinese government is behind it, so don't behave too lightly in the venue later, so as not to offend the other party." ”

Andy is an authentic British, but not yet high enough to remove the top brassips. As an oriental adventurer's paradise, there are no less than 100,000 or 200,000 Britons like him who come to Hong Kong to pan for gold.

Although he couldn't get inside information, he could hear a little bit of information from his friends, which was enough to make him stand in awe of the fast-rising behemoth of Taiyu Technology.

What's more, they still have to ask each other for now.

"I won't mess around, I was once the son of a rich family, and I won't let you lose face." Edmund knew the other party's energy better than him, how could he be stupid enough to provoke his master.

After the Hong Kong government threw out the industrial park plan, the whole thing changed, and the world's electrical giants rushed to share the feast, squeezing all their small company representatives off the table. Just when everyone was discouraged, complaining that they had been cheated by the Hong Kong government, and were about to go home, Guan Fei sent someone to find them, saying that he didn't expect things to turn out like this, and apologized for it.

Guan Fei concluded by saying that his promise was still valid.

If companies are still interested in working with him, he is willing to continue to provide components and components to help them gain a foothold in Hong Kong.

For Guan Fei's kindness, the members of the delegation had two voices, one was discouraged, saying that since those large companies had already stepped in, it was too difficult for them, small companies with insufficient capital, to win in this game, and decided to withdraw.

On the other hand, they are more optimistic about starting a business in Hong Kong.

Edmund played a big part in this, exchanging information privately with the managers of these companies to persuade them to stay. In his opinion, Hong Kong is an excellent place to start a business, despite its shortcomings.

Labor in Hong Kong is too cheap, and the average salary per person is only 1,300 Hong Kong dollars, which is only 276 US dollars!

Compared with the average wage of nearly $900 in the United States, which is more than 800, the wages of Hong Kong workers are only one-third of that of American workers.

Even compared to the same cheap Japanese workers, it is only half of the other party.

In addition, Hong Kong is a British colony, and after years of promoting English, about one-third of the people in Hong Kong can write and read English newspapers and periodicals, and are proficient in English communication. As long as a group of managers who understand English are recruited, he does not have to worry about how to communicate with workers, and there is no situation where chickens and ducks talk to each other. This is especially important to him, because Japan is not as technologically advanced.

Even if it is the quality of the workers, he does not think that the quality of the workers in Hong Kong is low.

In terms of hardship and hard work, you can see workers who are bareback under the sun, holding on to the ground and falling eight petals, and still working hard under the command of the foreman. Pedestrians on the street are in a hurry, everyone seems to have a clear goal, full of vitality, and the pace of life is so fast that it is close to the United States.

In his opinion, there is no better place in the world than where the cost of starting a business is cheap, the workers are hard-working, and the communication is smooth.

It doesn't matter if the worker's ability is a little worse, as long as he listens to the command and trains for a period of time, he can go to the assembly line. All kinds of components and electronic components are provided with flying flights, and these workers are not required to engage in scientific research, at most they can find some experienced electronic technicians with high salaries. And the so-called high salary is only two or three thousand Hong Kong dollars, which is at most comparable to the blue-collar workers in the United States, which is not even affordable for a recent college graduate in the United States.

As long as the company survives the initial difficulties of the start-up, it is not too late to consider hiring high-level researchers from Europe and the United States, or moving the factory back to the United States to become bigger and stronger.

At his persuasion, about a third of the members of the expedition eventually decided to stay.

Guan Fei also made good on his promise, and immediately asked several venture capital firms, including the newly established Innovation and Technology Investment Management Company, to review the operating reports of each company. The VC company responded quickly, and immediately signed an investment agreement after just a few negotiations and revisions, and invested 100,000 to 500,000 Hong Kong dollars in venture capital to each partner company, and established more than 10 new joint ventures.

According to the agreement, depending on the size of the cooperative company, the technical strength, the scope of the marketing network, and the size of the risk, the venture capital company will acquire 40 to 70 percent of the shares of the new company, which is much more gentle than those vampires in the United States. In addition, the venture capital company promised to send only directors to supervise the inflow and outflow of funds, and not to interfere in the company's operations. Once the company is successfully listed in Hong Kong, London, Frankfurt and the United States, the majority of the shares will be released, and only 20% to 30% of the shares will be retained to continue to participate in the company's dividends.

Because Edmund is very capable and has successfully persuaded many companies to cooperate, Guan Fei once met with him alone and gave him two options.

One is that, like other companies, he accepted venture capital funds to set up his own tape recorder manufacturing company, and Guan Fei promised to invest 200,000 Hong Kong dollars in it and seek 55 percent of the company's shares.

The other is to set up an industrial design company to be responsible for the design of game consoles, portable tape recorders, toys and other designs.

Guan Fei said frankly that although they have technical strength, they do not pay enough attention to the aesthetics of the products, focus on practicality, and do not do a good job in user experience. According to the user feedback collected by the company, there are quite complaints about the appearance of the product and the comfort of users.

If Edmund is willing to turn to industrial design, Guan Fei is willing to provide him with a venture capital of one million Hong Kong dollars, and send several professional designers from Taiyu Technology and Hasbro to join the company, and outsource most of the design business of Taiyu Technology and Hasbro to design companies.

In the future, if the business is doing well, it is not impossible for the design company to become a giant in the industry, at least the future is much brighter than if it is now joining the manufacture of portable tape recorders, which has suddenly become fiercely competitive.

Edmund thought about it for several days, made a phone call across the ocean to ask for his father's opinion, and finally accepted Guan Fei's suggestion.

He took out his own savings of 10,000 US dollars, and persuaded Andy, an Englishman who has been engaged in toy design for a long time, to establish a joint venture of 18,000 US dollars, a total of 84,000 Hong Kong dollars, plus Guan Fei's investment of 1 million Hong Kong dollars, to establish Edmund Andy Design Company. He holds 7% of the company's shares and serves as general manager; Andy holds 3.5% of the shares and serves as deputy general manager.

In order to save costs and facilitate communication with customers, the two opened the company in a business building not far from Taiyu Technology and rented an office of more than 200 square meters. Using Andy's industry connections, he soon recruited several experienced designers, and together with six designers from Taiyu Technology and Hasbro, a team of 12 designers was formed, and some clerks and interns were hired, and a design company with a complete department was born.

Hong Kong's low cost is based on the calculations of the two of them, based on the current rent, wages and other expenses, the company has not even a penny of income, enough for them to support for more than seven months, which is two months longer than the survival of the whirling American start-ups.

If the labor cost is tightened, they can survive longer.

Fortunately, Guan Fei did not regard them as the target of exploitation, and on the third day of the company's establishment, he outsourced the design projects of dozens of products such as Transformers, arcade machines, portable tape recorders, desktop tape recorders, speakers, and power amplifiers to the company.

If these designs are approved, the company will receive a total of 2 million in design fees, eliminating the possibility of bankruptcy in the short term, and eliminating their worries.

Out of gratitude to Guan Fei and the idea of a good partnership, after receiving the invitation to the celebration banquet, the two specially bought a new suit and rushed to the Taiyu Building in advance before the banquet began.

Looking at the smiling welcome lady at the door, Edmund's heart was full of joy.

Although he will not be able to fulfill his father's wish to revive the family business for the time being, he may go more smoothly and successfully on another path!

Look, Father, I will surpass you and make you proud of me!

Edmund straightened his clothes and walked up the stairs with Andy beside him, with a sunny smile full of confidence on his face.