Chapter Ninety-Nine: Professional OEM
Ling Shizhe returned to the villa in Repulse Bay in the evening, and as soon as he entered the door, he saw Li Zhen and Li Li and his mother Zhang Yuzhen chatting on the sofa, and a young girl about twenty years old sat next to Zhang Yuzhen.
Sure enough, Li Zhen's introduction confirmed Ling Shizhe's guess.
Li Qian is the half-sister of Li Zhen and Li Li, who just turned 20 this year and is studying at Stanford University in the United States.
After everyone sat down again, Ling Shizhe said: "Big brother, you haven't been here for a few days, and you have to stay for two more days when you come to Hong Kong today." ”
Unexpectedly, Li Zhen shook his head and said: "I came to Hong Kong this time to send my third sister, she and my second sister haven't seen each other for a long time, and I want to come to Hong Kong to see her second sister, so today I specially sent her over, I am coming to see the company in Hong Kong by the way, it's over, I'm going back that night, I don't have time to play in Hong Kong, I can only next time." ”
"It seems that the eldest brother has a good business, so busy." Ling Shizhe said.
"TOEFL, TOEFL, I have to thank my brother-in-law for your idea, otherwise I would have to thank you for such a good business."
"What a family says, it's right to help the eldest brother."
A year ago, Li Zhen's company was in difficulty, and he came to Hong Kong to ask Ling Shizhe for advice, and Ling Shizhe gave him an idea to specialize in electronic product OEM.
At the beginning, Li Zhen's electronic foundry was mainly for Apple to do product OEM, thinking that Ling Shizhe intended to take care of him, but after a period of time, Li Zhen found that there is no company in the world that specializes in OEM business, and other companies do OEM for short-term OEM, in order to solve the problem of insufficient operation of their own factories. This is the case with Ling Shizhe's Ambrera company, which has to seek chip factories all over the world due to the lack of chip production capacity in its own factories.
The foundry business like this is extremely unstable, the product quality cannot be fully guaranteed, and the price is also very high. And what if you specialize in providing stable foundry business for other companies? Li Zhen believes that as long as the quality is guaranteed and the price is cheap, there is no worry about not making money, although the price of OEM is very low, but it can't withstand the large amount, as long as the amount is large, the profit is still very considerable.
And there is an advantage that there is no need to worry about how to open up the market, these problems are considered by the client, he only needs to make money, whether the OEM products can be sold or not is the client's own business.
After making up his mind, Li Zhen set up a company called Tai Seiko in October, which specializes in the OEM business of electronic products, and then pulls orders all over the world, mainly focusing on computer cameras and function calculators.
Like all emerging industries, Li Zhen's OEM orders were not good at the beginning, many European and American companies did not trust an OEM company from China, but Li Zhen was very smart, and took out the legal text of the OEM contract signed with Ambrera Company to European and American companies, and then relied on low prices, and soon received large orders, and within a few months Li Zhen made enough money that he could not make for several years before.
After the initial taste of the foundry nod, Li Zhen knew that the electronic product foundry did not have any technical threshold, and anyone could come in. Once others react and enter this industry, the money will not be so easy to make at that time, so Li Zhen is very busy these days.
The first company in history to engage in professional foundry was founded in the early 80s by Taiwan/Bay businessman Guo Taiming, but the arrival of Ling Shizhe advanced the professional foundry by a full ten years, and under his guidance, Li Zhen became the first person to specialize in OEM business.
Looking at Li Zhen, who was sitting on the side and was a little squirming, Ling Shizhe understood that he had come to borrow money from him this time.
The profit of the electronic foundry is low, but the starting capital is very demanding, Li Zhen is buying land, building factories, buying equipment and installing equipment, and recruiting workers to train workers in Taiwan/Bay these days, and the benefits have not been seen first, but the money spent has gone to the sea, especially the investment in equipment and personnel, the Li family's assets are simply enough, so the reason why he came here today.
After thinking about it, Ling Shizhe didn't wait for Li Zhen to propose it himself, so he said it first: "Big brother, don't look at the business of the foundry now, that's because there is only one professional foundry at present, once others enter this industry, there will inevitably be a price war, and the foundry will not have such a good life at that time." ”
Li Zhen nodded and said: "My brother-in-law is right, the OEM investment is large, the profit is low, the threshold is low, and there are a lot of troubles, now I am the only one engaged in this industry, and the profit is not bad, once other people follow in, there is no such good thing, so these days I have been trying my best to expand the factory and attract new business everywhere, so that I can occupy the largest market." ”
"Yes, OEM is a labor-intensive industry, and it is very difficult to manage when there are more people, so my Apple has not expanded the factory, and the reason is here, but the eldest brother is different, and the eldest brother has very rich experience in how to manage labor-intensive enterprises, so I handed over Apple's products to the eldest brother to produce." Ling Shizhe took a sip of tea and continued: "Although the profit of OEM is low, I am very optimistic about his future development. ”
"Okay, brother-in-law, how much are you going to invest and how many shares are you going to have?" Li Zhen saw that he offered to take a stake in his company, but he raised his hands to welcome, as for a part of his shares, he didn't care at all, for him, Ling Shizhe took the shares, and Apple's electronic products would be handed over to him in the future, which was equivalent to having a stable long-term meal ticket, and with this meal ticket, he would not have to worry about having no food.
"$300 million, 30 percent of the shares, plus $100 million in loans." Ling Shizhe replied.
Li Zhen gasped, looked at Ling Shizhe incredulously and said, "Brother-in-law, are you serious, an investment of 300 million US dollars, as long as I have 30% of the shares and a loan of 100 million US dollars?" ”
"You think I'm joking? As I said earlier, I am optimistic about the development prospects of professional foundry companies and want to earn some pocket money for myself, in addition, Apple is currently a small factory, and I need a trustworthy company to provide OEM services for me, and my brother's company is the best investment object. ”
"300 million US dollars, enough to buy several Seiko, or you account for 7 percent, and I account for 3 percent."
Ling Shizhe denied: "You account for seven, I account for three, Tai Seiko will still rely on you to take care of it in the future, I don't have time to take care of it, besides, this is also your hard work eldest brother, how can I take away the eldest brother's industry?" ”
Li Zhen was not hypocritical, and immediately said: "Good brother-in-law is benevolent and righteous, I will not be polite, brother-in-law, don't worry, I will definitely give you the best product for the goods you hand over to the OEM, and the quality is absolutely first-class." ”
"I believe Big Brother." Ling Shizhe said with a smile.
Li Zhen saw that today's goal was achieved, so he chatted with Ling Shizhe: "Brother-in-law, have you read today's newspaper?" ”
"You said that Liu Dong's hands were cut off?"
Li Zhen nodded and said, "That's it, how will your Hong Kong court decide?" ”
"How? The British will not care about it, but he will excuse the Ma family and make the Ma family even worse. ”
The reason for the matter is that the Ma family, like the Ling family and the Xiang family, is a gang/Dao family, and this Ma family is very arrogant compared with other gang/Dao families in Hong Kong, murder, robbery, arson, drug trafficking/trafficking/trafficking of women/daughters/children/children, smuggling of guns, and being a pirate can be said to be innocent.
In order to increase the sales of the newspaper, the Ma family followed the example of "Ming Pao" to publish novels in the newspaper, and writers must be required to contribute to the novel, so they offered a lot of money to attract authors.
A young writer named Liu Dong was attracted by the heavy remuneration of the "Oriental Daily", so he submitted to the "Oriental Daily", but unfortunately this young writer did not know how to submit, and the general writers did not submit the whole manuscript but only a part, the purpose of which was to prevent the newspaper from encroaching on the author's copyright, lest the manuscript be submitted and the newspaper would be published, but the author was not him, and the newspaper refused to pay the manuscript fee.
Second, do not submit the manuscript to the photocopy, the manuscript remains in the hand, and in the future, if the writer has a legal dispute with the newspaper, the manuscript is the evidence.
But this Liu Dong did not pay attention to this problem, and submitted the manuscript to the "Oriental Daily", not to mention, but also the complete manuscript, not to mention the tragedy.
When the novel was published, the young writer found that the author was not himself but someone else, so he went to the "Oriental Daily" theory, you have no evidence in your hand, of course others don't admit it, but the evidence is in the hands of others, the young Liu Dong was angry but he had a quarrel with the newspaper staff at that time.
This trouble, something happened, who opened "Oriental Newspaper"? Ma Xiru, Hong Kong's white/fan/wang, you Liu Dong is just a small citizen who dares to come to his territory to make trouble, isn't this looking for death? Not to mention being beaten violently, his hands were cut off alive.
After the incident, the whole Hong Kong was shaken, especially the academic and literary circles in Hong Kong, who jumped out one after another to write articles in the newspapers demanding that the British Government in Hong Kong severely punish the murderers.
All the people who participated in the march were literati from Hong Kong, whether they were leftists, centrists or rightists.
The British government in Hong Kong is the government of the British, not the government of the Chinese, and he will take care of the life and death of the Chinese; as soon as the demonstrations broke out, the British troops stationed in Hong Kong were transferred to the Hong Kong Governor's Mansion to maintain the so-called "law and order." In the end, many civilians were beaten, and many literati were arrested and put in prison to pick up soap.
At this time, Li Qian interjected: "The British government in Hong Kong not only does not punish the murderer, but also sends the army to suppress the people, isn't he afraid of causing a big mess?" ”
Ling Shizhe turned his head to look at this beautiful and innocent little girl, and said with a smile: "What's the matter, anyway, the British in Hong Kong don't plan to ask for it, and Hong Kong is not going to mess with him." ”
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"The British don't plan to ask for Hong Kong, when will it happen?" Li Zhen asked puzzled.
"Yes, why don't my husband British want Hong Kong?"
"Old Seven, what nonsense are you talking about, how could the British not want Hong Kong?" Zhang Yuzhen said.
Seeing them questioning one by one, Ling Shizhe sneered: "This still needs to be seen, Hong Kong, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, these four regions are all British colonies, how the British govern Hong Kong, how the British govern several other places, compare yourself, whether the British have treated Hong Kong as their own territory to govern, I will leave the words here, you can wait and see, Britain will lose Hong Kong sooner or later and pay a heavy price for its actions." ”