Chapter 1053 - Innovation is the Source of Wealth (Part II)
For Sun Ziming and Yang Guozhong, a considerable part of Confucius's thoughts represent obsolescence and pedantic, especially after generations of cynicism tampering with and extended, which makes them scoff. However, no matter how they scoff at it, after all, they are gradually influenced by thousands of years of traditional culture, and even if they don't admit it, they are branded with Confucianism in their bones.
Therefore, when Sun Ziming made a fortune, whether it was because of the need for property security, or because they wanted to gain fame, or because of the feeling of 'helping the world at the same time' in their bones, they did not hesitate to spend huge sums of money to support basic education in remote and impoverished areas, to fund exchanges between young students in the two sides of the Taiwan Strait, and to go abroad for further study.
Hu Weiguo, like Sun Ziming and Yang Guozhong, also has the feelings of 'reaching the world and helping the world', and the difference with them is that because he was born in a scholarly family and has a wealthy family, he does not have the aggressiveness and pioneering spirit of the two of them, but his vision is actually more long-term than them, and he is more thoughtful than them. It's just that because Sun Ziming rose too fast, Yang Guozhong followed his footsteps closely and jumped up like a rocket, annihilating all Hu Weiguo's light.
In the past ten years, Sun Ziming has been staring at movies with one half eye, and half at finance and politics, and he wants to hold all the things he couldn't get in his previous life into his arms; In addition to wanting to turn the Russian Far East, Northeast China, and South Korea into an economic community, I am afraid that the deepest part of his heart is more to relieve the resentment of being discriminated against by both sides for many years.
Only Hu Weiguo is different, he has no regrets or resentments, and has only focused on electronics and mechanics for more than ten years. Unlike Sun Ziming's opportunistic way of relying on 'memory', Hu Weiguo is doing things in a down-to-earth manner, in his words, genius relies on inspiration, and his mediocrity can only be down-to-earth. In the past ten years, under the leadership of Hu Weiguo and Cao Qiang, Hanhua Electronics has continuously developed those electronic products in Sun Ziming's 'memory', such as VCDs, USB flash drives, hubs, wireless routers, and ......, from the laboratory, or purchased patents from others, and then produced them on the production line.
Twelve years ago, Sun Tzu spent a huge amount of money to acquire C-CUBE, which invisibly opened a window for him - the level of scientific research in the mainland is not high, so he will use the strength of others to cultivate talents for himself, and borrow other people's heads to do research for himself, walking on two legs. Over the years, relying on the C-CUBE to train a batch of researchers, Hanhua Electronics' own research institute has also begun to take strength, coupled with Sun Ziming's instructions to the Far Eastern Group's inclined policy, Hanhua Electronics Research Institute is not a name, but it has been amazing, and finally ahead of Apple, developed those great products that should have been attributed to Jobs.
Hu Weiguo took out his laptop from the computer bag on the ground, turned it on, plugged in the USB flash drive, flashed the LOGO of Hanhua Electronics on the screen, entered a long list of complex passwords, and proudly said: "IBM put forward the idea of a tablet computer, but did not commercialize it, we have completely achieved it; Ziming proposed to combine mobile phones with PCs, and Apple was also doing it, but we did it first.
For the sake of commercial secrecy, I didn't bring the physical object here, this is the demo video, you can take a look. ”
The excited Sun Ziming and the curious Yang Guozhong stared at the screen after watching the video for more than ten minutes, one of them was trembling slightly under the coffee table, and the other was puzzled, "Weiguo, is this what you spent tens of billions of dollars to figure out?" With a laptop, why do you need this, and you can't type or anything like that. This phone is good, beautiful, indeed beautiful, and it is very convenient to use. ”
"When is the energy produced?"
"Strive for mass production in six months, so that it can be officially put on sale around Christmas."
Sun Ziming groaned for a while, he is the major shareholder of Apple, Claudia was also sent by him to be a shareholder, knowing the progress over there, he said in a deep voice: "No, it must be faster, Apple has already produced a prototype, you must be ahead of them." ”
Hu Weiguo also knows this, but he also knows that Apple's operating system has problems, and there are too many bugs, which has seriously affected the development of the prototype.
"It's okay, I know their progress. Rest assured, now that we are renovating and expanding our production lines on a large scale, we want to wipe out the high-end and low-end at one time, leaving no way for manufacturers in other countries to survive! ”
"Great!"
'Bang', Sun Ziming clenched his fists and slammed it on the table, stood up and paced back and forth under the corridor, his mind thinking rapidly.
Yang Guozhong rarely saw Sun Ziming so eager, and immediately realized that this could be two epoch-making products. Sun Ziming paced back and forth for a while, suddenly stopped, and said in a deep voice: "Okay, let's play a big one." I'm trying to make a classic that will hit the Oscars for best picture in six months, and you're going to have a product launch at the premiere. It's a big deal, sacrificing a film will also make you an instant hit! ”
"It's inappropriate, it's not proper", Hu Weiguo hurriedly objected.
"Why?"
"Are you stupid?"
Hu Weiguo couldn't laugh or cry, although this is beneficial to publicity, but the two products of Hanhua Electronics are positioned as high-end users, and the low-end products are produced by subsidiaries. Since it is a high-end product, it is natural to have a high standard for everything while maintaining a kind of reserve, so that agents and users feel that they have face, rather than going to the movie premiere to join in the fun. Although Sun Tzu Ming said that it is a classic film, it must be a classic, which will also reduce the impression in the hearts of some users.
"Yes, yes, you have a point, if you want to sell at a high price, you have to pretend to be forced! After the production is out, send me a batch, and when my movie is released, it will definitely have a big party, and then it will be given out as a gift. ”
This is almost the same, Sun Tzu's party, almost all Hollywood superstars and big directors will go to the party, and those superstars represent fashion and trends. Once the goods are stained with fashion and trends, even garbage can be sold at the price of gold, not to mention that these two products can indeed meet people's various life, work, and entertainment needs.
The shrewd Hu Weiguo immediately added: "Okay, our product launch conference is held after the release of your movie, so that your friends will feel more face-saving." Also, you asked me to give me a list of the guests, and we engraved their names on their respective tablets and smartphones as a customized gift. ”
Everyone talked and laughed for a while, using the two products that changed the pattern of the world's electronics industry as tools to bury the mobile phone giants, preparing to sweep Nokia, Motorola, Sharp, NEC and other companies into the garbage heap of history.
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After the meeting at the manor, Yang Guozhong went to negotiate with Tino in exchange for a bargaining chip to buy back the shares of the C-CUBE Research Institute in exchange for not falling into Russia as a bargaining chip. Hu Weiguo went to Taiwan to negotiate with TSMC, if smart phones will fully replace the current mobile phones on the market as he and Sun Ziming judged, the domestic chip production capacity is still insufficient, and it has to rely on imports to meet the influx of orders. Instead of cheap Intel and Texas Instruments, it is better to be cheap TSMC (TSMC), although now Ah Bian's bastard likes to mess around, but the fat water does not flow into the fields of outsiders.
The third brother deliberately stayed and discussed the operation and management of the entire group with Sun Ziming. He had also talked to Yang Guozhong about this topic before he came, because of his knowledge and ability, he felt that he was not suitable to manage the entire group. When the group was first founded, it was all pioneering work, and the third brother had connections and everyone to help him, so he could naturally develop the group's business day by day. But now that the plate is getting bigger and bigger, he has become more and more powerless, and wants to give up the chair under his ass and let someone more capable sit on it.
After listening to the third brother's explanation, Sun Ziming couldn't help but be stunned, which was too unexpected for him. Power, in Kissinger's words, is the best aphrodisiac. The third brother is only forty years old, and when he is in the prime of life, why did he remember to give up the power of the company and retreat behind the scenes?
After pondering for a while, Sun Zi Mingcai asked, "Third brother, how did you have this idea?" ”
His own brother has nothing to hide, and the third brother said with mixed emotions: "Xiao Wu, there is such a thing as ability, if you have it, if you don't have it, you can't fool others!" ”