Early the next morning, Pang Xuelin couldn't help but be taken aback when he learned from Mu Donglai that the other party wanted to help him inspect the market.

"Professor Mu, don't be so troublesome, don't you still want to go to Xiangjiang?"

Mu Donglai said with a smile: "Qingqing and I went to Xiangjiang just to have a look, it's not a big deal to be ten days and half a month late, after all, you are only seventeen years old now, I follow you, just to help you check the gates." ”

Liu Qi on the side also said: "Brother Pang, Professor Mu is right, if I don't want to go to Xiangjiang in a hurry because of business, I don't worry about you acting alone." Of course, we are not worried about your safety, but there are too many scammers, and we are worried that you will lose financially......"

Pang Xuelin couldn't help crying and laughing, and he was embarrassed to say anything if he refused.

Mu Qingqing changed into strappy jeans and a plaid shirt, wore a sunhat on her head, her long hair flowed, her hands behind her back, and she jumped up and down behind everyone.

The corners of her mouth curled slightly, and there was an indescribable excitement in her heart, and for the first time, she felt that Fat Liu didn't look so much of an eyesore.

On the train, in order to thank Pang Xuelin for their righteous deeds, the railway specially arranged two soft sleeper boxes for them, and the comfort was much improved compared with the hard sleeper cars.

Mu Qingqing was a little unhappy, because she and her father were in a box, and Pang Xuelin was in a box with Liu Qi and Jian An.

But fortunately, during the day, she and her father basically stayed in the box where Pang Xuelin and them were.

Liu Qi specially took out the poker and played with Pang Xuelin and Mu Qingqing to fight the landlord.

Mu Donglai and Jian An only watched from the sidelines, chatting occasionally.

Happy times are fleeting.

It wasn't until the train turned off in the evening that Mu Qingqing and his father returned to their box to rest.

At eight o'clock the next morning, the train slowly entered Yangcheng Railway Station.

After getting off the train, we had to go our separate ways.

The railway station square was crowded, and Jian An said goodbye to everyone: "Professor Mu, Brother Pang, Lao Liu and Qingqing, I will leave first." You have written down the address of my home, and if you need help in the future, you can write to me directly. ”

Mu Donglai said with a smile: "Don't worry, you will definitely not lose contact, Comrade Jian An, after Chang'an, remember to come to me." ”

Liu Qi on the side also said: "Old Jane, you can write down my phone number, you must call me if there is anything." ”

Pang Xuelin said with a smile: "Brother Jian, if your work is not going well, or if there is something unpleasant, you can come to Lancheng to find me, and if you report my name at Lancheng University, you will definitely be able to find me." ”

"Okay, then I won't say more, let's go first!"

Jian An picked up her luggage, waved her hand at everyone, and disappeared into the vast sea of people first.

Pang Xuelin turned his gaze to Liu Qi and said, "Lao Liu, you are the landlord here, and then our itinerary will be arranged by you." ”

On the train before, Liu Qi said that after arriving in Yangcheng, Pang Xuelin and all of them would be received by him, and he would also help Pang Xuelin pass the second-line pass, and help him apply for a temporary residence permit in Shencheng by the way.

Pang Xuelin originally wanted to refuse, but Liu Qi tried his best to invite, so Pang Xuelin had to agree.

Liu Qi pointed to the road not far away, and said with a smile: "Brother Pang, don't worry, look, won't the car that picked us up come?" ”

Pang Xuelin followed Liu Qi's finger and saw a Toyota van driving over.

The car creaked and stopped in front of everyone.

A yellow-haired man in his twenties got out of the car, and when he saw Mu Qingqing standing beside Pang Xuelin, his yellow-haired eyes were about to stare down.

"What do you see?" Liu Qi patted Huang Mao's head and said, "Huang Mao, this is the fat brother I met on the road, he single-handedly killed seven bandits with gunpowder guns and saved your boss's life. ”

Huang Mao was slightly stunned, and said a little incredulously: "Boss, is it really fake?" ”

He couldn't believe that this big boy who looked like a high school student and Svenwen had such ability.

Liu Qi patted his head again and said, "I saw it with my own eyes, there can be a fake!" ”

Huang Mao came back to his senses at this time, and hurriedly bowed to Pang Xuelin and said, "Big brother is good." My name is Li Da, nicknamed Huang Mao, you can just call me Huang Mao. ”

Pang Xuelin nodded with a smile, undeniable.

Liu Qi continued: "These two are Professor Mu of Xi'an Jiaotong University and his daughter Mu Qingqing, Qingqing is the sister I recognize, I will see it in the future, I have to call Sister Qingqing, do you know?" ”

"Hello Sister Qingqing!"

Huang Mao bowed to Mu Qingqing again.

Mu Qingqing pursed her lips and chuckled, Huang Mao's attitude made her feel very novel, there was a feeling that the younger brother saw the eldest sister in Hong Kong films.

Mu Donglai was obviously not interested in Liu Qi's set, and said, "Xiao Liu, where are we going next?" ”

Liu Qi smiled and said, "Professor Mu, go to my house first?" ”

"To your house?" Mu Donglai was slightly stunned, and said suspiciously, "With so many of us coming over, will it disturb your family?" ”

Liu Qi laughed and said, "Professor Mu, you think too much, my family is big, and I am full of food first, and the whole family is not hungry, where is there any one else." ”

"What about your parents?"

Pang Xuelin said.

Liu Qi said: "When my dad was five years old, he swam to the other side of the Xiangjiang River with a basketball, my mother raised me and died when I was sixteen years old. I didn't want to go, so I was given a sum of money to let me wander in the mainland alone, and now I have a place to live in Yangcheng. ”

Pang Xuelin and Mu Donglai glanced at each other, and they couldn't imagine that this fat man Liu, who looked very arrogant, would have such a tortuous life experience.

When he arrived at Liu Fatzi's home, Pang Xuelin found that his home was not far from the Pearl River, a four-story building, which will be built into the largest CBD center in the whole Yangcheng in the future.

Pang Xuelin patted Liu Fatzi's shoulder and said, "Lao Liu, you have to keep this house, and you can make a lot of money in the future!" ”

Liu Fatzi laughed and said: "Of course, this building was built by me three years ago, and it cost me nearly 70,000 yuan. Hehe, it's not me who blows, just this house, in another ten years, will definitely be worth millions. ”

Pang Xuelin couldn't help but look weird, the house in this area is worth millions?

Are you kidding!

In the future, there will even be nail households who will offer such a house for hundreds of millions of dollars!

However, according to Liu Fatzi, this building is just his stronghold in Yangcheng, in addition to here, he also has houses in Shencheng and Xiangjiang.

Pang Xuelin suddenly realized that this Liu Fatzi, who looks no different from an ordinary small boss, may be an extremely rare million-dollar household in this era.

On the first floor of Liu Fatzi's house is a jade shop, and he hired four or five people to help him take care of it, and Huang Mao was one of them.

The second floor, the third floor, and the fourth floor have been renovated, and there is a kitchen, living room, toilet, and a small bedroom on the second floor, where the nanny usually lives, and there is a room on the third floor and the fourth floor.

In order to prevent dust from accumulating in the house when people are usually not occupied, Liu Fatzi also hired a nanny to take care of the entire building.

"Come, Brother Pang, you live in this room, Qingqing, you live next door to Brother Pang, Professor Mu, you live opposite Qingqing."

Liu Fatzi arranged rooms for everyone one by one.

Pang Xuelin pushed the door in, and the room was exquisitely decorated, not only with Simmons mattresses, color TVs, and even a pioneer LD DVD player made in Japan.

Seeing this stupid and clumsy DVD player, Pang Xuelin couldn't help but be stunned.

He had seen this kind of DVD player when he was looking up information from the 10s.

In the 10s of the 20th century, people watched karaoke and movies and relied on this LD DVD player (laser DVD player).

This kind of DVD player is thick and bulky, and the laser disc that plays is also a behemoth.

Similar in size to vinyl discs, and similar in surface to music CDs, laser reads the signals pre-burned on the disc and converts them into video signals (e.g. PAL, NTSC) for television playback.

Due to the use of analogue storage, the laser disc does not have DVD mosaics, ribbons, or other problems caused by digital quantization.

Moreover, the image quality provided by laser discs is close to that of radio and television, because it is a non-contact relationship, and there is no problem that the image will deteriorate if the video is played too much.

The only problem is that such a large and bulky machine and video disc are not sold cheaply.

A Japanese pioneer LD DVD player that has just been launched will sell for thousands of yuan, while an LD DVD will sell for four or five hundred yuan.

Even so, in 1993, LD DVD players were sold in the Chinese market to one million units.

Sales of other audio-visual products were also very high: 1.42 million audio combinations, more than 1.7 million video recorders, and more than 1.6 million CD laser players.

This shows the potential of the Chinese market.

Seeing Pang Xuelin staring blankly at the LD DVD player, Liu Fatzi couldn't help but smile and said, "Brother Pang, are you interested in this thing?" I have a lot of discs here, all of them are from Xiangjiang, and some with a little color, do you want to see them? ”

As he spoke, Fat Liu winked at Pang Xuelin, revealing an expression that all men understand.

At this time, Mu Qingqing, who had already put away his luggage and went to Pang Xuelin's room to visit, said curiously: "Brother Liu, what is a colored DVD?" Is it a picture color? ”

"Ahem!"

Mu Donglai, who came in after Mu Qingqing, said: "Xiao Liu, how old is Little Brother Pang, don't bring bad children." ”

"What Professor Mu taught is what he taught, what he taught!"

Liu Fatzi said with a smile.

He is not stupid, how could he not see Mu Qingqing and Mu Donglai's favor for Pang Xuelin.

Moreover, Liu Fatzi has traveled south and north for so many years, although his education level is not high, but his eyes are very poisonous and he can see people very accurately.

The Pang brother in front of him, although the other party claimed that he was born as an orphan and grew up in an ordinary peasant family. But whether it is from his words and deeds, or from the super ability he showed that night, it gives people an extraordinary feeling.

Liu Fatzi knows very well that having a good relationship with Pang Xuelin is definitely good for him.

Of course, the premise is not to offend Mu Qingqing.

This beautiful little girl is obviously going to Mrs. Pang's position.

Pang Xuelin smiled, didn't care about Liu Fatzi's words, but looked at the LD DVD player in front of him thoughtfully.

This LD DVD player reminded him of the VCD technology he had seen on the data.

In April 1992, the International Radio and Television Technology Exhibition was held in Las Vegas, USA, which was the world's largest television technology expo at that time.

Jiang Wanmeng, who was the general manager of the current group in Anhui Province at the time, was standing in front of a 2-square-meter booth, pondering for a long time and unwilling to leave.

What caught his eye was an image decompression (MPEG) technology, exhibited by the American company C-CUBE.

This technology in front of him, to the engineer Jiang Wanmeng a kind of intuition: with MPEG technology, the image and sound can be stored on a small disc at the same time, made of audio-visual products VCD, then, a low-cost, small-size VCD disc can replace both expensive and occupy a large area of LD disc, high quality and low price, coupled with the strong domestic demand for audio-visual products, VCD will create a new era of disc recording!

This groundbreaking idea prompted him to apply C-CUBE's MPEG technology. Yansheng, a Chinese-American who was the chairman of C-CUBE at the time, decided to work with Jiang Wanmeng to create consumer electronics products using MPEG technology, creating a new era of disc recording and playback!

Wanyan Electronic System Co., Ltd. was established.

Wan Yan's Wan refers to Jiang Wan Meng, Yan, taken from Sun Yansheng.

Jiang Wanmeng's idea came true.

In September 1993, Wanyan's first batch and the world's first batch of 1,000 VCD machines rolled off the assembly line.

As soon as the product came off the assembly line, 1,000 VCD machines were immediately snapped up by domestic and foreign home appliance companies, and they couldn't wait to buy Wanyan's VCD back for dismantling and research.

At the beginning of 1994, Wanyan VCD entered the market promotion stage, at this time, the price of VCD machine was 5300 yuan, and Wanyan produced tens of thousands of VCD machines, which were soon sold out.

At this time, Jiang Wanmeng and Wanyan Company were high-spirited and ambitious, and devoted all their energy and financial resources to cultivating the VCD market: while promoting products to the market and advertising; At the same time, it acquired the copyrights of 11 audio-visual publishing houses and launched 97 kinds of karaoke discs, allowing consumers to enjoy the sumptuous audio-visual feast provided by VCD.

The people's acceptance of VCD is very fast, and Wanyan has firmly occupied 100% of the market share in the nearly year since the launch of VCD products.

Wanyan's efforts have been highly affirmed by consumers.

Wan Yan, who opened the VCD market single-handedly, went to the most glorious moment at this time.

However, Jiang Wanmeng made a fatal mistake.

Jiang Wanmeng believes: "Under the circumstances at that time, it seems that it is of little significance to apply for a patent, and the key is to let the product occupy the market as soon as possible." ”

As a result, this one mistake made Wan Yan push herself into a corner:

First: Any home appliance manufacturer, even a family workshop, can use Wanyan's technology to produce VCD machines, and for a time, Wanyan has countless opponents;

Second: Wan Yan, who is burdened with huge R & D costs and market cultivation costs, does not make much money by selling four or five thousand VCDs, and Wan Yan is powerless in the face of low-cost and low-price competition from many manufacturers;

Third: cultivating all kinds of extravagance in the market, exhausted Wanyan's financial resources and energy, so it was no longer flawless to upgrade and improve its own technology, and backward technology was quickly eliminated by advanced technology.

Businessmen have a very sensitive sense of business.

For Chinese businessmen, especially those in Guangdong Province, the business opportunities contained in VCD machines are tantamount to an endless green grassland for hungry horses. However, this piece of green grassland developed by Wan Yan has no fortifications, and any hungry horse can come in and have a full meal.

The technical requirements for assembling VCD machines are not high, and there are no policy restrictions such as production licenses, coupled with the fact that the market has been opened by Wan Yan, and Guangdong Province is a gathering place for bulk parallel goods, under the combined influence of several factors, VCD assembly plants have sprung up in the Pearl River Delta.

"Bed board factory" began to spread all over the streets and alleys, a person can assemble 10 units, 20 units a day, a family can install dozens of units a day, various brands of VCD machines are mixed, but the products produced are in short supply.

In April 1995, one year after "Wanyan" spent a huge amount of money to launch the first generation of VCD products, Hu Zhibiao raised 800,000 yuan to establish "Aiduo" company in Dongsheng Town, Zhongshan City.

Six months later, Hu Zhibiao quickly produced the whole machine using imported parts. The production cost of Aiduo's VCD machine is low, because the preliminary R&D and marketing work has been completed by Wanyan, and Aiduo only needs to "stand on the shoulders of giants" to enjoy the results.

In November 1995, "Aiduo" invested heavily in advertising on CCTV. and invited film and television superstar Jackie Chan to do brand promotion, and became famous for a while. At this time, the VCD market also began to show "explosive" growth: in 1994, the sales volume of VCD machines was only tens of thousands of units produced by Wanyan; In 1995, it increased to 600,000 units; In 1997, it soared to more than 10 million units.

VCD companies such as BBK, Jinzheng and Malata have grown rapidly and occupied an important position in the VCD market.

By 1998, there were about 385 VCD production enterprises in the country, including nearly 10 enterprises with an annual output of 500,000 units, 3 enterprises with an annual output of more than 1.5 million units, and the annual output of VCD reached 15 million units.

An internal report from the Ministry of Commerce pointed out: "In the nearly ten years since the start of mass production in 1994, a DVD player industry with annual sales revenue of more than 10 billion yuan has been formed, which is unique in China and rare in the world's industrial history." ”

Such a beautiful data sets off Wan Yan's misery even more.

As early as 1996, two years after Wanyan launched the world's first VCD, the national VCD sales had exceeded 6 million units, but the market share of "Wanyan" VCD was less than 3%.

In the same year, "Wanyan" was reorganized by Meiling Group in the same province and became Meiling Wanyan Company.

So far, Wan Yan, the company that single-handedly developed the VCD market, was kicked out of the rapidly growing VCD market.

VCD technology is undoubtedly the key to its rise in the commercial field.

The problem is that the total amount of funds he has on hand now is only five or six thousand, and in four months, Wan Yan will launch the first VCD player.

Therefore, Pang Xuelin must find a way to get the original start-up capital within a few months, and at the same time apply for the registration of VCD patents to compete with Wan Yan.

At that time, Pang Xuelin can completely rely on the advantage of foresight to replace Wan Yan's position, and even suppress the development of competitors through patented technology.

For Pang Xuelin, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.