No. 093 Discount money paves the way
Wei Dongsheng said that he didn't care about the monthly sales of 18 million yuan, but it was just because of the momentum during the negotiation period, and it was impossible to really act so roughly.
When it comes to the contract, the VAM agreement is subdivided into several situations.
First of all, Chunqiu and Tencent invested 50 million yuan in half to establish Chunteng Games, and Chunqiu Software developed three online games for Chunteng Games, at least one of which needed to be launched before April 2005. After the contract was signed until 2006, one of the online games launched by Spring and Autumn Software must be successful.
The operational data of this successful game, bundled with the value of 9.6% equity.
After the signing of the treaty, Spring and Autumn Company purchased 9.6% of the equity for 50 million yuan, and the 9.6% equity shall not be transferred, realized, mortgaged, etc. during the effective period of the VAM agreement.
The treaty stipulates that if one of the three customized online games can achieve sales of more than 18 million yuan in six months before December 2006, the VAM agreement will be terminated, and Spring and Autumn Company will officially obtain 9.6% of the equity of Tencent; If the sales volume exceeds 12 million yuan in only six months, Spring and Autumn Company must pay 100 million yuan to compensate the equity transferor; If the sales of the three games exceed RMB 6 million for only eight months, Spring and Autumn must pay RMB 250 million to compensate the equity transferor, if the sales of only 12 months exceed RMB 3 million, Spring and Autumn must pay RMB 450 million to compensate the equity transferor, and if the average annual monthly sales of the three games are less than RMB 3 million, Spring and Autumn must pay RMB 1 billion to compensate the equity transferor.
Wei Dongsheng had confidence in himself, in Chunqiu Software, and in China's online game industry, and decisively signed the treaty.
For some purpose, Wei Dongsheng split up 15% of Tencent's shares, Spring and Autumn Network held 3% of the shares, Spring and Autumn Software held 3% of the shares, and Wei Dongsheng registered a new company in his own name, "Dongsheng Holdings", which held 9% of the shares.
In fact, Tencent also has a game department at this time.
However, in August 2003, the shipwreck of "Triumph" became a joke in the eyes of operators such as Shanda, and the board games launched at the same time also became a joke in the eyes of manufacturers such as Lianzhong and Wingfeng in the field of casual games. At present, there are less than 10 R&D and operation personnel in Tencent's game department, which is in a half-dead state and has no competitiveness at all. Although Tencent's founding team is unwilling to give up the online game industry, it has never been able to reload due to various pressures.
In view of Wei Dongsheng's consideration of stabilizing the psychology of the Guangyang branch and placing the joint venture Chunteng Games headquarters in Guangyang City, Tencent's founder team simply eliminated its own game department of less than ten people and merged it into Chunteng Games. As a result, Chunteng has just been established, and it has a chess and card game business that competes with Lianzhong and Winger.
Considering the professionalism of Spring and Autumn Network to operate online games, Ye Youhang, who was appointed by Spring and Autumn Network, served as the chief consul of Spring and Autumn Games; Tencent appointed Ren Yuxin as the chief operating officer of Chunteng Games, second only to Ye Youhang.
In other words, just like Wei Dongsheng used the advantage of computer intelligence to steal supercomputer data from IBM and other companies, and shared the publicly available part with the Wisdom Universe Information Industry Company, Wei Dongsheng often stole the scientific research materials of other companies and shared them with the Spring and Autumn series of companies. As long as the employees of the Spring and Autumn series company are willing to work hard, they can take advantage of this advantage and use their familiarity with cutting-edge technology to quickly surpass their peers. In the Spring and Autumn series company, everyone is desperately learning and making progress, and few people are intuitively aware of this progress.
Following Ye Youhang to Chunteng Games, technicians from Chunqiu read through the framework of the QQ game hall and complained: "What are these things!" ”
After Ye Youhang's evaluation, he said to Ren Yuxin mercilessly: "Tencent's game hall has no maintenance value, let's tear it down and start over." ”
The composition of the old employees of Tencent's game department and the new employees recruited on the spot is very mixed, some only know simple board and card games, and some even know nothing about games. Skilled programmers who have been involved in the development of large-scale games can arrogantly despise the old employees that Tencent has merged. After day and night make-up classes, the employees of the Spring and Autumn series of companies seem to stand out from the crowd after coming to Chunteng Games, and the gap between them and other employees is so clearly visible.
Technicians have always been pragmatic, and high ability is high ability.
In just a few days, Tencent's chess and card game business has become a vassal of Spring and Autumn employees.
Spring and Autumn Software's habit is to conduct market research before developing games, and develop targeted products aimed at the needs of user groups. Considering the blank time during the market research period, Ye Youhang simply regarded the chess and card game business originating from Tencent as the first product of Chunteng Games, and proposed to rewrite the source code of the game lobby, add game categories, and completely evolve into a casual game platform in combination with the QQ channel. In this way, Chunteng Games pinned on the coveting of the online game industry by the founder team of Tencent and embarked on a new journey.
At the same time, Wei Dongsheng also embarked on another journey.
Before and after the negotiations with Tencent, Wei Dongsheng and his research team collected extensive information in the Yangtze River Delta and the Pearl River Delta, and had a preliminary idea of how to fund Wei Ma's entrepreneurship and how to develop Shikang Village.
Back home, Wei Dongsheng had a long talk with Wei's father: "When it comes to development, it is not enough to rely on agriculture alone. Business also depends on the market, such as the catering industry, if you want to develop this industry, you must concentrate in densely populated places, go to the city and go to the big city to open a store. No matter how high the cooking skills are, no matter how good the food is, how many people are willing to drive dozens of miles and thousands of miles to Weijiazhuang for a meal? In short, if Shikang Village wants to develop, and Weijiazhuang wants to develop, it has to rely on industry to get rich. ”
Dad Wei: "That's right, but industry needs technology." ”
Wei Dongsheng: "There is a distinction between high and low technology, and in some industries, some skilled workers can be operated with a large number of young and strong. It may not directly bring wealth such as taxes, but it can change the spiritual outlook of Shikang Village by increasing the employment rate. ”
Dad Wei didn't understand this, and let Wei Dongsheng explain his philosophy.
Wei Dongsheng talked for a while, and found that the more Wei Dad listened, the more dizzy he became, and briefly concluded: "I am going to introduce an electronic product assembly factory." I asked someone to calculate, and the factory equipment, supporting facilities, factory renovation and decoration, plus the canteen dormitory, did not cost much. ”
When Dad Wei heard about electronic products, he was in awe: "This technology is very high!" ”
Wei Dongsheng: "What's high, it's just an assembly line, and there is no essential difference between you carrying a few bricks to build a kennel." ”
Dad Wei didn't believe Wei Dongsheng's analogy: "How can you say that!" ”
Wei Dongsheng didn't argue with Wei's father: "The technical content of this thing is not high, and the reason why it often sets up factories in the south instead of in Shikang Village is mainly a cost problem." ”
Dad Wei was at a loss and didn't understand: "Don't make money? ”
Wei Dongsheng sighed: "It's not that it doesn't make money, but that the cost is high and the money is small, and it is difficult to survive in the fierce competition." ”
The cost of human resources in Hedong Province is extremely low, and there is no shortage of labor to set up factories in Skan Village or Panyang City. The problem is that even the electronic product assembly plant also needs the cooperation of supporting manufacturers, if a factory is set up in the Pearl River Delta, the alternative parts are everywhere can be cooperated with friends, and non-fungible imported parts can also be quickly ordered through the customs, which is extremely efficient. Lease a factory building, buy a few dilapidated production lines, and hundreds of thousands of yuan or even hundreds of thousands of yuan can open an MP3 assembly factory in the Pearl River Delta.
When I arrived in Hedong Province, Panyang City, and Shikang Village, factories needed to be built from scratch, skilled workers needed to be hired from afar, and supporting manufacturers needed to be contacted across thousands of miles. Fortunately, Weijiazhuang is behind the provincial road, and the south is close to the power grid, so you don't have to worry about water and electricity problems, otherwise it would be a pipe dream to build an assembly plant.
Even so, the cost is too high to run smoothly.
For example, assembling Mp3 and assembling mobile phones requires tedious testing and occasional change of partners before the production line officially starts. Seeing that the factory is thousands of miles away in the central and western regions, the supporting manufacturers are too lazy to take such an order unless they have to.
In order to normalize operations, Wei Dongsheng could only set up the headquarters of the electronic assembly plant in Guangyang. After the official start of construction, some parts will be shipped to the branch factory in Weijiazhuang, Shikang Village in the form of a disassembly order for assembly. The efficiency and cost of this can be imagined. The electronic product assembly plant in Weijiazhuang may not lose money, but the profit margin is certainly far lower than that of the assembly plant in Guangyang.
Wei Dongsheng didn't say anything about Wei's father's ideals.
Fortunately, it is just a factory, and no matter how much it loses, it can't lose anywhere, and the profit of "Spring and Autumn of the Ten Kingdoms" in two or three days is enough for it to lose a year.
Wei Dongsheng did not expect the factory to make money.
If there is a collective factory, there will be a canteen, and Wei Dongsheng will find a way to arrange Wei's mother to come over, contacting the operation of the assembly plant on the one hand, and the canteen operation on the other. If Wei's mother re-took the road of the rise of the catering industry like in her previous life, Wei Dongsheng would guide Wei's mother to start a business, and then bring Wei's father's vision out of the small family in Shikang Village; It would be better if Wei Ma took the road of the catering industry in her previous life just because she was the first to contact catering, and in this life, she began to integrate into Wei Dongsheng's future plan from being familiar with the assembly factory.
This factory is to lead the way for Wei's father and Wei's mother, and Wei Dongsheng doesn't care about going bankrupt.
In other words, Wei Dongsheng is actually confident that he can run an electronic product assembly factory.
Wei Dongsheng's confidence comes from the Wisdom Universe Information Industry Company.
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