"Cell phone?" Lei Shengli didn't reply immediately.

"Big Brother has also appeared on the market for a few years, this is actually the result of the popularization of signal infrastructure, as early as 10 years ago, it has appeared, although in recent years, many companies have made new improvements, but everything has changed, there are no major changes, and in the past ten years, electronic chip technology has increased dozens of times the performance, theoretically speaking, it should have come to the time for quantitative change to cause qualitative change." Chen Zhiwen said: "With the current technical reserves, should be able to make more miniaturized wireless communication equipment, according to my news, many enterprises, are also beginning to prepare for research and development in this direction, the computer market, we were not able to have the ability to fight with IBM these giants for funds and talents, now this new product market, the scale will not be smaller than the computer, we can not miss." ”

In the 90s, the mobile phone market in western developed countries is not inferior to computers, although the mobile phones in the 90s are really just communication equipment, but the practicality is still very strong, and the domestic or Southeast Asia, South America, these places with general economy, to the beginning of the 21st century, there is also a massive demand, this market is huge, the United States can never give up.

"I'm afraid this difficulty is much more difficult than that of computers." Lei Shengli thought about it and said, electronic products, the most difficult thing is miniaturization, when Midea made a home game machine, in essence, it was actually to shrink the arcade, and the money spent was more than 100 million US dollars, if it wasn't for the early arcade to get enough profits, it would not be burned at all.

"The mobile phone industry, the market is too big, and it involves a lot of complex latest communications, chips, software technology, no company can independently research and develop, even IBM can not do it, so we develop this mobile phone product this time, do not need to consider too much technical self-development, mainly design, involving the technical aspect, the initial purchase of patents on the line, we pay money, not particularly useful patents, generally can be bought." Chen Zhiwen said.

Unlike many ordinary commodities before, the mobile phone industry involves too many patents, no matter what company in the future, as long as it makes mobile phones, it will inevitably need to buy a large number of patents from the outside world, that is, Apple also needs to buy patents and hardware from Samsung, and also needs to pay "Qualcomm tax" to Qualcomm, which is more unique to Huawei, but in fact, it is also because it is forced by sanctions, otherwise, it is impossible to develop all of them by itself.

Any company, need to be clear about their own positioning, their own strengths, Midea now since you want to make a mobile phone, the first important thing is to do a brand, open up the market, open up all channels, make yourself a terminal commodity, facing hundreds of millions of customers around the world, this is the first step, if it succeeds, then according to the actual situation, consider choosing some directions, investment in technology research and development, otherwise, first engage in all their own research and development, and then launch products, then there is no chance at all, research and development in Hong Kong is nonsense, mainland dialect, At least not for more than ten years.

"Okay, I'll start with a team and do some collection of all the relevant technologies." Lei Shengli said that it has not yet begun, and he does not know anything.

"Well, just do what you normally do. But there are two more things on my side. Chen Zhiwen said: "First, no matter what kind of mobile phone we make in the future, we must embed our games in it, such as the simplest games such as greedy snake and magic cubes, and the playability is still okay, although it will not make people buy our mobile phones because of these two small games, but at least it will be an advantage." ”

Whether it is an arcade, handheld, home game console, computer or future mobile phones or even smart phones, games can exist on it, the role is different from person to person, the advantages brought by copyright law can make Midea eat for a long, long time, even if it is about to expire, just update it and re-apply for a copyright patent, it will not be, someone else launched the original game version of Midea in 1975 in 2010, right?

However, the worse the effect is, when the chip performance is getting higher and higher, the advantages brought by simple creativity are becoming more and more unsuccessful, especially the emergence of online games and 3D games in the back, but in the short term, it can still eat another wave of dividends.

"There's no problem with this, the mobile phone we make ourselves will inevitably have games, but I don't know if it will take up too much memory and affect the space." Lei Shengli said.

"Therefore, we need to develop a system for mobile phones, which can have some basic functions, such as calculators, display phone numbers, record phone numbers, alarm clocks, calendars, entertainment functions, etc., which is also what we need to do, and the difficulty is not even lower than that of developing a mobile phone." Chen Zhiwen said some basic requirements for feature machines in his mind, but they can only be some basic requirements that do not require high computing requirements, and the complex ones are still forgotten, such as taking pictures, music playback, etc., and the hardware can't keep up with the software crash, which will only have the opposite effect.

"I'll take note of it." Lei Shengli immediately took out a pen and paper, before he just wanted to build a small big brother, but when he heard Chen Zhiwen say this, his eyes immediately lit up.

"Well, just write it down, the second requirement is the most important." Chen Zhiwen said: "The current big brother can only talk, so what do you think if we can send digital messages like email on our mobile phones?" ”

"Send an email?" Lei Shengli was stunned and asked: "This is too high a requirement for performance, and does the base station have this ability?" ”

"It's not a complicated email, it's just a sentence composed of some of the simplest word counts, such as happy birthday, good night, etc., it's not impossible to have a lot of words, just spend a little more memory." Chen Zhiwen smiled and said: "As for infrastructure, the technical aspect should not be a problem, as long as many people have this demand and can have benefits, they will naturally engage in it." ”

"If you can send this kind of message, then the demand is probably much greater than the phone call." Lei Shengli nodded and said, the phone call, generally there is something to be connected, although there is also chat, but the cost seems to be a little too high, and many times, direct chat is easy to get stuck, but if you send this kind of message to each other, there is enough buffer time, especially for couples who are in love, or when things are not in a hurry, notify each other.

"Well, I think so too, you immediately arrange people to go to various countries around the world to register patents, just call it SMS, the English name is message, we have to get the patent." Chen Zhiwen smiled and said.

"With such a patent, I'm afraid that we will be able to receive soft hands when we collect patent fees in the future." Lei Shengli said with a smile.

"It's not so easy, this kind of technology in high demand, we collect too much, various countries will definitely interfere at the government level, so it still needs to be appropriate, a mobile phone can give us a few dollars when it is manufactured, we can charge a little more from the communication provider, anyway, they can also rely on SMS to make more money." Chen Zhiwen said: "In fact, I prefer to use this patent to exchange patents with future industry giants, which is the most meaningful." ”

"Yes, in short, the benefits must be very great." Lei Shengli nodded and said.

"Well, then let's go to the preparatory team first, prepare for research and development, and I'll wait for your good news." Chen Zhiwen also said, so that from 0 to start researching a new product, the time spent will definitely not be short, to be able to launch the market before 1990 is very good At this time, it is also the time when the future feature machine giants begin to rise, and Midea can be regarded as being on the same production line with them.

"Okay." Lei Shengli said.

When the laptop computer is developed and ready to be launched on the market, and the mobile phone is also in full swing to prepare for research and development, Chen Zhiwen has little effect on some prophetic advantages in the future, or rather, this period of time is blank, and after the 90s, maybe it will be of great use, but it is also necessary to see the time, how much of a storm has been caused by their butterfly effect, if history changes too much, for example, Yahoo, Gu Ge and other founders do not start a business or are gone, then the future is completely different.

Of course, even then, with the scale of Chen Zhiwen's current company, it can be regarded as one of the top consortia in the world, and the only drawback is that there is no big country behind him to rely on, which makes him have to be cautious, otherwise, he would have been directly involved in chip production and computer operating systems.

In the last few years of the 80s, investment in real estate basically only needs to follow the continuous investment, whether it is Hong Kong or the mainland, Hong Kong, Hongkong Land has acquired several buildings in Central, basically some British capital in order to get out of Hong Kong and sell, in addition, Hongkong Land has also participated in several Hong Kong government auctions, obtained some high-quality land, ready to build office buildings on it, Wharf is at ease to develop its own land, such as a piece of land of about 100,000 square feet that was once used as a bus terminal, After coordinating the relocation of the headquarters, the area became the most famous Times Square. Hutchison focuses on conquering ports around the world, intending to gain a sufficient number of them to form a scale advantage.

It was fast to the beginning of 1990.

"Chen Sheng, all our investments in Japan have been fully cashed out, deducting various taxes, a total net profit of 43.5 billion US dollars, but so much money, it will take about half a year to flow out of Japan." Zhou Jiayang of Hutchison Group said with a smile.

"That's a lot of money." Chen Zhiwen smiled and said: "Now there are few companies in the world that can come up with so much money, and even the government. ”

In the 90s, there are still many companies with a market value of more than four or five billion US dollars, that is, Midea now has a net profit of more than 2 billion US dollars a year, if you choose to go public, the market value can also reach this value, but the market value is the market value, liquidity is another matter, before the rise of Internet giants and technology giants, it is almost impossible for traditional industries to have such cash flow, even if a car giant or oil giant has such funds, but also need to deal with a large number of hard expenditures, after all, oil and automobiles are super heavy industriesAny project may cost tens of billions of dollars.

It is estimated that this is the first time in human history to be able to have such a large amount of cash and no special expenditure, not to mention, Midea and Red Bull themselves can earn high profits every year, and real estate infrastructure giants like Huang Zhidi, although the profits may not be as exaggerated as Midea Red Bull, but their own assets are too strong, and they are all very high-quality assets.

"In fact, it doesn't matter if this kind of money comes out of Japan slowly in a year or two, and even if it does, I'm afraid there won't be any good large-scale investment projects." Dong Youwei also said with a smile on the side. Large-scale projects, although they are often more than one billion dollars, can be leveraged, tens of billions of dollars of principal, which has to know how many days of capital can be leveraged.

"Not necessarily." Chen Zhiwen smiled and said, "You have also heard some news from Pudong in Shanghai City, right?" ”

"Pudong? Have you heard that the central government of the mainland intends to focus on the development of Pudong, but this seems to be true? Dong Youwei asked, standing in their position, the power of connections is very powerful, some major news, before the public, they will also receive the news in advance, after all, it is just a normal economic policy, before the introduction of a lot of people, even if it is confidential, it is impossible to achieve absolute confidentiality, and even the people who introduced the policy may deliberately release some news, to test the feedback of the market, or the response of some large enterprises, Pudong is about to develop, such a thing, the mainland and Hong Kong's high-level, In fact, I have received a lot of news.

"Yes, it's true, how big Pudong is, I don't need to say more, the country needs funds for development, and we need to invest in places where we have more funds, which happens to kill two birds with one stone." Chen Zhiwen smiled and said.

"It's indeed a good place to invest, but even if Pudong is developed, it can't accommodate us so much money." Zhou Jiayang asked again.

"Of course, development has to be gradual." At the end of last year, I went to Yanjing City in the mainland and discussed with the relevant central departments that RT-Mart and Parknshop under Watsons can enter all cities across the country without restrictions, and KFC is the same, so I am ready to directly use the way of buying all properties in various cities across the country, starting from the second tier, and slowly penetrating downward, so that our supermarkets can be opened all over the country."

In addition, such a large supermarket investment plan also requires a large number of logistics centers, delivery facilities, etc., which will also require a huge amount of funds, which can also give our funds a place to go. There are also highway projects, which can also be discussed. ”

"In this case, we have also found an investment direction for this huge amount of money, but, Chen Sheng, will we find that it is too big if we invest all this huge amount of money in the mainland?" Zhou Jiayang asked: "Wouldn't diversity be better?" ”

"No, there will be no shortage of investment in Europe and the United States." Chen Zhiwen said with a smile, 40 billion US dollars is a lot now, but in less than ten years, the stocks of the Science and Technology Museum will explode, and the value of those stocks he bought in the United States will only be higher. (End of chapter)