It is not clear to anyone why the Borderless Group exchanged a large amount of dollars for the East German mark.

The GDR government was very happy and had an unusually friendly attitude towards the Borderless Group.

This can't help but be more conducive to the Wujiang Group poaching people in East Germany, which can be regarded as an unexpected joy.

……

"Wujiang Group wants to enter the East German market and wants to recruit some East German talents, and I hope that the East German government can support it!"

Wujiang East German Branch, Conference Room.

Wang Lei spoke to the East German officials and bank presidents who came.

"Well, it's total!! Justin Patton, the East German official at the head, laughed and nodded in response.

In order to be able to get the dollar of the Borderless Group, this requirement is nothing.

"In addition, we all know that the East German mark has been depreciating, so we need to get a higher exchange rate than the official regulations!" Wang Lei said again.

Justin Patton thought for a moment and nodded again: "Yes, how many dollars can the Borderless Group come up with, and how much higher does the exchange rate need to be?" ”

"$1 Billion !!"

"The exchange rate is at least 50% higher. ”

Justin Patton and others were shocked when they heard this, China in the previous life only had billions of dollars in foreign exchange at this time, and East Germany was not much stronger.

One billion dollars was undoubtedly a lot of money for East Germany.

Justin Barton and the others were pleasantly surprised, their faces full of excitement.

As for the requirements of the Wujiang Group, the East German side said that it can meet all of them!

Soon, on the same day, Wujiang Group reached an agreement with the East German government to exchange 1.5 billion US dollars (10+5) worth of East German marks from the East German Bank!

This news can be said to have caused a great sensation in Europe and sparked strong discussions.

However, the TPG did not provide any explanation for this.

With the permission of the GDR, the Borderless Group began to poach engineers and scientists in the GDR.

Although these people are not hungry, their lives are not very good.

Half a month later, under the offensive of money, many outstanding talents are willing to join Wujiang Group, and some are even willing to go directly to China to work and live.

Among them, many people are good at materials research, electronics, and precision machining technology......

You must know that although the economy of East Germany is far worse than that of West Germany, the technology of East Germany is not necessarily worse than that of West Germany.

The influx of these talents into China will play an unparalleled role in promoting China's development in the field of industrial technology.

……

……

"The East German market is open to Wujiang Group, so we must take the opportunity to completely open the East German market and let Chinese products sell well in East Germany."

At the meeting, Zhao Ye stood on the stage to give instructions.

Wujiang Group can do foreign trade business, sell China's surplus goods to East Germany, and earn East German marks.

Others don't know the value of the East German mark, but Zhao Ye knows.

Open the East German market and earn marks openly, even the future German government has nothing to say, and the Wujiang Group cannot be blamed.

Wujiang Group can help domestic enterprises sell products while making money, so why not?

At this time, many state-owned enterprises in China are still on the verge of bankruptcy and bankruptcy as in their previous lives, and if they can open the East German market, they can certainly turn some state-owned enterprises around.

In fact, the trade of the Wujiang Group in the Soviet Union has benefited many domestic enterprises a lot.

When everyone heard this, they all nodded.

"The boss is right, East Germany has a population of more than 16 million, and the market is huge!"

"Boss, Wujiang Group will soon be able to make a lot of money in East Germany!"

“……”

Zhao Ye smiled faintly, and secretly said that this wave is really not a loss at all, and he will take the opportunity to exchange currency to completely open the East German market, and he can make a lot of money just by normal trade.

What's more, with the reunification of the two Germanys, the East German mark immediately appreciated several times, and the Wujiang Group will definitely make a lot of money, which is enviable.

……

……

However, it was said that the negotiations between Shen Zeyu and his entourage were still not smooth, and at this time, it was not only a matter of the price of high-end CNC machine tools......

At this time, the United States has received the news that Wujiang Group wants to buy high-end CNC machine tools in large quantities, and immediately issued a warning to those machine tool companies in Germany that it is not allowed to sell high-end CNC machine tools to Wujiang Group on a large scale.

Although China and the United States are still in the honeymoon period, the United States does not want China to develop too fast and become too powerful, as long as it can contain the Soviet Union.

Therefore, the United States allows Wujiang Group to purchase four high-end data machine tools at most.

Shen Zeyu and others were very helpless.

"Mr. Shen, there is nothing we can do about the current situation, let's reflect the situation to the boss first!" One of the panelists spoke.

Shen Zeyu sighed, nodded and said, "That's the only way!" ”

Then, he picked up the phone.

It didn't take long for the phone to be connected, and Shen Zeyu immediately reported the situation to Zhao Ye.

When Zhao Ye heard this, he was silent for a while, and after half a sound, he said: "Four is four, then directly buy four five-axis linkage CNC machining centers!" ”

Machining centers are more advanced than ordinary high-end CNC machines, and of course, they will be more expensive.

"Okay, boss!" Shen Zeyu replied in a deep voice.

In the following time, so as not to have any more twists and turns, he ordered the negotiation team to speed up negotiations with the German machine tool giants.

In less than a month, it has successively reached cooperation with four machine tool companies, namely TRUMPF, DMG-Mori Seiki Company, Mag MAG and Haas Automation Company, and purchased a five-axis linkage CNC machining center from each other.

The main reason why we do not purchase one product, but purchase the products of four companies, is that Tiangong Technology also wants to learn something from the products of these four companies, learn from others' strengths, continue to innovate, and then become self-contained!

Although the purchase of high-end CNC machine tools this time is not perfect, Zhao Ye is also satisfied.

In the previous life, China did not have five more five-axis linkage CNC machining centers (Philips), especially the four top machining centers produced in Germany that are now purchased, which are very advanced in technology, and the lowest price for each is more than 40 million US dollars.

Of course, it's still expensive to buy, but there is no way, China can't make it, and if you want to buy such an advanced processing center, you can only pay a high price.

This is the same as Wujiang Group cutting other people's leeks.

After a while.

"Boss, the four processing centers have been shipped, and the route transportation is expected to reach China in about 30 days."

"Thank you for your hard work, but next, you have to follow the ship, and be sure to ensure the safety of the machining center!"

"Understand !!"

After a while, Zhao Ye put down the phone, paced to the floor-to-ceiling window, condescendingly, looking at the endless boats on the Huangpu River, and fell into deep thought in a daze......

……

Knock knock!

There was a knock outside the door, which woke Zhao Ye up from his contemplation.

"Please come in!" Zhao Ye said.

At this time, Wang Jizhi pushed the door in.

"Boss!"

Wang Jizhi said hello.

Zhao Ye bowed slightly, and then motioned for him to sit on the sofa.

"Is there something wrong with Mr. Wang?" Zhao Ye poured a cup of tea for the other party and asked casually.

Wang Jizhi said: "Boss, the game development department has completed the development of the game. In addition, we have 5.6 million Tomahawk home game consoles in stock, and it's time to hit the market! At present, Sega has sold 500,000 MDs in Japan, and it cannot continue to make the other party bigger and stronger!! ”

Zhao Ye nodded with a smile and said, "Okay, then you can hurry up and prepare and let Borderless Games hold a grand product launch conference!" ”

"Okay, boss, so it's March 1, 1989?"

"Okay!"

"Boss, what is the price of the Tomahawk?"

In the Japanese market, Tomahawks are priced at 35,000 yen. In the U.S. market, the Tomahawk is priced at $249. Zhao Ye thought for a moment and replied.

The production cost of "Tomahawk" is about 100 US dollars, which is still because "Tomahawk" has achieved 100% localization, and the main spare parts are produced by Wujiang Group, so the production cost is so low.

In fact, Zhao Ye's pricing for the "Tomahawk" is relatively expensive.

Generally speaking, game consoles should make small profits and sell at a loss, and then build a game console platform, and finally make money by selling game software.

For example, the Sega MD is priced at 21,000 yen in the Japanese market and $189 in the North American market.

Sega is not a Borderless Group and can produce most of its own parts, so the cost of MD must be very high compared to the Tomahawk. If Sega wants to make money on hardware, it is simply a fool's dream, and it may even lose money.

Spare parts producers, intermediaries, e-stores...... Which doesn't make money?

And the reason why Zhao Ye dared to price "Tomahawk" so high is mainly due to three considerations, one is the 'Borderless' brand, the name alone is worth paying for the majority of gamers around the world;

The second is that the Tomahawk home game console itself is very powerful, with a powerful 16-bit Kirin 2 processor and a special integrated graphics card, which makes the game screen of the Tomahawk a lot better than that of the Sega MD.

The third is game storage, which uses CD-ROM as the game storage medium, so that developers without borders can develop games with larger capacity, better and more perfect!

Since the Sega MD still uses a game cartridge, its storage capacity is only a few tens of MB, while the storage capacity of the CD-ROM disc is about 600MB, and the quality of the games that can be developed is not the same!

What's more, Borderless Games has made full preparations for the launch of "Tomahawk" this time and has developed dozens of games.

The works that have sold more than 1 million cartridges have all been sequels.

In addition, there are nine new games: "Dinosaur Kombat", "Kombat Whirlwind", "Three Kingdoms", "Journey to the West", "Three Kingdoms", "Excalibur", "Metal Slug", "Sonic", "Crash Bandicoot".

It is worth mentioning that in the field of consoles in the previous life, "Mario" was Nintendo's image spokesperson, "Sonic the Hedgehog" was the iconic image of Sega, and "Crash Bandicoot" was Sony's mascot!

In this life, Zhao Ye directly asked the game developers to develop "Sonic the Hedgehog" and "Crash Bandicoot" in advance, becoming the two King Kongs of borderless games.

The other seven games in the new game are also classics that were extremely popular in previous lives.

Zhao Ye has hung up to such an extent that players around the world are still madly obsessed with boundless games!!

Therefore, even if the "Tomahawk" is expensive, players around the world will definitely rush to it!

Wang Jizhi was slightly surprised when he heard Zhao Ye's words, but when he thought of the background of the boundless game, he was relieved again.

"Boss, what is the retail price of the game discs?"

"Depending on the game, in the Japanese market, game discs are priced from 2,500 yen to 3,000 yen; In the U.S. market, it's $15 to $20! Zhao Ye hesitated for a moment and replied.

The production cost of CD-ROMs was relatively high, and the cost of a CD-ROM disc was about $3.

In the future, with the improvement of production scale and production technology, the production cost of CD-ROM will be greatly reduced, and the profit opportunity will become considerable.

"By the way, these new games can be ported to arcades, and they will definitely be a hit!" Zhao Ye admonished.

"Understood."

Wang Jizhi smiled and nodded, he already had this idea.

"Okay, then do it like this, Mr. Wang will go and get busy."

When Wang Jizhi heard this, he nodded, and said goodbye to Zhao Ye.

The next day, Wujiang Games Company broke the news that it was about to hold a product launch conference and release 16-bit home game consoles.

As soon as this news came out, it immediately caused a huge sensation in the industry.

The world's major media seem to have mastered the traffic password and are scrambling to report it, even if they don't know what the game consoles produced by Wujiang look like, but it doesn't prevent them from compiling it. As the saying goes, "a picture at the beginning, the content is all up to the editor", and the current situation is probably the same.

Countless fans of the game were ecstatic.

"Great, I've been waiting for a long time to finally wait for today!

As soon as I saw Sega release a 16-bit home game console MD, I guessed that Borderless would definitely release a 16-bit game console as well, and with the technical advantages of Borderless Group, this 16-bit game console will definitely bring great shock! ”

"When Wujiang releases a 16-bit game console, there will definitely be new games on the market, looking forward to it!"

"From now on, I'm going to save money, save money, save money again, woo woo, I fought ...... in order to buy a game without borders"

“……”

There are a lot of classic games without borders, and this is obvious to all. However, it is also obvious that the game of Borderless is expensive.

Therefore, many gamers, when they learned that Wujiang was going to release a new game console, knew that they were going to bleed again this time.

I can't help it, I can't help it.

Even if you are frugal and eat chaff, you have to save money to buy game consoles and game cartridges without borders. (At this point, everyone didn't know that Borderless was already using CD-ROM as a game storage medium.) ）

Soon, it was March 1, 1989.

It's a day you've been waiting for.

Wang Jizhi had already arrived in Tokyo, and the product launch was arranged in an upscale hotel in Akihabara, Tokyo.

Japan is one of the main markets for Borderless Games, and Borderless Group does not sell games domestically, so it did not choose to hold a press conference in China.

On this day, Akihabara is crowded with people, and countless Japanese game fans come here to learn the details of the Borderless product launch for the first time.

Of course, the launch event will also be broadcast live by TV Tokyo, so people can watch TV and learn about the product launch of Borderless.

At about 10 o'clock in the morning, Wang Jizhi walked to the stage in a suit and leather shoes with a smile on his face.

"Hello everyone, welcome to the product launch of Wujiang Games, I am Wang Jizhi, the general manager of Wujiang Games!"

Wang Jizhi bowed down to everyone and introduced.

"Today, we at Borderless Games will launch an epoch-making game product!"

"That's Boundless's latest masterpiece - "Tomahawk" !!"

As soon as Wang Jizhi's words fell, a photo of the "Tomahawk" home game console instantly appeared on the big screen behind him!

Seeing this, the audience all let out exclamations.

It's really because this photo is really beautiful, like a work of art.

Judging from the photos, the "Tomahawk" is very light and thin, the whole body is pure white, simple and fashionable, and full of technology. However, what makes people a little puzzled is that there is a round lid in the middle, closed on both sides, and game cartridges are inserted in each place......

Wang Jizhi pointed to the photo of the "Tomahawk" and introduced: "This is the "Tomahawk" developed by our company, with a size of 193×38×144 mm and a weight of about 560 grams, which is extremely thin and light! ”

The thinner and lighter it is, the better, saving materials and low cost.

Of course, this will be more technically demanding.

However, fortunately, Wujiang Group finally made it.

When industry insiders heard this, they were shocked one by one, which shows that the integration of the "Tomahawk" is very high, so it can be so light and thin......

"It's incredible!"

"The technology of the Wujiang Group is getting more and more powerful!"

"I'm really looking forward to how powerful the Tomahawk's hardware configuration is......"

(End of chapter)