Supporting Effect

Author: quiet thoughts

Supporting Effect

"That's right, the third type of CD player." Hong Chuanfeng affirmed while looking at everyone, "In addition to listening to music at home and outdoors, have you not forgotten another platform to pursue?"

"Hey" everyone became more and more confused, looking at him like curious babies.

Hongchuan Feng didn't show off, and softly uttered one word, "Car CD player."

Hiss~, everyone was so excited that they shivered as if they were enlightened.

How could I forget that? Nowadays, cars can play music with tape players, so there is no reason why CD players can’t.

Moreover, portable CD players have come out. Is it difficult to install a car CD player? Just make some changes.

"As for the car CD player, the goal is to make a prototype within six months, and then they will use it to promote it to major car manufacturers."

"Minghong" Nakajima Heitaro and Yasuda both nodded with serious expressions. They knew that this would be another channel for mass shipment of CD players.

Think about how many cars are shipped every year. If every car needs a car CD player, there is no doubt that the market will not be as big as usual.

Hong Chuanfeng already had some concerns about the false sales promotion requested by the owner of the car CD player.

Like Toyota, Hongchuan Electric, the largest car manufacturer in terms of neon, is no wonder.

Because Toyota belongs to the Mitsui Zaibatsu, and electronic manufacturers like Sony and Toshiba exist in the east of the Mitsui Zaibatsu.

So even if Toyota needs to consider car CD players, Sony and Toshiba will not be their first choice.

In addition, Mitsui Zaibatsu owns Suzuki Motors and Daihatsu Motors, which are basically out of reach of Hongkawa Electric.

By the same token, Mitsubishi Motors and Honda Motor, another major conglomerate's automakers east of Mitsubishi, do not need supplies from Hongchuan Electric.

Mitsubishi Electric has its own consumer electronics manufacturing department, and there is no technical difficulty for them in car CD players.

Based on this inference, going eastward, the Fuji Group has Tsutsuyoko Motors to the east, but they also have Tsukidachi.

Consumer electronics itself is outside Yueli's business scope, and Hongchuan Electric's prospects are still slim.

Mazda Motors, which is very popular, is a member of the Sumitomo Consortium.

Externally, it also has NEC, a strong brand in the field of consumer electronics.

Looking at the journey from east to west, Neon's mainstream car brands seem to have their own illusions of ideal cooperation.

So Hongchuan Electric’s car CD player has no sales at all?

You can't say that. Don't forget that Hongchuan Electric is not a member company of No. 1 Bank.

Outside Daiichi Bank, there are also car manufacturers like Isuzu.

Is this the car manufacturer Hong Chuanfeng is most confident of winning? After all, isn’t it necessary for everyone within the consortium to support each other?

Although Isuzu is not a car manufacturer, its main market is in the field of trucks and buses.

As for small cars, although they are available, their presence is slightly lower.

The situation does not seem very optimistic, and Hongchuan Electric Co., Ltd. is completely hopeless. Subaru Motors is not the target that Hongchuan Kaede wants to focus on.

Although there is also the Nakajima Zaibatsu behind him, coincidentally, that Zaibatsu has made great achievements in the field of heavy industry, but has basically not been involved in consumer electronics.

I think, by virtue of being one step ahead, Hongchuan Electric’s opportunity will come, right?

"In the CD player field, in addition to the three main products of portable CD players, desktop CD players, and car CD players, the production of optical drives has also been stepped up."

At the briefing in July last year, Hongchuan Electric had already come up with a prototype of the optical drive, so the hurdle of starting from scratch has been crossed.

The next step to take over from Dong Lai is to process the optical drive as soon as possible and establish its supporting production line.

And Nakajima Heitaro and his colleagues have been doing those tasks, and will even be put into production soon.

"If the progress goes well, Hongchuan Electric's first optical drive will be ready to go to the east in two weeks."

"Very good, the subsequent production plan will not proceed according to the original route.

The supply to IBM is an external version, while the domestic supply of Neon is an external version.”

The computer market in North America is nothing like Neon. Computers there generally sell for about two to three thousand US dollars.

Such a high overall selling price, coupled with an optical drive costing three to four hundred dollars, does not seem too out of the ordinary.

But that's not possible for Neon, because Neon's computers generally sell for around 100,000 yuan, which is only about 600 to 700 U.S. dollars.

If the optical drive is external at that time, it will mean that the price of the computer will increase by 50%.

There is no doubt that consumers will strongly resist such a large price gap.

So at that time, it was the best idea to make the optical drive an external version for the public to choose and buy.

The main reason why there is such a big difference in computer prices between Beomi and Neon is that companies such as IBM spread the R&D costs equally to each computer.

When a new computer is first launched, IBM generally makes no money, and even if it does, the profit is very low.

However, as the technology improves and shipments increase, production costs will gradually decrease.

Otherwise, the more computers are sold, the more money they will make, and the profit margin will become very considerable in the later period.

But Neon is different. Neon’s computer has almost no research and development expenses.

On the other side of the ocean, IBM has developed some new technology. Buy a computer, take it apart and take a look. Then you can make a neon version of the error response technology yourself. That will be enough.

If it involves a patent and it really can't be copied, then talk about licensing.

In short, regardless of whether it is a nuclear arm, an official, a pump, a vertebrae, and a brain decoration, the last thing is that the divination, the rose, the twist, the slow whipping, the lotus production.

The purpose of all is to save production costs, and the commercial espionage case of Yueli mainframe happened in the background of that era.

So don’t expect Neon to have any innovative technology behind computers.

From the beginning of its development, it has followed the copycat route and has been following behind IBM and others, but it will be damned if there is any big innovation.

At the same time, the Neon government has put a lot of restrictions on computer imports to ensure the local computer market.

As a result, computers from IBM and Pingcheng have almost no presence in Neon. Ordinary people in Neon know brands such as NEC, Fujitsu, and Sharp.

As for whether its own optical drives can have good sales in different markets, Hongchuan Electric has also formulated different strategic routes for this purpose.

After going over next year's mission goals with Hongchuan Electric's R&D team, Hongchuan Feng finally felt a lot more relaxed.

After making the general decision, he basically stopped interfering with the remaining details.

It's not okay to do everything by yourself. There are so many clubs in Hongchuan Control, so how can you care about everything?

He can make the greatest contribution by being a good helmsman and guiding the people behind him.

With the new year and new weather, Hongchuan Feng, who had been busy in Tokyo for a while, began to think about buying some property for himself.

It stands to reason that he already owns many properties in Tokyo, so he should have no shortage of places to live.

Bu Nao was at the first banking consortium's external exchange meeting, but there was an idle property that aroused his interest.

That real estate is located in Setagaya Ward, west of the central 6th ward. It is not too far from the center of Tokyo, and of course not too close.

Compared to the Chiyoda Ward where he currently lives, to be honest, the location is far inferior to the latter.

But the reason why it attracts Hongchuan Fengfu is that it is large enough. The entire residence covers an area of ​​more than 3,000 square meters, which is about the same size as the headquarters building of Hongchuan Electric.

A place like that can no longer be called a residence, perhaps it would be more appropriate to call it a manor.

Its first owner was a landowner in the Meiji era. Later, with the reform and post-war restructuring, the manor was transferred to the Seibu Group.

The Seibu Group has been involved in residential land development since the 1950s. Starting from Tokyo, it has real estate in almost every county to the south.

Unlike ordinary residential buildings, which are measured in square meters, Seibu Group's land assets are measured in hectares.

The scale of the residential buildings it develops is generally around 1,000 households, with the lowest number being several hundred households.

Then, considering the scale of land and real estate development of the Seibu Group, it is not surprising that it owns an estate of more than 3,000 square meters in Setagaya District.

Seibu Department Store, located in the eastern part of the Seibu Group, is also one of the first bank's external member companies.

That's the reason why Hongchuan Feng has access to that property, otherwise that kind of resource would not be circulating in the market.

After Hongkawa Kaede expressed a certain interest, Seibu Group completed the transaction happily.

In 1983, the average land price in Setagaya District was about 400,000 yuan per square meter per month.

More than 3,000 square meters of land costs 1.2 billion yuan per month, and the total is 1.8 billion yuan per month when included in real estate.

After inspecting the environment of the manor on the spot, Hongchuan Feng paid the money without hesitation.

Without him, it would be too luxurious.

Not to mention how luxurious the house is, but Hongchuan Feng likes the configuration very much.

In addition to the Japanese-style architecture of the main residence, the rather elegant courtyard adds a bit of charm to the place.

The roundabout-style courtyard is lined with green trees. Outside the open courtyard, there are small bridges, flowing water, rockeries, ponds and fish.

In a busy urban area like Tokyo, it is indeed a fascinating thing to have a low-key mansion hidden in a park corner somewhere.

Although Hongchuan Feng bought the place, he did not move in immediately.
To be continued...