"People who make Walkmans, have you ever seen this thing?
It’s just an iron box that can play music.”
Ye Chen replied.
"Walkman?
I seem to have seen it. Last time I went to pick up Jingjing, some parents had this thing. Isn't it expensive?"
"Yes, a cheap Walkman imported from abroad costs seven to eight hundred yuan, and a slightly better one costs more than a thousand yuan."
“So expensive!”
Liu Lingya covered her mouth in surprise, "I also said I wanted to buy one for Jingjing. She seems to like music very much. If it's over a thousand dollars, isn't it just an iron box?"
"Despite the humble appearance of that thing, the technology inside is still a bit complicated."
Ye Chen muttered.
The Walkman is actually the predecessor of the MP3 in later generations. However, due to technical reasons, its size is still very large, about the size of a palm, and the cheaper it is, the bigger it gets.
The first Walkman was launched by Japan's Sony Corporation in 1979. Once launched, it caused a sensation in the entire industry.
Unlike silly and bulky radios, the first Walkman could really be put in your pocket, it just needed a bigger pocket.
The most important thing is that if you use a radio, people can only passively listen to the music on the radio. The Walkman really allows people to freely choose the music they want to listen to. It is the first device in history to achieve this feat.
equipment.
Although this technology was somewhat commonplace thirty years later, it was indeed of epoch-making significance at the time.
"Then I'd better not buy it for Jingjing. It's so expensive. One thousand yuan is enough for an ordinary family to live for several years!"
Liu Lingya complained.
"Buy it, why not buy it? Are we an ordinary family?
I’m reluctant to buy anything even if I spend a thousand yuan, and if word spreads, people will think I’m abusing my family!”
Ye Chen said.
"But didn't you just open a new company?
Let’s save what we can!”
"Can I send you this little money?"
Ye Chen put down the chopsticks in his hands dumbfounded, "You can spend the money at home, but if you don't have enough, just tell me. If there is no money at home, it's because I don't have the ability. You don't need to worry about this problem."
"Our family is not an ordinary family. We can buy whatever we want. Don't live a tight life. No matter how short of money I am in my business, I will not be short of your money."
Hearing this, Liu Lingya nodded and stopped talking.
The wealth of life came so suddenly, and her mind was still stuck in the days when she had to calculate every penny carefully.
…
Early the next morning, Ye Chen came to the factory for inspection. Xu Hong was still in Hangzhou at this time and did not come back together because he had to investigate for himself.
Until the afternoon, Ye Chen received a call.
"Hey, Mr. Ye, I found out that the legal person of Summit Electronics is a person named Jiang Feng!"
"Jiang Feng?"
Ye Chen muttered, "This name sounds so familiar."
"Of course I'm familiar with him. He was the one who molested the little girl at the airport and was beaten by us!"
"What?"
Ye Chen was immediately dumbfounded. He didn't expect it to be him!
"Mr. Ye, I checked and found out that this company is just registered and there is nothing else. It was just registered two days ago. I guess this person named Jiang Feng came to mess with us on purpose. This is revenge!"
When Ye Chen heard this, a hundred thousand grass and mud horses were galloping in his heart.
It's normal to retaliate, but to retaliate against yourself, directly register a company and then dump out three million?
Is this price a little too high?
Are you doing this to save yourself face?
At first, he suspected that Jiang Shanyue and Qian Bujun were playing a double act to mess with him, but now it seems that he has overthought it, and this is an unreasonable disaster.
"Mr. Ye, what should we do now?
I heard that they will sign the contract this afternoon, and it can be seen that this Jiang Feng really wants to compete with us!"
Xu Hong said somewhat speechlessly.
Three million dollars was thrown away to buy a piece of trash, just for revenge. This person is simply crazier than Ye Chen!
Ye Chen felt helpless at this time. He now desperately needed to speed up the progress of building the company. Although the patents in his hands were expensive and bad, he could not find a substitute for a while.
Thinking of this, he sighed: "Go and contact Qian Bujian. Three and a half million is our fixed price. If the price is higher, we won't want it."
"I understand, Mr. Ye, I'm going now."
After Xu Hong finished speaking, he hung up the phone directly.
Three and a half million, this is indeed the highest price Ye Chen can give. If the other party still insists on fighting for it, then he has no choice but to give in.
Although Ye Chen has more than 300 million in cash after financing Qingchen Foods, making electronics is not making food. You can just buy a production line and buy the products as they come out.
Electronic products are the most competitive things. If the technology inside is not up to par and the cost cannot be reduced, it will be impossible to sell the products.
If things cannot be sold, the huge initial investment will be wasted.
If you want enough technology, you must invest a lot of money in research and development, patents and the purchase of production lines.
For this part, two to three hundred million is simply not enough!
What's more, the factory buildings are not available now, so we can't spend money indiscriminately.
If the patent acquisition is not successful this time, Ye Chen can only continue to ask others to find it, and the official production time of Brilliance Electronics will have to be postponed.
…
Qian Bujun was preparing to rush to Summit Electronics. He didn't care about his previous agreement with Ye Chen. As long as he didn't sign the contract, everything would be nonsense.
Whoever has more money will sell the patent to him.
Just as he was about to go out, he suddenly received news from Xu Hong that Ye Chen had raised the price to 3.5 million!
When he heard the offer, Qian Bujun thought there was something wrong with his ears. Three and a half million?
How could this thing in my hand be worth so much money!
For a moment, he didn't know if Ye Chen was lying to him.
"Dear me, you are sick, aren't you? Do these people have money and no place to burn it?"
Qian Bujun muttered.
Based on the principle of selling to whoever has the money, he immediately called Jiang Feng.
"Hey, Mr. Jiang, my money is uneven!"
"Where have you been?
We’re signing the contract today, hurry up and don’t waste my time!”
Jiang Feng on the other side of the phone said impatiently.
"I'm sorry, Mr. Jiang, um, the people from Caichen Electronics just called and they offered 3.5 million!"
Qian Bujun said cautiously.
"So what?
We have already agreed! You agreed to the price of three million, and you have to sign the contract today. Do you want to break the contract? "
When Qian Bujun heard this, he chuckled: "Mr. Jiang, we discussed it verbally, this and this, even if we haven't signed the contract, it doesn't actually count."