After the meeting ended, Tanaka Jiro stopped Sun Tong.
"Manager Sun, come to the office with me. I have something I want to tell you."
"OK."
The two came to the general manager's office. Tanaka Jiro sat down and said with a smile: "Manager Sun, what happened two days ago, don't be angry. It is true that we didn't think carefully. If we had taken your suggestion at that time, we would still be able to do it now.
We shouldn’t engage in price wars so passively.”
"As for Miki Shoichi, as you know, he has a bad mouth. He always says some incomprehensible things and hurts your national sentiments. I apologize to you on his behalf."
"The gap between China and the East is too big now. Some people always have a sense of national pride in their hearts. This is not incomprehensible, right?"
"I heard that you Chinese people have always been open-minded. I guess people like Manager Sun won't care about this?"
Tanaka Jiro said with a very sincere expression on his face.
But Sun Tong knew very well that these were only temporary, so he just said it lightly.
"It's okay, I understand."
"That's good, that's good!"
Tanaka Jiro smiled and then asked, "As for the recent market, apart from price wars, does Manager Sun think there are any other ways to suppress Brilliance Electronics?"
"Other ways?"
Sun Tong thought for a while and then said, "Yes, there is, but price war is the simplest and most effective. As I said in the previous meeting, the most terrible thing about Brilliance Electronics now is the lack of funds, and the most important thing for Sony is money.
."
"This..." Tanaka Jiro hesitated, sighed, and then said, "Manager Sun, let me tell you the truth, our Sony China Branch is an area that is not favored in the eyes of the Tokyo headquarters, so...
"
Tanaka Jiro spent about ten minutes explaining clearly the current predicament of Sony's China branch.
Only then did Sun Tong understand why, although Tanaka Jiro agreed on the surface, he really didn't want to engage in a so-called price war.
"Since we don't want to kill Brilliance Electronics with money, we must use our brains. Now that marketing is useless, we must focus on the advantages of Brilliance Electronics and respond."
Sun Tong thought for a while and said.
"They have a total of three advantages. One is public opinion. As a foreign investment with a good reputation, Sony will not be worse than them at least in terms of reputation. This is a tie between the two parties.
"The second is battery life technology. As far as I know, Sony is indeed lagging behind in this regard, and it lags far behind. I don't know how the other party suddenly took such a big lead, but this is a fact. Users are not fools, no matter what
No matter how we discredit it, as soon as others use it, the gap will immediately appear."
"So on this point, I suggest you avoid the edge directly. Not only don't continue to smear it, but don't even mention it. Just treat this technology as if it doesn't exist."
"The third point is that their products have many varieties, especially the children's version and the couple's version. They capture young people's preference for novelty and add a lot of additional value to the product."
"I think this is very worth learning and necessary to learn. Of course, Mr. Tanaka has denied it at the meeting."
"No no no!"
Tanaka Jiro hurriedly said, "It was actually not easy for me to say this at the meeting. After all, you know that these people under my command are all from Tokyo and have natural arrogance towards China."
"Asking them to agree to imitate the ideas of a Chinese company, I guess they won't agree. Moreover, if word spreads, it will also have an impact on our reputation at Sony, so I openly refused."
"However, it is still practical in reality. I plan to find a Chinese factory to send our products for secondary processing and print patterns. Just like Brilliance Electronics' plan, we will also make children's and couples' models.
"
"However, this company has nothing to do with Sony in name. Anyone who buys Sony products can send the products there for processing and printing patterns, and the processing costs can be reimbursed directly to the place of purchase."
"Be careful not to have any direct contact with our Sony company. If a reporter outside asks, just say it was your own decision at a specialty store or shopping mall counter."
"Leave this matter to Manager Sun. I believe that with your strength, you can definitely do this well!"
"Today you will resign as the marketing manager, and then I will immediately appoint you as the boss of this printing factory, replace the legal person with you, and you two will have full authority to handle this matter."
"After Brilliance Electronics collapses, you can come back and continue to sit in your position as marketing manager."
As Tanaka Jiro spoke, he took out a stack of banknotes, probably worth twenty or thirty thousand, and handed them to Sun Tong.
Sun Tong looked at the money in his hand and suddenly trembled. He didn't expect the other party to be so generous. He just made a suggestion as the marketing manager, but he actually gave so much?
For a moment, Sun Tong had doubts in his heart. Was this trying to trick him?
After all, no matter how rich you are, that’s not how you make it!
There’s no telling whether your own method will be effective, right?
However, under the temptation of a huge sum of money, Sun Tong could not allow him to think too much, so he quickly accepted the money and agreed to handle the matter on his behalf.
After all, it seems like there is almost no risk.
After Sun Tong left, Tanaka Jiro looked at his leaving back with a sly smile.
Miki Masaichi came in from outside the door. He heard what he just said clearly outside the door.
"Mr. Tanaka, do you really plan to copy Brilliance's ideas?
Do you still want to leave such an important matter to Sun Tong?"
Miki Shoichi asked a little unhappy.
“Plagiarism?
What plagiarism?
In their Chinese language, this is called learning from others! Besides, didn’t we always copy what Europe was doing back then?”
"If you are a little noble, you can just pretend to be in front of outsiders. We are all Asians, so there is no need."
Tanaka Jiro said very directly.
"This..." Miki was a little embarrassed for a moment.
"Also, something important?
This matter is indeed very important, but besides him, who else can be allowed to go?
are you going?
What do you think this is a good thing?"
Tanaka Jiro said with a sneer.
"Even you know that this is plagiarizing ideas, how could Ye Chen, the chairman of Brilliance Electronics, not know that?
That’s quite a person!”
"When the time comes, he will definitely take this matter out and talk about it in front of the media, saying that we copied Brilliance Electronics' ideas."
"If it is confirmed, it will cause great damage to Sony's reputation, and the headquarters will also be held accountable."
"So, we have to do this secretly. If someone accuses us of plagiarizing ideas, then put the responsibility on Sun Tong."
"At that time, I will change the legal person of the printing factory to Sun Tong. This factory has no legal relationship with our Sony. The matter of plagiarism of ideas cannot be blamed on us."
"It's Sun Tong who takes the blame, can you understand?"
As soon as Miki Masaru heard this, he suddenly understood!