Rebirth 1984: Starting from the development of Hanka

Chapter 92
On the second day, under Zhou Quan's recommendation, Lu Maoshi and others met Caspar Ferguson, a senior official of the Soviet Electronics Export Corporation.

Caspar Ferguson was a little surprised by the purpose of Lu Maoshi's visit.

There are also companies that come to the Soviet Union to buy game copyrights?
The Soviet Union did not communicate with the West or RB. Whether it was the American Atari game console or RB's fc red and white game console, there was no shadow in the Soviet Union.

Unexpectedly, a Chinese company came all the way to Moscow to buy game copyrights, which is really surprising.

Caspar Ferguson told Lu Maoshi and the others that the two parties would start negotiations after they had studied Tetris.

After Lu Maoshi and others left, Caspar Ferguson and others hurriedly investigated what game Tetris was.

But soon, they were disappointed.

"For this simple PC game, is there anyone willing to spend money to buy the copyright?" Caspar Ferguson looked at the game interface on the computer with a stunned expression.

Anyway, he didn't quite understand it.

The rest of the people were also confused.

"You say, how much does this game sell for? The other party said that they want to buy all the copyrights of the game." Caspar Ferguson looked at everyone and asked.

An official said with a smile: "Just this little game, I think it can make a lot of money if it sells for hundreds of thousands of dollars! China is now very poor, and the per capita salary is only tens of yuan. If our quotation is high, I'm afraid it will scare the other party away. Right now, the economy of our Soviet Union is not doing well, and with these hundreds of thousands of dollars, although it's a drop in the bucket, at least it's useful."

After speaking, many people present nodded in agreement.

However, after Lu Maoshi returned, he immediately contacted Zhao Ye and reported the current situation.

"Boss, "Tetris" is not well-known in the Soviet Union, and very few people know about it. If we hadn't proposed to buy "Tetris", the other party would not have known about this game." Lu Maoshi laughed, "The Soviet Union belongs to The game is deserted, and the official can’t see the value of the game, so I think we have a good chance of buying Tetris.”

"Well, that would be the best!" Zhao Ye was overjoyed when he heard the words, and then thought of the huge impact of the disintegration of the Soviet Union a few years later. .

"You can't give money directly, but supplies. Taking this opportunity, the two sides can establish a stable trading system. In the future, will the legend of exchanging canned food for airplanes be created by me?"

"Of course, exchanging canned food for airplanes is not a big deal. The main thing is to take the opportunity to obtain Soviet talents, technology and advanced production equipment."

"Perhaps we can speculate on the ruble. For example, we can borrow rubles from Soviet banks, and then buy Soviet resources, or exchange them into foreign exchange. Especially after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Maoxiongguo adopted shock therapy. Sure enough, Maoxiongguo did not have a few years The economy is in shock, the ruble depreciates to nothing, and I only need to spend a very small amount of dollars to exchange for a large amount of rubles, and then repay the loan. In the meantime, I have already made a lot of money!"

Zhao Ye smiled a little unkindly. Western countries made a lot of money in the Soviet Union, why didn't they do it themselves?It is better to have wealth and talent here than to the West!
"Mr. Lu, next time you talk to Soviet representatives, you can tell them that we are willing to use materials to pay for the copyright purchase of "Tetris", and we are willing to establish a good trade relationship with the Soviet Union and provide the Soviet Union with various materials for a long time. , including a large number of light industrial products such as clothing, canned food, food, toothbrush and toothpaste, soap..."

In the eighties and 90s in China, the sales of many state-owned enterprises' products were not good, and a large number of them were piled up in warehouses.

Wujiang can buy these materials at a very low price, and then resell them to the Soviet Union at a high price.

It not only saves a lot of funds of Wujiang Group, but also revitalizes domestic enterprises.

In the future, we can exchange some technology or production equipment with the Soviet Union, which is simply a huge profit.

Lu Maoshi was stunned for a moment, but soon understood Zhao Ye's intentions. The Soviet Union's current economic downturn, lack of supplies, and frequent price increases of clothes, bread and other commodities, so they hoped to get "cheap" supplies.

After the conversation ended, Lu Maoshi felt more confident.

The next day, everyone came to the Soviet Electronics Export Company again.

The two sides soon came to the conference room to start the first round of negotiations.

Caspar Ferguson was the first to speak: "After research and discussion by our expert group, "Tetris" is a very classic PC game, it has huge commercial potential, how much does your company plan to spend to buy this game?" ?”

Lu Maoshi said unhurriedly: "Nowadays there are only a handful of people who can afford personal computers, and the number of users is small. There is no market for casual games like "Tetris", and users can play it as often as they want. Tired of it. Our company bought it just for a gimmick, that is, users get game software when they buy a computer.”

After a pause, Lu Maoshi said, "So, our company intends to bid 30 US dollars to buy "Tetris"! However, our company intends to pay with materials worth 30 US dollars, including food, clothing, toiletries, etc. Wait... I wonder if Soviet Electronics Export will accept it?"

Caspar Ferguson and the others looked at each other, and of course they welcomed the payment with food, clothing and other materials.But the price, they are not very satisfied.

So, the two sides began to bargain.

Caspar Ferguson and others felt that Chinese representatives traveled thousands of miles to Moscow to buy Tetris, indicating that they had a strong desire to buy the game.

Don't even try to send them $30.

However, Caspar Ferguson and others do not think that "Tetris" has great value.

Even if the lion opened his mouth, he only shouted a "sky-high price" of US$100 million.

After half an hour, both sides gave way.

The Soviet Union completely sold all the copyrights to Tetris for $75.

Seeing Lu Maoshi and others smiling wryly and reluctantly accepting the offer of 75 US dollars, Caspar Ferguson and others thought they had won at the negotiating table, and all smiled.

Not long after, the two parties signed a formal contract.

At the moment of signing and stamping, Lu Maoshi heaved a sigh of relief, and finally completed the boss's order.

Caspar Ferguson and others are still complacent, but they don't know that they have lost a huge cash cow!
The next morning, Lu Maoshi and his party took the train and returned to China. After all, the Soviet Union was not very safe.

Zhao Ye breathed a sigh of relief when he got the news.

There are two games "Tetris" and "Pokemon" on the handheld game console, so why not be popular?
With the explosion of TV game consoles and handheld game consoles, the demand for Kirin 1 is bound to increase greatly, and the scale of the fab is bound to expand, so as to meet the growing demand for chips.

The expansion of the fab requires the purchase of various production equipment, and the domestic semiconductor industry chain will benefit from this.

It can be described as pulling one hair and moving the whole body.

Therefore, Zhao Ye is now vigorously developing game consoles and handheld game consoles, but he is actually promoting the development of the domestic semiconductor industry!

(End of this chapter)