Rebirth 09: Synthetic Male God

Chapter 44 Zhou Weigang

The episode after school didn't affect Zhou Rui's schedule, but the self-study was caught tonight, and the exercise failed.

Back at the door of the house, I wanted to go straight upstairs, but saw a familiar figure under the corridor.

Father, Zhou Weigang.

That figure is not as old as in the previous life, but still a little depressed, leaning against the corridor and smoking a cigarette.

Seeing Zhou Rui, Zhou Weigang's eyes regained a little brilliance, and said: "Your mother has urgent business to work overtime, and she is worried that you will be hungry, let me take you to eat, what do you want to eat?"

"Daddy's treat today, let's eat something good!"

Zhou Rui calmed down a little bit. If counting before rebirth, he hadn't seen this man in front of him for more than ten years.

Zhou Weigang is more than 40 years old, but he is vaguely handsome. It is said that when he was young, he was more handsome than Zhou Rui, but now he feels depressed.

It's very similar to Zhou Rui, a social animal from the previous life.

Zhou Rui thought for a while and said, "There is a stir-fry restaurant around the corner."

Zhou Weigang patted Zhou Rui on the back, and said eagerly: "Where is the corner, I will drive you to a big restaurant to eat."

After their parents divorced, Zhou Weigang did not completely disappear from the lives of Zhou Rui and Yao Peili's mother and son. It can even be said that in recent years, the frequency of appearances has become more and more frequent. Eat something good and go out for a walk.

If you look at the previous few years, from the perspective of a "divorced father", Zhou Weigang, who has not remarried, has done pretty well.

As a result, there is a faint sign of reuniting with Yao Peili.

However, Zhou Weigang's factory in the previous life encountered serious operational problems when Zhou Rui was a freshman, and became even more in debt after that, so this man consciously faded out of the world of mother and son.

Judging from Zhou Weigang's exhaustion at this time, the factory should have been uncomfortable recently. Yao Peili also said that Zhou Weigang had disappeared for a long time.

Zhou Weigang got into his old "Crown" and drove towards the city center.

The two divorced when Zhou Rui didn't remember much in primary school, so Zhou Rui's affection for Zhou Weigang was not as deep as that of his mother, but Zhou Weigang was always looking for a topic.

"Dad has been on a business trip in Shencheng some time ago, Xiaorui, how are you studying recently?"

Zhou Rui leaned against the car window, but instead asked about other things:
"You look tired. Is there something wrong with the operation of the factory?"

Zhou Weigang almost lost his grip on the steering wheel, and said in surprise, "Who said that!"

Don't care how hard he is in business, how can he reveal his secrets in front of his son!
Zhou Rui randomly brought out a rescuer: "Uncle."

Zhou Weigang was speechless for a while, this uncle really talked to the child about everything!

"It's just a small trouble, Dad can take care of it."

Zhou Rui seemed unintentional: "Can you talk to me?"

"What do you have to say to you, a high school student."

"I'm about to choose a professional newspaper volunteer. It depends on what line of work you do. I will avoid lightning."

Zhou Weigang:
Zhou Weigang used to be an employee of a state-owned enterprise and was born as a skilled worker. It is said that he was also a technical expert back then, but he chose to go to sea not long after Zhou Rui was born.

In that era, this choice was not uncommon, and like many people in that era, he tasted the sweetness of the changes of the times. Zhou Weigang had a flexible mind and a good understanding of technology. Taking advantage of the wind of the times, he did earn some money.

In the first few years, it was called a boom, of course, because it was too boom, it caused Yao Peili's dissatisfaction, and finally divorced.

However, in recent years, it has been a different situation. The market has changed too fast. Maybe the factory made a lot of money in the first year, but in the next year it will lose money, and the workers' wages will not be paid.

There are many reasons for this, some of which are the decline of product competitiveness, and some of which are due to the breakdown of the capital chain caused by the supplier's delay in payment.

Zhou Weigang started out as a manufacturer of small household appliances. Later, because he couldn’t do business in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shencheng, he turned around and replaced the equipment, and became an upstream supplier, producing accessories such as electric control boards.

After changing careers, there was a rise in the "fake machine" market. Zhou Weigang specialized in supplying various knockoff machine brands and did well. However, due to changes in production lines and equipment, the bank had to pay a lot of loans.

In 09, the domestic counterfeit machine market gradually broke away from the state of brutal growth and began to cool down. This seriously affected Zhou Weigang's downstream customers. Orders fell sharply, banks pressed hard, and factories began to decline. uncomfortable.

The most important thing is that the customers of the original counterfeit machines have no orders, and Zhou Weigang's factory does not have the ability to develop terminals by itself, only accessories but no products in hand.

In Zhou Rui's memory, Zhou Weigang's factory was completely ruined. It seems that it was 10 years ago. After that, Zhou Weigang, who was heavily in debt, also left Qinghe County.

Looking at Zhou Weigang's years of starting a business in the sea, he was the most chic when he first started making small appliances, and he has been in a state of stagnation since then.

Recalling the memories of his previous life, Zhou Rui didn't know what to do for a while. Zhou Weigang was his biological father, so he would naturally want to help if there was a chance.

It's just that he has cheats, but they can only be used to strengthen himself.

09.
At least finding a way to help Zhou Weigang avoid lightning is like telling his mother not to sell the demolished house.

Zhou Weigang took Zhou Rui to a "Dongting Restaurant", where he ordered five or six big dishes. No matter how hard the business was, he couldn't be vague about taking his son to eat something good.

Besides, that's not what he lacks.
Zhou Rui frowned: "I can't finish eating after ordering so much."

Zhou Weigang smiled and said: "I can't finish eating and pack, your mother is busy with work recently, and there are times when she can't take care of you."

The dishes were brought up one by one, all of which Zhou Rui usually likes to eat. The recent exercise has consumed a lot, and Zhou Rui is really hungry. No matter what else, let's eat first.

Zhou Rui ate happily. Zhou Weigang watched with a smile, but he didn't move his chopsticks much.

Zhou Rui ate eight percent full, put down his chopsticks, and said, "Dad, you're staring straight at me. It's hard for me not to think that something serious has happened to you, or if you just say it, my mother and I It’s time to decide whether to run or not.”

Zhou Weigang: "This kid really can't speak, let's talk about it. If you leave, you two won't be involved."

Zhou Rui said, "Don't look down on the students, tell me about it?"

Zhou Weigang may have been under a lot of pressure recently, thinking that Zhou Rui couldn't understand anyway, so he said half complaining and half complaining:
"It's nothing. Isn't your father's factory a mobile phone accessory? The mobile phone industry has been in a downturn for the past two years, and many old customers have gone bankrupt."

To be precise, it's not that the mobile phone industry is in a recession. Domestic mobile Internet terminals are on the rise, and we are entering the era when everyone has a mobile phone.

But unfortunately, this market belongs to foreign brands.

Nokia occupies half of the country, Ericsson is still a gold-lettered signboard, Samsung and Blackberry are advancing by leaps and bounds, and Apple is also gaining momentum.

The huge domestic mobile phone market is almost dominated by foreign brands.

And those domestic brands that Zhou Rui is familiar with, such as Huawei, Xiaomi, opppo, and vivoo, have not yet been shadowed.

In a huge market, 90% of the money is earned by foreign brands, and for the remaining 10%, a lot of copycat phones are vying to survive.

Counterfeit mobile phones have been scolded for many years, and domestic mobile phones have almost become a joke. Anyone who has a little spending power disdains to buy any domestic mobile phones, and whoever takes them will lose face.

Before and after the 08 Olympic Games, in order to improve the international image, the country has also tightened a lot of supervision on intellectual property rights. Huaqiangbei, the once-popular home of copycat phones in Shencheng, is no longer the glory of the past.

The situation Zhou Weigang faced was just a microcosm of this industry, not even leftovers, but Zhou Weigang was still under pressure and couldn't breathe.

As he talked, Zhou Weigang gradually forgot that it was his son in front of him, and he was talking to himself, which was actually to relieve the pressure.

"But it doesn't matter. The mobile phone industry is in a downturn. Just do something else. That's how I switched from home appliances back then. You know the Zijin Group in the county. Recently, they are preparing to enter the air-conditioning industry. There is an order that is very profitable. It is the need for equipment. Changing it is another investment.”

Zhou Rui thought to himself: Zijin Group, I know it all too well.

It will be gone next year!
Zhou Rui clearly remembered that this leading company in Qinghe County broke its capital chain 10 years ago, and was directly dissolved.

The entire Qinghe County was full of uproar, and even the chairman of the Zijin Group was arrested because the whereabouts of the funds was unknown.

He didn't know that Zhou Weigang was also related to Zijin Group in his previous life, and it seemed that this was his last breath at that time.

Zhou Rui thought about how to persuade him, and asked curiously, "Zijin Group is in the county, so why did you go to Shenzhen?"

"Don't mention it, a friend who used to be a counterfeit mobile phone changed jobs and went to Hua Wei. They have been doing communications before. The company is quite big, but they don't know what they are thinking. They want to start making mobile phones, so they asked me to cooperate. Those who don't know are not afraid! There is no market for domestic mobile phones now, so I jumped into the fire pit by myself."

Zhou Rui: .
"That guy kept talking to me for a long time, saying that there was an order, but the profit was very thin, and that he wanted me to join their new team. I guess they would have nothing to do with it, so they didn't agree. The era of domestic mobile phones is over. "

Zhou Rui: You are truly an industry ghost!

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