Life 1984

As soon as the Meihua mobile phone was launched, it made headlines in major domestic media.

All major well-known electronic newspapers and magazines use large photos of Meihua mobile phones on their covers.

The commercials shot by Gong Li were also simultaneously broadcast on major domestic TV stations.

A cell phone that fits in your pocket.

This advertising slogan became popular across the country.

Those businessmen who bought Big Brother in advance suddenly felt that the bricks in their hands no longer smelled good, and they were no longer so domineering in their hands.

They prefer to walk on the street, and suddenly a ringtone rings, and then they casually take out a mobile phone, which can shock the surrounding passers-by and attract the attention of passers-by.

It’s no longer rare for Big Brother!
A mobile phone that can fit in your pocket is more practical.

When thinness and thinness become the mainstream of aesthetics, the bulky old models will definitely be abandoned by users.

Just like PCs replaced mainframes, laptops replaced desktop PCs.

Thin and light mobile phones will definitely become a trend, replacing the old mobile phones.

People who can afford a mobile phone will of course follow the fashion and buy a beautiful Meihua mobile phone.

The price of 12999 yuan is far lower than that of Big Brother, so business people can still afford it.

For a time, communication shops in the streets and alleys all had signs saying "Meihua mobile phones are available in our store. If you want to buy them, hurry up!"

The Meihua mobile phone stock is limited, and at the time of release, less than 20,000 units have been shipped.

In less than a month, it has become difficult to find Meihua mobile phones in stock on the market.

The original price of the Meihua mobile phone was less than 1 yuan, but it was hyped to 3 yuan, and it is still hard to find.

In front of the mobile phone factory in Sihai Park, countless dealers lined up waiting for goods.

After Li Yunhai heard the news, he was both happy and shocked.

He seriously underestimated the consumption power of this era.

In the 1990s, a relatively large number of people became rich first.

With a population of more than one billion and 10 million wealthy people, the consumption power of high-end products is astonishing.

In this era, carrying a mobile phone in your hand is far less expensive than a car, but it can still play a high-end role.

Especially when discussing business, with a mobile phone, you can communicate with customers around the world anytime and anywhere.

Those who run businesses or work as businessmen, who doesn’t have a mobile phone in their hands?
When orders arrived at Sihai headquarters like snowflakes, Sun Lu was so proud that she came to Li Yunhai to argue.

"Mr. Li, am I right? If you had listened to me earlier, we would be able to sell tens of thousands more mobile phones now."

Li Yunhai glanced at her indifferently and said, "Why are you in a hurry?"

"Mr. Li, you are so calm. The dealers have blocked our door. They are all here to purchase Meihua mobile phones."

"I know. You don't need to emphasize it."

"Then why don't you hurry up and expand? I really wonder if you did it on purpose?"

"On purpose? Did I make money on purpose?"

"No? Then I understand. Are you deliberately conducting hunger marketing to raise the price of Meihua mobile phones?"

"Haha, Miss Sun, your concept is quite advanced."

"It's nothing. Luxury goods around the world all use hunger marketing. They issue limited editions, only a few hundred are released worldwide, and then they raise the price. They use a small amount of goods, but they make money that others can't make in a lifetime. Money. Our mobile phone production is 10 units, but if the price increases by several thousand yuan per unit, it is equivalent to the income of 30 mobile phones. In this way, you can earn a few dollars with the least factory and cost. Times the money.”

Li Yunhai was slightly surprised and admired this woman for seeing the essence of business operations very clearly.

"Ms. Sun, you are wrong. I just want to see the feedback from consumers again."

"Do you still need to look at this? Just look at them rushing to buy it."

"Not always."

Li Yunhai knows a very famous case.

That was CCTV’s Biao Wang Confucius Banquet. Because of the traffic effect of Biao Wang, it was a hot sale for a while.

In order to sell more, manufacturers blindly expanded production capacity, and even passed off inferior products as good ones. In less than two years, they fell from the clouds to the mud.

There are many such examples.

Therefore, Li Yunhai must make steady progress, instead of being hot-headed and immediately expanding production capacity because of temporary hot sales.

Expanding production capacity is easy, but the investment is huge. Once the market heat drops, how will it deal with it?

Most people can only see immediate benefits, but Li Yunhai can see trends in the next ten or twenty years.

To him, the world is full of gold and opportunities.

But it was impossible for him to grab a handful of everything, otherwise he would definitely not be able to catch everything.

It is enough to catch one or two winds.

Of course Sun Lu cannot reach his high level of cognitive level.

Li Yunhai did not argue with her and said: "Miss Sun, you know you are doing it for the good of the company. I give you a task to collect feedback from Meihua mobile phone users, both good and bad. The more the better."

Sun Lu said: "How to collect this? Isn't it necessary to call each one to ask? I don't know their phone numbers either!"

Li Yunhai smiled softly: "You want me to teach you everything, so what are you here to do?"

Sun Lu gritted her teeth: "Hmph, don't look down on me, I will definitely impress you!"

Li Yunhai said: "My vision and requirements are very high. I'll wait and see if you can impress me!"

Sun Lu turned and left.

Zhao Jinping walked in.

"Mr. Li, someone has placed an order again, and the orders are overwhelming!"

"cell phone?"

"Yes, it's a mobile phone."

"Mr. Zhao, please focus on the sales of other products of Sihai Group. Don't worry about your mobile phone for the time being."

"The most popular thing now is mobile phones. Our sales of computers have been rising steadily."

"Mr. Zhao, I estimate that the hot sales of computers are about to come, and the domestic demand for office products will grow exponentially."

"That's for sure. Entrepreneurship is being encouraged across the country this year. I don't know how many companies have been established overnight!"

"Well, so you put your energy and focus on office supplies."

Li Yunhai knows that the true popularity of mobile phones is still far away.

When the price drops below 3,000 yuan and mass production of 1,000-yuan phones can be achieved, that will be the real spring of the mobile phone industry, which will take at least three to five years.

But office equipment is different. The price of computers has dropped from 50,000 to 60,000 to 5,000 to 6,000, a tenfold price drop! This price will remain the same twenty years from now without a big drop.

With the advent of national entrepreneurship, the spring of office equipment has arrived.

"We are about to be listed on the A-share market, and the listing will depend on the performance of our office equipment." Li Yunhai said solemnly, "If we want to build a company with a market value of 70 billion, we must occupy the market value of domestic office equipment in the second half of the year. The rate increased to over %!”

Sihai Group's office equipment is now a leading domestic enterprise, with a domestic share of about 65%.

With the influx of foreign brands, Sihai Group's products continue to sell well because the entire market has become bigger!

It used to sell 100,000 PCs annually, but now it sells one million PCs annually.

Coupled with foreign markets, Sihai Group now sells two million PCs annually.

Compared with leading companies such as IBM, Sihai Group is still far behind.

Coupled with the gradual transparency of PC profits, the money earned from each phone sold is much less than before.

It seems that annual sales have been skyrocketing, but profits have not increased much.

When Zhao Jinping heard his boss talk about going public, he immediately calmed down.

Even if mobile phones are selling well, they are still unable to form production volumes and cannot bring the most practical benefits to the company.

If you want to make money, you have to put some thought into office equipment.

Zhao Jinping said: "Mr. Li, we have to find new growth points. Otherwise, PC sales will only be so large and it will be difficult to make a big breakthrough."

Li Yunhai said: "I have an idea, which should be implemented now. It is to ship bulk parts in large quantities."

"Parts?"

"Yes, it's about selling accessories. Let's build a private assembly market. Many people who know computers like DIY, so they buy compatible accessories and assemble them at home. Some people care about the performance of the CPU, so they buy a good CPU, and some care about the memory. If it’s too big, just buy an extra memory. For the same price, everyone has different ways of spending money. We give them a free market to choose from! This way we can leverage a bigger cake!”

Li Yunhai has been considering this matter for a long time, but has never implemented it.

Because the market is immature, you won’t be able to do it even if you want to.

He believes that now is the time to enter the assembly machine market.

For a long time to come, assembly machines and brand machines will coexist.

Large-scale corporate purchases mainly focus on brand-name machines. For individual retail investors, they can completely assemble them.

Brand-name machines have a lot of added value and channel fees, so the overall price is on the high side. As for the assembled machine, the price is 20 to 30% cheaper, which can save one or two thousand yuan. For people with a low capital budget, this is is an excellent choice.

Zhao Jinping said: "Mr. Li, how to implement it specifically?"

There are not many cities across the country with computer centers. When Chinese people buy computers, they are still accustomed to purchasing them at office stores.

Later, with the popularity of assembly machines, a large number of computer cities sprung up in major cities.

Li Yunhai said: "Starting from our own Sihai store, we posted a leaflet at the door: Assemble computers and configure them as needed. Each store must have enough accessories so that users can choose freely." Zhao Jinping He said: "Then we need shop assistants who know how to assemble computers. This will also increase the cost of staff."

"Now those who do repair work in the store can assemble computers."

"Yes, just use them!"

"You and Jiang Zhijun should discuss this matter and implement it as soon as possible."

"Okay, Mr. Li, this is easy. We have all the accessories, all ready-made."

"We are going to post some assembly machine configuration lists for users who don't know much about computers but want to buy an assembled machine. The price of an assembled machine is 20 to 30% lower than a branded machine."

"Mr. Li, if they have the same configuration, why is the assembled machine cheaper than the branded machine?"

"The services are different, and the channels are different. The whole brand machine has a three-year warranty, and the warranty time for each spare part of the assembled machine is different. Some only have a one-year warranty, and some only have a two-year warranty."

"Oh, this too."

"Also, we do this mainly to meet the consumption needs of some users. They may want to buy a computer, but the budget is not enough. The assembled machine can just meet their requirements. In this way, our user base will expand .”

"That's the truth. I think it can be done."

"Well, it can definitely be done. I want to see the results before the Autumn Canton Fair!"

"Okay, Mr. Li, I will go to Mr. Jiang to discuss this."

After Zhao Jinping left, Li Yunhai called Professor Ni.

The most important scientific research achievement of Sihai Research Institute, the graphics card, has been successfully launched.

This is also Li Yunhai's most important move.

With the popularization of graphical interfaces of operating systems and the addition of audio-visual games and other entertainment, the functions of computers are becoming more and more perfect, and the demand for graphics cards is increasing day by day.

The first graphics card launched by Sihai Group will also be released in the fall of this year and will participate in the Autumn Canton Fair.

Professor Ni told Li Yunhai that the graphics card has been tested many times and can fully meet the continuous operation in various harsh situations.

In the 80s, there were two mainstream graphics cards: monochrome graphics cards (MDA) and color graphics cards (CGA).

They are all 2D graphics cards and can only achieve the color of 2D pictures.

The 90s is destined to be an era of rapid changes. In Europe and Eastern Europe, drastic changes have taken place. The world has entered an era of one superpower and many powerful players. With this, the graphics card industry is also competing for dominance.

And graphics cards have also entered the 3D era.

In 1992, NVIDIA had not yet been founded.

Sihai Group has already taken the lead in launching 3D graphics cards.

The leaders in the graphics card industry at that time were still Trident and S3. These two graphics card production companies were very prosperous.

Li Yunhai is ambitious and wants to rely on graphics cards to compete again, occupy the global graphics card market first, and become the largest graphics card developer and manufacturer.

No one knows how big a game Boss Li is playing.

This year, there are a lot of games on computers.

"Dune II" is an originating game. Without Dune, a strategic game, there would be no Command and Conquer, Red Alert, StarCraft, Warcraft and so on.

In addition, there are games such as "Ultima Underground" and "Wolfenstein", which were also popular for a while.

Anyone who has played with computers knows that the development of games and graphics cards are almost inseparable.

Li Yunhai wants to capture the global market before the rise of graphics card manufacturers such as NVIDIA.

This battle is of great significance to Sihai Group.

In terms of chips, Sihai Group only has X64 chips and can only chase after Intel.

But Li Yunhai can work hard on graphics cards and create a new world.

Before leaving get off work, Li Yunhai received a mysterious phone call.

"Hello, who's there?" Li Yunhai asked.

"Excuse me, are you Comrade Li Yunhai from Sihai Group?"

"I am Li Yunhai, who are you?"

"Hello, you and I are family members. We were one family five hundred years ago."

"Oh, your surname is Li too?"

"You can call me Old Man Li."

"You don't sound old either. Sixty years old?"

"Awesome, worthy of being Boss Li."

An idea flashed in Li Yunhai's mind.

He knew who this person was.

Sure enough, the other party said: "I have heard about my son-in-law Wang Chengwang. I am very grateful for what you have done for my family. Wang Chengwang, this bastard, will die if he does many unjust things! Thank you for catching him and sending him to prison." He was put in prison and my daughter was freed."

Li Yunhai was startled, thinking, was the other party telling the truth? Or is it the opposite?

"I only found out about Wang Chengwang after hearing the report from below. He harassed and raped Miss Gong. The evidence is conclusive and the facts are clear. He was caught on the spot by the police."

"Haha, no matter what, it's fine. All in all, I'm very grateful to you."

"Mr. Li, you're welcome."

"Sun Lu didn't cause you any trouble, did she?"

"Sun Lu? Who is she to you?"

"A granddaughter of my brother's family."

"Oh, that's it. Miss Sun has a good temper."

"She has a bit of a young lady's temper. I know that. Please tolerate her and teach her."

"Don't dare."

"Come to the capital when you have time, let's have a drink together."

"OK, thanks."

After hanging up the phone, Li Yunhai felt that the call came out of nowhere.

Did he complain directly to Sun Lu? Say I bullied her? That's why the Li family called to support her?
Li Yunhai did not know Sun Lu's true identity before.

The other party revealed Sun Lu's identity. Was he trying to get Li Yunhai to throw him into a trap? Beating a dog to see its owner?
Li Yunhai contacted Guo Wanhua and said that Chen Meilin would be invited to help during the Autumn Canton Fair.

Guo Wanhua smiled and said, do you still need to give orders? She has already arranged the time!

She changed her tone and said, "Yunhai, I noticed that Meilin has changed a lot recently."

"What kind of change?"

"She may be in love. I've been there, I can tell."

"This is a good thing. She is now quite old and can fall in love."

"She has too many secrets. She keeps them all locked in her drawer and doesn't show them to me. I asked her if she had a boy she liked, but she didn't tell her. Am I a failure as a mother?"

"No. A girl's feelings are always poetic and she won't reveal them to others easily. You have to trust her, she can handle everything on her own."

"She listens to you the most. Can you help me trick her during this Canton Fair?"

"Is this inconvenient?"

"You young people are together and have common topics. Just do me a favor and ask her. I feel relieved. I am not against her falling in love, but I want to know who she is falling in love with. I'm afraid of her Being cheated by a man.”

"Then don't worry, Mei Lin is the smartest girl I've ever met. I'm afraid there's no one who can deceive her!"

"That's hard to say. Things like feelings are not necessarily certain. A woman is a very strange creature, and she may not be able to express what she really likes. Who can entangle her and get her, even if the man is not what she really likes, she will Will follow him.”

"Is that so? Then let me ask for you."

"Well, thank you for your hard work."

"How are you An'an?"

"Okay, he went to school. Do you miss him?"

"Well, I miss you too."

"Me too."

The two of them missed each other over the phone, but did not say any unnecessary words of love.

Guo Wanhua thought he had hung up the phone and asked, "Yunhai, are you still there?"

Li Yunhai coughed lightly and said, "I'm here, listening to your breathing."

"Hai of clouds! Me, me!" Guo Wanhua was moved.

How she wanted to fly to Xizhou right away, throw herself into this man's arms, and let him love and pity her, just like before.

But in the end, she resisted the urge and said: "I still have work here, see you in Huacheng."

"Okay, goodbye." Li Yunhai slowly put down the phone, feeling aroused in his heart. He suddenly wanted to find a woman.

Of course this woman cannot be a wife. The passion between him and his wife has long since disappeared.

Who to look for? (End of chapter)