Rebirth: My 80s

Chapter 679 Driven by Profit

The night is getting darker.

Cultural Affairs Bureau compound.

Hu Ganlin and his team had just sent Samaranch to the Peace Hotel. After confirming that the latter had fallen asleep, they took the special car of the "dispatch team" back, preparing to seize the time to rest and recharge before dawn tomorrow morning. Still have to rush over.

Dormitory 205 in an old three-story building.

The group of four people sat in twos and twos on the edge of the lower bunk of the iron-framed double bed. There was an enamel basin with a koi pattern at their feet. They lowered their upper bodies and soaked their hands in the foamy water in the basin, rubbing the water they had worn today. A good outfit.

They were only issued two outfits like this.

Due to the hot weather, it will definitely not smell good if worn all day long. They must be changed and washed every day. After all, they are a "job type" that has close contact with foreign guests.

Fortunately, it wasn't dirty. Just put some soap on it and wash it with water to remove the sweat stains. Even if there is no sun in this season, one day will be enough for drying tomorrow.

While I was washing, there was a noise outside the door.

Hu Ganlin was curious and rushed to the door to take a look. He found three strangers poking at the door of the next door, as if asking about the pager.

"Well, he is also a receptionist for foreign guests, and he is still receiving Samaranch."

The colleague next door noticed Hu Ganlin. After hearing what he said, Fan Song and Huang Jinfu, who were visiting late at night, turned their heads sharply.

They came here for no other reason than to investigate the strange incident of not receiving a call from the paging station today. The reason why they waited until this time to come was because they were waiting for the foreign guest reception staff to get off work. They couldn't rush to the foreign guests' itinerary, right?

Although Fan Song and Huang Jinfu were really impatient.

"Comrade, are you responsible for receiving Samaranch?"

"What's wrong?" The person who answered was Tao Dabing. He and the other two people from dormitory 205 also came to the door.

Fan Song and Huang Jinfu's eyes fell on him again. "Are you equipped with a pager?"

"Yes." Now that everyone has changed their clothes, everyone is wearing shorts and big pants, and naturally they don't have their BB cameras on either.

"Which one is it from?"

"Shanghai Starlight."

Huang Jinfu hurriedly asked: "Then let me ask you, have you received any message reminders today?"

"Have."

Fan Song raised his eyebrows and asked, "Why didn't you call me back after I received it?!"

Tao Dabing was selected into the foreign guest reception group, unlike Hu Ganlin, because of his skills. He was in charge of security. It seems inconvenient to reveal which department he was from. Only the organizing committee and himself knew. He had met Fan Song before and knew The other party was a postal and telecommunications worker. Seeing that Fan Song had a bad tone at this time, how could he be a good person?

"Sorry, sorry, sorry, what's the use of your plastic bumps?

"I can only flash the light, BB. I received a message prompt here and was about to answer the call. Before I could walk two steps away, Gan Lin from my group... well, it was him. He had already told the news Samaranch is here, do I still need to call?

"You guys have any objections, right? Come on, I'll give that plastic lump back to you. It's useless and it only increases my burden!"

After Tao Dabing said this, he turned around and went back to the house to get the Shanghai Starlight pager.

Huang Jinfu: "..."

Fan Song: "..."

The two of them were a little confused by the spray. After calming down for a while, Huang Huangfu moved his eyes to Hu Ganlin and asked: "You are equipped with a Huadian brand pager? How can you know the information that the paging station wants to convey so quickly?"

"You'll know it just by looking at it."

"See? What do you think?"

"There is a screen on the machine that can display Chinese characters. Their paging station directly edits the information into text and sends it over. It is clear and straightforward. Unlike you, we don't need to call to ask at all."

"This is impossible!" Huang Jinfu suddenly screamed.

Fan Song's mind was buzzing, and he glanced at him subconsciously - didn't he say that this was a technology that was still in his dreams?

Tao Dabing took the plastic lump and handed it to the other side, but no one took it. With Hu Ganlin's intelligence, he has already seen something: these people are far behind their competitors at the technical level and they don't even know it. He didn't explain, and went into the house to get the Huadian pager that was provided for him.

"See for yourself."

Huang Huangfu took it with trembling hands. This was a device that was smaller and more sophisticated than his pager. When he saw that there were buttons on it and there was actually a screen, Huang Huangfu's head suddenly roared and went blank. .

Hu Ganlin is an enthusiastic and good comrade. He was worried that he would not be able to operate, so he went out of his way to help.

"Now it's on. Look, just press this button and the screen will light up. Then use these two buttons to switch text left and right to view information..."

A faint blue light glowed on the index finger-sized screen, and a message scrolled left and right with Hu Ganlin's finger operation:

"At six o'clock in the evening, there will be a dinner party at the Pujiang Hotel. We hope to guide foreign guests to attend in time."

Huang Huangfu's eyes widened and he stared straight at the screen. He closed his mouth and murmured: "This is impossible, this is impossible..."

He is not just a businessman, he is also a technician, and he is a top expert in the field of pagers.

His Starlight Communications is the second largest pager supplier in Hong Kong City, but its technology is first-rate. It didn't reach the first place simply because the guy who ranked first had a strong background. It was a communications company owned by Hutchison Whampoa.

The technological level of pagers in Asia is now only at the stage of sound and vibration reminders.

Digital technology is currently being conquered, and the effect that falls on consumers is to add a small screen to the pager so that it can display numbers. This number also includes the phone number and some common phrases replaced by specific numbers. For example, "1" is set to "you", "2" is set to "come, come", "3" is set to "me, my home", and "4" is set to "eat", then when the consumer Receiving the message "1234" means that the message is: Come to my house for dinner.

There is a phone number at the end.

The consumer can clearly know who invited him to his home for dinner.

This is already a very high-end technology that has not even been born yet.

Chinese characters display?

That should be a technology that we should work hard to overcome after digital technology is realized.

Why, why is it coming out now?

Shouldn’t the development of science and technology be gradual? Leaving aside pagers, Chinese character display technology was already a huge difficulty. He had never even heard of implementing this technology in computers, so why did he suddenly come to pagers?

Huang Huangfu's mind was filled with a hundred thousand whys. In an instant, his belief in the development of technology and his confidence in his pager business were on the verge of collapse.

Although he didn't want to admit it, but with the actual product in hand, he had to admit that the other party was at least five years ahead of his Starlight Communication Group in pager technology!

A deep sense of frustration arose.

Chinese Electronics, a little-known company, is so powerful.

Unlike Huang Jinfu's shock, astonishment and introspection, Fan Song didn't know much about pagers. In fact, he had only been exposed to them for two months. Now, he only felt angry.

It's the kind of incomparable anger that comes from you not telling the truth to me when I regard you as a confidant and a close friend:

He has always sworn how professional he is in the field of pagers and how leading his Starlight Communication Group is in the field of pagers in Hong Kong and even Asia.

Since you are so professional and leading, don't you know that in your small port city, there are already products that surpass your products by several levels?

"Liar? I think you are the liar!"

Huang Jinfu: "..."

Fan Song dragged him to the stairs. In addition to his anger, deep worries grew in his heart, and he lowered his voice and said:

"I have been harmed by you. The original intention of the company I am responsible for was to develop the pager business. Of course, I also understand that you have contributed to it, but you should not hide it from me, mislead me, and make me think that he is a liar. .

“I drove them away as liars and even threatened to call the police if they didn’t leave, so they now directly bypass our post and telecommunications and go to cooperate with a sanitary products factory.

“Actually, it doesn’t matter who they cooperate with. With this kind of product in hand, the market will definitely pay for it.

"Then my Mr. Huang, I want to ask you now, facing such competitors and such products, how should our cooperation be carried out, and who should we sell our products to?!"

Huang Jinfu: "..."

He couldn't refute, because Shanghai Post and Telecommunications had always trusted him. It was indeed his ignorance that misled the other party.

Huang Huangfu's secretary Xiaoyi interjected: "It's not necessarily that there will be no sales. The price of their pager must be quite expensive, several times that of ours. Few people in the mainland can afford it."

Fan Song's eyes brightened slightly, but he still couldn't eliminate the impatience and worry in his heart.

He was probably in trouble once this matter was reported back to the bureau.

After a long silence, Huang Jinfu and Fan Song suddenly said in unison: "Let's go!"

The two of them looked at each other and said nothing for the time being. Hu Ganlin and others looked like they were watching a show as they walked downstairs along the dilapidated stairs that had been in disrepair for a long time. They stopped in the night below.

"Where do you want to go?" Fan Song asked.

Huang Jinfu replied: "Look for someone from Huadian."

He wanted to ask, if the other party had such advanced pager technology, why not operate it in the port city, or even in the vast market of Southeast Asia? Even in markets with high telephone penetration, such pager technology can still carve out a niche. Isn’t it easier to make money in those places than in mainland China?

If the other party has something unspeakable to hide - there must be something, otherwise it won't make sense. He had never heard of this company. No matter how advanced their technology was, they probably weren't big.

He can pay high remuneration and acquire the opponent's technology, at least the agency rights in Hong Kong City.

As a result, it’s okay not to use the mainland market for the time being.

"No! Let me tell you Huang Jinfu. Only you and I know about the last meeting between us. They must not let it out, otherwise I will get into big trouble, and so will you!" Fan Song said in a deep voice.

Huang Jinfu frowned and asked, "Then where are you going?"

"Go back to the company and discuss countermeasures. What Secretary Zeng said just now is right. Our products are priced at several hundred, but their products are priced at thousands or even thousands? With the income level in mainland China, few people can afford it. We can't afford it anymore." See if you can lower the price further and trade the market at a lower price.

"Didn't you say that digital technology will be available next year? Let's hold on for a while, and then the gap between the two will not be so big, but our products will definitely be cheaper, and cooperation may not be impossible.

"No matter how good their products are, they have not considered the overall economic situation of the mainland and the income level of the people, and the people will be out of reach."

Fan Song's words moved Huang Jinfu. As a professional, he estimated the selling price of Huadian pagers. For the mainland people, it was a sky-high price without quotation marks.

He thought: It would be better to do what Fan Song said and start working first. After all, he had already paid so much and it was almost the harvest season.

As for those who contact Huadian, they can do so in private. Anyway, Huadian is now entering the mainland market. It is impossible for them to use their technology in the mainland and win the agency rights in Hong Kong City or other places. Fan Song will not know at all.

"alright."

The two of them had their own thoughts and disappeared into the night together.

Interests prompted their newly cracked relationship to reunite.

(End of this chapter)