Reborn Tokyo Golden Age

"That's right, the third type of CD player." Bai Chuanfeng looked at the crowd and said affirmatively, "In addition to listening to music at home or outdoors, have you forgotten another important platform?"

"Hey..." Everyone became more and more puzzled, looking at him like curious babies.

Bai Chuanfeng didn't give a damn, just spit out a word, "Car CD player."

Hiss~, everyone was shocked and shivered as if they were enlightened.

Why did I forget this, the current car can play music with a tape player, so it makes no sense that a CD player can't.

Moreover, portable CD players have come out, is it still difficult to have a car CD player? Just change it a little bit.

"As for the car CD player, the goal is to make a prototype in the first half of the year, and then we will take it to the major car manufacturers for promotion."

"Understood." Both Heitaro Nakajima and Yasuda nodded with serious faces. They knew that this would be another channel for mass shipment of CD players.

Considering that so many cars roll off the assembly line every year, if each car consumes a car CD player, there is no doubt that this market is not ordinary.

As for the main sales target of the car CD player, Bai Chuanfeng already had some concerns in his heart.

Don't think about Shirakawa Electric, the largest automaker in neon like Toyota.

Because Toyota belongs to the Mitsui Zaibatsu, and there are electronics manufacturers such as Sony and Toshiba under the Mitsui Zaibatsu.

So even if Toyota needs to consider car CD players, Sony and Toshiba will be their first choice.

In addition, the Mitsui Zaibatsu also has Suzuki Motors and Daihatsu Motors, and these basically cannot reach the head of Shirakawa Electric.

By the same token, Mitsubishi Motors and Honda Motors, the automakers under Mitsubishi, another big chaebol, do not need supplies from Shirakawa Electric.

Mitsubishi Electric has its own consumer electronics manufacturing department, and the car CD player has no technical difficulties for them.

According to this inference, there is Nissan Motor under the Fuji consortium, but they also have Hitachi.

Consumer electronics itself is within Hitachi's business scope, and Shirakawa Electric still has little hope.

There is also the remaining Mazda Motors, which is part of the Sumitomo consortium.

It also has NEC inside, such a strong brand in the field of consumer electronics.

Looking all the way down, the mainstream car brands of Neon seem to have their own ideal partners.

Then the car CD player of Baichuan Electric has no market at all?

You can't say that, don't forget that Baichuan Electric is also a member company of Daiichi Bank.

Within Daiichi Kanyin, there are also automakers such as Isuzu.

It is the car manufacturer that Bai Chuanfeng is most confident of winning. After all, isn't it the right thing for everyone in the consortium to support each other?

Unfortunately, although Isuzu is a car manufacturer, their market is mainly in the field of trucks and buses.

As for small cars, although there are, but the sense of presence is slightly lower.

The situation seems not very optimistic, but Shirakawa Electric is not completely hopeless, and Subaru is the target that Shirakawa Feng wants to focus on.

Although there is also the Nakajima Zaibatsu behind him, but coincidentally, this Zaibatsu has made great achievements in the field of heavy industry, but basically has no involvement in consumer electronics.

You see, by virtue of being one step ahead of others, isn't Baichuan Electric's opportunity coming?

"In the field of CD players, in addition to the three main products of portable CD players, desktop CD players, and vehicle-mounted CD players, the production of optical drives must also be stepped up."

At the briefing meeting in July last year, Baichuan Electric had already taken out the hand rubbing plate of the optical drive, so the hurdle of starting from scratch can be regarded as overcoming.

The next job is to process the optical drive as soon as possible and establish its supporting production line.

Nakajima Heitaro and the others have been doing these tasks, and they will even put them into production soon.

"If the progress goes well, in another two weeks, Baichuan Electric's first optical drive can be rolled out."

"Very well, the follow-up production plan will proceed according to the original route.

The supply to IBM is a built-in version, and the local supply of Neon is changed to an external version. "

The computer market in Beimi is no different from that of Neon, where the computers generally sell for around two to three thousand dollars.

Such a high overall price, plus an optical drive of three or four hundred dollars, does not seem so abrupt.

But Neon can't, because the price of Neon's computers is generally around 100,000 yen, which is only six to seven hundred dollars in conversion.

If the optical drive is built in at this time, it will mean that the price of the computer will increase by 50%.

There is no doubt that consumers will strongly resist such a large price gap.

So at this time, it is the best way to make the optical drive into an external version for the public to buy by themselves.

The main reason why the computer prices of Beimi and Nihong are so different is that companies such as IBM spread the research and development costs equally to each computer.

When the new computer was first launched, IBM generally did not make money, and even if they made money, the profit was very low.

However, with the improvement of the process and the increase of shipments, the production cost will gradually decrease.

As a result, the more computers are sold, the more money they make, and the profit margin in the later period will become very impressive.

But Neon is different. Neon's computer has almost no research and development costs.

On the other side of the ocean, IBM has come up with some new technology. Buy a computer and come back and take it apart to have a look. Then make a neon version of the corresponding technology by yourself, and that's it.

If it involves patents and cannot be imitated, then talk about authorization.

In short, I don’t buy the original products of Beimi anyway, and the last time I get the authorization and produce it myself.

All purposes are to save production costs, and the industrial espionage case of Hitachi mainframe occurred against the background of this era.

So don't expect neon to have any innovative technology on the computer.

From the beginning of its development, it has followed the cottage route, and has been following IBM to eat ashes. If there is a big innovation, it will be hell.

At the same time, in order to ensure the local computer market, the Neon government has imposed many restrictions on computer imports.

As a result, IBM and Apple computers have little presence in Neon, and ordinary people in Neon only know the brands of NEC, Fujitsu, and Sharp.

In order to achieve good sales of its optical drives in different markets, Shirakawa Electric has also formulated different strategic routes for this purpose.

After going through this year's mission goals with the R\u0026D team of Baichuan Electric, Baichuanfeng finally relaxed a lot.

After making the decision in the general direction, he basically doesn't bother with the rest of the details.

It is impossible to do everything by yourself. There are so many clubs under Baichuan Holdings, how can it be possible to care about everything.

His greatest contribution is being a good helmsman to guide the direction for those behind him.

With the new year and new weather, Bai Chuanfeng, who has been busy for a while after returning to Tokyo, began to think about buying some family business for himself.

It stands to reason that he already has many properties in Tokyo, so there should be no shortage of places to live.

However, at the exchange meeting within the First Bank Consortium, there was an idle property that aroused his interest.

This real estate is located in Setagaya Ward, west of the Sixth Ward of the central city. Not too far from central Tokyo, and certainly not too close.

Compared with the Chiyoda district where he lives now, to be honest, the location is not as good as the latter.

But the reason why Bai Chuan Feng was attracted was because it was big enough. The whole house covers an area of ​​more than 3,000 square meters, which is about the same size as the headquarters building of Bai Chuan Electric.

Such a place can no longer be called a residence, perhaps it is more appropriate to call it a manor.

Its first owner was once owned by a certain landowner in the Meiji era. Later, with the reform and post-war reorganization, the manor passed into the hands of the Seibu Group.

The Seibu Group has been involved in residential land development since the 1950s. Starting from Tokyo, almost every county in the south has its real estate.

Unlike ordinary houses, which are calculated in units of pings, Seibu Group's land assets are in hectares.

The scale of the houses it develops is generally around a thousand households, and the worst case is several hundred households.

This is the scale of Seibu Group's development in land and real estate. With its strength, it is not surprising that it owns a manor of more than 3,000 square meters in Setagaya District.

Seibu Department Store under the Seibu Group is also one of the member companies within Daiichi Bank.

This is why Bai Chuanfeng was able to get in touch with this property, otherwise such resources would not normally be circulated in the market.

After Bai Chuanfeng expressed a certain interest, Seibu Group also happily completed the transaction.

In 1983, the average land price in Setagaya District was about 400,000 yen per square meter.

More than 3,000 square meters of land is 1.2 billion yen, and the total is 1.8 billion yen including real estate.

After inspecting the environment of the manor on the spot, Bai Chuanfeng paid the money without hesitation.

Without him, it's too luxurious.

It's not that the house is so luxurious, but that the configuration is very much to Bai Chuanfeng's liking.

In addition to the Japanese-style architecture as the main house, the rather exquisite courtyard adds a bit of charm to the place.

The backyard courtyard is shaded by trees. In the open courtyard, small bridges and flowing water, rockery ponds and fish are all available.

In a downtown area like Tokyo, it is indeed fascinating to have a low-key mansion hidden in a park corner.

However, although Bai Chuanfeng bought the place, he didn't move in immediately.

Because of the age, many facilities are a bit old.

And in order to make yourself live more comfortably, the necessary modernization is also due.

Besides, I'm alone now, so I don't need such a big place.

But for future considerations, Bai Chuanfeng still felt that it was right to win this place.

In a few years, such a property will be impossible to buy even if you want to, even if you have extraordinary resources.

Although a large sum of money was spent, Bai Chuanfeng didn't feel distressed, he would come back after all the money was gone.

Time passed quietly, and it was already February in a blink of an eye.

This month, under Baichuan Holdings, a new company, Baichuan Interactive Entertainment, was formally established.

As in the original plan, HAL Research Institute, AutoNavi Toys, Tokuma Bookstore, Daiei, etc. will be transferred to its banner in the next period of time.

At the same time, in order to improve the layout in the entertainment industry, it is time to form a record company.

Considering that there are no relevant people in the industry around him, Bai Chuanfeng can only bring Matsuda Seiko over in the end.

Of course, part of the reason for establishing a record company was because of her consideration.

So it's not surprising to find her as a staff member.