Break out of the courtyard

Thursday, March 1981, 1, sunny.

Because of the large number of participants, Tingmei Trading Company chose to hold its bidding in the Concert Hall of the Hong Kong City Hall, which has more than 1400 seats and ready-made audio equipment.

The security outside the building was very strict, with five metal detectors and five teams of security personnel to ensure that no one brought weapons in.

As for the bullets and weapons that were forcefully confiscated by Umbrella Security, the gun parts and weapons were handed over to the Hong Kong police for destruction, while the bullets were kept by their own security personnel for practicing shooting at the shooting range, forming a perfect ecological closed loop. Both the Hong Kong government and the Hong Kong police are happy to let the Umbrella Security personnel play the bad guys.

Chen Shuting is in charge of the bidding.

Although Zhang Heping went out with his concubine Chen Shuting, he did not come here. Instead, he brought people to work overtime to build a base station.

In fact, compared with the elderly mobile phone made by his nephew Tang Qiang, the base station is hundreds of times easier to make, because radio technology has been developed for nearly a hundred years, and many parts are ready-made. Only distributed station devices, central station devices and the like need Zhang Heping to assemble them.

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A tenor voice suddenly sounded, startling the host who was introducing the bidding items on the stage, not to mention the audience below.

Everyone looked in the direction of the voice and saw Chen Shuting with a flushed face taking out a white rectangular object that was three fingers wide and as long as a palm from her handbag.

"Hey!"

Chen Shuting put the white cell phone to her ear, stood up and walked towards the entrance of the concert hall.

wow...

The concert hall suddenly exploded!

“Is that an intercom?”

"What kind of walkie-talkie have you ever seen that can play music that loud?"

"It's so small! It can't be a phone! A satellite phone?"

"Whether it's a phone or not, its music-playing function is better than Nissan's Walkman!"

"I heard before that Chairman Tang's third son is trying to attract investment in Magnesium Country. The project is called..."

"Mobile phone! The phone in your hand!"

"Yes, yes, yes! That's the name! I heard that 10% of the shares can be exchanged for a 10 billion magnesium investment!"

"If that was really a mobile phone, someone would invest 100 billion yuan!"

"Oh no! The Japanese are chasing us!"

"The Magnesium people have also passed by!"

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Because the ringtones of elderly mobile phones were turned up to the maximum, and the Japanese were involved in the production of mobile phone chips, the Chinese had already made a 6-kilogram mobile phone. The key was that Tang Qiang had been promoting it for nearly a year.

Therefore, people from both Japan and magnesium reacted the fastest, and their first reaction was to spend money to buy authorization.

As for stealing technology, they have the intention but don’t have the chance to do it!

Not long after, Chen Shuting came back.

"What's going on?" Chen Shuting looked at the Japanese who were stopped by the security guards at the door and frowned, "Don't disrupt the venue, or you will be asked to leave."

She said this as if the person who answered the phone at the meeting just now was not her.

Then, Chen Shuting waved to the host on the stage and said, "There is no need to bid for cellular base stations and radio towers."

After saying this, Chen Shuting returned to the middle seat of the first row as if nothing had happened.

Zhang Jianing from Jianing Group looked at Chen Shuting on the left curiously and asked in a low voice: "Mr. Chen, what did you just use..."

"Cell phone!" Chen Shuting took out a small white old-fashioned phone from her handbag, handed it to Zhang Jianing who was full of curiosity, and taught her how to make a call.

Ever since Zhang Heping told her last time that he should pay attention to Jianing Group, Chen Shuting has consciously or unconsciously accepted Zhang Jianing's initiative to approach her.

"Hello, is this Brother Song?" Zhang Jianing held the phone in his right hand, covered his mouth with his left hand, and whispered, "Are you really Brother Song? I'm Jianing... I'm still in the concert hall, I'm telling you, eh?"

Zhang Jianing looked at Chen Shuting with half surprise and half worry, "No sound!"

"Maybe it's out of battery!" Chen Shuting took the old phone, and under the curious gaze of people around her, she opened the back cover of the phone, removed the two No. 5 lithium-ion batteries, and replaced them with two new batteries.

"The phone and battery were just made a short time ago, and the signal tower is still being built. This phone will need to be tested for a while before it can be put on the market." Chen Shuting explained to the people around her while calling back the landline number. "Here!"

"Hello, Brother Song?" Zhang Jianing heard the slightly distorted voice coming from the phone and said hurriedly, "I'll talk to you when I get back."

"Mr. Chen, can I have a try?" The CEO of China Resources shamelessly extended his hand.

"Press the phone number first. The green button is for confirming and dialing, and the red button is for canceling and hanging up." Chen Shuting explained to the CEO of China Resources in the second row and handed over the phone.

Next, the white old-fashioned cell phone was passed back and forth among the old men and women in the front two rows of the concert hall.

About an hour later, the silent phone returned to Chen Shuting's hands.

As Chen Shuting changed the batteries, she explained, "Sorry, everyone! I only have two batteries left, and I need to use them to answer calls."

Although the mobile phones were put back into the bags, the people who had just tried the phones were still interested and were all talking to each other, making the bidding seem like a foil for the phones.

An old man asked with shining eyes: "Mr. Chen, is this phone expensive?"

"Hong Kong Island Telecom has not yet set the price, and Hong Kong Island Telecom has not set the call charges either." Chen Shuting smiled and said, "Anyway, it's not expensive for everyone here."

"Mr. Chen, does this phone use AA batteries? Two batteries seem to last half an hour."

"It uses No. 5 lithium-ion batteries, not ordinary dry batteries."

"I heard that Hong Kong Island Telecom is controlled by Mr. Chen. I wonder when Hong Kong Island Telecom will go public?"

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The audience was distracted, and the host was also somewhat helpless. The one who took the lead in making trouble was actually her boss. "The next telephone line to be tendered is quartz fiber optic cable, and the fiber loss must be less than..."

Fiber optic cables were produced by the Americans as early as 1887, and the "optical telephone" was invented several years earlier.

The first quartz optical fiber was not developed in China until early 1977.

Therefore, in order to put domestic quartz optical fiber into commercial use as soon as possible, Zhang Heping did not choose cheap twisted pair cables for telephone lines, but laid out optical fiber cables in one step.

In a few years, he will have people get personal computers and broadband Internet.

There is another reason. Hong Kong Island Telecom has to pay 16% corporate profits tax on its annual dividends.

In order to transfer the annual profits of Hong Kong Island Telecom and prevent other telecommunications companies from emerging, Zhang Heping decided not to distribute dividends in the next five years and to spend the money on telecommunications infrastructure.

As an affiliated company, Tingmei Trading plays the role of a buyer. As for the supplier, it depends on the actual situation.

Even though Zhang Heping prefers to purchase goods from domestic sources, he still has to consider issues of efficiency and quality.

Therefore, when the bid of Sino-Japanese Magnesium Eagle was submitted, the host eliminated the magnesium supplier with the most expensive bid, leaving Sino-Japanese Magnesium Eagle and the other three parties to provide 3 kilometers of quartz optical fiber samples within two weeks. After testing, the host would decide which party to cooperate with.

"The digital switches that will be tendered next must use chips with a manufacturing process below 50 microns..."

A guy from the magnesium industry suddenly stood up and said loudly, "We need to see the design drawings of the digital switch to determine whether we can make it, and we also need to make a quotation!"

The host was interrupted but did not get angry. He followed Zhang Heping's instructions and said, "Our company will not publish the design drawings at the bidding meeting, lest some experts leave the meeting after reading the drawings!"

Everyone laughed when they heard this, and recalled the last wave power station bidding. As soon as the foreigners saw the technical drawings, they learned it and left without giving any face at all.

"For this bid for digital switches, you don't need to quote for now. Just state the process size your factory can achieve. We will keep the three factories with the smallest sizes for inspection and then provide technical support."

"Subsequent bidding for central office equipment, remote equipment, user terminals, digital terminals, optical terminals, etc., all followed this bidding model."

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