Break out of the courtyard

A word from elder brother Tang Lie suddenly woke Tang Qiang up.

Only then did he remember that if his uncle Zhang Heping had not led people to build cellular base stations and radio towers in recent days, his mobile phone would have been just a toy that could play ringtones.

"You have to sacrifice to gain!" Zhang Heping said calmly, "Let me teach you one more thing. In this world, free things are the most expensive!"

"Free things are the most expensive?" Tang Qiang pondered over these words in a low voice.

When Tang Lie, who was standing by, heard this, he thought of the saying "A man who eats someone's food will be soft-hearted, and a man who takes someone's money will be obliged to return the favor."

Then he thought about the many benefits his family had received from his uncle, and he had to consider his uncle's family's feelings in everything he said and did, which made him feel uncomfortable and helpless.

Zhang Heping quickly finished his meal, drank some tea and rinsed his mouth, then looked at his nephew Tang Lie, "What do you think of this phone after you've used it?"

Tang Lie put down his chopsticks and replied seriously: "It's small and convenient, it will definitely sell well!"

"When you heard the ringtone of your cell phone, did you ever think about whether your CD player would be eliminated in the future?" Zhang Heping frowned at his nephew. "When you saw the LCD screen on your cell phone, did you never associate it with the handheld game console?"

Zhang Heping stood up, put his right palm on Tang Lie's head, then raised it and put it on Tang Qiang's head. Then he saw him go to the living room and read the newspaper.

We cannot say that these two brothers are stupid, because people these days do not have a strong sense of innovation, especially among people from Hong Kong Island.

Apart from speculating in real estate, they are also speculating in stocks; manufacturing is moving to the Pearl River Delta to carry out the "three-in-one" and "one-in-one" business, and financial licenses have not yet been opened up to the outside world.

During this period, Taiwan, Singapore, and South Korea were all undergoing technological transformation, and only Hong Kong was regressing. If it were not for the export dividends from the mainland, there would be no Four Asian Tigers in the future.

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The next day, on the 3rd, the Hong Kong media, which had been suppressed for two days, was finally able to speak out!

The front page headlines are all about Hong Kong Island Telecom's mobile phone business and Hong Kong Island Telecom's mobile phones.

At the same time, Tang Qiang brought a white mobile phone and a group of bodyguards to the Super Girl audition site of ATV.

A surprise mobile phone with the number 001-00010001 was given to one of the girls who participated in the audition through a lottery box.

“Hit one!”

"Just give it a try!"

"Call the number on the Zhou Ji Barbecued Pork sign next door and ask them to treat each of us to a serving of barbecued pork, haha!"

On the makeshift stage, Tang Qiang helped the 17- or 18-year-old girl hold the phone box and charging cable. He looked at the girl and encouraged her by saying,

"Do you want to call home? Dial the area code and the five-digit landline number, then press the green dial button."

The girl looked at Tang Qiang, who was smiling, and hesitantly dialed a number with her white cell phone...

"Hello? Mom, I'm Xiaoxuan, I..."

"I'll pay 1 for your cell phone!" There was a sudden shout from the audience.

"Don't listen to him!" Tang Qiang said with a smile in front of the microphone: "The number of your phone is 00010001. My uncle said that this number means one in a million. Anyone who sells it for less than 100 million is a fool."

"What's more, this phone number has 1 yuan pre-deposited in it!"

"101!" A middle-aged man with a side part and a cigar in his mouth followed a few thugs and came to the stage. "Boss Qiang, I'll pay 101 for this phone. What do you think?"

Tang Qiang didn't know this person, so he smiled and said, "This phone is not mine. You have to ask this lady."

The man with the side part took off his sunglasses and said, "Little sister, I'll pay 101 million for your phone, how about that?"

Faced with this sudden wealth, the little girl was obviously confused.

"Or, why don't you ask your mother?" Tang Qiang pointed at her cell phone which had not been hung up.

After this reminder, the little girl reacted immediately and told her mother what happened at the scene in a fragmentary manner.

The next second, she looked around for someone as if she had just remembered.

"Dad!" The little girl ran to the edge of the stage, where two bodyguards were stopping a middle-aged man.

"Be careful, don't drop my phone!" a middle-aged man with side-parted hair shouted from the audience.

"What business are you in, brother?" Tang Qiang squatted on the edge of the stage, extended his right hand to the middle-aged man with side-parted hair and shook it, but did not give the other party a chance to go on stage.

"I'm just running a small business, I can't compare with President Qiang, this is my business card." The middle-aged man with side parting hair said, handing over the business card of the chairman of a little-known construction company.

Tang Qiang smiled and put the business card into his suit pocket. He stood up in front of the microphone and said, "From today until the last day of this month."

"Our Hong Kong Island Telecom Company will randomly select a Super Girl audition site every day and give away a mobile phone with 1 yuan pre-paid phone bill. Please stay tuned!"

After Tang Qiang left the stage, he saw that the girl and her father were reluctant to leave and were obviously thinking of selling their phone, so he left two bodyguards with them to avoid any trouble with the first lottery phone.

"Break out her registration information!" When Tang Qiang left, he did not forget what Zhang Heping had told him.

It is said that he did this today because his mother saw that his two brothers were looking sad at home last night, so she took him to the villa next door to ask his uncle Zhang Heping for some advice.

According to his second wife's mother, "If the method you came up with can make you 1 yuan, the method your uncle gave you can make you 1 yuan. You are such a grown-up, why don't you say a few nice words to your uncle? Do you want your uncle to beg you to teach you how to do it?"

Then, there was this morning’s media campaign and the daily live lottery for a mobile phone.

"Boss Qiang! I've heard of you for a long time!"

"I don't deserve it! Manager Qu, just call me A Qiang!" Tang Qiang shook hands with General Manager Qu who had just arrived, took a mobile phone box from the bodyguard, handed it to the person in charge of ATV, and said with a smile:

"Mr. Qu, our Hong Kong Island Telecommunications Company is a new company, so we can only sponsor your Super Girl program with mobile phones. Please don't despise us."

"Boss Qiang, that's not right. You are willing to put your mobile phone first on our TV station. It's our ATV that benefits from you!" Manager Qu said, looking at Tang Lie next to him and smiled:

"Before, I felt that the Super Girl program would be a hit because I had received sponsorship from President Lie for the CD advertisement. Now with the support of President Qiang's mobile phone, I suddenly feel a lot of pressure!"

Manager Qu saw the two young masters of the Tang family were puzzled, and hurriedly said, "I'm afraid that our TV station's people will mess up the show, and that would be a shame to you two for your appreciation!"

"Haha!" Tang Lie laughed, "This is not our appreciation, but my uncle thought you are very hardworking, so he asked us to find you."

Tang Qiang said at the side: "Manager Qu, this phone is for you. Please help us promote it!"

"This... is too expensive!" Manager Qu pretended to be polite, then opened the box and took out a black mobile phone. He couldn't let it go and said, "Holding this phone, I feel more stylish than riding in a Rolls-Royce!"

This sentence immediately awakened the two brothers Tang Lie and Tang Qiang.

After separating from Manager Qu, the two brothers got into a black car and began to talk in a low voice.

Tang Qiang said excitedly, "Brother, I think I understand why my uncle disagrees with the prices I quoted for those phones!"

Tang Lie also understood something, but he didn't say what he thought. Instead, he let Tang Qiang continue speaking.

"My uncle didn't allow me to take the business series mobile phone to the audition site for the lucky draw last night, but asked me to give a mobile phone to Manager Qu." Tang Qiang said excitedly: "Style! Style! A boss needs style!"

"The motherboards and chips of the two phones are the same, only the plastic shells and the number of batteries are different!" Tang Qiang lowered his voice and said, "The average cost price of each phone is only 399 magnesium yuan. I quoted the price of the leisure phone to 3000 magnesium yuan and the business phone to 5000 magnesium yuan, but my uncle still disagreed!"

"Just now, a man with a side part spent 101 million to buy that leisure machine. I didn't react at the time. It was not until Manager Qu said something that I woke up!"

"Those bosses are not short of money, but they are short of style!"

"How much are you going to order now?" Tang Lie said seriously, "Just to remind you, think about what your uncle said last night. Don't be like Tang Hai, who only cares about the immediate benefits."

"What I said last night... You have to give to gain!"

“Free is the most expensive!”

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