Siheyuan: I am Jia Dongxu's cousin

Seeing that all the bosses' eyes were focused on him, Yoshida Masakazu replied nervously, "Don't worry, Zhang Jun promised me before that if there are any quality problems with the quartz watch within two years, he can replace it with a new one for free."

Zhang Weiguo specifically told Yoshida Masaichi this in order to dispel his concerns about the quality of quartz watches.

Although quartz watches have a great price advantage over mechanical watches, they are new things after all. The promise of free replacement for quality problems within two years can completely dispel the concerns of Mitsui Group and buyers.

People of this era are relatively simple and honest. Even though quartz watches are much cheaper than mechanical watches, they still need a month's salary to buy one. Generally speaking, people still take good care of their watches.

If a quartz watch is used normally, you don’t need to worry about quality problems within 2 years, let alone 5 years. Even if the battery dies, you only need to spend HK$10 to replace it with a new one.

"Huh..." After listening to Yoshida Masaichi's explanation, the director breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Everyone, please express your opinions. Should we purchase a large number of quartz watches from the Flower Planting Group?"

"Raise your hands if you agree."

The director raised his hand after he finished speaking.

"Agree!" A colleague raised his left hand.

"agree!"

“You can purchase it!”

As the directors raised their hands one by one, the only person who did not raise his hand was a man sitting in the middle of the meeting room, except for Yoshida Masaichi, who had no sense of presence.

Seeing everyone looking at him, the middle-aged man sitting in the middle, Mitsui Chiwen, said, "I agree with purchasing a large number of quartz watches, but you seem to have overlooked one thing."

Mitsui Chiwen continued, "Since we can purchase quartz watches in large quantities from the Zhonghua Group, then Sumitomo, Mitsubishi and Fuji can also purchase them. There is no reason for the Zhonghua Group not to sell to them. In this way, we will face competition from Sumitomo, Mitsubishi and Fuji."

Mitsui Chiwen cleared his throat and continued, "So we must get the exclusive agency of quartz watches in Fuso, so that we can guarantee our profits."

"I agree with the chairman, but will the Flower Planting Group give us Mitsui exclusive authorization?"

Hearing the inquiry from the directors below, Sanjing Qianwen said confidently: "Nothing is impossible in this world, it's just that the benefits are not enough."

"Yoshida Masaichi, please help me arrange a meeting with Zhang Weiguo of the Flower Planting Group. I want to talk to him in person this time."

"Hey! Chairman." Yoshida Masaichi bowed to Mitsui Chiwen and went out to talk to Zhang Weiguo about this matter.

……

While the Mitsui Group was discussing obtaining exclusive authorization from Zhang Weiguo, Zhang Weiguo took Meng Cheng to Fuso to poach the other party's talents.

Zhang Weiguo's goal this time was to recruit a semiconductor research team from Toshiba, a Japanese company. The team had eight members, five of whom were Japanese, one was from Japan, and two were from the Amis.

Long before he came, Zhang Weiguo had already commissioned a headhunting company to contact this research team and offered them a salary three times their current salary.

Seven members of the team have agreed to leave Toshiba and join the Flower Planting Group, while the other one is still hesitating.

However, Zhang Weiguo has arranged people to take a roundabout route, starting with his family and mainly using pillow talk.

The reason why Zhang Weiguo insisted on poaching this team was mainly because he was impressed by the team's strength in chips.

Although the Flower Planting Group purchased a large number of machine tools from Germany, it still has to take one step at a time. At the same time, the development of industry requires a lot of funds, although Zhang Weiguo's Flower Planting Group now has several cash cows.

But Zhang Weiguo felt that it was not enough. As early as last year, Zhang Weiguo began to recruit talents in the chip industry from Aramco and British Broadcom, and at the same time gave them a research topic - MPEG compression technology (image decompression).

MPEG压缩技术的起源于1988年，在1990年被阿美人定义完成，并在1992年底被批准成为国际标准。其中最着名的包括MPEG-1、MPEG-2等。

Although this technology originated in 1988, it is completely possible to develop it now. It's just that no one has thought about it yet.

The MPEG compression technology was actually used to produce VCDs and later DVDs based on MPEG-1.

The world's first VCD was developed by Wanyan Company in my country. However, because Wanyan Company did not pay attention to patents at that time, the patent was registered by a foreign company.

This directly resulted in Wanyan Company, the inventor of VCD, having to pay patent fees to foreign companies before selling it.

At the same time, since the MPEG compression technology used by Wanyan originated from abroad, foreign companies such as Toshiba and Sony took advantage of their strong technical advantages to be the first to develop DVD, which directly led to the bankruptcy of Wanyan, the inventor of the DVD.

However, Zhang Weiguo would not repeat Wan Yan's mistake and would directly ask people to study MPEG compression technology in advance.

In this way, when the VCD of the Zhonghua Group is developed, those imitators will find that the standards of MPEG compression technology have already been defined by the Zhonghua Group. If others want to join the game, they must pay a large amount of patent fees to the Zhonghua Group.

You should know that around 1996, for every VCD produced by manufacturers in Longguo, the various patent fees alone amounted to as much as US$21.

By 2000, the production of a DVD required a patent fee of US$27, which directly accounted for 30% of the production cost.

But now all this money belongs to Zhang Weiguo.

Moreover, Zhang Weiguo also had people research the CD burning technology. This not only enabled him to master the key patents of VCD, but also monopolized the burning technology of movie sources.

This directly blocked the path for companies that wanted to engage in VCD and DVD business. They had no other choice but to pay patent fees to Zhang Weiguo's Flower Planting Group.

……

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"Mr. Zhang, this is our Mitsui's chairman, Mr. Mitsui Chiwen." Yoshida Masakazu introduced to Zhang Weiguo.

"Mr. Zhang, I have long heard of your great name."

Zhang Weiguo looked at the middle-aged man in front of him and said with a smile, "Hello, Mr. Qianwen."

After the two of them flattered each other for a while, Sanjing Qianwen said straight to the point: "Mr. Zhang, I came here this time to talk to you about the exclusive agency rights of quartz watches."

Mitsui Chiwen paused, then continued, "We are willing to pay 2 million Hong Kong dollars to buy the exclusive agency of quartz watches in Fuso."

Hearing Mitsui Chiwen's offer, Zhang Weiguo shook his head.

Sanjing Qianwen saw Zhang Weiguo shaking his head, thinking that he was not satisfied with the price of 2 million Hong Kong dollars, and asked again: "How about 2.5 million Hong Kong dollars?"

"Mr. Qianwen, the Zhonghua Group is not short of money right now. If the Mitsui Group wants to become the exclusive agent of quartz watches in Fuso, it is not enough to just give money. They also need to agree to one condition of mine."

After saying this, Zhang Weiguo took a sip of sake and waited for Mitsui Chiwen's answer with a smile.

Mitsui Qianwen heard Zhang Weiguo's words and thought for a while. He said, "I don't know what conditions Mr. Zhang has, but as long as our Mitsui Group can do it, we will definitely not refuse."

Zhang Weiguo was waiting for this sentence, and immediately said with a smile: "I want the shares of Hitachi Ltd. held by Mitsui."

"This……"

When Mitsui Chiwen heard that Zhang Weiguo wanted shares in Hitachi, he thought about the pros and cons in his mind.

A few minutes later, Mitsui Chiwen said, "Hitachi's shares can be sold to Zhang Jun, but what about the agency fee for this exclusive authorization?"

"Just as Mr. Qianwen said, 2 million Hong Kong dollars!"

"No, no, no," Sanjing Qianwen shook his head. "Zhang Jun also knows that it is impossible to buy shares of Hitachi at a normal price, so Zhang Jun must compensate me with the licensing fee, so that I can persuade the board of directors to sell the shares of Hitachi to you."

Zhang Weiguo knew that Mitsui Chiwen was not lying. Hitachi was in its growth phase and it was impossible to buy it at the market price. Moreover, he took 18% in one go. If he didn't raise the price by 50%, the other party would not give in.

After thinking for a few minutes, Zhang Weiguo said, "Then I will take the exclusive authorization of quartz watches in Fuso in exchange for the shares of Hitachi, Ltd. held by the Mitsui Group."

"Of course Mitsui needs to sell it to me based on Hitachi's current share price," Zhang Weiguo added.

Sanjing Qianwen thought for a while, then smiled and extended his hand to Zhang Weiguo, "Mr. Zhang, happy cooperation!"

"Happy cooperation!"

Zhang Weiguo was very happy to get the shares of Hitachi, Ltd. from Mitsui, so in the subsequent conversation, Zhang Weiguo also gave face to Mitsui Chiwen and simply gave all the existing inventory to Mitsui Group with a wave of his hand.

After that, the two discussed the shipping and payment matters, and then Zhang Weiguo got up and left.