Rebirth 1990: I have three golden fingers

Fang Bai had only been to Shencheng twice in his previous life, once for purchasing and the other for tourism.

In early February, the streets and alleys of Shencheng were still filled with an icy atmosphere, and the cold wind was howling through every corner. The lowest temperature could reach minus 20 degrees Celsius, especially when it snowed heavily a few days ago.

The weather is good today and flights from Shanghai to Shencheng are normal.

When the plane was about to land at Taoxian Airport, which had only been open to traffic for a few years, the outline of the city was clearly visible from the plane. High-rise buildings, wide roads and intersecting glaciers complemented each other. The entire city was covered with pure white snow, as if it were a giant city. A fairyland wrapped in silver.

As the plane landed safely, Fang Bai and his two entourages looked away from the window and prepared to set foot on the cold city of Shencheng with anticipation.

For southerners, they really like the heavy snow, the world of ice and snow, throwing snowballs, making snowmen, skating, and skiing.

However, Shencheng people don't like this kind of bad weather, especially drivers.

It can be said that the skills of driving in the Northeast for one year are better than those of southerners who have been driving for five or six years.

If the technology is not good enough, even the Audi Trans-Poke will not work.

"Boss, this damn place is so cold, my face is frozen."

Wang Dakai followed Fang Baigang out of the airport, and couldn't help but tremble a few times. If he felt colder, his urine would freeze into icicles after a while.

In this damn weather, I can only go to the big bathhouse to take a shower. The entire bathroom and changing room are warm. Maybe southerners don't like to be naked in front of groups of people.

It's okay to be a stranger, but the problem is that it would be extremely embarrassing if you meet the leader or boss. It is estimated that leaders or bosses who are usually majestic may sometimes fail.

I also don’t understand why I want to pay for a back rub, but also ask for a full body rub.

"Haha, weren't you looking forward to it before coming here?"

Fang Bai took a look at his body, which weighed two hundred kilograms. Wrapped in thick cotton clothes, he looked even bigger.

Perhaps due to the effect of strengthening his body, Fang Bai's cold resistance has been greatly improved. He doesn't feel much cold, but the air feels very dry, which is very different from Shencheng.

"I'm looking forward to seeing the world of ice and snow, but when I really experience the extreme cold weather, I'm still a little uncomfortable." Wang Dakai rubbed his hands and said. Fortunately, he brought enough clothes before coming.

But I only brought the clothes I was wearing and two pieces of underwear, and I had no other clothes to change into.

He and Li Xiaolong came out to protect Fang Bai, not just to hang out.

The three of them left the airport and took a taxi to the booked hotel to stay.

There was ice and snow on the road, and cars were driving very slowly. On a downhill road in the city, we even saw car collisions.

Fang Bai sat in the back seat and admired the world of ice and snow outside the window, while recalling the economic conditions of the three northeastern provinces in this era.

Mineral resources are abundant, but as the resources continue to be exploited, they are slowly depleted, and the economy has slowly declined in recent years. Especially after more than ten years, the whole country is lagging behind, and young people are running to southern cities.

The next day, at nine o'clock in the morning.

Fang Bai and his party left the hotel and took a car to Shen Yi Machine Tool Company.

As soon as I got off the car, I saw a large banner hanging on the door of Shen Yi Machine Tool Company: "Warmly welcome Mr. Fang Bai, Chairman of Xinghai Group, to the company!"

Before departure, Fang Bai made a phone call.

When we arrived yesterday, the senior management of Shen Yi Company wanted to have dinner with Fang Bai. Fang Bai refused, saying that there was no need to bother. He was really afraid of being invited to take a bath after dinner.

At this time, several senior leaders of Shen Yi Machine Tool Company were waiting in the lobby of the office building. They saw Fang Bai getting off the car and came over quickly.

They had seen Fang Bai's photo, but not the person.

It can also be seen from the auras of the three of them that the person walking slightly forward in the middle is naturally Fang Bai.

Fang Bai had not yet approached the three people who were greeting him. He looked at a middle-aged man in his fifties who came over first and threw a probe first.

Shen Yi Machine Tool Company is currently a municipal unit. The general manager is in charge, but there is no administrative establishment.

"Hello, Chu Chen. Nice to meet you." Fang Bai didn't call him Mr. Chen, but called him administrative level. People liked it.

General manager Chen Tao didn't expect Fang Bai to recognize him right away. The two parties had never met before. How did he decide that he was the general manager? It wouldn't be embarrassing if he admitted his mistake.

"Boss Fang, welcome to Shen Yi Machine Tool Company. Boss Fang is young and promising, and his career is booming. It's amazing. I hope Boss Fang will give you some advice." Although Chen Tao's words are flattering, Shen Yi Machine Tool Company has Many stubborn problems, such as bloated management staff, low production efficiency, high costs, and production capacity are all based on the number of people.

In particular, it lacks market orientation and is unable to adapt to market demand and meet consumer expectations. Most orders are fed by brother units or above.

That is to say, in the next ten years, many state-owned enterprises will be restructured when they cannot survive, and many state-owned enterprise leaders will embezzle state-owned assets, and this phenomenon is very common.

"Haha, let's exchange and learn together." Fang Bai was polite to everyone, took off his gloves and shook hands.

After the polite exchanges, both parties went to the conference room to sit and drink tea. It was much more comfortable with the heating in the room.

Fang Bai drank hot tea and listened to a leader of Shen Yi Machine Tool Company explain their company's advantages.

In fact, after Fang Bai just finished detecting Chen Tao, he was slowly getting to know the situation of Shen Yi Company, which was more truthful than what the other party told him.

After finishing speaking, Fang Bai wanted to visit the workshop before placing an order.

The on-site management of state-owned enterprises is still very neat, but 5S management is not used. Fang Bai found many problems at a glance, but he did not point them out.

The management model is deeply ingrained and difficult to change. Even if the problem is known, it is not something that Chen Tao and others can decide at will.

The equipment purchased by Fangbai this time mainly includes ordinary CA6130 and CA6140 lathes, small and medium-sized CNC lathes, medium and large floor boring and milling machines, gantry milling, radial drills, CNC drills, wire cutting and other equipment.

Ordinary machine tools are not expensive, costing tens of thousands of yuan per unit, but medium and large equipment are expensive, costing hundreds of thousands per unit.

In fact, the purchase amount of machining equipment is at most 30 million yuan.

Fangbai has an equipment procurement budget of 200 million. The purchased equipment includes machining equipment, blanking and bending equipment, welding equipment, spray painting and other equipment.

In terms of machining equipment, the money spent is mainly on high-precision equipment, the kind that costs hundreds of thousands or even millions of units.

Shen Yi Machine Tool Company did not have this type of equipment, so it was none of Fang Bai's business if he wanted to buy it but couldn't. The budget was one to two hundred million yuan, but the final purchase amount was only two to thirty million yuan.

When Fang Bai planned to go abroad, he entrusted the senior management of Scoop Company to make good contacts, and then entrusted the other party to help with the purchase.

After inspecting several workshops, Fang Bai got to know the factory of Shenyi Machine Tool Company.

He made a list, and in the afternoon, he went directly to the inventory to count the goods. If the goods were not in stock, he asked to use the machine tools made of the materials from Polar Bear. If the price was higher, it would be fine.

Two days later, Fang Bai left Shen Yi Machine Tool Company with a contract value of about 30 million yuan to purchase machining equipment, and gained five connections by the way.

After purchasing machining equipment, Fang Bai went to other companies to purchase blanking equipment, mainly CNC flame cutting machine blanking equipment.

The carbon steel plates used by the company are generally 10-20 millimeters thick, with a few tens of millimeters thick. They are generally cut using a CNC flame machine.

There are no advanced equipment such as water beam cutting, laser cutting, and plasma cutting.

Thirty years later, laser cutting machines have become popular, with high cutting accuracy and fast speed.

But it is only suitable for cutting thin plates below 10 mm. It can still be used for 10-16 mm, but medium and thick plates above 16 mm still rely on CNC flame machines.

The company has a CNC flame cutting machine, but it is not sufficient for layout and needs to purchase three more. This type of equipment costs hundreds of thousands of yuan per unit in this era.

A few days later, Fang Bai returned to Shanghai Company.

During this business trip, he made more than a dozen connections and spent more than 50 million yuan purchasing equipment.

There will be a spring equipment exhibition in Shanghai in a while. He plans to go there and purchase equipment directly at the exhibition. It is really tiring to go to every manufacturer. This is why some bosses like to purchase equipment at exhibitions.

Just two days later, a horrifying news was broadcast on TV. A huge fire broke out in Linxi Department Store in Xishi City, killing dozens of people. Media and TV stations across the country were reporting the news.

Fang Bai was a little surprised when he saw the news.

A week ago, he asked his parents to conduct a fire drill. At that time, Vancouver TV station interviewed and reported on it, and the Vancouver Daily News also reported on it.

At that time, a reporter interviewed Fang Shi and asked: "The fire drill has affected the business of Xinghai Mall to a certain extent. Isn't it worth it?"

"My son said that the fire prevention awareness of employees and customers is relatively weak. They may not know how to use fire extinguishers or emergency escapes when a fire breaks out. In order to ensure the safety of customers, it is recommended that the company conduct a fire drill and check the existing fire drills in the mall. Security risks.

It is very necessary to strengthen daily fire drills to prevent fires before they occur. Human lives are greater than money. "Fang Shi said in an interview with media reporters that he thought about his lines before the interview.

If it was two years ago, his answer terms would not be so good.

At that time, the Wenzhou Daily and TV stations only made brief reports. The people of Wenzhou just thought it was a trivial matter and did not take it to heart at all.

What the citizens of Vancouver did not expect was that just a few days later, a major fire broke out in a shopping mall, which was published in national newspapers and caused a national sensation.

The news pointed out that the problems exposed in the fire safety management of Linxi Department Store in Tangshan City are quite serious and the lessons learned are extremely profound.

In contrast, the citizens of Wencheng felt that Fang Bai was really prescient. The local media in Wencheng thought this was a good news topic and conducted a comparative report, which was published in the newspaper on February 15.

Sure enough, just one day later, on February 16, many media outlets across the country reprinted reports praising Fang Bai of Xinghai Group for his foresight and sense of social responsibility.

For example, the title "Fire in Linxi Department Store, Fang Bai has already sounded the morning bell", the content reports: "After realizing that employees and customers in his mall had weak awareness of fire protection, Fang Bai, the chairman of Xinghai Group, did not hide the problem and strongly demanded Conduct fire drills and invite local TV stations to promote them, hoping that local citizens will pay attention..."

It can be said that there is no harm without comparison.

It is precisely because of this incident that provincial government leaders conducted a comparative analysis between the Xinghai Mall in Wenzhou and the Linxi Department Store in Tangshan City, and asked all units in the province to pay attention to fire drills. Fire drills quickly started in various places.

The relevant leaders of the Wencheng government were praised by their superiors, and the relevant departments subsequently issued a plaque of "Advanced Fire Fighting Unit" to Xinghai Mall.

This incident is just a small matter for Fang Bai, giving Xinghai Group a better reputation and social reputation.

Just when media reporters came to interview Fang Bai, Fang Bai and his business delegation had already boarded a direct flight from Shanghai to Los Angeles on February 16.

Years ago, Fang Bai prepared for the visa issue abroad.

This trip abroad was, of course, to C-Cube Microsystems, a company founded in 1988 and headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

This company was founded by Sun Yan, a Chinese national. Fang Bai had a phone conversation with him and purchased a lot of decoding chips. However, the other party did not know that he was using them to make VCDs and thought they were CD players.

Fang Bai entrusted his business partners to purchase hundreds of thousands more decoding chips.

Last year, Jiang Wanmeng met Sun Yan at the Chouguo International Radio and Television Technology Exhibition. The two hit it off and decided to develop MPEG consumer electronics products.

In the past few months, Jiang Wanmeng has returned to China to conduct market research. He should now know that there is a market for audio-visual products, VCD machines.

However, Jiang Wanmeng and Sun Yan jointly invested US$1,700 to establish Wanyan Company on March 18, only one month ago.

In fact, the two hit it off and already had this idea, but it was still a long time before they developed a VCD machine.

Therefore, if the two of them know that Xinghai Group has developed it, there are only three outcomes.

First, Sun Yan no longer sells decoding chips to Xinghai Group. He and Jiang Wanmeng continue to develop VCDs and want to monopolize the market;

Second, if Sun Yan and Jiang Wanmeng knew that Xinghai Group had applied for an international patent for VCD, they would have no choice but to give up the partnership and Sun Yan would continue to sell decoding chips to Xinghai Group.

Third, Sun Yan wants to invest in Fang Bai's VCD company and also wants to share the VCD cake, but Fang Bai will definitely not agree.

Of course, there are other possibilities, but the above three are the most likely.

The manufacturing of decoding chips is relatively simple. It just means that it cannot be manufactured domestically and must rely on countries or countries with chip manufacturing, not just Scobo Microsystems. Many companies in the future will purchase decoding chips, not all of them from Scobo.

Scobo Microsystems only designs chips and entrusts chip manufacturing companies to produce them, rather than manufacturing chips.

It can also be said that Fang Bai can entrust other chip manufacturing companies in Chou to produce decoding chips, which requires the use of different design drawings from the original ones. It's just that this matter is very troublesome to do, so Fang Bai still tries his best to purchase decoding chips from Scobo Microsystems Company. The money has to be earned by others.

Fang Bai has a golden finger, which can greatly increase Sun Yan's favorability towards him. It is not a problem to continue selling him decoding chips.

Maybe Sun Yan can be persuaded to give up cooperation with Jiang Wanmeng, but Fang Bai doesn't want to tell him that his company has developed a VCD for the time being.

And Jiang Wanmeng didn't plan to apply for a patent, and probably didn't check for plagiarism, so he didn't know that Xinghai Group had applied for a patent.

If you go to patent plagiarism check, you might actually be able to find VCD-related patents, and you might give up on VCD research and development.

When the time comes, it is discovered that Sun Yan sold decoding chips to Xinghai Group and cooperated with him. Sun Yan will eventually take the blame.

In addition, Xinghai Group purchased the decoding chip from Scobo Microsystems to manufacture VCDs. Of course, there is no patent infringement conflict with the other company.

What Fang Bai bought was a physical object, not using other people's technology.

Later Wanyan VCD was the creator of the world's first VCD machine, but Jiang Wanmeng believed that piracy was rampant in the country and it was of little significance to apply for a patent for the whole machine.

Jiang Wanmeng is also very reasonable. Wan Yan did not do well just because he was in financial difficulties and was not familiar with the market, so he did not eat the big cake of VCD.

Xinghai Group has applied for a patent, and Fang Bai can definitely foresee that there will be piracy of VCDs. He can't stop it. He can only sue one by one and use marketing methods to sell the hoarded products as soon as possible.

More than ten hours later, Fang Bai and others arrived in Los Angeles, California.

January and February are the coldest months in Los Angeles, but no matter how cold it is, it never drops below zero degrees Celsius. Winters are mild and humid. The temperature is the same as that of Queenstown, but it is close to the sea and the air is humid.

Fang Bai has never been to Los Angeles and is not familiar with the place.

There are three people in the negotiation team. In addition to Fang Bai, there is also a part-time translator who is responsible for assisting business negotiations and a person who is familiar with local laws to solve contract legal issues and provide legal advice.

Fang Bai is responsible for technology and negotiation, and the two people he brings are people who have studied or worked in Chou Country.

The company has business in this area, so it recruited such professionals last year.

While on the plane, the flight attendants filled in the I-94 form and customs report for Fang Bai and others. After getting off the plane, they went to the entry hall to submit the information. After completing these, they went through customs inspection and handed in the customs report for random inspection. Leaving the airport will bring you a series of troubles.

After leaving the airport, Fang Bai felt a different exotic atmosphere. There were mostly white, black, and Latino people, and very few Asians.

Once here, they are foreigners.

"Hi, boy, Are you Japanese? or Korean?" a black man asked him.

"NO, I am chinese!" Fang Bai said very proudly.

"Not really!"

The black man was a little surprised when he heard Fang Bai's answer and shook his head.

In the eyes of most foreigners, China at this time was a very backward economy, feudal country, and a slave system.

Maybe money is God, and most of the capital is still very enthusiastic about foreign customers, except for Z customers.

Xinghai Group's purchase volume is not large. In the past few months, it has purchased nearly one million decoding chips, with a contract value of US$14 to 5 million.

However, Fang Bai did not ask Sun Yan to send someone to pick him up. He had two employees who were familiar with the local area, so he had no worries at all.

Just now, Fang Bai detected the next driver's information and roughly knew the traffic conditions in Los Angeles.

It's just that, even if it is detection, it can only understand the information at the surface and literal level.

Fang and Bai took a taxi to the Hilton Hotel to stay and put down their luggage.

Even if Fang Bai was in good physical condition, he couldn't bear it after flying for more than ten hours. He took a shower first and then had a meal together.

The next day, Fang Bai and his party visited Scoop Company.

Fang Bai's purpose is to see if he can lower the price of decoding chips while ensuring the purchase volume. If he places a big order, he will have to consider breaking the contract even if he breaks the contract.

In addition, based on Sun Yan's relationship, I will visit some high-tech companies in Los Angeles to "learn" from their advanced equipment and see if I can buy some more advanced equipment and return to China.

If it was too advanced, Fang Bai didn't expect it to be shipped to China. The company agreed, but it would probably be rotted when it left customs.

Unless the company is willing to bear the risk of customs clearance. (End of chapter)