Scholars in the courtyard.

Chapter 3059 Selling Computers Through Games
In classrooms.

Fatty Nan ran in, panting, and saw Helen surrounded by a group of girls, with Robert and Billy and their group outside.

In the crowd, Helen held a pink pager in her hand, her face beaming with joy.

"Fatty Nan!"

When Billy saw Fatty Nan run in, he instinctively stretched out his hands to block in front of him, not forgetting to show the pager at his waist.

Fatty Nan didn't even bother to look. With his fat body, he rammed into Billy and pushed him aside in an instant.

Billy slammed his head on the table, his eyes filled with resentment.

The henchmen behind him were about to step forward to help, but when they saw the people coming in from behind, they immediately stepped back.

A group of fat men walked in from outside and, without saying a word, stood behind Fatty Nan.

The arrogant Billy quickly hid in the crowd.

It's obvious that these guys have dealt with it.

Robert and the others next to Helen instinctively stepped back.

In the past, they would use Britain's glorious identity to bully these guys and let them know where they were.

But now, it's their turn to let them know where they are.

That's right, the other party's attitude towards them has changed; they are no longer subservient, worried, or afraid.

Rather, if they want to continue their original lives here, they must face these people squarely.

All these changes are because the giant in the north has awakened, and now he has stood up and begun to wield his sword.

Everything the other party said told them that a giant mother stood behind Hong Kong.

In comparison, the Portuguese were smarter and had a better understanding of the situation.

After establishing the Peninsula Hospital, they handed over the management of the surrounding area within a ten-mile radius to the other party, and even began to consider the opinions of the locals in internal affairs.

Robert instinctively stepped aside, allowing Fatty Nan to quickly come to Helen's side.

"Helen, the boss sent me a message."

He then placed his pager on the table.

Helen naturally knew who Fatty Nan's boss was, but she never expected that she could contact him using this pager.

Then I thought of the letters they had exchanged these past few days.

Although that guy always wrote strange things in his letters, she didn't dare ask her father. She could only learn the meaning of these words from newspapers across the street.

Then I realized that the other person's ambitions were too great.

In her understanding, British youths of the same age include those who want to become lawyers, those who want to be doctors, and those who want to travel and see the beauty of the world.

But no one at that age has ever dared to declare that they want to be the successors of a country.

And that's what the other party wrote in the letter.

That's how I told her about my dreams.

Compared to others, she felt so insignificant that she always felt humble when writing letters.

But the more this was the case, the more eager she became to learn about that land, that city, and that person!
It's just a pity that her identity destined her to face difficulties.

"Helen, Helen?"

Helen snapped out of her daze when she heard Fatty Nan's voice, then instinctively tucked a strand of hair behind her ear before laughing, "What did he say?"

“Look, the boss said this is his pager number.”

Fatty Nan showed a string of numbers, which Helen glanced at and immediately memorized, but her face remained unconcerned. "Hmm, he has a pager too."

Fatty Nan was taken aback for a moment, then saw the classmates around him and immediately laughed, "Yeah, it's not surprising that their family owns this."

Helen nodded without saying anything.

The people around them were puzzled by what the two were saying, and some were even curious about who Fatty Nan's older brother was.
How did Helen know?
Just then, the bell rang for class, and everyone quickly returned to their seats.

Taking advantage of the moment, Helen immediately copied the string of numbers into her notebook. After confirming that it matched what she had seen, she gently exhaled a breath of stale air.

Four Nine Cities.

Department Nine, Yang Xiaotao's office.

Li Hongfeng sat in front of the radiator, rubbing his hands. "It came from the foreign trade department. They're asking again when our computers will be released."

"This is the fifth time. The previous times we kept saying it wasn't ready, but now pagers are being used and computers are being used too. It's no longer appropriate to make excuses."

As he spoke, Li Hongfeng looked up at Yang Xiaotao.

The reason for this rush is actually because of those 50 billion.

This year, when Mr. Chen was holding a meeting, he set a foreign exchange target of 50 billion US dollars for the nine ministries.

As for the domestic GDP, the task assigned by the Ninth Department was already accomplished when pagers were selling like hotcakes.

Of the 50 billion yuan, nine departments have already achieved 45 billion yuan through revenue from the sale of pharmaceuticals, aircraft and machine tools, as well as satellites, satellite phones and tape recorders.

The remaining five billion has become the most pressing matter at hand.

Pagers are now available in Hong Kong. At the moment, a pager costs 500 yuan, which is about 100 US dollars.

It is estimated that Hong Kong will have more than one million pagers, which is worth one hundred million US dollars.

Then, Haojing can also take in 100,000 units; even a small amount is still something.

Then we'll see if we can sell it to the United States, but that might not be fast enough.

This year's Lunar New Year falls in mid-January, which is just over a month away.

Earning five billion US dollars in just over a month is an absolute challenge.

It's worth noting that the Ministry of Machine Building's 1 billion yuan target hadn't even been completed when I last chatted with Liu Huaimin.

Not to mention the logistics department of the Third Ministry of Machine Building.

In other words, the Seventh Ministry of Machinery Industry followed behind by selling satellites and missiles and made some money, but it still failed to reach the target of 10 billion.

It's not a big deal if everyone fails to complete it, but we should still try our best, right?
Currently, of the nine products that can still make money, only computers are still profitable.

This was also a product approved by Yang Xiaotao, but for some reason, Yang Xiaotao has been unwilling to release it.

At this moment, there was a computer on Yang Xiaotao's desk, humming, and he was holding a report in his hand.

After watching for a while, Yang Xiaotao would type a few words on the computer.

The report stated that Zhao Gang's quality control team went to Ran Qiuye's education department to audit the funds, and they uncovered some problems, and quite serious ones at that.

These are what Yang Xiaotao is looking at right now.

However, it's not convenient for Yang Xiaotao to take action right now. He can only show the information to Ran Qiuye and let them handle it themselves first. If they can't handle it, then he will step in.

If you take your own money, you have to do the work.

Even God wouldn't stand to see someone take money and do nothing.

After listening to Li Hongfeng, Yang Xiaotao put down the documents and rubbed his head. "I haven't thought about this yet."

Li Hongfeng asked curiously, "Are there any other concerns?"

Yang Xiaotao nodded, "There's only one concern. Once that's resolved, we can push it out immediately."

Li Hongfeng pricked up his ears. "Tell me what you think, and I'll give you some advice."

Yang Xiaotao then walked over and sat down in front of the other person. "Our computers are positioned to be sold all over the world. The main goal is to capture the market."

“I think a price of $50,000 is too high; current computer performance doesn’t meet that requirement.”

Li Hongfeng frowned. "Can't even that be achieved?"

"Our Dawn-1 satellite has a computing speed of 500,000 calculations per second!"

"This is much better than the Nine-Machine No. 2, and the Nine-Machine No. 2 was sold to the Persians for 30,000 US dollars a unit."

"Furthermore, our Dawn One far surpasses the former in performance, and it has a larger display screen and can handle office documents." "We'd be willing to pay $100,000 for all of this."

Hearing Li Hongfeng say this, Yang Xiaotao gave a wry smile.

He knew he couldn't reason with these people.

Even Mr. Chen, who was well aware of all this, insisted on the bottom line of $50,000 on this issue.

But at $50,000 a unit, only large companies and enterprises can afford it; ordinary foreigners simply cannot afford it.

It would be strange if the numbers could go up.

Moreover, the United States is currently researching computers, and they might just be able to create a computer like Dawn 1, at which point this price will be a joke.

Consider that the other side only has a few thousand dollars, while your side requires tens of thousands of dollars. Even a fool would know which side is more cost-effective to bet on.

After Li Hongfeng finished speaking, seeing Yang Xiaotao's expression, he knew that his ideas were different from Yang Xiaotao's, so he asked, "Then what price do you think is appropriate?"

Yang Xiaotao held up three fingers.

Li Hongfeng asked, "Thirty thousand?"

Yang Xiaotao shook his head, "Three thousand!"

"What? Three thousand?"

"The difference is too big."

Li Hongfeng was puzzled; the price difference was just too big.

Yang Xiaotao explained, "As I said before, with computers costing 50,000, I estimate that we can sell at most 10,000 units."

"But a computer that costs 3,000 might sell 100,000 or 200,000 units."

"You know, the computers we bought from the United States sell over 150,000 units annually there, and ours will only sell more."

"In this respect, the profits may be about the same, but the influence, especially the influence on ordinary people, is better."

Li Hongfeng picked up the water glass on the table, took a sip, and was still puzzled.

Seeing this, Yang Xiaotao continued, "I calculated the cost of our computer production. To put it bluntly, the valuable parts are the main unit and the Chinese operating system made with the Wei language."

"The cost of this main unit is around five hundred US dollars. The V language and Chinese operating system are all made by hand, and the cost is about two hundred US dollars."

"Besides that, the other components like mice and keyboards cost less than a hundred dollars. So, our total cost is at most a thousand dollars, and it will decrease further after mass production."

"So if we sell it for three thousand US dollars, we won't make a small profit."

Upon hearing the price, Li Hongfeng immediately shook his head, "No, no, it's still too cheap."

"While what you said about costs makes sense, what we make the most money from are the ideas."

"Without any ideas, this computer is no better than the second one!"

Yang Xiaotao listened without saying anything; the two could not reach an agreement on this matter.

Seeing that Yang Xiaotao wouldn't budge, Li Hongfeng knew that the matter had to be resolved, otherwise continuing to wait like this wouldn't work.

After thinking for a moment, he said, "Three thousand is too little."

"Thirty thousand, I'll go talk to Li Rong and the others, how about thirty thousand?"

Yang Xiaotao pondered for a moment, then nodded, "30,000 is fine, but it will be delayed by a week, and will be launched on New Year's Day."

"what happened?"

Yang Xiaotao took a deep breath. "Since we can't meet people's needs in terms of price, we can only try to improve things in other ways."

"What do you mean?"

Yang Xiaotao smiled mysteriously, "Buy a computer, get a game for free."

These words reminded him of how, in his past life, he had tricked his parents into buying him a computer, claiming it was for studying, but in reality...
It's all for playing games.

Li Hongfeng's eyes widened, then, as if realizing something, he asked curiously, "The research institute has already made it?"

Yang Xiaotao nodded, "After several revisions, the number of players has been reduced from eight to six, and the types of weapons have also been simplified."

"The difficulty has been greatly reduced, so the progress has been accelerated."

Li Hongfeng took a deep breath after hearing this; he dared not underestimate these kinds of game consoles.

It's important to know that game consoles and game cartridges have always been in high demand for export, especially with the gaming craze overseas. A group of young people are constantly shouting about playing games, and their enthusiasm is even greater than the construction revolution in China.

As for the game called 'Red Alert' that Yang Xiaotao had the game center create, he had also learned about it.

It's quite inspiring.

Adding Chinese elements to the game makes it much more exciting than the last tank battle.

The weapons are ridiculously powerful; even the missile cruiser resembles the Wei Qing, not to mention the Baiju fighter jet.

He was certain that if this game were released, it would be snapped up.

There are even plenty of people who buy computers specifically for playing games.

"I'll contact the foreign trade department right away."

Li Hongfeng couldn't sit still any longer, so he got up and walked out.

The next day, Li Rong arrived at the Ninth Division by car.

Yang Xiaotao and Li Hongfeng went out to greet them.

The three of them sat down in the office, and Li Rong got straight to the point, saying, "Xiao Yang, I have some good news to share."

"The test run of the pager in Hong Kong went very smoothly yesterday, and we expect to officially start operations next Monday."

Yang Xiaotao nodded. "Next Monday is Christmas Eve, isn't it? You really know how to pick a date."

Li Rong smiled smugly, "This is all thanks to your timely delivery; otherwise, even the best days are useless without anything."

After saying that, Li Rong glanced at Chen Lai and then continued, "Yesterday I received a call from Secretary Li about the price of the computer, and we need to confirm that."

Yang Xiaotao nodded, "Indeed, my suggestion was 30,000 US dollars, and Secretary Li agreed."

Li Hongfeng nodded in agreement, "It's too expensive and that's not conducive to promotion."

Li Rong suddenly laughed and said, "Okay, 30,000 it is. However, in actual operation, the price will fluctuate within this range. This is the law of the market."

Yang Xiaotao also knew that prices were subject to change, and that he could even raise prices by organizing promotions.

These are all business transactions, and Yang Xiaotao only hopes that the price won't be too outrageous.

"By the way, did you guys finish making the game?"

"The games installed on the computer?"

A smile appeared on Li Rong's face, clearly indicating that her purpose in coming here was to play the game.

Yang Xiaotao got up, walked to the computer, turned it on, and then, under Li Rong's curious gaze, clicked on a game icon.

Soon, the computer screen flashed.

Yang Xiaotao then began to introduce the game.

Even Li Rong, who had seen all kinds of games, was amazed by the images on the computer screen in front of her.

Although it's black and white, the quality of the game is much better than that of a game console.

Li Rong guided Yang Xiaotao to control the tanks in the game, which resembled a scene from a tank battle game, except there were many more tanks here.

Yang Xiaotao then quit the game; it was just too easy, and his opponent was too weak.

This is also a problem with the game, as the computer hardware is limited and cannot support large-scale battles.

Therefore, of the three maps, the largest 'Ice and Snow' can only support six bases, while the others can only support three and four.

"Okay, okay, that's great."

Li Rong shouted happily, but in her heart she kept blaming Yang Xiaotao. With this game, it would be hard for the computer not to sell well.

(End of this chapter)