Reaching for the stars with one hand

Chapter 144 Battle of Chips 2
Texas, USA, a small town outside San Antonio, Daniels Electronics Factory.

Boss Mike Daniels received a strange call.

"Mike's office, who is it?"

"This is Horton Consulting Company. May I ask if you just bought a batch of scrapped circuit boards from Europe. I have a buyer and I am very interested in it."

"Sorry, sir. Daniels was originally recycling scrap circuit boards, we will only process them ourselves and not resell them."

"Mr. Daniels, I never knew there was such a rule in the circuit board recycling industry. Let me change my requirements. I want to buy a component on this board. Is that okay?"

"Of course, that's what we do. What do you want?"

"I'm in the Bay Area. If it's convenient, I'll fly over there now. Let's have an interview tomorrow morning, is that okay?"

Daniels frowned. It seemed that there was nothing sensitive about this batch of boards. Why can't they communicate on the phone?But he didn't refuse in the end, "Okay, come to my office at ten o'clock tomorrow morning. Tell me your full name."

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Horton hung up the phone with a smug expression on his face.

"Zhang Yong, I helped you this time. Even if I really owe you something, it should be written off. Li Kefei, bastard, you wait to invite me to dinner in China. But Holden never helps for free, Zhang Yong, thank you for giving me a big business."

Holden's ability is not what it used to be, and he found such a batch of goods in less than a week.What is even more gratifying is that this batch of goods was actually exported to the United States, which is only a three and a half hour flight from the Bay Area.

"Zhang Yong, I have basically finished what you want, and I will meet with the buyer tomorrow morning. I want to know your bottom line, quantity and price."

"Old Huo, your skills are getting better and better. It is said that Li Kefei doesn't like to see you anymore, because every time we meet, he treats you to dinner."

"Haha, Lao Huo eats according to his ability. He earns it by himself, and he doesn't eat for nothing. In Shanghai, Li Kefei, under your instigation, ate so many meals from me. I will eat them all in my lifetime. Let's talk about serious things. , how many chips do you want?"

There was a sly smile on Zhang Yong's face, this kind of expression was not often seen on his face.

"I want one hundred thousand pieces."

"What about the price?"

"Within five dollars."

"Zhang Yong, you're kidding me. Can you afford $50? It won't be a few years. You earn more than me now?"

Zhang Yong smiled and said calmly, "Of course not all at once, maybe divided into several batches, for example, [-] pieces at a time. I have been in this industry for more than ten years, and I will always take this little money." figure it out?"

"Okay, I understand. I will try my best to negotiate this matter according to your bottom line, but your price is too low, so I can only say my best."

"Old Huo, I said that five dollars is not my lower limit, but the highest price I can bear. If you can get three dollars, one dollar is what I want."

"Zhang Yong, don't think too beautifully, why don't you come to the United States and talk about it yourself."

"The bottom line is given to you, I believe in your ability. By the way, one of the most important things, don't forget."

"what?"

"I want ten samples, and you need to bring them to China yourself."

"Don't trust this batch of goods, or don't trust me? Be so careful."

"Old Huo, you're overthinking. I don't trust this batch of goods, nor you. But I'm waiting for your good news."

"Damn it, I almost forgot that you are worse than Li Kefei."

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The next morning, Holden came to Daniels Electronics Factory as scheduled.

"You want this?" Mike asked slightly angrily.

"What? Is there a problem?" Holden looked calm.

"I don't know. It's because your customers are not very smart, or you haven't explained it clearly to the users. This chip cannot be removed, and it will be invalid after it is removed. You flew here for more than three hours, just to talk about this. A meaningless sentence?"

Holden was contemplative, "Is that so? The client didn't tell me. Give me a minute, I need to make a call."

Horton walked out of Mike's office, muttered and made a phone call, and when he returned, he looked frustrated.

"It's too bad, it's too bad. I made a big mistake this time. It was a big business, but now I'm afraid it will shrink greatly. It's not worth my trip at all. It's a big loss this time."

Mike was impatient with his nagging, "Horton, I'm sorry, are you here to say goodbye? I wish you the best of luck."

"No, no, the business is still to be done, and the goods are still needed, but you don't need to pick up the chips. Now customers only need you to cut the part with the chip from the board completely, and give them together with the board. But the price is just..." Horton had an expression of pain.

It's a pity that Horton's superb acting skills did not impress Mike.He frowned and asked, "What price? How much are you going to ask for?"

"It could have been sold for $10-20, but now it's down to a dollar. They're still reluctant, saying that's the highest price they've given."

"Let me ask again, how many slices do you want?"

"One hundred thousand pieces, oops, it's just a one hundred thousand dollar business. It's really not worth my trip. But I can only continue, otherwise I won't even be able to earn the travel expenses."

A smile appeared on the corner of Mike's mouth, a completely useless chip that can't be sold at all, can earn one hundred thousand dollars now.And it hardly affects the value of the whole board at all.It's obviously good business.

"Horton, it seems that you can only make this trip in vain. The European market price for this chip is 55 euros, and I plan to sell it for as low as 5 dollars. I can't accept your price."

"Too bad, ****," Horton spit out a series of F letters, "I can't even earn back the airfare this time. Sorry, Mike, it's not your problem, it's me being too unprofessional. Can Call me a car to the airport? I'm going back, bye."

Horton turned and opened the door to leave, mumbling extremely frustrated as he walked.

At the gate of Daniels' processing plant, Holden didn't see a taxi, but an employee of Daniels stopped him.

"Hello, Mr. Daniels, is it possible to raise some prices, would two dollars be acceptable?"

"Of course I want to accept it. The higher the price, the higher my commission. It's a pity that users can only accept 80 cents for a maximum of one dollar. Forget it, thank you Mr. Daniels. Excuse me, call a taxi for me." ?"

"Mr. Daniels appreciated your sincerity in flying to Texas, and he finally agreed to sell you the cut-out chip for a dollar."

"Thank you, Mr. Daniels. Although there is no profit, it is better than running empty-handed. Give me ten samples like this, and I will take them back and report to the user."

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It wasn't Holden's biggest deal, but it was nearly the most successful.He helped Zhang Yong a lot, paid off all the favors, and earned 40 US dollars for himself.

Three days later, he boarded a flight from San Francisco to Beijing.

Then he got a warm welcome from Zhang Yong, but Horton who didn't see Li Kefei was obviously a little unhappy. "Why, didn't you invite Li Kefei together?"

"When it's time to eat, I'll let him come. Well, give me the board first."

"Inspect the goods, Boss Zhang."

Zhang Yong checked the board piece by piece earnestly and greedily, especially looking at the Emel chip on it, his eyes lit up.

Then he took out his phone, "Li Kefei, Lao Huo and I are in Tutu's coffee shop. Our business has been finished, you can come over and treat him to dinner. Sorry, I have something tonight, so I won't participate. A Skydon's People, a Mag's people, it's not good to be seen in the mix."

"Zhang Yong, how did you become like this? Is this only talking about benefits and not affection at all? I really think you dare to leave. Believe it or not, I will tell old Huo Duo something bad about you, so that he will never Working with you,...hey,...hey, damn it."

Zhang Yong hung up the phone, and then said to Holden: "Just wait here, Li Kefei should be here soon. I'll be leaving first..."

"As for the ten boards, I will pay 500 US dollars for each board. All other related expenses, air tickets and travel will be counted on me. You provide a list of expenses, and I will pay you together with the cost of the boards. Okay, thank you help, goodbye."

Horton sensed something was wrong, "Zhang Yong, what do you mean? Your goal is only these ten boards, right? One hundred thousand boards is simply you fooling me? You are helping you, are you treating your friends like this?" His voice gradually rose.

Zhang Yong actually smiled, "Old Huo, let me ask you one thing first. If I really buy these [-] pieces, how much can you earn from it? I guess, you are willing to give that factory one dollar a piece at most, I guess right?"

"What about you?" Holden suddenly stopped, unable to speak again.

"It seems that I guessed right, Holden, you have always been my good friend, and we know each other very well. So I can't bear to hurt you."

"Aren't you hurting me now?"

"Of course. I remember you said that you are a legal businessman and never do illegal business, right?"

"Yes, but this business of recycling old circuit boards and dismantling components is legal. At most I brought ten boards to China without declaring them, but these boards are worthless at all, and I will not pay legal liability. Pay a little tax."

"It's not illegal for you to buy and sell boards. But this chip is one-time, and it is sold in limited quantities worldwide, so it is easy to find the source. If someone cracks the programming of this chip, then steals the programs of other manufacturers, and copies the whole set of boards, Take it to the market and sell it. Will it be illegal?..."

"These chips will be easily found to be traded through Holden. I'm afraid it's hard for you to tell. Even if you get rid of the suspicion, I'm afraid your reputation in the industry will be damaged. Am I right?"

"You," Holden said again.

"I take ten boards, at most it's just scientific research. If I really take [-] boards, both of us will be in trouble. So even if I really want boards, I won't pass you. Who made us friends."

"Gao Ming," Holden gritted his teeth and clapped his hands, "You are so smart, Zhang Yong, you are smarter than what I have done before, I really underestimate you. But I still don't understand, there are no [-] boards, this mere [-] boards What can you do with a board?"

He was a little dissatisfied. Being played by Zhang Yong was not because he was not smart enough, but what Zhang Yong did was completely illogical. What can ten chips do?No one would do such a thing.

"It's not enough to do illegal things, but it's enough to do legal things. Lao Huo, I'm actually very grateful to you, but I'm poor now, and $5000 is the highest price I can give. In the past, Mr. Li Kefei Said, you owe me a favor. From now on, you don't owe me, but I owe you. When we meet in the future, I will invite you for every meal. "

"Damn, then you are welcome, don't go, stay and have dinner together. Don't pay for Li Kefei today, you pay the bill."

"Not today, I have something to do. Well, see you next time, I wish you and Li Kefei a happy meal."

Zhang Yong left, leaving behind Horton a series of American insults.

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The level of Yuexin's manufacturing was exactly as Wang Yuexin said, and Zhang Yong was not disappointed at all.

Now he has an 11-yuan chip in his hand, which looks intact and has no trace of use at all.

Here is an original chip with the Mag program, and ten Emmel chips that don't know which program is installed.With these eleven chips in his arms, Zhang Yong came to Shenzhen.

Every day that followed, Zhang Yong wandered around every corner of Huaqiangbei Electronics Market.

"I want to make a programmer for this chip, is it possible?" He asked the same question countless times.

The other party basically just glanced at it and replied: "Aimel? Can't do it."

Three days is not a long time, but it is enough to make Zhang Yong feel extremely hopeless.

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Mag headquarters in Nantes, France.

One month, four weekly meetings, Xiao Sewa and Oliver did not mention Zhang Yong's progress, and Da Sewa did not continue to ask.

Everyone thought that even if Zhang Yong persisted, he might have encountered problems, and it was only a matter of time before he gave up.

Da Sewa made a phone call with Fang Shu, "Celina, maybe this is what you want, Zhang Yong did not complete what I asked him to do. Unfortunately, I thought he could perform miracles, but unfortunately I was wrong. He is very good and has no problem managing the China office, but to get an OEM board, obviously we overestimated him.”

Fang Shu sighed, "I just hope he didn't give up too late, and didn't completely sink himself in."

It wasn't until Christophe returned to France that Da Sewa knew that Zhang Yong actually sneaked into T-key to visit.He snickered inwardly, but his face was serious, "That's enough, Chris, I'm not interested in unimportant things, and the T-key matter has nothing to do with us."

"I'm afraid that some things will be related. Zhang Yong can't accept our process and control. He said he will settle the matter of Aimel's chip."

Da Sewa shrugged, "I hope he can create a small miracle, but he regards himself as a superman."

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Desperate Zhang Yong continued to wander around every corner of the Huaqiangbei electronics market with little hope. If Madam saw him like this, he would feel extremely distressed. He was disheveled, haggard, and looked devastated.

As night fell, Zhang Yong returned to his hotel, and he sorted out the business cards he had received.Some of them were obtained from stalls or shops, and some were given to him by floating people in the market.

He took out an extremely simple business card, the white card said "copy board chip", and there was only an anonymous mobile phone number underneath.

Zhang Yong dialed the past, just a mentality of going to the doctor when he was sick, and he didn't report any hope.

"Hello."

"I want to ask, is it possible to burn the Emel chip?"

"Yes." The person opposite only replied with two words.

(End of this chapter)