Reaching for the stars with one hand

Chapter 179 The Hertz Controversy 9
Several engineers opened Zhang Yong's sketch and immediately pulled Tang Liwei over.The latter had a look of helplessness and anticipation. The helplessness was because it was already certain that the boss had come up with another strange thing.Looking forward to is full of expectations for Zhang Yong's wonderful design.After all, the last reference station receiver that he criticized was incomplete, and it has already been put into operation, and has received hundreds of millions of investment for Zhongxun.

But even with mental preparation, Tang Liwei was surprised by Zhang Yong's design. What is it?a small black box,
"Sorry, brothers. This can only be explained by the boss himself. I don't understand, and I don't know what this is used for?"

Tang Liwei walked into Zhang Yong's office and found that Zhang Yong was testing a small drone.The enclosed space amplified the noise of the rotor, and Tonley could not help but frown.

Zhang Yong, on the other hand, swipe the screen on the iPhone with great interest. With his swipe, the drone rises, lands, moves forward, moves backward, rotates left, rotates right, takes pictures, and videos.A long-lost innocent expression appeared on Zhang Yong's face. Even Tang Liwei was stunned when he saw it. He didn't interrupt the boss, letting the grown-up and fathered boy let himself go here.

It's a pity that Zhang Yong didn't live up to it. He was having fun, and the drone unknowingly approached the wall, and then got behind a movable whiteboard.The whiteboard blocked Zhang Yong's line of sight, and there were only white walls and whiteboards on the phone screen. Except for the humming and roaring sound, there was no trace of the drone at all.

Tang Liwei kindly wanted to push the whiteboard away, but Zhang Yong, who was in high spirits, waved his hand to stop him.He thought for a while, turned the drone at an angle based on his feeling, and then swiped his finger upwards.

There was only a sound of "pop", and the roar of the propellers stopped immediately, and the drone plunged to the ground quickly, followed by a series of collisions and rolls.When Tang Liwei went over and pushed the whiteboard away, the drone's rotor broke off, hanging down limply, and swaying slightly.

Tang Liwei held back the gloating in his heart, with a very regretful expression, "Boss, why don't you fly outside?"

"The drone has a built-in Beidou chip and a no-fly zone map. In Beijing, it can't take off at all, so I had to enjoy it indoors. Hey, Tang Liwei, your face has become a bit big recently, so pay attention to control."

Tang Liwei guessed that Zhang Yong must have seen through his inner joy, so he took revenge on him.When he walked over, he realized that although the drone could not fly, the camera had not been turned off, and his face just happened to be projected on Zhang Yong's cell phone, so the boss disliked his face for being too big.

"Okay, take the drone away, and help me contact the manufacturer to see how to repair it. If you are here to ask me, my design problem. Is this drone the answer?"

"What do you mean?" Tang Liwei still didn't understand.

Zhang Yong threw his mobile phone to Tang Liwei, "The mobile phone."

"What about the phone..." Tang Liwei said halfway, and suddenly understood.

"The receiver you designed is used with a mobile phone? It's like a sensor with a wireless interface."

"Well," Zhang Yong nodded, "Aren't you very smart, you don't need to ask me."

Tang Liwei felt that everything suddenly became clear. "The mobile phone APP replaces the RTK control system. The mobile phone is connected to the host wirelessly, and the communication function of the mobile phone is used to obtain differential signals for the system. The data storage is also stored in the mobile phone memory. Therefore, the receiver itself can be simplified. Minimized. Portable and low cost. Today, with the popularity of smart phones, there is no need to configure a heavy but expensive field manual. Even if the phone has a problem, you can just replace it with a new one. God, boss, what do you think? Such a genius design?"

"Is it difficult? Playing drones will come out of it."

Tang Liwei scratched his head. The first time he saw the drone's flight control was using a mobile app, he was also very interested, but he got used to it soon.But I never thought of making a receiver in this way.

"Boss, I admire your genius design, but it doesn't seem to make much sense?"

"why?"

"No matter how good the design is, as long as you make it, someone will imitate it. If this product goes on the market, I guess within half a year, Dongfang will come up with similar products, and within a year, there will be such products all over the street. In the end, it returned to the old way of price competition.”

"Are you sure? You didn't pay attention to the size of the equipment, did you? Whose board can fit into my design?"

Tang Liwei estimated it, and it was true, "But if others can't do it, we can't do it either."

"My plan is a dual-frequency chip with built-in Hertz."

Tang Liwei smiled wryly, "Boss, it seems that everything is a phantom, it's still early, and whether it can be realized is a question."

Zhang Yong sternly said to Tang Liwei: "From now on, you and your subordinates must have a firm attitude. First, the acquisition of Zhonghe in the United States must be successful. Second, the research and development of dual-frequency boards must be successful. We will follow the Do things with this belief, and don’t have other worries.”

Tang Liwei looked at Zhang Yong's rare seriousness, and wanted to say yes, but finally couldn't help but question, "Boss, doing things requires dedication. I understand how important such confidence is to us, but if the future does not meet expectations , How strong the confidence is now, how weak everyone will be after losing confidence. Our team may collapse directly."

"That's not the case. I've actually thought about this decision for a long time. Mr. Gao has been giving me time, waiting for me to confirm. I'm vacillating. It's been almost a year. I suddenly realized that I was wrong, and there are risks in everything I do. , have to face trade-offs. I have always wanted to confirm that the chance of this matter is more than 70.00%, but no one can confirm it...."

"In this case, it is stupid to continue to wait and confirm. We need to decide, or give up, or continue. So we chose to continue. Now that we have chosen, we can no longer hesitate. You must be as confident as I am. If The future doesn't live up to expectations, the collapse of confidence you speak of is only the slightest result, we will encounter more serious problems. I can't guarantee that bad results will never happen, but at least, I will not regret the choice I made now , because I've figured it out. See what I mean?"

Tang Liwei nodded, "I understand, I will maintain the same confidence as you. But I would like to ask where is the future of this receiver? Will it continue to provide these three ODMs? This is a good business."

"Not necessarily. There may be better business opportunities in the future. This receiver connected to mobile phones does not look like a surveying and mapping product. It should be more widely used in the future, and we will take a long-term view."

"Okay, I don't understand much, but you can think about these things. I'm going out, let's study your design. But the final draft needs you to get the chip, and we'll digest all your fanciful concepts one by one. Well. I hope I can understand it myself and stop asking questions.”

……

When a call came from the United States, Zhang Yong looked at the number and a smile appeared on his face.He found that every time Holden appeared, he was very happy.

"Old Huo, what's the good news?"

"Zhang Yong, are you my personal friend?"

"What do you mean?"

"Very important, answer me, Yes or No."

"Of course Yes, Lao Huo, you have always been my good friend."

"Oh," Zhang Yong felt, Horton seemed to be relieved. When did he care so much about Zhang Yong, a friend.

"Mr. Gao asked me to do a survey of China's domestic intention to acquire Hertz, and I have already completed it. But at that time, I had an unfinished agreement with Hertz, so my conclusion could only be told to Mr. Gao after 37 days. Of course, today The survey cooperation between me and Mr. Gao has already been completed. So it will not affect my receiving related commissions from other companies, are you right? My friend."

From Horton's seemingly disordered and somewhat chaotic words, Zhang Yong knew that his old friend Horton had received many commissions, but he didn't want to violate the principles of any party, at least on the surface.And this phone call to myself must have a deep meaning.

"I know that my friend Holden has always been a person with a good work ethic and integrity."

"Haha," Horton smiled with satisfaction. "So after telling Mr. Gao that someone in China intends to acquire Hertz, I accepted the commission of this domestic company to evaluate the value of Hertz's high-precision department. You have to believe me, our evaluation is definitely the most professional , will not be influenced by anyone...”

"Now that Mr. Gao's commission has ended, it's inconvenient for me to tell him anything. It's against my principles. So I can only talk about it occasionally when I'm chatting with my friends."

"That's right. We've always been good friends." Zhang Yong hurriedly confessed.

"Yes. And even if it is a friend, I will not disclose any specific information, especially numbers. I can only tell him that I did this evaluation for this company. One of the evaluation basis is the price that SKydon acquired Mag. As Friend, do you think it's reasonable for me to do this?"

"This is unreasonable. There is no reasonable thing in the world. Lao Huo, I have a request for you."

"A chip is inserted between two ribs between friends, if you have anything to say, just say it."

"When I left Skydon, I chatted with Li Kefei about you. He said that he owed you because of me, so my request is that no matter where I meet Li Kefei, you are the one who invites him."

"Your father's elder brother, why?"

"Because everything that Li Kefei owes you comes from me. So some of it must be charged to my account, and it's all mine. As for the relationship between the two of us, as long as you come to China, Be my guest!"

Horton cried exaggeratedly on the phone, "Zhang Yong, I've been waiting for this day for a long time, and I've been waiting for your words for a long time. Just wait, I will arrange a trip to China as soon as possible. By the way, And one more thing.……"

"There is another Chinese company that didn't show interest in the acquisition of Hertz, but it also asked me to do a value survey of Hertz, selling two copies of a report, so why not do it. Of course, I still won't tell you Who is this company. You guessed it yourself, it has nothing to do with me. I just plan to eat you well. For nothing"

……

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"Mr. Gao, do you have time?"

"Zhang Yong, I haven't stayed in China for a long time, and I just want to ask you to meet. If it's convenient for you, come here now."

Zhang Yong walked into Gao Ping's office, Gao Ping casually threw him a box, Zhang Yong looked at it, it was a pair of bluetooth earphones.

"Is this a gift you brought me back from America?"

"It's so beautiful, I didn't even take care of the gifts from my family. It's not mine, it was given to you by Li Mei. She never imagined that the Hertz product has not yet been formed. She just listened to your suggestion and added A Zhongxun service as the mainstay, won the driving school project. In fact, Zhongxun service is open. When others tell users that they can also provide the same service, users get angry. Why didn’t you say it earlier? Now Zhonghe binds the service, but you come here and say it can be done. Haven’t you heard the story of Columbus setting eggs?”

Zhang Yong smiled, "This leader is very cultured, and this metaphor is very interesting."

"That's right," Gao Ping also laughed, "but the salesmen on the other side have no culture. They asked, director, what is the story of Columbus setting eggs, and the director got angry and kicked them out. Haha."

The two laughed together.

"So, this is Li Mei's gift to you as a thank you. This girl has clear grievances and grievances. Although she is sometimes too persistent, she is a good salesman. I told her that I can talk to you more when I encounter problems. This bluetooth Headphones can be your stepping stone."

"What kind of knocking brick do I use? The gate is always open, and a brick can be thrown on my head from the gate. I accept it and thank her for me."

The two chatted for a few words, and soon got to the point.

"Horton just called me."

"This guy took a lot of money from Zhonghe, and he wanted to count every word. But judging from the results, the money paid to him is worth it. I like this guy. He has thoroughly studied Chinese and American cultures. , It’s obvious that you sneak around every day, but it’s all a serious business, and everything is in compliance.”

"He told me two things. He told you before that the Chinese company that wants to acquire Hertz is evaluating the value of Hertz's high-precision department, and another company that has no intention of acquiring it is also evaluating it. What did you think of?"

Gao Ping closed his eyes and leaned back on his boss chair. After a while, he opened his eyes.

"The first one is Shangda. Horton told me 37 days before his agreement with Hertz expired. As for the company that has no intention but investigates the market value, it must not be Big Dipper. Guess who it is?"

"East."

"reason?"

"You told me last time that there is no reason for everything. My instinct is the East. Especially at this year's ChinterGEO, he was asked a question about Zhongxun, and he was very unhappy. I guess he will have something. Actions to stop Zhongxun. The cooperation agreement between Zhongxun and Zhonghe has long been exposed and known to everyone."

"Agreed, you think the same as I do. But there are some troubles."

"What's the trouble?"

"I am preparing overseas funds. This is a time gap. It takes time for them to issue private placements in China, and it takes time for the cash to go abroad, and it takes time for the approval of the SAFE. So when they are stuck in various discussions and approvals, once we make a move, rely on overseas funds. Take it in one fell swoop..."

"But if Shangda is also preparing overseas funds and has Dongfang's support, my previous layout will not make much sense. It's time to compare prices again..."

"But it's just a competition for funds. I'm not afraid of them. There is Dongfang behind Shangda, and I can also find other companies to help. If evaluated by historical transactions, Mag was only sold for 5000 million US dollars. For a department of Hertz, Mag's value is [-]% One is already very high. So this little money is not a problem, I am not afraid of Shang Da and Dongfang joining forces. But there is only one problem here."

"what is the problem?"

"It's impossible for me to pay a high premium, because Hertz is not worth so much at all." Gao Ping frowned.

(End of this chapter)