Reborn in 2011, 985 missing from two copies

Chapter 549: Foxconn tragedy, seeking cooperation? (asking for monthly votes)

As a well-known doctoral and master's supervisor at a 985 university, Sun Haisheng has his name on many companies and has many collaborations with them.

All the work is done by the students, and they keep the money. The maximum living allowance for a master's degree student is 1000 yuan per month, and for a doctorate student is 1500 yuan.

As for undergraduates? None!
They are lucky to be given the opportunity to learn!

There is also income from book publishing, which is not small.

Although many things were written by students and polished by him, his reputation as a 985 doctoral supervisor and influence as a semiconductor expert meant that sales were excellent and profits were considerable.

With the income from these nominal companies, plus the copyright income from reprinting books, it doesn’t matter even if the school cuts them off.

It doesn't prevent him from making money.

He even looked down on the salary from the school, which was not enough for him to have a good time.

What we really value is scientific research funding, as there is a lot of room for maneuver here.

But unfortunately, because of this incident, the research funding was blocked and could not be applied for, so there was no need to stay in school.

"Humph! Even if the school doesn't lay me off, I'd still like to quit. If I continue to stay at the school, there's no funding, and it's just a waste of my time making money. I might as well go all out and make more money!"

"The only pity is that I have lost my position as a doctoral supervisor. This wave of cheap leeks has been used up, and the next wave is gone. This is not a good thing to do."

"If you want to hire someone to do work in the future, you have to pay real money according to the market price!"

Salaries are not high these days, but in the capital, in the semiconductor industry, the annual salary of a 985 master's or doctoral student is more than .

A bachelor's degree in semiconductors costs around 100,000 yuan.

We used to employ students. Not only did they work 996 hours a day, but they also did more work and only had to pay about yuan a year in living allowance, which was simply a bargain!
College students are cheap labor, and those who have not yet graduated, including master’s and doctoral students, are even free labor!

No, even free labor is worse.

At least free labor is provided with food and accommodation.

For master's and doctoral students who have not yet graduated, they are only given about 1,000 yuan for food and do not have to worry about accommodation. They can live directly in the dormitory and have to pay for the accommodation themselves.

Not only do I get PUA and exploited every day, but I also have to work hard and give it my all...

Otherwise, graduation will be a problem.

But unfortunately, once you leave school, all of this is gone.

Sun Haisheng was filled with emotion. The labor cost had increased tenfold, and his income was bound to shrink significantly.

In fact, most of his income came from money saved from squeezing students' wages.

If one student saves 100,000 yuan in salary a year, ten students can save 1 million yuan a year!

As a senior professor and a big name in the industry, he has many students, including ten masters and doctoral students. If you include undergraduates, the total number is over fifteen.

Only 150 million yuan was left from the annual salary, and it all went into his pocket.

If this good thing doesn’t happen again in the future, I won’t be able to save the 150 million and my income will also decline.

"But it's okay. It doesn't matter if I make less money. As long as I continue to cooperate with those companies, I can still make money."

Sun Haisheng comforted himself in this way, but he didn't expect that within a few days, the company he was affiliated with also notified him to terminate the cooperation...

Although the other party's attitude was gentle and his words were tactful, his position to terminate the cooperation was firm.

Sun Haisheng's face turned pale, another huge income was lost.

"But it's okay. We still have a publishing house and we can reprint it! We can make money again by publishing a new book this year!"

"I'm going to prepare a new book and make another big profit!"

Sun Haisheng had just sat down in front of the computer and had not written much of his new book when he received a call from the publishing house the next day.

"Are you discussing with me how many more copies to print? We must print hundreds of millions more copies to make more money."

Sun Haisheng smiled and pressed the answer button, full of expectation, but he heard something disturbing on the other end of the line:

"Professor Sun, we may have to put off reprinting our new book."

"Postponed?" Sun Haisheng's heart skipped a beat, and he had a bad feeling: "Director Yu, didn't we order more printing this month? Why is it postponed..."

"It's like this, Professor Sun. For some unknown reason, many bookstores have cancelled their orders, and some are even offering returns. They say that the sales of your books have plummeted..."

Sun Haisheng's mouth twitched: "..."

"Orders have been cancelled, and returns have come in. There is still a lot of inventory left from the last print run. It's a question whether we can sell it. It's not realistic to print more. Don't you agree?"

"Okay, I get it. But weren't my books' sales very high before? Why did they suddenly drop off a cliff?"

"Professor Sun, you know the reason better than us." Director Yu said meaningfully, cursing in his heart:

"Why is this old Deng pretending to be ignorant when he knows the truth? You are all under investigation and your funding has been cut off. Who will read your book?"

"In the past, you were well-known, a doctoral supervisor at a prestigious university, and many people admired you and bought your books."

'Now you're nothing!'

Sun Haisheng's face turned pale. He also wanted to understand this point. He held on to his last hope and said, "Director Yu, I am planning to write a new book. Do you think your publishing house can publish it?"

Director Yu laughed and said, "I can't make the decision on this matter."

"What about President Cui?"

"President Cui is busy lately and has no time, so let's put our cooperation on hold..."

Sun Haisheng wanted to say something else, but there was only a beeping sound from the other end.

Sun Hai was frozen in place. How could he not understand what the other party meant?
The publishing deal is over!
He then contacted several publishing houses, but got the same result.

"Damn it! You really don't leave me any chance to survive!"

Sun Haisheng was furious, but there was nothing he could do.

He was a master's and doctoral student from a 985 university, and all the big names in the industry were scrambling to publish his papers.

Now that he is under investigation and has been expelled from school, the sales of his books have plummeted. Who will publish his books?

Unless Sun Haisheng paid for the publication himself, it would not be sold.

One wrong move and the whole game is lost.

I thought I could prevent the localization of lithography machines and chips, and thus get generous rewards in US dollars.

However, he did not expect that his attempt to obstruct the attempt would fail. Not only did he not gain anything, but he also ruined his future and career.

Sun Haisheng regretted it to the extreme, but unfortunately there is no medicine for regret.

But misfortunes never come alone. Three days later, Sun Haisheng was taken away by the National Security Bureau.

Suspected of colluding closely with foreign forces...

It's not just Sun Haisheng, the situation is similar with other professors.

Back in early July, they were still in great glory, had a high status and were admired by everyone.

By the beginning of August, he had become a rat crossing the street, and everyone was shouting and beating him.

Not only was his future ruined, he was even detained and investigated...

Time is also fate!
But Wang Yi didn't pay attention to all this.

On the contrary, his focus was still on the Prism Gate.

As time goes by, the Prism Gate incident becomes more and more serious.

There are demonstrations every day, but Trump remains arrogant and refuses to bow his head.

They even continued to put pressure on him to hand over the traitor Sten.

Hong Kong Island sternly rejected this.

Lao Mi did not give up, and secretly arranged for members of the special forces to disguise themselves and sneak in, intending to use force.

They wanted to besiege the hotel where Sden was staying.

This made Sten very nervous.

Once a conflict occurs, even if the intruder dies, he will most likely not survive.

Even the entire hotel could be attacked.

Hong Kong Island was well prepared for this and secretly arranged for people to transfer Sten to the Macao market.

The game between the two sides is still going on.

Wang Yi was helpless about these.

I just hope from the bottom of my heart that Sden is safe and sound.

After all, the Prism Gate incident brought too many surprises to Xingyi Technology.

The first is the increase in sales.

In July, we thought the sales volume of xphone 7pro would reach 2 million, but it actually reached 1600 million!
Yes, it's that scary!
Especially in the overseas market, parallel importers placed orders crazily and sales exploded.

This has resulted in record-breaking sales of xphone 2pro!
There is no other way. When iPhone, Android and Nokia are no longer safe and there is a risk of being monitored, the Xingyi mobile phone is the only ray of hope.

Especially the heads of state of various countries, the directors, presidents and senior executives of various companies have all switched to Xingyi phones, and other ordinary people will also switch to Xingyi phones without hesitation.

Especially in the Europa League, it's crazy.

Many European Union companies require core employees, or even all employees, not to use Apple or Android phones!
It’s simple, the Europa League and Milan are allies and competitors.

It is the number one competitor in many areas.

If iPhones and Android phones can be monitored by the other party at any time, then we are really finished.

Although this type of surveillance is theoretically political, it may not involve too much commercial and ordinary civilian use.

But don’t be afraid of ten thousand, just be afraid of the eventuality.

More importantly, even if the top NSA and FBI officials do not pay much attention to the business sector, there is no guarantee that there are no corrupt officials in it.

The simplest way is that a US company needs the business secrets of a European competitor, and it bribes relevant personnel from the NSA or FBI to conduct wiretap operations to obtain the business secrets. This is too easy.

As long as the money is in place, it is fine for Mi to buy Mi's surveillance secrets, or for Euron to buy Mi's surveillance secrets.

There are even professional agencies that monitor confidential transactions!

In this case, who would dare to continue using Apple and Android phones?
They had no choice but to change their phones.

This triggered a chain reaction, causing the overseas sales of xphone 2 pro in July to increase from 7 to million to over million!

Although many of the products are still being smuggled or in overseas warehouses and have not yet reached consumers, Xingyi Technology and its dealers have already received full payment.

The sales volume of xphone 2 also exceeded 1500 million.

xphone 1pro sales exceeded 1200 million.

The sales volume of xphone 1 is not high, less than three million.

There is no other reason. There are only so many stocks left after the suspension of production. We had originally planned to slowly clear out the stocks in China, but now, all the stocks have been bought up directly by overseas parallel importers.

It can be considered as clearing out the inventory in advance.

As for the sales of borderless mobile phones, they have exploded.

I originally thought that without the 7 shopping event in July, it would be good if the borderless mobile phone, which starts at 618 yuan, could sell 999 million units.

As a result, 2700 million units were sold!

Nearly 1200 million of these units were smuggled into overseas markets.

Although they are all 3G mobile phones, many people don't care.

Compared with the 4G phones that are being monitored, what's wrong with 3G phones? They are not unusable. Moreover, 3G has not slowed down these days. It is very fast, very fast, and the package charges are also cheap.

With such hot sales conditions, all models have received multiple orders.

BYD's production lines are operating at full capacity, but Xingyi Technology's production lines have all stopped, focusing on the production of xphone 3 and xphone 3plus!

The new phone will be launched next month, so naturally we don’t have the energy to continue producing the old model.

After many people at Xingyi Technology experienced it, the 5.0-inch Xphone 3 prototype was very successful, with no problems, and production began directly.

In terms of capacity allocation, according to the ratio of 4:6, xphone 3plus accounts for %.

After the previous generations of Xingyi mobile phones, many domestic users have accepted the concept of large screens and realized the benefits of large screens. They are more inclined to buy the 5.5-inch xphone 3plus, and the stock volume is also higher.

Those 4.0-inch Apple users may prefer the 5.0-inch xphone 3.

As for making it 4.7 inches?

This is not necessary.

With its narrow bezels, the 5.0-inch xphone 3 is about the same size as a competitor's 4.7-inch phone.

In addition, both Xphone 2 and Xphone 2 Pro are 5.0 inches, so there is no need for Xphone 3 to go backwards.

At this time, there was a knock on the door.

"Enter!"

Zhu Changlin walked in and said, "Chairman, a senior executive from Foxconn has arrived. I'm wondering if we can get some orders?"

"Foxconn also wants to get a piece of the pie?" Wang Yi smiled.

This old guy is really a cunning guy, he will go wherever there is benefit!

"Yes, they said they would give us a super low price, even lower than BYD's OEM price, to ensure production capacity and efficiency."

Wang Yi shook his head: "This is not right. I think something went wrong. Apple has probably cancelled the order."

"After the Prism scandal, Apple is now boycotted, so the expected sales of iPhone 5S will definitely drop sharply, even by half."

"If sales are expected to drop by half, then Apple's orders to Foxconn will also be cut in half."

"Foxconn will be in tears if this happens. A large number of production lines will be idle, a large amount of production capacity will be unused, and employees' salaries will still have to be paid!"

"And it's not just Apple phones that are like this. Other Android phones are like this as well. They've all cut their orders. Foxconn has lost so many orders and suffered heavy losses, so they came to us!"

"I see." Zhu Changlin suddenly realized: "In the entire mobile phone industry, Xingyi and Wujie are the only two brands that are growing. Due to the impact of the Prism Gate, other brands will probably reduce orders."

"Yes, thanks to Sideng, as long as he is alive, I want him to be the spokesperson. Especially after a few years, when he is really hammered and the relationship is completely broken up." Wang Yi said with a smile.

Now you still want to go international, make money from all over the world, make money from the United States, but you can't do it this way. You still have to exercise necessary restraint.

But if the two sides fall out in a few years and start an all-out technology war, then it won’t matter.

Wang Yi invited Sideng to be his spokesperson and nailed Apple, Android and Microsoft to the pillar of shame for violating privacy!

It’s just disgusting Lao Mi!

A proper magic attack!
This matter can be fixed completely.

But it won’t work for now. Lao Mi is already on the verge of desperation and it’s not appropriate to continue to stimulate him.

After all, we still have to make money internationally and globally.

Even Wang Yi is wondering whether he should give up the Laomi market after internationalization next year.

There is no way. Even if we open the Laomi market next year, invest huge amounts of money to open stores, and open up logistics and sales channels, we will still be hammered the year after, and by then we will most likely be banned from sale in the Laomi market.

In one year, the money earned is probably not enough to cover the initial investment. It's really not worth the trouble.

On the contrary, if China only internationalizes in other markets such as the European Union and gives up the US market, it will be difficult for US to impose sanctions on China.

I don't even sell it to you, why are you adding drama to yourself?

Or you can enter the Laomi market not openly, but through cooperation.

As for the partners of cooperation, they are America’s core congressmen, politicians, and even tycoons!

American congressmen and politicians spent their own money to build sales channels and became American agents.

Xingyi Technology is only responsible for taking the money and shipping the goods, and everyone makes money together.

Even if Lao Mi wants to beat him up by then, it has little to do with Xingyi Technology, and Wang Yi is too lazy to pay attention.

Those congressmen and chaebols who cooperated with them will naturally start a fight with Congress and Parliament when their financial resources are cut off.

It's definitely a dog-eat-dog situation.

It all depends on who can bite off the other in the end.

This matter can be fixed completely.

Even Wang Yi is planning to cooperate with Chuanzi!
After the Prism Gate, Xingyi Technology has won the hearts of the people.

The black authorities are attacking Xingyi Technology, and Chuanzi, as the opposite side, may choose to accept Xingyi Technology in order to win votes and win the election.

If I make money by cooperating with Chuanzi, Chuanzi will be embarrassed.

If he continues to attack Xingyi Technology, not only will he cut off his own financial resources, he will also lose some support and cut off his own arm!
If Xingyi Technology is not criticized, the Xingyi mobile phone will continue to be a global hot seller.

At most, Chuanzi can get a share of the old rice market.

But this matter still needs long-term consideration.

"What about Foxconn? Should we give them orders?" Zhu Changlin asked.

Wang Yi waved his hand: "No."

"Okay, I'll go and reject them right away." Zhu Changlin replied.

As for the reason, Wang Yi didn't say it and he didn't ask.

"Guess the reason." Wang Yi said with a smile.

Zhu Changlin thought for a moment and said, "It's probably a technology war! Once a technology war occurs, it will definitely be divided into two camps, and all upstream and downstream industrial chains and foundries will choose sides. BYD will stand on our side and continue to manufacture for us. Foxconn may stand on Xiaomi's side and give up manufacturing for us."

"It's not maybe, it's definitely. Some of Foxconn's shares are owned by Mi."

Wang Yi knows clearly that Foxconn is unreliable!

Once the technology war begins, Foxconn will be the first to turn against us!
A total traitor.

It would be strange to give orders to such a traitor!

We won’t give them orders even if they go bankrupt!

Zhu Changlin nodded: "As expected, it seems that we should start preparing now and cut ties with Lao Mi in advance."

"That's right. In unimportant areas, it doesn't matter. But in important areas, we still need to be prepared and cut in advance."

"Without our orders, other friendly companies have cut their orders, and Apple has also cut a large number of orders. Foxconn will be in danger. A large number of production lines may be vacant, resulting in heavy losses. Some factories will have to close down," Zhu Changlin added.

Wang Yi smiled and said, "That's perfect. If Foxconn's domestic factories fail, Xingyi Technology or BYD can buy them out! And we can take over those workers."

At worst, Xingyi Technology can become its own OEM factory and do OEM work!
Anyway, Wang Yi cares a lot about supply chain security.

In the future, many components will be self-developed, produced or invested in to build a strategic security chain.

We now have SOC chips, fast charging chips, power management chips, HIFI chips, as well as fingerprint modules, and batteries are still under development.

There will be no problem in integrating resources to do OEM later.

It's a double-handed preparation. If nothing goes wrong, we can produce our own products.

After being hammered, the sales volume of its own products has dropped, and the production capacity has been vacated, so it can engage in OEM.

After being rejected by Xingyi Technology, the president of Foxconn left with a sad look on his face.

In fact, this is not the first time Foxconn has contacted Xingyi Technology.

On the contrary, Foxconn saw that the Xingyi mobile phone was selling well and had the potential to grow bigger, so it started to contact Xingyi Technology, considering becoming the OEM for the Xingyi mobile phone.

But Wang Yi ignored it and chose BYD instead.

Firstly, as a major shareholder of BYD, the benefits should not be lost to outsiders.

Secondly, Foxconn is unreliable and a traitor.

Therefore, we have never cooperated with Foxconn. Now, even when the president of Foxconn came to us in person, we were rejected.

It's quite disrespectful.

But it doesn’t matter.

Why should we give face to traitors?
There is no wall that is impenetrable, and soon BYD learned that Foxconn had come to its door.

Then, Shopkeeper Wang called and said, "Mr. Wang, I heard about Foxconn's visit. Thank you for your continued support for BYD. I won't say any more polite words. I will reduce the OEM price by another 10%!"

In fact, the price BYD offered before was already lower than Foxconn’s normal price.

In order to win the big customer Xingyi Technology, Foxconn's OEM price was half a percent lower than BYD's, which can be said to be the lowest price ever.

After all, there is always a price to pay for snatching customers.

Now, Shopkeeper Wang has directly reduced the price by another 10%, which is even lower than the bargain price of Foxconn.

All I can say is it's rolled up.

"Okay, as strategic partners, everything is easy for us. All the subsequent orders from Xingyi Technology and Wujie Technology will be given to you!" Wang Yi said with a smile.

I never expected that once Foxconn came to my door, I would save a lot of money.

"Thank you, Mr. Wang, thank you so much!" Shopkeeper Wang was very excited.

Xingyi Technology’s large orders provide a steady and lasting source of income.

Apart from anything else, the order volumes of several small brands of Foxconn combined cannot match the order volume of Xingyi Technology.

The impact of the Prism Gate is far-reaching, and Xingyi Technology has become the biggest winner, winning hugely.

But Baidu on the other side was in a panic.

After a year and a half of research and development, Baidu invested huge manpower and material resources to develop the Xiaodu AI speaker, mastered the AI ​​human-computer interaction algorithm, and finally created the Baidu smart home system.

The company originally planned to hold a press conference at the end of July to strongly launch Baidu's smart home strategy and release the Xiaodu AI speaker.

At the same time, we invite major white goods giants to join and jointly build Baidu's smart home ecosystem.

But unexpectedly, before they made the official announcement, the Prism Gate broke out!
Everyone's eyes were on the Prism Door, and no one paid attention to the Smart Home!

Even if it is released forcibly, it is meaningless.

During this period, even Wang Feng couldn't make the headlines.

No one can help.

Li Yan originally planned to hold a Baidu Smart Home press conference after the heat of the Prism Gate had passed.

Unexpectedly, it has been more than 20 days and the heat of the Prism Gate has not yet passed.

In desperation, Li Yan had to hold an emergency meeting to discuss countermeasures:

"The Baidu Smart Home Strategic Meeting has been delayed for three weeks. If it is delayed any further, the impact will be great. What do you think?"

"I also think we can't delay it any longer. It's already mid-August. In September, Xingyi Technology and Apple will release new phones. The world's attention will be on them, not Baidu. We can't delay it until October, right?"

"Yeah, there's also the National Day holiday in October, which is also a problem. Everyone is out having fun, so who will pay attention to our press conference?"

“The best strategy is to release it as soon as possible!”

(End of this chapter)