Reborn in 2011, 985 missing from two copies

Chapter 748 The more you beat them, the richer Xingyi Technology will be! The more prosperous it will be!
Just three days later, on June 20th.

A second injunction has been issued!

All physical stores are required to cease purchasing Xingyi and Wujie mobile phones.

After September 20th, the sale of Xingyi and Wujie phones will be prohibited!

This ban, an escalation of sanctions, has blocked all retail channels in the United States!

Moreover, they were only given a three-month buffer period to clear the inventory, and that was only after the cooperating members of parliament fought for it.

This resulted in Starway Technology losing its US carrier channels and all other retail channels.

From now on, they can only continue to be sold through e-commerce channels such as Best Buy and Amazon.

The sword of Damocles is falling!
The technology war has fully erupted!
In response, Xingyi Technology convened another high-level meeting.

"Chairman, all retail channels have been cut off. We've already banned procurement, and sales will be prohibited in three months. We're in big trouble!"

Zhu Changlin's expression was solemn: "The US market has been completely lost, leaving only e-commerce channels, but I estimate that it won't last long either."

Wang Yi nodded: "Your judgment is correct. Once the beating begins, it won't end so easily."

"What about our flagship store in the US? We'll have to stop selling phones in two months. Should we withdraw completely?"

The franchise stores are all franchised by US distributors and are responsible for their own profits and losses; they have nothing to do with Xingyi Technology.

However, the flagship store was opened by Xingyi Technology itself.

Wang Yi waved his hand: "No need, keep going. Even if we can't sell cell phones anymore, we can still sell tablets, TVs, and other smart home appliances."

"At the same time, we will continue to provide after-sales service for the phones and effectively protect the interests of US users."

Song Sining's eyes lit up: "That's a great idea! If after-sales service continues, consumers won't worry and will continue to buy! Even if it's no longer available offline, they'll still buy online. Even if online sales are blocked, they'll still dare to buy grey market goods!"

Wang Yi nodded: "That's right, let's do it that way. Keep the flagship store open, focus on after-sales service first, and sell other products at the same time."

"Chairman, should we retaliate? Cut off the supply of fast charging chips to Apple?" a senior executive couldn't help but ask.

Wang Yi thought for a moment, then finally waved his hand:
"This year, 3500 million 30W fast charging chip modules have already been delivered to Apple. Cutting off the supply wouldn't make much difference; they have enough for their needs! Let's wait until Apple places a new order next year!"

"Right now, our other products can continue to be sold in the United States, and we can continue to make money from the Americans."

"Moreover, once the supply is cut off, not only will Apple be afraid to buy our chips, but other competitors such as LG, Motorola, and Sony will also be afraid to buy them. At that time, our losses will be huge!"

"That's true. We sell hundreds of millions of fast charging chip modules every year, with a gross profit of tens of billions. We really can't let Apple ruin our business!" The man realized the reason.

If Apple is cut off from supplies, brands like LG will be hesitant to buy from them, causing Xingyi Technology to lose hundreds of billions in profits – a truly unwise move.

Cutting off Apple's supply might feel good in the short term, but losing tens of billions of dollars in profits would be a net loss.

To put it bluntly, Apple doesn't deserve it!

Moreover, 3500 million units have already been delivered. Even if the supply is cut off, Apple has enough of these 3500 million units to sell until next year, giving them ample time to find alternatives!
Wang Yi changed the subject: "Besides, these brands are also our protective umbrella. Right now we're just attacking the phones, but if they get desperate and start attacking everything, that would be a disaster."

"At that time, these foreign companies that use our fast charging chip modules will be affected, and the US will beat them up and cut off their supply. They will jump out and fight back! Then it will be a dog-eat-dog drama!"

"I understand now, using barbarians to control barbarians, strategic tools!" Everyone suddenly realized.

If the US completely bans Starry Technology, Apple will lose its fast charging chips, which would be unacceptable for Apple.

Motorola's fast charging chips are also gone, which Google finds hard to accept.

With these two giants resorting to desperate measures and the financial magnates behind them protesting, even the US is in for a headache.

That'll be so much fun!

"That's right, it's about using barbarians to control barbarians. However, our situation will become increasingly difficult, but it won't be a big problem."

"Currently, it's only a ban in the United States. Those who sell it and the operators have already stockpiled a lot of it in advance, so selling it for another two months shouldn't be a problem."

"As for what happens next, if we can't sell to the US, we'll increase sales to the European Union and other regions; there's plenty of market for that."

"The cooperation model remains the same: we'll expand franchise opportunities and lower the barriers to entry. As long as you pay in full, we'll ship everything!"

"Use sales growth in other regions to offset the sharp decline in the US market!"

"Yes, Chairman, I'll arrange it right away," Zhu Changlin replied.

"Moreover, when that time comes, those American users will still want Xingyi phones, and those American businessmen and distributors will continue to smuggle them through various means... The congressmen behind them will also provide cover in order to make money!"

"You handle these things as you see fit," Wang Yi said calmly. "This kind of brutal beating is nothing special; it won't have a significant impact on us."

"Next, we need to stockpile our ammunition and prepare for the subsequent full-scale technological war!"

Upon hearing this, everyone's expressions turned serious.

"Chairman, could it be that this ban on cell phone sales is just the beginning?" George couldn't help but curse, "Aren't the Americans just too wicked?"

Williams's lips twitched: "..."

"Ahem, teacher, I didn't insult you. We're citizens of Xia now."

“Yes, we’ve all become citizens of Xia Country!” Williams snapped out of his daze.

Now even he and George dare not go to the United States.

The two men made Xingyi Technology's mobile phone chips and computer CPUs bigger and stronger, which was a huge contribution to Xingyi Technology, but it was unforgivable to the United States.

If I go to the United States, I will definitely be detained.

In addition, the domestic public security is better, the atmosphere of life is more vibrant, and the happiness index is higher, so Wang Yi gives even more!

Alright then, the two of them directly acquired Xia Kingdom citizenship and settled permanently in the capital.

In fact, many of the employees from Texas Instruments had acquired Chinese citizenship.

Here, they are all respected and treated kindly.

But once back in the US, with luck, one might become a tool of capital. With bad luck, one might be taken away by the FBI, subjected to repeated investigations, imprisoned, and the consequences could be unimaginable…

Everyone knows exactly what to choose!

"Let's prepare for the worst. Next, we will continue research and development, continue to make breakthroughs, continue to replace foreign products with domestic ones, and get rid of our dependence on foreign countries."

Wang Yi said in a deep voice, "We must accelerate the mass production of large silicon wafers and photoresist as well. If the supply is cut off, we must immediately replace them with domestically produced alternatives! We need to prepare food for winter!"

"Yes!" everyone responded.

In recent years, these technologies have all made breakthroughs and reached first-class levels.

However, to lower guard and to further improve the process, large-scale mass production was not carried out. Instead, research and development continued, and technological iterations were advanced to catch up with international giants!

Now is the time for mass production!
"Furthermore, money is fundamental!"

"Sufficient cash flow is a strategic guarantee for winning the technology war!"

"We need to prepare enough funds!"

Wang Yi looked at the person in charge of Xingyi Real Estate: "Those completed houses we've built can now be put on sale on a large scale!"

Starting in the second half of 2016, domestic housing prices began to rise rapidly across the board.

In newer cities like those in eastern Jeju, prices have risen even more dramatically, increasing several times over.

The once desolate Eastern New City has been transformed into a prosperous modern city after several years of development.

Skyscrapers have sprung up everywhere, providing both commerce and industry, and the area has become a new economic center!

This has led to a steady rise in housing prices in the east.

At the beginning of 2016, the price was still stable at 8,000 yuan per square meter.

In the second half of the year, prices began to surge.

By the end of 2016, the average price had risen to around 1.6 yuan.

In June of this year, the price even rose to over 20,000!
It will continue to surge next.

Moreover, these are the prices for unfinished pre-sale apartments for first-time homebuyers; existing apartments will cost an additional 2,000 yuan!
Even the deluxe edition will cost an extra two thousand!

Upgrading to a better quality home will cost several thousand more!

Moreover, Xingyi Real Estate's apartment layouts, landscaping, and overall quality are far superior to its competitors, even surpassing them by a significant margin.

The price will naturally be higher!

Wang Yi acquired over 5,000 mu of residential land in the Eastern New City, much of which is currently under construction, with several communities already completed. For example, the "Tian" series of upscale residential projects—Xingyi Tiancheng, Xingyi Tianyi, Xingyi Tianhua, and Xingyi Tianyao—are all finished.

Although the plot ratio is 3.0, with 33 high-rise buildings and 18 mid-rise buildings, this will be considered a configuration for a basic housing project ten years from now.

But by 2017, this had already improved!
The reason is simple: most of the buildings in 2017 were 33-story high-rises with a floor area ratio of 3.0.

Three years later, in the second half of the real estate market, high-rise buildings became less common, and low-rise buildings with 18 floors became the norm.

But right now, the real estate market is booming and the density of planned developments is high, which makes these houses ideal for upgrading.

Previously, Xingyi Technology had been building houses, but they had not been put on sale on a large scale.

They simply sold some internal apartments to employees as a benefit, while the prices weren't too high before.

Now that the time is right, Xingyi Real Estate has begun to sell a large number of fully furnished ready-to-move-in homes and high-quality unfurnished homes on a large scale.

High-rise apartments: 2.5-3 yuan per square meter!
Low-rise buildings: 3-4 yuan per square meter!
Villas and townhouses cost 4-5 yuan!
All are ready-built homes available for immediate occupancy!
It also benefits from its excellent school district, is surrounded by the Provincial Hospital East Branch, Xingyi City commercial complex, and has a planned subway line, making its supporting facilities very mature.

There are also high-income groups such as Meiyou Science and Technology Park, Inspur Science and Technology Park, and Wujie Science and Technology Park!

Furthermore, the financial center plan has been implemented!

Even the Xingyi Skyscraper in 518 is under construction in full swing!

Even though it was 5,000 yuan more expensive than the surrounding properties, it still couldn't dampen the public's enthusiasm.

The fact that it's a ready-built house, where what you see is what you get, and you don't have to worry about it being abandoned, makes it worth 3,000 yuan per square meter!
The quality of Xingyi's properties is much higher than that of its competitors, and the apartment layouts are much better. Even if it costs 3,000 more, it's totally worth it.

The school district and social circle alone are worth 3000!

The house is only about 5000 more expensive, which is already a great deal.

As a result, Xingyi Real Estate's houses sold out as soon as they went on sale!

Every time it opens for sale, it's met with a frenzy and sells out quickly!
Not only people from Jeju come to sell, but people from other cities also come to buy and invest.

Even if we don't live there for the time being, we should buy a place for the child.

Many parents have calculated that once their children graduate, they can immediately find employment at companies like Xingyi Technology, Meiyou Technology, or Wujie Technology. By buying a house now, they can find employment right at their doorstep – perfect!
Even if I can't get in, I can still use connections to get into other companies like Inspur next door, which is also great, since it's right on my doorstep.

Parents with the means to buy more often simply buy two sets.

When the elderly couple retires, they will move to the eastern new town of Jeju!
This caused Xingyi Technology's houses to sell out completely, with demand exceeding supply.

Every time the property opens for sale, a lottery is held, and people start lining up as early as midnight to get their numbers!

Each time, the number of houses that can be sold is the same as the number of houses that can be sold.

Neither the top nor the bottom can be held.

The community has more than 3000 households, with an average price of over 3 yuan per square meter. All of the dozen or so buildings sell out every time they go on sale, sometimes within an hour.

There's no way around it; that's just how the real estate market was from the second half of 2016 to 2018. It wasn't real estate developers selling houses; it was homebuyers grabbing houses with their money!

For example, the Xingyi Tiancheng residential community alone generates over 9 billion yuan in revenue from selling houses. Adding in revenue from parking spaces and shops, the total easily exceeds 10 billion yuan.

There are more than 20 such residential communities in Jeju East New City alone!

These houses alone will generate over 2000 billion yuan in revenue!
These houses are priced at over 30,000 yuan, but Wang Yi's land acquisition cost was only around 1,000 yuan, and even with construction, it was only around 3,000 yuan.

After deducting taxes and fees, what's left is all profit.

It can be said that Wang Yi's profit from these 5,000-plus acres of land in Jeju exceeds 150 billion!
What about the neighboring island city?
They acquire more land, set up higher housing prices, and generate higher profits!
A rough estimate suggests that if all the houses in Qingdao were sold, the profit would exceed 2500 billion yuan!
Xingyi Real Estate's investment footprint extends beyond Jeju and Qingdao to other second- and third-tier cities within the province.

It's not just within the province, but also in Nanjing, Suzhou, Hangzhou, Wuhan, Chengdu, Tianjin, and so on.

Xingyi Real Estate has made significant investments even in first-tier cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Guangzhou.

During the period of rock-bottom land prices a few years ago, they relied on attracting investment through industrial support to acquire a lot of land and build a lot of houses at prices that were already rock-bottom prices, and then discounted by 40% to 60%. Now that the technology war has broken out, they are all starting to sell off their properties on a large scale!

Houses kept being sold, and huge sums of money kept flowing in!

Each community sold generates tens of billions in revenue. With so many cities across the country, Xingyi properties are being sold everywhere!
Xingyi Technology was raking in money like crazy, with its cash flow skyrocketing. In just a few months, it reached an extremely alarming level!

After all, the cost of these houses is very low, with land prices as low as cabbage. Even with construction fees, taxes, and so on, the total cost is only a few thousand yuan. However, the selling price is very high, ranging from 34,000 to 50,000 or 60,000 yuan per square meter. In first-tier cities, the price can easily reach over 100,000 yuan per square meter.

Investment returns that seem like a scam!

Profit margins are impossible to calculate!
This gave Wang Yi great confidence.

Confidence in winning the technology war!

Then a very interesting scene unfolded.

Under two bans issued by the United States, Xingyi mobile phones and receivers are prohibited from being purchased and their sales will be prohibited starting in September.

Xingyi Technology's overseas mobile phone business revenue plummeted, and profits declined sharply, resulting in heavy losses and a tight cash flow.

Unexpectedly, Xingyi Technology not only did not have a shortage of funds, but also became richer and richer under Lao Mi's relentless attacks!
The key is that Xingyi Real Estate's rate of return is high, extremely high!

The real estate business is a money-making machine, not only making up for the lost profits in the mobile phone business, but also earning more!

So, under Lao Mi's relentless pressure, Xingyi Technology became increasingly wealthy and prosperous!
They have no idea what a critical hit or a crisis is!
In contrast, Apple is struggling to make progress.

With the highly anticipated launch of the iPhone X in October, featuring significant upgrades, coupled with the ban on the sale of Xingyi phones, sales should have been booming.

However, consumers simply didn't buy it.

Other countries and regions did not ban the sale of Xingyi phones, so users all went to buy the newly launched Xphone 7 series!

It has the same waterdrop screen as the Xingyi X4 series, and both its appearance and screen-to-body ratio are much better than the iPhone X's notch screen.

Its performance and system are far more powerful.

It also debuted StarCharge 4.0, launching 40W ultra-fast charging, which blows away the iPhone X's 30W StarCharge 3.0!

Consumers naturally prefer the Xphone 7 series!

However, in the US market, Xingyi phones are completely banned from sale.

Logically, users should all be buying the iPhone X, and its sales should be booming.

Unexpectedly, sales remained poor.

Many users would rather pay extra to buy a grey market iPhone X than buy an iPhone X!

Some people even buy grey market versions of the Infinity S5 series instead of the iPhone X.

The reason is simple: the S5 and iPhone X have the exact same design, both with a notch screen, similar size, and both support 30W fast charging 3.0.

However, the Borderless S5 has stronger performance and a lower price, so the iPhone X has no advantage at all.

The iPhone X starts at over 8000, but the Borderless S5 is only 4000. Even with a 1000 markup on grey market imports, it's still only 5000, which is much cheaper than the iPhone X and even better to use!
This left Apple with no way to complain.

Cook was somewhat helpless.

The only solution is for relevant departments to intensify their investigations and crack down on smugglers and sellers.

Unfortunately, there are too many grey market dealers of Xingyi and Wujie phones, and the sales volume is too high, making it impossible to crack down on them on a large scale.

More importantly, these parallel import supply chains are heavily involved, with many being the business of legislators and the gray market activities of the powerful and wealthy, making them virtually impossible to investigate!
Cook and Apple are helpless.

Xingyi Technology was also busy.

Since the US won't allow the sale of cell phones, Wang Yi will sell tablets and TVs!
They decisively released the new generation of Xingyi tablets and Xingyi TVs, and domestic and foreign distributors have been purchasing them in large quantities!
It's worth mentioning that the new generation of Xingyi TVs not only uses BOE screens throughout, but also mini LED screens!
After several years of research and development, Xingyi Technology and BOE have jointly developed mini LED technology and achieved mass production in 2017!

Although the initial production capacity is not large, it is enough for Xingyi TVs!
With increased production capacity, borderless TVs will also be available in mini LED!

With the ultra-low cost of mini LED and picture quality approaching that of OLED, Xingyi TV has directly brought down the price of high-end large-screen TVs.

The new Starry Sky TV is also a global bestseller.

Many former US mobile phone distributors have become TV distributors, making large-scale purchases of mini LED Starry Sky TVs!
Even though Xingyi Technology offered relatively high prices, they still went on a buying spree.

There's no way around it; even at its highest price, it's still almost half the price of OLED TVs from Samsung, LG, and Sony!
There's no reason not to buy it.

Currently, an 80-inch 4K TV from Sony, LG, or Samsung sells for between 35,000 and 50,000 yuan.

The 80-inch 4K Starry Sky TV, thanks to the ultra-low cost of mini LED technology, sells for only 2.5-3.5 yuan per unit!
It's almost half the price of Sony/IG!
However, with its mini LED display and screen quality, thanks to the Kunpeng image enhancement chip, it is in no way inferior to Samsung, LG, and Sony.

Its performance far surpasses that of Samsung, LG, and Sony!
As a result, Xingyi mini LED TVs became bestsellers both domestically and globally.

It sold like hotcakes in the US!

(End of this chapter)