Financial freedom starts with a monthly income of XNUMX

This is indeed the only method at present. There is no other way.

There are many mobile phone brands in China. In addition to the brands mentioned in the conversation, there are also Coolpad, Meizu, ZTE, 360, Hammer, Meitu, Gree...

In that era of chaos, many companies launched the slogan of making mobile phones, but in the end only a few mobile phone brands survived, and many mobile phones became history.

In that era, it was not difficult to acquire a mobile phone factory. There were many factions in the mobile phone industry, and each of them was fighting against each other. In the later period, some mobile phone factories were losing money and had no choice but to sell as long as they could, even if they lost money.

But now there are only a few mobile phone manufacturers left, and they all occupy a considerable market share. If they want to merge and acquire them, it would probably be extremely difficult.

If Gao Yuan had not provided high-end technology, he would have had to spend at least 200 billion to own half of Xiaomi's shares. This is if Lei Jun is willing to give in. If not, it would have cost at least 250 billion.

"Mr. Gao, I'm afraid Mr. Duan, the CEO behind OPPO and VIVO, won't agree to this," Lei Jun said. "Besides, the combined market share of OPPO and VIVO is larger than that of Xiaomi."

If you want to acquire one of these two mobile phone companies, it will probably cost a lot, and even Gao Yuan may find it difficult to afford the price.

An authoritative media once hypothesized that if OPPO went public, its market value would be around 7550 billion, while VIVO's market value would be around 4900 billion.

If you want to acquire these two companies, regardless of whether Lao Duan would agree or not, even if Lao Duan agrees, just acquiring VIVO will require nearly 5000 billion in cash flow.

If Gao Yuan had not made so many investments, it would have been able to take out the 5000 billion. However, in the past six months, Gao Yuan has been spending money everywhere, investing tens of billions or even hundreds of billions.

It is nothing but a pipe dream to want to come up with 5000 billion now.

Unless he sells some of the high-quality assets under his name, perhaps he can get back a large cash flow. At that time, let alone acquiring VIVO, it will be no problem to acquire OPPO as well.

"If we only acquire the production line, Mr. Duan will definitely not agree. But if we acquire the entire brand, the premium will be too high and we cannot afford it," said Lei Jun.

When it comes to mergers and acquisitions, the pressure is just too great.

"Hahaha, this matter is actually very simple. As long as you can sell more mobile phones, I'm afraid he will beg to come to us for cooperation." Gao Yuan said with a smile.

"Let's not rush the M&A for now. Every extra phone we sell means one less phone sold by OPPO and VIVO. They will be anxious and will definitely contact us in the next few days."

……

Half an hour later, Lei Jun sent a document to Gao Yuan.

The document lists the sales of major mobile phone brands from the beginning of the year to now.

In the high-end market, Huawei mobile phones are far ahead, with a market share exceeding that of fruit phones. In fact, there was originally another foreign mobile phone in China, that is the four-star mobile phone from South Korea.

Unfortunately, due to many reasons, Sixin mobile phones simply could not be sold in China, and later withdrew from the domestic market.

Gao Yuan mainly observed the sales of OPPO and VIVO phones this time. From the beginning of the year to last month, the monthly sales were about 10 million units. In the first half of this month, the sales dropped sharply, with only 3 million units sold. The two phones combined sold only 5 million units, only a quarter of last month.

Old Duan must be getting anxious, Gao Yuan thought to himself.

Meanwhile, across the ocean.

Lao Duan immigrated to this country twenty years ago. Strictly speaking, Lao Duan is already a foreigner.

He is the actual controller behind OPPO and VIVO, and has been remotely directing the development of the two companies from abroad.

Duan has always been a marketing expert, and his famous achievements include the Subor reading machine and the BBK learning machine. The development of OPPO and VIVO is based on the BBK brand and sales channels. A newspaper once publicly praised that the success of these two mobile phones mainly relied on the establishment of a sales network as dense as a nerve tissue.

At their peak, OPPO and VIVO each had 20 offline stores, with extremely powerful channel penetration capabilities, and sold 2 million mobile phones each year.

It can be said that if we only consider mobile phone sales, Lao Duan has already taken the top spot in the domestic mobile phone industry, and his visible assets are more than 270 billion.

Originally, Old Duan was living a good life, but since the launch of Xiaomi mobile phone, Old Duan has been feeling a little breathless.

The sales volume dropped so much that he couldn't even sleep well.

As a billionaire with a net worth of hundreds of billions, Lao Duan bought a Xiaomi Hot series mobile phone early on, and also bought ones from OPPO and VIVO, and has already started to study them separately.

Compared with the Hot series of mobile phones, Lao Duan feels that OPPO and VIVO under his own brands are really not good enough.

Currently, sales are still several million units per month, but by next year, sales will probably drop to hundreds of thousands units.

If it really comes to that, OPPO and VIVO will be close to closing down and going bankrupt.

Thinking of this, Lao Duan immediately called the person in charge of these two mobile phones and planned to hold an online meeting.

Inside the villa, the heads of OPPO and VIVO mobile phones appeared on an LCD TV screen.

The two responsible persons also looked worried.

They have no advantage at all when facing the Sizzling series of mobile phones, especially after the word of mouth of the Sizzling series of mobile phones spread, they have received a lot of return orders recently.

Within seven days, you can return the product without any reason. Those people often just bought OV mobile phones. After hearing the online publicity about Xiaomi mobile phones, they immediately canceled the order and bought Xiaomi's hot series mobile phones instead.

This is too cruel, leaving no chance for survival.

"Mr. Duan, I propose that we take the initiative to start a price war."

The person in charge of OPPO said, "We have no advantage in terms of mobile phone performance, so we can only compete on price. We reduce the price of each mobile phone by about 300 to 500 yuan to attract users to buy."

"The Xiaomi Hot Series phones use such an advanced system, the cost must be very high. If they follow suit and lower the price, then we will continue to lower the price. I don't believe we won't be able to make a huge loss to them."

To put it bluntly, a price war is a war of burning money, and it depends on who can withstand it.

As long as we can survive this wave of price war and become the final winner, we can restore prices.

Even though their competitors are already dead, they still have the final say in the market. If all else fails, they can just continue raising prices to make back the lost profits.

"I'm afraid it's difficult. The financial backer behind Xiaomi is Gao Yuan." The head of VIVO retorted, "The Yuanfang Group is now a giant company in China. If Yuanfang Group intervenes, it will be very difficult to bring down Xiaomi through a price war."

The two mobile phone manufacturers OV have an absolute advantage over Xiaomi.

But if Yuanfang Group is brought down, then OV will be in trouble. Even if the two companies join forces, they are still no match for Yuanfang Group.

"This doesn't work, and that doesn't work either. What should we do? Surrender?"

The person in charge of OPPO said unhappily, "My suggestion is still this. Start a price war first to test the other party's reaction. If the other party also starts a price war, then we should persist for a while and find out the details of the other party."

"If they are really strong, then it won't be too late for us to find a way to make peace."

The head of VIVO has always been suppressed by the head of OPPO. After hearing this, he immediately refuted, "Seeking peace? This is a business war, or to put it bluntly, it is also a battle. This is a life-and-death struggle. If you ask for peace, they will stop fighting you? What a joke!"

"This won't work, and that won't work either. Why don't you give me some advice? You just keep making sarcastic comments..."

The two responsible persons almost got into a quarrel.

"enough!"

Old Duan slammed the table and said, "I called you here to discuss countermeasures, not to quarrel." The two of them quarreled so much that Old Duan was getting a headache.

"I will go back to China tomorrow and meet Gao Yuan from Yuanfang Group in person. I will talk to him in detail before making a decision." Lao Duan said.

I heard that Gao Yuan and Musk have a very good relationship.

Unfortunately, Lao Duan has been semi-secluded. He is not familiar with the business circle here. He has only met Musk a few times and is not familiar with him, let alone letting Musk act as a middleman.

……

The next day.

Gao Yuan woke up from the bed.

Xiao Xiao and Li Mengqing were still sleeping soundly, and judging from their expressions they seemed to be sleeping soundly, especially Li Mengqing, who was even smacking her lips.

But why is Lin Wanyu missing?
Gao Yuan got up from the bed in his pajamas and walked into the bathroom. When he passed the dressing room, he saw Lin Wanyu putting on makeup inside.

"Why did you get up so early?"

Gao Yuan asked.

"A close friend of mine came back from the other side of the ocean and asked me to accompany her today," said Lin Wanyu.

This best friend and Lin Wanyu are childhood friends. She went abroad to study in college and stayed abroad after graduation. Lin Wanyu hasn't seen this best friend for two or three years. It happened that she returned to China this time, so Lin Wanyu planned to go shopping with her best friend.

"Go ahead and spend some time with your friends."

Gao Yuan walked up to Lin Wanyu with a smile and hugged her gently.

"Of course I have to accompany you. I will also max out the supplementary card you gave me." Lin Wanyu said with a sly smile.

"If you can max it out, it's really your ability. I will give you another 20 billion quota then."

Gao Yuan couldn't laugh or cry.

He opened supplementary gold cards for three women, Lin Wanyu, Li Mengqing and Xiao Xiao, each with a credit limit of approximately 20 billion.

It's not easy to spend 20 billion in one day.

In Hangzhou, you can only buy commercial buildings and acquire companies. If you just eat, go shopping and buy a few bags, you probably won't be able to spend all your money even if you buy all the bags in all the luxury stores in Hangzhou.

"I'm just kidding. It's not that exaggerated." Lin Wanyu had already applied her lipstick. She kissed Gao Yuan gently on the neck. "You'll have to wipe it off when you wash up later."

"How can I bear to wipe it off? This is the mark my wife left me." Gao Yuan said.

"You are just a poor guy. If you have the guts, don't put it on. Wear lipstick to the company and see if those employees and executives will talk about you behind your back." Lin Wanyu said.

"Hahaha, I won't go to the company today. I'll rest at home. I'll go out with Xiao Xiao and Li Mengqing later." Gao Yuan said.

I have been attending activities in the imperial capital for the past few days.

Gao Yuan was a little tired and planned to take a day off today.

From the Chinese New Year to now, Gao Yuan has hardly had a single day off. Most of his time he has been busy at work or on business trips.

Even a strong man cannot withstand such high-intensity work.

You should rest when you need to, alternating between relaxation and tension is the right way.

"No, I'm going to see my friends today and can't go shopping with you. You have to make it up to me next time." Lin Wanyu said coquettishly.

Shopping with Gao Yuan is the most fun.

It’s not because Gao Yuan pays for everything, but because when Gao Yuan stands next to her, Lin Wanyu always feels a sense of happiness and security.

This feeling cannot be brought by best friends.

It’s a pity that she had already made an appointment with her best friend and couldn’t break it at the last minute, otherwise she would have to go shopping with Gao Yuan.

At nine o'clock in the morning, Lin Wanyu left the villa and drove a pink sports car to the airport parking lot.

Behind Lin Wanyu, there were two cars following.

One is the distant car, and the other is an ordinary Volkswagen. If you take a quick look, you won't be able to find any clues.

However, if you pay attention, you can notice that these two cars have been following the pink supercar slowly and keeping a safe distance.

If something happens to the pink car, these two cars will rush over at high speed to protect the safety of the owner of the pink supercar.

But if there is no danger, the people in these two cars will not disturb the life of the owner of the pink supercar.

There were a total of six people in the two cars, all of whom came from the military training base and were responsible for protecting Lin Wanyu's safety.

Soon, the pink supercar stopped in the airport's underground parking lot.

Not long after Lin Wanyu sat down and was about to send a text message to her bestie to ask her if she had arrived, she saw a woman wearing a black suspenders and black overalls, carrying a limited edition Gucci bag walking towards the pink supercar.

The woman was wearing sunglasses and when she walked to the side of the car, she took a closer look at the license plate number.

"You silly girl, that's the car, stop looking at it. You're wearing sunglasses in the underground garage, aren't you afraid that you can't see the road clearly?"

Lin Wanyu slowly lowered the car window and started joking with the short-haired woman.

"Haha, I am happy to do this, is it your business?"

The short-haired woman wearing sunglasses opened the passenger door and got in.

As soon as they met, they hugged each other and said, "Sister, I miss you so much. You haven't been back for a long time."

"Hahaha, I didn't come back alone this time, I came back with my boyfriend."

The short-haired woman said.

"What about your boyfriend? I haven't seen your boyfriend yet, and you've never told me about him. Let me see, you little girl hooked up with that handsome guy." Lin Wanyu said.

"I went to get my luggage. I was anxious to see you, so I came out first." The short-haired woman said, "The sports car is nice, but it can't accommodate three people."

"This is easy. I'll ask someone to send a commercial vehicle over later." Lin Wanyu thought.

"Ah? That's so troublesome? Why not just forget it?"

My best friend said. (End of this chapter)