Return to 88: Starting from Marrying My Sister-in-law

Hang up the phone.

The corners of Lu Yang's mouth couldn't help but curl up.

Then he thought to himself, "Old Mou, I have done you a big favor this time. I have kept you in Pengcheng and your money in Pengcheng. This is also for your own good. You may not understand it now. No, you may never understand it in your lifetime. But I am so kindhearted. I cannot bear to see my friends being wronged or being put in jail. Don't worry, I will change your fate in this lifetime!"

As long as the plan is proper and Mou Qizhong can be brought in to hype up the Futian District CBD City Center project, Lu Yang believes that this is definitely the best solution, given that this guy is bold, famous, and has many friends, and will definitely get the best result in the future.

Blow up Mount Everest, let the warm current from South Asia blow in, melt the plateau glaciers, and build a Jiangnan on the Great Wall?

Who can't brag?

Mou Qizhong has done many great things. Even if the timeline does not change, in two years, he will join forces with the International Satellite Organization, Kazakhstan and Ermao to launch rockets, send satellites into space, and start satellite leasing business.

That’s awesome. It’s even more famous than the time when they exchanged canned food for a giant airplane.

Exchanging canned food for airplanes only made him famous in China, but launching a satellite into space would allow him to show his face to the whole world, just like Musk in later generations.

The result is different because it's a mess.

Then came the development of Mandeli. We had agreed to cooperate with the local government to jointly develop a total of 10 square kilometers of land, but in the end it ended up in a mess.

It is said that the braver you are, the harder you fall. So what is the reason?

Of course it’s because the foundation is not solid.

Looking at Mou Qizhong's business life from the very beginning, every investment project he made was a all-in, all-in, trying to make a small profit with a big risk. He was very good at using the resources around him and kidnapping others. The so-called using other people's money to make his own money could work wonders. However, if he did this too much, as long as he made a wrong step, the consequences would often be disastrous.

Get rich, go to jail, get rich, go to jail, get rich, go to jail... Mou Qizhong, who had been to the palace three times, still did not learn his lesson. With his character, if there was no external force to influence him, his legend would surely end in tragedy.

Lu Yang is this external force. In this life, he wants to try to see if he can influence the fate of this legendary figure. If he can really create another Mou Qizhong with a different outcome, and let this man's boldness and innovation be put to practical use, instead of launching satellites and rockets, and developing the so-called Jiangnan on the Saishang based on imagination, wouldn't it be good to take his money and follow Lu Yang, and work together to build Pengcheng, the city of youth, and create the first frontier of reform and opening up?
If one day in the future, Pengcheng can become the financial center of Asia and the world, Mou Qizhong, as the first generation of the richest man in the country, will definitely have a share of the credit.

As a butterfly of time and space, Lu Yang will eventually prove that he can influence not only himself, but also more friends and relatives around him, and even the 14 billion compatriots across the country. In the future, the Chinese nation will eventually stand at the top of the world!

If all of the above can be achieved, then Lu Yang's rebirth will be of great significance.

Even the ancients said, "If you are poor, you should take care of yourself; if you are rich, you should help the world."

Anyone who has read the book should understand the principle behind this.

But for Lu Yang, the truth is actually simpler. The richer a person is, the more empty he will be spiritually. He will always want to do something to prove himself, even if the final result is not satisfactory, or even if he has to sacrifice his life. Some people are willing to do so, because in the spiritual world of these people, it proves that his trip to this world is not in vain.

Throughout history, there are actually many such people. Some of them become saints passed down from generation to generation, while others become villains who are infamous for all eternity.

This is how it is when we see it from a big perspective, but what about when we see it from a small perspective?
During the Republic of China period, there was a group of rich second-generations who had no worries about food and clothing since they were born. When the Chinese people were living in dire straits, they actually didn't need to stand up, because they all had a way out, but they chose to stand up, joined the army without hesitation, and became the first generation of air force pilots at that time, fighting with the enemy in the blue sky. They had no regrets even if their blood was shed in the sky, because although they died, their spiritual world was sublimated.

Speaking of something more recent, everyone may have heard of the Blue Sky Rescue Team. In fact, there are many rich second-generations in the team. They also have no worries about food and clothing, and can live out their lives in luxury. But it is precisely because of the emptiness of their spiritual world that they get lost in the sounds of "thank you". Even if they bring their own dry food, they still want to bring the spirit of humanitarian rescue to the extreme.

So what about Lu Yang?
It is too easy for a person to achieve success after rebirth, but what happens after success?

You have to bring something to this world, right? Change something? Influence something? Leave some traces of your presence, right?
"I don't dare to say that I am the richest man in the country, but I think it should be close. Some people are richer than me, but they dare not expose themselves to the sun. My wealth is free, so it's time to do something meaningful. Let's start by changing Mou Qizhong and let this old guy work with me to promote the economic development of Pengcheng. Is this a meaningful thing?"

"Well, if that's not enough, then save Wanyan Company and make VCD no longer a regret of an era. It was clearly a blue ocean of an era, but in the end it left behind the tears of an era. A lot of money was earned by foreigners, and in the end Chinese people had to pay for the patent fees of DVD. I absolutely cannot tolerate this happening again. Although Jiang Wanli is a great contributor to the birth of VCD and is hailed as the father of VCD in later generations, if he keeps blocking my way, don't blame me for being rude to him. I can only kick him out."

For some reason, Lu Yang thought of Wanyan Company again.

The company's equity structure is now a three-way competition. Lu Yang alone holds 49% of the shares, while Jiang Wanli and Sun Yansheng, the two heroes who gave birth to VCD video technology, hold 51% of the shares together. Originally, Lu Yang was the undisputed major shareholder, but because Sun Yansheng is overseas, an overseas Chinese with his own company to manage, and he trusts Jiang Wanli, the founder of Wanyan Company, very much, the situation of the company has been created, and now it is still the founder Jiang Wanli who has the final say.

Lu Yang didn't care at first. Along the way, he had been involved in many projects and no longer had the energy to actually work on a project. At most, he could just take charge of the overall situation.

If Jiang Wanli is willing to listen to his advice and not go down the same old path and repeat the mistakes of his previous life, and ruin Wanyan Company's obviously good cards, Lu Yang will never have any bad intentions to pull him down. He may even give him a push and make him a future business celebrity in the domestic science and technology community. Don't disbelieve it, Lu Yang can definitely do it, and he is very confident.

Now this guy seems to have already determined that Lu Yang has ill intentions towards him. Not only does he not listen to Lu Yang's opinions, but he also enjoys doing the opposite. For example, Lu Yang suggested:
This time, we were able to appear on the CCTV program at no cost, which is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for Wanyan Company. We suggest waiting until the program is broadcast and then launching the company's first generation of VCD players in order to make it a hit. It is also best not to set the price too high.

At present, the price of domestic audio-visual playback equipment is mostly between 3000 and 7000 yuan. Imported brands such as Panasonic, Sony, JVC, etc. account for the majority of sales and occupy the mainstream of the VCR market. Below the mainstream are some domestic low-end brands, such as Panda, Konka, etc. The price of new machines ranges from 1500 to 3000 yuan, and they have a single playback function, ordinary picture quality, and belong to the single-standard (PAL-D) format.

Lu Yang's suggestion to Jiang Wanli was to set the price of VCDs at a level not higher than that of domestic brands such as Panda and Konka. Although in terms of picture quality and playback smoothness, VCD players are definitely better than these domestic brands, and even have considerable advantages compared with foreign imported VCR brands, this is the gap of progress of the times, the gap of new technology replacing old technology, and no one can stop all this from happening.

But if you want to promote a new technology, you must first make it acceptable to the general public, and make them feel that it is more cost-effective to buy it than an old-fashioned VCR. You can't set the price too high, right?
In order to convince Jiang Wanli, Lu Yang even gave him a set of data:
According to a survey, the average annual salary of employees nationwide in 92 was about 3371 yuan (about 280 yuan per month), and VCDs were still a luxury for ordinary families. Although Wanyan VCD pioneered the digital audio and video era and became a technological pioneer in this field in China, if the price was set very high, it would definitely become a typical case of "technological pioneer, market loser" in the future business world.

Look, Lu Yang has already told him the future.

But people just don't believe it.

In Jiang Wanli's original words, selling at a low price is an insult to the VCD technology. We have invested more than 100 million yuan in the research and development of this technology, and more than 100 million yuan in preparing to improve its ecosystem. We now have clearer playback quality, better sound quality, smaller size, and more convenient and easy-to-use playback process than those foreign brands. With so many advantages, why would we lose to those foreign brands? Tell me, why do we have to set a lower price than them?

Lu Yang was speechless, and then Jiang Wanli made an arbitrary decision that the VCD player would be launched on the market on the same day after his appearance on CCTV News. He agreed with this, but the price would be set at 5500 yuan per unit. As a groundbreaking product, although it was priced higher, it was mainly aimed at early adopters and the high-end market.

Therefore, within this year, he will not produce too many equipment to be put on the market, and Lu Yang's large-scale production plan was also rejected by him.

In Mou Qizhong's plan, this year is the year for VCD players to become famous. With high prices and high-end quality, he will build a high-tech national brand that is unique to Wanyan Company and implant the core values ​​of the brand into the hearts of the people. Next year will be the year when VCD players will officially take off. He will spend a huge amount of money to participate in this year's CCTV Autumn Recruitment Fair and bid for next year's CCTV bid winner, laying the most solid foundation for the huge sales of VCD players next year.

He still jokes that he learned this from Lu Yang. Don't think that only Lu Yang can use these gimmicks. He can do it too, and even better than Lu Yang.

But Lu Yang was so angry that he laughed.

The old man simply does not understand that a VCD player is not a learning machine, but a luxury item for ordinary people at this stage. Game learning machines like Little Genius and Little Prodigy only retail for about 300 yuan each. With the current average monthly salary of 260 yuan, ordinary people only need to save money and spend 1 to 2 months' salary to afford it. However, a VCD player is obviously not an option. If its retail price does not go down, it will be destined to be a niche product and it will not be a product that can be sold well among the people.

5500 yuan?
In 93, how many families across the country could afford this amount of money?

More importantly, Lu Yang has not said that if Wanyan Company fails to seize the market first and sell its VCDs nationwide, Wanyan Company will definitely face a super ocean of copycats, and there will be countless domestic and foreign counterparts rushing to seize this blue ocean market.

The VCD player is not a high-tech product that is difficult to imitate. You just need to buy the machine, disassemble it, and then explore it for a while. Not only foreign giants such as Toshiba and Sony, but also many domestic peers will rush to imitate and copy it. Moreover, in the absence of patent law, the price war will only become more rampant and unscrupulous, and it will make people understand what a desperate price war is.

If you don't occupy the market, someone else will.

If you are unwilling to lower the price, someone else will.

If you are unwilling to be close to the people, someone else will be willing to be close to the people.

You just think that it’s lonely at the top, and you think that you have epoch-making new technology, so you can sell a product that should have been popularized at a noble price. But someone will popularize it, and if you don’t make the money, someone else will. Even after they have made all the money, they will call you an idiot. The common people will not sympathize with your plight, but will accuse you of cutting the leeks of the people.

Why do you sell it so expensively while others can sell it so cheaply?
No one will care about how much money you have invested in researching it. What people care about is how much money they can spend to buy it and enjoy the convenient life it brings them.

Ridiculous or not?
Lu Yang thought Jiang Wanli was ridiculous.

That night, in the villa in Pengcheng, Lu Yang turned on the financial channel of CCTV TV, and the whole family gathered together to watch the first episode of "Fortune First Scene".

When they saw their daughter, sister, and aunt appear on the stage, the women of this family, Ma Xiu Lan, Yin Ming Yue, and Lu Xin Er, three generations, all had their eyes lit up and laughed happily. They gathered together, pointing and chattering at the TV.

However, Lu Yang was already thinking secretly about how he could bring down the boastful person on TV.

"I have to do something. Well, I can't let him do whatever he wants. Where should I start?"

"This year……"

"No, it seems we have to wait until next year..."

"If we don't let some people fall first, they may not realize how stupid their wrong decisions are and how bad the impact on the company is. Moreover, if I want to acquire Wanyan's shares held by Sun Yansheng, or even by Jiang Wanli, they will not sell them to me in the current situation. And I don't like to be a sucker. It seems that I can only lend him a helping hand and make him fall even harder."

(End of this chapter)