Siheyuan: Rebirth of a comfortable life starts with Shazhu

He Yuzhu's self-esteem was not that strong, and he did not intend to reject Lou Xiao'e because of his ridiculous man's dignity.

The construction of the current television industry chain is much more difficult than He Yuzhu expected.

If we continue to operate at the pace of independent research and development and then production.

He Yuzhu still believes that we will succeed one day, but that may be five or eight years later.

As for Comrade Lao Ai, it is obvious that if he fails to produce results in a short period of time, he will not be able to stay in this position for five or eight years.

Even if he could stay there, the city government would not always give him such great support.

The cost of cathode ray tubes circulating in our own market has always been high.

And the life span is quite short.

This also means that the cost of our own televisions, even if they are just over ten inches, is quite high.

Of course, ever since the production line was shipped back.

Through debugging and calculation by the expert group, a rough estimate of the television cost in the old city was made.

The cost is 20% lower than that of domestic brands of the same size.

This seems like a remarkable achievement, but this is only compared with domestic brands.

Compared with foreign counterparts, our costs are still too high.

Not to mention, thinking about innovation and leading the trend.

This is also the difference between large appliances and small appliances.

Things like electric fans and rice cookers, although they are touted as intelligent and energy-saving in later generations.

Those things cannot be said nonsense, they are indeed progress.

But those were just changes in details, and no industry-disrupting inventions emerged.

Just like the little inventions made by He Yuzhu.

Televisions are obviously different. Every item in them is a huge project.
He Yuzhu’s suggestion is to make a reverse deduction based on the mature products of foreign companies and Xiao Rizi.

To put it bluntly, you should buy a few TVs and take them apart, then see the technological content of their spare parts and choose to conquer the parts that can be conquered first.

When they cannot conquer something, they set up a shell company and then "secretly" purchase from the original manufacturers.

These days, most places are still unwilling to do business with us, especially when it comes to purchasing electronic components, which have quite a lot of restrictions.

But the good thing is that these days, industries like these have not yet formed a monopoly, and every slightly developed country has such manufacturers.

Moreover, there is no Internet connection like in later generations, which gives He Yuzhu and others a loophole to exploit.

"...How can we guarantee that Xiaorizi will give us this benefit?" Lao Ai asked He Yuzhu again.

Comrade Lao Ai has asked He Yuzhu this question several times.

Ever since he supported He Yuzhu to continue producing large TVs to test the Asian market, Comrade Lao Ai has been caught in a situation of worrying about gains and losses.

As mentioned before, if the Sijiucheng TV Factory at this time only thought about competing with its domestic counterparts, Sijiucheng would actually have already won.

After all, reducing costs by 20 percent is a remarkable achievement.

If Comrade Lao Ai is satisfied with this, he can completely reduce the scale of the plan. He can cut some projects from the TV industry chain that originally planned to be independently developed and with completely domestically produced parts and components, further reduce costs, and then on the day of production, he can write a report to himself asking for credit.

As for the export issue that was advocated before, it is not unsolvable.

Let Lou Xiao'e purchase dozens or one or two hundred units. No matter they are sold at a loss or given away directly, they will be exported from Sijiu City at least.

Then the credit of Lao Ai and He Yuzhu can be guaranteed. But He Yuzhu is not satisfied with this, and Lao Ai does not want to keep his undefeated body by cheating at the end of his career.

He Yuzhu was not dissatisfied with this, but he was not too excited.

Whether based on considerations from previous lives or other aspects, he knows that our electronics industry is not as bad as imagined.

At least at this moment, we have not formed a huge gap with the outside world, not to mention with the foreigners, but with those places where people live.

It’s just that we have too many high-end technologies, all of which are used in a small range and are kept strictly confidential.

We can't just say good things here. It's indeed because we don't understand the outside world and many industries don't understand the development of world science and technology, so we are a bit like "cherishing our own things".

"We reasoned and felt that there should be no problem with this.

In recent years, our company has developed rapidly thanks to the technical resources provided by foreigners, and the competition is also fierce.

Relying solely on the consumption of their own tiny country, companies such as cathode ray tube manufacturers do not make much profit.

I heard from people in Hong Kong that in recent years, hot money has begun to flow into real estate.

Buy a piece of land, build a house, and then sell it, you can make a lot of money.

All of these are opportunities for us.

As long as we use products of the same quality and low prices to squeeze out their Asian TV market.

On the other hand, we still have to focus on independent research and development. No matter how good others' products are, it is not as good as our own." He Yuzhu also said seriously.

"I mean, how can we purchase the missing components without alerting our colleagues in the industry?" Comrade Lao Ai's voice became more serious.

He found that He Yuzhu seemed to be trying to avoid the main issue.

Speaking of this, He Yuzhu felt a little embarrassed. His face turned slightly red and his eyes flickered.

He stood up and turned around to close the office door.

Then he returned to Comrade Lao Ai and whispered, “The small people are on guard against us, but the factory owners are not against money.

As long as Hong Kong Island sets up a shell company and purchases from those cathode ray tube manufacturers with real money, the price can even be higher than that of their own companies.

If we do it right, we can do it without anyone noticing."

What He Yuzhu said was actually taking advantage of human greed.

Those companies that made cathode ray tubes for small businesses or foreigners secretly supplied the shell company opened by Lou Xiao'e.

It is indeed difficult to say it openly, because some things in it are indeed not allowed here.

For example, privately building a relationship with the other party’s boss or a senior executive.

In this age without the Internet, the money went into the pockets of the executives themselves, and we solved the urgent problem.

As long as everyone can keep it secret, no one will know about it.

As long as we can spare one to two years, most of the technical difficulties can be solved through reverse engineering.

Even if the small business finds out by then, the worst that can happen is that the shell company will close down, change the brand, and continue to grab the market.

If this were to be discussed at a meeting, no one would agree.

But all is fair in war, and the gap is clearly there. If we fight openly, we will definitely be defeated.

Then, we can only use some less glorious methods. (End of this chapter)