Rebirth 08: Rise from copycat phones

Chapter 136 New Products and New Demands

But Secretary Li was not a person who liked to show off. Although he received more than one million yuan, he only spent four or five hundred thousand yuan to buy a small three-series car and saved the rest of the money...

Secretary Li is quite well-planned with money matters. She actually earns a lot from following Xu Shenxue. Salary is just superficial. In addition to spending more than one million to buy her an apartment, Xu Shenxue would give her some living expenses from time to time, ranging from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands, basically depending on his mood.

Secretary Li rarely spends the money lavishly, and she doesn't buy expensive bags, luxury jewelry, etc. like ordinary women. She saves most of the money...

Compared with ordinary girls, Secretary Li is now considered a wealthy woman, with several million in savings.

In comparison, Secretary Qian seemed to be a bit extravagant. Xu Shenxue gave her a lot of living expenses, but she didn't have much in savings, and she basically spent all her money on shopping.

Secretary Kim, on the other hand, is somewhere in between...

Last year, under the leadership of Secretary Li and Secretary Qian, Secretary Jin reluctantly followed them and Xu Shenxue to go to the beach... Then in the evening, she was half-reluctantly pushed into Xu Shenxue's room by two secretary colleagues.

After one night, Secretary Jin became a "secretary" who did everything, just like Secretary Li and Secretary Qian.

Xu Shenxue actually gave these three secretaries similar treatment. They were provided with basic houses and cars, and different amounts of living expenses every month... but the total amount was actually almost the same.

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After dinner, Xu Shenxue went home and met Xu's mother. In the past six months, Xu's mother would occasionally come back to live, mainly because the relationship between Xu's mother and his sister Xu Weiwei had eased in the past six months.

I'm not as nervous as I was last year.

They also agreed that after the college entrance examination, the two of them would go to Europe for a trip.

Now my younger sister Xu Weiwei is in her senior year of high school and the study workload is still quite tight, but Xu Shenxue gave her a D-level place.

Her academic performance has improved very well in the past year. With her current grades, it will be difficult for her to get into Peking University or Tsinghua University, but it should not be a problem for her to get into a better 985 university.

This was enough for Xu Weiwei.

After all, she doesn't need to go to school and find a job to support herself...

This eighteen-year-old girl is actually a wealthy woman!

Even before Xu Shenxue founded Zhiyun Technology, the various assets that Xu's father left to Xu Weiwei added up to at least more than 30 million.

After Xu Shenxue founded Zhiyun Technology, although a series of complex equity changes were carried out subsequently, Xu Weiwei still indirectly held more than one share of Zhiyun Technology.

These more than one share of Zhiyun Technology are now worth at least 2 billion US dollars!

According to the unreliable domestic wealth rankings, her net worth could rank in the top 50... and probably in the top 5 on the list of richest women!

Of course, this is only on the surface. In fact, there are a large number of wealthy people who are not on this list... For example, Xu Weiwei herself is not on this list. Not only is she not on this list, her personal information, including photos, can basically not be found in any media.

Xu Shenxue attached great importance to the protection of his family's information and instructed domestic media, especially online media, not to disturb his family's lives...

Not only the family information, but even Xu Shenxue's personal information can not be found much on the Internet. All of them are public information after official review by Zhiyun Technology, and specific personal information has been basically blocked.

Outsiders basically have no idea how many shares of Zhiyun Technology these people from the Xu family own.

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However, the so-called value of Zhiyun Technology is just an estimate, not its real listing value...

But there is no doubt that Xu Weiwei is a real rich woman, and in the eyes of outsiders, she exudes the luster of US dollars.

It is said that when she was in school, quite a few tall, rich and handsome guys approached her.

But Xu Weiwei wasn't really a silly little girl. On the contrary, as a girl who grew up in a wealthy family, she knew when she was in elementary school that those classmates approached her and flattered her just because she was rich...

Besides, even in an expensive international private school, most male students don’t have the courage to approach her...Xu Weiwei drives a Mercedes-Benz to school every day, with a female driver and bodyguards following her.

Boys whose families are not well-off will feel inferior when they see her...Those who have the courage to approach her are those who claim that their family background is just barely okay.

But Xu Weiwei usually ignores them... The girl also knows that her brother has recently become the new richest man in the world. Most of these so-called tall, rich and handsome men who have suddenly come up to her recently have bad intentions and are all after her or her brother's money.

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The next day, Xu Shenxue did not go to the company, but took a car directly from Shenzhen to a nearby city for inspection.

In addition to the people from Zhiyun Technology, Xu Shenxue was also accompanied by people from Weiku Industry! Because the purpose of this inspection was to find a place to build a large production base.

As Zhiyun Technology's business lines continue to expand, the demand for various types of OEM is also increasing.

In addition to continuing to look for OEM factories, according to Zhiyun Technology's usual practice, it will inevitably give part of the orders to its sister company Weiku Industrial, especially the early production line research and development, and the early trial production is basically undertaken by Weiku Industrial.

This can better coordinate the R&D department to carry out product development and production line development, and form an effective linkage between product development and production line development.

At the same time, it can also better keep unlaunched products confidential, so that before the new products have even been officially released, all kinds of news and even detailed information about appearance and configuration are already flying around.

Because of the strong demand from Zhiyun Technology, plus the fact that there is also Weiku Electronics... the huge orders from these two brother companies alone have allowed Weiku Industrial to continue operating at full capacity, and it has been basically expanding over the past year.

We have just invested in building a large production base and R&D center in Shenzhen.

Now it is planning to build a new large-scale production base. After comprehensive consideration of many places, taking into account recruitment, salary costs, convenient transportation, supply chain, local support, preferential measures and other aspects, Weiku Industrial finally preliminarily selected several places as candidates.

And Dongguan City in the north is the first candidate!
After the convoy entered the highway, it attracted the attention of other people. After all, the convoy consisting of more than ten Mercedes-Benz, a minibus, three large SUVs and a Maybach bulletproof car in the middle was too conspicuous and attracted the attention of many people in passing vehicles.

There was no other way. The team size for investigating such an important project was already large. In addition, Xu Shenxue's safety had always been of great concern to investors. They strongly requested a large number of security personnel and even a bulletproof car was specially provided for Xu Shenxue.

So much so that now when Xu Shenxue travels, there are more than a dozen security personnel following him...Those large SUVs are actually the vehicles that the security personnel ride and drive.

In the middle of the convoy, Xu Shenxue was reading some emails in his notebook.

I happened to see the report sent by the business project team, which said that the project was progressing smoothly, that the engineering prototype had been preliminarily produced, and that various tests were currently being carried out. They invited Xu Shenxue to inspect and view the prototype project.

Xu Shenxue was in a good mood after reading this report.

The progress of this business notebook project is relatively smooth, and we haven't encountered any major problems along the way... To put it bluntly, this thing is actually just an assembled product. Except for the aluminum alloy body, power management chip and some other few non-critical components, the rest are basically spare parts purchased from suppliers.

The most important task for the PC project team of Zhiyun Technology is to combine these components and create an ultra-thin business notebook with an outstanding appearance.

At this rate, the first generation of ultra-thin business notebook is expected to be officially released in the summer.

The tablet computer project is slower in terms of development progress... It's not that the hardware is slow to make, but the hardware is actually simpler than the ultra-thin notebook...

The tablet computer developed by Zhiyun Technology is, to some extent, an enlarged smartphone. After the enlargement, the internal space is more spacious, so the internal structure design is also simpler.

As for the core design of the hardware, in order to reduce R&D costs, they even directly copied many core design frameworks of the S9 mobile phone.

The real problem lies in the system adaptation and the various office software used...

The system is rather complicated. Although the YUN OS system used on the mobile phone can be used, it does not feel very convenient. After all, the operation and interaction modes of tablets and mobile phones are very different due to the huge difference in screen size.

At the same time, tablet computers cannot just consider fluency, but also need to consider office needs, so some of the underlying designs of the system also need to be changed.

Finally, there are various office software!
Nowadays, there is no software developed specifically for tablet computers. It is either pure PC software or software for mobile phones... Of course, there are also some adaptation software for handheld computers like old-fashioned ones.

And these are not very reliable!
To this end, a large part of the tablet computer project team's energy is actually used to develop with some cooperating software manufacturers various office suites specifically adapted for tablet computers.

As for this new project of Zhiyun Technology, Microsoft abroad is quite interested. They have previously cooperated with Zhiyun Technology in the field of mobile office software for mobile phones, and naturally will continue the cooperation this time.

In addition, Zhiyun Technology also found Kingsoft in China and asked them to develop a mobile office suite for tablets... and then promised to pre-install it for free.

Whether it is abroad or domestically, there are actually very few software manufacturers who can refuse the olive branch of Zhiyun Technology... When Zhiyun Technology came to Kingsoft and said they would work together to develop a mobile office suite, Kingsoft was naturally very happy about it, as this is an important opportunity to enter the mobile office market.

The initial market potential of tablet computers has also been proven by Apple. They officially launched the first generation of IPAD to the market in January, with sales exceeding 300,000 units on the same day. Its popularity remains high, with monthly sales approaching one million units.

Today, it is not only Zhiyun Technology that sees the market potential of tablet computers, but other companies have also seen the potential of tablet computers.

Now that Zhiyun Technology says it also wants to do this and bring them along, they are naturally very happy about it.

Due to system improvements and adaptation issues of various office software, Zhiyun Technology's tablet computer is expected to be released only this fall.

Both Xu Shenxue and Zhiyun Technology have relatively high overall expectations for these two new products, especially for flat-panel computers.

In addition, the market size of contemporary smartphones is getting bigger and bigger, and the production and sales volume of Zhiyun Mobile and Weiku Electronics are increasing.

This series of demands has put Weiku Industrial under tremendous pressure, and it urgently needs to start construction of a new large-scale production base as soon as possible, otherwise it will be difficult to carry out trial production of new products in the future.

(End of this chapter)