The Red Era, the Opening University Speech

Chapter 224 Total Order 100 Million Units
Hong Kong, Ho family.

He Zhenhua hurried back home with a copy of the plan.

While handing it to Mr. He for reading, he repeated Li Mu's original words word for word.

After listening to this, Mr. He couldn't help but laugh twice and said:
"Zhenhua, when it comes to doing business, you really need to learn from Consultant Li."

"His method has caught everyone's weaknesses."

"As long as this ranking list exists, it will be a huge mountain weighing down the gaming market. No matter which company from OM wants to enter, they will be crushed by it!"

At the end, his tone was full of emotion.

Xia Country had already taken the lead in occupying the game market. This move now raises the threshold for game development in other countries. The cost of entering this market will be much higher.

Unless the quality is really excellent and you grit your teeth and spend money, you will have a chance to carve out a path forward.

But this also depends on the premise, that is, Li Mu will not tamper with the equipment. Otherwise, even if it is developed, it will be useless if it cannot be used on the TV game console.

……

After waiting for his father's approval, He Zhenhua quickly applied for a patent from the Da Ying government.

After passing the preliminary examination, the application for invention patent will generally be made public within 1 to 3 months.

This public period is called the publicity period. During this period, the inventor already has the patent right protected by law and can proceed with production.

Of course, the public can also review and raise objections to patents to ensure their legality and innovativeness.

However, for He Zhenhua and others, there is no such worry at all.

Both video game consoles and game cartridges are products that have never appeared in any country in the world and no one has yet researched them.

Even if they want to raise objections, it will take a long time to collect information and study it. By then, their public disclosure period will have passed and there will be no risk.

The advantages brought by technological crushing are so huge.

Therefore, after submitting the patent application materials, He Zhenhua organized his staff as quickly as possible and started "production" vigorously.

However, they are just covering up, and the goods are mainly delivered from the mainland.

Almost just as he was about to return, the first batch of goods arrived at the Hong Kong port within a few days.

Seeing that it was the He family's boat, the big infant man in charge of patrolling waved his hand and let it pass, then turned around and began to count the money in his pocket.

……

In less than half a month, after the patent approved by the Daiying government on an expedited basis entered the public notice period, a large number of video game consoles and game cartridges were shot out to all parts of the world like arrows from a bow.

After more than two months of sea transportation, the first destination arrived was the nearest market in Oceania.

The old acquaintance Taigu Group had reaped a lot of benefits from the previous transaction. When it first heard the news, it placed an order for 20 TV game consoles and 60 game cartridges in one go.

However, to be on the safe side, delivery is done in batches, 20% each time, and the whole delivery is completed in five batches.

After the first batch of goods was delivered, Taigu Group, which had already hired the media for publicity for a long time, immediately shipped the goods to various sales outlets.

Then as expected, it was sold out in one day!
4 TV game consoles are completely unable to meet the needs of game players who have been attracted by handheld game consoles. Every sales outlet of Taigu Group is filled with people coming to buy.

The customer service department's phone rang non-stop from morning to night.

The president was so forced to send Kevin, who had been promoted to sales manager, to Hong Kong overnight to urge the He family to deliver the goods, and he doubled the order volume again.

——They had already anticipated the popularity of video game consoles.

In fact, this hunch was not wrong.

……

The other side of the coast.

Once the video game console was launched on the market, it quickly caused a huge response.

The popularity of sales outlets across the states quickly attracted a lot of media attention.

Many authoritative media outlets have reported that video game consoles are seen as a new trend in the future capital market, and frankly admit that they will affect the next generation of young people.

The Times: "From handheld game consoles to the emergence of video game consoles, it has proven to us that electronic games have infinite potential and represent the infinite wealth they contain."

The Post: "It (video games) is deeply loved by young people and has gradually become a trend. People are talking about 'points', 'medals' and 'rankings' everywhere. Perhaps the era of rock and roll is about to pass, and we will usher in the era of video games!"

……

Although some of these reports are somewhat exaggerated, they still show how popular video game consoles are in the market.

On the streets of M Empire, young people can be seen everywhere talking about this game. Even in schools, students are competing with each other to see who has more points and who is better at playing "Tank War".

At this moment, video games have received unprecedented attention.

This is good for sales, of course.
But the local bosses in mainstream OM countries have also quietly set their sights on this newly emerged piece of cake.

After learning that the shipping destination was Hong Kong, more than a dozen groups of people rushed to Hong Kong and contacted the He family.

He Zhenhua was caught off guard by this, but Mr. He seemed to have anticipated it. He left these people alone for a few days and then found time to meet them.

A group of local tyrants from OM originally planned to use intimidation and inducement to gain greater benefits, but after seeing Mr. He chatting and laughing with the representative of the old family hidden by Daying, they immediately stopped and expressed their willingness to sit down and negotiate.

Things went on quite smoothly afterwards.

The He family sold video game consoles for 160M knives/80 pounds, and game cartridges for 10M knives/5 pounds. The prices doubled, but it did not affect the enthusiasm of the local tyrants who came.

You know, the price of a TV game console there is almost as high as 1000M dollars, and a game cartridge costs 50M dollars, and there is still a shortage of demand.

This price will be very profitable for them.

So, after "friendly" negotiations, the two sides happily reached a deal.

……

The news from Hong Kong was quickly synchronized to the Foreign Trade Commission.

When I heard the secretary report that the order volume had surged, with the total order for video game consoles reaching 100 million units and the number of game cartridges reaching 400 million.

Even though Dong Huaxing had expected this, he was still so shocked that he smoked half a pack of cigarettes before he gradually recovered.

He walked forward, took the telegram, looked at the numbers on it, and smiled so hard that his face almost broke.

The shipping price of the TV game console and game cartridge is $80M and $5M respectively, but the cost is less than half of that and the profit is over 100%.

This order volume means that they can earn at least $5000 million in profit!
……

Somewhere in a small courtyard.

It was snowing lightly, but the house was warm as spring under the warmth of the coal stove. The superior leader ate his meal while reading the report about Li Mu, nodding his head in approval.

People's Daily: "Invention King Li Mu has launched another new product, a black-and-white television and radio made with semiconductors, successfully fulfilling his original promise and reducing their prices to less than half..."

Guangmin Daily: "The emergence of semiconductor black-and-white televisions and semiconductor radios represents not only the progress of our country's scientific level, but also the improvement of people's lives..."

Gong Bao: "Our country is the people's country, the government is the people's government, and scientists are also the people's scientists. The inventor king Li Mu is the best example..."

……

All major newspapers praised Li Mu highly, and he really deserved this evaluation.

The superior was watching happily when he heard footsteps outside.

There were two knocks on the door, and Secretary Song's voice came from outside the door.

"Come in." The superior put down the newspaper and looked at Secretary Song who pushed the door open with a smile on his face.

The latter immediately said:

"Leader, you don't know that now in the supply and marketing cooperatives and department stores across the city, semiconductor black-and-white televisions and semiconductor radios are sold out as soon as they are put on the shelves."

"While waiting in line, everyone said that our country is getting better and better."

"And Li Mu, his reputation as the inventor king is becoming more and more famous. Wherever he goes, people talk about inventions and Li Mu!"

"Hahahaha, the masses have sharp eyes!" Upon hearing this, the superior leader stood up happily and paced back and forth in the room.

After a while, he calmed down and said, "Tell the First Ministry of Machine Building to speed up production and meet the needs of the people across the country as soon as possible."

"Yes, I'll go right away." Secretary Song immediately took the order and left.

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Not long after, Dong Huaxing, who came hurriedly, knocked on the door of his superior's study again.

The expected profit of 5000 million US dollars made the superior leader, who had already calmed down, couldn't help but slam the table twice to vent his excitement.

This number is actually not much more than the products sold overseas in the past.

But its success represents that Xiaguo made the right move by vigorously developing the semiconductor industry.

Li Mu's vision did not disappoint him, the gaming industry has a very high market value.

Now that it is only in its starting stage, it can already earn a profit of 5000 million US dollars. What about the future? It is simply unimaginable how much output value it can create!
Thinking of this, the superior leader immediately said to Dong Huaxing: "Your Foreign Trade Committee, the First Ministry of Machine Building, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences should have a good discussion and prepare a reward for Li Mu."

"The contribution he made this time is groundbreaking and cannot be perfunctory. It must be considered carefully."

……

Here, Li Mu didn't know yet that video game consoles and game cartridges were selling like hot cakes overseas.

He has been staying in the research institute for more than half a month. Finally, his hard work paid off and he completed the construction of a computer simulation platform, which put the research at the Radar Research Institute on the right track.

However, because it is also a castrated version, the effect is not yet clear and is still being tested by researchers from both institutes.

The progress on the material calculation software is quite smooth, but there is no hope of completing it completely in the short term.

As for the shielding layer material of the induction cooker, he asked Wu Youxiang to find several experts and professors from the Materials Research Institute to come and do research together. There has been good progress in the metal conductive lining, but this can no longer satisfy him.

While continuing his research on metal conductive linings, Li Mu also gathered people to conduct preliminary research on conductive rubber.

But this also cannot avoid material calculation software, so although he has a lot of research on hand now, he is actually relatively free.

At this time, he was presiding over a meeting in the Semiconductor Research Institute.

……

The large conference room was packed with people, and there were even quite a few people standing.

No one was whispering to each other. Everyone sat quietly in their seats, waiting for Li Mu to speak.

After Wu Youxiang and Wang Shoujue spoke briefly, they handed the microphone to Li Mu.

After getting the microphone, he cleared his throat and said:
"Everyone, the research projects in our institute have entered a relatively stable stage."

"But we can't rest on our laurels and must proactively explore new research."

“After discussions between me, Director Wu, and Director Wu, we decided to split the existing software team into two. One part will go to the game development center of Beijing Institute of Technology to work on games, and the other part will be divided into four groups to continue software design.”

After he finished speaking, he paused. He thought there would be an uproar below, but unexpectedly it was surprisingly quiet.

After all, there is a big gap between software design and game development.

Seeing the doubt in Li Mu's eyes, Huang Kun said, "Advisor Li, just call the names directly. We will follow your arrangements!"

The others also spoke up:

"Yes, we will obey the assignment and won't have any emotions!"

"It's also good to engage in game research and development. I heard that handheld game consoles and video game consoles are selling very well abroad. They have created a lot of foreign exchange for our country, which is also a contribution to the country!"

"The gaming industry is just starting out, and for the sake of national development, we have an obligation to do so!"

……

Listening to what the people below said, Li Mu's heart also felt hot.

He smiled and said, "Don't worry, this grouping is completely voluntary. I won't force you to join any part."

"But I promise that your abilities will be of the greatest value wherever you are."

……

The meeting went very quickly and the grouping was very neat and tidy.

After the groups were divided, Li Mu first found Wu Xi from the game development team alone, and then explained the future plans to him, asking them to visit the game development center of Beijing Institute of Technology more often to communicate with Shen Jianxin and others.

Afterwards, he found Huang Kun from the software design team.

Currently, computer simulation platform and material calculation software are two fixed software development projects, but he feels that this is far from enough.

In Wu Youwang's office, Li Mu said in a deep voice:

"In addition to the original two groups, we will be divided into four groups to engage in computer-aided design (CAD), computer-aided manufacturing (CAM), computer-aided translation (CAT) and computer-aided engineering (CAE)."

“The designs of these four software projects will be the core of our future research and development.”

"Once the product is successfully developed and released, I can say without hesitation that in less than 10 years, we will be able to catch up with the advanced technology level of Emperor M and Big Brother. In another 10 years, we will leave them far behind."

(End of this chapter)