Rebirth Tokyo 1986

Chapter 226 San Francisco Disaster

Lou Gerstner, who was sensitive about business, immediately realized the importance of mobile phone text messaging function.

He flattered respectfully: "This function is good. With this function, users can save a lot of phone bills, thereby greatly increasing the sales of our second-generation mobile phones."

The most important thing about the mobile phone text messaging function is that it can help users save money.

Among those users who choose to wait because their mobile phone bills are too high.

There are definitely people who choose to grit their teeth and buy a mobile phone just for its text messaging function.

Besides saving money, text messaging has another benefit.

When the other person is not around temporarily, you can also tell him/her what you want to say in text form.

If you don’t want to say it in a text message, you can also leave a message to tell the other person what time you are free, and then the two parties can contact each other.

This way, if anything happens, it won’t take too long, further facilitating everyone’s life.

Of course, everything has two sides.

The text messaging function on mobile phones can also give rise to some bad things.

SMS scams, SMS scams, SMS scams, unhealthy content...

But one cannot stop eating because of choking.

As an important supplement to mobile phone call function, text messages will always play an important role in people's lives.

This effect has not decreased much even in the era of mobile Internet.

It's just that the form is more covert.

Text messages are no longer the basic tool for text communication between people, but have become various notifications and verification codes that are with us all.

Lou Gerstner was quick to react, and so were Heng Guyouer and the others, who quickly figured out the power of text messaging on mobile phones.

In response to everyone's praise, Masato Takeshita smiled and waved his hands.

"It's nothing new. I just transplanted the functions of the pager to the mobile phone."

Pager, commonly known as BB machine.

This thing is a mobile phone that only has text messaging function and cannot make calls.

In the 20s and s, pagers were all the rage.

Although the price is far less than that of a big brother mobile phone, owning a BB machine is a very face-saving thing for many Chinese people.

Because pagers were not cheap at that time, it cost more than 2000 yuan to buy one.

The continued popularity of pagers enriched a large number of pager operators in China and allowed these companies to offer higher salaries.

Xiao Ma Ge from Penguin joined the famous Runxun Company after graduation because of the generous salary in the pager industry.

However, Xiao Ma Ge was very smart. When most people were still immersed in the glory of pagers, he noticed the crisis in this industry.

He began to persuade his leaders to transform the company to the Internet and enter the instant messaging field.

The leaders of Runxun were dismissive of this.

Everyone knows what happened later.

Thanks to his instant messaging business, Pony Ma has become a top businessman in China and has a certain reputation around the world.

Runxun disappeared in the tide of Chinese business.

Gerstner disagreed and retorted: "The vast majority of inventions in the world are completed based on the foundation of predecessors."

"It is also a remarkable achievement that the president thought of transferring the pager function to the mobile phone."

The head of the production department, Tomioka Tetsuya, also echoed, "That's right, President, don't be so modest."

"You guys."

Masato Takeshita shook his head, smiled and said, "Okay, stop praising me. I'm shy and will be embarrassed."

"Now let's move on to the next topic, the second generation Xinghai mobile phone. How many functions should be integrated into it?"

The mobile phone memory is very small and can't hold too many things.

If you add too many features at once, the phone simply won't work.

But this kind of problem involving software was obviously beyond the scope, and the conference room was silent.

"Okay, now let's talk. It's a bit difficult for you."

"I plan to integrate these functions of the mobile phone through an operating system like a computer."

"When the time comes, we will add an operating system that is as large as the phone's capacity."

"I have found Professor Ken Sakamura to be the person in charge of the operating system. If anyone has a suitable candidate, please put them forward."

As soon as Ken Sakamura's name came out, everyone immediately realized that their president had been prepared for this.

Senior leaders, including Lou Gerstner, felt a sense of admiration.

The president is indeed a world-renowned business genius. He had already thought of the production direction of the Xinghai second-generation mobile phone early on.

With an operating system, mobile phones will definitely be more convenient to use.

The next day, Ken Sakamura also joined the discussion group about the new phone.

People began to make choices among various mobile phone functions.

Finally, after more than half a month of discussion, everyone set the tone for the software of the second-generation Xinghai mobile phone.

The second generation Xinghai mobile phone only retains the most basic call, text message and phone book functions.

As for time, calendar, and calculator, they will be added later.

Mobile operating systems are just getting started, and the most important thing is stability rather than cramming too many features into them.

A month passed quickly.

Just as Xinghai Semiconductor was celebrating its first-month sales of over 40 units, a serious natural disaster occurred in the United States.

A severe earthquake struck again in the San Francisco area of California.

This earthquake was not as severe as the one in the early 20th century, but it also killed more than two hundred people.

As for the property losses, they are incalculable.

Fortunately, American officials in the 20th century were not so corrupt.

So in terms of disaster relief, the performance is pretty good.

"President, how much is the appropriate donation for our company?"

Whenever a disaster occurs, Xinghai Group is very active in donating supplies and money.

Volcanic earthquakes of varying sizes in Japan.

The fire in Greater Khingan Range in China, the major earthquake in southern Yunnan, and various floods.

Xinghai Group is present in all of them.

When it comes to the earthquake in southern Yunnan, it is not well known in China.

It is far less famous than the previous Tangshan earthquake and the subsequent Wenchuan earthquake.

But in terms of losses, the southern Yunnan earthquake was actually very serious.

Several counties around the epicenter of the earthquake were basically destroyed.

During that disaster, Masato Takeshita wanted to donate more, but considering the national conditions of various countries, he finally resisted the urge.

Just like before, I donated a little more, but it didn’t stand out too much.

"The group headquarters is $1000 million and the US joint venture is $500 million."

Masato Takeshita quickly determined the number.

Still not standing out or being stingy, taking care of every aspect.

"Do you want to donate materials?"

"this is not OK."

Masato Takeshita quickly shook his head, and then warned again solemnly: "You must remember this."

"We only donate money, not even a little bit of supplies."

Masato Takeshita would not dare to donate supplies to the American people.

It's not that he is stingy, it's that Americans are too greedy.

In the previous life, a Chinese building materials company donated a batch of construction supplies when a disaster occurred in the United States.

At the beginning, everything was going well for us, and we even received commendations from the US government.

But soon the company realized what human nature is and what Mr. Dongguo and the snake are.

The American disaster-stricken people turned against the government, saying that there was something wrong with the batch of building materials.

Naturally, the company did not admit it and confidently presented its own building materials certificate.

But the certificate doesn't matter at all.

American laws naturally favor their own people.

The lawsuit was a disastrous defeat and the defendant had to pay compensation for the losses.

Since then, the company has been stuck in a nightmare.

More and more victims of the disaster continue to join the lawsuit, and then compensation continues to be sought.

Xinghai Group is also an outsider, so they should also be more careful. If the disaster victims do the same to them, they will never be able to pay it back in their lifetime.

"clear."

Although Lou Gerstner did not understand the meaning, he simply agreed.

Seeing this, Takeshita Masato had to warn again: "Remember, you must not donate supplies. Not even a needle."

"Don't worry, President. I will always remember it."

"Ah."

Masato Takeshita nodded, then raised his head and said with emotion: "I also want to do a better job of disaster relief, but we have to be prepared."

He then told Lou Gerstner his guess.

After hearing his president's reasons for not donating anything, Lou Gerstner had to admit it.

Americans are indeed capable of doing this kind of thing.

The United States is known as a country of lawyers, and there are litigants everywhere.

If there really is a lawyer who finds business opportunities in this, Xinghai Group will indeed be deeply involved.

Especially in this era of rising anti-Japanese sentiment in the United States, the risks may increase significantly.

Good fortune and misfortune depend on each other.

The earthquake was bad for the United States, but very good for the Xinghai Group.

On that day, the disaster radio department of Xinghai Group was surrounded by dealers.

These dealers even bring their own dry food, and Xinghai Group doesn’t have to pay for the shipping costs.

After discovering this grand event, Masato Takeshita took the initiative to call his American partners.

He wanted to know the situation of his partners in the United States so that he could make better profits.

"Good morning, Mr. George! Is everything okay over there?"

"Thank you for your concern, Brother Takeshita. We are not affected."

“But throughout the San Francisco area, the damage was very severe.”

"Oh, that's unfortunate, I hope everyone is okay."

Although he was extremely happy, George Bush still pretended to be very sad.

His father is now the President of the United States, so as a son, he naturally cannot provide any leverage to his opponents.

"It's unfortunate indeed."

"We at Xinghai Group held an urgent discussion and decided to donate 1000 million US dollars."

"Then our joint venture donated $500 million."

"May I?"

The two sides are cooperating on an equal footing, so the question of how much money to donate naturally needs to be discussed.

"No problem. I hope to help more disaster victims and allow them to lead a normal life."

As he spoke, Bush even shed a few tears.

It’s not that he is born to like performing, but it’s an American phone call. Those who understand will understand.

If you don't want your reputation to plummet, you must not do anything, or even say anything, that would take advantage of someone's misfortune.

Bush understood this, and Masato Takeshita naturally understood it as well.

Therefore, the two of them then performed very well what it means to be a filial son.

However, this kind of thing should not happen too often, as it may easily cause counterproductive effects.

So soon, Masato Takeshita started talking about business.

"Can the production capacity of your factory be met?"

“Is it necessary to produce disaster emergency radios in Japan?”

The biggest thing in the world is making money.

Every time a major disaster occurs, the sales of disaster emergency radios increase significantly.

If Xinghai Group does not take this opportunity to ship more goods, it will lose a lot of money.

"No problem. One million units in 10 days, OK?"

Bush is very clear about his company's production capacity.

Even if Masato Takeshita didn't say it, he would bring it up on his own initiative.

no way.

Compared with the high efficiency of Japanese companies, the American manufacturing industry has fallen behind in all aspects.

Not only was the workers' enthusiasm relatively low, but the equipment also began to gradually become outdated.

If it weren't for the desire to win over voters, the factory would have moved to Southeast Asian countries long ago.

Of course, if the factory does not relocate, it also has the idea of winning more government orders.

Every country will try every possible means to strengthen its domestic manufacturing industry.

The same is true in the United States.

If the U.S. government does not purchase domestic products at high prices, American industry will fall further behind.

Those who are favored feel confident.

Therefore, the products produced by domestic American manufacturers will become more expensive.

"No problem, it's a piece of cake."

Xinghai Group had already stored a large number of disaster radios in advance.

This is not a special case of waiting for a major earthquake in San Francisco, but rather a routine practice of the company.

After the disaster was averted, Xinghai Group had nothing to sell.

In addition to connecting with the future US president, Masato Takeshita did not forget his other partners.

Of course, every phone call.

Everyone had to mourn for a while before talking about serious matters in a heavy tone.

In addition to disaster emergency radios.

After this earthquake, the sales of trolley suitcases also skyrocketed.

"Is it possible that a trolley suitcase is more convenient for traveling?"

Masato Takeshita secretly complained in his heart.

However, he only dared to say this in his heart.

The earthquake had a serious impact on the United States, but not much on Japan.

Except for a few globalized companies like Xinghai Group that choose to donate money, most companies are indifferent.

Instead of taking on this much time, you might as well borrow more money and invest it in the stock market.

Xinghai Investment took advantage of the investors' fanatical thinking and secretly liquidated all Japanese stocks except Nintendo.

The operation went very smoothly.

Finally, in late October, all Japanese stocks except Nintendo were sold out.

"Well done!"

Masato Takeshita, who witnessed with his own eyes the employees of Xinghai Investment selling their last bit of Japanese stocks, finally felt relieved.

He clenched his fist and swung it vigorously to vent the anxiety he had felt during this period of time.

Choosing to retreat in mid-July was a bit hasty.

The withdrawal should have been carried out immediately when the Bank of Japan announced an interest rate hike in June.

Fortunately, Japanese stock investors were crazy enough and failed to anticipate that something was wrong with the interest rate hike.

Only then was Xinghai Investment able to withdraw perfectly.

Masato Takeshita was so excited that he could hardly control himself, and so were all the employees of Xinghai Investment, both big and small.

“It went really smoothly.”

"Great!"

“It’s perfect.”

The whole company turned into a sea of celebration.

Because everyone understands one thing,
Making money in the stock market is not a skill; being able to take the money out is the real skill.

Xinghai Investment successfully cleared its inventory this time and earned extremely generous profits.

While Xinghai Investment itself and its investors can enjoy the meat, their hard-working employees can also have a sip of soup.

I just don’t know how rich this soup can be.

Judging from previous experiences, our president will definitely not be stingy.

The employees of Xinghai Investment were naturally extremely excited.

(End of this chapter)