My Lord, you need to stand up!

Chapter 404 Honesty is the Greatest Open Strategy
In fact, the defining characteristic of Wei Dong's work has always been his honesty.

Extreme honesty.

His rise to wealth, starting from selling cured meat, is a clear and traceable history.

Even the slightest concealment in selling titanium ingots is morally acceptable.

It may really be thanks to living in the tax compound for forty years.

Wei Dong's subconscious attitude was always to pay taxes according to regulations, make money legally, and never try to cheat or do anything crooked.

No matter how many tricks they try, tax audits will see through them like a magic mirror.

Therefore, his methods, starting from the very first piece of cured meat, are all well-reasoned.

In this respect, he is even more honest and straightforward than that guy Chi Shiming.

Moreover, it has never relied on administrative power.

These are all genuine business transactions.

In particular, in order to get You Qili out, Wei Dong was forced to stand under the watchful eyes of the old leaders of Shangzhou by Yu Songhai and Dong Xueying.

He was forced to double down on cleaning up his own code of conduct.

Profits from selling citrus fruits and transporting sand and gravel are shared with the people.

Later, the sanitary napkin factory further boosted employment for labor-intensive manual workers.

The reform of the three-line forces became the biggest foundation for Weidong.

This style of doing things remained consistent throughout.

Openly and honestly using the benefit of thousands of employees as leverage for scale expansion.

This is the biggest trump card that gives Wei Dong the courage to face Shangzhou, Jiangzhou, Shanghai, and even the National Economic Conference.

Just like in Dou Dizhu (a popular Chinese card game), the most terrifying way to play is to reveal your cards.

What Wei Dong liked most was the final few moves, where he clearly revealed his hand, telling his opponent that he was doomed to lose.

This approach of promoting productivity and changing the lives of local people is a calculated strategy, revealing its true nature.

It is practically indestructible.

How could he possibly sleep around with women like that, and even take in sisters?

Back in Pingjing, Wei Dong had already expressed his disdain for how low-class this kind of thinking of indulging in women was, in front of Wu Xi and Jin Zhuoqun.

There is no table at all.

Even their own team can collapse!

That old hag is completely clueless.

It's not as good as Shen Laosan and Qin Yuye's approach of making it public.

Therefore, he made up his mind to have Wei Dong, and even asked Qin Yuye to accompany Fengchu to inspect the zoo, while he concentrated his efforts on finalizing the planning scheme for the electronics industrial zone.

Shanghai was merely a hub for establishing its own electronics industry with overseas partners; the real foundation remained in Jiangzhou.

Old Geng didn't come; instead, he sent the Third Battalion Commander with a technical team to serve as the overall construction commander.

Only when construction projects are truly launched in various locations will we realize that the combat capabilities of the infrastructure regiments and engineering corps are a true treasure.

Just like how Pengzhen was able to rapidly develop from a small fishing village into a national metropolis, ranking as the fourth top-tier city in China, alongside Beijing, Shanghai, Guangdong, and Shenzhen.

The foundation was laid by the engineering corps, and more than 8,000 people from those two infrastructure divisions later went on to take up positions in various industries throughout the city.

It's truly made of steel and iron.

This allows Wei Dong to completely trust and entrust all project execution to the other party.

Even if the construction team is from Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, which is convenient for them, it does not affect Wei Dong's control over the "battle situation" at all.

Hong Kong businessmen are not to be trifled with either.

This is almost their first real estate project tested in mainland China.

And it was in Shanghai.

Just like the Swan Hotel in Guangzhou, which was completed only two or three years ago, it was the first project of that billionaire tycoon in mainland China.

These hotels and office buildings in Shanghai will also solidify their development position in the mainland.

I guess they fought over and divided it up when they got back to the hotel that night.

In the end, Heinz Group won the business center, Uncle De's second son and others jointly secured the hotel, and the other three companies shared ownership of four high-rise commercial and residential buildings.

The real intention behind the mixed-use building complex is certainly not to provide residential space, but rather to develop the commercial complex in the podium section.

As the 51% controlling shareholder of the hotel and business center joint venture, and the sole owner of the residential community, Weidong naturally had to engage in a series of negotiations with these parties.

Right there in the shady sheds under the trees at the construction site, where the sun was blazing.

Wei Dong maintained his open and honest attitude, explaining that he was only complying with the current requirement for joint ventures and would not invest a single penny or take a single penny from these real estate deals.

They will not exchange any shares for benefits in Hong Kong or Jiangzhou. They will only hold these shares and have the regulatory power to stop the transformation at any time, which can be regarded as helping these Hong Kong capitals to take the helm and protect them.

Of course, as long as these properties are successfully managed, the shares and ownership can be taken back in twenty or thirty years, and then the price issue can be discussed.

In reality, the number of such projects entering the mainland at this time is still very small, only a handful. Some of them are signed with the promise that ownership will be transferred to the mainland local government in 30 to 50 years.

This reassured Wei Dong that in ten or twenty years, holding these shares would be no problem at all. At that time, when it came to openly discussing commercial acquisitions, who knows who would be buying whom?

Compared to the others who had huge appetites and couldn't wait to make money, Wei Dong's almost "helping for free" attitude in introducing the business really satisfied the Hong Kong businessmen.

We immediately mobilized funds and manpower from Hong Kong and began construction using the most mature solutions.

The battalion commander transferred another platoon from Jiangzhou.

Originally, they were supposed to take over all planning and construction work, and the experts from Jiangzhou Design Institute and the architectural planning department could go back.

They immediately requested that we send over some more people; they just need to be provided with meals.

This is a complete, ready-made solution for Hong Kong hotels and commercial office buildings!
It's practically a training course where you learn step by step.

Perhaps through this battle, Jiangzhou City can take the lead in the country in the construction of hotels and office buildings.

The people in Shanghai haven't really noticed this yet.

Tell Wei Dong to be generous. Come on, as many people as you want, we'll provide meals for everyone.

More than a dozen technical experts from Citibank's Apple manufacturing plant also arrived and led the technical workers in production line training and process guidance in the temporary workshop provided by the vacuum electronics factory.

Wei Dong also invited the non-ferrous metals factory in Jiangsu and Zhejiang to participate, and they completed the design discussion on the "titanium alloy" keyboard, mouse, computer case and monitor shell on site.

Actually, Wei Dong had a lot of ideas to come up with.

It's fine to make a square chassis out of titanium alloy, but making a completely transparent acrylic panel on the side reveals the "industrial aesthetics" of the circuit boards being completely exposed.

Doesn't it give you the feeling of seeing the flywheel spinning in a top-tier luxury watch?
The Citigroup expert was so amazed that he had a wild idea: Steve would absolutely adore this Adil...

Little did they know that these "sea view room" computer cases would be commonplace in 30 or 40 years.

The monitor casing is, of course, made of bent titanium alloy on the front.

To be honest, even the titanium alloy produced by Hongguang Factory at its cost is lower than the injection-molded shell price quoted by Citibank!
But this gimmick of using aerospace materials won't get it flying.

But the key point that Wei Dong was able to raise was how to make the front of the monitor completely flat, or at least make the front of the curved picture tube appear flat.

When he raised this point, all the Chinese and foreign experts present were full of question marks. What was the point?
The principle of a cathode ray tube is like blowing up a balloon. An electron gun emits a beam of light from the nozzle, which hits the curved bottom to form an image.

Therefore, the bottom is basically curved. If you try to flatten it, the four corners will be distorted.

What's the point of doing this?
Wei Dong could say that around the turn of the millennium, these flat-screen CRT monitors dominated the market, and the tax authorities followed suit and replaced a large number of them, catching a corrupt official.

They also replaced many old monitors with those in the security room.

So he was particularly impressed.

This feature certainly gives it an overwhelming advantage in the market, but he doesn't understand why.

If this technical hurdle can be overcome, Shanghai Vacuum Electronics Factory will be able to stand out in the world with this patent!

Because Apple's computer experts would definitely be eager to register it as a patent owned by Mr. Pete.

Who would dare to infringe on the patents of Apple, which is now the world's second-largest computer brand?
Steve's patent lawyers would be overjoyed to sue him to death!
Upon hearing the news, Steve was all smiles and sent two patent lawyers to Dongda University to oversee the matter.

Because none of these can compare to Mr. Pete's inspiration for keyboards and mice.

Anyway, my sister-in-law, who majored in telecommunications, spent a day at the Shanghai Zoo, but still ended up sulking and hanging out with her brother-in-law among the circuit boards.

Qin Yuye glanced at the fashion and cosmetics at the Shanghai Department Store, then shook his head and decided to follow along and wander around the factory and construction site.

Wei Dong usually went to the construction site in the morning when it was cool, and then spent the afternoons working in the vacuum electronics factory workshop in the alley.

He was bursting with inspiration while looking at the dozen or so keyboards and mice brought by the experts.

The keyboards these days all have genuine steel-plate shielded mechanical switches, and they're incredibly precise.

Each key switch is a work of art crafted with hundreds of thousands of flawless keystrokes.

The cost is very high.

How could the security room have ever used such a high-end mechanical keyboard?
Like everyone else, this was the first time Wei Dong had ever seen such a complex keyboard interior.

After thinking for a while, I finally managed to say, "I require the keyboard to be developed like this..."

The security guards are definitely old, discarded equipment from various service halls.

Sometimes you even have to disassemble several secondhand keyboards to piece together a usable mouse and keyboard.

I didn't disassemble it myself, but there's a colleague who's quite skilled, and the tax bureau's technical center also needs a few technicians who can assemble and install computers.

Wei Dong had seen too many of those cheap membrane keyboards that cost only twenty or thirty yuan; he had broken countless of them.

"If we have two membranes with circuits on them, arranged like the circuits on a keyboard, and we separate them with an insulating sheet with holes, wouldn't there be a gap? Every time we press a key, we connect the two membranes. So, do we have a cheap membrane keyboard?"

This is also the kind of academic and popular science blogger tone that is commonly seen in short videos later on.

The design intent was conveyed in a simple and easy-to-understand way.

A bunch of electronics designers and technology experts felt like their heads were about to explode!
It's that simple?
But aren't high-end designs often achieved through the simplest methods?
Now a bunch of Citibank engineers who used to dress like hippies and were so arrogant that they wouldn't even look down at anyone have to worship Mr. Pitt!

The patent attorney didn't care about any of that; he just sat there and asked, "Hmm? Another new patent?"

Come on, Pete, sign your name...

(End of this chapter)