My Lord, you need to stand up!

Chapter 813 The Three Major Battles Come One by One
Wei Dong was instructed to have Cheng Lang find a reliable underworld connection to help him pay the HK$12 million gambling debt from 17K, and have a senior brother dressed in a Taoist robe personally deliver the check to Ma Zhaohui.

Deterrence is deterrence, and debt is debt.

Wei Dong only needed to return to Shanghai to confirm the debt with Qin Zhiming.

Even not telling his brother-in-law was to prevent him from becoming reckless and thinking that someone would always cover for him.

They deliberately kept Qin Zhiming in Shanghai, afraid to return to Hong Kong and Macau.

Qin Yuye would definitely agree with this line of thinking.

Therefore, following Qin Zhiming's plan, Colorful Karaoke City began its renovation and preparation in the electronics industrial park.

We ordered dozens of imported LD players, karaoke machines, audio amplifiers, microphones, projectors, and televisions from Japan.

The initial motivation for this business was to sing plain songs.

It emphasizes sound quality and effects, boasting professional-grade recording studio effects.

The hundreds or even thousands of foreign experts and staff members in this area alone could form a consumer market.

After Hong Kong businessmen followed Wei Dong into the electronics industrial park, Uncle De's five-star hotel naturally became very successful.

Behind the lobby on the first floor, there is a street selling designer clothing, which sells counterfeit fashions from Hong Kong and Taiwan that resemble European and American brands. This attracts many fashionable men and women from the city to come to the suburbs to look at and buy, and it can actually generate some sales.

With extensive overseas connections, Hu Haining is quite wealthy.

They also like to follow these imported products.

Business in other office buildings is also doing alright.

After all, more and more companies from Hong Kong, Taiwan, Southeast Asia, Europe and the United States, especially Japanese companies, are entering Shanghai.

The electronics industrial park is now a concentrated development zone, so there are quite a few companies renting offices there.

Even the commercial apartments are selling well.

The only exception is the commercial center with a mixed-use building.

There's nothing to sell.

To open a shopping mall and import all daily necessities, both the tariffs and the complexity of the product category review process are a bit too much.

Mr. Huang, who owns many supermarkets on the right bank, investigated the current major domestic commodity procurement channels and found that it is still difficult to build up the scale of a shopping mall.

The main problem is that some departments and units are not cooperating, so the plan to develop supermarkets has been put on hold.

This is a suburban area, so it's impossible to set up a free market like the one in the northern part of Jiangzhou, where a commercial building is located. Hong Kong businessmen can't stand that low-end atmosphere and would rather leave it empty and wait for someone who is destined to buy it.

This is precisely the perfect opportunity for Colorful Karaoke to move in.

By using his brother-in-law's name, Wei Dong was able to buy the two-story commercial space of about 1,500 square meters facing the street at a low price, which was considered to help Qin Zhiming settle down in Shanghai.

Lin Wangfu returned and drove over here first.

Po-zai thought he was going to the Apple OEM factory next door, and they had already started discussing whether to locate the optical drive factory in Shanghai or Shenzhen.

Rang Weidong then explained his strategy for buying a luxury home in Hong Kong: "Ten million Hong Kong dollars, less than two million US dollars, can buy a top-tier luxury home in Hong Kong. We are the earliest IT upstarts in Asia. I want to rely on these companies to make Hong Kong a capital of sports, fashion, and technology. So why don't you buy a house and be our neighbor? It's a guaranteed investment with appreciation potential."

Lin Wangfu proved to be a good candidate and didn't seem to care much about the mansion: "I'll live in your house, you can buy it for me, I'm fine with that. You always have a long-term and practical vision in this regard... But I still want to focus my department's core research in Singapore. Singapore nurtured me, and now that we're making money, I want to give back to Singapore and repay the many people who have supported me over the years. Is that okay? As long as you can do that, you can decide the rest. It's fine to keep the core in mainland China or Hong Kong."

Even as Wei Dong was driving, he couldn't help but let go of the steering wheel and applaud: "Great! I'll definitely support you with a grateful heart. Production in mainland China, R&D in Singapore, and business operations in Hong Kong, haha, that's right, your approach is actually correct!"

Lin Wangfu immediately asked why.

Wei Dong had already pulled over to the side of the road when he waved to the two Taoist priests in the Flying Tiger behind him. The two of them then happily followed the driver to practice driving, daring to even use a Honda for practice.

We're all men, who doesn't like driving?

“If I expand on a large scale in the mainland, I will definitely be subject to some restrictions. After all, no one wants to see a businessman grow too big. That’s why I went to Hong Kong to create a new situation. Otherwise, if I put all my energy into the mainland, it would definitely expand to an unimaginable size. This is an inevitable law.”

He knew that even 20 or 30 years from now, there would still be many super-successful people standing at the forefront of trends.

I might be even more formidable than them.

Because there are no rivals at all.

Lin Wangfu laughed and said, "Well, if that were the case, I wouldn't have been lucky enough to meet you."

He was a few years older than Rang Weidong, already in his early thirties, and had been struggling to make ends meet in the repair shop while diligently cultivating his skills for nearly ten years.

He is truly composed.

Wei Dong couldn't help but reach out and put his arm around his shoulder: "You're the same. Your size will soon seem too big for Singapore."

According to the original agreement, apart from Chow Yun-fat being brought in by Wei-tung to take a 10% stake, the shares of the two companies in the sound card and speaker factories were almost equal.

This doesn't include the profits from Apple's contract manufacturers. Leaving aside the patent royalties and revenue sharing that Wei Dong earns from mice, keyboards, computer cases, monitors, pluggable memory cartridges, and software packages—that's roughly two or three hundred million US dollars for him and his wife.

Sound cards and speakers alone can generate over a billion dollars in revenue.

This doesn't even include games, a category that even He Yuzhu found incredibly appealing.

This is the benefit of following Apple into the multimedia era.

With total sales of two to three hundred billion US dollars, even a small portion of that amount would be incredibly lucrative.

Therefore, the money Wei Dong spent in Hong Kong and invested in the automotive industry chain came from his own independent profits.

Chow Yun-fat actually has an income of over 100 million US dollars, so Wei Tung is just waiting to see when he will cash out.

Once this delivery cycle is completed, Lin Wangfu will definitely become one of the richest people in Singapore with hundreds of millions of US dollars.

He seemed to have not thought about this question before, and exclaimed in surprise.

Wei Dong had a bad impression of Singapore. He thought of it as a place with a choke point, authoritarianism, caning, and a place that claimed to be clean despite having red-light districts and casinos, and a retirement paradise for the rich.

The security guard with the severed hand had never been there; all the information he had was fragmented information found online.

“I’m not trying to sow discord. We’ve succeeded, and we’ve had a huge success. So we need to think about how to keep this success going and how to preserve the fruits of our success. My approach in mainland China is to give back to society as much as possible. The same applies to giving back to Singapore that you just mentioned. But what if some greedy guy comes along and tries to take you all over? Do you think that’s possible?”

Lin Wangfu is no naive fool; he has been navigating the social world for many years.

They have a very deep understanding.

He put his hand on Wei Dong's waist and nodded deeply: "There must be! I understand. No one can take me down in one fell swoop. As long as I can leave, the production site is in the mainland, and the operation is in Hong Kong. With backups, we can rebuild scientific research at any time."

Wei Dong nodded: "That's right, I feel the same way. So I don't mind if you set up a branch factory in Singapore. That's how we treat everyone. At worst, we brothers can give up this business, but we can still stand firmly here and make our indelible contribution to the development of the global IT industry."

Lin Wangfu smiled broadly: "Now I understand your intention in bringing Brother Fa in back then."

Of course, it's not time to announce that Chow Yun-fat is also a shareholder of Creative sound cards and speakers. Even Chow Yun-fat doesn't know that he is already a billionaire.

But if something really happens, this series of explosive news stories, with the gimmick of top-tier celebrities, can amplify its influence exponentially.

In fact, even a security guard from a tax office understands subconsciously that the actual situation is constantly changing.

Now Wei Dong is already showing signs of establishing his own faction. He pats his partner with a smile and they walk into the karaoke bar, which is still under renovation.

The entrance hall was a complete mess, with construction materials piled up everywhere.

But the glass partition directly opposite is the future mini-supermarket, where several sample devices have already been piled up and it's now packed with people.

Upon seeing this, Lin Wangfu withdrew his hand from Wei Dong's waist and couldn't help but rub it!

Because these guys were all crammed inside, disassembling the appliances so neatly, they were clearly experts.

Wasn't he found by Wei Dong in his own repair shop? He was all too familiar with this kind of scene.

And he immediately understood: "You want to copy these appliances?"

Wei Dong took it for granted: "Now that we have a chip factory, we can basically solve the problem of counterfeiting all household appliances on the market, including DVD players..."

Lin Wangfu's face showed both happiness and confusion: "So you've got your eye on this too! But this involves patent royalties."

The mainland does not recognize such international patent rights; to be precise, the entire Warsaw Pact system does not recognize European and American patent rights. This is one of the reasons why COCOM bans high-tech products.

The mainland has continued the Soviet-style intellectual property rights model, and does not recognize it. It is more accustomed to reverse engineering, but it must recognize it if it wants to enter the GATT and WTO.

However, decades of understanding led to rampant piracy, making mainland products easily associated with the stereotype of plagiarism.

Let Wei Dong be a little nicer: "Of course we have to make it ourselves if there are embargoes like this or that, but as long as we can buy the core components and pay the patent royalties, then we'll just pay for it. Isn't the idea the same as yours? You think this optical drive is worth several thousand US dollars?"

In his memory, a CD drive could be bought for around a hundred yuan later on.

That was in an era when money was becoming increasingly worthless.

These days, a few thousand US dollars and a few CD drives can buy you a brand new car!

It's just those few early adopters who are thinking of making huge profits and want to hold onto their patents for life.

The Japanese devils loved this the most.

Lin Wangfu chuckled contentedly, feeling great that he was no longer struggling on his own.

So I took out that CD-ROM drive, which cost several thousand dollars, from my backpack and asked everyone to break it down and analyze it.

He's essentially a tech person, and he loves this kind of scene.

They still didn't realize that this was a massive CD battle.

(End of this chapter)