Return to Hong Kong Island for a Century

Chapter 106 Gold Transaction (Third update, please subscribe and vote)
In the company's conference room, Zhang Dehua and Tian Jiahui engaged in heated negotiations.

Zhang Dehua presented the facts and reasoned with me, explaining why I was willing to spend so much money.

Tian Jiahui is so good at bargaining even when buying groceries, it's not easy to bargain for such a big business. Do you want to cooperate again in the future?

Moreover, you have to make a trip for each patent, so you still have to make a trip for thousands of patents!
Zhang Dehua stated that the more patents we have, the more effort we need to put in.

Tian Jiahui said, "Come on, your company has so many people, what are they doing if they're not working?"

Last time, there were over 400 patents, costing over 700,000 yuan.

This time, there are 2,300 items, and Andy Cheung asked for four million Hong Kong dollars.

Tian Jiahui simply chopped it in half!
Zhang Dehua said that patent searches and patent protection both cost money!

There might also be subsequent defenses, etc.!
Tian Jiahui said, "Don't think I don't know anything. All fourteen of our engine design drawings have a core design. As long as the core design is approved, all the others will be approved."

Furthermore, since we are applying for international patents, we certainly won't touch any other patents; you just need to go through the process.

The two sides then engaged in back-and-forth negotiations.

After an hour of haggling, the two sides finally reached a preliminary agreement on a price of HK$3.2 million, because Zhang Dehua still needed to review the design drawings.

Then the two parties signed a preliminary cooperation agreement.

Then Zhang Dehua called two people from the company to conduct a preliminary review of the marine outboard motor drawings at Baisheng Company.

If there are no major issues after the review, a contract will be signed at this price.

Because the drawings for patent applications need to be translated, and strict formats are required.

Translating and changing the format of such a large number of drawings would incur significant costs.

However, these documents have already been reviewed by the platform and sent to the relevant national agencies, making it difficult to find any problems.

After an afternoon of preliminary review, Zhang Dehua and Li Song signed a patent application entrustment contract.

Because these patents are still registered under Li Song's personal name.

The motorcycle engine patent was also registered under Li Song's name. Li Song personally authorized Baisheng Company to use it, and then Baisheng Company invested in mainland China and authorized some of its components to other companies.

Then, Parkson only kept a certain percentage of these licensing fees, and the rest went to Li Song personally.

Although Parkson is wholly owned by Li Song.

However, this approach has a safeguard: if Parkson Company were to eventually break free from Li Song's control, it would have no impact on Li Song's personal patents.

If a company holds patents, then the patents will belong to someone else once the company changes hands.

Pay 70% upfront, which is HK$2.24 million.

Last time, Li Song calculated that he had HK$2.7 million left. He exchanged HK$1 million back to the mainland, leaving him with HK$1.7 million.

However, three weeks have passed since the last accounting.

Even the television stations in Taiwan and Hong Kong alone pay HK$140,000 per day.

That means Li Song still has HK$4.64 million.

He paid Zhang Dehua 2.24 million, leaving him with 2.4 million.

However, another large sum of money soon came in, the first being the 3.2 million from the Tomb Raider Chronicles.

Then, the second volume of Ghost Blows Out the Light was printed in Hong Kong and Taiwan at the same time, with one million copies printed simultaneously. The royalties from Hong Kong were one million, while the royalties from Taiwan were one million four hundred thousand.

In other words, Li Song will soon have another eight million in his real account.

Of course, it's actually more than that, because of the money from the Ghost Blows Out the Light TV series imported from RTV in Southeast Asia, as well as the money from the serialization of the novel.

Li Song also experienced firsthand how difficult it is to build a career.

I remembered that there are still ten car patent applications due in June.

Because the whole vehicle involves more patents, including various appearance, circuit control, etc.

It may also involve some patent derivatives!

For example, the headlights, rear design, and wheel design of cars, trucks, and luxury models.

There's also the interior layout, seats, center console, and so on.

And the overall design of the vehicle.

Apply for patents for all possible similar designs.

The number of patents is probably ten times that.

Of course, Li Song also knew that none of his investments had yet recouped their costs.

Motorcycle factories in mainland China, and magazines here.

In addition, a sum of money needs to be set aside to invest in Golden Harvest's films. Tian Jiahui will continue to follow up on the progress of the patent applications.

Once the patent is published, I can send these drawings to the mainland.

On Wednesday, April 16, 1980, Li Song was writing at home in the morning when he received a phone call from Tian Jiahui.

It's an underground parking lot. The time is tomorrow at noon.

Li Song knew this was about trading gold.

Li Song did not leave his home phone number with mainland officials.

In the afternoon, Li Song rented a small van.

They stopped ahead of time at the place where they were going to trade gold!
Thursday, April 17, 1980, 11:30 a.m.

Li Song arrived at the small truck alone.

At noon, another small truck arrived.

After the two sides exchanged the secret code...

The other party then opened the door of the van!

This time, each gold bar weighs ten kilograms, so a ton of gold would only yield one hundred bars.

The gold was wrapped in a layer of cloth.

Li Song was in his van when the two men moved the gold into his van.

Li Song had already prepared wooden frames inside the truck.

There's no need to inspect the gold!
Theoretically, it should be one hundred, but it's actually one hundred and one, because there's a slight difference in value for each gold bar.

The other party left after the transaction was completed.

At this point, Li Song closed the back door inside the carriage and then listed all the gold on a second-hand platform.

These gold bars have no markings on them.

Logically speaking, antique gold should be more expensive.

But antiques all need to be appraised, which requires an appraisal certificate and an appraisal fee. You say you're too lazy to go through all that trouble.

Just list it based on the gold price in 2080.

Li Song then listed all the gold on a second-hand platform.

After getting off the vehicle and closing the cargo door, I arrived at the driver's seat only to find that all the gold had been instantly gone.

"Hehe!!" Then Li Song drove his van all over Hong Kong Island, stopping here and there.

The series of figures on the second-hand platform made Li Song very happy.

This time, one ton of gold sold for $176370000, and with the remaining million-plus dollars from before, the total amount reached $1.78 million.

There is absolutely no problem using these US dollars within the second-hand platform.

If such a large sum of money were withdrawn to an account in any country, it might be subject to scrutiny by the financial institutions of that country.

Second-hand platforms will protect the funds on their platforms.

Therefore, Li Song is not worried about any problems with his gold selling account, because he is essentially increasing the transaction volume of the second-hand platform.

Li Song finally breathed a sigh of relief, because he didn't know how much the next bounty would be!

"Looks like I need to buy gold more often and stock up on enough funds on the second-hand platform in advance!"

"Because there's a lot more to come!"

"Also, regarding the large-scale chemical technology we mentioned last time, I'll ask about it when I get back to Guangzhou." Li Song actually planned to offer a reward for large-scale chemical technology, but he didn't know which type of oil parameters the mainland needed.

Li Song burned the cloth, including the gold leaf, in a secluded spot.

Then they returned the rented car to the rental company.

One advantage of renting a car is that it's not easy for someone to put a GPS tracker on it.

Because the other party is unsure where they will rent a car or which car they will rent.

Therefore, Li Song decided to rent a car for any clandestine activities he wanted to do in the future.

"I wonder when I'll be able to buy a big yacht!" Li Song thought as he saw yachts on the sea on his way home.

"Why don't we just build the rest ourselves?"

(End of this chapter)