Reborn in 08, a heretical cultivator starting a business

Chapter 135: A Return Rate Surpassing Bitcoin, System Blueprint! (Seeking Monthly Tickets)
Xiyuan, Hutong No. 1 Courtyard, a gentle evening breeze.

This is a private residence of a compiler of the Hanlin Academy during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty. It has three courtyards, with the house itself covering an area of ​​420 square meters and a total area of ​​1000 square meters.

It is very well preserved.

It later became the HD District Government dormitory, 500 meters from Zhongguancun Square.

It is now divided into six locations, which are rented out to the public.

Given its proximity to Zhongguancun, Tang Jinghe directly rented three properties.

Wang Junshan now lives in the main house.

The four bodyguards and driver, two men and two women, stayed in the west and east wing rooms of the main house.

Shen Huaijin and Tang Jinghe lived in the east and west wing rooms, respectively.

Wang Junshan was very satisfied with Tang Jinghe's arrangement.

The other three locations are occupied by other tenants.

It is said that they are all long-term tenants who have rented for more than ten years at a time.

As a result, the entire No. 1 Courtyard is embroiled in property disputes.

It's difficult to even sell it to outsiders.

The courtyard house, originally valued at 4000 million, couldn't be sold even for 2800 million.

Many people came to see it, but as soon as they saw there was a lease or property dispute, they turned around and left.

These courtyard houses with property disputes are the hardest hit areas.

For new tenants like Wang Junshan, who sign contracts for one or two years at a time, that's fine.

At worst, they can just terminate the contract when it expires.

But those long-term tenants still have ten years or so left on their leases, which makes things difficult.

I can't even drive him away.

There was nothing they could do; more than a decade ago, the homeowners had no idea these courtyard houses would be so valuable, and they signed leases for more than a decade at once.

Now all we can do is stare helplessly.

Now that the economic crisis has broken out, it's even harder to sell.

Landlords had no choice but to lower the price to 2500 million.

In its previous life, this place couldn't be sold because of property rights issues. Later, it was transformed into a technology salon, the Zhongguancun Technology Salon!
A market value of one billion!

There's no way around it; with the combined influence of the Imperial City and Zhongguancun, it's worth the price!

Wang Junshan, however, became interested and called Tang Jinghe over:

"President Tang, has the group's investment department been established?"

Wang Junshan had already entrusted this matter to Tang Jinghe.

Tang Jinghe nodded: "It's established, boss. It's composed of professional lawyers, real estate consultants, and courtyard house appraisal experts. Currently, they are investigating these courtyard houses in the capital as you instructed, and selecting the best ones to invest in."

“Very good.” Wang Junshan nodded and looked around: “This place is also good. It’s close to the company and it’s a Qing Dynasty official residence.”

“But there are property disputes. The remaining three households are all major problems. One has 12 years left on its lease, one has 10 years left, and one has 8 years left, so they have not been able to be sold.” Tang Jinghe frowned.

"It's alright. The price was lowered precisely because of the dispute. Go talk to the landlord and try to get the price down to 2000 million."

"We'll negotiate compensation with the other three companies, offering each one between 300,000 and 500,000 yuan."

Tang Jinghe nodded: "Getting three to five hundred thousand yuan in rent for free, the three tenants shouldn't refuse. It's just that it's a bit difficult to get the landlord to lower the price by another 500 million yuan."

“It’s not difficult. Of the five million, 150 million is compensation for tenants paid in advance, and the remaining 400 million is normal devaluation due to the economic crisis. Let the investment department talk to them more; there’s a chance.” Wang Junshan was full of confidence.

Even without property disputes, a courtyard house worth 4000 million could still sell for at least 2800 million during a financial crisis.

However, there is a property dispute, so the total cost is only 2000 million yuan. Adding the cost of evicting the tenants, it comes to around 2200 million yuan.

Next, apply for urban renewal quotas, get subsidies, and transform it into an AI technology salon with a market value of 10 billion+!

Perfectly suitable.

The return on investment is over forty times, which is much higher than the cashable return of Bitcoin.

Bitcoin is highly uncertain and could very well be a tool used to exploit us.

The US is driving up the price of Bitcoin just so that Chinese people will throw their real money into it.

Once we fall into this trap on a large scale, they can use virtual Bitcoin to exchange for our real money.

If Bitcoin trading is banned then, we'll lose all our money and be left with only some Bitcoins that are valuable but unavailable and cannot be cashed out.

There's really nowhere to cry.

Does this tactic seem familiar?

The misprinted stamps that could have been exchanged for an apartment in Beijing back then are now worthless, leaving them stuck with nothing.

Originally, a bottle of Feitian Moutai cost more than 3,000 yuan, but it quickly dropped to more than 2,000 yuan. Many people took the opportunity to buy at the bottom and stocked up. Now it costs 1,700 yuan... It won't be long before it drops to the ex-factory price of 1499 yuan!

There's also Pop Mart, Labubu...

It's all a game of musical chairs, waiting for the big spenders to grab real money and buy at the bottom, only to end up with nothing.

The same applies to Bitcoin.

Even if it can truly increase value and generate profits, how many people will ultimately be able to cash out in large quantities and remain unscathed?
For example, Mr. Zhao, the founder of a certain company, is quite impressive, isn't he?

They made so much money from the US through Bitcoin, how could the US possibly accept that?
Everyone's inside.

Even if the new leader supports Bitcoin and needs to raise funds through it, forcing him to release people, what cost did he pay? What tasks did he bear?
What will happen if the next administration changes its attitude?
It was meant to be used to exploit us, not for us to exploit.

On the contrary, Wang Junshan is very clear-headed. He believes that once Bitcoin goes up next year, it's a good time to buy some at the bottom.

The quantity isn't too large, but you can still cash out and make money.

If the number increases too much, he'll become the next Young Master Zhao. Wang Junshan doesn't want to be accused of money laundering and end up in jail for a few months.

If the quantity is extremely large, then fine, the US will simply flip the table, abandon Bitcoin, and launch other new cryptocurrencies to continue reaping profits...

As for Bitcoin, you can play with it yourself.

Compared to Bitcoin, these uniquely located courtyard houses, if managed properly, offer higher and safer returns on investment!

Located within the Second Ring Road, close to the Forbidden City and Zhongguancun, this location is extremely scarce.

The subsequent transformation into a Zhongguancun Science and Technology Salon, turning it into a technology meeting room, and renting it out to other companies for events will generate huge profits!
"Okay! I'll make the arrangements."

“Other high-quality courtyard houses, even if there are rental disputes, are negotiable as long as they can be legally resolved with money. As long as it’s cheap enough,” Wang Junshan said.

The more disputes there are, the more you can negotiate the price, and the higher your return on investment.

This building, for example, was able to be reduced from 2800 million to 2000 million plus 150 million because of a dispute.

As for disputes? Anything that can be resolved with money isn't a problem.

After Tang Jinghe left, Shen Huaijin carried a plate of cut fruit into Wang Junshan's room:

"looking at what?"

"Android 1.0 launch video."

"Oh... can this system be implemented?" Shen Huaijin asked with some curiosity.
"Symbian still reigns supreme, and iOS is also very good and should have a bright future, but what the heck is Android?"

Wang Junshan smiled: "Currently, Android 1.0 is quite inferior to iOS 2.0. It doesn't even have an app store, there are very few apps, and it's not even as powerful as Symbian. But its architecture and potential are much stronger than Symbian. Plus, they're open source, so their future is still very good." Contrary to what everyone imagined, the newly released Android didn't attract much attention.

Many people have no idea at all.

There are very few apps available; most are Google's own, along with a few flashlight and calculator apps.

There are no social or gaming apps at all.

Even the first Android phone, the HTC Dream, only sold a million units worldwide, less than one-tenth of the iPhone 3G's sales.

It's fair to say that Android barely made a splash in 2008-2009.

There aren't many Android phones either.

It wasn't until 2010, when major brands launched Android phones and counterfeit Android smartphones flooded the market, that the number of Android users surpassed that of iOS!

In 2011, Android knock-off phones continued to proliferate, and generic Android phones exploded in popularity, with Android surpassing Symbian in market share to become number one.

Jiayu, Dakele, Jiwu mobile phones, Xiaxin mobile phones, Tanghulu (THL) mobile phones, Xiaolajiao (Little Chili) mobile phones, Qingcheng mobile phones...

Many of these brands predate Xiaomi!
It was the proliferation of Android knock-off and generic phones that led to a surge in Android users, overwhelming iOS and Symbian.

But that's all two or three years from now.

The current Android is terrible.

The current iOS is also terrible.

It's fair to say that smartphone operating systems in 2008 were in a primitive stage and were extremely poor.

However, this is also an opportunity.

An opportunity for the rise of domestically developed operating systems!
They started developing their own operating system in 2008, a little later than Android 1.0, but they have a real chance to grow big!

It's also much easier than the Hongmeng of the previous life.

When HarmonyOS was launched, Android and iOS systems had already monopolized the market and application ecosystem.

Even if HarmonyOS's microkernel and distributed architecture are advanced, it will be difficult to implement if not many applications are adapted to it.

Make bricks without straw.

Even with village-level mobilization efforts in China, it can take several years to get things moving; the same goes for overseas.

Therefore, the development of HarmonyOS's ecosystem is fraught with difficulties.

But things were different in 2008.

Android is still in its infancy, and the Android app ecosystem has not been established. There is no Android app store, and there are very few Android apps!
This is Wang Junshan's chance!
Defeating Android during its heyday was an incredibly difficult, even impossible, endeavor.

But beating Android in its early stages is not difficult, especially for Wang Junshan!
We could totally develop a pure, domestically produced operating system – Future OS!

As for the claim that it's incompatible with Android and has few apps?

This is not a problem at all.

There aren't many apps for Android these past two years!

There aren't many apps for iOS either!

It's not normal for future OSs to have few applications.
Everyone starts on the same footing, and no one looks down on anyone else.

By the middle of next year, Future OS will release a pilot version, featuring social networking software WeChat, games like Farmville and Angry Birds, e-commerce apps like YouTuan and Vipshop, as well as a series of basic software developed by Future Technology...

Compared to Android and iOS, which also have incomplete applications, it is not much worse, and may even have more advantages.

After all, the Google suite on Android isn't usable in China...

At the same time, Wang Junshan will also open-source Future OS, provide subsidies, invite domestic and foreign application developers to adapt to Future OS, and launch a developer competition with a prize of tens of millions of yuan...

Taking advantage of the financial crisis, they bought shares in MediaTek at rock-bottom prices and formed a strategic partnership with MediaTek.

The complete solution of the future OS system and MediaTek chip is provided free of charge to major mobile phone manufacturers, minimizing the difficulty of smartphone R&D.

It's easy to imagine that those generic and counterfeit phone manufacturers that used Android + MediaTek chips in the past will directly switch to the future OS system + MediaTek chips.

In 2010, we were able to produce tens of millions of mobile phones equipped with the future OS!
We can reach 100 million units by 2011!

The future OS system can completely replicate the legend of Android's predecessor, expand rapidly, and become number one!

In its previous life in 2010-2011, Android rapidly grew by relying on counterfeit and generic phones, first surpassing iOS and then ending the Symbian system!
Without the efforts of counterfeit and generic phone manufacturers, Android and Windows phone systems would have had a hard time developing!

There was no way around it; branded mobile phones were too expensive. Before 2012, branded smartphones started at three thousand or even four thousand yuan.

That's why the Xiaomi Mi 1's price of 1999 yuan became a game-changer, but it was out of stock.

Smartphones costing three or four thousand yuan are not affordable for many people.

On the contrary, knock-off Android smartphones costing a few hundred yuan and no-name Android phones costing over a thousand yuan have the highest sales volume.

The era of counterfeit phones finally came to an end when the Redmi 799 was launched, followed by the widespread availability of budget phones like the Honor 3C and Meizu Note.

Without counterfeit and generic phones, Android would be no match for iOS, let alone defeat Symbian.

Similarly, for future operating systems to rise to prominence, they will also have to rely on counterfeit and generic phones!

If the OS can steal the market share from counterfeit and generic phones in the future, then Android will be doomed and will have a hard time growing.

As the number of OS users grows to hundreds of millions in the future, major app developers will actively follow suit and adapt their apps to the future OS system.

It's important to understand that even users of counterfeit or no-name brand phones are still users with purchasing power!
In the future, the OS ecosystem will develop rapidly, just like Android in its previous form!
Android, without counterfeit phones, will gradually fall behind and eventually die out, just like Microsoft's WP7 and WP8.

To put it bluntly, whoever controls counterfeit and generic phones controls the market!
Of course, you don't have to make knock-off phones; there are even more sophisticated ways to play.

Wang Junshan could create a mid-to-low-end brand, collaborate with MediaTek, and launch a MediaTek phone priced at 1999 yuan by the end of 2009!

No need for top-of-the-line features, no artificial scarcity marketing, just generous portions to satisfy your hunger!
In 2009, when even knock-off phones cost thousands and smartphones cost four or five thousand, Wang Junshan's 1999 smartphone was an absolute game-changer.

Their main strategy is to grab market share with low prices!

We'll sell as many as we have; sales are never a problem!
We can leverage Vipshop and YouTuan group buying to achieve phenomenal sales and rapidly increase the market share of Future OS.

The year after next, they will launch a future phone equipped with a Qualcomm chip, priced at 2999-3999, to quickly seize the high-end market!
With the addition of open source, other brands will also launch phones with future OS systems, which will further increase the market share of future OS systems, and other application developers will naturally be more proactive in adapting to them!

The ecosystem of future OS systems can also be built up quickly.

Wang Jun had a plan.

We must take advantage of the fact that Android has just been launched, its market share is still small, and its ecosystem has not yet been monopolized, to develop a future OS system!

And we need to act quickly!

The next day, Wang Junshan summoned Tang Jinghe to his office:

"President Tang, establish a mobile operating system R&D department and immediately recruit top engineers and system architects from around the world."

"Especially those with experience in Linux, embedded systems, or mobile operating systems."

"This..." Tang Jinghe was incredulous: "Boss, aren't we an e-commerce company? Why are we developing a system?"

Wang Junshan smiled faintly: "Mobile internet is the future, and operating systems are the gateway to mobile internet. We need to plan ahead. Next year, we will launch our self-developed operating system, which is even better than Android 1.0!"

“Okay,” Tang Jinghe replied.

Wang Junshan knew that developing an entire operating system from scratch was very difficult.

However, developing an entry-level operating system similar to Android 2.0 based on Linux, with top engineers recruited globally and Wang Junshan's guidance, is not difficult!
The future OS 1.0 version doesn't need to be too complex or powerful; it just needs to be able to crush the nascent Android system.

(End of this chapter)