Reborn to be rich

Chapter 225 Countdown

In August, Henan Province, Zhejiang Province, and Guangdong Province successively completed the planned mobile 3G construction of telecommunications networks. Seeing that Huaguo finally had space for the listing of the first generation of Simon, Simon Company announced the listing time of the first generation of Simon, the Simon mobile phone For the first time, I will meet you in major cities in country m on November 1th. On November 11th, one week after the launch in country m, major cities in China will also start selling Simon 8st generation mobile phones.

The Simon 1 is priced at US$720 in country m, which is a mid-to-high price in the mobile phone industry today, while the uniform price of 2999 yuan in Huaguo is already among the high-end mobile phones. At this time, people in Huaguo actually own mobile phones Not many, the average mobile phone price is only about 1000 yuan, and the mobile phone market of 3000 yuan is basically considered a high-end mobile phone.

When this price was announced in Huaguo, many people said that the price was too high, and the Huaguo market still cannot generally accept mobile phones at such a price.

The news reached Zhang Guodong. He said that the first generation of Huaguo Simon will be sold in all major specialty stores across the country, and the price will not drop any further.

The production cost of the Simon 1 generation in China is about 1000 points, plus various taxes, transportation costs, store operations, etc., and it is estimated that the cost of a mobile phone in the hands of customers will reach about 1900 yuan. Such a smart phone that transcends the times is profitable. 1000 yuan is already considered low. You must know that Zhang Guodong invested a total of more than 1 billion in the research and development of the first generation of Simon, and it was still in gold. It is not an exaggeration to say that a small part of Zhang Guodong's family property is in Simon.

The mobile phone manufacturing plants of Simon Corporation in Country M and Huaguo have begun to fully manufacture the first generation of Simon. Zhang Guodong gave the manufacturing capacity of 1 million mobile phones on each side, and the 500 million mobile phones must enter the Simon mobile phone stores around the world before November. Most of the planned specialty stores of Simon Mobile have not yet started to be renovated, and the time is still very tight in general.

Even tighter than the Simon mobile phone store is the management and sales process of major agricultural products under the "Nongbaihui" online shopping line. Up to now, "Nongbaihui" is just an online shopping app. This is a new thing that everyone loves. It is still in a wait-and-see state. It is impossible for some big domestic brands to register their products on "Nongbaihui". Therefore, most of the "Nongbaihui" are "Sheng Tang", "Zhangjialing Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Company", "Good Life Food" In addition, direct sales of agricultural products from major agricultural product producing areas across the country.

The three major companies need to include all their goods on the website, and then discuss profit sharing with "Nongbaihui". The sale of agricultural products is even more troublesome.

First of all, someone must be responsible for the purchase and management of local agricultural products to ensure product quality, and then send out the products that customers need in a timely manner. It is very difficult to establish such a cooperation system in a short period of time, and this is not a two-way indivual.

The establishment of mobile phones, shopping offline systems, and mobile network construction are already in progress, and the remaining problems are logistics and software promotion.

Software promotion Now that the mobile phone has not come out, the promotion is out of the question, so Zhang Guodong put all the advertisements on the Simon 1 generation.

The three major companies under Zhang Guodong are now at a critical time, especially the two major companies are also facing listing this year, so all development funds need to be resolved by the company itself. The monthly profits of the three major companies exceed 60 billion Chinese dollars, which can basically satisfy Zhang Guodong. The plan required, so now Zhang Guodong had to transfer the advertising fee of Simon mobile phone from Zhenhua. Zhenhua Investment also has profit income from many foreign companies every month. The more critical the situation, Zhang Guodong felt that he had insufficient funds.

Time passed quickly, and it entered October in a blink of an eye. The listing time of "Zhangjialing Rural Company" and "Good Life Food Co., Ltd." has been delayed again and again. The reason is that the cooperation with "Nongbaihui" company is too cumbersome. No one has experienced online shopping, and everyone has built up the "Nongbaihui" sales system little by little. They still have no idea, and the future prospects of the two companies suddenly began to be confusing.

"Zhangjialing Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Company" originally focused on dairy product processing, rapeseed oil, ecological meat, and agricultural product acquisitions. Now it has expanded its business to other aspects such as fresh food in a year. "Nongbaihui" collects more affordable products online before meeting the public, which Zhang Guodong has repeatedly emphasized.

"Good Days Food Co., Ltd." is even more powerful. The domestic Duojia food factory was directly acquired. They contacted several major domestic video companies to cooperate and match up to list their products on "Nongbaihui". This made their product types more diversified. There are so many, some people have turned "Good Day Food Co., Ltd." into the world's largest snack food production company, and "Good Day Food" can be seen anywhere in Huaguo.

After this series of work is completed, Zhang Guodong is left with the problem of online payment.

It is impossible to let users go to the bank to make a payment every time they shop. He cooperates with Huaguo Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, the People's Bank of China and other banks. There is a 100 yuan verification-free setting, so that the transaction procedures can be greatly handed over.

It's just that binding a bank card is not as convenient as later software payment. Zhang Guodong asked Simon Software to develop a new social software, in which the wallet can be used with normal Chinese currency, which makes consumption more convenient.

"There are only 1 days left for the first generation of Simon to meet the public. Mobile payment has not yet been perfected. I just want to know how long it will take for you to deal with this refund issue?"

Zhang Guodong came to Chang'an Software Technology Park, which has the largest software R&D team of Simon Company. There are 6 large R&D teams in the whole company. In recent years, under the request of Zhang Guodong, he has completed the development of countless mobile phone software. This year, Zhang Guodong is here I asked about the final software usage of Simon's 1st generation mobile phone, but I didn't expect that the final refund problem of the "Nongbaihui" app was still unresolved.

"Zhang Dong, the 6 R&D teams have not stopped for half a year. The 106 games you requested have just been developed, and the Tencent Game Box will be officially launched tomorrow. As for the final refund setting, both the seller and the bank need to agree. , it is too tight to complete the procedures in half a day, and we are working hard."

Facing Zhang Guodong’s inquiry, the general manager of Simon Software Development Company said with a embarrassed face that everyone in their company has regarded Zhang Guodong as a god for so many years. Being in a profitable state, the key to this is Zhang Guodong's occasional and unintentional ideas. The software developed by the company according to Zhang Guodong's requirements can always be popular on the computer, so that everyone gradually thinks that "Simon Software Development Company" is a company with powerful technology. , to the praise of everyone else in the industry.

What's more, the main research direction of Simon Software Development Company in the past few years has been on its own mobile phone operating system. This system is the result of six years spent by thousands of people. The key is several mobile apps and game software requested by Zhang Guodong.

These apps and game software better represent the functions of the new mobile phone system, which can show its superiority compared with traditional mobile phones.In particular, the hundreds of game software mentioned by Zhang Guodong are particularly attractive, and they are no worse than today's large-scale online games. Everyone is waiting for the reaction of the world's video game market after the release of Simon 1.

"If you have any difficulties, solve them. Now our major domestic banks are a little slow in handling refunds. Do you think the mobile wallet we set up can solve this problem?" Zhang Guodong thought for a while and asked, online shopping refunds must be Get resolved in time, otherwise it will affect user experience satisfaction.

"Mr. Zhang, this may be troublesome! Our mobile wallet is for users to deposit money. If we want the shopkeeper to return the money to our mobile wallet, this requires a huge computing system to process it. Our company is still unable to do this. " said the technician with a sad face.

"If you can't solve it, let's solve it now. If there are users who need a refund, we can pay in advance, and then let Nongbaihui and the seller solve the refund problem for us." Zhang Guodong said without objection, he knows the key to these software in the future What is it, if some important links are not handled properly, even if the image is remedied later, it will be very bad.

"Then...then how much money do we need to make up for this? What if the user damages the product or doesn't refund it?" The technical director asked with wide-eyed eyes.

"Then reduce the user's reputation. If the reputation drops to a certain level, you will not be able to refund immediately, and you will not be able to enjoy regular price discounts and snap-up activities. Don't worry about the money. We have to trust the common people. 106 games, who told you that they charge so much? Of the 106 games, there are only 12 small games for free, and they are all full of advertisements. There is a cost for us to develop games...but we can’t be too dark!" Zhang Guodong stared. reprimanded.

"Then boss, do you want to change the charging standard of this game now? We have already collected the advertising fee, and there is no way to withdraw it!" the general manager asked!
"That's not necessary, let's do it now! The three large-scale mobile games I told you must be done well. The quality, effect, and operation of the game must not be vague at all. There are also mobile phone anti-virus software and network security. Be on the lookout."

Everyone has long guessed that Zhang Guodong is like this. Since the birth of the first-generation Simon prototype, Zhang Guodong has been letting them vigorously develop mobile games. Now the world's online game market is booming. Every year, the revenue of major famous game companies is calculated in tens of billions. It is growing at a rapid rate, Zhang Guodong has an unparalleled advantage in mobile games, how could he not seize the opportunity.

After inspecting Simon Software Development Company, Zhang Guodong inquired about the progress of the research and development of the Simon 2 mobile phone. With the Simon 1 as the foundation, the research direction of the Simon 2 is very clear. For new breakthroughs, especially in the latest news and video broadcasting, Simon is making the greatest efforts to increase cooperation with several major video companies in the world, but all this requires a process, as long as the first generation of Simon can be completed after the launch Half of the expected effect, these problems are not difficult to solve.

Simon Corporation is now one of the world's super network technologies. With Zhang Guodong's continuous investment regardless of cost, the market value of Simon Corporation has increased from US$120 billion to US$900 billion within six years, and Zhang Guodong's shares have reached more than 86% At the last moment when the 1st generation of Simon's mobile phone was launched, major financial groups in the world began to contact Zhang Guodong, hoping to carry out more cooperation with Simon and exchange some shares of Simon.

Zhang Guodong didn't pay attention to these things. To exchange shares, he would only consider diluting his shares after the first generation of Simon went public, and the mobile phone system and application software played their due role. But by then, Simon will become a world technology company. The overlord of the industry, Zhang Guodong will have the absolute initiative no matter what.

At the beginning of November, 11 Simon mobile phone stores around the world have been renovated, and 265 stores in the United States are ready for mobile phones, just waiting for the store to open.

As the most powerful country in science and technology in the world, country M does not pay as much attention to the launch of Simon mobile phones as China does. Most people think that Simon mobile phones are the first to produce mobile phones. Even though some technologies are better than those of large companies such as Motorola, Nokia, and Samsung, but Their experience in mobile phone manufacturing is still too little, and their expectations for the Simon 1 are not very strong. Some people even think that the Simon 1 is another version of the Apple tablet, but it is smaller and has a phone function.

As the founder of Apple, Jobs knew that the first generation of Simon would be a cross-generation mobile phone when he noticed a series of moves by Simon. One question has not been answered. Apple has too little to sell now. As Apple’s second largest shareholder, how can Zhang Guodong not know about Apple’s situation, so Jobs is also very helpless.

On November 2003, 11, the first generation of Simon was launched simultaneously in major cities in country m. There were long queues at the door of many Simon mobile phone stores early in the morning. Everyone wanted to experience the legendary mobile phone with cross-age technology for the first time. How far is the Simon generation from the legend.

In fact, Zhang Guodong does not have much hope for the first release of the Simon generation in country m, because the mobile phone market in country m has already been eaten up by major companies in the world.The "Nongbaihui" shopping he launched can find very few partners in country m, and the logistics in country m is also monopolized by several major logistics companies. They are much worse than China.

But the powerful functions of Simon's first generation are incomparable in the mobile phone market. Zhang Guodong believes that as long as Simon's first generation is listed in country m, many partners will take the initiative to contact him. Although the road to success will not be smooth, everything is doomed.

(End of this chapter)