Rebirth 2009: Synthetic God

Chapter 44 Zhou Weigang

The incident after school did not affect Zhou Rui's schedule, but he was caught in self-study tonight and the exercise failed. New 𝟼𝟿 Book Bar→𝟼𝟿𝚜𝚑𝚞𝚡.𝚌𝚘𝚖

When I got home, I wanted to go upstairs directly, but I saw a familiar figure down the corridor.

Father, Zhou Weigang.

That figure was not as old as in the previous life, but still a little depressed, leaning on the corridor and smoking a cigarette.

Seeing Zhou Rui, Zhou Weigang's eyes regained some brilliance and said, "Your mother has an urgent matter and works overtime. She is worried that you will be hungry. She asked me to take you to dinner. What do you want to eat?"

"Daddy is treating me to something good today!"

Zhou Rui calmed down his emotions for a while. If he counted before his rebirth, he had not seen the man in front of him for more than ten years.

Zhou Weigang is in his forties, but he still has a bit of handsomeness about him. It is said that when he was young, he was more handsome than Zhou Rui, but now he feels sluggish.

Just like the social beast Zhou Rui in his previous life.

Zhou Rui thought for a while and said, "There is a stir-fry restaurant on the corner."

Zhou Weigang patted Zhou Rui's back and said eagerly: "What's wrong with you around the corner? I'll drive you to a big restaurant to eat."

After his parents divorced, Zhou Weigang did not completely disappear from the lives of Zhou Rui and Yao Peili. It can even be said that in recent years, his appearance has become more and more frequent. In addition to providing living expenses, he often helps out inside and outside, and takes Zhou Rui with him from time to time. Eat something good and go out for a walk.

If you look at the past few years, purely from the perspective of a "divorced father", Zhou Weigang, who has not remarried, has done pretty well.

As a result, there is a faint sign of getting back together with Yao Peili.

However, Zhou Weigang's factory in his previous life encountered serious operating problems when Zhou Rui was a freshman, and later became heavily in debt. Therefore, the man consciously faded out of the world of mother and son.

Judging from Zhou Weigang's fatigue at this time, the factory must have been having a hard time recently. Yao Peili also said that Zhou Weigang had disappeared for a long time. new

Zhou Weigang drove into his old "Crown" and drove towards the city center.

The two divorced when Zhou Rui was still young in elementary school, so Zhou Rui's feelings for Zhou Weigang were not as deep as his mother's, but Zhou Weigang always wanted to find a topic.

"Dad has been on a business trip in Shenzhen some time ago. How are you studying recently, Xiao Rui?"

Zhou Rui leaned against the car window and asked about other things:

"You look very tired. Is there something wrong with the factory management?"

Zhou Weigang almost lost his grip on the steering wheel and said in surprise: "Who said that!"

No matter how hard he is in business, how can he reveal his secrets in front of his son?

Zhou Rui casually brought out a reinforcement: "Uncle."

Zhou Weigang was speechless for a while. This uncle really talked to the child about everything!

"It's just a small trouble, dad can take care of it."

Zhou Rui seemed to have no intention of saying, "Can you tell me about it?"

"What do I have to say to you, a high school student?"

"I'm about to choose a major and apply for it. It depends on what field you work in. I'll avoid lightning."

Zhou Weigang:

Zhou Weigang used to be an employee of a state-owned enterprise and was born as a skilled worker. It is said that he was also a technical expert at that time, but not long after Zhou Rui was born, he chose to work in the sea.

In that era, this choice was not uncommon. Like many people in that era, Zhou Weigang had tasted the benefits of the changes in the times. Zhou Weigang had a flexible mind and understood technology. He did make some money by taking advantage of the east wind of the times.

The first few years were very prosperous. Of course, because they were so prosperous, Yao Peili was dissatisfied and eventually divorced.

However, in recent years, the situation has been different. The market has changed too fast. The factory may have made a lot of money one year, but it has lost money the next year and cannot pay the workers' wages. new˙ɔoɯ

There are many reasons for this, some of which are the decline in product competitiveness, and some of which are the rupture of the capital chain caused by suppliers' delay in payment.

Zhou Weigang first made small household appliances. Later, because he could not succeed in enterprises in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shenzhen, he changed his equipment and became an upstream supplier, producing accessories such as electronic control boards.

After changing his career, he encountered the rise of the "counterfeit phone" market. Zhou Weigang specialized in supplying various copycat phone brands and did well. However, due to the modification of production lines and replacement of equipment, he took on a lot of bank loans.

As the market for mobile phones gradually stopped growing and began to cool down, Zhou Weigang's downstream customers were severely affected. Orders fell sharply, banks pressed hard, and the factory began to go downhill, making life more and more uncomfortable day by day.

The most important thing is that the original copycat phone customers have no orders, and Zhou Weigang's factory does not have the ability to develop terminals on its own. It only has accessories and no products.

In Zhou Rui's memory, Zhou Weigang's factory went bankrupt. It seemed that it was 10 years ago. After that, Zhou Weigang, who was heavily in debt, also left Qinghe County. It seemed that he went to work as a technical guide elsewhere to earn money to pay off his debts.

Throughout the years since Zhou Weigang started his business, he was most confident when he was making small household appliances at the beginning, and has been in a state of stagnation since then.

After recalling the memories of his previous life, Zhou Rui didn't know what to do for a while. Zhou Weigang was his biological father, so he would naturally want to help if he had the chance.

It's true that he has plug-ins, but they can only be used to strengthen himself.

2009

At least finding a way to help Zhou Weigang avoid lightning is like asking his mother not to sell the demolished house.

Zhou Weigang took Zhou Rui to a "Dongting Restaurant" and ordered five or six dishes. No matter how hard the business was, he couldn't be vague when bringing his son to eat something good.

Besides, that's not what he lacks.

Zhou Rui frowned: "I ordered so much that I can't finish it."

Zhou Weigang smiled and said: "I can't finish the meal and pack it away. Your mother is busy with work recently, so there will be times when she can't take care of you."

Dishes were served one by one, and they were all Zhou Rui's usual favorites. He had consumed a lot of exercise recently, and Zhou Rui was really hungry. No matter what else, he would eat first.

Zhou Rui ate happily, and Zhou Weigang looked on with a smile, but he didn't move his chopsticks much.

After Zhou Rui was eighty percent full, he put down his chopsticks and said, "Dad, with you staring so hard, it's hard for me not to think that something big has happened to you. Otherwise, why don't you tell me directly? My mother and I It’s a good decision whether to run away or not.”

Zhou Weigang: "This kid really can't speak. Besides, if Li Duli is away, I can't involve you two."

Zhou Rui said: "Don't look down on the students, tell me something?"

Zhou Weigang may have been under a lot of pressure recently. He thought that Zhou Rui wouldn't understand anyway, so he half-complained and half-complained:

"It's okay. Doesn't your father's factory make mobile phone accessories? The mobile phone industry has been in recession in the past two years, and many old customers have gone bankrupt."

To be precise, it is not that the mobile phone industry is in recession. Domestic mobile Internet terminals are on the rise, and we are moving towards an era where everyone has a mobile phone.

But unfortunately, this market belongs to foreign brands.

Nokia occupies half of the market, Ericsson is still a golden brand, Samsung and BlackBerry are making rapid progress, and Apple is also ready to take off.

The huge domestic mobile phone market is almost dominated by foreign brands.

And those domestic brands that Zhou Rui is familiar with, such as Hua Wei, Xiaomi, opppo, and vivo, are still there.

It’s a huge market, and once the brand is profitable, there are a lot of copycat machines competing for the remaining 10%, all trying to survive.

Counterfeit mobile phones have been scolded for many years, and domestic mobile phones have almost become a joke. Anyone with some spending power will not bother to buy any domestic mobile phones, and everyone will be embarrassed.

Before and after the 2008 Olympic Games, in order to enhance its international image, many domestic regulations on intellectual property rights were tightened. Huaqiangbei, the once popular base camp for copycat smartphones in Shenzhen, has lost its former glory. The flourishing copycat smartphone market has quickly withered.

The situation Zhou Weigang faced was just a microcosm of this industry, not even scraps, but it still made Zhou Weigang unable to breathe.

As he talked, Zhou Weigang gradually forgot that it was his son in front of him. He was talking to himself a little, but he was actually relieving stress.

"But it doesn't matter. The mobile phone industry is in a slump. Just do something else. That's how I switched from home appliances back then. You know the Zijin Group in the county. They are preparing to enter the air-conditioning industry recently. There is an order that is very profitable. It is the need for equipment. Changing it is another investment.”

Zhou Rui thought to himself: Zijin Group, I know it very well.

It will be gone next year!

Zhou Rui clearly remembers that the capital chain of this leading company in Qinghe County was broken ten years ago and it was disbanded and died.

The entire Qinghe County was in an uproar, and even the chairman of Zijin Group was arrested because of unknown whereabouts of funds.

He didn't know that Zhou Weigang was also related to the Zijin Group in his previous life. It seemed that he breathed his last at that time.

Zhou Rui was thinking about how to persuade, and asked curiously: "Zijin Group is in the county, so why did you go to Shenzhen?"

"Forget it, a friend who used to make copycat phones changed jobs and went to Hua Wei. They had been doing communications before. The company was quite big, but I didn't know what to think. They wanted to start making mobile phones, so they asked me to cooperate. It’s true that those who don’t know are not afraid. There is no market for domestic mobile phones now, so you can jump into the fire pit yourself.”

Zhou Rui:

"The guy kept talking to me for a long time, saying that he had an order, but the profit was very thin, and he also asked me to join their new team. I guess they would still have to wait and see, so he didn't agree. The era of domestically produced mobile phones has passed."

Zhou Rui: You are truly a dazzler in the industry!

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