Rebirth of Siheyuan starts in the 1980s

Chapter 570: Those who dislike goods are the ones who buy them

Author: Tang Juyi

Chapter 570: Those who dislike goods are the ones who buy them

Sure enough, after hearing Cao Zhiqiang's slightly arrogant statement, "Of course I insist, because I know what I said is the truth!" the faces of the two Japanese changed.

Especially the young Gao Kou Shu's face began to turn red, and he seemed about to stand up and refute loudly.

But just as he was about to stand up, Kota Iketani next to him suddenly held his shoulders and shook his head at him with a serious expression.

"Senior!" Takaguchi looked at Kota Ikedani with a look of sorrow and anger, "He, he..."

"Stop talking!" Kota Iketani shook his head, "Let me do it!"

After suppressing his subordinate Takaguchi Shu again, Ikeda Kota looked at Cao Zhiqiang with a serious face again.

After discovering that Cao Zhiqiang's face was still so indifferent and showed no sign of repentance, Ikeda Kouta suddenly laughed.

"Hahaha."

Kota Iketani laughed a few times first, and then he pretended to smile happily and said to Cao Zhiqiang: "Cao Sang, I know there is a saying in your country, 'Those who don't like the goods are the ones who buy the goods.' What do you think about our company's production line?"

Being so picky, even picky about such technical parameters, it seems that you really want to buy it, right?"

Seeing that Kouta Iketani could endure all this, Cao Zhiqiang was impressed.

But think about it, one of the most respected concepts of the Japanese is patience, otherwise there would be no "ninja".

Considering that this was indeed the first Japanese company to come to his door automatically, Cao Zhiqiang decided to give him some face, so he lowered his tone and nodded: "That's true, I have actually heard a little bit about your TAIYO YUDEN company, although the current

The scale is still small and cannot be compared with big companies such as Sony, but the products are pretty good.

For example, audio tapes, your that`s brand tapes are of good quality."

"Ah, you've also heard of that`s!" Ikeda Kota said happily.

"Of course." Cao Zhiqiang nodded, "Although your tape is relatively niche, there are still many in Japan, and in our country, there are also some second-hand tapes that come in through different channels, including that`s, but

This is just being treated as a brand name.”

"Haha." Kota Iketani smiled, "That's just because our current main business is not audio tapes, but our technology in this area is absolutely fine, and the production line is definitely top-notch. The products we produce are no better than

The difference between TDK, Sony and Fujifilm."

Cao Zhiqiang nodded: "If that's the case, you can give it a try, but you just want to negotiate a contract with me by showing me information and photos. Isn't this too childish? At least let me visit the actual production line in person.

Operational status."

Kota Iketani was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said: "That's no problem, I can arrange a visit to the production line for you as soon as possible."

"How soon is as soon as possible?" Cao Zhiqiang asked, "Now? I'm free now."

"This..." Iketani Kota laughed dryly, "I'm very sorry, that's it. Our company has certain rules and regulations for product inspections. At the very least, we must contact the relevant personnel first.

I'm from the sales department, and I'm just a section chief. I don't have the authority in this area, at least I can't immediately ask them to make time for you to inspect.

But don’t worry, I’ll go back and ask for instructions and I’ll give you a reply as soon as possible, do you think that’s okay?”

Cao Zhiqiang also knew that this was the opponent's limit, so he nodded: "Okay, let's make arrangements as soon as possible."

"Yes." Kota Iketani nodded, "Are you really interested in this production line? Are you really going to buy it?"

Cao Zhiqiang said: "What's the hurry? I definitely want to import the tape production line, accessories and so on. For the time being, I guess I will have to import it, but I still have to look at which company I will choose in the end.

Although you are the first company to come to us, we haven’t even been to the actual workshop to see it, so you are asking us to give you an answer. Isn’t that bad?”

Kota Iketani followed: "Yes, yes, that's indeed the case. So be it, Cao Sang, I'll go back and ask for instructions. As long as there are no problems, I will notify you as soon as possible to visit the factory. Do you think that's okay?"

"Okay." Cao Zhiqiang nodded.

"Cao-san, have you always lived here?" Ikeda Kota asked.

Cao Zhiqiang smiled: "I have another place to live. This is the residence of my secretary Anping, and it is also our official office. So, if you have something to do, just come here."

"Then how long will you stay here?" Ikeda Kouta asked again.

"I have paid the rent here for three months." Cao Zhiqiang said with a smile, "What do you think?"

"Understood!" Kouta Iketani nodded, "In that case, why don't you come here today and I'll go back immediately to ask for instructions?"

"Okay!" Cao Zhiqiang nodded.

Immediately afterwards, Iketani Kota stood up with his subordinates and bowed to Cao Zhiqiang at the same time. Then Iketani Kota said to Cao Zhiqiang and Anping who also stood up: "You two, we will leave first. If there is news,

Will definitely come and visit again.”

Cao Zhiqiang said with a smile: "It's easy to talk about, but let's keep this information for now and let us read it slowly, okay?"

Ikeda Kota was stunned for a moment, then said with a smile: "Of course, no problem. This information was originally given to you, of course you can keep it."

"Very good." Cao Zhiqiang smiled and stretched out his hand, "Then walk slowly without seeing her off."

Kota Iketani and Shu Takaguchi bowed to Cao Zhiqiang together, and then left in a polite manner.

Although Cao Zhiqiang himself did not go to send someone off, but instead sat down again and slowly read the documents, Anping, who appeared to be a secretary and translator, could not do this.

So Anping still put on a smile, like a normal leader's secretary, and went to see him off politely.

After Anping politely sent him away, when he came back, he found Cao Zhiqiang with his legs crossed and slowly reading information.

"President Cao." An Ping walked over and said with a smile, "It seems that you value this Japanese company very much."

"Oh?" Cao Zhiqiang raised his head, "How did you tell?"

"President Cao..."

"Don't call me President Cao in private. I'm younger than you. Just call me Xiao Cao."

Although Cao Zhiqiang said this, Anping definitely couldn't call you that, so he just smiled and said: "Zhiqiang, is it okay if I call you that?"

Cao Zhiqiang shook his head: "Whatever, what do you want to say?"

Anping said: "That's right. I think the section chief is right. Those who dislike the goods are the ones who buy them. When you come up, you criticize them as useless. You also say that their parameters are fake. Finally, you want to visit their factory. You should

You are very interested in this company, right?"

Cao Zhiqiang then nodded, gently put down the information and said, "Yes, I really value this company."

"Why?" Anping said, "I have never heard of this company. It should be a small, unpopular company. Is this small, unpopular company really reliable?"

Cao Zhiqiang said: "It's normal that you haven't heard of it. TAIYO YUDEN, also called Taiyo Yuden, this company originally specialized in making ceramic capacitors, and it is quite powerful in this field.

Later, this company began to learn from other Japanese companies, began to expand horizontally, and opened up many other businesses, such as the audio tape business, which is one of them.

However, as far as I know, this company entered the audio tape industry a little late. Although it has been able to use the latest technology and production lines, the market in this area has become saturated, and it will be difficult for them to seize market share.

.

But the production line has been put in place, and the technology has undergone certain research and development. It is not the style of Japanese companies to cut it off easily.

In addition, the entire Japanese society is currently in a state of prosperity, so even if it suffers a slight loss, it is estimated that this company will continue to research and develop.

By the way, if nothing unexpected happens, this company should now specialize in the field of optical disk storage, similar to CD turntables and CD players, do you know?"

"CD player?" Anping was stunned for a moment, then nodded, "I know this. It is a small laser disc. I heard that the sound quality is very good and the storage time is very long, which is incomparable to tapes."

Cao Zhiqiang nodded: "That's it! As far as I know, That's is a brand that mainly deals in records. It used to focus on cassette tapes and LPs, but now it focuses on CD recording technology.

Not long after CD technology came out, the market was almost blank, so it was a good time to seize the market.

Taiyo Yuden is a company that developed this technology relatively early, and has accumulated enough experience. As long as we give them a little more time, the CDs they produce will definitely have a place!"

Cao Zhiqiang is not just talking nonsense, it is proven by history.

In fact, That`s is a record brand that is most famous not for its tapes, but for its CDs.

That`s brand CD is a symbol of quality and is definitely a high-end disc.

Even at the time before Cao Zhiqiang traveled through time, the best CDs on the market were green disks from That`s brand.

That's brand of Japanese original Taiyu platters can basically be regarded as the top platters in the consumer market this year.

Relatively speaking, That's cassette disks are not very famous, but they are still very good and are still among the top niche disks among cassette disks.

However, Cao Zhiqiang suddenly remembered a piece of information he had read in his previous life, which was Taiyo Yuden's strategic mistakes regarding cassette record disks.

Like Taiyo Yuden, because they pay special attention to the latest cutting-edge technology, when the United States released metal tapes in 1978, Taiyo Yuden was one of the first companies in Japan to develop metal tapes, and it did make achievements and produced excellent products.

The quality of the metal tape is better than that of the American 3M company.

However, after they developed high-quality metal tape technology, CD records have become very popular. No matter how good the metal tape is, it cannot be compared with ordinary CD records.

Fortunately, Taiyo Yuden also developed CD technology together and entered this field very early, otherwise it would have fallen behind again.

But no matter what, Taiyo Yuden’s cassette recording tapes have indeed gone through some twists and turns.

From this perspective, since Taiyo Yuden wants to develop and produce the latest and most cutting-edge metal tapes, part of the old production line must be dismantled.

In other words, Taiyo Yuden's original production lines should want to be retired or moved. Otherwise, their people would not come first. In fact, they are more interested in selling the old production lines.

Taiyo Yuden's ordinary tape production line must be a relatively advanced production line, and because they are eager to upgrade their technology and produce higher-end metal tapes, this is a good opportunity to take over.

Compared with Taiyo Yuden, which is eager to upgrade its technology and production lines, several other large companies may not have such a great sense of urgency, and the prices and conditions they offer should not be better than Taiyo Yuden.

Therefore, when he heard that Section Chief Ikegaya was visiting, he had already made up his mind to choose this company. But now that he has read the information again, he is even more interested.

Because according to the information, the ordinary tape technology they currently use is actually iron-chromium tape.

This kind of tape is also called a double-layer tape. Its magnetic powder is divided into two layers. The upper layer is coated with about one micron of chromium oxide powder, and the lower layer is coated with about five microns of iron oxide powder.

It has the advantages of both iron belt and chromium belt. Its performance is comparable to that of iron-cobalt belt, but its price is cheaper than chromium belt and cobalt-containing belt.

Currently in the magnetic tape market, prices range from high to low. The most expensive is metal magnetic powder tape, followed by chromium tape, then iron-cobalt tape or cobalt-containing tape, next is iron-chromium tape, and finally ordinary iron tape.

In other words, in terms of cost performance, iron-chromium tape is the best because the material is cheap and the sound quality is comparable to that of cobalt-containing tape. From a technical point of view, it is very good.

Taiyo Yuden obviously has the relevant technology patent for this kind of double-layer tape, so it launched this production line.

The cost of this kind of tape is only slightly higher than that of ordinary iron tape, but the sound quality is very good, especially the recording effect is very strong.

However, it turns out that the cost of this kind of tape is slightly higher than that of ordinary tapes, but the sound quality is not as good as that of chrome tapes, and the market performance is not satisfactory, at least in the Japanese market.

The reason is very simple. This technology has just emerged. There are too few production lines and too little output, resulting in high research and development costs and thus high prices.

In addition, the market has long been robbed by other large tape manufacturers and there is not much left. The result is that Taiyo Yuden's new tape sales are not high and it has been in a state of loss.

If not, they wouldn't be in such a rush to sell production lines and specialize in metal tapes that not many people have entered yet.

From a certain point of view, metal tapes are indeed good. The sound quality of this thing is completely incomparable to chrome-plated tapes. It can even be compared with early CD disks.

It's a pity that CD technology is developing too fast, which dilutes the advantages of metal disks. In addition, the price of metal disks does not have much advantage. The cost is similar to that of early CD disks, and is higher than that of mature CD disks in the middle and later stages. This ultimately leads to early

Fall.

However, CDs became very popular in the 1990s. The prices of early CD disks and CD players remained high, and they were only in the top niche. The real mass records were cassette tapes.

So at least in the 1980s, tape production lines were profitable, and this double-layer tape technology, once introduced into the country, would definitely be the top technology.

As long as there is a little publicity, and the sound quality of this kind of tape is really superior to those low-quality ordinary tapes in China, it will definitely trigger a buying frenzy.

Cao Zhiqiang estimates that even if a tape like this sells for eight yuan or even ten yuan a tape, there will still be people rushing to buy it. By then, he will be able to make a lot of money just by selling tapes in China.

"In short, I am leaning towards Taiyo Yuden, but as the Japanese section manager said, those who are unfavorable are the buyers, and vice versa." Cao Zhiqiang said, "Since we want to choose Taiyo Yuden, the last step is to choose Taiyo Yuden.

There are a lot of nitpicks, and by the way, let’s let some air out, and investigate a few other companies, so as to put some pressure on Taiyo Yuden.”

"Is this appropriate?" Anping asked, "What if we do this and they think we are not sincere and do not sell us the production line and technology?"

Cao Zhiqiang waved his hand with a smile: "Don't worry, they are more anxious than us now. Their double-layer tape technology is not popular in Japan and has no future. They can only sell the technology and production line to us, or contact us

Cooperate and establish joint ventures.

In fact, I personally prefer to establish a joint venture, which can save money, but the specific situation will have to be discussed at some time."

When Anping heard this, he finally breathed a sigh of relief: "I said, where do we get so much money? It turns out that you want to set up a joint venture, so that's no problem."

"Haha." Cao Zhiqiang smiled playfully and said nothing more.

In fact, Cao Zhiqiang prefers to buy out the technology and production lines, and then build a brand of his own, so that he can be a sole proprietor in the country and not engage in joint ventures.

After all, it looks like he has no funds, but in fact he does.

Because the US$500 million in public funds was actually given to himself.

As long as he gets the offshore company settled, he can consider transferring the money.

At that time, he can set up a leather goods company in Japan or Hong Kong, transfer the money from overseas offshore companies, and then enter into a joint venture with himself in the name of that company, which means that he has both his left and right hands. That is the real stable profit.

Not a loss.

But there is no need to tell Anping about this kind of thing.

(End of chapter)