Rebirth of the Industrial Tycoon

In Li Weidong's impression, although his younger brother Li Weimin can't do anything, he can't eat enough, and occasionally causes trouble, but he never got into trouble.

This guy is a coward in his bones. When he was a child, he fought with his peers in the family's courtyard. Li Weimin always shrank to the back. It can be said that he is a humanoid husky.

Nowadays, a human-shaped husky costs 1,000 yuan per mouth, which makes Li Weidong feel bad. Li Weidong even worries whether it is his own husky that harmed other people's Teddy, and then came up with a Tesqui.

Li Weidong looked at Li Weimin nervously, but Li Weimin was still dumbfounded. He lowered his voice and said, "Brother, I really didn't cause trouble this time!"

"No trouble? Then what do you want a thousand dollars for?" Li Weidong put on a serious expression, as if he was interrogating Li Weimin.

Li Weimin lowered his voice and said, "Brother, I want to buy a game console."

"Game console? What game console?" Li Weidong frowned slightly.

"It's the kind of game console that is connected to the TV. With two controllers, you can play games by plugging in the game console card!" Li Weimin said immediately.

Li Weidong suddenly realized that what his brother said should be Nintendo's FC red and white machine.

However, Li Weidong remembered that the price of red and white game consoles should not be so expensive. In the 1990s, two or three hundred yuan could be bought.

"This unfortunate brother, want to take the opportunity to blackmail my money again!" Li Weidong thought of this, smiled slightly, and said, "Weimin, the game console you are talking about shouldn't be so expensive, right? I remember a game console, Can't you use three hundred dollars?"

"Brother, do you still understand game consoles?" Li Weimin was slightly taken aback.

"Nonsense, I've been traveling all day long, I don't know anything!" Li Weidong snorted coldly.

Li Weimin had no choice but to explain: "Brother, the ones that cost less than 300 yuan are domestically produced, those produced in Hong Kong and Taiwan cost 600 to 700 yuan, and those made in Japan cost thousands of yuan!"

"I don't believe you would buy Japanese products." Li Weidong pouted.

Li Weidong still knows his brother very well.

In a previous life, Li Weimin asked Li Weidong for money to buy a car, saying that he wanted to buy a Magotan, and Li Weidong gave him money for a Magotan, but the guy drove back a golf, which was second-hand, and all the extra money was taken by him. Eat, drink and have fun.

This time, Li Weimin asked 1,000 yuan to buy a game console. He must have spent 300 yuan to buy a domestic one, and then used the remaining 700 yuan to eat, drink, and have fun.

Seeing that his intention was seen through, Li Weimin smiled awkwardly, and then said, "Brother, this domestic game console costs 300 yuan, but you still need a gamepad to play games!"

"Don't fool me, the gamepad comes with it randomly." Li Weidong said.

"There is a racing game, you have to have a steering wheel." Li Weimin said again.

"There are arrow keys on the gamepad, you can control left and right, you don't need to buy a steering wheel." Li Weidong said immediately.

"There is a shooting game, you have to buy that kind of electron gun to play." Li Weimin continued.

"That doesn't cost seven hundred yuan, right?" Li Weidong said with a smile.

"I have to buy a keyboard, serialize it on a game console, and learn how to type on a computer. Yes, to learn how to type on a computer, you have to support me in learning how to use a computer!" Li Weimin finally found a reasonable excuse.

"Then you might as well just buy a learning machine..." Li Weidong said here, and suddenly remembered that in 1990, there should be no such so-called learning machine.

"How can I forget this thing! This is a good treasure to make money! The funds in my hand are idle when I am idle. It is better to invest in the learning machine project and make a quick buck."

Now Li Weidong has accumulated some funds in his hands, but he cannot find a good investment project for the time being.

Li Weidong's electric furnace factory has begun to transform into a foundry.

It is more difficult than Li Weidong imagined to be his own brand of small household appliances, so Li Weidong decisively changed his plan.

In Li Weidong's new plan, in the next three to five years, the electric furnace factory will mainly be OEM, and it will expand the OEM, take advantage of the opportunity to learn the technology of developed countries, and wait until the foreign technology is used. Once you've figured it out, start making your own brand.

After that, it took another five years to establish its own brand. At this time, China joined the WTO. With this wave of east wind, the brand entered the foreign market and created an international small household appliance brand.

This is a ten-year development plan. The road must be taken step by step, and the meal must be eaten in one bite.

To do business is not to play financial investment. The business needs to be steady and steady step by step, and slowly develop and strengthen itself.

Therefore, the expansion of the electric furnace factory will be a steady and long process.

In addition to the electric furnace factory, Li Weidong has another plan, which is to buy the Jinxing Agricultural Machinery Factory.

For the urban population, agricultural machinery seems to be something that can't be beat. In fact, agricultural machinery is a big market. Agricultural experts in later generations once estimated that China's agricultural machinery market is full of one trillion!

China has always attached great importance to agriculture, so agriculture has been enjoying various preferential policies and policy subsidies.

As far as agricultural machinery subsidies are concerned, in addition to the subsidy for the purchase of agricultural machinery and tools that have already formed regulations, from the central to the local, there are some additional agricultural machinery subsidies from time to time.

This kind of policy subsidy is really a good thing.

For example, when home appliances went to the countryside in 2008, huge subsidies not only stimulated the domestic demand market, but also allowed domestic home appliance companies to grow and develop. At that time, I bought Gree's stock and kept it in my hands for ten years. If you include the dividend and allotment, it would definitely make more money than real estate speculation.

Another example is the electric vehicle subsidy. Although there are many small factories that cheat subsidies, those companies that make electric vehicles have also really benefited. Thinking of BYD's 13 yuan a share, did you feel regretful? At the very least, the housing prices in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen cannot reach this level of increase.

The subsidy for home and countryside and the subsidy for electric vehicles are both phased policies. Once the time is up, the subsidy policy will end. However, even so, the stocks of subsidized industry leaders still outperformed real estate.

The subsidies for agricultural machinery have never stopped, and they have even increased subsidies from time to time.

Just imagine, in an industry with constant policy subsidies, it is not an exaggeration to say that you lie down and count money every day.

Compared with high-tech industries such as chips and semiconductors, the technical content of agricultural machinery is relatively low, at least there are not so many patent thresholds.

And foreign agricultural machinery technology is generally mature, as long as you spend money to introduce production lines, you can make products. This is a benefit of the traditional machinery industry.

This traditional machinery industry also has shortcomings, that is, the investment is large, the return is slow, and it is a type of long-term flow.

Before Li Weidong asked President Wu how much the Jinxing Agricultural Machinery Factory was worth, he was also estimating whether the funds in his hand could eat up the Jinxing Agricultural Machinery Factory.

Although Jinxing Agricultural Machinery Factory is a county-level collective enterprise, it is quite large after all. It is much more complicated than rebuilding an electric furnace factory if it wants to eat such a large-scale enterprise.

For example, how to liquidate the assets and debts of the enterprise; how to retain the original employees of the enterprise; how to install the retired employees, etc., all of which need to be covered.

Of course, similar problems will be encountered in corporate mergers and acquisitions in later generations, but the relevant laws and regulations of later generations have been perfected, and there are laws to follow on how to do it. In the early 1990s, the laws and regulations on corporate mergers and acquisitions were not perfect, and many problems could only be solved by money.

Therefore, in order to eat Jinxing Agricultural Machinery Factory, Li Weidong had to prepare as much money as possible.

Originally, Li Weidong was still thinking about where to get more money while the Jinxing Agricultural Machinery Factory was still struggling, but he didn't expect this ignorant younger brother to remind him.

It can be a learning machine!

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The promotional photo of Uncle Jackie Chan wearing a vest and holding the Xiaobawang learning machine is an indelible memory for many post-80s and post-90s.

Many parents born in the 1980s and 1990s also bought things like learning machines, but it is certain that few people will really use the learning machines to learn.

Nintendo released the FC Red and White in 1983, and it subsequently became a worldwide hit. With the increase in the number of games on the red and white consoles, in addition to the two handles, the red and white consoles have also introduced various peripherals.

Such as stereo headphones, karaoke microphones, steering wheel controllers, electronic pistols, arcade handles, etc., Nintendo even cooperated with Sharp to produce a TV with its own red and white game console.

Among the many game console peripherals, the keyboard of the computer is naturally included.

Nintendo once released a game cartridge that can be programmed with BASIC, and the corresponding peripheral is a computer keyboard, which is the predecessor of the learning machine.

That is to say, the earliest learning machine was actually plugging the computer keyboard into the red and white game console, not the later all-in-one learning machine.

Later, Nintendo's red and white game consoles and cassettes were cracked by Taiwanese businessmen, and Taiwanese businessmen began to copy red and white game consoles and sold them to the Soviet Union and other countries. However, due to the Cold War, Nintendo's game consoles could not enter the Soviet market, and Nintendo also There is no way to sue a Taiwanese businessman for infringement.

This trick was soon learned by Hong Kong businessmen, so Hong Kong businessmen also began to manufacture counterfeit red and white machines and sold them to the mainland market. This kind of cottage machine is also not authorized by Nintendo, and Nintendo has no way to defend its rights.

Later, Hong Kong businessmen felt that the cost of production on Hong Kong Island was still too high, so they began to cooperate with mainland companies to produce red and white machines in the Pearl River Delta region. At the same time, they also established a supporting factory for red and white machine cassettes. This is probably the first batch of electronics factories in China.

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Li Weidong went to Hong Kong Island again, this time his purpose was to find an engineer to help him complete the design of the learning machine.

Hong Kong Island in the era of the Four Asian Tigers is famous for its electronics manufacturing industry.

In the late 1950s, the first radio factories appeared on Hong Kong Island, and then several well-known American electronics companies also began to set up factories on Hong Kong Island to produce products such as magnetic core storage components, diodes, transistors and capacitors. Driven by the rapid development of Hong Kong Island Electronics.

By the 1970s, there were more than 200 electronics factories on Hong Kong Island. In this era, Hong Kong Island even produced a series of defense electronic equipment for the United States, such as rocket launcher parts and radar devices.

In the 1970s, with the advent of large-scale integrated circuits, electronic products began to enter people's field of vision. Many foreign capitals came to Hong Kong to set up factories, bringing electronic products for assembling integrated circuits, electronic watches, speaker equipment, computers, TV sets, etc. of advanced technology and equipment.

During this period, the electronics industry rapidly grew into the second largest industry on Hong Kong Island. At that time, the export volume of semiconductor radios on Hong Kong Island ranked first in the world. It can be said that Hong Kong Island can become one of the four tigers in Asia, and the electronics industry has made great contributions.

In the 1980s, the integrated circuit factories on Hong Kong Island were already in the leading position in the world. By 1990, there were more than 2,000 electronic manufacturers on Hong Kong Island. Except for primary electronic products such as radios, recorders, electronic watches, calculators, etc. It can also manufacture satellite computers, personal computers, audio, multi-layer circuit boards, computer peripheral equipment, advanced communication equipment and other products.

Silicon Valley in the United States is regarded as the core of the world's electronics industry, and Hong Kong Island in 1990 was called "Silicon Island" for no exaggeration.

It is a pity that the electronics manufacturing industry on Hong Kong Island is still not as good as the financial industry and real estate. It is better to do business in a down-to-earth manner. It is better to play stocks to make money, and it is better to speculate in real estate. When capital is pouring into the financial industry, electronics manufacturing on Hong Kong Island is more The industry eventually came to an end.

However, in 1990, the electronics industry on Hong Kong Island was still very developed. At that time, Hong Kong Island could not only manufacture electronic products, but also design and develop electronic products.

Li Weidong also easily found an engineer in integrated circuits to help him complete the design of the learning machine.

The engineer's surname is Zhu. This 60-year-old man in his fifties is said to have been in the industry for more than 20 years and has extensive experience in the industry.

At this point, Engineer Zhu had disassembled a game console, revealing the PCB motherboard inside.

"This is a compatible machine of the FC game console, that is, the imitation of the Nintendo FC game console. Mr. Li, look here, the blue thing next to the 15-pin serial port is the REST reset button. This structure is related to the The key core of the keyboard is the same, that is to say, as long as the mechanical keyboard is connected here, it can meet your requirements." Engineer Zhu explained pointing to the PCB motherboard.

Li Weidong thought for a while and asked, "Can you connect other types of keyboards here?"

"Are you going to connect a capacitive keyboard?" Engineer Zhu frowned and continued, "In this case, the cost will increase a lot, because capacitive keyboards are more expensive."

Li Weidong shook his head: "No, I want to connect a membrane keyboard."

"Membrane keyboard? That thing is not very durable, right?" Engineer Zhu said.

"But membrane keyboards are cheap!" Li Weidong said.

"What a black-hearted capitalist!" Engineer Zhu scolded inwardly, but nodded: "You can also add a membrane keyboard, just change a key core."

IBM's first computer for workers used capacitive keyboards, which were relatively expensive and were quickly replaced by mechanical keyboards.

After entering the 1990s, mechanical keyboards were replaced by cheaper membrane keyboards.

In the 1990s, the first generation of membrane keyboards appeared on the market. However, the first-generation membrane keyboard is a conductive rubber seat, which is the same structure as the TV remote control. This kind of structure is easy to age, and it will not last a few years if it is used on a TV remote control, and the lifespan will be shorter when it is used on a keyboard.

However, the membrane keyboard has an advantage, that is, it is cheap, which can reduce the cost. A piece of conductive rubber is much cheaper than more than 100 mechanical shafts.

If Li Weidong intends to make a brand, he will definitely pay attention to quality and use better materials.

But Li Weidong only intends to use the learning machine to make a quick buck. Since it is not a long-term plan, he does not need to take into account the product quality. Profit is the most important thing.

The design of the mainboard of the learning machine was handed over to engineer Zhu, and Li Weidong went to visit another engineer, who was an expert in game cassettes.

This expert will help Li Weidong to design a so-called "learning card", and Li Weidong's requirements for the learning card are not high, and it is enough to have the function of typing contact.

As for the production of products, Li Weidong did not plan to do it himself, nor could he build an electronics factory to produce learning machines, so he planned to find a OEM directly, which is convenient and fast.

Due to its proximity to Hong Kong Island, there are many electronics factories in the Pearl River Delta region. Although these electronics factories cannot produce electronic components, they are good at assembling.

Li Weidong inspected the Pearl River Delta region and found that most electronics factories have the ability to assemble learning machines. Some electronics factories even have special channels for the purchase of electronic components.

That is to say, tell the electronics factory directly about the structure of the motherboard, and they can complete the one-stop service of purchasing and assembling. The customer only needs to pay and then ship the product.

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In a small printing factory in the Pearl River Delta, the owner of the printing factory handed the newly printed learning machine packaging box to Li Weidong.

"Boss Li, look at this packaging box. Are you satisfied! If you are not satisfied, we will change it!"

Li Weidong took the box, and in the most conspicuous position, there are several big characters "486 computer learning machine".

This is the name Li Weidong specially named for the learning machine, the purpose is to rub the heat of the 486 computer.

At that time, Intel had just launched the 486 processor, and the 486 computer was the most advanced home computer on the market.

But where do the Chinese people know what a 486 computer is, most people just think that the 486 computer is a very high-tech thing.

Li Weidong deliberately named the "486 computer learning machine", purely to mislead consumers, making consumers mistakenly think that this learning machine is related to the 486 computer, using the learning function to learn the computer, and the high-tech 486 computer .

"This box seems to be missing something." Li Weidong frowned and thought for a while, and then suddenly realized that a gimmicky promotional slogan was missing on the box!

I saw Li Weidong pointed to the packaging box and said, "Let's add a promotional slogan here, it should be more eye-catching."

"No problem, Boss Li, what slogan to add, you have the final say." The printing factory boss said immediately.

After pondering for a few seconds, Li Weidong said, "Add this sentence, computer learning machine, learning to type in three days!"

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