Reborn Industrial Tycoon

Although Li Weidong deliberately cheated Hanaya Saburo of a thousand dollars, Hanaya Saburo's incident served as a reminder to Li Weidong.

Hanaya Saburo may be the first person to plan to imitate the air fryer, but he is definitely not the last.

After the air fryer is officially launched, ordinary people can buy an air fryer on the market for a few hundred dollars, go back and take it apart, and understand the work involved, and even middle school students with better hands-on skills can do it.

Counterfeit it.

In the future, the annual global demand for air fryers will exceed 20 million units. This is a huge market. I believe many people with a keen sense of smell will notice this, and then more and more people will start to imitate air fryers.

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Although Li Weidong holds the patent for the air fryer, if too many people around the world imitate it, even if Li Weidong wants to protect his rights, he will not have the energy and cost to do so.

"The cost of defending intellectual property rights is too high, not only in money, but also in time. I am an industrialist, not a professional rights defender. I will definitely not have that much energy to fight patent lawsuits all over the world in the future.

. Things like litigation have to be left to lawyers!"

Li Weidong couldn't help but think of Zheng Jianan, a beautiful mixed-race lawyer.

"How about hooking up with this beautiful woman and asking him to help me with my lawsuit?"

Li Weidong thought carefully and finally made a decision.

Li Weidong went directly to Ma Dexing: "Director Ma, please do me a favor! I want to make a call to Hong Kong Island. You should have a dedicated telephone line for international long distance calls, right?"

"Go to my office, it's there." Ma Dexing took Li Weidong to the office area.

Then, Li Weidong dialed the number of Donald Law Firm and found Zheng Jianan.

Li Weidong asked about the progress of the air fryer patent application. After learning that everything was going well, he said, "Lawyer Zheng, do you still remember the last time I asked you about how to register a company in Hong Kong Island? It seems that this time, I

I really need to register a company. I will go to Hong Kong Island to find you in a few days, and we will discuss it in detail then!"

After getting a positive answer from Zheng Jianan, Li Weidong put down the phone and walked out of Ma Dexing's office.

Ma Dexing was in the corridor, smoking and waiting for Li Weidong.

"Did you finish the call?" Ma Dexing put out the cigarette in his hand.

"The fight is over." Li Weidong continued: "Director Ma, after the Canton Fair is over, I have to go to Hong Kong Island. Can you help me get the procedures for entering Hong Kong?"

"Are you planning to take a trip to Hong Kong Island? I've been to Hong Kong Island, and it's so bustling!" Ma Dexing said with a smile.

"It's not a trip, it's a business trip." Li Weidong replied.

Ma Dexing suddenly looked serious: "Is it related to the air fryer?"

Li Weidong nodded, and Ma Dexing's attitude instantly became enthusiastic: "It's a good thing to talk about business. Isn't it just a set of procedures for going to Hong Kong? I will handle it for you. How do you plan to get there? Do you want to take a boat directly from Yangcheng?

In the past, I also had acquaintances at the passenger transport company in Lianhua Port and could get first-class tickets!"

"It would be better if you have a ferry ticket. Then I'll trouble Director Ma!" Li Weidong said.

Lianhua Port Passenger Transport Company was established in 1985 and specializes in operating passenger ships to and from Hong Kong Island.

However, it was quite difficult to buy ferry tickets at that time. After all, there were many self-employed businessmen who would go to Hong Kong Island to purchase goods. If you took the boat, you would not have to go through the SAR, and you would save yourself the trouble of getting a SAR pass.

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In Beijing, Sun Xinmin, who had just been promoted, returned to the office. He picked up the phone, dialed a phone number, and said, "Bring over all the documents I have accumulated during the three days of my business trip."

After a while, Secretary Zhuang walked into Sun Xinmin's office holding a large pile of documents.

"Boss, what do you want to see first?" Secretary Zhuang asked.

"Let's take a look at the report from the Canton Fair first! I've been on a business trip these days, and I don't know what the turnover at the Canton Fair is like," Sun Xinmin said.

Although Sun Xinmin no longer has to go to the Canton Fair in person, he is still the leader in charge of foreign trade, and the Canton Fair is naturally his business scope, so he has always been paying attention to the developments of the Canton Fair.

To put it another way, if the Canton Fair is run well, it shows that Sun Xinmin has good leadership; if the Canton Fair is not run well, Sun Xinmin's work ability will also be questioned.

Now that Sun Xinmin has just returned from a business trip, he naturally wants to take a look at the progress of the Canton Fair.

Secretary Zhuang quickly began to sort out the pile of documents. After a while, he picked out several reports related to the Canton Fair and sent them to Sun Xinmin's desk. After that, Secretary Zhuang continued to classify the documents, and Sun Xinmin began to review the official documents.

A moment later, Sun Xinmin suddenly slammed the table and shouted: "Our domestic household appliances are exported!"

"Boss, I see you are happy. This is not the first time that domestically produced home appliances have been exported. Last year, didn't we export refrigerators to Tanzania!" Secretary Zhuang said casually.

"The export this time is not to African countries, but to the United Kingdom!" Sun Xinmin's tone was still very excited.

"British people buy our home appliances?" Secretary Zhuang showed an incredulous expression, and then he immediately explained: "Boss, don't get me wrong, I didn't question you just now. I just found it quite puzzling. Britain is a developed country.

They don’t have anything, why do they need to buy appliances from us?”

Sun Xinmin said: "I just saw the news and I didn't believe it. That's the UK. Why would they come to buy our home appliances? Later, after taking a closer look, I found out that the one we sold to the UK this time was...

I have a new product called an air fryer. There is no such thing in the UK."

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"Air fryer? It sounds like a kitchen utensil for cooking." Secretary Zhuang said.

"Whether they are for cooking or not, they are household appliances. Being able to export household appliances to developed countries is a major breakthrough! I hope we can export more industrial products to developed countries in the future." Sun Xinmin was happy.

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Sun Xinmin picked up the second report from the Canton Fair.

"Costco in the United States placed an order for 20,000 air fryers!" Sun Xinmin exclaimed again.

"Costco is a big retailer in the United States. I heard that it is no less circumventive than Wal-Mart. The big retailer is so bold that it bought 20,000 units in one go!"

Secretary Zhuang paused for a moment, then asked: "By the way, boss, how much does this air fryer cost? Can three or five of them be worth a TV?"

"Xiaozhuang, you underestimate this air fryer. This order from Costco is worth 5.7 million US dollars!" Sun Xinmin said with a bright smile.

"Twenty thousand units is 5.7 million U.S. dollars, and one unit is 285 U.S. dollars, which is equivalent to 1,200 yuan in RMB. This is the price of an imported 18-inch large color TV!" Secretary Zhuang said.

In 1988, mainstream color TVs were still 14 inches, and 18-inch color TVs were already large.

Sun Xinmin sighed softly on the side: "Sure enough, it is still industrial products that make money. We used to sell tea and porcelain, and we were very happy with an order of tens of thousands of dollars. Now look at this industrial product, an order of 570

Ten thousand! How much tea and porcelain must be sold to make so much money!"

Sun Xinmin said, and continued to read the Canton Fair report.

"Walmart also bought 10,000 units!" Sun Xinmin quickly calculated in his mind, and then said: "Judging from the figures in the newspaper, the export earnings of this air fryer have exceeded 10 million!"

"U.S. dollars?" Secretary Zhuang asked subconsciously.

"Nonsense, at the Canton Fair, of course everything must be settled in U.S. dollars!" Sun Xinmin said.

"This is a golden pot, it can be sold for ten million U.S. dollars!" Secretary Zhuang was already shocked by the figure of "ten million U.S. dollars."

Sun Xinmin took a deep breath, calmed down, and said, "Hurry up and call the Canton Fair and ask which manufacturer made this air fryer."

"Okay, I'll ask right away." Secretary Zhuang immediately ran out and made a phone call.

After a while, Secretary Zhuang ran back. He opened the small notebook in his hand and said, "Boss, I have already found out that the manufacturer of air fryers is called Xiangyang Town Electric Furnace Factory, Dongcheng District, Qinghe City."

"Qinghe?" Sun Xinmin thought for a moment and immediately said: "The guy who sold car seat cushions last year was also from Qinghe, right? Are the people in this place very good at business?

I’ve heard of Shanxi merchants, I’ve heard of Zhejiang merchants, I’ve heard of Hui merchants, but I’ve never heard of merchants coming out of that poor place in Qinghe! By the way, that long list of names you just mentioned, what district? What town?

?”

"Dongcheng District, Xiangyang Town, Electric Furnace Factory." Secretary Zhuang answered.

"Town? How does this sound like a township enterprise?" Sun Xinmin had a strange expression on his face, and then asked: "Is it really a township enterprise?"

Secretary Zhuang nodded: "Leader, you are right, this is really a township enterprise!"

"Last year, the one selling car seat cushions was a tertiary state-owned enterprise, but it was still a state-owned enterprise after all. This year, a township enterprise popped up! What is the feng shui of Qinghe? Jing sent some stragglers out, and they were able to win big prizes.

Order!" Sun Xinmin looked like he was telling a fairy tale.

"Leader, there is one more thing that you will never guess." Secretary Zhuang did not show off, but directly revealed the answer: "This guy who sells air fryers is also called Li Weidong!"

"Li Weidong, this name seems a bit familiar." Sun Xinmin didn't remember who Li Weidong was for a while.

"The man who sold cushions last year was also named Li Weidong!" Secretary Zhuang replied.

"It can't be the same person, right?" Sun Xinmin said and shook his head, thinking to himself: "How could it be the same person? The Li Weidong before was from a state-owned garment factory, how could he go to some electric furnace factory!"

"The Canton Fair only knew that the exhibitor was named Li Weidong. It was hard to be sure whether it was the same person. So I called again and asked the exhibitor group from Handong Province."

Secretary Zhuang paused for a moment, whetting Sun Xinmin's appetite, and then continued: "The exhibition group confirmed that Li Weidong from the electric furnace factory is the same Li Weidong who sold cushions before!"

"They are really the same person!" Sun Xinmin opened his mouth wide, showing an expression completely unbefitting a leader.

Secretary Zhuang secretly rejoiced: "I thought I was the only one who would be shocked from ear to ear if I didn't have much authority. I didn't expect that the leaders would be like this too! It seems that I am getting closer and closer to becoming a leader!"