Reborn Industrial Tycoon

Chapter 206 Is she teasing me? (10 arrears)

After adding the patent fee, the price of air fryers generally exceeds US$170.

In this comparison, Li Weidong's air fryer sells for 200 US dollars. Although it is a little expensive, it is still within the acceptable range. After all, Li Weidong's air fryer has two more functions.

In the next few days, Li Weidong sold more than 20,000 air fryers. Other exhibitors also sold hundreds of thousands of air fryers.

Air fryers are still very popular in European and American countries. The eating habits of European and American countries that prefer fried foods also destined this product to be a hot seller.

At the end of the 1980s, developed countries such as Europe, the United States, and Japan had a combined population of about 670 million. With such a huge population base, it was easy to consume hundreds of thousands of air fryers.

As a result, Southeast Company signed a patent license worth more than three million U.S. dollars. Excluding taxes and other various costs, Li Weidong can probably receive a dividend of two million U.S. dollars.

There is no double tax system in Hong Kong Island, so as long as the company pays various taxes and pays dividends to shareholders, shareholders do not need to pay personal income tax.

However, it will take some time to get the two million US dollars. We have to wait until the country receives payment from foreign merchants, and then the foreign trade department can pay the patent fee to Southeast Company.

Li Weidong is not afraid that the foreign trade department will default on its debts. After all, this is a patent licensing contract signed at the Canton Fair. If the foreign trade department dares to default on its debts, it will be like destroying the golden brand of the Canton Fair.

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In the evening, Li Weidong and Zheng Jianan had dinner together and then walked on the beach.

Zheng Jianan can understand Mandarin, but he doesn't know how to speak it, so he simply speaks Cantonese.

Li Weidong, on the other hand, is just the opposite. He can understand Cantonese, but his speaking skills are poor, so he talks to Zheng Jianan in Mandarin.

The two of them are like mainland actors and Hong Kong actors acting opposite each other. You speak Cantonese and I speak Mandarin.

"When you invited me to join the patent company, I thought I had met a liar. Now that I think about it, it's a good thing I didn't refuse you. Otherwise, I would have lost more than 400,000 US dollars in dividends this year!" Zheng Jianan laughed hard.

sweet.

"You didn't get this money in vain. If you hadn't relied on your identity as a lawyer to pretend to be a good person, you wouldn't have made this money so smoothly." Li Weidong said.

What Li Weidong said is true. Those who can participate in the Canton Fair are large state-owned enterprises. The name of Southeast Company alone is not enough to make these large state-owned enterprises obediently pay patent fees.

The identity of lawyer Zheng Jianan is obviously a very important bargaining chip. Having lawyer Zheng Jianan means that Southeast Company is not afraid of litigation. This is a weapon that can cause substantial harm.

Just like in many TV dramas, there are always lines such as "Sue me if you have the guts". Normally, this is just an angry statement, because the person who says this is often sure that the other party will not sue him.

But if the other party is a lawyer, I believe no one will be confident enough to say, "Sue me if you dare", because the lawyer will really sue you.

The same sentence "Believe it or not, I will sue you for defamation" that often appears in Hong Kong dramas will have a completely different effect if it comes from a lawyer.

That day in Liu Dawei's office, if Li Weidong had not revealed Zheng Jianan's identity as a lawyer, the dispute over the patent fees might have continued for a long time.

However, when everyone learned about Zheng Jianan's identity as a lawyer, they realized that Southeast Company had the ability to initiate intellectual property litigation against foreign businessmen who purchased air fryers at any time, so paying patent fees became their only option.

After listening to Li Weidong's words, Zheng Jianan smiled slightly and said: "I can earn more than 400,000 US dollars by pretending to be a tiger once, which is great value. If I work normally, I'm afraid I will be promoted to a partner of a law firm

, it is possible to earn 400,000 US dollars."

"Don't just take money without doing anything." Li Weidong smiled and then said: "It's not easy for me to go to Hong Kong Island, so the daily operations of the company depend entirely on you."

"Don't worry, the business of the patent operation company is basically related to law. This is what I am best at." Zheng Jianan said.

"There is no salary." Li Weidong added.

"We already have dividends, so what salary do we need?" Zheng Jia'an smiled sweetly.

Li Weidong pondered for a few seconds and then said, "One more thing, Gordon, the buyer of Walmart, and Hayward, the buyer of Costo, are also living in the White Swan Hotel. Can you go and get to know them?"

"Are they related to Southeast Company's business?" Zheng Jianan asked.

"This is not necessarily true." Li Weidong shook his head and continued, "Large retailers such as Wal-Mart and Costo are important sales channels for small home appliances and will become my big customers in the future. Regarding the business of small home appliances, if

If there is a chance, I plan to operate the brand and the factory separately, with the brand responsible for marketing and the factory specializing in OEM, which may then be linked to Southeast Company's business."

"Don't worry, it's very easy for a beautiful woman to ask for a man's contact information." Zheng Jia'an said with confidence.

The two of them chatted and walked to the entrance of the White Swan Hotel.

"Okay, we've arrived at the hotel, it's time for me to say goodbye!" Li Weidong said very gentlemanly.

"Why don't you come up and sit down?" Zheng Jianan stared at Li Weidong with his big eyes.

Li Weidong was slightly stunned, and thought to himself: "I'm going to choke you. Is this a direct hint? It's late at night, if I go up and sit down, something will happen! Do you want to agree? Although I am a bit greedy.

The body is only a little bit weak!"

In later generations, when Li Weidong became a multi-millionaire, beautiful women already took the initiative to throw themselves into his arms. After Li Weidong became a billionaire, this kind of invitation to "come up and have a seat" also happened many times.

However, after his rebirth, in the conservative-minded 1980s, this was the first time Li Weidong encountered this matter. He was inevitably a little uncomfortable, and for a while he didn't know how to answer.

While Li Weidong was hesitating, Zheng Jia'an smiled charmingly, then tiptoed, pressed his lips to Li Weidong's cheek, and said, "I'll give you a good bye kiss, and my sister won't let you accompany me!"

After Zheng Jianan finished speaking, he turned and walked towards the elevator.

Looking at Zheng Jianan's leaving figure, Li Weidong subconsciously touched his cheek. The warmth of Zheng Jianan's lips seemed to still stay there.

"Is she teasing me?" Li Weidong said to himself.

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After the Canton Fair, Li Weidong returned directly to Qinghe.

Everything is normal at the electric furnace factory, and some workers are still on vacation.

The winter wheat planting time in North and East China is from the end of September to the beginning of October. During this period, the electric furnace factory has no production tasks, so it is simply a holiday for the workers to go home and plant wheat.

Compared with cutting wheat, growing wheat requires much less physical labor, but the technical requirements are more than one level higher.

At that time, most farmers could not afford agricultural machinery, so they still used manpower or livestock to plow the land, which was definitely much less efficient.

In addition, farmers at that time were reluctant to use pesticides, so they rarely used herbicides and used manual labor to remove weeds in the wheat fields. This greatly increased farmers' labor.

Facing the empty production workshop, Ma Zhongyi introduced: "It is estimated that the workers will be back in two days. Wheat is easy to get sick when it first emerges, and we have to prevent frostbite from the cold wave."

"Just wait two days. Anyway, it will take time for us to purchase raw materials. However, after we get the raw materials back, we have to step up production and send out the first batch of goods by the end of October. We will wait until mid-to-early November.

Send a batch of goods. In Europe and the United States, there is Thanksgiving in late November and Christmas in late December, which are both good times to sell goods." Li Weidong said.

"Okay, leave the production matters to me." Ma Zhongyi nodded, and then asked: "Is it still seventy cents per unit?"

"The new air fryer has added two functions and added parts. It will be a little more troublesome to assemble. Let's give it a ten cent increase!" Li Weidong said.

"Let's go up by five points!" Ma Zhongyi said stingily.

"Brother Ma, prices have risen sharply this year. In the past few months, pork was only 1.5 yuan, but now it's only 2.5 yuan. We must not give workers more money?" Li Weidong said with a smile.

"That's right. I went to the market and found that things are a lot more expensive. Then let's increase the price by 10 cents!" Ma Zhongyi nodded.

The assembly fee for each air fryer increased by 10 cents, and Li Weidong only paid a few thousand dollars more, which was just drizzle for Li Weidong.

In fact, Li Weidong can't make much money with this batch of air fryers.

First of all, the price of air fryers has dropped. A $200 air fryer is nearly one-third cheaper than before, which has greatly reduced Li Weidong's profits.

Secondly, the price increase of raw materials has increased Li Weidong's costs.

In 1988, prices rose so much that the final price of raw materials could not be determined until the purchase contract was signed, because raw material suppliers did not know how much the price would rise tomorrow.

Another point is the uncertainty of foreign exchange rates, which also prevents Li Weidong from estimating how much money he can make from this business.

Before September 1988, the exchange rate in the foreign exchange adjustment market was fixed. After September, the foreign exchange adjustment market in various places gradually canceled the fixed exchange rate. When Li Weidong finally went to settle foreign exchange, it was still unknown how many RMB one dollar could be exchanged for.

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At that time, the country was not yet so adept at regulating exchange rates. The valuation of the RMB was a mystery, and it was not even easy to estimate a rough range. Li Weidong did not know the exchange rate of the US dollar against the RMB, so he could not accurately calculate this business.

profit.

I have to say that doing international trade at that time was really like opening a blind box, which was fun and exciting. Once a business was completed, you might make money out of nowhere, or you might lose money out of nowhere!

Li Weidong walked out of the workshop and looked in the direction of the second-hand inventor Lu Jianli's laboratory, but did not see Lu Jianli's motorcycle.

"Teacher Lu is not here today?" Li Weidong asked.

"Teacher Lu's school has started. I heard that he has to study in the evening. He is very busy. He has to wait until the weekend to have time to come over." Ma Zhongyi paused and then said: "By the way, Teacher Lu asked me to teach you

Words."

"What are you bringing?" Li Weidong asked.

"He has completed the task you gave him and made improvements!" Ma Zhongyi said.

Li Weidong was slightly surprised: "Can the toaster be improved? This second-hand inventor really gave me a surprise!"

Chapter 10 of the arrears has been delivered, and I still owe 4 chapters! Finally, we have seen the light of day! Do you guys still have monthly passes in your hands? Give me a guarantee to pass the test!

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