Reborn Industrial Tycoon

In front of the department store counter, a middle-aged man was planning to buy a learning machine.

"Comrade, do you have a computer learning machine here?" the middle-aged man asked.

The young female salesperson's face turned slightly red. She felt that the customer's words were a bit uncivilized. How could he say such things to a young girl?

However, out of professional ethics, the salesperson pointed to a few samples on the counter and said, "These are learning machines."

"There is a learning machine that can learn 486 computers. Which one is it?" the middle-aged man asked next.

"These are 486 computer learning machines." the salesperson replied.

The middle-aged man was suddenly confused. He obviously didn't know which one to buy.

The salesperson pointed at one of the samples and said, "The best-selling one now is this one, the Little Brother Chinese and English computer learning machine! The learning cards of this learning machine have the most complete functions!"

"What are their functions?" the man asked.

"Let me show you!" The salesperson took a learning cassette and pointed to the words on it and said: "Look, it's all written on it, including fingering training, five-stroke quick learning, computer painting, Chinese pinyin, English-Chinese dictionary,

Mathematical calculations, spelling and literacy, music repertoire..."

"It has so many functions. Not only can you learn computers, but you can also learn English!" The middle-aged man paused and asked, "Is this learning machine good for you?

"Of course, this is a big brand. Look, it's endorsed by Jackie Chan!" the salesperson said, taking out the packaging box of a Little Brother learning machine.

The middle-aged man lowered his head and saw that on the packaging box was a photo of Jackie Chan holding his little brother’s learning machine.

Seeing that Jackie Chan was the spokesperson, the middle-aged man instinctively felt that this was a trustworthy brand, so he said, "Bring me one of these learning machines!"

"Okay." The salesman nodded, complaining again in his heart, this customer is so uncivilized!

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As Li Weidong expected, the structure of the learning machine was too simple, and various copycat learning machines soon appeared on the market.

This thing cannot be protected by a patent. After all, the learning machine itself is a copycat of the Nintendo Famicom and is an infringing product of the Nintendo Famicom. How can an infringing product be qualified to talk about product protection?

Those manufacturers that produce copycat machines are basically large electronics factories in the Pearl River Delta region. Not only do they have good technology, many manufacturers also have professional engineers and have certain research and development capabilities. Therefore, the learning machines they produce are better than those made by Li Weidong.

The quality is better.

The best among them is my little brother’s computer learning machine.

After all, Little Brother is an electronics factory under a state-owned enterprise, with an annual output value of hundreds of millions of yuan. It can be said that it requires technology, scale, and capital.

Moreover, Du Ping, the director of Little Brother Electronics Factory, is also a visionary and capable person. Since he planned to enter the learning machine market, he made several bold decisions.

First of all, we have developed a learning cassette with more functions. It can not only learn typing, but also learn English and Chinese Pinyin. It also has calculator and music player functions.

Du Ping believes that in order to compete with the northern boss, he must launch better products, and it is imperative to increase the content of learning computer cards.

Xiaoage Electronics Factory has its own team of engineers who are capable of developing learning cassettes, which is something Li Weidong cannot do.

After all, Li Weidong is not a professional in electronics. For a layman, it is okay to do superficial work. But if it comes to the product upgrade and research and development stage, such a layman will not be able to do it.

Secondly, Du Ping spent a lot of money to hire Hong Kong superstar Jackie Chan to be the advertising spokesperson for Little Brother’s computer learning machine.

In the 1990s, Jackie Chan was already a well-known star in China. Although it was a bit expensive to find Jackie Chan as a spokesperson, the publicity effect was definitely unambiguous.

Of course, when he asked Jackie Chan to be the spokesperson, Du Ping believed the words of the boss Zhang, thinking that the big boss in the north wanted to ask Chow Yun-fat to be the spokesperson, so he had to find a spokesperson who could compete with Chow Yun-fat. At that time, only Jackie Chan had the ability.

In addition, Du Ping also spent hundreds of thousands to advertise on CCTV during prime time. The phrase "I hope my son will become a successful little brother" came out of Jackie Chan's mouth and instantly became a popular advertising slogan.

The Little Brother Chinese and English learning machine has therefore become the best-selling learning machine product on the market.

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Brother's learning machine quickly occupied the market, which actually surprised Du Ping.

In view of Du Ping's cognition, when a little brother enters the learning machine market, he will definitely face fierce competition. The first one he has to face is the wealthy boss from the north.

However, the big boss in the north did not make any counterattacks and allowed his little brother's learning machine to continue to seize the market, which surprised Du Ping.

There has been no movement in asking Chow Yun-fat to be an endorsement. On the younger brother's side, Jackie Chan started shouting on CCTV, "I hope you will have a son, little elder brother Jackie Chan." But on the Northern boss side, Chow Yun-fat didn't even see a shadow.

On the market, the 486 computer learning machine has gradually begun to disappear. It is said that after the last batch of goods was sold out, there will be no new supply.

Du Ping even called to ask about the boss Zhang. Boss Zhang also said that he had seen the big boss from the north for a long time. He originally expected the big boss from the north to place a new order, but the boss from the north

The big boss suddenly disappeared. He has not been contacted since picking up the last batch of products.

This result made Du Ping a little confused. He had a feeling that the enlarged boss seemed to have deliberately given up on the learning machine market and retired after playing a successful game.

Du Ping was a little confused. How could he give up on such a profitable product as a learning machine?

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Editor Yu rarely worked overtime today and arrived at his home at around 5 p.m.

After locking the bicycle, Editor Yu hurriedly walked upstairs, took out the key and opened the door.

I saw my son Yu Yang sitting in front of the TV, with the 486 computer learning machine in front of him.

"So I'm learning computer science!" Editor Yu nodded with satisfaction, but then he discovered that the picture on the TV seemed to be a villain with a gun, constantly moving forward.

"This is playing a game!" Editor Yu immediately understood.

For a moment, Editor Yu felt furious!

My son is so bad that he is playing video games!

In the eyes of parents in the 1990s, video games were a scourge.

If children play video games, they are not learning well. It is probably the same behavior as petty theft, deception and abduction.

If a child plays a learning machine, it means that his life is over! He will become a blind social second-rate in the future! Playing a video game seems to be the successor of a criminal, and he will have to go to the prison to meet him in the future!

There is no doubt that in this era, video games are the original sin!

Seeing his son playing video games, Editor Yu subconsciously looked around. There was no electric chair, so he had to pick up a broom.

"If you don't learn well, you little brat, you can't learn anything but imitate other people's games!"

Editor Yu rushed over, followed by Yu Yang's painful cry.

After a while, Yu Yang covered his butt and wiped his tears and went back to the room to reflect. Editor Yu also calmed down a little, and then he looked at the 486 computer learning machine.

"I was talking about why the little brat suddenly started clamoring to learn how to use computers. It turned out that he was playing games in the name of learning computers! And this thing, what a bullshit learning machine, it's clearly a game console!"

Editor Yu felt very aggrieved. He wanted to go forward and smash the learning machine, but considering that it cost 486 yuan to sell, Editor Yu really couldn't do it.

"No, we can't let it go like this! I want to write an article to expose the viciousness of this learning machine!"

Thinking of this, Editor Yu just did what he said, took out a pen and manuscript paper, and sat down at the table.

Editor Yu is a penman after all, and writing articles is not a problem for him. After a while, an article was written.

The general content of the article is that something called a computer learning machine has appeared on the market. It sounds like a machine for learning computers, but it is actually a game console that sells itself as dog meat.

The next day, Editor Yu used his authority to publish this article to his newspaper.

Of course, this kind of impromptu article cannot be placed in an important position on an important page, but it is still relatively easy to get a piece of tofu on a less important page.

Editor Yu wrote this article originally with the intention of venting his dissatisfaction. As a literati, he uses his pen to scold others.

However, what Editor Yu didn't expect was that after this article was published, the newspaper received a lot of letters from readers.

The writers who wrote the letter were all parents. They all had the same experience as the editor, that is, they spent money to buy computer learning machines for their children, hoping that their children could learn computers, but in the end, their children used the learning machines to play games.

After the editor's article was published, the sentiments resonated with these parents, and they wrote to the newspaper one after another to describe their experiences.

Many parents said in the letter that since the introduction of learning machines, their children have become obsessed with video games and have neglected their studies, resulting in a decline in their grades.

Even parents of children whose grades have not declined are accusing learning machines, saying that learning machines have damaged their children. After all, at that time, just playing video games was the original sin!

A few days later, the editor-in-chief of the newspaper called the editor to the office.

The editor-in-chief handed the article to the editor and said, "Less, your article is well written. The response from readers has been very enthusiastic. We have received many letters from readers!"

"I've read all the letters from readers! To put it bluntly, everyone has been deceived by this learning machine. Parents are doing it for the good of their children, but they didn't expect that it actually harmed their children!" Editor Yu said.

"Yes, how pitiful the hearts of parents are! This black-hearted manufacturer of learning machines took advantage of this fact and packaged the game console with a learning machine casing, so that people were deceived!"

The editor-in-chief went on to say: "As a media, we must expose this kind of fraud to the general public, and we cannot allow more parents to be deceived!"

"Editor-in-Chief, do you mean to do another report?" Editor Yu asked.

"One article is not enough, I have to do a series of reports! I plan to send reporters to conduct a comprehensive investigation and interview on this kind of computer learning machine, to interview the parents of the victims who bought the learning machine, and to interview the sellers

For the learning machine store, we have to interview the manufacturer of the learning machine, and we also have to interview some experts in the education field!"

The editor-in-chief said this, looked at editor Yu, and then said: "Less than, since you were the first to expose the learning machine, then this series of reports will be done by you. Remember, it must be true and detailed

, we can start with the harm of electronic games, and slowly introduce this so-called computer learning machine, so that the general public can understand the truth!"

"Editor-in-Chief, don't worry, I will do a good job in this series of reports so that the general public will not continue to be deceived!" Editor Yu said firmly.

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Editor Yu considers himself a victim of the computer learning machine. Of course, the reports he produced cannot be truly fair and impartial.

What's more, in China at that time, game consoles and electronic games were evil in themselves. Playing games was not doing their job properly. It was worse than eating and drinking, and similar to prostitution and gambling. They did not accept any refutation. Therefore, it was a waste to criticize game consoles and electronic games.

The politically correct thing is an act of justice.

The tendency of news reports produced in this kind of public opinion environment can be imagined.

Soon, this series of reports came out.

The report first described video games as a scourge, citing a child with excellent academic performance who suffered a decline in academic performance and failed the exam because he was addicted to video games.

There are even some children who quarrel with their parents or even run away from home because their parents do not allow them to play video games, as if video games can destroy a complete family.

In short, it is to select some bad situations and special cases, and then exaggerate them a little to make them more story-telling. And this kind of story-telling is what can best attract readers' attention.

Just imagine, a good boy with both good character and academic performance, beats and scolds his parents for playing video games, runs away from home, and eventually becomes a gangster. Isn’t this kind of story more interesting than picking up gold?

Immediately afterwards, the report printed a product like a learning machine, saying that this product was nominally used as a learning machine, but in fact it was a game console. This product completely took advantage of parents' hope that their children would succeed.

money.

Then came the interview cases one after another. Those parents came forward one after another and said that they spent money to buy learning machines for their children, but they were all used by their children to play games. This kind of learning machines are simply a scourge and will only lead to bad children.

Let your children indulge in games.

After that, there was a series of reporter investigations. One reporter went to the Pearl River Delta in person, and after a series of investigations, he found that the manufacturers that produced learning machines were the same ones that originally produced game consoles. Now they were instantly able to learn.

The connection between machines and game consoles.

Finally, the experts appear!

You can tell with your buttocks what education experts' attitudes are toward video games.

After this series of reports appeared, it indeed triggered a huge response. Other media followed up and made relevant reports.

With a learning machine, apart from practicing typing, you can't learn computers at all. This is a fact after all.

It is also true that children use learning machines to play video games.

As a result, as soon as the reporter interviewed him, all the so-called black materials about learning machines were uncovered.

After extensive media coverage, many parents wrote to stores asking them not to continue selling learning machines.

TV stations also received letters from parents asking them to remove advertisements for learning machines.

Doctors from the mental hospital also came to join the heat, saying that playing video games is a mental illness and needs to be treated. For example, he should be sent to a mental hospital for a shock!

The price of electrotherapy is negotiable.

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Now Du Ping is one head and two big men.

Public opinion is criticizing learning machines, so my little brother is naturally under a lot of pressure to learn machines.

It is said that a big tree attracts popularity. Previously, Xiao Age Xueji invested a lot of money in publicity, invited Jackie Chan to be a spokesperson, and went to TV stations to advertise, almost making himself a household name.

Nowadays, learning machines are regarded as a scourge, and the little brother's learning machine has naturally become the target of public criticism.

Every day when he went out, Du Ping felt like someone was pointing fingers behind his back, as if cursing him for producing such a harmful thing.

Du Ping felt very wronged. He did not invent the learning machine. The one who invented the learning machine was the big boss from the north. As the saying goes, every injustice has its owner and its debtor has its owner. If you want to scold him, you should scold the big boss from the north!

The little brother Xueji was just a follower, but now he has become the scapegoat for the boss in the north.

Moreover, the learning card made by my little brother is very complete in functions and is really designed for learning.

At this time, Li Weidong had returned to his home in Qinghe and was happily counting money.

I make money and you take the blame. It’s a great life!