1980s: He was picked up and brought home as a son-in-law

Li Jiale was immediately extremely disappointed. He had not expected Zhou Feng's direct rejection. He felt a little uncomfortable. He thought, why did he go through so much trouble and even pretend to contact Gu Jun? Was he kidding me?

"Why?"

"Brother Li, you may be thinking that if Nintendo can get a 10% share of the revenue to become a regional agent, why can't you?"

"Let me do the math for you. The reason I agreed to Nintendo's tiered requirements is that it cost them $5 million to take over the U.S. market. If it was Komeiro who proposed the tiered requirements, I would have decisively rejected them."

"It has nothing to do with which company it is. Without paying a price, I don't believe he can spare no effort to promote it."

Li Jiale seemed to understand Zhou Feng's idea. To put it bluntly, it was still a matter of money.

"I didn't say I want to get something for nothing. I can't take out millions of dollars, but I can cooperate with you by using part of the money and profit sharing."

Zhou Feng shook his head:"Brother Li, it's not a question of whether you give money or not, but it is indeed a matter of money."

Li Jiale was confused by this sentence, like a tongue twister, what is this connected with?

"I think it’s not possible because you didn’t give me money, but because you don’t have enough money to do this."

Zhou Feng explained it to him in detail. According to his estimate, Li Jiale's current net worth is at most 4 to 5 million Hong Kong dollars.

Moreover, unlike the two game companies in the island country, he had never been involved in this industry before. Even if Zhou Feng did not charge a penny of regional agency fees, he could not make this plate.

Making arcade machines requires deposits, and the production process until sales requires a lot of capital investment. If the investment is too little, the output will not increase, and the profit will not increase. It may be that after a year of tossing, it is not as much as the previous trade.

If there is a problem with too much investment, Li Jiale's capital chain will be broken directly.

And this is just hard investment. With only a few small companies in this company now, it is a problem to promote the products quickly.

Personnel channels must be built, and even installation and after-sales are involved.

After listening to Zhou Feng's big talk, Li Jiale finally understood, and he felt a little bitter in his heart. He finally found an industry that he thought had a promising future, but he couldn't do it. It was impossible for him not to be disappointed.

Zhou Feng had been observing Li Jiale's reaction. Seeing him like this, he secretly thought that the time was almost right, and it would be easy to overturn if he stimulated him again.

"Brother Li, if you are optimistic about this industry, I have an idea"

Li Jiale's eyes lit up, and he waited with interest for Zhou Feng to continue.

"Brother Li, you know my background very well. I won't say much about the future development prospects of Zhengfeng. You can judge for yourself."

"I will be returning to the mainland in a while, but Zhengfeng must have someone in charge in Hong Kong Island."

Li Jiale immediately understood what Zhou Feng meant, but to be honest, he had never thought about it before.

"Zhou Feng, do you want me to join the competition?"

Zhou Feng smiled and nodded:"Of course this is just an idea of mine. I was not joking when I told those game companies before that"Donkey Kong" is just the beginning. It is really just the beginning. I need someone to build a sales and operation team, and there will be a design and development team in the future."

After getting Zhou Feng's affirmative answer, Li Jiale was silent for a while, and he was very conflicted.

He was very interested in what Zhou Feng said, and he was also interested in this industry, but it was completely different from doing it by himself.

One is to be a boss, even if you earn less, you are the boss, and the other is to work for others, no matter how broad the company's prospects are, it has little to do with you.

Zhou Feng certainly knew what his concerns were. After he thought for a while, he said:"Brother Li, although we have not known each other for a long time, I still trust you. If it weren't for the relationship in the business department, I would not make such a hasty invitation."

Li Jiale knew that Zhou Feng was telling the truth. The Business Department could be said to be a bridge of trust between the two of them in the early stages. The reason Zhou Feng could get such great support from the Business Department was either because of strong connections, strong abilities, or both.

Seeing that Li Jiale was somewhat interested, Zhou Feng continued,"Game design is not my main business. Gaming equipment is what I want to do. Now I lack an excellent sales team. Hong Kong Island is just the first stop. I need you to expand the branch of Zhengfeng from the United States to the island country and then gradually outward."

Li Jiale was taken aback by Zhou Feng's words. He had just reached a cooperation with Nintendo, and now he was going to compete with it?

"Haven't you already given out your regional agent? The island country still has a tiered agreement. Aren't you being hard on yourself by doing this?"

"Of course it won't be that fast. It will take at least half a year for us to develop products and mass produce them. We expect that our products will be available in major markets by the end of this year, and this period of time is the time you need to build your team."

Before the cooperation is fully confirmed, Zhou Feng could only say so much to Li Jiale, in order to dispel some of his concerns in advance. Then he talked about the most important issue.

"Brother Li, as for your salary, I can't guarantee it now, after all, things haven't started yet."

Li Jiale was a little disappointed when he heard this. If there is no guarantee, the risk will be great, but it is completely understandable. If Zhou Feng came up and offered him a condition that he couldn't refuse, he would feel uneasy.

Just when he thought of this, he heard Zhou Feng continue:"But people want to move up, and the purpose of changing careers is to get better. Since your current annual income is one million Hong Kong dollars, I will set an annual salary of one million Hong Kong dollars for you."

"What I mean by unguaranteed is the additional income besides the annual salary. We will talk about it after the channel team completes the operation."

"You decide your team yourself. I don't care whether you join Zhengfeng directly or disband it, but there is one premise: we don't keep idle people."

Zhou Feng has been thinking about this plan for a long time, which is equivalent to giving Li Jiale a monthly salary of more than 20,000 yuan.

Hong Kong Island, as the location of Zhengfeng Company, must build sales channels. Instead of finding a stranger to do this, it is better to spend a little more money to find someone who knows him well.

Zhou Feng's first priority for the person in charge of Hong Kong Island is reliability, followed by ability.

After a few days of getting along, Li Jiale gave Zhou Feng a feeling of being steady, and his character was also officially certified.

Zhou Feng didn't want to waste too much time in Hong Kong Island, and he could worry less with him in charge.

And he didn't have such high expectations for Li Jiale, as long as he could build the channel.