Traversing the courtyard

Chapter 338 Inventing the Ballpoint Pen Refill
Only then did Yi Weidong remember that he left in a hurry, and Lu Qingsong had yet to collect a sum of money for the goods. There were so many things going on in the past two days that he forgot to contact Lu Qingsong.

They waited for Lu Qingsong and Huang Liang to come in. Fortunately, they didn't bring any cash bags in this time.

Yi Weidong greeted the two of them to sit down, and after Luo Caijing brought tea and closed the door, Lu Qingsong said, "Mr. Yi, the last batch of goods has already been sold, and the cash is in the underground parking lot."

Yi Weidong said, "Is there any problem?"

"No problem, everything is going well."

Huang Liangcai said, "Mr. Yi, the dismantling factory over there is almost out of warehouses. When is it convenient for you to transport the things away?"

"Then it will be transported away tonight, as long as you don't keep anyone there."

Yi Weidong thinks about it, it’s not a big deal, it’s better to have his own warehouse, and let them deliver the goods after a while, otherwise it will be too abrupt.

Said: "Today I will ship some of them first, and I will just buy a warehouse and send them over."

It's not realistic to ship it all at once. I'll collect some of it today. I'll buy it in a warehouse and send it over. I'll store it in the space recently, so it will be more concealed.

After talking about the business, the three of them went downstairs to the underground parking lot together, put the cash in their car, and before leaving, Lu Qingsong hesitated and said, "Mr. Yi, in fact, your watch company was investigated because someone was doing something wrong."

Yi Weidong always thought that the customs was investigating the smuggling, and he was targeted because he had no background. Didn't he think that there were people doing bad things in the middle?

Could it be that the production of watches by oneself was jealous of the peers, and then they were black-handed and reported for smuggling?

Huang Liangcai said: "We suspect that it was the Hong family's envoy. Recently his eldest daughter married a foreigner from the customs as his concubine."

"The Hong family? I didn't expect it to be them. I thought it was some foreign firm that represented watches!"

Yi Weidong asked: "Didn't you say last time that the Hong family has an enemy? What happened to the matter?"

Lu Qingsong replied: "That enemy has never messed with the Hong family. He seems to have gone to Singapore after becoming a seller."

"No wonder, this is to free up your hands to settle old scores with yourself."

Yi Weidong just beat up Hong Kaiji's son, which caused the customs to investigate and deal with his company, causing him to lose more than 1000 million yuan. This is really cruel!
If an ordinary company goes bankrupt right away, Hong Kaiji wants to make himself bankrupt. Yi Weidong doesn't need evidence for such a thing, as long as he has doubts, it's not his character whether he fights back or not.

Lu Qingsong said: "Mr. Yi, do you want us to help you find some clues? After all, this is just our inference. The seizure of the watch company is really a coincidence."

"No, I'll check it myself. If they did it, I won't make it easier for them."

Yi Weidong just wants to do business honestly, earn some money and develop in a low-key way, and he can find his own head for any bad things.

After Lu Qingsong and Huang Liang left, Yi Weidong put the cash into the space. The cash in the space exceeded 6000 million. Too much money would make it hard to get it out. He had to find a way to turn it into his own money.

As for dealing with the Hong family, it's not enough to go directly to the battle. You have to find a way to get yourself out of this incident. Isn't the Hong family also dealing with themselves in an upright manner?
If it wasn't for Lu Qingsong's reminder, Yi Weidong didn't know that Hong Kaiji had tricked him. This was done beautifully, and it taught Yi Weidong a good lesson. Hitting Xu Damao with a sack is really low-level.

In the middle of the night, Yi Weidong went to collect some of the piled up materials after dismantling, and even pressed some tire marks on the grass with a car. It seems that buying a warehouse as soon as possible is the solution to the problem.

The next day, Ruan Tao bought the building where Yi Weidong was going to open a store, and put the Qiuyu Building where Yi Weidong was located under the name of Qiuyu Group.

After Ruan Tao completed the formalities, Yi Weidong and Ruan Tao took the secretary to inspect the two buildings. Yi Weidong named the south building as Carrefour Building, and the future shopping mall will be Carrefour Shopping Center.

The north side was named Yigou Shopping Mall, and Yi Weidong's own surname was used, and Ruan Tao had already asked Ruan Tao to register the trademark.

Strolling on the ground floor of the Carrefour Building, Yi Weidong was very troubled. Most of the area was rented out, especially the side facing the residential area. Xiangjiang’s economy is in a downturn, but ordinary people still have to live at home. The terrain here is good , Most of them are rented out, fruit stalls, tobacco and alcohol department store stalls abound.

Yi Weidong said: "So many booths have been rented out, how much space do we have?"

Ruan Tao's secretary, Fu Yingtong, said: "These are quarterly or annual rents. We don't need to renew the contract at that time. As long as there is an entrance here, there are some facades nearby."

Yi Weidong didn't expect Fu Yingtong to have such knowledge, and asked, "Have you had any experience in the retail industry before?"

Fu Yingtong said embarrassingly; "I have never done retail business, but my childhood dream was to open a department store, so that there would be endless candy." '

Unexpectedly, Fu Yingtong's dream was so interesting, everyone laughed after speaking.

Fu Yingtong continued: "I have always wanted to open a department store. When I have free time, I like to study how to open a department store. My mom also said that I am wishful thinking!"

Fu Yingtong also became bold today. Ever since Ruan Tao arranged to buy these two buildings and said that she would open a shopping mall on the first and second floors at the bottom, Fu Yingtong never thought that she was so close to her dream of opening a department store, so today she boldly Having said that, I really have a lot of experience, maybe this time I will realize my dream.

Yi Weidong smiled and said: "Dreams are always necessary, what if they come true someday?"

Yi Weidong wouldn't promise anything at this time. Employers still need to pay more attention. Right now, they just bought a house and have to reorganize and decorate it.

There are a lot of things in the middle, but they can't be handed over to inexperienced people. At that time, they can be trained as store manager assistants.

Yi Weidong looked around the building, and then went to the eBay building in the north of the residential area to investigate, and finally told the upper floors of the two buildings not to be rented out, but to be used as warehouses first, and Yi Weidong will still be useful in the future.

After returning to the office, Yi Weidong notified Ruan Tao to recruit another managerial staff with experience in the department store business, and asked Fu Yingtong to be his deputy to do the preparations for the store first.

I also arranged for the warehouse, and tried to choose a remote location. Anyway, it was piled up and dismantled, and I was not afraid of others stealing it.

Two days later, the company recruited a store manager named Ping Lezhang. After Yi Weidong talked, he made a decision, and by the way, he transferred Fu Yingtong to be his deputy, and asked them to preside over the early stage of Carrefour Department Store and E-Go Department Store. Preparatory work.

A few more ordinary office workers were recruited, and Yi Weidong took 30 cash from the space to equip accountants and cashiers, and a team was complete.

After finishing these things in the department store, Yi Weidong didn't rest, Ruan Tao came in with the materials and said:

"Boss, the results of the patent search are out."

Yi Weidong took over the information and divided it into two parts. The first is the patent on bicycles. Yi Weidong’s baby carriage design can only be used as an appearance patent, because Pretty Country already has baby carriages. Yi Weidong wants to design a different style to apply for the appearance Patents do.

There is nothing to say about this, just find a few people who study design to design the appearance.

Only the left and right balance wheels designed by Yi Weidong can apply for an invention patent. Yi Weidong arranged for Ruan Tao to arrange this matter after reading the materials. The law firm went to apply for a patent.

After talking about the bicycle, Ruan Tao said, "Awei, you are awesome. There is no related patent for the ballpoint pen core you mentioned. There are only patents for the whole ballpoint pen in the beautiful country, and most of them are appearance patents."

The appearance patent mentioned by Ruan Tao refers to the overall patent, that is, the patent applied for the appearance of superman, pharaoh, hero, animal, etc.

Yi Weidong singled out these patents and put them aside. The gel pen he produced was completely different from this one, and there was no need to consider these appearance patents at all.

The rest is mainly the patent for the bullet-shaped nib. Yi Weidong looked at it and found no patent for the round bead on the head. He asked, "Has this company not applied for a patent for the round bead?"

Ruan Tao said: "I asked the lawyer about this. Although the ball is an important component, it is essentially a small steel ball. There is no special part in itself, so it cannot be patented. They applied for a combination patent."

Yi Weidong carefully read the English version of the bullet-shaped nib patent, which is an invention patent, and the invention is a combination of a ball and a bullet-shaped nib.

After reading this copy, Yi Weidong was a little worried and didn't know whether his patent could pass the test. He asked, "Sister Taozi, did you ask if my invention can be applied for? What is the success rate?"

Ruan Tao said: "It's hard to say, why don't we talk to lawyer Wu Deyuan directly?"

This is the most important thing at this stage, Yi Weidong didn't delay, let Ruan Tao arrange the matter, and then drove to Liqun Law Firm.

After meeting lawyer Wu Deyuan, Yi Weidong showed him the sketch of his invention, the full-needle nib, and Wu Deyuan smiled and said:
"From my experience, there is no problem with this invention, and it should be acceptable. Are there other inventions? Isn't there any refill?"

After Yi Weidong took out other drawings, Wu Deyuan first handed over a commission agreement and a non-disclosure agreement. After Yi Weidong happily signed, he put the drawing of the refill, and the half-needle nib with different thicknesses from 0.28 to 1.2. The refills and several types of pen holders have been taken out, and the pen holders don’t matter, as long as the patents for the refills are in hand, we can continue to add different styles in the future.

Wu Deyuan did not expect that there would be so many different styles, and he said in surprise: "Our law firm has not applied for ten patents in a year. You are really surprised."

Yi Weidong said with a smile: "If all patents can be applied for, this is enough to support the development of a large company, so I apply for all similar ones I can think of."

Wu Deyuan said: "Mr. Yi, you have your own patents that are the foundation of your business. Don't look at the business of each foreign firm in Xiangjiang. In fact, they are essentially agents. Whenever there is a disturbance, accidents are prone to occur."

Yi Weidong also made up his lessons recently. Xiangjiang’s foreign firms are indeed agents. They sign agency rights from other countries, use Hong Kong’s excellent port for entrepot trade, or organize production in Xiangjiang after receiving orders from other countries. Then send it to the client.

Yi Weidong is too young and has no connections. This kind of business cannot be done. Industrial production and retailing are Yi Weidong's best choices now.

Yi Weidong said: "Lawyer Wu is being polite, I want to do entrepot trade but there is no way out! I can only make some small inventions."

"Mr. Yi, be humble."

After being polite, lawyer Wu Deyuan greeted him to an office, and called seven or eight people to help prepare the documents for the patent application. All the documents were in English, which was very cumbersome. Yi Weidong wanted to help explain his ideas, so that Clerk understands better.

Busy until dinner time, Ruan Tao ordered some meals outside and delivered them. After dinner, Yi Weidong asked Ruan Tao to go home quickly. Only Xiaomi was at home, and Yi Weidong was very worried.

It wasn't until after nine o'clock that all the paperwork was ready, and Yi Weidong thanked him repeatedly before leaving Liqun Law Firm.

Lawyer Wu Deyuan said that if the patent office format passes the customs, there will be a public review period, and if you want to speed up, you can spend money to shorten the time.

Yi Weidong said: "Of course it is necessary to obtain the patent as soon as possible, and the money that should be spent must be spent, so that I can start production as soon as possible."

It doesn't matter about the patent of baby carriages, anyway, now they are making Type [-] and Type [-], and they are all produced at full capacity.

Of course, Yi Weidong hopes to get the refill patent sooner. The sooner he produces and sells it, the sooner he can make money. Now spending more money can shorten the time, which is of course the best news.

Lawyer Wu Deyuan said a sum, and Yi Weidong said, "Tomorrow I will ask the secretary to send you the money."

Lawyer Wu Deyuan was also very happy to see Yi Weidong being so forthright, and patted his chest to promise that the matter would be done beautifully.

When Yi Weidong arrived at the office the next day, he arranged for Luo Caijing to send 1 yuan in cash to lawyer Wu Deyuan. It doesn't matter how much money he can spend, as long as he can save time.

With Yi Weidong under his command, he was very free, and arranged to purchase related machines, such as the production of small steel balls, hollow thin tubes, cutting, polishing, assembly, and nib production. A total of five different machines were bought to complete the project. Production of nibs.

That is to say, Ruan Tao is a layman, and he has never considered the issue of steel for the nib. This is actually an alloy, and some other metal elements need to be added to it. Yi Weidong doesn't know the specific ratio. The material is it.

It was very easy to recruit people at this time. After the foreign company sent personnel to adjust the machine, with the steel provided by Yi Weidong, small balls and nib parts of different specifications were produced soon, and the balls were installed with special machines. , when the nibs fell from the machine one by one, Ruan Tao asked worriedly:
"Boss, please check, is this nib qualified?"

Yi Weidong raised his hand to pick up a handful, looked carefully, most of them were good, only a few beads were not installed in place, and said: "It's already very good, this is a trial production, only a few If there is a problem, I think after this initial running-in period, there will be no problem with the quality later on.”

Ruan Tao also grabbed some and looked at them. It seemed that there was no problem, and said: "The plastic refills have also been produced, so the ballpoint pens can be produced today."

"It's alright."

(End of this chapter)