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Chapter 873 Culture (8000 words)
"Huh!" Ni Nan was a little surprised when he heard this. The difficulty that had troubled the entire laboratory and the research team was actually easily solved by the boss.

According to a survey, 80% of users are reluctant to part with their electronic pets.

After all, these electronic pets are cultivated by oneself with great effort and they grow with oneself.

So everyone is very worried about the sales of electronic pets this time.

"The boss is so wise. The research team of the second-generation electronic pets is still worried about sales. Most players are unwilling to change to new electronic pets!" Ni Nan really admires the boss.

"I've been thinking about this problem when I have nothing to do. In fact, it's a good thing that people have feelings for electronic pets. This will help us upgrade our products in the future."

"Anyway, I'm just making a rough suggestion. Reincarnation can increase talents or growth points, or special skills."

"After all, the new generation of Tamagotchi is much better than the first generation in terms of software and hardware, and the colorful ones can also release some gorgeous skills."

"Let's start from this aspect. The game content should be designed to be interesting."

"For example, the owner can set a certain message to be shouted after defeating the pets, such as "I will be back" or "Just wait for me. I will teach you a lesson next time we meet."

"In addition, some special scenes can be added." Liu Hai said a lot, all of which were his own experiences in playing games.

There shouldn’t be too many game routines in 2020, not to mention that I have read quite a few novels, and there are many routines in the novels.

"Boss, leave the rest to us."

"Our second-generation electronic pets will definitely have higher sales than other companies." Ni Nan said.

Electronic pets are not very complicated, so many manufacturers are following the trend. However, the electronic pets developed by Fenghuo Technology Company have the highest sales, accounting for 90% of global sales.

"Boss, after negotiation, the laptop dealers have decided to set the price at £6666, but the manufacturer's shipping price is only 75% of this."

"The reason for this pricing is that the notebooks will be produced in Gaul in the future. If they are produced in Gaul, the entire production cost will increase by 11%."

"This is the result of the core chip being produced here." Ni Nan took out another document and handed it to Liu Hai.

The British pound in this time and space is very strong, and the exchange rate with our currency is about 1 to 9. In contrast, the US dollar is relatively weak, and the exchange rate with our currency is only about 1 to 7.

The strength of the contemporary pound is still inseparable from our country being a major manufacturing country. Most of the bulk materials and goods settlements are now denominated in pounds.

A few years ago, the US dollar was still used for settlement, mainly to avoid risks.

If we settle in pounds too early, and if the dealer wants to cause trouble and fluctuate the pound, we will suffer a huge loss.

In the early days, settlements were made in US dollars, but there was no US dollar because of this reason.

Now that the pound is about to become an international currency, he dare not easily manipulate the exchange rate.

If dealers now manipulate the exchange rate of the pound, we can expand the scope of settlement in US dollars.

Of course, settlement is settlement. In fact, the foreign exchange we get is limited. After settlement, we will purchase more materials.

Although it seems that we earn less, at least we are supporting the domestic manufacturing industry.

It seems that our manufacturing profit is not very high, only about a dozen percent, but don't forget the upstream and downstream industrial chains that feed so many workers.

So in 2020, some manufacturing industries will have to use export tax rebates. These manufacturing industries do not have much profit themselves and rely entirely on export tax rebates. In theory, they are doing a loss-making business, but how many people in the upstream and downstream industrial chains have they supported?
"Tsk tsk!" In other words, the factory price of a laptop is close to 5000 pounds, which is about 45000 yuan.

However, the configuration of this laptop is very high, with a 13-inch color LCD screen, a dual-core Loongson chip, a laptop independent graphics card, a 2G hard drive, 16MB of memory, and a polymer lithium battery!
The manufacturer's profit is about 10%, which means that they can make 5000 yuan by producing a laptop.

The patent fees of Fenghuo Technology Company are included in other costs.

"Make a low-priced version, reduce the hard drive to 1g, the memory to 8M, and remove the independent graphics card." Liu Hai felt that the price was a bit too high, but the price discussed by the dealers must be based on their market analysis.

"I will ask the lab to do this right away and it should be done soon." Ni Nan also felt that laptop computers were too expensive. The factory price was 45000 yuan. Of course, this laptop was worth the price.

In this way, there are already 15 orders for high-end notebooks, all of which are reserved by various dealers.

Subsequent laptop computers will be produced at the Panda Computer Industrial Park in Gaul.

There is no way around it, in order to circumvent antitrust and anti-dumping measures in Europe.

Although Fenghuo Technology Company has a strong background and has good relations with these dealers and capitalists in Gaul, it is precisely because of this that Liu Hai did this to prevent these people from causing trouble.

As we all know, politicians in Europe are always looking for trouble. Some of them are even stupid. They bring it up even though they know there is no other way.

Liu Hai seemed to remember that there was a congressman over there who seemed to have taken off his pants in public.

"A CD player, a Tamagotchi, and a laptop, that's it for this summer vacation." Liu Hai nodded.

These two products are mainly prepared for the upcoming summer vacation.

"Yeah." Ni Nan nodded.

Having these three new products this summer is enough, after all, everyone’s wallet is limited!
In fact, the manufacturing of MP3 is not complicated nowadays, but the price is relatively high. In addition, the size and weight of the MP are still somewhat unsatisfactory.

Of course, this also includes the reserves inside.

Fenghuo Technology Company also invented the USB flash drive, but now the storage capacity of USB flash drives is too small. Of course, it is a great improvement over floppy disks.

After leaving Fenghuo Technology Company, Liu Hai came to the motorcycle factory.

Although Liu Hai was not in charge of the matters concerning Teaching Building 001, there would always be a situation report whenever anything happened.

Liu Hai of Teaching Building 001 only did some basic work, and the subsequent optimization was handed over to the relevant team.

With the development of semiconductor technology, the equipment in Teaching Building 001 has undergone a major upgrade, mainly upgrading the electronic control system, including adding many sensors.

Although Teaching Building No. 001 is a simulated aircraft carrier, it is able to function just like a real aircraft carrier.

In June 1993, the Third Dangjia reached a cooperation intention with Fei Goose and bought an aircraft carrier from Fei Goose at the price of scrap iron. Then the Third Dangjia commissioned Fei Goose to successfully build the aircraft carrier, which was a ski-jump take-off aircraft carrier.

The third in command also paid a large sum of money to purchase carrier-based aircraft.

The two sides are now negotiating on the configuration of the aircraft carrier. Once the configuration negotiation is successful, the third in command will also pay a construction fee.

The third in command was extremely excited, as he was finally going to have an aircraft carrier. In history, the third in command already had an aircraft carrier.

This time and space also spent tens of millions of dollars to purchase Niu Niu's light aircraft carrier.

However, because of the conflict with Xijin, Niu Niu transferred this light aircraft carrier to Xiaoba.

So the third in command suffered a loss at the time, and as for the money he paid to Niu Niu, of course he couldn't get it back.

In the opinion of the third in command, with the promise from Fat Goose, the aircraft carrier will be equipped soon.

The third in command is very confident when speaking at class committee meetings and often interferes in matters concerning certain Eastern countries.

For example, the export of mobile phones and other things to certain Eastern countries is said to be a monopoly and needs to be investigated and tariffs should be imposed.

However, this season, the third boss's boomerang hit the bald eagle on the head again.

Because the third-in-command in the mobile communications market is the Panda mobile phone and Panda communication system sold by the Bald Eagle Company.

At the beginning, the Niu Niu dealers voluntarily gave up this market. The Gallic Chicken dealers came in and saw that there were poor people everywhere. They thought it would be difficult to do business, so they did not get the agency qualification for this area.

On the contrary, it was the Bald Eagle's company that thought this was a great opportunity. After all, the Third Dangjia had such a large population, but they only discovered it after entering.

Although there are many people in San Dangjia's place, 90% of them are not human beings and can only be regarded as vassals of those landlords.

Many places don't even have electricity, let alone mobile phone communications.

But at least there are still some customers. What the Third Dangjia is doing now has made the Bald Eagle company angry. The sales of Panda mobile phones in the Third Dangjia were not good to begin with, and now you are going to raise tariffs.

The Bald Eagle's company originally wanted to take advantage of the continued price reduction of the Panda's first-generation mobile phone and then promote the first-generation mobile phone in large quantities in the third-party store.

Some are even preparing to refurbish the next-generation phones, or even directly sell second-hand first-generation phones.

But the Third In Command doesn't have a good impression of the Bald Eagle now. When you, the eagle, came to me to form an alliance, we said everything was fine. But who knew that you would turn around and stab me. When I sell all the grain, you will raise the price when you sell your grain.

So the third in command still insisted on imposing high tariffs on Panda phones.

This made Bald Eagle's company so angry that it threatened to withdraw from being the third largest shareholder.

The third in command will not care at all and will hope that you will withdraw. Then, the markets you have entered, the after-sales maintenance personnel you have trained, and the communication signal towers you have built will all be taken over by others.

The Third In Command's greed was too shameless. Ford Chrysler wanted to build an automobile industrial park in the Third In Command to further reduce costs. After seeing this situation, they terminated the investment negotiations because it was too shameless.

Liu Hai smiled when he saw the news. The Coca-Cola in 2020 will tell everyone what kind of country the Third Dangjia is.

I have to say that Pepsi was very smart in its previous life. Seeing the third in command’s behavior, it simply decided not to enter their market.

For this reason, the third in command was very proud, as if he was the only one in the world who could deal with other countries.

Of course, international affairs have little to do with most ordinary people.

In a community school in the suburbs of Paris, after school, a group of students of all ages gathered together.

"Li Yang, help me figure out how long it will take for my pet to be born, and I'll treat you to ice cream." A white-skinned boy was looking at a yellow-skinned boy and spoke.

"Nick, my ice cream invitations have already been scheduled for the new semester, so you'd better think of something else." The yellow-skinned boy Li Yang was holding a book with a lot of Chinese characters on it.

"Oh, please help me, I can give you my Transformers collection to play with, but only for two days!"

"One week!"

"A week is too long, three days!"

"Okay then, give me your pet attributes." Li Yang nodded after hearing this.

"Your pet has the fire attribute, so it's best if your birth date is of the fire attribute, which will easily increase your pet's attack power."

"Do you mean the time when the pet is reincarnated, or the time when the pet is born?"

"If possible, both should be synchronized." Li Yang opened his hand and checked the book carefully.

"I can't understand your book, even though I recognize the words on it. Each year has attributes, each day has attributes, and each hour has attributes. It's simply too difficult." Nick recognized the Chinese characters on it, but it was too difficult to understand the logic inside!
"This is magic. It's normal that you Westerners can't understand it. We Orientals can learn it once we learn it!" Li Yang's mouth curled up slightly, holding a 1993 almanac in his hand.

"I suggest you go get your second generation Tamagotchi at 7 a.m. on July 6, Thunderbolt. It would be best if you don't go later than one."

"Can you write it down for me?"

"of course can."

The second generation of electronic pets has already begun to be promoted and will go on sale on July 7st.

The owner of the first generation of electronic pets can get his original electronic pet data and go to the electronic pet seller.

Transfer the data of the first generation of electronic pets, mainly some equipment and the like.

After the transfer, the electronic pet will be reincarnated. The reincarnated electronic pet will have one more skill than the first generation electronic pet. There is a high probability that it can awaken rare skills, and it can also increase the growth value.

The latest generation of Tamagotchi's battles are more gorgeous, with light and shadow effects.

And electronic pets can also input various personalized languages.

For example, after becoming the winner, you can laugh out loud or shout, "boy, stay away from me next time you see me."

The losing pets also have personalized voices. Of course, these voices need to be entered at the electronic pet store.

The equipment and money of the first generation of electronic pets will be synchronized to the second generation of electronic pets.

Because electronic pets are divided into many attributes, including gold, wood, water, fire, earth, light, dark, thunder and so on.

Because of some Eastern movies, many players believe that their pets should be able to awaken better attributes if they follow the attributes of Eastern spells.

Therefore, those who understand the attributes of Eastern dates become popular among people around them.

Of course, the official did not say that there is such an effect, but in fact, it secretly contains the Yin and Yang and the Five Elements.

In other words, pets originally have fire attributes, and if they are born on a compatible date, they may be born with rare skills or talents.

Just like a pet with wood attribute, if it is born on a wood attribute date, it will most likely mutate into a wind attribute.

With the same fire attribute, if a person is born on a date with fire attribute, there is a certain probability that a person with light attribute will be born.

In addition, pet equipment and food also have attributes.

"You must do it strictly according to what I wrote, and there will be a chance for your pet to have rare skills." After looking through the almanac, Li Yang wrote down a series of dates, which were the times he had to go to the store to exchange the electronic pet.

"How about I ask you for advice after I get the Tamagotchi, because I don't know when it will hatch." "Of course no problem."

"Nick, it's my turn, Li Yang, I have a rare red panda card here!"

"Deal!" Li Yang looked at an exquisite card of Master Red Panda. This was the image of Master Red Panda in Kung Fu Panda.

"Li Yang, what do these images at the back of this book represent?" asked another foreign classmate holding the same almanac.

"This is burning incense, which is equivalent to what you in the West call sacrifice!"

"Ah, then can we offer sacrifice?"

"You seem to be governed by God, unlike us!"

"But our pets are made in your East. Do you have any gods in your East who can take care of these pets?"

When Li Yang heard this, he cursed in his heart, how the hell would I know there was a god taking care of pets.

"Li Yang, I seem to remember that you have a deity called the Great Sage over there. He is in charge of herding horses. Does he also take care of other pets?" another foreign classmate asked.

"You know he herds horses, how could he have other pets? And yours is a bear?"

"I seem to remember that you have a fairy mount over there, a bear, and you stole the monk's clothes?"

"It's terrible to be uneducated. That's called a cassock!"

"No matter what it stole, which deity finally took this bear monster away?"

"Goddess of Mercy!"

"Yes, yes, it's the goddess holding a porcelain bottle."

"That's called a jade bottle!"

"Guanyin doesn't differentiate between men and women, so I guess." Li Yang decided not to argue with these idiots.

"Then you can see when you can burn incense to Guanyin. I will also offer sacrifices at that time. Although it may not be effective, it is better than nothing."

"This? I need to go back and ask my parents, because I don't really understand the whole thing about burning incense."

"And where's my hellhound?"

"You should worship Erlang Shen!"

"What about my faerie dragon?"

"This?" Li Yang was stunned by the question, his mind racing to see which one could control the dragon.

"Hey, I can't answer your questions for free, because I also need to think about it. I have to go back and ask the adults for advice and look up information!" Li Yang decided to go back and read Journey to the West again, because he seemed to remember that there were four Dragon Kings, but he was not sure whether the Velociraptor was an Eastern dragon.

"Thanks a lot!"

"Thank you, Li Yang. It's summer vacation now. I invite you to visit our farm. We have a lot of small animals. In addition, we have a lot of wild rabbits. You like eating rabbits the most. You can kill them for free!"

When Li Yang heard this, he immediately patted his chest and said, "No problem, I will take care of all your pet issues for you. Do you have an air gun at home?"

"Of course, we'll also set traps."

When Li Yang heard this, his mouth started watering. Braised rabbit, spicy rabbit, cold rabbit, shredded rabbit with ginger.

Then he quickly said, "I don't want to eat your beans or rabbit stewed with tomatoes!"

In the past, Li Yang's classmates heard that Li Yang liked to eat rabbits, so they invited him to their home.

Li Yang also brought gifts to his classmate's house, and saw the porridge in the plate.

Canned green peas, canned mushrooms, tomatoes, and then the rabbit are cooked together, stirring as they cook.

Li Yang swore that this was the most unpalatable rabbit meat he had ever seen in his life. No wonder no one likes to eat rabbit here. The way they cook it is disgusting to watch.

"Actually, I think the rabbit stew with mushrooms, tomatoes and peas is pretty delicious!"

"Then you can eat it yourself!"

"Okay, okay, I'll listen to you. My pet is a Jiao with the earth attribute. I looked up information about it and it seems to be both a snake and a dragon. What exactly is this?"

mmp!

Li Yang was also stumped by the question, so he picked up a pen and started writing: "You guys tell me one by one, I'll go back and look up the information, and if it doesn't work I'll call back to our country."

"That's really too much trouble for you!"

"That's it!"

"No trouble, no trouble!"

"I am a gold-attributed tree demon..."

It was not until the evening that Li Yang returned home with his notebook.

Li Yang's parents work in the Panda Industrial Park in Gaul. His father is an Oriental and his mother is a native of Gaul.

"Dad, can you tell me if I can answer these questions?" Li Yang's father looked at the questions on his son's notebook and his forehead was full of question marks.

Which deity in Eastern countries takes care of pets?

Is Jiao a snake or a dragon?

Is the Dryad a tree or a demon? And who is in charge?

What kind of dragon is the velociraptor? Is it a Western dragon or an Eastern dragon? Which god is in charge of it?
"Huh? What kind of messed up questions are these?" Li Yang's father asked in confusion after seeing this.

"It's a pity that you are a doctoral student and you don't know anything about our country's traditional culture. You don't know as much as my classmates do. It's tiring to talk to you. I'll go look up the information myself!"

“Where do you look up information?”

"Journey to the West?"

"Huh?" Li Yang's father touched his forehead, it seemed that he didn't have a fever?

Don't underestimate the so-called secrets among children.

Li Yang read Journey to the West again, but didn't find many answers, so he went to his father's study.

Li Yang's father was also confused. What was his son doing?
Li Yang went directly to the international Internet and entered the Taoist forums in certain Eastern countries!

"Oh oh oh!" Li Yang found that there were many questions he wanted to ask, and he was immediately happy and quickly took a notebook to write them down.

Little do people know that in some Eastern countries, the Taoists who access the Internet look at the strange questions asked by people in the forums and find some of the wording and sentence structures so awkward.

Can the Goddess of Mercy take care of pet bears?
A Taoist priest in some Eastern countries saw this kind of question and asked back: Where did you get the answer? Can Guanyin take care of pet bears?
The other party copied a passage more than ten minutes later: Sun Wukong failed to get the cassock twice, so he turned to Guanyin Bodhisattva of the South China Sea for help, and the two of them defeated the black bear demon with a trick. Guanyin saw that the black bear demon had some Taoist power, so she subdued it with a golden hoop and brought it back to the South China Sea, where it became a mountain guardian god on Luojia Mountain.

The above evidence proves that Guanyin’s mount is a bear. Does that mean Guanyin can take care of bear pets?
The Taoist priest in front of the computer was puzzled, is Journey to the West a novel?
So I retorted: You are talking about Journey to the West, which is a novel, a mythological novel.

The other party asked again: So which deity do you think can take care of pet bears? Also, when there is no incense during sacrifice, what is used instead?
Taoist priests in some Eastern countries are even more confused. Sacrifice? Burn incense? Substitute?

The Taoist priest had no choice but to answer: It doesn’t have to be incense, it can be fruits or food.

At this moment, the Taoist saw someone asking another question: Taoist priest, is the Velociraptor an Eastern dragon or a Western dragon?

The Taoist had a hundred questions in his mind and wanted to answer that the Velociraptor was a Western dragon, but there were also dinosaurs in the East, so he answered that it was both Eastern and Western.

Then the other party asked: Are dragons governed by the Dragon King or the Heavenly Court? Which deity governs them?

The Velociraptor seems to be on land, and the Dragon King seems to be in the sea?
The Taoist priest quickly asked: Why are there so many strange questions recently?
The other party's explanation made the Taoist priest confused: We are preparing to buy the second generation of electronic pets. Electronic pets have different attributes, and we need to calculate their reincarnation date and birth date. For example, the reincarnation date and birth date of pets with water attributes must be compatible.

Taoist Priest: What the hell?

The next person to ask questions was Li Yang. Seeing that no one answered, Li Yang asked again: Could the Taoist priest be fake? You don't understand these, right?
The Taoist priests in front of computers in some Eastern countries wanted to throw their ordination certificates at this guy, who actually said that he was fake.

The Taoist sent another message: Judging from what you expressed, there seems to be something wrong. Are you foreigners?
The other party immediately replied: I am a real Oriental, but I am studying in the West now.

Taoist: Someone above asked what sacrifice is?
Li Yang: That’s because they saw the date for burning incense at the end of the lunar calendar and wanted to pay their respects as well.

Taoist Priest: I’m a NIMA!!!
Taoist Priest: Please send your question and I will ask someone to sort it out!
Li Yang: Can you send it to me privately? I make money from this.
Taoist Priest: Monks don’t care about money!

For those Western students who have Tamagotchis in their hands, the more mysterious something is, the more they believe in it.

In order to make their pets have special attributes or special skills, these students are trying their best.

Some students even rented a translated version of Journey to the West and watched it again, mainly to see who was in charge of the monsters in the film.

As long as a few students believe it, then soon a large number of students around will believe it.

The first generation of electronic pets sold over 100 million units. What a huge group this is.

Even the parents of these Western students, after knowing these things, dare not say that this thing is useless, because it is related to God's matters.

Western dealers were keenly aware of this business opportunity and quickly consulted Fenghuo Technology Company.

When Fenghuo Technology Company designed the game, the theory of the five elements' mutual generation and mutual restraint was already included in it.

So at the end of June, you can see bright signs outside Western electronic pet sales stores.

July 1993, 7, the day belongs to willow wood, and it is suitable for the reincarnation of earth-attributed pets!
July 1993, 7, the day belongs to Quan Zhong Shui, and it is suitable for the reincarnation of pets with wood attributes.

Li Yang looked at the sign and cursed in his heart, isn't this stealing his business?

When Liu Hai heard the news, it was already early July, and he was already on vacation in the mountains of Hainan.

I heard the word "bangs" from my own child.

"This may be a kind of cultural influence!" The old leader laughed when he heard Liu Hai's child chattering about these things!
“I don’t know who spread this theory. This theory was indeed adopted when the game was designed, but it has little to do with the attributes of reincarnated pets. I don’t know if the design department changed it later.” Liu Hai did not make detailed regulations on the specific skill attributes of pets, and let the people below play their own roles.

"This is a good thing. Culturally we have been influenced by the West for many years." The old leader naturally knew that Liu Hai would not personally inquire about these matters!

Liu Hai nodded. As the owner of a digital pet, he definitely hopes that his pet will get better and better, so he would not miss even the slightest chance.

It's mainly about electronic pets fighting each other. If you win in front of your classmates, you'll be so proud. If it's your own pet, having a Journey to the West can make other classmates envious for a whole semester.

So no matter whether this matter is true or false, these students will not give up. Often, things that are not publicized by the official will become more and more believable when spread privately.

"It is still useful. A classmate of our class burned incense, and his pet was reincarnated with wind attribute." The third brother Shi Liu answered seriously.

"What about you?" the old leader looked at the third brother and asked.

"I have bad luck. I didn't wash my hands when I burned incense at home, and those Taoist priests in the forum didn't explain it clearly." The third brother's words made everyone laugh.

Liu Hai certainly knew that the rare attributes of pets were random, and it was impossible for every pet to have rare attributes.

The old leader felt something strange in his heart. He used to be dismissive of these things, but now looking back, he realized that this is actually part of history and these cultures have been deeply ingrained in people's bones.

It is simply impossible to remove these cultures by force.

Of course, the old leader will definitely not interfere in this matter.

The old leader has no idea that people are just curious. As for Taoism, once you get started, you will want to study it more and more.

However, foreigners don’t quite understand the five elements, but people from the East will understand it as long as they explain it briefly.

This may be the cultural heritage engraved in our genes.

Because the second-generation electronic pets have Bluetooth, as long as two people's electronic pets are within a certain range, they can choose and then PK.

During the summer vacation, you can see a dozen students sitting together and competing with each other.

Winning PK will give you experience points and personalized voice.

Whoever wins, the other kids around will be envious.

In addition, the second generation now has a color screen and light and shadow effects for skills. You can see that the skills released on the screen, such as firebreathing, are a large ball of flame that fills the entire screen.

The visual experience was also brought to the highest level. Of course, what followed were orders for electronic pets. The orders for the second-generation electronic pets reached 1000 million units. Even if the sales volume was 30% of the first-generation electronic pets, there were still orders for 3000 million units.

The younger children play with electronic pets, the high school and college students play with CD players, and the more advanced ones play with laptops. This summer, Fenghuo Technology Company's products are once again popular all over the world!
(End of this chapter)