Reborn in the red age

Chapter 177 Qingfeng Li throws away money

In just a few months, Lemon Technology's profits reached tens of millions of dollars, and it was still affordable to spend some of the money on buying a house.

Not only can it be used to show the strength of one's own company, but buying property in Xiangjiang is also a good investment, and it will definitely not lose money.

The company's senior executives accompanied Li Qingfeng around the company. There were indeed quite a few employees in the company, with over a hundred people.

"Director Li, how much are the monthly salaries of our company's employees?"

After walking around the office, in the office area, in front of the employees, Qingfeng Li asked the little mixed-blood about the salary of the company's employees.

As the company's financial director, the little mixed-blood is still very competent. When faced with this problem, he blurted out without hesitation: "The average salary in our company is still very high. It is among the first batch in Hong Kong. The average salary is 4900 Hong Kong dollars." "

"Don't be tricky. I'm asking about the salary of ordinary employees. Don't include the salary of leadership positions above the company manager."

Li Qingfeng knew how this average salary was derived as soon as he heard it. It was only 81 and there was no such high salary in Hong Kong. The monthly salary of an ordinary office white-collar worker was only about Hong Kong dollars. Even with bonuses and commissions, it was only thousand.

"Haha, I can't hide anything from you." Li Huiying smiled awkwardly, did some mental calculations and came up with a rough figure: "The average monthly salary and bonus for employees below the supervisory level is about 3,000, which is a salary in this place in Xiangjiang. In terms of income, it can be considered a good income.”

Li Qingfeng nodded and loudly asked Li Huiying to give all staff members an extra month's salary as a year-end bonus before the Spring Festival holiday, in addition to the annual gifts.

Year-end bonuses are unique to China. The mainland has not developed yet. Naturally, there is no such thing as year-end bonuses in Xiangjiang. There are only so-called bonuses, which are not available to all companies and will only be given by generous bosses.

The company's executives heard that they would be given an extra month's salary as a year-end bonus during the Chinese New Year. Knowing that the big boss was trying to win people's hearts, they all took the lead in flattering Qingfeng Li very sensibly, and the employees who were working also stopped. He looked at Qingfeng Li with excitement and applauded vigorously.

Many lower-level employees clapped their hands red and shouted something to Qingfeng Li excitedly, but the other person spoke in Cantonese, and Qingfeng Li couldn't understand it.

After saying goodbye to the cheering employees with a smile, Qingfeng Li took the company's senior leaders to the conference room for a meeting.

After everyone sat down, Li Qingfeng coughed. After everyone looked at him, he took a sip of the tea that his secretary had brewed in advance, and then slowly said: "Good afternoon, comrades, during this time we have a lemon." Science and technology is developing well and has attracted a lot of fresh blood, including many outstanding talents."

Who said people in Xiangjiang can’t understand Mandarin now? Qingfeng Li spoke Mandarin throughout the meeting, not to mention Cantonese. He didn't even speak a word in English. He also memorized the notes of the senior executives below very seriously. Even the word "comrade" was spoken very smoothly.

After the simple opening remarks, Li Qingfeng suppressed the hands of everyone who wanted to applaud. He directly called the name of the company's general manager Fang Wanzhen and asked her to share her thoughts.

"Chairman, before you come, we have already prepared a complete marketing plan. This is our planning plan. Please take a look at it." Fang Wanzhen pulled out a large stack of documents from the document bag in front of her desk, stood up and said respectfully. He handed it to Qingfeng Li with both hands.

Taking the document from the other party's hand, Qingfeng Li read it carefully and nodded with satisfaction.

Looking at the middle-aged woman sitting next to her who was in her forties and wore glasses and was very capable, Qingfeng Li cast an appreciative look. He is worthy of being an elite who came out of the sales industry with a mediocre face. He really has two skills and unique insights into the sales industry.

Putting the plan in his hand back on the table, Li Qingfeng clapped lightly and praised: "Ms. Fang's plan for IBM is very well written. I am very satisfied. It can be executed in this way."

"Thank you, Chairman. This is a plan jointly developed by all the senior management of our company. I dare not take credit for it," Fang Wanzhen said modestly with a smile.

"Oh, really, if that's the case, then when the year-end bonus is distributed, the bonuses of all senior executives will be doubled." The new project is about to start. Qingfeng Li is still very generous. Since she chooses to be a favor, Qingfeng Li will satisfy her. Wishing, he waved his hand and started throwing coins.

After everyone thanked them, Li Qingfeng revealed his modifications to the plan: "Mr. Fang, I have some modifications to your plan."

"Chairman, you said"

Everyone immediately picked up the pens on the table and were ready to take notes at any time.

"What needs to be modified is the price. The price you gave the supplier for the low-end version is US$1150. I think this price is too high. If we want to ship in large quantities, we must allow suppliers to have greater profit margins so that they can Only then can you work hard to help us sell goods.”

Fang Wanzhen thought for a moment, nodded, and asked carefully: "Chairman, what do you think our supply price should be?"

"The supply price is US$1000"

As soon as this price came out, the senior management in the conference room started talking a lot. Fang Wanzhen looked at Li Qingfeng with an embarrassed expression: "Chairman, this price is for international agents. If it is for regional agents, then we will give it to international agents." What price does the agent charge? It will lower our company’s profits.”

"Of course I know this, but with our current strength, it is impossible for international agents to come to our door. Only by selling our machines through regional agents and making a name for ourselves will international companies notice us."

"Our supply price is US$1450, the retail price is US$450, and there is a profit of US$. This profit is full of temptations for those regional agents, and they can definitely vigorously promote our computers."

"Although this will indeed result in a loss of a lot of profits, once we capture the entire Asian market of Treasure Island, Bangzi Country, and Japanese Country, we can use this as a springboard to buy our machines into IBM's base camp, and use them to compete with IBM and the United States. to fight a tough battle”

Having said this, Li Qingfeng stood up from his stool and said to everyone in a solemn tone: "Everyone, please take a long-term view. I position Lemon Technology as an international high-tech company. In the future, Lemon Technology will be To compete with IBM, Apple and other companies in the international market."

"Part of the interests lost in the short term are not important. In order to achieve the company's strategic goals, don't care about the gains and losses of one city or one place. I promise you that once our products reach 30% market share in Bangzi, Japan, and the entire Asian market, I will use five million US dollars as a bonus, reaching 40%, 8 million, 50%, or 10 million, and distribute it to all employees of the company in proportion."

Lemon Technology is not a big company, and the executives it poached naturally do not have any experience in large multinational companies.

Most of these people were recruited from small companies here in Hong Kong. I have never seen such a generous boss in a small company before. It would be nice to have a bonus of tens of thousands of Hong Kong dollars. I heard that Qingfeng Li was willing to pay up to one thousand Hong Kong dollars. Ten thousand US dollars was given as a bonus, and several people's eyes were red. Everyone screamed in support of Li Qingfeng's decision. Even the company's general manager Fang Wanzhen's face turned red with excitement. Her son was about to go to college. She was also thinking about letting her son study abroad. She was short of money right now. .

After the meeting, the senior executives of these companies eagerly went out to hold meetings with all their subordinates, especially the sales department, and they all excitedly slammed the table.

After all, whether the market can be opened up still depends on the sales department. Li Qingfeng told at the meeting that 20% of this bonus should be distributed exclusively to the sales department employees. After the money is distributed, the company-wide Prize share.

At nine o'clock in the evening, sitting in the office specially reserved for himself by the little mixed race, holding coffee in his hand and looking out through the glass window at the employees who took the initiative to work overtime and worked passionately, Qingfeng Li showed a smile on his lips.

Not to mention, the painting cake was really useful, and it immediately mobilized the enthusiasm of all employees.

The little mixed-race man held his head in his hands and sat across from Qingfeng Li's desk. He looked at Qingfeng Li with bright eyes: "You are so amazing. You just came to the company for a meeting and you aroused everyone's passion. Li, you It will definitely be successful”

"Everyone has a different definition of success. If we just talk about money, I now have 20 to 30 million US dollars, which is barely considered a success, isn't it?"

"No, it's only 20 to 30 million US dollars. It doesn't count as success for you. You will become a billionaire or a billionaire in the future."

Glancing at the little mixed-blood who was still looking at him adoringly, Qingfeng Li patted the table and said angrily: "I just painted a pie for someone else. Please stop painting a pie for me. I won't eat it." "

Li Huiying: "."

The people in the sales department spent a week getting familiar with the several prototypes brought over and dividing the sales areas. After the first batch of 2,000 complete machines arrived at the port, all the salesmen went directly to the port.

After registering at the port, I packed a prototype into my suitcase, went to the airport to buy a ticket, and went to the respective areas to find cooperative agents and discuss business cooperation with Lemon-pc.

At the airport, watching the sales staff boarding the plane with high spirits, Li Qingfeng had a hunch that he would definitely win a big victory this time.

It has more memory than IBM's machine, the quality is comparable, three years of free maintenance, the operating system is better, and it's more than a hundred dollars cheaper. It also has the advantage of being an agent. Apart from the smaller brand, I can't think of any reason for losing.

After all the salesmen got on the plane to develop markets in various parts of Asia, Li Qingfeng also had some time off and took half a month's leave from school. Until the summer vacation, there was no need to rush back. In addition to going to the company to handle work, the rest The whole time was spent shopping around Hong Kong with the little mixed race.

"Li, look, are our company's PCs sold there?" When passing by the electronics market, the little mixed-blood grabbed Li Qingfeng, pointed to a store that was promoting PCs, and said in surprise.

Glancing at the name on the banner, Li Qingfeng nodded: "It is indeed our PC. It seems to be selling well."

"Let's go take a look"

The little mixed-blood took Qingfeng Li's hand and walked over there excitedly.

Several people in the store were surrounding a Lemon PC display machine, experiencing the win operating system in amazement. This was the first time that an operating system user graphical page appeared on a computer.

Compared with DOS, which does not have a graphical operating interface and users need to enter instructions to operate the computer, the graphical interface of win is more friendly and novel for ordinary users.

Seeing a young man who had just paid for a Lemon PC, Li Qingfeng curiously stepped forward to chat with him in English: "Hello, sir, are you buying a Lemon PC?"

The young man looked at Qingfeng Li and the little mixed race holding his hand, and nodded indifferently: "Yes, sir."

"This is just a machine that has just been launched by a new brand. Can you tell me why you gave up IBM and chose Lemon?"

Seeing that the other party did not want to answer his question, Li Qingfeng smiled, took out a hundred Hong Kong dollars from his pocket and handed it to the other party: "Sorry, sir, we are employees of a technology newspaper in the United States, and I would like to conduct a simple interview with you. , this hundred Hong Kong dollars is your reward."

After receiving the money, the young man's attitude became better and he began to tell the reason why he bought the Lemon PC: "I think this machine is pretty good, the operating system is also very novel, and the compatibility with various software is also good. IBM PC can be used It can be used with all kinds of software, and the price is cheaper than an IBM PC. In addition, it comes with a three-year warranty. This is why I bought this machine.”

"Okay, sir, thank you for accepting the interview. I won't disturb you anymore." He pretended to record what the other party said. After thanking the other party, he asked them to leave.

The next afternoon, Qingfeng Li and Xiao Huixue didn't go anywhere. They squatted in front of their store. When they saw someone buying a Lemon PC, they went up to pretend to be reporters for interviews.

The owner of the store looked at Qingfeng Li and both of them in a different way, and he seemed to be scolding them if they disagreed. Seeing this, Qingfeng Li quickly asked the little half-blood to buy a lemon PC, and the owner looked good now.

Computer sales are good in Xiangjiang. In one afternoon, this store sold a total of five computers, three of which were Lemon PCs, and the rest were from IBM and Apple.

Li Qingfeng was still very satisfied with this sales volume. After the store got off work, the two of them went to the company to ask how the sales were in Xiangjiang in the past few days.

Returning to the company where the lights were still bright, Li Qing touched his nose embarrassedly as he looked at the employees who were still busy. They were working overtime for him, while he was taking the girl out shopping, which was a little embarrassing.

Walking into Fang Wanzhen's office, Fang Wanzhen was immersed in reading documents. When she saw Qingfeng Li coming back, she stood up from her stool excitedly and shouted excitedly:

"Chairman, Chairman, explode, explode"

(End of this chapter)