Reborn in the red age

Chapter 178 Lemon Technology poaching operation

Regarding what Fang Wanzhen said was explosive, Li Qingfeng had some guesses in his mind. He should be talking about PCs sold in Xiangjiang. After all, Qingfeng Li had seen the sales situation in the store today with his own eyes.

Inviting Fang Wanzhen to sit down, Li Qingfeng said with a smile: "General Manager Fang, don't panic. If your employees see you in such a hurry, it will have a bad impact."

"That's right, Sister Fang, don't panic when something happens. If something breaks, please speak slowly if you have anything to say." The little mixed-blood also teased Fang Wanzhen with a smile.

She is a strong woman after all. After realizing that she had lost her temper, she quickly adjusted herself. She took a deep breath, slowed down her tone, and reported to Qingfeng Li on the sales of PCs.

Xiangjiang is the headquarters of Lemon Technology and is a local leader. The distribution in Xiangjiang was completed the day after the goods arrived.

In the past ten days, Lemon PC has sold well in Xiangjiang. Today's sales exceeded IBM, with a sales score of 68 units, winning the day's sales championship.

The feedback from merchants and users is pretty good. If there are no quality problems in the future, Lemon PC will be able to take root in the Xiangjiang market.

Qingfeng Li nodded with satisfaction. Lemon PC won the sales championship today, which was beyond Qingfeng Li's expectation.

Although he was confident in his products, after all, it was a new brand that had just been launched into the market. In Li Qingfeng's expectation, it would take at least a month to open the market. Unexpectedly, he became the sales champion of the day in just ten days. .

"Yes, the sales results in Xiangjiang prove that our products are competitive. Of course, being able to achieve the current good results in just ten days is also the result of the joint efforts of all our colleagues at Lemon Technology."

At this point, Li Qingfeng paused and continued: "But don't be arrogant and complacent. After all, Xiangjiang is our base camp. It is also an objective reason why we have an advantage in the local area. How about the comrades in the sales department who are out doing business? Is there any news? came?"

"Director Li, the progress of the comrades we sent out is going very smoothly. We have completed preliminary communication with some agents, and it is expected that the contract of intent will be finalized soon." After having been in contact with Chairman Li Qingfeng for a long time, Fang Wanzhen felt uncomfortable with the term comrade. I am becoming more and more proficient in using it.

Instructing Fang Wanzhen to keep an eye on the foreign market and report any problems to him in a timely manner, Li Qingfeng walked around the company, encouraged employees who worked overtime, and added a new layer to the pie for all employees.

After seeing that they looked like chicken blood, Li Qingfeng took Li Huiying and left the company with satisfaction.

In the next ten days, many agents from Baodao, Bangzi Country, and Wa Country, three countries with agent bases, flew to Xiangjiang and signed authorized sales contracts at the headquarters of Lemon Technology. After the Spring Festival, , officially started supply and sales to the other party.

"Director Li, do you think you should speed up the production of the mainland foundry? The first batch of two thousand machines has almost been sold in the Xiangjiang market. If we don't get new machines, we will have nothing to sell."

He had been staying in Xiangjiang for a month, and the Chinese New Year was coming soon. Before Li Qingfeng left Xiangjiang, Fang Wanzhen came over and reported to Li Qingfeng the shortage of computer reserves.

After hearing Fang Wanzhen's report, Li Qingfeng frowned and nodded. Domestic production capacity is indeed a problem now. The production speed is too slow. The motherboard is okay. It is impossible to increase sales of monochrome PC monitors in a short time.

You must know that IBM released the machine in August and officially started sales in October. In just two months, it sold more than 200,000 PC machines. The sales volume of one company is more than its own production capacity in a year. What is the use of it? Challenge IBM?

If we follow this production rate, not to mention entering the Bangzi and Japanese markets, Xiangjiang and Baodao alone will be able to fully occupy their production capacity.

Li Qingfeng frowned and thought for a while, and decided to use the old method of inducing Fang Wanzhen to issue a limited-time production order worth tens of millions of dollars to China in the name of the company.

It depends on whether the country can accept this order. If the country still cannot increase production capacity, it will have to give up purchasing domestic parts and switch to a processing model with supplied materials. Domestic foundries will really only be able to do OEM work.

"Okay, Director Li, I will contact the mainland now and send this order to the relevant departments in the mainland." Fang Wanzhen nodded and said she would do it right away, and then told Qingfeng Li her suggestion: "Director Li, I I feel that given the current level of basic industry in mainland China, it should be impossible to fulfill our order requirements. We’d better contact the display supplier, just in case.”

Regarding Fang Wanzhen's words, Li Qingfeng nodded in agreement, "First try sending the order to the mainland. If the mainland does not accept it, contact the supplier immediately."

"Okay, Director Li, I will contact you now."

After Fang Wanzhen left, Qingfeng Li rubbed his eyebrows. The production capacity could not keep up with the sales volume, which was really a headache.

Mainland China responded very quickly. As soon as the company went to work the next day, Mainland China staff in Xiangjiang came to Lemon Technology Company and requested to communicate with the person in charge of the company in person about this large order worth tens of millions of dollars. Li Qingfeng did not meet with the visitor for a detailed discussion. Instead, he told Fang Wanzhen what he thought and sent Fang Wanzhen to communicate with him.

The visitor's administrative level is not low, and he is still a staff member of Peking University. It is easy to get involved in politics when dealing with such people. Maybe a political task that requires the purchase of domestic goods will be handed down. Qingfeng Li does not want to get into this trouble. , it would be best to leave the matter to Fang Wanzhen, a native of Xiangjiang.

The two parties communicated in the company conference room for a whole morning before ending the meeting.

"Tell me, what was the result of the discussion this morning?"

After the people in the office left, Li Qingfeng called Fang Wanzhen into his office, led her to sit down, poured Fang Wanzhen a cup of tea himself, and asked about the results of this communication.

"We have reached an agreement with the other party. According to your requirements, during the period of external procurement of monitors, no matter how many monitors are produced by domestic factories, as long as they meet our procurement standards, we will purchase them. When the mainland's production capacity catches up, we will place the monitor order Give it to the other party”

"What's the attitude of this person?"

"I'm quite satisfied. The other party also knows the domestic production situation. They didn't force us to purchase their equipment from the beginning. They just hope that we can continue to purchase displays produced in mainland China."

After asking about the negotiation process in detail, Li Qingfeng explained some work matters before letting Fang Wanzhen leave.

There is only so much I can do to help with my limited personal abilities. Domestic production capacity is not enough, and Qingfeng Li has nothing to do. He can’t just wait and stop selling in order to help the country, right?

After staying in Xiangjiang for another two days, after all the employees from abroad came back, Qingfeng Li had all the year-end bonuses withdrawn from the bank and placed them in the company lobby. Qingfeng Li distributed the year-end bonuses to all employees one by one.

Amid the cheers of the company's employees, Li Qingfeng finished distributing all the bonuses and simply said a few words to everyone, to the effect that you should work hard next year and try to let me marry someone who can give you a bonus of 10 million.

After the meeting was over, Li Qingfeng called Fang Wanzhen, the little mixed-blood and the HR manager into the conference room, preparing to inform them about the recruitment after the year.

Now Lemon Technology is completely a sales company, with only Li Qingfeng as its R&D staff.

If you want to make a lot of money in a short time, this model is fine, but if you want to develop in the long term and defeat IBM and Microsoft, you will have to invest heavily in research and development. Qingfeng Li alone will be exhausted even if he is exhausted. , a large number of talents will be needed in the future.

After the three of them sat down, Li Qingfeng did not say any nonsense and directly informed the three of them: "The company is going to establish a scientific research department. I will be in charge of it personally for the time being. The Human Resources Department will work overtime before the year. Learn more about it." Let’s take a look at the salaries of scientific researchers in other companies. Compared with other companies in the same industry, our salary for scientific researchers is increased by 20%.”

"In addition, by the way, I will learn about the talent situation of other companies. Once I have found out, I will go directly to recruit people after the year. As long as they are talents in this field, especially outstanding scientific research talents with a good reputation, even if they are giving away a car, a house, or a wife, they must Someone dig it out.”

"In addition to poaching people, our company must also start its own recruitment. Contact all newspapers in Hong Kong. I want our recruitment advertisements to be seen by all people in Hong Kong. In addition, we will contact major universities and establish cooperation with them. Computers , electronics, semiconductor majors, if possible, all students in the entire major should sign in to our company."

Qingfeng Li was talking in front, while the three people below were quickly taking notes in their notebooks.

After Qingfeng Li finished speaking, Wu Yourong, the manager of the human resources department, said with some embarrassment: "Director Li, I have written down everything you said, but I am not very clear about the criteria for recruiting senior personnel from other companies. Are there detailed criteria? "

"Scientific research is priceless without detailed standards. As long as there are senior scientific researchers who intend to change jobs, I will personally communicate with them about their remuneration issues," Qingfeng Li said domineeringly with a wave of his hand.

Wu Yourong nodded understandingly, stood up and patted his chest and assured Qingfeng Li: "Okay, then I understand what you mean. I will personally contact my colleagues in Xiangjiang during this period. Don't worry, as long as the people in Xiangjiang If scientific researchers have the intention to change jobs, I guarantee that I will show up in front of them.”

Seeing Wu Yourong promising himself in broken Mandarin, Li Qingfeng nodded with satisfaction. Putting aside the issue of ability, this attitude was worthy of praise.

Fang Wanzhen and the little mixed-blood were instructed to provide convenience to the Human Resources Department during this period. In short, in one sentence, the recruitment work that the Human Resources Department will carry out after the year requires people to give people and money to give money, and no one at the top or bottom of the company can stop it.

(End of this chapter)