Reborn in the red age

Chapter 205 Want to buy a lemon PC? Okay, add yen

He put the microphone away from his ear, and after the other side of the microphone quieted down, Li Qingfeng said calmly: "Dolar, why are you making such a big fuss? The two parties are just in a competitive relationship, and it does not involve life or death."

"Farke, Farke, who gave you the courage to even attempt to enter the North American market?"

"Of course the American government"

As soon as these words came out, there was a silence from the other side of the microphone, followed by a burst of fragrant language output.

Qingfeng Li didn't bother to scold him like a shrew, which seemed like he had no quality, so he hung up the phone with the president of IBM's Asia division.

"Okay, let's continue the meeting. Manager, please continue talking." After hanging up the phone, Qingfeng Li continued the interrupted meeting as if nothing had happened.

The reason why IBM is so angry is that Lemon PC, with the help of Stanford University, is undergoing FCC certification for the import of electronic products.

This behavior of Lemon Technology has made IBM feel threatened. Now the two sides are engaged in a fierce price war in the Asian market. IBM is worried that after Lemon PC enters the North American market, competition from Asia will be copied to the North American market.

The American market is not only IBM's home base, but also the world's largest consumer of electronic products. The North American market accounts for half of IBM's PC sales. For IBM, the American market is its own bottom line, and it must not be allowed to be ripped off.

Next, the two sides will launch a more intense political lobbying competition around FCC certification.

However, this matter did not involve too much energy from Qingfeng Li. The 10% shares given to Stanford were not given in vain. They needed to contribute in this matter. In the political lobbying competition, the Stanford School Board of Directors He is the main force, and the little mixed-blood American is responsible for providing logistical support.

Amid the fierce competition with IBM, "Building Blocks" has completed all preparatory work before its launch. Fang Chaoxian and the employees of the Game Division boarded the plane to Tokyo with all the information.

Qingfeng Li attaches great importance to the video game business. Apart from software, this thing is another money-making giant. If it were not for his passport, Qingfeng Li would definitely lead the team there in person this time.

For the release of this game, Qingfeng Li spent a lot of money. Not only did he invite the most popular female star in Japan, Seiko Matsuda, to shoot a game advertisement, but he also placed the three-minute game advertisement on the most popular website in Japan. The TV station plays it on loop.

Spending such a large amount of money, the effect is very significant. With its novel game style and the popularity of celebrities, "Jenga" instantly caused a sensation in Japan, a big gaming country.

"Block Blocks" is different from other video games on the market today. It uses sliding elimination and timer synchronization mechanisms. This unique gameplay is addictive.

Even people like Hu Jiabao, who have extremely strong control, spent all night playing the game without sleep or food when they first came into contact with it, let alone ordinary people with extremely poor control.

Coupled with the attributes of "Building Blocks" that are simple, easy to use, and suitable for all ages, it became popular throughout Japan in a short period of time. In just half a month, 100,000 PC floppy disks were snapped up by crazy Japanese people.

Since there is no game cartridge for "Jenga" yet and cannot be played on Atari home game consoles, many people who do not have a personal computer at home go to PC sales stores to buy a game in order to play the game "Jenga". A personal computer is used to play games.

After agents noticed this situation, they vigorously advocated that "Bricks and Blocks" was a game produced by Lemon Technology Company, and that using the built-in operating system of Lemon PC to play "Bricks and Blocks" would have a better gaming experience.

Due to the popularity of "Brick Blocks", the sales of Lemon PCs surged in a short period of time. For a time, Lemon PCs were in short supply in Japan.

Many stores saw that the supply of PCs was tight, and privately increased prices for distribution. If they wanted to buy Lemon PCs as soon as possible, they had to add 200 yen (about US dollars) to the current selling price.

Those who can buy a personal computer for playing games are those with a good income. They don’t care about the extra 5,000 yen. As long as they can get the machine on the spot, let alone 5,000 yen, it’s 10,000 yen. They are all willing to give it, and they follow the same pattern as later generations in China who increase prices to buy Japanese cars.

There are even agents who learned through internal information that there were only 10 game floppy disks in Japan. They immediately purchased game floppy disks from software agents. After the game floppy disks were sold out, they immediately took out the floppy disks. Put it in your own store and sell it as a set with a computer at a premium.

Japanese society is now in a prosperous period, and there are too many rich people. This combination has no worries about selling. After the news spread, it was snapped up by rich people waving banknotes in a short time. "Boss, I want to buy a "Building Blocks" floppy disk. Do you have it in stock?"

"I'm sorry, sir, the stock of "Brick Blocks" in our store has been sold out. You can take a look at the game "Pac-Man". We have enough stock in the store."

"No, I'm not interested in children's games. I just want "Brick Blocks". When will the next batch of goods arrive?"

"Now the whole of Japan is out of stock, we are already urging, and the next arrival time cannot be guaranteed."

"Okay, if the goods arrive in your store, please tell me as soon as possible, please."

The above conversation occurred frequently in software stores all over Japan. Seeing a large number of customers waving banknotes and looking for purchases left in disappointment, Lemon Technology's agents went crazy and frantically called Lemon Technology's Japan branch to urge them to send software. goods.

The phones at the desks of the more than 20 customer service ladies at Lemon Technology’s Japanese branch never stopped ringing. Every time they hung up on an urgent call, before they could even breathe a sigh of relief, there would always be another seamless call. The call came in.

There are more than 20 Japanese customer service ladies with sweet voices. Recently, their voices are a little hoarse. Every time they come home from get off work, they don’t even want to say a word.

This caused the boyfriends or husbands of these customer service girls to wonder if their girlfriends had cuckolded them, otherwise why would they be so hoarse? And I come home exhausted every day.

Li Qingfeng, who was still in Xiangjiang, couldn't help but feel proud after hearing about the success of "Jiengjiang" in Japan. He ordered the game floppy disks and the newly produced game cartridges to be shipped to Japan as soon as possible to prevent the market from being out of stock too much. Long.

After arranging the tasks, Li Qingfeng went downstairs to the company's R&D laboratory. After the engineers who were having a meeting in the conference room ended, he found Xu Yuanming, the head of the R&D department, and asked with a smile: "Mr. Xu, the developer of the game console. How far has it progressed? Do you need any support from the company?”

"Chairman, the development of the handheld console is going very smoothly. The game "Tank Crossing the Bridge" has been installed on the handheld console and is undergoing final debugging. It is expected to be officially sold to the outside world by the end of the year." Faced with the inquiry from the big boss, Xu Yuanming, the technical leader He said respectfully.

("Tanks Crossing the Bridge" is a copycat of the handheld console released by Nintendo in 80. It is also a classic handheld game produced in Hong Kong. A machine can only have one built-in game, and the game cartridge cannot be replaced. It was produced in Hong Kong in . , was smuggled into the country at the end of , and a machine sold for dozens of yuan at that time.)

Qingfeng Li develops games, not only software, but also hardware, running on two legs.

Compared with software games, the profits of hardware handheld consoles are indeed not high. However, the sales of game handheld consoles are large and require a large number of workers to produce them. Qingfeng Li is planning to introduce LCD screen technology in China to build a factory to produce handheld consoles.

"Oh, the progress is so fast. Is there a test machine? I will try it out."

"Yes, Chairman, come with me."

Xu Yuanming led Qingfeng Li to a research and development room, picked up a small handheld device from the table and handed it to Qingfeng Li.

Looking at the familiar and compact first-generation handheld console, Qingfeng Li played with it twice with great interest, and then put down the handheld console without any interest.

This kind of monotonous and boring game, in which the display positions of all elements are fixed, and the dynamics are displayed by constantly lighting up and extinguishing, Qingfeng Li really has no interest in playing it.

After walking around the R&D department and briefly understanding the R&D progress of all the company's projects, Qingfeng Li went upstairs and returned to his office. The company has been taking too many actions recently, and the documents that require the signature of Chairman Qingfeng Li are pretty good. Many.

"Brother Li, there have been strangers hanging around downstairs in the company recently. The money in our company must have been targeted."

Not long after returning to the office, Sun Aidang, the security officer Wang Weimin transferred from Sijiu City, came up to him with a serious look and reported his findings to Qingfeng Li.

(End of this chapter)