Reborn in the red age

Chapter 215 The person in charge of IBM Japan: I’m tired, let’s destroy it

"Hello, I'm Qingfeng Li, what do you want, General Manager Fang?"

As soon as Li Qingfeng finished class today, Lemon Technology's office staff in the capital hurriedly came over and informed Fang Wanzhen that she had something urgent to contact Li Qingfeng.

Fang Wanzhen's anxious voice came from the other side of the microphone: "Teacher Li, I just got the news that Japan's NEC company has released their self-developed PC compatible computer today. The other party's computer can support Japanese display output. This computer will have a great impact on us." Sales volume of the company’s computers in Japan”

This is put euphemistically, it is not a huge impact, but it cannot be sold at all.

Qingfeng Li had expected this and asked calmly: "What is the price of the other party?"

"The same machine as ours is priced at 44,900 yen, which is equivalent to 1,780 U.S. dollars."

"How much does our machine cost now in Japan?"

“After a price war with IBM some time ago, the current price of Lemon PC in Japan is US$1,090.

Qingfeng Li did not speak, but began to calculate the production cost of Hanka in his mind.

At present, the production of Hanka has just been completed, and there is no specific production cost yet. Qingfeng Li can only make a rough estimate based on the price of parts.

After some mental calculations, the production and assembly cost of a graphics card in Xiangjiang is about US$200. If it is put into production in the mainland, it can be done for US$150. If some parts can be produced in-house, the price will be even lower.

However, there is currently no domestic assembly production capacity. The products of Japan's NEC Company have been launched. Currently, OEM orders can only be placed at electronics factories in Xiangjiang.

After having an idea in his mind, Qingfeng Li said to Fang Wanzhen who was still waiting for his answer on the other side of the microphone: "The mainland research institute has successfully researched the Chinese character display card. You only need to change the font library to Japanese to display Japanese on the computer. NEC The machines have little impact on our company’s products.”

"Really? Then this is great news. Now we finally have a product that can compete with NEC." Fang Wanzhen's voice of surprise came from the microphone, followed by a series of questions from the microphone, "A graphics card How much does it cost? When can it be put into production? What is the output? Are there samples now?"

Listening to the series of voices on the other end of the microphone, Qingfeng Li smiled and shook his head. She was really a strong woman, she could grasp the key points.

After answering Fang Wanzhen's questions in order, Li Qingfeng arranged for a human courier to fly back to Xiangjiang that day and brought all the samples and Hanka's technical information to the Lemon Technology headquarters.

Fang Wanzhen moved very quickly. After confirming with the technician from Lemon Technology that the Han card was correct and that there was no problem with the Japanese card, she arranged for someone to take the technical information and samples to the electronics factory in Xiangjiang to place an OEM order, while personally taking the company with her. Employees from the technical department flew to Japan.

I didn't have time to rest after landing, so I went to the office in Tokyo as soon as I got off the plane to arrange the release and promotion of the Japanese pass.

The news that the general manager of Lemon Technology came to Japan could not be hidden from everyone. IBM and NEC received the news at the same time.

NEC corporate headquarters building.

After PC Minister Umekawa Panty learned that Fang Wanzhen had come to Tokyo, he immediately contacted the TV station and advertiser. He proudly touched a handful of hair under his nose and asked his assistant, Nikawa Gangban: "Rikawa-kun, this Hua Why do you think Chinese women come to Japan?"

"Minister, this subordinate is stupid and doesn't know what this woman is doing in Tokyo." Rikawa Steel plate knew his minister very well and knew that his minister wanted to show off at the moment, so he quickly said in cooperation.

Seeing that his subordinate was so knowledgeable, Meikawa nodded with satisfaction, cleared his throat, and pretended to be 13: "Hikawa-kun, you are still too young to understand such a simple question. In the future, you will be with me." Learn more from around you so that you can make progress.”

"Hai, I would like to ask the minister to give me some advice and help my subordinates answer their questions." Rikawa Steel bowed in a standard Japanese style and cooperated with Umekawa's pants 13 very solemnly.

Meichuan Panty felt happy in her heart, but she had a calm expression on her face, pretending to explain to Rikawa Steel Plate: "The thing is very simple, there is only one reason, that is, since our product was released, she felt that we The threat of the company’s products, now I’m sure this woman is sweating profusely at this moment.”

"After arriving in Tokyo overnight, I quickly contacted advertisers because I wanted to spend a lot of money on advertising to compete with us."

Having said this, Umekawa paused for a moment, picked up his cigar from the table, and after a busy lighting session, he walked to the bright floor-to-ceiling windows with the cigar in his mouth, looking at the bustling streets of Tokyo through the glass. He increased his volume and said with great enthusiasm: "What that woman did was just a desperate struggle. When they were fighting a price war with IBM, I said that once our company's products are launched, no matter if it is a lemon company, , IBM, these two families are all vulnerable, and they are all going to die."

The Hikawa steel plate behind Umegawa's pants looked at the back of Umegawa's pants standing in front of the floor-to-ceiling window. The morning sunlight was a bit dazzling, and it made Umegawa's short and fat figure of less than 1 meters seem to have become a little taller.

In an office building not far from the NEC headquarters building, this is where the branches of IBM and Microsoft in Japan are located.

The PC-9800 personal computer released by NEC the day before yesterday put great pressure on Lemon and IBM. But compared with Lemon Technology, IBM has now begun to fail. It just fought a price war with Lemon PC for several months and finally stabilized. Now it has been stolen by NEC.

Faced with the huge advantage of the personal computer released by NEC that could display Japanese, IBM, which was unprepared, was caught off guard.

Now the president of IBM Japan is desperate and doesn't care what Fang Wanzhen does in Japan. I just want to say, if you are tired, destroy it. He is ready to completely lose the Japanese market and return to the American headquarters to retire.

Fang Wanzhen met with all the agents in Japan and announced the successful development of Lemon Technology's daily card, which perfectly solved the problem of the inability to display Japanese characters on the computer.

The Japanese card developed by Lemon Technology has obvious technical advantages over NEC's character ORM chip and is fully compatible with all software in the IBM system.

After the Japanese card is installed on the personal computer, the previously purchased software can still be used normally.

After listening to Fang Wanzhen's story, the expressions on the faces of the agents began to change.

Ever since NEC released their personal computers, the agents and dealers of IBM and Lemon were all in panic. Now with NEC's technology, the dealers are all at peace.

"General Manager Fang, how much does the Japanese graphics card cost? Is it retail or is it installed in the machine before leaving the factory?" It is related to their own profits, and soon an agent asked practical questions.

Faced with the agent's question, Fang Wanzhen smiled slightly: "Japanese graphics cards are not retailed. They are all installed on computers and sold. The sales price of our computers needs to be readjusted. The increase will be two hundred US dollars on the basis of the original price. Your agent's profit will be Return to before the price war”

"Previous old customers only need to make up the price difference, and we can send technicians to their homes to install Japanese graphics cards on their computers."

Fang Wanzhen's words attracted a burst of applause from the agents present. After all, the profits have returned to their original levels. The agents are still very happy with the increase in profits. In the price war, not only the manufacturers suffer losses, but agents like them also suffer losses. .

After settling the matter with the agents, Fang Wanzhen arranged for the person in charge of the Japanese office to treat the agents to dinner, while she met with advertisers non-stop to discuss tomorrow's advertising release of Lemon Technology's Japanese display card.

Fang Wanzhen attaches great importance to the Japanese market. Newspapers, radio stations, and television stations collaborated to buy the advertising space for that day, spending a total of 25 million yen in advertising fees.

This advertising fee was well spent. When Japanese people woke up the next day, they were flooded with Japanese display card information.

Lemon PC has a lot of sales in Japan. Users who have already bought a personal computer are relieved to see that Lemon PC can install a Japanese graphics card for their computer as long as they pay the price difference.

When Japanese cannot be displayed, English can be used to make do. Now that computers that can display Japanese are available, the compatible computers purchased in the past must be replaced in order to facilitate office work. Personal computers are not cheap, and no one wants to spend that money.

Lemon Company's measure of replacing the Japanese display card with the price difference has been praised by many Japanese people.

The common people had benefited, but Meichuan Panties' lungs were about to explode. After reading the news published in today's newspaper, the angry Meikawa Panties smashed several cups in the office.

Rikawa Steel Board outside the office shivered when he heard the noise coming from the minister's office.

Thinking of Umekawa's underwear pretending to be 13 in front of him yesterday, Rikawa Steel couldn't help but shudder. The slap in the face came so quickly. Minister Meikawa's anger will definitely be even greater today. Rikawa Steel is considering whether to run away now. .

Minister Umekawa must be venting his anger on himself today. His small body may not be able to bear it!

Qingfeng Li didn't know what happened in Japan. At his home in Qianliang Hutong, Qingfeng Li felt a chill on the back of his neck when he looked at Hu Jiabao, who was so attentive to him.

Li Qingfeng quickly stopped Hu Jiabao, who was squatting on the ground to wash his own feet after getting the foot-washing water, and said: "Daughter-in-law, what are you doing? I can just wash my feet myself. You don't need to help me wash them."

"Brother, you are my husband, what's wrong with me washing your feet? Isn't that what you should do?" Hu Jiabao ignored Qingfeng Li's dissuasion and said in a sweet voice while washing Qingfeng Li's feet.

Listening to Hu Jiabao's throaty voice, Qingfeng shuddered unconsciously, feeling that there would be a trap tonight, and a big one at that.

(End of this chapter)