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Chapter 484: Snowball-like wealth! (Subscribe)

Yang Pojun, Xu Damao and Sha Zhu have changed a lot now.

The three of them were all dressed in suits, their suits were ironed without a wrinkle, and their leather shoes were polished to a bright shine. Yang Pojun wore a green suit, Sha Zhu wore a black suit, and Xu Damao wore all white, with his white hair combed back, giving off an evil charm!
The three of them sat there, calm and confident.

Xu Damao was still holding a folding fan in his hand. It was made of small-leaf red sandalwood and covered with the finest gold-thread brocade. The folding fan turned over in his hand.

He smiled and said, "Brother Wu, it's about the TV station..."

TV station?
Wu Youde's eyes flickered, and he looked at Xu Damao and said with a smile, "Why, Dongxing also wants to set up a TV station?"

"Hehe... Angkor is so good at predicting things that I knew I couldn't hide it from you!" Xu Damao flattered him.

"Tell me what you think..." Wu Youde said lightly.

Xu Damao said with a smile: "Brother Wu, I think the TV station is quite interesting. Not only can they shoot wonderful programs, but there are also many beautiful girls... hehe..."

"Isn't Li going to compete with us now?"

"Then let's open another one, and let's take on his family and see what kind of waves he can make!"

"Also, Angkor, didn't you say this before? If a company wants to grow bigger, it is important to own a publicity platform!"

"I was thinking, isn't this a TV station? With a TV station, we can advertise ourselves on TV anytime in the future, and we don't have to advertise in newspapers anymore. This can save a lot of money..."

"Hey, isn't this killing two birds with one stone?"

Wu Youde did not comment and asked, "Anything else?"

Xu Damao's smile faded slightly, and after thinking for a while, he said, "Brother Wu, I think if Dongxing had a TV station, it would give Dongxing a very positive image!

Which one of 14K, Xin'an, Hesheng and others has a TV station?

We have it in Dongxing. When everyone sees it, they will think that we in Dongxing are all decent people, doing decent business, and not gangsters!

Angkor, what do you think?

Yang Pojun and Sha Zhu also looked up at Wu Youde...

The flower hall was quiet.
After thinking for a moment, Wu Youde turned to look at Yang Pojun and Sha Zhu, and asked with a smile: "What do you two think?"

Yang Pojun said succinctly: "I think it's okay, the TV station is pretty good."

Sha Zhu also said: "I think so too, as TV sets and electricity prices become cheaper and cheaper, more and more people will be able to afford TV in the future.

But all of this depends on you, Angkor. By the way, Angkor, it would be even better if our TV station could be found in other places, and the influence would be even greater!"

Electricity prices down?

Wu Youde smiled and said, "Why not build a power plant in Dongxing as well?"

A power plant?

Yang Pojun, Xu Damao, and Sha Zhu looked at each other, all of them were a little surprised that Wu Youde would suddenly say this...

After a moment of silence,
Xu Damao chuckled and said, "Brother Wu, isn't this stealing your business? It's not good for us to compete with each other..."

these years,
The "Oriental Group" and "Times Group" expanded rapidly, with more and more companies under their umbrella. In addition to the initial "Oriental International Shipping Group", "Oriental International Real Estate", "Oriental Food Factory", "Oriental Electronics Factory" and "Times Pharmaceuticals", more companies were added one after another...

Six enterprises including 'Times Newspaper', 'Times Television', 'Times Communications', 'Oriental Power Plant', 'Oriental Plaza' and 'Oriental Automobile'.

There is no need to say much about "Times Press" and "Times Television", one is a newspaper and the other is a television station.

'Oriental Communications' is a telephone service company. Its main business is currently telephones. In addition to telephones, it also has a project under development - pagers.

Pagers are actually nothing new. Americans had developed them as early as 1948. However, the world's first pager was wired and could not be carried in a pocket for use outside, which made it quite useless.

Until 1956,

Motorola finally invented the wireless pager, but this wireless pager still has many disadvantages, such as poor signal, limited text that can be transmitted, and it is a bit large and heavy, making it extremely inconvenient to use.

During the time when Wu Youde was traveling in Europe, he saw a wireless pager at his cousin Philip's house and played with it for a while.

After using it, he commented: rubbish.

These few years,
As the business expanded and the influence of its subsidiaries grew, Wu Youde felt it necessary to do something to speed up the development of technology so that people could live a happy life with convenient information, rich entertainment and fast travel sooner!

Therefore,
He opened a 'Times Television' and a 'Times Communications'.

Let's talk about 'Times News' first.
The telephone business was only used for training, and at the same time, telephone exchange stations were set up in various places, salesmen were trained, and so on.

Mobile pager is the real deal.

To this end, Wu Youde recruited a group of inventors and scientists in the field of communications from Europe and America to establish a "Times Research Institute" which specializes in communications research.

The research direction was determined by Wu Youde!

We first developed a mobile pager with a screen that could display Chinese and English, a clock, an alarm, and the ability to vibrate and ring. It was small and lightweight.

The second research direction is: mobile phones.

The third research direction is: Internet.

The second and third research directions are of utmost importance. In order to let a group of scientists understand what these two are, Wu Youde would visit the institute every now and then in the past few years, and then call a few scientists to sit down and have a chat...

Other than that,

He also found time to write two theoretical works, which included an analysis of uses and a prediction of future prospects. Every member of the institute received a copy and regarded them as a guiding principle.

As for electronics factories,
The electronics factory had already put television sets into mass production three years ago, and brand new television sets were rolling off the production line...

price?

Not expensive!

It's enough to just maintain no loss, even a small profit can't be called it.

But this TV set costs as much as 1,000 yuan, and only a few families can afford it. Even if some families are well-off, they still have to pay for electricity every day to buy a TV...

This is another considerable expense!
Therefore, Wu Youde built another "Oriental Power Plant". Any family that bought an "Oriental" TV could access the electricity of the "Oriental Power Plant" for free. There was no labor cost, no meter fee, and no wire fee!

Not only that,

Families who own a 'Dongfang' TV set can have their electricity bills halved in the first three years if they use electricity from the 'Dongfang Power Plant'!

That means 50% off electricity!!

As expected, the "Dongfang" brand TV became a hit!

The fire spread across the prairie and burned fiercely!
You should know that before this, a "Rediffusion" TV set cost as much as three thousand yuan, while an "Oriental" TV set only cost one thousand yuan!

At one-third of the price, the appearance of the "Dongfang" TV is much better looking than that of the "Rosewood" TV, and the screen is also a lot bigger than that of the "Rosewood" TV!

Other than that,

The "Dongfang" TV also has many ingenious small designs that make it easier for people to use and move. For example, TVs at that time were very bulky and inconvenient to move.

The "Dongfang" brand TV has two inward grooves on both sides of the chassis to facilitate moving with both hands. There are also four speakers inside the "Dongfang" brand TV, one on each side and two on the top.

The sound travels wider and is louder.

In addition, the electricity bill was halved in the first three years, and there was no charge for pulling wires, and neither the electricity meter nor the wires were charged. This saved me hundreds of dollars!
More importantly,

If you buy a TV, the Oriental Power Plant will provide you with electricity for free. Then, you will have electricity available at home and can use electric lights.

Will this allow people to take advantage of loopholes?
If you have electric lights at home, wouldn’t you also enjoy a discount on the electricity bill generated by the lights?

钻！
It doesn't matter!
How much electricity does a light bulb generate in a whole year?
Wu Youde disdains to earn this little money. It is no exaggeration to say that if the bad points he gets from the system every day were converted into money, he would not be able to spend them all in his lifetime!

Besides, if there are loopholes to exploit, everyone will be more enthusiastic. This will create a sense of accomplishment and the feeling of getting an advantage will be stronger!
The people are the best at calculating accounts!

After doing the math, everyone felt that they had made a lot of money. Now, if they didn't buy it, they would lose a lot. So many people were tempted and started to go to the "Dongfang Brand" TV store in "Dongfang Plaza" to inquire...

Sales of 'Dongfang' TVs began to rise rapidly!
With the increase in TV sales, people started to watch Oriental TV's programs, and the influence of Oriental TV spread naturally...

……

At this moment, I heard Xu Damao say that if Dongxing also built a power plant,

Wu Youde smiled and shook his head, thinking that it would be bad to compete with the Oriental Power Plant for business. "There's nothing wrong with it. Hasn't Dongxing always focused on livelihood projects? This power plant is good. It is related to the electricity consumption of thousands of households.

Competition is not a bad thing!
Competition brings progress and pressure. This is good news for both Dongfang and Dongxing. The little profit lost is not worth mentioning!"

After a pause,
Wu Youde added: "Besides, it is not a good thing for one company to monopolize the entire industry. It is okay for a while, but if it continues like this...

That is the source of disaster!

Whether it is Dongfang, Times, or Dongxing, I don’t want them to become monopoly enterprises! ”

Xu Damao's face became serious, he thought silently for a moment, nodded seriously, and said seriously: "Brother Wu, I understand!

From now on, we will not target Deng and his crew from Kowloon Bus. We will all open our own businesses and run them based on our abilities. We will not use those unpresentable tricks!"

Wu Youde smiled and nodded.

In the original time and space, Kowloon Motor Bus was the largest bus company in Kowloon, with operating routes covering the entire Kowloon, and there were hundreds of double-decker buses alone.

But now with Wu Youde and Dongxing's involvement...

The situation of bus companies is different. Kowloon Motor Bus is still the first bus company in Kowloon as it was established earlier. However, Tung Hing Bus Company has been developing rapidly and is catching up with Kowloon Motor Bus. It has now become the second largest bus company in Kowloon.

Any industry,

There is always a lot of competition between the first and the second. If the second is from the underworld, it goes without saying how fierce the competition is.

Wu Youde has seen negative reports about Kowloon Motor Bus in the Times newspaper more than once, such as drivers beating people, maliciously overcharging, not stopping at stops, letting people get off before they reach their stops, etc.

There are some outrageous ones,
It is said that the Kowloon Bus compartment is very smelly and the driver urinates and defecates directly on the bus.

But in other Kowloon newspapers,

Wu Youde also saw reports that the driver of a Dongxing bus molested female passengers and stabbed people with a knife...

It goes without saying that the two companies are throwing dirty water at each other. Taking this opportunity today, Wu Youde hinted to Xu Damao that since Dongxing wants to transform, it should do things in a fair way.

Seeing that Xu Damao had understood what he meant, Wu Youde said no more.

"Angkor, let's build a power plant when we get back!"

"It's about this power plant and the TV station. We have no experience and don't know how to do it..."

Wu Youde waved his hand and said, "Go and talk to the Oriental Power Plant and Oriental TV Station and ask them to send some people to help you."

Speaking of which,

His heart moved, and he asked again: "What are you going to name the TV station?"

"Dongxing TV station?" Xu Damao asked tentatively.

Wu Youde shook his head.

"not good."

"There's already an Oriental TV, and now there's another Dongxing TV..."

"Let's call it... Asia Television..."

Eh?
Asian TV?

Hearing this name, Xu Damao's eyes lit up and he shouted, "This is good, this is good! Asia Television, Asia Television! Good, good, good!"

"I feel like this one is more impressive and sounds more powerful!"

Sha Zhu smiled and said, "I also think this one sounds better than Dongxing TV. Asia... that's much bigger than Dongxing!"

Yang Pojun also nodded and said, "This is good!"

Seeing that everyone agreed, Wu Youde laughed and said, "That's it, let's go back when everything is fine."

"Angkor, there is one more small thing..." said Xu Damao.

He smiled and said, "I heard that the first batch of cars from the Oriental Automobile Factory has rolled off the production line? Hehe, brothers all want to take a look..."

"Is it enough to just look at it? I think you still want to sit for a while!"

"Haha, if you can sit in it, that would be the best. When we have our own car factory, we won't buy other cars. It's better to keep the money in our own hands!"

Wu Youde smiled and said, "The first batch of cars has indeed rolled off the production line..."

The "Oriental Automobile Factory" was planned and built in Kowloon after Wu Youde went to Beijing in 1958 to share his experience of winning the Nobel Prize in Literature.

It took two years.

The 'Oriental Automobile Factory' was finally completed, with various production and assembly workshops and a complete assembly line.

It took another three years, countless failures, and countless restarts before they finally succeeded in producing a heavy-duty dump truck that could be mass-produced.

It has a load capacity of 30 tons, an eight-cylinder engine, and a maximum speed of 80 kilometers per hour.

The performance and configuration of this truck far exceed those of the Soviet GAZ truck. It has an outstanding cargo-hauling capacity, and it can also raise the rear cargo box for self-unloading, so its comprehensive capabilities are excellent.

Wu Youde stood up and said with a smile: "Come on, I'll take you to have a look."

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(End of this chapter)