Please make money.

"Oh, you say you respect me, but you're just taking advantage of me."

The tangible assets are used, but the intangible reputation remains.

From that time on, Liu Shouzheng used this opportunity to hype up the company and fabricate the history of its rise to wealth.

We are all in the same industry, so we are naturally aware of these things, and it is indeed not illegal to flatter others.

Liu Shouzheng said that he left the research institute and founded Shouzheng Group in a 20-square-meter communication room.

Consumers who are unaware of the situation would say, "You are very inspiring," and colleagues would say, "Well, you are really shameless."

As for the fact that they later invested huge amounts of money in publicity and completely denied the original relationship, with things like dealing in color TVs, roller skates and cabbages, it was all a mess.

"The reason for doing this is very simple - behind Shouzheng Group is a research institute, and behind the research institute is the National Academy of Sciences."

Boss Huo looked at Alia with a meaningful look: "It's just like the relationship between your uncle and your father. He doesn't have the qualifications, but he sits in that position."

In other words, Liu Shouzheng actually has no struggle history, and it is not his turn to struggle. There is only a starting stage.

Such a start would not be conducive to his consolidating personal prestige and managing the entire group company.

The most intuitive and similar examples are Ai Rulong and Ai Ruhu.

Ai Rulong single-handedly founded the Ai Group, so even though he has been missing for many years, his legacy is still felt and he has countless loyal followers.

Ai Ruhu is a person who takes advantage of others. The site, funds and real estate are all ready-made. He does not have to suffer any hardship and directly seizes the high position to become the boss.

He wanted to make all of this his own, and the best way was to completely deny the founder Ai Rulong and say that he grew the peaches.

Wherever you search now, you will see historical records like "24 years ago, 10 scientific and technological workers, with 20 yuan in start-up capital, founded Shouzheng Group's predecessor, the New Technology Development Company of the Institute of Computing Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in a 20-square-meter communication room."

What Liu Shouzheng did could be considered shameless at best, but Boss Huo wouldn't say that he was unhappy with him.

What really made Boss Huo unhappy was that the path taken by Shouzheng Group in its early days was actually very similar to that of Alia.

In the 1990s, the newspaper "Computer World" had an exclusive interview titled "What is the future of domestic microcomputers?"

When Mr. Nan, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, was interviewed at the time, he advocated integrating the then industrial chain and reducing the cost of microcomputers.

The use of Allinone's integrated motherboard reduced the cost of commercially available machines by one thousand to two thousand yuan, helping microcomputers enter thousands of households.

At that time, computers were still relatively professional products, and the purchasers were either enterprises or scientific research institutions, and the home computer market was not taken seriously.

Therefore, Shouzheng Group’s first batch of home computers, which later became the One Plus One computers, were in short supply in the market and were even more popular than Alia’s mobile phones today.

In the 2000s, the company could produce units a month, and the stock was sold out within two weeks. The sales trend continued to rise the next month.

Some users simply bring money and drive to the factory gate to wait for the goods. It is so popular.

It was from that time that Shouzheng Group completely clarified its development path - selling computers!

Liu Shouzheng was very good at marketing. At that time, he formulated a development strategy to stimulate market growth through popular science education and began to market this concept nationwide.

The context of the times at that time was that everyone encouraged innovation and looked forward to progress.

Shouzheng Group's development style made a number of bigwigs very pleased and they gave a lot of support.

Science and technology museums and cultural palaces in dozens of cities helped them to set up concept science popularization platforms, thus completely consolidating their cultural concept of being the number one brand in the home computer market.

If he had started to soar from then on, with the brand and technology, perhaps Liu Shouzheng's reputation would not be so bad today.

But the problem is that Liu Shouzheng is a thorough businessman...

Brand and profit come first; technology is not important.

Because of this, he even parted ways with Mr. Nan, the chief engineer who advocated technology first.

"Academician Nan is too idealistic. He initially offered suggestions and believed that at the same technical level, core technologies with independent intellectual property rights should be supported through official procurement. He also wanted to standardize official procurement and support independent IT core technologies. This is very good."

"As I recall, the government has made it clear that this is how it's done, right? There's even a special procurement law."

"Well, he believes that the software industry is not just a hardware industry, it is also a strategic industry, and it is even related to national security. We must do the high-end market of basic software ourselves, otherwise we will end up like India, where we can only do the low-end market of offshore outsourcing."

"That's all correct, so what's the problem?"

"...Yeah, that's where the problem lies..."

Boss Huo was fiddling with Alia's business card in his hand, his eyes a little distant, as if he was recalling something.

After a long moment, he seemed to come back to his senses: "Let's continue talking about Liu Shouzheng. He is a salesman, but he can only do sales."

In order to do sales, Shouzheng Group chose to take the marketing route after giving up the core technology route.

The most direct option is to acquire more famous brands of international competitors in order to maintain its own brand advantage.

Shouzheng Group spent a huge amount of money to acquire a sub-brand of Big Blue, the most prestigious foreign computer giant, and merged the other party's personal PC business.

But rather than saying that he acquired the other party, it would be more accurate to say that the other party acquired a stake in Shouzheng Group.

The merger and acquisition cost US$12.5 billion, of which hundreds of millions of dollars of Shouzheng Group shares were transferred to the other party, and the other party's directors also became directors of Shouzheng Group.

That merger and acquisition allowed Liu Shouzheng to successfully open up the overseas market, and relying on the other party's quality endorsement, he successfully doubled the price of his products.

But the problem is that the 12.5 billion yuan was spent but no core technology was obtained. The company only bought a label, which inevitably makes people criticize whether the goodwill is worth it.

Of course, it is worth it in terms of stock price. He is not losing money anyway - the product quality remains the same and the price doubles, isn't this also moving towards the high-end?

Liu Shouzheng successfully brought Shouzheng Group to the world and was known as the godfather of the technology industry at that time.

Alia didn't pay attention to the history that was different from her memory: "Why did Big Blue sell the right to use its sub-brand?"

"Of course it's because R&D costs too much money, and the department continues to lose money and can't sustain it."

"Then why did Liu Shouzheng make a profit instead of a loss after acquiring the other party's brand?"

"If we stop doing research and development, we won't lose money. How simple is that?"

Twenty years ago, the Blue Giant's sub-brand burned through $1 billion in research and development costs in three and a half years.

After being acquired, the sub-brand has completely embarked on a sales-oriented path.

The R&D department that was acquired as a whole has changed from creating new things to annual repairs and replacements of some ready-made things in the industrial chain and supply chain.

I use whatever others have and have made. Isn’t that awesome?

Of course, Liu Shouzheng also had something to say - other people's designs were so mature that they were not suitable for major modifications.

I changed it, the taste changed, and users don’t buy it. What should I do?

From assembly and production to independent research and development and iteration, the cost is enormous, and the pain that needs to be endured is also huge.

Most companies never make it to the positive cycle, not even Alia now.

All her current technological research and development is at the investment stage, using the inheritance left to her by her father Ai Rulong.

So she can talk without any worries, but when she takes action, she can make billions or even hundreds of millions.

But she can't say that other people's back pain is caused by kneeling for too long. It's normal that they don't invest in research and development and are willing to earn the assembly fee.

"But the problem is that Shouzheng Group, an assembly group, initially received a lot of support and was even trained as a leader."

Boss Huo put away Alia's business card and said, "He was trained to be a general, but in the end he was just a bad soldier. The entire industry lost at least ten years of opportunities."

Ailia now has the support of Boss Huo and the favor of Tianhai city officials.

But at that time, Shouzheng Group was supported by the entire country and had the national market and favor of consumers.

So when expectations turn into disappointment, who owns the resources and policies that were invested in those expectations and paid for them?

"Boss Liu told me before that their patent technology application ranks third in the country."

"Heh...what percentage of the company's revenue do you invest in R&D? What's the current percentage?"

“I’m not sure, but it shouldn’t be lower than 25%, maybe a little higher. It’s always difficult to get started.”

"Shouzheng Group's profit will not be higher than three points a year, or even less, so it is always easy to make money."

"Not really... He said before that there were more than a dozen points."

"They are the parent company. The parent company's accounts are naturally good-looking, after all, they are used to fool investors, but I guess half of it is spent on salaries for development employees. Don't you understand this trick when you run your own business?"

"On the other hand, they can have such high revenue and market share by relying on a few research and development points. Isn't that good?"

Boss Huo looked at Alia deeply and said, "Girl, I know what you want to say, and you know what I want to say. You can say that Liu Shouzheng is immoral for doing these things. He can make money by spending money to buy patents and set up an assembly plant. To put it bluntly, there are people who help him smooth things over when he can't figure out some things. The older generation of researchers in the Computer Research Institute can still get a pension from Shouzheng Group every year. It is because the funding for scientific research institutions was reduced that year. Shouzheng Group is actually a way out for the institute itself. There is nothing wrong with it - but some things shouldn't be like this."

“What should it be like?”

"...Yeah, what should it be like?"

For a moment, Boss Huo was actually a little confused and discouraged.

When Liu Shouzheng was still a child, he already had assets worth hundreds of billions, and was a big shot in the business world. His business couldn't be bigger.

But he still couldn't find that path, and finally could only choose to support it in a way that was intangible but could boost confidence, such as sports culture.

"Using the advantages of the entire industry chain, we can truly give back to the industry, master core technologies, formulate industry standards, cultivate technical talents, and become someone that competitors hate."

“Why should we make our competitors hate us?”

"If they like me, then consumers probably won't like me."

"You—you are still young. I really hope you can stick to it in the future."

"Then why are you giving me so many resources? Aren't you afraid that I will become the second Liu Shouzheng?"

"I feel sorry for their luck and angry at their lack of fighting spirit, but the times have always changed. After more than ten years, we still have to take this path and find someone to move forward."

Chip industry, semiconductor industry, hardware assembly industry chain integration, basic software development, maintenance and technical follow-up.

Alia is not a savior, she is just a lucky little white flower who happened to be on the roadside, bright and beautiful, and was noticed at a glance.

Little White Flower stood up and stretched. "Oh, it's complicated, too complicated. I don't understand it. What should I do?"

"Then just do your business honestly, and someone will help you sort out the rest."

"If you say so, then I believe it."

"You girl..."

"I have some information. I sent it to your email. Please read it and give me some guidance."

Ailia lowered her voice and said, "I don't think that project is right, especially Dr. Chen. If he is really capable, he will be the second Academician Nan. I will support him even if it means I will sell everything I have. But if not, Shouzheng Group is probably eyeing Tianhai's high-tech industry planning."

Based on the last phase development strategy of the national 863 plan, Tianhai's high-tech industrial base is planned to have a total scale of over billion.

Tax reduction and exemption are the most basic, in addition there are various conveniences and assistance in attracting talents, and then there is the most valuable and least valuable land.

There are a total of 7,000 acres of land in the eastern suburbs, and this is only the support that can be provided in the first phase.

You should know that the entire Tianhai only sells more than 100 pieces of industrial real estate a year, and the total area is just over 10,000 acres.

The average transaction price of this kind of industrial land is now over a million. The value of the 7,000 acres of land squeezed out by Tianhai, where every inch of land is valuable, can be imagined...

Boss Huo raised his eyebrows: "I'm not kidding, he wants to cooperate with you?"

"I'm going to make some dirty money, isn't that okay?"

Boss Huo sneered: "Okay, of course, do you think I believe it?"

"So this person must not have a criminal record, otherwise no one will believe him when he does good things, and no one will believe him when he does bad things - I want to be bad! I want to eat junk food like crazy!"

"Okay, okay, eat. You can eat anything... Oh, by the way, cast your vote first."

"Okay, where?"

"Over there. By the way, I've registered you for the vice-president's position. I've given you both the votes from Lao Chen and I. Our votes must be registered, so you're hanging there. Show your face and say something...Email...How do I use this email..."

Alia took two steps forward, then came to her senses and looked blankly at Boss Huo, who was even more confused than her.

The latter was wearing reading glasses, studying his mobile phone seriously, poking it with a stylus.

Alia snatched the A1-Note from his hand: "Stop it - what did you sign up for?"

"Didn't your secretary tell you?"

“…I don’t have a secretary.”

"Isn't that girl next to you your secretary assistant?"

"LeLe? She--oh my god, why did she run away these days?"

Alia was horrified, she was stabbed in the back!

This is a shameful betrayal and a complete trap!

"Maybe she didn't see it either... Can't you print it out and show it to me? This is the email address, right? How do you type this circle?"

"Aite - Tsk, no, I have to go and make it clear. I said I would vote for Boss Jiang this time. Old man, you've made me break my promise!"