Please make money.

"Change them all - change to something lighter, ask the chef to cook some boiled cabbage, and just keep it simple."

As she spoke, she began to lose her temper again: "There's not even anyone to accompany me during the meal! Busy, busy, busy, all busy - all of them are ungrateful!"

The nanny had long been immune to the old lady's mood swings. She cleared the table in silence, not letting anything go in one ear and out the other.

“Da da da——”

There was the sound of high heels, and the nanny looked back and saw that Assistant Liu, who was thought to be back in the evening, had already appeared at the door of the restaurant.

"Liu'er—you came just in time!"

"Madam." Assistant Liu came up to her with a smile: "What's wrong? Is the food not to your liking?"

"Humph, it's boring to eat alone..." The old lady's eyes were gloomy: "You say, Ah Hu, do you care about me as your mother a little bit?"

Assistant Liu felt a chill in his heart. Even if it was Ai Ruhu's serving attitude, a single disappointment would make this petty old lady forget all the kindness she had received before.

He is still her own son...

"How could that be?" Assistant Liu forced a smile and said, "It could be something going on at the group that has held him back."

"What could be going on with the group?"

"Something went wrong at the group." Assistant Liu leaned close to the old lady's ear and whispered something like this.

"She's crazy!" The old lady turned around in surprise: "So many senior executives - isn't she afraid of backlash?!"

"Otherwise, why would even Director Ai be alarmed? His intention is to quickly stop the young lady and appease those executives."

"What young lady? She's just a wild girl!" The old lady paused with dissatisfaction on her cane. "She is really going to squander this family fortune! The eldest brother has been in charge for so long, working diligently and conscientiously, but as soon as she came to power, she wanted to take action against those senior executives in order to fight for power and profit. She is trying to force everyone to become disloyal and hate our Ai family to death!"

Assistant Liu lowered his eyes and stood aside obediently.

"... Make her crazy!" The old lady thought for a moment and said, "On Thursday's shareholders' meeting, let the boss come forward and kick her out!"

"But the eldest lady owns 75% of the shares and has absolute control..."

"What's wrong with absolute control? Even if she has absolute control, she still needs at least more than half of the shareholders' votes to take on a real position!"

The old lady's eyes were sharp: "She dares to take action against the senior executives now. If she gets the actual management power in the future, I dare not even imagine what she will dare to do!"

"..."

"Contact those shareholders and send them money directly!"

"How much do you give?"

"Ask them how much they would offer if they supported the boss and not that little bitch... Anyway, no matter how much we lose now, we can get it back from the group in the future!"

Assistant Liu's pupils shrank, and his throat rolled unconsciously. Thinking of Alia who was with him before, his hands and feet felt a little numb.

Scared...

"I still don't believe it. How could she rebel? I'm her grandmother. How can I not control her? Liu'er—Liu'er?"

"Hey, I'm listening."

"What are you thinking about?" The old lady looked at Assistant Liu suspiciously.

Assistant Liu smiled bitterly: "I am worried about the money. You and the eldest lady are a family. Why would you give the money to other shareholders just to get angry?"

The old lady felt distressed after hearing this and started to get angry: "What can I do? If I hadn't run into such an ungrateful person, I wouldn't have done this!"

She cursed for a while: "Humph! It's settled! Thursday - completely sideline her! Since she insists on taking the shares, let her shares be worthless in the future!"

……

……

"Equity and other things are not important, and money is not important either."

Ailia was sitting in the office of Mr. Jing, holding a thermos cup, while Mr. Jing was listening to the teachings attentively.

“Making money is a means, not an end. What is our goal?”

Young Master Jing straightened his back immediately: "Make it bigger and stronger, and create greater glory!"

"That's right - we have so many resources in our hands now, why can't we create something new?"

"The matter of the equity dispute..."

"Hey, I told you it's not a big deal, don't worry about it, I'm here."

Ailia waved her hand and said, "Don't always focus on such petty palace fights. Your sister is not dead yet!"

The second young master Jing was convinced. After all, if the sky fell, there was a tall person like her to hold it up, so what was he afraid of?

His mind relaxed, his appetite opened up, he took two mouthfuls of rice, and said vaguely: "Sister, I feel like my career is boiling now!"

"Open, isn't it?"

"light and spacious!"

"Do you know why?"

"why?"

"We don't have ourselves in our hearts—" Alia clinked her thermos cup with his Coke: "Great cause!"

Young Master Jing gulped down the happy water, burped, and looked at the huge office. For a moment, he felt quite proud.

"Sister, I've made up my mind. After I clean up the consumer electronics department, I want to make mobile phones!"

"...making mobile phones?" Alia was stunned: "A new project?"

The Consumer Electronics Division does have a mobile phone business, and Ai Ruhu likes it very much, but the Ai Er mobile phones under his command are basically second-tier level.

It is roughly equivalent to the level of brands like Tianyu, Gionee, and Konka in Alia's memory when the smartphone industry exploded.

It barely kept up with the pace, but not completely, and was half-dead - just the right time to make money internally!

"Sister, look at this." Young Master Jing took out his cell phone: "Xiaojie helped me edit this before!"

Alia took it and played with it. This thing had the geeky style of later gaming phones.

"You want to do this?" Alia handed the phone back: "I did say that I would give you 20 billion to do the project. You can do whatever you want."

Young Master Jing paused when he heard this, and his eyes widened in disbelief: "Really?!"

"What's the truth?" Alia didn't respond. "What's the matter?"

"No, sister, are you really going to give me 2 billion - for any project?!"

"...You don't have a fever, do you?" Alia reached out and touched her sister's head: "Are you confused? Didn't I promise you that?"

What you promised must be fulfilled? Then my own father promised so many things, every day, but he didn't fulfill many of them...

Young Master Jing bit his chopsticks, tears were about to fall again. He didn't know if it was because of the big scene today that stimulated him, but his emotions were unusually strong.

"Everyone says... They say I did it for money... I even betrayed my own father, saying there is no family affection in my family and we only care about money..."

"Money is useless." Alia rolled her eyes in disdain. "If my uncle and aunt were nicer to me, I would have asked for some money for my retirement, and the rest would have been given to them. It's a mess—"

Young Master Jing wiped his tears, pushed everything on the table aside, and then took out two documents from his briefcase.

"Sister, I'm telling you the truth, the phone I want to make is this!"

"So you lied to me before?"

"Not entirely. Mainly because the budget is small, I will make something cheap." Young Master Jing scratched his head and told the truth.

He finally understood how to face Alia. If you are nice to her, she will be nice to you too. Just tell her what's the matter honestly. She has something real to say.

Alia picked up the two documents and took a look at them. The first one was an industry research report on the current mobile phone market assessment.

This thing can be bought from any securities company for a few thousand dollars, and it contains only some general data.

The mobile phone market in this world is currently in a rather delicate state, similar to the world node in 2014 as she remembered.

So it’s quite interesting. Entertainment was stuck in 2012, technology development was stuck in 2014, but now it’s 2022, what with the network delay…

For the mobile phones in 2014, Xiaojie also modified the heat dissipation, which naturally corresponds to the famous first-generation Fire Dragon 810 chip in Qualcomm's history.

This thing directly screwed over Android manufacturers in 2014. The market share of those with small market share was cut in half because of this generation of screw-ups.

HTC, the current Android leader in the mobile phone industry, has also lost the opportunity to compete with Apple because of this product.

Alia stroked her chin as she finished flipping through the documents, then picked up the second document without comment. After a long moment, she frowned and put both documents back together.

“You want to make a geek phone?”

"No, the phone itself is not geeky, but I want a geeky system!"

Young Master Jing was shocked: "I have already thought of a slogan for the campaign - Born for fever!"

"..."Alia really wanted to say that your surname shouldn't be Ai, your surname should be Lei.

Mr. Lei only dared to establish Houmi after he became financially independent. But even so, the financially independent Mr. Lei only took out 100 million US dollars.

20 billion national yuan is equivalent to more than 3 million US dollars. With this money for recruiting soldiers and doing business, plus Al's own mobile phone foundation, it can't be a losing job no matter how you think about it.

Ailia rubbed her forehead, and for a moment she was in a dilemma.

Is it losing money - or making money?

Should he fulfill his stinky brother's dream - or use him as a tool?

Young Master Jing looked at his young customer service sister with great anticipation. Although she was not the chairman, no one would question her decision-making power.

If she spoke up, Liu Jin and Lei Fan would help her, but if she opposed, she would really become a puppet, just a rubber stamp.

Young Master Jing clenched his fists without realizing it, his knuckles turned white, and his eyes gradually changed from bright and expectant to dim as time went by.

After all, Alia's silence really makes people think of too much...

"I support you." Alia opened her eyes and sighed, "But I have two conditions."

In fact, some things are not contradictory, such as losing money and making money.

If you make money, you can also lose it - I, Alia, don’t make money from making mobile phones, I only want 5% profit from hardware, let’s make friends.

There is no conflict between helping my good sister realize her dream and treating her as a tool. She can realize her dream, and at other times she can be a tool to herself, taking turns.

"Two conditions? Okay! You say!" Young Master Jing was shocked and had already thought of the restrictions he would agree to with Alia.

It's nothing more than arranging people to supervise themselves, or restricting their investment directions, but these are not big——

"First, we must launch a sub-brand to produce low-end and affordable mobile phones, with the upper limit of the price not exceeding 999."

"...Ah?" Young Master Jing responded blankly.

"Secondly, production capacity must keep up, inventory must be sufficient, and the system must be polished. If these cannot be achieved, we would rather give up the market than grab the market."

"Why, why?"

"How many brands are there in the current mobile phone market?" Alia crossed her legs, ready to take care of her sister.

"Are...are there more than a dozen?" Young Master Jing recalled and found that there might be more than a dozen.

"The market is a blue ocean. How can we seize this blue ocean? There are even a large number of feature phones and knockoff phones on the market. These markets are called sinking markets!"

Ailia dipped her tea in the water, drew a big circle on the table, and then drew a very small circle inside the big circle: "This small circle is the market where high-end brands compete, which is what you want to capture."

"But what does this have to do with the 999 phone?"

"Kill the copycat phones!" Alia raised her chin. "Seize the lower-tier markets and cultivate users—spend money! Spend it vigorously! Spend it until you feel like you're in another world!"

"……Then what?"

"Aren't you going to create a geeky system? The sub-brand system and your main brand use the same system to cultivate user habits."

"I understand!" Young Master Jing's eyes lit up, and he looked surprised: "In that case, they will habitually choose my main brand when they change their phones in the future!"

No, actually they don’t. They only look at the price and buy from whoever is cheaper.

Alia thought so in her heart, but of course she couldn't say that. Who would think of giving back to consumers as a capitalist? What a super traitor...

She looked like she had a clear idea in her head: "Yes, as long as your system is competitive, cultivating user habits is cultivating the market!"

"That makes sense... sinking the market... then should we castrate some functions? For example, put the core ones at the high end, and the basic ones at the low end?"

"No." Alia waved her hands repeatedly: "How can this be? You treat users differently like this. Are they fools? At most, you can cut out some insignificant animations to ensure smooth performance. 999 phones are either used to make money or to open up the market and cultivate user groups. You have to have this patience."

Young Master Jing nodded repeatedly, thinking it made a lot of sense: "I understand! I've thought about it before, and now that you've said that, I've thought it through!"

Those who do research reports are not fools. They raised the issues of sinking markets and existing markets early on.

Plus, what Arya said could even be considered a prophecy in some sense. Apart from some "small details" that went astray, everything else was very reasonable.