Chapter 47

Hearing the refusal, Yu Dong advised:

"Mr. Lin, don't you want to hear Huawei's offer?"

"Oh!" Lin Yi looked at him.

"Five billion!" Yu Dong held up five fingers and stated an astronomical figure.

In reality, this was the authorization Old Ren had given him after Yu Dong contacted him at Huawei.

Otherwise, with such a high offer, he would not have the authority to decide.

Clearly, the wealthy and powerful Huawei showed far more sincerity in their bidding than Old Jia of LeEco.

Yu Dong looked at Lin Yi with confidence; he had already learned about Lin Yi's situation from last night's Xinmin Evening News.

Like him, Lin Yi had tested into a major city from a rural village.

The difference was that he had assisted a wise lord, while Lin Yi had chosen to start a business on his own.

He believed that upon hearing his offer, Lin Yi would surely be very tempted.

Indeed, just as he expected, Lin Yi was initially somewhat tempted upon hearing it, but he quickly suppressed those feelings.

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Yu Dong saw that the young man before him had already restored his composure so quickly.

He knew then that this youth would not be easy to deal with.

Just as he had anticipated, Lin Yi spoke directly:

"While I am very tempted by your company's offer, I must still say I am sorry; Fengyi Technology currently has no plans for financing..."

Though immensely disappointed in his heart, Yu Dong still said on the surface:

"That is such a pity!!"

After a moment of silence, Yu Dong watched Lin Yi sitting in his chair, appearing not the least bit anxious.

He realized that even for a large corporation like Huawei, this person might not place much weight on them.

This was because Fengyi Technology's products were truly too stunning.

So much so that even within Huawei, a valuation of five billion had been given; Huawei was betting on Fengyi Technology's future growth potential.

This was a company with the potential to become a unicorn enterprise.

Otherwise, do you think Huawei is an idiot, willing to spend five billion to acquire a newly established small company?

It was precisely because Fengyi Technology's products were too excellent

that many companies wanted to come forward to inquire and make purchases.

Lin Yi did not care too much about Huawei's order.

No matter how large Huawei's order might be, Fengyi Technology still had to be capable of producing it.

Therefore, in this regard, Lin Yi held the initiative.

Even without Huawei's order, for a very long time, Fengyi Technology's new batteries would not lack buyers.

It was exactly this attitude of sitting firmly on the fishing platform that caused Yu Dong to lose his patience, saying:

"Since we cannot invest in your company, I wonder if your company could exclusively supply Huawei?"

"Exclusively?" Lin Yi immediately shook his head and said, "I am sorry, President Yu, but I may not be able to guarantee that!"

Just then, the receptionist at the front desk ran over and said to Lin Yi:

"Boss, the CEO of Yadea has arrived at the company!!"

"Oh!" Lin Yi nodded.

"Additionally, representatives from OPPO, VIVO, and Lei Lei Xiaomi have all arrived for inspection... Boss, what should we do!"

The receptionist said with a troubled expression.

Hearing this, Lin Yi waved his hand to dismiss her first, then turned his gaze to Yu Dong.

The meaning was obvious: now it depended entirely on Huawei's sincerity.

It was not that we could not leave Huawei; rather, it was Huawei that had a request of us.

Yu Dong naturally understood this as well, and he hurriedly asked:

"What is the current production volume of your company's new batteries?"

"If it is mobile phone batteries, we can produce approximately two hundred thousand units per month..."

Lin Yi said.

Hearing this production figure, Yu Dong immediately shook his head and said, "Boss Lin, this output is too low. Do you know Huawei's mobile phone sales data from this year up to November?"

"Ninety-eight million units; we expect our sales volume this year to break one hundred million units."

"Two hundred thousand batteries per month... for us, this is merely a drop in the bucket."

Lin Yi had not expected Huawei's annual sales volume to be nearing one hundred million units, but he still said:

"I am sorry, but even with this monthly quantity of two hundred thousand units, we cannot give them all to Huawei..."

"Boss Lin... we...." Yu Dong became anxious upon hearing this.

"President Yu, please do not be anxious; we are not discriminating against Huawei. As you can see, there are simply too many enterprises requesting batteries from us now."

"Under circumstances where production cannot keep up, we can only try our best to distribute the output."

"Otherwise, we might offend many manufacturers, which would be detrimental to Fengyi Technology's reputation," Lin Yi said.

"But with such a small order, even if Huawei alone consumed it all, we would still struggle to be filled, let alone having to share it. I understand your difficulties, Boss Lin, but could you not make an exception, or perhaps hire more skilled workers to work overtime and increase production?"

Hearing Yu Dong's words, Lin Yi felt a burst of bitter laughter in his heart.

Did he think Lin Yi did not want to produce more? It was simply that there was truly no way.

Currently, Fengyi Technology had only two lithium battery production lines; even if they opened up recruitment for employees,

limited by the capacity of the production lines, the finished product output was also limited.

At present, Lin Yi was preparing to order new equipment, hoping to expand production capacity.

"One hundred thousand units; each month we can provide Huawei with one hundred thousand units of specially customized new lithium batteries, and our side promises that if production capacity is expanded in the future, Huawei will have priority purchasing rights!"

"One hundred thousand yuan; every month we can supply Huawei with one hundred thousand units of specially made new-type lithium batteries, and our side promises that if production capacity expands in the future, Huawei will have priority purchasing rights!"

"This... please wait a moment..." Yu Dong immediately went to the adjacent room and called President Ren.

About ten minutes later, he returned with a smile:

"Very well, we will proceed as Boss Lin has said; however... I hope the signing of the contract can wait for a while. I need to take your company's products back to the Huawei laboratory for further testing..."

"Of course!" Lin Yi agreed to this point very readily.

This was his confidence in his own products.

Thus, Yu Dong took the samples from Fengyi Technology back to Pengcheng.

In fact, these samples had already been demonstrated for him in Fengyi Technology's laboratory;

now all that was needed was to obtain certification from the Huawei laboratory.

As for other mobile phone manufacturers, they were limited by the current communication protocols manipulated by Qualcomm.

As for other mobile phone manufacturers, they are constrained by the communication protocol currently established by Qualcomm.

Even Fengyi Technology's new battery could not be fully utilized.

Yet, despite this, the cobalt-free new battery remained highly sought after.

Over the next two days, at Huawei's headquarters in Pengcheng.

Fengyi Technology's super battery underwent Huawei's most rigorous testing, from high-temperature to low-temperature environments.

Drop resistance, vibration, and so on.

After undergoing a series of tests, Fengyi Technology's cobalt-free solid-state battery deeply impressed Huawei's engineers.

"This battery has a capacity of 8000 mAh, yet its cell volume is half that of ordinary lithium batteries,

while performing excellently in both high and low temperatures, with safety surpassing all current lithium batteries... Besides the cobalt-free breakthrough, this company is also at the forefront of the world in solid-state electrolytes.

It can be said that as a mobile phone battery, it is perfect, truly worthy of being a product jointly developed by Dr. Zhao Zhao Xuebin and Dr. Wen Xiang!"

Said the head of Huawei's Hardware Testing Center.

Old Ren heard this and nodded expressionlessly.

Meanwhile, Yu Dong breathed a sigh of relief.

"Is there really no way to acquire a stake in this company, Old Yu?" Old Ren asked, unwilling to give up.

"I'm sorry, Chairman Ren, that young man's stance is very firm!"

Yu Dong said helplessly.