Chapter 553: Daily Life

The production of the speaker, although he didn't have a factory himself, was not a big problem; there were plenty of OEM factories. Under the current industrial chain distribution and coordinated cooperation model, almost all of them used this method. He just needed to find good hardware employees, solve some technical problems, and then recruit people to go to the factory to do a good job of quality control.

The key to the problem lay in how many could be sold.

Wang Yan's actions were very fast. The industry in Lin'an was also very complete, so the next day he found a small-scale factory and let them OEM to first produce a prototype. They also discussed the OEM price. Because the quantity could not be guaranteed, and the product had no reputation, they simply signed a cooperation intention and paid a deposit.

The production of the prototype was relatively laborious because it had to adapt to the production line and make some adjustments. So it would take a few more days. Taking advantage of this time, Wang Yan found a lawyer to handle various necessary procedures; trademarks and patents all had to be applied for.

He also contacted three online music platforms—Tencent Music, NetEase Cloud Music, and Kugou Music—as well as three online video platforms—Tencent Video, iQIYI, and Youku—and also contacted search platforms like Baidu and Sogou. These things had to be built into the intelligent speaker. To use other people's things, one had to spend money to buy authorization; this was the advantage of being a platform—making money while lying down.

Of course, there were functions like mobile phone screen casting and Bluetooth connection to play songs, but one also had to consider those who didn't use it that way, such as the elderly. Although the operation of screen casting looked very simple, there were many who couldn't even handle mobile phones, and these all had to be taken into account.

At the same time, he recruited a technical person to do this, and recruited two people responsible for quality control. When the time came, they would be stationed directly at the factory.

Recruiting people, of course, couldn't be done in one day; he had already sent it out before. The company now also had its own human resources, contacting them together with Wei Lan. A small company also started to have first-round and second-round interviews.

The first round was Wei Lan and the newly arrived human resources, simply asking some questions with answers, and then chatting to see character and personality. The second round was up to Wang Yan. He would focus on testing the technical level, and then chat to see what the person was like.

Wang Yan, of course, was straightforward. If it was okay, he would make a decision on the spot; if not, he would also tell the interviewee where they were lacking. During this process, Wei Lan was always there.

The reason for this was to exercise Wei Lan's ability to judge people. He would tell Wei Lan how he felt about the interviewee and how he saw it, which belonged to practical teaching.

Although pregnant, it didn't delay anything. Every day's life was very regular. She slept until she woke up naturally, then went to the company to work until after eleven o'clock, the two went home to cook and eat, went to the company again around one o'clock in the afternoon, and left after four o'clock in the evening. After eating at home and taking a stroll, Wei Lan basically read books and studied, occasionally consulting Wang Yan.

This was true happy learning, and Wang Yan, a player who had held super invincible giant enterprises countless times, created the Wang family empire twice, and hadn't worked for others for nearly a thousand years, taught without reservation.

Furthermore, Wang Yan basically no longer paid attention to the daily operations of the two companies, but handed these tasks over to Wei Lan, and he only was responsible for technology and the future. Now the company was in the stage of growing from small to large, which was very good for exercising people's ability. Under such happy learning and happy working, Wei Lan couldn't help but improve.

Of course, the life of the two couldn't always be day after day. On the fifth day after Wei Lan confirmed her pregnancy, the couple drove their small car to the factory in Linping.

As soon as the car drove into the factory, Zhao Changchun, who was eating in the canteen, wiped his mouth and ran over: "Boss, Boss's wife, you came, why didn't you say so in advance?"

"Old Zhao, although we are not familiar, there is no need to do those empty things. Even if I told you, you would still set up a welcoming line for me and set off firecrackers? No need to have such a big sense of crisis. Didn't I tell you before? As long as you do the work a factory manager should do, manage the people in the factory well, complete the factory's production tasks, and don't be greedy or occupy, then as long as my company doesn't go bankrupt, at worst you can work here until retirement. Naturally, be natural."

Wang Yan patted Zhao Changchun, who was hunching his body, on the shoulder. He was still estranged, still because he had to look at faces, and one sentence could decide their family's life. In middle age, if one couldn't be hard, one had to bend; it was all forced by life.

"We still have a short time of contact, and now there is no business in the factory. You will know after you have more contact with me later; no need to put so much pressure on yourself. Let's go, the couple of us came here just to have lunch. The chef has been found for such a long time, let's taste if there is any progress, and also see what the state of the workers is. They haven't cursed me much recently, have they?"

Zhao Changchun led the way, feeling a bit embarrassed listening to the young boss's words, but still shook his head without changing his expression: "No such thing, they all say you are a good boss."

Wang Yan shook his head and smiled: "Forget it, I don't know about others, but I know myself. If I had such a boss who tossed around, I could curse three times a day. Not to mention whether the conditions are good or not, one still has to curse when one should. Everyone is out working to make money, and the conditions are indeed a bit better, but to say how grateful they are to the boss, that's meaningless. Also, from now on, call me Wang Zong; don't always call me Boss, it sounds awkward."

You know, yet you ask me what to do... Zhao Changchun said "Yes, Wang Zong," and then led Wang Yan and Wei Lan into the canteen.

This canteen was actually also a production workshop, but it was just that the previous boss didn't manage it well and had no energy to expand the production line, and even if it was expanded, it was useless, so it was cleaned up and used as a worker canteen.

As Zhao Changchun brought Wang Yan and Wei Lan in, the noisy buzzing that filled the workshop stopped. Pairs of eyes looked at Wang Yan and Wei Lan.

Wang Yan swept a glance at the fifty-plus people in the field. The mental state was indeed improved. After all, it had been half a month since the acquisition of the factory, and the improvement of meals was almost synchronized. They were also following a retired veteran soldier found from a professional military training base for military training all day long, so the mental outlook was still greatly improved.

"What are you all looking at me for? I'm just here to take a look, not to find trouble. Eat when you should eat, chat when you should chat."

The boss said so, but those workers didn't dare to talk nonsense, so they were quiet for a while. However, it was only for a while, and immediately afterward, they started whispering in twos and threes. When there was so much whispering, it became noisy again.

Wang Yan could think with his heels that these people were complaining about him again, but he didn't care and followed Old Zhao to the very back.

Several slidable metal tables had several basins of dishes on them. Braised pork, dry-fried hairtail, garlic sprouts with scrambled eggs, boiled vegetable hearts, and a vegetable ball soup, and then there was a board of rice. Four dishes and one soup—it was four dishes and one soup, and it was implemented quite well.

Seeing Wang Yan looking at the remaining dishes and looking at him questioningly, Zhao Changchun explained: "Wang Zong, it just started for lunch, and many people haven't come to add rice and dishes yet."

"The problem of leftovers must be paid attention to. You can eat more, but you can't throw away more."

"Yes, Wang Zong. The management system we developed has also been downloaded and installed by the workers. Usually, when eating, I let them confirm the number of people in advance on it. Breakfast and lunch are easy to make, but dinner is sometimes eaten by some people and not by others, and the chefs can't grasp it well. But it's been half a month now, and the chefs have been able to grasp it. Some waste is inevitable, but it is absolutely under control."

Wang Yan nodded, walked around with his hands behind his back to the kitchen at the very back, touched this and looked at that, and checked the hygiene environment. Not to mention how clean it was, after all, it was a place for cooking, and it was inevitable that there would be some oil stains, and it hadn't been long since cooking, but it was absolutely not dirty. After looking through it once, he was very satisfied; Old Zhao did things well and was relatively stable.

Afterward, he followed Wei Lan to get the rice and dishes himself. This was getting it himself. Wei Lan was pregnant and was in the middle of various symptoms, so she just got a few pieces of hairtail, some other two vegetable dishes, a bowl of soup, and some small pickles. Wang Yan was different; a large dining tray, full of rice and dishes, which made Zhao Changchun click his tongue in wonder.

Sitting at the table where Zhao Changchun was sitting, Wei Lan tasted a vegetable heart and nodded: "The taste is not bad, husband, it's about the same level as yours."

Wang Yan nodded with a smile. He had eaten it once before, and immediately ate the rice in large mouthfuls.

"Old Zhao, how is the training of the employees responsible for quality inspection of medicinal materials?"

"The types of medicinal materials needed for the products we want to make are too many, hundreds of them. Our workers basically have junior high and high school education, and they are not young, so their learning ability is relatively poor, so the effect is not very ideal. Even if I found some new employees later, the time was too short, and the difficulty of identifying medicinal materials was not small, so the progress was not fast. Wang Zong, I think if you want to reach the level you mentioned, it won't work without working for a year or a half."

"Normal. In the past, TCM apprentices learned to recognize medicine for several years. Although the difficulty of this one is much smaller and there is no need to know the medicinal properties, it is not an easy job. Take your time, don't worry. At the current stage, as long as you can distinguish what is absolutely not allowed, it will be fine."

"They have already reached such conditions." Zhao Changchun nodded and then asked: "Wang Zong, are we going to start production?"

"The company that ordered the equipment called me to tell me about the progress. In another week, at the latest within ten days, it will be delivered to our factory for installation. I have already contacted the medicinal material supply before, ordering more than two million medicinal materials from the Northeast, Yunnan, Guizhou, and other places, which will be transported here this week. After the equipment enters the field and is debugged for a day, we can officially start production. Recently, you have to check the warehouse and the medicinal material processing area divided before, as well as the workshop environment, and find someone to test it. Things that enter the mouth cannot be sloppy."

"Okay, Wang Zong, I will organize manpower to start a big cleanup again in the afternoon, and find professional people to come over to see if our workshop is qualified, and hurry up to make production preparations."

Wang Yan nodded, and then chatted about gossip, caring about Old Zhao's family situation, etc.

Two million medicinal materials seem to be a lot, but in fact, it is not much. After all, the value of medicinal materials is different, and there are many precious medicinal materials. With the proficiency of these employees, basically, once the production line is opened, it will be finished in two days, and if they are proficient, it may just be half a day's work. Double the profit, net victory of more than four million.

In fact, regarding mass production, he is not very anxious. Because he doesn't have so many customers, although the people recruited now are making calls to screen out across the country every day, in fact, there are few customers, and they still have to accumulate slowly, slowly brew and ferment, and then explode.

However, mass production also has benefits for him. After all, in the past, he relied on hand-rolling. This month, he exploded, and so far he has only rolled three million goods. And the factory has more goods, the faster the production, which is what he can't compare to. Now it finally let him get rid of this repetitive labor and let him free up time.

Another most important point is that he is finally compliant and legal. In the past, no one paid attention, but if he really wanted to be serious, he would not go to jail for producing like that, but a fine would definitely not be able to run, and maybe his business license would be revoked. Now he is finally safe, can produce boldly, can borrow money and pull liabilities, and has completely no worries.

And in fact, he also has a marketing strategy to quickly open up business, a very simple method, let profit. Give discounts to current old users, let them pull new ones, new customers buy a course of three bottles, each bottle only 9999, and customers who successfully promote can also get a coupon, which can also buy a bottle for 9999. At the same time, this discount has no upper limit, and the activity lasts for half a year.

No one's money is blown by the wind. In the past, when it returned to the original price from eight thousand, it caused great dissatisfaction, but this is a complete seller's market, and it was explained early, so there is no way to be dissatisfied. The activity price, compared to the original price, dropped by nearly three thousand yuan, and rich people will also be moved. After all, not everyone is so rich. If a normal family of five eats it, an annual salary of one million can't hold it. Unless it is one million after tax, but in contrast, it is a significant decline in living standards.

So, a discount of three thousand yuan is quite powerful. If there are no accidents, there will be a wave of sales explosion next.

Listening to the plan after Wang Yan said it, Wei Lan sighed: "It's really too fast. According to this development, I guess by the time the child is born, our family will have several hundred million, right?"

"You can enlarge the number even more." Wang Yan still propped his head on the car window with his left arm, holding his face with his hand, and controlling the steering wheel with one hand, full of careless laziness: "Next month, you can use the factory to mortgage loans, and two or three thousand ten thousand is no problem. With this money, our company will expand at once, one day at a time. If there are no accidents, by the time the child is born, we should already be a nationally famous company. No matter how it is defined, it can be called a successful person."

Wei Lan puffed her cheeks: "Then the reputation of selling 'Great Strength Pills' is not good."

"The thinking is too narrow. The name is just a code name that distinguishes it from other products; it doesn't matter what it's called. The main thing is what are we doing? Although it sells very expensive, we can earn more than eight thousand per bottle. But you personally feel that we are indeed improving the health of the people of the motherland, a major event related to the national economy and the people's livelihood. Reputation is a burden; don't be obsessed with those useless things. Just take our product, give it to anyone who scolds us, and if you meet someone with average psychological quality, it might be possible to die suddenly. Just treat it as their envy, jealousy, and hatred."

"And what about later? Have you ever thought about lowering the price? Rich people's bodies are already healthy, and they control various resources of society. I think we should invest in research later to lower the cost so that people all over the country can afford it. In that way, we can earn a lot of money and have a good reputation."

"This pattern has come up all of a sudden." Wang Yan nodded with relief: "Don't worry, at the current stage, our money is still too little to do anything big. After a while, I will set up a laboratory to develop cheaper capsule drugs so that more people can afford them."

Wei Lan said "Hmm," was silent for a long time, and said: "Should we donate some money? Just treat it as praying for the child."

Wang Yan was even more relieved and said with a smile: "How much do you want to donate?"

"Donate... one hundred thousand or two hundred thousand? Isn't it said that donations can be tax-deductible? We have done good deeds and paid less tax, how good."

"You have to be bolder. One hundred thousand or two hundred thousand doesn't match the fact that we earn so much money, but this can be considered as expressing a heart first, just to express it." Wang Yan shook his head and smiled, thought for a moment and said: "We don't earn much money now, but we need money everywhere. Wait until next year, let's go to the poverty-stricken mountain area to donate a school, or build a cement road or something, spending three million according to the plan. If it is building a school, we can't just finish it and pull it down, because our ability is greater, so we must do it in one step.

We have to be responsible for the children's eating and drinking nutrition, and also negotiate with the local education bureau, or we bear the teacher's expenses, or we subsidize a part, anyway, we have to be responsible to the end. If the local county lacks junior high school, then we will build junior high school later. If it is not lacking, we will subsidize junior high school to improve the teaching conditions and teaching level of junior high school. Then we will subsidize high school, and then we will set up special scholarships and grants for universities. We guarantee that those children can study safely until they graduate from university.

I believe that one day, we will definitely see a little girl or a little boy in our company, walking to us somewhat nervously, saying that he is a student who graduated from the school built by our company. At that time, seeing such a healthy, spirited child standing in front of us, what kind of mood should it be?"

Wei Lan lay on the passenger seat, looking at the road ahead with dull eyes. For a long time, she let out a long breath: "That must be very good..."

In her tone, there was heartache, expectation, happiness, and pride. She must have thought of the poorest child who appeared in the news in the past, thinking of this child walking a long way in the remote mountain village to the school they built, wearing warm clothes, studying hard in a warm classroom, eating meat, eggs, and milk to supplement nutrition, and growing her body. The child went to junior high school, went to high school, was admitted to the university she liked, found a job, and after more than ten years of hard study, came to her...

Really good...

An untimely phone ring broke this atmosphere of hope. Wang Yan took a look, then smiled and answered the phone: "Hello? Zhou Zong?"

"Wang Zong, the prototype of the intelligent speaker you developed has been produced, it's very hot, when do you have time to come and take it? Or should I send someone to send it to you?"

This Zhou Zong also had insight. After it was produced, he played with it for a while. The feeling was very simple, that is, there is money to be made. The market for intelligent speakers is also on the scale of ten billion. Although it has been lagging in the past two years, with a cliff-like decline, there is still a market. Sales of several million a year. And now Wang Yan's one is very capable. Once the situation is opened, it is making a lot of money. So he OEM production, although earning less than Wang Yan, is not earning less. There are still more than two months before the New Year, so strive to have a fat year this year.

"Oh, that might be troublesome for Zhou Zong to send someone over. I am in Linping, just about to go back. It just so happens that your factory is in Xiasha. We start from both sides, and I will just receive the goods when I go back."

"Alright, then I will let someone drive over. I will congratulate Wang Zong on selling well first, making a fortune, making a fortune."

"Isn't Zhou Zong also making a fortune, making a fortune?"

The two laughed twice, and then hung up the phone. Being able to make money is a good brother, and the relationship is much closer.

Wei Lan asked curiously: "I heard this Zhou Zong laughing so happily, is it guaranteed to make money?"

"Not to mention whether I have shown you the design drawing, just putting it in the living room and tracking children at any time is enough to earn a lot. After a while, we will go back to the company, and you will know after you see the finished product."

"Really can't understand, how can you know so much..."

"Perhaps this is genius."

"Fart, genius, why were you so miserable before?"

"People need to be awakened. I just awakened for a while, plus some luck, which achieved the current me. It can be considered an acquired awakened genius."

"What luck?"

Wang Yan turned his head to look at Wei Lan, raised his eyebrows, deliberately pinched his throat, changed to a magnetic voice like a magnet, and actually sang: "There are always some surprising encounters, for example, when I met you～～"

Wei Lan burst into laughter, listened to Wang Yan's singing and hummed along, and used her phone to find this song and played it...

Happily returned to the company all the way. Just went upstairs to the entrance of their company, the front desk girl facing the door pointed to a box on the table that had exquisite, simple packaging and looked quite technological: "Wang Zong, this was asked to be transferred to you by someone who came before."

"Good, thank you."

The previous company partitioned a front desk position, so a girl was set up to sit here, responsible for receiving interviewers, as well as some other administrative work. There were no people who came to the company to talk about business properly, that is, there was such a position, and if you didn't make a good-looking girl, it was a bit lacking.

Wang Yan took the box and went to his office with Wei Lan, and handed the box to Wei Lan: "Here, this first unboxing benefit in the world, just leave it to you. I will take a video for you, so that your million fans can take a look later."

Wei Lan's pet account became the only propaganda window for their technology company facing customers...

"Good, you pay attention, don't show your face."

"Don't worry."

While speaking, Wang Yan took out his phone and started filming.

Wei Lan took a deep breath, then stretched out her hand to unpack the packaging, and then took things out one by one. The action was very slow, reserving the introduction time for dubbing. This internet celebrity didn't act in vain; it was just two words, professional.

Following her actions, this intelligent speaker was finally revealed.

This intelligent speaker was white, a round, fat, sci-fi cartoon image, with two big eyes, no arms and no feet, only a round body, a square-round base, suspended between the body and the base, and could rotate and move freely.

Of course, it wasn't that there was no way to make it look slim and cool. The technology he mastered could even make a flexible little robot. But a fatal problem was that it needed some people to develop and implement it, and compared to it, the cost of production was high, and the selling price was much higher. It went back to the key problem: if he formed this kind of R&D team, it would be better to smash the foundation of artificial intelligence and dig out the technology he mastered bit by bit; the robot was just incidental.

So now this became the best choice, which could be built into a large speaker, increase the battery module, and have more functions.

Two eyes were two cameras, bionic vision, which could do indoor monitoring, could also set up to identify strangers, and the child movement care mentioned by Wang Yan before, discovering dangerous behavior, and timely alarm reminders. It could even transmit data back through identified human movement to train artificial intelligence.

And on its belly, there was a small projection module, which realized high-definition projection through technical means. Through the suspended design, it could realize the adjustment of a ninety-degree elevation angle, which could face the wall or the ceiling. Of course, no matter how high-definition it was, it was ultimately projection. If there was no screen, or the lighting was relatively good, it was relatively ordinary.

This function was of course relatively tasteless. After all, those with houses generally had TVs or special projectors, and those without houses also had computers, tablets, and mobile phones that everyone had, so they could always watch. But there were always some people who liked this. After all, it was equivalent to buying an intelligent speaker and giving away a junk projector, which sounded relatively cost-effective.

And people just liked fresh things; whether it was useful or not was not important, whether it was there or not was important. It could be unused, but it couldn't be absent. It was the same truth as many useless things in life and many unused functions of electronic products; it had to be there.

Since it was projected, it couldn't just project movies and such. So it was still interactive. The projection module on the chest could produce some interesting patterns, or release deep blue light, creating some technological mystery. It could also project some emotional states of artificial intelligence during conversation.

In addition to intelligent monitoring, child protection, and projection, the voice assistant function of the intelligent speaker was of course top-notch. Fluent conversation, dialect recognition, absolutely would not appear in the situation of you saying "front gate tower," it saying "hip bone axis," and it could also very meticulously adjust the sound of artificial intelligence speaking, as well as the custom name of the call. You could record a piece of your own family's voice as an assistant, or you could get a two-dimensional one. The custom call could be made into "Er Gou Zi," "San Lu Zi," "Zhang San Li Si," all could be.

As for other control of smart home appliances, that was a small matter. After all, the industry followed common protocols. As long as it had that function, it would work well. The reaction time didn't look at his intelligent speaker, but at the technical level of other home appliance manufacturers.

Overall, it was actually very good, better than similar products. It was not a high-fidelity speaker, nor was it a personal data server; it was just a terminal with higher technology that could simply listen to music, watch movies, and control smart home appliances.

Correspondingly, although the price could not be compared with those with prominent functions, it had to be higher than those with only two or three hundred yuan. After all, it had to match his level and the materials piled up. So, 999 was a very good price.

Then add a projection option, without this function, it only cost 799. In this way, the 999 one was very easy to sell. After all, it was only a difference of two hundred yuan, not much, not little, and the chest of the intelligent speaker glowing was already very cool. If you interact with people again, no one should refuse, right... ===== CHAPTER 554 =====

Then, add an optional projector; if you don't include that feature, it's only 799. This way, the 999 version will sell very well. After all, it's only a 200-yuan price difference—not much, not little—and the glowing chest of the smart speaker is already cool enough. If you add interaction with people, I don't think anyone would refuse, right...