Chapter 1716: Expert

Yang Qi shivered violently, and a layer of fine sweat beads appeared on his forehead.

When Yuzhou Technology released the DVD standard, the whole country was boiling, and major media reported it extensively.

Even several major central media outlets took action, giving front-page headlines to Yuzhou Technology, and even CCTV did an exclusive interview.

It can be said that the emergence of VCD was a breakthrough from scratch for China in the field of electronic technology.

And the release of the DVD standard broke Japan's monopoly in the field of electronic technology.

Yang Qi now completely understood. This little devil was really insidious. If he couldn't beat them, he would use the banner of cooperation to grab the DVD standard.

If he really forced Yuzhou Technology to cooperate with Sony, once the DVD standard was taken away by Sony, even if the Ministry didn't deal with him, the spit of the common people could drown him.

Chen Quan patted Yang Qi on the shoulder: "You take sick leave, and I will also go to the grassroots to walk around during this period."

Yang Qi nodded: "Understood!"

At the same time, in the presidential suite of the Jingcheng Hotel.

Yoshioka Kunihiko sat on the sofa, holding a teacup, drinking tea very leisurely.

Kojiro Ichiro stood respectfully to one side: "President Yoshioka, my communication with Yang Qi went very smoothly. He very much hopes that our Sony will cooperate with Yuzhou Technology."

"We will go to Jiangzhou the day after tomorrow. He will notify the Jiangzhou side tonight to make preparations to receive us..."

"Yoshi!" Yoshioka Kunihiko was very satisfied: "You must continue to maintain a good relationship with Yang Qi, and find an opportunity tomorrow to give him some small gifts."

Kojiro Ichiro nodded with understanding: "Understood."

Yoshioka Kunihiko took a sip of tea, put the teacup on the coffee table, then stood up and walked to the window, raising his hand to pull open the curtains.

"Headquarters has decided, Sony VCD will lower its price."

Kojiro Ichiro was very unwilling: "Are we going to fight a price war with Wan Yan?"

"What qualifications does Wan Yan have to make our Sony fight a price war with it?" Yoshioka Kunihiko sneered disdainfully: "If it weren't for the 1.1 upgrade version launched by Wan Yan, even if the price was lowered to a few hundred yuan, it would be no threat to us, it only shows that Wan Yan's products are very cheap."

Yoshioka Kunihiko slowly turned around and returned to the sofa to sit down.

"Have you understood Wan Yan's marketing strategy?"

Kojiro Ichiro pondered and said: "Wan Yan lowering the price is to quickly occupy the low-end market. Launching an upgraded version is to maintain the mid-to-high-end brand image."

"Yes!" Yoshioka Kunihiko took out a cigar and cut it with scissors.

Kojiro Ichiro hurriedly picked up matches and lit the cigar for Yoshioka Kunihiko.

Yoshioka Kunihiko took a puff: "The price of the old version of Wan Yan VCD has been lowered to 2,000 RMB. With our Sony's ruling position in the market, it will bring a little trouble, but not much."

"The upgraded version launched by Wan Yan has added many practical functions, which is the biggest threat to our Sony. Because these functions are still very attractive to consumers."

"So, our Sony must lower the price, although this will bring us not small losses. But if we don't lower the price, the inventory of more than 7,000 units will likely be unsalable, which will bring us greater losses."

Kojiro Ichiro asked: "When will our upgraded version be launched?"

Yoshioka Kunihiko leaned against the sofa and crossed his legs: "We are developing those new functions, and it will probably be launched together with the home theater in August."

Kojiro Ichiro frowned and said: "When Wan Yan's first batch of VCDs went on the market, it was clear that they knew very well that they would be bought by us and dissected, so the price was set so high."

"Immediately following, the second batch of VCDs went on the market, and the price returned to a relatively normal price. Not long after our VCD launched on the market, the home theater appeared."

"When we were preparing to launch the home theater, Wan Yan VCD lowered the price, wanting to quickly occupy the low-end market, and launched an upgraded version to maintain the mid-to-high-end brand image."

"Every step they take is just right. There must be a very powerful marketing expert behind Wan Yan. I think such talent should belong to our Sony."

Yoshioka Kunihiko smiled: "Before, I also thought that Wan Yan had a marketing expert, but looking at this price reduction and the launch of the upgraded version, this person has talent, but is still relatively immature."

Kojiro Ichiro was stunned: "Relatively immature?"

"Yes!"

Yoshioka Kunihiko sat up straight, bent down to pick up the teacup that had already cooled, and took a sip.

"If we wait for our Sony VCD inventory to be sufficient and the distribution in China to be completed, and then Wan Yan lowers the price and launches an upgraded version, the losses brought to us will be immeasurable."

"But he was too impatient. Now I only have an inventory of more than 7,000 units. Even if I am forced to lower the price, the loss is nothing to us."

Kojiro Ichiro nodded in agreement: "Then, we won't pay attention to this person for now?"

"No!" Yoshioka Kunihiko smiled sinisterly: "Although this person is relatively immature, if given time, he will definitely grow up and become an enemy of our Sony."

"So, you have to find this person and bring him to Sony at all costs. If he doesn't agree, then find a way to destroy him."

"Hai!" Kojiro Ichiro stood up straight and nodded fiercely: "I will arrange for someone to handle this matter."

Yoshioka Kunihiko checked the time: "Alright, go rest."

"President Yoshioka, you also rest early." Kojiro Ichiro bowed and turned to leave.

Just in the Jingcheng Hotel, on the same floor, in an ordinary suite.

Hearing Lao Meng and Sun Zong sat on the sofa smoking, discussing going to see Zhao Zhenmin tomorrow.

This Zhao Zhenmin is the Director of the Planning Division of the Computer Development Center of the Ministry of Electronics.

The expert who cooperated with Zhou Andong to develop the VCD decoder board.

Originally, Zhao Zhenmin's company was established in mid-1994, and the VCD decoder board was successfully developed in mid-1995.

Because of Zhou Andong's appearance, the decoder board was developed more than a year in advance.

And VCD has three core technologies, one of which is the decoder board.

Originally, Wan Yan had been cooperating with C-CUBE.

But capitalists are greedy; they saw the vastness of China's VCD market.

So, they wanted to use the decoder board patent technology to exchange for Wan Yan's shares.

In the previous life, Hearing Lao Meng and Sun Zong had no choice but to be forced to agree to this request.

In addition, in fact, they also had their own small calculations, which was to use shares to bind C-CUBE.

It's just that they underestimated the greed and shamelessness of the Americans. When China's VCD exploded rapidly.

Selling decoder boards was more profitable than collecting Wan Yan's technology share, so they betrayed Wan Yan without hesitation.

And in this life, because of Zhou Andong's appearance, the domestic decoder board technology was successfully developed in advance, and everything has changed.

When Wan Yan received C-CUBE's request to exchange technology for shares, they immediately thought that Yuzhou VCD had already used a self-developed decoder board. ===== CHAPTER 1717 =====