Chapter 133: Rewards

"We have hired a professional third-party acquisition team to operate the acquisition. Ning Wenke will fly to Europe in person to supervise this acquisition!" Hu Zi said.

The 15% stake in Wanjia Appliance City that Ning Wenke and the Ning family obtained was not given for free. Besides bringing out 20 million US dollars in real money, for acquisitions like this one, it was acquired in the name of the Ning Family Trading Company, and she had to come forward to handle any problems that arose in the future. With the Ning family there, it could save Dongling Gao Ke a lot of trouble.

Li Dongling nodded, "After the acquisition is completed, is there a suitable candidate for general manager of Wanjia Appliance City?!"

"There is one, a 42-year-old Italian professional manager named Lanchi!"

Ren Yuefeng handed a document to Li Dongling, "This is a professional manager Lanchi found by Zhang Ao through a European headhunting company; he is an appliance sales genius!

Lanchi previously worked at Texas Instruments Computers. He helped Texas Instruments Computers in Europe reach sales that once exceeded brands like IBM, Dell, Toshiba, NEC, and Fujitsu.

I heard that Acer is preparing to acquire Texas Instruments' notebook computer business, and Lanchi's position will also change. At this time, we can recruit Lanchi over!"

Li Dongling flipped through Lanchi's information. Compared to other markets, the European market was very special; it was too fragmented, with dozens of countries and regions, each with different languages and customs. Being able to handle the European market indeed required some skill, which was enough to show Lanchi's ability.

"Recruit him as soon as possible!"

Li Dongling put down the information in his hand and looked at Ren Yuefeng, "Not just the European market; in the domestic market, as well as markets in Asia and elsewhere, Wanjia Appliance City must also establish stores and lay out sales channels!"

In the future, Wanjia Appliance City would basically become Dongling Gao Ke's main sales channel. Whether domestic or abroad, it certainly had to be established.

After the others left, Li Dongling called Gao Peng over, "How is that gift prepared for Zhang Ao?!"

As the hero who defeated Siemens in Europe for Shenzhou Telephones, Li Dongling naturally couldn't be stingy; otherwise, who would be willing to risk their lives for Dongling Gao Ke in the future?

"It has already been transported back to Pingyang from Italy through a dealer in Yangcheng. The shipping costs and tariffs for this car are much more expensive than the car itself. Calculated, the price of this car exceeds several hundred thousand US dollars!"

Gao Peng said to Li Dongling. What Li Dongling prepared for Zhang Ao was an F355 sports car. In this era when there were only Santanas, Jeeps, and trucks on the streets, a Ferrari sports car was enough to attract attention. Once the accelerator was pressed, it represented head-turning rates; it was much more eye-catching than Zhang Ao's motorcycle.

Li Dongling noticed the look in Gao Peng's eyes and laughed, "It won't be long before you can also get your own sports car!"

Upon hearing this, Gao Peng's face immediately showed joy, "Then I'll borrow your auspicious words, Brother Li. When the time comes, I'll let my old man take a ride too; I've promised him!"

Gao Peng's status in the Gao family had actually undergone earth-shaking changes over the past year or so. His father, Gao Baifeng, no longer called him idle. Especially as Dongling Gao Ke's strength grew stronger, vaguely becoming Pingyang's number one taxpayer, Gao Peng's status as logistics deputy manager became higher, and his father Gao Baifeng's back in the city government became straighter.

Li Dongling watched Gao Peng's departing figure, preparing to make a trip to the Feiyan Technology Company. One should not worry about scarcity, but about inequality; the executives of Dongling Gao Ke also needed to build up their net worth.

Now, looking at the domestic tech industry, the compensation and net worth of Dongling Gao Ke's executives were not low, but compared to the executives of companies like Sitong, Jinshan, Giant, and a host of health supplement companies, they were a bit low.

Those companies developed annual salaries of over a million for managers and director-level executives, while the compensation for ordinary staff was only a few hundred yuan. This kind of compensation structure was certainly unreasonable, causing high turnover among ordinary staff, often changing a batch of people every few months.

In contrast, Dongling Gao Ke's compensation was a cut above its peers, whether for technical personnel, office staff, or production line staff, which made Dongling Gao Ke's lower and middle levels relatively stable.

Especially the high compensation for technical personnel made Dongling Gao Ke's name in the tech industry quite loud, attracting the joining of many technical personnel.

But for executives at the supervisor and manager level and above, Dongling Gao Ke's current compensation and treatment were a bit inferior. Now, for people like Ren Yuefeng, Hu Zi, Zhang Ao, and Gao Peng, the biggest pie was the equity of Feiyan Technology, and the possibility of it going public in the future, or even landing on NASDAQ, which would allow them to achieve financial freedom in one fell swoop.

Equity in the Dongling Gao Ke parent company would certainly also be rewarded to executives like Ren Yuefeng and some top technical experts in the future, but as for the specifics, it would likely have to wait until later to make a decision. Now, the big pie Li Dongling had drawn was Feiyan Technology. If it couldn't reach the expected listing, then Dongling Gao Ke's management would inevitably experience a tremor.

Feiyan Technology's office was in a corner of Dongling Gao Ke. Many people were busy in front of computers, and it was even a bit crowded. Feiyan Technology's office building had already been bought, but it was still under renovation and wouldn't be moved into until next year. For now, they could only make do here.

As the general manager of Feiyan Technology, Yao Luoying's office was also just a small room. Yao Luoying, wearing a turtleneck sweater with a ladies' suit on the outside, was burying her head in processing documents when a cup of coffee appeared in front of her.

"Hand this document to the Feiyan Sales and After-sales Department in Rongcheng, and have them handle it as soon as possible according to this document!"

Yao Luoying thought it was her assistant who had come over, so she didn't look up and handed over a document. But after the person took the document, they didn't leave.

Looking up, Yao Luoying was just about to speak when she saw Li Dongling in front of her, and a look of joy immediately appeared on her face.

"Drink a cup of coffee first!"

Li Dongling pulled up a chair, sat down, and flipped through the document in his hand a few times.

Yao Luoying took a sip of coffee, and Li Dongling's face appeared in her eyes, "You're done with the Torch Group side, huh? Yesterday, the TV stations in Hanxi Province were all showing the Torch Group's ribbon-cutting ceremony, and even the Yanjing TV station reported it!"

"There are too many problems to deal with over there; it's not something that can be finished in a short while. I would rather see Feiyan Technology appear on TV!" Li Dongling said, looking at Yao Luoying.

Shaking the document in his hand, Li Dongling said, "The Disheng offices in various provinces have all been acquired by Feiyan?!"

Yao Luoying nodded, "Not just the offices; a large portion of Disheng's engineers and production equipment have also been taken by Feiyan. Disheng already has plans to give up the radio business."

Mentioning this, Yao Luoying also carried a bit of emotion. The former number one radio company in the country had now fallen to such a state, which was enough to explain the current market situation of the radio industry in the country.

Besides Feiyan, which was stubborn enough to enter this industry, other companies, including Disheng, had actually already retreated from the radio industry. Facing Feiyan's acquisition, Disheng almost didn't hesitate at all; it was just a matter of selling, selling, selling.

They even dismissed the radio engineers and introduced them to Feiyan, just to save costs and invest money into industries that Disheng thought could make money, such as stocks, real estate, pagers, mobile phones, fax machines, and satellite communications. For the main business of radios, it was a complete clearance sale; they had no intention of leaving a way out.

"No matter what Disheng and other radio companies plan, Feiyan must start preparing to occupy the radio market. Feiyan's revenue must be increased to prepare for listing; this point is very important for Dongling Gao Ke!"

Yao Luoying listened to Li Dongling's words and sipped her coffee gently. She could feel that Li Dongling valued this matter highly, "Next year, Feiyan's two radio models are expected to go on sale on time!"

Li Dongling nodded. After standing up, he walked to Yao Luoying, and his fingers tucked a strand of hair that had caught on the corner of her mouth behind her cheek.

Yao Luoying didn't move. It wasn't until Li Dongling withdrew his hand that her cheeks felt a bit hot as she looked around. Seeing no one paying attention, she finally felt relieved.

Coming out of Yao Luoying's office, Li Dongling came to Feiyan's technical department again. Feiyan's technical department and Dongling Gao Ke's technical department were in the same experimental building. The previous R&D personnel had also come over from Dongling Gao Ke. Now, added to the technical personnel dug over from Disheng and other radio companies, they formed the current Feiyan technical department.

"General Manager Li!"

Seeing Li Dongling come over, the supervisor of Feiyan's technical department, Fu Cheng, immediately walked over. He was also one of the technical personnel who joined Dongling Gao Ke earliest, and now he had been transferred to Feiyan to serve as the supervisor of the technical department.

Wearing a dust-free suit, Li Dongling entered the laboratory. Fu Cheng placed a semi-finished radio, which already had a prototype, in front of Li Dongling, "This is the A10 radio independently developed by our Feiyan. Currently, the main body has been successfully developed. Preliminary tests show that all functions meet the original design requirements!"

Fu Cheng said to Li Dongling. As for more, he didn't say anything else. This radio was originally designed by Li Dongling according to the Desheng R909 radio from his past life, and now it had become Feiyan's A10 radio.

Li Dongling looked at the semi-finished product in his hand and turned on the buttons. Soon, the sound of a local radio station in Pingyang came out of the radio. The signal was quite good. The R909 from his past life had a signal that was somewhat unsatisfactory indoors, but now Feiyan had specially strengthened the signal on this mini radio.

"How is the R&D for that emergency multi-functional radio going?!" Li Dongling put down the Feiyan A10 radio in his hand and asked Fu Cheng.

Fu Cheng led Li Dongling to another experimental bench and pointed to a mini radio that was obviously much heavier, "This emergency multi-functional hand-crank radio is still under development. Currently, we have cooperated with the joint laboratory in the provincial capital to develop the micro-motor. All that's left is the radio's motherboard!"

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