Chapter 220: Borrowing the Wind to Soar

"Everyone is our own people from now on, all our own brothers. Come, drink this cup!"

In a restaurant private room inside the Yuhe Leisure Resort, Chen Zuhan poured a large glass of liquor for Li Yan and his companion.

When it came to worldly wisdom, Chen Zuhan, who had been mixing in the streets, had much richer experience than Li Yan and the others. He could say what people wanted to hear, and within a few words and a few cups of liquor down, he had narrowed the distance between himself and Li Yan and Feng Jun.

Li Yan's drinking capacity wasn't bad, but compared to Chen Zuhan, who had been soaking in liquor jars for years, it was somewhat inferior.

"What, 20 million investment?!"

In a tipsy state, when Chen Zuhan asked what business Li Yan was doing, and Li Yan spoke about Focus Media, which was co-built with Dongling High-Tech, and that they had obtained the first round of investment, Chen Zuhan was truly envious.

Thinking of himself, Chen Zuhan, who had been mixing for so many years, his net worth had only just broken the 10 million threshold. This was already mixing well among his peers, and it was because he had met noble people along the way and dared to gamble heavily on electronic pet machines that he had soared into the sky.

When Little Smart mobile phone users broke through one million and were charging toward 1.5 million users, China Telecom went crazy, laying base stations all over the country. China Unicom couldn't hold back anymore and announced its entry into the PSH industry. China Unicom also wanted to lay PSH base stations and also wanted to sell Little Smart mobile phones on behalf of others!

When China Unicom also announced its entry, no one could stop Little Smart's sweeping momentum in the country. Mobile phones from brands like Nokia, Ericsson, and Motorola were all no match for Little Smart in the country.

However, besides envy, the experience of mixing for so many years allowed his mindset to adjust quickly. But at this moment, it also made Chen Zuhan feel that he still needed to read more books. Just like Li Yan, with such high academic qualifications, as long as there was an opportunity, he could soar into the sky and reach a height he hadn't reached in so many years.

Little Smart mobile phones were still selling like crazy. Even though Dongling High-Tech's three production bases in Pingyang, Guangzhou, and Shanghai were producing machines day and night, the tens of thousands of Little Smart mobile phones produced every day were like stones sinking into the sea once they reached the market, snatched up in an instant.

This was just the small scalpers. Those powerful scalpers who resold dozens or hundreds of machines at once would have tens of thousands of yuan in hand. This kind of profiteering directly caused the new trade of "mobile phone backpackers" to appear in the world.

Whether Focus Media was good or not, Chen Zuhan didn't know, but he knew the level of Dongling High-Tech. Chen Zuhan knew whose thigh he should hug.

And in a report in the Pingyang Daily, the outside world also got a glimpse of just how lucrative Little Smart was.

"If there's a chance to get rich in the future, don't forget your brother!"

Little Smart mobile phones were in short supply, making quite a few electronic manufacturers restless. Little Smart was too lucrative. Agents and scalpers could earn so much; one could imagine how much Dongling High-Tech, the manufacturer of Little Smart, could earn. Quite a few companies wanted to knock off Little Smart.

The most critical chips and motherboards for the Xiaolingtun are developed by Dongxin Semiconductor, a subsidiary of Dongling Gao Ke, and manufactured under contract by Shougang NEC Semiconductor. If copycat manufacturers want to buy Xiaolingtun chips, they must buy them either from Dongxin Semiconductor or from overseas. Would Dongxin Semiconductor sell Xiaolingtun motherboards to those copycat companies?!

One could think with their toes that it was impossible. As for the chips bought overseas, the price was more expensive than Dongxin Semiconductor's, and coupled with key components like mobile phone batteries, which were also held in the hands of Dongling High-Tech, those knock-off manufacturers had no chance to enter the market.

Quite a few scalpers ran to the three Little Smart production bases in Pingyang, Guangzhou, and Shanghai to grab machines. After getting them at the price of 4999, they ran to cities like Beijing and Tianjin, sold them at a markup of two or three hundred, or even four or five hundred. A round trip could earn a thousand or so, equivalent to two months' wages for an ordinary worker!

"If there is an investment opportunity in Focus Media in the future, remember to pull your brother along!"

Moreover, it was visible to the naked eye that Focus Media, supported by Dongling High-Tech in the future, would definitely exceed Chen Zuhan's agency company. Li Yan was also someone Chen Zuhan needed to befriend.

Plus the herd mentality, when a colleague at the company bought a Little Smart and walked around in front of him, taking out the Little Smart to make calls or send text messages to someone when they had nothing to do, even the neighbor Wang Xiaoer bought one.

When bosses, leaders, colleagues, neighbors, and friends all bought Little Smart mobile phones one after another, they started contacting by phone at work and notifying by phone at gatherings.

"Brother Li, you should walk around with me more in the future. As long as there is a place where you can use your brother, just speak up!"

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If there was a chance to become a small shareholder of Focus, Chen Zuhan would definitely be willing to throw money at it. This wasn't because Chen Zuhan could predict how far Focus Media could develop in the future, but because of Dongling High-Tech!

Wanting to knock off also required mobile phone components. At this moment, in the country, except for the component industry chain built by Dongling High-Tech, there was no second mobile phone industry chain, because foreign mobile phone brands hadn't started large-scale foundry in the country yet.

When eating, a Little Smart mobile phone was placed by the side, checking the phone from time to time, calling it checking if anyone had sent a text message. When ending, saying "contact by phone if there's anything." In this atmosphere, whoever could hold back from getting a machine?!

Chen Zuhan felt that he needed to increase the intensity for that brat at home who only knew how to eat, drink, play, and chase female classmates all day long. Li Yan's experience was too stimulating for him.

The telecommunications buildings and business halls in major cities across the country, such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Tianjin, and Chengdu, became the most bustling places locally. Every morning, large groups of people lined up to buy Little Smart mobile phones.

Until Li Yan and Feng Jun returned to the newly built hotel in the Yuhe Leisure Resort to rest, Chen Zuhan watched their figures and took a fierce drag of his cigarette.

"Due to the continuous hot sales of Little Smart mobile phones, this year Dongling High-Tech will contribute 120% more tax to Pingyang compared to last year. Dongling High-Tech's current tax revenue already accounts for three-fifths of Pingyang's total tax revenue. Dongling High-Tech and its affiliated industries have cumulatively attracted over 200 new companies to move into Pingyang, cumulatively contributing over 35,000 new jobs, of which over 5,000 are high-paying jobs of over 2,000 yuan..."

But compared to the Li Yan in front of him, entering the business world and immediately getting the support of Dongling High-Tech, his net worth reaching the level he had only reached after so many years in a single day—how could Chen Zuhan not be envious?

He decided that he had to cultivate that brat at home as well. If he could be like Li Yan, it would be best to let the Old Chen family go up another level. Even if he couldn't become a talent, as long as he didn't squander the family foundation he had saved, it would be fine.

This kind of vigorous buying scene was no worse than the scene when Apple phones were snatched up in the country back then.

Most families now didn't have mortgage or car loans, and the demand for electronic and electrical products was quite vigorous. The pricing of Little Smart mobile phones, as well as call charges, Chinese SMS, etc., scratched the itch of quite a few users. Buying a Little Smart mobile phone was already affordable.

Being able to bend and stretch, no matter how big the boast was in the reception room during the day, at this moment beside Li Yan, Chen Zuhan put his posture very low, without any avoidance of the meaning of wanting to hug a thigh.

When seeing this report, a group of brother cities in Hanxi Province, including the provincial capital, were all envious of Pingyang to the point of splitting. As for other provinces, it went without saying; their eyes were a bit red. They all knew Dongling High-Tech was very profitable, but they didn't expect it to be so fierce, bringing so much tax revenue and jobs to Pingyang, and also letting a group of component industry chain companies move to Pingyang.

When office workers started to treat Little Smart as a necessity, young people changed from carrying a pager at their waist to carrying a Little Smart, and owning a Little Smart was treated as a trend, fashion, or to put it bluntly, face. Between lovers, relying on Little Smart's one-way call charges and SMS, they could relieve the pain of lovesickness. When Little Smart was given these needs, it was hard for its demand not to explode!

Under the huge demand, when Little Smart had only been in the domestic user market for one month and five days, domestic Little Smart users officially broke through the one-million mark!

When China Unicom saw this news, its back molars were almost bitten to pieces. What kind of dog-shit European GS, American CDA technology—compared to PSH, it wasn't even worth carrying its shoes in the country!

How many years had GS been around? The users were only tens of thousands. Laying base stations all over the country would take who knows how long. But PSH base stations and Little Smart mobile phones? By the time GS base stations covered the major cities in the country, China Unicom suspected that China Telecom would have already covered the towns and villages in the country with PSH base stations. Little Smart mobile phone users might even break through 100 million...

China Telecom and China Unicom laid PSH base stations on a large scale, snatching major markets, making Little Smart blossom everywhere in the country. Under the huge demand, scalpers also started to appear, and the price of Little Smart also started to be hyped up.

And just at this time, Focus Media announced its establishment in Beijing. This kind of emerging company appeared countless times every day in Beijing and various parts of the country, and no one would care at all.

But, when Focus Media obtained a 20 million yuan investment from Dongling High-Tech, the outside world had to cast its gaze upon it.

And subsequently, Focus Media announced the launch of an SMS business platform and reached a strategic cooperation with China Telecom to undertake the SMS business of China Telecom's million Little Smart mobile phone users, which caused an uproar in the outside world! ===== CHAPTER 221 =====