[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-reborn-starting-from-1993":3,"chapter-reborn-starting-from-1993-reborn-starting-from-1993-chapter-55":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Reborn Starting from 1993",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2357039,4611,"Chapter 55: If They Can Go There, So Can We","reborn-starting-from-1993-chapter-55",55,"\u003Cp>“Brother Li, what’s New York like?!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Is America really as the media says—gold everywhere, even washing dishes can earn you ten thousand a month?!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Brother Li, are American girls really as hot and wild as in the movies?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Ao, Fan Xugang, and the others crowded around Li Dongling, bombarding him with questions; unlike the media’s focus on Dongling High-Tech’s lawsuit against Microsoft, these men cared only about Li Dongling’s experiences in America, and timidly asked whether American women were as fiery and unrestrained as in the films.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Over the past few years, foreign media, news, music, and TV dramas had flooded into China; watching those reports, the Chinese public felt the same awe as Europeans had when they first read Marco Polo’s travels—China had been painted as a land of gold, ivory, and porcelain, where simply picking up random objects could make you rich.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now America and Europe had been similarly portrayed by certain media as the lands of Marco Polo’s tales—gold everywhere, washing dishes could earn you enough to buy villas and win Hollywood-style women, triggering countless fantasies and turning America into a heavenly ideal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If you love someone, send them to New York—it’s heaven; if you hate them, send them to New York—it’s hell; it may not be the poor man’s hell, but it’s certainly the rich man’s paradise!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Dongling took a sip of wine and told the crowd, whose curiosity had exploded, “Movies and reality are different—America is a Puritan country; ordinary American families may be completely unlike those in Hollywood films…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I heard Beijing TV will air a drama called ‘Beijing People in New York’ this year—if you’re interested, go watch it!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing Li Dongling’s words, Zhang Ao, Gao Peng, Fan Xugang, and the others quickly lost their curiosity about America—no piles of dollars to pick up from the ground, no fiery girls rushing over at a wave; they wanted to enjoy paradise, not become laborers washing dishes, scrubbing feet, or serving as human punching bags…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Has the Shangguan Town Yuanqi Factory stopped production?!” Li Dongling asked Zhang Ao.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this question, Zhang Ao poured out his grievances: “When you were fighting your lawsuit in America, the satellite dish market completely collapsed; now the market price for one satellite dish is under two hundred yuan—it barely breaks even, and people are still slashing prices.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Especially companies in the south—they’ve driven satellite dish prices below 180 yuan; Yuanqi Factory’s dishes can’t sell at all, and…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Ao looked at Li Dongling and said, “I heard the authorities are about to issue regulations banning individuals from installing ground satellite receivers!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Dongling wasn’t surprised—he knew satellite dishes were stealing TV’s bread, and their ban was inevitable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This ban might still not stop satellite dishes from spreading—where there’s demand, there’s a market, just like America’s Prohibition: as long as demand exists, gray zones will keep supplying the product.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The issue isn’t whether the ban will affect TV users buying satellite dishes—it’s that companies producing them now have a sword hanging over their heads; small-scale operations might survive, but if you’re still loudly mass-producing like Yuanqi Factory once did, or talking about going public, forget it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One day, that sword might fall and seize all the profits they’ve made from satellite dishes—jail time isn’t out of the question.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The satellite dish market in China is already dead!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Dongling sighed—it wasn’t that satellite dishes couldn’t sell, but the crazy profits were gone; once you could earn over a hundred yuan per unit, now earning ten yuan was considered good, and you still risked fines.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But that didn’t mean the market was truly gone—Southeast Asia, Africa, South America, even the Middle East and Europe still had satellite dish markets; it just required slow market development, and you could still earn back plenty of foreign exchange.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Like a certain brand known as the “King of African Mobile Phones,” which couldn’t compete domestically, moved to Africa and hit over ten billion in revenue within three years.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With Yuanqi Factory no longer producing satellite dishes, Li Dongling could now reclaim the Guanxing brand under their original agreement; Guanxing satellite dishes were now everywhere across China.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Other copycat manufacturers didn’t even bother naming their products—they just slapped “Guanxing” on every dish, from rooftops in Beijing to forest ranger stations deep in the mountains; yet less than one in a thousand were actually made by Yuanqi Factory!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Brand licensing fees, patent royalties—forget it; but this was Li Dongling’s first brand, and he would reclaim it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Since Yuanqi Factory has stopped production, I want you to join Dongling High-Tech as Sales Manager!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Dongling looked at Zhang Ao—Dongling High-Tech’s management structure would soon be clearly defined: Hu Zi handled finance, Chen Tao managed technology, Li Dongshan and Gao Peng oversaw logistics and procurement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yao Luoying would handle HR and assist Li Dongling with daily affairs; the Sales Manager position, Li Dongling wanted Zhang Ao to take.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Ao’s performance selling satellite dishes had been undeniable; whether selling electronics, appliances, furniture, or health supplements, sales channels and grassroots promotion were essential—“He who controls the sales channels controls the world”—not an empty saying.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Thank you, Brother Li—I’m definitely up for it!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Ao immediately patted his chest in agreement—he knew that joining Dongling High-Tech, given its current fame, offered far better pay and prospects than staying at Yuanqi Factory or joining any other ordinary unit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After his experience at Shangguan Town Yuanqi Factory, Zhang Ao would never tolerate another job paying a few hundred yuan a month.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After clinking glasses with Zhang Ao, Li Dongling said, “The sales department must build a sales and grassroots promotion team in every major Chinese city—even county towns—and eventually expand overseas!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Ao hissed—building such a team, let alone entering overseas markets, required massive funding and hiring dozens, even hundreds; maintaining a team was worlds apart from supporting one person.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Dongling knew building such a sales team would cost dearly, but digital cordless phones had to be pushed—future Dongling High-Tech products would need the same; no amount of advertising beat a solid sales team.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After finishing the grilled meat and playing two rounds of pool, Li Dongling didn’t linger—he returned to his courtyard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After washing up, he entered his study; tomorrow he’d meet Luo Junwu, and he still hesitated whether to acquire Xicheng Wireless Factory No. 1.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After much thought, Li Dongling still felt acquiring Xicheng Wireless Factory No. 1 was too risky—not just due to acquisition cost and debt, but also public backlash; if he truly revived it, countless people would accuse him of seizing state assets.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet the factory’s skilled technicians, the “Feiyan” brand, and its radio production lines still held value.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Solving the problems troubling Pingyang’s municipal government and Luo Junwu didn’t require acquiring Xicheng Wireless Factory No. 1!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If Dongling High-Tech built a new factory, poached Xicheng’s real technicians, bought the “Feiyan” brand and radio production lines, it could resolve part of Xicheng’s debt, let those workers earn wages again, and solve the problem.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The “Feiyan” brand plus radio production lines could be repurposed for mini radios and car radios—these would be golden eggs for the next ten to twenty years!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The condition: these workers would no longer be state employees—they’d all be managed by Dongling High-Tech, with no ties to Xicheng Wireless Factory No. 1.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The new factory could produce mice and digital cordless phones for Dongling High-Tech.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Li Dongling felt that a single mouse project couldn’t possibly support a sudden influx of one or two thousand workers—he needed a fast-profitting project to sustain the factory before the digital cordless phone launch.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Currently profitable electronics industries? TVs were out; only a few options remained—VCDs, maybe—but he couldn’t possibly resort to selling health supplements and swindling people!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even swindling required massive investment—massive TV ads—and Li Dongling wouldn’t risk it unless he was willing to burn through cash flow, pouring money into ads and grassroots promotion for at least six months before seeing returns.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was clearly impossible—Dongling High-Tech was his foundation, and digital cordless phones and other projects needed funding.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After thinking for a long while, his head ached—he was about to decline Luo Junwu’s offer—when suddenly, a thought struck him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To find a product like satellite dishes—low-tech, high-profit, capable of sweeping markets—he suddenly remembered a product from his past life: a Japanese invention that exploded across dozens of countries in just one year—the electronic pet, also called pet machine, handheld electronic pet, or pet egg; in Japan, it was called “Tamagotchi”!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He stood up, paced his study several times—he felt this product was perfectly timed for the new factory; poaching Xicheng’s technicians and repurposing part of its production lines to build an electronic pet machine was no challenge.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If sales met expectations, this product could solve all the new factory’s problems—and bring Dongling High-Tech massive cash flow!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its users would primarily be in Japan, Korea, Europe, and America—places with high incomes and consumption levels, where spending ten dollars on an electronic pet was easily affordable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As always: foreign Jiucai  are more profitable to harvest; why should Japanese products sell in China to harvest Jiucai , while Chinese products can’t harvest Japanese Jiucai ? If they can go there, so can we!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thinking this, Li Dongling sat down, fetched drawing paper—no advanced industrial software was available yet; he had to sketch by hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The electronic pet didn’t need complex features; no one had yet experienced smartphones, global users hadn’t seen anything refined—just having something to play with was enough; who cared about bicycles?!\u003C\u002Fp>",1588,"2026-06-21T04:42:08.057Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","3a070ca8a4fa641b5c2bd5ba03d891537d7c587570b9d361467cae08c298e018","reborn-starting-from-1993-chapter-56","reborn-starting-from-1993-chapter-54",989,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Freborn-starting-from-1993-cover.jpg"]