Chapter 256: A True Kill [Subscription Request]

Time flies, it is the afternoon of National Day 2011.

Wang Chengguang was standing at the headquarters of the Xinghuo Building, gazing at the view of the Summer Palace outside the window, when he heard a knock on the door.

When he called out "Come in", Lei Jun walked in with a radiant face and said in surprise, "Boss Wang, it's a big hit again. Our Xinghuo online store has put 30 Xinghuo 2 phones on the shelves since midnight, and they were sold out by 3pm!"

“15 million RMB in transactions were generated in 5.7 hours, all with mobile phones!”

Lei Jun thought that his entrepreneurial journey would reach a peak in the future, but the smooth progress to this point still made him a little excited.

Internet shopping is a trend and a tide. For example, before Wang Chengguang got involved in online shopping and payment, Alibaba’s greatest miracle was that Taobao’s sales exceeded 5.7 billion in a month, but now... million mobile phones are sold in one day.

Of the 9 million Spark 10s stockpiled from early September to October, 100 were put on online shopping platforms, and 2 were sent to physical stores in various provinces in the mainland. Of course, the sales in the physical stores definitely did not go through a single day.

The mobile phones that were to be delivered began to be delivered to physical stores in certain provinces, major municipalities, and prefecture-level cities in the middle of September, and the sales spread little by little.

Regardless of the current transaction volume in physical stores, or whether it is promoted or not, online transactions now give people a very pleasant stimulation.

For the last 10 Spark 2 phones, 5 will be sent to Hong Kong Island and 5 to Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand. They will still be sold simultaneously.

The next moment, Lei Jun took out a bottle of drink from the refrigerator and said with a smile, "Boss Wang, do you think it is necessary for the mobile phone factory in Zhengzhou to expand a batch of production lines, including hiring people? The monthly output of 100 million units is a bit in short supply."

Wang Chengguang laughed, "As long as you and Xiao Ma Ge don't object, I won't object either. Now based on the actual 15 people, the night shift will be increased by 20, which means that the annual salary, five insurances and one housing fund expenses for 50 people will be more than billion yuan."

"We need to double the number of people to support 30 people, and the night shifts will equal 40 workers. We also need to add more production lines, and increase the monthly output to 200 million units. That's fine, but the annual salary, five insurances and one housing fund expenses will exceed 100 billion yuan. I have too much money and I don't know where to spend it. You and Xiao Ma..."

He really doesn't mind supporting more people in Henan Province. He is the richest man in Asia and the richest Chinese. With rounds of shocks, WeChat and WeChat Pay have created bigger waves in East Asia and Southeast Asia, which is another round of accumulation for his personal wealth.

The greater the loss, the more conducive it is to cooling down!

A mobile phone factory produces 100 million units per month, and 1200 million units per year, which is roughly equal to a loss of 96 billion. Of course, when the prices of components and parts plummet, the loss is not 800 but 70 or per unit, but that is still at least a loss of billion.

Producing 2400 million mobile phones annually means... a loss of more than 140 billion yuan, plus salary expenses exceeding 200 billion yuan.

When the choice was handed over to Lei Jun, his face suddenly fell, and he smiled awkwardly, "We have already collected a small amount of platform tax. After all, we have more than 700 million users in the past year, and the advertising fees collected in a year are only a few hundred million, while the game platform tax has collected more than a billion in turnover."

If this is the case for more than 700 million users, it would not be difficult to double the number if there were or million Spark phone users. Lei Jun also understood one thing.

Since the mobile phone war is fought with Internet thinking, then the Internet winner-takes-all effect? ​​This is certainly not possible with physical mobile phones, but half of smartphone users use Spark, and Spark is popular.

There is hope that the advertising fees and the revenue from game manufacturers can rise exponentially. In addition, he also hopes to make some profit by reaching the 3100 to 3500 yuan range in Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand.

Wang Chengguang smiled and said, "Take your time to think about this. There is no need to rush. Even if the iPhone 4S enters the mainland, it will be very strong if it can sell tens of millions of units in one or two years."

This is also a fact. The original track Ai Pao 4S sold 7200 million units worldwide, and the mainland market contributed 1200 million units of sales. In this dimension, there is an enhanced version of Meizu M9 which is also planned to be sold at a loss. It is really difficult for the Ai Pao machine to become a god immediately.

Lei Jun nodded and asked curiously, "Mr. Wang, how is the development of the Screen Research Center? It has been established for more than a year, right?"

This research institute that is preparing to explode its self-development capabilities...was established in August 2010, so it is 8 months old.

Wang Chengguang shrugged. "It's hard to rush into this kind of technological thing. The OLED screen is like a sandwich. The electrodes and the luminescent materials are the two core technologies, the luminescent materials and the electrodes."

"In the field of luminescent materials, Dow Chemical, Samsung Chemical, LG Chemical, etc. have been working hard year after year to make mobile phone screens brighter, with better colors, longer battery life, more power-efficient, and more eye-friendly."

"We copied Samsung's technology from scratch... You have to be prepared for a long battle, but as long as we can make a first-class screen in the future and save tens or even hundreds of yuan per piece, there is still hope."

Samsung screens can cost tens of yuan as cheap as a few dozen or hundreds or even thousands of yuan as expensive as a few dozen. This is determined by the different grades. There are a lot of things you can do in 14 months, but sometimes not much can be done.

Lei Jun smiled and nodded. "I am impatient. Mr. Wang, please continue to be busy. I will go to Zhengzhou to check the sales performance of the physical stores. Is the tax-free period for our mobile phones five years? 70% tax for the second five years?"

Wang Chengguang nodded, and Lei Jun also nodded heavily, "I'll run a little more and go meet Brother Ma. 30 copies were sold online in one day. This is so exciting news!"

After Lei Jun left, Wang Chengguang didn't say much. It was already 2011. For example, according to the original trajectory, on Double 2011 in 11, Jack Ma's Taobao daily transaction volume was 33.6 billion.

Wang Chengguang in this dimension did not hype Double 11, but today is the day when there is an event of 10 million cash red envelopes and billion shopping cards in Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Malaysia, Thailand and even Taiwan and South Korea.

The war did not spread to the mainland, but the Spark 2nd generation has more than 700 million first-generation user experiences, and 8% of the online word of mouth is positive. It is several hundred yuan cheaper than the two versions of Meizu M, but has a better user experience and longer battery life.

The heating problem when playing games is also less than that of M8.

It is a few hundred yuan cheaper but the user experience is so good, isn't it a natural super reputation? You say it is not as good as iPhone 4... Come on, it is 4 or even 3000 yuan cheaper than iPhone 4000. Is this a comparison of grades?

What people can brag about and show off about iPhone 4 and even the future 4S, or even iPhone 5, is that they are expensive, easy to use, and give you face, just like Mercedes-Benz, BMW, and Audi in the car industry, and Patek Philippe, Rolex, and so on in the watch industry.

But the Spark phone, that's what Gai Ge said, is used by the richest man in Asia. Currently, billionaires like Qiao Jiangshan, Weng Ruibang, Deng Boji, Li Yaotao and others from Hong Kong are also using it. When posting updates on the Spark Weibo version outside the Great Firewall, there will be a small tail saying that they are using Spark 1 or Spark 2.

In real life, is there anyone who dares to show off his Apple phone in front of Xinghuo phone users? He will only be beaten back by a group of top-level super-rich gamers!

A truly killer move!

After Lei Jun left, Wang Chengguang worked for another half an hour and received a report from Wang Manni that Lao Yu, the executive vice president of the WeChat department, and Hu, the vice president of the cloud department, had arrived.

Wang Chengguang smiled and said, "This should be good news. Please invite them in." A moment later, the two vice presidents came to the office and exchanged simple greetings. President Hu said that Xinghuo Cloud can now provide cloud storage services for all WeChat users, which is a huge surprise for all users.

When Pony Ma hollowed out Taobao and Zhifubao series, people only thought that Wang Chengguang had poached Alibaba's network security team. In fact, in addition to that... Wang Chengguang also poached the Alibaba Cloud team.

It was just that Alibaba Cloud was still under silent development at that time. The original trajectory was that Alibaba Cloud launched its official website in July 2011 and provided cloud computing services to the outside world.

The early stage is all about investment and burning money!
But you have to admit that cloud computing is at the forefront of science and technology. No matter whether you invest tens of billions or hundreds of billions in the early stages, you must cultivate this team.

As for the biggest problem of cloud computing... Cloud computing involves many things, just say how much storage space a simple WeChat takes up on a mobile phone? Ten years after the original trajectory, I don’t know how many people are crazy about it, and they want to delete WeChat but can’t bear to delete it.

Now, 8GB or 16GB of space is still the mainstream. It is not the era of starting with 128G space, which is still a low-end version. WeChat chats take up several GB.

It's easy to delete what you can, but what about what you can't delete and want to keep? Serious cloud storage, timely open all chats or important files, photos, videos, etc., and store them in the cloud space, whether your phone is lost, changed, or in other situations.

One cloud backup solves all problems.

However, the original WeChat track was not opened, or cloud storage was opened for a while and then closed, resulting in WeChat, a mobile app, occupying dozens of GB of space for mobile phone users at any time. If you delete a chat record, you can never get it back.

There are also cost issues here. For example, mobile Penguin has cloud backup and the like, but mobile Penguin's various memberships, yellow diamonds, green diamonds, etc. can be charged and can make a profit, but WeChat does not...

But to put it bluntly, this cloud storage function is really important. Xinghuo WeChat must also slim down and cannot become a super-large consumer of mobile phone storage, otherwise it will become a rogue. In this regard, what Wang Chengguang is least afraid of is burning money.

After chatting with Mr. Yu and Mr. Hu for a while, he smiled and said, "We must launch new functions in a timely manner to make it easier for users to get used to using WeChat. Don't worry, as long as WeChat continues to develop, it will be the next Weibo. We are now attacking the East Asian and Southeast Asian markets."

"The bigger we are, the brighter your future will be. You can all get a share of the 10% in the option pool. How much you get depends on how you act."

In a word, both Mr. Yu and Mr. Hu are full of energy!
Big bosses often spend hundreds of millions of dollars to make promises to them? ? But Weibo has already divided the pie, it is no longer just a promise.

………………

It was a new day again. Wang Chengguang just woke up and picked up his mobile phone to check the messages.

Last night’s 11 billion red envelope rain offensive by Hong Kong-based star Ma Tai on WeChat was quite powerful. The total number of registrations for the WeChat outside the Great Firewall version… well, just like the total number of registrations for Weibo, it doesn’t mean much.

After all, there are too many tourist users there.

At this stage, Weibo mainly looks at daily active users, monthly active users, etc., while WeChat looks at how many people have linked their bank cards.

The data was reported from the Weibo branch and headquarters to his personal work WeChat. In just one day, after the red envelope rain, the outside version of WeChat had more than 100 million bank card-bound users. This data is the real core data.

Regardless of whether there are only tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of people in Hong Kong Island within the more than one million miles, this is the first round of major offensive and the effect is quite good.

After he finished washing up, he drove out with a few contracts. Yesterday was National Day, and the Spark-2 aircraft was launched on the market. It was also the wedding day of his eldest cousin Wang Huixia and Beihang University security guard Xiao Feng. Because it was Wang Huixia's second marriage, there was no big wedding banquet, just some elder relatives of the two families got together to eat and drink.

The wedding was held in my hometown.

Wang Chengguang did not go back to attend the event. After the wedding, they returned to Beijing today. He is now going to give gifts and congratulations, two houses.

Wang Huixia rented two houses in that community... My eldest cousin came to Beijing to live in February 09, and has been renting a house since then. However, February 2 was also the period when the real estate market was just recovering from the cold winter, so it was a sure profit to buy a few more houses and stockpile them.

Wang Chengguang drove to Wang Pengqi and Liu Ke's house first. When he saw Wang Lei playing with two-year-old Wang Yunhui downstairs in the residential building, he smiled and waved, "Xiao Lei."

Wang Lei turned around after hearing the voice, waved his hand happily and ran over, "Fourth Uncle, you are here."

The two-year-and-eight-month-old Wang Yunhui came running over angrily, baring his teeth and claws as if he was going to chase and bite Wang Lei. His little appearance looked very funny.

Wang Chengguang gave Wang Lei a candy, picked up Wang Yunhui and said with a smile, "Good boy, you want to fight with your cousin when you are less than three years old?"

He had not seen Wang Lei and Wang Yunhui many times in real life. Wang Lei was okay, after all, he was over 10 years old and would soon go to junior high school. After being hugged, little Wang Yunhui was obviously resisting and pushed him away.

It was only when Wang Lei smiled and rubbed Wang Yunhui's head that the little guy finally calmed down. He looked at Wang Chengguang with curiosity, "Who are you?"

Wang Chengguang, “…”

After being speechless for two seconds, he asked Wang Lei, "Are your third uncle and aunt home?"

Wang Lei shook his head. "No, my third uncle accompanied my cousin Dalong to the police station. Dalong said that his bag was stolen at the train station after he got off the train. Although he didn't lose any cash, he has been using WeChat to pay for his money. But the gift he originally gave to my mother, which seemed to be a hard drive containing 3000 bitcoins, was stolen. Fourth uncle, what is Bitcoin?"

Wang Chengguang, "???"

It seemed that there was nothing wrong with it. Zhang Dalong was now the one in the entire Wang family who was most enthusiastic about Bitcoin. After all, he was the first one to follow Wang Chengguang's instructions and mined tens of thousands of coins and sent them to Xinghuo. He also hoarded some for himself.

At this stage, the price has experienced the peak in June 2011, which was 6 US dollars per coin. Zhang Dalong did not sell it at that time. After Bitcoin collapsed, he bought some more.

一个略冷门的知识，6月8号32刀一比特币，6月9号比特币中国在内地上线……也能交易了。

He still remembered that after the Bitcoin price collapsed, Zhang Dalong called and said that based on Wang Chengguang's vision of hoarding Bitcoin, he thought the price would definitely go up, so he bought a batch.

In mid-to-late June, the lowest price for this thing was a little over 6 cents each, and you could buy 6 for 7 yuan.

(End of this chapter)