Siheyuan Back to the 1950s

The next day, Sun Zhengguo came to the institute early. When Chen Zhonghua saw the boss coming, he came forward to report his work without being called.

"Director, you are back."

As he said this, he was about to make a cup of tea, but Sun Zhengguo stopped him.

"Wait, Zhonghua, don't make tea. I have to go inspect the workshop later. Just tell me if anyone has contacted me in the past few days, or if there is anything to do."

"Oh! Director, nothing major has happened in the past few days. Deputy Secretary Li and his team will handle minor matters in a timely manner. Everything is normal in the institute."

Hearing that nothing was wrong, Sun Zhengguo nodded, then he left the office and inspected the workshops as usual.

In the next few days, nothing major happened, so Sun Zhengguo calmed down and started drawing another blueprint, striving to complete the new machine tool task as soon as possible.

As for the sales of the game console? Because it has been shipped for a short time, there is no news yet.

However, what Sun Zhengguo didn't know was that Mr. Huo, who was in Hong Kong Island at the time, was also worried about the game consoles piled up in the warehouse.

no way?

This thing is really too expensive and it’s a bit hard to sell.

Since this batch of goods arrived in Hong Kong Island, Mr. Huo contacted many dealers, but these merchants immediately backed off when they heard the quotation.

The reason for their refusal was simple, they all said there was insufficient funds and asked us to wait and see.

In fact, Mr. Huo knew that these businessmen were not short of funds, but were afraid of losing money.

In desperation, Mr. Huo had to use his connections to launch more than 200 units in Hong Kong Island, intending to see the market reaction first.

That day, as soon as Mr. Huo arrived at the office building, the beautiful secretary came over to report.

"Manager, the president of Sakura Yokota Company is here to visit. Would you like to meet him?"

"What is he doing here?" Master Huo muttered to himself.

The Yokota Corporation has always had business dealings with them, but it seems that there is no need for the president to come in person.

Without having time to think about it, Mr. Huo quickly instructed his secretary.

"Then bring him here!"

"Ok."

Not long after the beautiful secretary went out, she brought in a man in his forties.

Seeing the man, Mr. Huo stood up politely to greet him.

"President Yokota, welcome, welcome!"

"Mr. Huo, I'm sorry to have come to visit you. Please take care of me."

Master Huo was slightly surprised to hear that this old man could speak Cantonese.

After the two sides exchanged greetings, the beautiful secretary brought coffee and then they started talking about business.

Mr. Huo asked first: "I wonder why President Yokota came here this time?"

Ichiro Yokota came up and stated his purpose directly without any hesitation.

It turned out that the purpose of his visit this time was to lower the price of the pager.

The price was reduced from US$310 per unit to US$280.

After listening to his story, although Mr. Huo was angry, he kept smiling.

"Impossible, President Yokota. If we continue to suppress the pressure, we will not make any profit."

"Mr. Huo, please remember that Motorola has already entered our market. I think that necessary healthy competition is still necessary. What do you think?"

Looking at the aggressive posture of the old Japanese, Master Huo shook his head and sneered.

"It seems that Motorola has just built base stations in your country, and it has not yet reached the stage of listing. I wonder where President Yokota gets his confidence from. Does it mean that their products will definitely be cheap?

Oh~! By the way, let me add one more thing. Some time ago, someone from your country's Matsui Company came to visit us and said that they were very interested in our pagers, but I didn't agree. Do you know why?"

Hearing what Mr. Huo said, Ichiro Yokota couldn't help but frown.

Of course he knew about Matsui Company, which had always been a competitor of Yokota Company.

Although they are now pager agents, if you keep lowering the price, they can terminate the contract on their own.

Thinking of this, Ichiro Yokota put away his previous rebellious attitude and replaced it with a gentle smile.

"Mr. Huo is right. I was not thoughtful just now. But I want a lot of goods this time. Can you lower the price appropriately for the sake of our pleasant cooperation?"

Seeing that Old Deng had given in, Master Huo did not dwell on the matter.

After all, business is business, making money is not shabby.

"President Yokota, how much goods does your company want this time?"

"We are preparing to place another order of 100,000. I wonder what kind of discount Mr. Huo can give us?" Ichiro Yokota immediately stretched out his hand and gestured, his attitude appearing very sincere.

Hearing this, Master Huo fell into deep thought. He was not a novice in business and knew what this old devil was thinking.

It's nothing more than wanting to make some money before Motorola makes any move.

But isn’t this also my own idea?

Finally, after some friendly negotiations, the two lowered the original price from $310 per unit to $300 per unit.

Although Mr. Huo made great concessions this time, Ichiro Yokota was not much better off.

Because of the price reduction, he needs to pay a 10% higher deposit than before, and the payment must be made upon delivery.

The beautiful secretary then drafted the contract, and only when he saw Mr. Huo sign it did Ichiro Yokota smile with satisfaction.

However, although Ichiro Yokota seemed to have made money, Mr. Huo made more.

After all, it doesn’t matter if the pager makes less money, the monthly rental fee is the big expense.

After both parties signed the contract, Ichiro Yokota immediately notified someone to transfer the money.

Seeing how understanding he was, Mr. Huo couldn't just say no after receiving the deposit.

So, he invited Ichiro Yokota to have lunch together at a famous Japanese restaurant in Hong Kong Island at noon.

After dinner, he arranged for someone to take Ichiro Yokota to the hotel.

As the saying goes, when you have enough food and clothing, you become more thoughtful. When Ichiro Yokota returned to the hotel, he first took a nice bath to get rid of his fatigue from the journey.

Then he arranged special services and found a foreign lady, and the two of them had a great time in the hotel for the whole afternoon.

It was not until the evening that the exhausted Ichiro Yokota put his arm around the slender waist of the big foreign horse and went downstairs to the hotel to have dinner.

When passing by the hotel's leisure area, he saw a group of people gathered not far away, and couldn't help asking.

"Alice, what are those people doing over there?"

"Oh~! Honey, they are playing the game console. I have played this game before. It is very interesting."

Hearing Alice's praise, Ichiro Yokota couldn't help but feel a surge of national pride.

"Hahaha! Alice, you have a very good eye. Speaking of games, it has to be our Sakura Country. I think they must be playing Space Invaders."

"Oh~! Mygod, No, no, no, dear, although Space Invaders is also good, this one is not. It's called Great Wall Blocks, and it's a puzzle game."

"Oh~! How is that possible?" Yokota Ichiro suddenly became interested, "Let's go and take a look."

Then the two of them didn't care about being hungry and walked towards the crowd.