When will I have a long tassel?

These two people are naturally Bao Nana, who is in her second year of graduate school at the University of Pennsylvania, and Liang Zile, a Chinese who is in her fourth year of undergraduate study. Bao Nana went to school early. Although she was in the second year of graduate school, she was actually in the same year as Liang Zile, only two months older than him. However, Bao Nana insisted that she was a graduate student, while Liang Zile was only an undergraduate, so Liang Zile had to call her senior sister.

Liang Zile is a very easy-going person. I don’t know if it’s because he was born with a “little Shou” temperament, or he was attracted by the appearance of this beautiful senior sister from China. In short, after meeting Bao Nana for the first time, , he became attached to this senior sister, and came to visit her every three days, asking for her welfare and caring for her in every possible way.

Bao Nana didn't care about this junior brother at first, but because they were both Chinese, she didn't reject the other person's attentiveness. Liang Zile's sincerity finally moved Bao Nana, and I don't know since when, the two became inseparable. Bao Nana also enjoys the feeling of being cared for by a little boy, perhaps because she is somewhat controlling in nature.

Hearing Bao Nana talking about her best friend and senior brother again, Liang Zile smiled and said: "Senior sister, I think it's a good thing that they are talking about you. This proves that they must be thinking about creating opportunities for you to make money again. You Coming from mainland China, I don’t need a loan to study, isn’t it all because of them?”

Before Bao Nana left China, she made an agreement with Tang Zifeng to help Tang Zifeng investigate the U.S. machine tool market in the United States. Tang Zifeng promised to pay corresponding remuneration based on the information provided by Bao Nana.

Bao Nana came to the University of Pennsylvania to study and received half a scholarship. For other Chinese international students, if they only received half the scholarship, they would have to work part-time during their studies, otherwise they would not be able to make ends meet. Because Bao Nana had earned some money by working for Feihai Company and had some savings, she did not go out to work in the first year of graduate school, but lived on her past savings.

Bao Nana's savings are quite generous in China, but they are very useless in the United States. The current exchange rate of RMB against the U.S. dollar is 8.3:1. Domestic conversion of 10,000 RMB into U.S. dollars is only 1,200 U.S. dollars, which is almost two months of living expenses, and it is still tight.

Seeing her savings being spent like water, Bao Nana remembered what Tang Zifeng had told her, so she pulled Liang Zile to start investigating the American home machine tool market. Liang Zile immigrated to the United States with his parents more than ten years ago. He is quite familiar with American society and has some social connections. With his help, Bao Nana had the opportunity to visit some American families and inspect the various tools used in these families.

She discovered that many American households had small machine tools, most of which were woodworking machines, but some were metal cutting machines. Bao Nana used her skills as a journalist to not only record the brands and models of these machine tools, but also conducted in-depth exchanges with the Americans she visited to understand their needs for home machine tools. She compiled the results of her investigation into a detailed report and sent it to Tang Zifeng via email.

Tang Zifeng was inspired by these reports and came up with the idea of ​​mini machine tools. This kind of machine tool that can be installed in a tool box, or in industry terms, is called a "multifunctional machine tool", which Tang Zifeng saw by chance in later generations. Without Bao Nana's reminder, he would never have remembered it.

In order to encourage Bao Nana's work, Tang Zifeng paid Bao Nana 20,000 yuan in information fees from his personal account, and told Xiao Wenjun the idea of ​​the mini machine tool and asked her to complete the design of the product. Tang Zifeng and Xiao Wenjun agreed that if the mini machine tool is designed and applied, the 20,000 yuan information fee will be deducted from the patent licensing fee, which is also a necessary cost.

In addition to information about the machine tool market, Bao Nana also copied some technical materials from the library for the Linyi Machine Technology Office and purchased some professional and technical books, all of which were entrusted by Tang Zifeng. Tang Zifeng was not stingy. Every time he entrusted Nana with work, he would pay some fees. Of course, these fees had to be paid by Lin Yiji.

In the past, the Linyi Machine Technology Office spent a lot of energy and money trying to find this kind of information. In contrast, it is cheaper to ask a student studying in the United States to find these materials.

It was in the process of doing this work that Liang Zile heard about her best friend and senior brother from Bao Nana. Bao Nana was full of praise for her best friend, but when describing the senior brother, she used idioms such as profit-seeking, ruthless, renegade, insidious and cunning, and tried her best to criticize and derogatory.

Liang Zile is a person with enough IQ and EQ. He knows from Bao Nana's attitude that she is actually full of affection and admiration for this senior brother named Tang Zifeng. The reason why she has no good words is just sour grapes. effect. He translated all the derogatory words used by Bao Nana into positive words, and restored the image of an outstanding young man who is resourceful, keeps his promises, is kind-hearted, and is good at business.

"Zi Le, my senior brother really asked me to work again, and it's a big job. I'm worried." Bao Nana said to Liang Zi Le with a grimace.

Liang Zile read the joy and expectation from Bao Nana's expression. He smiled and said, "Sister, it's a good thing to have work. You don't have to worry, I can help you."

"Really? I'm afraid you're busy taking the postgraduate entrance exams and won't have time to help me." Bao Nana said hypocritically.

Liang Zile said nonchalantly: "What's so difficult about the postgraduate entrance examination? I passed it casually. Senior sister, tell me, what did Senior Brother Tang ask you to do?"

Bao Nana said: "My senior brother sent me an email, saying that he is asking my best friend to design a new type of home machine tool. The machine tool is small in size, but it can also complete various processing such as turning, milling, drilling, and sawing. It's like one machine tool can be used as several machine tools. This kind of machine tool is priced between 1,000 and 3,000 US dollars, and the design is definitely attractive. He asked me if I had the ability to help him open the market in the United States."

"Have you seen what the machine tool looks like?" Liang Zile asked. He studied business management and had little understanding of machine tools. But over the past year, I have accompanied Bao Nana to do machine tool research, and also helped to go to the library to copy materials, and gradually I have gained some perceptual understanding, at least I know the concepts of turning, milling and planing.

Bao Nana said: "I haven't seen what the machine tool looks like. I asked my best friend and she said she wanted to keep it a secret. Hum, I knew that as soon as I left, she would get together with my senior brother. Now it's good , you still hide something from me, I’m really angry..."

Liang Zile automatically filtered out Bao Nana's complaints and said, "I think there is a reason why Senior Sister Xiao kept it secret for the time being. Didn't you say that Senior Brother Tang said that the design of the machine tool can definitely attract people? I suspect they used Some new design ideas must be kept secret before they are completed, otherwise they will be in trouble if someone rushes to register them."

"Okay, even if what you say makes sense." Bao Nana was too lazy to argue with Liang Zile. She said, "My senior brother wants me to help him sell machine tools. But how do you sell machine tools? I can't use a car to pull a machine tool." Let’s take a machine tool and shout it all over the street, right?”

Liang Zile thought for a while and said: "Senior sister, Senior Brother Tang said that this is a household machine tool. I think it should be sold in ordinary supermarkets or electrical appliance stores? We can set up a sales company, and then in the name of the company, Go to various supermarkets and electrical appliance stores to sell. You don’t need to take the machine tool with you when selling. You just need to show them pictures and information. This is relatively easy.”

"Establish a company?" Bao Nana was surprised, "Zile, are you kidding me? Is it that easy to set up a company?"

"It's easy." Liang Zile said matter-of-factly. Seeing Bao Nana's surprised look, he explained: "Sister, you still don't know much about the United States. It is very easy to set up a company in the United States. It only takes a few hours. It only costs ten dollars to register. The procedure is very simple.

"We can rent a small venue as the company's address. The venue does not need to be in a too busy place, it can just be a machine tool prototype. After customers see the prototype, if they want to purchase it, we will let them do it in China. Ship."

"But, I don't understand this." Bao Nana said.

Liang Zile smiled and said: "It doesn't matter, I understand. Doesn't it mean that you understand? This matter can be taken care of by me. I am preparing to study for a master's degree in business administration. I have an entrepreneurial experience. For me, It’s very beneficial to apply to graduate school.”

"Really? Then when we make money, each of us will get half of it."

"No, just give me 20%."

"Don't make any mistake, this time, what we make is not just a few hundred dollars. My senior brother said that we can get 5% of the sales fee for each machine tool, and a machine tool is at least 50 US dollars. My senior brother's The goal is to sell no less than 100,000 units of this machine tool in the U.S. market."

"100,000 units, how is this possible!" Liang Zile blurted out.

Bao Nana smiled and said: "Zi Le, I was just like you in the past. I couldn't believe even half of what my senior brother said. But later events proved that my senior brother was very unreliable in other things. Only when it comes to making money, he is smarter than a monkey. He sold college entrance examination review materials in China and made at least tens of millions. This time he said that this new machine tool can sell 100,000 units. I have no doubt at all. of."

"If a machine tool charges a sales fee of US$50, 100,000 units is US$5 million..." Liang Zile murmured to himself, "Doesn't this mean that we can get the first pot of gold?"

"Haha, Xiao Lele, do you know the benefits of following me? We have agreed that the 5 million US dollars will be half for you and half for me. However, the matter of selling machine tools is all yours." Bao Na Na patted Liang Zile on the shoulder, acting like a "big sister".

Liang Zile felt the touch of the beautiful senior sister's slender hand on his shoulder, and felt that all the bones in his body were softened, and the smile on his face was as bright as a dog's tail flower.