After completing Mina's ideological work, Gu Ao's two research teams, one light and one dark, finally started to operate in a stable manner, and there was no need to introduce latecomers anymore.

The school also secretly offered a lot of rewards, which led to Yang Xin's future and accelerated slightly.

Although Yang Xin was originally a top student in the 1978 class, there were many opportunities for students from these two classes of diplomatic colleges to be treated as secretary at the county level.

But after all, there are only a few top powers, and in comparison, the administrative level of treatment is actually false.

If you have a little understanding of the domestic officialdom, you also know that the two people at the same deputy county level may have a much worse future in different positions.

If you can go to Japan to be the third secret, the long-term upward space is definitely greater than when you go to Mexico to be the second secret, although these two are deputy county-level positions. Because those important major countries are particularly prone to making contributions and achieving results, especially in the first half of the 1980s, there was a lot of exchanges and cooperation between China and Japan.

On May 6, two days after Gu Ao secretly interviewed Mina, a decision was reported in the school that was not considered a punishment but was enough to have an impact on the future trajectory of some individuals.

It is said that Mina's preparatory inspection period was rejected and was judged in advance that it was unqualified for the inspection and was not allowed to enter D.

The reason is that in order to reduce the trouble of being disturbed by bad people, her winery actually put her idea on the "self-employed change registration" and tried to transfer the factory to Mina's own name.

Although this attempt was "unsuccessful", it had a "bad effect": in 1980, although the country allowed self-employed people, as a person who was looking to be inspected, how could you take the initiative to be a business owner during the inspection? The masses can make a little speculation, but you are not a "subs"!

(Note: Gu Ao does not have this problem. Although he still holds shares in a Hong Kong-funded company, he is not a D-member and has not submitted his application. As a public, you cannot ask too much.)

This result was reported on campus, which really made Mina's classmates and besties feel deeply regretful. Especially everyone knows that Mina is actually in a special situation and has not really participated in the operation of her home winery too much.

Faced with everyone's comfort, Mina also pretended to be deeply hit.

As for the truth about this matter, except Principal Liu, only four people from Gu Ao's research team knew.

Everything is for character design.

...

With the team running in, the pace of campus life slowed down inadvertently.

Gu Ao is a person who can't stay idle. With the leisure to adjust, he immediately thought of calling his companion who helped him with other tasks to learn about his recent situation.

The nearly two months of retreat made him quite worried.

Gu Ao first gave his girlfriend Xiao Sui an hour on the phone, and then learned about Shaw Brothers' situation on the phone.

Xiao Sui has been attending classes with peace of mind these two months and has not created anything extraordinary. Perhaps it is because she is studying behind closed doors and has no passionate materials, so she can only accumulate and then wait for the opportunity to make a lot of money in the future.

The filming crew of "Hujiangtan" completely finished work and returned to Xiangjiang when it was about to end in mid-April. It has been half a month since the filming time. As the screenwriter of this film, Xiao Sui has been watching the progress.

It is said that Shaw Brothers is very quick to work and will definitely be released in Hong Kong in the middle of this month.

The relevant departments in the mainland did not know whether they were greeted by some mysterious force. It is said that the review will be accelerated and it may be passed in August of the summer vacation.

This was an unexpected surprise, because Gu Ao was mentally prepared to wait for the end of the year to celebrate the New Year.

Now it seems that it may be to make all "covering business" look more realistic, so the relevant cultural departments were also mysteriously asked to serve the overall situation.

After chatting with Xiao Sui, Gu Ao was the second one to look for Ma Feng.

There was nothing new or unexpected happenings on Ma Feng's side. It was just a report that Yang Zihao and Lu Yunda had just made the basic algorithm of "scrolling horizontal axis" and also tried an empty board program with only background map and one protagonist map, and had not filled any game content in it.

It’s not too slow to develop such a thing in more than two months. After all, the first step is always the most difficult. The core difficulty is completed, which at least means that the direction of effort and planning are correct.

As for the difficulty of copyright agents for imported films, the situation is becoming more and more complicated. Ma Feng just complained casually and reported a account to Gu Ao. The profit was only more than 100,000 US dollars in the first half of the year, and this business was soon unable to be done.

In this matter, Gu Ao has always been a person who is lying to collect money, and Ma Feng has to accept it. Because the relationship is from Gu Ao, if it were not for Gu Ao's relationship network, Ma Feng would not be able to do this business at all.

Finally, Gu Ao asked about the sales volume and market feedback of Ma Feng arcades. Ma Feng said that he didn't know much, and it would be better to ask Han Ting for the first-hand news.

Gu Ao knew that what he told was the truth.

Since the establishment of Hanle Electronics Factory in Shajiao Development Zone in Shenzhen and Han Ting was transferred back to the mainland as general manager, Gu Ao has always lacked the right help to explore market channels. He has relied on the old customers he had developed before to continue shipping, or he was counting on Akio Morita's Sony channel.

The only way Gu Ao himself can acquire new customers is to leave a subsidiary in Yokohama, but in fact there is no effective sales staff at all, only one or two answering the phone.

Then, on every game console sold, the manufacturer's contact number will be called when leaving the factory. Then, those owners who open entertainment halls, or new people who are interested in entering the industry, will see the phone number on the above when they go to other mature game halls to inspect, and then take the initiative to contact the manufacturer.

This simple sales method can be done in the seller's market, anyway, the buyer is asking to buy it. However, after the number of competitors, the marketing gap between Japanese local companies that take the initiative to come to find business opportunities is relatively large.

Gu Ao had already made a bad mental preparation and then contacted Han Ting.

...

"Teacher Han, I, Gu Ao. Is the business pretty good recently? No one at Hanle Electronics will not accept you."

Han Ting is in the SAR, and her long-distance sound quality is not very good now, and her voice sounds very hoarse:

"How come no one is dissatisfied? The people sent by CITIC are thinking about making contributions every day and seeking more benefits for our unit. I am already doing business so much, and they even think I am 'colluding' with you're so haha, I can't wash it even if I jump into the Yellow River."

At the beginning, Gu Ao sent Ma Feng to negotiate OEM fees with Hanle Electronics, and the bid was already 30 US dollars higher than that of West Lake Electronics Factory. The only additional requirement was that Hanle had to promise production and prioritize the coordination of production lines.

This is a price that Han Le is rich enough to make, and it is definitely not a "bidding".

Gu Ao: "I've caused you trouble. If you have the chance to compensate you in the future, let's talk about sales first."

Han Ting: "In the first quarter of this year, the main production of the 'tank war' was concentrated, and a total of 5,000 units were shipped; in the next two months, they each divided their production capacity to produce 'Pac Man' and 'Bomb Man'. At present, it seems that Pac Man is easier to sell out. The bomb Man's design is a bit complicated. Several direct flagship experience stores and early core customers have reported that users find it troublesome.

My production capacity has been fully opened in the past two months. I originally had a total output of 8,000 units. Currently, all 4,000 Pac Man have been sold out. The bomber has also suppressed 600 units in the Yokohama warehouse. I have already ordered the line to be adjusted.

There are not many orders squeezed at present, and I guess I won’t be able to eat enough in the second half of the year. I want to apply recently and introduce other products to fill the gaps in the off-season.”

All intellectual property rights of the "Tank War" were transferred to Hanle Electronics as capital contributions from the Hong Kong side, so how much money this game can make has nothing directly to Gu Ao. Or, Gu Ao only relies on about 40% of the shares in Hanle Electronics, accounting for 40% of the benefits.

"Pac-Man" and "Bomb Man" are the interests of almost all of them after deducting OEM expenses and materials.

Therefore, Gu Ao could imagine that starting from March, Han Ting must have encountered some pressure when ensuring the production capacity of the last two games.

There are always people who question "Although the tank war is not the best seller, it is a real son after all. The net profit of selling one tank war is equivalent to selling three Pac-Man. Why didn't Pac-Man limit the production at that time, and didn't give customers any choice, forcing them to purchase more tank wars."

This kind of idea is very normal in the eyes of people who don’t understand games: as for games, it’s good to play them. Those Japanese slack houses dare to pick and choose the ones they like? If there is only one game and they don’t have to choose, they won’t dare to play them!

At the same time, another layer of pressure from Han Ting comes from the lack of diversification of its business. When CITIC invested US$3 million in Hong Kong funds to build a high-end electronics factory with a monthly output of about 5,000 high-end electronics factory in Shajiao Development Zone, it did not mean that Gu Ao, the customer alone, could make the electronics factory's orders full.

(Note: The monthly production capacity of the first phase is 5,000 units. After all, the factory has only been built for half a year, and it will be expanded in the future. At that time, the investment of US$3 million in hardware was definitely a large scale for the electronics factory that could be built in the mainland.)

Gu Ao just wants to make sure that he "whenever there is a new popular game console produced, the factory can produce it as soon as possible, and then let him distribute the goods quickly" to grab the time.

But he doesn't have hot new products every quarter, and the market cannot accommodate so many hot products.

In this way, there is no off-season for popular products. If electronics manufacturers want to keep shutting down, they have to find other businesses with less profitable profits to feed themselves.

Just like Foxconn in later generations, if you only count on Apple, you would have starved to death in the past six months when the iPhone did not release new models every year.

Fortunately, in 1980, all electronic products were in short supply. This was a seller's market with insufficient supply and could be sold for anything.

After sorting out the logic, Gu Ao asked with concern: "Teacher Han, do you think of what you gave birth in the off-season?"

Han Ting: "The factory is originally a game console, and I think it is easier to switch to a TV nearby. After all, the most technical display tube can be produced by the monitors. If you add some money, you can just make up the equipment that creates signal receiving devices and control circuits.

Or you can modify the speakers, and you will sell a part of the game console separately. In the end, it depends on the above approval."

Gu Ao: "Approval? Don't you have independent decision-making power?"

Han Ting: "CITIC is the largest shareholder after all, so I always have to report it. I will come to Beijing in the next few days. Without long-term plans, there will be immediate worries. I can't wait for you to stop and find a way out."

Gu Ao: "That would be better. Let's have an interview with the rest. I can do it here. Just convince Minister Yang and I will not interfere with your decision."
Chapter completed!