Rebirth 2010: I taught Mr. Lei how to make a mobile phone

Chapter 166 Route Dispute (5k)

In the hotel's garden.

The two walked to a quiet place with rockery and flowing water and sat down on a bench.

"Do you want to smoke?" Lei Jun rarely took out a pack of cigarettes.

Chen Mo took it and looked at it. It was a special supply from Beijing and Nanhai. Then he threw it back. "You forgot, I only smoke cigars~"

"What a shame~" Lei Jun lit up a cigarette and puffed out smoke. He didn't smoke much on weekdays, and would only light up a cigarette in private to relieve his anxiety when he encountered some difficult problems.

"Tell me, what happened to you today?"

"Did you see it?"

"I'm not blind. Why?"

"Foxconn doesn't have a very good reputation in China, and I'm afraid it will affect the reputation of Xiaomi."

"Just because of this?" Lei Jun expressed doubt about the reason given by Chen Mo.

"Of course, I learned in advance that the other party was also quite harsh on the workers, even to the point of exploitation."

Perhaps this reason seems ridiculous to others. As long as the company is doing well, it is normal to be a hard worker.

In the eyes of those people, workers are consumables. Once they are squeezed dry, they will be replaced with another batch. Since there are so many people, they have found a way: if you don't do it, there are plenty of people who will.
However, it is precisely because Lei Jun knows Chen Mo's philosophy that he understands that this excuse, which sounds a bit ridiculous to others, is the fundamental reason.
Lei Jun sighed, "Xiao Mo, I remember saying before that it is not feasible to be too idealistic when you are not strong enough.

Right now, not to mention the whole world, not to mention the whole country, just in Beijing, how many people are working overtime without overtime pay, how many people are still working despite being sick, how many people are still working hard at home after get off work, and even those who end up sleeping at home due to years of overtime work are not considered work-related injuries. This is the cold reality. "

“So someone needs to take this step and give it a try!”

"Do you think no one has tried this before? If you break the unspoken rules, you will be hunted down by all your peers. The best outcome is that you will barely survive in a corner! Even the LD method can't handle it, so do you think you can?"

Chen Mo's eyes were burning, and he pursed his lips, looking a little stubborn. "I can't control it now, but I want to try!"

"Even if the whole world is your enemy?"

"Then I will be the enemy of the world!" Otherwise, why would I be reborn? Chen Mo smiled freely and fearlessly.

Lei Jun's eyes widened. For the first time, he looked at Chen Mo like a madman. He didn't expect that this kid was so obsessed. But he still tried his best to persuade him. "When I was young, I had similar ideas to you. Later, I was taught a lesson by reality. I found that only by working harder than others and keeping a low profile can I do more of what I want to do.

I worked 15 hours a day for more than ten years, and was even called a model worker in Zhongguancun. You can become the general manager and CEO of Kingsoft just by being a genius? You have to work several times harder than others. "

"Is this why you're so curry?"

"Competitive?" Hearing this word, Lei Jun probably knew what it meant and nodded. "Your description is quite insightful. Yes, personal development requires competitive development, and corporate development requires more competitive development. Only when you can kill others, then you will naturally survive!
Although your three-part development broke my cognition, I can only say that you are an exception.

But your hard work over the past one or two years is not enough for the future. I have worked hard for more than ten years to get to where I am today. "

I didn't just work hard for one or two years, I worked hard for my entire life.

Chen Mo sighed, "If you want to fight corruption, you must be more corrupt than the corrupt officials? If you want to punish evildoers, you must be more evil than them?"

"I think so."

Chen Mo shook his head and disagreed, "So I want to try a different approach. What is the vision of our company?"

"Didn't you say that everyone should be able to enjoy the fun brought by technology? I agree with this point."

"So I don't want this vision to be achieved through the blood and sweat of production line workers, otherwise what's the difference between Xiaomi X1 and human blood steamed buns?"

This made Lei Jun take a puff of cigarette, "You are responsible for a huge amount of blame, I won't take it, Xiaomi is not that serious."

"Of course it's not the case now, but after cooperating with Foxconn, it will gradually become a reality."

Lei Jun thought about it and thought it was very possible. "Then you should discuss it with me in advance."

"If I told you in advance that Xiaomi should not cooperate with Foxconn, would you listen?"

Lei Jun remains silent
Silence is an answer in itself.

Just as Lei Jun understands Chen Mo, Chen Mo also understands Lei Jun.

Although Lei Jun looks humble on the surface, he is actually extremely proud in his heart. Otherwise, he would not feel financially independent but still achieve nothing.

Perhaps in the eyes of ordinary people, this amount of money is enough to live a life of luxury for several lifetimes, so why choose to retire early and still achieve nothing? This is pure Versailles, pure pretense.

But this just shows that Lei Jun is different from ordinary people. What does he see? Ding Lei, Pony Ma, Zhang Chaoyang, Li Yanhong, and his peers who are about the same age are standing at the forefront of the Internet and are better and more outstanding than him.

But he felt that all his hard work had gained him nothing but money. Kingsoft tried three times to go public, and was forced to sell Joyo.com to Amazon during the capital winter. So when Kingsoft went public, Lei Jun was able to repay his favors and finally felt relieved.

In his eyes, money has become just a number. What he needs is the sense of accomplishment that comes from changing the world.

He was unwilling to accept this, so he founded Xiaomi.

Now Xiaomi phone is all his hope, nothing else matters.

It was because Chen Mo knew this clearly that he decided to execute first and report later.

"Foxconn is not the only foundry. I have recently been in contact with another one. Although it cannot compare with Foxconn, it can also solve our production capacity problem. I have also thought of a matching sales plan!"

Hearing this, Lei Jun looked up and asked, "Which other company?"

"BYD not only makes cars, but also engages in the relatively mature mobile phone ODM (original equipment manufacturer). I will go to negotiate with them in person."

Lei Jun showed a mocking look on his face, "You are young now, aren't you? We are all birds of a feather, we are just laughing at each other when we are fifty steps apart."

Chen Mo smiled bitterly, "Even Huaqin is the same, every company is counted as one without exception, how can I not know these situations, but at least BYD is willing to lower its status and negotiate conditions with it, it's just the lesser of two evils. In addition, didn't you notice that Guo Taiming's second call was not right?"

Lei Jun snorted, "I'm not blind. Now that things have come to this, you will be responsible for taking over BYD."

"Okay, I'll leave early tomorrow morning."

As the conversation progressed, Lei Jun suddenly had an idea. He put out his cigarette butt and threw it into the trash can. He seemed to be saying it casually, but he actually meant it.
"Xiao Mo, if you were asked to play a game with two options, choosing A would give you an 80% chance of winning 30, and choosing B would give you a % chance of winning million. Which would you choose?"

Chen Mo's heart trembled. Is it finally coming? He smiled and pretended to be relaxed, "Why not just choose both?"

"I forgot to tell you before, you can only choose one of the two, and you can't abstain!"

".You still bring this?"

"I am the boss."

"No problem, then I choose B!"

Lei Jun sighed inwardly, "Why, B's success rate is only 30%, maybe even lower."

"In my hands, B's success rate is more than 30%. Brother Jun, do you want to abandon WeChat?" Chen Mo didn't intend to play hide-and-seek with Lei Jun. He was too tired, so he just got straight to the point.

"Xiaomi is a mountain, and one mountain cannot support two tigers."

"Unless one is male and one is female?" Chen Mo smiled bitterly. There were already signs that Lei Jun wanted to transfer the WeChat servers before. He just didn't expect the other party to be so decisive and make the decision so quickly.

“This joke is not funny. Recently, in addition to following up on Xiaomi’s production capacity at the factory, I have been thinking about the prospects of WeChat.

It is undeniable that as you said before, WeChat is a market worth hundreds of billions of dollars, but precisely because the prospects are so huge and Xiaomi is too small, forcing it to digest would be very risky.

I thought that if Tencent only used mobile QQ to fight, it would be a strategic mistake for Tencent, and it would have no chance with you;

If Tencent had not made the mistake and had used a completely identical product, Xiaomi would have had to have been ahead for half a year to have a 50% chance of winning. If Tencent had come up with an identical product within a year, given that Tencent's comprehensive resources are 1 times that of Xiaomi, and they had used all of their company's engineering and marketing resources, the probability of WeChat's success would have been close to zero.

Now, Weiliant was launched only two months ago, and its current users have exceeded 2 million under Tencent Resource Assistant, and it is only one version away from WeChat. There are also products with exactly the same mobile Internet format as QQ and Q Chat waiting in the wings.

Xiao Mo, you don’t know the terrifying side of the resources behind Tencent, but I have seen that Pony Ma is not as harmless as he seems.

At present, Xiaomi’s funds are barely enough to make mobile phones. Now that WeChat has also developed, the scale of servers, bandwidth, technical team, etc. are also areas where money is needed.

The biggest problem is that both Xiaomi mobile phone and WeChat businesses have developed too well and too fast, far beyond my expectations and beyond Xiaomi's current capacity.

It's like a little kid walking around the street holding two gold ingots. It's too dangerous.

It is time for Xiaomi to make a choice. Otherwise, the longer it delays, the more difficult it will be to take care of both ends, and it will be caught in a dilemma and end up with nothing.

Xiao Mo, your sister-in-law is pregnant. I can't work as hard as before. Xiaomi will have to rely on you in the future.

Give up WeChat and join me in making mobile phones. Together we can change the entire Chinese mobile phone market!"

Lei Jun's words were sincere and very contagious.

Looking at the other party's eyes without any evasion, Chen Mo couldn't tell whether the other party was sincere or acting. Then he looked at Lei Jun's outstretched hand and struggled and hesitated for the first time. This cake was really tempting.
"Give me a cigarette"

Chen Mo took the cigarette and lit it by the fire that Lei Jun was lighting. Since it was his first time smoking, the smoke irritated his lungs and caused Chen Mo to cough violently.

Don’t think that Chen Mo’s previous words about smoking cigars are just bragging. Even when he encountered difficult technical problems, he never chose to relieve his anxiety by smoking.
Then the cigarette flickered in the darkness.
For a moment, the only sound I could hear was the sizzling sound of nicotine burning in the air.
After smoking a cigarette, Chen Mo slowly exhaled the smoke. His mind finally stabilized. He did not choose to answer but continued to ask, "What are you going to do with WeChat? Sell it?"

"I don't rule out the possibility of waiting a month or two and selling it to Tencent when WeChat is at its peak.

Actually, after the press conference, I have been looking for an opportunity to talk to you, but I was afraid that you would not be able to accept it at the moment, so I delayed it until now. "

"If I want to keep my WeChat business, what will you do?" Chen Mo stared at Lei Jun without blinking, waiting for his answer.

Lei Jun's face rarely showed a sad expression, and he was rarely seen hesitant. "I don't know! So what will you do?"

"I don't know either~"

The two of them sighed at the same time, then each of them smoked another cigarette and looked up at the night sky above. It turned out that the air quality in Taiwan was not very good. It was so gray that even the stars could not be seen.

After an unknown amount of time, Lei Jun's voice rang out, "Since neither of us knows, let's move forward and see what's ahead."

"Well, there are always more solutions than problems. We can always find a way. I have to catch a flight tomorrow morning, so I'll go up first."

After saying this, Chen Mo left. This was the first time that the two had serious differences of opinion.

Thinking about the future development of Xiaomi, Lei Jun looked at the rockery and flowing water in front of him. The beautiful environment did not make him feel happy at all. He felt that he sighed more today than in the previous year.

When Lei Jun returned to the hotel room, Lin Bin knocked on the door and came in.
"How was it? What did you two talk about?"

After listening to Lei Jun's reserved conversation, Lin Bin angrily scolded, "Childish! Naive. The mall is like a battlefield. What does he think the mall is? A utopia?"

"You are still too young and too idealistic. As for you, did Huang Zhang send someone to contact you again?"

Hearing this name, Lin Bin sneered, "Now I know that I can get shares. 5%, 200 million annual salary, the second in command of Meizu's mobile phone business, second only to Bai Yongxiang. How do you think? Mr. Lei? Do you want to raise my salary too?"

"Wake up, stop dreaming. But if I were you, would you go to Meizu, play a game of Infernal Affairs, ruin Meizu, and then come back?"

Lin Bin waved his hands when he heard this, "Aren't you afraid that I will turn my fake play into reality? Forget it, it's fine for you to let me do the technical work, but I really can't do the work of a traitor."

Lei Jun said, "It's just a joke. If it was Apple or Nokia, it would be worth it for you to switch sides. Meizu doesn't need a general like you to exchange its sons."

"So what does Chen Mo think of our subsequent development path?"

“I still can’t let go of WeChat.”

"That's normal. After all, who can easily abandon a child that I have worked so hard to raise? If I were in their shoes, I would probably choose to keep WeChat. So what are you going to do?"

"Let me think about it again."

"Okay, tell me when you've made up your mind, and we can discuss it together to see how to solve this problem!"

"Well, go ahead, I want to be alone."

Lei Jun rubbed his temple and felt his head was a little swollen due to overload.

After a while, the phone rang. It was Qiu Bojun calling, asking about his thoughts on Jinshan taking over.
Although Lei Jun felt overwhelmed, he remained patient and said that it would take time.

After hanging up the phone, Qiu Bojun's call just now gave Lei Jun some inspiration.

At that time, I wanted to leave Jinshan. Would Qiu Bojun feel the same as I do now?
Thinking about some of his past experiences, Lei Jun had some new ideas
Separated by a wall, Chen Mo was lying on the soft big bed, staring blankly at the snow-white ceiling, as if there was a picture of fairies bathing on it.

He always felt that his current situation seemed somewhat familiar. He must have seen or heard a similar scene somewhere in his previous life. What was it?

After an unknown amount of time, Chen Mo sat up in shock from his dying illness. He thought, if this is the case, there is indeed a way to solve the dilemma.
For Lei Jun and Chen Mo, this night was destined to be a sleepless night.

The next day, at daybreak, Lei Jun knocked on Chen Mo's door. He thought it would take a long time for Chen Mo to open the door, but he didn't expect the door to open after a few seconds.

Then Lei Jun saw Chen Mo, who also had dark circles under his eyes but looked somewhat excited.

The first thing they said when they met was, "I've thought of a way!"

"You speak first" in unison*2
Lei Jun laughed dumbly, "How about I come in first?"

Then the door was closed. An hour later, the door was opened again, and the two men worked together to break down the door of Lin Bin's room.

Nearly a minute passed before Lin Bin's door opened.

Lin Bin, who was originally half asleep, felt a chill when he saw Lei and Chen rubbing their hands together, "What are you two going to do?"

Lei Jun and Chen Mo looked at each other, chuckled, and pushed Lin Bin back to the room.

The door slammed shut, and no one knew what the three men did inside.

Another hour later, the three Xiaomi giants split into two groups.

Lei Jun had a worried look on his face and Lin Bin had a blank expression on his face. The two continued to visit other suppliers in Taiwan as if they were visiting a grave.

Chen Mo left the hotel alone with his suitcase and took a taxi to the airport.

The whole process was cold and icy.
That evening, rumors began to circulate online that the negotiations between Xiaomi and Foxconn had failed, that the originally close relationship between Lei Jun and Chen Mo had been strained, and that the two sides had parted ways unhappily.

The report also included photos that were suspected to be secretly taken, which were comparison photos of the three Xiaomi giants entering a hotel and coming out of the hotel.

Come in with a smile on your face, leave with a rage
As soon as the news broke, the media on both sides of the Taiwan Straits swarmed over like sharks smelling blood.

Thanks to the efforts of these media, even sporadic remarks about Chen Mo and Lei Jun were leaked, and once during a follow-up questioning, Lin Bin accidentally revealed that Chen Mo had made rude remarks at Foxconn.

Later, the media exaggerated that Lin Bin seemed to imply that Chen Mo was the culprit for the failure of the negotiations between Xiaomi and Foxconn. After media analysis, the power struggle between Lin Bin and Chen Mo was like a palace fight in the officialdom.

The specious and groundless reports pushed Chen Mo to the forefront and attracted countless onlookers.

These news caused a huge uproar on the Internet, and even overshadowed the popularity of Xiaomi X1. After all, as a contributor to Xiaomi, it is no exaggeration to say that Chen Mo is the backbone of the company.

Xiaomi executives jointly carried out the operation of getting rid of the donkey after it had served its purpose. Lin Bin's jealous and despicable behavior and Lei Jun's stubborn and conceited image as a tyrant were vividly portrayed on paper, which immediately attracted fierce criticism from Chen Mo's fans.

All of a sudden, Lei and Lin became the targets of criticism from netizens, and the controversy spread like wildfire.

(End of this chapter)