Reborn in 1991, helping dad become the richest man

The arrival of SARS cast a gloom over the entire country.

After watching the news on TV or other channels, all the people were filled with deep worry as the disease worsened and spread day by day.

Even in the usually bustling world of Chinese New Year, there is a lack of laughter and joy this year.

“The flavor of the New Year!”

Tang Yichen sat in the newly renovated house in his hometown, thinking about the village in the distance.

The smoke from cooking fires still hung thickly, but the crowds that used to be everywhere at this time of year were now fewer.

At the entrance of the village, the groups of people who used to stop and chat are gone.

Even if someone occasionally passes by, they are wearing a mask and walking in a hurry.

This is still the countryside.

Tang Yichen sighed.

In every year before, it was difficult for him to fully integrate into the group.

His mature heart deprives him of the happiness that a child can easily obtain.

But it is undeniable that the New Year atmosphere is really strong.

But this year's situation made Tang Yichen seem to have returned to the time before his rebirth.

"Perhaps, starting from this year, the New Year atmosphere is gradually disappearing." Tang Yichen muttered to himself.

Sometimes, the turning point is a chain reaction.

The gradual disappearance of the New Year atmosphere was definitely not due to SARS, but SARS was definitely a trigger.

"Hey!"

With a sigh, Tang Yichen could only accept the changes in the rolling tide of history.

This year, Tang Yichen returned to Chuzhou after celebrating the Lantern Festival in the countryside.

After I came back, SARS was still raging and sweeping the world.

But the earth will not stop turning because of the arrival of SARS.

The Tang family will not stop all work because of the arrival of SARS.

What needs to be done is still going on.

In fact, its subsidiaries and factories are still resuming production in an orderly manner after taking protective measures.

In May, the smartphone that had been preheated before the SARS outbreak was finally officially launched.

In the first batch of stock, the Eggplant factory stocked 200,000 mobile phones.

At the same time, routers officially entered the public eye.

Buy a phone and get a router for free.

The final price of 7,999 was also announced on the day of its official launch.

At that time, people who paid attention to the news were saying that Tang Xionghua was crazy.

"I originally thought Mr. Tang was looking for a shortcut to maintain his market share because of the current situation and impact of the mobile phone market. I didn't expect that Mr. Tang had been holding back for a year and finally came up with a sickle!"

"Haha, an 8,000 yuan phone, Mr. Tang is really crazy!"

"Some people, after making too much money and letting capital corrupt people's hearts, forget that they were once ordinary people. What era is it now? A mobile phone still costs 8,000 yuan, and it's a domestically produced phone. Anyone who buys it is a fool!"

"Hey, Mr. Tang, I misjudged you!"

On the Internet, shortly after the eggplant launch conference, such remarks continued to appear.

It can even be said that the entire Internet platform is completely filled with such remarks.

There are almost no positive comments now. Occasionally, if one or two people say something nice, they will be immediately beaten up.

At the same time, this situation is not limited to the Internet.

The Internet just makes news spread faster.

No. 2, the day after eggplants came on the market.

Major newspapers and news platforms have also begun to criticize this matter.

The comments and opinions are exactly the same as on the Internet.

At this time, in fact, none of these people had ever truly experienced the Eggplant phone.

Because it was just launched yesterday, and Eggplant Mobile is currently only accepting online orders due to the SARS epidemic, and offline delivery is selective based on the national SARS situation.

Even with the fastest delivery, at this time, it will take at least three or four days for the express to arrive.

Tang Yichen, who was spending the May Day holiday at home, naturally saw the comments from the outside world, and Tang Xionghua also knew about it.

However, Tang Xionghua did not comment on the outside comments.

It wasn't just Tang Xionghua. There was no sound from Eggplant either.

Even now, many reporters actually want to interview Eggplant executives, or get first-hand information, or want to hear Eggplant managers, or even Tang Xionghua, comment on external voices.

But, they all failed.

Tang Xionghua had already ordered everyone to shut up.

Of course, this matter was also known to some reporters.

Then another voice appeared.

"Mr. Tang knows he's in the wrong and is strictly ordering everyone to speak out!"

"These people are cursing so harshly!" Inside Chuzhou Villa, Tang Yichen was holding his mobile phone, looking at the content on the phone, and complained helplessly.

Are Eggplant phones expensive?

It is indeed expensive, but as the first smartphone, not to mention the R&D costs, the cost of producing a phone now is more than four thousand. Adding other miscellaneous costs later, the net profit of a phone is actually less than two thousand.

In electronics, this profit margin is actually very low.

Of course, compared with Lao Tang’s other electronic products, the profit of this mobile phone is indeed higher.

But Eggplant, from the very beginning, planned to go the boutique route.

The positioning is different, and the popularization route is reserved for the future when the market is more mature and the cost of product parts can be further reduced, and then Huaxing will be allowed to go.

Tang Xionghua walked over, holding a cigarette, and said with a smile, "Are you reading online comments again?"

Tang Yichen looked up at his father and said helplessly, "These unscrupulous media, to be honest, only our family has your reputation and our own strength, so we don't need to worry about these things. If a small business or a new company did this, it would definitely be in a mess now!"

"Haha! Don't watch it if it affects your mood!"

Tang Xionghua laughed heartily, not affected at all by the voices outside and on the Internet.

Because this was actually something that had been anticipated a long time ago, and it was also part of Tang Xionghua and Tang Yichen's plan.

In fact, although there is a lot of shouting outside now, public opinion is one-sided, the Internet is full of curses, and various media are also critical.

But in fact?

It has been less than thirty hours since the new product launch ended yesterday, and a quarter of the 200,000 mobile phones have been sold.

The voices online are actually about the price issue.

Simply put, if you can't eat grapes, you say they are sour.

Or rather, the Eggplant phone gave them a huge disappointment.

Everyone originally had psychological expectations and believed that this phone would only be sold for more than 3,000 yuan to meet the public's psychological acceptance level.

It’s twice as expensive now, how can there be no difference?

This gap is also due to the current problem of per capita income.

In a word, the people’s pockets are not thick enough and their income is still too low.

At present, the average monthly salary for urban workers across the country is still around 1,000 yuan, or even less than 1,000 yuan.

A mobile phone and no food or water for half a year.

A little over a year ago, this wasn't a big deal.

But now, after the proactive price cuts by foreign mobile phone brands and the impact of domestic mobile phones.

In the market now, a mobile phone can be purchased for as little as a thousand yuan.

Even now, there are people in the market who use various second-hand parts to make their own copycat mobile phones or even low-end counterfeit mobile phones.

This kind of mobile phone can be bought for hundreds of dollars.

Although this type of mobile phone has poor quality and even no warranty, problems may occur after just two days of use or even right after you bring it home.

But it is undeniable that the prices of things like mobile phones have indeed been brought down.

A few years ago, mobile phones were considered to be exclusive items for the wealthy class, but this has also been broken.

In this case, an Eggplant phone that costs 7,000 yuan is seen as an act of restoration in the eyes of many people who cannot afford it or are reluctant to buy it.

It is an act of capital sucking blood.

However, you can only know whether the product is good or not after using it.

Among the flower growers, there is definitely no shortage of wealthy people who are willing to give it a try.

In other words, the Tang family has always had a good reputation and has accumulated a lot of trust from people.

"The new experience of Eggplant mobile phone is so worth it!"

On the afternoon of the 3rd, such a post appeared on the Xiongchen Forum.

This is someone who received the product and experienced it.

"Did the OP take the money? Or is he just not thinking straight? You're telling me an 8,000 yuan phone is worth it?"

Immediately, there was a reply in the post.

The poster responded very quickly.

"What do you know? Do you know? I am now using my mobile phone to log in to QH to post and chat with you!"

"Tsk, what's so strange about this? I can even use QH with my 1500 yuan phone!"

"Can you please stop talking nonsense? Is that the same as mine? Look at how quickly I'm replying to you. Are you sure your phone can open the QH forum and reply that quickly?"

"What's wrong? It's not like I haven't tried before!"

"Haha, I'm not going to argue with you. I just want to say that I don't need to pay for my cell phone, do you understand?"

The guy who received the phone was obviously a hot-tempered person. He kept criticizing everyone under the post. When Tang Yichen saw it, he had already commented on more than 80 posts.

And thanks to this guy's words, the new side of Eggplant smartphone has officially appeared in front of the general public.

WIFI, smooth network, no traffic charges.

There are many kinds of APPs, and you can even play Legends directly on your phone.

He revealed a series of new features and mobile phone experiences.

In fact, some of these functions were already exposed during the Eggplant new product launch conference.

But at that time, many people were skeptical about these functions, and even because of the price, it led to one-sided negative reviews and public opinion.

A small number of people who were interested in these new features believed it, and those who had money bought it.

Those who didn't believe it or had other ideas didn't dare to speak out after seeing the public opinion out there.

Until today.

As more and more mobile phones are experienced by users.

Eggplant mobile phone is truly starting to establish its reputation on the Internet.

……

"Fuck, how could this happen?"

"Why didn't I have any news before? What was the point of me keeping you?"

"This Wi-Fi and this phone are a perfect match. I feel like we need to reform as soon as possible!"

In China, major mobile phone manufacturers are actually the first group to receive the goods.

Now, after they also experienced connecting their mobile phones to WIFI, they panicked and became anxious.

The Tang family has done a great job of keeping the WIFI confidential.

In fact, WIFI has never made any public announcement, and the construction of the factory and production have always been kept secret.

It was not until now, with the release of Eggplant Generation 1, that it was launched as a gift and entered thousands of households.

Its appearance has indeed broken the existing pattern of the mobile phone market.

Touch, handwriting, MP3, camera, MP4 and other functions are actually the main focus of mobile phone manufacturers nowadays.

The so-called smartphone was actually an abandoned product before the eggplant came out.

Unexpectedly, the current eggplant WIFI has completely changed the situation.

The wolf is coming!

Domestic mobile phone manufacturers, and even major mobile phone manufacturers around the world, are exclaiming in surprise.

And as they exclaimed, the first batch of users gradually received the phones and tried them out.

The widespread acclaim on the Internet has also begun to spread to real life.

Smartphones, when first introduced to the general public, were also very violent, directly tearing a big hole in the existing mobile phone market.

Before the 5th, Eggplant mobile phone sold less than 60,000 units in five days.

But by the 10th, the remaining 140,000 units were sold out.

Starting from the 11th, there was a craze of buying at a higher price in the market.

A mobile phone that cost eight thousand yuan was once sold for more than eleven thousand yuan, and the price is still rising.

Didn’t Eggplant Mobile Phone Company announce that the factory’s production capacity is accelerating and the second batch of mobile phones will be released at the beginning of next month?

But even so, a brand new Eggplant phone still costs over ten thousand yuan on the market.

This was unimaginable when the phone was first released.

Of course, this fiery look now also makes many media feel hot on their faces.

Internet users, not to mention that they can delete posts, just say that with the passage of time, the comments made before the post sinks to the bottom will become a thing of the past.

Even if someone were to push up a post that had previously insulted someone, only other people would say a few words.

No one can find the person who posted it offline.

But these platforms and media can’t do that!

The harsher the scolding was before, the more painful the slap in the face will be now.

Of course, Tang Yichen and his son don’t care about this kind of thing now.

Because in the minds of Tang Yichen and his son, this was an inevitable outcome. Time passed.

The popularity of eggplant did not make SARS disappear.