Chapter 134 I won't bother you anymore

After teaching Duan Yongping for a day, Zhang Yunqi was very tired, but after returning to the hotel, he did not rest. Instead, he directly took out Wang Guozhen's poetry collection and called Sun Xixi according to the contact information left on it.

Sun Xixi was a little surprised by Zhang Yunqi's call. After all, it was just an unexpected encounter on the train. But she was very happy. She asked knowingly: "What do you want from me?"

Zhang Yunqi asked with a smile: "Are you free tomorrow? I have finished my work in the past two days and want to have some fun in Xiangshan before going back."

Sun Xixi didn't say whether she had time or not, she just chatted with Zhang Yunqi casually. Zhang Yunqi was very good-tempered and chatted with her for about an hour.

When hanging up the phone, Sun Xixi gave her address.

Early the next morning, Zhang Yunqi heartlessly let Wang Guibing stay in the hotel, and took a taxi alone to the address given by Sun Xixi, and picked up Sun Xixi.

This morning, Sun Xixi went wherever she wanted and ate whatever she wanted. Zhang Yunqi accompanied her the whole time and was very patient, but he was not in a very good mood and was just rushing around.

Sun Xixi saw this.

During lunch, she asked Zhang Yunqi: "Do you have anything to talk to me about?"

Zhang Yunqi thought for a moment and said, "I do have some things to deal with. Although I have been to Xiangshan City many times, you are the only friend I know, so I will just speak frankly. Do you have any acquaintances in the Minzhong Town Police Station?"

Sun Xixi said: "I know an ordinary policeman named Zhong Wei. He is from the same village as me, so we are related. He is my cousin, I guess."

Zhang Yunqi said, "Can you invite him out for dinner tonight? I want to ask him for a favor."

"What help?" Sun Xixi asked.

Zhang Yunqi asked: "Do you still remember the person I mentioned to you last time on the train?"

Sun Xixi thought for a moment and asked, "Hu Zhibiao?"

The girl had a good memory and was quick to react. Zhang Yunqi nodded: "Yes, I'm looking for Hu Zhibiao."

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In fact, on a slightly smaller map of China, Xiangshan City in Guangdong Province is just a tiny place. Located on the west bank of the Pearl River, it has been sparsely populated since ancient times and has been home to a constant stream of refugees. It only became a little famous because of the birth of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, the pioneer of the Chinese revolution, a hundred years ago.

What is truly amazing is that in the past 20 years, this tiny place has become one of the cradles of China's emerging enterprises. Famous brands such as Wei Li, Robust, Subor, Jinzheng and Dihe, as well as a large group of young heroes who are only around 30 years old, have successively emerged from here and stirred up the Chinese business landscape.

Among them is the famous VCD brand Aido.

And its creator, Hu Zhibiao!
In Zhang Yunqi's memory, Hu Zhibiao seems to be only in his twenties now. He was born into a peasant family and lived in Minzhong Town, Xiangshan City. He had not received many years of education, but he had a natural interest in home appliances. He enjoyed assembling semiconductors since he was a child. He worked in a roadside home appliance repair shop in Xiangshan City. He could not be compared with Duan Yongping, who graduated from the Radio Department of Soochow University, but in the mid-1990s, the Aido brand VCD he created was no less famous than Xiaobawang. It is also worth mentioning that there were several frictions between Duan Yongping and Hu Zhibiao.

In 94, Hu Zhibiao and his friend invested 2000 yuan each and jointly opened a small factory in Xiangshan that specialized in counterfeiting electronic game products. At that time, Subor was already well-known throughout the country and was the largest learning machine manufacturer in China. Duan Yongping heard that there was a small roadside factory in Dongsheng Town, Xiangshan City that was producing counterfeit Subor learning machines, so he immediately sent people to crack down on the counterfeiting. When the anti-counterfeiting personnel broke into the factory, they were greeted by a red-faced Hu Zhibiao.

He is the director of this small factory.

There was a considerable conflict between the two sides at that time.

Duan Yongping did not take Hu Zhibiao seriously. The reason was simple. As the general manager of a large enterprise with an annual output value of 4 billion yuan, how could he take seriously a small factory director who was struggling on the edge of survival? Perhaps after this incident, he did not even remember Hu Zhibiao's name, but what he did not expect was that this young man, whom he did not take seriously, defeated him and won the bid with a sky-high price of 2.1 million yuan in the bid competition held by CCTV Media Center four years later.

One thing that Zhang Yunqi remembers most vividly is that before the competition for the bid, a reporter interviewed Hu Zhibiao and asked him whether he was determined to win the bid this time.

Hu Zhibiao was very calm and only said two sentences.

The first sentence was: "Whether I win the bid or not, you can tell by looking at my name." The second sentence was: "I don't have to be the top bidder, but the only prerequisite is that Duan Yongping doesn't win either."

The fact that he could say such domineering words not only shows Hu Zhibiao's rough personality, but also shows how powerful Aido VCD was in the Chinese DVD player market at that time.

For Zhang Yunqi right now, he has missed the opportunity to take over Xiaobawang. In two years, the VCD player market will explode, and he doesn't want to miss it.

He knew very well that although the world's first VCD player, invented by Wanyan Company, was produced in July and August this year, the market response was not good. There were many reasons for this. The price was expensive, and the matching discs were also expensive. Few people knew about this emerging product. However, two years later, with the rampant piracy industry in the southeastern coastal cities, the VCD player market exploded instantly, and the demand for VCD players increased by hundreds and thousands of times.

Although Wanyan Company was the first to develop a VCD player in the past, the real trendsetter in the industry at that time was Hu Zhibiao. The Aido VCD he created became popular all over the country, with sales reaching 16 billion. In 1997, he visited the headquarters of Philips in the Netherlands, and the century-old giant received him with the highest standards of a private jet and a red carpet.

It is said that Philip only gave such courtesy to two types of people: national leaders and the company's most important guests. This shows the high hopes the industry had for this 30-year-old young man at the time.

However, Hu Zhibiao is not doing very well now.

Zhang Yunqi speculated that he should be hiding in some corner repairing electrical appliances. As for where exactly, Zhang Yunqi didn't know. He only knew that Hu Zhibiao was from Minzhong Town, Xiangshan City, and it would be hard to find him. After thinking about it, he finally thought of the simplest and quickest way, which was to go directly to the local police station to check Hu Zhibiao's personal information.

In fact, you can ask for help from the local public security agency or police station and ask for assistance in finding someone's information even if you have the name. However, unless it is a government department or a direct relative, the public security agency will not help with the inquiry if there is no sufficient reason for the irrelevant person.

Of course, things will be much easier if you have acquaintances.

During dinner, Sun Xixi asked her cousin Zhong Wei to come out.

Zhang Yunqi specially found a high-end restaurant in Shiqi Street and invited Zhong Wei to eat Shiqi pigeon.

As soon as Zhong Wei saw the presence of a strange young man, he knew that his cheap cousin had asked him to come for dinner and was asking him to do a favor. However, he did not point it out. Although he was just an ordinary policeman, such scenes were not uncommon. He ate and drank. After three rounds of drinks, he asked Zhang Yunqi if he had something to talk to him about.
Zhang Yunqi didn't expect this guy to be so straightforward, but this was easier to deal with as it saved a lot of roundabout nonsense and he just stated his purpose directly.

Zhong Wei thought about it and said in a tone of following the rules: "It's not difficult to find someone, but if you don't have a legitimate reason, I can't do anything. The police station won't show you the file."

Zhang Yunqi had already thought of an excuse and said, "Don't worry about this, Officer Zhong. I have absolutely legitimate reasons for looking for him. I'm a game console distributor. Every time I distribute game consoles to lower-level agents, a small number of them will be damaged. However, for some low-quality game consoles, the manufacturer does not provide after-sales service. They will all be returned to me. As a businessman, I can't lose money, right? So every time I come to Xiangshan City to purchase goods, I bring those broken game consoles here and find someone to repair them and sell them at a low price."

Zhang Yunqi continued, "Hu Zhibiao is in the electronics repair business. I have worked with him several times without any problems. But last time I came to Xiangshan City, I brought more than a hundred broken game consoles to him for repair. He took the deposit and the game consoles I paid and disappeared. I don't know where he lives, so I can't find him at all."

After listening to this, Zhong Wei nodded and asked, "Where is Hu Zhibiao's repair shop?"

Zhang Yunqi said: "He used to set up a repair stall not far from the Rihua Electronics Factory. I agreed to pick up the goods three days later, but I didn't see him until I left. I came here just to deal with business matters. I didn't have enough time and couldn't afford to delay, so I hurried back. This time I came here, I still didn't see him. After thinking about it, I finally wanted to ask the police station to find his registered residence."

At this point, Zhang Yunqi handed his ID card and the distribution contract signed with Rihua Electronics Factory to Zhong Wei, and deliberately emphasized: "Officer Zhong, you see, I have been an ordinary distributor of Rihua Electronics Factory before, but now I have signed a regional general distributor contract with this factory."

Zhong Wei took the distribution contract and read it carefully. After reading it all, he did not notice any loopholes, so he said, "This matter is suspected of fraud. Brother, do you want to file a case?"

Zhang Yunqi waved his hand: "No, no, this is just a small financial dispute, it's not a lot of money, I can find someone else to solve it privately."

Zhong Wei was kind enough to ask: "You are a foreigner and you are so young. Are you sure you can get the money back if you find him? Since you are my cousin's friend, I can accompany you to find him."

Sun Xixi, who was standing next to him, was delighted when she heard this.

Zhang Yunqi said righteously: "Officer Zhong, you are a people's policeman who has to handle major cases. I won't cause trouble to you and the police station with this little matter."

(End of this chapter)