Chapter 211 The Strange Man Who Exchanged Canned Food for Airplanes [3000]

Lu Yang didn't listen very seriously at first.

He simply thought that the middle-aged man in front of him was pretty cool and had a strong aura, even stronger than Deputy Mayor Xu next to him.

He looked neither like an official nor like a member of the organizer, but rather like a private entrepreneur like himself.

But even so, there are still many people who follow suit and flatter him.

This is quite interesting.

So I just asked out of curiosity and didn't think about it at all.

But at this moment, when he heard Chief Engineer Jiang say that this person's name was Mou Qizhong, the expression on his face suddenly froze, and then he could no longer remain calm.

Who is Mou Qizhong?
This person has two nicknames: the first generation richest man in the mainland and the number one trader in the mainland.

Mou Qizhong's life can be said to be a legend, but the second half of this legend has an imperfect and regrettable ending.

His imperfect and regrettable ending is different from the regrets of Chief Engineer Jiang, a technical master.

Chief Engineer Jiang's regret is that the development of VCD technology has allowed movie discs to enter thousands of households, enriching the leisure life of ordinary people in China.

He should have had the opportunity to become the richest man in the country and, with this technology, reap patent wealth from all over the world.

But because of a momentary negligence.

The idea was too naive. I always thought that even if I applied for a patent, no one would pay him the patent fee under the domestic environment at that time. So why bother?

If you have time, you might as well spend more time on products and make them better and more excellent.

This is typical tech geek arrogance.

Because of his arrogance, he missed the opportunity to reap the benefits of the global industrial chain with this patent.

In the near future, foreign manufacturers will develop DVD technology based on VCD and launch a more advanced playback format mechanism, and use this to counterattack the mainland, occupy the mainland market, and charge high patent fees.

It is said that in 2002 alone, the annual output of DVDs in China was at its peak, exceeding 3000 million units. Foreign companies that owned patented DVD technology charged $6 in patent fees for each DVD, while the 4C Group charged $3, and Thomson and other companies charged $3.5. These large groups alone collected a total of up to $4.5 in patent fees per unit. Together with other miscellaneous patent fees, the total was as high as $12, which was equivalent to about 21.3 yuan at the time.

It is not possible to save all of the 200 yuan patent fee for each unit, but at least if there is a VCD patent, part of it can be offset with the patent.

But unfortunately not if.

There is no medicine for regret in this world.

So at that time, the patent fees paid to these foreign patent trolls alone amounted to as much as 90 billion yuan each year.

It can be said that all the profits from the VCD and DVD market, with tens of millions of units produced each year, have been earned by foreigners!
But even so, Wanyan Company was sold and returned to Modern Television Technology Company.

Chief Engineer Jiang Wanli is still the general manager of Modern Television Technology Company, a shareholder of the company, and an indispensable technical expert in the product research and development department.

But what about Mou Qizhong?

He started out as a trader.

The first pot of gold was made cleanly. At that time, I opened a store called Sino-German Friendship in my hometown in partnership with someone else.

At first, business was not very good, but he seized a business opportunity.

At that time, there was no concept of "three guarantees" for commodity sales in mainland China.

It was Mou Qizhong who first promoted the "card replacement" policy among local users.

The replacement card states: All black-and-white televisions and other electrical appliances purchased at the Sino-German Store can be exchanged within three days for urban customers, and within one week for rural customers.

For a time, it attracted a lot of praise and acclaim.

In this way, he earned 8 yuan in a short period of time.

And that year was 1982.

Mou Qizhong was not satisfied with this. He wanted to make more money and become the richest man in mainland China.

So he colluded with others to buy a batch of copper bells from an arsenal in the mountain city at the lowest price, and then sold them to many stores in Shanghai, thousands of miles away, at a very high price. From this alone, he made a staggering amount of profits.

Since then, Mou Qizhong's Sino-German Store has done similar business many times.

What was the main theme?
Is it a bit like...fleecing socialism?

Yes, that's what I mean.

Mou Qizhong worked very hard, but he forgot that this kind of behavior was not allowed at that time and was the most typical case of "speculation and short selling."

After being caught.

He was sentenced to many years in prison.

But this man is indeed a talent. While in prison, he wrote two letters of defense for himself.

"The resistance to reform in Wanxian City from the closure of the Sino-German store"

It was the first few years of reform and opening up, and everything was still in the process of trial and error. Even though a businessman of the time like Mou Qizhong had been imprisoned, the letters he wrote were quickly taken seriously by the top leaders.

In early 1984, Mou Zhexi's efforts paid off and he was released after 11 months in prison.

After being released from prison, Mou Zongqi resumed his old business and reopened the Sino-German Store.

Soon the original Sino-German store was upgraded to the Sino-German Industrial Development Corporation, and the industrial and commercial tax registration procedures were completed and a business license was obtained. After the company officially started operations, it used its eloquence to convince the then Wanxian Agricultural Bank to loan 250 million yuan as start-up capital.

It was this 250 million yuan that started a series of legends.

For example: the initiative to develop the Little Three Gorges.

The Sino-German shipyard, Sino-German fleet, Sino-German school for children, and Sino-German village were established. Barter was used to exchange train skins and canned food for large aircraft from Big Brother. Later, the initiative was proposed to blow up Mount Everest to allow the warm and humid air from the Indian Ocean to blow in, to create a Saishang Jiangnan in the west, and to launch private satellites, etc.

Even if time stops here, he will still be a legend.

At that time, Mou Qizhong was already the richest man in mainland China.

At that time, many people advised him that he should not take any more risks and should transform into industry and manufacturing and produce whatever the country needs.

If he had really listened.

Perhaps a giant enterprise like Huawei will appear in China many years earlier to lead Chinese enterprises in fighting against foreign capital.

Unfortunately, Mou Qizhong is just Mou Qizhong after all, he can never become someone else.

No one else can be him.

Mou Qizhong despised the manufacturing industry and all traditional industries, believing that making money in this way was too slow. Only by buying and selling short, speculating and making huge profits from the price difference could he demonstrate his business skills, which were also his strengths.

So along this road, he eventually got his shoes wet, and a generation of business legend was thrown into prison and faded from the public eye.

Perhaps he was too engrossed in watching, Lu Yang's eyes could not be hidden from Deputy Mayor Xu and Jiang Wanli who were standing beside him.

Jiang Wanli said with some concern: "Brother, do you want to meet him?"

He is a relatively upright person, holding both technical and management positions. He does not like businessmen who make their fortunes through speculation.

It is believed that such businessmen make no contribution to the country and the people.

Lu Yang shook his head: "It is not necessary to know him, but I feel that this person has experienced many ups and downs and has now become a guest of honor for the bigwigs from all sides. Apart from other things, just this courage and insight shows that he is not an ordinary person."

Mou Qizhong's path to success is not impossible to replicate, but it is not necessary.

The risk is too great.

Just talking about using cans to fly a plane may seem simple, but in actual operation, each step is full of uncertainty and each step is a risk. It can be said that if any step goes wrong, there will be no recovery.

At that time, Big Brother’s things were like picking up something for free, and everyone knew about it. Was there no other businessmen who also saw this business opportunity?
Of course there are, and there are definitely a lot of them.

However, only Mou Qizhong succeeded, so he became a legend. If someone else had succeeded, it would have been another legend.

Lu Yang is not envious.

He is a southerner, and he doesn't even know how to bribe Big Brother. No matter how he bribes, he doesn't know the way back. He has no connections, so there is no point in envying him.

However, he would not be like Mr. Jiang, a businessman with a technical background, who looked down on pure traders like Mou Qizhong who made their fortune by short selling.

Merchants are merchants, there is no distinction between noble and humble.

If there was a chance, he wouldn't mind getting to know the other person.

Deputy Mayor Xu held a similar attitude. He smiled and said, "This Mou Zhongqi is still very powerful. As far as I know, his hometown Wanxian City has developed well in recent years because of him. If he can come to Baoqing City to invest, I welcome it. It is all for the purpose of contributing to the development of the local economy. As long as it is not a real violation of the national law, I can tolerate him. I am just afraid that he will look down on our small cities in the mainland, haha."

"Be tolerant to diversity, tolerance is a virtue."

At this time, Chief Engineer Jiang looked at Deputy Mayor Xu with a little admiration in his eyes, and couldn't help but say: "Mayor Xu has the talent to manage an entire province. On the contrary, I underestimated him. Yes, it's all for the construction of the country."

"Haha, please don't flatter me. I'm just afraid that I can't do a good job as the deputy mayor and lose face for the folks..."

The three of them were chatting animatedly.

Over there, the two big bosses from Guangdong Province, the organizer, had just received a group of private entrepreneurs from a business delegation. When they saw a queue had formed behind them, they frowned slightly, looked at each other, and decided to recruit the rest of the people.

"Time is running out, so don't meet with them one by one. There are many private entrepreneurs here today, so why not take this opportunity to hold a symposium."

"agree."

After the two bosses reached an agreement, they passed their ideas to their secretaries, who then notified others.

(End of this chapter)