#13 - Section: Intelligent production line

Zhang Yu said, "That's more than what our current production lines produce. Our current production lines can only produce fifty to sixty thousand units a day, and that requires several thousand people to coordinate. Will we still introduce intelligent production lines in the future?"

"Yes, we will introduce them," Lu Haifeng replied.

"If we introduce all intelligent production lines, what will happen to the workers on the lines? We can't just fire them all, can we?"

"We'll make arrangements when the time comes. There are still many places where we need people, such as directly operated stores, franchise stores, warehouses, and so on. We'll still need to recruit people."

"Then where will the factory be built?"

"Are there any vacant factories nearby?"

"There are, but they're too big," Luo Juan, the head of the sales department, responded.

"Where is it? How big is it?"

"Boss, have you forgotten? It's that large area next to us."

Only then did Lu Haifeng remember that there was a large area of vacant factory buildings and a large open space near the entrance.

"And Boss, are we renting or buying it?"

"First, send someone to talk to Piaocheng about it. If we can pay in installments, we'll buy it. If that doesn't work, we'll rent it for two years. After two years, we'll definitely build our own industrial park."

"President Lu, we don't have much money in our account. I'm afraid we can only rent it," said Qin Jing, the finance manager.

"How much can we borrow from the bank now?"

"At most, we can only borrow about 1.5 billion yuan. After all, we've already borrowed 3 billion yuan."

"Then let's take out a loan first! Let's wait and see about the factory. Meeting adjourned," Lu Haifeng said.

In his heart, he was thinking about where to find some quick money. After thinking for a long time, he couldn't think of anything that could earn him a fortune. In 2013, he remembered that Bitcoin had increased more than tenfold. He could go in and make a killing next year.

"President Lu, people from Samsung want to see you," Xiao Ai came in and said.

Lu Haifeng narrowed his eyes.

People from Samsung?

It's probably related to the system accelerator.

After all, which mobile phone manufacturer had the highest shipment volume in the three quarters of 2012? It wasn't Apple, it wasn't Nokia, but Samsung. According to statistics, Samsung's total shipment volume in 2012 reached 63 million units. Samsung alone accounted for 30.4% of the market. Apple and Nokia ranked second and third in the smartphone market share.

Recently, with the support of the system accelerator, the performance of various mobile phones has been rapidly improved. Samsung wants to embed the system accelerator in their mobile phones.

Lu Haifeng hated Samsung. In his previous life, he remembered that when Samsung phones exploded, they were recalled in all other countries except China. They even claimed that the phones sold in China were not from the same batch and were safe enough. But what was the result? They still exploded, but they still refused to admit it. Such discrimination against the Chinese consumer market was unacceptable to Lu Haifeng as a Daxia citizen. It seemed that he remembered Samsung having a series of dirty tricks later on.

Now that Samsung had taken the initiative to come to his door, he would naturally fleece them for a fortune. Didn't they discriminate against the Daxia market?

......

In the conference room.

Pu Xingcai, the president of Samsung's Daxia branch, came in person, which was enough to show how much he valued this meeting.

"President Lu is young and promising," Pu Xingcai said in fluent Chinese. Daxia was a large market, and if he wanted to make money, he had to integrate into the national conditions of Daxia. Seeing Lu Haifeng, Pu Xingcai stood up and greeted him directly.

Lu Haifeng didn't expect that the person in front of him was actually the president of Samsung's Daxia region. In his previous life, this person had also promoted the policy of not recalling the exploding mobile phones sold in China. Lu Haifeng was somewhat angry and full of disgust for this person.

However, Lu Haifeng smiled and said, "I wonder what Mr. Pu is here for."

"Of course, it's to discuss cooperation. Huaxing Technology is now famous in the mobile phone industry."

Lu Haifeng replied, "Then how do you want to cooperate?"

"We, Samsung, will either invest in Huaxing or acquire Huaxing to quickly increase mobile phone production capacity, so President Lu won't have to worry about production capacity."

"Tell me about these two options," Lu Haifeng said with great interest.

"The first option is for us, Samsung, to invest 550 million US dollars to acquire 51% of the shares. The second option is for us to acquire 100% of the shares for 1 billion US dollars."

Lu Haifeng was surprised.

Seeing Lu Haifeng's surprised expression, Pu Xingcai said, "If you choose the second option of full acquisition, our Samsung Daxia region is still short of a vice president."

Lu Haifeng said, "I will not sell the company."

"That's easy to say. We'll invest to acquire 51% of the shares. When will we sign the contract? As long as we sign the contract, President Lu, you'll be the youngest billionaire I've ever met."

Lu Haifeng looked at his confident expression and thought, 'This is not normal. They're willing to spend so much for the system accelerator. There must be something I don't know.'

Lu Haifeng looked at the time and said, "Mr. Pu, it's already lunchtime. Let's talk after we've eaten."

"Xiao Ai, take Mr. Pu to our cafeteria for some food. Mr. Pu, do you mind eating in our cafeteria?"

"I don't mind. I'm not a picky eater," Pu Xingcai replied.

Watching Xiao Ai take Pu Xingcai out, Lu Haifeng quickly went to the laboratory to see Liang Cong and said, "Old Liang, help me analyze why Samsung is so determined to acquire the system accelerator. They don't even make systems."

"Who said Samsung doesn't make operating systems? As long as they're a slightly larger mobile phone manufacturer, they're all doing it, but they just haven't released it yet," Liang Cong replied.

Lu Haifeng understood now, but he didn't expect that the first one to appear was Samsung, not the person he was waiting for.

Liang Cong was a system tool person. When the system accelerator was released last time, he was afraid that it would be deciphered, so he recruited a network security expert in the system store to encrypt the operating system and the system accelerator.

"Old Liang, let Google know that Samsung is going to Huaxing to buy the system accelerator," Lu Haifeng instructed.

This kind of small matter was simple for Liang Cong. He could just hack in. There was nothing on the internet that he couldn't hack into.

"Okay, President Lu."

Lu Haifeng told his secretary, Xiao Ai, that he had something to do in the afternoon and asked Pu Xingcai to come back tomorrow to talk.