I can become stronger by paying salaries. I have one billion employees!

Chapter 362 Revenue of 1475 billion, 5010 million worldwide! Meizu and OPPO: Is this fair?
"Principal Tang, it's been a long time!"

Cao Dahua, carrying a gift bag, stepped into Tang Qingshan's office.

"It seems that Teacher Cao's personality has changed since he became successful; he even knows to bring gifts."

Tang Qingshan raised his head, looked Cao Dahua up and down, and said with a smile, "You are so funny."

Compared to a year ago, Cao Dahua has clearly lost a lot of weight. He is wearing a dark, high-end bespoke suit, and you can tell from the fabric that it is very expensive.

His mustache was neatly trimmed, and his slicked-back hair, parted in a 3/7 ratio, gave him the air of a corporate CEO.

"I used to only think about getting some of your tea, but now that I have more money, of course I have to pay you back," Cao Dahua chuckled.

"Please sit down. I have a tin of tea that Chen gave me, it's still unopened, so you can have a taste."

Tang Qingshan said with a smile.

Things are different now. Cao Dahua is no longer a mentor in the startup park, nor is he the old hand who always slacks off. Instead, he is the general manager of Orange Mobile Phone Factory, managing 30,000 to 40,000 employees.

"Then I'm in for a treat." Cao Dahua rubbed his hands together as usual, pulled up a chair, and sat down opposite Tang Qingshan.

"Back for the year-end performance review?" Tang Qingshan got up, walked to the cabinet, and picked out a can of Yunwu white tea from a row of beautifully packaged teas.

"Yes, Mr. Chen's business is growing and expanding, so naturally he can't inspect everything like before."

Cao Dahua, acting as if they were old friends, snatched the tea canister from Tang Qingshan's hand and busied himself boiling water and brewing tea.

The two sat facing each other, with a coffee table between them.

"You're lucky to have hooked up with such a powerful figure. Once you reach the second half of your life, it's very difficult to climb any higher," Tang Qingshan said to Cao Dahua with a sigh.

"Luck is also part of ability. It just so happens that Mr. Chen wants to enter the mobile phone industry, and I happen to have experience in management, procurement, and operations in the mobile phone manufacturing industry. How can you say that it's not a matter of ability?"

Cao Dahua said smugly.

"It's a pity that Chen Yansen bought a 460,000-square-meter industrial land in Luzhou. I'm afraid that in two years, the area around Xuyuan will have to return to the level of 2010."

Tang Qingshan looked at the bubbling tea and said with great reluctance.

“You could move the school there,” Cao Dahua joked.

"You think I don't want to?" Tang Qingshan rolled his eyes.

The whole school relocation thing was just a joke.

At that time, although Pinbei, Orange Technology, Today Technology, and Orange Payment will have moved away, their connections will remain, and they will still be able to accept several hundred graduates from the virtual college every year.

At least, there are enough jobs at Kuaipao, Yunsu, and Orange Mobile's factories.

Cao Dahua grinned, his gaze falling through the glass window onto the entrepreneurial park not far away, the starting point of his second life.

……

……

It was the first day of 2013, during the New Year's Day holiday.

After dealing with Hu Ruihui and the others, Chen Yansen returned to the villa area in the Delta.

You can't have employees on vacation while the boss is always at work.

In fact, at this time, at least one-third of the people in the science park were there to work overtime.

The reason is simple: today's pay is tripled.

An operations staff member with a monthly salary of 12,000 yuan can earn 1655 yuan in overtime pay by working only six hours.

Therefore, overtime slots are in high demand in all departments during holidays.

Supervisors usually schedule tasks, and everyone is assigned a task, which allows them to report to both the company and their subordinates.

But what they didn't know was that Chen Yansen didn't care at all.

Given the profit levels of companies like Pinduoduo and Orange Technology, that little bit of overtime pay is just a drop in the ocean, practically a perk.

Song Yuncheng was cooking in the kitchen, while Chen Yansen carried a chair and sat by the fish pond, occasionally scattering fish food into the water, which attracted several plump koi carp to compete for it.

The cold wind of northern Anhui had no effect on him. Even when he was outdoors, Chen Yansen was only wearing a thin, plain-colored undershirt.

After handling the cooperation matters with Huawei, all that remained was the subsidiary's year-end work report.

He heard from Lao Zuo that Cao Dahua had returned to Xucheng two days earlier than planned.

Mao Chaorong also boarded a plane and was heading back to China.

Chen Yansen originally wanted to give a report online, but Gao Weilin said, "Boss, let's take a New Year's group photo."

He was convinced instantly!

In addition, Chen Yansen also wanted to take this opportunity to communicate with the heads of his various holding subsidiaries one by one.

Human hearts are fickle!

Even those he personally selected are unlikely to remain unchanged forever.

With his mental power, he can easily discern a person's true thoughts by observing subtle information such as facial expressions, micro-movements, and tone of voice.

You can usually guess pretty accurately who's up to no good behind the scenes.

"Dinner's ready, Chef Chen." At that moment, Song Yuncheng, wearing an apron, stood at the living room door and shouted loudly to Chen Yansen, interrupting his thoughts.

The New Year has arrived, and Song Yuncheng is now twenty-two years old. Under his care, she has become even more beautiful and radiant.

"Wow! I'm twenty-one again?"

Chen Yansen found it amusing, then stood up and walked slowly toward the living room.

Two days passed in the blink of an eye, and January 4th marked the first working day of 2013.

Luxury cars line the ground floor of the science park.

Liao Wei stepped out of the car, but before he could take two steps, he bumped into Pei Yi, Cheng Weixing, and Xiao Jun, who were talking at the door.

"Oh, Mr. Liao, you've arrived. How's your MBA course going lately?"

Pei Yi and Liao Wei both live in Shanghai, and they occasionally have a drink together in private; they are quite close.

"Don't even mention it! My boss said the course I signed up for before was too easy, so he chose an advanced course for me. I'm over forty years old, and I still have to take notes and do homework every day. It's so tough!"

Upon hearing this, Liao Wei's face fell, and he complained repeatedly.

"Really? So Mr. Liao is so unwilling?"

A familiar voice suddenly appeared behind me.

Liao Wei's expression froze, and he subconsciously raised his hand to look at his watch. It was 10:15 a.m. The boss should be sitting in his office, not here.

But he couldn't pretend not to hear what his boss said, so he could only turn around, give a dry laugh, and say, "Boss, as everyone knows, I love learning the most. I'm not even fifty years old yet, and this is the age for me to work hard."

"That's good. I don't want you to retire before you're even fifty." Chen Yansen said with a smile, looking at Liao Wei with a teasing expression.

Pei Yi, Cheng Weixing, and Xiao Jun tried to suppress their laughter when they saw Liao Wei's discomfiture, but their expressions of wanting to laugh yet holding it in only hurt Liao Wei more.

"Boss, Happy New Year," Xiao Jun greeted first.

"boss!"

"Boss!" Pei Yi and Cheng Weixing followed closely behind.

"Let's go take pictures at Building 9 first."

Chen Yansen waved his hand and led the way, walking straight into the former conference room that had been converted into a photography studio.

Huang Zheng from Pinbei, Zhou Shouzhi from Orange Technology, Liang Bo from Today Technology, Zhang Yinjia from Orange Payment, Hu Weiyi from OFO Bike, Mao Chaorong from Mimo, Zhang Yiming from ByteDance Technology, and Qu Fang from Xiaohongshu, among others, arrived at the photography studio one after another.

Chen Yansen stood in the middle, Gao Weilin and Zhou Shouzhi stood to his left, and Cao Dahua stood to his right.

The rest of the people stood in a neat row on the left and right.

‘Click’!
The photographer pressed the shutter button dozens of times in a row.

The filming didn't finish until 11:30. Everyone went to the cafeteria and had a simple lunch.

At 2 p.m., Yu Chendong and He Boting from Haisi arrived by car. Chen Yansen greeted them briefly and then left the follow-up work to Wu Shengyu and Mike.

Anyway, the pricing standards for Orange Z1's architecture licensing, IP core licensing, and usage licensing have all been set.

Yu Chendong and He Boting brought more than a dozen engineers, simply to verify the coding efficiency and energy efficiency of the Orange Z1 instruction set. It was most suitable for Wu Shengyu and Mike to handle the task.

the other side.

Senlian Capital's year-end summary work has officially begun, with Orange Technology being the first to report.

Zhou Shouzhi presided over the meeting, while Chen Yansen sat in the main seat and listened from the sidelines.

"Boss, Mr. Zhou, I'll begin then," Yan Peng from the e-commerce department said softly.

Chen Yansen nodded.

"In 2012, Orange Mobile sold a total of 5010 million units, including 4340 million units in the domestic market and 670 million units in overseas markets. Revenue reached 1127 billion yuan, with hardware gross profit of 124.9 billion yuan and software gross profit of 72.3 billion yuan, totaling 197.2 billion yuan."

Yan Peng connected to the projector, opened a PowerPoint presentation, and began to speak slowly.

He paused for a moment, then continued, "Orange Power Bank sold a total of 1039 million units, generating revenue of 13.4 billion yuan and a gross profit of 4.1 million yuan."
Moss smart speakers achieved total sales of 340 million units, revenue of 27.2 billion yuan, and gross profit of 4.6 million yuan.
Alexa smart speakers achieved total sales of 820 million units, generating revenue of 107.7 billion yuan and a gross profit of 20.5 billion yuan…

Chen Yansen turned his attention to the summary column. With the revenue from Bluetooth headsets, tablets, laptops, accessories and software added, Orange Technology's total revenue in 2012 was 1475 billion yuan, gross profit was 235 billion yuan, and net profit was 74.9 billion yuan.

It's actually not even as high as Pinbei Mall's net profit in Q4!
But for Chen Yansen, Orange Technology is ten times more valuable than Pinbei!
Ten minutes later, Yan Peng finished his report.

Ye Qiuping followed up with the report, summarizing the brand department's marketing achievements for the entire year into a visual data table. From new product launches to channel promotion data, everything was clearly visible, easy to understand and grasp.

Although Ye Qiuping's academic credentials were fake, her abilities were genuine.

Her work ability, reporting efficiency, and logical thinking skills are in no way inferior to those of top students and former Alibaba executives like Yan Peng.

After she finished speaking, Wang Teng, He Shuang, Zhang Cong, Zhou Ze, Ding Houmeng, and others also completed their work summaries and year-end performance reviews.

74.9 billion yuan?
No wonder Lei Yijun sells TVs, air conditioners, electric fans, and even desk lamps, water cups, and nightlights, turning Xiaomi into a general store.

After deducting material costs, manufacturing costs, patent licensing fees, and after-sales expenses, a mobile phone company with annual revenue of nearly 1500 billion yuan ended up with only a net profit of more than 70 billion yuan.

Like begging for food!
The real money is made by Qualcomm and ARM, not by device manufacturers and retailers.

"Old Zhou, we need to accelerate the expansion of overseas markets and make it a core strategy for fiscal year 2013."

Chen Yansen gave instructions to Zhou Shouzhi, who was standing to the side.

“Yes, boss, I understand,” Zhou Shouzhi replied immediately.

at the same time.

At Xiaomi's headquarters in Beijing, Lei Yijun sat in a conference room, staring at the large screen in front of him, ignoring Li Wanqiang's words.

Xiaomi shipped 726 million units in 2012. Including revenue from digital peripherals, game co-operation, and software, its total revenue was 126 billion yuan, and its net profit was 17.4 billion yuan.

He earned over a billion, but compared to a year's worth of hard work, this amount of money is pitifully small.

"Mr. Lei, should we issue an announcement?" Li Wanqiang called out a few times, and when Lei Yijun did not respond, he raised his voice.

"Even an ugly daughter-in-law has to meet her in-laws eventually, so let's send it out."

Lei Yijun sighed, his expression revealing neither joy nor sadness.

With annual sales of 726 million units, it's somewhere in the middle, not the best but not the worst either. It's slightly better than Meizu and OPPO, but far behind Huawei and ZTE.

As for oranges, mountain stars, and apples, those are not brands that Xiaomi can compete with.

"Okay," Li Wanqiang replied.

What he didn't expect was that right after Xiaomi's official Weibo account released its year-end results, Zhou Hongyi followed suit and announced 360 Mobile's annual sales figures.

With a purebred special edition phone and a pseudo-self-operated smartphone, 360 Mobile sold a staggering 839 million units in 2012.

Although not explicitly stated, this stands in stark contrast to Xiaomi's 726 million units.

"Judging from sales figures, 360 mobile phones are of high quality, much better than a certain cheap brand. Since someone wants to make mobile phones, they should do it properly: First, don't rely on insults and arguments for marketing; second, don't rely on copying and plagiarizing to make products..."

Zhou Hongyi wrote a lengthy passage, returning Lei Yijun's sarcastic remarks to him verbatim.

This caused netizens to burst into laughter!
Does 360 Mobile have the technology?

If it weren't for Orange Technology's supply chain and manufacturing capabilities, it would probably have ended up like the Haier W910.

"Mr. Zhou, may I ask what your IP address is? All 360 phones are low-end models, how can they compare to Xiaomi?"

One netizen, whose username included the MIUI system prefix, bluntly criticized the system.

Zhou Hongyi laughed in anger, immediately posted the person's name on the screen, and shouted at Lei Yijun from afar: "Mid-range phone, right? 360 is preparing to launch a smartphone priced at 1999 yuan, whose configuration will absolutely crush Xiaomi. Let's compare domestic sales next year, and I'm going to slap you in the face hard."

Lei Yijun, Li Wanqiang, and Lin Bing joined in, exchanging insults with Master Zhou.

Seeing this, Ding Lei of NetEase, fearing that things weren't lively enough, announced NetEase's mobile phone sales figures to the public when the two were at their most heated argument: a total of 413 million units.

This infuriated Huang Zhang of Meizu and Chen Yongming of OPPO. Who are these idiots who are buying NetEase and 360 phones?
They worked hard all year, yet they're not as good as two amateur players. Is that fair? Is that reasonable?

Coolpad, ZTE, Motorola, HTC and other companies were also dumbfounded. The combined sales of 360 and NetEase mobile phones exceeded 1000 million units.
An hour later, IHS iSuppli, a research company in the United States, released an industry data report: China's mobile phone (including feature phones) shipments and market share in 2012.

Orange Mobile firmly holds the top spot on the list with sales of 4290 million units, while Shanxing ranks second with sales of 4100 million units.

Netizens who were initially skeptical of this information quickly saw Orange Technology's 'clarification': "Our annual smartphone sales in China are 4340 million units, and our global sales are 5010 million units!"

5010 units!

Crushing mountain stars and apples!
For the first time, a domestically produced smartphone has become the top-selling smartphone!
For a time, the verbal battle between Zhou Hongyi and Lei Yijun went unnoticed.

(End of this chapter)