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Chapter 424 The King of Counterfeit Phones! I'll give you 500 million; sell me your company!

In the middle of the night, Zhou Hongyi felt a chill when he saw Lei Yijun's Weibo post. He wanted to retort, but then he realized he didn't have the confidence to do so.

Let you be smug for a few days!

Zhou Hongyi sneered, then simply pretended to be dead, ignoring the mentions and comments from Lei Yijun and netizens.

the other side.

Inside the opulent hotel suite, Chen Yansen, dressed in a Grey Wolf cosplay outfit, said to Song Yuncheng, "Pretty Sheep, when I rush into the sheep village, you'll be the first one I eat!"

"If you eat me, you can't eat Pleasant Goat anymore."

Song Yuncheng fiddled with the pink bow in her hair, blinked, and played along with President Chen's peculiar little quirk.

"I need to see how you perform first," Chen Yansen said with a wicked grin.

Although he had to rush to the conference center to attend the Mobile Internet Conference a few hours later, Mr. Chen was full of interest and showed no signs of sleepiness.

at the same time.

Nica Group headquarters.

Lu Hongbo was sitting in his luxuriously decorated office, looking worried and distressed.

The successive releases of the Qingcheng D2, 360 F1, and Redmi 1st generation have had a significant impact on the sales of Nica mobile phones.

The Nica S700, priced at the same price of 799 yuan, has lost its market even in rural areas.

After all, users aren't stupid. Although the Nica S700 has a large screen, it suffers from severe lag and has extremely poor system and hardware compatibility. It simply can't compare to a high-quality model like the Qingcheng D2 from a major manufacturer.

While the Nica A300, priced at 399 yuan, was not significantly affected, it suffered numerous after-sales problems.

With 256MB of RAM and 512MB of storage, this thing can only last for a week, because after that it's no different from a brick.

User experience can be summed up in one word—lag!

Although apps in 2013 didn't take up tens of gigabytes of space, they still took up several hundred megabytes.

What's most frustrating is that, in order to earn installation fees, Lu Hongbo also pre-installed three other apps: Phoenix News, a website directory, and Dragonfly FM, which cannot be uninstalled.

In other words, the user's actual usable memory is only 160MB.

It's normal for it to lag; it would be abnormal if it didn't lag!
Last year, Nica shipped 800 million units nationwide, generating 24 billion yuan in sales. This year, however, shipments have shrunk dramatically. With only one month left in the first half of the year, a total of just over 200 million units have been sold.

At the current sales rate, wouldn't that mean 300 million fewer units shipped this year?

"Chen Yansen! Zhou Hongyi! Lei Yijun! You all deserve to die!"

Lu Hongbo cursed.

"Tuk-tuk-tuk-!"

Just then, a crisp knock sounded at the door.

"Come in!"

Lu Hongbo leaned back and replied impatiently.

Yang Rui, head of Nica's offline channels and former general manager of NetEase's South China region, pushed open the door and asked Lu Hongbo, "Mr. Lu, are you still at get off work?"

"With nearly half a million Redmi 1 units sold in a single day, how could I possibly sleep?"

Lu Hongbo, a former coal mine owner, really wanted to bury Chen Yansen and the other two in the mine pit.

Yang Rui chuckled awkwardly, pulled out a chair, and sat down opposite Lu Hongbo.

He jumped ship from NetEase to Nica, not to promote the development of China's mobile phone industry, but simply because the coal boss was offering him too much.

“President Lu, we don’t really need to care about Orange, 360, and Xiaomi. Anyway, the price range above 500 yuan is not Nica’s main battlefield,” Yang Rui advised.

"What if that bastard Chen Yansen releases another phone priced at 399 yuan in the second half of the year?" Lu Hongbo asked with a dark face.

Seeing that Yang Rui didn't speak, he continued, "Then Nica will go back to making feature phones?"

Lu Hongbo's biggest fear was that Chen Yansen would go so far as to wipe him out completely!
“We have more than 6000 factory outlets across the country. In terms of offline channels, Orange, 360 and Xiaomi cannot compare. It is extremely difficult for them to extend their sales network to the rural market in a short period of time.”

Yang Rui thought for a moment and then said.

"Don't forget, Yunsu Express service stations also sell mobile phones. Damn it, go find a few people, burn down two service stations, and teach Chen Yansen a lesson."

Lu Hongbo said, squinting his eyes.

Set the shop on fire?

Let me go?
Yang Rui couldn't help but curse inwardly: If you want to send me to work on a sewing machine, just say so.

Arson is a serious crime!

"President Lu, calm down! To put it bluntly, with Nica's production capacity and supply chain level, we can only make quick money for three or four years at most. The market changes too fast."

Yang Rui stopped smiling and spoke the truth.

The implication is that electronic waste like Nica doesn't seem to be able to make money for a lifetime.

When it comes to counterfeiting, Ni Cai is the strongest among the strong.

Looking at the phone's appearance alone, it's hard to tell the difference between Nica and Apple.

Lu Hongbo built his empire on plagiarism, copying everything from Shanxing to Apple.

At Nica's factory outlet, you can find a counterfeit 'iPhone 4S' for 399 yuan and a Shanxing Gaishi alternative for 499 yuan.

"Do you think we should make a knock-off of the Qingcheng D2?" Lu Hongbo asked again.

He had been thinking about this alone for a long time, and this was one of his plans.

“Yunsu Express has over 100,000 employees nationwide. Liao Wei comes from the traditional freight industry. I think we should try to avoid provoking Senlian Capital.”

Yang Rui said patiently.

His subtext was that, boss, you might not be a match for Liao Wei when it comes to underhanded and dirty tricks.

"This won't work, that won't work, so according to you, Ni Cai can only wait to die?" Lu Hongbo retorted irritably.

“President Lu, I have studied Chen Yansen’s strategic direction. If we use more than 6000 factory stores as leverage, I think the other party will not refuse Nica’s cooperation proposal. Chen Yansen is willing to accept even outsiders like 360 ​​and NetEase. As long as you are willing to take a step forward, Nica can get on the big ship of Senlian Capital.”

Yang Rui pointed out a clear path for Lu Hongbo.

"You want me to follow Chen Yansen around?" Lu Hongbo stuck his head out and asked incredulously.

"Lei Yijun, Zhou Hongyi, and Ding Lei also followed Chen Yansen."

Yang Rui replied with a smile, while secretly thinking to himself: Which of these three is not better than you? They can all put aside their pride, but you can't?

Lu Hongbo scratched his short hair, pondered for a while, and then said to Yang Rui, "Find a way to get me an invitation to the Mobile Internet Conference."

"No problem." Yang Rui breathed a sigh of relief after hearing this.

Lu Hongbo should listen to advice; if he insists on his own way, he would rather take his resources and go to Chen Yansen for refuge.

It was pitch black and completely silent outside the window.

Several hours later, as dawn broke, at the Yanjing Conference Center.

Luxury cars kept arriving, but compared to the China Internet Conference, the Mobile Internet Conference, despite its prestigious name, attracted very few top-tier entrepreneurs. The only companies that could truly enhance the conference's prestige were Tencent, Senlian Capital, Xiaomi, UC, and a certain investment fund, along with car manufacturers like BMW and Ford.

Therefore, despite its poor reputation, Nica is ultimately a second-tier manufacturer in the mobile phone industry.

When Lu Hongbo announced his arrival, the organizers of the conference did not hesitate and immediately sent him an invitation.

Chen Yansen was sitting in an all-black Maybach 62S. Before he even got out of the car, he saw Ma Wenteng surrounded by reporters, with two security personnel trying their best to protect him in the middle.

"Chen Yansen of Senlian Capital is here!"

Before the words were even finished, the flashbulbs went off.

In an instant, it was as bright as day.

A group of people immediately separated from the media and surrounded the car.

Upon seeing this, four security guards from the Mercedes MPV behind quickly ran out and blocked the reporter two meters away.

Chen Yansen took the opportunity to get out of the car and walked towards the conference hall.

"Mr. Chen, the Redmi 1 sold 476,000 units yesterday. Are you worried about the sales of the Qingcheng D2?"

I'm not worried at all. For every Redmi 1 I sell, I earn more than Xiaomi.

"Mr. Chen, Dakele has announced its entry into the budget smartphone market. How should Orange Technology respond?"

Large Coke?
What the hell!

Chen Yansen listened to one bizarre question after another, without even considering stopping to respond.

He doesn't think the reporter lacks competence; these questions precisely reflect the reporter's questioning skills.

Once he gives a response, the other party gains attention and buzz.

Chen Yansen glanced at the logo on the microphone and made a mental note of it.

"Mr. Chen, why didn't you come to the bar last night? Charles and I drank until after 11 p.m.," Ma Wenteng asked in a low voice.

"I was watching cartoons in the hotel and got completely absorbed in them," Chen Yansen casually made up.

Ma Wenteng was completely bewildered, thinking Chen Yansen was joking.

Upon hearing this, Song Yuncheng's cheeks immediately turned bright red, her mind filled with images of Chen Yansen dressed as Grey Wolf.

"Charles invited me to go fishing in the Bohai Bay tomorrow, are you coming?" Ma Wenteng changed the subject.

Fishing wasn't important; his main purpose was to use the opportunity to build a good relationship with Chen Yansen.

Weishi is expected to launch in mid-June, but he hasn't told Chen Yansen yet.

Although Weishi will be launched on App Store as scheduled regardless of whether the other party agrees or not, it is still more dignified to inform them in advance.

"Okay," Chen Yansen nodded in agreement.

He knew what Zhang Chaoyang was thinking; he simply thought he had found a perfect fishing spot and wanted to show off to Ma Wenteng.

After receiving a satisfactory reply, Ma Wenteng walked into the conference hall side by side with Chen Yansen.

Lei Yijun saw Chen Yansen and Ma Wenteng walking slowly towards him and quickly got up to greet them.

"President Chen, President Ma!" Lei Yijun greeted them with a smile.

红米1单日销量47.6万台，小米2S单日销量9.1万台，小米2A单日销量13.4万台。

He hasn't forgotten who Xiaomi mainly relied on to achieve such success.

"The Redmi 1 is selling well," Chen Yansen remarked.

"It's all thanks to President Chen's support," Lei Yijun said modestly.

"Hello Mr. Chen, I am Lu Hongbo from Nica."

Suddenly, an unfamiliar voice rang out from behind.

Nietzsche?

Chen Yansen turned his head and saw a middle-aged man with black-rimmed glasses and a buzz cut approaching with a big smile.

Lei Yijun frowned slightly, his face darkened, and he looked coldly at Lu Hongbo.

Logically speaking, before the launch of Redmi 1, Xiaomi and Nica had a low overlap in customers, so there shouldn't have been any conflict.

However, Lu Hongbo, in order to show off, often makes outrageous statements in front of the media, such as saying that the cost of Xiaomi's 1999 yuan phone is 1200 yuan, while our phones with the same configuration only sell for 1180 yuan.

For example, defeating Xiaomi within two years, making Ma Liyun and Ma Wenteng work for me, and catching up with Apple within three years.

When it comes to boasting, Lei Yijun has to call Lu Hongbo his grandmaster.

"Did Mr. Lu need something from me?" Chen Yansen asked with a half-smile.

In the eyes of the media, he, Lei Yijun, and Zhou Hongyi are all "knock-off phone killers".

Therefore, he couldn't quite understand why Lu Hongbo had such a fawning expression.

"Mr. Chen, may we speak in private?" Lu Hongbo asked tentatively.

Chen Yansen raised his hand; there was still half an hour left before the opening ceremony of the conference.

"Mr. Lu, please." Chen Yansen waved, and Meng Yun immediately wanted to ask the staff for a meeting room.

"Mr. Chen, I've prepared the meeting room." After saying that, Lu Hongbo led the way, guiding Chen Yansen and the others to a meeting room.

The group entered one by one, with Chen Yansen sitting in the main seat, sizing up Lu Hongbo and his entourage.

"Mr. Chen, Nica shipped 826.1 million units last year. I would also like to support the Aurora Future System. Could you give me a chance?"

Lu Hongbo asked directly.

"What opportunity?" Chen Yansen asked knowingly.

"We will share the supply chain, manufacturing, and after-sales service system with Orange Mobile, and the compensation will be the same as that of Xiaomi, 360, and NetEase," Lu Hongbo replied.

“Nica is developing well, and Mr. Lu can operate it independently,” Chen Yansen said calmly.

"Mr. Chen, Nica has more than 6100 factory stores nationwide and is willing to take on a portion of the sales of Orange phones."

Lu Hongbo threw out his biggest bargaining chip.

He spent more than two years focusing on building offline sales channels, the value of which is undeniable.

"I'll give you 500 million to sell Nica to me."

Chen Yansen didn't want to waste any more words and said it casually.

Nica's factory store is a small community store with an area of ​​only 50 to 80 square meters. It is mostly located in third- and fourth-tier cities or rural areas, and the cost of opening a single store is usually only tens of thousands of yuan.

Five hundred million?
Buy Nica?

Lu Hongbo was taken aback, not expecting Chen Yansen to say that. He subconsciously looked at Yang Rui, hoping the other party could give him some advice.

Chen Yansen keenly grasped this point.

(End of this chapter)