I was reborn without dreams

Chapter 199 Old Man Bin is not Bin Laden, News Follows News

The selling points of the "Champion V1" are its large screen, long battery life, and large memory, etc. In fact, performance is not very useful for business trips and office work. Privacy and security are more important.

Other stylus operations and gesture operations are just extras.

Zhang Da'an's target customers are actually the local business owners who are everywhere.

For high-end business people, foreign brands still work better these days. The title of "three-time champion" has no prestige for them. However, the title of "three-time champion" is useful for their younger generations.

Zhang Da'an specially invited the highest-ranking Taoist priests and Buddhist monks in Jiangkou Province to bless and consecrate the "Examination God Talisman." Of course, it cannot be called an "Examination God Talisman," but rather a "Commemorative Gold Coin for Top Scholars."

This move is Zhang's trump card, something he rarely uses. He hadn't used it before, but this time, in order to sell mobile phones, he had "Dangyang Talk" specially produce a program to break down feudal superstitions.

On the surface, they all advise viewers not to be superstitious or believe in superstitious things, but the "Dangyang Theory" discusses that the "exam talisman" is useless and that people should not worship it, not even the gold one.

Successful people pre-order directly, not out of superstition, but simply because they appreciate the high-end quality of domestic mobile phones and want to make a purchase.

The contract with Henan Mobile for 10,000 "Champion V1" phones was signed at the counter for 9,999 yuan, with interest-free installments for 12 or 24 months, bundled with a package deal. However, the availability of the "Exam God Talisman" has not yet been agreed upon.

The main issue is that there are already many Taoist priests and Buddhist monks in Yuzhang Province. The idea here is to have the Taoist priests and high-ranking monks from Yuzhang Province do the consecration and blessing ceremony themselves.

Competition is just as fierce in every industry.

There was no other way, so Zhang Da'an arranged a grand blessing and consecration ceremony for the "Examination God Talisman," which cost more than 30 million yuan. The talisman was then paraded and offered to the deity between Jiangning and Runzhou.

This incredible feat left even the provincial authorities speechless, as no one knew whether the "three-time champion" had actually been involved in something.

The University of Porto has also contacted the theological seminary. Once the "VICTOR series" mobile phones enter the European market, there will be a formal ceremony as soon as the registration process begins.

The asking price wasn't high, just 300,000 euros.

It's a small place after all, so the appetites are a bit lacking. It's not as good as Jiangkou saving a penny.

If they don't even dare to be greedy, how will they fight in the "God War" in the future?
The omnichannel marketing is all focused on the "Exam God Talisman," which may seem mystical, but it's actually an entertainment-oriented operation that can make anything entertaining.

This allows many respectable people to take the opportunity to get one without being accused of superstition.

The "Jinbang Blog" and "Chat Bar" are also having a frenzy of discussion because the "Zhuangyuan Jidi Commemorative Gold Coin" or "Exam God Talisman" has been speculated to be worth more than 16,000 yuan, up from its original price of 188 yuan.

The master craftsman of gold crafts in Wudu City can't go anywhere now; he just leads people to make gold coins, comparable to the magic weapon refiner in "The Godslayer," a complete workhorse.

However, these are very fortunate animals; once this job is done, they might even be able to outsource the production of gold medals for major sporting events someday.

One trip is worth fifty years of business.

"You damn dog Anzhen is a beast! You're raising the price of a coin! I could still afford to spend 188, but this 16,888?! Are you made of gold?!"

"It's gold, gilded."

"Damn it, it's true."

"What do you mean by 'dog selling a coin'? That's called 'dogcoin,' okay?"

"Is Dogecoin considered a pyramid scheme? I see there's been a crackdown on pyramid schemes lately."

"Damn it, wasn't it supposed to go on sale during summer vacation? You son of a bitch, I want to buy the V1 and get the exclusive weapon! How long has this 10,000 yuan phone been dragging on? You damn shark!"

"Let's get straight to the point!"

"Didn't Andog say before that it was going to collaborate with Texas Instruments to manufacture chips? Did they actually do it?"

"It was all for naught. Texas Instruments wanted the baseband patent, and I heard that a new company in California wants to develop processors for mobile devices, and Microsoft has also invested in it. My brother works for a company in Silicon Valley, and I heard that a lot of people from science and engineering universities in Jiangkou Province have recently gone there."

"Isn't Texas Instruments supposed to be pretty awesome?"

"Even if it's awesome, can it still blow up the sky?"

"Mine is fine."

"look at yours."

“yeah~cancanword~”

"Damn it, a perfectly good thing has been corrupted by you bunch of animals."

"Fuck you~~"

In the newly established "Mobile Phone Bar", a group of "Sony Ericsson fans", "Nokia fans" and "Moto fans" came one after another. They came here to compete to see whose "GeGe" mobile phone is the best, and to drive traffic to "GeGe".

The "Nokia Bar" is currently in a league of its own, so much so that Nokia's regional office sent an official application letter to "Chat Bar" to co-sponsor, meaning they wanted to take over the related chat bars such as "Nokia Bar", "Nokia Bar", and "Nokia Bar".

Subcultural groups have a remarkably fast and strong capacity for content input.

Two years ago it was "You surf the internet too?", but now it has evolved into puns like "cancanneed" and "cancanword". Chatbar is also selling merchandise quite well now.

For example, the Chat Bar exclusive mug, which uses dye sublimation to print a mug, costs one yuan to produce, sells for twenty yuan, and has a witty saying printed on it, with monthly sales of five to six thousand.

It's pure money picking up.

Like "cancanneed", it also became popular in other communities. And because "Liaoba" updated its image upload and refresh functions, it added the ability to import local emoticons with one click. If the first generation of "meme battles" was the various "passing by" in instant messaging software, then the second generation is the silly meme battle in "Liaoba".

The secondary development of various celebrities' image rights, which were originally worthless, has now become valuable.

With the gradual establishment of various celebrity fan clubs, creating memes and silly pictures can further boost popularity. As long as a celebrity isn't aloof, they can generally be persuaded to participate.

After "Liaoba" becomes an independent platform, the province has inquired about whether it should be listed on the stock exchange. After all, they are also interested. Collecting advertising fees from other companies is quite troublesome, with various pop-up ads and even false ads. But "Liaoba" is different. Banner ads, sticker ads, and floor ads can be precisely targeted to different chat rooms.

For the first time, game advertising became the top-grossing internet advertising platform. The game "Shenturu" spent 4.8 million yuan on advertising in its own forum, "Shenturu Bar".

The annual advertising cost for "Legend" on the "Godslayer Bar" was eight million, breaking the record for annual internet advertising fees.

Because of this advertisement, the "Shenturu Bar" has become increasingly abstract, with various games being played that insult the game's planners, calling them brainless.

However, the advantages of operating "Chat Bar" independently have also become apparent. The advertising revenue from "Jinbang Blog" and "Chat Bar" are counted as two separate revenue streams, which is quite satisfying.

It's like finding money on the street.

Even health product sellers came to advertise like crazy, prompting "Chat Bar" to introduce a reminder for the first time that "content is advertising, experience is subject to actual conditions," and also introduced an advertising product review mechanism, mainly targeting medicines, health products, food, daily chemical products, electronic products, and children's toys.

Of course, when it comes to electronic toys for adults, the intensity doesn't decrease; in fact, it increases.

Especially in the "AV forum," while image censorship is strict, advertisements for various adult products are constantly scrolling by. The banner ads are for "Durex," and the ads in the mezzanine are for "Okamoto." In short, if forum members finally manage to exchange a movie number, they have to look at at least three brands of condom ads.

However, unlike the "Mobile Phone Bar" and "God Slaughter Bar" where people hurl insults like "dogs are worse than dogs," the forum members here communicate in a very harmonious way. They don't get involved in politics or anti-social issues. They love each other, share and help each other. Even the resident censors have remarked that this is a model community for civilized communication on the Internet.

What frustrates the resident review team even more is that every time "Chat Bar" adds a new rule, those damn "AV Bar" people always find a way to circumvent it.

Various outrageous encryption methods have gone from niche to mainstream, making them virtually impossible to defend against.

This also served as a lesson for the provincial departments in charge of internet crime, telecommunications fraud, and other related matters. Many new technologies were previously neglected, but now the relevant departments are beginning to plan ahead and predict demand.

Next to the production area of ​​"Zhang'an Electronics" are various laboratories and testing rooms, which include both hardware and software.

The unique feature of the "Champion V1" lies in the fact that the mobile system comes with tools such as "Jinbang Blog" and "Chat Bar". Compressed images can be shared through the "Jinbang Blog" mobile app. The high-frequency interaction needs of short blog posts are something that everyone inside "Jinbang Blog" is aware of.

In fact, this already has some of the functions of "Weibo", but there is no doubt that Zhang Da'an also intends to occupy the niche of "Facebook".

When Zhang Da'an arrived at the factory, he changed into work clothes, put on a mask, disinfected himself, and entered the workshop. The factory is now a major electricity consumer, with air conditioning running all year round. Even though it is a precision assembly part of consumer electronics, the noise is still quite loud. Generally, people in this area wear noise-canceling earmuffs and earplugs.

The densely packed workstations are surprisingly quiet, even though the intensity of repetitive tasks is quite high.

Even though the base wage is relatively high, many workers want to work as hard as they can because the overtime pay is even higher, and the average overtime time is more than two hours.

To avoid unnecessary trouble, Zhang Da'an had also spoken to Sima Cong, and there were always inspectors from the Jiangning City Labor and Social Security Department stationed in the factory area, which could be considered a permanent post.

The problem here is that some workers are probably afraid of being poor and even want to work more than four hours overtime. Some have experienced the extreme intensity of fifteen hours in the electronics factory in Nandu, so they think that "Zhang An Electronics" is nothing.

Unfortunately, Zhang Da'an is very strict about this. Ten hours is the risk limit. Except for engineers, R&D staff, marketing staff, warehouse management staff and managers who can work overtime, the risk limit for everyone else is ten hours.

In fact, Zhang Da'an strictly adhered to the eight-hour workday in Shazhou City, without compromising with the city or fearing offending his colleagues.

However, it ultimately falls short in Jiangning because Jiangning is introducing a semiconductor industry cluster. Regardless of whether they are in the same market as Zhang Da'an, the front-line production is largely the same.

As long as labor-intensive elements are still present, there will always be comparisons in the labor market.

A basic salary of 1,800 a month already makes you a supermodel.

Because of the existence of "Zhang An Electronics", at least three large consumer electronics contract manufacturers in Jiangning City failed to land in this year's investment promotion efforts.

They can't offer a basic salary of 1,800 yuan a month because, now and for a long time to come, employers are designing very low basic salaries and very long working hours for frontline workers, with overtime pay being the main source of income.

This model eventually became the default for most manufacturing workers, and then extended to the "tidal effect" of the employment cycle, with workers generally accepting that they can be hired and laid off at any time.

As for the concept of "severance pay" or other compensation... it will only be a decade or more later, when programmers have gained some influence on the internet and promoted "996" to the whole society, that they will realize they have such rights.

The "996" work schedule is certainly painful for high-income groups like programmers, but for frontline workers in manufacturing, it's a true blessing. No exaggeration.

Because it's much harder than working "996" all year round.

The dreams of programmers and the dreams of industrial workers are almost things from different social classes.

The frontline workers at Zhang'an Electronics have no other thoughts than to work more and earn more money, because they are worried that the boss's approach might lead to losses and bankruptcy.

Given this understanding, Zhang Da'an's words were pointless and offered no explanation whatsoever.

The reason is precisely what caused Jiangning City to lose three large contract manufacturers this year in its investment promotion efforts: raising labor costs is not conducive to the development of industrial clusters.

Because of that damned basic salary of 1,800 yuan, Zhang Da'an actually took the blame for many people in the province. After all, some investment projects were definitely not competitive with those in Luzhou and Wudu, and this setback provided an excuse.

Zhang Da'an can take the blame, but the main person in charge won't take it seriously. On the contrary, they have contributed a lot to this "encirclement and suppression" of the Hu family.

This includes the fact that the Hu family employed a "family-trained" gunman.

Zhang Da'an's schedule is now in a mess. Apart from some scheduled meetings and important occasions, the locations he chooses are basically uncertain. He may appear in any of the largest hotels in Jiangning City.

Meanwhile, Zhang Da'an was also busy with the younger generation of the Hu family, sending people to impersonate health product salesmen and directly to the towns and villages of Yuzhang Province and Lingdong Province to keep an eye on them.

These young people can't possibly resist going out and having fun, but many membership-based clubs still need someone to cooperate.

At this time, the role of the local "low-key group" in Jiangning City became apparent. The older generation of comrades-in-arms were all in northeastern and southwestern Jiangxi. Zhang Da'an specially registered an entertainment company in Luzhou, trained a group of people to become "talent scouts", and then went to the TV stations in the two regions to conduct "open auditions".

Undoubtedly, this attracted the younger generation of the Hu family. For this little bit of fun, the children of the old comrade-in-arms, while not exactly the "Five Giants of Chengguan Town," were still well-known and influential in the area. As local "powerful figures," they naturally had a high level of trust. Bringing a sum of money from Luzhou to conduct a "selection" didn't seem like a risky thing.

This kind of comprehensive tracking is really too risky for the average person, mainly because it's too easy to make mistakes and expose one's true colors.

It consumed a great deal of manpower and financial resources.

However, Zhang Da'an had plenty of money. If he only had money, he could only recruit a bunch of rabble. But he was different. His intermediaries were all parents of former students of Xindongwei Port Middle School. These people had no idea what he was up to.

Not many people in Jiangning City knew that Zhang Da'an had killed Hu Xianda.

As for the personnel, the "talent scouts" are all graduates of teachers' colleges, and some are even graduates of the "1998 Plan" who have completed their terms. They were originally supposed to join "Zhang An Education" as assistants, but now they can temporarily not go through the onboarding process and work for entertainment companies in Huzhou without any problem.

The "talent scouts" and the people who keep watch are two separate groups. The drivers who accompany the "talent scouts" work for them and are all "cousins." Only after the target is spotted will they launch a "sharp arrow."

In the porcelain capital, Zhang Da'an has built eight "safe houses," including old, dilapidated, and small ones, as well as warehouses, garages, factories, and shops. There are three well-known "nightclubs" in the porcelain capital, officially named Yinhe, Huadu, and Bailumen, but there are also members-only "Xiangyue 4695" and "Dafuhao."

It goes without saying that the membership system offers everything, and there's nothing wrong with the young people from the Hu family going there for a stroll.

However, Zhang Da'an greatly admired an old man named Hu Xiancai who frequented the "Huadu Nightclub," which was operating normally.

One of his "cousins" even recorded a video. This Hu Xiancai was very dissatisfied with his family's restrictions on him not to mess around during this period, and he didn't take it to heart at all. After a few days, he had already gotten carried away and was frantically criticizing his family's overly cautious attitude while driving "Rémy Martin".

Zhang Da'an didn't intend to do anything to him right now; he was just waiting for the two gunmen to come to him.

Actually, the local police in Jiangning had already discovered that there were people scouting around the "Zhang'an Industrial Park," but they hadn't taken action yet. It wasn't that they were waiting for the gunman to fire, but rather that the two men were quite vigilant and were taking turns entering and leaving the hotel.

When the police reminded Chief Instructor Zhang, he completely ignored them and instead tried to lure the two of them out to act together.

The fact that the motorcade has made several high-profile visits to "Zhang An Electronics" and "Zhang Xiaobai Technology Co., Ltd." in the industrial park in the past few days is actually creating opportunities for the two shills.

The various vans and Santanas parked on the roadside actually belong to either the police or Zhang Da'an's men.

However, so far, no one has taken the bait.

Even when they appeared in Puzikou District, or even went to see Zhao Chunsheng's troublemaking for several days, these two only observed the situation from a distance.

It wasn't until Zhang Da'an and his men appeared at a restaurant near a small hill in the park's main canteen that the two men put down their binoculars from their respective cars, looking like they were out looking for work, and then waited for their chance to make their move.

It has to be said that it was quite daring, but he was surrounded and trapped just ten seconds after getting out of the car.

Besides the classic "Black Star," there were also two "Sweet Potatoes" and one "Little Pineapple." When these things were found, the plainclothes officers were sweating profusely.

If you're not careful, you'll only be able to wait until next year's awards ceremony to have your photo taken.

"Brother Da'an, there's news."

Zhang Da'an, who was eating in the cafeteria, heard "Pineapple Boy" whispering something in his ear as he arrived.

"Pineapple Boy, call your dad tonight."

"..."

"what happened?"

"Can I call now, Brother Da'an?"

"Are you out of your mind? Your dad's not in good health. Do you think I'm a freak? Do you really want your dad to go and kill someone? You're crazy."

"what?"

Clearly, that's exactly what Liang Chunbo was thinking.

"Let's eat first."

"Oh."

Some of the anxious "pineapple boys" were afraid that Big Brother An would make Lao Deng learn from Bin Laden, which would be bad.

That evening, he learned that this matter really had nothing to do with him, Bin Laden. The Bin Laden who was imitating Bin Laden was someone else, and he had even worked in Hong Kong.

In addition, there were those former "junket operators" from Xiangshan'ao who also helped in securing the United University.

It wasn't much; they just had the "parking boy" keep watch, and the rest was the job of "Pineapple Boy's" father's comrade-in-arms.

The Hu family has ancestral "white gloves" in Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, and Melbourne. That was all thirty years ago and was related to silk exports.

As things have developed to this point, some of the Hu family's foreign exchange reserves are not actually directly controlled by the Hu family, but rather managed by their cronies.

If the Hu family were Emperor Qianlong, then these chief stewards would be like Heshen. Given the Hu family's development, after the middle generation shifted their focus to rare earth and other mineral resources in the past two years, Emperor Jiaqing of the Hu family would have come to power, and Heshen would have had to be replaced.

An unexpected turn of events occurred: Hu Xianda colluded with people from Jiangkou Province and managed to find out Zhang Da'an's itinerary to Japan.

There's a timeline here: Hu Xianda's "Guyue Education" sent emails and faxes to "Zhang An Education" long before he actually met Zhang Da'an.

In other words, there was a time frame involved, and the people in Jiangkou Province who should have been Zhang Da'an's "own people" didn't even get a word in.

The reason for Hu Xianda's death is this: Zhang Da'an didn't care whether he was in Japan or not, but he felt great about Hu Xianda killing him on the spot.

at all costs.

"Is Uncle fifty years old this year?"

"Not yet, forty-nine. Anzai, you look a lot like your dad."

"Don't worry, Uncle, someone will come to pick you up for your 50th birthday celebration."

"Hahahahahaha..."

The video chat was rudimentary. On the screen, a lean, middle-aged man was laughing heartily. The video would pause occasionally, but after a short while, the man picked up a large porcelain bowl containing ordinary sweet potato liquor.

I used to drink "Yubing Shao" before, but the sweet potato liquor had fewer off-flavors. Although it wasn't particularly fragrant, it was still quite enjoyable to drink.

"Don't worry, Anzai, I still have to send Bozai to the army."

"it is good."

Without saying a word, Zhang Da'an picked up a wine bowl and downed it in one gulp with the veterans in the video.

This time, the lottery for who goes to Hong Kong and who goes to Heung Shan O is presided over by "Pineapple Boy's" father. He will receive HK$100,000 upfront, HK$100,000 on the day he settles in, HK$100,000 after the mission is accomplished, and HK$100,000 upon returning to shore.

Four hundred thousand per person is quite high in Lingxi Province these days.

A normal life costs around 50,000. If you don't care about the quality of the work, 20,000 will suffice. If you hire a "drug addict" or "gambling addict," it will be even cheaper.

However, it's almost impossible for someone like that to get close to someone of Zhang Da'an's level. Taking action doesn't cost money; finding someone is where the money comes in.

The "junket operators" were helping with surveillance, costing 80,000 a day. They refused, but Zhang Da'an couldn't refuse, since there would be a next collaboration.

The next step is simple: just wait for the news to announce that "Jiangning police have solved a case of attempted murder with a gun."

The announcement will be made when the Jiaqing Emperor of the Hu family can no longer replace the current Heshen.

After all, the person who became the chief manager of the Hu family's overseas funds this time is, strictly speaking, still the Hu family's son-in-law. He is not a newcomer, after all, he is a foreign son-in-law who has been around Wall Street and London's financial district.

The news of this foreign son-in-law's downfall has been published, so it's news that can be reported here in Jiangkou Province as well.

(End of this chapter)