Chapter 373 Mastering Core Technology
Hearing Lu Yiming's clean and clear refusal, Deng Guoshun immediately understood clearly that the young man in front of him might have seen through his thoughts and plans.
This made Deng Guoshun feel a little surprised.
After all, considering Lu Yiming's age, how could he figure out all these twists and turns so quickly?
It shouldn't be.
After all, these days, who wouldn’t be excited when Xiaguo manufacturing companies hear that their products can be exported?
But Lu Yiming's expression was too calm, and his demeanor was even more indifferent, as if what he said was just a trivial matter.
Although he couldn't get the overseas agency rights for the USB flash drive, Deng Guoshun was not a pushover. Facing Lu Yiming's rejection, he didn't show any abnormality on his face. Instead, he sighed hypocritically: "Ah, it's a pity that I can't cooperate with President Lu."
After failing to get something for nothing, Deng Guoshun suppressed his displeasure, bought a few USB flash drives, and then turned and left the counter.
But after returning, he became more and more unwilling to give up. He felt that he couldn't just let go of such a good project as the USB flash drive, otherwise he would definitely regret it for the rest of his life.
After thinking it over, he immediately ran to the Patent Office to check the relevant patents of the USB flash drive and found that the patent of the USB flash drive had already been applied for by Mingyuan Technology, leaving him no loophole to exploit, and his anger grew even greater.
But he still didn't give up. After thinking hard again, he came up with an idea: "It seems that there is no hope for registering the patent, but I can look for foreign help, preferably a strong foreign-funded enterprise, and then try to buy the patent for the USB flash drive."
After searching around, he found an Israeli company called Ammon Systems that started out making flash drives, which just met this requirement.
Deng Guoshun did it as soon as he thought of it. He immediately boarded a plane to the Middle East.
After several twists and turns, Deng Guoshun stood in front of Dover Amon.
In Dover Aimon's office, Deng Guoshun performed a very gentlemanly greeting, and then said respectfully: "Hello, Mr. Aimon, I am Deng Guoshun from Xiaguo."
Dover Amon looked at Deng Guoshun's typical Asian face and nodded slightly as a gesture of return. Then he asked leisurely, "Mr. Deng, why did you come all the way to see me?"
In front of this savvy Jewish businessman, Deng Guoshun did not play tricks and directly explained his purpose: "I know very well that Mr. Aimon's company is the world's greatest inventor and manufacturer of flash drives. But now, a company in Xia country has made something that is enough to subvert Mr. Aimon's flash drive empire. Take a look at this."
Deng Guoshun placed the USB drive in front of Dover Amon, with a gleam of light in his eyes.
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Back home, Lu Yiming, who was unaware that trouble was about to come, was busy organizing a celebration banquet with Zheng Youyuan.
In the magnificent Marriott Hotel, Zheng Youyuan spent a huge amount of money to book an entire floor, and then invited everyone in the company, even the cleaning lady, to come and have a banquet, obviously to "reward the troops."
Zheng Youyuan held up a wine glass, stood in the center of the crowd, and announced loudly with a red face: "This glass is to congratulate our USB flash drive sales exceeding 200,000 copies!"
As soon as these words were spoken, everyone cheered loudly, and the sound made the glass exterior walls of the hotel buzz, which showed how excited everyone was.
The Mingyuan Technology employees who came to celebrate today were all smiling from the bottom of their hearts, thinking about the recent increase in quarterly bonuses and overtime pay. Everyone picked up the wine glasses in front of them and drank them all.
Afterwards, Zheng Youyuan said loudly with excitement on his face: "Next, let's welcome our greatest contributor, President Lu!"
Amidst the warm applause, Lu Yiming stood on the stage with a smile on his face, facing the eyes of the crowd, and then said modestly: "In fact, I didn't do anything. The USB flash drive product can sell well, and there are many people to thank, whether it is Mr. Zheng who is planning in the back, or the production workers who are working on the front line, you are all heroes and an indispensable part of Mingyuan Technology."
"Of course, I think the people who deserve the most thanks should be Director Cheng Xiaohua and Professor Fang Yunfeng. In order to develop the USB flash drive, they lived and ate in the company, and worked almost non-stop. It is because of their talent and hard work that the USB flash drive was born and that Mingyuan Technology has achieved its current glory."
"Next, let us invite Director Cheng Xiaohua and Professor Fang Yunfeng."
Amid the warm applause and expectant gazes of the crowd, Cheng Xiaohua and Fang Yunfeng had to stand up and walk to Lu Yiming.
They were both technical people, or in fashionable terms, two tech geeks. They were overwhelmed by the attention of hundreds of people, and didn't know what to do.
Seeing this, Lu Yiming smiled and stepped forward to encourage the two: "You two come up and say a few words. Tell everyone about your success story."
Cheng Xiaohua scratched his head in embarrassment, his expression bitter: "Boss Lu, you are the boss of the company, we will do whatever you tell us to do. If you ask me to say a few words, I don't know what to say."
After hearing this, Fang Yunfeng also echoed, "Yes."
Lu Yiming patted the two men on the shoulders and laughed loudly: "You are not right. Our Mingyuan Technology is different from other companies. We are a research-oriented enterprise. Within the company, R&D personnel like you are the ones who have the final say. I am just providing services for you."
"As for me, I know almost nothing about the details of technology, so you are the only ones who know best what the company needs for its development or what problems have arisen."
Lu Yiming's words moved both Cheng Xiaohua and Fang Yunfeng deeply.
To be honest, Xia Country is a society that relies on relationships. No matter what the matter is, it is always easier to handle it with connections. People like Cheng Xiaohua and Fang Yunfeng who are engaged in scientific research and technology socializing, and they will not focus on relationships. Therefore, according to some standards, they are at most the more clever ones among the cunning ones, and they are only worthy of being unknown at the bottom and completely unworthy of being on the stage.
But Lu Yiming is a person who advocates science and knowledge, and also admires scientists. From what he just said, it can be heard that he really values scientific researchers.
A company that does not worship technology and does not make the pursuit of advancement its top priority has no future.
Similarly, a country where entertainment is the ultimate goal has no future.
Whenever people mention scientists, they like to add the prefix "obscure". I don't know which malicious public intellectual came up with this combination. This is obviously brainwashing the public, making them believe that scientists should not seek fame or profit, and should work hard in places where people can't see without asking for rewards...
His heart is damnable!
The consequence is that scientists cannot get research funding, and even their basic living needs are not guaranteed. Whenever a scientist has achievements and becomes well-known, they will immediately be criticized for seeking fame and reputation, and even the scientist's ancestors will be cursed.
Given this working and living environment, which young person would be willing to engage in scientific research?
Without scientific research, what good is a country no matter how big it is?
The land is vast and rich in resources, but isn't it still left to others to exploit and take advantage of at will?
A country, a society, should respect science, admire scientists, and make "I want to be a scientist" everyone's dream again!
Lu Yiming cannot change a country, but he is willing to start with himself, giving scientific researchers enough respect and voice, and at the same time giving them money, lots and lots of money.
He wants everyone to know that doing scientific research can also make you rich and powerful!
Encouraged by Lu Yiming , Cheng Xiaohua and Fang Yunfeng went on stage to speak.
Although he spoke a little haltingly, everyone responded with warm applause and cheers.
Lu Yiming led the applause and then said, "After research, the company has decided that due to the outstanding contributions of Cheng Xiaohua and Fang Yunfeng in technology research and development, the company has decided to reward them with a bonus of 500,000 yuan each and grant them 2% of the company's shares."
As soon as these words were spoken, the scene became boiling.
A bonus of 500,000 is scary enough, and the 2% Mingyuan Technology stock options made many people present breathe rapidly and their eyes seemed to be spitting fire.
Now that USB flash drives are selling like hot cakes, many investors have come to us and given Mingyuan Technology a valuation of approximately 10 billion.
Two percent of the shares, that's 20 million!
Even if it's divided between two people, that would be 10 million each!
However, just when everyone was sending their blessings to Cheng Xiaohua and Fang Yunfeng, a harsh voice suddenly rang out.
"Why is it that only the technical department has option incentives? Our sales department's performance is also very impressive, so why don't we have any?"
Everyone looked in the direction of the voice and found that it was the Sales Manager Liu Qian who spoke.
He and his team were the top salespeople hired by Zheng Youyuan at a high price. They were arrogant and never gave in to anyone in the company. When he spoke up, no one was surprised.
Why did Liu Qian choose to speak at this time?
Of course it’s because of jealousy.
Now, one percent of Mingyuan Technology's options are worth 10 million yuan, and there is no worry about selling them. As long as we still hold the technical patents of the USB flash drive, Mingyuan Technology's stock is worth this price! And it will get higher and higher!
Facing Liu Qian's questioning, Lu Yiming had a calm expression and said, "Mingyuan Technology has always been fair in rewards and punishments, and will not treat any meritorious official unfairly. I have discussed with President Zheng and will take out a total of 15% of the company's shares to establish an option award pool. In the future, all employees who have made outstanding contributions to the company can receive corresponding rewards from it."
Lu Yiming looked at Liu Qian with an indifferent expression: "Manager Liu, if you want to get option rewards, then do something that will impress everyone."
What this means is that Liu Qian is not qualified at the moment.
Just as Lu Yiming said to Cheng Xiaohua and Fang Yunfeng just now, Mingyuan Technology is a research-oriented enterprise. Therefore, among all the employees within the company, the technical department must have the highest income, not the sales department. Otherwise, it will become a marketing-oriented company, and there will be no point in doing research and development.
It’s a pity that not many people can understand this truth in this era.
In fact, it is very simple. As the saying goes, good wine needs no bush. As long as your product is good, you can still be successful even without a sales department. Moreover, the USB flash drive is unique in the world.
On the contrary, if the product is not good, no matter how awesome the sales department is and how eloquent everyone is, it will be of no use.
However, Liu Qian didn't understand this. He felt that without his sales department, the USB flash drive wouldn't have achieved such a huge success in such a short time. In fact, his contribution was no less than that of the R&D department - if I don't help you sell the products you developed, it's useless.
He sat down again indignantly and drank, but the more he drank, the more depressed he became.
Several sales backbones around Liu Qian also gathered around Liu Qian and talked in low voices.
"Boss Lu is really unfair in rewarding and punishing. It's obvious that the product is so popular because of our hard work, but the result is like this. It's really disheartening."
"Hush! Do you still want to do this? Can you say that? Be careful that Mr. Lu hears it!"
"So what if I'm heard? If I'm not welcome here, I'll find another place that will welcome me."
After the celebration banquet, everyone gathered in groups of three or four and prepared to leave. Zheng Youyuan also found Lu Yiming and talked about the sales department.
"Was the matter just now handled inappropriately?"
Lu Yiming grinned slightly and said dissatisfiedly: "People in the sales department are always domineering in the company. If we don't suppress them, they will probably go crazy in the future, right?"
Zheng Youyuan was also aware of the tone of the sales department. He said with some concern: "I'm afraid it will backfire."
Throughout the 1990s, the domestic business environment was a complete mess. All kinds of tycoon bosses who rose to prominence through unconventional means relied on their daring to get by. There was basically no business order.
On the contrary, if you want to make a deal, most of the time you can only talk about it over a drink. In addition, domestic private enterprises lack core technologies, and most of those that can make it have become rich through marketing methods. Therefore, the development of a company depends entirely on the efforts of the sales department.
To the extent that some gold medal salesmen even have to be supported by their bosses.
However, Lu Yiming does not indulge these people. He has no control over other companies, but in Mingyuan Technology, the most important thing is the technical department, and research and development is above everything else.
Lu Yiming said to Zheng Youyuan: "If Mingyuan Technology wants to achieve long-term development, it must attach importance to technological research and development and become an irreplaceable part of Xia Country. Only in this way can our position be stable. If Manager Liu and others dare to jump, just fire them all. It's not easy to find three-legged frogs in this world, but people who can sell things are everywhere. Who gave him the confidence to argue with me?"
“Ah, this…”
After hearing what Lu Yiming said, Zheng Youyuan was speechless for a moment.
However, the great success of the USB project gave Lu Yiming full say in Mingyuan Technology, and Zheng Youyuan had to listen to Lu Yiming .
You know, Lu Yiming is the inventor of the USB flash drive, and Mingyuan Technology now relies on Lu Yiming to survive. As long as Lu Yiming is unhappy, he can take the patent and leave at any time. By then, Mingyuan Technology will be nothing.
