Chapter 60 A Legend
At Shirakawa Electric's first formal meeting, the decision to upgrade the Blackstone record player was unanimously approved.
In addition, Shirakawa Kaede also plans to reorganize the technical department into a research and development department, led by Masaaki Yasuda, to provide people and money when needed.
The previous technical department played a role more like an after-sales maintenance department in the Blackstone turntable. The only thing they could show off was their expertise in mechanical design.
As for electronics, which completely relied on overall procurement, Yasuda could only deal with partial adjustments to the circuits. As for deeper circuit solutions, Shirakawa Electric was completely incapable of doing so.
If Shirakawa Feng intends to build Shirakawa Electric into a company with its own core competitiveness, then R&D capability is the top priority. Without R&D capability, what is the difference between a copycat workshop or an OEM factory?
In addition, the framework of finance, personnel, and procurement must be set up as soon as possible, and Komatsu assistants are urgently recruiting for these positions. Although the company is small, it must have what it needs to avoid being in a rush in the future.
The first step for Shirakawa Electric is to change suppliers and resume production of the original Black Stone record players.
Although he does not plan to use this brand in the future, Shirakawa Kaede still needs it to maintain the operation of the factory.
Moreover, Baichuan Feng discovered an embarrassing thing, that is, he had no money again.
35 million yen, 28 million yen was spent on buying Watanabe Electric, and there was still 7 million yen. In addition, he had been picking up garbage for more than a year, which also amounted to several million yen.
There is still about 15 million yen in the account, which seems like a lot.
However, this money will be used to maintain Shirakawa Electric's daily operations, material procurement, employee salaries, etc., and must not be touched.
In 1979, the average annual salary of RB workers was around 2 million yen, or nearly 200,000 yen per month.
Shirakawa Electric currently has nearly 30 employees, and salaries alone are a fixed expense of around 6 million per month.
Therefore, he must ensure that Shirakawa Electric starts to make a profit in the next few months, otherwise the monthly cost expenses will drag him down.
After doing the math, alas, I’m out of money again.
You still have to make money. With such distress, Shirakawa Kaede returned to his dormitory in Suginami District.
It's just July and the summer vacation is about to start. The showy Kiryu Juichiro has already started his annual summer vacation trip with his girlfriend in advance.
He came here today to look for Yamashita Daiji. Such a good automatic worker cannot be wasted.
The door of the dormitory was pushed open with a "click". Yamashita Daiji, who was only wearing shorts, was sitting cross-legged on the sofa with his bare chest, fiddling with something with his head down.
"Eh" was frightened and Yamashita Dazhi subconsciously covered his chest with his hands and looked towards the door in horror.
"Don't cover it, probably A cup." Baichuan Feng threw his backpack on the sofa. He picked up the can on the table, snapped, looked up, tut tut~
Upon hearing this, Yamashita Daiji's first reaction was to look down . Then he realized, "Baka~, you are really going too far."
Baichuan Feng glanced at his white fat body and said, "Keep working hard and reach Size C soon."
"Hey, don't go too far," Yamashita Daiji said angrily.
Bai Chuanfeng took out a document and stuffed it directly into his arms. "Change the blueprint, move the motor to the side of the stage, and change it to a belt drive. The only requirement is to make it earthquake-resistant and reduce vibration interference."
Yamashita Daiji unfolded the drawing in a daze. On it was the structure diagram of a record player, with densely packed .
"Record player?" Daiji Yamashita began mumbling various professional terms while looking at the blueprint.
He watched fascinatedly for five minutes, and when he looked up and saw the scene on the sofa, he was immediately furious.
Baichuan Feng, who was teasing him just now, had actually fallen asleep on the sofa.
Yamashita Daiji put down the blueprint, picked up the iced soda on the table and quietly moved closer to him. He carefully lifted up Shirakawa Kaede's T-shirt, and then quickly put the can close to his belly.
"Hiss~Ha~" The clever Baichuan Feng jumped up, and Yamashita Daizhi next to him laughed.
"Asshole" This guy's childish behavior made Baichuan Feng so angry that he wanted to throw the naked guy off the stairs.
He had been so busy with the Shirakawa Electric business in recent days that he couldn't help dozing off as soon as he sat down.
"Tell me, do you have any questions?" Baichuan Feng rubbed his face, but he still hadn't forgotten his business.
"Ahem..." Yamashita Daiji coughed modestly, "Of course there is no problem, but..." He gave Shirakawa Feng a look that said you understand.
Wow, the fully automatic workers now know how to make requests.
Baichuan Feng rolled his eyes, "With your figure, you still want to be a drag racer."
Yamashita Daiji has a wide range of hobbies, including records, comics, stamps, and recently he has become fascinated with Yamaha motorcycles. He has always wanted to spend some money to buy one and then modify it himself.
"I don't necessarily want to ride it. I just want to try out my idea." Yamashita Daiji said confidently.
"Okay, as usual, a picture of the noble Prince Shotoku."
"make a deal"
Although Yamashita Daiji didn't know what Shirakawa Feng was doing, he knew that Shirakawa Feng had his own way, so he didn't be polite to him at all.
In fact, Shirakawa Kaede didn't have to be Yamashita Daiji, this job could be done by Yasuda Masaaki in one night. The reason why he came to Yamashita was to train him more.
The current Shirakawa Electric is basically composed of old employees of Watanabe Electric, and although there is no problem with execution, he still wants to train his own team, especially the core positions.
He is used to considering the worst-case scenario first, just in case.
After packing up the drawings, Yamashita Daiji prepared to go back to his room to meditate. This was not a good place to work.
When he picked up a small blue machine, a light flashed in Baichuan Feng's mind.
"etc!"
"Eh" Yamashita Daiji stood there in a daze.
Baichuan Feng quickly stepped forward and grabbed the figure in his memory.
The blue body, silver sides, and the iconic orange buttons. Small and stylish, Sony's first generation Walkman, TPS-L2!
"This is the new music player launched by Sony today. They call it Walkman. I thought it was interesting so I bought one." Although Daiji Yamashita didn't understand why Shirakawa Kaede was so nervous about this product, he still explained.
"How much?" Baichuan Feng turned the fuselage and stroked it in fascination.
"33,000 yen" After hanging out with Shirakawa Kaede for a year, Yamashita Daiji had some savings and was considered a tall, rich and handsome man among the students.
Hearing this price, Bai Chuanfeng sighed. He raised his wrist and checked the time. It was July 1, 1979.
Today, a great product was launched, which changed people's music listening habits. In the past, people could only stay at home and listen to vinyl records, but now they can go out and listen to them outdoors.
This is undoubtedly a revolutionary product, Sony's magic, and it lives up to its reputation.
"Put on your clothes and follow me." Baichuan Feng put away his walkman, put on his backpack, and prepared to go out.
"Hey." Yamashita Daiji was stunned for a moment, then hurriedly looked for clothes, "Where are you going? Shirakawa-kun."
"Go and see if you can get on Sony's revolutionary train." Shirakawa Feng's voice came from far outside the door.
