Chapter 22

Chapter 14, BP Pager

It was unknown who had spread the news, but the story of the county planning committee director being reprimanded by County Chief Yang Zixuan in the county chief's office had spread through the county government with great detail by the next day.

Various versions of the story were flying around. Some said that Lan Le, relying on his seniority and power in the county government, had openly contradicted the county chief and was reprimanded. Others said it was because Lan Le was inadequately prepared and had a poor attitude during a work report...

Each version was told with great detail, but the actual situation was known only to the parties involved.

However, one thing was certain: after County Chief Yang Zixuan had won over the old cadre Lan Le, the other department heads in the county government began to be more cautious.

They all acknowledged that their prestige in the county government was no higher than Lan Le's. If even someone like Lan Le was now frequently visiting the county chief's office, they certainly dared not act arrogantly.

County Chief Yang Zixuan's authority in the county government was, at least on the surface, firmly established!

At this moment, Yang Zixuan was sitting at a table in a restaurant in Daming City. Across from him was Su Chen, her small face flushed, wearing a white down jacket and a pair of tight pants that accentuated her slender legs, looking incredibly adorable.

"Here, this is the money from selling garlic recently. You can count it when you get home..." Su Chen carefully took out a black bag from her side and passed it to Yang Zixuan under the table.

Yang Zixuan didn't take it, but instead smiled at Su Chen, looking at her rosy, cold cheeks, feeling a pang of tenderness. He reached out and touched her smooth cheek, "Silly girl, you've worked hard."

"I'm not silly," Su Chen's face was so red it seemed to be dripping with water, "And it wasn't that hard. I ran freight with Brother Xu and the others, and they took good care of me."

"Keep the money for now. If you want to buy something, just take it from there." Yang Zixuan held Su Chen's small hand and pushed the black bag back into her arms.

"How can I do that? This is your money," Su Chen pouted, her lips slightly upturned, looking both delicate and beautiful. "Only you would come up with such a strange idea, making money by buying garlic."

"Don't be so formal. What's yours is mine, and what's mine is yours. It's the same whether it's with you or me." Yang Zixuan smiled mischievously, "And this money has another use."

"What use?" Su Chen asked curiously. Every time she worked with Yang Zixuan, she encountered something new and exciting. If it weren't for Yang Zixuan, she would probably never have traveled so far to Ludaong Province. If it weren't for Yang Zixuan, she would still be an ordinary employee at Hongfang, perhaps married to someone she had never met through her parents' introduction, and living a mundane life as a small-town housewife.

Or, like in her previous life, she might have been transferred to a welfare home, never married, and disappeared without a trace.

Yang Zixuan's appearance had completely changed the course of her life, leading her to a different path.

"BP pagers!" Yang Zixuan said firmly.

The three most popular fashion trends of the 1990s, which disappeared quickly after 2000, were BP pagers, mobile phones, and portable cassette players. Since he had been reborn, he couldn't miss these great opportunities to make money.

"BP pagers? What are they?" Su Chen's eyes widened, looking very beautiful.

"They are small, brown 'boxes' about the size of a cigarette pack. It's a magical communication tool. With it, anyone can find you at any time." Yang Zixuan ordered two cups of hot sugar water and handed one to Su Chen.

"How can such a thing exist? It doesn't have any wires, unlike a telephone?" Su Chen asked, half-disbelieving.

"Ha, that's the advancement of technology. And soon, you'll see that even telephones won't have wires." Yang Zixuan laughed, knowing that mobile phones would soon be introduced to Luofu, a non-coastal province in the south.

Yang Zixuan took out a newspaper from his briefcase and handed it to Su Chen, pointing to an article: "Japan's Panasonic Company gifted 'magical communication tools' to the Luofu provincial government, 100 units in total, which were handed over to the telecommunications department of Luofu Province. The photo showed the once-famous 'pager'."

"This news I found by chance in the Luofu Evening News from two months ago. Now, paging stations are gradually being established in Luofu Province. The trend of BP pagers is already starting in the coastal areas of the country, and many places have already set up paging stations. It should soon spread to our Luofu. If we seize this opportunity, we can definitely achieve great success," Yang Zixuan explained.

Su Chen's eyes, which were wide with wonder, stared at the "black small box" in the newspaper photo, her slender index finger touching her white, tender cheek. "Technology is truly unbelievable. But why is it produced by foreign countries? By the way, does our country produce such small boxes?"

Yang Zixuan shook his head, "Our country is still in the process of rebuilding, and we don't have the technology to produce such small boxes yet. But I believe it will happen soon..."

Yang Zixuan knew that in the domestic paging industry, Motorola was undoubtedly the leader. In the early days, Motorola pagers had a market share of over 70% in China, and Motorola leveraged its financial and technological advantages from pagers to maintain a significant presence in the mobile phone market. From 1993 to 1998, to meet market demand, Motorola developed a wide range of new pager models, including the Enterprising, Fashionable, and Mini models, representing the highest level of pager production and the latest trends in pager fashion. The model variations were numerous and complex.

Domestic pager production, such as that by BOE, only began after the pager craze started, and it became a benchmark for the domestic pager industry.

"So what should we do now? It seems that there are no stores selling BP pagers in Daming City." Su Chen asked, puzzled. "And I don't know where to get the stock."

"Indeed, not just in Daming City, but even in the economically developed cities of Zijin, eastern Luofu, and along the river, the BP pager market is still a blank slate. There are very few stores selling BP pagers. If we can establish a leading market position, we will definitely make a profit. Once we accumulate enough capital and the domestic technology matures, we can start our own production..." Yang Zixuan spoke confidently, outlining a grand vision for the future. "I believe that even if we don't do it, by the end of next year, BP pagers will definitely flood into Luofu Province. We are just taking the first step..."

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