Chapter 99

The day after the press conference, Jia Hongjian and his family brought a group of middle-aged men and women who sold fried dough sticks at the entrance of the residential area to the office building. Since the company's phone number was announced at the press conference, it was foreseeable that there would be a large number of inquiry calls coming in, so Jia Hongjian suggested temporarily finding a group of people to help answer the phones.

In this era, jobs were still uniformly recruited and allocated, so there was basically no such thing as a talent recruitment market. Even if there were, there were no large numbers of employees trained in customer service centers in the country. Where could Jia Hongjian find a group of sweet-voiced girls to answer the phones? His mother had suggested finding retired aunties from the neighborhood, but Jia Hongjian considered whether these aunties, who could only speak Shanghainese and not Mandarin, could communicate with merchants from all over the country. In the end, he decided to find a group of migrant workers from all over the country.

At the same time, in an office building in Zhuhai, Shi Yuzhu, who was ranked second among the ten thousand young idols in the top ten cities of the country, was holding a meeting with his subordinates. "According to insider information from the municipal government, the CoCom will definitely be dissolved after the New Year!" Shi Yuzhu, dressed in a suit but with hair as messy as a bird's nest, said solemnly to his subordinates.

"Mr. Shi, is this information accurate? If CoCom really dissolves, then DEC, Compaq, HP, and IBM can all be imported into the country!" One of Shi Yuzhu's most trusted subordinates looked a bit worried.

"Yes... How can an organization like CoCom just dissolve? The imperialists' desire to destroy us never dies!" After telling a cold joke, Shi Yuzhu asked, "Let's start considering diversification. Just focusing on our 6403 Chinese card is a dead end. We must diversify into other industries..."

The organization called "CoCom" that Shi Yuzhu mentioned was not a Palestinian unification organization or a play written by Mikhail Bulgakov in 1939, but rather the short name for the "Paris Coordinating Committee." This committee, whose full name is the "Committee for the Coordination of Export Controls to Communist Countries," was secretly proposed by the United States in 1948 and officially established in 1950. During the Cold War, it almost completely blocked the export of high-tech products to communist countries. In the era when the Soviet Union had already disintegrated, this organization was clearly no longer suitable for existence. It officially dissolved on April 1, 1994, which was April Fool's Day.

At this moment, one of Shi Yuzhu's subordinates suggested, "Why not go to Hainan to speculate in real estate? The real estate prices in Hainan have been soaring in the past two years! If we want to diversify, I think entering the real estate industry would be very good..."

"No, Hainan has been gradually tightening the real estate market since the designer's southern tour in 1992. Moreover, Hainan has a small population. Who will live in all those houses? You haven't been to Hainan, but I have. To put it bluntly, the ratio of houses to people there could be 10:1! In this situation, the household registration system is not open, the education quality is poor, and the economy is not as good as Guangdong. Where will the people go to buy houses? I think the real estate market in Hainan will collapse in a few years," another person countered.

"We can't go to Hainan! Regardless of its prospects, the local government has no connection with our Giant Group. Why should we go there? We might as well stay in Zhuhai!" Shi Yuzhu decided, "I've decided to develop the real estate industry in Zhuhai. Find some designers, we need to build our own Giant Building! And we can't use our own money to build the building. We'll sell the units in Hong Kong and Guangzhou! Then... we'll invest the money in the health supplement and pharmaceutical industries..."

At this point, Shi Yuzhu was even more determined: "Let's start conservatively. Yesterday, I saw on TV that a company in Shanghai announced it would auction the exclusive sales rights for Ma Junren's secret formula health supplement in all provinces. We have branches in more than thirty provinces and autonomous regions. Try to secure the rights for each one! We'll use other brands to practice and build our distribution channels. If we can do it smoothly, we'll kick them out and operate our own brand!"

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At this moment, Jia Hongjian did not know that the butterfly effect of his rebirth had already caught the attention of Shi Yuzhu, who was detested by all merchants in the future. To be honest, even if Jia Hongjian knew he was being watched, he would probably just shrug his shoulders, because he, as a reborn person, had a cheat code. Would he be afraid of competing with the natives of this era?

He was now busy answering calls. He had anticipated that the company would receive a large number of inquiry calls today, but he didn't expect it to be this overwhelming—now even Jia Gang and Su Ping were helping to answer calls, and they even awkwardly asked Wang Koulan's nanny, Zhang Fenggu, to help, and she brought a group of her fellow nannies from the neighborhood to assist! Even Wang Danzhi and Jia Jingxing were called to help!

"Hello, hello, this is China High-Tech. How may I assist you?" Jia Hongjian answered a new inquiry call with a professional smile. "Hello, this is Nanjing Keli Industrial and Trade Co., Ltd. I would like to inquire about the exclusive distribution rights for your company in Jiangsu. I want to know if your company has any exclusivity agreements. For example, if our company is currently selling other brands of health supplements, can we still purchase the distribution rights for your company? Or, after purchasing the distribution rights for your company, can we still sell other companies' products?"

"Hello, may I ask for your surname? Mr. Wu, right? Hello, our company does not have any exclusivity agreements for distribution rights. We are not afraid of competition..." Jia Hongjian answered very skillfully. However, he did not know what the Nanjing Keli Industrial and Trade Co., Ltd. was or who Mr. Wu was.

Mr. Wu's full name is Wu Bingxin, born in Shandong in 1938, and he is 55 years old this year. In 1989, when the country was experiencing a development zone craze, Wu Bingxin, keeping up with the times, came to the newly established Huainan Luohe Development Zone in Anhui and registered a company called "Huainan Continental Expansion Co., Ltd." with his son Wu Weisi.

As for what this company would expand, Wu Bingxin and his son never figured it out until they dissolved the company. Their idea was simple: whatever made money, they would expand. As long as it was not illegal, they would promote anything. By the end of 1989, Wu Bingxin had his eye on a new health supplement called "Tianan 851." He judged that this supplement would sell well in the future, but unfortunately, it flopped.

Later, he discovered a health supplement called "Angli No. 1" developed by a company, which the company continuously promoted. However, the product's sales were limited to Shanghai and did not sell well outside. In the end, Wu Bingxin decided to distribute Angli No. 1 and, with its subsequent popularity, by 1992, he had 15 branches in the Jianghuai region, moved the headquarters to Nanjing, and dissolved the old company, registering a new one.

However, Wu Bingxin's company now faced difficulties again; they could no longer sell Angli No. 1. If Jia Hongjian did not exist, Wu Bingxin and his son would eventually return to Shandong with 300,000 yuan and register a company called "Sanzhu Pharmaceutical"...

"Son, this is the 20th company from Shanghai that hopes to come for an inspection..." Jia Gang, sweating profusely, handed a note to Jia Hongjian. After receiving requests from companies in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Shanghai to come for inspections, Jia Gang was at a loss. He knew that his company was just a shell company with no production facilities and only one formal employee—himself. His wife and children did not even have formal positions. However, when he was about to refuse these inspection requests, his son Jia Hongjian mysteriously agreed and said he had a plan...

Thinking that the entire plan was his son's idea, after a mental struggle, Jia Gang decided to follow his son's method. But he really wanted to know how his son planned to solve this problem...

"We will rent or contract the filling production line from Yanzhong Industrial!" After the business ended that evening, Jia Hongjian finally revealed his plan to his father at dinner. "That's your old company, with familiar connections. Now that Shenzhen Baoan has moved in, they want to inflate the stock price and promote various concepts. A filling production line is not something that can be hyped. I think if we don't contract it, they might even sell the production line at a low price..."

Yes, Jia Hongjian's waiting for so long after his rebirth was not just to wait for opportunities! His plan to get something for nothing had already considered all the key details!

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Note 1: The prototype of Shi Yuzhu should be clear to everyone. His Giant Group indeed decided to diversify in 1993-1994. The real estate and health supplement industries were indeed the routes he chose. Because of his optimism about the health supplement industry, he and his core team considered making a comeback in the health supplement industry after his failure, leading to the famous slogan, "This year, no gifts, no gifts..."

Note 2: The DEC brand computer that appeared in "I Love My Family" is not fictional. In the 1990s, DEC was the second-largest personal computer manufacturer in the world, capable of competing with IBM. The full name is Digital Equipment Corporation, abbreviated as DEC. In January 1998, DEC was acquired by Compaq for $9.6 billion, and in 2001, HP and Compaq merged.

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