So, what is the situation in China?
In fact, Xu Jiaguo was completely devastated.
The motorcycle factory did not operate as smoothly as expected.
Previously, Dayun Motorcycle Factory's sales network consisted of local supply and marketing cooperatives and local government units.
In other words, if you are capable, you can get a good contract from me. In the contract, we stipulate the selling price. How much you sell depends on your ability. Based on the degree to which the contract is completed, I will see how much profit I can give you.
People like Qin Shou, who have family connections, all get regional contracts.
However, there is one thing: this contract is brand-specific.
If this brand disappears, then they won't get their motorcycles from the factory anymore.
Essentially, it means recognizing only Wang Shouren as a person.
These days, building a robust sales system is no easy task. Every region has its own market conditions. Xu Jiaguo may not be very capable, but he has big ambitions. He wants to firmly control every region.
He wants to improve his grades to the next level.
However, no one took his business.
Why? Because they don't recognize Xu Jiaguo as a person.
This resulted in Xu Jiaguo's poor sales.
When sales are bad, he gets anxious, and when he gets anxious, he has no choice but to discuss it with Nobita Goro.
After some thought, Nobita realized that instead of being passive, he should take the initiative and open his own directly operated stores in every city in China. For one thing, shops in China were cheap now, and they were likely to appreciate in value later. (During the 1980s and 90s, Japanese real estate prices were skyrocketing, making buying a house the top financial option for many ordinary people.)
As soon as the suggestion was made, Xu Jiaguo immediately agreed.
However, Nobita's investment wasn't without conditions: it was considered an investment of added value, and either everyone would invest proportionally, or he would give them a higher share if he invested.
Xu Jiaguo naturally could not agree to this approach.
However, he really didn't have much money left.
Most of the money the higher-ups received from the motorcycle factory was invested in other projects. Under Wang Shouren's management, the motorcycle factory hadn't needed much money before, and each year's settlements showed substantial profits. He controlled all the profits for the year, specifying what was done and how. Finally, a profit summary report was submitted.
As long as it's not excessive, the higher-ups are too lazy to investigate; nobody wants to offend this golden goose.
The main problem is that Xu Jiaguo chose this time, which was too coincidental.
At the end of the year, all the accounts were settled, and he was going to take over the factory. In the end, there wasn't much profit left in the factory, which was the case in previous years. After handing over the profits, the factory would immediately become profitable again after receiving payments after the New Year. However, after the New Year, not many people ordered his motorcycles, which resulted in a lot of workers being idle in the factory.
In February, he was extremely anxious, wanting to ask for help from higher authorities, but he just couldn't bring himself to ask.
Or rather, even if he made that request, he probably wouldn't get much support. And sure enough, the motorcycle factory's high production capacity became his nightmare.
Coincidentally, Nobita also took the opportunity to bring up this idea.
Nobita Kurohiro was also a little confused. What exactly did these people want? Did they want him to invest a large amount of money? But how much money could they possibly have?
Actually, he didn't care much, since the cost in China was really low. In February, he had already applied to have some things processed in China.
At most, when shipping goods abroad, some taxes are paid (because China had not yet joined the WTO, tariffs were unclear at that time and were not protected by the United Nations).
More importantly, he wanted to keep the factory under his own control.
The two sides engaged in a heated discussion on this matter.
In the end, Xu Jiaguo compromised. He could no longer increase his shareholding, but the purchased shops would provide for his family's livelihood.
Nobita Kurohiro was satisfied with this, after all, he knew that this factory was one of the face of China, and it was unrealistic to let them really control the situation.
However, Xu Jiaguo's vision of having Nobita help him sell motorcycles was essentially nonexistent. He would much rather Chinese motorcycles not sell internationally.
After opening stores across the country, sales improved slightly, but not by much.
This factory that suddenly appeared out of nowhere, after a little inquiry, everyone knew it was a joint venture. Compared to joint ventures, if domestically produced goods are reliable, people still prefer to use domestic products. Moreover, the Dayun brand had been operating for five years, from 1979 to 1984, and its positive reviews had never wavered. Trying to steal market share from Dayun would be difficult.
In short, motorcycle factories are currently in a state of semi-death.
But Xu Jiaguo never expected that Wang Shouren would do something drastic to him in this half-dead state.
When Nobita Kurohiro appeared before him with a ferocious expression and resolutely ordered him to handle the patent matter, he knew he was finished.
He wasn't stupid. From the moment he arrived at Dayun Motorcycle Factory to everything that happened afterward, the connection was all tied to the patents.
He remembered something that happened many years ago.
At that time, representatives from two motorcycle factories in Beijing jointly went to the factory manager's office.
Wang Shouren happened to be there too. Later, they talked about the patent. Wang Shouren told them that he could provide the engine technology, but there would be a patent fee. The patent fee wasn't expensive, just one yuan.
That incident didn't cause much of a stir. After all, how much does a motorcycle cost? A patent fee of one yuan was paid, and that was that. Even in 1984, the domestic motorcycle production rate was only a few tens of thousands, at most a hundred thousand, per year. How much money could one yuan possibly represent?
At this moment, the scene was clearer in his mind than ever before.
Yes, it's a patent.
"Xu Jun, you guys are really something! You tricked me into giving you your technology, and then you sued us internationally. Fine, fine, so that's how you do it, right? Xu Jun, let me tell you, when I get back, I'll report this to my superiors. I want to see what you really are..."
"Shut up!" Xu Jiaguo roared, slamming his hand on the table. "Get out!"
Nobita Kurohiro stared wide-eyed at Xu Jiaguo in disbelief.
"Baka!"
He's still a nobody; he chickens out quickly. When he saw a 180cm tall, burly man trying to attack him, he backed down.
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