Xu Xiangming, being the factory director, possessed exceptional insight and quickly grasped Zhao Ye's deeper meaning.
He immediately stated that he would establish the "Shonen Weekly" comic magazine as soon as possible.
The Shanghai Animation Film Studio has a large number of artists, giving it a unique advantage in terms of talent.
The first idea that popped into Xu Xiangming's mind was to adapt Pokémon, Dragon Quest, The Legend of Zelda, and Final Fantasy into manga.
Because the Shanghai Animation Film Studio is producing these four animated series, they have countless drawing drafts that, with slight modifications, can be turned into comic magazines.
Moreover, the plot of the animated film and the comic are consistent, so even the task of rewriting the script is saved.
After Zhao Ye left, Xu Xiangming enthusiastically began preparing for the "Youth Weekly" comic magazine...
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Rex Eden proved to be a negotiation expert. After arriving in Japan, he reached an agreement with Panasonic in just one or two weeks, spending approximately 55 million RMB to purchase an alkaline battery production line.
There are many battery companies in Japan; it's a waste not to make this money.
After all, if you don't sell the production line, can you stop others from doing the same?
If that's the case, then we might as well just sell the production line ourselves.
Panasonic naturally didn't sell its latest battery production line, as it was phasing out its previous products. So, this alkaline battery production line was essentially being put to good use.
After signing the contract, Panasonic immediately disassembled, packaged, and shipped the production line to China. The agreement stipulated that Panasonic would also be responsible for sending engineers to help install the production line and teach technicians how to use and maintain the equipment.
Wang Jizhi, Chen Liquan, Tang Weiping, and Wu Shousong excitedly accompanied the engineers as they installed the battery production line.
Chen Liquan, Tang Weiping, and Wu Shousong are battery experts that Zhao Ye poached from other factories.
In particular, Chen Liquan was an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in his previous life and was known as the "father of lithium batteries".
Alkaline batteries are just the beginning; battery manufacturers will eventually need to develop lithium batteries.
In this respect, the gap between China and Japan is not significant.
In his previous life, Zhong Xinjia, a battery prodigy in the 1990s, made a fortune by developing lithium batteries. Unfortunately, he was not very patriotic. He donated 70 million to the United States but did not give a penny to his own country. He even claimed, "China is poor, what does that have to do with me? I can donate if I want to, and I can not donate if I don't want to."
In an instant, Zhong Xinjia's image in the country plummeted to rock bottom.
From then on, this "battery king" fell from grace, and no one was willing to buy his batteries anymore.
By this time, Zhong Xinjia had already begun to show his talent. Given his obsession with money, Zhao Ye could easily poach him, but he didn't intend to. There were many research talents more outstanding than Zhong Xinjia. This man was excessively Western-worshipping; just seeing him made him sick and affected his mood.
With Zhao Ye around in this life, the title of "Battery King" is unlikely to fall to Zhong Xinjia.
The assembly and debugging of the production line took some time.
However, by mid-May, the battery factory was able to resume normal production.
However, purchasing Sharp's STN LCD production line is quite difficult because this technology is relatively advanced.
For a time, the negotiations reached a stalemate.
If TN is used as the LCD screen, the game screen will be dark, blurry, and have severe ghosting, which will definitely not meet the requirements, and the product will certainly fail.
Currently, China's color picture tube industry is still developing, but foreign countries already have liquid crystal display technology.
The gap is still quite large.
There are relatively few people researching liquid crystals in China. Currently, Zhao Ye has only recruited a handful of liquid crystal experts, such as Ouyang Zhongcan and Zhang Baizhe.
"Boss, STN liquid crystals were developed based on TN liquid crystals. TN stands for twisted nematic liquid crystal, and STN stands for super twisted nematic liquid crystal. TN liquid crystals can be twisted 90 degrees, while STN liquid crystals can be twisted 180 to 270 degrees. One pixel of an STN liquid crystal consists of three liquid crystal cells covered with a color filter. Color is produced by controlling the brightness of each liquid crystal cell with voltage..."
Ouyang Zhongcan explained, then paused and suggested to Zhao Ye, "We don't even have LCDs in China yet. Why don't we buy Sharp's TN LCD production line first, absorb their technology, and then further develop STN and TFT? Moreover, TN LCDs have a very wide range of applications; they can be used in mobile phones, pagers, and computers."
Upon hearing this, Zhao Ye felt that Ouyang Zhongcan's words made sense. Mobile phones, pagers, and computers could all use TN LCD screens, and Wujiang Group could produce and sell them themselves. Handheld game consoles, on the other hand, required STN LCD panels because they had higher requirements for image quality.
“Okay, let’s buy the TN LCD panel production line first!” Zhao Ye nodded to Ouyang Zhongcan.
He then contacted Rex Eden.
"Rex, if we buy the TN LCD production line and technology, will Sharp sell?"
TN LCD technology is actually quite advanced, but many companies on the market can produce TN, so Sharp's TN LCD panels don't have much of an advantage.
Rex Aiden was taken aback by this, then asked, "Boss, are you planning to give up on buying STN?"
“Yes, Sharp won’t sell STN, so we’ll settle for second best and buying TN LCD production lines and technology is also a barely acceptable option,” Zhao Ye replied.
“If that’s the case, then I’m very confident I can buy Sharp’s TN LCD production line and technology!” Rex Aiden said confidently. “Even if I can’t buy it from Sharp, I can buy it from other companies!”
Zhao Ye smiled and said, "I look forward to your good news!"
Actually, Zhao Ye wasn't in such a hurry for LCD panels. He believed that Rex Eden would eventually be able to buy back the TN LCD panel production line and technology.
At 11 a.m., Zhao Ye returned to Loongson Design Company, striving to develop the EDA chip design software, Kirin 2 processor, and memory chip as soon as possible.
Unexpectedly, just a few days later, good news came from Rex Eden's side.
Sharp can sell its TN LCD production line and technology, but the price is quite high, requiring $50 million.
Zhao Ye found this price unacceptable.
Sharp is trying to take advantage of them.
The US dollar currently has strong purchasing power; $50 million is already a huge sum of money, equivalent to over 150 million RMB.
This is simply an exorbitant price to import a TN production line and technology.
"No more than $30 million! If that doesn't work, we'll find another company. We don't necessarily have to buy from Sharp."
"Okay, boss."
After the conversation ended, Rex Eden immediately contacted Panasonic and pressured Sharp to compete with the two companies, offering to buy from whoever offered the lowest price.
Sharp is now in a bind.
The pigeon I just got is going to fly away?!
P.S.: Two chapters will be updated this afternoon, and two more will be updated tonight.
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