"A thousand portable music player orders!"
Feng Daochun repeated, making Wang Yu feel utterly absurd.
"Actually, it's 996 units, almost a thousand, so we rounded it up."
Feng Daochun spoke again, eliciting a silence from Wang Yu.
"Li Mo got this again, didn't he!"
Wang Yu's statement was an exclamation of certainty, not a question. It was almost unnecessary to guess; only Li Mo had the capability for such a feat.
His last produced product, one he hadn't even started advertising, was developing the best. It was truly ironic how fate played out! He never expected that the hot-blooded, chuunibyou youth he met casually would bring him such a huge surprise!
"Indeed, that's correct. All the order forms were faxed over from Yu Mo English Training School. They said they were obtained during a training lecture in Shuangshan City, the capital of Shuanglong Province. It's all thanks to your lifelong friend!"
Feng Daochun looked at Wang Yu with admiration. He truly was a small factory manager. His lifelong friend, Li Mo, was indeed their great benefactor. He alone had brought so many orders to their factory that the workers had to work overtime every day. Even with the new factory building and the expanded production lines and staff, it was still far from enough!
"Stop mentioning that 'lifelong friend' thing!" Wang Yu's eye twitched. Li Mo's head might be a bit off, but it couldn't be denied that his passion for language was infectious, comparable to that of a certain moustached man in a beer hall. Moreover, that guy seemed a little unstable in the head himself... Cough cough!
As for the Yu Mo English Training School, it left Wang Yu feeling helpless. With such a chuunibyou-style name, one could tell at a glance that it was a combination of Wang Yu and Li Mo's names. As Li Mo had excitedly explained on the phone back then, he named his school this to commemorate their noble friendship, as pure and beautiful as mandarin ducks... Yes, in ancient times, mandarin ducks were initially used to describe male friendship. Li Mo was showing off his cultural knowledge, but for some reason, Wang Yu felt something was amiss... If it were Wu Lingling, perhaps he would accept it. As for Li Mo... forget it, let's talk about the portable music player orders!
Previously, the cost of a portable music player was around 200 yuan. However, now with the OEM production and parts supply from the Ice Bear Kingdom, the issue of importing magnetic heads had also been resolved. The estimated cost now was around 100 yuan. At Li Mo's selling price of 999 yuan, a profit of 800 yuan per portable music player meant a profit of 800,000 yuan for a thousand units! Although 10% of that was to be given to Li Mo, which was 80,000 yuan. That’s right, Wang Yu had considered Li Mo in the increased profit from cost reduction and had no intention of hiding it from him. Being upright in one's conduct would lead to long-term success. If you're making money, you should let others share in it; if you eat meat, you should let others have some soup!
"I feel like this 720,000 yuan profit just fell from the sky," Wang Yu muttered.
"Um... Little Factory Manager? You've calculated it wrong."
Feng Daochun spoke up.
"What? Where did I go wrong?" Wang Yu was taken aback. "Is it the small change? It's negligible."
"No, Little Factory Manager." Feng Daochun said with a wry smile. "Your dear friend said that the selling price for these portable music players this time is 1299 yuan."
"Pfft! 1299?"
"That's right. Mr. Li Mo said on the phone that the economic level of Shuanglong Province is a bit higher, so he appropriately raised the price without your consent. This way, you'll have more funds to develop better products to benefit society, and he'll have more money to donate to Hope Schools. He'll also be giving more tour lectures in other cities, which will be great promotion for our products! So, this time..."
Feng Daochun said helplessly, "At the unit price of 1299 yuan, after his 10% profit share, we have about 1080 yuan profit per unit. For a thousand units, that's 1.08 million yuan! That's over a million more in profit for us! And that's not even counting his future endeavors!"
Wang Yu was speechless, listening to Feng Daochun. So... Li Mo was playing Robin Hood! You could call him foolish; he knew how to raise prices and ride the tide. He even went to different places for lectures to "harvest leeks." But if you called him shrewd, he only kept the basic operating funds from the English school and donated the rest to Hope Schools. Perhaps, the only word to describe him was a pure idealist, who would use any means necessary to achieve his ideals! In a way, wasn't he, Wang Yu, also such a person? Since his rebirth, he had done many things that others found compromising. In fact, if he wanted to keep all the money for himself, it wouldn't be impossible, but that would mean losing his original aspiration of diligently learning technology, which was to build a manufacturing backbone for the country!
"Old Feng!" Wang Yu suddenly thought of something and said.
"Yes, Little Factory Manager?"
"Later, you arrange for our factory to donate 200,000 yuan to Hope Schools. You can coordinate this with Secretary Yang."
"Ah? 200,000 yuan? Isn't that a bit too much?"
"It's fine, it's not too much. Li Mo helped us earn this money, so it's also helping him realize his ideal," Wang Yu said calmly.
"Oh! I see, Little Factory Manager, your vision is indeed far-reaching!" Feng Daochun suddenly seemed to understand something and looked at Wang Yu with admiration again, uttering his classic line. "Brilliant, truly brilliant!"
"..."
Did you just misunderstand me again and think I had some deeper meaning? Wang Yu helplessly waved his hand at Feng Daochun, signaling him to leave quickly and stop hovering around him, as it gave him a headache! He still needed to figure out how to deal with the experts from the "Japanese" experts who were doing quite well for themselves in a week!
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Inside the department store building, Wang Jin and Fang Zhongtian were in a state of euphoria. The department store had stocked all the small appliances that the Metallurgy General Plant had plagiarized from the car factory. As expected, it immediately caused a buying frenzy! Unlike Wang Yu, who cautiously conducted tests and small-scale operations at his doorstep, the day after they started selling in Jiangyang County, the products, through the department store's powerful sales channel network, were distributed to all the prefecture-level cities in the province. Then, these high-quality, inexpensive, and advanced products were immediately sold out! As one piece of good news after another came back, the smiles on Fang Zhongtian and Wang Jin's faces never ceased! Wang Yu had essentially paved the way for them. Both of them got what they wanted. With this achievement, Wang Jin had solidified his position as a favored confidant of the department store's general manager, and if nothing unexpected happened, he would soon be transferred back to headquarters as a department head. Fang Zhongtian, on the other hand, had made a fortune from the price difference commissions that Wang Jin had helped him secure. The two colluded, and both were happy! They immediately began a feast and revelry in Wang Jin's office, even calling Du Yujuan to join them for drinks and entertainment, having a great time all night! Finally, after eating and drinking their fill, both were groggy and fell asleep. However, not long after they lay down, a series of urgent and heavy footsteps interrupted their peace!
"Oh no! The electric kettles we sold have spontaneously combusted and caused a fire!"