Chapter 26
After getting the source code and circuit design from Nishikatsu Tomohiro, and taking a bunch of semi-finished samples, Gu Ao specially took out cash and stuffed the other party's 4 million yen. Even if the two yen was paid, the deal was originally worth 10,000 yuan per denomination, so it was just 4 stacks, which was very inconspicuous. It was only 10,000 yuan for the avatar version of "Fukuzawa Yukichi" since 1984, and the current version is still used in the 1960s.
Both sides were afraid of exposure, so they were unaware of it.
After talking about all this, it was already late at night when I returned to the hotel in downtown Tokyo.
After Gu Ao rested, the next morning, he waited for the domestic negotiation supervisors to come. He was also from the Foreign Affairs Bureau of the Ministry of Machinery. He was just from the Discipline Supervision Department, not the business department under the jurisdiction of Director Bao.
Therefore, he could only put the matter of the electronic game console first and complete the formal signing work here.
The person who came was surnamed Shi, and he was a flat-headed man in his 30s. He had no characteristics and was serious. After receiving the other party, Gu Ao and Yang Xin briefly reported on the negotiations over the past few days, and focused on the necessary recordings to prove their innocence.
Section Chief Shi was slightly ashamed when he heard the recording of Mitsui Sushi trying to bribe Gu Ao privately, and when he heard Gu Ao refuse with righteousness.
"That Mitsui Sushi actually said to give you a personal rebate of 200,000 US dollars? Comrade Xiao Gu is worthy of being a good comrade made of special materials. Such a large amount of sugar-coated shells cannot corrode you. I didn't say that, I will guarantee all the procedural evidence here, so let's sign the contract as soon as possible."
On the other hand, He Ziqiang has also finalized all the details of legal terms in the past few days. In the afternoon of that day, the group officially signed a tripartite agreement on the technical authorization fee agreement. In addition to the enterprises, China also has registered seals from government departments.
Mitsui Sushi couldn't tell that she was unwilling to accept it, but her expression was a little bit dirt-like. At this point, he still patted Gu Ao on the shoulder admiringly: "Gu Sang, you are the cleanest person I have ever met. Although you made me lose money, I still admire you very much."
The final signing ceremony is of course a formal negotiation process, so this sentence will naturally be recorded.
Gu Ao replied politically correctly: "That's because President Mitsui doesn't do much business with us Chinese. You will know from now on that we Chinese are all made of special materials, and we are all so honest."
Everything happened naturally, and Section Chief Shi could return to China the next day.
Gu Ao might have stayed for a few more days, and went to Xiangjiang for a walk, and then discussed it with him in a tactful way.
Section Chief Shi was reasonable, on the other hand, officials like him who had supervision work rarely had the opportunity to come to developed countries, so he was able to adapt.
He only made two requests: no reimbursement will occur in the next few days, and before going to work next Monday, he must go back to pay off the leave and report his itinerary.
Gu Ao said there was no problem.
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After sending Section Chief Shi away, Yang Xin asked privately: "Brother Gu, what are your plans for the Japanese electrical appliance factory I inspected that day?"
Of course, Gu Ao would not tell all the inside story, but just selectively made an excuse: "If you are within the legal scope, do some private work. The money that Japanese people don't want to make, we will make it ourselves.
It is difficult to register a company in China nowadays, so it may still be necessary to rely on the shell of Lawyer Lin. The biggest advantage of a company registered in Xiangjiang is that its business scope is very flexible. If you change it a little, you can expand your business immediately."
In the mainland in 1979, not only did there be no company law, but there were no joint-stock companies here referring to the later "limited limited liability company".
Some are just self-employed businesses and township enterprises.
This is the current situation of the first anniversary after the reform and opening up, and everything is taken slowly.
The first private enterprise with a shareholding nature in China will have to wait until February next year to be founded by Qiren Mouzhong. Then, the others will gradually become more courageous after this case is exposed.
Gu Ao didn't want to be the first to be a typical person to be caught in the future. So he would rather endure it, and he would never formally establish any individually invested shares in China before Mouzhong.
Xiangjiang's laws are much more relaxed, and the business management department almost ignores the cross-circle operation of the company. Go to the registration place to declare a change, and a company can "change its career".
For example, this year, the famous real estate tycoon, Boss Lei of Kowloon Jianye, said he wanted to enter the entertainment industry, and then directly took the Kowloon Jianye's signature and established a subsidiary film company, distribution company, theater company overnight...
Later, John Woo and Tsui Hark's "Golden Princess" theater chain was cultivated, which was born in this way.
Think about it decades later, Wang Xlin, who also engaged in real estate in the mainland, wanted to copy this route, but it took many years to get a complete media industry license.
Yang Xin didn't understand business very well, but just reminded him kindly: "Brother Gu, are you planning to invest in a company in Xiangjiang and then return to the mainland to produce products? I heard that according to the existing national policy, the factories on the Snake K seem to be exempt from Hong Kong capital, which can be exempted for many years."
Today, Shenzhen Stock Exchange in the Shenzhen Stock Exchange is not tax-free in the entire area. Instead, a Hek Industrial Zone of about 10 square kilometers is designated as a pilot, allowing Hong Kong capital to run factories and do not have any taxes within five years. Other areas in Shenzhen Stock Exchange will not officially apply these preferential policies until the second quarter next year.
The Special Administrative Region is also being carried out step by step, expanding step by step.
Gu Ao knew that there are enough diligent and skilled workers in China nowadays. If the processing plant is set up in China, it can indeed save a lot of money on the salary of domestic assembly workers and welders, at most a day, even in the special zone.
Gu Ao can't afford to use the SMT chip machine, so the components on the circuit board can only be hand-soldered by workers with electric soldering irons. The SMT is not mature now and is the highest-end technology in the United States. It only entered Wanwan and South Korea in the 1980s.
The cheapest physically-powered black workers in Xiangjiang now cost 50 Hong Kong dollars a day. Excellent electronics factory welders who can ensure that they are not weak, will be at least 200 a day. Later, after the popularity of SMT, the salary of electronics factory workers was reduced by automatic wave soldering and reflow soldering, because the technology is no longer important.
However, after Gu Ao looked up the relevant policies, he found that there was the biggest problem with setting up the factory in Shenzhen Stock Exchange. The z80 PU chips of American companies cannot enter the country through regular channels.
The reason is foreign exchange control.
This is also the reason why the domestic electronics industry development was far inferior to Wanwan and South Korea in the 1980s.
At that time, it was very welcome to sell things to foreigners to earn foreign exchange.
But if you have to import foreign raw materials first, process them and then export them to earn a price difference in the process, that would be very troublesome.
What the country fears most is that the imported materials cannot be used strictly according to the purpose they originally declared. For example, if Gu Ao wants to open a game console factory, he declares to buy 1,000 z80 pu, each of which consumes 150 US dollars for foreign exchange; if 1,000 game consoles are indeed exported in the end, each of which is priced at 500 US dollars, that would be fine.
I was afraid that only 800 units were exported in the end, and 200 units were secretly sold at high prices in China. I even used the 200-piece tax-free z80 to produce color TV automatic washing machines. I did not use all imported materials for foreign exchange, but was "degenerated" and "consumption" by the Chinese themselves.
This is a very taboo for the country, because the direction at that time was that "all foreign exchange should be used to create more foreign exchange, not to provide the people with luxury." At the same time, if it is used for its own use, it also involves the suspicion of "tax avoidance and smuggling".
If 15 years pass, this problem will be easy to solve.
Because statistical means, the degree of perfection of the rule of law and technical monitoring have all come.
Set up an isolated bonded processing area, such as the Pud Bonded Zone in Hujiang and the Kuns Bonded Zone in Gusu, to ensure that all materials imported into these areas are not allowed to flow into other places in the country. Only after the bonded area is processed, go to Taigang to enter and exit. All things bought with foreign exchange can only be used to earn foreign exchange, rather than to the people themselves.
But it was obviously too unrealistic to talk about bonded tax in 1979.
Therefore, the biggest bottleneck to build a factory in China is that "it can only be built that can be found in China for all raw materials." If the raw materials rely on imports, it will be done.
At the same time, Wanwan and South Korea obviously did not have such concerns. Wanwan only has a population of less than 20 million, and South Korea only has 30 to 40 million. They are easy to coordinate. Since they bet on national luck and regional luck to develop the electronics industry, they will import hundreds of millions of pieces of high-end raw materials from Intel and other top chip giants every year.
Even if 20 to 30 million pieces were used to produce national consumer goods in the end, as long as the remaining hundreds of millions of dollars were exported, Wanwan and South Korea would not be afraid of foreign exchange exhaustion.
With this determination to flood the market, it is indeed possible to achieve results by betting on the development of the country and region on Samsung LG or TSMC Foxconn. Don’t you see that after spending more than ten years, Samsung and its family can drive one-third of the GDP of South Korea.
After more than ten years of development in the industrial chain, the two places finally began to build their own chips. Later, Samsung and TSMC were also quite successful. It was not until 2017 that ZTE was choked by the chip embargo case in China.
However, the road between Wanwan and South Korea is obviously not suitable for the mainland's national conditions. The Chinese people's desire for electronic products that were lacking at that time was probably hundreds of millions of Intel products poured in, and our domestic demand market could be digested, so the country's foreign exchange reserves would be completely cleared.
Moreover, even if it monopolizes the electronics industry around the world, the scale of this industry cannot support an economy of one billion people. It is reluctant to disrupt the overall situation of foreign exchange controls for this industry.
Gu Ao Sizhi repeated and felt that it was too risky to go to Shenzhen Stock Exchange to run a factory.
Finally, he vaguely finalized a idea:
"Maybe we can only consider the two-stage processing layout. Whether you find a factory in China to entrust processing, or build a affiliated electronics factory by yourself, and make semi-finished products that do not require the use of Z80 PUs. Then transport them to Japan. In Japan, in the name of Hong Kong-owned companies, a small-scale assembly workshop will be built and a few workers will be hired.
These people are only responsible for soldering the PU to the circuit board, then firing the program and testing the whole machine, and then packaging and supplying the product. This way, there will be no need for many people, so Japan will be able to bear the high salary. Maybe in the future, it will be able to develop into a local small enterprise that provides after-sales service. As long as the sales volume can be sustained, the cost is not a problem."
Gu Ao was also impressed by his imagination.
In this way, before leaving Japan, he only needs to consider how to develop a spokesperson here, build a small workshop for testing and assembly, and obtain a batch of z80 chip purchase authorization.
There is still a lack of spokespersons who are permanently resident in Japan.
"No matter what, get the first batch of z80 supplies first. This thing is not sold to individual users. It must be a corporate customer who has applied for the purpose. Americans are really very responsible. They don't sell the goods after taking the money, for fear of being used by hostile forces to do bad things."
Chapter completed!