The Science Fiction World of Xueba

Early the next morning, when Pang Xuelin learned from Mu Donglai that the other party wanted to help him investigate the market, he couldn't help being surprised.

"Professor Mu, don't bother. Aren't you still going to Xiangjiang?"

Mu Donglai said with a smile: "Qingqing and I went to Xiangjiang just to have a look. It's not a big deal if it's ten days and a half months later. You are only seventeen years old after all. I'll follow you and I can help you check it out. .”

Liu Qi on the side also said: "Brother Pang, Professor Mu is right. If I am not in a hurry to go to Xiangjiang because of business matters, I don't worry about you acting alone. Of course, we are not worried about your safety, but There are too many liars, I am worried that you will suffer financially..."

Pang Xuelin couldn't help but couldn't help crying and laughing, and he was too embarrassed to say the refusal for a while.

Mu Qingqing changed into jeans and a plaid shirt, wore a sun hat on her head, her long hair flowed, her hands were behind her back, and she hopped and followed behind the crowd.

The corners of her mouth were slightly raised, and there was an indescribable excitement in her heart. For the first time, she felt that Fatty Liu didn't look so obtrusive.

After getting on the train, in order to thank Pang Xuelin and the others for their charitable deeds, the railway specially arranged two soft-sleeper boxes for them, and the comfort level was much improved compared with the hard-sleeper compartments.

On the contrary, Mu Qingqing was a little upset, because she shared a box with her father, while Pang Xuelin shared a box with Liu Qi and Jian An.

But it's okay, during the day, she and her father basically stay in the box where Pang Xuelin and the others are.

Liu Qi specially took out poker, and played Doudizhu with Pang Xuelin and Mu Qingqing.

Mu Donglai and Jian An just watched from the sidelines, chatting occasionally.

The happy time is fleeting.

Mu Qingqing and her father didn't return to their compartments to rest until the lights of the train were turned off at night.

At eight o'clock the next morning, the train slowly entered Yangcheng Railway Station.

After getting off the train, we had to go our separate ways.

The train station square was crowded, and Jian An bid farewell to everyone: "Professor Mu, Brother Pang, Lao Liu and Qingqing, I will leave first. Please write down the address of my home. If you need help in the future, you can directly write me a letter."

Mu Donglai said with a smile: "Don't worry, we won't cut off contact.

Comrade Jian An, come to Chang'an in the future, remember to come and find me. "

Liu Qi on the side also said: "Old Jane, you have written down my phone number, you must call me if you need anything."

Pang Xuelin said with a smile: "Brother Jian, if your work is not going well, or if you have any problems, you can come to Lancheng to find me. You will definitely find me when you report my name at Lancheng University."

"Okay, then I won't say more, let's go first!"

Jian An picked up his luggage, waved to everyone, and disappeared into the vast sea of ​​people first.

Only then did Pang Xuelin turn his gaze to Liu Qi, and said, "Old Liu, you are the landlord here, and we will leave it to you to arrange our itinerary."

On the train before, Liu Qi said that after arriving in Yangcheng, Pang Xuelin and the others would all be received by him, and he would also help Pang Xuelin pass the second-line pass, and he also got the temporary residence permit for Shencheng along the way.

Pang Xuelin originally wanted to refuse, but Liu Qi tried his best to invite him, so Pang Xuelin had no choice but to agree.

Liu Qi pointed to the road not far away, and said with a smile: "Brother Pang, don't worry, look, isn't the car that picks us up here?"

Pang Xuelin followed Liu Qi's fingers and saw a Toyota van driving over.

The car creaked and stopped in front of everyone.

A yellow-haired man in his twenties got out of the car. When he saw Mu Qingqing standing next to Pang Xuelin, the yellow-haired man almost stared down.

"What are you looking at?" Liu Qi patted Huang Mao on the head and said, "Huang Mao, this is the fat brother I met on the road. He single-handedly killed seven gangsters with gunpowder guns and saved you. Boss' fate, when you see Brother Pang in the future, you have to call Brother Pang, his words are mine, do you understand?"

Huang Mao was taken aback for a moment, and said in disbelief, "Boss, is it true or not?"

He couldn't believe that this gentle boy who looked like a high school student had such ability.

Liu Qi patted him on the head again, and said, "I saw it with my own eyes, so it can be fake!"

Only then did Huang Mao come back to his senses, and quickly bowed to Pang Xuelin, saying, "Hello, brother. My name is Li Da, and my nickname is Huang Mao. You can just call me Huang Mao."

Pang Xuelin nodded with a smile, undeniable.

Liu Qi continued to introduce: "These two are Professor Mu of Xi'an Jiaotong University and his daughter Mu Qingqing. Qingqing is the girl I recognized. When I meet her in the future, I have to call her Miss Qingqing, you know?"

"Hello, Miss Qingqing!"

Huang Mao bowed to Mu Qingqing again.

Mu Qingqing pursed her lips and chuckled lightly, Huang Mao's attitude made her feel very novel, as if the younger brother met the older sister in a Hong Kong movie.

Mu Donglai was obviously not interested in Liu Qi's tricks, and said, "Xiao Liu, where shall we go next?"

Liu Qi smiled and said, "Professor Mu, go to my house first?"

"To your house?" Mu Donglai was slightly taken aback, and asked in doubt, "With so many of us going, will it disturb your family?"

Liu Qi laughed and said, "Professor Mu, you are thinking too much. My family is big, and first of all, I am full and the whole family is not hungry. There is no one else."

"What about your parents?"

Pang Xuelin said.

Liu Qi said: "When I was five years old, my father swam to the other side of the Xiangjiang River with a basketball in his arms. My mother raised me and died when I was sixteen. Who would have thought that the reform and opening up would not take long? Well, my dad brought a stepmother back and gave birth to a younger brother, and said he would take me to Xiangjiang. I didn’t want to go, so he gave me a sum of money to let me wander in the mainland alone, and now I’m still in Yangcheng. A place to settle down."

Pang Xuelin and Mu Donglai looked at each other, they didn't expect that Fatty Liu, who seemed carefree, had such a tortuous life experience.

When he arrived at Fatty Liu's home, Pang Xuelin discovered that his home was not far from the Pearl River. It was a small four-story building. In the future, it will be built into the largest CBD center in Yangcheng.

Pang Xuelin patted Fatty Liu on the shoulder and said, "Old Liu, you have to keep this house, you can make a lot of money in the future!"

Fatty Liu laughed, and said: "Of course, I built this building three years ago, and it cost me nearly 70,000 yuan. Some time ago, someone asked me if I would like to sell the house, and said that I could sell it for 200,000 yuan. Hehe, It’s not that I’m bragging, this house will definitely be worth millions in another ten years or so.”

Pang Xuelin couldn't help showing a strange look on his face. The house in this area is worth a million?

What a joke!

In the future, some nail households will even offer such a house for hundreds of millions of dollars!

However, according to Fatty Liu, this building is only his stronghold in Yangcheng. Apart from here, he also has houses in Shencheng and Xiangjiang.

Only then did Pang Xuelin suddenly realize that Fatty Liu, who looked no different from an ordinary small boss, was probably already an extremely rare million-dollar household in this era.

The first floor of Fatty Liu's house is a jade shop, and four or five people are hired to help him take care of it, and Huang Mao is one of them.

The second, third, and fourth floors have been renovated. There is a kitchen, living room, bathroom, and a small bedroom on the second floor, where the nanny usually lives. There is a room on the third and fourth floors.

In order to prevent the house from accumulating dust when there are no people in it, Fatty Liu hired a nanny to take care of the whole building.

"Come on, brother Pang, you can live in this room, Qingqing, you can live next door to brother Pang, Professor Mu, you can live opposite Qingqing."

Fatty Liu arranged rooms for everyone one by one.

Pang Xuelin opened the door and walked in. The room was exquisitely decorated, not only had Simmons mattresses, a color TV, and even a Pioneer LD DVD player made in Japan.

Seeing this stupid and clumsy DVD player, Pang Xuelin couldn't help being taken aback.

He had seen this kind of DVD player when he was looking for information in the 1910s.

In the 1900s and 1990s, people relied on this kind of LD player (laser disc player) to watch karaoke and movies.

This kind of DVD player is bulky and cumbersome, and the laser disc it plays is also a monster.

The size of a laser disc is similar to that of a vinyl record, and its surface is similar to that of a music disc. It reads the signal pre-recorded on the disc with a laser and converts it into an image signal (such as PAL, NTSC) for TV playback.

Due to the use of analog storage, LaserDiscs do not have DVD mosaics, color banding, or other problems caused by digital quantization.

Moreover, the image quality that laser discs can provide is close to that of broadcast TV, because it is a non-contact relationship, and there is no problem that the image will deteriorate if the video tape is played too much.

The only problem is that such a bulky and bulky machine and DVD don't come cheap.

A newly-launched Japanese Pioneer LD DVD player costs 19,000 yuan, while an LD DVD player costs 400 to 500 yuan.

Even so, in the Chinese market in 1993, sales of LD DVD players reached one million units.

Sales of other audio-visual products were also high: 1.42 million stereos, more than 1.7 million VCRs, and more than 1.6 million CD players.

From this we can see the potential of the Chinese market.

Seeing Pang Xuelin staring blankly at the LD player, Fatty Liu couldn't help laughing and said, "Brother Pang, are you interested in this thing? I have a lot of discs here, all of which are from Xiangjiang, and some with Some color, do you want to see it?"

As he spoke, Fatty Liu blinked at Pang Xuelin, showing an expression that any man could understand.

At this time, Mu Qingqing, who had already put away her luggage and went to visit Pang Xuelin's room, asked curiously, "Brother Liu, what is a colored video disc? Is it the picture in color?"

"Ahem!"

Mu Donglai, who came in behind Mu Qingqing, said: "Xiao Liu, little brother Pang is only so old, don't spoil the child."

"Professor Mu's lesson is the lesson, the lesson is the lesson!"

Fatty Liu laughed.

He is not stupid, how could he fail to see Mu Qingqing and Mu Donglai's love for Pang Xuelin.

Moreover, Fatty Liu has traveled all over the world for so many years. Although his education level is not high, his eyes are very poisonous and he is very accurate in seeing people.

The Pang brother in front of him, although the other party claimed that he was an orphan, grew up in an ordinary peasant family. But no matter from his words and deeds, or the super power he showed that night, it gave people an extraordinary feeling.

Fatty Liu knew very well that it would definitely benefit him to have a good relationship with Pang Xuelin.

Of course, the prerequisite is not to offend Mu Qingqing.

This pretty little girl was obviously aiming at Madam Pang's position.

Pang Xuelin smiled, didn't pay attention to Fatty Liu's words, but looked thoughtfully at the LD player in front of him.

This LD DVD player reminded him of the VCD technology he had seen in the materials.

In April 1992, the International Radio and Television Technology Exhibition was being held in Las Vegas, USA, which was the largest TV technology exhibition in the world at that time.

Jiang Wanmeng, who was the general manager of Anhui Group at the time, was standing in front of a booth of 2 square meters, thinking for a long time, unwilling to leave.

What firmly attracted his attention was an image decompression (MPEG) technology exhibited by C-CUBE Corporation of the United States.

The technology in front of him gave Jiang Wanmeng, who was an engineer, an intuition: With MPEG technology, images and sounds can be stored on a small disc at the same time to make an audio-visual product VCD. Then, a low-cost, small-sized VCD discs can replace LD discs which are both expensive and occupy a large area. With high quality and low price, coupled with the strong domestic demand for audio-visual products, VCD will surely create a new era of disc recording!

This pioneering idea prompted him to eagerly apply C-CUBE's MPEG technology. Sun Yansheng, a Chinese-American who was the chairman of C-CUBE at the time, decided to join forces with Jiang Wanmeng to create consumer electronics products using MPEG technology, creating a new era of CD recording and playback!

Wannan Wanyan Electronic System Co., Ltd. was established.

Wan in Wanyan refers to Jiang Wanmeng, and Yan is taken from Sun Yansheng.

Jiang Wanmeng's idea came true.

In September 1993, the first batch of Wanyan, and also the first batch of 1,000 VCD players in the world, rolled off the production line.

As soon as the product came off the assembly line, 1,000 VCD players were snapped up by domestic and foreign home appliance companies. They couldn't wait to buy Wanyan's VCD and disassemble it for research.

At the beginning of 1994, Wanyan VCD entered the market promotion stage. At this time, the VCD player was priced at 5,300 yuan. Wanyan produced tens of thousands of VCD players, and they were sold out soon.

At this time, Jiang Wanmeng and Wanyan Company were high-spirited and ambitious, and devoted all their energy and financial resources to cultivating the VCD market: while promoting products to the market, they advertised vigorously; at the same time, they purchased the copyrights of eleven audio-visual publishing houses and launched 97 kinds of karaoke. Discs allow consumers to enjoy the rich audio-visual feast provided by VCD.

Common people accept VCD very quickly, and Wanyan has firmly occupied 100% of the market share in the past year since the launch of VCD products.

Wan Yan's efforts have been highly affirmed by consumers.

Wan Yan, who single-handedly opened up the VCD market, was approaching the most glorious moment at this time.

However, Jiang Wanmeng made a fatal mistake.

Jiang Wanmeng believes: "Under the circumstances at the time, it seems that it does not make much sense to apply for a patent or not. The key is to let the product occupy the market as soon as possible."

In the end, just this one mistake made Wan Yan push herself into a desperate situation:

First: Any home appliance manufacturer, or even a family workshop, can use Wanyan's technology to produce VCD players. For a while, Wanyan has countless opponents;

Second: Wan Yan, who is burdened with huge research and development costs and market cultivation costs, does not make much money selling a VCD for four to five thousand dollars. Facing the low-cost and low-price competition of many manufacturers, Wan Yan is powerless;

Third: All kinds of extravagance in cultivating the market have exhausted Wanyan's financial resources and energy, so she can no longer upgrade and improve her own technology flawlessly. Outdated technology will soon be eliminated by advanced technology.

A businessman's business sense is very keen.

The business opportunities contained in VCD players are to Chinese businessmen, especially those from Guangdong Province, what an endless grassland is to hungry horses. However, the green grassland developed by Wan Yan has no fortifications, and any hungry horse can come in and have a full meal.

The technical requirements for assembling a complete VCD machine are not high, and there are no policy restrictions such as production permits. In addition, the market has been opened by Wan Yan, and Guangdong Province is also a gathering place for parallel imports of spare parts. Under the combined influence of several factors, it is very difficult to Soon, VCD assembly plants have sprung up in the Pearl River Delta.

"Bed board factories" began to spread all over the streets and alleys. One person could assemble 10 or 20 sets a day, and a family of young and old could assemble dozens of sets in a day. There were various brands of VCD players, but the products produced were in short supply.

In April 1995, one year after "Wanyan" launched the first-generation VCD product at a huge expense, Hu Zhibiao raised 800,000 yuan to establish "Aiduo" company in Dongsheng Town, Zhongshan City.

Six months later, Hu Zhibiao quickly produced the complete machine using imported spare parts. The production cost of Aiduo's VCD players is low, because Wanyan has already completed the preliminary research and development and marketing work, and Aiduo only needs to "stand on the shoulders of giants" to enjoy the results.

In November 1995, "Aiduo" invested a lot of money to advertise on CCTV. He also invited film and television superstar Jackie Chan to do brand promotion, and his reputation rose instantly. At this time, the VCD market also began to show "explosive" growth: in 1994, the sales volume of VCD players was only tens of thousands of units produced by Wanyan; in 1995, it increased to 600,000 units;

Backgammon, Kim Jong, Malata and other VCD companies have grown rapidly and occupied an important position in the VCD market.

By 1998, there were about 385 VCD manufacturers in the country, among which there were nearly 10 companies with an annual output of 500,000 units, and 3 companies with an annual output of more than 1.5 million units. The annual output of VCDs reached 15 million units.

An internal report of the Ministry of Commerce pointed out: "In the past ten years since the mass production began in 1994, a DVD player industry with an annual sales revenue of more than 10 billion yuan has been formed. This kind of development speed is unique in China. It is also rare in the history of world industry."

Such good-looking data further set off Wan Yan's misery.

As early as 1996, two years after Wanyan launched the world's first VCD, the national VCD sales had exceeded 6 million units, but the market share of "Wanyan" VCD was less than 3%.

In the same year, "Wanyan" was reorganized by Meiling Group in the same province and became Meiling Wanyan Company.

So far, Wanyan, a company that single-handedly opened up the VCD market, was kicked out of the rapidly growing VCD market.

VCD technology is undoubtedly the key to his rise in the commercial field.

The problem is, the sum of funds I have now is only five or six thousand, and in four months, Wan Yan will launch the first VCD player.

Therefore, Pang Xuelin had to find a way to secure the original start-up capital within a few months, and at the same time apply for the registration of the VCD patent, and compete with Wan Yan.

At that time, Pang Xuelin can completely take the place of Wan Yan by virtue of his foresight, and even suppress the development of competitors through patented technology.

For Pang Xuelin, this is a golden opportunity.

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