Chapter 994
Chapter 994
When you have nothing to do.
Staying at home won't bring problems to you on their own.
When you have something to do, you've only been away for two days and haven't even had a chance to fully enjoy yourself when something comes up, and it comes quite suddenly.
That's how Lu Yang is.
He had just taken his wife and children to Beijing, where they visited the Forbidden City, climbed the Great Wall, and then the family happily went to Beidaihe.
The results of it?
I just took my pants off!
Lu Yang was wearing swim trunks, and his son, Xiao Lu Fan, was building sandcastles on the beach.
A phone call came in.
Xiao Jiu hurriedly ran over with his private phone.
"boss."
"It's a call from General Manager Wei."
"It's urgent, why don't you call back first?"
Lu Yang originally wanted to suppress the matter.
After all, this is a rare moment of parent-child bonding, and my son is having a great time. The castle is almost finished, and it wouldn't be right for me, as the father, to walk away at this time.
Yin Mingyue then walked over.
She had just been splashing in the water with her daughter, Lu Xin'er, not far away.
I witnessed Xiao Jiu rushing over with Lu Yang's phone the whole time.
At this moment, she couldn't help but say, "Honey, maybe Sister Wei Shu really has something important to say. You should answer it first."
Lu Yang then patted his butt and got up.
He reached out and took the phone from Xiao Jiu's hand.
"Hello, this is Lu Yang, sis, what's up?"
"what?"
"okay, I get it."
Less than a minute.
Lu Yang hung up the phone with a serious expression.
Yin Mingyue quietly approached him, took his hand, and said, "Honey, has something really happened at the company? Should we go back?"
Lu Yang came to his senses.
He noticed the worry in his wife's eyes.
He shook his head. "It's nothing serious. You go and take care of our son first, and make sure he doesn't get sand in his eyes. I'll make a few more phone calls."
Hearing Lu Yang say that everything was fine.
Yin Mingyue breathed a sigh of relief, nodded obediently and sensibly, and walked towards her son who was engrossed in building the castle.
Lu Yang took a deep breath.
Chao Xiaojiu said, "Notify the maintenance team to end their holiday, contact the airport to confirm that the airway is clear, and we'll fly back to Pengcheng tomorrow."
"Yes!"
Xiao Jiu nodded and immediately turned and started jogging.
After seeing Xiao Jiu leave, Lu Yang picked up his phone again, walked to the parasol, sat down, and dialed Wu Ying's number.
"it's me."
"What exactly are you doing?"
"You don't need to explain to me."
"I only care about the results. I demand that not a single one of the 300 cities across the country be lost, and that all the cell towers be provided by the Xiaolingtong Group..."
"Difficult to handle?"
"Then let's not do it. Suspend all the work at hand. I mean all of it. Whether or not a contract has been signed, the local authorities can't handle this. Their headquarters must take full responsibility. I will contact China Telecom. You just need to focus on plugging the loopholes. I don't want to see any more news that is detrimental to us leaking out."
Wu Ying was the one who volunteered to personally lead a team to Japan to negotiate the acquisition of the entire package of Xiaolingtong technology and patent licenses.
Now someone is trying to stir things up.
They not only exploited their loopholes, but also learned from them and bought out the permanent right to use the PHS (Personal Handyphone System) technology in the port city.
Now we've passed them again.
They contacted the telecommunications departments of the pilot cities for PHS (Personal Handyphone System) without authorization.
What do you want to do?
Isn't it just stealing the fruits of victory?
Although, judging from the information channels, not many cities have been swayed by the other side so far.
However, it is worth noting that if this precedent is not set and is not stopped, then not only will the local city exert price pressure in subsequent bidding, because they will have more choices, but it will also be tantamount to tacitly accepting the other party's act of reaping the benefits!
It must be said that this is a major taboo in the business world. If you've been slapped in the face twice, and you don't fight back, doesn't that mean you're easy to bully?
Lu Yang couldn't do that—not fight back when hit, not talk back when insulted.
Especially now that it has been thoroughly investigated.
The person stirring things up in the shadows was none other than his old rival, the second son of the Li family in Hong Kong.
"Little Superman Li Zekai, right?"
"very good!"
Lu Yang noted it down.
From a business perspective, the other party's move of snatching teeth from a tiger's mouth was quite clever.
It certainly puts him in a more passive position now.
So?
His response?
Lu Yang made a second call to Wei Shu.
"it's me!"
"The notice has been issued and can be announced. Effective immediately, the group will completely withdraw from the Gangcheng Digital Port project."
Although Lu Yang had snatched the Cyberport project from the Li family's grasp, it was a hard-won victory.
That would make him dare to pat his chest and guarantee it.
He never imagined that the Li family would try to get something for nothing, just spouting nice-sounding rhetoric like they do. All that talk about jointly building a digital port, creating a world-class Eastern Silicon Valley, an electronics port, a technology port—it's all fake. Their only goal is to get this land, build houses on it, drive up the price, and then sell it to people who need it.
Lu Yang originally acquired the best prime location.
But he also kept his promise.
They built the best logistics park and the best offshore warehouse in Cyberport. Little Genius, Little Prodigy, and even BBK, which was in the honeymoon period with Lu Yang back then, were all there. Duan Yongping even promised to invest in factories in Cyberport and take BBK's products from here to the world.
After all.
Although labor costs are higher in the port city, the monthly wages for workers are more than double those in Shenzhen, which is just across the river, for the same amount of work.
However, the port city is not without its advantages. As a world free trade capital, technology products exported from here to all parts of the world will encounter fewer problems at customs. Not only will they be more accepted by people in other countries, but they will also be less likely to face higher tariffs or unjustified returns.
Lu Yang doesn't want to play this game anymore.
He painstakingly spent a lot of money to build a logistics city and modern warehouses in the most central area of Cyberport. In order to better export goods, he even planned to move the factory here as well.
But what is that second son of the Li family doing?
People built residential buildings and commercial pedestrian streets around his heavily invested projects, using them for publicity and driving up property prices and shop rents on the commercial pedestrian streets. They were making a fortune every day.
Ok!
Lu Yang also admitted it.
These residential communities and commercial pedestrian streets, and the land beneath them, largely consist of the core area of Cyberport that he had auctioned off.
He gave up what he didn't want, and even made a fortune from it.
How much did we earn back then?
It must be several billion, right?
Hmm, it seems so, but so what?
The reason the Li family was willing to pay a high price to acquire them was because they were interested in the logistics park and warehouse built by Lu Yang's Century Group in the Digital Port. With so many goods coming and going every day, and the flow of people gradually spreading outwards, there was already a foundation for building new residential communities and commercial pedestrian streets.
If it weren't for this fundamental aspect...
Why would anyone waste money bidding against other competitors to acquire these Cyberport land plots?
will not!
Therefore, Lu Yang tacitly agreed that this was a win-win situation for both parties.
Everyone can make money.
On this basis, even if there are some minor conflicts or frictions between the two parties, they may even wish they could strangle each other at any opportunity.
None of this affects their tacit understanding back then.
Who would turn down money, right?
Things are different now, and Lu Yang has changed his mind.
If Li Zekai sets the tone for the first day of the month, then don't blame Lu Yang for setting the tone for the fifteenth.
A sneak attack, huh?
Let's all suffer.
What was once a win-win situation, he now wants to lose both.
The development of Cyberport over the years has been inseparable from the support of Century Group under Lu Yang's name. Because it is his own logistics park and his own warehouse, basically all the goods exported by Century Group will go through Pengcheng Customs and be transported directly to the warehouse in Cyberport, and then be loaded onto ships and shipped to the world.
Now, Lu Yang's decision is tantamount to directly disrupting this process.
Although he was prepared, he still gasped after hearing Lu Yang's words on the phone.
That was quite a powerful counterattack.
Not only will it injure others by a thousand, but it will also harm itself by at least eight hundred!
So she couldn't help but persuade her, "Boss, why don't you reconsider? We can actually think of some other solutions..."
The Li family has indeed crossed the line this time.
That young master Li should be taught a lesson; not everyone is someone you can afford to offend.
However, is it a bit too frivolous to establish authority and teach the other party a lesson in this way?
Cyberport is now a business between two companies. If this project falls through, the losses will not only be borne by the Li family, but also by Century Group.
Moreover, when it comes to shipping, if we abandon the use of Cyberport's containers and warehouses and instead use Yantian Port in Shenzhen, we can ship the goods to the world via container ships from there.
First, we will face two problems.
Their group currently does not have its own warehouses in Yantian Port.
Secondly, several multinational shipping companies operating ocean freight also need to re-establish contact and urgently negotiate with the other party to have them change their shipping method to Yantian Port in Shenzhen for loading cargo.
This involves the other party's ship, which lacks permission to dock.
Well...
A ship that can dock in a port city may not be able to dock in Shenzhen.
Lu Yang coldly replied over the phone, "There's no room for negotiation. How can we resolve this quickly without suffering heavy losses ourselves? I, Lu Yang, can afford to pay the fines. It's just a logistics park and warehouse that we've invested hundreds of millions in. Let them lie fallow. I want to see what happens when the cargo at the docks decreases day by day, and the bustling digital port returns to its former desolation. Who will buy those commercial residences and pedestrian streets belonging to the Li family then?"
Wei Shu on the other end of the phone gasped again.
She understands giving up!
Originally, it was thought that after the group announced its withdrawal, it would take advantage of the fact that the land in Cyberport was still valuable, and that the modern logistics park and warehouses built by the company were currently very profitable businesses. Even if they no longer needed them, and the Li family had broken off relations, they could still put them up for sale at a high price.
But, judging from what the boss just said, he actually wants to leave them to lie fallow.
Isn't that a suicidal fighting style?
She had a vague sense of unease.
The Hong Kong government probably won't approve of what the boss is doing.
Moreover, the Li family would not agree to it.
They will definitely persuade the Hong Kong government to cause trouble for us.
Fine, I'll listen to the boss for now.
She nodded on the phone, "Okay, whatever you say, I'll take care of it later."
"Oh, right."
Wei Shu then remembered something else, "Our people found out that the eldest son of the Li family recently flew to Beijing and had a meal with Old Li from Lenovo. They might be plotting something. Do you think it could also be related to the Little Smart phone issue?"
Lu Yang remained silent for a moment after listening.
Then he shook his head. "Not necessarily. I know Lao Li. He doesn't have any technology related to PHS cellular base station signal towers. Especially after that incident, he doesn't have many R&D teams he can count on now. I believe he would switch to making mobile phones, but to provide basic technical support and compete with us for the PHS cellular base station signal tower business, I'm not underestimating him, he's not qualified."
After listening to Lu Yang's words.
Wei Shu visibly breathed a sigh of relief. "That's good. After all, Lianxiang is our old rival, and they come from the Academy of Sciences. Their connections are even stronger than ours. If they were to get involved in this matter, it would be really dangerous."
Lu Yang cautioned, "We can't let our guard down. Even if they don't interfere with our PHS base station business, with the support of that eldest son of the Li family, if Lianxiang makes early moves into the mobile phone manufacturing field, they will inevitably become a major rival to us in the mobile phone manufacturing industry."
Wei Shu was very clever; he understood immediately after being told something.
"Are you saying that the eldest son of the Li family just happened to choose the opposite path from his younger brother? That Li Ka-shing deliberately let the two brothers choose these two paths, preparing to suppress both at the same time, so that in the future, whether PHS (Personal Handyphone System) dominates the domestic telecommunications market, or GSM phones catch up and surpass the number of PHS users in China, and eventually even eliminate PHS and become the mainstream in the domestic telecommunications market, no matter which outcome, the Li family will be able to successfully gain a place?"
Wei Shuzhen truly lives up to his reputation as Lu Yang's handpicked group president.
Such a unique perspective.
It's clear that Lu Yang wasn't wrong about him.
In a good mood, Lu Yang laughed into the phone, "You guessed right, that's exactly what I was thinking too. The Li family in Hong Kong, they have deep pockets and the ability to control two lines at the same time. Besides, that Li Ka-shing is a cunning old fox. But, throughout history, how many times has man proposes, God disposes? Hehe, let's just wait and see..."
Some things are better left unsaid.
If you explain it too clearly, it would make Lu Yang seem a bit too divine.
For example, Lianxiang clearly has the strength and the background, and Lao Liu is not an incompetent person. However, in the field of mobile phone manufacturing, it was the first to get on board, but it was also the first to be overturned when the storm came.
So you see, the Li family has bet on it this time. If they continue down the same old path, they'll just be betting on nothing.
"Hang up."
"My flight is to Shenzhen tomorrow. We can talk when I get back to the company." (End of Chapter)