308: win over allies

At this time, the conference room was filled with words of comfort, and it was clear that Ni Guangnan's influence in Shuguang Technology was not low; people gave him a lot of face.

After all, although Ni Guangnan was only in charge of the Shuguang R&D Center, in reality, many of Shuguang Mobile Phone's core technologies were firmly controlled by the Shuguang R&D Center.

It could be said that Shuguang Technology was actually just a mobile phone assembly plant that produced and sold mobile phones, without any core technology; it was only slightly better than a shell company.

Under these circumstances, Ni Guangnan's voice in the Dawnlight System was naturally not low; he could even be said that his strength and prestige in the Dawnlight System were not inferior to Lei Bu Si, the General Manager of Shuguang Technology.

Of course, the reason why the situation was like this was actually related to Lin Chen's deliberate design of such a company structure.

The main purpose was to facilitate the control of Shuguang Technology after its listing on the United States NASDAQ stock market in the future through various means.

Of course, a more important reason was that Lin Chen did not want to share too much profit with the capital giants of Wall Street.

And the reason why it needed to be listed on the United States NASDAQ in the future was actually a helpless practical choice.

Because Lin Chen's act of personally controlling 100% of the shares was good, but it was not realistic, because this world was dynamic, and Shuguang Technology alone could not eat the vast majority of the cake.

Under such circumstances, Lin Chen had to learn to "share," to "win over allies," to "make the other party hesitate," and to "make the other party's own people fight their own people."

If Lin Chen, at this time, only thought about eating alone and did not know how to win over allies and share benefits, then the situations of Huawei Mobile Phone and other companies in his previous life would happen to Shuguang Technology.

And this was undoubtedly intolerable for Lin Chen; although Lin Chen could dominate the domestic market, how could Lin Chen quickly realize his dream of a technologically strong nation after losing the profits from the Global market?

Money, for a big shot at Lin Chen's level, was truly just a number; the difference between more or less of the number no longer mattered.

The daily profits earned by Shuguang Technology were already enough for Lin Chen to spend lavishly for a lifetime.

Under such circumstances, what was the difference between more or less money for Lin Chen if not just a number? Lin Chen had already reached the level of 'I'm not interested in money' that Old Ma of Taobao had in his previous life.

Therefore, to realize Lin Chen's dream of a technologically strong nation, Shuguang Technology must never lose the profits from the overseas market.

Under such circumstances, to realize his dream, Lin Chen had to learn to share benefits, learn to win over allies, and learn to make allies work for him; in short, the incidents that happened to Huawei Mobile Phone and other companies must absolutely not happen to Shuguang Technology.

Therefore, under this ideology, the company structure of Shuguang Technology naturally became the current one, where all core technologies are controlled by the Shuguang R&D Center, and then Shuguang Technology and the Shuguang R&D Center are independent sister companies.

The advantage of this special company structure was that it could keep the bulk of the profits from selling Shuguang Mobile Phone for themselves, while the shareholders of Wall Street and United States could only take a small portion of the profits.

Furthermore, the second advantage was that it could continue to firmly control Shuguang Technology after its future listing; if Shuguang Technology after listing did not satisfy Lin Chen or became uncontrollable after listing.

Then Lin Chen, because he possessed core technology patents, could establish a new mobile phone company at any time; this was also why Lin Chen deliberately designed the company structure this way.

Of course, without further ado, as people looked at Lin Chen with admiration, the matter of Shuguang Technology expanding its production capacity to 360 million units per year was thus decided.

With Shuguang Technology's current financial strength, if construction proceeds simultaneously with day and night overtime to speed up the progress.

Then it would only take 4 or 5 months to complete the construction, meaning that by approximately October or November, Shuguang Technology would have the capacity to produce 360 million mobile phones annually.

Thus, with this matter decided, Shuguang Technology then moved on to the next important agenda item.

This important item was whether Shuguang Technology should fully invest in the research and development of semiconductor production equipment.

The one who raised this question was Lei Bu Si, the General Manager of Shuguang Technology:

"The topic we are going to discuss next is whether to invest 25 billion US dollars in the next year to research and develop semiconductor production equipment and acquire domestic and foreign semiconductor equipment companies."

Upon hearing Lei Bu Si's words, the scene instantly fell silent.

Because this amount was truly too enormous and terrifying; one must know that this was 25 billion US dollars.

So much money dedicated solely to researching and developing semiconductor production equipment and acquiring domestic and foreign semiconductor equipment companies—was this burning money too terrifyingly?

At this moment, Huang Hua, who was in charge of the Shuguang Electronics Direct Store, immediately spoke out in opposition:

"I support the research and development of semiconductor production equipment and the acquisition of domestic and foreign semiconductor equipment companies, as this concerns the future development of Shuguang Technology.

However, I believe that the investment should be reduced, for example, from 25 billion US dollars to around 5 billion US dollars per year, so that we can sustain it.

After all, our Shuguang Electronics Direct Store is currently preparing to build a total of over 800 Shuguang Electronics Direct Stores in 24 Global countries to strengthen our Shuguang Technology's direct marketing system for electronic products.

Although the total construction period is three years, the amount of money spent during this period is not small.

We need to buy land to build shops or buy and renovate shops, and the capital expenditure in this regard is by no means small."

Upon hearing Huang Hua's words, the people present also nodded slightly in agreement, as the construction of the Shuguang Electronics Direct Store could not be overlooked.

Because although the Shuguang Electronics Direct Store might not seem very important, it was actually an important sales channel for Shuguang Technology's electronic products, as well as a channel for after-sales repair services and other services.

Under such circumstances, the importance of Shuguang Technology's Electronics Direct Store was naturally very great, and it would not seem unimportant just because there were regional distributors and internet sales channels.

If direct stores were truly unimportant, then Apple Mobile Phone, Huawei Mobile Phone, Dami Mobile, Lan Factory, Green Factory, and other mobile phone companies in the previous life would not have desperately built offline mobile phone direct stores.

At this moment, Chen Dong, who was in charge of mobile phone factory management, also spoke up:

"I also believe that allocating 25 billion US dollars per year for the research and development of semiconductor production equipment is indeed too high; let's not talk about the distant future, just the near future.

Now, expanding our production capacity to 360 million units per year requires a significant amount of capital for factory construction, and after completion, recruiting and training personnel also require considerable funds.

After that, there is also a plan to invest 30 billion Xia Yuan to build three 5th generation LCD production lines.

There are R&D plans for new low-end, mid-range, and high-end mobile phones, R&D for new mobile phone components, and R&D for two major mobile phone systems, mobile games, and software…

Currently, we need money everywhere; can we really afford to allocate 25 billion US dollars per year for the research and development of semiconductor production equipment and the acquisition of domestic and foreign semiconductor equipment companies?"

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