Chapter 559: Critical Attack on Friendly Companies
Before midnight on September 1, pre-sales of Ideal 1 exceeded 12 units, pre-sales of Imagine exceeded units, and pre-sales of smart speakers exceeded units, with a pre-sale amount of more than million yuan. This was the first time that a smartphone achieved such results during the pre-sale period years ago, second only to iPhone and Samsung in the domestic market.

Among many domestically produced smartphones, Ideal Mobile is the first brand to have pre-sold more than 1 units in ten days. The smoothness of Ideal 1 and Imagine can be said to be unrivaled among domestic smartphones of the same level.

After midnight on September 1st, online orders for Ideal smartphones began to be shipped overnight, and orders placed in physical stores could be picked up at the opening of the day.

On the morning of the 1st, Zhou Jing drove back to his hometown and went to Yushi first. He left BJ at around seven in the morning and arrived in Yushi at around three in the afternoon.

Yang Wenwen and her daughter met Zhou Jing outside the community.

"Want to experience the new car?"

Zhou Jing slowly parked the Maybach S680 he bought in August on the side of the road and spoke to the outside.

"Go back and rest first."

Yang Wenwen was not in a hurry, as Zhou Jing must be tired after driving all the way.

"Did Dad buy a new car?"

Yang Xin threw herself on Zhou Jing excitedly.

"When you grow up, Dad will buy you a car as big as this one. Have you been disobedient recently?"

Zhou Jing rubbed the little girl's head and said.

"No, I'm obedient."

"How many days has it been since your mother spanked you?"

Zhou Jing glanced at Yang Wenwen and continued.

The little girl immediately became depressed. She hugged Zhou Jing's legs, counted her fingers and said as if complaining, "Three days. Mom spanked me with a broom last time."

"Tell me why I hit you."

Yang Wenwen looked at her daughter, feeling a little amused and helpless.

"Why? Did you play with the kitten?"

Zhou Jing looked at the little girl and said.

The little girl nodded and said sadly, "I just played with the kitten for a while."

"Pets are not for playing. You have to consider the feelings of the kitten. A cat is so small that it will be hurt if you just pinch it. Do you still like cats if the kitten is beaten?"

"This is not the first or second time the little girl has been beaten because of the cat since she got it," Zhou Jing said with a smile.

"I like it. Dad asked Mom to stop beating me."

"If you don't listen, you will be beaten. Ask other children if they get beaten if they don't listen at home."

Yang Wenwen held something in one hand and touched her daughter's head with the other hand and said.

"If mom is angry, dad will be afraid too." Zhou Jing looked at Yang Wenwen and said, "How is the online store learning going?"

"almost."

Yang Wenwen has studied several times in the Ideal Mobile Phone Store during this period, and has basically understood the parameters and performance of Ideal mobile phones and speakers. Earlier, Yang Wenwen thought about writing novels and tried for a while. She was okay with writing short and medium-length stories of tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of words, but she couldn't write more than 700,000 or 800,000 words.

Online novels look simple, but after trying, I realized that it is not something that ordinary people can write. It really tests your imagination.

"Then I'll give you the authorization in a few days. Just sell it and let Tangdu Company ship it directly."

For Zhou Jing, this matter was a piece of cake. He simply gave Yang Wenwen an official store account to run.

"Good cat."

After returning home, the little girl touched the cat and began to look through the things Zhou Jing brought back.

"The weather is getting cold again, CC, don't be in a hurry to eat it yourself, bring the fruit to dad."

Yang Wenwen made a cup of tea and handed it to Zhou Jing and said to her daughter.

The little girl quickly brought the fruit plate on the dining table to the living room and took the biggest apple to Zhou Jing.

"Find what you want to eat."

Zhou Jing opened a few plastic bags and said, this time he brought back specialties from various provinces he passed through on the way, which were bought at stores in highway service areas. There were BJ specialties, HB specialties, and Shanxi province specialties.

"So many! Flower cakes, are there flowers inside?"

The little girl was dazzled by the sight and didn't know which one to eat for a moment, so she picked up a bag of flower cakes and said.

"Try to see if it tastes good."

Zhou Jing had never eaten flower cakes before, and felt that they would not suit his taste. He had no appetite for flower-flavored snacks such as rose cakes, but since it was a local specialty, it would definitely be worth a try.

"Chess biscuits, sesame candies, these are all from HB." Yang Wenwen opened another plastic bag, "Pingyao beef, Shanxi specialty, hollow mooncakes, canned sea buckthorn fruit, Taigu cakes, I ate the Taigu cakes that Zhao Xin brought once."

"There are two jugs of vinegar in this box."

Zhou Jing pushed the box aside.

"SX's vinegar is really good. My brother and sister-in-law brought back a pot from their last trip there and haven't finished it yet."

Yang Wenwen smiled slightly. The boy is now a boss worth tens of billions. He still thinks about food, salt, sauce and vinegar when he comes back. This makes people feel warmer and more secure than carrying gold and silver brand bags.

"It's fine to keep the vinegar for a year or two, and you don't need to buy vinegar next year."

Zhou Jing hugged Yang Wenwen's soft waist and said.

"What is this?"

The little girl and Yang Wenwen shared a flower cake, picked up a can of sea buckthorn fruit and said.

"This word is pronounced ji, it means canned sea buckthorn fruit. Just take a bite and we'll eat later."

Yang Wenwen turned around and went to the kitchen to cook. She started cooking early today because she knew that Zhou Jing did not eat well on the highway at noon, so Yang Wenwen started cooking at around two o'clock. She made mutton noodles. After the noodles were kneaded, Yang Wenwen prepared to pull the noodles into slices.

"Dad, I want to eat one more piece."

The little girl ate a piece of canned food and whispered that she wanted to eat more.

"Eat one more piece. Okay, go get the snack box and put the food away."

Zhou Jing let the little girl eat another piece of canned food and said.

"Mom's key."

In order to prevent the child from eating snacks alone, Yang Wenwen locked the cabinet where the snacks were kept, and the little girl went to the kitchen.

"In the box under the TV."

Yang Wenwen couldn't free her hands, so she glanced at her daughter and said.

The little girl found the key, went to the bedroom, opened the locked closet door, took out the cardboard box containing the snacks, took it to the living room and put all the snacks in it.

Zhou Jing took a few packs of Pingyao beef to the kitchen and put them in the refrigerator. He put his arms around Yang Wenwen's waist from behind as she was rolling noodles, kissed her on the cheek and said, "I really miss the noodles you made."

Yang Wenwen said with a pleasant smile: "You mean the other meals I cooked are not tasty?"

"I like to eat noodles."

Zhou Jing put one hand into Yang Wenwen's clothes, pinched her slightly fat belly and continued moving upwards.

At this moment, Yang Wenwen was wearing a white slim short-sleeved shirt and washed blue tight jeans. Her slightly plump figure made Zhou Jing irresistible.

"Try how the mutton is cooked. Eat some mutton first."

Yang Wenwen did not push Zhou Jing's hand away. She pointed to the pot of stewed mutton on the gas stove and smiled.

“It tastes better with noodles.”

Zhou Jing buried his face in Yang Wenwen's hair and sniffed, then bit Yang Wenwen's neck. "Dad, look at my painting."

The little girl came to the kitchen with the success of her summer painting studies.

“The paintings are getting better and better.”

Zhou Jing calmly let go of Yang Wenwen and looked through the sketchbook carefully. The little girl's painting was very professional. From the way the little girl painted, one could see traces of Zhou Jing's previous teaching. Zhou Jing taught her to paint a lot in 09 and 10.

"Meow~"

The cat walked to Zhou Jing's feet, grabbed Zhou Jing's legs and climbed onto the sofa.

"Are you hungry, kitty?"

The little girl picked up the cat and put it on the sofa.

"You can't hold a cat often when it's young."

Zhou Jing touched the furry cat. The orange cat with a white mouth was very cute.

"CC go wash your hands and get ready for dinner."

Yang Wenwen shouted at the kitchen door.

Zhou Jing took the little girl to the bathroom, washed his hands and went to the kitchen to get the bowls. Yang Wenwen's hand-pulled, evenly sized dough and the steaming stewed lamb made Zhou Jing's stomach reacted at the sight.

"This mutton is the goat meat I bought in Hengxian yesterday."

Yang Wenwen smiled and said that it would be very convenient to go around the area and buy some local specialties with a car.

"It tastes good. Our goat meat is authentic."

Zhou Jing ate a piece of meat, and Yang Wenwen became more and more capable of living.

"Lots of fat, Daddy, eat it."

The little girl put the fat from her bowl into Zhou Jing's bowl.

"You are so hypocritical. You are so picky when it costs only 20 or 30 yuan a pound. If you continue like this, don't ask me for delicious food anymore."

Yang Wenwen looked at her daughter and said that she had suffered a lot before 09. She had to calculate carefully when buying pork during festivals and would not even think of buying mutton or beef. Her daughter knew she had to eat well when she was three years old. With the help of Zhou Jing, her conditions improved greatly, and her daughter has never suffered.

The little girl pouted her lips, stopped picking food for Zhou Jing, and lowered her head to eat obediently.

"It's normal for girls to find fatty meat greasy, just don't give them too much."

Zhou Jing put the fat from the little girl’s bowl into his own bowl.

"Yes."

With Zhou Jing's encouragement, the little girl weakly talked back to Yang Wenwen.

"You are spoiled by adults, so you can't be ignorant and forgetful. You have to be worthy of your father who buys you so many delicious and fun things."

Her daughter is about to go to primary school, which is the most critical age for parenting. How to educate the child is Yang Wenwen's biggest headache. She doesn't ask for her daughter to be successful, but she will be satisfied as long as she doesn't learn bad things.

"Girls can't be as naughty as boys. Other girls, who are not even in primary school, still get spanked by their mothers every three days or five days. You can't do that either."

Zhou Jing looked at the little girl and said.

"Ok!"

The little girl nodded obediently.

After dinner, Yang Wenwen washed the dishes and Zhou Jing went to the living room to watch TV. After washing the dishes, Yang Wenwen poured three glasses of water and they watched TV together. The little girl leaned on Zhou Jing, and Zhou Jing put his arm around Yang Wenwen's waist on his right side and pinched her belly.

Yang Wenwen's belly was so elastic and soft after having just eaten, and it felt great.

"I went to the Ideal store at noon and saw a lot of people buying mobile phones."

Yang Wenwen leaned closer to Zhou Jing and said with a smile.

Zhou Jing asked, "What mobile phone stores are there on Second Street now?"

"In addition to Ideal, there are also Huawei, Apple, Samsung, OPPO, and basically all the common ones."

"Do you have X meters?"

"There is no X rice store, but it is sold in the business hall."

Yang Wenwen has never seen an Xmi store in Yulin City.

"The pre-sale orders for the Ideal Phone were good, and it was a great success as the company's first generation of smartphones."

Zhou Jing smiled. With Xmi's current strength, it was not able to set up exclusive stores in all prefecture-level cities across the country. It was not a small matter to set up exclusive stores in all cities in more than 30 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions across the country. Ideal Technology spent more than 500 million yuan to complete this project.

When online shopping becomes completely common in the future, offline stores will also be necessary. Even if an offline store cannot sell a single mobile phone a day and suffers a net loss, firstly, it can have a good advertising effect; secondly, it is convenient for users to seek after-sales service; thirdly, offline stores can give people a reliable feeling that they can come to them if there is a problem with the product.

Moreover, specialty stores can give people the feeling of a regular brand. Without offline specialty stores, people may easily think that it is a copycat phone.

Although some competitors entered the industry earlier than Ideal Mobile, they lag behind Ideal in market layout. Some companies do not build offline stores due to cognitive issues, while others have funding issues. At first, Zhou Jing did not understand why the specialty stores on the street were open when there were few people all day long. It was only after he made his own mobile phone that he realized the importance of offline stores.

"CC has his eyes on a stage."

Noticing "Ideal Technology Co., Ltd." on TV, Yang Wenwen took the remote control from her child and switched back to the previous channel, which was Jiangsu Channel. News reported that Suzhou Taiwei Semiconductor Technology Co., Ltd. was acquired by Ideal Technology for 93 billion yuan.

“It actually made the news.”

Zhou Jing recognized the TV screen at a glance. It was Taiwei Semiconductor. However, the acquisition of Taiwei Semiconductor was indeed big news in the domestic semiconductor industry. The acquisition price of 9.3 billion RMB showed that Taiwei Semiconductor was not a small company.

A few years ago, Taiwei Semiconductor was a leading chip manufacturing company in Jiangsu and was also well-known in the national semiconductor industry.

In recent years, with foreign countries restricting the export of advanced lithography machines and traditional mobile phones and other digital products being rapidly eliminated, the demand for 32-nanometer, 45-nanometer, and 65-nanometer chips has dropped significantly. However, the backward lithography machines of domestic foundries for smartphone chips cannot produce them. Not only Taiwei Semiconductor, but also domestic peers have been deeply hit.

The orders are not enough to maintain the normal operation of the company, and coupled with the inability to purchase advanced lithography machines, many domestic chip production companies have either gone bankrupt or been sold.

Taiwei Semiconductor is large in scale, has accumulated valuable lithography machine technology information, and has many patents. There are not many companies that have the strength to acquire Taiwei, and it would be a pity if it went bankrupt. Being acquired by Ideal Technology is the best outcome.

The acquisition of Taiwei Semiconductor was reported on TV news. Ideal Technology will attract more attention in the future. Zhou Jing thought that the next step is to establish relations with the SZ municipal government and the Jiangsu government. If Taiwei Semiconductor can turn the situation around, the local government will definitely support it.

“Is it risky to buy this company at such a high price?”

Ninety-three billion. Yang Wenwen couldn't imagine how high this much money would be if piled together. It was an astronomical figure. If Zhou Jing didn't acquire that company, if he put the ninety-three billion in the bank, he would never be able to spend it in several lifetimes. If nothing unexpected happened, he would never be able to spend it all. The interest on the money in the bank would be more than two hundred million a year.

"Yes, with the advancement of foreign technology, this company will depreciate rapidly, and it will have to invest at least 400 to 500 million every year. If it cannot turn losses into profits, it will lose tens of billions in a few years."

Zhou Jing said lightly.

"It's so scary."

Yang Wenwen was really worried about Zhou Jing. What does it mean to lose 10 billion?

"Chips are the core of future technology. If we don't develop this technology early, Ideal Technology will not have the opportunity to move to the next level. We have to do it even if we lose money. It's nothing more than investing the money earned by Ideal Technology into another company to research technology. If it succeeds, the company will have a bright future. If it fails, the worst that can happen is that we will lose the money we earned. God has given me talents that will be useful, and I will get it back even if I lose all my money."

Zhou Jing put his arm around Yang Wenwen's neck and said with a relaxed look on his face.

"Just think positively. No matter what, don't do anything stupid."

From time to time, there are news reports that someone committed suicide by jumping off a building because of business failure. Compared to the failure of the company, Yang Wenwen is more worried that Zhou Jing will become depressed.

"Even if the sky falls, I will hold it back."

Zhou Jing opened the digital circle on Weibo, and the news of Ideal Technology's acquisition of Taiwei Semiconductor had indeed spread.

Ideal Technology's acquisition of Taiwei Semiconductor did not cause much waves in the semiconductor industry, but it caused quite a stir in the domestic mobile phone industry.

Ideal smartphones became a huge hit after their release, and domestic mobile phone manufacturers have been feeling a lot of pressure recently. Zhou Jing's 9.3 billion yuan acquisition of Taiwei Semiconductor was a huge move that firstly demonstrated Ideal Technology's abundant cash reserves and secondly exposed Ideal Technology's ambitions. Either point is a critical blow to its competitors.

Xiaomi, OPPO, Coolpad and other mobile phone manufacturers all felt a sense of despair. They realized that they were not ideal opponents in a price war.

(End of this chapter)