Chapter 560 Daily Life
Wei Lan looked at the desk. The base was powered on, and the round thing in the shape of a water drop was floating on it at a finger's distance. His eyes narrowed into a curved line, and he turned back and forth. lock up. The projection position on the chest emits a laser beam, changing various shapes and shining everywhere in the room.
Of course she had heard Wang Yan talk about the functions of this smart speaker, but now that she had actually experienced it, she never expected it to be so powerful and technological.
Confused by this thing, Wei Lan said: "Okay, stop turning, I will cut off the power for you again."
There was no need to trigger a specific call. The rotating thing stopped on its own and turned off the projection. While it was spinning, I scanned the environment in the room and confirmed that there were only two people in the room at the moment. It was the only one spinning, and it was also the one threatened by the power outage. Immediately he looked at Wei Lan with big tearful eyes, and an aggrieved electronic synthesizer sounded: "It's not enough if you don't turn it on. Don't always threaten to cut off the power. It's too bullying. How can you bear it..."
Looking at that, Wei Lan couldn't help but ask: "Isn't it cheap to sell it for 999? It's suspended, it's projected, and it's so smart, so our costs are high, right?"
"It's not that high, actually." Wang Yan unplugged the wire and said, "The outer materials are all plastic shells, and inside there are two small broken cameras, garbage projections, speakers with average sound quality, and non-contact ones. Wireless charging is quite mature and very cheap. Our ex-factory price is only 400. This is mainly because the OEM factory is small and our company is not well-known. It is a new product, although we know it can be sold. , but the specific sales volume cannot be estimated, so it is higher. If we are a well-known and large manufacturer with customer fans, then our cost can even be reduced to 300.
But the most important thing is actually the program written into the chip, but those are all developed by myself. If we use a team, the cost of a single unit may increase by about 50 to 100. But it’s good now. I signed a sales contract with the boss. If the shipment is less than 100,000, it will be 400, if it is more than 100,000, it will be 380, and if it is more than 200,000, it will be 350. If it can ship 200,000 units, it will account for about 7% of the smart speaker market, and the net profit will be more than 100 million. "
Wei Lan breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that her body shape could not be guaranteed due to the power outage. She felt that this product could really sell 200,000 units. Because she had just played with it for a long time and felt very good. She even wanted to play with this little thing for a while longer.
She asked: "When will it go on sale?"
"We are going through the formalities, and it may take another three to five days. At that time, we can send out a video promotion, and then accept online reservations. Then we will arrange production according to the predetermined quantity and try not to overstock. We are too small and cannot afford to overstock. There are many ways to spend money. That is to say, produce one or two thousand units first, and then ship them in a predetermined order. This is equivalent to seeds. When these people receive the goods, they will definitely want to take a video to show off. There’s nothing wrong with our product. It’s easy to become a hit and it should create a trend. Just wait and count the money.”
"Then do we have to start recruiting people again? To make smart homes, we need to recruit people to study lights, switches, sweeping robots, etc.? Then we will acquire another factory and produce it ourselves to further reduce costs? "
"It's a must to recruit people, but we can't make all the money." Wang Yan shook his head: "When our company grows bigger and has room for negotiation, the factory that produces our OEM will actually earn hard-earned money. Saving that money will also It’s not necessary. For things that are not key technologies and can be accomplished through division of labor and cooperation in the industrial chain, we still have to try our best to give benefits to others. Everyone can make money, and we don’t want to be alone or have monopolies. Hello, everyone.”
"There is a pattern." Wei Lan smiled and gave a thumbs up. She just followed the train of thought and didn't mean anything else. Anyway, if the current trend continues, they really won't be able to spend all their money, and it doesn't matter whether they give up the profits or not. She picked up the smart speaker on the table: "Okay, you go ahead and do your work. I'll play with this to see if there are any bugs, so you can fix it."
Watching her leave, Wang Yan shook his head with a smile. It could be seen from the way Wei Lan liked it that this thing was good.
In fact, she underestimated Wei Lan's liking. After returning home, she put the smart speaker on the coffee table and sat there talking to him. There was a lot of back and forth, which was very interesting. The cat and the dog were very curious, but due to Wang Yan's power, they did not dare to get close to Wei Lan and hid together to watch the floating, moving and talking little thing.
That speaker actually emitted a red light, slipping like a cat. Ah Mao was pushed around for a while, and finally couldn't bear it anymore. He jumped on the coffee table, looked at Wei Lan, and then at Wang Yan who was cooking in the kitchen. He slapped the smart speaker off the base with his paw and rolled it to the floor. Then he pawed at it curiously.
The speaker also imitated Song Xiaobao and said, "Why don't you choke me?" and "Just for fun, don't talk about martial ethics." He also played pictures to scare the cat, and finally asked Wei Lan for help.
It made Wei Lan laugh so hard, it was so much fun...
This is of course out of curiosity, just to keep the picture fresh. People's novelty has a time limit, and playing it for a few days is enough. The main reason is that their home was not decorated by themselves, and they do not have whole-house intelligence. They only have a sweeping robot that can be controlled by a smart speaker. After this period of time, it becomes a daily routine, and it becomes meaningless.
Four days later, on the Douyishouyin platform, a pet blogger named ‘What’s a Cat or a Dog?’, after more than a week, amidst the expectations of fans, he finally updated a new video.
It was Friday night. Jiang Ming, who had been working all day, came home and ate braised noodles made by his wife, who had come back earlier. Although his cooking skills were not very good, his wife could cook, so it would be good for him to have some when he came back. Let’s live a good life.
They live in a second-tier city and have only been married for a short time, which is considered the time of newlyweds' love. Both of them have jobs, save some money, and can live a good life even after paying off the mortgage. Of course, they are not very good. After all, they are both young people. After working hard all day, they don’t want to move when they get home. Let alone cooking. Who wants to be smoky at home? Isn’t it still for life?
The two of them sat across from each other at the dining table, Jiang Ming slurping noodles while his wife opposite her was watching short videos on her phone, and while watching, she couldn't help but feel happy sometimes.
He said: "Read it after eating, otherwise you will choke. If you eat noodles, you will have to eat noodles. It's winter now, and you don't need to lose weight. Eat quickly, eat quickly, and then read it after eating. Mobile phone I won’t run away again.”
The tone was the same as when his mother coaxed him when he was a child and wouldn't let him watch TV or play on the computer. Who is not a child?
The daughter-in-law is not very beautiful, but she is not ugly in general. She is a little fat, with baby fat on her face. She has a small round face. She looks very festive, which makes her very attractive.
She curled her lips, picked at it casually as a habit, and turned to the next video. She took a look at the number of likes, which only amounted to 2,000, and clicked on one casually: "A Cat and A Dog have been updated. Wait until I finish reading this... ah, it's an advertisement..."
Even so, she continued to watch patiently. This blogger doesn't easily post ads specifically, but what he does post are quite interesting things. For example, it is difficult for her to choose what to eat today. She has been using it when having lunch at the company, and now, the recommended things are becoming more and more to her liking. There is also another easy-to-translate advertisement. Although her profession and work basically do not involve the languages of other countries, she played it for a while and found it quite interesting, so she still keeps it on her mobile phone. She uses it in her daily life. If you know someone, you can translate it, even if you don’t use it much.
And the most important thing is that their advertisements are also very interesting and unique, making it difficult for people to feel disgusted. This was the third solo commercial so far, so of course she had to take a look.
This video is very long, a full five minutes. After thinking about it, she put her mobile phone in the middle of the dining table: "What are you going to eat today? And that Yiyi translation, don't you feel good using it? There is another advertisement today." Yes, it’s quite long, let’s take a look together.”
Jiang Ming nodded in response, just take a look, there are a lot of pieces of meat. Immediately, the two of them stared at their phones with their necks tilted.
"After seeing the cover and the beginning of the video, you should have understood that there is nothing wrong. Today, it is another advertisement. I would like to recommend a smart speaker that is very fun, very cool, and very easy to use. It will be the protagonist."
As a playful female voice sounded, the screen began to change with Ah Mao meowing, and an unboxing video appeared. With the introduction of the voice, the package was opened, the base, host, manual and various certificates were taken out, and the product finally appeared in front of the audience. After another quick change of smart speakers from various angles, the product was introduced in detail.
Then the two of them were stunned, looking at the floating Chubby, looking at this thing that could actually emit lasers to scoot the cat, looking at the operator of this thing, the sweeping robot, using it as a mount for Ah Mao, looking at this thing I convulsed myself, watching the projected video, watching the light projected in a nightclub, watching the 360-degree rotation, the 90-degree elevation, and the fluent conversation that was almost like a real person...
"Okay, the above is all about this 'Smart Sound' smart speaker. Since the company is new and unable to stock up, let alone experience it, it can only accept online reservations. It will be delivered to the logistics company as soon as it comes off the production line according to the order of reservations. Company, free shipping to your home. The reservation address is the same as before, you still need to log in to our official website, there will be a jump button to the mall. If you like it, go and order it... Meow, woof..."
As the feature film ends, after the cats and dogs have finished calling, a close-up of the smart speaker appears. It tilts its head, showing happy eyes, and a burst of electronic synthesized sound sounds: "Take me home quickly..."
After seeing it, the couple turned back to look at Xiao Ai's classmate in the living room, and then looked at each other.
The daughter-in-law said: "Buy one? Although 999 is a bit expensive, it is still acceptable. This is really smart. Our family is a whole-house smart phone, so it can be used."
People live in modern times with advanced science and technology and enjoy the convenience brought by science and technology, but there are few opportunities to feel the advancement of science and technology in their lives. When I first got my Big Brother, when I took a plane for the first time, when I got a shot of a 4S, and so on, but in recent years, this may be the first time that I have experienced the charm of technology at such a close distance.
Jiang Ming was more rational. He said, "Look at it again. I'll go to their official website and take a look at the introduction."
With that said, Jiang Ming picked up his mobile phone, opened the browser, and searched for Lin'an Longteng's official website. After clicking in, he scrolled twice to find the mall button. After jumping to it, a new page opened.
This page is very clean, with only two product icons, and the one at the front is ‘Smart Sound’.
This name was Wei Lan's idea. There are also other names such as Smart Home, Smart Enjoyment, Smart Life, etc., all of which have been registered. Coming up with a passable name is a big problem...
What surprised him was that the second product turned out to be a health product with a price tag of 12,888...
"Why do I feel so unreliable?" Jiang Ming raised his head and looked at his wife.
"What's wrong?"
"Look, they're selling health care products for 12,888. Aren't they crazy about money?"
"Oh, good guy, there are quite a lot of functions." The wife frowned and took the phone, clicked in to check the details, shook her head and smiled, then exited and clicked on the smart speaker. After loading, the target was a reservation data, which already had four hundred Many people have made reservations, and the numbers are still beating one by two.
She said: "Don't worry about the health products. We don't want to buy them. You see, more than 400 people have made reservations for this. Let's order one. Anyway, there is no reason to return it within seven days. If you cheat us, we will pay you a thousand yuan." If we can afford it, let’s complain directly to this blogger and that company to see if they are unlucky.”
Jiang Ming took back his mobile phone, clicked on it and looked at the function introduction and after-sales guarantee service. He nodded: "There are more than 500 people in a short time. I don't know if it is real data or they are all the same as us." Just an idea. Forget it, buy one and check it out.”
As he spoke, he clicked on the reservation, then started to log in via text message, filled in the delivery address, and paid the full price via WeChat. Not long after, a text message came over, which was an order number and a link to a website. After the jump, there is a detailed and simple unsubscription, return and exchange process. He also asked him to be patient and wished him a happy life.
"I don't know if it's true." He muttered. One thousand yuan is not much, but it is still a lot. It will always be troublesome for a long time if someone doesn't cheat you.
It's just that he has also watched videos of cats and dogs. After watching them for so long, he still has some trust in them. In addition, what the video showed was indeed much better than the mentally retarded person in their family, and it was indeed attractive to him. So he paid the money, with the idea of giving it a try.
Experiencing something new for the first time is always exciting.
At the same time, similar scenes happened in thousands of households. This is the power of the Internet. Wei Lan has never bought fans. Except for a few relatives and friends, even if there are some zombie fans, there are so many left, there are more than one million people, and it does have a certain influence.
"It's over a thousand, it's over a thousand, husband, it's over a thousand..."
On the sofa in the living room, Wei Lan held a tablet in one hand and a mobile phone in the other, looking at the data that was refreshed in real time on the web page, and shouted to Wang Yan in the study. From her tone, it was not difficult to hear her happiness and excitement.
Wang Yan came out of the study room with a water cup in his hands and took the water at the water dispenser: "Yiyi has almost 200,000 users. It's only now, so don't be so excited."
"Can it be the same? Yiyi doesn't spend any money. This is a thousand yuan of real money. A thousand reservations will be a million sales. It has only been more than three hours since I posted the video, and The advertisement we posted before seems to have broken the circle, and the number of views has increased very quickly. It may become a hit tomorrow. If we look at it this way, there will be 18,000 people pre-ordering tomorrow, which means tens of millions of sales. Well, I finally realized how profitable those big companies are.”
Wei Lan was talking to herself. Seeing Wang Yan pick up her water cup again, she said, "I think you are selling smart speakers and body-building pills together to make the name of the body-building pills famous. That may be I was wrong. Now there are many messages saying that we are liars, and some accuse us of defrauding the elderly and losing our conscience.”
Wang Yan shook his head: "It's okay. If you find it disturbing, then don't watch it. Don't affect your mood."
"That's not true. After all, our products are indeed useful. That means smart speakers may have a different audience than Qiangshen pills, and they are so expensive that they cannot be sold at all."
"Smart speakers can ship 100,000 or 200,000 yuan. There must be rich people among these people. After they experience the smart speakers, they may be curious and buy a bottle to taste it. Who can say? That's right, let's see. Anyway, we have nothing to lose except being scolded. Just now when I was inside, Mr. Zhou sent me a message, saying that the 3,000 units that were prepared were being packaged and handed over to Shunfeng. We’ve agreed on the freight, and it’s all express delivery. We’ll get feedback one after another from tomorrow afternoon, and then we can wait and count the money.”
It's not that he doesn't want to prepare more goods, but he doesn't have the strength. The production equipment is in place immediately, and a sum of money must be set aside to pay wages and maintain the company's daily operations. No matter how easy it is to sell the pills, he still has to make them, but manpower is sometimes scarce.
There are now 2,000 units. Mr. Zhou had confidence in the product and advanced his own money to produce them. But no matter how much it is, it won't be possible. This is already over one million yuan worth of goods. No matter how much more it is, I still won't be able to get that much money this week.
But now it’s possible, because a thousand units were shipped and one million units were received. Then one million units of parts were purchased, which is more than three thousand units. In the future, more and more will be produced, and eventually the production capacity of Mr. Zhou's factory will be exceeded.
"Build a school. We must build a school. Otherwise, the money will come too easily and I won't be able to sleep well. Besides, if we really make one or two billion, how much tax will we have to pay? It can be less," Wei said. Lan let out a sigh of relief: "I need to see where the children's school conditions are not good. Let's contact them first, and if possible, go and take a look."
"I'll leave this matter to you. After a while, I can set up a charity fund. I'll leave this matter to you. You can see how it works."
"Okay." Wei Lan responded, stood up full of fighting spirit and entered the study.
"Can we do it again during the day tomorrow?"
"Let me consider……"
Wang Yan shook his head and smiled, then walked in with a glass of water...
The development of things was as expected, and even exceeded Wang Yan's expectations. Wei Lan woke up naturally the next morning and saw that the advertisement posted yesterday had become popular. Not only that, but also has the label of Zhi Xiang.
This is of course normal, because if what is said in the advertisement is true, then this is a big step forward for artificial intelligence. Although the previous Yiyi has caused waves to a certain extent, in fact, this tool The audience for similar software is still small, and the influential ones are also industry insiders in the technology circle. Unlike this kind of smart speaker that can enter thousands of households, it has a wide range of influence.
It can be used as a surveillance camera or a smart terminal for home use. This is the most basic ability. It can be used as a projector and can be levitated and charged. This is understandable. But with child protection reminders, there are already a large number of first-time parents. Of course, it can be used by children as well as the elderly. This is also a point of concern for children. Everyone can recognize it, so of course they can also detect fires, and there is also a safety precaution. Most importantly, its intelligence level is too high. Very cool and cute...
So the controversy is getting bigger and bigger, and it is normal for it to be popular.
While Xianji netizens were quarreling and scolding Wei Lan, in the morning, a local customer in Lin'an received the goods. It's a coincidence that he is an electronic product experience blogger and has hundreds of thousands of fans. It's not a coincidence. Just because he was doing this, he accidentally saw the advertisement, took a look at it twice, and became interested. It was normal to spend a thousand yuan to see it.
As soon as he received the goods, he took a video of unboxing and using it. For the sake of popularity, he simply cut it, and then posted three videos of it. He gave it a very high rating, and even Said it was sold cheaply.
Not surprisingly, he became the first to reap the dividends. After the video was released, it attracted many netizens who paid attention to the matter in a short period of time. Not surprisingly, he was said to be a trap.
But this did not last long. As time passed, some pre-ordered customers began to receive the goods. They also posted unboxing videos on short video platforms or other platforms to share their experience.
One or two people are trustworthy, but in two days, so many people who received the goods posted videos, it is difficult to say whether it is trustworthy or not. If you have doubts, then you are still doubtful.
By the time the new week came, in just two days, the number of pre-orders on the product page had exceeded 50,000. This is the number after excluding orders that have been confirmed to have been received. Wang Yan disdains fraud, everything is real, just like the backstage. And with subsequent fermentation, this number will definitely increase.
"Thank you, Mr. Liu, for your kindness. It's just that we are really not short of money. I'm sorry."
"OK, bye."
Wang Yan hung up the phone and looked at Wei Lan and Zhao Changchun beside him with a wry smile: "Look, you can smell it. It's acquisitions and shares. It hasn't stopped this morning."
Wei Lan didn't answer. She just stared at the jumping numbers on the mall page on her phone, already numb. Fifty thousand units, sales of 50 million, gross profit of 30 million, and this is only two days, this is really crazy. From this point of view, this is more profitable than selling health pills.
Zhao Changchun praised on the side: "Mr. Wang is a genius and can make such a good product. He will definitely make a lot of money this time. We have so much money now, how can we need any capital to invest? It's really not possible I understand what those big organizations are thinking. They make phone calls even though they know they are not short of money.”
Of course, it’s because you have more money and can develop faster. If you don’t have a building to buy a building, there’s no one to poach people, if you don’t have a factory to buy a factory, and if you don’t have technology to buy technology, the company will expand rapidly. This is actually a kind of leverage... especially now. At such a period, the international situation is not good, the domestic economic development is weak, various industries are experiencing thunderstorms one after another, and with the emergence of such a company with cutting-edge technology, people who have too much money to spend and who see the depreciation of wealth every day, of course Want a drink. And industries that are complementary require technology. Rival companies don’t even want to feed tigers into trouble. There are a lot of things to say, but in fact they are just a few.
Wang Yan shook his head, turned off the phone, and then stepped forward to guide the workers to install the equipment.
Yes, the custom-made production equipment he had been waiting for nearly a month had arrived and he could finally start mass production.
Busy work, after the installation is completed. Wang Yan took his computer, connected it to the device, and began to write into the computer the procedures he had prepared for controlling the input proportions of various medicinal materials.
After getting these done, after lunch break, Wang Yan got a batch of medicinal materials, told the workers how to operate them, and started trial production. Because the medicine needs to be cooked, it has to be cooked several times and then compressed, which is very time-consuming. So on this day, everyone worked overtime, stood by at their work stations, and became familiar with their respective jobs.
In one trial production, more than 100,000 medicinal materials were obtained, and after working on it for several hours, it was finally released at seven o'clock in the evening.
Wang Yan held the small transparent glass that was still warm, looked at the label on the bottle, looked at the sealed mouth of the bottle, then unscrewed the bottle cap, opened it one by one, and put it in his mouth to taste. After a while, he ate all thirty pills by himself.
He took the water handed over by Wei Lan, drank a big sip, and then nodded and looked at Zhao Changchun and the other team leaders: "No problem, I will ask someone to deal with the workshop environment tomorrow. After confirming that it meets the production standards, production will start the day after tomorrow. I will come then. For these produced this time, find a box for me to pack and put it in my car. That's it for today. Let's go, wife."
"Oh, okay." Wei Lan responded and followed Wang Yan to leave.
After the workers loaded the packed medicine into the trunk, Wang Yan drove Wei Lan out of the factory and turned onto the main road to go home.
Wei Lan asked, "What do you do with the medicines in the trunk?"
"Of course, they are for our parents."
"Will there be any problem?"
"Would you be more sober?" Wang Yan shook his head with a smile, "The hygiene conditions here are much better than when I rubbed them by hand in the rental house before. You and our parents have been taking them for almost a year, and they are fine. There are so many customers, and they are rushing to buy them as soon as they are put on the shelves. What's the problem? What do you think? It seems that the saying that pregnancy makes you stupid for three years is true."
Wei Lan also reacted, snorted, ignored Wang Yan, and continued to look at the phone.
Wang Yan asked, "How many reservations have been made?"
"More than 80,000." Wei Lan let out a sigh and sighed, "Our gross profit is already more than 40 million, and it's only been three days. I feel that it will definitely be no problem to break 200,000. If it continues like this, it may reach 500,000. You don't know that my fans have increased by more than 200,000 in the past two days, and now it's more than 2 million."
"Relatively speaking, the price is still a bit expensive, so don't have such high expectations. Without expectations, you won't be disappointed, so as not to be depressed at that time."
"Forget it, I won't be depressed even if I'm beaten to death. I wake up with a smile in my dreams now. It's really too fast to make money."
"When I spend "It's faster than the other day." Wang Yan said with a smile: "We are in the field of technology, and technology is the foundation. Now it depends on my output alone, so you think it's very profitable. Next, we will start to set up our own R&D team and do scientific research ourselves, which is a bottomless pit. If things go wrong, there will be no results for a long time, and you will lose money every day when you open your eyes. At that time, you will not be able to laugh. "
"It's okay. Anyway, now it's not only enough for the two of us, but also for our children in the future. What's the big deal? As long as there is enough money left for living, it's a loss, and we will lose it as much as possible. "
"Hey, this idea has improved."
Talking and laughing, they returned home all the way.
After washing up, Wang Yan did not go to the study to tinker, but sat on the sofa in the living room and watched TV series.
"Watching TV again?" Wei Lan came over with her hair just blown dry, and sat down next to Wang Yan: "What are you watching? Zhengyangmen? I remember this TV series was played in 2010, right?"
"Well, 2010, I watched it when I have nothing to do. I have been busy recently, so I want to relax."
Of course, it was not what he said, but the news from his father arrived on time.
"Zhengyangmen Han Chunming: Another Life."
Wang Yan had watched this drama before, but for him, it was too long, he only had some impressions, and had forgotten what was played, so he watched it honestly.
Watching TV with Wei Lan, when Wei Lan felt sleepy and went back to sleep, he turned off the TV and went to the study to watch it on the computer. He watched it again the next day at work, and watched it again in the middle of the night when he got home, and finally finished all 36 episodes.
This TV series is mainly about...
Han Chunming is the protagonist of the play. After watching it once, Wang Yan also had some understanding of such a task.
The whole play lasted for 33 years, and Han Chunming and the heroine Su Meng have been fighting for 33 years. This is really too much. Regardless of whether it is reasonable or not, this fight for more than 30 years is unbearable for anyone. Perhaps Su Meng has become Han Chunming's obsession, and he will not stop until he achieves the right result.
Wang Yan thought that this mission of another life was that Han Chunming finally woke up and didn't want to fight with Su Meng anymore. It's understandable that no one can have no complaints...
Wang Yan got up and stretched, left the study, gently opened the bedroom door, glanced at the sleeping Wei Lan, and then gently closed the door, took a sip of water and returned to the study.
Looking at the night owl who remembered to eat but not to be beaten squatting at the door and staring at him stupidly, he shook his head and smiled, called out the panel, and made the operation selection...
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