Chapter 171 Being Rich Means Being Willful

"Who says I won't cry anymore? I cried until my heart broke, okay?"

After hearing that Tang Zifeng brought the conversation to herself, Bao Nana said to Tang Zifeng dissatisfied:

"On the contrary, you are a cruel senior brother. Your own junior sister is going abroad. Instead of being sad at all, you are also sarcastic. I have done so many things for you. You are really the one who fell in love with me and threw the matchmaker over the wall. It’s so shameless!”

Several people nearby felt a chill. Including Yu Xiaohui, everyone knew that Bao Nana was talking about her introduction to Xiao Wenjun to Tang Zifeng, but she directly claimed that "she had sex", which was a bit large.

Everyone was full of integrity and not suitable to discuss this issue, so they could only lower their heads and pretend to eat skewers. Only Xiao Wenjun took advantage of everyone's inattention and reached out to pinch Bao Nana viciously. It was midsummer and everyone was wearing cooler clothes. If Xiao Wenjun wanted to pinch Nana, there were many places where he could start.

"Ouch! Murder my best friend!" Bao Nana screamed exaggeratedly, causing everyone eating skewers around to look at her in surprise.

Xiao Wenjun stopped and ate the kebabs as if nothing happened. Bao Nana gave Xiao Wenjun a stern look, but she was too embarrassed to pinch her back. After all, she had spoken freely before and her words were indeed a bit dirty.

"Junior sister, when you went to the United States, which school did you go to?"

Tang Zifeng did not dwell on Bao Nana's nonsense, but asked a casual question to distract from the embarrassment just now.

"Pennsylvania, majoring in communication." Bao Nana replied.

"It's a good school." Tang Zifeng praised.

"Of course." Bao Nana said, "It doesn't matter whose junior sister I am. However, the University of Pennsylvania only gave me half the scholarship, and two other schools gave me full scholarships. I thought they were not good, so I gave them Rejected."

"Sure enough, having money means being willful." Tang Zifeng praised again.

In the last two months of Bao Nana's schooling, she had no classes. She was just waiting for a symbolic graduation thesis defense to get her diploma. Extremely bored, she came to work at Feihai Company again, helping to sell the simplified version of "Wu San". As a result, she earned another 20,000 to 30,000 yuan. This was the reason why she could refuse the full prize.

"What's the point of being rich? Compared with Wenjun, I'm just as poor, okay? Senior brother, you are too partial. You helped Wenjun make so much money, but you didn't help your junior sister find an opportunity to make money." Bao Na Na complained. She was not a heartless person. She said these words in a low voice so that only Xiao Wenjun and Tang Zifeng could hear them.

Speaking of Xiao Wenjun, he is the biggest winner in life among this group of people. According to the conditions that Tang Zifeng helped her negotiate with Linyi Machinery, Linyi Machinery had to pay Xiao Wenjun a patent licensing fee of 100 yuan for each wood carving machine tool it produced.

In fact, due to the need for technical confidentiality, the drawing specifications and cutting strategies invented by Xiao Wenjun have not yet applied for patents. Because once you apply for a patent, the technical details must be disclosed to the outside world. Those township and village enterprises in China don’t care whether you have a patent or not. Once they learn the technical know-how, they will start to copy it. Lin Yiji doesn’t have the time to file a patent lawsuit.

According to Tang Zifeng's plan, he has to wait until Linyiji takes over a large part of the wood carving machine market before starting to apply for these two patents. By then, even if copycat companies want to imitate, they will not be able to pose a major threat to Linyiyi. Tang Zifeng does not expect those encryption programs to be kept secret forever. It is estimated that they can last for about half a year. Linyiji has already eaten up the fattest meat on the market, and will save the rest for other manufacturers to slowly play with. .

So far, Linyi Machinery has produced more than 500 wood carving machine tools and has orders for nearly a thousand units on hand. Tang Zifeng settled a licensing fee for Xiao Wenjun and took away 100,000 yuan from Linyiji. According to the agreement, Feihai Company raised 20,000 yuan as commission, and the remaining 80,000 yuan went to Xiao Wenjun.

Xiao Wenjun was shocked when he received the patent licensing fee of 80,000 yuan. She told her father Xiao Ming about the incident over the phone and asked Xiao Ming for instructions on what to do. Xiao Ming called Qin Zhongnian again and asked whether there was any violation of policy, and whether Qin Zhongnian paid a high price to Xiao Wenjun because of his old classmate's face.

Qin Zhongnian could only tell the truth, saying that this technology was Tang Zifeng's idea, Xiao Wenjun completed the design, and it was Tang Zifeng's representative Xiao Wenjun who negotiated the price with Linyiji. Qin Zhongnian also admitted that the licensing fee of 100 yuan per machine is actually on the low side. If the license fee is 200 or 300, it is probably acceptable for Linyi Machinery, because this kind of machine tool has created profits of 5 to 6 million yuan for Linyi Machinery. And this is just the beginning.

"Why is it Tang Zifeng again?" Xiao Ming muttered on the other end of the phone.

"Old Xiao, this matter... ugh!" Qin Zhongnian didn't even know what to say.

Xiao Ming was actually pretending to be reserved in front of Qin Zhongnian. After understanding the whole story, he was very excited. After all, his daughter was able to develop a technology that even Qin Zhongnian was jealous of, and it was an honorable thing for an old machine tool company like Linyi Machinery to willingly pay the patent fee.

As for the black hand who appeared in this incident, that is, the young assistant named Tang Zifeng, in Xiao Ming's mind he is definitely not a hateful image, but rather a bit cute. He suspected that his daughter was able to come up with those designs because she was inspired by Tang Zifeng. Tang Zifeng was able to help his daughter find an opportunity to make money, and it was such a high-profile opportunity that it would not be an exaggeration to call him a "good son-in-law."

Xiao Ming, who was in a happy mood, called his daughter back and said that the money was earned through his own ability and could be taken openly. The family does not need subsidies for their daughter, so she can keep the money and use it. Haven't you always wanted to buy a laptop? Go ahead and buy the best one. Laptops are for studying, so you should spend some money on them.

This time Xiao Wenjun came to Linhe with his new notebook. This IBM laptop is worth more than 40,000 yuan. Xiao Wenjun once coveted it but never dared to ask for it. Who knows, now his dream has come true.

"Wenjun makes money through technology, and you don't know how to design machine tools. How can I help you create money-making opportunities?" Tang Zifeng asked Bao Nana with a smile.

Bao Nana said: "I can write press releases, and I can also conduct interviews. By the way, after I go to the United States, how about I find American business information for you? You have to pay me the highest standard for the information fee. .”

Tang Zifeng thought about it and said, "When you said this, I really remembered it. Although we have some information channels about what kind of machine tools are needed in the American market, I always feel that we are not grounded enough. After you go to the United States, If you have the opportunity, contact ordinary American families for us and see what mechanical products they use daily. It doesn't have to be machine tools. As long as they are something we can build, you can pass the information to me. If the information is useful, I will never treat you badly. you."

"You mean American family?" Xiao Wenjun asked in surprise from the side.

Tang Zifeng said: "Yes. As Nana, it is probably impossible to understand the needs of enterprises. But there are actually many DIYers in American families. In my impression..., uh, I mean I have seen some information saying that the demand for home machine tools in the United States is very large, especially various woodworking machine tools. The price is not high, that is, one or two thousand US dollars per unit, but the demand is huge. Americans are stupid and have a lot of money. I would be sorry for the 5,000-year history of civilization if they don't make money."

The "impression" that Tang Zifeng said was actually the news he heard in later generations. Labor costs in the United States are high, and many Americans are accustomed to doing home repairs, electrical appliances and even car repairs by themselves, which requires a variety of small tools, including some small drill presses, sawing machines, lathes, etc. These small machine tools are small in size, used infrequently, and do not require high durability, so the cost is relatively low and they are gadgets that every household can afford.

For an American family, a small amount of expenditure, such as one or two thousand US dollars, would be more than 10,000 yuan in RMB. If 10,000 such small machine tools could be exported a year, it would have an output value of more than 100 million yuan. Tang Zifeng would not dislike such business.

If it weren't for the fact that the factory was not well-off, Zhou Heng had no ambition to expand overseas markets for the time being. Tang Zifeng would have liked to take people to the United States to conduct an on-site inspection of the small household machine tool market in the United States. Now he entrusts Nana to be his information clerk, which is actually just a game of idle chess. It would be an unexpected surprise if Bao Nana could really bring him any useful information. Even if Bao Nana didn't find out anything, Tang Zifeng didn't lose anything, only Bao Nana was affected.

Who made Bao Nana claim to be Tang Zifeng's biological junior sister every day? Aren't junior sisters used as free labor?

Tang Zifeng was enjoying himself there, but Bao Nana saw it. With a sad face, she said to Xiao Wenjun: "Wenjun, look at your Zifeng smiling evilly again, he must be plotting against me again."

Xiao Wenjun stretched out two fingers and made a gesture of pinching Nana. Bao Nana quickly escaped with a smile, hugged Tang Ziyan and whispered. Xiao Wenjun looked at Tang Zifeng and asked in a low voice: "Senior Brother Tang, do you really plan to stay in Linyiji for a long time?"

"Why do you ask that?" Tang Zifeng asked in surprise. Wang Zijie had asked him this just now, but why did Xiao Wenjun ask him the same question in the blink of an eye? Did he look very dedicated tonight?

Hey, didn’t I look very dedicated tonight?

"That's not the case anymore. I'm just in my position, working on my own affairs, and it's always good to be able to help Lin Yiji find more business. Even if I'm transferred back to the ministry, at least Fatty and Xiaohui are still with Lin Yiji, so I won't If you don't plan for yourself, you have to plan for them." Tang Zifeng explained.

Xiao Wenjun glanced at Yu Xiaohui, who always had a smile on his face, then picked up the beer glass in front of him, took a sip of beer, and said quietly: "Well, you are right, you can help others plan something, and that's also What a kind of happiness.”

I coded another chapter on the train back, revised it a bit when I came back, and uploaded it. Just two updates today... In addition, everyone's monthly votes were very strong yesterday. They voted 500 at once. This book has already ranked seventh on the new book list. Are you confident that it will break into the top six?