Chapter 44 Zhou Weigang

The incident after school did not affect Zhou Rui's schedule, but he was caught in the evening self-study today, so his exercise was ruined.

When he returned to the door of his house, he wanted to go upstairs directly, but he saw a familiar figure in the corridor.

Father, Zhou Weigang.

The figure was not as old as in the previous life, but still a little depressed, leaning against the corridor smoking.

Seeing Zhou Rui, Zhou Weigang's eyes regained some brilliance and said, "Your mother has urgent work overtime, and is worried that you are hungry, so let me take you to dinner. What do you want to eat?"

"Dad is treating us today, let's eat something good!"

Zhou Rui calmed down a little. If you count the time before his rebirth, he hasn't seen the man in front of him for more than ten years.

Zhou Weigang is in his forties, but he is still a little handsome. It is said that when he was young, his appearance was much better than Zhou Rui's, but now he has a sense of decadence.

He is very much like Zhou Rui, the social animal in his previous life.

Zhou Rui thought for a moment and said, "There's a stir-fry restaurant on the corner."

Zhou Weigang patted Zhou Rui on the back and said eagerly, "The corner is not right. I'll drive you to a big restaurant."

After his parents divorced, Zhou Weigang did not completely disappear from the lives of Zhou Rui and Yao Peili. It can even be said that in recent years, he has appeared more and more frequently. In addition to providing living expenses, he often helps out inside and outside, and takes Zhou Rui to eat something good and go out from time to time.

If we look at the previous few years, from the perspective of a "divorced father", Zhou Weigang, who did not remarry, did quite well.

So much so that there was a faint sign of reuniting with Yao Peili.

However, Zhou Weigang's factory in his previous life encountered serious operating problems when Zhou Rui was a freshman, and then it was heavily in debt, so this man consciously faded out of the world of the mother and son.

Judging from Zhou Weigang's fatigue at this time, the factory should have been in trouble recently, and Yao Peili also said that Zhou Weigang had disappeared for a long time.

Zhou Weigang drove his old Crown car towards the city center.

The couple divorced when Zhou Rui was in elementary school, so Zhou Rui's feelings for Zhou Weigang were not as deep as his mother's, but Zhou Weigang always wanted to find a topic.

"Dad has been on a business trip in Shenzhen for some time. How are you studying recently, Xiaorui?"

Zhou Rui leaned against the car window and asked something else:

"You look very tired. Is there a problem with the factory operation?"

Zhou Weigang almost lost his grip on the steering wheel and said in surprise: "Who said that!"

No matter how hard he worked in business, he couldn't let it out in front of his son!

Zhou Rui casually called out a rescuer: "Uncle."

Zhou Weigang was speechless for a while. This uncle really told the child everything!

"It's just a minor trouble. Dad can handle it."

Zhou Rui seemed to be unintentional and said, "Can you tell me about it?"

"What can I tell you, a high school student?"

"I'm about to choose my major and apply for admission. I'll see what you do and avoid the spoils."

Zhou Weigang:

Zhou Weigang was also an employee of a state-owned enterprise before. He was born as a technical worker. It is said that he was also a technical expert at that time, but not long after Zhou Rui was born, he chose to go into business.

In that era, this choice was not uncommon. Like many people in that era, Zhou Weigang tasted the sweetness of the changing times. He was smart and technical. With the help of the times, he did make some money.

In the first few years, it was so prosperous. Of course, it was also because of the excessive prosperity that Yao Peili was dissatisfied and eventually divorced.

However, in recent years, it is a different picture. The market changes too fast. The factory may make a lot of money in the previous year, but it will suffer a huge loss in the next year and cannot even pay the workers' wages.

There are many reasons for this. Some are the decline in product competitiveness, and some are the suppliers' delay in payment, which leads to a break in the capital chain.

Zhou Weigang started out as a small home appliance manufacturer. Later, because he could not compete with companies in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Shenzhen, he changed his equipment and became an upstream supplier, producing accessories such as electronic control panels.

After changing his career, he encountered the rise of the "copycat" market. Zhou Weigang specialized in supplying various copycat brands, and he did a good job. However, he also had to bear a lot of loans from the bank due to the change of production lines and equipment.

By 2009, the domestic copycat market gradually broke away from the state of wild growth and began to cool down, which seriously affected Zhou Weigang's downstream customers. Orders fell rapidly, and the bank urged him to pay. The factory began to go downhill, and it was more difficult every day.

The most important thing is that the original copycat customers have no orders, and Zhou Weigang's factory does not have the ability to develop terminals on its own. It only has accessories but no products.

In Zhou Rui's memory, Zhou Weigang's factory was completely bankrupt, and it seemed that it was in 2010. After that, Zhou Weigang, who was heavily in debt, also left Qinghe County and seemed to go to other places to do technical guidance and make money to pay off his debts.

Looking back at the years when Zhou Weigang started his business, he was the most carefree when he started small home appliances, and he has been in a state of neither up nor down since then.

Recalling the memories of his previous life, Zhou Rui didn't know what to do for a while. Zhou Weigang was his biological father, and he would naturally like to help him if he had the chance.

It's true that he has a cheat, but it can only be used to strengthen himself.

2009

At least find a way to help Zhou Weigang avoid thunder, just like asking his mother not to sell the demolished house.

Zhou Weigang took Zhou Rui to a "Dongting Restaurant" and ordered five or six dishes. No matter how hard the business is, it's not vague to take his son to eat something good.

Besides, this is not what he lacks

Zhou Rui frowned: "Order so much and we can't finish it."

Zhou Weigang smiled and said: "I can't finish the meal and pack it away. Your mother is busy with work recently, so there will be times when she can't take care of you."

Dishes were served one by one, and they were all Zhou Rui's usual favorites. He had consumed a lot of exercise recently, and Zhou Rui was really hungry. No matter what else, he would eat first.

Zhou Rui ate happily, and Zhou Weigang looked on with a smile, but he didn't move his chopsticks much.

Zhou Rui was eighty percent full, put down his chopsticks, and said, "Dad, with you staring so hard, it's hard for me not to think that something big happened to you. Otherwise, why don't you tell me directly? My mother and I It’s a good decision whether to run away or not.”

Zhou Weigang: "This child really can't speak. Besides, if Li Duli is away, I can't involve you two."

Zhou Rui said: "Don't look down on the students, tell me something?"

Zhou Weigang may have been under a lot of pressure recently. He thought that Zhou Rui wouldn't understand anyway, so he half-complained and half-complained:

"It's okay. Doesn't your father's factory make mobile phone accessories? The mobile phone industry has been in recession in the past two years, and many old customers have gone bankrupt."

To be precise, it is not that the mobile phone industry is in recession. Domestic mobile Internet terminals are on the rise, and we are moving towards an era where everyone has a mobile phone.

But unfortunately, this market belongs to foreign brands.

Nokia occupies half of the market, Ericsson is still a golden brand, Samsung and BlackBerry are making rapid progress, and Apple is also ready to take off.

The huge domestic mobile phone market is almost dominated by foreign brands.

And those domestic brands that Zhou Rui is familiar with, such as Hua Wei, Xiaomi, opppo, and vivo, are still there.

In the huge market, 90% of the money is made by foreign brands, and for the remaining 10%, a lot of copycat phones are competing for it, all trying to survive.

Counterfeit phones have been scolded for many years, and domestic mobile phones have almost become a joke. Anyone with some spending power will not bother to buy any domestic mobile phones, which will embarrass everyone.

Before and after the 2008 Olympic Games, in order to enhance its international image, many domestic regulations on intellectual property rights were tightened. Huaqiangbei, the once popular base camp for copycat smartphones in Shenzhen, has lost its former glory, and the flourishing copycat smartphone market has quickly withered.

The situation Zhou Weigang faced was just a microcosm of this industry, not even scraps, but it still left Zhou Weigang breathless.

As he talked, Zhou Weigang gradually forgot that it was his son in front of him. He was talking to himself, but he was actually relieving stress.

"But it doesn't matter. The mobile phone industry is in a slump. Just do something else. That's how I switched from home appliances back then. You know the Zijin Group in the county. They are preparing to enter the air-conditioning industry recently. There is an order that is very profitable. It is the need for equipment. It’s another investment to make a change.”

Zhou Rui thought to himself: Zijin Group, I know it very well.

It will be gone next year!

Zhou Rui clearly remembers that the capital chain of this leading company in Qinghe County was broken ten years ago and it was disbanded and died.

The entire Qinghe County was in an uproar, and even the chairman of Zijin Group was arrested because of unknown whereabouts of funds.

He didn't know that Zhou Weigang was also related to Zijin Group in his previous life. It seemed that he breathed his last at that time.

Zhou Rui was thinking about how to persuade him, and asked curiously: "Zijin Group is in the county, so why did you go to Shenzhen?"

"Forget it, a friend who used to make copycat phones changed jobs and went to Hua Wei. They had been doing communications before. The company was quite big, but I didn't know what to think. They wanted to start making mobile phones, so they asked me to cooperate. It’s true that those who don’t know are not afraid. There is no market for domestic mobile phones now, so you can jump into the fire pit yourself.”

Zhou Rui:

"The guy kept talking to me for a long time, saying that he had an order, but the profit was very thin, and he also asked me to join their new team. I guess they would still have to wait and see, so he didn't agree. The era of domestically produced mobile phones has passed."

Zhou Rui: You are truly a dazzler in the industry!

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