ccnovels #521 - Chapter 521: Genesis vs. Genesis, an undisguised copycat! You won't be angry, will you?
#521 - Chapter 521: Genesis vs. Genesis, an undisguised copycat! You won't be angry, will you?
A certain detached villa.
John woke up early, dressed neatly, and prepared to go out.
Today, he was in an exceptionally good mood.
The SP4 factory had already been built and put into production. In the past half-year, they had been producing while expanding, frantically adding production lines.
Finally!
Some were from China, and some were from overseas.
The orders were like debts.
Morgan Factory made almost no profit from producing those orders.
Only when all the orders were delivered and there was no connection with Visionary Century, could the subsequent production of SP4 bring huge profits.
And now, they had finally paid off the 'debts'.
He had been doing two things this week.
First, stockpiling goods.
Second, disassociating from Visionary Century.
During the 'debt repayment' period, SP4 still carried the Visionary Century logo.
After the debt was cleared, Visionary Century removed SP4 from the shelves.
From then on, SP4 had nothing to do with Visionary Century, and according to the agreement, Visionary Century was not allowed to sell the product again.
Ownership belonged to the Morgan Consortium!
John had already found many distributors.
He also required the distributors to open SP4 stores next to Visionary Century.
Could there be better publicity than this?
Without spending money, the Visionary Century store itself was providing free publicity for him.
Today was a good day for the official launch.
He had to stake it out!
He learned this from Chen Hao.
In the past, whenever Visionary Century had a new product launch, Chen Hao would wait outside the store. Through the sales of the Shanghai store, he could roughly grasp the overall situation—a glimpse of the leopard in a tube!
"Let's go!"
John got into the car, beaming: "To the Visionary Century store!"
The Morgan Consortium's SP4 store...
Was called Genesis Century.
Hanteng Capital's was called Visionary Century.
The main selling point was imitation.
Consumers had the preconceived notion that SP4 was a Visionary Century product, and John seized on this psychology.
Visionary Century's SP4 is off the shelves, and my SP4 store is next to the genuine Visionary Century store, with almost the same name. If it were a pirated version... why hasn't Visionary Century sued me?
Therefore, I am the genuine version!
...
Early in the morning.
Chen Fuhai was driving the Chengying car, with Li Lan sitting in the passenger seat, talking on the phone with their son.
No more pretending!
It wasn't that they didn't want to pretend to be poor.
How could they pretend now?
At least half of China knew that Chen Hao was the boss of Hanteng Capital.
At the Global Science and Technology Conference, Chen Hao, as a Nobel laureate, was the center of attention.
Although the audience saw that he was General Wang's follower, placed on the surface by the country, what did it matter?
What was General Wang's status?
Many people wanted to be his follower.
Of course, the couple knew in their hearts that their son was not a follower.
It was acting!
A play for the whole world to see!
"Son, our store got more than 20,000 units..." Li Lan said excitedly.
The smartphones had arrived.
Today was the official launch!
She and her husband had been busy until midnight last night, testing each phone in detail, knowing it was another hit product.
"Xiao Hao!"
Chen Fuhai shouted while driving: "Don't let Qingyan give our store extra goods on purpose, you can't break the rules!"
At their son's level, money no longer had much meaning.
Reputation was more important!
"Dad, all the goods for provincial distributors are allocated according to the province's population and consumption capacity—there's no extra allocation," Chen Hao explained.
In the beginning, to prevent global groups and consortia from having certain ideas about smartphones, he planned to establish a central enterprise.
Superficially, the smartphones would be sold under the name of the country.
But now...
It was no longer necessary!
Through various detailed displays, the whole world had already determined that he was China's white glove.
So, the smartphones belonged to Visionary Century.
Groups and consortia wanted them?
Everyone knew that I was a white glove, how could I make the decision on this?
The country has the final say!
In short.
With his white-glove status confirmed, he could let go and no longer have any scruples in many aspects.
...
Shanghai Visionary Century flagship store.
Chen Hao finished his call with his parents and drank the last bit of soy milk.
He took out a Zhonghua cigarette.
Suddenly!
A Cadillac drove up.
What the hell?
John had the driver stop and got out of the car with a puzzled look: "Mr. Chen, what are you doing here?"
"Mr. John, didn't you come too?" Chen Hao said with a smile.
"Ha!"
Speaking of which, John's face was full of joy: "A week ago, I finally delivered all the orders. I specially stockpiled a week's worth of goods... Look!"
He pointed to the opposite side of the road.
Visionary Century was Hanteng Capital's.
Genesis Century.
Was the Morgan Consortium's.
The two stores were close together.
Not only were the store names extremely similar, but the signboard design and interior decoration were not even considered similar... they were simply carved out of the same mold.
Chen Hao had already seen it, but seeing John speak, he couldn't help but laugh.
In the previous life.
Europe and the United States often slandered China for plagiarism.
Now it's good!
The Morgan Consortium directly copied and pasted!
The most outrageous thing was that the other party was saying this in front of him, not even avoiding suspicion of plagiarism?
"Mr. Chen, you're not angry, are you?"
John said with a smile: "According to the contract, once all SP4 orders are completed, it will be removed from Visionary Century, so... I'm using your company to do a little advertising, which won't be a loss to you."
"Angry? How is that possible!"
Chen Hao shook his head: "SP4 has nothing to do with me."
"That's good... By the way! Mr. Chen, why are you here?" John quickly asked.
"The company has a new product launch."
"Ha!"
John's eyes lit up: "That's just right! Maybe... we can still cooperate in the future!"
Whether it was Morgan.
Or other consortia and groups.
Whenever they saw a technological product with a broad market appear under Hanteng Capital, they would try every means to get it.
They had become accustomed to it!
North America and China had completely broken off relations?
What did it have to do with capital?
In short.
For the Morgan Consortium, as long as it could bring substantial benefits...
Who cared about national conflicts?
"A small part of the functions of our company's new product will overlap with SP4—you're not angry, are you?" Chen Hao suddenly said.
"What?!"
John was startled: "You... pirated?!"
"No, no, no!"
Chen Hao hurriedly waved his hand, patting his chest to assure: "Two completely different products, I can guarantee with my reputation and life, it's just... a small part of the functions overlap, the technology is completely different."
"Are you sure?"
"Sure!"
"Ha! It's just a small overlap, it's not a pirated version... Why would I be angry?"
"That's good..."
Chen Hao thought to himself.
It was indeed a small part of the functions that overlapped.
After all, the functions that SP4 had were only a small part of the smartphone.
It's just that...
It was different the other way around.
Smartphones had all the functions of SP4!
Whoosh!
Genesis Century was not only similar in name to the original, and not only were the signboards and decorations carved out of the same mold.
The business hours were also exactly the same.
With a difference of less than ten seconds, the two stores raised their rolling shutter doors.
Just then.
Luxury cars drove up quickly.
"Chen!"
Ferdinand was the first to run to Chen Hao.