Reborn as a tycoon in Hong Kong

Having an assistant is different.

There was no need for Lin Baicheng to do it himself. In just three days, Cheng Yufeng screened out several toy companies for Lin Baicheng. These toy companies had complete factories and workers and could be put into production immediately after purchase.

Lin Baicheng now has some capital and no longer needs to develop slowly, so he selected a larger toy company this time and asked Cheng Yufeng to negotiate the acquisition.

After all, Cheng Yufeng had just joined the job, and Lin Baicheng was not familiar with him, so out of caution, he secretly asked lawyer Chen Gao to value the toy company he wanted to acquire, so that he could know what Cheng Yufeng was doing this time. Did the acquisition harm his interests?

It's not that Lin Baicheng is a villain, but he must be careful about this kind of thing, otherwise he will be regarded as a fool and lose a lot of money without knowing it.

Five days later, Cheng Yufeng negotiated with the owner of the toy company for a price of 8.2 million Hong Kong dollars. This price was slightly lower than Chen Gao's estimate of about 8.5 million Hong Kong dollars. It can be seen that Cheng Yufeng's ability is indeed good.

Lin Baicheng signed a transaction contract with the owner of the toy company. He only needs to be responsible for signing and making financial transfers for this transaction.

The toy company was directly renamed Jupiter Toys Company by Lin Baicheng. The company has a factory covering an area of ​​more than 3,000 square meters in Dabu, and four stores, each with an area of ​​about 100 square meters. The prices of these four stores alone are more than One million Hong Kong dollars.

This toy company has a total of nearly 200 employees. The boss chose to sell it because the company is not making much money now and the annual profits are limited. The boss is very happy to get a large sum of money at once to do other things. Business.

In fact, the toy company was still very profitable in the early years, otherwise the factory would not have been built so big and had four self-operated stores. It is a pity that the old masters responsible for making toys did not have new innovations. Today, the toys developed are no longer popular. Children's favorite.

It’s not that the boss didn’t spend money to hire other masters, but the toys invented by the hired masters were not very popular. After a few times, the boss suffered a lot of losses. The boss didn’t dare to take any more risks, so he had to make some toys without copyright and sell them. Annual profits are limited and you can't make much money.

When Lin Baicheng bought a toy company, he didn't rely on the people below him to invent popular toys. He had many ideas of his own. It would be better to have an experienced master, as long as he could turn his ideas into physical objects.

After buying the toy company, Lin Baicheng took Cheng Yufeng to the toy company's factory. He met with Huang Jianhe, the original director of the factory, and chatted with him. He found that this man had no management problems, so he decided to temporarily let him go. He will continue to be the factory director, and will decide whether to stay or not later depending on his work ability.

"Director Huang, go and call the person in charge of toy design and production in the factory."

"Okay, Mr. Lin."

Huang Jianhe did not neglect Lin Baicheng because he was young. After all, he had to eat under his hands, so how could he dare to neglect him.

After a while, Huang Jianhe brought in an old man in his fifties or sixties.

"Mr. Lin, this is Master Gong Xiang who is responsible for toy production in the factory."

Huang Jianhe first introduced Lin Baicheng, and then said to Gong Xiang: "Master Gong, this is the new boss of the company, Mr. Lin."

"Mr. Lin."

"Master Gong, please sit down."

After all, he was an old man, and it was hard for Lin Baicheng to let him stand all the time.

"Master Gong, let's see if this kind of mechanical Rubik's Cube can be made under the conditions of our factory."

As Lin Baicheng spoke, he handed over a drawing with a third-level Rubik's Cube.

When it comes to toys, we have to mention the ever-lasting Rubik's Cube. The Rubik's Cube that the public knows is usually the third-order Rubik's Cube, and this Rubik's Cube is the most popular.

Lin Baicheng actually didn't know in the beginning which year the Rubik's Cube was invented. After all, for people decades later, there are many people who buy the Rubik's Cube and play with it, but for people who specifically want to know in which year it was invented, even if they have Definitely not many, and Lin Baicheng is not one of them.

Therefore, in order to avoid patent infringement disputes, when Lin Baicheng decided to acquire the toy company, he contacted Isabella in the United States and asked Isabella to check whether the Rubik's Cube had been released in the world.

Then, Lin Baicheng knew that the Rubik's Cube had actually been invented.

As early as 1970, Larry Nichols invented the 2×2×2 Rubik’s Cube, applied for a Canadian patent, and obtained a U.S. patent two years later.

As for the three-level Rubik's Cube, it was invented by Rubik Ernault, a Hungarian professor of architecture and sculpture, in 1974 and received a Hungarian patent in 1975. However, Rubik Ernault did not apply for an international patent.

According to Isabella's investigation, the third-level Rubik's Cube has been sold in toy stores in Budapest, the capital of Hungary, a few months ago. Fortunately, because Rubik Erno did not spend money to promote it, the sales volume was average.

After learning this, Lin Baicheng immediately asked Isabella to go to Hungary in person and find Rubik Ernault to buy the ownership of the third-order Rubik's Cube. Rubik Ernault has not yet realized the value of the Rubik's Cube. So I happily sold it for $500,000, which was dirt cheap.

After obtaining the ownership of the Rubik's Cube, Lin Baicheng asked Isabella to apply for an international patent for the Rubik's Cube, and at the same time entrusted Rubik Alnault himself to continue to develop the Rubik's Cube, fourth-order, fifth-order and other ways to play the Rubik's Cube.

At the same time, Lin Baicheng, who knew the future sales volume of the Rubik's Cube, asked Isabella to buy Larry Nichols' patent after applying for an international patent, mainly to avoid being exposed after the Rubik's Cube became popular.

This kind of thing happens a lot in Western countries. After a novel or movie becomes popular, anyone who is involved with the copyright will jump out and say that the copyright belongs to them, and then spend money to file a lawsuit to sue for infringement, hoping to get some money. The problem is is this still legal. If you fail, you will at most waste some legal fees for the lawsuit, but there will be no big loss.

The international patent has been applied for, and now that he has bought the toy company, Lin Baicheng is of course ready to produce the toys.

Although there are patents and copyrights, many people make money by piracy, but they are afraid to do it openly. Making a Rubik's Cube is not difficult, and making pirated versions of the Rubik's Cube does not require much capital, so Lin Baicheng plans to make more at the beginning. The Rubik's Cube is prepared, and then after he hypes up the Rubik's Cube, he sells it in large quantities at once, so as not to leave much room for piracy.

Gong Xiang took the drawing and looked at it, and then gave Lin Baicheng a positive answer. This kind of third-level Rubik's Cube can be made under the conditions of the factory.

After getting the answer he could, Lin Baicheng immediately asked the factory director Huang Jianhe to stop making the previous toys and only make Rubik's cubes in the future. All the toys in stock were cleared and sold.

Because the Rubik's Cube was to be sold to Western countries, Lin Baicheng decided to strictly select the materials used to make the Rubik's Cube. Those that were not environmentally friendly were definitely not used, so as to avoid being sued due to accidents involving children playing with the Rubik's Cube.

Although the cost of the Rubik's Cube will definitely increase greatly, the wool comes from the sheep, and at most the Rubik's Cube will be sold at a slightly higher price.

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