12dz Chapter 474 So what if technology is leaked? Bad things can turn into good things!
Chapter 474 So what if technology is leaked? Bad things can turn into good things!
The sky is bright.
The alarm clock rang.
Still half asleep, Zhao Ruilong fumbled to turn off the alarm clock.
I was exhausted last night, and lying in the warm bed felt so good.
As she drifted off to sleep, Lu Yike mumbled in her ear:
"Lazybones, get up!"
"Don't make a sound, let me sleep a little longer, just a little while."
"Don't sleep! Time flies when you stay in bed in the morning. You can close your eyes and an hour or two will be gone in a flash!"
"No, I'll sleep for another ten minutes. When the alarm rings in ten minutes, I'll definitely get up!"
"No, you haven't even packed your luggage yet! Do you want to miss your early morning flight?"
"Help me tidy up, let me take a nap a little longer."
"Sure, but how about another reward?"
"What the hell! Are you trying to murder your husband?"
"Then you can get up and pack your own luggage!"
Lu Yike pulled her hand back.
He turned over and went back to sleep with his back to Zhao Ruilong.
Startled by her words, Zhao Ruilong instantly woke up from his drowsiness.
The best days are yet to come, and I don't want to overspend.
I got up, washed up, tidied up, and went downstairs. The guard was already waiting in the living room.
The nanny had already prepared a sumptuous breakfast and was just waiting for Zhao Ruilong to start eating.
While the group was having breakfast, Zhao Xiaohui suddenly came into the dining room, still wearing her pajamas and looking sleepy.
"Hey, why are you up too?"
Zhao Ruilong asked with a surprised smile.
"Eat quickly, I have something to tell you!"
As soon as Zhao Xiaohui finished speaking, she yawned.
She didn't sleep well at all last night.
The operation to arrest Du Bozhong was thought to go smoothly, but it turned out to be a major case involving guns and drugs.
Moreover, the information Du Bozhong provided after the surprise interrogation left her deeply disturbed.
If it weren't for Lu Yike's eagerness to have a second child, her younger brother Zhao Ruilong would have been gone for many more days on this business trip.
Zhao Xiaohui wanted to wake Zhao Ruilong at 3 a.m. to let him know who Du Bozhong had colluded with and how many of the group's trade secrets he had sold, and then discuss how to deal with it.
"Is this a matter for our company?"
Zhao Ruilong asked, with a hidden meaning.
At this critical juncture, I'm afraid something might happen to my father, Zhao Lichun.
Even if the system distributes rewards, the likelihood of changes is low.
“Du Bozhong had some trouble last night.”
Upon hearing that it was about Du Bozhong, Zhao Ruilong immediately stopped worrying.
"Okay, but you should sit down and eat something too!"
"You guys eat, I don't have an appetite right now."
Zhao Xiaohui turned around and went to the tea room first.
After a whirlwind of eating and drinking, Zhao Ruilong picked up two eggs, wiped his mouth, and got up.
"You guys take your time eating, I'm going to talk to my second sister."
"If you don't come out in ten minutes, remember to knock on the door to remind you."
Upon entering the tea room, Zhao Ruilong closed the door and asked:
"What happened? Did Du Bozhong run away?"
"He didn't run away because of an unexpected situation."
"what's the situation?"
Zhao Ruilong sat down opposite his second sister.
He then cracked the egg he was holding and listened to his second sister's story while peeling it.
"Du Bozhong has been caught and has confessed truthfully, but before that, an unexpected situation occurred..."
Zhao Xiaohui quickly and concisely recounted what had happened the previous night.
Zhao Ruilong didn't find the unexpected events during the arrest operation particularly surprising.
Du Bozhong is addicted to marijuana; he's gotten so thin he's practically skin and bones.
He thought that by leaving Huilong Group, he could receive his compensation of 200 million US dollars.
Overwhelmed by the joy of sudden wealth, it's perfectly understandable to seek out people to indulge in celebration.
Therefore, it wasn't too surprising that when they arrested him, they almost caught Guo Jianxiang, a drug dealer who had been selling drugs to support his own addiction after being fired by Huilong Real Estate.
However, Guo Jianxiang escaped, and was never seen alive or dead.
The handbag, almost entirely filled with drugs, could easily be mistaken for Du Bozhong's.
In any case, Du Bozhong's urine and blood tests confirmed that he was a drug addict.
Police also found a drug pill with a high methamphetamine content in his pocket.
So even if we don't call him a drug dealer, there's absolutely no problem convicting him of illegal possession of drugs.
They haven't even received the 100 million US dollars yet, and they're already celebrating with drugs...
It's no wonder that this kind of 'opening the champagne early' behavior will be punished.
That's why.
Before his father's promotion was officially confirmed, Zhao Ruilong had no intention of publicizing or celebrating it.
"And then? How did you get him to confess on his own initiative?"
Zhao Xiaohui chuckled softly.
"Isn't that simple? You know how much Du Bozhong fears death. Once he's identified as a drug dealer, it's a 100% death sentence. But if he's only convicted of illegal possession of drugs, even if the circumstances are serious, he'll only get a seven-year sentence at most."
"Whether he's sentenced to death or seven years, do you think Du Bozhong has a choice? If he wants to live, he naturally has no choice but to tell the truth. However, whether what he confessed is true or not remains to be verified, but what I saw truly chilled me to the bone!"
After saying that, Zhao Xiaohui handed her phone to Zhao Ruilong.
While eating eggs, he browsed through the information provided by Du Bozhong.
Zhao Ruilong was neither alarmed nor angry.
Du Bozhong is the legal representative and chairman of Huilong Group, but not many people know that he is a puppet mascot.
With such a prestigious status, he can not only win over and deceive many people, but also attract many people who want to improve themselves to actively flatter and fawn over him.
So people would give him gifts during holidays and some would leak secrets to him. Everyone thought he was the chairman of the group. Who would have thought he would be an insider who leaked secrets?
As for the trade secrets leaked by Du Bozhong...
Actually, I heard from Liu Sheng yesterday that Sakura gave Du Bozhong more than 10 million yuan, which enabled him to pay off his high-interest loans.
At the time, Zhao Ruilong vaguely guessed that Du Bozhong was very likely to have leaked Huilong Electronics' technical secrets, and that they were related to one or more best-selling electronic products.
For any technology company, trade secrets are the most valuable asset, and Huilong Electronics' continued hot sales have led to a sharp drop in Sakura's performance.
How can the people of Sakura reverse their decline?
Designing and developing from scratch is obviously the slowest approach.
Market conditions are constantly changing, and even if they have money and connections, they don't have much time.
Otherwise, by the time and effort spent on research and development, the competitors' products will have already been updated and replaced. How can we compete then?
However, without mastering the core technologies, the counterfeit products produced through disassembly, research, and reverse engineering will inevitably be of much lower quality.
So what's the fastest and cheapest way?
It's plagiarism, of course!
They bribed employees of competitors to steal their existing technical secrets.
This is obviously much faster than independent research and development and reverse engineering, and it can also save a lot of research and development time and money.
Such dishonorable, unethical, and illegal methods are actually very common in business competition.
Otherwise, why would people say that the business world is like a battlefield?
Since it's a business war, it's easy to resort to any means necessary in order to make money.
Especially when they encountered Du Bozhong, a despicable man who indulged in all vices, including drinking, gambling, whoring, and smoking.
Since it's possible to steal technological secrets for a small fee, the people of Sakura are naturally willing to pay a high price.
The outcome was exactly as Zhao Ruilong had predicted.
Sakura people have their eyes on Huilong Electronics' 3G mobile phone technology.
With features like taking photos and videos, surfing the internet, listening to music, and watching videos, this 3G phone outperforms traditional 2G phones and is not only a bestseller in China but is also being exported at an accelerated pace.
Since the launch of 3G phones, not only have Sakura's mobile phones not sold well in China, but even their once-proud CD players, film cameras, and portable DV cameras have also become difficult to sell.
Most ordinary people just want to listen to music, take photos and videos. They don't need all sorts of professional and expensive equipment. Since a 3G phone can do the job, who would buy those big and bulky "old relics"?
Seeing that Huilong Electronics' 3G mobile phones were selling like hotcakes, and that the entire electronics and information industry in China was getting stronger and stronger, the people of Japan were naturally eager to get their hands on the technical data that Du Bozhong had provided them with. Of course, they were willing to pay a hefty sum in return.
However, their best-selling product suffered a serious technology leak.
How could Zhao Xiaohui, who had worked with Du Bozhong for many years and had trusted and tolerated him, not feel disheartened?
"It's nothing, just a minor issue as expected, don't take it too seriously!"
Zhao Ruilong smiled faintly and handed the phone back to his second sister.
"What? A minor problem?"
Zhao Xiaohui was surprised and snatched the phone, then waved it in front of Zhao Ruilong.
"Brother, are you still half asleep, or are there too many words to read?"
"He leaked our company's most important 3G communication technology!"
"The Japanese have stolen our technology, and they'll definitely be able to quickly replicate 3G phones and steal our market share!"
Zhao Xiaohui's voice rose considerably as she became anxious.
Among Huilong Electronics' many technology products, desktop computers, laptops, graphics workstations, and commercial servers are relatively expensive, and the global customer base is relatively small.
The market demand for MP3 music players is huge, but due to the rampant imitation by many domestic and foreign manufacturers, Huilong MP3, as an industry benchmark, has actually been affected in terms of sales and profits.
The 3G mobile phones that truly have both strong market demand and good profits are those that can both communicate and entertain.
In modern society, people need to buy mobile phones to make their work and life more convenient.
Whether it's for showing off, keeping up with the trend, or simply enjoying taking photos, videos, and chatting online, the Huilong 3G phone is the top choice.
Especially for young people who follow fashion trends, if they can't use their phones to chat on QQ or browse Qzone, and even post selfies with beauty filters when they feel like it, wouldn't they be out of touch?
Therefore, the exquisite and beautiful Huilong 3G mobile phone had already become a fashion favorite of countless young people in 2002, and they would save up to buy one.
Not to mention its stable signal, rich features, long standby battery life, and not-so-cheap price, it is also very popular among bosses, white-collar workers and other groups.
Such a popular product was leaked by Du Bozhong...
Zhao Ruilong, the younger brother, said it was a small matter, which naturally made Zhao Xiaohui anxious.
"Sis, don't panic!"
As Zhao Ruilong peeled the second egg, he said slowly and deliberately:
"There are three main reasons why I say this is a small matter."
"First of all, Sakura bribed Du Bozhong to steal our technology, and they will definitely follow suit and imitate our 3G phones, but their product quality will definitely not be as good as ours in the short term."
"Because I personally control the core technologies, such as the system source code and the beauty function algorithm, which cannot be stolen by Sakura, and it would take a long time to imitate them."
"Furthermore, 3G phones are more advanced and complex than 2G phones. Our supply chain and production lines are already very mature. If Sakura wanted to imitate them, it would take them a long time to get the supply chain sorted out."