Chapter 214: Chapter 214 Lao Lei’s Statement (3rd Update)

It was evident that Li Huiqun was quite skilled at handling the tasks assigned by Lin Yi.

However, in terms of dealing with people, he still lacked quite a bit.

Lin Yi, on the other hand, wasn’t naturally adept; the reason he knew so much was entirely due to the teachings of Lao Lin, an old hand in the official circles, from an early age.

Upon arriving at the office, Lin Yi and Lao Lei didn’t rush into the main topic but engaged in casual conversation.

There was no need to mention Lin Yi, after all, he wasn’t the one in a hurry at the moment.

As for Lao Lei, being an old hand in the business world, he naturally understood the principle that one shouldn’t rush in negotiations.

And precisely because of this, the two talked about almost nothing substantial for half an hour.

Knock, knock.

At this moment, the door to Lin Yi’s office was knocked on.

Soon after, Li Bing, the head of the PR department, dressed in a professional OL outfit, walked in with a document.

Seeing there was a guest for her boss, she politely nodded and then turned to Lin Yi, speaking with great respect and friendliness:

“President Lin, according to your arrangement, the formal signing ceremony will be held in two hours. Also, here is the pricing strategy sorted out by President Xiao.”

As she spoke, she walked over to Lin Yi’s desk, her high heels clacking, and placed the document in front of him.

It must be said, Li Bing, one of the few campus beauties from Tsinghua, was indeed very pleasing to the eye.

This is also why she was in the PR department.

But Lin Yi was not a playboy; eye-candy is fine, but it ends there. After all, compared to Xiao Zihan, Li Bing was just barely watchable.

Therefore, when faced with the somewhat playful look from Lao Lei, Lin Yi just smiled slightly and then ignored it.

“President Lei, please enjoy some tea while I quickly deal with these documents.”

After signaling for Li Huiqun to accompany Lao Lei, Lin Yi casually opened the document that Xiao Zihan had asked Li Bing to bring over.

As expected, the file contained a series of pricing lists for the nuclear core smartphones.

Not only did it list the bids from users within the Nuclear Creation Community, but it also provided the comprehensive analysis and pricing from the finance department.

It has to be mentioned that the comprehensive bid in that thread by ten thousand users reached as high as thirty thousand!

What does this indicate? It’s self-evident.

However, since Lin Yi had initially stated that the final pricing of the nuclear core phones wouldn’t exceed that of the iPhone 12, he simply shook his head to reject this thirty-thousand pricing.

Then, as he continued down, he saw the pricing proposed by the finance department based on cost calculations.

Two thousand one hundred fifty-three yuan and seventy-one cents, this is the cost price of all the budgets.

According to the current prevailing profit margins in the smartphone market, the final price proposed by the finance department was seven thousand three hundred and fifty.

Although this price isn’t the most reasonable in today’s smartphone industry, it’s undoubtedly a price with relatively low profit.

After all, the cost of the nuclear core phone is indeed somewhat too high.

Comparing it to those phones with a cost of a thousand yuan and a selling price of five to six thousand, it’s far more conscientious.

Yet Lin Yi wasn’t very satisfied with this figure either. After all, although part of the reason he created this phone was to complete the system task, he didn’t want to profit off his own people.

After thinking for a moment, Lin Yi directly picked up a pen, drew an X on the final suggested price, and wrote down a number himself.

Then he scribbled a line of words behind it before closing it and handing it to Li Bing:

“Let’s go with this.”

“Alright, President Lin.”

After Li Bing withdrew, Li Huiqun also took his leave after saying goodbye.

There was no other way; with the signing ceremony imminent, Li Huiqun still had many things to handle.

Once everyone had left, Lin Yi smiled warmly at Lao Lei:

“The official signing ceremony for our phones will start in two hours. I wonder if I have the honor to invite President Lei to attend?”

What else could Lao Lei say to this, not attend? That would be a joke, right? What was his purpose for coming here…

If he didn’t attend this launch event, then there would be no need to discuss the matters planned for later.

However, just before he could speak, the phone on Lin Yi’s desk rang.

After giving Lao Lei an apologetic look, Lin Yi answered the phone.

He said only, “Got it, I’ll be there shortly,” before hanging up, redirecting his wry smile to Lao Lei:

“Hehe, President Chen from OP is here; shall we go greet him together?”

With that, Lin Yi still stood up, and seeing this, Lao Lei felt bitter inside, thinking these guys were really quick to arrive.

With these thoughts, Lao Lei also stood up:

“Hehe, we are all old friends, so let’s go together.”

Just as they took a few steps out, Lao Lei suddenly spoke out of nowhere:

“The Rice Group’s 600 factories, the fastest equipment transformation would also take a few months.”

After saying this, there was no apparent expression on Lao Lei’s face, but inside, he tightly clenched a fist in nervousness.

He could only hope this young President Lin beside him understood his intentions…

[To be continued…]

PS: There were too many things going on the last couple of days, and updates were a bit slow; I’ll make it up to you starting now! Tomorrow we’ll resume the normal update time, with updates at 00:05 and 00:08 every day!