Stronger by Paying Salaries and I Have 1 Billion Employees

Cheng Congwu already thought it was ridiculous enough that the two had scheduled a fight, but he never expected Zhang Chaoyang and Liu Zhiping to start betting on it.

”Probably Lei Yijun. After all, Zhou Hongyi is nearsighted. Break his glasses first, and after that, Lao Zhou can only take a beating.”

Chen Yansen said with a mischievous smile.

”You were there?” Liu Zhiping was momentarily stunned and asked subconsciously.

The actual situation was more or less exactly as Chen Yansen had described.

Zhou Hongyi had practiced Tai Chi and Judo, but Lei Yijun used his longer reach to give the other man a harsh P.E. lesson.

Gao Linwei and Song Yuncheng exchanged glances, struggling to suppress their laughter. Liu Zhiping’s and Zhang Chaoyang’s assistants weren’t doing much better, each covering their mouth to stifle a smile.

The dinner lasted from six in the afternoon until eight-thirty at night. As they left the restaurant, Zhang Chaoyang suggested going to a bar for a while.

Liu Zhiping looked to Chen Yansen, asking for his opinion.

Chen Yansen nodded, not refusing.

He could see what Liu Zhiping was thinking. Since the other man wanted to go, he would naturally oblige him.

「Meanwhile.」

As soon as Lei Yijun walked through the door of his home, he quickly grabbed some ice from the freezer and pressed it to his face.

”That bastard really doesn’t pull his punches!”

Lei Yijun looked at himself in the mirror. His right cheek was red and swollen, looking as if he had the mumps. His face looked a size bigger, and he couldn’t help but curse under his breath.

Just then, the phone on the table suddenly rang.

’Chen Yansen?’

Lei Yijun glanced at the caller ID, but without thinking too much about it, he pressed the answer button and said, ”President Chen, what’s up?”

”I’m in Yanjing. I’ve made plans with Liu Zhiping, Zhang Chaoyang, and Cheng Congwu from Gaode to relax at a bar tonight. Is President Lei free to come out and join us?”

Chen Yansen invited.

’If I go looking like this, won’t I just get laughed at?’

Lei Yijun gave a bitter smile and politely declined.

”President Lei, in that case, I’ll visit your company tomorrow,” Chen Yansen said with a smile.

Lei Yijun actually wanted to say they could meet some other time, but when Chen Yansen mentioned he had a partnership to discuss, he immediately nodded and agreed.

With that, Chen Yansen hung up the phone.

He wasn’t calling to laugh at Lei Yijun’s expense; he genuinely had a partnership he wanted to discuss with Xiaomi.

Orange Mobile Phone’s Factory No. 3 was set to begin production next week. At that point, the combined monthly production capacity of Factories 1 through 3 would reach 6 million units.

However, after nearly twenty days on the market, the total online sales for the Orange C1, C2, and D1 had already dropped to an average of 130,000 orders per day. This was a decline of over seventy percent compared to the sales velocity of the first week.

In addition, Super Factory No. 4 in Luzhou was also under intense preparation. Once it entered the production phase, the total monthly capacity would exceed 10 million units.

Orange Mobile Phone alone could never absorb such a huge production capacity!

Therefore, Chen Yansen wanted to talk to Lei Yijun about snatching the manufacturing contract for the Xiaomi Mobile Phone away from Innolux.

Lei Yijun put down his phone, privately pondering Chen Yansen’s motive.

So far, the only collaboration between Xiaomi and Orange Technology was a licensing agreement for a memory-cleaning algorithm patent. But after the Orange C2 was released, he had quickly learned a crucial piece of information.

The patent Orange Technology had licensed to Xiaomi, Meizu, and OPPO was version 1.0, while the more advanced algorithm-cleaning technology had not been made available to other friendly competitors.

’Could it be that Chen Yansen has had a change of heart and is preparing to license the patent to third-party phone manufacturers?’

「On the other side.」

Zhou Hongyi, his face covered in bruises, returned to a villa within the Second Ring Road. He had made up his mind: he would go back to the office when his injuries had healed.

’This Tai Chi is useless, and Judo is fucking useless too!’

The moment they started that afternoon, the two of them just started swinging haymakers.

Zhou Hongyi’s glasses were shattered in the first exchange. After that, he could only see Lei Yijun’s blurry figure. Fortunately, he managed to land a punch on his opponent, so he didn’t feel like he’d completely lost out.