"Could chasing girls actually improve my language skills?"
His Chinese subject experience points had gone up by 2,000. If the Galaxy Technology Library had not malfunctioned, then there was only one explanation, no matter how unbelievable it seemed.
The Galaxy Technology Library would never malfunction, so his ambiguous interactions with Li Shihan must have increased his Chinese subject experience points.
Zhou Feiyu found it both funny and absurd. Looks like I should talk to Li Shihan more often from now on.
Zhou Feiyu had no interest in being some kind of playboy.
A person's worth lay in self-discipline and restraint. If someone completely indulged their desires, how were they any different from a beast? He did not care about others, but decades of family upbringing had given him a strong sense of responsibility.
Nothing happened that night.
The next day, while Zhou Feiyu was on his way to the county town, he received a message from Wang Wei. Wang Wei told him to arrange some samples for project validation and said the drawings had been sent to his email.
Zhou Feiyu opened it and found an email from Hua Long Technology. The attachment was indeed a set of drawings, while the body contained the sample requirements. The email was from a buyer in Hua Long Technology's purchasing department, asking him to arrange fifty samples according to the dimensions in the drawings and provide a quotation.
"I'm on the road right now. I'll handle it as soon as I get back."
Overjoyed, Zhou Feiyu quickly replied.
He had been waiting for news from Hua Long Technology these past few days. He had not expected it to take a full two days. The operational efficiency of a major company's internal system really was slow.
Wang Wei replied with an OK gesture.
Once Zhou Feiyu returned to the county town, the first thing he did was deal with that email.
He first calculated the price, then planned the sample schedule before finally sending his reply.
Using the overseas King Material price as a reference, the Basic Optical Film FY-01 he had developed needed to be priced at a 30% discount. Zhou Feiyu calculated the dimensions Hua Long Technology required and determined that it should be intended for a 6.6-inch Dual Punch-Hole Screen phone display. King Material for that size would cost around 8 yuan per piece.
If they used materials from domestic companies such as Qian Jia or Di Guang instead, the price would only be between 1.6 and 2 yuan, a difference of more than 6 yuan.
The profit on a phone screen was only around ten yuan or so, yet this one optical material alone took away 6 yuan. It was clear just how outrageously profitable King Material was in the market.
Of course, if a phone screen used King Material, the price it was sold to customers for would rise accordingly. But no matter how much it rose, compared with the gap between King Material and leading domestic companies like Qian Jia and Di Guang, it was nothing in comparison.
With high-tech in hand, he could make money standing still—and make a fortune at that!
With FY-01 priced at 30% below King Material, the price offered to Hua Long Technology would be 5.6 yuan per piece, tax included.
Zhou Feiyu also calculated the input costs. Each piece should cost between 0.8 and 0.9 yuan, meaning his profit margin was between six and seven times the cost.
"Six hundred to seven hundred percent profit. High technology really is outrageously profitable!"
Zhou Feiyu's delight was beyond words.
He had not included early-stage costs such as free samples, labor, and logistics. Those could be considered R&D expenses and deserved a whole chapter of their own.
He quickly sent an email with the quotation and informed them that the samples could be urgently shipped out that very day. He would fully cooperate with them on this project.
Naturally, it was urgent. Hua Long Technology was his only customer right now, so he had to serve them well. Once things got on track in the future, everything would have to follow procedure. In the industry, Qian Jia and Di Guang generally took seven working days from sample request to delivery, while overseas King Material generally took fifteen working days. Yes, they really were that ridiculously impressive!
After replying to the email, Zhou Feiyu threw himself into making the samples.
Making samples like this generally involved the die-cutting industry—that was, using molds to punch-cut materials. A set of molds would be made, the material would be placed beneath the mold and punched, and the required samples would be cut out.
The shape of the mold was made according to the drawings provided by the customer.
When ordinary people heard the word "mold," they usually thought of large steel molds, the sort mounted on injection molding machines that could churn out toys or buckets.
In truth, molds could be tiny and simple. Even a basic box could be considered a mold in some sense. When food bloggers made jelly or agar, they poured cooked liquid into a box and let it solidify. Once it hardened, they got the jelly or agar they wanted. That was mold production.
In industry, however, producing high-quality products required first making high-quality molds, collectively known as "Precision Mold." Products made by these molds had extremely high precision and naturally excellent quality.
However, Zhou Feiyu had no time to design and produce a set of Precision Mold. He could not even be bothered with ordinary molds, because they all cost money.
A die-cutting Precision Mold for the samples he currently needed would cost several thousand yuan at least. Even an ordinary mold would cost several hundred yuan. That was all money.
Moreover, molds were difficult or even impossible to modify. This was only the first sample run, not final mass production. If he made a mold this time and the customer changed the design afterward, the money he had spent on the mold would go down the drain. Therefore, Zhou Feiyu took the product to an acquaintance at a material die-cutting factory and asked him to arrange laser cutting for the fifty samples. It took only two hours in total and was both economical and practical.
"Your material is a bit unusual. Who are you making samples for?"
His acquaintance asked curiously, "A Dual Punch-Hole Screen isn't common. There aren't many companies on the market that make phone models like this."
Zhou Feiyu smiled and only said that he was doing it for someone else. He would find out later.
Seeing that Zhou Feiyu did not want to say more, the acquaintance could not be bothered to ask. After all, it was someone else's secret.
After packing the samples, Zhou Feiyu sent them out by next-day delivery to the address provided in the email.
By the time he left the courier station, it was already past three in the afternoon.
Zhou Feiyu was about to go see Director Dong and urge him about the startup loan when a familiar call came in.
"Night gave me black eyes, yet I use them to seek the light..."
As his favorite ringtone played, Zhou Feiyu saw the caller name, "Peng Fan," with the note "Zhong Wei Technology Purchasing Manager." He could not help smiling. You ignored me that day, but look at you now—you still have to come to me.
"Hello, President Peng. What wind has brought you to call me personally?"
Zhou Feiyu asked with a smile, his tone carrying a trace of teasing.
Peng Fan's awkward, ingratiating laugh immediately came through the phone. "President Zhou, I failed to recognize true quality that day and missed out on your excellent material. I'm calling today specifically to apologize. I hope you can be the bigger person, let bygones be bygones, and give me another chance."
Hearing him humble himself so thoroughly, Zhou Feiyu felt a little unaccustomed to it. All he had wanted was for Peng Fan to offer a simple apology.
But Peng Fan's current humility was far beyond his expectations, giving him goosebumps.
He immediately replied, "You're being too serious, President Peng."
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