Starting an appliance company sounded simple, but it really wasn't.
Some handled marketing, some built brands, and some made the key components for every part of the system.
Key components didn't necessarily require much technical sophistication, nor were they impossible for others to produce. The main issue was cost accounting. Only by integrating upstream and downstream channels, transportation, labor, and machinery costs effectively could one gain an advantage through pricing.
In other words, it wasn't that other companies couldn't make them; they simply lacked a price advantage, so there was no point in doing so.
Take ballpoint pen tips, for example. Xia Nation wasn't incapable of making them, but a foreign company already specialized in producing them, and there was only one such company worldwide. When Xia Nation produced dozens of tons in one go, that company actually sued them.
This appliance company was the same. Besides manufacturing appliances itself, it also controlled the supply of certain key components—something that was somewhat taboo. However, its public relations were strong, and it wasn't truly monopolizing the entire chain from beginning to end, so others couldn't be bothered to make an issue of it.
If they truly wanted to cause trouble now, they couldn't completely affect other companies' production, but they could still create a little inconvenience for them. Luo Hua might even be affected.
Liang Siyu's concerns were justified, but Feng Jun snorted coldly. "I cultivate so diligently precisely so I won't have to look at other people's faces. And now someone actually dares to think of holding Luo Hua hostage... Fine, I know about this. Ignore them."
He truly wasn't afraid of them cutting off supplies. At worst, he could close the Two-Way Door himself and remain in the Blue Star Realm a while longer. As long as time wasn't