Chapter 183 Jiang Yehan
Chapter 183 Jiang Yehan
"In order to save Li Lang from his home, who would have expected that he would win the first prize on the imperial list..."
"I have also been to the Qionglin Banquet, and I have also ridden a horse on the Imperial Street..."
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"I took the exam not to become famous, and I took the exam not to become a high official."
"For the affectionate Mr. Li, the loving couple, the flowers are in full bloom, the moon is full..."
This year's latest electronic speakers were playing newly arranged old songs. The older women in the square were clapping their hands and dancing to the soothing rhythm. Light and shadows overlapped under the street lamps, and people were silhouetted on the ground.
Xia Yubing held a scattered hydrangea in her hand, lowered her eyes and looked at the intertwining figures in the square, wondering what she was thinking.
Ning Zhe sat next to her, unzipped the travel bag, and briefly checked the equipment inside.
A folded lightweight drone, along with supporting control equipment and replaceable batteries, but without a manufacturer label.
The two large-caliber pistols that use standard rifle bullets, as well as the corresponding spare ammunition, also cannot be seen from which manufacturer they come. It is estimated that they are assembled from non-standard parts purchased from multiple different channels.
There are 3 cameras that can be loaded onto drones. Judging from the brand, they are products of the Baihan Group, which specializes in photographic equipment. The products are genuine, but Ning Zhe has never seen this model of Baihan before.
"This is a trial sample. The effect is slightly better than the products on the market, but the manufacturing cost is almost half as high, so it has not been put into mass production." Seeing that he was confused, Xia Yubing began to explain.
"Trial samples? How did you get this thing?" Ning Zhe became interested.
Xia Yubing's face fell, and she said unhappily, "My father is the co-founder of Baixun, the one with the surname Jiang, Jiang Yehan."
"I see." Ning Zhe nodded to show that he understood.
Baihan is currently the leading supplier of photographic equipment in China. The photographic equipment here does not only refer to the professional equipment in the hands of photography enthusiasts. From the city's sky eyes purchased by local governments to the small cameras on smartphones used by ordinary people, all are within the scope of Baihan's business.
Compared to the stable and conservative Zhang Yangxu, Xia Yubing's father, Jiang Yehan, who founded the Baihan Group, is a very radical person.
When he was still a poor student, he dared to fabricate false information to obtain loans from financial institutions and then bet the money he obtained on the Internet industry.
However, unlike those speculators who plunged into the old Internet wars, Jiang Yehan saw that the major trend in the future would be the unilateral suppression of traditional print media by online streaming media.
Not long ago, the camera was still a symbol of journalists, and when ordinary people mentioned taking photos, the first thing they thought of was the photo studio.
In the near future, widespread Internet access and cheap data traffic will shift the demand for "taking a photo" from media practitioners to hundreds of millions of ordinary people.
Jiang Yehan realized this and made a decisive move, going all in.
First, they plagiarized foreign patents to lower product costs. Then, they engaged in vicious competition, using despicable means including but not limited to spreading rumors and slander and reporting tax evasion to suppress their peers.
After starting to make profits, Jiang Yehan quickly mortgaged his assets to raise funds and purchased advanced technology from foreign companies that were still far ahead at the time. He then used the patent authorizations from the foreign companies to sue his peers in court, accusing them of infringement, dealing another blow to his already defeated competitors.
After accumulating enough technical accumulation and talent reserves, Jiang Yehan led the Baihe Group to turn to self-research, using concepts such as "supporting domestic products" and "seeing the moon of Shenzhou with Shenzhou's eyes" to play the emotional card, labeling all the peers who were late to the party and began to import foreign technology as sheepdogs, using cyber troops to bombard them with information, making their products the target of public criticism, as if buying those brands made them no longer a Jiuzhou person...
One cut followed another, each one drawing blood and killing people. Today, almost all domestic smartphone launches use the fact that their products are equipped with Baike cameras as a major selling point. Baike Group has also become the designated supplier of the City Sky Eye, and the professional-grade photography equipment they produce has also been recognized by photography enthusiasts. Jiang Yehan's legendary status can no longer be shaken.
Vicious, extreme, desperate, and arbitrary. A very evil person. This is Ning Zhe's evaluation of Jiang Yehan.
Then he was spotted by Xia Yubing's grandfather, because the financial institution where Jiang Yehan had defrauded loans was owned by the Xia family. After the truth was revealed, he fell to his knees at lightning speed and married Xia Yubing's mother. Otherwise, when his legendary entrepreneurial journey just reached the stage of "suppressing peers", he would probably have started to encounter threats to his personal safety.
Personal efforts are important, but having a strong backer behind you is also important, or even more important.
"Hmm...what is this?"
After putting Bai's sample camera and light folding crossbow back into the travel bag in order, Ning Zhe fumbled around and found another thing in the interlayer of the bag, something that was not on the list he had made for Xia Chan.
A free gift?
Ning Zhe took the thing out of his backpack and exposed it to the light. It was a leather-bound notebook with a black carbon pen clipped on the cover.
"Why is there a notebook in the bag?" Ning Zhe turned his head to look at Xia Yubing: "Yours?"
Xia Yubing shook her head: "My aunt asked me to bring this to you."
As she spoke, she pulled out an identical notebook from her small leather bag. It was exactly the same as the one in Ning Zhe's hand, except that the pen on the cover of her notebook was blue ink, while Ning Zhe's was black ink.
"This thing..." Ning Zhe frowned slightly. With the light of the street lamp, he had already discovered something wrong.
The notebooks in both of their hands were covered with real leather, not cheap artificial leather.
Artificial leather is a modern industrial product, which is characterized by cheapness and large quantity. No matter how many meters it is stretched, the pattern is the same and it repeats itself over and over again. However, this is not the case with biological leather. There are no two identical cows in the world, and no two identical cowhides.
Even if the same batch of leather products of the same model are produced by the same company, their "sameness" is only the same in the manufacturing process. As long as you put your mind aside and observe carefully, you can still see some subtle differences in the skin texture. They are not exactly the same.
But the two notebooks in his and Xia Yubing's hands are exactly the same, exactly the same in the literal sense.
The texture of the skin, the gradient of colors, the creases on the spine... even someone as observant as Ning Zhe could not find the slightest difference between the two notebooks. The terrifying consistency was like copy and paste.
"Well, Ningzhe, open the cover to the first page." Xia Yubing said, opening the notebook in her hand and pulling out the blue ink pen on the cover: "Aunt said this thing will definitely be useful to you. After doing this, you will know how to use it."
Ning Zhe nodded, unbuttoned his shirt, and turned to the first page of the notebook in his hand.
At the same time, Xia Yubing held a blue ink pen and wrote a few words in a lively handwriting on the first line of the first page of the notebook:
【Hello】
Ning Zhe looked down at his lap and saw three blue Chinese characters appearing one by one on the first line of the first page of the notebook on top of it:
【Hello? 】
Xia Yubing added another question mark at the end.
(End of this chapter)