Chapter 336: Establishing “da Jiang” Innovation Technology Co., Ltd.!
The Chen family had originally fled to Magic City as refugees, and they had basically lost touch with relatives, not moving around much at all, since they had separated starting from Grandfather’s generation.
On top of that, the Chen family had only single heirs for two generations, so the whole family, including Chen Jun, consisted of just four people.
Old Master Chen was still in good health, his wife had passed away many years ago, and there was Chen Zhenhua and his wife, who had all personally gone to the airport to pick up Chen Jun.
As the sole heir of two generations of single inheritance, and having not returned home for over five years.
Enjoying the whole family airport pickup treatment was completely reasonable.
Chen Jun had fused with the original host’s memories, which had deepened more and more over these years, so even though his soul had transmigrated, he had developed deep feelings for his family.
So when he walked out of the airport exit and saw the whole family waiting outside to welcome him, there was no awkwardness at all.
He naturally accepted the emotionally rich, son-longing Mother Chen hugging him and weeping with joy, and he naturally stroked her back to comfort her.
Then, seeing Old Master Chen with a face full of smiles, Chen Jun calling him Grandfather came very naturally.
“Good boy, you’ve gotten darker and more sturdy.”
Old Master Chen patted Chen Jun’s arm, nodding repeatedly while looking him over and saying: “The troops are great, it’s a good place for training people.
Your growth over these years has made me very satisfied. Originally, you hadn’t come home for five years, and Grandfather was very angry, wanting to give you a good beating.
But now seeing your changes, you’ve become a qualified soldier, Grandfather is happy and delighted, so I’ll let you off, you stinky boy.”
“Grandfather, you can’t hit me.”
Chen Jun very much enjoyed this family atmosphere and deliberately said boastfully: “Your grandson is a Deputy Battalion Commander, you were only a Squad Leader back then, I’m your Leader, hitting me would violate discipline.”
“Hahaha, already a Deputy Battalion Commander, my grandson is truly promising, haha.” Old Master Chen was teased by Chen Jun but instead of getting angry, he laughed excitedly.
Hoping for one’s son to become a dragon is a traditional custom in China, and for a grandson to become a Deputy Battalion Commander at such a young age.
For the elderly, this was the best surprise.
“Jun’er, you can’t be rude, how can you make Grandfather call you Leader.”
Mother Chen smiled indulgently and scolded Chen Jun, then urged impatiently: “Come on, let’s go home first, Mom had Auntie prepare lots of your favorite dishes, guaranteed to fill you up.”
“Right, get in the car first.”
Chen Zhenhua had seen Chen Jun before, so his emotions were the steadiest, and he personally drove the Mercedes-Benz to take the family home.
After driving out of the airport for about half an hour, they finally returned to Chen Jun’s long-absent home.
It was an entire standalone large villa in Magic City’s HP district, with a building area over four hundred square meters, plus front and back gardens of over a thousand square meters.
This kind of house was definitively exclusive to the wealthy; without a net worth over a billion, you couldn’t even move in.
In top luxury residential areas like Tan Palace and Jing Yuan, in the late nineties when they hadn’t been developed yet, Magic City’s most expensive properties were these old Shanghai-style standalone villas.
In a few more years, with the country emphasizing protection of old buildings, this type of standalone villa would all be listed for protection.
“This is what rich people are like.”
A house that would rise to several billion in price in another decade was actually his own home; entering and seeing the luxurious decor, Chen Jun really felt like he was dreaming.
Although Chen Jun had already lived three lifetimes, the first two had truly been as a poor person.
One lifetime in the troops, with not much money in hand.
Forget about things costing hundreds of millions casually, even for something in the hundreds of thousands, he had to calculate when buying it, how many years of his salary it would take to save up.
Fortunately, Chen Jun was someone with a big heart, plus he had fused with the original host’s memories.
After a brief moment of surprised tsking, Chen Jun quickly adapted, integrating into this family and seeing himself as the master of this home.
The next two or three days followed a similar lifestyle pattern.
Mainly centered on family affection.
Either accompanying Old Master Chen chatting, recounting things that happened to him in the troops over the years, making the family’s Old Master proud of his grandson.
Or being pulled by Mother Chen to fuss over him, buying him various clothes and personal items.
Watches, ties, suits, and such, all custom-made from brand-name stores, even underpants and socks were custom.
If not for Chen Jun strongly insisting he didn’t need them, since he had to return to the troops in a while.
Mother Chen, with five years of pent-up longing erupting, would have dragged Chen Jun to buy a Lamborghini sports car, because all the young people in Magic City liked driving sports cars, and her own son absolutely couldn’t lag behind anyone.
Chen Jun was truly speechless.
His first personal experience of a rich person’s life completely shattered his cognition; turns out with money, you really could indulge in luxury and decadence.
After fully relaxing and accompanying his family, eating, drinking, and having fun for a full five days.
In between, he naturally didn’t forget to keep in touch with Liao Qiuxue; after five days of warming up, it had upgraded from initial mutual text messages to late-night phone chats.
Talking on the phone for half an hour each day, just sharing what happened that day, and the two chatted enthusiastically.
It had a bit of the feel of dating.
Old Master Chen, Father Chen, and Mother Chen all knew Chen Jun and Liao Qiuxue were dating, and thinking they could soon hold a grandson, their faces gained a few more wrinkles.
They were happy every day, mouths unable to close, with wrinkles forcibly squeezed out.
After five days of wholeheartedly accompanying his family, Chen Jun felt it was about enough, mainly because he himself was getting a bit restless, urgently wanting to get to the main topic.
So he specially picked a time to call his father to the study, inquiring in detail about how things were progressing.
Back then, when Chen Zhenhua visited relatives at the troops and reconciled with his son Chen Jun, having a great talk, Chen Jun had proposed many suggestions for the company’s future development.
Among them, what Chen Jun highlighted as key, insisting Chen Zhenhua must pursue, was the small drone field.
Although while still in the troops, Chen Jun had kept in contact with his father Chen Zhenhua, always paying attention to the small drone field.
But many things couldn’t be explained clearly over the phone; now that they met, he naturally wanted to understand properly.
Chen Zhenhua actually still had some preconceptions about what Chen Jun had said back then, feeling that Chen Jun, who had no business experience, no matter how logical his words, were ultimately just his own ideas.
Doing business wasn’t just about having logic.
So after returning from the troops, Chen Zhenhua hadn’t really put much effort into internet development, and hadn’t organized a dedicated team to operate it.
The main focus was still on doing well in the family’s traditional industry, further expanding territory in ocean shipping.
Chen Zhenhua had his own thoughts and directions he wanted to expand, putting main energy into expanding the ocean shipping industry.
Mainly targeting a major event the country was handling in the recent two years, which had enormous influence on the ocean shipping industry—
Applying to join the WTO!
Once China successfully joined the WTO, this developing country could further promote global trade liberalization through the organization.
And with the progress of trade liberalization, China’s foreign trade would inevitably surge substantially.
With trade liberalization between China and the world, all sorts of goods would need transportation channels to “move” between China and the world.
Then, demand for ocean shipping would inevitably skyrocket exponentially.
Ocean shipping required large cargo ships, especially those over ten thousand tons; from ordering to launching, it was calculated in years.
If preparations were made in advance to have the company own as many cargo ships as possible.
Then…
Chen Zhenhua believed that after China joined the WTO, the family business would inevitably ride this east wind to reach new heights.
As for if China failed to join, the excess capacity from early team expansion might drag down the group, Chen Zhenhua could still accept it.
Doing business couldn’t guarantee profits; to make a fortune, you had to gamble.
Moreover, Chen Zhenhua had a very high chance of winning this bet.
And in previous chats with Chen Jun, the son had given a ninety percent probability for China joining the WTO.
It was the comprehensive consideration of all these factors that finally made Chen Zhenhua determined.
To bet on the old line of business, vigorously develop shipping.
As for the future emerging industries Chen Jun mentioned, Chen Zhenhua himself knew nothing about the internet, and it was something intangible in the future.
Chen Zhenhua really didn’t dare jump in rashly into an unfamiliar field.
However.
Although he hadn’t pursued starting an internet company, Chen Zhenhua hadn’t completely ignored Chen Jun, still giving his sole heir son a lot of face.
In the small drone field that Chen Jun repeatedly urged, he specially had people do extensive investigations.
And prepared a full five million to build a brand-new subsidiary, focusing on emerging technology directions, with the first project being miniaturized drones.
The company’s license was already approved, named “Dajiang Innovation Technology Co., Ltd.”
And through years of connections and methods accumulated in Magic City, he had set up the company framework, hiring basic personnel for each department.
Now only the most critical core was missing—
R&D team!
The most primary core for a technology innovation company, with no other comparable, was a sufficiently strong R&D team.
Just like a restaurant, no matter how good the decor or how much funds invested, it needed a good chef team.
If it couldn’t make delicious food, everything was for nothing.
The same for a technology innovation company; without a strong R&D team to develop new technology products, only “death” awaited the company.
Good technology innovation R&D teams were extremely hard to find, especially under the current severely restricted situation.
The United States, to suppress the rise of the Eastern giant dragon, had very severe suppression in the talent field; big shots with resounding fame in the field, Chen Zhenhua couldn’t realistically pull under his banner.
Not that they looked down on Chen Zhenhua’s strength, but groups at this level simply couldn’t fight American hegemony.
In the past year, even activating overseas shipping’s accumulated foreign connections and resources, Chen Zhenhua hadn’t managed to get any related industry “big shots.”
Even though through various investigations, he knew related talents were mainly concentrated in Europe and the United States, he still couldn’t poach a single big shot to the domestic area.
Not that Chen Zhenhua couldn’t offer high prices, but there were various mysterious forces restricting it.
Fortunately, effort pays off for the dedicated.
Although a year of effort abroad yielded nothing, during that time he gained some understanding of the field, plus Chen Jun had mentioned it in chats.
Chen Zhenhua, through a friend’s introduction, contacted Professor Li Zexiang of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
As a businessman who followed his father’s generation in struggling, Chen Zhenhua knew nothing about the technology field and wasn’t very familiar with this Li Zexiang.
He only knew he was a “big shot” in the robotics technology field at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
He had some influence in the industry.
With no way to find foreign big shots, Chen Zhenhua could only place hopes on this Li Zexiang; in his view, robots and drones were the same category.
As long as he could secure this Li Zexiang, he could definitely secure the research team.
After all, this was a professor from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, who had mentored countless students; having him lead a research team would be a matter of minutes.
One person could bring up a research team; that was the huge advantage big shots in the industry naturally had.
To ensure the maximum chance of winning over Li Zexiang, Chen Zhenhua decided to emulate the Three Kingdoms’ three visits to the thatched cottage, personally visiting to invite him to join the company.
Just as Chen Zhenhua was preparing to set off, he received Chen Jun’s call saying he was coming home to visit relatives.
Thinking Chen Jun understood the technology field better, Chen Zhenhua felt having Chen Jun go with him to visit might increase the probability of securing Li Zexiang.
So Chen Zhenhua canceled the trip, specially waiting for Chen Jun to return home from visiting relatives.
Now Chen Jun had specially called him to the study to ask about the technology startup company matters, and Chen Zhenhua naturally spilled everything.
After hearing it all, Chen Jun was greatly shocked, couldn’t help inwardly sighing: “I never thought, I just mentioned it in passing before, Hong Kong was controlled by the United Kingdom, known as one of Asia’s Four Little Dragons, definitely with plenty of industry elites.
If really couldn’t find an R&D team, could try Hong Kong.
Unexpectedly, truly unexpectedly, he actually found one, and drew the supreme card, Professor Li Zexiang, known in the future as the ‘Godfather’ of DJI Company, almost perfectly matching professionally.
If he could really pull in Li Zexiang, then DJI’s future founder Wang Tao, unless by accident, would also become a member of the company’s R&D team.
Transforming the future DJI, which nearly monopolized the globe, perfectly into the Chen family’s Dajiang.
Moreover, with the Chen family’s massive funds injection, and Chen Jun this future person’s guidance on R&D directions, Dajiang’s development would definitely be several times faster than DJI’s initial startup pieced together with just two million.
In 2002, or even 2001, developing China’s first generation small drone might very well become reality.”
Brilliant!
Simply too brilliant!
Thinking of the future drone giant enterprise becoming part of his own company, helping him build the world’s strongest combined arms unit.
Chen Jun’s heartbeat couldn’t help accelerating, adrenaline stimulated out.
