Chapter 9: Contract Secured
This is the tragedy of small businesses.
No reputation, no qualifications. No one believes what you say.
The wireless charging transmission equipment made by Fan Ren is not a small machine that can be carried around everywhere for on-site demonstrations to others.
Just talking is hardly enough to gain clients’ trust.
Liu Jun, who had gotten off to a bad start, could not help feeling a bit discouraged.
Wearing an expensive suit, he sat image-less on the steps in front of the building and smoked a cigarette.
As he flicked the cigarette butt far away, Liu Jun rallied himself again.
There are no smooth-sailing careers in the world. On to the next company!
He just didn’t believe it.
Deli Electric Power, Hai Niu Electric Power, Ao Mei Electric Power, San Xin Group, De Suo Group.
Among these enterprises with offices in Linhai, three are domestic companies and two are foreign companies. He couldn’t secure even one of them!
Time passed unnoticed, and a week went by quickly.
Meanwhile, Fan Ren was absorbing the battery technology in his mind while reviewing related derivative information.
Opening the data panel, the experience bar had predictably increased a bit.
Basic Science: Level 1 (181/1000)
Electronics: Level 1 (224/1000)
Mechanics: Level 1 (229/1000)
Materials Science: Level 1 (238/1000)
Space Science: Level 1 (5/1000)
Fan Ren contentedly withdrew from the consciousness space. This was turning into a virtuous cycle.
“It’s done!”
“Hai Niu Electric Power’s 500 million contract! One hundred million paid upfront, with the rest arriving in installments over three years.”
Liu Jun, who was noticeably thinner and much tanner, appeared before him extremely excited.
He waved a document in his hand, his eyes filled with agitation.
This was the first high-value contract he had truly secured in his life, setting aside his identity as a rich second-generation heir and without relying on his family background!
“However, they proposed a non-one-time payment requirement. To secure it quickly at the time, I agreed without consulting you.”
A smile appeared on Fan Ren’s face. Paying no mind to the condition, he pointed at the smug Liu Jun in front of him and said grumpily, “You negotiated with them looking like this?”
Liu Jun had been running around these past few days, going from high-spirited at the start to groveling later. All the edges of his rich second-generation persona had long been worn away.
He knew his current appearance was poor, but he didn’t care.
“How much better do you look?”
Upon hearing this, Fan Ren went to the bathroom and looked in the mirror.
Good grief, the originally handsome and clear-featured young man now had a full face of stubble and a clear layer of cigarette grease on his face.
Helplessly scratching his head, the two went out and sat down at their usual dining restaurant.
“Come, celebrate General Manager Liu’s immediate success!”
In the sweltering summer, downing a cold beer felt indescribably refreshing.
“With the family background before, I didn’t realize it. But after casting all that aside, you have no idea—those snobbish dogs looking down on people. I was turned away everywhere with such awesome patents and technical reports. That scene…”
Liu Jun smiled bitterly as he recounted the hardships of these days. Fan Ren set down his beer glass, lit a cigarette, and didn’t interrupt him.
Fan Ren had somewhat guessed what Liu Jun was saying. Although he was a fresh university graduate, his years as an orphan had given him plenty of social experience.
“But that said, don’t laugh at me—this kind of starting from zero and striving feels way more exhilarating than my previous cookie-cutter way of living. Cheers!”
Fan Ren clinked glasses with Liu Jun with a smile, and the two began discussing the company’s future development plan.
According to his idea, with funds in hand, they should start designing their own high-voltage wireless charging product.
The experimental wireless charging technology could achieve 1150V because the materials and production tools were all low-end products bought online.
The technology in Fan Ren’s mind was the full unlocked instructions, capable of reaching ultra-high voltage levels.
It was just that the required materials were not yet available on the market.
Modern technological development mostly relies on materials science. Core materials in many industries, like batteries, chips, and so on, have already been thoroughly researched and exhausted at the current stage.
To achieve leapfrog breakthroughs, they could only make breakthroughs in materials.
For example, Fan Ren’s newly acquired solid-state battery technology proposed using biologically derived bone matter as the refinement material to replace traditional liquid medium, achieving higher unit capacity.
After solving a series of new material matching problems, it broke through traditional battery technology, with unit capacity at least twice that of traditional liquid batteries.
Leaving aside the battery project, which they hadn’t started yet.
For wireless charging technology, Fan Ren could outperform other companies with this technology in every other detail.
Plus the complete perfect production process, he was confident he could make products of the same cost with better quality and stronger performance.
But starting a manufacturing company is not that easy.
If they wanted to build their own factory.
Land acquisition, factory construction, frontline workers, engineers, product designers, and so on—these were all necessary steps, none of which could be skipped.
And after painstakingly completing all these and producing high-quality, affordable products, they still had to figure out how to sell them.
This was not an easy task.
After some discussion, the two decided that without ample funds and manpower, they would temporarily take the path of seeking foundry manufacturing.
This was also the starting development path for most industrial companies.
While they were discussing enthusiastically, Hai Niu Electric Power, as a listed company, issued a patent usage contract announcement that gradually sparked discussion in the market.
At the same time, Deli, Ao Mei, and the two foreign companies in related fields, San Xin and De Suo Group, gradually began paying attention to the news.
These companies were all leading enterprises in the global wireless charging field, and their engineers were no mediocrities.
After checking Fan Ren’s batch of related patents, their respective teams began experimenting with them.
As a listed company, Hai Niu’s actions were all under shareholder supervision; they couldn’t just casually sign a technology patent contract worth 500 million.
As for Liu Jun’s visits to negotiate cooperation, they were tacitly concealed by the various reception managers.
They could hardly admit that they had driven away the other party as a fraud—that would be a major dereliction of duty.
Soon after, product data replicated by these companies’ engineers according to the patent instructions were placed on the desks of their top executives.
Among them, San Xin Group, with the strongest technical strength in the wireless charging field, was the most shocked.
This patent was not just another piece of junk among countless patents, but something genuinely effective that utterly crushed their in-development ‘400V wireless charging’ project.
Capital’s reaction was extremely swift.
Soon, all the information inside and out about Xinghai Technology was placed on the desks of various company executives.
Registered capital: 50,000; establishment time: three weeks.
Company legal representative: Fan Ren
Orphan, graduated from Nanke University, won multiple domestic competition rankings and bonuses during studies.
Company General Manager: Liu Jun
Son of a certain supplier in the communications field…
No time for exclamation, the engineers from various enterprises discovered through mutual communication that Xinghai Technology’s wireless charging technology patent seemed to have no alternative workarounds.
At this point, they could no longer sit still.
Because before them, Hai Niu had already secured the technology license first—and only for one hundred million upfront.
One step slow, every step slow.
The market is right there; if you don’t occupy it, someone else will scramble to do so.
