Sign a contract

  Tim Cook was jolted awake by an urgent phone call at 3:30 a.m.

  According to his living habits, he should have had another half hour of sleep time. Now, however, he has to waste his breath on the phone for something that was already taken care of a long time ago. His mood wasn't great to begin with, and the message conveyed over the phone made him feel even more uncomfortable.

  "What a terrible day."

  Cook was secretly lamenting in his heart, while continuously calculating the pros and cons. On the surface, he severely criticized Li Yurui on the phone: "You handled this matter very poorly, Lei! The company entrusted you with the Asia-Pacific market because of your understanding of the region and your work ability. But now I'm extremely doubtful whether you have enough capability to handle daily affairs in the Asian region! Agree to his terms and sign the contract immediately. I hope to see this software appear on Apple's app store before iPhone 6 is launched in China!"

  After finishing speaking, Tim Cook directly hung up the phone, while Li Yurui on the other end of the phone was already covered in cold sweat.

  If you only see Tim Cook on TV or at Apple's new product launch, you might think he is a gentle person, but only those who work with him know that this big shot in the US IT industry is actually a meticulous and strict workaholic.

  When he thinks someone is not suitable for a certain position, perhaps the next day the person replacing you and the transfer letter will appear in front of you.

  So Li Yulei, who had just hung up the phone, didn't dare to waste a single moment and directly walked into the negotiation room of Tian Shu Technology. He squeezed out a smile at Huo Guangbo and said: "It seems that we need to use your company's equipment and redraft a contract!"

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  "Lao San, you're awesome! You're the real deal! With just a few words, you turned one billion dollars into two billion, and changed the 50/50 split to a 30/70 split. Those fake foreigners had to smile all the way through as they signed the contract with us. I'm impressed!" Ho Guangbo burst into Wang Zhengyu's office, holding a stack of contracts, his face flushed with excitement.

  "Oh? They agreed so quickly?" Wang Zhengyu stopped the action on his laptop, raised his head and looked at He Guangbo with surprise.

  "You just left, and that guy with the surname Li went out to make a call. He turned around and had their people re-print the contract. What's there to be slow about? Now it's just waiting for your signature to take effect! The contract was drafted entirely according to your requirements, not a single penny was negotiated!"

  Huo Guangbo threw the contract document onto Wang Zhengyu's office desk and then sat down opposite him with a plop.

  "Awesome, it's too awesome! You didn't see Li's face afterwards, it was all smiles, smiling like he was about to cry, as if he was afraid we'd change the terms again! Haha, if making money in business is always this awesome, I'm willing to live ten years less!" Huo Guangbo exclaimed exaggeratedly.

  Wang Zhengyu picked up the contract, glanced at it casually, took a pen from the desk and signed his name while saying: "So this means I'll have to live ten years less? If I said that in the future we're going to acquire Apple, Samsung, Microsoft, Google... and make them all work for us, wouldn't you die of excitement right now?"

  "Whoa! Can't you be more excited? You're making me less excited now! Wait, how do I feel like in just one day, your ambition has become even bigger than mine?! Not only do we want to be the world's largest and most profitable company, but also acquire all these top-notch high-tech companies?! Just listening to it makes my blood boil with excitement! If that day really comes, I'd die two or three times for it!" Huo Guangbo exclaimed exaggeratedly.

  "Alright, look at your attitude!" Wang Zhengyu shook his head and asked seriously: "What does the contract say about the payment method?"

  When it comes to the matter, Huo Guangbo immediately became serious and picked up the contract. After flipping through a few pages, he began to explain: "After the contract is signed, Apple will immediately pay 20% of the agreed amount, which is $400 million, into our company's foreign exchange account. Once the software has been uploaded, reviewed, and published successfully, Apple will pay the remaining $1.6 billion in one lump sum. In addition, according to the contract, the software will be priced by Apple's online store and notified to us, with royalties paid quarterly into the company's foreign exchange account."

  "Oh!" Wang Zhengyu nodded and then asked: "Is it convenient to withdraw money from the company's foreign exchange account when needed?"

  "I'm not very clear about this either, but I called to ask, as long as the taxes are paid normally and all the receipts are complete, there's no problem. I plan to go find a financial expert who is familiar with this tomorrow. Don't even get me started on the accounting, just developing invoices can confuse me to death!" Ho Guangbo said, rubbing his temples.

  "Em, get this done quickly, we're all not familiar with finance, and suddenly there's such a large sum of money coming in, it's easy to make mistakes! Alright, the agreement is signed, you take it to them!" Wang Zhengyu handed over the contract with the stamped seal to Huo Guangbo.

  "Isn't that right? You really aren't going to meet with them? It's a multi-billion dollar business, after all, and they've come from afar. You can't even treat them to a meal?" Huo Guangbo said in surprise.

  Wang Zhengyu shook his head and said with a hint of sarcasm, "What's good to eat with them? I reckon Li Yulei has eaten my thoughts instead. Alright, you represent me and take them to find a place to eat something, so as not to say we don't do our due diligence as hosts! By the way, don't go to some big hotel, just somewhere that's passable is fine, and try to save on food and drink expenses if possible."

  Huo Guangbo's eyes widened in disbelief, saying: "Isn't that right? You're even stingy with this little money? This afternoon you said to open the salary high when recruiting people, didn't you? Now there's an additional $100 million in revenue, and you're still being so petty about eating a meal?"

  "It's all about how you use the money! If we give it to future employees of our company, as long as they can create enough value for the company, no matter how high their salary is. What value can inviting them to dinner create? We don't have any requirements for them anyway!" Wang Zhengyu said with a matter-of-fact expression.

  "Alright! Your reasoning sounds quite reasonable! I'm going!" Ho Guangbo picked up the contract signed by Wang Zhengyu, stood up and walked towards the door. Just as he reached the doorway, he turned his head and said: "Oh! Excitedly almost forgot, the contract also stipulates that this software must be delivered to them or submitted to the Apple online store for review before tomorrow noon at 12 o'clock, are we okay?"

  "No problem, I'm almost done! It's not like I spent some time studying the iOS interface for Apple or anything. Now it might already be finished!" Wang Zhengyu pointed to his laptop in front of him and smiled: "This is a good excuse, now I have a reason not to go with them for dinner! Just say that I'm working day and night to develop the voice-controlled smart home IOS version for them, and remind me to make sure that Li doesn't thank me too much!"

  "Alright, I'm off then. I'll pack dinner back for you! Alright, I'll just stay here tonight!" Ho Guangbo replied, walking out of the office and closing the door behind him.

  Wang Zhengyu looked up and saw off He Guangbo as he walked out of the office, without wasting any time, he once again buried his head and started typing intently on the keyboard of his laptop.

  If we say that the underlying operating system is a technology he completely copied from the heavenly book, typing out each line of code one by one, then what he's doing now is to apply the knowledge the heavenly book taught him and start learning through practice.

  The Android version of the intelligent voice-controlled mobile phone housekeeper is a software left to him by Tiānshū, and now he wants to develop an IOS version for the Apple operating system based on the functional modules of this software. This requires him to fully understand and integrate the things left to him by Tiānshū.

  Although the Android version of this software is already there, Wang Zhengyu only needs to follow these functional modules and re-write the software according to the IOS interface provided by Apple. It's less about designing the software, but it's still a development job, which is different from typing out the code in his mind character by character.

  Of course, this kind of work also makes Wang Zhengyu feel more accomplished.

  In Wang Zhengyu's view, Tian Shu is a very excellent teacher. Having such an excellent teacher, he must also be an excellent student.

  Two thousand years ago, the Tian Shu cultivated a versatile master like Guiguzi. After Guiguzi integrated and mastered what he learned from the Tian Shu, not only did he become a great master himself, but also cultivated disciples such as Su Qin, Zhang Yi, Pang Juan, and Sun Bin who were renowned for generations to come.

  Now that he has obtained the heavenly book, he naturally cannot wait passively for the heavenly book to copy its organized contents to him. What he should do instead is to integrate and transform what the heavenly book has imparted to him into his own things, and make further progress by analogy.

  In the end, the heavenly book is just an intelligent product created by a wise life form, and he is the real embodiment of wisdom. Therefore, his future must be in his own hands, rather than relying on the heavenly book for everything. If having the heavenly book brings limitless glory, but losing it one day means achieving nothing, wouldn't that be a waste of this rare encounter?

  Moreover, he had promised the surprisingly talented girl he liked that he would overcome all difficulties to marry her. He had made so many promises and said so many reassuring words, but in reality, he didn't have even half of the abilities he claimed, which made Wang Zhengyu's face turn red just thinking about it.

  So, whether it's for himself or for Mo Xiaoyao, he must work hard, harder, and even harder! This is the requirement that Wang Zhengyu has set for himself in his heart, and apparently, he is doing so at this moment.

  Knocking out code, testing modules, time flies quickly in the dull work. During this period, Huo Guangbo sent over dinner and chatted with him for a few sentences before leaving on his own accord. Wang Zhengyu, however, remained seated in front of the computer, working hard.

  Until late at night, after finally finishing the work on hand, Wang Zhengyu suddenly remembered the girl's entrustment to make a phone call every day when she left at noon, and a happy arc hung from the corner of his mouth. He picked up the mobile phone placed beside the table.