Life 1984

Chapter 319 Romantic Journey [Please subscribe]

The city of Hannover on the Rhine River is a famous industrial city in Germany. During World War II, it was ravaged by war. It was bombed indiscriminately by nearly two hundred bombers of the British Air Force. Most of the city was reduced to ruins. After World War II, Hannover gradually recovered. Yuanqi has once again become a world-famous industrial town.

Since 1947, the International Industrial Expo has been held here every year, but no Chinese companies have ever participated, as if the industrial event here has nothing to do with our country.It was not until the emergence of Li Yunhai and Sihai Group that the situation changed.

On March 1987, 3, the world-class electronic technology trade fair, the International Office, Information and Telecommunications Technology Trade Fair, kicked off in Hannover.

Hundreds of thousands of businessmen from more than 40 countries around the world have set up more than 16 booths in 3300 large exhibition halls.

Among the exhibitors, the only booth from a major Eastern country caught the attention of the exhibitors.

This small booth, only over 30 square meters, attracted the attention of merchants from all over the world.On the booth, a new microcomputer with excellent performance and low price, the Sihai Longteng 286 microcomputer, attracted everyone's attention and attracted people from similar products on other booths.

Li Yunhai, Professor Ni and others were all responsible for sales promotion in the exhibition hall.

Here, they are both company leaders and showroom staff.

As soon as it started, their oriental appearance attracted the attention of foreigners.

This place is different from the Canton Fair. The Canton Fair is full of Chinese people. To foreigners, at a glance, they all have similar faces. Only the products on display are different.

At this exhibition in a foreign country, buyers took a quick look and saw similar electronic products, but the biggest difference was the different skin colors and appearances of Li Yunhai and others.

As a result, Sihai Group's booth became the most eye-catching place in the entire venue.

This is just like a group of foreigners walking on the street, which also attracts the attention of local people.

Li Yunhai and several others are extremely fluent in English and can communicate with buyers without any obstacles.

This is actually an exhibition of office equipment.

Li Yunhai and the others brought several flagship products from Sihai Group this time.

Longteng 286 microcomputer, Sihai typewriter, micro piezoelectric inkjet printer, and of course the Guangcai brand CCA!

This is the first time for many foreigners to hear the name of Sihai Group, an Oriental enterprise.

But many of them have actually been exposed to Sihai Group's products.

Especially CCA, which does not contain metal ions, now accounts for more than 60% of the global market share, and these products are inseparable from the participation of Sihai Group.Even for CCA produced abroad, many raw materials are still provided by Sihai Group.

After listening to Li Yunhai's introduction, many foreigners learned that the new CCA was originally a product of Sihai Group. They were extremely surprised, and then looked at this company with admiration.

Other products of Sihai Group also amazed foreigners.

The unique function of Sihai typewriter is simply a combination of a laptop and a printer!
Such an awesome product is sold so cheaply. I really wonder how people in the East do it?

Although the 8-inch screen is a bit small, it is a touch screen and does not feel too small if used close to the human body.

Foreigners are amazed by the ability of micro-piezoelectric printers to save consumables.Even if the printer is cheap, you don’t need expensive consumables!

This is truly a gift from heaven!

Longteng 286PC has many highlights and a beautiful price, making it unforgettable after just one glance.

Professor Ni kept demonstrating the speed of Longteng PC to foreigners.

After comparing the speed of the test software, the speed of the Longteng PC is 1.7 times that of the IBM PC!
This test shocked the foreigners.

Throughout the 80s, the blue giant IBM was in an absolute dominant position in the global PC industry.

But with the sudden changes in the PC market, IBM began to decline in the late 80s.

By the early 90s, IBM was losing billions of dollars a year.

It was during this period that several major domestic PC manufacturers emerged one after another.

Great Wall, Donghai, Inspur, Lianxiang, and Sihai, the five major PC manufacturers, have all launched their own computers.

Donghai Computer, for example, is not very famous and cannot be compared with Great Wall. Its annual sales volume is about 2 units.

Because major cities in the country have protection mechanisms for domestically produced computers and purchase plans.

Li Yunhai is developing in Xizhou. Government agencies across the province basically cooperate with Sihai Group when purchasing computers.

Our country's PC market is in a rising period. These years have been the golden age for the development of domestic computers.

Foreign PC manufacturers still look down upon our domestic market, just like Li Yunhai still looks down on the county market.

The expansion of any factory always requires a development process, and it cannot bloom everywhere overnight.

By the time major foreign manufacturers pay attention to my country's mainland market, my country's national PC brands have begun to take shape.

Sihai Group is now the first PC manufacturer in China with independent research and development capabilities.

From chip design to motherboard development, we have independent intellectual property rights.

Foreigners have never seen Chinese PC products in the market, and suddenly they see them, and they are so awesome. Of course they are amazed!

Sihai Group's booth has been crowded with foreigners coming to inquire.

Li Yunhai and others continued to recommend and introduce it from the beginning to the end.

Fortunately, the results were pretty good.

On the first day, five European companies signed orders for Sihai 5 microcomputers. Contracts for more than 286 sets were completed on site, and the intended order quantity exceeded 300 units.

Sihai Typewriter and Inkjet Typewriter also received contracts for 500 units each.

A contract for several hundred units may not seem like much, but this is a breakthrough for my country’s office products at international exhibitions!

After work for the day, Li Yunhai invited everyone to a local restaurant for dinner.

German food is pretty good, including Königsberg meatballs, Nuremberg sausages, roasted pig's trotters with sauerkraut, German salad, knot bread, German beef rolls, etc.

The place where they ate was a beer restaurant.

The restaurant is surrounded by large barrels of beer.

Shen Xiulan asked in surprise: "Yunhai, are these wine barrels? Do Germans love drinking so much?"

Li Yunhai smiled and said: "You are right, the locals like to drink beer very much. The name beer comes from Germany. Germans believe that beer is a healthy, energetic and happy drink, and they also like it very much. "

Shen Xiulan smiled and said: "Huh? That's it! No wonder, there are wine barrels everywhere in this restaurant!"

Professor Ni said: "Germans love beer just like Lao Maozi loves vodka and we love liquor. According to official statistics, each German can drink an average of 138 liters of beer every year."

Shen Xiulan said: "Except for the elderly, women, and children who don't drink, isn't the beer that adult men drink scary?"

Professor Ni said: "Yeah, look at the German guys in this restaurant who drink beer from big cups. They all have beer bellies! We finally came here, and we must have a good drink! This kind of authentic Bavarian beer that’s hard to taste anywhere else.”

Only then did Shen Xiulan know that beer brewed from barley and wheat also comes in different colors such as white, black, and brown, and its tastes can also vary from slightly sweet to slightly bitter.

Each of them ordered a meter of beer.

The beer here is sold on the basis of rice.

0.5 meters is 1 liter, and 1 meter is 2 liters.

The waiter will put a small cup of beer on a 0.5 meter or 1 meter long wooden box and serve it to you. Generally, a half-meter cup of beer is composed of 5 cups of 200ml beer.

They were stunned to see the locals drinking beer as water.

Shen Xiulan rarely drinks alcohol, but she thought this beer was quite delicious, so she drank a meter of beer without realizing it.

After dinner, it got dark.

What surprised them was that in Germany, there are no night markets, roadside stalls, or KTVs. It can be said that it is really boring.Stores in Germany usually close at [-] p.m., and they are also closed on Sundays and holidays. Sometimes it is very troublesome to suddenly want to buy something.

They also discovered an interesting phenomenon: Germans dress very casually, and most locals wear very comfortable jackets.

Li Yunhai also came to Germany for the first time and felt a lot of new things.

When passing by a community, I saw a German woman with a very nice figure in the window, walking around naked in the house.She knew clearly that someone was passing by outside, but she didn't feel embarrassed, and she didn't even have the slightest thought of covering up.

Shen Xiulan and others were stunned by this scene.

Even though Li Yunhai was a reborn person, his jaw was stunned.

Professor Ni smiled and said: "Don't stare at others. In Germany, many people have the habit of being naked. This is called naked culture. The Germans call it naturism, because the Germans strongly advocate the liberation of human nature and closeness to nature. If Don’t be surprised to see unrestrained Germans on the grass or at the beach. But don’t look at others, it’s very impolite.”

Shen Xiulan was surprised: "It's okay to be like this at home, but is it like this outdoors?" Professor Ni smiled and said: "There's nothing surprising about it. You guys will know it if you go to the beach. When everyone When you are not wearing clothes and you are fully clothed, do you think they are different? Or do you think you are different?"

Shen Xiulan was speechless.

In the world of crows, swans are guilty.

When a culture is accepted by the public and you are the only one who cannot accept it, then you are an outlier.

Everyone in the world is drunk, and those who are sober will eventually be so depressed that they commit suicide by drowning themselves in the river.

When we got back to the hotel, it was still early, and there were only movie theaters, opera houses, and concerts to go to in the evening.

But the movies shown locally were all in German, and Li Yunhai and the others couldn't understand them.

Even the people speaking on TV are in German, but I don’t understand the language and can only look at the pictures.

Li Yunhai took a shower and watched German TV that he didn't understand. He felt really bored, so he knocked on Shen Xiulan's door.

Shen Xiulan learned a little bit of German, but she was not proficient in it.

Coming to Germany this time aroused his interest in German, and he said that he must master German next time.

Boy, she is addicted to learning languages!
Li Yunhai entered her room and saw her studying German in front of the TV.

"Do you understand?" Li Yunhai asked.

Shen Xiulan smiled and said: "You can't even guess! Guess based on the picture! I don't know if it's right or not! Well, I'll buy a German dictionary tomorrow and learn it! Do you understand?"

Li Yunhai repeatedly said that I didn't understand German, and then laughed and said: "Haha, you are such a talent! Let's go for a walk! Staying in the hotel is really boring."

Shen Xiulan said: "Where are we going? The shops outside are closed. I'm afraid it will get colder at night!"

Li Yunhai said: "Xiulan, let's go for a walk along the Rhine River? Hugo once said: My favorite river is the Rhine River. This river reflects the history of the entire Europe. This is also the father river of the Germans. Quite. For the Yellow River in our country.”

Li Yunhai's words successfully aroused Shen Xiulan's interest.

She smiled sweetly and said: "I have heard of the name of this river, and I have seen it in many Western novels and poems. From Schumann to Beethoven, from Goethe to Heine, from Nietzsche to Marx. It is closely related to the Rhine. Let’s go and see this famous river.”

Li Yunhai said: "You know so much!"

Shen Xiulan said: "I learned from you and read a lot of leisure books."

Li Yunhai picked up her coat, put it on her body, and said, "It's cold outside, put it on."

Shen Xiulan hummed, put on her coat, a rope knitted hat, and a scarf, stretched out her hands and said with a smile, "I just didn't wear gloves! I had to put them in my pockets."

Li Yunhai held her hands and said, "I am your human leather glove."

Shen Xiulan's pretty face turned red and she said, "Don't act recklessly, be careful if others see it. They go home and tell Lin Zhi to watch your skin carefully!"

Li Yunhai smiled and said: "You said that the Germans were unsightly outside. Didn't we also do it when we were in the woods?"

Shen Xiulan bumped him with her arm: "You still mention it? Can't you forget that night?"

Li Yunhai hugged her: "I can't forget it. I don't believe you can forget it?"

Shen Xiulan ran forward, broke away from his arms, and said, "Are you going yet?"

Li Yunhai said: "Go! Let's go! Don't call them, just the two of us go out alone."

Shen Xiulan pursed her lips and smiled: "You don't want to lure me out to do anything bad, do you? It's so cold outside, don't try to trick me into taking off my clothes!"

Li Yunhai laughed and said, "I can't bear to part with you either!"

The two of them went out, took a taxi on the street, and told the driver that they wanted to see the Rhine River.

The driver understood the English they spoke and said, "Rhine River? OK."

Hannover is right on the Rhine River.

The riverside is more lively than the neighborhood!

There are many beautiful gardens and parks, as well as many restaurants and cafes.The night view of the Rhine River is also very beautiful, and you can enjoy the beautiful lights of Hannover at night.

There are houses in Gothic and Romanesque architectural styles everywhere, which look exotic to the eye.

Along the Rhine River, there are green trees, the fragrance of flowers and the melodious singing of birds.

Li Yunhai and Shen Xiulan strolled along the riverside, walking quietly. This beautiful and exotic scenery made them feel relaxed and happy.

He reached out and took Shen Xiulan's hand.

Shen Xiulan's jade hands looked so cold in the cold night.

Li Yunhai stopped, held her hand, and walked into a riverside cafe.

They sat down by the window and ordered two cups of coffee.

Sitting here, their bodies immediately warmed up. The two took off their coats, drank coffee, and looked at the endless river flowing outside. The countless street lamps and shop lights illuminated this ancient river as if it were daytime.

Shen Xiulan said: "I remember reading a lot of poems related to the Rhine River, but I can't remember even one sentence at the moment, Yunhai, do you remember such poems?"

Li Yunhai showed a charming smile: "If I say a few words, you have to kiss me."

Shen Xiulan slapped him angrily: "Can you stop being so naughty? I asked you to read a few lines of poetry, but you still want a kiss from me?"

Li Yunhai said: "Don't love poems exist just for love?"

Shen Xiulan took a sip of coffee, pursed her bitter lips, and said, "Read it first and let me see if it's worth a kiss from me!"

Li Yunhai cleared his throat and said: "The river is rushing and the waves are splashing, intoxicating the earth and attracting people's hearts; it has thousands of twists and turns, unfolding one after another. The surroundings are constantly changing, and there are always new wonders. If you can live here in seclusion for the rest of your life, , the most arrogant heart is contented; so close to nature and me, there is no other place except here. If your bright eyes are with me, the banks of the Rhine will be even more intoxicating!"

Shen Xiulan exclaimed, her eyes shining brightly: "Yunhai, who wrote this poem? It's so nice!"

Li Yunhai smiled and said: "This is Byron's poem."

Shen Xiulan looked at him with little stars shining in her eyes: "How do you know this poem? You can actually recite it!"

Li Yunhai said: "Don't ask me how I know this poem. Let me ask you first, is it worth a kiss from you?"

Shen Xiulan blushed and said, "It's worth it! But I can't give it to you."

Li Yunhai said: "Then give me a kiss gift? Come on! In such a romantic place, if we don't have some romantic behavior between us, it will be a waste of this trip."

Shen Xiulan's face rose with a blush, her big eyes blinked, and she took a deep breath. She seemed to have calmed down, so she stood up shyly, and touched her face gently with her cool jade face. He touched Li Yunhai's cheek.

Li Yunhai turned his head and kissed her pretty face.

Shen Xiulan covered her face and said, "You are messing around again! I will never ignore you next time! Humph!"

She choked back her words, blushed, lowered her head, and with tears in her eyes, just fixed her clothes. The feeling of tenderness, shyness, pity and regret was indescribable.

Li Yunhai held her hand and said, "Xiulan, I miss you very much."

Shen Xiulan was stunned: "I'm right in front of you, what do you want from me?"

Li Yunhai coughed lightly and said, "I just want to do something with you!"

Shen Xiulan obviously couldn't understand his humor and asked: "Have you really read Byron's poems? Aren't the books you usually read all novels?"

Li Yunhai smiled awkwardly, pointed behind her, and said, "Look."

Shen Xiulan turned around and looked behind.

It turns out that this poem by Byron was written in large English fonts on the wall of the cafe.

Byron is a poet from England, but he is loved by many Europeans.

The cafe has his beautiful poems posted on the wall as the background, which is very romantic.

How could Li Yunhai remember these poems?He just translated the poems on the wall.

Shen Xiulan read it and said with a smile: "But your translation is so nice, it can be regarded as a re-creation!"

Li Yunhai said seriously: "Xiulan, for me, if your bright eyes are with me, the banks of the Rhine River will be even more intoxicating! Tonight, can you come over and accompany me?"

　Third, ask for a monthly ticket.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)