Life 1984

Sihai Group held its first overseas dealer conference, and only a dozen foreign businessmen were determined to come. This made Li Yunhai unable to calm down. He and Guo Wanhua discussed how to attract dealers.

Guo Wanhua thought for a while and said: "We must first figure out what foreign customers want? What can we do to attract foreign customers? Those foreign businessmen must also consider, what is the use of participating in the meeting? Everyone attending the meeting Who? Otherwise, why would they make this trip? Do you think so?"

Li Yunhai nodded calmly. The environment at home and abroad is different. At home, every product released by Sihai Group has leading advantages and can attract customers.However, there are too many choices for foreign office equipment. Most of the foreign customers are made at exhibitions such as the Canton Fair, Hanover, and CES. They already have some understanding of Sihai Group's products. If there are no new ideas, many customers will not Come.

Guo Wanhua suggested that, first, show more sincerity, such as inviting dealers and their families to travel to Xiangjiang, and negotiate business in the form of tourism.This also seems to be more crowded, but the cost is higher.The second is to have new products released at the conference, with new products as the highlight to attract foreign merchants, and to form a routine. New products will be released at every dealer conference in the future, and dealers will naturally come.The third is to organize some activities, such as inviting celebrities to sing, etc., to raise the level of the dealer conference and make people feel that the trip is worthwhile.

She smiled again: "Yunhai, can't you invite Michael to shoot an advertisement? If you can invite him to attend our dealer conference, then I guess the people who come will not even be able to fit in the red hall! I am just making an analogy. Ah! Of course it’s impossible to invite Michael, the cost would be too high!”

Li Yunhai's eyes lit up and he laughed loudly: "Sister Guo, your idea is a good one! Then let's invite MJ over!"

Guo Wanhua was shocked: "Invite MJ? That's not possible, right? His appearance fee is very high!"

Li Yunhai said: "MJ's appearance fee seems to be 500 million US dollars. We don't need him to hold a concert. As long as we can invite him to come over, sing two songs and dance two times, that's what we want." The coaxing effect.”

Guo Wanhua said: "If we can really invite MJ, it will definitely be a sensation!"

The more Li Yunhai thought about it, the more he thought it was feasible: "If you want to play, let's play a big one! What do you think?"

Guo Wanhua said: "How about that? Let's combine the dealer conferences in the mainland and hold them in Xiangjiang? Xiangjiang is our global headquarters. Let the customers in the mainland also see our headquarters in Xiangjiang! It will increase their interest in the company. understanding and trust.”

Li Yunhai said: "Dealers from the mainland may not have documents to go to Hong Kong."

Guo Wanhua said: "Yes! Well, it will still be held separately, but we can tell them that as long as they are willing and can come to Xiangjiang, we can invite them to participate in the overseas dealer conference. What do you think?"

Li Yunhai said of course.

After the two discussed it, Xiao Anan also fell asleep.

Guo Wanhua held the child and put it on the bed in the bedroom, covering it with a quilt.

Li Yunhai hugged her from behind.

Guo Wanhua turned around and the two kissed passionately.

After having a child, Guo Wanhua focused all her energy on work and the child. Because she and Li Yunhai were separated by two places, her personal relationship with her child was indifferent.

Now that she was with Li Yunhai, the passion in her body was immediately ignited.

When he returned home in the evening, Li Yunhai called Xiaosi first and said that he wanted to invite Michael to Xiangjiang to attend the Sihai Group's global dealer conference.

Xiao Si asked when?
Li Yunhai said the date.

Xiaosi is not Michael's manager, but just a good friend.She didn't know if Michael was free or if he would come. She asked Li Yunhai to wait and then contact Michael.

Half an hour later, Xiaosi called Li Yunhai back and said that Michael happened to be free those days and since he was an old friend, his appearance fee was set at 500 million US dollars. If he needed to record VCR, he would have to pay an additional 50 US dollars. Dollar.

Li Yunhai said yes, that's it.

Xiao Si smiled and said, I have become MJ's manager now, helping him bring in so much income!Why don't you take care of me?
Li Yunhai said if you want to come, come!How much is your appearance fee?

Xiaosi said forget it, I will accompany MJ to Xiangjiang and treat it as a free gift to you.

Li Yunhai laughed loudly and said that if a beautiful woman like you gave it to me for free, then I would definitely take it.

After chatting, Li Yunhai hung up the phone, saw Lin Zhi staring at him, and said: "She is an American star, and I am looking for MJ to cooperate through her!"

Lin Zhi said: "Is Michael so expensive? Five million dollars, just to come and sing a few songs?"

Li Yunhai said: "With this strength, there is nothing we can do."

Lin Zhi exclaimed: "This man is so awesome! How much money does he have?"

Li Yunhai said: "I don't know, but he has done a lot of charity. He often makes 1000 million, so he donates 500 million."

Lin Zhi said: "Then he should do it no matter how much he earns."

The next day, Guo Wanhua left the child in the care of Ding Miao and Zhang Guifen, and then went to work with Li Yunhai and the others.

Li Yunhai held a meeting to discuss with everyone how to hold this dealer conference.

The meeting location is at Tianhua Hotel.

At this conference, the latest ink tank printer will be released, and the price of this printer will also be adjusted.At the same time, Xerox copiers will be officially launched.

After the cooperation with Xerox, this copier has only been sold domestically. It has not held a press conference or participated in various exhibitions.

Invitations to the annual meeting have been mailed out before, and dealers we have cooperated with have also called to inform them.

Most domestic dealers will come to participate.

After the meeting, Li Yunhai just returned to the office when he received a call from Professor Ni.

"Mr. Li, I heard the news that Lianxiang Company in the north will also hold a dealer meeting."

"Don't they always like to compete with us in the ring? In the past two years, we have won."

"I heard that they will release a new product this year."

"What kind of product?"

"It seems to be a computer."

"Professor Ni, do you know what their computers look like? What self-developed technologies are there?"

"I asked my former colleagues, and they said it was mainly about motherboard circuit technology."

Li Yunhai said lightly: "That's nothing to be afraid of! Lianxiang Company is indeed our biggest competitor in the country, but what we have to face now is global pressure."

Because it is difficult to innovate in other aspects of computers, coupled with extremely high technical barriers, it is difficult to break through, so we can only find more value-added space from the motherboard circuit design.

This is the consensus of all PC manufacturers.

Li Yunhai and Professor Ni can think of this, and Lianxiang Company will definitely do the same.

Li Yunhai is not worried about this, because Sihai Group is far ahead in this aspect, and even if Lianxiang Company has some achievements, it is not something to be afraid of.

What he is most worried about now is the suppression and sanctions brought by Intel.

In order to monopolize the chip market, Intel has made continuous efforts in recent years. Even AMD, its largest partner, has been sued by them and wants to cut off AMD's X86 authorization.

As chip integration continues to improve, Intel has also entered the microcomputer support chipset market and provided "public boards" to PC manufacturers. This has shortened the cycle for its new CPUs to enter the market, but also compressed the innovation of other manufacturers. space.

If you want to make a computer, you can only make a living by following the rules set by Intel.

In this case, the value-added space of motherboard circuit design is getting smaller and smaller.Long-term technical practice has made Professor Ni deeply realize that if my country's computer industry does not master the core technology of integrated circuit chips in terms of hardware, it will always be controlled by others.

Therefore, in 1987 Sihai Group began to develop ASIC, which is application-specific integrated circuit chip technology.

A few years ago, Professor Ni first used a self-designed ASIC chip on the 7-type Hanka card and achieved success. Therefore, he added a self-designed ASIC chip to the Sihai Longteng PC design to increase value-added, and developed the VL bus and IDE control chip for PCI bus.People in later generations will know that integrated circuit technology "chips" and software technology are the core technologies of the information industry. However, in my country in the 1980s, people still didn't know much about chips, and few companies dared to engage in chip research and development.

Sihai Group began to develop application-specific integrated circuit chip technology in 1985.

Because at that time, new products of foreign companies were first released abroad, and their release in my country was delayed by about half a year. Domestic companies generally did not have their own development departments, and new models had to be imported from abroad, which took a long time and was very slow.

However, Sihai Group is able to develop its own motherboards and produce its own chips, basically keeping up with foreign manufacturers and leading other domestic manufacturers for more than half a year.

However, all this research and development is based on Intel's X86 architecture.

Now they realize that they can't put all their eggs in one basket.

Because Intel is already tightening licensing, it will also suppress the production of other manufacturers and expand its influence.

In this environment, Li Yunhai and Professor Ni decided to take a two-pronged approach.

On the one hand, they continue to research based on X86 systems. On the other hand, they work with Professor Dave from Berkeley to conduct chip research based on RISC architecture.

In the 80s, there were at least five chip architectures in the world, but they were finally dominated by Intel's Support, I would like to ask where other chips have room for survival?
Even Apple used the X86 architecture during this period.

Li Yunhai told Professor Ni: "We must come up with independent and controllable chip technology as soon as possible!"

Professor Ni said: "We can now produce the first generation of chips based on the RISC architecture, but the performance of this chip is not powerful enough and is roughly equivalent to the level of Intel's chips in the early 80s."

Li Yunhai said: "Then we must speed up the pace of research and development! Reach the level of 386 chips as soon as possible. We can contact other domestic scientific research institutes to jointly develop."

Professor Ni said: "Mr. Li, you should know Academician Ding from the United States who has won the Nobel Prize, right?"

Li Yunhai said: "I know that Academician Ding Zhaozhong was born in the United States, so he automatically obtained American nationality. But he has a patriotic heart. At the 1976 Nobel Prize Award Ceremony, he always gave speeches in Chinese. He Said he needs someone who understands Chinese to listen to his speech."

Professor Ni smiled and said: "Mr. Li, you are indeed a good leader who is dedicated to scientific research, and you know so well about Academician Ding. We can try to contact Academician Ding. If we can get his help, then we can develop chips. We can definitely go further. Academician Ding has been engaged in high-energy physics experiments for a long time, looking for new particles and new physical phenomena, and has achieved a series of major results."

Li Yunhai said: "If you can get help from Academician Ding, it will be even more powerful! Professor Ni, please contact Academician Ding and hope to get cooperation opportunities with their team!"

Professor Ni said: "There is also a Chinese scientist who is also a well-known entrepreneur named Wang An. I wonder if Mr. Li has heard of it?"

Li Yunhai said: "I know, one of the largest computer dealers in the United States and one of the top ten richest people in the United States!"

Professor Ni said: "Wang An Computer Company was founded in the 50s and once surpassed IBM. His lifelong pursuit and goal was also to surpass IBM. There is a story in this."

When Wang An first arrived in the United States, he went to IBM to seek a part-time job. Unexpectedly, the interviewer he met was a man who discriminated against Chinese people. He looked down on Wang An extremely and said that IBM was a high-tech place and not suitable for someone from the East like you. Man, I suggest you find a job at a car repair shop.Wang An suffered a great insult. In fact, IBM's corporate culture does not exclude Chinese people, but Wang An happened to meet this interviewer.After Wang An left IBM, he made it his lifelong goal to surpass IBM.

Li Yunhai said: "He almost succeeded!"

Professor Ni continued to tell Wang An’s entrepreneurial story.

The storage devices used by computers at that time were basically punched cards from IBM.Wang An developed a magnetic core memory in less than a month, breaking IBM's monopoly.This was followed by the successful development of a calculator called the Lotz.This calculator was only the size of a current computer, while IBM's computer was the size of a refrigerator at the time.Wang An's calculator sells for US$3000, and the monthly rent for an IBM computer is as high as US$[-].There is no doubt that Wang An won the market.At that time, Intel had not yet been established!
Not long after, Wang An's company launched another epoch-making "WPS" computer, which consisted of a chassis, display screen, and keyboard. It was basically close to a modern computer.

It can be said that Wang An can be regarded as the father of modern computers.

Li Yunhai knew that Professor Ni could not tell Wang An's entrepreneurial story for no reason, and asked: "Professor Ni, what do you mean? Let us cooperate with Wang An Computer Company?"

Professor Ni said: "Wang An is old and suffering from cancer, and is no longer able to manage the company's affairs. The decline of this company is inevitable. Now is the best time for us to acquire it!"

"Acquire Wang An Computer Company?" Li Yunhai said in shock, "How can we have such a large amount of funds to acquire it?"

Professor Ni said: "The stock price of this company reached 43 US dollars at its highest. But now it has fallen to the bottom, only 4 US dollars per share. I am afraid it will continue to fall. This year, Wang An Company has lost as much as 4.24 million. The U.S. dollar has been boycotted by IBM, Microsoft, Intel and other companies! I'm afraid it will be difficult to continue. But the foundation of this company is still there. If we acquire it now, we can own one-fifth of the U.S. market! "

Li Yunhai said: "A skinny camel is bigger than a horse. Even if Wang An Company declines again, we cannot afford to acquire it."

Professor Ni mainly does research work and is not expert in commercial acquisitions. He said: "Mr. Li, do you want to talk to them? If the acquisition cannot be successful, we can also discuss cooperation. Wang An is a patriotic businessman who also invested and built a factory in Shanghai. Now that their company is being squeezed out, cooperating with us may be the best way out! I have their company’s contact information, let me tell you.”

Li Yunhai said: "Okay, I'll contact them!"

After he got the contact information of Wang An Company, he thought about the time difference and the other party was still asleep at the moment, so he first sent an email to the other party through Xiangjiang Company.

While he was busy, Zhu Lin walked in.

"Sister Zhu!" Li Yunhai said with a smile, "Is Xizhou fun?"

"I visited a few scenic spots. The scenic spots are very good, but I don't find it interesting to be alone! You don't have time to accompany me!"

"I've been busy dealing with the dealer conference these days. I'll accompany you when I have some free time."

"Tonight?" Zhu Lin winked at him.

Li Yunhai was also moved, and said with a smile: "Okay, I will go to the hotel to find you after get off work."

Zhu Lin smiled and said: "Then I won't disturb you. We will talk in the evening."

After work that day, Li Yunhai came to Tianhua Hotel to find Zhu Lin.

As soon as he entered the door, Zhu Lin threw himself into his arms: "You are so serious! You ignored me for so long!"

Li Yunhai held her face in his hands and said with a smile: "I'm busy all the time! Sister Zhu, you miss me so much!"

Zhu Lin Yanran smiled and said: "Real or false? I see you don't miss me at all!"

Li Yunhai didn't speak, but used actions to prove whether he missed her and how much he missed her.

Zhu Lin groaned, and all his unhappiness turned into tenderness and sweetness.

Afterwards, Li Yunhai stroked Zhu Lin's smooth back and said, "Are you hungry? Let's go down to eat, right?"

Zhu Lin hummed and said softly: "I miss the days in Beijin Courtyard so much. When will you come back to Beijin to accompany me?"

Li Yunhai lifted her chin, kissed her, and said, "After the Sihai Plaza project starts, I will go to Beijin."

Zhu Lin said coquettishly: "That's still very early! It will take two months to complete the preliminary demolition work."

Li Yunhai asked: "Your parents didn't push you anymore, right?"

Zhu Lin Yanran smiled and said: "Every time they come to see me, they will ask you where you have been! I said you are very busy and have gone abroad. They say, oh, it is not good to find a rich man, you are so busy every day, all year round , Get together less and leave more! I say this has always been the case, businessmen value profits over separation!"

Li Yunhai laughed: "I can't bear to say goodbye, I just have no choice!"

Zhu Lin said: "Well, that's what I said too. When I was filming, didn't I leave for more than half a year? My mother said that this is how families break up! It's still reliable for two people to be together."

Li Yunhai didn't want to continue this topic, so he picked her up and said, "Let's go, I'll take you to Xizhou to visit the night market."

Zhu Lin hung him by the neck, wrapped around him like an octopus, and said with a smile: "Don't go downstairs yet, I still want to be in love with you."

Li Yunhai pursed her lips again.

The two were once again inseparable.

Li Yunhai said in Zhu Lin's ear: "If I were Tang Monk, I would have ended up in your episode. How can any scripture be worth my Majesty the King!" (End of Chapter)