At the intersection of the town center of Dongsheng Town, Xiangshan City, there is an electrical repair shop called Dongsen, which is not large in area and consists of two ordinary bungalows. There are not 100 such electrical repair shops in Xiangshan City, where the electrical appliance industry is developing rapidly, but there are 99 of them, but compared with the other 99, there is a person Zhang Yunqi who has been looking for many days in the Dongsen Electrical Repair Department.

Hu Zhibiao.

When he was young, Hu Zhibiao's family was actually very poor.

How poor is it?

There is a big river in Shazai Village, where his family lives, and there is a piece of land on the other side of the river, which is very suitable for growing straw mushrooms in summer, but the water surface of the big river is so wide that few people can swim through, and Hu Zhibiao has used his extremely thin body to swim across this water surface several hundred meters wide since he was 12 years old, to plant straw mushrooms on the opposite bank, several times a day.

After the harvest, Hu Zhibiao, who had just graduated from primary school, walked dozens of miles to Dongguan alone to sell it, and in exchange for the money, in addition to paying tuition, he could sometimes buy a few books he liked and a few radio parts.

Hu Zhibiao has had a natural hobby of home appliances since he was a child, and he takes pleasure in assembling semiconductors. In his second year of junior high school, he found an autobiography of Shinnosuke Matsushita at the garbage station at the entrance of the village, and after two days and nights of forgetting to sleep and eating, he had a dream of becoming "China's Panasonic".

After graduating from junior high school, Hu Zhibiao dropped out of school.

He found a job as an electrical repairman in the people's town, helping people repair televisions, this work is six years, maybe it is to repair the TV for a long time, maybe it is because Matsushita Konosuke has read too many books, or maybe he is old, and he is in the bridgehead of reform and opening up in Guangdong, deeply affected by the changing atmosphere of the times and the high materialization of society, more and more dissatisfied with the status quo, more and more not calm, more and more want to start a business and make a fortune.

It is said that the prosperous 80s is a poetic era, pure spiritual pursuit and abstract idealism dominate the thinking of the Chinese people, in comparison, the 90s is absolutely material, absolutely the beginning of the entertainment era of the 21st century, those since the "May Fourth" Since the grand narrative of Chinese modernity seeking truth from the West has been far away, ideology has been put aside, everything is looking at money, looking at thick, even in literature, it can only be said that the pioneer is dead, there is something to burn paper, writers such as Su Dong and Yu Hua turned their pens and threw themselves into the trend of marketization, Jin Yong and Wang Shuo are popular, Cui Jian, who has nothing, is no longer people's favorite, and "The Sound of the Waves Remains", "The Crooked Moon", and "Xiao Fang" are put on the streets and alleys and other pseudo-sad pop songs, not as fierce as rock, not so melancholy, the big guys are busy making money.

These changes in the atmosphere of the times, Hu Zhibiao, who was born in Guangdong and grew up in Guangdong, felt more clearly and profoundly, how to make a fortune is the question he thinks about the most, because he loves electrical maintenance, and because Xiangshan has a famous little overlord, his first thought is to open a factory to make pirated game consoles.

This idea has been brewing in Hu Zhibiao's mind for a long time, it is more mature, and he has also discussed it with his best buddy Chen Tiannan, and the two plan to work together, but the most realistic problem at the moment is that he has no money in his pocket, so he has to postpone his dream of starting a business, continue to work in an electrical repair shop, and accumulate entrepreneurial capital.

In the early 90s, the after-sales guarantee of most household appliances is not in place, and it can even be said that there is no, broken, they are all sent to the electrical repair shop for maintenance, the business of the Dongsen electrical repair shop is very good, this morning, Hu Zhibiao almost never rested, until a brand-new luxury car Santana appeared at the door of the Dongsen repair shop, a young man in a suit and leather shoes walked into the repair shop and asked: "Excuse me, is Hu Zhibiao there?"

Hu Zhibiao put down the electrical appliance, looked at the young man and wiped his sweat and said, "I am, you are?"

The young man stared at Hu Zhibiao up and down twice, then took out a business card and handed it to him, saying, "Wang Guibing, deputy general manager of Lianzhong Trade, my boss wants to talk to you." ”

Hu Zhibiao glanced at the business card, and the address on it said Jiangchuan City, Shonan Province, which made him feel quite inexplicable, and asked, "What are you looking for me for?"

"You'll know when you get there. ”

Wang Guibing laughed, turned around and left the repair shop, opened the car door, and went straight in.

Hu Zhibiao stared at Santana's open car door and Wang Guibing sitting inside, silent for a long time, and then got into the car, he didn't even change his work clothes, and he didn't ask his boss for leave.

Since 83 years of China's first Santana online, opening a new era of Chinese cars, Santana has become a symbol of wealth, absolute luxury cars, people who buy are either rich or expensive, this is the first time Hu Zhibiao has lived for 24 years to sit, looking at the regressing street scene outside the window, he feels very good, although the young man named Wang Guibing who sat next to him never said a word to him from beginning to end, he also has no idea what Wang Guibing's boss is looking for him, but one thing he knows is that the person who drives the Santana will not have fun with him as an electrical repairman with a monthly salary of more than 200 yuan。

There was no time.

Santana finally stopped in front of the Fragrant Hills International Hotel.

This hotel is the most upscale hotel in Xiangshan City, Hu Zhibiao came for the first time, he wore a work clothes still sticky with oil stains and followed Wang Guibing a little restrained, through the splendid lobby to take the elevator to the western restaurant on the fourth floor, after entering a luxuriously decorated box, he saw a young man no more than 19 years old, sitting on the sofa under the huge floor-to-ceiling window, with a natural expression, calm eyes, and looking at him with a smile.

It's already the middle of July, the heat is approaching, the sun is extraordinarily strong, sprinkled on the boy through the floor-to-ceiling windows, a little dazzling, Hu Zhibiao feels very unreal, I don't know where he is facing the sacred at this time, but there is an inexplicable expectation, but, looking over the boy, he can vaguely see the rippling Qijiang River outside the window, in the past two years, he has often bathed and peed there.

Overlooking the banks of the Qijiang River from such a angle, it is a spiritual experience that Hu Zhibiao has never had, he saw the white cruise ship slowly passing in the water, and the enthusiastic female tour guide on the bow of the boat is playing up the golden years laid by the former residence of the father of the nation in the past, everything is so vibrant, just like this piece of sparsely populated and displaced people since ancient times in the process of reform and opening up. Dihe, a prominent brand and countless energetic young entrepreneurs, has whizzed past here, leaving a strong trace in China's modern business history.

Hu Zhibiao and his love are one of them, but he doesn't know at this moment, he is still too immature, he has no experience, facing the young man in front of him who has a lot of aura, his throat is a little dry, hesitated for a moment, and then said: "Hello, are you looking for me?"

"Yes, my name is Zhang Yunqi, and I want to talk to you about something. ”

"What's the matter?"

"It's time for dinner, and we're chatting while we eat. Zhang Yunqi raised his hand and looked at the time, and said with a smile, sometimes, the shelves still have to be placed, and they still have to be pretended.

Hu Zhibiao's idea of starting a business and making a fortune has already sprouted, if Hu is not cut off now, Zhang Yunqi estimates that Hu Zhibiao and Chen Tiannan will spend 2,000 yuan to build a ** electronics factory will come out, although ** The electronics factory is just a small broken factory, specializing in copycat game consoles, and it also encountered Duan Yongping's door-to-door crackdown, which can't become a climate, but Zhang Yunqi doesn't want to make extraneous branches in this matter, and after all, he has never known each other, and it is not easy to gain Hu Zhibiao's trust for a while, and many things are not easy to talk about without some bells and whistles.

In fact, to put it mildly, it is not easy for people to take the trust of others, and it is easy to make money.

This principle remains unchanged for eternity, when an ordinary person asks you to do business, your first feeling is that the other party has a hole in his head; when a rich boss asks you to do business, your first reaction is pie in the sky.

At noon, he ate seafood, very hearty, very exquisite, Hu Zhibiao, a native of Guangdong, has never eaten a lot, but he took chopsticks and looked at Zhang Yunqi, who was chewing slowly on the other side of the table, and did not pick up vegetables for a long time, and finally he couldn't hold back and asked: "Mr. Zhang, why don't you tell me what is going on with me, otherwise I will be too troubled." ”

Zhang Yunqi put down his chopsticks with a smile and said, "Okay, I want to ask you something, have you ever heard of VCD?"

Hu Zhibiao shook his head.

Zhang Yunqi asked: "Do you know the 'digital compression chip' technology?"

Hu Zhibiao shook his head.

Zhang Yunqi asked again: "Have you seen LD?"

Hu Zhibiao nodded.

Zhang Yunqi said: "Then now I can tell you that the technology of 'digital compression of stamen tablets' has flowed into Xiangjiang, China, and the player produced with it is called VCD, and VCD is used to watch pirated discs more than 100 times better than the popular LD now, you might as well imagine that this thing will be lethal in the Chinese market in the future, and now there is no one in China to make this thing, at least not yet." ”

Hu Zhibiao listened to Zhang Yunqi's words word for word, and a large amount of information poured into his mind at once, and he didn't have time to think about it, because he still had the biggest doubt in his heart: "Mr. Zhang, why are you telling me about this?"

Zhang Yunqi said: "I want to do this business and do it with you." ”