PS: I didn't make it clear in the previous chapter, Wang An is an employee of the Institute of Automated Computing, and later one of the founders of Sitong. As for Wang An's company, it is an American, and it has nothing to do with us, but it has an office in China. In order not to be confused, all of them were changed to Wang Anshi in the future.

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The long-term unintentional willow industry alliance is still shallow, and it can't even be talked about loose, but everyone drank too much wine and burned the yellow paper. Everyone's attitude is mostly wait-and-see, who has confidence with whom in these years.

The establishment of Sitong is like a gift flower, and the real money makes these visitors have a little bit of ideas, and they have sent their first gift list, called congratulations, but in fact, to find out the news.

Powerful companies don't care about this money, and they go their separate ways, as long as you don't work against me. As for the other little shrimps, they were envious of Wang Anshi of Sitong, and they were annoyed that this kid had taken shit luck and got such a large sum of money for nothing.

When donkey dung and eggs are still burning, let alone people? Taking off the coat of the system, the founders of Sitong seem to have found their own position at once and are full of enthusiasm.

Wang Anshi is lively, Lu Ziye, naturally appointed as the general manager, running around every day, pulling customers to engage in publicity, fighting the banquet and going through the back door, all eighteen kinds of martial arts, and making a small company prosperous.

Wang Jizhi is wholeheartedly developing the second generation of products, and occasionally makes a cameo appearance in customer service to solve the problems of customers.

I returned to Hong Kong for a long time, and soon sent a financial director to take charge of all the company's financial operations. The long-term idea was to influence the process of Sitong through this position, and by the way, turn it into a bridgehead, and since then the funds from Hong Kong have been far from being injected into the blood of Sitong.

The earliest products of Sitong are very simple, except for a few first-generation machines, the others are the printers of the small Japanese company Brother, with their own developed drivers, and the profit is doubled, so the business is very easy. Therefore, in addition to advertising, the work of Sitong is mainly focused on the development of second-generation terminals, and a large number of technical talents have been recruited by the way, and Zhang Zhenmin entered Sitong in this way.

Zhang Zhenmin, 28 years old, from Hubei, is a researcher at the Institute of Automation with Wang Jizhen. Zhang Zhenmin's young heart was once full of ideals, but the torrent of society ruthlessly erased his personal imprint, and after 8 years of work, he completely transformed into a mess.

Like a thunderclap on the ground, the institute held a meeting that day to announce the dismissal of several people, Zhang Zhenmin listened carefully to the announcement, and was puzzled.

The expulsion is not exciting news, but this list shocked him very much, it is full of technical backbones that he usually admires, if you want to say that there is nothing to say in terms of morality, how can you be removed?

So Zhang Zhenmin began to inquire about these people, and those who had good deeds naturally added fuel and vinegar to tell him, and Zhang Zhenmin suddenly realized that he could still live like this.

Waiver of personnel relations, renunciation of seniority, renunciation of publicly funded medical care, renunciation of ...... Just give up everything and do what you want to do. After thinking about it for a night, Zhang Zhenmin felt as if there was a fire burning in his heart, he was restless, and his ideals when he was young were growing like weeds like crazy.

Zhang Zhenmin inquired about the treatment and development goals of Sitong Company, and the answer was surprisingly good, although it is private, but both wages and technology are very appetizing, and the remaining question is actually what to do if Sitong collapses?

Zhang Zhenmin has also worked hard for more than ten years, and he thinks that his technical level is also in the middle and upper level, so he will not starve to death no matter what. He made up his mind, gave up the iron rice bowl and entered the four links, if the four links were finished, he would open a repair shop, and if it didn't work, he would open a restaurant.

Almost in the mood of death, Zhang Zhenmin found his former senior brother Wang Jizhen and said his thoughts. Wang Jizhi was very happy, and accepted his request to join without thinking about it.

In this way, Zhang Zhenmin submitted a resignation report to the automation institute, and he didn't want to approve anything at all, so he left without looking back.

Zhang Zhenmin's first job on the first day of work was to cooperate with Wang Jizhi to develop the second generation of word processors, according to Wang Anshi's statement: We are all eating on the knife edge now, you slack off for a day is not able to get along with yourself, mature as soon as possible, otherwise there is only a dead end.

Wang Jizhen didn't say anything, just set an example and did practical work step by step. Zhang Zhenmin was only slightly stunned, and then became excited, this is the life he has longed for for a long time, so he took off his coat and began to work

At that time, there were seven or eight people in the technical department, and they were dismantling the word processing machine imported from Japan, which was Wang Jizhen's idea. Because the first generation of typewriters was formed almost overnight, its essence was just a word processing terminal, which had to be connected to an external printer, which was very inconvenient.

The same is true of the market response, so in the development, Wang Anshi proposed to learn from the mature products of the Japanese to steal the beams and change the pillars.

Because Japan is also an East Asian country,Its text has Chinese characters like China,As long as the Japanese font library is replaced with a Chinese font library,Japanese input method is replaced by Chinese input method,Other functions remain unchanged,It's not easy to make a new product。

As soon as Wang Anshi's idea was proposed, it was immediately supported by all the developers, and the plan was simply impeccable, and they did it.

I chose a few cost-effective Japanese word processors and started drying, but after opening them, Wang Jizhi felt cold in his heart, and continued to disembowel other machines, and the result was the same, he knew that there was no hope.

It turns out that the built-in printing method of Japanese word processors is thermal transfer type, although the printing quality is good, but it requires extremely high production technology and cost, and it is far beyond the domestic development methods.

And even if it is developed, it is estimated that the market will not be good, because the conditions of this thermal transfer printing demand are extremely harsh, not only to use special printing paper, but also to the ambient temperature, humidity requirements are particularly high, as for the ribbon is also sky-high.

The technical department immediately came to the conclusion that cloning the devil was difficult and not feasible. All members of the company immediately held a meeting to discuss the following directions.

Sitong was newly established, the place was not big, more than a dozen people nested in a relatively large room for a meeting, most of them were swallowing clouds and spitting fog, and the air was poor.

Most of them believe that it is wise to abandon Japanese products and support the development of their own systems, but it is risky. A few guys don't have confidence, thinking that it's safer to copy the devil's things, and even if they fail, they don't have any responsibility.

Wang Anshi listened to the words of these guys, and slapped the table: "Are you still talking about people? Do you think this is a research institute and are still responsible for the leadership? We are fighting for ourselves! What does it mean to be irresponsible? If we fail, everyone has to drink the northwest wind, and copying the devil's things is also risky, so I think it is better to let the comrades of the technical department decide." ”

After saying this, everyone is ashamed, they have more or less this kind of state-owned enterprise thinking in their hearts, and they will never make mistakes if they do not act.

Although everyone tends to develop their own machines suitable for the national conditions, no one expressed their position, and finally thought of a way: call the leader for international calls.

Cao Changchang, who was thousands of miles away, couldn't cry or laugh when he received the call, and only said one sentence after listening to the reason: "You can do it yourself, I believe in your vision and ability, if you have any financial difficulties, you can talk to the finance, and if you have technical difficulties, you can ask for help from here in Hong Kong, and everyone will help you." ”

With long-term instructions, Wang Anshi's confidence increased greatly, and he asked Wang Jiqian: "What do you think, are you sure that you can do it yourself." ”

Wang Ji thought for a while: "Only sixty percent is sure, but even if it is only half of it, you have to do it yourself, relying on devils is not conducive to long-term development." ”

Wang Anshi listened to his words, weighed it in his heart, and gritted his teeth: "It's so decided, based on the domestic market, adhere to your own technology, develop your own machines, and establish your own brand!"

No one expected that the three "themselves" forced out would become the corporate culture of Sitong in the future, and they would eventually achieve positive results after ups and downs.

After analyzing the difficulty of development, the technical department decided to use the dot matrix printer as a model, the movement and LCD screen were purchased by the Hong Kong headquarters, and the BIOS was developed by themselves without the help of external forces.

After carefully investigating the market, Wang Anshi and the others learned that there are several powerful manufacturers in China who are doing the same thing, including joint ventures and state-owned enterprises, and the situation is not too good.

And there are a large number of people watching from the sidelines, just waiting for Sitong to make a fool of themselves, if it weren't for Sitong's background of foreign capital, someone would have secretly stumbled.

The treacherous living environment cannot erase the growth of heroes, it is just a necessary nutrient. The geniuses of Sitong seem to have changed their personalities overnight, developing enthusiasm like fire, and those ridicule and ridicule are deaf, like an independent kingdom, carrying out their dreams step by step.

No one has done the printer core in China, so everyone is imported from abroad, at the same level, there is nothing to do, and the breakthrough can only be the function of the software.

Wang Jizhi knows the essentials very well, and having been exposed to Chinese computers and wordstar, he racked his brains to expand the text editing function, and crammed all the Chinese editing methods imaginable into a small body.

If the boss of the paper word editing software should push WordStar, the VS-Office of the American company for a long time is not the first, because almost all the English processing machines in the world use Wordstar, and he himself is deeply influenced by its style, so the design of the function is very similar.

For example, there is a "block move" function in the wordstar, and Wang Jizhi translates it into "block move" to add it, and the effect seems to be good.

Wang Anshi is not just a shot of the board, he also put great energy into this machine, after analyzing the market, he positioned the user of the word processing machine at the initial Chinese level, so the technical department is required to develop the operation mode and write the command never use computer terms, those screen prompts, editing and printing commands on the description text and instruction manual must be easy to understand, to ensure that everyone can understand at a glance.

Although this has brought a lot of trouble, but the actual proved that this is an extremely wise decision, and the subsequent market feedback is extremely strong, and Sitong has also ascended the throne of domestic brands.

Zhang Zhenmin was in charge of the display driver and the print driver in the development team, which was a challenge, in order to understand the role of each line of code, he forgot to sleep and eat, byte by byte debugging, and finally completed the task on time.

As for the overall design and operation software development, Wang Jizhi was personally in charge, and in order to increase the insurance coefficient, he also invited foreign aid to let Changchang match several programmers.

He agreed without saying a word, and temporarily transferred his cadres who had participated in office software development to Beijing to assist in development. Relative to engineering, the role of these people is huge, not only to solve many program optimization problems, but also put forward a lot of operational suggestions, the most valuable is that they also provide pinyin input method support.

At that time, the input method was a big difficulty, and the inability to improve the speed of Chinese input led most people to think that Chinese should be eliminated. Wang Jizhi does not believe in this evil, and insists on developing an efficient pinyin input method by himself.

It's just that the technology at that time was limited, and it was very troublesome to choose words in pinyin. The Hong Kong reinforcements have been cultivated under the hands of Chang for many years, and put forward the concept of phrase association and larry, and the effect is surprisingly good after the experiment, and the problem of slow speed has been solved in one fell swoop, so that Wang Jizhi admires.

Pinyin alone is not enough, after all, it is not too high-speed input method, Wang Jizhi still considers adding the shape code. After inspecting a lot of plans, he either made garbage or added too high, which did not meet his requirements.

After being recommended, he finally found the legendary Wang Yongming, and met him with the name of Wubi font.

At that time, Wang Da Shenxian was extremely miserable, he didn't even have a home, and he was huddled in the basement of the guest house of the United Front Work Department of the Central Committee, almost unable to pay the rent.

And Wang Jizhen's visit is undoubtedly a very important opportunity for him, for the country, and for Chinese characters, and history is rewritten here!