Song Xiaoman helped Xu Yiyang get a temporary card, and left Xu Yiyang a contact information, as well as the contact number of the auction company.

On the way to leave Xu Yiyang, he called the other party directly.

The other party told Xu Yiyang on the phone that the transaction price of private license plates is generally around 12-130,000 yuan.

The agency can help with all the relevant formalities, so he doesn't have to run by himself.

When the license plate is photographed, Xu Yiyang only needs to come and pay, and this fee is 2,000 yuan.

Xu Yiyang paid a deposit of 10,000 yuan in the past, and he didn't have to worry about the rest.

After the auction company gets the indicators, I will go to the vehicle management office with them to inspect the car, select the number, and list the plate.

Xu Yiyang drove to the furniture city again to buy a batch of household appliances and furniture for himself.

The room type of Zhonghai Yujing is four bedrooms, two living rooms and three bathrooms, and an open balcony, so Xu Yiyang prepared to use one of the bedrooms as a study and a studio, and the remaining three rooms were used by himself, one for his sister, and one for his parents.

In addition to furniture and appliances, he also installed a set of desktops for himself and bought some office printing equipment.

After spending hundreds of thousands of dollars in one go, furniture and household appliances began to be installed one after another.

At this time, he himself had been staying in the hotel opposite.

The furniture and appliances are all done, but the network cable is not connected.

Xu Yiyang originally planned to go to Telecom to pull a narrow band, but he didn't expect that China Shipping Telecom was engaged in a broadband trial network, and it happened to be recruiting the first batch of high-speed network experience users in the city.

It is said that the speed of this telecom broadband trial network is at least three times faster than the speed of the local ATM network, reaching the leading level in the country.

Xu Yiyang did not hesitate to pay for one, this is the benefit of big cities, and the pace in many fields is faster than that of small cities.

This is the broadband in 1999, and only China Shipping took the lead in launching this service in mainland China, and it was a trial network, not officially commercialized.

Xu Yiyang is equivalent to a self-funded guinea pig on the test network.

According to the installation master, now the test network has stopped registration, and there are only 118 users in the entire Zhonghai.

It can even be said that at this stage, there are only these 118 home broadband users in the entire Chinese mainland.

Xu Yiyang is one of the 118 people.

Broadband in 1999, although it was also slow in his eyes, was lightning fast compared to the 64K network speed of the modem.

The first thing Xu Yiyang did after connecting to the Internet was to search for yellow pages on the Internet, and wanted to quickly find a software development company to customize and develop a management software for Jiayang Education.

With management software, you can check the operation of Jiayang Education at any time in any place with a network, and you are not in Yingzhou now, so such management software is very necessary.

However, when he started looking for information on the Internet, he encountered an embarrassing problem.

Baidu is not yet founded.

Without a search engine, it's like being in a world without a map, and it's very difficult to do anything.

Although Google was born, it seems that it has just begun to provide search engine services, Xu Yiyang tried it, for the time being, only English search has some support, Chinese search basically can not find any information.

The search engine is not a product that can be searched on the whole network.

After it is developed, it needs to use crawler tools to crawl massive amounts of page information on the entire Internet.

Crawl down the information before you can support users to search for the crawled content.

It's like a city with a million people, and if you want to make a search engine about people, you must first enter the information of these million people, otherwise it will not make any sense.

There is no search engine, Xu Yiyang's head is almost bald, he can only try the domain names he is familiar with one by one, and after looking for a big circle, he found the address of the company's yellow pages from Hao123, which he had just done.

Then in the Yellow Pages, I searched for Zhonghai software development companies, and he really found a few pieces of relevant information.

The moment he found these companies, Xu Yiyang finally breathed a sigh of relief.

I feel like a human lost in the primeval forest, looking for a long time in the dark, and finally seeing the shadow of a human being.

No wonder search engines are so important in the Internet industry.

Without a search engine, people are much less efficient in the online world.

After getting information about several Zhonghai software companies from the Huaxia Yellow Pages, Xu Yiyang began to contact them.

He first called one by one to communicate, explained his intention on the phone, and said that he wanted to customize and develop a management software for internal use in training institutions.

These companies were very interested in the work they came to the door, and they all proposed to communicate with Xu Yiyang in person, so Xu Yiyang took a day to meet with the heads of these companies one by one.

Xu Yiyang first went to several companies that worked in regular office buildings in the city, all of which were relatively large, with at least dozens of employees.

However, in the process of talking, the heads of these companies all said that because of the recent workload, the timeliness cannot be guaranteed.

After Xu Yiyang told the other party his specific needs, the time given by these companies ranged from half a year to a year.

If you are developing a software with complex functions and a huge architecture, it is acceptable to do so in two or three years, not to mention half a year to a year.

But the key is that the management software that Xu Yiyang wants is actually not so difficult, and a mature small team can develop it in one or two months.

Unfortunately, no company can promise to complete the development in two months.

Finally, Xu Yiyang drove to the company farthest away from him.

According to the address provided by this company, Xu Yiyang found that he had arrived at the gate of an old community.

Before coming, the other party only gave Xu Yiyang the address of "No. 21 Guanghai Road", and said that he would call him and he would come down to pick him up.

Unexpectedly, this No. 21 Guanghai Road is not an office building, but a residential community.

Xu Yiyang dialed the other party's phone with some suspicion, but before he could speak, he hurriedly asked, "Mr. Xu, have you arrived?"

"It's here. Xu Yiyang said: "But this place is like a community, not like an office place, is it a mistake?"

"Yes, yes!" the other party hurriedly said: "Wait a minute, I'll come down to pick you up, what color clothes are you wearing?"

Xu Yiyang said: "I was in the car, and the car was not plated. ”

"Okay!" the other party said enthusiastically, "Wait a minute, I'll come!"

Xu Yiyang waited for a moment with a suspicious heart, and a young man wearing shorts, a vest and flip-flops hurriedly ran out of the community.

The young man looked at the appearance of twenty-five or sixteen years old, and his image felt a little sloppy, he looked around after he came out, and saw Xu Yiyang's car, he was stunned for a moment, and then confirmed before running to him, knocking on the car window with surprise.

"Mr. Xu, right, I'm Liu Mingchao who communicates with you on the phone!"

Liu Mingchao was very surprised, Xu Yiyang looked like he was eighteen years old, he was the boss of an education and training institution, and he drove an Audi at a young age, this car was afraid that it would cost six or seven hundred thousand, right?

Xu Yiyang looked at Liu Mingchao at this time and asked, "Your company works in the community?"

Liu Mingchao said embarrassedly: "Our company is relatively small, in order to save costs, so we work in a private house......

Saying that, Liu Mingchao hurriedly added: "But Mr. Xu, don't worry, the strength of our team is excellent, everyone, including me, is a graduate of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, with two masters and three bachelor's degrees, you can go up and inspect it first." ”

Xu Yiyang's heart was somewhat abrupt.

I had only contacted Liu Mingchao by phone, but I had no contact before, and I didn't know his details.

If you go to an office building to talk about cooperation, it's good to say, but in a residential building, if you encounter criminals who are fishing, it is really unacceptable and ineffective.

The social order in 1999 was much worse than 20 years later, and Xu Yiyang did not dare to take it lightly.

Moreover, when Xu Yiyang saw the environment here, he no longer had much hope for Liu Mingchao's team.

Even if he is telling the truth and there is no danger to himself, in Xu Yiyang's eyes, a micro-entrepreneurial team of only five people may not be able to make a name for himself if he lives in such a place.

In this case, there is no need to go up with him.

Xu Yiyang was about to find a reason to refuse, and then drove away, but suddenly it occurred to him that he said that he was from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, which made Xu Yiyang grasp a clue.

Huazhong University of Science and Technology was later renamed Huazhong University of Science and Technology, which is a 211, 985 double first-class key university, in the last life, Zhang Xiaolong, the founder of Tengxun WeChat, seems to have graduated from this school!

So, Xu Yiyang asked tentatively: "What year did you graduate from Huazhong University of Science and Technology?"

Liu Mingchao said: "I graduated with a bachelor's degree in '92, studied in the Department of Telecommunications, and graduated with a master's degree in '95. ”

Xu Yiyang pretended to ask tentatively: "By the way, there seems to be a developer in your school, named Zhang Xiaolong, do you know him?"

"I know!" Liu Mingchao immediately became excited, and said: "Brother Xiaolong is my senior brother, we are in the same department as an undergraduate, he is two years older than me, and we were mentors when we were in graduate school, how can you know him." ”

Xu Yiyang was surprised in his heart, and said: "I just used the Foxmail developed by him, and you are very familiar with him?"

Liu Mingchao nodded: "Very familiar, when he was doing Foxmail the year before last, he wanted me to go to him, but I just came to Zhonghai at the time and wanted to do something by myself, so I didn't go." Now Foxmail is planning to sell it, and it is said that it can sell for millions of dollars, and to tell you the truth, I really regret it now that I think about it. ”

Xu Yiyang thought to himself that since Liu Mingchao knew Zhang Xiaolong and knew that he was doing Foxmail, it would prove that Liu Mingchao was not lying.

So the worry about Liu Mingchao in his heart also disappeared.

Moreover, Xu Yiyang realized that through Liu Mingchao, it was possible to connect with a big bull like Zhang Xiaolong.

Although Xu Yiyang has no plans to start his own business, start a technology company or an Internet company for the time being, it is always good to know such a good person in advance.

Take 10,000 steps back and say, even if you carry forward your style, it is a good thing to introduce Zhang Xiaolong to Ma Huateng in advance, after all, he accounts for 40% of the shares of Tengxun, and the better and faster Tengxun develops, the better and faster it will be for himself.

So Xu Yiyang nodded and said to Liu Mingchao: "For business matters, let's go to your company for a detailed discussion." ”

Liu Mingchao was overjoyed and hurriedly said: "There is no place to park inside, you park your car on the side of the road, we are in the first building." ”