If you go back 20 or 30 years, how are you going to make a fortune?

Generally speaking, you can buy lottery tickets for the World Cup and the Olympic Games, and then use the bonus to buy a house and buy gold, and then enter the Internet market to at least mix a capital predator, worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

If you have some financial and management skills, you can choose to run an industrial business. In the early years, two refrigerator production lines were introduced, and then you could lie down and count the money. But remember to shoot the production line in 87 and 88, and then wait for the 90s to enter the stock market, what deep development, Lu Province Bohai, two bridges and one mouth, etc., at this time the stock market has what to buy it, anyway, it is brainless to make money, as long as you remember to avoid the 327 treasury bonds in 95.

By the mid-90s, you've killed all the invincible players in China's stock market, and it's time to get out of the novice village. went to the United States to acquire various Internet and Internet concept stocks, but it is still a brainless wave, and if you see an impression, you can just collect it. Wait until the dot-com bubble of 2001 and remember to sell it, and then wait for the bottom. If you want to prosper the country, you can also use a lot of capital - in the 90s, I guess you will not forget about shearing Japanese wool and the financial crisis in Southeast Asia.

You, who are worth tens of billions of dollars, will then acquire various high-tech industries, and then try to move back to China for industrial layout and build a technology empire. By around 2010, it is estimated that you have reached the top of the world, and you are alone.

But these practices are a little too unchallenging for Hu Wenhai. Yes, it's challenging. At a glance, the course of development has been decided, as long as you accumulate money step by step, and then wait to be worshipped.

How boring would this kind of life, which is hardly challenging? If it were written as a starting point travel novel, it would probably be a proper street bargain, right?

So for Hu Wenhai, what is money? In the final analysis, it is just a piece of paper, and it is ridiculous to say that those who regard it as a pursuit often do not get it. And those who do not have it in their eyes are favored by it.

As a reborn, Hu Wenhai's performance after arriving in the United States has long proved that money is not an obstacle for him. If you need to, you can always find a way to make money.

If a person is not short of money, his eyes will naturally not be fixed on money. Hu Wenhai still remembers a time-traveling novel he once read, in which the protagonist traveled to the Austro-Hungarian Empire to become Princess Sissi, and in the American Civil War, he took it for granted that he supported all kinds of curry favor in the north and sold all kinds of products to make money.

However, after the reunification of the United States, he suddenly realized why he didn't support the South in bloodletting the United States, or even simply split the United States, or let the United States maintain slavery?

Yes, that's a different way of looking at things. Hu Wenhai pulled his eyes away from the perspective of making money, and couldn't help but ask himself, can he ruthlessly pit Americans once before the Internet starts?

To put it simply, Hu Wenhai felt absolutely necessary to try to see if he could lead the Americans to the ditch. As long as he thought that in the future, the US information industry might develop into a crooked technology tree like Japan's, Hu Wenhai felt that he would not be reborn again in vain.

So, how do you bring the Americans to the ditch? Hu Wenhai thought about it and decided to see if he could give Intel a hand first.

And Cisco is the one Hu Wenhai chose to use to stab Intel.

But of course, he hasn't fully figured out the specific plan yet. But at least one idea at the moment is one that he thinks is possible.

Intel is undoubtedly monopolistic, and amD has never essentially threatened Intel's dominance. It is this monopoly that allows Intel to maintain a closed system, rather than an open system like aRm. In the entire x86 architecture market, Intel is the king of facts.

Intel was able to gain a monopoly position, firstly because there were no competitors in the same class, and secondly, because it did not have a similar monopoly in the downstream market. Think about it, if there were no assembly machines in the world, and the sales of brand machines were concentrated in the hands of one or two large enterprises. No matter how much Intel calls for wind and rain in the chip market, it has to kneel in the face of the downstream of the same monopoly, at least it must be greatly suppressed.

So, how can you eliminate the assembly machine and dominate the entire brand machine in one fell swoop?

Hu Wenhai believes that the key to this lies in eliminating the concept of "computer." Who at least has heard that someone has gone to buy and assemble a TV? Who cares about how much memory the TV has, what kind of system-on-chip it uses, and what brand of adapter it uses?

No consumer cares about these,What they care more about is whether the appearance of the TV is beautiful,Is the plane at right angles,How big is the size,It's all some intuitive data。

Why is this so? Because in the minds of consumers, televisions are consumer goods, and computers are scientific devices. Hu Wenhai's goal is to turn computers into consumer goods like televisions.

Only in this way can it be possible to produce a downstream force that can sit on an equal footing with Intel. Only in this way can we easily get rid of the x86 architecture system one day.

Reflecting on the implementation of this strategy, the first thing Hu Wenhai needs to do is to change the cornerstone of the future Internet network -- the router. Since you want to sell computers as TVs, let's first transform the TV network.

However, these ideas are still relatively far-sighted, and for the time being, Hu Wenhai needs to grasp the direction of Cisco's development first.

"Because I think the talents of both of them can be trusted. Hu Wenhai's face remained unchanged, and he said sincerely: "The router will definitely be able to achieve market success under the promotion of the new company, so why should I do superfluous things? I hope that the two of you can give me a chance, not only to acquire the patent share in the hands of Stanford University, but also to take out a sum of money for the formation of the new company, as the initial operating expenses." ”

"I don't know Mr. Hu...... How many shares are you going to have?" asked Leonard cautiously.

"I want to ask first, what is the current transmission rate of your multi-protocol router?" Hu Wenhai did not answer directly, but threw out another question.

Leonard and Santi glanced at each other, and then hesitantly said the answer: "Our router can reach a transfer speed of 64KB/s." ”

"But your router still uses a leased line?"

"Yes, with coaxial cables. Leonard nodded in acknowledgement.

Hu Wenhai couldn't help but laugh when he heard his answer. After all, this is 1984, the era when the Internet has not yet been invented, and it is the wild era of the Internet.

There are three types of network protocols in operation, including X.25, TcP/IP and IPX/sPX, and the LAN composed of these three network protocols cannot communicate with each other because of different protocols. It is not right to say that there is no Internet, because at this time the original network of the United States still exists, and it can communicate through telephone lines, but this efficiency is quite "hehe". At this time, the modem used in the military network is 80-103a produced by Hayes, and the transmission rate is only a pitiful 1.2Kbit/s.

The unit is Kbit/s, which means that the real speed of KB/s is divided by 8 in the application......

In order to transfer data between two computer LANs, of course, a relatively large amount of bandwidth is required. Cisco's routers can reach a speed of 64KB/s, which is already the speed of 512K broadband in later generations. For the LAN in 1984, it was already quite a speed.

But in order to have such a fast speed, the price is the cost. Cisco's early routers were not small, and the operation and maintenance were also complicated, so the line could only be a dedicated line, not to mention the use of local calls!

Moreover, it has to be a coaxial cable line. This construction cost is really unbearable.

"Well, I have an idea. Hu Wenhai vowed: "If the two agree with my idea, then I can invest one million dollars, accounting for 49% of the shares." If you don't think it's appropriate, then it's a pity, and I'm willing to pay $300,000, 30% of the shares. ”

This is clearly an unequal choice, with 1 million on one side accounting for 49% and 300,000 on the other side accounting for 30%. The former is equivalent to valuing the future Cisco at 2.04 million, while the latter valuing Cisco at 1 million.

But instead of recklessly choosing the former, Leonard asked, "Can I listen to your idea?"

"Absolutely. Hu Wenhai said happily: "I have a plan, what if we connect all the local area networks in the United States through routers?"

"It's not possible for the time being, it's too costly. Leonard subconsciously retorted.

"No, the cost is low, we work with cable networks. By revamping the cable network to utilize cable transmission lines, this plan is not out of reach. ”

"This ......"

"Think about what a big market this will be!" Hu Wenhai saw that Leonard was a little hesitant, and continued to make persistent efforts: "Relying on the company's own slow promotion, how long will it take for the market to accept this product? If you can directly enter the homes of many ordinary people through the network of cable television networks, this is the real big market!"

"What kind of ordinary person, what do you do with a router in your home?"

"There's a lot we can do, we can develop a new product that can connect to a TV to output images and access other computers through a router. You can play games, access newsgroups, work at work, and even access your company's LAN to work with others. Of course, there are many other features that we can develop over time. I gave it a name, it's called a home information terminal, or you can call it a TV box. Crucially, the product will be extremely easy to use, making it easy for even people who have never touched a computer to use it......"