Li Yicheng's company seemed to be really nervous, the two went downstairs and went out, Li Yicheng found a restaurant in the nearest place, and led Liu Xiao in.

"Liu Xiao, I have wronged you this time!" Li Yicheng smiled: "Now the company has no income, so I can only invite you to eat here, and when you come next time, I must invite you to the best restaurant in Leicheng for a meal." But don't worry, the dishes I ordered just now are the most characteristic dishes of Lei City, and they are the signature dishes of this store!"

"This place is very good!" Liu Xiao smiled, he didn't pay attention to the place to eat, just looking at the food was not delicious, "You have to go to the place where everyone is busy when you eat, you see that this shop is full, you know that the craftsmanship of the master here must be good!"

"Alas......" Li Yicheng sighed and laughed self-deprecatingly: "You're right, it's really a failure to get mixed up with me, my friend is here, and I can't even afford a meal!"

"What are you talking about!" Liu Xiao looked at Li Yicheng, "If you say that, then I won't dare to eat this meal!"

"It's me who said the wrong thing!" Li Yicheng held Liu Xiao down, "I can afford a meal, I just remembered what you just said, and sighed!"

"Don't take my words to heart!" Liu Xiao knew that what he was talking upstairs just now was a little heavy, and said, "Actually, I just wanted to deliberately provoke you!"

As soon as Liu Xiao finished speaking, his mobile phone rang, picked it up and saw that it was an unfamiliar number, pressed to answer, but inside was Jing Cheng's voice, "Liu Xiao, where are you now? Our president happens to be free today, if you are okay, we will meet in Rong Binxuan in a while, and the president wants to invite you to a meal!"

"It's okay to eat, hehe, I've eaten with my friends now!" Liu Xiao smiled, "Either I'll go over directly in the afternoon, or I'll ...... in the evening."

"Then let's go in the evening, let's see you in Rong Binxuan in the evening, and I'll go and make an appointment with the president later!" Jing Cheng finished speaking, "Okay, I won't disturb you to eat, see you in the evening!"

"See you in the evening!" Liu Xiao hung up the phone.

"Who called? Do you have any other friends in Thunder City?" asked Li Yicheng.

"No, it's a call from Hua Wei, their president wants to invite dinner, and I pushed it to the evening!" Liu Xiao saw that the food had already come up, and picked up the chopsticks after speaking.

When Li Yicheng heard this, he was very happy, that was the president of Huawei, usually others lined up to invite him to dinner, just like that, people may not appreciate it, and now he wants to invite Liu Xiao to dinner, but he was pushed by Liu Xiao, at least it shows that Liu Xiao attaches more importance to his small dinner in front of him. As soon as Li Yicheng thought so, he became excited, stretched out his hand to the waiter, and shouted: "Waiter, bring the menu, add two dishes here!"

Liu Xiao hurriedly held it down, "I can't eat these dishes anymore, it's a waste to order them again, let's hurry up and eat them, I have to discuss the specific details of cooperation with you after eating!"

In the afternoon, Liu Xiao and Li Yicheng sat in the conference room and discussed for several hours before finalizing the specific details of the cooperation, including the cost budget, future benefit distribution, and so on.

Seeing that there was nothing missing, Liu Xiao sorted out all the things that had just been finalized, "Brother Li, then our cooperation is decided, you can think about it carefully, if there is anything missing or dissatisfied, let's discuss it again, and after confirming that it is correct, we can sign the contract!"

"There's nothing dissatisfied!" Li Yicheng waved his hand, "The conditions you offered are already very good, I'll think about it later, and I'll notify you if there's anything missing!"

"It is estimated that our finance will be able to call you for money when we go to work tomorrow morning, and I will leave the rest to you. Originally, I wanted to come over and talk to you about cooperation, but some time ago, the soft alliance was in trouble, and it was dragged out until now, and the time is a little tight, there is no problem on your side, right?" Liu Xiao asked.

"No problem, absolutely according to your time requirements, you can get a special antivirus software in a week, and build a platform for real-time virus rescue in a month!" Li Yicheng smiled, "You can rest assured!"

Liu Xiao smiled and looked down at the time, "Okay, anyway, I can't leave for the next two days, so I can discuss anything again." It's not early today, I have to meet the president of Warwick for a while!"

"Where are you going to meet, or I'll send you over?" Li Yicheng said.

"No, I'll just take a taxi over!" Liu Xiao stood up with a smile and stuffed all the documents into his handbag, he now goes out without a computer, and carries a bag with him, thinking that it will be safer.

When he arrived at Rong Binxuan, Jing Cheng was waiting in the hall downstairs.

"Senior Jing, I'm sorry, I'm late!" Liu Xiao hurriedly stepped forward.

"No, no!" Jing Cheng smiled, "I also just arrived, the president is on the way, it is estimated that it will be there in a while, let's go inside and wait first!"

Jing Cheng led the way, led Liu Xiao to a large private room and sat down, and then said with a smile: "Today I told the president what you said, he was very interested, saying that there are not many young people who can have your knowledge, and he wants to meet you!"

"It's just a little idea, not knowledge!" Liu Xiao said politely.

"What about your friend, why didn't you see him, what was he doing in Thunder City?" Jing Cheng asked.

"It's our peers, I'm here, just stop by to see him!" Liu Xiao replied.

As the two of them were talking, the door of the private room was pushed open, and a man in his early fifties entered, with a ruddy complexion, a round face and broad ears, and a very rich look.

Jing Cheng hurriedly stood up and said, "Liu Xiao, let me introduce you, this is the president of our Huawei Warwick, Mr. Gu Zhendong." Mr. Gu, this is Liu Xiao I told you, the director of SoftAlliance Technology!"

"Hello, hello, good, young man!" Gu Zhendong laughed, "Come on, come on, sit down, sit down." ”

"Hello Mr. Gu!" Liu Xiao said, he didn't know how to have an extra snack box in his hand, and said: "This trip is in a hurry, and I didn't bring anything good, this is a famous roll call in Haicheng, you can take it back and try it!"

"Okay, good!" Gu Zhendong didn't expect Liu Xiao to bring him a gift, so he happily accepted it, "Let you break the bank!" Jing Cheng, go back and bring some of my tea leaves to Liu Xiao!"

When Jing Cheng heard this, he was happy, "Don't worry, I said in the morning that I would bring Liu Xiao some tea from our Lei City!"

"Mr. Gu is so polite, you are my senior, and you are a business idol that I Liu Xiao respects very much, I came to see you, that's as it should be!" Liu Xiao smiled.

"It's just that I was born twenty or thirty years earlier than you, so there's nothing to be respected!" Gu Zhendong waved his hand, stood up, and walked to the dining table over there, "Jing Cheng, everyone is here, you tell them to serve the food!"

Jing Cheng went out and gave an order, and when he came back, the three of them sat at the table.

Gu Zhendong looked at Liu Xiao and said: "Today Jing Chenglai said something to me, and praised you fiercely, to be honest, your views are indeed somewhat reasonable, but I also have some different opinions, today take this opportunity, let's just communicate!"

"I can't talk about communication, if Mr. Gu has any advice, just say it to me, I'll listen to it!" Liu Xiao smiled, in fact, when he received the call at noon, he had already guessed Gu Zhendong's thoughts, and his discord plan was okay to deal with Jing Cheng, but in the eyes of a businessman like Gu Zhendong, he could naturally be seen through.

"In the domestic security community, which company do you think is doing the best?" asked Gu Zhendong.

"Of course it's our soft alliance!" Liu Xiao smiled, and said the answer without thinking about it, not at all modest!

"Oh?" Gu Zhendong was a little surprised, he thought that Liu Xiao would say that it was Hua Wei, "Isn't our Hua Wei as good as the Soft Alliance?"

"It depends on what aspect it is measured!" Liu Xiao smiled, "If you look at the scale of corporate profits, then Huawei's security business is definitely the largest and best in China, there is no doubt that SoftAlliance's in this regard cannot be compared with Huawei, in terms of brand value and enterprise scale, SoftAlliance is much worse than Huawei." But from a purely security point of view, then the soft alliance is the best in China, and even in the long run, the soft alliance is also the best in the country, and it is only a matter of time before it surpasses Huawei Huawei!"

"It's good for young people to have confidence and ambition!" Gu Zhenhua smiled, "It's just that I heard that the Soft Alliance has encountered some trouble in the past two days, and there has been a lot of resistance at home and abroad.

"That's not a big deal, it's just that several security agencies are afraid of our soft alliance, and they have joined forces to do a little damage, and our soft alliance can handle it!" Liu Xiao smiled.

"We Huawei do things, either don't do it, or do it to do the best, this is our purpose. Gu Zhenhua looked at Liu Xiao with a smile, "Since you said that the Soft Alliance is the best, it seems that our Huawei can only be the first in China by defeating the Soft Alliance." If we take this opportunity to join forces with those companies to deal with the soft alliance, I don't know if you will think that this is just a small trouble!"

"Hahaha!" After Liu Xiao heard this, he immediately burst out laughing, as if he had heard the most ridiculous thing in the world, and Jing Cheng and Gu Zhenhua were a little numb with laughter. The two glanced at each other, not knowing what Liu Xiao was laughing at.

"Liu Xiao, what are you laughing at?

"Nothing! nothing!" Liu Xiao finally suppressed his smile, picked up the cup and took a sip of water, "Mr. Gu's hypothesis is very interesting, but it's a pity that it's just a hypothesis. ”

Gu Zhenhua looked at Liu Xiao and asked slowly, "What if this is not a hypothesis!"

"Mr. Gu said this, he wouldn't be preparing to attack our soft alliance, right?" asked Liu Xiao.

"We are competitors, I think anything is possible!" Gu Zhenhua smiled and picked up his wine glass, and took a sip, he didn't say it explicitly, but the meaning was obvious, one mountain cannot tolerate two tigers, Hua Wei will definitely defeat the soft alliance.

"Alas......" Liu Xiao sighed, "I originally thought that Mr. Gu had been in business for a long time, and he should know the importance of his actions, so he would definitely not do this." But since Mr. Gu said so, then I have to tell you that if Huawei really does this, there will be only one result, Huawei will not only fail our soft alliance, but will also be completely reduced to a second-tier brand, and even affect Huawei headquarters. ”

"Hahaha!" This time it was Gu Zhenhua's turn to laugh, he also laughed very exaggeratedly, Liu Xiao's words were really ridiculous, and he finally stopped laughing, Gu Zhenhua said: "What you said is really funny, you came to Thunder City this time, just to hope that we Huawei will not join forces with those companies to deal with the soft alliance, you are here to seek peace, but you can fool Jing Cheng, you want to fool me, you are still a little worse!"

"I came to Lei City, just to respect you for not colluding with those overseas companies to deal with your own people, I am grateful for Hua Wei's affection, but it is not that I am afraid of Hua Wei. Liu Xiao sighed, "If I had known that this was the case, I wouldn't have come to Thunder City, let alone sit here and have this meal with you!"

"Hehe, if you insist on saying this, it's up to you!" Gu Zhenhua smiled, "It's just that I don't understand why I, Huawei, have joined forces with those companies, but I can't destroy your soft alliance, this is not logical, how do you explain this!"

Liu Xiao sighed, stood up, and raised his wine glass, "Come, drink this glass, I'll explain it to you again!"

"Okay! I want to hear Gaojian!" Gu Zhenhua understood what Liu Xiao meant, he just said that he was grateful for Hua Wei's affection, then this wine should be a broken relationship, after drinking this wine, the two parties don't have to worry about any affection, you Hua Wei can attack the soft alliance, and the soft alliance will not have reservations. But Gu Zhenhua still decided to drink this glass of wine, because he didn't believe Liu Xiao's words at all, so many companies have joined forces to deal with the soft alliance, and the soft alliance has absolutely no hope of survival, and what does Huawei say will be reduced to a second-tier brand because of this, it is even more nonsense, and the ghosts are not qualified!

Jing Cheng couldn't help it, sighed, and accompanied the two of them to drink the wine.

"Now you can say it!" Gu Zhenhua slowly put down his wine glass.

"Before I say that, I want to ask Senior Jing a question!" Liu Xiao looked at Jing Cheng, "This time, all the European and American security agencies have joined forces to deal with the Soft Alliance, why are they doing this?"

Jing Cheng thought for a while, "I think they are afraid of the launch of SoftAlliance's strategic-level products." The power of this product has been confirmed at the Black Hat Conference, and once it is listed, it will subvert the entire security market pattern!"

"Okay, Senior Jing is still telling the truth!" Liu Xiao laughed, "Then do you think they can succeed?"

"This ......" Jing Cheng hesitated, not knowing what to say, he looked at Gu Zhenhua and said: "In the security world, it may be more difficult to block a more advanced security technology, but if you want to block a company, you should... It should still be possible!" Jing Cheng said with a slurp.

"If we can't block our technology, how can we ban our company?" Liu Xiao asked rhetorically, but then smiled: "Up to now, which of these so-called companies that want to ban our soft alliance really understands our strategic-level technology?" Liu Xiao smiled and shook his head, "Our products are not listed at all, they don't even know what our products look like, so they rush to launch a large number of fake strategic products, do you think this will ban our products?" Have you ever wondered what if our softalliance launch is not a strategic product?"

"Huh?" As soon as Liu Xiao said this, Gu Zhendong and Jing Cheng were stupid, they really didn't think about it, but if you don't launch a product, then why do you open a business?

Liu Xiao glanced at the surprised looks of the two of them, and continued: "Let's be honest, our soft alliance has encapsulated the strategic-level core into a security engine. The security engine provides multiple sets of interface standards and hundreds of functions, and any security organization, even software enterprises, as long as they use our security engine for development, can design their own policy-level security products, and the security completely surpasses all security products on the market today. At present, we are in talks with several companies that are very interested in our security engine, including Microsoft, which has just entered the security field, and IBM, the overlord of the personal computer industry. ”

Liu Xiao spread his hands, "Think about it, as long as we soft-alliance put this security engine on the market, how many people and how many companies will want to get the right to use our engine, we don't need to design specific products at all, just by charging the use fee of the security engine, our soft-alliance will not collapse." In the face of Microsoft and IBM, which are more advanced in technology and more powerful, and have been eyeing the security market for a long time, who do you think will be the first to collapse?"

The two of them were stupid now, this was something they didn't expect at all.

"It doesn't matter if the soft alliance is small, the boat is small and it is good to turn around, even if it is 10,000 steps back, we can't go this way, we go back to do the old business again, we are going to do data recovery and security training for people, then the soft alliance can survive." But Huawei is different, the family is big, the stall in the field of security business has been spread so big at the beginning, and so much money has been smashed, in case there is a mistake that leads to the failure of the investment, the consequences do not need to be said, you two know better than me!" Liu Xiao looked at the two of them with a smile, and then slowly stood up, "Okay, everything that should be said has been said, thank you Mr. Gu for your hospitality today, Liu Xiao is leaving!"

Liu Xiao pushed away the chair and walked out a few steps, Gu Zhendong reacted at this time, and quickly stood up to catch up, "Stay, stay!"

"Does Mr. Gu have any other advice?" Liu Xiao asked when he turned around.

"You young people are like that, you are impetuous. Gu Zhendong laughed, "I was just joking just now, I tested you a little, look at you, I said I was leaving." Come on, sit down and eat, don't I know what to do, no matter how bad my Gu Zhendong is, I won't join forces with outsiders to deal with my own people. ”

As Gu Zhendong spoke, he pulled Liu Xiao back to sit back at the dining table.

Liu Xiao exhaled a long breath at this time, and his heart was relaxed, and he finally frightened this treacherous and cunning Gu Zhendong. In fact, Liu Xiao's words just now are not all bluffing, at least the cooperation with Microsoft is not made up by him, if Liu Xiao really agreed to Kang Michael's cooperation plan that day, it will be like what he said to Zhang Xiaohua at the time, the entire security community will be reshuffled, from this point of view, Liu Xiao even saved those security agencies that attacked the soft alliance, including Hua Wei.

Gu Zhendong never mentioned the matter of dealing with the soft alliance again, just one sentence: "Don't get drunk endlessly", and in the end, Liu Xiao was a little dizzy, Gu Zhendong saw that he was almost drunk, so he arranged his own car to send Liu Xiao to the hotel to stay.

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Jing Cheng helped Liu Xiao downstairs, and when he came up, he saw Gu Zhendong sitting there alone, holding the snack that Liu Xiao gave him, looking over and over again.

"Mr. Gu, let's go back too!" Jing Cheng said.

Gu Zhendong stood up and said, "Liu Xiao is not a simple person, I think what he said just now is probably threatening us!"

"This won't be!" Jing Cheng was surprised, "Then what should we do?" Simon Iron Shell has been urging us to attack the Soft Alliance!"

"Let them go!" Gu Zhendong frowned and waved his hand, "I think I can only do what Liu Xiao said, I can still understand what he means, as long as we don't join forces with those overseas security companies, then SoftAlliance will not throw out that security engine, our Huawei has invested more than 100 million US dollars in the security business, and now we haven't recovered a penny, so we can't take this risk." After Gu Zhendong finished speaking, he patted the snack box on his hand and sighed: "We chose to cooperate with Simon Iron Shell, it seems that it was really a mistake!

After Gu Zhendong finished speaking, he shook his head and walked out of the private room.