Chapter 067: Letter from Europe
On the afternoon of the day when the contract was signed with Kingsoft, Li Yan and Zhang Xuanlong discussed the follow-up operation of the contract, and finally the two parties agreed that Qiu Bojun would temporarily stay in Shangyang to assist Li Yan in customizing the Taiji word processing software according to Kingsoft's requirements, such as adding the Kingsoft logo, modifying the software signature, and making the English version of the software. Zhang Xuanlong and the other three went back to Hong Kong directly after meeting with Lin Weidong, and I don't know if the two sides reached any agreement, Lin Weidong didn't say, and Li Yan didn't ask.
In order to facilitate contact, Li Yan gritted his teeth and bought himself a Motorola big brother in the telecommunications bureau. Coming out of the telecommunications bureau, Li Yan looked at the big brother who was like a brick in his hand, and grinned in distress, this thing has a bad signal, the call quality is not high, and it actually costs more than 10,000 yuan, which is too dark. Since they did not have a computer, Li Yan and Qiu Bojun had to go back to Fenghuang Township first and use the township government's computer to modify the software. Before returning to his hometown, Li Yan asked Lin Weidong to help him customize a high-configuration 486 computer in the provincial capital according to his own requirements, and it won't be long before Li Yan can use his own computer.
After returning to his hometown, Li Yan asked his uncle Zhang Zhenghai to temporarily arrange a dormitory for Qiu Bojun to live in the township government, and took the initiative to submit an application to the township government for temporarily renting the township government's computer for software development. In the past, Li Yan's free use of the township government's computer can be regarded as Li Yan's personal behavior, and it can be justified, but if he uses it again in the future, it is a completely commercial behavior, and in order to prevent his uncle from falling into the mouth, he can no longer use it for free.
Zhang Zhenghai happily signed the lease application, because he knew that his nephew was now a not small rich man, and he didn't ask how much money Li Yan had now, but it was certain that there was no shortage of dozens of yuan a month. He was very enthusiastic about the brick-like thing in Li Yan's hand, you must know that he, the township chief, has not yet used the big brother.
In the next few days, Li Yan made some modifications to the Tai Chi text with the assistance of Qiu Bojun, and two days later, Qiu Bojun embarked on the return journey with the modified software, and when he left, Li Yan also handed over part of the source code of the software to Qiu Bojun and took it away, but the core code of the software Li Yan will definitely be firmly in his hands.
Because in the contract with Jinshan, Li Yan completely transferred the national sales rights of Taiji characters to Hong Kong Jinshan, so the government procurement that he originally planned to expand had to stop, but because of the excellence of Taiji characters themselves. The enthusiasm of other cities to invite Li Yan to introduce Tai Chi characters in the past is still undiminished, and Li Yan is happy to take this opportunity to promote Tai Chi software.
After Qiu Bojun brought the Tai Chi script back to Hong Kong, Kingsoft immediately started an intensive publicity campaign to build momentum for the simultaneous release of the software on New Year's Day in 92.
Just when Jinshan Company was promoting Tai Chi characters, Li Yan's life gradually calmed down, and before the new computer he bought arrived, he began to go to and from school with the students in Fenghuang Township, as if he had become an ordinary student again. It was only occasionally that the eldest brother Li Yan took out of his schoolbag and the classmates and teachers around him realized that this teenager had gone ahead of all the students, and gradually became an existence that they needed to look up to see, knowing that one day, it would become a legend in the minds of most of them.
"Li Yan, can you come and see if this is your letter?" One day between classes, Li Yan was sitting in the classroom and playing with Wang Lingling and Ma Wenjuan in front of him, and the head teacher Tian Feng stood at the door of the classroom with a letter and said to Li Yan.
Li Yan came to the door of the classroom, but Tian Feng looked at the letter in his hand, looked at the envelope, and found that it was a letter from Geneva, Switzerland, the recipient was his name, and the sender was signed by Tim Berners Lee.
If there are any people in the world that Li Yan admires and respects from the heart, Tim Berners Lee is definitely one. There are very few ordinary people in the world who don't know Bill Gates, but there are many ordinary people in the world who don't know Tim Berners Lee, but as long as everyone on this planet is connected to the Internet, whether you admit it or not, then you are enjoying the great invention of Tim Berners Lee. Yes, Tim Berners Lee is the man who is known as the father of the Internet, whose invention changed the traditional model of global informatization and ushered in a new era of information exchange. However, instead of patenting his invention and restricting its use, Tim Berners Lee opened it to the world free of charge, opening a milestone chapter in the global popularization of the Internet and bringing it to thousands of households. In other words, for the popularization of the Internet, Tim Berners Lee gave up the sky-high wealth that he could have obtained, and furthermore, he could have competed with Bill Gates in terms of wealth. It is precisely because of this that he has become an idol in the hearts of thousands of Internet fans and computer professionals, including Li Yan in his previous life.
Li Yan did not forget the Internet, a field full of business opportunities and challenges, and did not forget that there were great interests in the standards that his mentor told him at the beginning, so in the field of the Internet, where the standard is king, he wanted to occupy this high ground at the beginning of its development, so when he did a good job of Tai Chi writing, he sent a letter to Qiu Bojun on the one hand, and at the same time he also wrote an article called "Hyperlink, Link the World" In the article, he first put forward the idea of establishing a standard language for Internet hypertext, and made = some brief discussions and suggestions for the hypertext language standard, and then according to the memory of his previous life, he sent the article to the European Particle Physics Laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland, Europe, and the recipient wrote the name of Tim Berners Lee, who was working in the laboratory at the time. After receiving his letter, Lee replied to himself, which he couldn't wait to know what the father of the Internet had written in his heart.
"This is my letter, thank you, teacher. Li Yan said.
"It's yours, you can go back to class. Tian Feng nodded, turned around and left.
"Dear Lee, it's a pleasure to receive your letter, it's hard to believe that you, far away in the mysterious East, have the same idea as me......," Tim elaborated on the idea of establishing a standard for hypertext markup language in Lee's letter.
"Li, after reading your article, I have some of the above thoughts, I think that if we combine my views with your views and publish them as a paper, our actions will be historic, and our actions will change the world, I ask you to allow me to make appropriate changes to your article, and then publish it in the name of you and me, I feel embarrassed by my request, but as a person who is obsessed with the Internet, please forgive me for being presumptuous, and I hereby implore you to agree to my request. Tim wrote sincerely at the end of the letter.
Li Yan put the letter away, a smile appeared at the corner of his mouth, it seems that God is helping himself, the purpose of his writing this letter is to make his own voice in the field of Internet academia through the father of the Internet, but I didn't expect Tim to take the initiative to jointly publish a paper with him, how can such a good thing not agree.
"Hey, when did you know a foreigner. Just when Li Yan received the letter in the envelope and put it on the desk, the fat girl turned her head curiously, glanced at Li Yan's letter, and she was surprised to find that Li Yan actually received a letter from a foreign country, and she could barely tell that the address was Geneva, Switzerland, so the girl couldn't help but ask curiously.
"You don't know, I have a relative who is foreign, and he wrote me a letter asking me to go over and inherit his inheritance, and soon I will be rich, quack......" Li Yan said nonsense.
"Really!" The fat girl held her heart in her hands and looked at Li Yan with little stars in her eyes, as if she believed his words.
"Well, of course it's true. Li Yan scratched his head and said, looking at the fat girl in front of him who looked trusting of him, he suddenly felt a sense of guilt.
"Juanzi come here, don't listen to Li Yan's nonsense, he lied to you. Wang Lingling couldn't stand it anymore, and pulled the fat girl over.
"Li Yan, are you lying to me?" the fat girl asked as she looked into Li Yan's eyes.
"That, haha, just kidding, haha. Li Yan was seen by the fat girl as a little weak, so she scratched her head and said.
Ma Wenjuan's round eyes slowly moistened, and tears began to roll in her eyes.
"Hey, don't cry, Lingling quickly persuade the fat girl, what's wrong with her?" Li Yan hurriedly asked Wang Lingling for help.
"Juanzi, don't cry, I blame you, who let you lie to her. Wang Lingling complained to Li Ling, and then pulled Ma Wenjuan over and persuaded in a low voice, and after a while, this girl burst into tears and laughed.
"Inexplicable!" Li Yan muttered, since the last time he covered the mouth of this fat girl and made her cry, he gradually found that Wang Lingling and Ma Wenjuan's behavior was a little strange, and he couldn't say what went wrong, in short, these two girls are a little abnormal, just like today's thing, as long as you are not stupid, everyone can see that Li Yan is joking, but this fat girl actually believed it and cried, and he didn't know how to provoke this girl.
During the third class, Huang Haijun came to Li Yan and said that his father invited Li Yan to his house for dinner at noon today, and wanted to ask him for help with some things.
After school, Huang Haijun appeared at the door of the 21st class classroom on time, Li Yan pulled Ma Jun, and the three of them went to the old Huang restaurant.
PS: At the end of chapter 045, it was originally mentioned that Li Yan sent a letter to the United States as a mistake of green tea, which has been corrected.