Chapter 065: Hong Kong Gold Mountain
After Qiu Bojun said goodbye to Li Yan, he immediately made a brief report on the Taiji script with his boss, Zhang Xuanlong of the Hong Kong Jinshan Company, on the phone, and Zhang Xuanlong was very interested after hearing this, and asked Qiu Bojun to rush to Hong Kong as soon as possible to conduct an interview with him. Qiu Bojun did not stop in Shangyang, he bought a train that night to Zhongyuan City, the provincial capital of Zhongyuan Province, and then flew from Zhongyuan City to Shenzhen, and three days later, he appeared in the office of Zhang Xuanlong, the headquarters of Hong Kong Jinshan Company.
Zhang Xuanlong is an authentic Hong Kong businessman, he is the first batch of Hong Kong people to do computer business in Zhongguancun, the capital of China, when Zhang Xuanlong was cooperating with Sitong to launch the SUPER machine, a batch of machine startup software problems, can not start, Qiu Bojun who worked in Sitong took one night to change it, which seems to be so magical in Zhang Xuanlong's eyes. Although Zhang Xuanlong is in the computer business, but he does not understand computers, in his eyes those computer technology masters are as mysterious as a martial arts hero with unique skills, after this incident, Zhang Xuanlong has a strong interest in Qiu Bojun, and has the idea of digging him from Sitong to his own company.
In 1988, Qiu Bojun was transferred to Shenzhen by Sitong Company to work, and let him be in charge of a business department of the company, and the person who did business with him happened to be Zhang Xuanlong's younger brother Zhang Xiaolong. But business was not his forte for Qiu Bojun in his early years, he was a brilliant programmer, but he was a crappy businessman. Qiu Bojun soon realized this, when he proposed to develop a set of word processing software to replace foreign word processing software wordstar, but did not get the support of the senior management of Sitong company, and at this time Zhang Xuanlong realized that the opportunity was coming, he promised to provide Qiu Bojun with conditions so that he could concentrate on the development of WPS, so Qiu Bojun decisively resigned from Sitong company, from May 1988 to September 1989, he locked himself in a room in Shenzhen for Zhang Xuanlong for him, as long as he was awake, he kept writing, in September 1989, WPS1.0 was bornγ After Hong Kong Jinshan Company got Qiu Bojun's software, it sold more than 30,000 sets in less than a year, and Zhang Xuanlong also made a lot of money. In the winter of 1989, Qiu Bojun moved from Shenzhen to Zhuhai and set up a R&D team specializing in WPS development in Zhuhai, which was still affiliated to Hong Kong Kingsoft Company.
"Brother, it's been a hard journey. Zhang Xuanlong, who was sitting in the office, saw Qiu Bojun coming all the way non-stop, so he stood up and greeted.
Qiu Bojun was not polite, took out a floppy disk from his bag and put it on Zhang Xuanlong's desk and said, "Xuanlong, you first take a look at the software I said." β
Zhang Xuanlong picked up the floppy disk and put it in his computer floppy drive, opened the software in the floppy disk, and then Qiu Bojun demonstrated the functions of Tai Chi text to Zhang Xuanlong one by one on Zhang Xuanlong's computer, Zhang Xuanlong has been doing computer business for several years, his business acumen is sensitive, when Qiu Bojun is halfway through the demonstration, he has realized the potential huge business opportunities of this software.
"Brother, you really brought me a big surprise this time, this software is the best in the world, I wonder what the author of this software plans to do with this software?" Zhang Xuanlong turned off the computer, took out a cigar and lit it, took a puff, and then looked at Qiu Bojun and asked.
Qiu Bojun explained Li Yan's opinions on sales sharing to Zhang Xuanlong, and Zhang Xuanlong smiled softly: "It seems that this Li Yan is not simple, his business acumen is very sensitive, and he is better than you at this point." β
"Xuanlong, don't make fun of me, you know I just want to be a programmer and be able to concentrate on developing my own software. Qiu Bojun also smiled.
"I think this Mr. and Mrs. Li are more valuable than this software, brother, is it possible to invite him to work for us in Jinshan?" Zhang Xuanlong asked.
"Xuanlong, this is not very likely for the time being, not to mention Li Yan's own wishes, he is still a junior high school student, you know the situation in the mainland, his parents will not worry that he will run too far. Qiu Bojun shook his head and said.
"Li Yan is still a child, are you sure it's not a joke, it's too unbelievable?" Zhang Xuanlong said with wide eyes.
Qiu Bojun's surprise at Zhang Xuanlong was expected, and anyone who heard that a mainland junior high school student had developed a world-class word processing software would be surprised.
"Yes, I understand your disbelief, and I was also unbelievable when I first met him...... Qiu Bojun told Zhang Xuanlong about the conversation he had with Li Yan when he met Li Yan in Fenghuang Township and had dinner with Li Yan at Lao Huang Restaurant.
"It's amazing, just listening to his words, I have to think that this is a scholar who has a deep research on the computer industry at home and abroad, what a talent, but it's a pity. Zhang Xuanlong said with some regret.
"Xuanlong, what do you think of Li Yan's proposal?" asked Qiu Bojun.
"Is it possible to crack him, let's also develop a set of such software. Zhang Xuanlong asked.
"Xuanlong, cracking other people's software is immoral, if someone cracks our WPS, what are our feelings!" Qiu Bojun said with a straight face, although he knew Zhang Xuanlong's temperament, and knew that he just didn't want the cake in his hand to be recognized and take a piece of it to joke with himself, not really to crack it.
"Haha, I'll just ask casually, but brother, don't you be so serious, aren't you curious, how did he achieve such an effect under such limited calculation conditions?" Zhang Xuanlong asked.
"Well, of course I'm curious, I just got the software, and I tried to disassemble this software myself, but I don't know what encryption algorithm Li Yan used, so I can't disassemble it at all. Qiu Bojun smiled and said with a smile, just now he was still righteously saying that Zhang Xuanlong was immoral to crack other people's software, so he secretly comforted himself in his heart: "I'm just disassembling, not cracking." β
"In this way, it seems that since people dare to send the software to you, the first programmer in China, they are prepared. Zhang Xuanlong sighed.
"Xuanlong, you see if we will draw up a draft contract first, and then discuss with Li Yan as for the specific proportion of the share. Qiu Bojun suggested.
"Well, about the contract, I will notify the marketing department and let them do it later, you live in Hong Kong now, and when the contract is completed, I am not too busy during this time, let's go and meet this magical Central Plains boy together, how about it?" Zhang Xuanlong said.
"Okay, so be it, I'll wait for your notification. Qiu Bojun stood up, greeted Zhang Xuanlong, and went back to the company's accommodation arranged for himself in Hong Kong.
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Two days later, Qiu Bojun got a notice, saying that the contract was ready, and asked him to come and take a look, which was originally a matter of the marketing department, but after all, it was introduced by Qiu Bojun, so out of respect, let him take a look at it first and make suggestions.
Qiu Bojun came to Zhang Xuanlong's office again, and Zhang Xuanlong handed him a draft contract and said, "Brother, you take a look first." β
Qiu Bojun roughly flipped through the contract, and then said to Zhang Xuanlong: "Specifically, let's see Li Yan and let him take a look, when will we leave?"
"The day after tomorrow, I'll deal with the things at hand in the next two days, and let's go see that amazing boy together. Zhang Xuanlong said.
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After signing the city's procurement contract, Li Yan spent a day adjusting the Taiji word processing software, packaging it into a software installation package, and according to the management of later generations, the purchase contract was written in the installation interface, and some software copyright terms that were mature in later generations were added.
The next day, he conducted the first technical training in the conference room of the municipal government for the various units of Shangyang City to purchase software, and the main content of this training was the installation and configuration of the software. After the training, he spent two days, sitting in the city specially equipped for him to run through the various units in the city, on-site guidance for each unit to install and configure the software, the configuration of the system is not complicated, but due to the limitations of computer hardware at that time, all the Chinese character font needs to install a special Hanka to support, Taiji text preset a special Hanka configuration interface, but because the configuration of Hanka is a very professional work, he had to personally go to the units for guidance.
After two days of installation, the software installation of each unit was completed, Li Yan also got his own software purchase money as he wished, when he put the 200,000 yuan passbook into his pocket, he felt a burst of satisfaction, whether in the past life or in this life, this is the biggest money he has ever gotten, although he knows that he will make more money in the future, but this is his first pot of gold, whether it is a man or a woman, the first time always has special significance.
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When Li Yan was full of ambition for the future after receiving his first pot of gold, Qiu Bojun and Zhang Xuanlong and his party also came to Shangyang City, the ancient city of Shangyang, which was the imperial capital 3,000 years ago, what would they bring to Li Yan?