"Ordinary employees buy Seiko, Tissot, Citizen are good, the price is right, the quality is reliable, and it is quite face-saving to wear it out, Mr. Du's words, of course, to buy the best Swiss watches, such as Patek Philippe, Jaeger-LeCoultre, Vacheron Constantin, ......"

"I once bought an Omega women's watch for my sister, did I buy it wrong?"

When Du Qiu was in junior high school, mobile phones have been popularized on a large scale in China, with mobile phones, watches are no longer necessities, so he has never had the habit of wearing a watch, he had bought a smart watch before crossing, and he only wore it for three days before he threw it in a drawer to eat ashes, after crossing, if it was not because the big brother in 1995 was too bulky, it was really inconvenient to carry, he didn't even want to wear an electronic watch. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

So if you dig deeper, Du Qiu's interest in watches is very short, as short as only one day, it started after the opening ceremony of the Internet conference, I saw Bai Yuquan's Longines in the morning, Yang Fan's Rolex at noon, and Zhao Hongfei's Seiko at night, none of these three people's watches were born yesterday, but he only noticed them for the first time yesterday.

This strange situation made Du Qiu a little confused, and he always felt that there was some kind of commercial revelation in it, but he couldn't think of what it was for a while, so he took the initiative to talk to Liu Yunlai about the watch today, but unfortunately he didn't find any clue after chatting.

The experts attracted by the Paxos algorithm all have two brushes, which is not easy, so He Lixing provided a thick conference report of more than 30 pages, many of which involve very cutting-edge and complex technologies in 1995, and some of the core problems will not be solved until after 2000.

Fortunately, distributed systems were Du Qiu's professional direction when he was in graduate school before crossing over, and he had a lot of knowledge in his brain and computer, so it was very relaxing.

"He Gong, these three questions are more cumbersome, I haven't thought about them clearly for the time being, and I won't discuss them later. Du Qiu took a pencil, drew a few circles on the report catalog, and said, "This, this...... These issues are critical to the implementation of the project, which are confidential to the company, and will not be discussed in depth now. What do you think?"

He Lixing does not like sports, his hobby is to study electronic circuits, and he likes to use electric soldering irons to toss all kinds of scrapped computer parts, so he is nicknamed Engineer He, referred to as He Gong, as the most frequent executive in the company and Du Qiu, he has become accustomed to his high efficiency, and after looking at it, he said: "I feel the same as Mr. Du, these issues are more sensitive, and they are indeed not suitable for in-depth discussion." ”

"When you communicated with those experts yesterday afternoon, did anyone express their willingness to come to our company to work part-time?"

"Several Ph.D. students from the three local universities in Yuncheng are very interested, but there are no ones from other places for the time being. ”

"It seems that there are no rabbits and no eagles. Du Qiu smiled, turned the table of contents to the second page, and said: "These articles are of little commercial significance, but they are more important academically, if they are thoroughly studied, at least five or six high-quality papers can be published, and I will put a little dry goods out to see if they can sit still." ”

In order to curb his addiction to smoking, Liu Yunlai stuffed several pieces of chewing gum into his mouth, bit it and squeaked, and when he heard this, he was a little puzzled, and asked with a smile: "Now the doctor's requirements are so low, and he is willing to come to work if he gives some fungus and dried fish or something?"

"Mr. Liu, haven't you been on the company forum for a while?" He Lixing took the chewing gum box he handed over and explained: "This is an Internet word invented by Mr. Du, publishing all nonsense and meaningless posts on the Internet is called irrigation, and publishing concise and practical posts without nonsense is called dry goods." ”

"It's kind of interesting, it's quite vivid. Liu Yunlai laughed and said: "The Internet is developing really fast, and it will be outdated if it is not on for a few days. ”

He Lixing is a pragmatist and has little interest in the forum, saying: "In fact, there is nothing to visit, it is just a place for netizens to pass the time, there is no other use except for exchange technology and small talk, I usually only go once in three or four days." ”

Who said forums only have these two features?

The forum can do anything......

Du Qiu had a flash of inspiration, and finally figured out why he suddenly paid attention to watches, because this thing was the most perfect experiment for e-commerce in 1995!

If you look at it from historical experience, the most suitable product for e-commerce in the 90s is books, because books are standardized products, merchants can ensure uniform quality, customers do not have personalized needs, basically do not need after-sales service, and it is not easy to damage, and the requirements for logistics are not high, so in the first wave of e-commerce, most of them start from books, the most representative of which is Amazon and Dangdang.

However, the book business pays attention to small profits and quick turnover, and the number of users is very important, but in 1995, the domestic Internet was just starting, and there were too few netizens, such as the official forum of Snapdragon was already the hottest online community in China, and the total number of registered users was less than 1000, and there was no basic condition for selling books.

But the watch is different, this thing belongs to the high-profit luxury, sell one to earn one, and the same is standardized production, the quality is guaranteed, although customers have personalized needs, but there is less room for choice, shopping malls in major cities have professional maintenance points, after-sales service pressure is very small, the only disadvantage is that the logistics requirements are relatively high, but the problem is not big, because most of the netizens in 1995 gathered in Beijing, Pujiang and Pengcheng are developed cities, and they have never seen the high-quality service of SF Express, and have only enjoyed the garbage service of China Post, which is very easy to fool, only need to be delivered to specific cities, and then let them pick it up by themselves.

More importantly, before the popularity of mobile phones, watches are just needed, any office worker must have personal items, in 1995 there are computers, Internet users, work units and economic conditions must be good, just have the ability and desire to buy brand-name watches, and these people's social influence is also relatively large, can form a demonstration effect, attract more people to the Internet interest.

"Brother Liu, I said a few ways to make money using the Internet at the opening ceremony yesterday, and I cited plane tickets and train tickets as examples, but these two things are controlled by the state, and it is difficult for ordinary netizens to have a personal experience. Du Qiu also ate a piece of chewing gum, and then said: "Since you know watches very well and have acquaintances in Hong Kong, it is better to wait for the end of the Internet conference to engage in an online purchasing activity to help the company's employees and interested netizens purchase a batch of affordable watches from Hong Kong to see how the response is. ”

Liu Yunlai was very impressed by Du Qiu's impromptu speech yesterday, and his eyes lit up when he heard the words, but he quickly shook his head and said: "Buy a few watches in Hong Kong for your own use, you don't have to pay taxes when you enter the customs, and the price is much lower than in China, but if you buy a large number of watches at one time, you have to pay taxes when you enter the customs, otherwise it will be smuggling." ”

"Even if you pay taxes, it's cheaper than in Japan, right?"

"If you encounter a discount activity, it will still be cheaper than in China, the domestic agent is too dark, the price is sky-high, and there is a lot of moisture. Liu Yunlai touched his chin and thought about it, then nodded and said: "Even if the price is not advantageous, there are far more brands and styles to choose from in Hong Kong than in China, so I think I can try this." ”

"I asked Yuan Tiangang to open a sub-section in the forum, it's called the World of Famous Watches, you find some information for him, and let him post some posts to build momentum first. ”

"Okay, I have hundreds of watch magazines at home, and I need them. ”

At this time, Bai Yuquan came and knocked on the door and informed that the experts had arrived, so Du Qiu and He Lixing went to the conference room together to continue the Paxos algorithm workshop that was not completed yesterday.

Even though he made a lot of reservations, Du Qiu still crushed the audience, a total of more than 20 people participated, and the two-hour seminar lasted for two hours, half of the time he explained to others, and his amazing performance completely convinced those experts in the system.

When the clock on the wall of the conference room pointed to 10 o'clock, Du Qiu accepted it when he saw it, got up and said: "Limited to time, today's seminar is here, if you have any new ideas, you can email me at any time, and you can send registered mail if you can't go online, of course, if you are willing to come to Snapdragon for face-to-face communication, I am more welcome." ”

Professor Pan of Jingcheng University took off his glasses and said with half emotion and half regret: "Xiao Du, it's a pity that you haven't studied in college, as long as you are willing, I will immediately report to our president, and leave a special recruitment place for you next year, you don't need to take the college entrance examination, and you can study for bachelor's, master's and doctor's degrees!"

"Professor Pan, you came to our Cloud City as a guest, but you blatantly dig up the treasure of Cloud City, you can't say it, right? Xiao Du's career and family are in Cloud City, if you want to make a special move, you should also come to our Polytechnic University, how can you go to your school." ”

When several professors loved their talents and dismantled each other, several other doctoral students who were hooked by the dry goods thrown out by Du Qiu inquired: "Mr. Du, yesterday Manager He said that Snapdragon has a work-study project in distributed systems, can we from other places participate?"

"Of course, as long as we meet the requirements, we will not only provide a subsidy of 50 to 200 yuan per day, but also reimburse the round-trip train or plane tickets. ”

If you have 50 a day, it will be 1,500 a month, which is higher than the salary of most state-owned enterprises, and if you have 200 a day, it will be 6,000 a month, which is a lot higher than the salary of foreign-funded enterprises. ”

"People have restrictions, first of all, you have to meet the requirements. ”

"Mr. Du, do the research results during the work-study period belong to Snapdragon or ourselves?"

"The commercial achievements belong to Snapdragon, and the academic achievements belong to you. Du Qiu pointed to Bai Yuquan, who walked into the conference room with several employees, and said: "If you are interested in this project, you can go to Manager Bai for details, and by the way, you can get relevant materials and a commemorative thermos cup for this meeting." ”

Bai Yuquan raised his hand to say hello, and while directing the staff to distribute thermos cups to the experts present, he walked to Du Qiu's side and said softly, "Manager Xu is back with a blonde beauty named Jennifer and is waiting for you in the lounge." ”

Xu Yongrui is going to attend Snapdragon's product launch tomorrow, and his return has been arranged a long time ago......

But what did Jennifer do when she suddenly came to Cloud City?