Li Xuan walked to his place and turned on the Apple computer and printer on his desk. After a few minutes, the Apple 2 computer on the table had been booted up. Li Xuan took out a tape from the drawer and stuffed it into the magnetic box drive connected next to the computer. That's right, not a floppy disk, not a CD, it's a tape.

The computer Li Xuan had in hand was the only computer in Hengtai Company. Before he came to work, the computer had been in the corner and had been dusty for a long time, and there was a thick layer of dust. Although Apple's latest Apple2-Plus launched this year has added a floppy drive, the Apple 2 he is using is said to have been bought for a year, which is obviously not equipped with a floppy drive.

Li Xuan sat in front of the computer and began to enter various command codes. Reading the text, printing the text, the printer that has already been connected starts to work under the control of the computer, and the printing needle rubs against the paper to make a clicking sound.

Moments later, a five-page Chinese translation of the VAX-780 computer instructions was printed. Li Xuan handed the printed text to his boss.

Huo Junming took the text and swept it first, couldn't help nodding slightly, and then he quickly and carefully skimmed through the entire content. Although there are a few blank spaces that are not printed, the overall effect is not bad, the handwriting is clear, and the paper is neat.

"How did you get it?" Huo Junming couldn't help but be a little impressed by this young boy who he had recruited on his own improvised basis. The problem that professional maintenance personnel were helpless was solved by him quietly.

"The repairman you invited last time said that this printer is loaded with a Chinese card of Japanese characters, and it will be incompatible when printing Chinese Chinese characters, so it will be garbled!

But if I think about it, Japanese kanji evolved from Chinese kanji, and most of the fonts are the same. So can you be flexible and redesign a driver to let the computer control the Japanese card in the printer to print Chinese characters. During this time, I have been researching this problem in my spare time, and yesterday I finally wrote the new driver, tried it, and sure enough, it can be worked!"

"The future is terrifying, Ah Xuan, you did a very good job!" Huo Junming laughed, very happy.

"Boss, in fact, I still have an idea!" Li Xuan glanced at the boss and said seriously.

"Oh?" Huo Junming noticed Li Xuan's different eyes, "Go to my office and talk, so as not to affect the work of other employees here!"

Li Xuan followed the boss into the manager's office in the middle, and as soon as he closed them, the employees who seemed to be attentive and serious about their work just now suddenly began to whisper to each other.

"The boss is too good to Vincent, I've never seen him so kind to me!" another salesman who was recruited at about the same time as Li Xuan said with some dissatisfaction.

"Ah yor, if you can run a million-dollar business in a month, Huo Sheng will be very kind to you! You don't have the courage to take the college entrance examination, and people vincent got 3 A's and 2 B's, this is the gap! Your starting salary as a regular employee is only 1,000, which is not as high as the salary of other summer interns, and if you don't work hard, you are embarrassed to complain here!"

Li Wenjin, who was sitting next to him, glanced at Ah Yor and said disdainfully. He is the Ah Jin mentioned by the boss Huo Junming just now. He frowned, the new Ah yor was in charge of bringing it. He doesn't usually work well, and he always complains.

Li Xuan's starting salary is 1,002, and he also received a bonus of 300 last month, which is nearly half higher than Ayor, which is also one of the reasons why Ayor's heart is unbalanced. But the boss invited you not to do charity and welfare, you can't do your performance and you are lazy, and your salary will be low.

Li Xuan didn't know about these discussions behind the back of his colleagues outside, he was having a negotiation in his boss's office.

The dot matrix printer you bought is a new product that Epson printers just launched not long ago, and it is now selling very well in the Japanese and North American markets.

This printer uses dot matrix printing technology, which is not only cheaper than the mainstream printers on the market, but also cheaper to print. But I inquired and Epson has not yet launched this printer in the Hong Kong and Taiwan markets.

I suspect that it may be because it is so popular in Japan and the United States that Epson is now focusing most of its efforts on seizing those two major markets, and has not had time to develop the Asian market for a while. After all, just like the problems encountered by our company's machine, Epson's new product must first re-develop a matching Chinese Hanka if it wants to enter the Hong Kong and Taiwan markets. ”

"Chinese Hanka?" Huo Junming didn't know much about these professional things, "Didn't you already solve the problem by rewriting a driver before?"

"Look, you see, these blank words are not printed, and this is the flaw left by my workaround. After all, there is still a difference between the kanji library of the Japanese Hanka and the Chinese kanka of the Chinese Hanka, and if you want to print it perfectly, you must develop a special Chinese Hanka!" Li Xuan said in an affirmative tone.

"But what does this have to do with me?" Huo Junming suddenly stared sharply at Li Xuan's eyes.

Li Xuan was not frightened by his boss's sudden different momentum, he looked at the other party without showing weakness, and said unhurriedly: "I don't know if Lao Xi has found out that this is an opportunity." If I say that I can design a Hanka for you within a month, I wonder if you have the courage to talk to Epson about the exclusive distribution rights of this printer in Hong Kong and Taiwan!"

"You want to cooperate with me?" Huo Junming suddenly laughed, looking at him with a bit of deep meaning in his eyes.

"I'm a temporary worker who only gets a salary of more than 1,000 yuan a month, how can I have the capital to talk about cooperation with you!" Li Xuan said with a humble smile, but he revealed a kind of confidence in his self-humility: "I just hope that when you eat a large piece of meat, I can drink a few sips of soup behind me!"

"Tell me, what are you going to do to drink the soup?" Huo Junming said with interest, his eyes full of inquiry.

"One price, 100,000 Hong Kong dollars! After I finished the design, the ownership of Hanka's patent was completely transferred to Hengtai Company!" Li Xuan gently confided in his asking price.

"Your asking price is not low, this price is enough for me to go directly to the University of Hong Kong to ask a professor to help!" Huo Junming said undeniably.

"Lao Xi, the asking price of a knowledgeable professor will definitely not be lower than mine, you talk about agency, a printer can earn at least a thousand. 100,000 yuan is just the profit of 100 printers. With the price of this Epson printer, as long as the problem of Chinese character printers is solved, even if it cannot sweep the market, it is very easy to seize a large market share. At most, 100 units is only a month's sales in the Hong Kong market, and my asking price is not high at all!" Li Xuan said confidently.

"Okay, it's a deal!" Huo Junming's eyes flashed with a gleam, and he suddenly reached out and patted the table and said.