"Vincent, you're back! Are the results out, how did you do on the exam?"

Vincent is Li Xuan's English name, and as soon as he returned to the company, other colleagues asked him about the results of the college entrance examination.

"Thank you for your concern, the test is okay, three A and two B!" Li Xuan said with a smile, "I have a treat for afternoon tea, and I have ordered milk tea and pineapple buns in the tea restaurant downstairs, everyone has a share!"

Someone invited a treat, and everyone cheered, until the boss Huo Junming came out of the inner office, everyone restrained their mood and pretended to work seriously.

"Ah Xuan, you did well in the exam, it seems that our company is going to produce a college student!" The boss smiled at Li Xuan and said kindly.

"Thank you, old man, for the compliment!" Li Xuan said modestly, "How did you go to the mainland to negotiate this time, has the contract been decided?"

Hengtai company was established less than two years ago, mainly to do some entrepot trade with the mainland, before the focus of the company's operation, is to sell some second-hand textile equipment in Hong Kong factories to mainland enterprises. In recent years, the impact of the hand-to-hand trade quota in Hong Kong's textile industry has been sluggish, and many textile mills have closed their doors to change careers, so a lot of equipment has been idle.

Although most of these equipment were purchased 10 years ago when Hong Kong's textile industry was at its most prosperous, it is undoubtedly much more advanced than the old equipment from the 50s and 60s that is still used by many state-owned textile factories on the mainland.

What's more, these old equipment is cheap, and compared to importing the latest textile equipment to Japan or Germany, these second-hand goods can complete the expansion plan at a fifth of the foreign exchange. With Huo Junming's keen eye and clever sales methods, Hengtai Company has developed rapidly in the past two years, from the initial leather bag company, to now there are more than 20 employees, renting a high-end office building, and the boss Huo Junming is also a small success.

But he was not satisfied, in May this year, Huo Junming went to Guangdong City to participate in the Guangdong Fair during the acquaintance of the director of a scientific research institute in Beijing, the institute was going to import a batch of small computers this year, so the director asked him, a Hong Kong businessman, to help collect some relevant information.

Huo Junming felt that it was an opportunity when he heard it, and he kept it in mind after returning to Hong Kong. Small computers are one of the items on the list of items restricted from export to China in Batumi, and although they are not as stuck as large computers, if the mainland imports them directly from the United States, the procedure for application and approval will be very cumbersome.

However, if this matter is operated by a Hong Kong company, first imported from the United States to Hong Kong, and then exported from Hong Kong to the mainland, there is no need to go through the approval of the US government, compared with Uncle Sam, the policy of the British government in Hong Kong is much more flexible, for these non-core civilian technologies and products, basically turn a blind eye, a little bit can get the approval.

Huo Junming felt that there was room for operation in this matter, so he began to contact the scientific research institute in Beijing. Beijing asked him to provide some information on mainstream computers for reference. Therefore, Huo Junming asked for a large amount of product information from several major computer manufacturers such as DEC, IBM, and Wang An in the United States, and in the spirit of responsible service, he asked the company's employees to translate into Chinese first, and then send the Chinese and English materials together to customers in the mainland.

At this time, the problem came out, these salesmen in Hengtai company also have good English, and can talk fluently with gringos, but the translation of these professional technical materials is blind, looking at a large number of terms and technical indicators can not start at all, can only temporarily recruit a professional translator who understands computers.

At that time, Li Xuan had just finished taking the college entrance examination and applied for this position by chance. At that time, the person who interviewed him was the company's boss Huo Junming himself. Li Xuan spent an hour briefly translating a manual for the operation of the PDP-11, a small computer produced by DEC Computer Corporation in the United States. Although it was only a rough translation, Huo Junming was very satisfied after reading it, at least much more reliable than the few college students he interviewed before, so he hired him on the spot.

After Li Xuan went to work, in addition to translating a series of various models of computers produced by various computer companies in the United States, he also made a comparative analysis of various products based on his own analysis. He was able to solve all kinds of technical problems faxed by the Mainland Research Institute by himself, and he did not need to contact the original computer company in the United States.

This saves a lot of time. It can be said that Li Xuan not only completed the data translation well, but also served as a Q&A technician.

Because of his excellent performance, the purchasing trade contract between Hengtai and the mainland is progressing very quickly, and Huo Junming's business trip to the mainland this time is to sign the final trade contract for three PDP-11 small computers with this scientific research institute in Beijing.

"The contract has been signed, and we have asked the American company DEC to ship the goods, and the computers will be shipped to Hong Kong in three days next week. Huo Junming was very interested when he talked about this, and he also took the trouble to talk about the implementation process of the contract to Li Xuan, a temporary worker.

Small computers are a precious thing, and the total price of three PDP-11 Hengtai to the mainland scientific research institute is 1 million Hong Kong dollars. With this list, the company can have a net profit of at least 200,000 yuan.

"Ah Xuan, you did a very good job this time, I will ask the finance department to give you an extra two hundred bonuses this month!" Huo Junming was very satisfied with Li Xuan's performance, "By the way, I went to Beijing this time and contacted a new business, and the Ministry of Petroleum of China also intends to import two computers, I have asked Ah Jin to be responsible for following up, you will cooperate with his work during this time!"

"Got it, Lao Xi, I will cooperate with Brother Jin!" Ah Jin was one of the first veterans to be recruited when the company was first established, and he was very trusted by the boss.

"Boss, I've already got the Epson printer that I couldn't use before!" Li Xuan suddenly thought of this and said to his boss.

"Really?" Huo Junming was a little unconvinced, this printer was bought by him when he went to Japan a few months ago. At that time, the salesman said that this was a new product launched by Epson, which was lower than the printers on the market and the printing cost was cheaper.

As a result, after Huo Junming traveled thousands of miles to bring it back to Hong Kong, he found that there was no problem in printing English jiàn with it, and printing Chinese jiàn was often garbled. The company's logistics hired a maintenance technician to repair it, and the other party said that it was a problem with the printer Hanka.

This printer is loaded with a Japanese Han card, printing Chinese requires a Chinese Han card, Epson's printer has not yet been listed in Hong Kong, so there is no matching Chinese Han card can be replaced, so the company had to buy a new printer. This incident made Huo Junming, the boss, feel embarrassed, and his face was black for several days.

"If you don't believe me, I'll show you now!"