Las Vegas is located on the desert edge of the southeast corner of Nevada, in a valley surrounded by inhospitable desert and semi-desert terrain. It was a city that thrived on the Hoover Dam and because of gambling, and at this time it was still the caricature of the "Sin City".

The surrounding area of the city is flat and deserted, and when Zhang Lexing flies over Las Vegas at dusk, he can clearly distinguish the layout of the city from the plane. As the plane landed, it was getting late and dark, and you could see the bright streets, attractive advertisements, and the buildings with scenic lights on the ground. These brilliant lights form a set of colorful and wonderful patterns, as if a huge brooch of a novel style is pinned to the dim land of Nevada, shining brightly.

As soon as he got off the plane, Zhang Lexing felt a chill, which made him a little uncomfortable with the warmth of San Jose. Passing through the terminal, Zhang Lexing and his entourage boarded the pre-booked car and headed for the bustling Las Vegas Strip. More than ten minutes later, the car came to the Sahara Casino Hotel, which was ready to be checked.

The Sahara Hotel & Casino is a Moroccan-themed North African hotel, and the entire hotel is full of Moroccan flair, even the pick-up and drop-off outside the hotel gate. The Sahara Hotel & Casino is not very famous in Las Vegas, Zhang Lexing chose this hotel because some of the well-known hotels he knows (such as Treasure Island, MGM or something) are not even construction sites now, and of course, more importantly, the venue of the Cadex exhibition in the fall is relatively close to this hotel.

The nightlife of Las Vegas is rich and colorful, and the casino is always the most crowded place, but the main purpose of Zhang Lexing's visit this time is to watch the exhibition, so he only played a few slot machines in the hotel casino to try his luck, and then went to chuang early to rest.

The next day, Zhang Lexing got up early, and after eating the breakfast delivered to the guest room, he moved a chair and sat on the balcony to take a nap. The morning sun was already rising in the east, but it didn't bring much heat, just gilding the buildings in the distance.

I was stunned for a while, and the time for the opening of the exhibition was approaching. Zhang Lexing got up and went back to the room, changed his clothes, and then went downstairs to the convention and exhibition center. After walking for more than ten minutes, the autumn Cadex exhibition site arrived. After hanging up his own tag, Zhang Lexing walked into the exhibition hall and began to visit.

In recent years, with the gradual expansion of the influence of Comdex exhibition, the scale of the exhibition has also become larger and larger, not only the number of exhibitors has increased year by year, but the exhibition area has also expanded. This year is no exception, due to the large number of exhibitors, the exhibition is deliberately divided into three areas, in order to prevent visitors from getting lost, the exhibition area map is also provided free of charge at the entrance of the exhibition. Zhang Lexing had such a copy in his hand, and after studying it clearly, he began to look around while walking along the passage, and walked over to take a closer look when he was interested. Along the way, Zhang Lexing really saw a lot of interesting things, such as the processor chip on display by Intel - the latest 386 processor, the improved Mackintosh computer exhibited by Apple, etc., the most surprising thing for Zhang Lexing is that there is an LCD computer based on the 8088 processor exhibited by a small Hong Kong company, of course, this thing is mainly used for word processing.

When he turned to Area C, Zhang Lexing unexpectedly found that the banner on a booth read "Great Wall 0520CH Chinese Computer ......" in Chinese and English, and the Chinese was still simplified, which made him feel very intimate. There were a lot of interested visitors in front of the booth, Zhang Lexing went up to find out, and the staff saw that there were new visitors coming over, and immediately enthusiastically handed over the information, and began to introduce the computer on the exhibition table.

"Our Great Wall 0520CH is a computer based on the 8088 processor, and the Chinese character display processing card we studied can achieve a resolution of 640×480, 25 lines of Chinese character display, and support Chinese characters and graphic overlay display...... "The staff gushed in English.

"It seems to be good, I wonder if your researchers are here?" Zhang Lexing asked in Chinese.

"Zhao Gong over there has participated in the research work, do you have something to do, do you want me to call me?" The staff heard the familiar language, and their tone became more cordial.

"Forget it, Zhao Gong is busy, so I won't bother. Zhang Lexing declined the kindness of the staff. In fact, Zhang Lexing is not really interested in this "ancient" Great Wall 0520CH, he actually wants to get acquainted with Yan Yuanchao, who studied the Chinese character display processing card, since he didn't come this time, of course, he is not interested in chatting with others.

Zhang Lexing, who was in a hurry, was about to leave, and suddenly found that there were several Asian-looking men watching carefully next to the disemboweled Great Wall 0520CH computer on the table, one of whom was lying very low, his head was about to be buried in the chassis, and he was drawing something in a notebook from time to time.

Zhang Lexing walked over curiously, perhaps sensing that someone was approaching, some of the people in this group turned to look, with a disdainful expression on their faces, and muttered a "Baga" in their mouths, although the voice was small, it also made Zhang Lexing hear it clearly.

"No wonder, it turned out to be Little Japan. Zhang Lexing understood what these people were doing. The Japanese have long been familiar with stealing technology from other countries, and this has a long historical tradition for them. As early as the Tang Dynasty, under the banner of sending Tang envoys to learn a lot of things from China, at that time it was still called learning, but in modern times it began to intensify, not only stealing a lot of time-honored formulas, processes or something from China, but also getting back a little research and research, it actually became a Japanese patent, and even the original owner of the formula and process wanted to export the product must pay patent fees to the Japanese, which shows the Japanese means.

These Japanese people in front of them are lying here, obviously carrying out their work with a long tradition, Zhang Lexing is very angry, but unfortunately the consequences are difficult to say, after all, the Great Wall 0520CH is not Zhang Lexing's thing, the so-called name is not right, although Zhang Lexing wants to drive these Japanese away, or can only communicate with the staff first.

"Why don't you stop it, you can't let them just watch it casually!" Zhang Lexing was very anxious.

"Why are you holding back? We also came out this time with the purpose of learning advanced technology, isn't it normal for us to have a little technical exchange with each other?" The staff member in front of him looked a little dazed.

"But look at these guys patronizing and drawing your circuits, this seems to be a communication, it's just spying on other people's technical secrets!" Zhang Lexing was a little angry.

"That's going to have to be done by our leaders. The staff's tone also seemed unhappy.

Zhang Lexing was speechless, if he didn't experience some painful lessons, he really didn't have a long memory, it seemed that if he wanted to get rid of these Japanese, he had to find another way. Zhang Lexing thought about it for a while, and was about to warn the group of Japanese when a voice suddenly came from the side.

"You are infringing on other people's patented technology, don't get out of here!" a middle-aged man with gray hair yelled at the Japanese.

The Japanese still wanted to distinguish a few words, but they found that the other people around them were not looking at them very well, so they had to pack up their things and walk away.

"Teacher Ye, hello!" a young man in the booth walked over and said hello.

"Xiao Zhao, why are you here?" the gray-haired middle-aged man replied, and then the two began to talk.

Now that the matter has ended, Zhang Lexing also turned around and prepared to continue visiting, just took two steps, and a voice came from behind, "This gentleman, please stay." ”

Turning around, Zhang Lexing found that it was the gray-haired middle-aged man who was called Teacher Ye just now who greeted him.

"Do you have any advice?" Zhang Lexing asked.

"Don't dare to be, in Xia Ye Zuyao, may I ask your surname?" the middle-aged man replied.

Ye Zuyao is the third son of the famous anti-Japanese general Ye Peigao (who participated in many famous battles, such as the Songhu War of Resistance and the Western Yunnan War of Resistance), and his ancestral home is Wenchang, Hainan. With the conversation between the three of them, Zhang Lexing slowly learned some information.

Three years ago, Ye Zuyao returned to the mainland with the theory of "software engineering" he pioneered, ready to serve the motherland, and with the support of the state leaders, he became an adviser to the China Computer Leading Group, which was personally led by the premier. At the same time, it also set up a special software authority, the China Software Technology Development Center of the State Science and Technology Commission, and formulated a huge "software development plan" according to Ye Zuyao's proposal.

This plan consists of the following parts: First, Peking University and Fudan University in Shanghai are entrusted to train 50 graduate students in software from among the fresh graduates each year, select American teaching materials, and hire professors from American universities and senior technical personnel from some well-known American companies to teach; second, they will build large-scale "software factories" in Beijing and Shanghai; third, they will convene 16 colleges and universities to tackle the state-level project "C Software Engineering Environment" and develop China's own software development tools, and so on.

The scale of the plan is huge, and the prospects for the goals are ambitious, but it is a pity that when it is actually implemented, due to various political and other reasons, it has led to many difficulties and the progress of the plan has been slow. In the first half of this year, due to the replacement of the leaders of the Science and Technology Commission and the lack of obvious results of the plan, the "software development plan" began to receive a cold reception, and Ye Zuyao could only return to the United States gloomily.

"Dr. Ye, in fact, I think that if this plan can be persistent, it should be able to achieve great results. Zhang Lexing didn't expect that China's starting point was earlier than India's, but unfortunately he didn't stick to it, otherwise China might have a stronger software industry.

"There's no way around it now, the domestic support for this is too little now. The previous software development plan is now only a C software engineering environment still being worked, and the whole project can be said to have failed. Dr. Yip's face was full of regret.

"Dr. Ye, in fact, there is still a way, although there is no support from the state, but if there are companies willing to support it!"

"Enterprise support? Where is there a company that wants to support such a slow effect?"

"After a while, I want to return to China to develop my career, but there is a lack of software talents in China, so I am very interested in your software development plan, and I hope to cultivate more software development talents through the software development plan. Dr. Ye doesn't know if you would like to return to China to restart the software development program when the time is right, I really need someone like you who is good at software engineering to help. ”

Perhaps Dr. Ye Zuyao's ambition was not completely annihilated, so after thinking carefully for a while, he finally nodded and agreed to Zhang Lexing's request. In Zhang Lexing's heart, this is probably the biggest gain at this exhibition.

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