"Hey, I'm Zhou Xiaoshan, who are you?"

The voice on the other end of the phone was a little pitched, but Zhou Xiaoshan's voice could still be distinguished, but this kid actually curled his tongue and spoke half-baked Cantonese, which made Guan Fei angry and funny.

"I'm Guan Fei! You kid haven't seen you for a few months, but you actually learned Cantonese! Guan Fei scolded with a smile.

"Brigadier Commander! Oops, I miss it! On the other end of the phone, Zhou Xiaoshan was stunned for a moment, immediately changed back to Mandarin, and shouted enthusiastically, with very strong emotional fluctuations in his voice, obviously very excited, "Brigade commander, are you calling from the county seat?" The sound is a bit small and not very clear. ”

Guan Fei has returned from Hong Kong and has not been in direct contact with him for several months, and it is very happy to hear his voice.

Xiaoshan has been with him since very early on, and it can be said that he has cultivated him single-handedly. In this time and space, he has no relatives, so he attaches great importance to the people around him, emotionally speaking, these people around him are his relatives in this time and space, and Xiaoshan is like his own brother.

Although the long-distance call fee is very expensive, and the Hong Kong call fee is even more expensive, but I haven't seen him for a long time, and he really misses this younger brother, so it is rare to fake the public and private once, and take advantage of the opportunity to talk about official business, and take Xiaoshan to talk and laugh for a while.

At the same time, he also opened the analysis module of the biological parabrain.

The biological auxiliary brain will automatically filter out the telephone noise, and analyze and judge the content, method, and tone of its conversation.

Xiaoshan is his younger brother again, but after a few months in Hong Kong, which is full of temptations, managing such a large company alone, no one knows if there will be any changes.

The topics they chatted about also had some inducing content. Whether Xiao Shan answers positively or avoids it sideways, Guan Fei can understand his psychological changes more accurately in an indirect way, and have a clear judgment on his current situation.

This is his responsibility as a manager, and it has nothing to do with emotion.

If it is found that Zhou Xiaoshan is no longer suitable to stay in the position of general manager of Taiyu Technology, even if it is just a little indication, then he will not hesitate to dismiss him from his position and transfer him back to make other arrangements.

This is also to protect the hill.

There is still a long way to go in the future, and the future of the 291 Brigade will be very bright.

Fortunately, the emotional judgment Xiaoshan is still the Zhou Xiaoshan who loves and respects him. Every question Guan Fei asked, he did not shy away from answering it head-on, and it was extremely detailed, including what happened, his analysis, and the decisions he made, without reservation.

In the process, he even admitted frankly that when he was with his girlfriend Pan Meifeng, he always used the other party's money, which made him feel very faceless and felt like a soft eater. For some entertainment receptions, the Pan family takes the initiative to account every time, and he thinks it's not good to take people short and eat people softly.

But he didn't know what to do, and he was very distressed. Now that Guan Fei can contact him by phone, he immediately asks Guan Fei for advice, just like he used to follow him and report to Guan Fei for instructions on everything big and small.

This made Guan Fei very satisfied, very happy, and relieved.

"Entertainment expenses are necessary and can be used as operating costs for the company. For the specific amount, you should first discuss it with Mao Xiuliang according to the expenditure situation during this period of time, and make a plan. Guan Fei was very open to this kind of normal expenses, and immediately agreed.

After chatting, Guan Fei said: "Last time you sent a message back from Hong Kong, saying that there had been pirated arcades on the Japanese side? ”

"Yes! Signs of this appeared as early as late May, but not in large numbers. At that time, Bao Yaning was busy selling around and signing pre-sale contracts, so he didn't pay much attention to it. But from June onwards, the number of merchants who signed pre-sale contracts with us began to decrease, and Bao Yaning realized that something was wrong, and after looking around, he learned that there were arcade machines on the market that were completely modeled after "Space Invaders". Reporting on business, Zhou Xiaoshan's voice was also a lot more serious.

Japan was the first to emerge with a pirated machine, which was a bit unexpected by Guan Fei.

It stands to reason that the level of integrated circuits in the United States is higher, and even if it is pirated, it should be the United States that comes first. As a result, in fact, it was the Japanese side that took the lead.

"Has our program been cracked?" At that time, Bao Yaning and the others did not fully investigate clearly, and the person with the letter just said a general idea, and reported to Guan Fei that the pirated machine had been launched and appeared in the Japanese market, and he couldn't say the details.

This is the disadvantage of a serious lag in information.

Nothing happens all at once, there is always a process of brewing, spearheading, and erupting. If Guan Fei was in Hong Kong, he would naturally have known about the situation very early and could make decisions and adjustments in a relatively timely manner. However, the 291st Brigade is thousands of kilometers away from Hong Kong, and every message sent from the country has to be sent again, and it will be delayed for at least seven or eight days.

When Guan Fei received the initial news, in the Japanese market and Hong Kong, things may have already expanded.

The reason why the territory could not be expanded in ancient times was that the information lag made it impossible for the center to manage effectively. Before the 291st Brigade, in fact, it was using the ancient way to delegate power to Zhou Xiaoshan to take charge of the economic lifeline.

He asked Zhou Xiaoshan to discuss with Mao Xiuliang in case of trouble, in fact, Mao Xiuliang served as an inspector in Taiyu Technology, which was equivalent to the supervision stationed by the center.

The effect of this method is also limited, just like at the beginning of the dynasty, the center can maintain absolute overwhelming power over the locality, and the control is stable. But when the local erosion and the regulators and managers collude with each other, then the influence of the center on the local government is limited to the prestige of the past, and it can no longer be actually controlled.

The last time he asked Sun Yaohua to bring domestic accounting personnel over to check the accounts, it was the second layer of protection he set up, through random and sudden spot checks, to determine whether the 291 Brigade's control over Taiyu Technology had weakened, and whether the people below had begun to corrupt. If he sees a sign of it, he will immediately take drastic measures without mercy.

But now that he has a phone, he believes that the possibility of Taiyu Technology getting out of control will be much smaller. Ordinary people can't accurately judge the size of the change in the person below, but he is not an ordinary person! With the Biological Vicebrain Emotional Judgment Module, he will be aware of any subtle changes in senior managers such as Zhou Xiaoshan and react immediately, even including immediately dispatching a large number of people to take over the company.

Zhou Xiaoshan didn't know this, and was still reporting to him seriously: "According to Bao Yaning's investigation, these pirated machines seem to be exactly the same as our games at first glance in terms of picture, timbre, and level, but after taking a closer look, I found that there are still a few differences. Koji Kondo, who co-founded the Tokyo Metropolitan Commerce Import and Export Co., Ltd., decided that the other party should have stolen our idea, and then asked the programmer to redesign it, rather than directly stealing the program content. After all, from April to late May, there are almost two months......"

Guan Fei listened to him continue to report in his ears, and his mind was filtering and analyzing this information.

The fact that piracy began to appear in late May shows that Japanese pirates are determined and unscrupulous. They must have given up the idea of cracking the program in a short period of time when they found it difficult to crack it at the beginning, and organized programmers to weave new programs themselves according to the design elements of "Space Invaders".

Space Invaders is not a big game.

In this era, computer hardware itself is very weak, and ordinary commercial entertainment equipment cannot support large-scale program software, and "Space Invaders" is only 11,000 bytes in size. Of course, this is Guan Fei's powerful computing power and optimized design by relying on the biological subbrain, and they will definitely not be able to achieve such a high compression ratio, but the redesign is only twenty or thirty kilobytes.

"So what's the progress of the patent application?" Guan Fei was not nervous, and still asked very calmly.

He doesn't expect much from patents either.

Patents are actually a kind of restriction on backward countries, and it is also a kind of exploitation. Through patents, the cost of entering the field is limited by technologically backward countries, and the cost difference is used to limit or even stifle the other party.

Sure enough, Zhou Xiaoshan's report was not optimistic: "The software patent application was directly rejected - whether it is Japan or the United States, the situation is the same." Japan pursues a protectionist policy, while the United States argues that our claims are unreasonable, and that the procedure itself is based on the practical application of algorithms, which are equivalent to mathematical formulas and cannot be patented. But at the same time, they didn't say that although they didn't accept our patent application, it didn't mean that they wouldn't use patents to protect computer programs in the future. ”

Zhou Xiaoshan's tone was filled with great indignation, apparently extremely angry at the rejection of the patent application by the United States and Japan.

"Hehe, this is equivalent to talking on both sides." Guan Fei laughed and was not angry.

What's so angry, things are clearly like this, and getting angry won't help. The right choice that the state will make is that the country will make the right choice to refuse that the algorithm cannot be rejected as a patent, but it leaves the excuse for patent protection for its own software in the future.

So, running the country is the biggest business!

But he wasn't angry, and more importantly, he was the first to pirate! It was he who pirated the future design of the Japanese Taidong Game Company in advance, and it was the Japanese who really suffered, it was Taidong Company, not Taiyu Technology!

Anyway, it's all a free benefit, and it doesn't matter how much or less.

"Can the arcade frame, the interior layout, and the game buttons be patented?" He asked again.

These were accepted as utility inventions, but not all of them. And they said that they would also investigate, and if they received applications from other companies in the near future, if it was proved that the other party invented before us, the patent would still not be granted to us. Zhou Xiaoshan said angrily.

When he first arrived in Hong Kong, he admired the prosperity of capitalism.

But through this patent application, he can see clearly that the so-called protection of intellectual property rights is actually a means at all, and the ultimate goal is to maintain the leading position of the leading technology pioneer country, and will not give others a chance to catch up.

The so-called butt decides the head, Zhou Xiaoshan's good impression of the United States and Japan and other advanced countries, when his own practical interests are threatened, suddenly turned into a malicious one, and even because of the evil feelings generated by deception, there is also a stronger emotional backlash, which makes him have great doubts about the so-called justice and axioms proclaimed by these countries.

Guan Fei just smiled indifferently at Zhou Xiaoshan's angry complaints.

Immature!

Zhou Xiaoshan is still too naïve, how can there be a truth in the world that is not easy to speak of. Even if he complained about the acceptance of patents, it was in fact only an inevitable choice for the state to exercise its normal functions. If he can occupy the throne in the future, he will also implement patents and even laws that are beneficial to him, how can he let outsiders take advantage.

His name is Guan Fei, not Lei Feng!

"Then let's put out an improved version of our game, I believe that this can win another month or two of dominance." Guan Fei pondered for a moment and gave instructions.

"It's already launched! After receiving Bao Yaning's feedback, we immediately replaced your updated chip. After the last batch of old consoles was delivered on Tuesday, we were able to bring the new models to market in full production. Zhou Xiaoshan said with a hint of smugness.

"Good!"

Guan Fei was overjoyed.

This is the real reason why he put Zhou Xiaoshan and others in Hong Kong. If any decision needs to be made by him, with the serious lag of the original information of the 291st Brigade, when he makes a decision based on feedback, the daylily will be cold.

Now Zhou Xiaoshan and others can make adjustments in time, which is very good, and the previous exercise is equivalent to success.

Decisions are good or bad, it's a matter of judgment.

Dare to make decisions under pressure, this is a matter of courage and courage.

He can accept failure, and he has so much futuristic technology in his mind that he can withstand failure after failure. He firmly believes that no matter what failure can really hit him, it can only be him who will stand on top of the world in the end, and no one else!

He asked Zhou Xiaoshan and others to stay in Hong Kong in the hope that they would have the courage to take responsibility and make decisions within their purview—whether they were right or not!

No matter how stupid a person is, he can grow up with more experience, and what he is most afraid of is a wreckage without courage, which is the real mud that can't support the wall.

Zhou Xiaoshan's sentence "They have already launched a new version" made him feel relieved and felt that all his efforts had been rewarded.

With ultra-modern technology, a team that can resolutely carry out his orders, and cadres who dare to take responsibility, what else can stop him from moving forward in the future?

Patent?

Patents are a piece of!

You like to use rules to limit your opponents, Lao Tzu can't play you, but Lao Tzu will flip the table! What's wrong with Lao Tzu not wanting patents, what kind of science and technology Lao Tzu is one step ahead, and when the time comes, I will see what kind of fart this patent law is for!

In the future, don't want to rely on patents to suppress people, the future will be a world without patents! Everyone stands on the same starting line to compete, fight for manufacturing capacity, and compete for hard power!

Who's afraid of whom?

Fight with me, I have 10,000 ways to kill you!