1981, April 10 evening.

Zhang Shaojie, who had not long returned to Hong Kong, had not yet received sufficient rest when someone visited.

The person who came was the editor of People's Publishing named Wu Mengyue, and she was still a young and beautiful lady.

Wu Mengyue was extraordinarily polite and restrained, and said: "Congratulations to Mr. Zhang Shaojie, the movie "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty" won the box office champion in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore!" ”

Zhang Shaojie said with a smile: "Ms. Wu, you came to Hong Kong to congratulate me?" ”

When Wu Mengyue heard this, Hao Ran smiled and said, "I was actually sent here to send you a manuscript fee." The three chapters of "The Rise of Great Powers" have been published in Portugal, Spain, and the Netherlands, and the statistics of manuscript fees have been completed by February this year. The cumulative sales of these three books in China have reached more than 18 million copies, and the manuscript fee is 10.8 million yuan. However, after deducting the income tax of 1.2096 million yuan, the after-tax income is 9,590,400 yuan! This is a specific list of the sales of "The Rise of Great Powers" in China, and the number of orders in major bookstores is included! ”

"The manuscript fee for "The Rise of a Great Power" is so much?" Zhang Shaojie couldn't help but be surprised.

"This is a check that the People's Publishing House helps you deposit in the Bank of China, and you can deposit and withdraw cash directly in Hong Kong!" Wu Mengyue carefully took out the cash check that he had collected closely, "If you want to withdraw the RMB deposit, you can withdraw it directly with the check." However, if it is converted into foreign exchange, it may only be exchanged for foreign exchange worth 20,000 yuan. After all, the current domestic foreign exchange resources are very valuable, I hope you can understand"

Because it is a personal collection, there is also Wu mm's body temperature on the check.

Zhang Shaojie couldn't help but feel a little fragrant, and said with a smile: "I also know that foreign exchange resources are important for China, so please rest assured that Wu Meinu will not easily convert them into foreign exchange." However, can this people's deposit be invested in the country? ”

"I don't know much about this specific policy. However, if you are going to invest in some projects allowed by countries in Shenzhen and Guangzhou Special Economic Zone, there should be no problem. "Wu Mengyue is up to the point.

Zhang Shaojie said happily: "Thank you Ms. Wu for your guidance, and thank you for the good news you brought me!" ”

In 81 years, 9.59 million yuan was almost equal to 30 million Hong Kong dollars according to the official exchange rate!

Of course, between the 80s and 90s, during the economic reforms. Because of a large amount of resources, they are used for industrial production, urbanization, product export and other projects.

Due to the shortage of materials in China, the staggering inflation has been caused, coupled with the continuous depreciation of the RMB exchange rate for export needs, and the dual factors have rapidly reduced the purchasing power of the RMB.

Of course, in the 80s, the depreciation of the RMB was amazing, but it was also a golden period for the development of China's private enterprises! Throughout the 80s, it is not a myth that a small businessman with a capital of 1,000 yuan has increased his capital by 1,000 times and becomes 1 million.

Because, a large number of unemployed youths, peasants, workers, and intellectuals went to the sea to do business and became the first generation of nouveau riche. Later, there was a slip of the tongue: 1 billion people, 900 million businessmen, and 100 million are waiting.

You can know how turbulent the entrepreneurial boom was that year!

"The Rise of a Great Power" continues to sell well, and it continues to bring Zhang Shaojie amazing RMB deposits. This renminbi asset was told that it could not be easily converted into foreign exchange.

And in the form of renminbi in the bank, the interest rate is obviously not able to keep up with the rate of inflation. Therefore, Zhang Shaojie is ready to use this money to invest in some projects in Shenzhen and Guangzhou, not only to maintain and increase value, but also to make some contributions to the society.

When choosing investment projects, Zhang Shaojie thought a lot - real estate, electrical appliance chain stores, clothing industry, and health care products

In the next 30 years, China's domestic profiteering industries will come to his mind.

However, Zhang Shaojie finally gave up these choices! Because of the opportunities in these industries, in the 80s and 90s, it was not too late to enter the market at any time.

It's better to seize some fleeting opportunities!

Looking at the appleii on the table, Zhang Shaojie fell into deep thought - do you produce computers? No, not a computer, but a home console!

The personal computer industry, which is the top giants such as IBM and Intel, can call the wind and rain.

Even small giants like Apple and Wang An were completely defeated by the powerful PC camp in the future!

The video game console industry, the technical threshold of this industry, is not too high, and the strength of competitors is not invincible!

In the early 80s, the strongest in the video game industry was Atari in the United States. This giant occupies half of the video game industry. Especially in the United States, the video game industry is basically monopolized by Atari.

However, Atari's dominant position is not unbreakable.

On the one hand, Atari took the early steps to suppress some excellent third-party game production companies, causing many programmers in the Atari camp to deviate from morality and be reluctant to make games for Atari.

Later, Atari changed its mind and began to woo third-party game companies, but those game companies developed a bunch of bad games that left players speechless, and began to encounter a large number of players and collective boycotts!

At a time when Atari was going farther and farther down the road to self-destruction.

In 1983, Nintendo, with the low-price strategy of FC game consoles, as well as well-made games such as "Donkey Kong" and "Super Mario", forced Atari to a dead end.

Zhang Shaojie was instantly excited!

Imitate the Nintendo Road and defeat the self-inflicted industry giant Atari? Seems like a nice doctrine!

Of course, although Zhang Shaojie has an idea, he is not a technician.

An invincible general cannot do without soldiers to carry out combat missions. The forward-thinking reborn also needs an excellent technical team to help him make specific products!

Therefore, Zhang Shaojie began to miss Professor Huang Tingjun in North America

—————————— the small town of Cupertino, California, USA.

At the beginning of 1981, ORD Technology Co., Ltd. from Hong Kong, set up a branch in the United States, and quickly became a popular high-tech enterprise in Cupertino Town, second only to Apple.

In February, the software developed by ORD's Hong Kong headquarters, "ORD word processing software", was launched in the North American market and immediately won the love of a large number of users.

Within 10 days of listing, more than 700 units were sold, becoming a dark horse in the software industry!

Since ORD can effectively stimulate the sales of Appleii, Apple simply bundled Appleii with ORD software and launched the so-called "Apple word processing computer"!

In fact, Apple's latest "word processing computer" is only Appleii with pre-installed ORD software!

The "Apple word processing computer" costs $1,398 each, which is $100 more expensive than the average appleii. Of course, this is a $50 savings compared to buying Appleii and ORD software separately.

After Apple's vigorous promotion of "Apple word processing computer"!

By March, the "ORD software" bundled with Appleii had surged to more than 300 copies per day.

For the entire month of March, ORD Inc. of North America, Inc., sold 13,000 units of software.

Excluding operating expenses and paying taxes, the North American ORD company generated a net profit of $500,000 in this month!

"Shaojie, I didn't expect that the market for word processing software is so amazing. It's only been 2 months since it was launched. It has brought the company a profit of $500,000. In the future, as the sales volume of Appleii continues to grow, our company will surely become one of the most profitable software companies in the market! Huang Tingjun's phone call from the ocean was full of high spirits.

"Hehe, you still can't be too complacent. First, Appleii is so popular in the market, IBM, Intel and the like must be crazy with jealousy. I judge that soon these giants will unite and launch more technologically advanced products to jointly snipe Apple! Second, ORD software is now making money, and other software companies will not compete with us for the market when they see it? Zhang Shaojie said, "The current personal computer industry, as well as the software industry, has just started. It's too variable."

Huang Tingjun said with a smile: "You said that IBM and Intel have joined forces to compete with Apple, and this has happened. Not long ago, IBM held a press conference to show the new microcomputer they developed - 5150pc, 5150 computer, using Intel's 8088 processor, low-end products have 16K memory, according to needs, even the memory can be expanded to 256K! The parameters of the 5150pc hardware look a little more powerful than the appleii. However, the actual user experience is not known for the time being. Of course, the price of the PC is definitely more expensive than the appleii, and it is not easy to judge how the user chooses at that time! ”

Zhang Shaojie was stunned for a moment and said, "Oh! IBM's PC has come out? So, is Microsoft's MS-DOS system the default operating system of IBM's 5150PC? ”

Huang Tingjun was stunned for a moment and said: "The 5150PC is not installed with the operation system, it is only pre-installed with the basic programming language!"

"Really?" Zhang Shaojie was ecstatic when he heard this, "So, my Dr. Huang, what are you waiting for." Hurry up to the market and buy out a set of operating system software based on Intel 8086 and 8088 processors. After that, pitch to IBM! The system is licensed to IBMPC for free, so you can get the first chance to run our system on your PC! ”

"You have a fever in your head? Spend money in the market to buy out a set of system software, and then do a lot of wrongs and license it to IBM for free? Huang Tingjun couldn't help but feel that Zhang Shaojie was starting to be stupid.

(To be continued)