Chapter 18: A Visit to Wang An

Olson got in touch with Edward Kennedy and was scheduled to meet in 5 days at a farm in the United States.

This time, Ling Shizhe has encountered the first crisis of his life since his rebirth, and it is also the biggest crisis at present, he believes that this is not his last crisis, in the future, there are still many crises waiting for him, the future crisis is much bigger than this crisis, and it will be much more dangerous, he has to fight it, and now this crisis is just an appetizer.

This time, even if he can resist the past, he will definitely pay a heavy price, and when a bigger crisis arises in the future, he doesn't know what price he will pay. It's difficult, this is the sorrow of the Chinese overseas, who will come to call the shots for him, the government, that is the government of the whites, only for the whites, you Chinese should be bullied, this is the logic of the whites.

The reason why Kodak made such an unreasonable demand, and he had no way to appeal, is to prove that a Chinese company with annual sales of nearly 800 million US dollars and a net profit of up to 200 million US dollars can put forward a complete purchase price of 5000w US dollars, and if they don't agree, they will flip the table.

This time, a meeting with Edward Kennedy is a key, whether it can be done or not, depends on this time, it must succeed, not fail.

Although the Kennedy family is in decline now, they will eventually go through this crisis, and it is not impossible to form an alliance with them, but they are not easy to get along with, and if they can't get it right, this time has passed, and when they get out of the crisis, it is not impossible to fight back against you. In order to prevent this from happening, before meeting with the Kennedy family, he now needs to visit a person, learn from that person, and he needs the guidance of that person, and this person is the legend of the Chinese in later generations, the computer Wang An.

Wang An (February 7, 1920 – March 24, 1990), a Chinese-American, was a computer expert and the founder of Wang An's computer. In 1951, Wang left Harvard University to found Wang Labortories with only $600, and in 1964, he launched the latest desktop computer made with transistors, and thus began the success of Wang Labortories.

In 1951, the newly-born Wang An Computer Company invented the magnetic core memory (the predecessor of the hard disk) and applied for a patent to the Patent Office, but was obstructed by IBM, IBM applied to the Patent Office and the Ministry of Justice, and the patent for the magnetic core memory invented by Wang An was invalid, and Wang An Computer Company was required to compensate IBM 600w US dollars. This is simply a ridiculous and unreasonable request, safety is bullying.

Such an unreasonable request, the lawyer told Wang An that you can't win. This crisis is the biggest crisis in Wang An's life, but he passed peacefully, how did he do it, how did he resolve this crisis, I don't know, now Ling Shizhe is going to visit him and ask him for advice.

Ling Shizhe came to Boston, USA, the headquarters of Wang An's company. The current Wang An company is not a later company, it is still relatively small, but after Wang An made a desktop computer from crystals in 1964, the market was very popular, and the company's business began to flourish.

When Ling Shizhe Wang An looked at the door of the company, although the company is small, the staff inside is full of vitality, just like his Ambrera company, it is a company full of vitality, the faces of the employees in the company are full of confidence in the future, which is a typical feature of a growing enterprise, a company was born, three or two big cats and kittens, with a vision for the future, any hardship can be eaten, any sin can be suffered, all the people in the company, hard work, and finally one day, got the company's first order, And this list is only the first one, there will be more orders in the future, this is a business with huge market prospects, the company does not have to be like before, continue to eat the old capital, began to make profits, began to make money, the company's development is thriving, I believe that the employees of any company in the face of this situation, the face will be full of confident smiles; Otherwise, it proves that something is wrong.

Ling Shizhe's company is in trouble now, the company's business is booming, but the employees don't see a smile.

Standing at the door of Wang An's company, Ling Shizhe shook his head, threw out his chaotic thoughts, dressed up, walked into Wang An's company, and came to the reception desk.

"Sir, do I need anything I can serve?" Ling Shizhe replied: "I am Ling Shizhe of Ambrera Company, and I have made an appointment with the chairman of your company, Mr. Wang An, in advance. ”

"Okay, please wait a minute, sir," the waitress at the reception desk flipped through the papers, looked for them, and said, "Yes, you meet with the chairman at 10 o'clock in the morning, and I will make a call to the chairman." ”

"Mr. Jester, please come in, the chairman is waiting for you in the office on the 6th floor, you can do the elevator to go up." Jester is an English name taken by Ling Shizhe in order to facilitate work in Western countries, this name is also used in Western countries, and it is not used in Hong Kong, although many people in Hong Kong now take English names, and many people use English names to greet them, but he just does not use English names to greet others, he uses Chinese names, and English names in Hong Kong, he feels very stupid.

"Okay, thanks." Ling Shizhe turned around and walked into the elevator, and when he reached the sixth floor, the elevator door opened, Ling Shizhe walked out, turned a corner, and saw an old man who was nearly 50 years old, standing at the door of the office.

When the old man saw Ling Shizhe, he smiled kindly, stretched out his hand, and said, "Presumably you are the chairman of Ambrera Company, Mr. Jester Ling." ”

Ling Shizhe walked over, stretched out his hand and shook him gently, and said in Chinese: "Hello, Mr. Wang An, the junior is Jester *Ling, Jester is my name in the West, my name is Ling Shizhe, you can call me my Chinese name." ”

Wang An also used Chinese and said, "Okay, Mr. Ling, please come in." ”

After following Wang An into his office, after the two sides sat down face-to-face on the sofa, the two officially exchanged business cards, and Wang An said, "Mr. Ling, do you drink tea or coffee?" ”

Ling Shizhe called for tea, Wang An turned his head and instructed his secretary to give Ling Shizhe a cup of green tea, and after a few words of greeting, he said: "The new type of porcelain produced by Mr. Ling's Ambrera Company is now very popular in the United States, and now there is a new type of computer camera, which is greatly convenient for many ordinary people who don't know how to use a camera, and even I bought one, which is indeed very convenient, and the imaging effect is also good. ”

Ling Shizhe smiled bitterly and said, "Mr. Wang, I took the liberty to visit this time because my company was in great trouble. After speaking, Ling Shizhe stood up and bowed to Wang An.

"Oh, Mr. Ling, what are you doing here," Wang An hurriedly stood up, helped Ling Shizhe up, and said, "No need to do this, just say anything you want, and see what I can do to help you." ”

After the two sides sat down, Ling Shizhe told the matter as it was, including the matter of discussing the acquisition of with the Kennedy family without reservation, and finally said to Wang An: "Mr. Wang, the younger generation is this matter, all those who have just come to the door to ask for advice, please Mr. Wang must give advice, your kindness, the younger generation will definitely repay you in the future." After speaking, Ling Shizhe bowed to Wang An again.

After Wang An helped Ling Shizhe up, he looked at him with a smile in his eyes, and said: "It sounds like your trouble is not small, how do you know that I can pay attention to it, it is Kodak,, and the Kennedy family, here, that one is not a fierce crocodile who eats people and does not spit out bones, how can I, a small arm and leg, give you any ideas." ”

Ling Shizhe smiled and said, "Why should Mr. Wang hide it from me, didn't the magnetic core memory you invented back then have the same problem as me, but you resolved him, I came here today to ask you for advice." Ling Shizhe took out a document from his briefcase, put it on the coffee table, stretched it out in front of Wang An and said, "Mr. Wang, as long as you can guide me through this crisis, these are my thanks to Mr. Wang." ”

Wang An picked up Ling Shizhe's document in front of him, looked at it, and suddenly raised his head in surprise, seeing him, Ling Shizhe smiled at him and said, "Mr. Wang is not in a hurry, he is taking a good look." Wang An lowered his head and looked back at the document given to him by Ling Shizhe, which read, "distributed data processing system", "dot matrix printer", "word processing machine", "inkjet printer", some of the drawings and some technical data of these machines.

Ling Shizhe knows that he has no intersection with Wang An, and he can't talk about any feelings, and he has encountered such a big crisis, Kodak,, and the Kennedy family are not fierce crocodiles, although it is said that they are talking to the Kennedy family about the sale of, but who knows if is a help or a big hole, after the crisis of Kennedy and their family, God knows if they will take revenge and be attacked by them. Think about the fate of several of his children after the death of the Greek ship king, and then died inexplicably, Ling Shizhe had to be careful, so he came to consult Wang An, but Wang An, why did he give you advice, it was not a relative, he pointed out to you, if he didn't get it, he had to provoke those giant crocodiles, he couldn't get it at all, Ling Shizhe thought about it, so he thought of this way, and sent him a few inventions, the distributed processing system and word processing machine were only invented by Wang An in the seventies and eighties in the later generations, and now take them out and return them to him in advance,

The photocopier was invented by Xerox in 1973, and Ling Shizhe was originally prepared to use it for himself, you must know that Xerox became one of the world's top 500 companies by relying on photocopiers, which is definitely a big gold mine, but then I thought about it, there are many kinds of copies in the future, and it is not enough to make money just by selling copies, and what really makes money is all kinds of printing paper, which is not Ling Shizhe's original intention for the future positioning of Ambrera Company, so he simply handed over the technology of photocopiers and printers to him. As a reward for Wang An to help him solve this crisis.

First of all, to be able to solve this crisis, this is the most important and the most critical; Second, although they were given to Wang An, Ling Shizhe did not get nothing, "distributed data processing system", "dot matrix printer", "word processing machine", "inkjet printer", these things, Ling Shizhe did not copy them as they were, they all redesigned their structure, and it was very convenient to use. And all of these things require a key component, which is the IC chip. I will provide these chips to him, as long as he makes them, he can't do without them, and in the future, I will specialize in producing chips and become a chip supplier like IL company.

The computer camera made by Ling Shizhe is a typical consumer electronic product, this kind of electronic product, the future market is vast, yes, but it is also the most competitive industry, various manufacturers in order to compete for the market but the means are exhausted, do everything, this time Kodak brought him the crisis, isn't that it, Kodak company in addition to film, they themselves are not also giants in camera production, their own production of computer cameras is not because of robbing their cake.

After nearly 100 years of development, the camera has matured, and several giants have emerged, each with its own territory. It is true that Ling Shizhe's own computer camera will bring a camera revolution to the world, but it also robs them of their cake, and those giants are jealous of the huge market of computer cameras in the future, so they hit the door.

Wang quietly looked at the information that Ling Shizhe gave him, Ling Shizhe sat on the sofa, his thoughts were full of thoughts, thinking about the before and after this crisis, for a long time, sighed, or he himself thought about the world simply, if he realized this earlier, he would not have produced any cameras, but should have handed over his invented cameras to those camera manufacturers, let them produce, sell, and only do one thing, that is, to supply them with CPUs. CPU happens to be his strength, if you focus on this one, no one will come to grab him, and there will be no such thing as being knocked on the door, now the CPU is still in the early days, or a fledgling that has just hatched, and the current chip factory is in addition to IBM, the rest also rely on the production of memory chips for a living, AMD, memory chips, Intel company, oh, it has been registered by Ling Shizhe first, and a few people who went out of the Fairchild company have to take another name; At this time, Ling Shizhe stepped into the CPU field, who would knock on the door, IBM, he wouldn't, I am not a mainframe, I am a CPU that produces computer cameras, they don't look down on it at all.

"Mr. Ling, what's wrong, I'm still thinking about the camera." Ling Shizhe looked up and found that Wang An had finished reading the information in his hand, Wang An saw that Ling Shizhe's attention turned to him, and continued: "Mr. Ling, you are really not a crazy person of invention, these several inventions can definitely set off a storm, but what does Mr. Ling mean by showing me this, think I won't, help?" At the end, Wang An's voice couldn't help but become louder again, and his expression became serious.

Ling Shizhe saw his serious expression and knew that he had misunderstood, so he hurriedly said: "Mr. Wang, I see that you have a misunderstanding, to be honest, this time I came here, and my company also had this matter, I have no way to solve it, but I know that Mr. Wang has a way, so I came to visit, but I have dealt with Mr. Wang before, and this time the matter is not so easy to solve, maybe, it will bring trouble to Mr. Wang, and then I am ashamed, and I have to come to the door, so I have to come cheekily and come to the door for the first time, I can't do without a gift, but I don't have anything in my hand, and when I think about it, I only have a few gadgets that I invented myself as gifts for the above. ”

Wang An listened to Ling Shizhe's words, and his heart knotted for a while, and said: "There is someone who comes to the door to give this as a gift, do you want to use him as a reward for me?" ”

Ling Shizhe didn't speak, and acquiesced to his statement, Wang An looked at the information Ling Shizhe gave him again, and said: "These things all need parts called CPU, do you want to be a CPU supplier?" ”

"Yes, Mr. Wang, I have already thought about it this time," Ling Shizhe took a sip of tea and said: "Although I invented the computer camera, I robbed their market, and I am very weak now, so they dare to bully the door so much, so after this incident, I will simply be a CPU chip supplier, and other electronic goods, call others to do a good job." ”

Wang An smiled and said: "This is not a good way, when your computer camera was produced, I took it apart and looked at it, and the rest is nothing unusual, but the 2 fast chips you designed are the real highlights, it seems that your real strength is the design of CPUs, and now this industry is still in its infancy, I think no one will come to lift the table with you, but you will admit defeat so quickly." ”

"No, let's do it if the computer camera is done," Ling Shizhe looked resolute and said: "Give up now, what is the matter of admitting defeat, if he wants to fight, he will fight, I am not afraid of any challenge, but the key is that they are now using methods other than business to unite with the government to deal with me, I can't do it, if I don't beat them off now, my CPU industry will become bigger in the future, they will still use this method, what will I do when the time comes." ”

Wang An nodded and said, "Yes, if you don't beat them out now, what will you do in the future?" Don't look at those Westerners who shout about free competition and business rules all day long, but they are the people who don't talk about business rules in the world. ”