Bidding farewell to Lin Zhenhua, Ford almost rushed back to the guest house at a speed of 100 meters, he pulled out Mr. Li, who was responsible for his life translation, and ran towards the post and telecommunications office in the petrochemical machinery factory.

The Post and Telecommunications Bureau was preparing to leave work at this time, and Ford squeezed to the counter regardless of whether it was indiscriminate, and yelled at the salesman who was packing up his things, which startled the salesperson.

"Comrade salesman, our foreign guest has an urgent matter and wants to make an international call to the United States, can you please connect it?" Mr. Li explained to the salesperson in embarrassment.

"Do foreign guests have a request? No problem, I'll do it right away. ”

I heard that it was a matter of foreign guests, and the salesman had an excellent attitude, so he put down the things in his hand without saying a word, took out the list and handed it out, and asked Ford to fill it out.

In fact, the good treatment of foreign guests has nothing to do with what inferiority mentality, on the contrary, the more inferior people are, the more they like to pretend after their careers, and the real aristocracy is humble and polite to anyone, especially for guests from afar.

China is an ancient civilization, as early as thousands of years ago, the Chinese were accustomed to paying respectful to the Yi people and the Fan people. During the Han and Tang dynasties, when China's national power was at its strongest, when the surrounding weak countries came to China to make a pilgrimage to the Son of Heaven, they were often well received and were given rich rewards. This tradition of respecting foreign guests is a reflection of the grace of a powerful nation, and only the nouveau riche would dictate to their poor relatives in the countryside.

At that time, transoceanic long-distance calls could not be connected by directly picking up the dial pad and dialing 001, but needed to be manually dialed by the long-distance call bureau, and then the people here would be notified to answer after dialing. During the period when the salesman of the post and telecommunications bureau was in contact with the operator of the long-distance telephone office, Ford walked back and forth in the small business hall like a sleepy beast, and the anxious appearance made people wonder if there were two high-rise buildings in the United States that caused someone's plane to collapse.

It seemed that half a century had passed, and the salesman finally spoke: "Mr. Ford, your phone has been connected, and the other party has agreed to bear the cost of the call, please go to that phone room to talk." ”

Ford ran into the phone room, picked up the microphone, and said to the company's deputy general manager on the other side of the ocean: "Peter, something big, the incident about 27...... Yes, yes, you don't need to repeat, you have to know that I am calling back from China, you understand...... I mean, I got the word that someone was going to write a paper on the 27 thing and submit it to the CNC Machine Tool Magazine. That's right, I'm not drunk, I've already read this paper, and I'm sure that CNC Machine Tool Magazine will be very interested in such a paper...... Oh, don't worry, I've already persuaded him, he's my friend, a very good friend. He promised not to do it for three days, but he wrote me a patch and asked me to take it back to the company to test it, and if the company was interested, he was willing to sell it to us. Peter, you wake the tech manager out of bed right now, I'm going to read the program to that bastard and let him record it. That's right, all the people in the tech department are bastards, and their programming skills are not even as good as an 18-year-old Chinese......"

This phone call lasted for two hours, but fortunately it was paid for by the other party, otherwise the foreign exchange coupons that Ford exchanged when entering customs would not have been able to pay the phone bill. As Ford came out of the phone room exhausted, he saw the salesman and Mr. Li looking at him in surprise.

"Well, it's just a technical problem, I can't solve it, so I need to consult the company's technical staff." Ford disguised, "I'm sorry to delay you from work, this is a little bit of a trivial matter, please be sure to accept it." ”

As he spoke, he took out two $10 green bills and handed them to the salesman and Mr. Li respectively. The two women glanced at each other and accepted it tacitly.

Americans are really rich, and they are 200 yuan as soon as they make a move...... Today's overtime is really profitable, and the salesperson is happy.

At this moment, the American Spischer company is in a mess, and the MK800 machine tool has defects, if it is really exposed, it is almost a disaster for the company. When the manager of the technical department took the telephone receiver to record the program code dictated by Ford, he already knew that this program was completely correct, which showed that the other party had already understood the control program of the MK800, even better than all the programmers in the entire Spiescher company.

Bugs in programs are sometimes just a layer of window paper. No one knows what's going on until it's pierced, but once it's pierced, everyone will find that it's actually very simple. The bug pointed out by Lin Zhenhua is nothing more than that there is a subroutine that will have an overflow error divided by zero when the parameters are set to a certain group, but if someone hadn't pointed it out, no one would have found this bug so deeply hidden.

In real history, the program errors of the MK800 were first discovered and exposed in practice, but no one can find out what the program is wrong. A few years later, Professor Yao Heliang of Huaqing University simulated hundreds of millions of parameter combinations with the help of a high-speed computer, and only then did he find out the problem and propose a corrective solution. However, by this time, the MK800 case had been closed, and Spischer had lost tens of millions of dollars.

As a student of Yao Heliang, Lin Zhenhua remembers many details of this case, although he could not use future disassembly technology to completely restore the Z80 program in the mk800, but he was able to write several bug patches. For the past few days, he stayed in the guest house and desperately recalled the z80 grammar he had learned as a hobby in his undergrads, wrote out a few patches, and then took the killer idea to attack Ford.

Spischer's technical department conducted an emergency test, and the results showed that the patch sent back from China was very successful and perfectly solved the defects under special parameters. However, another message from Ford made them tremble, that is, the MK800 was not the only flaw, and the other party asked Spischer to come up with a cooperation plan within 48 hours, otherwise, they would have to go to the magazine to find a bug patch, at which point, the whole company would be flooded with claims from all over the world.

"No, we must get all the defect patches in the hands of this Chinese, and then take the initiative to upgrade the control circuit version for customers and nip the scandal in the cradle." Wilson, chairman of the company, ordered.

"Mr. Wilson, Ford said that the Chinese is very business-minded, and he asked our company to pay for the program in his hands. ”

"Give him money!" Wilson said, "How much does he want?" We don't hesitate to give even $1,000. ”

"$1,000 ......," Peter said with a bitter face, "according to Ford, his appetite is much more than $1,000 can satisfy." ”

"Won't it?" Wilson said, "I once met with Chinese officials, who only had a dozen dollars of pocket money a day when they went abroad, and they were reluctant to use it at all, so they saved it to buy electrical products to take back to China for consumption." It's very good for a Chinese worker to get $1,000. ”

"The problem is that this Chinese worker is not an ordinary Chinese worker, and he will not be satisfied with the fact that he can analyze where our bugs are without the source code, and he can write the perfect patch, and he will be compensated for a thousand dollars," Peter said. ”

"We can ask Ford to talk to him more, and we can relax our bottom line a little bit, let's say two thousand dollars. Let Ford tell him that this is the highest price we are willing to pay, and I don't think he will pass up the opportunity to get such a large sum of money. ”

"Okay, I'll get in touch with Ford right away." Peter relented, he didn't deal much with the Chinese, and he didn't know if Wilson's judgment was correct. They had been cut off from that mysterious continent for too long, and they had no idea what was going on there.

At five o'clock in the morning, the waiter at the small guest house was awakened by the ringing of the phone, and she picked up the phone, which contained a string of English that she did not understand, but she knew that it must be a call from Mr. Ford, because there was only one foreign guest living in the entire small guest house.

Before the waiter could call Ford, Ford had come out of the room in full clothes, he hadn't slept all night, his ears were on the back and he had been waiting for the call. He heard the phone ringing just now, and he heard it through the wall, so he hurriedly ran out to answer it.

"Peter, are you saying that Mr. Wilson asked to buy all the patches in his hand? Great, that's what the other side is asking for. In terms of price, what does the company consider? …… What the! Two thousand dollars, what are you kidding, those bastards in the technical department have already spent hundreds of thousands of dollars, and they haven't solved this problem until now, and we want to buy these patches for only two thousand dollars? "Ford was on the verge of a rampage.

"Ford, you can't think about this with the American mind," Pitt said. If it was an American who came up with this patch, I think we could have paid a million to buy it, and yes yes, someone else wouldn't have sold it to us for less than a million. But for the Chinese, it's completely different, the Chinese's hourly wage is only 10 cents, and for them, two thousand dollars is an astronomical amount. ”

"Yes, Mr. Peter, for the vast majority of the 1 billion Chinese, two thousand dollars is indeed an astronomical amount, but this little friend of mine is a heavenly family himself, and astronomical figures are perfectly normal for him. I still haven't figured out how he cracked our program. …… Okay, okay, I see, since it's the boss's intention, I'll talk to him, but I'm sure it won't work out. If he is provoked, no one can stop him from making the results public. ”

Ford put down the phone and went back to his room with a black face, and the waiter faintly heard a word coming out of his mouth, what was it called "Xute".