"No matter what you think, I hope Mr. Qiu can get to know me first." Zhou Shuo beckoned, and Dongfang Ke hurriedly took out a stack of documents from the leather bag he was carrying.

"This is an agreement I signed with Microsoft for X keyboard manufacturing, and it will provide me with more than a million dollars in profit every month." Zhou Shuo took out a document and put it on the coffee table in front of Qiu Jun.

"This is the shareholding structure of ST Computer Technology Co., Ltd., to which Japan's SoftBank Group has just injected $10 million to get a 32 percent stake. This is ST Computer's earnings report for the previous month, from the U.S. branch and the Japanese branch. This is the qualification document and industrial and commercial registration certificate of Xiucheng Huaguang Factory, with a registered capital of 36 million. ”

Zhou Shuo covered the coffee table one by one, until he only had the last document in his hand.

"This!" Zhou Shuo solemnly opened the document, gave Qiu Jun a careful look, and said: "It is the equity document of Beijing Menghai Microelectronics Design Center, and I own 60% of the shares. Its shareholders include Academician Tu Anbei of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Fudan University Integrated Circuit Laboratory and Dream Group. I say this not to show off how much wealth I have, but to prove to you that the Pan Han Group I founded is not a small business in the countryside. Pan Han Group has the ability and desire to support Mr. Qiu to complete the development of the new version of WPS. ”

"But what is this for?" Qiu Jun didn't know why, but seemed to be a little moved by Zhou Shuo, and said: "The WPS project does not have a clear profit prospect, and even if the production is completed, the weak domestic copyright awareness may not be able to recover the cost." ”

Qiu Jun's words are not bad. WPS can create tens of millions of profits in Hong Kong Jinshan Company because of the background of the times. On the one hand, the main users of WPS at that time were enterprises and institutions, and they were neither short of money nor wanted to cause trouble. If you can spend tens of thousands of yuan to buy a computer, you can add more than 2,000 yuan to buy genuine software. On the other hand, the piracy market has not yet been formed, and the circulation of pirated software is not smooth. I can't buy it if I want to.

However, after the 90s, computers were rapidly popularized in China, and they were no longer limited to enterprises and institutions. The piracy market has also gradually developed, and the state has not cracked down on it enough, so it is inevitable that it will become rampant. In this context, no one can say for sure whether WPS can continue to create miracles. This is not Qiu Jun's own evaluation, but the opinion of the entire society at that time. Otherwise, he would not have developed WPS later and was poor to sell villas, and no one would be willing to finance him.

Zhou Shuo saw that his tone was loosening. Feeling encouraged, he made persistent efforts and said: "With all due respect, everyone in the current Chinese market is too eager for quick success. In my opinion, the value of a piece of software lies not only in how many functions it can achieve, but also in how many users it masters. Think about it, why can Intel dominate the desktop processor market? Because he has the most powerful marketing promotion, the entire desktop computer system is built around it. Why can Microsoft become the overlord of the operating system? Because DOS and windows are the most user-friendly, applications and data files are based on them. This is true throughout the IT industry, only products with a large number of users can have a future. ”

Zhou Shuo stood up. "WPS has a deep user base in China, even if the new version doesn't make money, it's worth losing money for two to three generations," he said excitedly. As long as it can reject foreign typesetting software, it can develop a larger user team. When China's economy develops, this is the greatest wealth! ”

Qiu Jun pondered for a moment, and couldn't help nodding. What Zhou Shuo said. All of them can be found from the history of foreign software development. In particular, Microsoft's living example is out there. In the application software industry, there are too many people who have to grit their teeth when they lose money.

He was also a little excited. He asked curiously, "So, Mr. Zhou, do you want to be able to develop in the field of application software?" ”

Zhou Shuo glanced at him with a strange expression, but he lost the excitement just now, and gradually fell silent. He moved his mouth, but no sound came out, as if he was hesitant to confide his thoughts.

He hesitated for a moment, and then said hesitantly: "The field of application software must develop, but my desire is more than that." I hope that the cooperation with Mr. Qiu can be open and honest, so that I don't have to hide my thoughts. ”

Zhou Shuo sat back on the sofa, as if praying for a miracle from heaven.

"I hope Mr. Qiu won't laugh at my whimsy, my real purpose is to enter the operating system market."

Qiu Jun also fell silent when he heard this, everyone is making software, of course they understand how difficult and difficult the operating system is. In particular, there is Microsoft, which is an obstacle that wants to surpass DOS and windows systems, and it is necessary to bypass the entire current operating system patent system. Even if it is really possible to develop an operating system with completely independent intellectual property rights, will it be able to compete with Microsoft? Of course not, you also need to have enough applications, a huge amount of data, and a loyal user base......

This is not simply a competition between two operating systems, but a confrontation between two platforms, and even a challenge to the entire Western-dominated computer technology system.

"I accept your invitation." Qiu Jun seemed to be thoughtful, and said calmly.

The corners of Zhou Shuo's mouth unconsciously raised, he swallowed his saliva, nodded with a smile, and said, "I just know that Mr. Qiu will definitely have the same dream as me." ”

Qiu Jun is only thirty-one years old this year, and he is not too old to say that he is not too big. He was originally thirty years old, but he was still fighting. Although life is so hard, he, like Zhou Shuo, is an idealist. They share the same ambitions, or rather the same foul tempers.

Zhou Shuo came early, if he came two months later, then Qiu Jun would be the first to be recruited by Microsoft. But thankfully, Qiu Bojun has not accepted Microsoft's invitation in history. There are two reasons he gave, one is that Microsoft is arrogant, as if you can afford to work for you. The second reason is that Qiu Jun is a banner in China's software industry, and he feels that he cannot fall into the hands of foreigners.

This is the epitome of Qiu Jun, a "smelly and hard" Chinese first-generation programmer.

Programmers in those days were programmers, not "coders". They have ideals and persistence, consciously carry the hopes of the nation, and are eager to beat the competitors of foreign companies in the Chinese market. With the same source program as their martial arts cheats, they can start a company to achieve their own careers and dreams. It can be said that this generation of programmers has been destined to confront foreign companies since its birth. The Chinese market is only a part of foreign companies, and whether they can stand on their feet or not does not hurt the fundamentals. But for them, they must succeed, and if they don't succeed, behind them is Zhongguancun.

Recruiting Qiu Jun and recruiting Niu Xing and Tang Jun are completely different feelings. The latter, Zhou Shuo, did not have any consciousness in the face of celebrities, in essence, they were more businessmen than engineers. As for the former, Zhou Shuo felt that he was a person all the way and a real comrade.

"Welcome, Qiu-kun." Zhou Shuo stretched out his hand and held it tightly with him.

Qiujun delayed in Zhuhai for two days, completed the procedures for the equity conversion of Baoshan Software Company, and then disposed of all the assets here.

After that, he and his development team immediately flew directly to Mukden, and then changed trains to rush to Xiucheng. From the warm south to the icy north, Qiu Jun and his team didn't have anything to do with it.

Qiujun is actually from Hebei, and although the winter there is not as cold as the northeast, it is always in the north. As for the rest of the team, none of them are local to Zhuhai. The IT industry has a large turnover of talents, and those that are not adaptable have long been eliminated.

A group of people got off the train in a white air, and Zhou Shuo, who had been waiting on the platform for a long time, rushed over. Not only did he come on his own, but he was followed by a group of people. The first one is Mu Yi, and the back are the backbones of the original sixty-four software laboratories.

Zhou Shuo said hello, and everyone rushed forward to help carry their luggage and get things, and the one-on-one help was absolutely cordial to home.

"Principal Zhou, this is really enthusiastic!" Qiu Jun stretched out his hand and shook it with Zhou Shuo, and said with some embarrassment.

After a long time of contact, Qiu Jun knew that Zhou Shuo preferred others to call him "principal", so he became a local custom.

"If you can't leave because of something, you want to go to Fengtian to welcome you, I want to wear it!"

Zhou Shuo led the way in front and led a group of people out of the train station. The small convoy of Fanhan Group was dispatched, Zhou Shuo's Cherokee took the lead, and the car team composed of two Audis and four Santana took Qiu Jun and his party away.

It hadn't gone far from the train station before the convoy pulled into a compound whose name had been removed. The courtyard covers a large area, revealing a bookish atmosphere that can only be found in scientific research units. Zhou Shuo held the car steady and jumped out of the car. The cars behind also stopped one after another against the Cherokee, and Qiu Jun and the rest of the development team looked around curiously.

"This is temporarily our office space, please stay first. If you have any problems in life, you can tell me, and I will definitely help you solve them. Zhou Shuo pointed to Huang Shi, who was rushing over, and said: "This is Huang Shi, the director of the 64th Institute of the original Embroidery City, and now he is the president of the Pan Han Research Institute of the Pan Han Group. Your work and life will be arranged by Director Huang. ”

After a few days, Yellowstone seemed to be getting younger. The whole person looks radiant, and he will never revert to that twilight and decadence.

He hugged his fists and said to Qiujun and his development team, "Welcome to Xiucheng!" Sixty-four institutes are being restructured into the Pan Han Research Institute, and there have been a lot of things recently, and we will bear with you if there are any unsatisfactory places. (To be continued......)