Chapter 358: The First Business
After half a month of continuous testing, although there were some minor problems in the middle, they were all solved by Ni Guangnan in time, and the next step was to find a way to produce and promote it.
At present, the Internet has not yet begun to be popularized, and there is no market in the civilian field at all, and there is a demand for this in major research institutes and universities.
Yan Jiecheng's first thought was the computing institute, so he and Ni Guangnan took the prototype and directly found Director Zeng.
"Mr. Yan, Ni Gong, who are the two of you?" Director Zeng saw the two of them coming over with something the size of a shoebox, and looked at the two of them with some confusion, not knowing what they were doing here.
"Director Zeng, our company's products have been developed, don't you bring it to you to see." As he spoke, Yan Jiecheng patted the shoebox.
"Oh, is this the multi-protocol router you're talking about? Can you connect different networks?" Director Zeng looked at this shoebox-sized thing curiously, and said with some disbelief.
After all, the function is very advanced, and he doesn't believe that such a high-tech thing can be developed in China.
"Everything has been brought, and there can be fakes, aren't we just engaged in computers, just give it a try."
"Let's do it, then let's try." Hearing Yan Jiecheng's words, Director Zeng nodded and said, he also wanted to see if this thing was as magical as Yan Jiecheng said.
Seeing that Director Zeng agreed, Yan Jiecheng hurriedly asked Ni Guangnan to lead people to take action, and everyone didn't even have time to eat lunch, and they were busy until midnight to debug the equipment, and use this router to link the computers of various departments in the institute together.
Director Zeng stared at the computer screen in front of him, looking at the messages sent from different departments, and was shocked beyond measure.
"Mr. Yan, is there such equipment abroad?" Director Zeng raised his head and asked Yan Jiecheng.
"It's the only one in the world." Yan Jiecheng replied with a smile.
"Oh, really?" Director Zeng was still a little unconvinced, so he looked at Ni Guangnan on the side, after all, Ni Guangnan had worked in Canada before, and he definitely knew more about foreign affairs than Yan Jiecheng.
Seeing Director Zeng looking at him, Ni Guangnan hurriedly said truthfully: "That's true, and we have applied for an international patent."
"I'm relieved, so let's leave this machine in the institute, and I'll ask someone from the Academy of Sciences to come and see if I can apply for an award or something."
"Okay, that's great, then this machine will stay here, and we'll go back if it's okay." Hearing Director Zeng's words, Yan Jiecheng said excitedly.
"Don't rush back yet, you've been busy all day, and you haven't even had time to eat, so you have to finish eating before leaving, otherwise we'll be able to spread the word.
Xiao Wang, hurry up and let the canteen prepare a table of meals, and then go and call Lao Liu over, and say that Mr. Yan and Ni Gong are here and let him come over to accompany him." After speaking, Director Zeng instructed Xiao Wang on the side.
Seeing that Director Zeng was so polite, Yan Jiecheng didn't dare to refuse, and he happened to be hungry and stayed down.
Director Zeng led everyone to the box of the canteen, and Liu Mouzhi trotted over not long after he sat down.
"Mr. Yan, Ni Gong, why don't you say anything when you come over, I knew you were coming, why did I have to greet you at the door." Liu Mouzhi said with a smile on his face.
"Okay, Mr. Yan and they came over today for business, so I'm not busy and I'm going to call you over."
"Oh, what's the matter?" Liu Mouzhi asked suspiciously.
"The product that Mr. Yan said before has been developed, it is the multi-protocol router, and today I will mainly bring it to us to see and test it."
Hearing Director Zeng's words, Liu Mouzhi hurriedly asked, "Is that the device that can link the local area network?"
"Yes, that's it, it's been tested, and it's completely up to the performance that Mr. Yan told me before, I plan to report to the above tomorrow to see if the above can allocate a sum of money to connect the computer we get with the Academy of Sciences."
"This is good news, I'll have a few more glasses of respect to Mr. Yan." Hearing Director Zeng's words, Liu Mouzhi felt a stir in his heart
Idea, but still said with a smile on his face.
At this time, the staff of the cafeteria brought the food, Yan Jiecheng ate something in the morning all day, he was already hungry, and he didn't care about being polite to others, so he picked up the fast child and ate it in a big gulp.
After eating and drinking, Yan Jiecheng refused Director Zeng's retention, and sent Ni Gong and the others back to the company and went home.
Early the next morning, he received a call from Director Zeng, saying that someone from the Academy of Sciences was coming, and asked Yan Jiecheng to take Ni Guangnan over.
When Yan Jiecheng and Ni Guangnan arrived, they saw several old men with glasses looking around the router, and there was a circle of people around them.
"Come, come, Mr. Yan, let me introduce you, this is Dean Lu of the Academy of Sciences." When Director Zeng saw that Yan Jiecheng had arrived, he quickly pulled him over and introduced him to a few people.
"You came up with the original idea for this device." Hearing Director Zeng's introduction, Dean Lu turned his head and asked Yan Jiecheng.
"Yes." Yan Xie replied concisely and meaningfully.
"How did you come up with the idea to develop this device?"
Dean Lu was a little curious, he had already learned that Yan Jiecheng did not study computers, strictly speaking, he didn't even go to college, but he had been working in a rolling mill before graduating from junior high school, and then went to the sea to do business after the reform and opening up.
How could such a person think of developing such a device, he doubted whether Yan Jiecheng knew computers.
"We had two IBM 5150s in our house, and we accidentally wanted to connect the two computers, and then we found the computing office."
"Okay, now that the device has been developed, what are you going to do?"
Dean Lu thought to himself, this luck is too good, why didn't he expect it, there are so many people in the computing institute.
Yan Jiecheng: "Continue to research and bring it to the market."
"It's ......."
Dean Lu didn't know what to say, mainly because there was no civilian market for this thing, and even if it was to be used, it would be scientific research units and universities, or large state-owned enterprises.
He also thought that Yan Jiecheng would contribute the technology and hand it over to the country for production, after all, this thing would not be used by ordinary people.
The concept of the Internet has not yet spread to China, and even the United States is just beginning to plan to civilize Ethernet.
Yan Jiecheng knew what he was thinking by looking at Dean Lu's expression, but Yan Jiecheng didn't speak.
It's impossible to ask him to hand over the technology, just these people, even if they make money with the technology, they are reluctant to continue to invest, it is better to do it themselves.
Seeing that Yan Jiecheng didn't speak, Dean Lu had no choice but to take the initiative to break the deadlock: "Then I don't know how much Mr. Yan plans to sell this equipment."
"100,000 yuan a piece."
Yan Jiecheng thought about it, the cost is about more than 20,000 yuan, and it is not possible to recover the R&D cost and price it too low, after all, the current market is too small to form a scale and cannot be mass-produced.
Hearing Yan Jiecheng's offer, Dean Lu pondered for a moment, thinking that it was not too expensive, after all, the price of a personal computer now costs more than 20,000 yuan, and it costs five or six thousand yuan to calculate the Lenovo Hanka developed.
This price is already very conscientious, and domestic production does not require foreign exchange.
"Connect the computer of the computing institute with the computing center of the academy of sciences, and leave this work to your company, and you can calculate how much it will cost."
"I'll have to go back to the engineering staff to figure it out, but don't worry, as our company's first business, we won't ask for much." Yan Xie Cheng replied happily.
It doesn't matter if you make money or not, the main thing is that you can play a leading role.
When the time comes to talk about business with major universities, the name of the Institute of Computing and the Academy of Sciences will be raised, and the success rate will definitely increase by several levels, not to mention anything else.
After talking about business, Yan Jiecheng stayed with Dean Lu for a while, introduced the role of some routers, and then drove back to the company to gather everyone and start assigning tasks.
Leaving ten people with poor technical ability to assemble the equipment, the rest of them continue to develop the next generation of routers, and Yan Jiecheng requires the most performance
Less is ten times higher than this device.
"Mr. Yan, isn't this too fast, we have just developed it, and we have to develop the next generation before we start making money, so we have to recover the cost of research and development." Yan Xie asked puzzled.
You must know that in order to develop this equipment, their company has invested more than 3 million, and they have to develop the next generation without seeing a penny of money.
Other employees also thought so, but no one came forward to say it, and when they saw Yan Jiekuang speak, they all looked over and wanted to hear what Yan Jiecheng would say.
"Time waits for no one, we have to produce a generation and develop a generation, and then pre-research a generation when we have the ability, the speed of update in the technology industry is very fast, especially the products that have just come out, step by step.
Although we seem to be ahead now, it doesn't mean that other companies can't catch up, we can't rest on our laurels and leave our opponents the slightest chance." Yan Jiecheng stood at the front desk and said loudly.
"Mr. Yan is right, it is not easy for our country to have a technology that leads the world, and we can't let other countries catch up because of slackness."
Ni Guangnan agrees with Yan Jiecheng's words, after all, he has worked abroad for so many years, and he knows exactly what foreign companies are like.
And he also attaches great importance to this technology, although the market is not large now, but it will definitely develop in the future, after all, this kind of equipment is indispensable to connect the local area network.
"By the way, Mr. Yan, is our company's funds enough to support the research and development of next-generation equipment?" Seeing that everyone had no objections, Ni Guangnan turned to Yan Jiecheng and asked.
He is not very worried about R&D, after all, he has already entered the door, and it is only a matter of speed of progress in the future.
What he is most worried about is that the R&D funds will not be able to keep up, after all, such a large amount of money, no one can afford to invest in it without output.
"You don't have to worry, I've started to build a sales team in the past few days, and I believe that the money will come in soon." Yan Jiecheng said confidently.
Not to mention the business of the Institute of Computing and the Academy of Sciences, as long as they can take down the business of the computer rooms of these universities in the capital, it will be enough to maintain the operation of their company.
Even if the company has no money, it will be a big deal to invest again, and by the end of the year, the franchise fee of the fried chicken restaurant alone will be counted in the account.
Moreover, Yan Jiecheng also plans to participate in the science and technology exhibition held by Xiaoriguo next year, and he will definitely have some income by then.
The only thing to worry about is the lack of equipment performance, before that, it is best to develop the second-generation router, and then make a lot of money.
After finishing the work, Yan Jiecheng went downstairs and drove towards Yan Ziwan's school.
Today, their school is on annual vacation, and there are a lot of things to bring home, if Yan Jiecheng doesn't go, she will have to hire a scooter.
Twenty minutes later, Yan Jiecheng came to the gate of Bei Foreign Language.
"Yan Ziwan, when will your father come to pick you up, or let's send you back." A few roommates in the same dormitory next to him said.
"It should be soon, I said it before, if I go back, what if my dad comes and can't find anyone." Yan Ziwan looked down at her watch and said, her eyes were a little anxious, and she couldn't help but start complaining about Yan Jiecheng in her heart.
"Here." Yan Jiecheng got out of the car and waved at a few people.
"Dad, why are you here? I've been waiting for you for a long time." Yan Ziwan asked with a wrinkled nose.
"Hey, didn't you borrow a car, otherwise how could I help you pull something?" Yan Xie said nonsense.
"Uncle Yan is good." Several of Yan Ziwan's girlfriends shouted at Yan Jiecheng.
"You're fine, yes. When are you going back after the holiday, do you want your uncle to take you to the station?"
"No, no, a few of us have a plan, we won't go home for the New Year today, just stay in school, and we will graduate soon." Hearing Yan Jiecheng's words, several people hurriedly waved their hands and excused themselves.
"Okay, let's go first, you guys come to play at home when you're free, by the way, come to our house for the New Year, it's still lively when there are many people."
"It's ......."
"That's it,
I'll pick you up then." Yan Jiecheng didn't give a few people a chance to refuse, and got into the car when he mentioned Yan Ziwan's surname Li.
"Dad, why did you go today? You said you would come and pick me up at noon." Yan Ziwan sat in the back seat and said to Yan Jiecheng in the driver's seat.
"The company has made a mistake." Yan Jiecheng said as he drove the car.
"Dad, why don't I get a driver's license too, and if you have something to do, drive me in the future."
"You? Forget it." Hearing Ziwan's words, Yan Jiecheng shook his head.
"What's wrong with me, you're worried that I won't learn?"
"I'm not worried about you, I'm afraid you're going to hit someone else."
Hearing Yan Ziwan's words, Yan Jiecheng immediately thought of the female drivers who used the accelerator as a brake in later generations, as well as the wipers, he didn't worry about letting Yan Ziwan drive alone, it was too late to regret something.
"Hmph, I think you're just stingy, and you're reluctant to give me the car."
"It's okay to learn to drive, forget about driving, and wait until you buy a car." After speaking, Yan Jiecheng ignored Yan Ziwan, but concentrated on driving the car.