Chapter 3: The End of Hanka

After a good night's sleep, Yuan Liang left the dormitory early the next day.

Two steamed buns and a cup of soy milk, under the greeting of the ticketing aunt, Yuan Liang squeezed into the bus to Suzhou Creek.

The location of the General Administration of Posts and Telecommunications in Pujiang has always been at the bridgehead of Xichuan Road on the Suzhou Creek. At this time, the post and telecommunications bureau had not yet been separated, and the postal business and telecommunications business were under the jurisdiction of the post and telecommunications bureau.

Due to the early arrival, there are few people handling business in the hall, and some salespeople are still chatting and joking at their workstations.

Yuan Liang came to a window, put the letter he had written last night into an envelope, affixed a stamp and sent it.

After sending the letter, Yuan Liang poked his head and asked the salesman opposite.

"Excuse me, how many coin-operated telephones do we need to install in our school?"

The staff smiled, "You go to the marketing department on the second floor and ask!" ”

"Thank you."

Following the guidance of the salesman, Yuan Liang came to the marketing department on the second floor and consulted carefully.

"You're from the student union?"

Facing the business manager's question, Yuan Liang nodded.

"The teacher asked me to come over first to find out the situation, after all, there are a few students in the school who have phone cards, so I want to install a few coin-operated telephones to facilitate more students to use. However, the school means that it wants to operate independently, after all, some students are not financially well-off, and the school also needs a certain phone bill subsidy. ”

The business manager smiled, "Well, although in principle, telephones are not allowed to be private, but after all, your Jiaotong University is one of the top universities in China." At the end of this week, our director is not here, so you go back and explain the situation to your teacher, and let your teacher come and communicate with our director when it is time to work. ”

"That's troublesome Manager Xu!"

Yuan Liang didn't linger too long, and after asking about it, he left the post and telecommunications office.

Although Manager Xu said that in principle, private ownership is not allowed, but he asked Yuan Liang to call the teacher over to communicate, indicating that there is still room for mediation in the private affairs of coin-operated telephones.

If it is a magnetic card telephone, Yuan Liang does not report hope at all, after all, this is the main business of the Post and Telecommunications Bureau, and even a large company like Bell cannot penetrate it.

However, the coin-operated telephone has just been put on the market, and now it is a product independently launched by the Pujiang Post and Telecommunications Bureau.

After leaving the Post and Telecommunications Bureau, Yuan Liang did not go back to school, but transferred to Qiujiang Road, which is not far from the Post and Telecommunications Bureau.

At this time, Qiujiang Road is different from the comprehensive market that gradually evolved into the later generations, and when people mention Qiujiang Road, others will not be surprised to say, "Are you talking about the second-hand electronics market?" ”

At present, Qiujiang Road is Zhongguancun belonging to Pujiang, and the market is mainly dominated by electronic devices such as audio, computers, and walkmans.

As soon as I came to the vicinity of Qiujiang Road, the street suddenly became congested, the street was full of large and small vendors, and the stalls on both sides were crowded so that the whole street was only left with a road in the middle, and the buses stopped and went.

"Boss, how do you sell stereos?"

"Six hundred is too expensive."

"Walkman, good thing, do you have a tape, how about I try the sound quality?"

"Eight hundred, it's too expensive, WM-20, this thing has been around for almost ten years, and it's worth one or two hundred yuan at most, I don't want one or two, give a real price!"

There is no shortage of cars on the streets, and there are even people haggling for containers on the banks of Suzhou Creek.

While Yuan Liang was looking at the flowers, he also felt some emotion in his heart.

In the wild era of wireless communication, a product with applicable functions can easily be recognized by the market.

Don't look at the expensive things in the electronic market, but these electronic products are shipped to other provinces, and they will only be sold more expensive.

Like Sony's Walkman, there are some remote places in the Midwest that haven't even been seen.

As the largest electronic distribution center on the Yangtze River estuary, Qiujiang Road Electronic Market is even more important than Zhongguancun in terms of geographical location.

Here, it is not impossible to rent a small counter like Dongge and slowly achieve the scale of Jindong Multimedia.

Before he found the opportunity of coin-operated telephones, Yuan Liang thought about coming here to work part-time for a period of time, earn some money, and then slowly start from the store.

But now, Yuan Liang has completely given up his previous ideas.

Walking along the street to the most prosperous Fujie Market on Qiujiang Road, Yuan Liang pondered for a moment and walked to a deserted store in the market.

is different from the hot scene in memory, this store, which was later called Shengshi Communication, is still called Shengshi Hanka Business Department at the moment.

The scale of the business department is very large, and it is difficult to find such a large store in the entire Fujie market, but at this moment, there are few people in the store.

Yuan Liang walked into the store and looked at the layout of the entire store.

Many of the products displayed at the counter are all kinds of Hanxian products, including Hanka, Hanxian DOS like USB disks, second-hand BB machines, and some radios and other products.

The most conspicuous thing is a computer that two salespeople are fiddling with at the very back of the counter.

In front of the computer at this moment, a salesman in casual clothes is tapping on the keyboard.

Yuan Liang listened to the voice, and estimated that this speed should be able to have 60 words per minute, and he could have a good treatment when he went to the printing shop.

He looked at it for a while before the two salesmen came back to their senses, and the salesman in overalls next to him walked straight over.

"Do you want to watch Hanka, which one do you like?"

Yuan Liang looked up at the other party, but his eyes looked at Li Jianfang, who was fiddling with a calculator on the other side of the counter.

"Just take a look, your boss is here, right?"

"Over there, you wait a minute. Boss, someone is looking for it. ”

In the days before the bombardment of door-to-door sales, salespeople were generally like this.

Li Jianfang raised his head and looked at it, put the bill aside, and walked over.

The salesman saw the boss coming and walked back to the computer. It seems that the sound of typing in front of the computer is more attractive.

"What do you need?"

"Just take a look, by the way, how do you sell this hope company's UCdos?"

"Little brother seems to understand a lot, I hope that the company's Hanxian product is the best selling in the past two years, are you office or home?"

"Is there a new version 3.0?"

Hearing Yuan Liang ask, Li Jianfang was confused, "I hope that the company's UCdos doesn't seem to have version 3.0, right?" ”

"Didn't you launch it last year?" Yuan Liang clearly knows that the USdos of Hope Company is the last glory of the post-Hanka era.

The 3.1 version launched in July this year is known as the cross-era Hanxian software, but later with the emergence of Windows95, it was submerged in the dust of history.

As for UCdos 3.0, although it has been launched, it is currently only in the stage of internal use of the software due to its imperfect functions.

"It may not have arrived yet, or you should take a look at other Hanxian products first, and the giant's Hanka is also very good." Li Jianfang smiled a little reluctantly.

"The giant's is better than fantasy, they are almost no longer Hanka, I advise the boss to do it as soon as possible, so as not to rot in your hands, I still wait for Microsoft's new system to come out before buying it." In the second half of the year, Shi Juju immediately began his road of health care products.

He didn't pay attention to Li Jianfang anymore, and instead looked at the other products on the counter.

But Li Jianfang, who heard this, was not so comfortable.

"Microsoft is coming out with a new system, where did my brother hear the news?"

"My name is Yuan Liang!" Yuan Liang raised his head and looked at his former boss in front of him, "Microsoft has been moving so frequently a few years ago, and it has held several seminars in Yanjing in a row, boss, you won't know it." ”

"Then it has nothing to do with you not buying Hanka, right?"

Yuan Liang shook his head, "It is rumored that Mr. Gates will personally visit China after a while, as the world's largest graphics operating system operator, Mr. Gates will personally visit China, and it is self-evident what he is visiting China for. ”

"For what?" Although Li Jianfang had some speculations in his heart, he still didn't dare to confirm it.

"Of course, for the sake of the domestic market, Microsoft's Windows 3.1 is very popular in Taiwan Province, and has been released in 28 languages around the world. The domestic market is here again, and it is only a matter of time before Microsoft supports Hanxian. If Microsoft fully supports Chinese character display on the basis of Windows 3.1, Chinese character editing. At that time, I hope that the typing function of the company's UCdos will be a little useful, what do you say I should buy Hanka for? ”

"Really?" When Li Jianfang heard this, he was shocked. The raised voice frightened the two salesmen in front of the computer.

He had to be shocked that if it was really as Yuan Liang said, if the new version of the Windows system was compatible with Chinese character compilation, what would it mean to him, a store that mainly engaged in Hanka business.

Yuan Liang was very satisfied with Li Jianfang's performance, "Almost, it's just the appearance of Mr. Gates in the thirties and twenties, Mr. Gates is here, boss, if you don't believe it, you can wait a few days, maybe there will be news on the news tomorrow and the day after tomorrow." ”

Li Jianfang smiled awkwardly, "Don't be so angry with the boss, I'm not a few years older than you, if you don't mind, just call me Brother Li." ”

"I was just a poor student, and a friend wanted to buy a computer, but he didn't know much about it, so he asked me to come over and ask Hanka about it. But I searched the entire electronics market, but I couldn't find the latest UCdos from Hope Company. ”

Seeing Li Jianfang put down his figure, Yuan Liang also put away the idle appearance in a timely manner.

"I don't have it here, and there should be no other place, I'll find someone to help you ask when I go back." However, this is the first time I've heard that Microsoft's new system will be compatible with Hanxian features. Li Jianfang smiled helplessly.

"In the high-tech industry, with the current situation in China, the competition often does not come from ourselves. Whether it is Hanka or UCdos, as long as giants such as Microsoft and IBM pay attention to the domestic market, they will inevitably introduce new products. Yuan Liang did not explain the specific reason.

Li Jianfang nodded, "I didn't expect that Brother Yuan, you know a lot about this aspect." ”

"If you don't understand, who told us that we don't have technology?" Yuan Liang laughed at himself, "If Microsoft's new system is compatible with the Hanxian function, looking at Brother Li like this, the next step should be to be busy dealing with the Han card in his hand, right?" ”

"That's for sure, I can't just look at the fire pit and jump in." Li Jianfang has nothing to hide.

Yuan Liang showed his true face at this time, "Brother Li's store is quite good, but the business is a little cold, I don't know if Brother Li has any other plans?" ”

"There are many plans, but the channels are not easy to find, Hanka has become more and more difficult to do in the past two years, I originally planned to find a BB machine brand to act as an agent, but the prices of foreign brands are scary, do you have a way?"

"There is a way, but it is not a BB machine. I'll get in touch with it first, and I'll get back in touch when I have an eyebrow. ”

"I don't know how Brother Yuan can contact him?" Li Jianfang was skeptical.

"I'm in the Department of Economics and Management of Jiaotong University, Brother Li can go shopping if he has nothing to do."

Hearing the word Jiaotong University, the salesman who was originally sitting in front of the computer and typing suddenly raised his head.

Li Jianfang smiled with relief, "Jiaotong University, it's quite familiar." ”

"That's good, Mr. Gates visits to China, you might as well inquire about it first, it's not difficult. The purpose of Gates's visit to China before the release of the new system is also obvious. Brother Li should find a way to deal with the Hanka in his hand as soon as possible! ”

"I'll ask someone when I get back!"

Yuan Liang saw that he had already attracted the attention of the other party, so he didn't linger any longer, and turned around and left the Fujie market.