industrial overlord

Chapter 38
After bidding farewell to Lin Zhenhua, Ford sprinted back to the guest house almost at a speed of [-] meters. He pulled out Mr. Li from the Normal University who was in charge of interpreting for him, and ran towards the post office in the petrochemical plant in a coaxing manner.

The post office was getting ready to leave work at this time, Ford didn't care what happened, he squeezed in front of the counter, and yelled at the salesperson who was packing up, which surprised the salesperson.

"Comrade salesperson, our foreign guest has an urgent matter and needs to make an international long-distance call to the United States, can I trouble you to connect?" Mr. Li explained to the salesperson in embarrassment.

"Foreign guests have requests? No problem, I'll do it right away."

I heard that it was a matter for foreign guests, and the salesperson had a very good attitude. Without saying a word, he put down the things in his hand, took out the form and handed it out for Ford to fill out.

In fact, the matter of treating foreign guests kindly has nothing to do with inferiority complex. On the contrary, the more inferior a person is, the more he likes to put on airs after his fortune. coming guests.

China is a country with an ancient civilization. As early as thousands of years ago, the Chinese were used to showing respect to the barbarians and Fan people.During the Han and Tang Dynasties, when China's national power was the strongest, when the surrounding weak and small countries came to China to pay homage to the emperor, they often received good hospitality and generous rewards.This tradition of respecting foreign guests actually reflects the grace and demeanor of a powerful nation. Only those nouveau riche will boss around in front of their poor relatives in the countryside.

In the past, long-distance overseas calls could not be connected directly by picking up the dial pad and dialing 001. Instead, the long-distance office had to manually dial the number, and then notify the person here to answer it.During the period when the salesman of the post and telecommunications office was in contact with the operator of the long-distance telephone office, Ford wandered back and forth in the small business hall like a trapped animal. His anxious appearance made one wonder if there were two tall buildings in the United States for whom? The plane crashed.

After what seemed like half a century, the salesperson finally spoke: "Mr. Ford, your call is connected, and the other party agrees to bear the call fee. Please go to that phone room to talk."

Ford rushed into the phone booth, picked up the microphone, and spoke to the company's deputy general manager on the other side of the ocean: "Peter, something big happened, the thing about 27... that's right, you don't need to repeat it, you You know I'm calling from China so you get the point... I mean, I got word that someone is going to write a paper on the 27 and submit it to CNC Machine Tool Magazine. Yes, I didn't drink Drunk, I have already read this paper, I believe that CNC Machine Tool Magazine will be very interested in such papers... Oh, don't worry, I have persuaded him, he is my friend, Very good friend. He promised not to do this within three days. However, he wrote a program patch and gave it to me, asking me to take it back to the company to test it. If the company is interested, he is willing to sell this patch Here it is. Pete, you get the manager of the technical department out of bed immediately, I'm going to read the program to that bastard and ask him to record it. Yes, all the people in the technical department are assholes, their programming ability Not even as good as an 18-year-old Chinese..."

This phone call lasted two hours. Fortunately, the other party paid for it. Otherwise, the foreign exchange certificates that Ford exchanged when he entered the customs could not afford the phone bill at all.When Ford came out of the telephone room exhausted, he saw the salesperson and Mr. Li looking at him in surprise.

"Uh, it's just a technical problem, and I can't solve it, so I need to ask the company's technical staff." Ford concealed, "I'm sorry to delay you from get off work. It's a small thing, please accept it."

As he spoke, he took out two green 10-dollar bills and handed them to the salesperson and Teacher Li respectively.The two women looked at each other and accepted it tacitly.

The Americans are really rich, and they pay 200 yuan for a shot... Working overtime today, I really made a lot of money, and the salesperson was very happy.

At the moment, Spischer Corporation in the United States is in a mess. If the defect of the MK800 machine tool is really exposed, it will almost be a disaster for the company.When the manager of the technical department took the phone receiver and recorded the program code dictated by Ford, he already knew that this program was completely correct. Members understand more thoroughly.

BUG in the program is sometimes a layer of window paper.Before breaking through, no one knew what was going on, but after breaking through, everyone would find that the matter was actually very simple.The BUG pointed out by Lin Zhenhua is nothing more than a subroutine with a division by zero overflow error when the parameter is set to a certain group, but if someone hadn't pointed it out, no one would have discovered that it was so deeply hidden of this wrong.

In the real history, the program error of MK800 was first discovered and exposed in practice, but no one can find out where the program is wrong.Several 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 correction plan.However, at this time, the case of MK800 has been closed, and Spischer has lost tens of millions of dollars.

As a student of Yao Heliang, Lin Zhenhua remembered many details of this case. Although he could not fully restore the Z800 program in MK80 with future disassembly technology, he was able to write out several bug patches.In the past few days, he stayed in the hostel desperately recalling the Z80 grammar he had learned as a hobby during his undergraduate years, wrote out a few patches, and then took this trump card to attack Ford.

Spicher's technical department conducted an emergency test, and the test results showed that the patch sent back from China was very successful, perfectly solving the defects under special parameters.However, another sentence sent back by Ford made them tremble with fear, that is, the MK800 does not only have this defect, and the other party asked Spischer to propose a cooperation plan within 48 hours, otherwise, they would have to go to the magazine to find a defect patch By then, claims from around the world will overwhelm the entire company.

"No, we must get all the defect patches in the hands of this Chinese, and then take the initiative to upgrade the control circuit board for the customer, and stifle the scandal in its infancy." The company's chairman Wilson ordered.

The deputy general manager Peter said: "Mr. Wilson, Ford said that the Chinese is very business-minded, and he proposed that our company can pay for the program in his hands."

"Give him the money!" Wilson said, "How much does he want? We won't hesitate to pay even $1000."

"$1000..." Peter said with a bitter face, "According to Ford, his appetite is far beyond what $1000 can satisfy."

"No way?" Wilson said, "I once received Chinese officials. They only had pocket money of more than a dozen dollars a day when they went abroad. They didn't want to use it at all. They saved it to buy electrical products and brought them back to China for consumption. One For Chinese workers, getting $1000 is pretty good.”

Peter said: "The problem is that this Chinese worker is not an ordinary Chinese worker. Without the source code, he can actually analyze where our BUG is, and he can write a perfect patch, and the compensation of one thousand dollars , I think, he will not be satisfied."

"We can ask Ford to talk to him more, and we can relax our bottom line, let's say two thousand dollars. Let Ford tell him that is the most we are willing to pay, and I don't think he will give up getting such a price." Big money opportunity."

"Okay, I'll contact Ford immediately." Peter gave in. He didn't have much dealings with Chinese people, so he didn't know whether Wilson's judgment was correct.They have been isolated from that mysterious continent for too long, and they don't know what's going on there.

The contact number that Ford left for the American company was the small guest house of petrochemical machinery. At five o'clock in the morning, the waiter in the small guest house was awakened by the ringing of the phone. She knew that this must be the call for Mr. Ford, because this is the only foreign guest staying in the entire guest house.

Before the waiter could call Ford, Ford had already come out of the room fully dressed. He hadn't slept all night, waiting for the call with his ears stuck.He heard the phone ringing just now through the wall, and hurried out to answer it.

"Peter, are you saying that Mr. Wilson asked to buy all the patches in the other party's hands? Great, this is also the other party's request. In terms of price, what consideration does the company have?... What! Two thousand dollars, what do you want? What a joke, those bastards in the tech department have spent $10,000+ and still haven't fixed this issue, and we want to buy these patches for only $[-]?" Ford almost went berserk.

Peter said: "Ford, you can't think about this issue with American thinking. If the person who proposed this patch is an American, I think we can pay 100 million to buy it, yes yes, less than 100 million others It will not be sold to us. But for the Chinese, this is completely different. The hourly wage of the Chinese is only 10 cents, and two thousand dollars is an astronomical figure for them.”

"Yes, Mr. Peter, for the vast majority of the 10 billion Chinese, two thousand dollars is indeed an astronomical figure, but my little friend is an astronomer himself, and the astronomical figure is an astronomical figure for him It's a very normal thing. I still haven't figured out how he cracked our program....Okay, I understand, since it's the boss's intention, I'll talk to him, However, I believe that this will not lead to results. If he is provoked, there is nothing to prevent him from making the results public."

Ford put down the phone and went back to the room with a dark face. The waiter faintly heard a word coming out of his mouth, which was called "Hutt".

(End of this chapter)