Riding the wind of rebirth

Chapter 1382 The battle of ideas

"Xiao Zhou!" Li Guangnan saw Zhou Zhi coming in, stood up and stretched out his hand to him: "What are you talking about? These nonsense have nothing to do with you."

"Welcome, I really didn't expect you to come here in person."

It's funny to talk about this, because to be honest, the person in front of me is a serious senior in Zhou Zhi's career.

At the beginning of 111, Mr. Li had organized a research team to develop two key products for Chinese character processing, the ten-year-old "" Chinese character information processing system and a handwritten text recognition machine.

On this basis, Mr. Li quickly developed the "LX80 Lenovo Chinese Character Graphics Microcomputer System"; and in November of this year, he was invited to serve as the chief engineer of the "New Technology Development Company of the Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences".

By 1989, the company had several very successful products, including the Lenovo Hanka, which had become a flagship product. These all benefited from the Lenovo input method invented by Mr. Li, so everyone decided to use the name of the input method as the new name of the company, and Mr. Li continued to serve as the company's director and chief engineer, presiding over the development of the Lenovo series of microcomputers;

This year, Lao Li was selected as the first academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and is also a director of the Chinese Information Society of China and the Computer Society of China.

It should be said that Lao Li has always been engaged in the research and development of computers and their applications, and even participated in China's first self-developed tube computer. In the 1960s and 1970s, he became a monk halfway and carried out research on Chinese character processing and character recognition. , the first association function in Chinese character input.

The association function is to increase the convenience of input by organizing commonly used "vocabularies". The idea is the same as Zhouzhi's current four-leaf clover input method. However, because the association function requires additional resources, if the algorithm is not powerful enough, additional resources will be needed. The amount of storage will be very large. Today, when storage units are expensive, it cannot be compared to the Wubi input method, which uses the operator's brainpower instead of algorithms and relies on the memory of root characters solidified in the mind to assist input.

"Is the dust settled here at the company?" Zhou Zhi asked.

"Yeah," Li Guangnan sighed, and comforted Zhou Zhi in turn: "That's it, but you can't deal with this matter. Xiao Zhou, you don't have to have any psychological burden."

Regarding the company's next stage of development, it has now entered a stage of intense disagreement. On the surface, it is the so-called dispute between Lao Li's "trade, industry, and technology" and Lao Liu's "trade, industry, and technology."

However, Zhou Zhi sneered at such a statement, because even when the company developed to the highest profits, it did not invest much in scientific research and development, and even Xiaomi and VIVO in the younger generation were far behind.

Once you get to that point, you've made a big deal out of it, and it has nothing to do with "trade, industry, and technology." It means "earning money from trade, industry," or making money for the general meeting of shareholders.

And ten thousand steps back, as the chief engineer in the founding stage of the company, he didn't even have any original shares. This fact itself is evil.

Li Guangnan's situation in this life was even worse than in the previous life. Because of the rise of Clover and the completion of Hanwen's large font library, the Hanka business, which was developed under the leadership of Li Guangnan and was once the company's largest source of profit, has completely withdrawn from Lenovo's main business scope.

After the completion of the first phase of Hanwen Library, Clover Company began to develop rapidly, just as Lenovo began to shift to the PC business, vigorously divided the existing business, and completed the preliminary preparations for "eliminating Li", which will lose the competitiveness of Lenovo Hanka. The production and manufacturing were simply transferred to Clover at a very low price.

The intersection between Zhou Zhi and Li Guangnan also happened during that time. The business of Hanka and Hanwen Library were successfully integrated and the results were transformed. There was also their sincere cooperation in the process. "I still stick to what I said to you before. Silicon Valley cannot be developed by relying on trade alone. Silicon Valley is not a trade center. Silicon Valley is the birthplace of new technologies. It will not last long as a trade center!" Li Guangnan sat. On the other side of the desk, his expression and tone were very calm: "Xiao Zhou, you are also a technical person and you do a good job. You must know what I mean, right?"

"We should take technology as the guide, establish our advantages, create our country's own core computer technology, form application products, and gain favor from the market. This is the development path proposed by Li Gong, and I firmly support it." Zhou Zhi smiled and said: "We Siye What our company is following now is actually the technical, industrial and trade route."

"Yes." Li Guangnan smiled and said: "This is the Shanghai model. If I were asked to judge whether China's future Silicon Valley will appear in the capital or Shanghai, my answer is the latter."

"But it must be said that our company's decision-making cannot be said to be wrong." Zhou Zhi smiled and said: "In fact, whether it is technology, industry and trade, or trade, industry and technology, what we pursue is to balance technology, products, and profits. .”

"Taking care of all three parties is the ultimate goal of achieving the same goal through different paths, while technology, industry, and trade, or trade, industry, and technology, are just a master-slave relationship that is separated when balance cannot be taken into account."

"Actually, when Lao Liu first asked me to come out, he also supported my point of view." Lao Li sighed again: "This morning, Lao Zeng and Lao Li have read out the "Notice on the Disagreements in the Group's Leadership Team" and asked me to I have made a qualitative assessment of the group’s opinions, including those raised last year on decision-making, employment, the company’s declining performance, etc. Including this year’s decision, I believe, that the company’s decision to change the candidate for the financial director is a reflection on the person who provided opinions at the beginning of the year. The retaliation, including my questions about capital operations and other issues, have all been put on the table..."

"Now that the investigation is completed, Lao Liu has no problem. He also explained his 'management principles'. He wrote a letter to the board of directors and hospital leaders, and an open letter to company-level cadres, saying that he can no longer work with me."

"Mr. Liu, you are well prepared. I heard that you have prepared four pages of A4 paper just for the speech notes?" Zhou Zhi smiled meaningfully: "I would like to thank the organization for returning his innocence, expressing its care and respect for you, and claiming that he has never been in any On one occasion, he said something dissatisfied with Ni Guangnan, and also claimed that if you start a business or research institute and need to recruit people from the group, he will support anyone who wants to go, and after discussions between the board of directors and the president's office, he will also try his best to support in terms of funding?"

"Hahaha..." Li Guangnan laughed: "It's just a declaration of victory, and it also said that if I work in an individual capacity, the board of directors will consider me as the main entrepreneur to consider my living conditions!"

"I have also expressed my opinion that it is better to be relieved of my administrative duties, so that I will have more time to do some research work. This may help me to seriously adapt to the changing environment."

Today's meeting was actually destined more than ten days ago.

The secret battle is over long ago.

Being able to prepare well shows that Lao Liu had already learned of his victory before the meeting. The meeting itself was just a judgment ceremony, and Lao Li had obviously lost most of his supporters, including the company's top managers. The attitude is very clear.

"Actually, it's better this way," Zhou Zhi nodded: "We have different paths, so we can't work together. Mr. Li, since you are willing to continue on the path of technology, industry and trade, you also believe that Shanghai will be the future Silicon Valley and the development of the national information industry. and production base, so why not develop there?”

(End of this chapter)