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Chapter 288 Entrusting HSBC
There are many negative voices in the society. The business community is not optimistic about the Chinese computer market and is unwilling to invest; the academic circles (technical personnel) advocate the elimination of Chinese at this time and ridicule them face to face.Even though they were isolated and helpless, they still insisted on their ideas. One or two years later, with the help of their friends, they established a computer company.

Later, with the technical support of Mr. Shi Zhenrong of Acer Computer, they developed Chinese computers together. In 1980, they jointly released the world's first Chinese computer with "Chinese operating system, Chinese programming language, and Chinese packaged software" with Acer. NT$75.

In 1981, a Chinese terminal was developed; the speed of Chinese processing was raised to an unprecedented level, and because of this, the Chinese in Wanwan and Xiangjiang praised it as the "father of Chinese computers".

Afterwards, Zhu Bangfu established Lingyi Computer Company to provide computer Chinese culture services for manufacturers at a low price. Later, in order to make Chinese computers more popular, Zhu Bangfu published a statement in the newspaper that he would give up the patent right of the Cangjie input method, hoping that Chinese people would study together. The method is popular in the Wanwan and Xiangjiang areas.

Although Zhu Bangfu developed a Chinese computer, the price was too high and it was difficult to popularize it.In order to provide cheaper Chinese computers, Zhu Bangfu took advantage of the upsurge of Apple II computers (personal computers that became popular before the IBM PC) at that time, and developed the Chinese interface of the machine - "Han Card", which was priced at NT$1500. The cost of computers processing Chinese is lower.

In order to realize the potential of Chinese information, Zhu Bangfu announced that he was willing to disclose all the technologies at a discount of NT$1000 million, and sold the shares of Lingyi Company in order to serve Chinese computers wholeheartedly.

This proposal was approved by the relevant personnel of the Wanwan Information Association, and technical personnel from three companies, Wang An, Acer, and Shentong, were entrusted to Lingyi Company for detailed appraisal, and Zhu Bangfu publicly explained it at the information meeting. The president promised to give an affirmative reply to the final result of the government takeover case before the beginning of March 1983 after submitting the ruling to the superior.

For the Chinese standard of Wanwan planning, Zhu Bangfu proposed a Chinese system plan that can accommodate more than 50 characters, while the Capital Strategy Committee proposed a standard of 000 characters (that is, the big five).At that time, Zhu Bangfu strongly opposed it because of its too many defects, but he was slandered by others. In March 13, he was forced to leave Wanwan and transferred all the ownership of Lingyi Company to the employees.

Only Ms. Shen Honglian followed Zhu Bangfu to the United States to continue the Chinese news business.After Zhu Bangfu left Wanwan, Shi Zhenrong offered 25% of the shares to acquire Lingyi, but was rejected by Lingyi employees.

After Zhu Bangfu went to the beautiful country, the development of Chinese computers was completely tied to the seller's market, and gradually moved away from Zhu Bangfu's Chinese information ideal - an information system that comprehensively handles Chinese: the processing of six major functions of Chinese characters (character code, font shape, word order, word pronunciation, word meaning, character identification).

This is the perfect time to acquire Zhubangfu Lingyi Computer Company. Due to his sensitive identity, Bai Zirui cannot go to Wanwan to acquire Lingyi Computer Company in person, but he can entrust HSBC Bank to do the acquisition on his behalf.

Bai Zirui smiled and said: "Manager Tan, our company is going to enter the computer industry next step. Instead of establishing a computer company from scratch, it is better to directly acquire an existing company, but there is no computer company in Xiangjiang, but the computer industry in Wanwan , the development momentum is very good.

So I want to buy a computer company in Wanwan, but you also know that I am an overseas student from mainland China. I am sensitive and cannot go to Wanwan to buy a computer company in person, so I want to entrust HSBC to buy it for me. I am optimistic about the computer company. "

Tan Junkui, a senior manager of HSBC Bank, was sent by his superiors to show that HSBC Bank attaches great importance to Dingtian Technology Company. He did not expect to receive the unexpected joy of asking HSBC Bank to acquire the company on its behalf.

Tan Junkui calmed down his ecstatic mood, and asked, "Bai Sheng, which computer company do you like in Wanwan? I'll go back and report to the leader, and let the colleagues in the investment department complete your commission as soon as possible."

Bai Zirui replied: "It's Lingyi Computer Company, the founder is Zhu Bangfu. I also ask HSBC to use its influence in Wanwan to complete the acquisition as soon as possible, and invite Zhu Bangfu to Xiangjiang. I will fully support him in developing Chinese computers."

Tan Junkui said: "We at HSBC will do our best to complete Bai Sheng's commission."

Bai Zirui stood up, shook hands with him, and said to each other, "Then I will wait for the good news!"

It is the Spring Festival of another year, and the time has come to January 1982, 1, the day before New Year's Eve on the 23th of the twelfth lunar month.In the few days before New Year's Eve, the turnover of the three stores in Central, Causeway Bay and Taikoo Shing reached a new high.

The Spring Festival atmosphere in Xiangjiang is very strong. Every Spring Festival, there will be a grand shopping promotion, which is actually a shopping carnival for Xiangjiang people.Central and Causeway Bay are must-visit places for Hong Kong people. The night view during the Spring Festival is even more charming. Many guests are willing to eat fried chicken and burgers during the Spring Festival.

Bai Zirui and the others did not return to the capital for the Spring Festival. After learning about the customs of the Xiangjiang Spring Festival, they followed the trend and integrated into the customs of the Xiangjiang Spring Festival. Many customs are still very interesting.

Before the Spring Festival, the business of barbershops is often extremely booming, and the word "fa" for hair is the same as the word "fa" for fortune.People in Xiangjiang will do their hair before the Spring Festival instead of cutting it. The homonym of "cutting hair" is "reducing hair", that is, to reduce the chance of making a fortune or the loss of money.

Bai Zirui and He Yuzhu also prepared rice cakes and carrot cakes. The homonym of "Gao" is "Gao", which means rising step by step.At the New Year’s Eve dinner, everyone is also preparing to eat Poon Choi, and the family stands and scoops it up and down with chopsticks, which means "the more you fish, the more prosperous you are".

Bai Zirui came to the main store in Central early in the morning. The four stores operated by Pfister Catering Company will be closed. He asked all the employees to gather at the main store in Central to arrange for the Spring Festival.

Chen Guiqing, the store manager of the central store, said: "Bai Sheng, we don't need to close the store. The company has so many employees now, so there is no problem opening during the Spring Festival. On the first day of the Lunar New Year, other stores in Central will be open."

Bai Zirui smiled and said: "I appreciate Manager Chen's kindness. Everyone has worked hard for several months. Now that it's Chinese New Year, the company will be on holiday from tomorrow, so everyone can have a reunion dinner with their families and have a prosperous and prosperous one." new year,.

The company is now fully staffed. From the start of work on the sixth day of the Lunar New Year to the Lantern Festival, employees will be arranged to work in three shifts. During this period, everyone can take a good rest and create new successes for the company in the coming year. "

Including the two stores under renovation, First Catering Company has a total of 6 stores, and now has a total of about 500 employees.

The Hong Kong government stipulates a three-day holiday for the Spring Festival, and the service industry relies on these three days to make money. The Spring Festival should not be too cold-blooded. The corporate culture of Pfister Catering Company is about humanistic care.

Bai Zirui habitually gave his two companies a holiday according to the seven-day mainland holiday standard in his previous life, so they started working on the sixth day of the new year. In Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macau, it would be more auspicious to start work on the eighth day.At present, neither Xiangjiang nor the mainland has implemented a seven-day holiday for the Spring Festival, and there are not many companies that start work on the eighth day of the Lunar New Year.

(End of this chapter)