Since 1979 I have been in the tide of the times

Wang Weidong handed an iPhone to Li Yueshi.

This is the first-generation iPhone that was launched a year ago, and it is neither sold nor used in China.

But this phone can be used because it was modified by hackers.

"Fan Wenfu gave it to me. Now that Huali Optoelectronics has become an iPhone supplier, I will give you this phone." Wang Weidong said.

"Thank you, boss. Actually, you can keep it. After all, it is a gift from someone else. I prefer to use my current Nokia n97." Li Yueshi said.

Now the king of mobile phones in the world is still Nokia. The Nokia n97 full-keyboard mobile phone that Li Yueshi just bought is very exquisite.

"Okay, then I'll keep it for myself, Miss Li, it seems that you are a very nostalgic person, I hope you will use Nokia mobile phones for the rest of your life!" Wang Weidong said.

Everyone says that the world is constantly changing, and one cannot step into the same river twice, but in real life, they are used to looking at problems statically.

Li Yueshi apparently didn't think it was such a big deal for Holley Optoelectronics to become an iPhone supplier.

"Miss Li, whether it's a person or a company, there may only be a moment between the wind and the wind!" Wang Weidong said.

"Xiangyang Group will definitely get better and better under your wise leadership!" Li Yueshi said.

Wang Weidong suddenly felt very boring. Did Li Yueshi start to talk only flattery?

Now many entrepreneurs are like this. In the company, they are the emperors who can't refute what they say!
All the people can't wait to kneel down in front of him, his words are quotations, they must be memorized!
"I really think so!" Li Yueshi said.

Wang Weidong looked out the window and said suddenly: "I want to open a Chinese restaurant in Silicon Valley of the United States and pay with bitcoins, for example, a thousand bitcoins for a plate of Chinese fried rice!"

"Boss, what is Bitcoin?" Li Yueshi asked.

"It just appeared on the Internet in January, and I am very interested in it." Wang Weidong replied.

Li Yueshi looked at Wang Weidong, she felt that Wang Weidong became a little strange.

"Boss, do you feel tired? I have seen many entrepreneurs. After 30 or [-] years of hard work, many people feel tired and lose their fighting spirit." Li Yueshi said.

"Yeah, I'm tired, and I don't want to work anymore." Wang Weidong said.

But he immediately stood up and said, "I'm going to Zhongguancun to equip [-] latest computers and start mining!"

Then Wang Weidong rushed out of the room and disappeared.

"He looks like a child!" Li Yueshi murmured.

The sales of Xiangyang Electronics have been very good in the past few years, and export orders can be scheduled for several months or even half a year later.

However, the number of orders has been decreasing since September, and it will be halved directly in November. The electronic tubes sold are audio equipment produced by other foundries for export, but now the purchase quantity of electronic tubes has also been greatly reduced.

At the beginning, Song Yu and the others didn't feel much. After all, the production task had been scheduled for February and March [-], and it would not be affected within three or four months.

It's not that you haven't seen big winds and waves. The Asian economic crisis in [-] has also been experienced, and it didn't go well.

And in that economic crisis they doubled their wealth.

However, the economic situation has not improved by January, and many small factories in the Pearl River Delta region have begun to close down one after another.

"What's Weidong doing? He got into the ravine and didn't come out! If it doesn't work, we can only shrink the factory and fire the employees." Ou Xiaojun said.

A large valley in Guizhou Province was the original location of Yuanzheng Machinery Factory. After Xiangyang Group acquired this factory, it became the territory of Xiangyang Group.

In Sichuan and Guizhou provinces, there were many such factories built in many valleys, but most of them are now abandoned. There are not many places like Yuanzheng Machinery Factory where many people live.

The loudspeaker on the telegraph pole blared a few times, and then a girl's crisp voice came out.

"Comrades, cadres and workers, tonight, the movies "Southern Expedition and Northern War" and "Wrangler" will be screened in the auditorium of the factory. Comrades are welcome to watch it!"

There are only a few hundred retired old workers who still live here, and those who have not retired have gone to work outside.

The old faces are full of wrinkles, and everyone gathers outside to bask in the sun, chat, play chess and poker.

In March in Guizhou Province, it was cold and gloomy in the house, and it was more comfortable to stay outside than inside.

"What movie is on tonight?" an old man asked.

"Didn't you hear it just now? It's very memorable. After going through the Southern and Northern Wars, he became a horse herdsman!" Another old man replied.

Wang Weidong rode a bicycle through the cave.

These caves were dug during the construction of the third front. The plan at that time was that if a war broke out, the Yuanzheng Machinery Factory, a factory specializing in the production of gun barrels, would soon be transferred to the caves to continue production.

Now, of course, there are no cannons in the cave, but rows of iron shelves on which computer mainframes are placed.

The cave is not only not cold but also very hot. The exhaust fans keep pumping the heat generated by thousands of computers to the outside of the cave.

There are more than a dozen young people in the cave, all of whom graduated from Xiangyang Institute of Science and Technology and were recruited by Wang Weidong to maintain computers here.

After the computer is shipped here, register the Bitcoin wallet to download the mining program and start mining.

Wang Weidong is now mining with CPU.

Ten years later, people said: the old fairy with computing power has boundless mana.

There is a huge difference in computing power between mining with an ordinary computer and a specialized mining machine a few years later.

However, as a pioneer, mining with ordinary computers is much better in actual effect than later specialized mining machines.

In less than a month, Wang Weidong has mined 10,000+ bitcoins.

However, Wang Weidong still felt that something went wrong and the mining efficiency was low. According to his online search, a computer powerhouse owned by the US mined thousands of bitcoins with a single laptop.

The students recruited by him felt that Wang Weidong was weird. Are rich people so self-willed?

They all searched the Internet, this thing called bitcoin is worthless at all, is a bitcoin worth $0.0008?
If they didn't look at the salary of three or four thousand a month, they would never come here, unless they were crazy.

Pushing open the big iron gate, Wang Weidong pushed his bicycle outside.

The phone in his pocket suddenly rang.

"Weidong, why haven't you answered the phone for so long? Come back quickly, we can't get enough orders, should we follow the example of other factories and lay off workers?" Ou Xiaojun said.

It may be due to the shielding effect of the mountain, so Wang Weidong has not received a call.

"Don't worry, I'll go back as soon as I make arrangements here!" Wang Weidong said.

(End of this chapter)