Grow up together

Chapter 42
In the middle of a dream, Xu Cheng was awakened by the sound of discussions in the living room.

Slightly staggering a seam in the bedroom, Xu Cheng found that several of his father Xu Jianghe's colleagues were sitting in the living room, including Xu Jianghe's master Nie Yongjun.

In the past four years, Dad was actually a member of his master Nie Yongjun's faction. Nie Yongjun was in the top management of Jing'an Communications, and he seemed to be a director.

In the living room, a group of old men are impassioned about "top products", "industry benchmarks", "national brands", "independent research and development", "technical key breakthroughs", "all depend on ourselves".
Xu Cheng's head hurts when he heard that, people in their 40s and [-]s can't recognize the reality before talking about ideals, and the little money in your hand is enough for you to break through some technology.
If they really want to continue their independent research and development, the MP5 will probably be eliminated with just a prototype.

"Can't we have Yuanzi and dream again? And the key is... The market entry point is wrong!"

After they all left, Xu Cheng went to the bedroom and waved the smell of cigarettes in the house in disgust.

"Dad, is your company going to make MP3 players?"

Xu Jianghe nodded, "What's wrong? Did it wake you up?"

Xu Cheng shook his head, sat on the sofa and chatted with Xu Jianghe.

"Dad, how soon will you be able to produce this? Give me a few. I will give it to several of my classmates for their birthdays in a few days."

Xu Jianghe smiled, "How many days? The production is not as simple as you think, it can be produced as soon as you say it, and it will take several months just to design it."

"Ah? It's been so long. Hasn't this thing been made abroad? Why do you still need to design it? It would be good to disassemble their foreigner's product, reassemble the components and change the shell."

Xu Jianghe glanced at him, "What do you know as a child? Is there anyone who buys something that doesn't have its own characteristics and advantages?"

Xu Cheng thought for a while, "Yes, isn't cheapness the biggest feature? If Dad, you replace the components in the MP3 with other models and lower the price, this will be a very good advantage!"

After a pause, Xu Cheng continued, "And Dad, I actually thought about it, we poor students don't care about the sound quality at all, we just think it's cool and pretentious to hold this thing, as long as it's cheap enough, we will definitely Choose to buy!"

It is very important to grasp the entry point of the market. For example, Zhang Ruimin of Haier researched why summer is the off-season for washing machine sales. Later, he found out that people have less clothes in summer, and washing machines cost water and electricity. No one uses them. Zhang Ruimin directly found the entry point of the market and launched A small washing machine that saves electricity and water is specially used to wash small clothes such as underwear and stockings, and it really sells well.

In the MP3 industry, the domestic MP3s such as the Moonlight Box later focused on cost-effectiveness. To put it bluntly, they were cheap.

After listening to Xu Cheng's words, Xu Jianghe half-closed his eyes, and a flash of inspiration flashed in front of his eyes.

Cheap is the biggest feature?

How do you feel that what this kid said is so reasonable.
But adults still like to be stubborn, "What do you know as a child, even if it is hardware integration, you need to consider circuit design, DAC decoding chip, power supply. These are a whole set of things, and there are also issues of purchasing and polishing components."

Xu Cheng scratched his head, "Oh, I don't understand what you're talking about, Dad, but I think it's easier to buy the hardware from other manufacturers and integrate it with you than to build it yourself. You can buy a usable MP3 with very little money, such a cost-effective product, our students will definitely buy it!"

Xu Cheng took a piss and slipped back to the bedroom to sleep, leaving Xu Jianghe alone in the living room.

“Great value for money? That's a good word”

Although I feel that Xu Cheng is messing around, but he is easy to be confused by the authorities. This kid just thinks from the perspective of a user.

Cheap electronics?Have we been thinking in the wrong direction!

Compared with producing high-tech products, it seems easier and easier to open up the market with cheap, no, cost-effective electronic products, especially the Longguo market.
The next day.

Xu Cheng received a call from Netease, where someone told him that the number of users of "16 Website Navigation" continued to soar these days, and Xu Cheng needed to pay them back.

That's right, when Xu Cheng was about to start 16 website navigation, Xu Cheng found a very embarrassing problem. As we all know, the three basic elements of a website are: domain name, server, and program.

Then the problem came, Xu Cheng obviously couldn't afford the server, even in early 2000, when a large number of Internet companies in China closed down and second-hand servers were sold all over the place, Xu Cheng couldn't afford it.

Fortunately, there was a very nice thing at that time. Many big companies launched conscientious services to provide netizens with free server virtual space. For example, NetEase, Sohu, and Sina will divide their large servers into multiple servers. A virtual space with an independent domain name and full host functionality.

The size is 20M. Most of the time, 20M is enough for you to prostitute for free, but in a few cases, like Xu Cheng is now, 20M is not enough.

16 website navigation currently has 10,000+ users, Xu Cheng has to pay Netease some money, it is not expensive, only 300 yuan, counting as one year, the pocket money he usually saves is for this moment .

Open the buttocks of the piggy bank, count the coins inside, then open the Xinhua dictionary, take out the tickets that are sandwiched inside, and even the steel penny with change, count the full amount, 312 yuan 7 cents, just enough for this one.
Years of savings were emptied in an instant, and Xu Cheng's wallet was returned overnight to before liberation.

It's hard!

Raising this website is like raising a daughter. You spend money and energy on it, and you get nothing in the middle of it. You just wait for Brother Du to marry you with a sky-high dowry.

“It would be great if it could be just right for the advertising fee”

It's a pity that Xu Cheng doesn't have a reasonable bank card source, so he can only miss this big piece of cake for nothing.

Asking Netease for a remittance information, Xu Cheng left the house with a thick wad of [-] yuan in his arms.

Although he is underage, he can still remit money. After filling out the remittance form and paying in cash, the service staff at the counter were very surprised and kept asking.

"Kid, who did you send the money to?"

Xu Cheng replied without blushing, "Give it to my uncle who works in other places. He has no money to spend outside alone. My parents are busy at work, so let me come over."

This set of reasonable answers immediately dispelled the suspicion at the counter.

How could such a cute and sensible child lie?

Xu Cheng breathed a sigh of relief. Once they felt that they had been cheated by someone and started to investigate, things would be troublesome.

Finally, I got a return receipt from the post office, checked the name and the amount carefully, and it was correct, and it was considered a deal.

Compared with the direct transfer of WeChat and Zhifubao later, it is indeed a lot of trouble.

Coming out of the post office, there was a lot of traffic at the door, and Xu Cheng suddenly found a familiar figure in the crowd. Although the sense of existence was extremely low, he was still captured by him.

Small stature, baggy school uniform, jet-black hair, and those soul-stirring peach-blossom eyes.

"Yu Yu? What is she doing here alone?"

And follow along first.
　In the last chapter, Lin Wanzhou posted: "Autumn is the spring that is reversed", and the second half of the sentence is "Good night is the continuation of loving you", which is from Zhang Ailing's "Love in a Fallen City".

　　Young at heart, ignorant of age, always like to search for people who are excited, find a few words that I don't know, and send them to him, innocent and innocent like it.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)