Life 1984

Narcissus is also known as Tiansong, also known as marigold and actress.

Its leaves are broad, tall, bright green, and the flowers are fragrant.

The most beautiful flower in the world slowly blossomed into a charming beauty in front of Li Yunhai's eyes.

Excited heart, trembling hands, longing eyes.

Li Yunhai couldn't refuse and picked this precious actress flower.

He had seen the carving skills of narcissus balls in Zhangzhou. The uncanny workmanship involved peeling off the scales of the narcissus balls until the buds were exposed, and then peeling off the buds and carving them carefully.

There are many poems about narcissus in the past dynasties. Chen Chun in the Ming Dynasty wrote a poem: The jade-faced Chanjuan is small, but the sandalwood heart is rich and fragrant. Yingying's immortal bones are here, and he wants to go to Maibo.

After carving the narcissus, Li Yunhai stayed at the Tianhua Hotel until evening before going home.

Lin Zhi asked him if he had eaten?

Li Yunhai gave an unclear reply and finished eating.

Lin Zhi asked in surprise: "What's wrong with you? Are you weak?"

"Oh! Sister Gong is here, I'm accompanying her! I'm so exhausted!"

"Sister Gong is here? Where is she?"

"She is also tired and is resting in the hotel."

"You two went hiking?"

"Yes! Yes!" Li Yunhai agreed casually and asked, "Didn't Xiulan come over?"

"Do you miss her? I'll ask her to come over and play!"

"Why do I miss her when I have nothing to do? I'm tired, so I went upstairs to rest."

At night, Lin Zhi coaxed her daughter to sleep and came to see Li Yunhai.

Li Yunhai was holding a book and reading. When he heard a noise outside the door, he put the book down and pretended to be asleep.

Lin Zhi didn't care about this and went directly to his bed.

Li Yunhai was woken up by her.

Lin Zhi said in a low voice: "I want to have a second child."

Li Yunhai's scalp was numb, but he couldn't find an excuse to object. He just took a breather and had to work hard again.

In the next few days, Shen Xiulan was busy creating a financial management software company.

Li Yunhai just made room to accompany Gong Jie who came from afar.

Gong Jie traveled around during the day and had a tryst with Li Yunhai at night.

Over the weekend, Li Yunhai and Shen Xiulan took the adult education examination.

The two exams had different contents and were held in different exam rooms.

After the exam, Shen Xiulan asked Li Yunhai how he did in the exam.

Li Yunhai just laughed and said that as long as he could pass, it didn't matter whether he did well in the exam or not?

The two returned home and picked up Li Yanjin. They simply took Yang Xiaoying with them and went back to Shen's house together.

Lin Zhi knew that he had an exam today and had social activities in the evening, so she didn't care about him. She took the child back to her parents' house to play.

Li Yunhai and Shen Xiulan returned to the Shen family.

Shen Guoming and his wife prepared a table of meals.

Some universities are already on holiday.

Shen Xiuling just returned home today.

When she saw her sister coming back with a baby, she jumped up with joy and hugged Li Yanjin and kissed her endlessly.

Shen Xiulan grabbed her sister and said, "Stop kissing her. Children's skin is tender and cannot be kissed all the time. It is easy for them to develop problems."

Shen Xiuling said: "Sister, how can you be so squeamish? I love babies so much!"

Shen Xiulan said: "Do you like it? Then you can have one by yourself!"

Shen Xiuling immediately blushed.

Fang Peihua took her grandson and said, "Give me a hug!"

After dinner, everyone sat and chatted.

Li Yunhai always felt that he was an outsider, and the Shen family couldn't even chat with him when he was around.

So, he said to Shen Xiulan: "I'm going back first. Are you staying here for the night?"

Shen Xiulan said: "Where is the bed for me to sleep on here?"

Li Yunhai said: "Then when you want to go home, ring my pager and I will come and pick you up."

Shen Xiulan also knew that he was uncomfortable, so she said, "It's okay, I'll just take a taxi home. You don't have to worry about me."

Li Yunhai stood up and left.

He knew Lin Zhi had returned to her parents' home, so he didn't go home. Instead, he came to Tianhua Hotel to date Gong Jie.

Li Yunhai entered Gong Jie's room, but she was nowhere to be seen.

He found a piece of letter paper on the coffee table.

There are a few lines written on the paper:

"I left quietly, just as I came quietly. I waved my sleeves. I really couldn't take away a trace of the clouds. I could only wipe away the tears that couldn't fall from the corners of my eyes. I will miss you. Originally I just wanted to ask you for one night My gentleness, I have been greedy for too many nights without knowing it. From now on, everything will respect your decision!"

Li Yunhai looked at the letter and was stunned.

This silly sister!

He folded the letter, put it into the mezzanine of his briefcase, and then silently exited the room.

Li Yunhai came home and saw his eldest sister in the living room.

"Brother! I'm on vacation!" Li Yunfang stood up and smiled.

"Okay! Go home or stay with me?"

"I want to do an internship at Sihai Group, is it possible?"

"Of course. You can play for a few days and then come to work in the company. I will arrange for you to learn financial management from Xiulan."

"Why should I be interned in the financial department? I studied English."

"You are my sister and the person I trust most. When you come to the company in the future, of course you will help me manage financial matters."

"Brother, I don't understand finance."

"That's why I let you study!"

"I know, brother."

Fortunately, both Li Yunhai and Shen Xiulan successfully passed the adult education examination and obtained college diplomas.

The adult education exam is not difficult, and they can pass it easily with their intelligence.

Next, the two applied for undergraduate courses in adult education.

Li Yun's poster is about computers, while Shen Xiulan is deeply involved in finance.

Since the beginning of this year, the company's Alienware computers have achieved considerable sales due to sufficient supply of chips and MJ's advertising.

This year, various companies have launched low-priced computers.

There are even PCs on the market priced at around 6000 yuan.

However, the configuration of these computers is very low-end.

Intel officially launches the 486 chip.

The 486 chip is just a transition from the 586 chip, and there is not much update or progress.

内行人不难看出来，486家族的指令集与386非常相似，只有增加少量的指令。其中最大的改变是内置资料快取芯片。486芯片集成了120万个晶体管，时钟频率由25MHz逐步提升到50MHz。

Some low-level 486s are actually slower than the highest-speed 386s.

Sihai Group immediately launched the 486 motherboard and launched the 486 computer.

Li Yunhai knew that the next generation processor, the 586 chip, would not be announced until at least 1993. This processor was Intel's real masterpiece. This epoch-making product was named the Pentium processor. .

Intel's research on chips is now stuck in a bottleneck period.

AMD also caught up during this period.

Whether Sihai Group’s chip research can catch up will depend on the next cycle.

The difficulties Li Yunhai has to solve go far beyond chip research.

He also needs to find a way to solve the problem of the chip production line.

Since 1984, Li Yunhai has never stopped dreaming.

After that, Sihai Group relied on continuous investment in research and development funds to continue to solve supply chain problems and expand markets.

Sihai Group's initial photolithography technology all came from Nikon.

By 1989, Toyo became number one in the world in many aspects.

The land price in Tokyo alone can swallow up the entire United States!

There are two immortal myths hovering over the Oriental property market:

The first myth is that "land will not depreciate in value." People have become convinced that land will always be the scarcest;

The second myth is "Tokyo house prices will never fall."

Behind these two myths is a mythical belief that the government will always support real estate.

In terms of income, Japanese people have also caught up with the United States.

In 1988, Japan's per capita income reached US$23416, the highest level in the world.

Amidst such excitement, a highly provocative best-seller was published, further indulging the Japanese people in the illusion that I am the best in the world.

In January 1989, the book "The East Can Say No" was published. The book made a bold prediction: Although the post-war world has always been led by the United States, in the 1st century, the world may be led by the East! Therefore, the United States should stop expecting Japan to succumb to it, and Japan should be tougher on the United States.

Interestingly, Americans subsequently wrote a book, "The East Is Not First", which directly poked at the pain points of the East: rich countries and poor people.

Asians work 400 hours more per year than Westerners, live in cramped houses, and cannot afford to buy a house even after working for more than ten years. They spend an hour every day taking a crowded train to go to work, and another hour's train ride home after get off work.

How could such an Oriental become number one in the world?

Li Yunhai doesn't care whether Dongyang can become number one.

His concern about the development of Japan is mainly due to his concern for photolithography technology.

At the end of the 20th century, Nikon was the undisputed king of lithography machines, with its market share once exceeding 50%.

From 1980 to 1982, Toyo's lithography industry grew by 66%. In comparison, the United States grew by only 10% during the same period.

In 1988, Nikon launched the world's first excimer stepper with a resolution of 500 nanometers.

In 1989, Nikon's semiconductor lithography system sales reached 2000 units!

The photolithography machines Li Yunhai purchased from Nikon have become backward products this year.

At most, it will have to wait until the 586 chip era, and it will have to be updated.

Prior to this, Sihai Group had been secretly researching homemade photolithography machines. ASML this year was still just a small company and not competitive at all.

Our country actually also has stepper lithography technology, but it lags behind Western developed countries in follow-up research.

After Sihai Group joined, it has continued this research.

The technology of photolithography machines covers many disciplines and types such as etching, exposure, film formation, cleaning, heat treatment, inspection, packaging, etc.

Sihai Group's research and development work is progressing slowly.

Li Yunhai invested huge amounts of money, but has not yet achieved any substantial results.

He and Professor Ni both have the same goal, which is to launch domestic lithography machines and domestic chips as soon as possible.

Professor Ni was even more anxious than him.

Billions of dollars were spent like water, but no output was produced. As the dean of the Sihai Research Institute, Professor Ni was under great pressure.

On this day, Li Yunhai came out of the scientific research institute and returned to the company with a heavy heart.

In Xizhou in July, it’s so hot that you can’t breathe even after walking a few steps, and you’re sweating profusely.

Li Yunhai walked into the second floor of Changdao Hotel and saw someone standing at the door, looking around.

Although the company has many employees, they all enjoy the coolness of the air conditioner in their own offices.

"What are you doing?" Li Yunhai asked coldly.

"Ah?" The man was startled, turned around and looked at Li Yunhai, "Comrade, I'm looking for someone."

Li Yunhai looked at him suspiciously: "Who are you? Who are you looking for here?"

The man was wearing very shabby clothes and shoes. He looked very old-fashioned. He was probably in his 40s. Facing the well-dressed Li Yunhai, he seemed to lack confidence. He said in a calm voice, "I'm from the countryside, and I'm here to find Sihai Group." people."

Li Yunhai recognized the other party's accent and asked, "Are you from Meishan?"

"Yes, I am from Meishan."

"What do you want from Sihai Group?"

"I heard you can rent machines here?"

"Rent a machine? What machine?"

“It’s the machine that opens the store.”

Li Yunhai understood and asked, "You mean the machine for a typing and copying shop, right?"

The man nodded hurriedly in agreement.

Li Yunhai said: "Do you have any young people in your family who have gone to school? High school students or junior high school students are all fine."

"Yes, I have five children in my family, three of them have attended junior high school, and the eldest daughter has graduated from high school."

"Oh, ok, have you found a place to open a store?"

"After renting the machine, we will find a place to open a store."

"Well, before renting a machine, you have to go to our designated computer school for training."

"Training?"

"That's right, without training, how will you know how to do things? We have specialized teachers who will teach you typing and copying. Only after you learn how to do it can you open a store. You ask your children to come over and sign up to study at the Sihai Computer School at the south gate."

"Comrade, does this study cost money?"

"It requires some training fees. If you study for a week, it will cost about a few dozen yuan! It's not much."

"Oh, that's okay, I'll let my eldest daughter go to school. Where is the specific address?"

Li Yunhai told him the address.

The man took out a crumpled box of cheap cigarettes, took one out and handed it to Li Yunhai: "Thank you!"

Li Yunhai waved his hand and said, "You're welcome, go ahead!"

The man put away his cigarette awkwardly and said, "Comrade, let me ask you again, how much does it cost to open this store?"

Li Yunhai said: "It depends on where you drive, a capital of one or two thousand yuan is always needed."

The man said: "That's okay, thank you."

He turned and walked downstairs to leave.

Su Hong heard the voices outside, walked out of the secretary's room, and said with a smile, "Mr. Li is back."

Li Yunhai walked into the office and asked, "Is there anything going on in the company?"

Su Hong followed in and said, "Ye Fang from the provincial TV station called just now and asked if you were there. I said you weren't and she hung up the phone. I didn't even have time to ask for her phone number."

"Ye Fang?" Li Yunhai thought and said, "Okay, I understand."

Li Yunhai dealt with Ye Fang last time and did not leave the other party's contact information.

He called Liu Jie.

When Liu Jie heard that he wanted Ye Fang's phone number, he laughed and said, "Brother, how are you? Are you attracted to Ye Fang again?"

"Stop blabbering! She called me just now. She probably has something to do."

"Oh, I understand, it's Miss Ye who has fallen in love with you!"

"Can you stop being such a gossip? Can't there be some normal interactions between men and women? Think about men and women in everything!"

"Hey, you're right. When men and women are together, something will happen in nine cases out of ten. The so-called pure friendship is all a lie. Aren't women just for love? Are they also for drinking?"

"I've got you!"

Liu Jie smiled and told Li Yunhai Ye Fang's phone number.

Li Yunhai wrote down the number and hung up the phone with a bang.

Liu Jie said into the phone: "You value sex over friends! I'll ask you to pay the bill tonight!"

Li Yunhai called Ye Fang.

After the call was connected, an unusually sweet female voice came from over there.

"Hey, hello, who is that?"

"Hello, is Comrade Ye Fang here?"

"Are you looking for Ye Fang? She just went out. Who are you? What do you want to see her for?"

"Oh, I'm her friend. Do you know her pager number?"

In Xizhou, everyone with some spare money is equipped with a pager.

Although the salary level in Xizhou is not high, consumption has always been high.

"Who are you? I have to know who you are before I can tell you, right?"

"My name is Li Yunhai, and I'm from Sihai Group."

"Mr. Li? Are you really Mr. Li?"

"you know me?"

"I don't know him, but I've heard of him. He's the God of Wealth in our station!"

"Haha, thank you for the definition. What is Comrade Ye Fang's pager?"

"Wait, let me flip through it. Okay, you take your notes."

Li Yunhai wrote down Ye Fang's pager number.

The other party smiled and said: "What do you want from her?"

"Good thing!"

"Something good? Then why don't you come to me?"

"Excuse me, who are you?"

"My name is Su Yingying, do you know me?"

"Sorry, I don't know you."

"Don't you know each other now?"

"Haha! Yes. Miss Su Yingying, I'm a little busy now, um, thank you!"

"Then let's contact you another day?"

"it is good!"

Li Yunhai hung up the phone and thought to himself, are all the women on this TV station a social cow?

He called Ye Fang's pager.

After more than ten minutes, Ye Fang regained control.

"Mr. Li, I'm sorry, I was in the car just now and got off the car."

"It's okay. Are you looking for me? Is there something wrong?"

"Yes, I heard a piece of news that might be useful to you."

"what news?"

"Mr. Li, you are very interesting. Are you so confident in asking me for news?"

"I'm rude. Let's make an appointment to talk?"

"Well, tonight, I'm not free now."

"Okay, see you in Yuloudong?"

"Okay. See you tonight."

Li Yunhai thought to himself, for a person like Ye Fang, who is well-rounded and has close dealings with various leaders. She usually comes and goes for dinner parties. If she tells me useful information, it must be useful.

The dinner party in the evening cannot be eaten together by two people.

Li Yunhai made an appointment with Liu Jie again.

When Liu Jie heard that he was going to treat a guest, he laughed loudly: "I was just about to hit you in the autumn wind! Fortunately, you knew the situation and came to treat me first. How about I make an appointment with Xiaowen and the others?"

Li Yunhai said: "It's up to you, but I made an appointment with Ye Fang."

"Ye Fang? Okay, then I won't date those flight attendants. Hey, you ask Ye Fang to bring out two more beauties from the TV station. Speaking of which, we haven't played with women from the TV station yet, right?"

"No ivory can come out of a dog's mouth! I'm ashamed to have a friend like you!"

"Oh, I'm sorry, brother. Although I am shameful and although I often embarrass you, I am still your brother! The brother you can't get rid of!"

"Go away!" (End of this chapter)