Life 1984

I guess no parents can resist a son-in-law like Li Yunhai.

Even though the Su family was once a top-ranked family, they had no ability to resist a contemporary wealthy man like Li Yunhai.

Not to mention that Li Yunhai is now in his prime, even if he was ten or twenty years older, it probably wouldn't be a problem.

Li Yunhai is now divorced and is considered a wealthy bachelor in the eyes of the world.

The line of women who want to be with him stretches all the way to Europe.

Although the Su family can be considered a prominent family, their fortunes have fallen. It is a blessing that their daughter can be with Li Yunhai.

Besides, Su Wan'er is already pregnant, so what's the point of the elders' objection?

Li Yunhai easily convinced the Su family with his eloquence.

Women are such strange creatures.

Su Wan'er was just pestering Li Yunhai and wanted to marry him.

But when her parents urged her to get married, she, like an outgoing girl, helped Li Yunhai to excuse himself.

She told her parents that Li Yunhai had just divorced and had not yet come out of the shadow of his previous marriage, so they should not force him to get married so quickly. Besides, marriage is just another certificate! As long as he treats me well and can love and care for me, this is better than anything else. Are there not many married people who beat and scold their wives? Are there not many married people who get divorced?
After hearing this, Su's parents realized that their daughter had grown up and could no longer be disciplined by them, so they could only let them get along for the time being.

Something that I thought was difficult to settle ended perfectly.

There is no need to hide the fact that Su Wan'er is pregnant anymore.

She even moved into Li Garden openly. After all, Su's house was right next door, so it was very convenient to travel back and forth.

After Li Yunhai dealt with Su Wan'er, he began to focus on his work.

His job now is very easy and he no longer has to go to work in the company every day like before.

Sanjiang Company is managed by Li Juan, and with the assistance of several veteran contributors such as Professor Ni, Zhao Jinping, and Jiang Zhijun, all aspects of the company's work are carried out in a successful manner.

Li Yunhai also suggested that Sanjiang Company should only engage in research and development, management and operations, and no longer engage in product production, and should contract all production matters to the OEM factory, namely Shi's Company.

Li Juan basically obeyed his strategies.

Therefore, Sanjiang Company and Shi’s Company discussed and decided to transfer the production factory in Suzhou to Shi’s Company.

Sanjiang Company bought a building in Suzhou Hi-Tech Zone to use as an office building.

From then on, Sanjiang Company focused on product research and development, maintenance and operation.

Thanks to the promotion of the winning bid advertisement, the sales of Sanjiang Company's products are increasing day by day.

After completing the previous orders from Sihai Group, Shi's Company worked at full capacity to produce Sanjiang Company's products.

In the first quarter, Sanjiang Company's mobile phone shipments exceeded Sihai Group!
After the Sihai Group was taken over by the state-owned capital, it carried out some reforms, and the addition of administrative personnel to manage the company caused many conflicts. This once glorious company went downhill in just half a year.

After Li Yunhai left Sihai Group, he took away Sihai Group's most elite R&D and management talents.

After arriving at Sanjiang Company, Professor Ni, Ji Wenshu and others concentrated all their efforts on the research and development of immersion lithography technology.

This technology has been in a confidential research and development stage before, and those who know about this project are all Li Yunhai's confidants.

After Professor Ni and Ji Wenshu led the delegation to leave Sihai Research Institute, they also took away all the information of the project.

After hard research, immersion lithography technology has made breakthrough progress.

A prototype of immersion lithography machine has been developed in the laboratory.

However, more tests and improvements will be needed, and it may take another year before it can be put into production.

Because of Li Yunhai's arrival, my country's communications business has developed rapidly!
In this world, the speed of development of our country's communications is much faster than before Li Yunhai was reborn!

This has also accelerated the progress of my country's information industry.

In this year, post and telecommunications were separated.

Soon after, China Unicom was established.

Soon, China Mobile and China Telecom also separated.

In Li Yunhai's memory, the occurrence of these events was obviously advanced, at least one year earlier.

The accelerated development of all this is due to the butterfly effect brought about by Li Yunhai, this extraordinary person.

But fortunately, the direction of historical development is still moving along the established track.

Otherwise, Li Yunhai's wisdom after rebirth would be of no use.

Li Yunhai proposed a new idea, which was to cooperate with telecommunications to produce a personal handheld wireless telephone system.

Speaking of the name of this system, perhaps few people know what it is.

But if we mention its other name, I believe many people still remember it: Xiaolingtong!
Indeed, as an obsolete technology, Xiaolingtong has been away from us for many years.

Although it was popular all over the country at that time, it was short-lived and faded from people's sight soon.

Many people in later generations, especially young people, are only familiar with the name but cannot remember what it looks like.

China Mobile and China Telecom have been separated, with China Mobile having mobile communications business and developing rapidly.

As for Telecom, the Ministry of Information Industry did not give it a wireless license, so it could only watch China Mobile make a fortune in silence.

Telecom, which is also under pressure to increase profits, will certainly not sit still and wait for death. Therefore, it has been trying to find opportunities.

Li Yunhai seized the opportunity and decided to develop a new model, namely Xiaolingtong.

At that time, cordless telephone technology was already quite mature.

What Li Yunhai needs to do is to enhance the cordless telephone technology!
Xiaolingtong belongs to the second-generation communication technology and also to the WLL technology, whose English name is Wireless Local Loop.

This technology achieves wireless coverage through micro-cellular base stations, connecting user terminals, i.e. wireless local telephone phones, to the local fixed-line telephone network wirelessly, making traditional fixed-line phones no longer fixed, but able to be moved freely within the coverage of the wireless network.

To put it simply, it's a bit like an enhanced cordless phone.

The biggest advantage is the low cost.

At that time, precisely because it was based on a fixed-line telephone network, it was not strictly speaking a mobile communications technology, but it was able to meet the needs of telecommunications because telecommunications did not have a mobile communications license.

The construction cost of Xiaolingtong is much lower than that of traditional 2G network.

The cost is low, so the charges are very cheap.

Therefore, Xiaolingtong also has a nickname: "The poor man's beehive."

The Xiaolingtong service can be charged one-way, answering calls is free, the monthly rental is 20 yuan, and the talk charge is only 0.2 yuan per minute.

This rate was very competitive at the time! It was much lower than China Mobile and China Unicom, only about one-fifth of the price, and basically the same as fixed-line services.

In addition, the Xiaolingtong mobile phone is actually a wireless local telephone terminal. For convenience, they will be called mobile phones below. They are also very cheap, only a few hundred yuan, so they are very competitive and can truly be popularized!
After Li Yunhai came up with this idea, he discussed it with Gusu Telecom and planned to cooperate with Gusu Telecom.

Because Li Yunhai has a huge influence, Suzhou Telecom attaches great importance to his suggestions. As expected, Suzhou Telecom agrees with Li Yunhai's ideas and the two sides hit it off.

Sanjiang Company is responsible for the research and development of Xiaolingtong products, and Suzhou Telecom is responsible for launching tariff packages.

However, the shortcomings of Xiaolingtong are also obvious.

The biggest disadvantage is the poor signal.

Some people call Xiaolingtong a "Hey, Hey, Grass" phone because when they use it, they always say "Hey? Hey?! Grass!".

Someone even made up a poem to mock it: "Holding my cell phone, I stand in the wind and rain. I switch from left hand to right hand, but still can't get through."

The difference in signal can be seen from this.

But Telecom has no other choice. It only has the Xiaolingtong card in its hand and needs to rely on it to reverse the decline.

Sanjiang Company quickly developed the PHS technology.

At the same time, Li Yunhai found the author of "Xiaolingtong Wandering in the Future" and applied for authorization to use the word "Xiaolingtong". The author was very generous and granted free authorization.

This science fiction novel was completed in 1961, but for well-known reasons, it has never been published.

In the first year of reform and opening up, this novel was finally published. After its publication, it quickly caused a huge sensation, with an initial print run of 300 million copies, becoming an eternal childhood memory for those born in the 70s and 80s.

In the book, the protagonist, named Xiaolingtong, is a smart and cute little reporter. He roams around the future world and has all kinds of magical experiences.

Who would have thought that 20 years later, the three words "Xiaolingtong" would reappear and become the name of a popular communication technology, known to everyone.

The Xiaolingtong had just been launched on the market and did not cause a sensation.

All parties are cautious about this product.

Except for Suzhou Telecom, other telecommunications bureaus are taking a wait-and-see attitude.

Not only the telecommunications bureau, but even other equipment manufacturers dare not rush into production.

After carefully evaluating the PHS technology, several equipment vendors including Ericsson, Sihai, and Youwei Company believed that the technology was too backward and had no future, so they chose to give up.

Some people even laughed at Li Yunhai: "You have run out of ideas! After leaving Sihai Group, you can't come up with high-tech things, so you start to play this kind of gimmick!"

Some people even directly asserted: "The Xiaolingtong invented by Li Yunhai will definitely fail! With mobile phones and landlines, who would still use this thing?"

Li Yunhai doesn't care about these external doubts.

Because a summer insect cannot talk about ice.

By the second half of the year, Xiaolingtong was officially launched.

The first to launch the PHS service was Suzhou Telecom.

In order to strengthen the signal of Xiaolingtong, Suzhou Telecom has increased the speed of base station construction.

Consumers have sharp eyes.

A Xiaolingtong only costs a few hundred yuan, and the cheapest one is only 500 yuan!

Many ordinary families can buy a mobile phone with one or two months’ income!
Ordinary people have no idea what a GSM phone is, what a handheld wireless telephone device is, and what the difference is between the two.

For them, as long as it is cheap and can make calls, it doesn’t matter what model of phone it is.

The advertisements put out by Xiaolingtong and Telecom are also very attractive:
"One-way charge, no water!"

Answering the phone is free!
This alone can save a lot of phone bills.

Plus, making a call only costs 20 cents a minute, which is almost a dollar cheaper than using a mobile phone!

It has to be said that most consumers are still poor. Although they need mobile phones, they do not have enough money to buy expensive mobile phones costing thousands of yuan.

As a result, Xiaolingtong achieved success in Gusu!
Surrounding areas, such as Yuhang and other cities, have successively launched PHS services.

By the spring of 1996, PHS services were launched in various parts of the country.

In the 90s, before the advent of PHS, my country's mobile communications market was a wasteland.

Although mobile phones such as big brothers were already available at that time, they were very expensive, with each one selling for 1 to 2 yuan.

Such prices made many ordinary people reluctant to buy mobile phones. At that time, only bosses and entrepreneurs were eligible to use mobile phones to make calls. Many people still lived a primitive life of "walking for transportation and shouting for communication".

In addition to the high price of mobile phones themselves, phone charges at the time were far less cheap than they are today. The price per minute for making or receiving calls was around 40 cents to 1 yuan. Moreover, since there were no other channels for long-distance communication other than telephones at the time, the monthly phone bills could reach several hundred yuan.

The emergence of Sihai Group brought mobile phones into middle-class families.

The Meihua mobile phone has helped the number of domestic mobile phone users exceed 10 million.

Sanjiang Company's Xiaolingtong system brought mobile phones into ordinary people's homes.

In the next ten years, the number of Xiaolingtong users reached 9341 million!
In the economically developed areas at that time, almost everyone had one.

Li Yunhai was therefore recorded in history and was called the father of Xiaolingtong.

Li Yunhai, who left the Sihai Group, successfully took over most of the mobile phone market in my country by relying on a PHS that was as cheap as it could be!

Before smartphones came out, Xiaolingtong was far ahead in sales.

Some people say that Li Yunhai personally created the mobile phone empire of Sihai Group.

However, he personally used Xiaolingtong to defeat the mobile phone empire of Sihai Group.

In the business world, Li Yunhai is so capable that he can make clouds and rain with just a wave of his hand!
He built two business empires in succession, each of which dominated the market for ten years!
Who else is a business leader like this?

Li Yunhai lives in seclusion in Gusu City, seemingly leading a peaceful life, but in fact, through his wisdom and ability, he has once again influenced the development direction of my country's electronics industry in the next ten years!
When he had free time, he would accompany Su Wan'er to listen to operas, paint some Chinese paintings, and occasionally go out to enjoy the mountains and rivers nearby.

Li Yunhai's life has entered a state of "doing whatever he wants".

Su Wan'er gave birth to a lovely daughter and named her Li Yanmin.

Li Yunhai hopes that his daughter will be quick-witted, inherit her mother's talent for painting, and carry forward the Wu School of Painting.

During his time in Gusu, Li Yunhai stayed with his new love Su Wan'er and lived a brand new life.

The relationship between Linzhi and him was like that of strangers and enemies, with only his children contacting him occasionally.

After Shen Xiulan went to Hong Kong, she rarely met Li Yunhai.

The other female confidantes were either busy with their own careers or far away from home, and their interactions with Li Yunhai were not very frequent.

There are many choices in life.

No matter what choice you make, the most important thing is to enjoy more happiness in your limited life!

Pleasing yourself is the ultimate meaning of life. (End of this chapter)