Reborn in the red age

Chapter 159 Don't bully the poor

At this time, Microsoft was just a small company that was not ranked among the many technology companies in the United States. Naturally, it did not have its own office building. It just rented a floor in an office building as its corporate headquarters.

In the Microsoft headquarters office, Li Qingfeng met Bill Gates, the world's richest man who would later become famous, for the first time.

This guy is still very young, with yellowish hair, wearing black glasses for myopia, casually wearing a plaid shirt, with a bookish air about him, and he looks a bit gentle.

When Gates saw Qingfeng Li, he enthusiastically stepped forward to shake hands with Qingfeng Li: "Li, welcome to Microsoft."

"Hello, Gates, thank you very much for inviting me. I am very satisfied with the apartment your company provided me." Qingfeng Li shook hands with the young Gates equally enthusiastically and expressed his gratitude for the apartment provided by him. .

After the two exchanged simple greetings, Qingfeng Li asked about the current progress of modifications to JB-DOS.

"Li, your system has been developed too well. In fact, we have not made any modifications to the system. The main difficulty at present is to move JB-DOS from an 8-inch floppy disk to a 5.25-inch floppy disk drive. This is more complicated than ours. It was bigger than I originally imagined," Gates spread his hands and said helplessly.

Qingfeng Li nodded clearly. At that time, when Qingfeng Li designed the floppy disk, the floppy disk used was the mainstream 8-inch floppy disk on the market. Moving the system to a 5.25-inch floppy disk would indeed require a lot of work.

This was a private job he took on during the holidays. Qingfeng Li still wanted to report to school on time, so he did not waste time and said directly: "I already understand the difficulties you have encountered. The workload is huge and I only have one month." , let’s take action quickly.”

Gates was very satisfied that Qingfeng Li could take the initiative to start working now. Without any nonsense, Gates immediately led Qingfeng Li to the office area and introduced Qingfeng Li to the software engineers within Microsoft.

Knowing that Qingfeng Li was the creator of JB-DOS, Microsoft engineers showed great welcome to Qingfeng Li's arrival.

After getting familiar with the work progress, Li Qingfeng quickly took over the improvement work of JB-DOS. With the help of a group of Microsoft engineers, it took him a month to perfectly transplant JB-DOS into a 5.25-inch floppy disk.

After testing that the system operated smoothly on a 5.25-inch floppy disk drive, Qingfeng Li took a long breath and spent two months working on it, which made the engineers complain. This work was completed before the start of school.

After a month of getting along, Qingfeng Li and Gates got to know each other a lot. After the project, Gates invited Qingfeng Li to his house for a party in the evening.

Regarding Gates' invitation, Qingfeng Li politely declined, forgetting the gathering of foreigners. Qingfeng Li couldn't do that, and blatantly attracting fans was challenging Qingfeng Li's moral bottom line.

After repeated invitations, and seeing Qingfeng Li's resolute attitude, Gates did not mention the evening party, but directly invited him: "Li, you are simply a genius engineer. Are you interested in staying at Microsoft?"

"Sorry, Gates, thank you for your kindness, but my current focus is on completing my studies, and I have no intention of working for the time being." Regardless of whether the other party is the future richest man, Qingfeng Li should refuse or not.

Gates continued to persuade without giving up: "Don't you think about it anymore? Do you want to listen to the salary I offer you? I can also help you solve your green card problem. You know, my family has this ability. "

"Sorry, Gates, I have no plans to work in the United States. I will return to China after my studies." Faced with Gates' invitation, Qingfeng Li still maintained his original attitude and firmly refused.

Seeing that nothing could be done, Gates stopped persuading him. Before Li Qingfeng left the next day, he planned to drive Qingfeng Li to the airport in person.

However, Qingfeng Li understood Gates' kindness. This guy had a criminal record. He had done everything from drag racing, running red lights, and driving without a license. Qingfeng Li didn't believe in this guy's driving skills.

After arriving at the airport in the driver's car, the two parties shook hands and said goodbye. After leaving their mailing addresses, Qingfeng Li boarded the plane and reported to Stanford.

I got off the plane with my suitcase in hand, hugged each other with the little mixed race who came to pick me up, then got into the passenger seat of the Ford car and drove towards Stamford.

Instead of rushing to report to school, Li Qingfeng first put his luggage in his apartment, exchanged feelings with the little mixed race he hadn't seen for a long time, and then drove to school alone.

In the evening, the little mixed-blood stayed in Qingfeng Li's apartment. After taking a shower, the little mixed-race lay on Qingfeng Li's body and rubbed circles: "Li, I found a job at the job fair after school graduation. You don't have to pay anymore in the future." My living expenses are gone”

"You found a job, what are you doing?"

"Working as an assistant accountant in a company in Silicon Valley, earning a salary of 200 yuan per week"

"That's it. Then have you considered resigning?"

Qingfeng Li's words made the little mixed-blood stunned. He got up from Qingfeng Li in disbelief and looked at Qingfeng Li with wide eyes.

Seeing the little mixed-blood looking at him with wide eyes, Li Qingfeng smiled, pulled the little mixed-blood into his arms again, and explained: "It's like this, I plan to set up a company in the United States, but I need to return to China, so I want you to be the boss, are you interested?" "Let me be the boss? What company?" After hearing Li Qingfeng's explanation, Li Huiying became interested and quickly asked for the specific situation.

"A foreign trade company, with you as the boss, and its main business is to purchase all kinds of equipment I need in the United States and send them to China. I will pay you a monthly salary, temporarily three thousand US dollars per month, and I will give you a salary increase according to the situation. How? So, are you interested?"

When he heard that the monthly salary was three thousand US dollars, the little mixed-blood excitedly hugged Qingfeng Li's neck and said that he would resign from the company tomorrow.

Li Qingfeng had his own considerations for letting the little mixed-blood start a company. China was relatively backward in the field of semiconductors and did not have the ability to localize it. All parts for assembling computers needed to be imported.

Rather than handing over electronic originals to American companies for procurement, it is better to hold this line in your own hands.

After Little Mixed Blood resigned the next day, Li Qingfeng directly sent Little Mixed Blood to Xiangjiang and asked her to register a technology company there to sign an agency licensing agreement with IBM.

It's not that Qingfeng Li doesn't want to go with her, but because Qingfeng Li can't go, and Xiangjiang has not returned yet. It's no different for Chinese people to go to Xiangjiang than to go abroad. It's not as convenient as Li Huiying, an American.

It is very convenient to register a company in Xiangjiang. It only took Li Huiying a week to come back from Xiangjiang with a business license.

After successfully obtaining the business license, Qingfeng Li contacted Gates and asked him to help contact IBM to fulfill the promise made at that time.

Not long after finishing the call with Gates, the phone in Qingfeng Li's apartment rang. It was Gates. After a brief chat, he wrote down the phone number of the person in charge of IBM and hung up on Gates. phone number.

The next day, he took the little bastard and the lawyer he paid for, bought a plane ticket and flew directly to the IBM building headquarters in New York State.

The treatment this time was not as good as at Microsoft. There was no one from IBM to pick me up at the airport. I took a taxi at the airport and went to the IBM headquarters building.

"Li, look at whether there are any wrinkles in my clothes. Do you need to straighten them?" After getting off the taxi and standing in the IBM headquarters building, Li Huiying kept straightening her skirt.

Glancing at the nervous Li Huiying, Li Qingfeng smiled and comforted: "There's no need to be nervous. Come in quickly. We're just here to sign a contract. Besides, I'm the protagonist this time. No one cares about you, little secretary." attire”

After taking two deep breaths, Li Huiying stabilized her mind and nodded towards Qingfeng Li, signaling that she was ready.

The two walked into the IBM building. Qingfeng Li came to the front desk and reported his name. The girl at the front desk checked and confirmed that Qingfeng Li's name was among the visitors today, and then politely took the two to a room. Small meeting room.

After staying in the conference room for more than half an hour, just when Qingfeng Li was impatient to wait, a young white man walked into the conference room carrying a document bag.

The other party glanced at Qingfeng Li, and his eyes stayed on Li Huiying for two seconds. Then he introduced himself with a haughty expression: "Hello, Mr. Li, I am the assistant Peter who is responsible for contacting you this time."

After signing the agency licensing agreement with Huaguo, IBM only sent an assistant, making it clear that it looked down on Qingfeng Li.

Li Huiying next to her noticed IBM's contempt, the smile on her face disappeared, and she stared at Peter opposite with a straight face and her big round eyes.

Qingfeng Li, who was directly looked down upon by others, was furious in his heart, but he didn't show it on his face. He had bad intentions to begin with, and IBM was just looking down on him.

But I’ll write this down for you. Let’s use IBM’s support to develop it slowly, and then we’ll see.

Qingfeng Li picked up the water glass on the table and took a few sips. Without talking nonsense, he said expressionlessly: "Okay, Peter, have you brought the agreement? I'm still in a hurry to catch the flight. I will leave after signing the agreement."

Peter on the opposite side shrugged and took out a thick stack of documents from the file bag: "Mr. Li, this is a licensing agreement specially customized by our company according to your requirements. It has been signed and sealed. You can directly Just sign it.”

He took the contract from the other party and asked the lawyer he hired to carefully review each clause. After confirming that there were no problems with the contract, Qingfeng Li signed and sealed the contract without any nonsense.

After signing the authorization agreement, taking the agreement and various authorization documents provided by IBM, Li Qingfeng left IBM's headquarters building without saying a word, taking the little hybrid and the lawyer with him.

After coming out of the building, Li Qingfeng stood on the opposite side of the road and looked at IBM's headquarters building. He spat and said Xiao Yan's frightening famous saying: "30 years in the east of the river and 30 years in the west of the river. Don't bully young people into poverty."

(End of this chapter)