Reborn in the red age

Chapter 170 Peking University: Overthrow Huaqing next door

Except for the eldest sister of the Li family who was already working in the provincial capital, the whole family had dinner with Hu Jiabao.

At the dinner table, Mother Li greeted Hu Jiabao warmly and kept adding vegetables to Hu Jiabao's bowl.

Hu Jiabao dealt with it quite appropriately and enjoyed the meal happily.

"What? Mom, you are fired??"

While sitting and chatting together after dinner, Li Qingfeng couldn't help but exclaimed when he learned that Li's mother would no longer go to work at the neighborhood committee starting tomorrow.

Mother Li rolled her eyes at Qingfeng Li and said angrily: "Look at what you said, you mean I was fired. I resigned on my own initiative. I will stop going to work and take care of my children at home."

Glancing at his eldest nephew who had followed his sister-in-law back, Li Qingfeng couldn't help but curl his lips. This old lady was quite arrogant.

There are a total of two children in the family. One is the eldest nephew who is already five years old and has been attending the education class in the factory for a long time. The other eldest niece is just over a year old and is being taken care of by her retired grandma. Are you planning to leave her home? Stealing the child from grandma's hands?

Seeing that Li Qingfeng didn't believe it, Li's father stood up and explained to Li's mother: "The third child has just returned to China and is not clear about the situation in the country. Now, according to the words in the newspaper, the whole country is tightening its belts and living, prices are rising, and factories are The efficiency here is also not good. In addition, the newspaper keeps asking companies to engage in tertiary industry and furlough employees. Our family's economic situation is relatively good. In order not to cause trouble to the government's finances, your mother took the initiative to resign."

"Tertiary industry" refers to the tertiary industry, which means that the main business is no longer viable and profits have been greatly reduced. State-owned factories have to engage in side businesses based on their own abilities to generate income for the factory.

For example, we could demolish the factory walls, rent the houses to self-employed people, or use the factory cars for transportation.

What later generations of experts said about renting out idle houses and using private cars to do work is similar to the tertiary industry currently engaged in by state-owned enterprises. It is estimated that the expert is engaged in this tertiary industry now, otherwise he would not be able to say so. Stupid words.

The factory was not efficient, and the root of the problem lay within the factory. The three-industry movement avoided the core issues and tried to find solutions from outside. It is conceivable that this approach only treats the symptoms but not the root cause. It is completely avoiding the important and neglecting the important.

After listening to Li's father's explanation, Li Qingfeng gave Li's mother a thumbs up and praised with a smile: "Mom, you are so enlightened. If you don't work, don't go to work. There are four working people in the family, so I can support you."

Mother Li turned her head proudly, ignored her youngest son, and continued chatting with Hu Jiabao.

In the evening, Mother Li tidied up the eldest sister's bed. Hu Jiabao slept on the eldest sister's bed tonight, sleeping in the same room as his younger sister Li Hongmei.

Hu Jiabao didn't stay at home for a few days. Li Qingfeng originally thought of sending Hu Jiabao back to Suzhou and having a few drinks with his future father-in-law. Who knew that the director of Beida Wang called the neighborhood committee, and Li Qingfeng could only Let Hu Jiabao go back alone, while he hurriedly bought a train ticket and went straight to Sijiu City.

After arriving at Forty-Nine City, Li Qingfeng didn't care what time it was in the United States and directly hit the little hybrid.

"who"

Listening to Li Huiying's unfriendly voice on the phone, she felt a little embarrassed, but now was not the time to pay attention to this, so she hurriedly said: "Huiying, this is Li Qingfeng, you called me the day before yesterday. IBM’s latest generation personal computer released?”

There was silence on the other side of the microphone for a while, and after a deep breath, a voice came: "The research and development has been successful, and it will not be officially released until August. Aren't we agents of China? I was notified in advance. They gave me ten prototypes and asked me to prepare them for sale.”

"Okay, send the machine to Xiangjiang and have someone deliver it to me."

"I'm ready. Tomorrow's flight will be airlifted directly to Xiangjiang."

“beautifully done”

"So, this is why you called me in the middle of the night?"

"Yes, otherwise what else could happen?"

There was silence on the other side of the phone for a moment, and the little hybrid hung up the phone immediately.

Listening to the busy signal coming from the phone, Li Qingfeng smiled and shook his head. He had not seen this girl for more than a month, but she was so angry that she dared to hang up on him.

Sitting on his office chair, Li Qingfeng began to plan the next step in his mind. After IBM's compatible computer came out, the threshold for computer development was greatly reduced, but how to reduce costs was a question that needed to be thought about.

The domestic basic industry is too poor, and it is even worse in the field of semiconductors. There are so many parts in computers that can be directly produced locally, and currently only one chassis is available.

Computer monitors, based on the current domestic industrial base, temporarily need to import some accessories, but as long as there are orders and continuous procurement, it will not take long to achieve national production. Motherboards can also be researched and produced in China. The integration level of motherboards these days is not high, and there is a certain space for innovation in circuit design. Industrial production with domestic technology is not a big problem.

As for other various parts and components, we will slowly study them when we have money, and strive to achieve localization before 90, and hold the patents in our hands.

As a core component of the CPU, don’t even think about localizing it in recent years. It’s unrealistic. No matter how much money you put into it, it will be wasted. This industry is not something that one company can play, and it requires heavy investment from the state.

Based on the domestic situation in recent years, I think it's better to forget it and let domestic companies play by themselves. Qingfeng Li saves his money and waits until [-] to integrate some resources in the domestic and Hong Kong chip fields.

Taking advantage of the window period from 94 to 96 when the United States completely lifted its embargo against China, it spent tens of billions of dollars on international purchases to solve the chip problem in one fell swoop.

After making a brief plan in the office, and having a good idea, Qingfeng Li went straight out and found Director Wang of the Computer Research Institute.

"What? You want to build a personal computer?"

Hearing Qingfeng Li say that he wanted to build a computer, Director Wang's small eyes were full of doubts, his mouth opened wide, and he looked at Qingfeng Li in disbelief.

Qingfeng Li handed Director Wang a cigarette and said with a smile: "Of course, the operating system I wrote must be used on computers."

"Your idea is good, but we don't have the conditions in China for personal computers. We are still in the blockade of the United States. We cannot import high-tech products on a large scale. There is not much domestic demand. Even if we build them on a small scale, Who are you selling to?" Director Wang took a deep breath and asked a practical question.

Facing Director Wang's gaze, Li Qingfeng said without hesitation: "Of course it will be exported and sold abroad. You don't have to worry about the import and export problems. As long as I make it, I can solve the export problem."

"I have been studying in the United States for two years, and I have seen things from China, which are either basic light industrial products or agricultural products, and they are often of the lowest quality. Foreigners treat them like garbage and throw them on the ground for anyone to pick."

"Seeing that kind of scene abroad made me very angry. At that time, I made up my mind. No matter how much money I invested after returning to China, I would make high-tech products and then sell them abroad. I couldn't let foreigners look down on our domestic products. "

Qingfeng Li's powerful words stunned Director Wang. He didn't speak for a long time. It wasn't until the cigarette held in his fingers burned the butt of the cigarette that he realized the burning sensation.

He threw the cigarette butt on the ground and stamped it out. Director Wang patted Qingfeng Li on the shoulder with an excited look. He couldn't even express his excitement: "Okay, okay, you are ambitious, yes, yes, you are right, we China has been a country for five thousand years, so why can we only export primary handicraft products? We also need to build high technology and we cannot let foreigners look down on us."

After Director Wang's mood stabilized, Li Qingfeng told Director Wang about the latest personal PC and compatible computers that IBM would release early next month.

Although Director Wang is mainly engaged in research on computer processing of text, graphics, and images, he also has some knowledge of hardware. After hearing the concept of compatible computers and having real objects as reference, Director Wang's confidence greatly increased. He patted his chest and assured Qingfeng Li that it would not be a big problem to research a replica machine.

I talked with Director Wang in detail about computer research and development, and asked Director Wang to take a good rest in the past two days. When the IBM PC is shipped from Xiangjiang, the entire institute will start the task of replicating computers.

Regarding the research and development of the first PC, the reason why Li Qingfeng wanted to cooperate with Peking University was mainly due to his own considerations.

The first domestic PC assembled by a private enterprise and the first domestic PC assembled by Peking University have different meanings for the country.

If a PC is assembled by a private person, the state will only pay attention to it and try to provide convenience. It will not do its best to coordinate the localization of parts and components. You need to go to the factory to coordinate it yourself.

However, if Peking University assembles PCs with the investment of Xiangjiang Company, it will receive strong support from the state. The state will assign production and research and development tasks to relevant supporting factories, and mobilize the efforts of the whole country to complete the localization of computers.

As for whether the country will export computers and seize the international market with Lemon Technology, it is simply impossible. The country is still in a state of blockade by the United States and cannot import key computer components in large quantities. It can only play domestically and has no ability to export computers.

During the two days while waiting for the machine, Li Qingfeng was not idle. The school attached great importance to the development of the first CP in the country.

The principal and Dean Qian stopped what they were doing and gathered a large number of professors majoring in computer science, semiconductors, and microelectronics. They took Qingfeng Li to the school every day for meetings and discussions, and asked Qingfeng Li to come on stage to give everyone a report.

After Qingfeng Li's explanation of IBM compatible computers, various professors discussed the feasibility of developing and producing personal computers.

Finally, we came to the conclusion that Peking University is fully capable of developing the first personal computer in China. Based on the existing domestic technology, it is completely possible to localize some parts and mass produce personal computers in batches and on a large scale.

After hearing the results of the discussion among the professors, the principal slammed the table excitedly and said excitedly: "Okay, this time we at Peking University will trample Huaqing under our feet in the field of personal computers."

(End of this chapter)