Reborn in the red age

The chip company had already received the notice. When Li Qingfeng and his group arrived, the little mixed-blood had been waiting for a long time with Sun Kangmei and others.

In front of the members of the inspection team, the little mixed-blood boy naturally wouldn't show too much affection to Li Qingfeng.

After a brief introduction, without much ado, everyone, led by Sun Kangmei, went into the company for an inspection.

Li Qingfeng has invested a huge amount of money in the chip company. The salary, benefits and technical equipment are among the best in the United States.

Fortunately, since the successful development of the decoding chip, the chip company has had a good source of income. It is not only self-sufficient but also can feed back to the Lemon Company. Otherwise, it would be a bit stressful to continue supporting the chip company.

These days, investment in the chip industry has increased exponentially, with investments often amounting to billions of dollars. Even the largest and most powerful companies cannot afford such investments.

Under the explanation of Sun Kangmei, the director of the institute, Academician Wang kept nodding with satisfaction, and the corners of his mouth never fell.

"Great, great. I never thought your company would be willing to spend so much money to set up such a world-class research institute in the United States."

After visiting the chip company's research institute, Academician Wang expressed such emotion.

Hearing Academician Wang say this in public, Li Qingfeng quickly explained: "Academician Wang, you misunderstood. This is not our company's laboratory, it is the industry of the chip company. We just invested in their company and came here to inspect it."

Li Qingfeng has been trying his best to hide the relationship between Lemon Company and Chip Company. Not only is Little Mixed Blood the legal representative, but even in terms of apparent shareholding, Little Mixed Blood is the company's major shareholder. Both parties have always said to the outside world that they are in a cooperative relationship.

Since the successful development of the decoding chip, the chip company has been developing better and better. Now the personnel composition of the company is mixed, and the proportion of native American whites is gradually increasing.

It is not convenient to directly point out the relationship between the two families in public.

Academician Wang looked at the white researcher who was working next door, nodded in understanding, stopped discussing the matter, shut his mouth and continued to follow Sun Kangmei and listen to his explanation.

The delegation stayed at the chip company for one day, and the next day went to Stanford for an academic investigation according to the prescribed itinerary.

However, this time, Qingfeng Li did not go with them. Instead, he was accompanied by someone sent by the American branch of Lemon Company.

After all, Lemon Company has invested so much in America. It’s so hard for them to come to America, so how could they just keep circling around the inspection team?

In the next two days, Li Qingfeng stayed in Lemon Company's Internet Research Institute in the United States. The two projects being carried out simultaneously there were Li Qingfeng's main focus.

Compared with the WiFi project, the Hypertext Transfer Protocol Security Protocol is relatively simple and has been developed.

The world's first Web server has also been developed, and work is currently underway on the Web client, with results expected within the next three months.

Once the client is developed, the what-you-see-is-what-you-get hypertext browsing editor (www) will appear before the world, causing a sensation around the world.

Li Qingfeng was looking forward to this very much.

As for the backwardness of WiFi research and development, Li Qingfeng did not take it to heart. This kind of project could not be developed in a short time. Anyway, there was still time, so he could take his time. As long as it could be completed before the 90s, it would be a great victory.

Coming out of the Internet Research Institute, Li Qingfeng stood in the elevator and headed to the American branch upstairs.

The laboratory and the company are in the same building. Li Qingfeng has never been upstairs since he came here. After finishing his work, he will naturally go up and take a look.

"Teacher, why are you here?"

As Shao Hengwei led them into the office area, Dong Yifen, who was slacking off at her workstation in the corner, stood up and shouted in surprise and excitement.

Dong Yifen's action scared Shu Dongyun, the team leader sitting next to her. They had already known the news that the big boss was coming to inspect, and they knew the identity of the young man who could come in accompanied by the branch head without thinking.

"Amy, if you don't want to lose your job, sit down quickly. The boss is coming to inspect the company." Shu Dongyun hurriedly pulled Dong Yifen's clothes and told her in a low but stern voice to sit down quickly.

"boos? What boss?"

Dong Yifen knew that the big boss was coming, but she didn't associate Li Qingfeng with the big boss, so she asked in a puzzled voice.

Just when Dong Yifen was confused and didn't understand the situation, Li Qingfeng smiled at her and walked towards her workstation.

"The boss is coming this way. Amy, you're on your own. Don't talk nonsense. Just answer whatever the boss asks you."

Seeing Li Qingfeng and a group of company leaders walking towards his workstation, Shu Dongyun, who was about to explain, quickly let go of Dong Yifen's hand and started to work on his task with a serious look on his face, but he kept keeping an eye on them out of the corner of his eye.

Just when Dong Yifen was about to ask what the team leader meant, Li Qingfeng and others also walked up to her workstation.

Coming to Dong Yifen's workstation, she took a look at her oval face with delicate makeup and said with a smile, "Not bad. I haven't seen you for a few years. You've learned how to dress up. You finally know that your face and neck should be the same color."

"Aren't cosmetics expensive in China? I'm a student with little income, so I can't bear to use them." Dong Yifen felt a little embarrassed when Li Qingfeng mentioned her unique makeup when she was in school. She even forgot what the team leader had just reminded her and said embarrassedly.

"Haha, ok, that's good."

"By the way, teacher, why are you coming to our company?"

"Why, can't I come?"

Shao Hengwei, who had been listening to the conversation between the two, naturally knew that Li Qingfeng had been working as a teacher at a mainland university, and he also understood Dong Yifen's identity.

Without waiting for Dong Yifen to ask again, she immediately introduced Li Qingfeng's identity: "Amy, this is the chairman of our company, Mr. Li Qingfeng."

"Ah? Teacher, you..."

Dong Yifen suddenly heard the introduction of her big boss and opened her mouth wide. She pointed at Li Qingfeng as if her mouth was blocked and she didn't know what to say.

Li Qingfeng smiled and slapped away the hand that was pointing at him: "What do you mean by 'I'? What? Can't I have any other identity besides being a teacher?"

"Yes, yes, yes, but I didn't expect that your other identity is so important," Dong Yifen said embarrassedly, rubbing her right hand that was knocked off.

After looking around and not seeing Wu Simin, Li Qingfeng asked Dong Yifen, "By the way, why are you alone? Didn't you say that Wu Simin also works here? Why don't I see her?"

"Simin is not in the same department as me, she is in Department 1."

"Is that so?" Qingfeng Li nodded in understanding, then turned around and asked Shao Hengwei to go to the first department to call Wu Simin and ask her to come to his office as well.

After all, she was her former student. Although she knew her moral stain, she still had to meet him.

Shao Hengwei agreed and immediately arranged for his secretary to go to the first department to call someone.

Seeing the secretary leave, Dong Yifen thought of something and quickly shouted at the secretary's back: "Secretary Evelyn, Wu Simin's English name is Alice"

Hong Kong people have always had the habit of giving themselves foreign names, and this has become even more serious after coming to America. All employees in the company are required to have English names and to address each other by their foreign names on a daily basis. This has resulted in colleagues not knowing each other's Chinese names.

After letting the branch company leaders following him disperse, Li Qingfeng led Dong Yifen to the reserved office.

Just as the tea leaves brought from China were brewed, there was a knock on the office door. A woman in a business suit walked in and greeted Qingfeng Li respectfully: "Hello, Teacher Li."

"Okay, okay, come in and sit down. The tea I brought back from China has just been brewed."

After carefully examining the appearance of the woman in front of him, Qingfeng Li finally recognized that this was indeed Wu Simin.

I haven't seen her for a few years, and she has changed a lot. The girl who used to be dark and thin has grown up in the past two years. Although she is not a beauty, she can be considered average, much better than before.

The three teachers and students hadn't seen each other for a long time. When they met again, they were of different identities. After briefly explaining their own situations, they began to ask the two girls about their experiences in the United States over the past few years.

After learning that Dong Yifen already had a boyfriend and the two had entered the stage of discussing marriage, Li Qingfeng was filled with emotion, thinking that time had passed so quickly and that all the students he taught were getting married.

They didn't chat for long in the office. After briefly understanding their recent situation, they let the two of them go back to work. At noon, Li Qingfeng planned to call Yu Zheng and others who were still investigating around to come over so that their old classmates could get together.

After expressing his feelings alone, he called the senior management of the branch company to his office to listen to the sales situation in the American market in the first half of the year.

After listening to the sales report from the United States market, Qingfeng Li looked at the cautious expressions of the branch executives, smiled and shook his head and said:

"Don't be so careful. I have made some estimates for the company's sales in the US this year. The sales data for the first half of the year is considered acceptable to me. We were caught off guard by IBM and Microsoft at the end of last year. This has nothing to do with your ability."

Before everyone could breathe a sigh of relief, Qingfeng Li's voice rang in their ears again.

"But half a year has passed. The operating system and software adapted to OS/2 have already been developed. If the sales data in the second half of the year is still the same as that in the first half of the year, then it is a problem of your ability."

Li Qingfeng didn't say the rest, but everyone knew it in their hearts, and they all promised that they would regain the market share taken away by Microsoft in the second half of the year.

Li Qingfeng from the branch office would not care about so many things. After talking about performance, Li Qingfeng prepared to adjourn the meeting.

But before the meeting ended, Li Qingfeng thought of the lawsuit with Microsoft and asked Shao Hengwei, the head of the branch: "By the way, how far has the lawsuit with Microsoft progressed?"

"Mr. Li, we are likely to lose this lawsuit."

Qingfeng Li raised his eyebrows: "Hmm? What's going on? Tell me."

"A professional property rights company spent a month comparing our two products. Microsoft's products do not infringe on any of the more than 800 patents our company has applied for in the United States. They have circumvented all of our patent barriers, so there is no chance of winning the lawsuit." Shao Hengwei looked at Li Qingfeng cautiously, then swallowed his saliva and explained in a low voice.

Li Qingfeng was stunned. This news was beyond Li Qingfeng's expectations. After careful consideration, Li Qingfeng felt that this matter was reasonable.

After all, this time Microsoft and IBM joined forces to fight back against Lemon Company. IBM has the world's top legal team, and Microsoft also has world-class software engineers.

"A stone from another mountain can be used to polish a jade." After the two sides got together to think about it, they realized that it would not be difficult to skip the Lemon Company's patent. With more time, they could always figure it out.

Li Qingfeng waved his hand, signaling everyone to adjourn the meeting, and did not give any instructions on the matter.

Since the problem cannot be solved by legal means, let's fight it out on the frontal battlefield.

As long as there is no political pressure from the United States, Li Qingfeng is not really afraid of Microsoft. Microsoft is easy to control.

The company booked a private room in a hotel and called Yu Zheng and others over for a gathering in Silicon Valley at noon.

The old classmates hadn't seen each other for several years since graduation, so naturally they had a lot to talk about. The lunch lasted for two hours.

After the meeting, Li Qingfeng did not let them go back to work. He called a car from the company and asked the driver to take them home to rest.

Before getting on the car, Wu Simin came to Qingfeng Li and bowed deeply to him seriously.

Qingfeng Li understood what she meant and accepted her gift with peace of mind.

After she stood up, Li Qingfeng patted Wu Simin on the shoulder and said, "Don't think too much. I just did what a teacher should do. Live a good life in America in the future. If you encounter any problems that you can't solve, feel free to contact me."

"Teacher, I will." Wu Simin nodded seriously, then took out a check from her bag and handed it to Li Qingfeng with both hands.

Looking at the check for $10,000, Qingfeng Li did not reach out to take it. He frowned and asked, "What do you mean?"

"This is part of my tuition and living expenses that I want to pay back to the country. Please help me transfer it to the country after you return to China." At this point, Wu Simin seemed to remember something and quickly added: "Although it is far from enough, I will pay back 10,000 US dollars every year and pay it off within four years."

After taking a look at Wu Simin's serious eyes and knowing that the other party was serious, Li Qingfeng sighed, accepted the check, and promised to hand it over to his superiors after returning.

After Qingfeng Li accepted the check, Wu Simin finally revealed a relaxed smile. After thanking Qingfeng Li again, he got in the car and left.

"What a good girl!" Li Qingfeng praised as he looked at the back of the car.

Yu Zheng next to him also sighed: "Yes, she is such a good girl with a conscience. She is worthy of being my classmate. She has a conscience, just like me."

Glancing at Yu Zheng, Li Qingfeng said, "Then Yu Zheng, you have a conscience, would you like to help your classmate pay back the remaining money?"

"Hey, where is my camera? I can't find it. Let me look for it."

"Get lost" (End of this chapter)