When will I have a long tassel?

Wang Danhui accepted Feng Qianqian's interview very cooperatively. When she was sending Feng Qianqian out of the company, she pretended to be casual and asked: "Qianqian, let me just ask, how did your newspaper think of doing this topic?"

The sound of "Qianqian" made Feng Qianqian shiver. She forced a smile and said, "No reason. Combating piracy is a hot topic now. Many newspapers have reported such content. We all have some It’s lagging.”

"So, do you know why those newspapers reported this content?"

"I don't know...isn't it a manuscript written by your company?"

"It's not a manuscript from our company team."

"Oh, that's it. Otherwise, could it be that the country has some new policy?"

"How about, Qianqian, could you please help me find out who arranged for these manuscripts to be sent out." Wang Danhui said, and stuffed a small envelope into Feng Qianqian's hand. This is the travel fee that many companies will pay when they ask reporters to help with publicity, but for uninvited reporters like Feng Qianqian, there is usually no travel fee. Wang Danhui was also eager to know the truth of the matter, so she broke the news example.

"Mr. Wang, I'm so embarrassed..." Feng Qianqian pretended to be polite, and then she patted her chest and promised: "Mr. Wang, I will help you ask about this matter. In addition, the interview I just conducted will be done very soon. Those who read the newspaper will definitely write down all your demands."

"Actually..." Wang Danhui swallowed the words as soon as they came to her lips. She wanted to say that she didn't actually have any demands, but she just said a lot. Is it still too late to take it back now?

Feng Qianqian was quite creative. After returning home, she quickly wrote an exclusive interview with Wang Danhui, marketing director of Tuo China Company. As various media outlets were hyping up the piracy of Tuao software, this interview was published in the newspapers the next day.

"What, Tuo Company said it would sue 20,000 people?"

"The marketing director of Tuao China Company said that according to foreign laws, piracy can be punished by up to the death penalty!"

"Tuor Company plans to launch a million-dollar lawsuit!"

"Tuor Company said that even if I take a match from them...hey, it seems like I'm reading serial."

The people who ate melons were shocked. If the previous articles were tortures for everyone’s souls, Feng Qianqian’s article is like a bloody bayonet that has turned red. Who doesn't know that foreigners like to litigate the most. No one dares to regard Tuao Company's rhetoric as just a verbal threat.

As the saying goes, no melon is too big to eat. People from all walks of life gave full play to their expertise in eating melons and fully interpreted the event. All kinds of gossip spread like wildfire, and until the end, even Tang Zifeng, the instigator, was shocked and stunned.

"Quickly, check if anyone in our factory is using pirated Tuao software. If so, delete it immediately. For a small factory like ours, if someone fines someone millions, let alone US dollars, even in RMB, Hundreds of people in the whole factory have to go out!"

In countless factories, the factory director immediately issued orders to the technical department. For this kind of thing, it can be said that you are not afraid of ten thousand, but just in case. So many newspapers have reported this matter one after another. If you say it is groundless, who dares to believe it? Anyway, the factory director himself doesn’t use CAD. In their view, the factory had a pretty good life without CAD in the past. Why are you all equipped with computers, but you still can’t do without pirated software?

"Director, we really can't do without pirated software. Now we can't do design without CAD. It's too troublesome."

The technical supervisor argued pitifully to the factory director.

"Don't you know how to buy some genuine software to use?" the factory director asked.

"A set of genuine software costs 15,800, or a reduced version. If you want to buy the professional version, it costs 36,000..."

"No way, doesn't a computer cost more than 8,000? Why does a set of software cost 36,000? Isn't this a money grab?"

"Isn't it just a money grab?"

"Isn't there something cheaper?"

"Cheaper ones,...well, there are some, but they are made in China."

"Does it work?"

"...It can be used. Uh-huh, I mean, its functions are almost the same as Tuor's."

"So, how much does a set of this domestically produced software cost?"

"580."

"You are a pig. You don't need a set of 580 software. Let me buy you a set of 36,000. Is there a rebate for buying the software? I tell you, immediately remove all the pirated software on your office computers. Delete it and install a set of that 580 domestic software for everyone!"

The factory directors had just finished making decisions, and notices from the Machinery Department, Chemical Industry Department, and Electric Power Department were also sent out. In addition to talking about the general principles of strengthening awareness of intellectual property protection, the notice has two practical points: first, each enterprise must carry out self-examination and self-correction, and delete all pirated Tuo CAD software before August 1, 1997; Second, enterprises are encouraged to actively adopt domestically produced genuine CAD software, and the Huaxia CAD software jointly developed by Canglong Research Institute and New Jingwei Software Company is particularly recommended.

"I helped you poke a hole in the sky. If there is a problem with your software and it turns out to be embarrassing, my old man's reputation will be ruined by you two young men. "

In a small red brick building in Beijing, Xu Zhaojian, the former director of the Second Bureau of the Ministry of Machinery, sat on an old wicker chair and said with a smile to the two people on the sofa opposite him. He is over eighty years old and slightly fat, but he is in good spirits and speaks with great energy. Although the floor-standing electric fan in the room has been spinning continuously, sending out bursts of cool breeze, he still holds a large cattail leaf fan in his hand and waves it gently from time to time, which is quite similar to Zhuge Liang's signature move.

Of the two people on the sofa, one is indeed a young man, but the other is an old man who is nearly 60 years old. He even has a few more silver strands in his hair than Xu Zhaojian. This young man is Tang Zifeng, the executive deputy director of Linyi Machinery, and the old man is Zhou Heng, the current director of Tengcun Machine Tool Factory.

If Tang Zifeng wants to fan the flames on the issue of pirated software, his own energy alone is definitely not enough. Even if he can use travel expenses to hire reporters to help publish a few articles, the leaders of the relevant departments will know that this matter is just a public relations hype and has nothing to do with national policy. If he builds up too much momentum and scares flowers and plants, the relevant departments may have to intervene. At that time, as long as he says hello to the media, no matter how powerful Tang Zifeng is, he will not be able to make any waves.

Tang Zifeng knew this, so at the beginning he asked Zhou Heng to come forward and contact the retired director Xu Zhaojian for him, so that Xu Zhaojian could be his backing.

Xu Zhaojian is the founder of the Second Bureau and one of the founders of the national defense industry. As early as the Anti-Japanese War, he led the construction of the arsenal in the base area. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he was appointed director of the Second Bureau, responsible for the management of the entire mechanical and electrical industry.

There is a legend in the Second Bureau that 70% of domestic machine tool companies before 1980 were established under the guidance of Xu Zhaojian. At least half of the cadres in the entire mechanical system had worked under Xu Zhaojian. Some of them later left the mechanical system and took important positions in other industries, which expanded Xu Zhaojian's influence to all walks of life.

Xu Zhaojian responded to the call and applied for retirement in the mid-1980s. He has been away from work for more than ten years. But although he is not in the system, there is still a legend about him in the system. On some major industrial policy issues, central leaders would come to him in person to ask for advice, and he was often able to put forward some insights, making people admire his wisdom.

Zhou Heng had been Xu Zhaojian's secretary in his early years, so even now, Xu Zhaojian still laughs and calls Zhou Heng a "young man." When Zhou Heng was on the road, in order to expand business, he asked Xu Zhaojian several times to help him say "hi" to some companies. Xu Zhaojian was not disgusted with such a request, because he knew that Zhou Heng did not do this for personal gain, but to get Lin Yiji out of trouble. Linyiji also grew up under the care of Xu Zhaojian back then. Now that it is encountering business difficulties, how can Xu Zhaojian just sit back and watch.

It was also during that time that Xu Zhaojian heard the name Tang Zifeng from Zhou Heng. Later, Xu Zhaojian also heard about Tang Zifeng's various evil behaviors, and he had already had a strong interest in this young man. He asked Zhou Heng several times to bring Tang Zifeng over for him to have a look at at the right time. Before Tang Zifeng planned to start his publicity offensive a few days ago, Zhou Heng took him to Xu Zhaojian's home.

At that time, Tang Zifeng seriously introduced his ideas to Xu Zhaojian. He said that design software is an important aspect of industrial technology and its value is no less than physical equipment. In recent years, the country has introduced a large number of advanced foreign technologies, coupled with independent research and development, and has made great progress in equipment development, but it lags behind in software.

One of the reasons why domestic industrial software lags behind is that a large number of pirated software has flooded the market, leaving no room for domestic software to grow. For foreign software companies, their profits mainly come from the European and American markets. They only maintain their existence in the Chinese market and are not eager to make profits. Therefore, they have always adopted an attitude of indifference or even connivance towards the problem of piracy. An important purpose of their doing this is to curb the growth of China's local software and prevent China's local software from missing the best growth period.

When Chinese local software cannot replace foreign software, the existence of pirated software can allow some companies to reduce expenditures and lower the threshold for these companies to use software. At least on the surface, it is only foreign software companies that suffer losses. But after China's local software first emerged, the situation was very different. Foreign software companies have the support of the European and American markets and do not care about the losses caused by piracy. However, once piracy becomes rampant, domestic software will have no market and will not be able to survive, and will eventually die.

Once all local software is wiped out, foreign software manufacturers will show their fangs, charge whatever they want, and quickly make back their losses in previous years. More importantly, these software will also become their tools to curb the rise of Chinese manufacturing. Once the technological competition between countries reaches a critical moment, foreign manufacturers can completely paralyze China's industrial research by interrupting software supply, and the entire country will be defeated without a fight.