Chapter 151: The Advantage is With Me!

At the beginning of the New Year, the spring mountains are hopeful. Domestic major cities have visibly become noisy. The relatives who came to the Li family to pay New Year's greetings have become more and more numerous in these two years.

"Poor in the busy city, no one asks; rich in the deep mountains, there are distant relatives." This is not an empty phrase, but a reality. Starting last year, the relatives who came to pay New Year's greetings to Li Zhenlin and Wang Xiulan began to increase. By this year, starting from the first day of the New Year, they became endless, and even quite a few relatives, Li Dongling had never seen in his previous life!

The entire Li family became noisy. Li Zhenlin and Wang Xiulan, for the arrival of these relatives of the Li family, were all full of smiles and prepared wine and dishes.

But Li Zhenlin and his wife were people who had lived a hard life, so they wouldn't soften their hearts just by listening to a few words and lend out large sums of money. Whether it was the relatives of the Li family or the relatives of Wang Xiulan, the relatives who had been close to the Li family over the years were only three or five families.

These few families included the Li family's own side, Li Zhenlin's two cousins, and Li Dongling's uncle's family on Wang Xiulan's side. Over the years, they had all helped the Li family, whether it was Li Dongling going to college or Li Dongshan entering the steel factory as a temporary worker, they had all helped and contributed money. Naturally, the relationship with the Li family was good.

As for the other relatives who came over, what they wanted to do, Li Zhenlin and Wang Xiulan were actually clear in their hearts. It was okay to come and eat and drink, but as for borrowing large sums of money, neither of them agreed.

The so-called "saving the emergency but not the poor, helping the distressed but not the lazy, a peck of rice is grace, a liter of rice is hatred." If it was truly life-saving money, it could be borrowed, but if one was counting on the Li family to support this group of relatives who didn't usually walk around and couldn't even reach them with eight poles, that was looking for trouble.

It might even be that if the money lent was too little, or if they didn't lend money once, then let alone being relatives, they might even become enemies. It was better to establish rules from the beginning to avoid becoming enemies in the future.

Just like JD. com founder Boss Liu, relatives and friends from his hometown were placed as security guards or warehouse workers at JD. com, and they would not be allowed to enter the management level directly.

For this group of relatives of the Li family, Li Dongling was also prepared to use the same strategy. They could be arranged to go to the security section or warehouse management of Dongling Gao Ke or the Torch Group. If they truly had the ability to climb to the management level, that was fine, but counting on being able to parachute into the management level just by being relatives of the Li family, that was purely thinking too much.

Li Dongling mainly accompanied the few families of relatives who were close to the Li family. As for the other relatives, after exchanging pleasantries for a few sentences, Li Dongling went upstairs.

Entering the study and turning on the computer, at the end of the year, the computer installed in the Li family could finally access the internet. Although the internet access fee was expensive and the network speed was slow, a computer that could access the internet was already a world of difference from before.

Opening the computer, Li Dongling entered the "Hui Duo Net," which was currently the largest, or perhaps the only, BBS forum website in the country. As for the sites in major cities like Yanjing, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Hong Kong, etc., like "Dawn," "Shuimu Tsinghua," "Great Wall," "Heaven," "Shuke," "New Moon," etc., they were actually branch sites of Hui Duo Net, similar to the relationship between a brand and a franchisee.

Of course, this franchisee had to bring their own dry food and forage. If one wanted to open a site for Hui Duo Net in a city, the stationmaster needed to pull the telephone line himself to open the site. The one most familiar to people in later generations should be the "Ma Station" established by Tencent Boss Ma!

The big figures who would call the wind and rain in the internet industry in later generations were all stationmasters of Hui Duo Net in various places at this moment, pouring water on the forum, including Tencent Boss Ma, Pig Farm Boss Ding Sanshi, Lei Busi, Jinshan's Boss Qiu, 8848 website's Boss Wang, etc., all were like this.

However, Li Dongling entered several sites one after another, but didn't log in. Clearly, someone was occupying the line. It was New Year's Day, and it was clear that there were quite a few people blowing cows and pouring water on the forum.

The current BBS forum could accommodate too few people online at the same time. Even if the current domestic internet users were less than ten thousand, the few famous sites like Dawn, Shuimu Tsinghua, Great Wall, etc., were still full from time to time, and one had to queue to get in.

Li Dongling turned to log in to the "Ma Station," wanting to see if Boss Ma, who was still working at the pager company Runxun, was online telling jokes about "little cows."

It was rumored that during this period, Boss Ma had been telling jokes about little cows on his own and other sites, such as "little cow riding a motorcycle," "little cow standing upside down," "little cow drunk in a wine vat," "little cow jumping high," etc. Li Dongling was prepared to find out.

But after logging in several times in a row, he still couldn't log in, which made Li Dongling couldn't help but complain. He didn't know what Boss Ma, Lei Busi, Boss Qiu, Ding Sanshi, and those people were pulling on the site, actually occupying the line all the time.

After testing other sites, Li Dongling squeezed into the Shuimu Huaqing site. Li Dongling saw that they were actually discussing academic problems seriously inside, and they were discussing it hotly. Quite a few people who were online used their real names to go online. Li Dongling felt that they might really be college students from Huaqing.

Looking at the Shuimu Huaqing site, Li Dongling felt that other sites like Ma Station, Great Wall, Heaven, Shuke, New Moon, etc., were probably about the same. They hadn't yet developed the style of blowing cows and pouring water on the internet in later generations. Now they were all seriously discussing knowledge, technology, etc., on the forum.

Chatting with people thousands of miles away through a screen using a computer was absolutely a rare and trendy thing for people now. Even if it was discussing technology, they could pull for a long time.

After exiting the forum, Li Dongling looked at the site in front of him. This kind of site was actually just a chat room in a different place, not a real internet. This sense of rarity couldn't last too long. Once a real website appeared, Hui Duo Net and local sites would definitely be replaced.

Touching his chin, Li Dongling felt that it was time to launch a website that could accommodate more people to blow cows and pour water at the same time. This kind of site with only a few people online didn't have the atmosphere of blowing cows, and couldn't show off in front of the computer. How to highlight the heroic nature of bigwigs like Wang Luxiang, this internet didn't have any meaning...

Not only the forum website for blowing cows and pouring water, next year—no, it was this year—the internet wave on the other side of the Pacific was about to begin. Feiyan Technology also had to get involved in the internet to prepare for cutting the leeks of NASDAQ!

But before that, Li Dongling felt that it was still necessary to develop a computer pinyin input method system.

Now computer typing all used the "Wang Ma Wubi Input Method," which was invented by Professor Wang Yongmin of the University of Science and Technology of China, who established the Wang Ma Computer Company to specifically sell this input method software.

The significance of the birth of the Wubi input method didn't need to be said much. It solved the problem of Chinese character input on computers. Without this system, it was estimated that domestic computer users now would have to learn English to be qualified to use computers. The media evaluated this input method as the "movable type printing of the 20th century," which was not an exaggeration at all.

But the era was progressing. Wubi typing made the threshold for entering the internet truly a bit high. Some positions that needed computer office work also needed to specifically sign up for training classes to practice typing.

This led to the threshold and cost of internet access being truly a bit high. And the internet era needed "fool-style" operation and no-threshold internet access. Wubi input method being replaced was only a matter of time. It wasn't that it wasn't good, but that the era was changing!

Li Dongling was prepared to "intercept" the Microsoft Pinyin input method. Microsoft could become the hegemon of the software era. Although countless people scolded it for being bad, no one dared to say it was "dish."

Just like the domestic pinyin input method, it was Microsoft that first developed it. Microsoft bought two of the earliest domestic pinyin input methods from Harbin Institute of Technology PhD Wang Xiaolong and Yanjing University Professor Zhu Shoutao, and built them into the Microsoft system.

These two input methods were ignored for several years after development, but after being acquired and promoted by Microsoft for 100,000 US dollars, they soared into the sky and swept the input method industry. The Wubi input method was directly swept into history. Microsoft could sweep the software industry; it really wasn't blown out.

Now, Li Dongling was prepared to acquire the pinyin input method in the hands of Wang Xiaolong and Zhu Shoutao, letting it become Dongling Gao Ke's advantage when entering the computer industry in the future!

Domestic computer brands were always at a disadvantage when fighting against overseas giants. If Dongling Gao Ke wanted to change this situation, it needed to establish its own advantages bit by bit. The Silver Mink mouse, the U-disk being developed, and the pinyin input method would all become Dongling Gao Ke's chips and advantages in the computer industry in the future!

The train whistled past. After the sixth day of the New Year, trains in various parts of the country began to be full again, but most of them were people from inland cities taking the train to southern cities to work.

And for people in Pingyang and surrounding urban areas, although they also had to start work, they didn't have to leave their hometowns. What they needed was to go to Dongling Gao Ke to work.

After the New Year, after the staff of Dongling Gao Ke resumed work, all production lines began to operate at full capacity, and all departments of Dongling Gao Ke also began to operate in full swing, because the Shenzhou telephone began to be listed and sold on several major cooperative retail channels in America!

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New York, America. Inside the Ximen office building in America, a man was saying confidently to the person on the other end of the phone, "Yes, the Shenzhou telephone has started to be listed and sold in America, but Manager Kerlot, I guarantee you that the winner this time will definitely belong to us!"

"Thomas, don't underestimate the other party. The other party is very good at using unconventional and irregular means. You must not take it lightly!"

Ximen digital cordless telephone department manager Kerlot on the other end of the phone entrusted Thomas, the person in charge of Ximen telephone in America.

Thomas listened to Kerlot's words with a hint of disdain. He hadn't experienced the battle between Shenzhou and Ximen in Europe, but he knew the result: Ximen suffered a crushing defeat. But Thomas believed that the failure in Europe was entirely due to the incompetence of the group of people like former Ximen telephone manager Frankl. Playing a hand of "king bomb" cards into a mess, if that wasn't incompetence, what was?

Now, in the duel with Shenzhou in America, Thomas believed that he would absolutely not make the mistakes that the idiot Frankl had made.

"Shenzhou, along with the Coolpad and Simon brands, hasn't hired Hollywood stars to endorse them until now. Ximen has the best spokespersons in America. We have invested in advertisements on the four major TV networks including Columbia, and there are sales channels like Walmart. The advantage in this war is with us!"

Thomas said to the other end of the phone with a sonorous and powerful voice, making Kerlot, who heard this, feel his blood boil, and couldn't help but feel that victory was in sight.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 152 =====