Chapter 290: A Leaf Obscures the Eyes

"It seems, Du, you are very popular with mainland tech companies!"

Walter said to Du Jiabin with a fake smile. After hearing this, Du Jiabin's eyelids couldn't help but jump. Walter's words were too obvious.

It was almost pointing at Du Jiabin's nose and scolding him for whether he was eating inside and out, colluding with companies like Dongling Gao Ke, and preparing to pit Microsoft again.

Overseas companies do not trust local employees. This is not a matter of one or two days. The reason why Walter was sent here is not necessarily without the meaning of supervising Du Jiabin, the president of Microsoft Greater China.

"President Walter!"

Du Jiabin said with suppressed anger, "Please respect my professional ethics. I have never had any contact with Dongling Gao Ke!"

Seeing Du Jiabin, whose eyes were about to spray fire, Walter knew that the other party was really angry. This kind of accusation that the other party was eating inside and out could almost destroy a person's career. Even if it was not confirmed, he would be left out in the cold. After all, who would want a traitor to appear under his hands?

Walter didn't speak. He picked up the invitation from the beautiful American female assistant, waved it in his hand, and looked at Du Jiabin with a provocative gaze, "Then what about this?!"

"You can go with me. I also want to know why Dongling Gao Ke invited me to attend this product press conference, damn it!"

Du Jiabin finally couldn't help but burst out a national curse. Being able to make the usually gentle Du Jiabin reach this point shows how dissatisfied he is with Walter.

At the same time, what Du Jiabin couldn't figure out was how Dongling Gao Ke popped up. He had never had any involvement with Dongling Gao Ke. In fact, the Microsoft Greater China company rarely dealt with Dongling Gao Ke, just to avoid getting into trouble.

Although in name, Dongling Gao Ke and Microsoft have already smiled and forgotten their grudges, and even the Microsoft mouse was handed over to Silver Sable, that is, Dongling Gao Ke, for OEM production.

But ghosts know what Bill Gates thinks. He has never been soft-hearted towards enemies. Look at those opponents of Microsoft. Except for Apple, which is half-dead and may fall at any time, the rest of the companies have long since disappeared without a trace.

If one day, Bill Gates suddenly turns against Dongling Gao Ke, no one can say for sure. Therefore, the members of the Microsoft company in the mainland are very cautious about Dongling Gao Ke, fearing that they will get into trouble one day.

"I will, and I will report this matter to the Seattle headquarters!" Walter had an expression that he would stare at Du Jiabin.

Cursing again, Du Jiabin was too lazy to argue with Walter about the order from the Yanjing Science and Technology Commission, and slammed the door and left.

Walking in Microsoft's office area, Du Jiabin sighed helplessly. He was really tired of being this broken president of Greater China. The Microsoft headquarters in Seattle didn't trust him, and Microsoft's Ballmer had been putting pressure on Du Jiabin because of Microsoft's dismal sales and revenue in the mainland.

Walter was adding obstacles to him everywhere and fighting for power with him in the Microsoft Greater China company. All of this made Du Jiabin exhausted.

The ambition when he joined Microsoft at the beginning had been worn away by seven or eight in these two years. At this moment, Du Jiabin only felt exhausted and didn't know when he should leave Microsoft!

When this thought appeared, Du Jiabin himself was startled, but then he thought that perhaps leaving Microsoft was not the worst choice.

Since Du Jiabin took office, the most he has done is to persuade Microsoft headquarters to give him time to develop the mainland market and try every means to let Microsoft headquarters increase the investment scale in the mainland.

He also had to establish relationships with various domestic units and municipal governments, let departments such as the Ministry of Science and Technology crack down on pirated Microsoft systems, and then purchase genuine systems. As a result, neither side bought it. Now Du Jiabin is like a punching bag. He feels that this broken president's position is really not something a human does. The money earned is not called salary, but should be called "aggrieved fee", although this aggrieved fee starts at seven figures...

With a fire, Du Jiabin went straight from Yanjing Airport to the Hanxi provincial capital the next day. He wanted to question Dongling Gao Ke in person what they were going to do. Walter naturally followed behind to prevent some people from colluding inside and outside and pitting Microsoft again.

Just after getting off the plane, Du Jiabin saw the most conspicuous position at the provincial capital airport, which was the advertisement for Little Smart mobile phones, and then at the corner, the advertisement for Shenzhou digital cordless phones appeared, and then all the way, there were product advertisements such as Silver Sable mice and Feiyan radios, which made Du Jiabin, who was originally full of fire, suddenly wake up.

Although Little Smart also sells well in Yanjing, it is far from having such visible influence after arriving in Hanxi.

Du Jiabin suddenly felt that he seemed to be blinded by a leaf, only focusing on Microsoft's one-third of an acre of land in operating systems and office software, and did not notice the wave caused by Dongling Gao Ke in the domestic tech industry.

Although Dongling Gao Ke has been doing hardware since its establishment, who dares to say that Dongling Gao Ke will not enter the software industry in the future? Du Jiabin still remembers that early this year, Dongling Gao Ke also bought a building in Zhongguancun with great fanfare, recruited many technical big shots, and established a Tianya Network, saying that it was going to engage in the most fashionable Internet company in America!

For the Internet, Microsoft does not attach much importance to it at the moment. What Netscape, Yahoo, etc., Microsoft does not put in its eyes at all, viewing these companies as just playing house.

In the previous life, if Netscape was not too high-profile, did not know how to hide its clumsiness, and came up shouting that it wanted to be the gateway to the Internet and replace Microsoft, and then in order to increase stock price and market value, it kept promoting how fast the user scale was growing, it finally attracted Microsoft's attention. Otherwise, if it developed for another year or so, it might really make Microsoft lose half its life.

In the early stage, Microsoft did not put Netscape in its heart, only thinking that it could crush Netscape with a light shot and extending a finger. As a result, it failed to pretend to be forced and was slapped in the face, beaten up by Netscape, and the leg that Microsoft stepped into the Internet was also broken.

After being beaten by Netscape, Microsoft finally felt a sense of crisis, knowing that Netscape was not joking. This started to be ruthless and began to compete with Netscape by any means. Finally, it used the Microsoft system to bundle Microsoft's own browser, letting users choose one of two, and then killed Netscape.

Now, Microsoft does not put the Internet industry in its eyes at all. The headquarters is like this, and what the Microsoft supervisors all over the world are thinking can be guessed.

But now Du Jiabin, who came to Hanxi, saw the product advertisements of Dongling Gao Ke all over the street, and a sense of worry rose in his heart. Du Jiabin couldn't help thinking, if one day, Dongling Gao Ke suddenly enters the software industry, can Microsoft suppress Dongling Gao Ke in the mainland market?!

"Dongfang Optoelectronics has become the largest LCD screen exporter of local brands in the mainland, with a market share of more than 14.8% in the domestic LCD panel industry, second only to Sharp and Samsung!"

On the way to Pingyang, Du Jiabin picked up a newspaper and saw the headline. Dongfang Optoelectronics' shipments of various types of STN panels this month hit a new record, and BOE, which OEM-produced for Dongfang Optoelectronics, added 10 new STN production lines.

Du Jiabin doesn't know much about the panel industry, but looking at the news in the newspaper, it still made him surprised. He remembers that when he first came to the mainland from overseas, at that time, domestic LCD screens, regardless of size, even the screens of electronic watches, had to rely on imports. But now Dongfang Optoelectronics can actually produce them itself.

As for the relationship between Dongfang Optoelectronics and Dongling Gao Ke, Du Jiabin could guess it with his eyes closed. More than 90% of Dongfang Optoelectronics' orders come from Dongling Gao Ke.

"Damn it, there is no plane to Pingyang!" Walter, who was sitting in the same car as Du Jiabin, couldn't help complaining. He had been on a plane for a whole morning, and now he was rushing on the road by car, and his butt was sore.

Just after listening to Walter's complaint, Du Jiabin flipped through the next newspaper, and the headline made Du Jiabin freeze there for a moment.

"Located in our province's Pingyang, the Pingyang Cargo Airport with a total investment of more than 3.5 billion yuan officially started construction today. It is jointly built by a number of national-level infrastructure companies, combined with Yanjing, Hanxi Construction Engineering, and other construction companies. The total construction period is expected to be completed in three years. At that time, Pingyang Cargo Airport will be mainly based on air cargo and may open some civil aviation routes..."

Pingyang Cargo Airport is the high-light resume of Yao Zhengru's official career. He cannot leave with regrets, so Pingyang Cargo Airport must be completed before he leaves office.

Du Jiabin glanced at Walter. He didn't know if this guy's mouth was really opened, and he could guess this too.

"President Du!"

When Du Jiabin arrived, Li Dongling personally brought a group of Dongling Gao Ke executives to greet him, giving the other party enough treatment. After all, when asking for help, what does it matter if the posture is lower?

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 291 =====