Chapter 331: Gou Fugui

Founder Group is now the hegemon of the domestic technology printing industry. It alone almost dominates the global Chinese publishing system developer and supplier. Its laser phototypesetting machine is sold to the whole world. Where there are Chinese newspapers, magazines, and books, there is its figure.

Not only Founder Group, for the Wang Academician who developed the Founder laser phototypesetting machine, the media's evaluation is, "As long as you have read Chinese books and Chinese newspapers, you should thank Wang Academician, just like people who use electric lights should thank Edison!"

Most products, when they were born, were related to military and industry, and computers were no exception. Computers now use them, basically for office work, processing some documents. Whether to connect to the internet or not has little impact on people now. Entertainment functions are not the main function of computers.

For companies, it is even more so. Computers were born as a kind of tool, used to assist work, not for networking. The internet is just one of the many ways to use computers as tools!

But for the printing industry, because of the arrival of the computer era, earth-shaking changes have taken place.

Before Wang Academician invented the laser phototypesetting machine, domestic printing was still a continuation of the movable type printing that had existed for thousands of years. That is, before printing a newspaper or book, you have to pick characters manually, arrange them manually, check them manually, and finally print them. Needless to say, the efficiency, time, accuracy, speed, and cost are also difficult to describe.

A few years ago, what was the most factory in the country? It was not others, but printing factories. Not to mention cities, even big and small counties had to have a printing factory. Added together, there were more than six or seven thousand printing factories.

Wang Academician's laser phototypesetting system allowed computers to process text, used laser phototypesetting machines for photoelectric conversion, latent images on film, and completely changed the domestic printing industry.

And Wang Academician put the laser phototypesetting system into Founder Group. The name Founder also came from a section of "Later Han Shu" that Wang Academician liked most.

"Observe the body and dare not slander, encounter disasters and not avoid death... see the virtuous and not live above it, collect salary not exceeding its quantity, not use forgetting ability to live in a noble position, act like this, can be a righteous scholar."

The status of Founder Group at this moment is much higher than that of Sitong, Lenovo, Ziguang, and others. Not only can it make money, but also because it changed an industry that has existed for thousands of years, and let domestic printing realize overtaking on a curve. Now foreign phototypesetting machines have no market in the country at all. On the contrary, domestic phototypesetting machines have begun to enter overseas.

Now Founder's phototypesetting machine department is developing a Japanese phototypes

Academician Wang's laser phototypesetter allowed Chinese printing to bid farewell to the era of lead and fire and enter the era of light and electricity, bringing Chinese books and knowledge into an era of light-speed dissemination, reducing the cost and price of domestic books countless times over, and allowing more ordinary people in the country to afford to read!

Zhou Qinglun looked at Song Zhiliang and the others before him. Song Zhiliang is the current general manager of Yanda Asset Management Company. Fang Zheng is indeed the most famous school-run enterprise under Yanda Asset Management Company, but it is not the only one.

By later generations, the number of companies invested in and controlled by Yanda Asset Management Company reached as many as five or six hundred. Although no other company could match the fame of Fang Zheng, Yanjing University's ability to achieve an annual revenue exceeding 34 billion is inseparable from the existence of Yanda Asset Management Company.

As for Meng Yongen next to Song Zhiliang, he is the director in charge of employment distribution at Yanjing University. On the other side, Zhang Yufeng is the third head of Fang Zheng Group, having only taken the position less than two months ago!

Wherever there are people, there is a "Jianghu" (world of conflict). Even within school-run enterprises, disputes will arise because of money. Fang Zheng Group has been in a state of infighting for the past few years.

This infighting can be traced back to three years ago. At that time, the first head of Fang Zheng Group was Lou Binlong. In six years, he led Fang Zheng to become a company with annual revenue exceeding 200 million. That was 200 million in the eighties! He even sold products to Xiangjiang, Canada, Malaysia, and other places.

To a certain extent, the early days of Zhongguancun were driven by Fang Zheng, because it set up its office building in Zhongguancun, attracting countless companies and job seekers to settle there.

When they weren't making money, everyone lived through the hard times together. No one ate a piece of meat more than anyone else, and there was no talk of envy, jealousy, or hatred; they could live in peace.

But it was different after they started making money. Seeing Fang Zheng Group selling phototypesetters overseas, it was incredibly popular. The daily influx of money brought the funds in the account to over 200 million, making it the richest company in Zhongguancun, bar none!

A host of newspapers in Shanghai, such as "Wen Hui Bao," began to praise Fang Zheng Group, which truly made Yanjing University proud in front of all the universities in the country.

But humans are very strange creatures. It is easy to share adversity, but difficult to share prosperity. This has been true throughout history, both at home and abroad. Like those ancient emperors, when they were fighting for the world, they made all kinds of promises about sharing the kingdom, painting pictures of the future as if they cost nothing.

But after they sat on the throne, they couldn't rest easy about their old brothers. It was fine while they were alive, but when they were dying, they couldn't rest easy unless they took all those old brothers with them.

For Fang Zheng Group, after the flowers and applause, problems arose when it came time to share the wealth. There is no doubt that Fang Zheng Group was built by Yanda. Back then, Yanda provided the people, the money, and the technology. Academician Wang was the director of Yanda's Computer Research Institute at the time, and even the Fang Zheng brand had the word "Yanda" in front of it.

This led to a problem: who exactly was in charge of the 200 million in cash in Fang Zheng Group's account? Was it the management led by Lou Binlong, or was it up to Yanda? This quickly became the focal point of the issue.

After all, at the end of the eighties, Yanda was having a hard time too. Funding was far from sufficient. With these 200 million, Yanda could do so many things: allocate funds to laboratories, give allowances to students, pay teachers' full salaries, purchase a large batch of experimental equipment, build several teaching buildings, staff dormitories, and so on.

According to the thinking of Yanda's school authorities, Fang Zheng was built by Yanda, and even Fang Zheng belonged to Yanda. Did they not have the right to use these 200 million?

But just when Yanda was excitedly taking the approval slip to Fang Zheng Group to withdraw the money, they were blocked by the first head of Fang Zheng, Lou Binlong.

Lou Binlong also had his reasons. It was true that Fang Zheng Group belonged to Yanda, but Yanda did not have the right to use this money at will. This money had to be kept for the development of Fang Zheng Group; it had to be done according to legal regulations.

If Yanda wanted to get money from Fang Zheng, they could, but it had to be for a formal purpose and approved by the Fang Zheng Group management. Otherwise, it would have to be a "loan," and borrowing money required collateral—for example, mortgaging Yanda's land and buildings to Fang Zheng. They would have to pay it back, otherwise, the buildings would belong to Fang Zheng...

Honestly, Lou Binlong was indeed following the rules, but rules and human sentiment sometimes conflict.

The people at Yanda who heard this reply were so angry they laughed. It was like raising a child to provide for one's old age, only for the father to help the son buy a house and a car, and then the son becomes a millionaire, and the father wants to get some capital back, but not only does he not get the money, he gets a slap in the face.

After Lou Binlong refused to let Yanda use Fang Zheng Group's cash, less than a month later, he, who had been the head of Fang Zheng for six years, was directly swept out the door. Furthermore, all records of him in Fang Zheng's publicity and publications were erased, as if this person had never existed.

Perhaps fearing a repeat of the same mistake, the second head Yanda chose for Fang Zheng seemed somewhat obscure. To put it bluntly, they were afraid of encountering someone as strong as Lou Binlong who would set himself up as king, leaving Yanda unable to control him.

But this led to the second head of Fang Zheng being unable to compare to Academician Wang in terms of technology, and unable to compare to Zhang Yufeng of the sales department, who brought back a large number of orders and huge profits for Fang Zheng, in terms of making money. This led to the second head stepping down in disgrace after only three years.

In this year's Fang Zheng Group presidential transition, Zhang Yufeng was elected with over 90% of the votes, which shows how miserable the second head of Fang Zheng Group had it.

Whether it was Song Zhiliang or Zhang Yufeng, both were prominent and powerful figures at Yanda, but Zhou Qinglun's attitude toward these people was indifferent. After all, no matter how much Yanda Asset Management Company or Fang Zheng Group earned, what did it have to do with him? They wouldn't give him an extra penny, and his annual budget was still tight.

Even seeing that they were all in the same unit and colleagues, while he ate meals without meat every day and his family was squeezed into a tube-shaped apartment building, the other side drove luxury cars, ate Western food, and lived in big houses—how could he feel comfortable? So even though Fang Zheng Group now hands over a portion of its funds to Yanda, there are still deep contradictions between Fang Zheng and Yanda.

"What are they doing here at this time? We don't see them more than a few times a year!" Zhou Qinglun said to Shi Guangyi.

Shi Guangyi glared at him, "What do you think they can be doing here today?!"

Zhou Qinglun was stunned for a moment. Watching Song Zhiliang and the others walking toward their Sociology Department's enrollment booth, he couldn't help but say with a dry throat, "Could it be that our department is getting a..."

Shi Guangyi looked at him with satisfaction, feeling that he hadn't taught a blockhead after all. "If she can enroll normally today and we can teach her, then the funding for Yanda's Sociology Department won't be a problem in the future!"

As they were speaking, they saw a man and a woman walking toward the Sociology Department's enrollment booth. Shi Guangyi was a bit unsure when he saw the two, but then he saw Song Zhiliang, Zhang Yufeng, and Meng Yongen walking toward them. How could Shi Guangyi be unsure now? This was the god of wealth for the Sociology Department he had been waiting for—no, it was the closed-door disciple he had decided would inherit his mantle!

Li Dongling was pulling two large suitcases for the girl Li Dongyue, and Li Dongyue was also carrying large and small bags. Today, Li Dongyue strongly requested not to let Yang Zhi Gao, Wang Yan, and those security personnel come along, so as not to be too flashy and make it impossible to live well at school in the future. The car had to be parked not far from the school, and Li Dongling helped her carry the bags inside.

(End of chapter)