Chapter 359: The Tree Wants to be Still, but the Wind Won't Stop

Li Yan and Director Hu talked to Li Dongyue for a few sentences, left their business cards, and left.

Seeing the identity of the Director of the Central Media Variety Program Department on that business card, and Li Yan's identity as the General Manager of Focus Media, Cui Chen Qianqian and the others cast their gazes towards Li Dongyue.

Cui Chen Qianqian and Fan Wang Xiaomeng knew Director Hu's identity. For ordinary people, he was already a ceiling-level existence.

As for Li Yan's position as General Manager of Focus Media, although Cui Chen Qianqian and the others were not very familiar with the Focus Media company, seeing Director Hu's attitude towards Li Yan, they could roughly guess a few points.

But it was figures like Li Yan and Director Hu who had such an attitude towards Li Dongyue just now. They all saw it clearly. If it weren't for the fact that they were there, it is feared that their attitude towards Li Dongyue would have been even more so.

"Confession is lenient, resistance is strict!"

"Comrade Li Dongyue, please straighten out your attitude. What exactly does your brother do?" Cui Chen Qianqian "interrogated" Li Dongyue.

Li Dongyue originally wanted to use the same explanation as before, but seeing Cui Chen Qianqian, Fan Wang Xiaomeng, and the others who were preparing to "torture" her and tickle her, Li Dongyue, who was most afraid of being tickled, hurriedly said, "When there is time, you will know when you go home with me!"

Hearing this, Cui Chen Qianqian, Fan Wang Xiaomeng, and the others stopped, but they became even more curious about the Li family.

The plane taking off from Yanjing headed straight for the capital of Hanxi Province, but the waves stirred up by Li Li Dongling in Yanjing did not subside immediately; instead, they had a trend of becoming more intense.

As the former Chief Engineer of Stone Group, although he had been somewhat silent for a few years after leaving Stone, his experience and status in the industry were there. When he made a move, he still attracted the eyes of countless people in the Zhongguancun and Yanjing technology industries!

"Bai Lingyun Technology Company, with former Stone Chief Engineer Wang Ji as Technical President, was officially announced today!"

"According to information obtained by this newspaper from sources, Bai Lingyun Technology will focus on projects such as printers and copiers. An old steed in the stable still aspires to gallop a thousand miles. The domestic typewriter 2401, which could be compared to the most advanced Japanese typewriters back then, was developed by his team!"

"Facing this newspaper's interview, Wang Wang Jizhi declared that Bai Lingyun is here to break the monopoly of foreign printers on the mainland, just like the typewriter he developed back then, which broke Japan's monopoly on the mainland typewriter market!"

Inside the Yanjing Stone Group, Duan Duan Yongji threw a copy of the *Yanjing Science and Technology News* onto the table with a gloomy face.

"What does he want to do? He is a person who came out of Stone. Stone gave him everything. Without Stone, he is nothing. Now he actually wants to compete with Stone!"

Duan Duan Yongji's table was slapped with a bang. One can imagine how angry and dissatisfied Duan Duan Yongji is now, even if this newspaper was just routinely hyping the newly established Bai Lingyun Technology Company.

And sitting on the side, Chu Zhong, Li Li Wenjun, Li Yu, and other Stone executives who were extremely familiar with Duan Duan Yongji, actually saw the faint panic and worry on Duan Duan Yongji's face!

Wang Wang Jizhi was suppressed and squeezed out of Stone by Duan Duan Yongji using means. This is an open secret within Stone.

If Wang Wang Jizhi couldn't turn things around, that would be fine. But if one day he turned things around and became the leader of the mainland technology industry again, and shook out the dirty things Stone encountered back then, as well as Duan Duan Yongji's shady operations, then Duan Duan Yongji's reputation would be ruined.

Even, if Bai Lingyun Technology Company developed one day, wouldn't that prove that Wang Wang Jizhi being driven out of Stone back then was a wrong decision?

The typewriter market is declining. Stone feels this more urgently than anyone else. If Bai Lingyun's domestic printers replace Stone's typewriters, then the fun will probably be big then.

Letting a technical genius be swept out the door—who will bear such a loss? Stone is still considered a state-owned enterprise now. It's no wonder Duan Duan Yongji reacted so fiercely. He really felt the threat!

"Old Wang coming out of the mountains again doesn't necessarily mean he wants to compete with Stone. We at Stone have also dabbled in domestic printer projects, but didn't we fail to make anything of it?"

It was Li Yu who spoke. He could speak to Duan Duan Yongji, and he still had some old feelings with Wang Wang Jizhi. He didn't want to see Duan Duan Yongji and Wang Wang Jizhi clash like needles against wheat again.

"We don't have such thoughts, but Wang Wang Jizhi might not!"

Li Li Wenjun, who went to Hanxi back then wanting to recruit Li Dongling Gao Ke into his command but ended up with a face full of dust, also spoke.

As Duan Duan Yongji's confidant, Li Li Wenjun naturally needed to consider for Duan Duan Yongji. "I heard that Bai Lingyun Technology Company was invested in by Li Dongling Gao Ke for Wang Wang Jizhi. If Bai Lingyun Technology develops, with Wang Wang Jizhi's dissatisfaction with Stone, will he return good for evil?"

Hearing that Li Dongling Gao Ke was standing behind Wang Wang Jizhi, the expressions of the Stone Group executives couldn't help but change slightly.

No one knows better than Stone how strong Wang Wang Jizhi's ability is. If it weren't for Stone strictly guarding against Wang Wang Jizhi these past few years, using various means and relationships to forbid Wang Wang Jizhi from returning to the typewriter market, it is feared that Wang Wang Jizhi would have already made a name for himself again relying on typewriters.

Now Wang Wang Jizhi has switched to printers and has received the support of Li Dongling Gao Ke, the number one in the domestic technology industry and also the most profitable technology company in the country. No one knows what kind of sparks the two sides will rub together.

Duan Duan Yongji's expression was even uglier. He personally went out to invite Li Li Dongling to join the Taishan Association, but was rejected by Li Li Dongling. He even turned around and supported Wang Wang Jizhi in establishing Bai Lingyun Technology Company.

Duan Duan Yongji felt that Li Li Dongling was just making things difficult for him. Now he felt that what Boss Liu proposed—to take action against Li Li Dongling in advance—was absolutely correct. He only hated himself for acting too late!

Bai Lingyun Technology was just established, and it didn't treat Stone, which mainly makes typewriters, as an opponent. The two sides are on completely different tracks. But Duan Duan Yongji has already treated Bai Lingyun and Wang Wang Jizhi as his main opponents. After all, if he were Wang Wang Jizhi, he would definitely want revenge at this time...

"Next, Bai Lingyun will be Stone's most important opponent. If one day Stone falls, it will surely be hurt by Bai Lingyun!" Duan Duan Yongji made a prophecy for Stone in advance.

Duan Duan Yongji was still preparing to continue speaking when he saw his assistant run in hurriedly and say a few words in his ear.

Then Li Li Wenjun, Li Yu, and the others saw Duan Duan Yongji say with an ugly expression, "Turn on the television!"

After tuning to the Yanjing Television channel, a piece of news being broadcast on it attracted the eyes of the Stone executives.

"Bai Lingyun Technology Company announced today that it has reached a strategic cooperation with Li Dongling Gao Ke and the State Development and Investment Group to jointly establish the Bai Lingyun Chain Graphic Printing Group. It is expected that within five years, more than 1,000 stores will be built in the country, and more than 12,000 new jobs will be recruited!"

"Multiple departments including the Economic and Trade Commission, Development and Reform, Industry and Commerce, and Science and Technology participated in the ribbon-cutting ceremony of the Bai Lingyun Chain Graphic Printing Group. The first Bai Lingyun Graphic Chain store will be located at Yanjing University!"

Whether the Bai Lingyun printer project can succeed, Stone is not clear, but seeing the Bai Lingyun chain printing stores, the Stone executives were all dumbfounded. They knew that the Bai Lingyun chain printing stores were probably a success!

Look at the units and departments that participated in the Bai Lingyun chain printing stores today, and then look at the shareholders of the Bai Lingyun chain printing stores. With Li Dongling Gao Ke and the State Development and Investment Group, are they afraid that the Bai Lingyun Graphic Chain Printing Group won't survive?

The State Development and Investment Group is still unknown now, but hearing its name, one should roughly know its origin. The State Development and Investment Group was just established in May this year, but it is the only investment holding company among central enterprises. Its status goes without saying.

And in his previous life, the State Development and Investment Group galloped forward from the moment it was established, investing in and holding more than 170 companies, including more than a dozen listed companies such as SDIC Power, SDIC Zhonglu, and Zhongcheng Shares.

Now Bai Lingyun has become the first company invested in by the State Development and Investment Group. The Bai Lingyun Chain Printing Group has sufficient resources. Coupled with cooperation with various provincial investments and city investments, the Bai Lingyun Chain Printing Group can ensure that it receives printing orders from various municipal governments, central enterprises, state-owned enterprises, and various departmental units. Surviving is definitely no problem!

Duan Duan Yongji looked at the news on the television, his face gloomy, almost dripping water. He was just thinking about what means to use to eliminate this threat of Bai Lingyun in advance.

But looking at the current news, Duan Duan Yongji sighed dejectedly. With departments like Economic and Trade, Development and Reform, and Industry and Commerce endorsing the Bai Lingyun chain printing stores, with the investment of the State Development and Investment Group, and the tens of thousands of jobs it is expected to provide, he dares to ruin this project? It is feared that he will also be driven out by the Stone Group!

Turning off the television irritably, Duan Duan Yongji said in a deep voice, "In the future, Stone's opponent will be Bai Lingyun printers. No matter what means and methods are used, we must defeat Bai Lingyun printers!"

Duan Duan Yongji did not mention the Bai Lingyun chain printing stores. In fact, he had already expressed his attitude. Stone will not do anything to the Bai Lingyun chain printing stores, and he dare not reach out randomly!

"Negotiate with Japan's Epson, Canon, America's Xerox, HP, and other companies. Stone wants to become their mainland agent, or use their components to launch Stone's printer products. Stone must never be defeated by Bai Lingyun!" Duan Duan Yongji muttered in his heart. He also cannot lose to Wang Wang Jizhi.

The method Duan Duan Yongji thought of to target Bai Lingyun printers was to use the foreign masters to target Bai Lingyun. Isn't Bai Lingyun going to develop domestic printers? Then Stone will rely on acting as an agent for foreign printers, or use printer components from Xerox, HP, etc., to assemble Stone's printer products to fight a price war with Bai Lingyun printers. No one can say anything about this kind of "normal competition." Anyway, Duan Duan Yongji is not prepared to let Bai Lingyun have an easy time!

These past two days, Wang Wang Jizhi, who has been constantly participating in various interviews and ceremonies, does not know that Duan Duan Yongji is already preparing to prepare tricks for him. But even if he knew, Wang Wang Jizhi wouldn't be able to care now.

After pulling himself out, Wang Wang Jizhi immediately formed a printer R&D team. Although Wang Wang Jizhi did not deliberately poach people from Stone.

But these past few years, technical department talents who were frustrated in Stone, after seeing the news of Bai Lingyun's establishment, still quite a few ran out and defected to Wang Wang Jizhi's command. This naturally made Duan Duan Yongji even more itchy with hatred towards Wang Wang Jizhi.

With the addition of technical personnel from Stone, Wang Wang Jizhi recruited another batch of R&D talents. This could not be separated from the help of Academician Wang from Peking University. His connections were much broader than Wang Wang Jizhi's. From the Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Engineering, he introduced a batch of top talents related to printers and copiers for Wang Wang Jizhi, allowing the Bai Lingyun printer project R&D team to be set up preliminarily very quickly!

And after having a foundation, Wang Wang Jizhi issued an acquisition proposal to Guilin Ricoh through the Ministry of Industry.

On the other side, the Bai Lingyun chain printing stores were also in full swing, circling land and building stores. University towns in major cities, next to municipal governments, and near office buildings became the first choice for Bai Lingyun chain printing stores, constantly circling land and stores.

Bai Lingyun was busy here. The Wang Jiangmin Antivirus Software Company, with its office building located in the Tianya Office Building in Zhongguancun, also ushered in its opening ribbon-cutting ceremony.

The establishment of Wang Jiangmin Technology was not as powerful as Bai Lingyun, but in Zhongguancun, it set off quite a sensation.

On the day of the opening, many companies in Zhongguancun ran over to support Wang Jiangmin Technology. And besides these technology companies, the ones that went the most were trading companies, especially foreign trade companies.

Computers in this day and age do not have built-in security programs, leading to various computer viruses running rampant. Whether it is a technology company or a trading company, who dares to say that their computer will not get a virus once?

Especially for foreign trade companies, sometimes their computers contain foreign trade contracts or data worth hundreds of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of dollars. If they cannot open the computer and take out the files because of a computer virus, then what is delayed is a contract worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.

At this time, the Wang Jiangmin Antivirus Software Company, which can solve the trouble of computer viruses, became the life-saving straw for these companies. Wang Wang Jiangmin's antivirus software technology has already been recognized by the entire Zhongguancun. If you don't support Wang Wang Jiangmin today, who will you find to solve it when you encounter a computer virus in the future?

Besides the appearance of Bai Lingyun Technology and Wang Jiangmin Antivirus Software Company, the biggest change Li Li Dongling brought to Zhongguancun on this trip to Yanjing was the rumor of investing in Yahoo and obtaining 200 times the return, making the term "internet" the hottest term in Zhongguancun now.

Even though Li Li Dongling had already left Yanjing, the discussion about the internet had not subsided; instead, it was becoming more intense.

Not only was it discussed on BBS forums in various parts of the country, but the topic discussed most offline by companies in Zhongguancun was also the internet. In addition, there was another question that everyone in Zhongguancun was curious about: how far is Zhongguancun from the internet?

"When will the internet appear in Zhongguancun?"

Inside the Yanjing Tianshu Planning Company, founder Zhang Zhang Shushen was also full of excitement, asking her husband Jiang Jiang Zuoxian, "I didn't expect that I could see internet news in the country!"

Zhang Zhang Shushen and her husband Jiang Jiang Zuoxian had just returned from America. They went to America wanting to talk about the agency with Dell, but the talk collapsed.

Zhang Zhang Shushen graduated from the University of Science and Technology of China, worked as a reporter for the *Mainland Science News*, and then went to work at the Enterprise Bureau of the Academy of Sciences. This made her quite familiar with the founders of various companies in Zhongguancun, and her connections were very broad.

What was the business of her Tianshu Planning? It was relying on Zhang Zhang Shushen's connections to help Zhongguancun companies run contracts for departments such as the Academy of Sciences, the Planning Department, and the Ministry of Electronics.

For contracts that others could only run for 300,000, she could run for 200,000. Excluding costs, she made a net profit of 100,000.

But it was not just connections and relationships; Zhang Zhang Shushen's ability was also very outstanding. Otherwise, why would others rush to cooperate with her?

When the godfather of rock, Cui Xiao Jian, was banned in this day and age and could not hold concerts or commercial performances, it was Zhang Zhang Shushen who came up with the "charity performance" method, letting Cui Xiao Jian perform for the Cancer Foundation, allowing Cui Xiao Jian to get rid of the ban.

As for Zhang Zhang Shushen's husband, Jiang Jiang Zuoxian, he started by making pagers. However, he didn't sell pagers, but ran pager stations. A few years ago, when pagers were the hottest, Jiang Jiang Zuoxian's net worth exceeded 10 million.

Originally, relying on pagers, Jiang Jiang Zuoxian's net worth could have doubled several times. But because of the Xiaolingtong mobile phone created by someone, pagers suffered a big defeat in the domestic market. Pager users had stopped growing and even started to decrease!

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