Rebirth 98, the rise starts from ripping off Microsoft

Lu Ding had been holding back a lot of words, and he didn't want to tell Ning Xuehua, because he felt that he was the head of the family, and leaving the work pressure on his wife was a sign of a man's incompetence.

Now that his son is willing to listen, he is actually quite happy, feeling that the Lu family has a successor.

"Now all our peers are improving their quality and trying to get more orders. I thought the same way before, but because the factory's performance is not good, banks don't grant loans, so there's no way to replace the equipment. In comparison, the process is more complicated.

We are lagging behind, and our prices are not competitive. We had a few sporadic orders before, but now we haven’t received an order for several months. If this continues, the factory will not be able to pay its water and electricity bills.”

As soon as he said these words, Lu Ding seemed to be relieved of the depression in his heart, and the expression on his face couldn't help but relax. He knew that Lu Yiming couldn't help, but Lu Yiming was actually listening carefully, which made him feel

Very pleased.

The mold factory that Lu Ding currently operates is strictly speaking an industrial design industry and a branch of the machinery industry.

However, it will take at least another 20 years for the development of the domestic machine tool industry to pick up slightly. Before that, it was completely dependent on imports. This resulted in many local small and medium-sized enterprises needing to purchase equipment at high prices, which seriously suppressed production demand.

But now it's 1998, and the situation is even worse.

Because you have to use U.S. dollars to purchase imported equipment, the money you spend is foreign exchange!

Especially at this time, the Asian financial crisis that started in 1997 is coming to an end. The foreign exchange of domestic banks is basically used in the financial war to defend Hong Kong.

Not to mention Lu Ding begging his grandfather to sue his grandmother, even if he went to the Jade Emperor, it wouldn't be a problem.

Under such circumstances, let alone drinking with the bank manager, even if you drink paraquat, you won't be able to borrow money.

After all, our country has national conditions here, and political needs outweigh all else. Xiang Jiang has just returned to China, and it is impossible to let it go no matter what.

Lu Yiming disagreed with Lu Ding's complaints.

Lu Ding is limited by this era and can only focus on his factory, or this industry. But in fact, this is not a matter of his industry, but an issue of the international situation and a global perspective.

The country's resources are limited and it can only focus investment on key areas first, and the machinery manufacturing industry is obviously not one of them.

Lu Yiming didn't want to talk about this with Lu Ding, fearing that he would accidentally spill the beans, so he simply asked: "Dad, how much money do you plan to borrow?"

Lu Ding made an estimate in his mind and then said: "It will cost about 400,000 US dollars to purchase a batch of Makino machine tools."

This money will naturally be useful if Lu Ding comes.

Just this summer vacation, on July 1st, a major event happened in Baiyun City, that is, the establishment of Guangqi Honda. The products of this joint venture will almost form a national monopoly in the automobile industry in a certain period of time in the future.

Nowadays, GAC Honda has just been established and is in the preparation stage.

Many people are eyeing Guangben's fat piece of meat and want to get a piece of it. Even if they can't get the meat, it's still great to have a sip of the soup. Lu Ding is one of them.

Lu Ding didn't dare to expect to build a car, but a few auto parts processing orders from GAC would be enough to make his mold factory popular.

However, if you want to be a supplier of GAC, there are thresholds. Just treating guests to dinner is useless.

So during the recent period, Lu Ding has been busy inside and outside, just to solve the equipment problem and at least bring the factory's process level up to standard.

Lu Yiming, who is familiar with the general trend of the times, knows that the two most promising industries in China in the future, one is real estate and the other is the Internet, are both new tracks that can incubate several trillion-dollar private companies.

As for manufacturing…

To be honest, this is a big pit, and only ruthless people who are good at involution, plus a little official background, and can get support from policies and funds, have a slight chance of surviving.

If it was just to make money, Lu Yiming would not be stupid enough to invest money in this. After all, he is really unfamiliar with the development of manufacturing, and it is not something that private capital like him can handle.

But who makes dad like to toss with technology and industry?

It was only a mere 400,000 US dollars, so just let Lu Ding buy a few big toys.

I can't help it, I'm just so filial!

Lu Yiming thought about his words, and then said: "Dad, four hundred thousand dollars is not much, I can give it to you, but..."

Before he finished speaking, Ning Xuehua, who had just brought the preserved egg and lean meat porridge to the table, tapped Lu Yiming's head with the rice spoon in his hand and said, "Are you not awake yet? Let's talk about this early in the morning.

Nonsense. You still have to pay 400,000 U.S. dollars, but I think it’s hard for you to come up with 40 yuan.”

Lu Yiming covered his head and muttered in retort: ​​"I'm not talking nonsense, I really have the money!"

Ning Xuehua snorted, obviously not believing it: "Then tell me, who gave you this money?"

Lu Yiming said: "Bill Gates."

"who?"

"Bill Gates, president of Microsoft, the richest man in the world."

Ning Xuehua doesn't know who Bill Gates is, but Lu Ding does.

He has no international perspective, but he has read Forbes magazine flowing into the white clouds over the Xiangjiang River.

Since three years ago, Bill Gates has been ranked first as the world's richest man in the annual Forbes rich list!

Ning Xuehua said with a serious expression: "Don't tell me what you have and what you don't have. Tell me honestly, where did the money come from?"

Lu Yiming sighed and had to tell the truth: "Okay, I confess. Last semester, I taught myself computer programming, and then discovered a vulnerability in the Windows system, so I wrote a system patch to help Microsoft improve it.

After I installed the Windows system, Bill Gates gave me $300,000 as a reward.”

Although Mr. Bill Gates may have a different view on this last point.

But who cares?

Ning Xuehua and Lu Ding didn't understand anything about Windows systems or patches, so they couldn't tell whether what Lu Yiming said was true or false. Ning Xuehua asked, "You're not lying, are you?"

"

Lu Yiming decisively sold his teammates: "How could I lie to others? The computer I bought with the money I earned is still in the homeroom teacher's house. He can prove it. As for the money, it was all in Yi

If you don’t believe what’s in Cousin Wen’s card, you can ask them.”

At the beginning, Lu Yiming asked Li Yiwen not to tell Lu Ding and Ning Xuehua about this because Lu Yiming needed to use the money as principal to open an Internet cafe, and then use the Internet cafe's recharge gimmick to absorb funds to short the ruble.

Now that it's all over, and Lu Ding happens to need money, Lu Yiming naturally doesn't need to hide it.

When Ning Xuehua heard that Lu Yiming had done such a big thing and that she was still kept in the dark, she was so angry that she grabbed Lu Yiming's ears: "Good boy, your wings are strong, aren't you? You dare to hide it from me, too?"

!”

Lu Ding thought that if Lu Yiming really took out 300,000 U.S. dollars, and he did a little operation and loaned another 100,000 U.S. dollars, the problem would not be big. Thinking of this, Lu Ding felt very pleased.

This unreliable son of mine is really promising. Not only did his grades improve rapidly, but he actually earned three hundred thousand dollars with his own abilities!

At that moment, Lu Ding couldn't wait to ask: "Where's the money?"

Lu Yiming said: "It's all spent."

Lu Ding: "..."

Ning Xuehua: "..."