Rebirth of the 1980s: The Military Industry Empire

In China, Ni Gong's monthly salary was 70 yuan. After going to Maple Leaf Country (Canada), it became 3,000 US dollars a month. However, he still gave up the superior conditions abroad and chose to return to his motherland!

Speaking of these things, Ni Gong was very emotional.

"Once, I went to the mall to buy shoes. I saw American, British, and Italian leather shoes with high prices displayed in the shop window. At the same time, in an old basket at the door, there was a messy pile of cloth shoes, priced at only $1.99 a pair. I picked up a pair and saw the words 'Made in China' clearly printed on them."

"It's not just shoes, but other things too. In short, what we in the East can manufacture for export are some agricultural products and light industrial products, and they are all low-end. Therefore, I decided to return to China. We must make high-tech products and sell them abroad, so that foreigners can't look down on us."

Ni Gong returned with a heart full of patriotic enthusiasm!

"Ni Gong, don't worry, you won't be disappointed. No matter how much money it takes, our Factory 960 will provide it. We only have one requirement: to develop the Loongson chip, make it bigger and stronger, and become the most advanced processor in the world!"

"I will," Ni Gong said. "This is exactly my strength."

"President Qin, the Computer Institute called, asking Ni Gong to go back."

"Who called?"

"They didn't say."

"Now Ni Gong is one of us. If they have anything, let them come here," Qin Yang said. "Don't delay Ni Gong's time."

An hour later.

Engineer Liu appeared in Ni Gong's office with a complicated expression.

"Ni Gong, in order to revitalize the country's computer technology, we have decided to establish a computer company and want to invite you to join," Engineer Liu said very sincerely. "We are old friends, you must help with this."

"Revitalize our computer technology? What are you planning to do?"

"Ni Gong, if we want to develop computers, we must let more people use them. The current computers cannot directly process Chinese characters. We hope to work with you to invent a board card to solve this problem."

Computers were invented by foreigners. Initially, they used paper tape input and paper tape output, so it didn't matter what language was used. However, after it developed to assembly language, there needed to be concise code to represent it, and the globally used English became the most suitable language. It has been developed all the way down, and English is used.

Alphabetic writing is simple and intuitive to represent, and input is also very convenient, so it has been used until now.

If it is only used in the field of scientific research, it doesn't matter if English is used. However, with the development of computer technology, if it is to go deep into people's lives, there must be a native language.

Other countries will not help with this, so we can only do it ourselves.

Before going abroad, Ni Gong was engaged in this research. And now, to develop hardware that translates into Chinese for microcomputers, Ni Gong has this ability.

Wait, does this still need so much trouble? When installing software, including the operating system, can't you choose the language version to install?

Of course, that will be in the future. When computer technology advances, there can be various language packs, and you can install whatever you want. But it's not possible now. The computer's processor only has a computing power of a few megahertz. If you give it to the processor to convert the language, then don't do anything else, just crash.

This requires special hardware. There are many slots left on the computer, and you can plug a special board card into one of the slots to perform hardware translation, which is more efficient.

This is the same as video decoding. Watching high-definition programs on a computer requires the processor to run at high speed to decode the video, but it is easy on a TV because the TV uses a special decoding chip, which is hardware decoding.

The East needs this device!

Engineer Liu's business talent is quite high, and he quickly set his sights on this field. However, his technology is not good, and this technology requires Ni Gong to do it.

Is Ni Gong willing to support it?

Ni Gong really hesitated for a moment.

After all, he has the country in his heart. He wants to promote the country's computer development, and of course, he needs to solve this problem.

But, is now the time for him to do this? He thought about it simply and refused: "Engineer Liu, I have more important things to do now. I want to develop our Loongson chip, our own chip."

"Old Ni, use your brain. Is it so easy to develop a chip? Before it is developed, how will our domestic computer technology develop? Don't we still have to import chips from abroad? These foreign computers can't display our Chinese, so they can't be used. Now, solving this problem is the most important thing," Engineer Liu said. "As long as you go to my company, I will hire you as the chief engineer, with the highest salary!"

Ni Gong frowned: "Then I have to get to work quickly and develop our own chip as soon as possible."

"Old Ni, you!" Engineer Liu was speechless.

"Hey, Engineer Liu, shouldn't you leave?" A voice came from outside: "Are you leaving on your own, or am I going to ask you out?"

Engineer Liu's face turned ugly for a while: "Okay, I'll leave on my own. In the future, I won't visit your door. Hmph, the threshold is high enough."

Engineer Liu walked out angrily and waited for the bus at the entrance of Factory Two, but he heard a voice from the phone booth next to him.

"Old Uncle, you're too much. Why did you only approve me for two hundred Hitachi TVs? What's enough to do with this little bit of goods?"

"No, Old Uncle, I don't care, I have to have four hundred TVs anyway. You prepare the approval slip for me, and I'll go over and get it now, and then go pick up the goods."

The speaker was a young woman in her twenties, wearing a goose-yellow trench coat, flared pants, and creaky leather shoes. It was obvious that she was not an ordinary person. Her hair was in big waves, and she took out sunglasses from her pocket and put them on her face after finishing the call.

Engineer Liu's heart suddenly moved.

Their company has been established, and they have to do something. After all, borrowing money from the bank requires interest. Now that he accidentally heard that this woman actually has connections to get TVs, if he gets a batch from her and sells it, he can make a lot of money.

However, it would be too presumptuous to go up and say hello directly. In this era, going up and saying hello directly is easily considered a hooligan. He can only endure it for the time being, watching the woman walk towards him, apparently also waiting for the bus!

The bus came, the woman got on the bus, and Engineer Liu also got on the bus. After shaking on the bus for half an hour, when he got off the bus, he happened to arrive at the street in charge of import and export units.

It seems that's right, this woman must be going to get an approval slip!

How should he say hello?

While Engineer Liu was hesitating, he saw three hooligans walking out of the roadside.

"Hey, beautiful girl, how about playing with us brothers?"

"Get lost!"

"Outrageous, you people are too lawless!" Engineer Liu didn't know where the courage came from, but he suddenly stood up.