Reborn Industrial Tycoon

As soon as the method of reinvesting project profits emerged, a wave of reshuffles occurred in the real estate market.

When many places are selling land, they can't help but ask whether the profits from the project can be reinvested after obtaining a license.

The developer is also in a dilemma. If he refuses to invest, the project will be lost to him, but if he agrees to invest, the capital chain will not be able to bear it.

There has been a reshuffle in the real estate industry, and small developers, or developers like shell companies, have been quickly eliminated.

Li Weidong finished his work on the land bidding and immediately came to the special zone without stopping.

Rebs has put together a team, and Li Weidong's funds have been received, so he can start working hard!

Li Weidong walked into the conference room and rubbed his nose subconsciously. The newly decorated conference room was still filled with the smell of formaldehyde, which was a bit pungent.

"I'll ask the Puppy Electric office to send a batch of air purifiers later!" Li Weidong said.

"The logistics department should buy some, but since there are free ones, I can save a fortune." Rebus said, and began to introduce the people in the conference room to Li Weidong. These are all Rebus's employees from Microsoft, Google and other companies.

Poached by big tech companies.

After Yifan's introduction, everyone took their seats before Rebus said: "Chairman Li, give our new business a name!"

"How about calling it Xiaomi?" Li Weidong didn't bother to think about a new name and just used it as a doctrine.

"Xiaomi? Does it have any special meaning?" Rebus asked.

This time, Li Weidong was stunned. Li Weidong said to himself, "Didn't you, Rebus, come up with the name Xiaomi? Why did you ask me about my special meaning?"

Li Weidong immediately responded and said: "I was thinking that millet is the food we eat daily, and I also hope that our products can become people's daily necessities like food. In fact, if it is called rice, corn or the like will also work.

.”

"Rice is better, it sounds louder than millet!"

"Corn is not bad, and the word 'jade' sounds nice! It has a good meaning."

“The meaning of sorghum is not bad!”

"The name Gaoliang sounds like a wine seller."

“Calling corn sounds like it’s made from starch!”

A group of engineering tycoons started discussing the same name.

Li Weidong finally looked at Rebus and said, "Mr. Lei, how about you decide?"

"Since Chairman Li originally mentioned Xiaomi, let's not change it. Let's call it Xiaomi Technology!" Rebus said. He also thought the name Xiaomi was very good.

Next, everyone began to discuss research and development matters. Li Weidong basically didn't understand this technical aspect, so he could only sit there and watch a group of programmers talking happily.

After everyone was discussing, Rebus turned his attention to Li Weidong: "Chairman Li, do you have anything to add?"

Of course Li Weidong cannot say nothing, otherwise he will definitely be regarded as a useless boss.

It's just like during a meeting, the leader must summarize a few sentences at the end. Even if the summary is useless or even irrelevant to the topic, this process still needs to be in place.

Fortunately, Li Weidong was also prepared. He said: "You have just discussed a lot of technical issues, and I want to talk about the user level. The system we are going to develop is the first step in making smartphones.

"What do you think is the biggest difference between smartphones and traditional mobile phones from a user's perspective?"

Before anyone could answer, Li Weidong answered to himself: "The biggest difference between smartphones and traditional mobile phones is the screen. The screen of a smartphone can replace the keyboard of a traditional mobile phone, making the operation of the mobile phone simple and enabling many keyboard functions."

Unable to complete the operation.

So I think we should give full play to this feature of smartphones, and in the process of developing the system, focus on the smoothness of screen operations, enhance the user experience, and sacrifice part of the performance when necessary."

When it comes to "sacrifice performance", some people are immediately dissatisfied. At least programmers obviously value performance more.

Someone said: "Chairman Li, user experience is important, but performance is even more important. As a system, if the performance is not good, even if it is launched on the market, it will not be recognized by users. By then, our products will be easily

You will be defeated by your competitors.”

Li Weidong immediately replied: "It would be great if we can combine the specific user experience with system performance, but if it is really incompatible, we have to make a choice. I think user experience should be given priority. As for system performance, we can improve it step by step.

Improvements can be made through patches or system upgrades.

You are all insiders, and you should know that no software is perfect at the beginning. Just like Microsoft's Windows system, a new generation will be released in a few years, and each generation will have many patches to repair system vulnerabilities and

Improve system performance. Mr. Lei’s WPS has been out for several generations!

From a modern perspective, the performance of the first-generation Windows system is not that great, right? But why are 90% of computers around the world now using Windows? It’s because the first-generation Windows system has a better user experience.

, they first retained users, then improved performance through continuous upgrades, and finally achieved industry monopoly."

As Li Weidong spoke, he took out a mobile phone. It was Motorola's A1200, which is also a classic of Motorola.

The A1200 is a flip phone, but it is different from previous flip phones. Most flip phones at that time put the screen on the flip cover. However, the A1200 used the "Ming" series translucent flip phone with the screen on the body.

superior.

The A1200 uses a TFT screen and supports screen touch technology, which means that the A1200 is a touch-screen mobile phone. In addition, the A1200 uses a Linux smart operating system, so from a technical perspective, the A1200 can be

Think of it as a smartphone.

In terms of buttons, the A1200 is the same as today's smartphones. There are no numeric buttons from 1 to 9, which means that operations such as dialing and editing text messages need to be completed through the screen.

However, the TFT screen is not an LCD screen like today's smartphones. The sensitivity, recognition and response speed of the TFT screen are not good, so it must be used with a stylus.

The A1200 mobile phone also has many derivatives, and the sales are pretty good. In the era before iPhone appeared, the design of transparent flip cover and touch screen led the trend at that time.

It's a pity that after the iPhone appeared, this design was quickly thrown into the trash can and became a victim of the times.

Li Weidong continued: "The phone in my hand is also a touch screen phone, but the operation of this phone is far worse than Apple's iPhone. It is simply not on the same level. Sometimes I even need to use a stylus to press the buttons. Accurate number.

Products of the same type have already appeared on the market, and they have clearly told us their pros and cons. So if we make a smartphone system that is not as smooth as Apple's iPhone, then our products are destined to have no market."

Rebus also spoke in support; "I think what Chairman Li said is very reasonable. When I was working on WPS, I also had a similar painful lesson. As you all know, there was a time when our WPS was used by Microsoft. Offie failed and almost exited the market.

Later, we analyzed the reason and found that the user experience of our product was far inferior to Microsoft's Office. As everyone knows, WPS began to learn from Offie, copy its functions, and finally came to life.

I also have a technical background and know the importance of product performance. But after that painful lesson, I understood that not every customer needs perfect performance, and the vast majority of customers choose more convenient ones."

Rebus spoke and used personal experience as an example, so those who were dissatisfied had no choice but to shut up.

Apple's IOS system has advantages over Android systems, especially in the early days of smartphones, this advantage was even more obvious.

Compared with the Android system, the Apple IOS system has higher security, better software integration, clearer photos, lower memory usage, and smoother operation.

Later, as the Android system continued to be optimized, major mobile phone manufacturers also made improvements in software and hardware, so that the Android system began to catch up with Apple's IOS in all aspects.

Some brands have even surpassed Apple in optimizing and improving the functions of Android phones. For example, in terms of camera functions, more than one brand has surpassed Apple.

With the advent of the era of excess mobile phone hardware, the performance advantages of Apple's IOS system have gradually been offset by hardware improvements. With the support of powerful hardware, the Android system will also run smoothly.

Of course, the surplus of mobile phone hardware will only happen more than ten years later. In 2008, mobile phone configurations were pitifully low, and the superiority of Apple's IOS system was even more obvious.

Li Weidong knew very well that in the era when smartphones were just emerging, it was almost impossible to make the operating system as smooth as IOS based on the hardware level at the time.

After all, Apple's IOS system is a closed system. Apple mobile phone chips are specially designed based on the IOS system. The hardware and software of Apple mobile phones can be deeply integrated, which is something that open systems cannot do.

Even Li Weidong also makes closed systems, but with the current domestic technology level, he cannot design corresponding chips or manufacture other hardware devices. It will certainly not be as good as Apple's IOS.

Therefore, Li Weidong can only take the open source path of Android. Since he has decided to open source, the competitor Li Weidong's mobile phone system will face in the future will not be Apple, but Android.

This competition is like a few people being hunted by a ferocious beast. You don't need to be the fastest one, you just need to run faster than the last one to survive.

Therefore, Li Weidong's mobile operating system does not need to reach the level of Apple's IOS, as long as it is smoother than the early Android system.

After the meeting, all the engineering tycoons left one after another, but Li Weidong stopped Rebus.

"There's something else I need to trouble you with. I've made two small games. If you want to make them, you'll have to work hard on your Xishanju!" Li Weidong said.

Xishanju is a subsidiary of Kingsoft Group responsible for the game business. It was once the earliest game studio in China. The "Swordsman Love" developed that year can be regarded as a role-playing game that can compete with "Legend of Sword and Fairy". And "Swordsman Love"

》This IP has also made Xishanju suffer for a lifetime.

Li Weidong handed the game plan to Rebus. Rebus looked at the name of the game and said to himself: ""Fruit Bearer", is this a fighting game? "Angry Birds",

This sounds like a casual game."

However, Rebus's expression soon changed. From the original one of great expectation, it turned into "What kind of junk is this!"

"Director Li, the two games you want to make seem to be FLASH mini-games!" Rebus said.

Li Weidong nodded: "It can be played as a FLASH mini-game. This kind of mini-game should not be difficult for Xishanju, right?"

"Haha, just find a programmer and write a few strings of codes to make this thing." Rebus' tone was full of disdain, as if to say, asking Xishanju to make this kind of game is simply killing a chicken with a knife.

!

Li Weidong said: "I plan to move these two games to smartphones, that is, use the smartphone screen operations to replace mouse operations. With the current hardware level of smartphones, it can only carry these two games.

It’s a simple little game.”

Rebus pondered for a moment, and then said: "Not to mention, it would be really interesting to use this kind of FLASH game on a smartphone. Today's mobile games basically require physical button operations. If it can be played directly on the

If you operate it on the screen, it's a bit like a science fiction movie, and it does have a very technological feel."

Li Weidong continued; "Mr. Lei, you are looking down on mobile games. In my opinion, after ten years, mobile games will become mainstream, and then all major game companies will have to rely on mobile games to survive! Maybe you

Xishanju is also planning to develop a mobile version of "Swordsman Love"!"

…

The financial turmoil triggered by the U.S. subprime mortgage crisis has begun to sweep across the world, with Japan and Europe being the first to be cut off.

As a loyal licker of the United States, Japan has always liked to buy American financial assets. In the past few decades, Japan has been the largest holder of U.S. debt. The Japanese have so many dollars in their hands, so they naturally have to find ways to spend them.

Going abroad, various financial products in the United States have become a good place to spend US dollars.

European countries also have a soft spot for American financial assets, especially Germany, which is also an old customer of American financial products. The subprime mortgage crisis broke out, and Wall Street salesmen spared no effort to sell subprime related products to German investment banks.

products.

Therefore, when the U.S. subprime mortgage crisis broke out, Japan and Germany were the countries that suffered the most losses besides the United States.

Fortunately, both Japan and Germany at that time had strong financial resources. They had strong industrial strength, and they had accumulated large reserves of foreign goods over the years, which allowed them to withstand the impact of the financial crisis.

However, for some "lazy" countries, life was not so easy, such as what was later called the "Five European Pig Countries".

In order to survive the financial crisis, these countries began to borrow money on a large scale, and they already had a lot of debt. Coupled with the economic downturn, the countries were unable to repay these debts, and eventually the European debt crisis broke out. This also caused Europe to

It took several years for the economy to recover.

As the initiator of all crises, the United States does not focus on dealing with the subprime mortgage crisis. The Democratic and Republican parties are busy with the upcoming presidential election.

As usual, this is another wave of political infighting.

The ruling Republican Party wants to take advantage of the outbreak of the subprime mortgage crisis and launch a tax rebate policy to gain more votes. U.S. Treasury Secretary Paulson directly stated that as long as the tax rebate policy is passed, the U.S. economy will accelerate growth later in 2008.

Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan also came out in support, saying that the worst stage of the subprime mortgage crisis was over and the U.S. economy had begun to recover.

The U.S. government is very good at whitewashing the peace. Even though the world's economy has been severely damaged by the U.S. subprime mortgage crisis, U.S. politicians can still say without blushing that the economic prospects are optimistic!

Of course, it is impossible for the Democratic Party to allow the tax rebate policy to be implemented. Firstly, the Democratic Party has always been opposed to tax cuts. Secondly, the Democratic Party does not want the Republican Party to gain more votes because of the tax rebate policy.

While stalling on the tax rebate policy, the Democratic Party also supported labor unions in their campaigns to win more worker votes. The general strike that bankrupted General Motors took place at this time.

In September, Lehman Brothers, the fourth largest investment bank in the United States, filed for bankruptcy, which immediately dealt a heavy blow to the U.S. economy. Even the stupidest people have realized that the U.S. government's claim that the subprime mortgage crisis is over is simply a lie.

The worst moment has just arrived.

Although the George W. Bush administration is not good at economics, there has never been a shortage of economic elites in American politics. Even if politicians are both "understanding kings" and "sleeping kings," their staffs are more sophisticated than the others.

At this time, the U.S. government also realized that it must intervene forcefully in the financial market in order to survive this crisis.

The Bush administration submitted a bill to rescue the financial system to the U.S. Congress. The Treasury Department will purchase US$700 billion in non-performing housing mortgage loan assets from the market, that is, various subprime-related CDS and matryoshka CDOs, to stabilize the financial market.

However, when the bill reached Congress, it was blocked by the Democratic Party. The Democratic Party's reason was that the $700 billion was too small and they should buy more to save the U.S. financial market.

But in fact, this is just an excuse made by the Democratic Party. The real intention of the Democratic Party is to delay the financial rescue bill, preferably until the end of the US election in November.

Because if the financial rescue bill is implemented before the election, it will be regarded by the public as a political achievement of the Republican Party. When the presidential election comes, the Republican candidates will have more votes.

In order to prevent Republican candidates from gaining more votes, the Democratic Party will inevitably get stuck. Even if this financial rescue bill is beneficial to the country, even if it is urgent to save the economy!

And if the Democratic Party wins the November election and introduces a financial rescue bill at this time, the credit will definitely go to the Democratic Party, and it will also be a bonus for the new president.

Therefore, the implementation of the financial rescue bill was delayed until November 25, and by that time, President Trump had been elected as the 44th President of the United States. This financial rescue bill was equivalent to giving President Trump a good hand.

In comparison, the European Central Bank acted much faster. When Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy, they began to inject capital into the European banking system.

If it were not for the European debt crisis, perhaps Europe would have emerged from this financial crisis earlier than the United States.

…

In the conference room of the People's Bank of China, people walked in one after another, and they were all prominent figures from major financial institutions.

Director Sui from the insurance company also came to the venue.

During the U.S. subprime mortgage crisis, the insurance company where Director Sui worked made a lot of money through short selling. Therefore, Director Sui received a high promotion not long ago and became the deputy chairman of the strategic investment committee of the insurance company.

This strategic investment committee is directly under the board of directors, and its organizational structure is higher than the various departments of the insurance company. As long as Director Sui, the deputy chairman, goes one step further, he can enter the board of directors, get a director position, and become the core

decision-making level.

Many people present knew the news about Director Sui's Gao Sheng. After seeing him, they all came forward to congratulate him.

"Chairman Sui, you have been promoted, why don't you treat us to a meal?"

"It's the deputy, deputy chairman." Director Sui said this, but his face was filled with joy.

"Xiao Sui is so young and promising, and he will certainly be able to find a full-time job soon! When I was still in the bank, I could see that Xiao Sui is definitely not the one in the pool!"

The speaker was an old colleague of Director Sui when he was working in the bank. He was much older than Director Sui, and his position was half a level higher. He was familiar with Director Sui, so he directly called him "Little Sui."

"Old leader, you are flattering me, I still have a lot to learn from you." Director Sui said quickly.

Director Sui said, looking behind the old leader, and then asked: "Which leader of our team will be leading the meeting this year?"

After all, Director Sui came from a bank and hung out in this circle. When he met his former leaders, of course he had to take the initiative to say hello.

"You don't have to look for it, I will be leading the team today." The old leader paused, lowered his voice and continued: "Originally, according to the arrangement in the industry, Director Wang was asked to lead the team to attend the meeting, but Director Wang received the call

He was notified of his transfer, so he couldn’t come, and other leaders didn’t have time, so they asked me to take over temporarily.”

"Has Director Wang been promoted?" Director Sui asked immediately.

"The above has made some adjustments to the business in charge of Director Wang. He is now in charge of the service center and training center." The old leader said.

Director Sui was slightly startled. This was clearly a demotion! What kind of real power would he have if he was in charge of the service center and training center? This position was basically equivalent to letting Director Wang wait until he retired.

"Did Director Wang offend someone? I remember when I first left, he was still in charge of important business." Director Sui said.

"It's not just the U.S. subprime mortgage crisis. How could an investment bank as big as Lehman Brothers go bankrupt? We have business dealings with Lehman Brothers, and our bank has also lost a lot of money. Such a big investment bank has gone bankrupt."

You have to find someone to take the blame for the loss!"

The old leader paused for a moment, then continued: "Then the higher-ups started to investigate, saying how could there be no warning for such a serious financial risk? Then it was found that your company took advantage of the subprime mortgage crisis and made a fortune on Wall Street.

Was it Li Weidong from the Puppy Group who gave you the inside information?"

"There's no inside information, it's all basic financial operations." Director Sui quickly covered it up. After all, getting inside information to conduct profitable transactions is not something that can be said to the outside world in a big way.

"Okay, Xiao Sui, why are you still looking at me? Besides, there is no airtight wall in our circle." The old leader continued in a low voice: "Do you still remember that three or four years ago, Director Wang was killed?

We received a loan from Li Weidong, and since then Li Weidong has had no business dealings with our bank.

The superiors believed that if Li Weidong was willing to give us inside information, we would not have suffered such a big loss, and maybe we could even make a fortune. It was also because of this incident that the superiors finally let Director Wang take the blame and punished a director.

, which can be regarded as an explanation to the banking regulatory department.”

The old leader said with a long sigh: "Director Wang is also unlucky. When he became a director, it is understandable that he killed the company's loans in order to establish his authority. It should not be done at all. He killed Li Weidong.

The loan we applied for caused our bank to have a direct dispute with Li Weidong. Now there is a legitimate reason for him to take the blame!"

Director Sui nodded in agreement. Thinking about how he had just been promoted to deputy chairman, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart: He still has to hold on to Li Weidong's thigh!