The Boss of the Yan Family in Siheyuan

Chapter 359 The First Business

After half a month of continuous testing, although there were some minor problems, they were all solved in time by Ni Guangnan. The next step is to find ways to produce and promote them.

Now that the Internet has not begun to spread, there is no market at all in the civilian field, and only major research institutes and universities have this demand.

The first thing Yan Jiecheng thought of was the Computing Institute, so he and Ni Guangnan went directly to Director Zeng with the prototype.

"Mr. Yan, Gong Ni, who are you two?" Director Zeng saw the two of them coming over with something the size of a shoe box. He looked at the two of them with some confusion, wondering what they were doing here.

"Director Zeng, our company's product has been developed. Why don't we bring it over for you to take a look at?" Yan Jiecheng said as he patted the shoe box.

"Oh, this is the multi-protocol router you are talking about? Can it connect different networks?" Director Zeng looked at this shoebox-sized thing curiously and said with some disbelief.

After all, the listening function seemed to be very advanced. He didn't believe that such a high-tech thing could be developed in China.

"I've brought everything here, so how can it be fake? We're just computer people. You'll know if you give it a try."

"Okay, then let's give it a try." Director Zeng nodded after hearing Yan Jiecheng's words. He also wanted to see if this thing was as magical as Yan Jiecheng said.

Seeing that Director Zeng agreed, Yan Jiecheng quickly asked Ni Guangnan to lead the people to take action. Everyone even had time to eat lunch. They were busy until midnight before debugging the equipment and using this router to connect the computers in various departments in the institute.

Come together.

Director Zeng stared at the computer screen in front of him, looking at the information sent from different departments. He was extremely shocked.

"Mr. Yan, is there such equipment abroad now?" Director Zeng raised his head and asked Yan Jiecheng.

"This is the only one in the world." Yan Jiecheng replied with a smile.

"Oh, is it true?" Director Zeng still didn't believe it, so he looked at Ni Guangnan aside. After all, Ni Guangnan had worked in Canada before, and he must know more about foreign affairs than Yan Jiecheng.

Seeing Director Zeng looking towards him, Ni Guangnan quickly said truthfully: "That's true, and we have applied for an international patent."

"I'm relieved now. Let's just keep this machine in the institute. Tomorrow I'll ask people from the Academy of Sciences to come and take a look at it and see if I can apply for a reward or something."

"Okay, this is great. Let's just keep this machine here. If nothing happens, we will go back." Yan Jiecheng said excitedly after hearing what Director Zeng said.

"Don't go back in a hurry. You have been busy all day and haven't even had time to eat. You have to finish eating before leaving. Otherwise, how can we behave as people in our place if word spreads.

Xiao Wang, quickly ask the cafeteria to prepare a table of food, and then call Lao Liu over. Tell Mr. Yan and Gong Ni that they are here and ask him to come and keep him company." After speaking, Director Zeng ordered to Xiao Wang who was standing aside.

Seeing that Director Zeng was so polite, Yan Jiecheng didn't dare to refuse. He happened to be hungry, so he stayed on.

Director Zeng led everyone to the private room in the cafeteria. As soon as he sat down, Liu Mouzhi trotted over.

"Mr. Yan, Gong Ni, why didn't you say anything when you came over? If I had known you were coming, I would have had to greet you at the door." Liu Mouzhi said with a smile on his face.

"Okay, Mr. Yan and the others came here today because they have business to do. I'll call you over as soon as I'm done."

"Oh, business, what's going on?" Liu Mouzhi asked doubtfully.

"The product that Mr. Yan mentioned before has been developed, which is the multi-protocol router. Today we mainly bring it over to show us and test it."

After hearing what Director Zeng said, Liu Mouzhi quickly asked: "Is that the device that can link LANs?"

"Yes, that's it. It has been tested and it has fully achieved the performance that Mr. Yan told me before. I plan to report to the superiors tomorrow to see if the superiors can allocate a sum of money to connect our computer with the Academy of Sciences.

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"That's good news. I'll have to toast Mr. Yan a few more times later." Although Liu Mouzhi made up his mind after hearing Director Zeng's words, he still said congratulations with a smile on his face.

At this time, the canteen staff brought the food to the table. Yan Jiecheng had eaten something in the morning all day long. He was already so hungry that he didn't bother to be polite, so he picked up his chopsticks and started eating in big mouthfuls.

After eating and drinking, Yan Jiecheng declined Director Zeng's offer to stay, sent Workers Ni and others back to the company, and returned home.

Early the next morning, I received a call from Director Zeng, saying that someone from the Academy of Sciences was here and asked Yan Jiecheng to take Ni Guangnan there.

When Yan Jiecheng and Ni Guangnan arrived, they saw a few old men with glasses looking around the router, and there was a circle of people surrounding it.

"Come, come, Mr. Yan, let me introduce to you. This is Dean Lu of the Academy of Sciences." Seeing Yan Jiecheng arrive, Director Zeng quickly pulled him over and introduced him to several people.

"The original idea for this equipment was proposed by you." After hearing Director Zeng's introduction, Dean Lu turned to Yan Jiecheng and asked.

"Yes." Yan Jiecheng replied simply and concisely.

"How did you come up with the idea of ​​developing this device?"

Dean Lu was a little curious. He had learned before that Yan Jiecheng did not study computers. Strictly speaking, he never even went to college. He just worked in a steel rolling mill before graduating from junior high school. After the reform and opening up, he went into business overseas.

How could such a person think of developing such a device? He even doubted whether Yan Jiecheng knew anything about computers.

"We used to have two 5150s produced by IBM at home, and we accidentally wanted to connect the two computers, and then we found the Computing Institute."

"Okay, now that the equipment has been developed, what are you going to do?"

Dean Lu thought to himself, this is such good luck, why didn't he expect that there are so many people from the Institute of Computing Technology?

Yan Jiecheng: “Continue to research and bring it to the market.”

"this……."

Dean Lu didn’t know what to say. The main reason is that there is no civilian market for this thing at all. Even if it is used, it must be used by scientific research institutions and universities, or large state-owned enterprises.

He had previously thought that Yan Jiecheng would contribute his technology and hand it over to the country for production. After all, ordinary people would not be able to use this thing.

The concept of the Internet has not yet spread to China, and even the United States has just begun to plan to make Ethernet available for civilian use.

Yan Jiecheng could tell by looking at Dean Lu's expression what he was thinking, but Yan Jiecheng did not speak.

It's impossible for him to hand over his technology. People like them are reluctant to continue investing even if they make money with their technology. They might as well do it themselves.

When Yan Jiecheng didn't speak, Dean Lu had to take the initiative to break the deadlock: "I don't know how much Mr. Yan plans to sell this equipment."

"One hundred thousand yuan per unit."

Yan Jiecheng thought about it and thought that the cost would be more than 20,000 yuan. To recoup the research and development costs, the price would not be too low. After all, the market is too small to form a scale and mass production cannot be achieved.

After hearing Yan Jiecheng's quotation, Dean Lu pondered for a moment and thought it was not too expensive. After all, a personal computer now costs more than 20,000 yuan, and one Lenovo Hanka developed by him costs just over 20,000 yuan.

Five to six thousand dollars.

The price is very reasonable, and it is produced domestically without the need for foreign exchange.

"Let your company do the job of connecting the computers of the Institute of Computing and the computing center of the Academy of Sciences. Calculate how much it will cost."

"I have to go back and find the engineering staff to calculate it, but don't worry, as our company's first order of business, we will definitely not ask for more." Yan Jiecheng replied happily.

If you win this business, it doesn't matter whether you make money or not. The main thing is that you can play a leading role.

When the time comes to discuss business with major universities, if you mention the names of the Institute of Computing Technology and the Academy of Sciences, if nothing else, the success rate will definitely increase several levels.

After discussing the business, Yan Jiecheng stayed with Dean Lu for a while, introduced the functions of some routers, and then drove back to the company to gather everyone together and start assigning tasks.

Ten people with poor technical skills were left to assemble the equipment, and the remaining people continued to develop the next generation router, and Yan Jiecheng required that the performance should be at least ten times better than this equipment.

"Mr. Yan, is this too fast? We have just developed it and we have to develop the next generation before we start making money. We have to recoup the research and development costs." Yan Jiekuang asked puzzledly.

You must know that in order to develop this equipment, their company invested more than three million yuan, and they have to develop the next generation without seeing any money back. In his opinion, this is money to burn.

Other employees also thought so, but no one came forward to say it. When Yan Jiekang spoke, they all looked over, wanting to hear what Yan Jiecheng would say.

"Time waits for no one. We must produce one generation and develop one generation, and then pre-research one generation when we have the ability. The technology industry updates very quickly, especially for products that have just been released. One step is slow and the other is slow.

Although we seem to be leading now, it does not mean that other companies cannot catch up. We cannot rest on our laurels and leave no chance to our opponents." Yan Jiecheng stood at the front desk and spoke loudly.

"Mr. Yan is right. If our country has a technology that leads the world, we cannot let other countries catch up because of slack."

Ni Guangnan agreed with Yan Jiecheng's words. After all, he had worked abroad for so many years and he knew what foreign companies were like.

And he also values ​​this technology very much. Although the market is not big now, it will definitely develop in the future. After all, this kind of equipment is indispensable to connect local area networks.

"By the way, Mr. Yan, does our company have enough funds to support the research and development of next-generation equipment?" Seeing that no one had any objections, Ni Guangnan turned to Yan Jiecheng and asked.

He is not very worried about research and development. After all, he has already entered the door. From now on, it will only be a question of the speed of progress.

What he is most worried about is that R&D funds cannot keep up. After all, no one can afford such a large sum of money with no output from the investment.

"You don't have to worry. I've started to build a sales team in the past few days. I believe there will be money in the account soon." Yan Jiecheng said with confidence.

Not to mention the business of the Institute of Computing Technology and the Academy of Sciences, as long as they can win the business of the computer rooms of these universities in the capital, it will be enough to maintain the operation of their company.

Even if the company has no money and invests in it itself, by the end of the year, the fried chicken restaurant franchise fee alone will have earned millions.

Moreover, Yan Jiecheng also plans to participate in the science and technology exhibition held by Xiaori Kingdom next year, and he will definitely make some income by then.

The only thing I'm worried about is the insufficient performance of the equipment. Before that, it's best to develop a second-generation router, and then make a lot of money from it.

After giving instructions, Yan Jiecheng went downstairs and drove towards Yan Ziwan's school.

Their school is on annual vacation today and they have a lot of things to take home. If Yan Jiecheng doesn't go, she will have to hire a truck.

Twenty minutes later, Yan Jiecheng arrived at the entrance of BFSU.

"Yan Ziwan, when will your father come to pick you up, why don't we take you back?" said several roommates in the same dormitory next to him.

"It should be soon. As we said before, what if I go back and my dad comes and can't find anyone?" Yan Ziwan said, looking down at her watch, her eyes a little anxious, and she couldn't help but start to blame Yan Jiecheng.

"Here." Yan Jiecheng got out of the car and waved to a few people.

"Dad, why did you come here? I've been waiting for you for a long time." Yan Ziwan asked, wrinkling her nose.

"Hey, aren't you borrowing a car? Otherwise, how can I help you pull your things?" Yan Jiecheng said nonchalantly.

"Hello, Uncle Yan." Several of Yan Ziwan's best friends shouted to Yan Jiecheng.

"Hey you guys, by the way. When will you go back after the holiday? Do you want uncle to take you to the station?"

"No, no, we have made a plan. We won't go home today to celebrate the New Year. We will stay at school. We will graduate soon anyway." After hearing Yan Jiecheng's words, several people quickly waved their hands and declined.

"Okay then, let's leave first. You guys can come over to our house to play when you have time. By the way, come to our house during the Chinese New Year. It seems lively when there are so many people."

"this……."

"That's it, I'll pick you up when the time comes." Yan Jiecheng didn't give a few people a chance to refuse. He mentioned Yan Ziwan's surname, Li, and got in the car.

"Dad, what are you doing today? You promised to pick me up at noon." Yan Ziwan sat in the back seat and said to Yan Jiecheng in the driver's seat.

"The company made some mistakes." Yan Jiecheng said while driving the car.

"Dad, how about I also get a driver's license? If you need anything in the future, you can drive the car for me."

"You? Let's forget it." Yan Jiecheng shook his head after hearing Ziwan's words.

"What's wrong with me? Are you worried that I can't learn?"

"I'm not worried about you, I'm worried that you'll hit someone else."

Hearing Yan Ziwan's words, Yan Jiecheng immediately thought of the female drivers in later generations who used the accelerator as a brake and the wipers. He didn't trust Yan Ziwan to drive alone. If something happened, it would be too late to regret it.

"Hmph, I think you are just stingy and are reluctant to give me your car."

"You can learn to drive, but forget about driving. We'll wait until you can afford a car." After saying this, Yan Jiecheng ignored Yan Ziwan and concentrated on driving.

(End of chapter)