The Godfather of Football

Ye Qiu's office at the Theobald training base is quite large, because it looks like an independent suite.

The office area and reception area are open to the public, and the innermost is the room for rest and sleeping. Everything is designed by Ye Qiu himself according to his own work and rest habits and hobbies. It's not very good, but it suits his own preferences.

However, he is the same as Ferguson in one aspect, that is, they are on the side close to the training ground, using a huge floor-to-ceiling glass curtain wall design, which allows him to observe the situation on the training ground anytime and anywhere, and on the other hand, it is also because he likes to think about things facing the window and the scenery outside.

The sky in London is always so changeable. When I went out just now, I could see the sun, but now it has become cloudy, just like life, unpredictable, and no one knows what will happen in the future.

When Huang Chu took his two children to the mall a few days ago, he bought four first-class massage chairs for airplanes. He bought three for home and placed them in the rooms of Ye Qiu's parents, Huang Chu's parents, and the couple, and another one was placed in Ye Qiu's office to be used as an office chair.

Now Ye Qiu is sitting on this first-class massage chair, turning around, half lying, facing the computer LCD screen on the desk, facing the Theobald training base under the dark clouds outside, spinning the Zeus II mobile phone in his hand, thinking about the game against Middlesbrough tomorrow.

The continuous multi-line operations have brought a huge impact on Tottenham Hotspur. Losing to Manchester United in the League Cup final is really cowardly, especially losing in the penalty shootout. There is really nothing to say, but this also fully reflects Tottenham Hotspur’s current problem, the depth of the bench is not strong enough.

So, to some extent, losing the FA Cup and the League Cup may not be a bad thing for Tottenham Hotspur.

But there are some things Ye Qiu can’t say to outsiders, but he is frank to the coaching staff. The current problem of the team is still the unbeaten streak, especially for some young players in the team. The unbeaten streak is like piling stones on them. They have to play with these stones in every game. The pressure can be imagined.

If we look at it from this perspective, losing a game may not be a bad thing, but the question is, who can guarantee that Tottenham Hotspur can quickly adjust after losing the game and continue to maintain the current state and momentum?

The future is full of unknowns, just like when Ye Qiu went out in the morning, he could never have imagined that it would be cloudy more than half an hour later, so as the head coach of the team, all Ye Qiu can do is follow his feelings.

After losing the League Cup final, the most important game for Tottenham Hotspur is this game against Middlesbrough, because if this game is not played well, the impact of the League Cup final will be greater, and even affect the team's championship.

Just as Ye Qiu was thinking, his mobile phone vibrated. After unlocking it, it turned out that Eliza Moon, who was far away in San Francisco, USA, updated her Weibo and Facebook. This Weibo queen with the most fans in the world now updates her Weibo almost every day and every hour, sometimes posting a photo or complaining a few words.

But today was a little special. She posted a photo of her facing the mirror, only half of her face could be seen, holding a tablet in her hand and taking a photo. This tablet looked smaller than the one that Yezi Technology was currently selling. It was clear that she wanted to tell everyone that this was the seven-inch MINI version that was widely rumored by the outside media.

This girl also wrote a sentence under the photo, "What did you see?"

Ye Qiu clicked the reply button on the phone screen, "Wow, such a big crow's feet, so scary!" Then he clicked send, and waited for her reply with a mischievous smile.

"You damn conscienceless guy, where did the crow's feet come from?" This time it was not Weibo, but through the chat tool recently launched by Facebook. Obviously, she didn't want her private chat with Ye Qiu to be seen by others.

"Beautiful Miss Moon, according to the current San Francisco time, it should be past midnight, right? Aren't you going to rest?"

Soon, the other side replied: "Oh, you also know it's past midnight, Mr. Ye Qiu, I just came back from outside!"

"The company shouldn't be very busy recently, where have you been?"

"Pao Zai!"

Immediately added, "I met a handsome guy recently, and we often go out together at night. It's early to come back now!"

"Really? Then I have to congratulate you, someone finally wants you!"

"Needless to say?" Eliza also added a playful cartoon expression.

Ye Qiu thought for a moment and sent another message: "If you have the ability to marry yourself, I will give you the most luxurious dowry in the world and make you the happiest bride in the world. I really mean it!"

After more than a minute, I don't know if it was due to network delay or other reasons, I received a reply, "Do you really want me to get married earlier? Are you willing to do it?"

This made Ye Qiu's heart move, but soon another message came, "If I get married, who will help you look after the company!"

"I hope you are happy!" Ye Qiu replied.

This time, I waited for more than three minutes before receiving a reply, "I am very happy now, so don't bother me!" Then a black whip was sent, as if if you stand in front of me, I will SM you now!

"By the way, let me show you this!"

Soon, she sent three pictures. One was the mini tablet that Leaf Technology was about to launch, and the other two were the laptops that Ye Qiu had explained before. It was an ultrabook that combined many advantages of a touch tablet and a transformable laptop.

In Ye Qiu's previous life, he had paid attention to Microsoft's Surface. He thought that first of all, this concept was very good and it was also a trend in the future, but the problem with Microsoft was that they focused too much on the PC side and had no experience in the mobile side, so they encountered many problems in this aspect.

One of the two design drawings was plagiarized from the design of Microsoft's Surface in the previous life, and the other was Leaf Technology's own design. Both were from Jonathan Ive's handwriting. It has not yet been determined which plan to use.

Looking at Microsoft's mobile devices, almost none of them have been successful, and this is the reason.

Leaf Technology is currently cooperating with multiple PC hardware manufacturers such as Intel to jointly develop this product, and it will use Leaf Technology's Android system at that time. At present, Leaf Technology's software department has already listed the development of ultrabooks when it launched the tablet computer development project two years ago, and is currently stepping up development.

The biggest difficulty at present is the transformation of the operating system, but unlike in the previous life, Ye Qiu has considered cross-platform integration since the birth of Android, so the Android system has invested in this aspect of research and development from the beginning, so the entire process of the Android system from mobile phones to tablets, and then to ultrabooks can be said to be a continuation of the same line.

Of course, for the time being, it is very difficult, and it is almost impossible to port the Android system to PC in a short period of time and compete directly with Microsoft face to face, and it is bound to fail. Therefore, for the time being, Yezi Technology has no idea of ​​promoting the Android notebook operating system on a large scale, just to create an innovative ultrabook.

"Engineering machine?" Ye Qiu was obviously asking about the ultrabook, because the Mini version of the tablet computer will be launched in the second half of the year, and Eliza is now releasing it, obviously to cooperate with publicity and promotion.

"Well, the engineering machine, there is no problem with the hardware, but there are a lot of problems with the software system, and it needs to be constantly optimized and improved. After the engineers have finished it, I will ask them to send one to you to play with."

"Okay!" Ye Qiu replied with a smile, the stability of the software system and user experience are the key.

At present, the entire product line of Leaf Technology is quite complete. In terms of smartphones, Leaf Technology almost dominates the entire mid-to-high-end field. Now it has launched tablets and Mini versions, and will launch ultrabooks later. This is a perfection of the entire mobile device product chain.

Microsoft has been shocked by Leaf Technology now, because they originally thought that Leaf Technology only made mobile phones, but with the promotion of the Android system, it has almost swept the entire smartphone system, especially when Leaf Technology consciously relaxed the threshold to seize the market. In addition, Microsoft's mobile phone system is not powerful, Apple's mobile phone has not been released for a long time, and Zeus mobile phones are selling better and better, it is almost invincible.

Once Leaf Technology's Android system enters the ultrabook field and launches best-selling products such as Zeus mobile phones and tablets in the notebook field, it will inevitably have an impact on Microsoft's operating system in the future, because since the Android system is to be transplanted to the notebook field, it will inevitably enter other PC fields in the future, and the foundation that Microsoft Empire is most proud of will be in danger of being shaken.

So there are reports that Microsoft intends to launch a series of cooperation with Nokia, and also intends to strengthen the research and development of mobile phone operating systems, striving to launch its own new generation of WP mobile phone operating system in early 2010, while Apple will also launch its own IOS operating system mobile phone, as well as the tablet computer research and development project that was delayed due to the setback in mobile phone research and development.

On the contrary, Google has suffered the most from the rise of Leaf Technology. Because they have lost the Android mobile phone system, they are currently working hard to build a mobile phone operating system of their own.

As Leaf Technology lowers the threshold of the Android system and seizes the market, coupled with the patent barriers, it is really difficult for them to compete with Leaf Technology, especially when Leaf Technology consciously avoids competition with Samsung, HTC and some domestic mobile phone manufacturers, making these manufacturers firmly tied to the chariot of Leaf Technology.

More importantly, when Ye Qiu founded Leaf Technology, he had already registered quite a few patents, such as the dynamic tile interface of Microsoft WP and WIN8, as well as the flat icon design, etc., which were all registered by Leaf Technology in advance. Quite a lot of patents, which undoubtedly increased the difficulty of research and development for competitors.

"Our tablet computer sales have exceeded three million units, and we expect sales in the first quarter to reach four million units. The annual sales volume will exceed ten million units, which is a very easy task!" In the chat tool, Eliza Moon happily reported the latest results to Ye Qiu.

With the hot sales of Zeus mobile phones and tablets, Leaf Technology's profitability is quite amazing. At present, the company has been accumulating cash at a very fast speed. According to Eliza Moon's speculation, if the sales of tablets this year can exceed 10 million units, and the total sales of Zeus mobile phone series can exceed 50 million units, the company's cash flow will reach an astonishing figure, the net profit will exceed 10 billion US dollars, and the total cash held will exceed 50 billion US dollars.

This is the result achieved after Leaf Technology successfully acquired Nuance at the beginning of the year and entered the voice field with all its strength. If the original Nortel Network patents that have skyrocketed and the technologies and patents currently in hand are counted, Leaf Technology has become a veritable giant company.

This does not include some subsidiaries including Twitter, WeChat, Facebook, etc. If they are counted, the total market value of Leaf Technology will be an astronomical figure.

"At present, many investors and the company's investment department think that we should complete a large acquisition!" Eliza said with a smile. After all, she has made the greatest contribution to the development of Leaf Technology today.

"Oh?" Ye Qiu didn't say anything, but those who knew him knew that he was asking.

"You know, Intel's market value is about 100 billion, which is about the same as Samsung Electronics' market value. They are both the best semiconductor companies at present. If we take over Intel, it will be of great help to our future layout in the PC field, and Intel has always had technical reserves in mobile devices."

"But this may lead to Samsung's betrayal!" Ye Qiu replied with some worry.

Samsung is currently an important army in the Android system of Leaf Technology. First of all, Samsung and HTC are the two brands with the highest sales in the Android system except Zeus mobile phones. Secondly, Samsung is also the largest semiconductor partner of Leaf Technology. They have already had some opinions on Leaf Technology's own development of tablet chips. If they acquire Intel again, they will definitely be worried.

"That makes sense. For us now, the market is more important than anything else. First dominate the market, lay a solid foundation, and then slowly expand!" Eliza can be said to be clear at a glance.

As the saying goes, business is like a battlefield. You are smart, but your opponents are definitely not stupid. They will not watch you become extremely powerful and then completely monopolize the entire market, because that is equivalent to chronic suicide. Once you have completed your domination of the market, the next thing to do is to slowly kill potential opponents one by one.

So as long as you show some signs, they will switch to your competitors.

At least Samsung is now on good terms with Leaf Technology, but in fact they are secretly connected with Nokia and Symbian. Even once Microsoft launches a new generation of WP mobile phone system, Samsung and HTC will launch corresponding models, which is cultivating competitors for Leaf Technology.

If there is Intel, there must be AMD. If there are flowers, there must be green leaves to complement them. This is the law of nature and the law of the business world. If you are ambitious enough to want to swallow everything in one gulp, then I'm sorry, you will definitely be swallowed up!

Therefore, after the Android system became popular, Ye Qiu did not move towards closure, but orderly opening, because he knew very well that Apple's closed model would be difficult to play for a long time, but you can't be too open, because being too open will lead to flooding and destroy the entire industry chain.

This is like driving a carriage. How to control the reins in your hand to make the horse run fast and steady in the direction you want, which requires the driver's skills.

At least from the current environment and market, the success of Leaf Technology is not only for itself, but also for Samsung, HTC and some manufacturers in the industry chain. Samsung relies on launching Android phones and providing semiconductor chips to Leaf Technology, which successfully allows Samsung Electronics to surpass chip giant Intel. This is an example.

Mutual benefit is what Ye Qiu wants, and it is also the long-term business method of a company.

Of course, there is another more important thing, how to continue to maintain innovation after leading, and continue to develop competitive products. This is the next challenge for Leaf Technology. Otherwise, with the current layout of mobile phones and tablets, it can only last for ten years at most. After ten years, if Leaf Technology has no competitive products, it will undoubtedly decline, because that is inevitable.

Because of this, Ye Qiu has a wider layout, from ultrabooks to smart TVs to smart car control systems to cameras, watches, glasses, etc. At the same time, he is also developing voice control technology, which will be a very important technology in the future. Moreover, after the acquisition, Leaf Technology has already seized the forefront of the market. The key is to overcome some problems.

"Remember to help me keep an eye on Motorola and Nokia. When they are in trouble, remember to notify me and be ready to take action!" Ye Qiu sent this message.

This is what he and Eliza have agreed on long ago. Motorola and Nokia are the two major patent giants in the mobile field. Once Leaf Technology captures another one, Leaf Technology will become a real giant. Even if other companies rise in the future, it will be difficult to compete with Leaf Technology. This will allow Leaf Technology to at least continue its core competitiveness for 20 years in the future, even if it fails to launch powerful products.

At present, Leaf Technology has cooperation with Nokia in terms of patents, but Motorola seems to be in a more troublesome situation.

"I found that apart from work, there seemed to be no other common topics between us."

After chatting about work, Eliza sent such a message full of sadness and helplessness. You can imagine that she, who had been chatting with Ye Qiu on the phone for nearly an hour, must have felt disappointed at this moment.

Is there really only work left between us?

This is not only Eliza's doubt, but also Ye Qiu's doubt.

"By the way, you just said that if I find a boyfriend, you will give me whatever I want?" Eliza asked again.

"Of course!" Ye Qiu replied without hesitation, but he couldn't help but ask himself, is this really the case?

"Achu once told me that she thanked me for helping you so much, and she also said that she would never let you treat me badly."

"She really said that? When?" Ye Qiu's heart skipped a beat. He knew that Huang Chu seemed to have given him such an illusion before.

"That's when you guys came to San Francisco, so I had to think about what I needed."

"Then think about it carefully. Whatever you want will do!" Ye Qiu replied casually, but his mind was obviously not on the conversation.

"Then if I say I want you, is that okay?"

This piece of information made Ye Qiu's hands tremble and he almost dropped his phone on his desk.

"You didn't choke on the boiling water, did you? I was kidding you!" Soon, another message came, obviously explaining the previous one.

"It's okay, but if you want me, you'd better be able to afford the price. I'm very expensive!"

"Hehe, how expensive is it? Make a price, I have plenty of money now!"

"Wow, I like rich women the most, please support me!"

Ye Qiu smiled and said, "Well, in addition to the price, I also have to look at the person and inspect the goods first. For the sake of old friendship, I can barely consider it if I am thirty years old, but if I have fat on my belly or my figure is not good enough, If so, I generally won’t accept it!”

"From today on, I insist on swimming and fitness every day!"

"Boy, if you want to inspect the goods, come to the United States alone and see how I deal with you!"

"Wow, eldest sister, please don't be too rough, be gentle!"

What came back was a bloody kitchen knife.

Half an hour later, in distant San Francisco, USA, Eliza was sitting on the window sill of a heated room, wearing a sexy shirt. Under the moonlight, she looked at the screen of her mobile phone and giggled. There were lines of pictures she followed. Ye Qiu's text messages were read over and over again, making her feel hot all over.

She still doesn't know where she got the courage to chat with him just now. Looking back now, she still feels extremely uneasy, but since Huang Chu told her what she said, she knows very well that if she If they don't take the first step, given Ye Qiu's damn character, there will always be a sealed door between them.

Forgive me, Achu!

I love Ye Qiu as much as you do!

I swear, I will never, ever destroy your family!

I just want to love him well!