Video Game Empire

"Vincent, you're back! Have you got your grades? How are you doing?"

Vincent is Li Xuan's English name. When he just returned to the company, other colleagues asked him about the results of the college entrance examination.

"Thank you for your concern, the test is okay, three A's and two B's!" Li Xuan said with a smile, "I'll treat you to afternoon tea. I've already ordered milk tea and pineapple buns at the cafe downstairs, everyone has a share!"

oh! oh! oh! There was a treat, and everyone cheered. It wasn't until the boss Huo Junming came out of the inner office that everyone calmed down and pretended to be working seriously.

"Ah Xuan, you did well in the exam. It seems that our company is going to send a college student!" The boss smiled at Li Xuan and said kindly.

"Thank you for the compliment!" Li Xuan said modestly, "How did you go to the mainland to discuss this time, has the contract been finalized?"

Hengtai Company has just been established for less than two years, mainly doing some entrepot trade with the mainland. The focus of the company's operations before was to sell some second-hand textile equipment from Hong Kong factories to mainland enterprises. In recent years, the impact of hand trade quotas in Hong Kong's textile industry has not been very prosperous. Many textile factories have closed their doors and changed their careers, so a lot of equipment has been idle.

Although most of these equipment were purchased ten years ago when Hong Kong's textile industry was at its most prosperous, they are undoubtedly much more advanced than the old equipment in the 1950s and 1960s that are still used by many state-owned textile factories in mainland China.

More importantly, these old equipments are cheap. Compared with importing the latest textile equipments from Japan or Germany, these second-hand goods can complete the expansion plan with only one-fifth of the foreign exchange. With Huo Junming's keen vision and ingenious marketing methods, Hengtai Company has developed rapidly in the past two years. From the original leather bag company, there are now more than 20 employees, renting a high-end office building, and the boss Huo Junming is also considered a small career. something.

But he was not satisfied. In May of this year, Huo Junming met the director of a scientific research institute in Beijing when he went to Guangdong to attend the Guangdong Fair. The institute was going to import a batch of small computers this year, so the director asked him, a Hong Kong businessman, to help Gather some relevant information.

When Huo Junming heard it, he thought it was an opportunity, and he took it to heart when he returned to Hong Kong. Small computers are one of the items on Batumi's list of restricted exports to China. Although they are not as stuck as large computers, if the mainland imports directly from the United States, the application and approval procedures will be very cumbersome.

But if this matter is handled by a Hong Kong company, first importing from the United States to Hong Kong, and then exporting from Hong Kong to the mainland, there is no need for approval from the US government. Compared with Uncle Sam, the policy of the British Hong Kong government is much more flexible. For these non-core civilian technologies and products, basically open one eye and close one eye, and you can get the approval with a little bit of management.

Huo Junming felt that there was room for manipulation in this matter, so he began to contact the research institute in Beijing. Beijing asked him to provide some mainstream computer materials for reference. So Huo Junming asked for a large amount of product information from several major computer manufacturers such as DEC, IBM, and Wang An in the United States. In the attitude of responsible service, he asked the company's employees to translate it into Chinese first, and then send the Chinese and English materials together to mainland customers. .

At this time, the problem came out. These salesmen in Hengtai Company also have good English and can communicate fluently with foreigners, but they are blinded when translating these professional technical materials, looking at a lot of terms and technical indicators. To start with the law, we can only temporarily recruit a professional translator who understands computers.

At that time, Li Xuan just finished the college entrance examination and applied for this position by chance. It was Huo Junming, the owner of the company, who interviewed him at that time. Li Xuan spent an hour briefly translating a computer operation manual for the small computer PDP-11 produced by the American DEC Computer Company. Although it was only a rough translation, Huo Junming was very satisfied after reading it, at least much more reliable than the few college students he interviewed before, so he was hired on the spot.

After Li Xuan went to work, in addition to translating a series of various types of computers produced by various computer companies in the United States, he also made a comparative analysis of various products based on his own analysis. He can basically solve the various technical problems faxed by the mainland research institute, without having to contact the original computer company in the United States.

This definitely saves a lot of time. It can be said that Li Xuan not only completed the data translation well, but also served as a Q&A technician.

Because of his outstanding performance, the daigou trade contract between Hengtai and the mainland is progressing rapidly. Huo Junming's business trip to the mainland this time is to sign the final trade contract for three PDP-11 minicomputers with this research institute in Beijing.

"The contract has been signed, and we have already ordered DEC in the United States to ship the computer. The computer will be shipped to Hong Kong next Wednesday." Huo Junming was very interested in talking about Shen Yi, and he was not tired of Li Xuan, a temporary worker. I talked about the execution process of the contract.

A small computer is an expensive thing. The total price quoted by UU Reading www.uukanshu.com for three PDP-11 Hengtai to the mainland scientific research institute is 1 million Hong Kong dollars. This list, the company can have a net profit of at least 200,000.

"A Xuan, you did a good job this time. I asked the finance department to give you an extra 200 bonus this month!" Huo Junming was very satisfied with Li Xuan's performance, "By the way, this time I went to Beijing to contact a new business, The Ministry of Petroleum of China also intends to import two computers, I have asked Ah Jin to follow up, and you should cooperate with him during this time!"

"Understood, senior, I will cooperate with Brother Jin!" Ah Jin was one of the first batch of veterans recruited when the company was first established, and he was very trusted by the boss.

"Sir, I have already fixed the Epson printer that I couldn't use before!" Li Xuan suddenly thought of this and said to his boss.

"Really?" Huo Junming didn't believe it. He bought this printer when he went to Japan a few months ago. At the time, the salesman said that this was a new product from Epson, which was lower in price than the printers on the market and cheaper in printing.

As a result, Huo Junming took it all the way back to Hong Kong and found that there was no problem in printing English documents with it, but when printing Chinese documents, it was often garbled. The company's logistics asked a maintenance technician to repair it, and the other party said that it was a problem with the printer's Han card.

This printer is equipped with Japanese Chinese cards. Printing Chinese requires Chinese Chinese cards. This Epson printer has not been listed in Hong Kong, so there is no matching Chinese Chinese card to replace, so the company had to buy a new printer. This incident made the boss Huo Junming feel a great loss of face, and his face was darkened for several days.

"If you don't believe me, sir, I'll show you the operation now!"