Chapter 714: Gao Shengka and the Back-up Man

As soon as the game of project profit reinvestment appeared, there was a wave of reshuffle in the real estate market.

When selling land in many places, they can’t help but ask if the project profits can be reinvested.

Developers are also in a dilemma. If they don’t agree to invest, the project will be spent by their family, but if they agree to invest, the capital chain can’t stand it.

There has been a round of reshuffle in the real estate industry, and those small-scale developers, or those developers who are like shell companies, are quickly eliminated.

Li Weidong was busy with the land bidding, and immediately came to the special zone without stopping.

Rebs pieced together everything, has gathered the team, Li Weidong's funds have also been received, and then he can work hard!

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

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

The logistics department should buy it, but since there are free ones, then I just save a fortune. Rebs said, and began to introduce the people in the conference room to Li Weidong, all of whom Rebs received from Microsoft, Google, etc. Hired by big tech companies.

After Yifan's introduction, everyone took their seats, and Rebs said, Chairman Li, give our new business a name!

How about it's called Xiaomi? Li Weidong didn't bother to think about the new name, so he used it directly.

Xiaomi? Is there any special meaning? Rebs asked.

On the contrary, Li Weidong was stunned this time. Li Weidong said in his heart, didn't you name Xiaomi by Rebs? Why did you ask me about my special meaning?

Li Weidong immediately responded: I was thinking, millet is the food we eat every day. I also hope that our products can become people's daily necessities like food. In fact, it can be called rice, corn, etc. .

It's better to have rice, it sounds better than millet!

Corn is not bad, too. The word 'jade' sounds good! It has a good meaning.

The meaning of sorghum is also good!

Calling sorghum sounds like a wine seller.

Calling corn is like making starch!

A group of engineering bigwigs started to talk about a name.

Li Weidong finally looked at Rebus and said, Mr. Lei, why don't you decide!

Since Chairman Li said Xiaomi at the beginning, let's not change it, let's call it Xiaomi Technology! Rebs said, and he also felt that the name of Xiaomi was very good.

Next, everyone began to discuss R\u0026D. This kind of technical aspect, Li Weidong basically did not understand, and could only sit there, watching a group of programmers chat happily.

After all the discussion, Rebs turned his attention to Li Weidong: Chairman Li, do you have anything to add?

Of course Li Weidong can't say nothing, or he will definitely be regarded as a waste boss.

This is like in a meeting, the leader must summarize a few sentences at the end, even if the summary is not nutritious, or even not related to the theme, but there is still a need for this process.

Fortunately, Li Weidong was already prepared, and he said, Everyone discussed a lot of technical issues just now, and I want to talk about the user level. The system we are going to develop is the first step in making a smartphone. What do you think is the biggest difference between smart phones and traditional mobile phones from the perspective of users?

Before waiting for everyone to answer, Li Weidong answered himself: The biggest difference between smart phones and traditional mobile phones is the screen.

The screen of the smartphone can replace the keyboard of the traditional mobile phone, making the operation of the mobile phone simple, and can realize many operations that cannot be done by the keyboard.

So I think that we should give full play to this feature of smartphones. In the process of developing the system, we should pay attention to the smoothness of screen operation, enhance the user's 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 very important, but performance is more important. As a system, if the performance is not good, even if it is launched to the market, it will not be recognized by users. At that time, our products will be very easy. be beaten by competitors.”

Li Weidong replied immediately: It would be great to have both a specific user experience and system performance, but if it is really incompatible, we have to make a choice. I think the user experience should be given priority. As for the system performance, it can be done step by step. Upgrade through patches or system replacements.

You are all insiders, and you should know that there is no software that is perfect at the beginning of its birth. Just like Microsoft's Windows system, a new generation will be released in a few years, and each generation will have a lot of patches to fix system vulnerabilities and improve system performance. Mr. Lei's WPS has been out for several generations!

The first-generation Windows system, from a modern point of view, is not that good in performance, right? But why are 90% of the world's computers now using Windows? It is because the first-generation Windows system has a better user experience. They retain users first, and then improve performance through continuous upgrades, and finally achieve an industry monopoly.

Li Weidong said, took out a mobile phone, it is Motorola's A1200, and it is also a classic Motorola.

The A1200 is a flip phone, but not like previous flip phones. Most of the flip phones at that time put the screen on the flip, but the A1200 used the Ming series translucent flip, and the screen was on the fuselage.

The A1200 uses a TFT screen and supports screen touch technology, which means that the A1200 is a touch screen phone. In addition, the A1200 adopts the Linux intelligent operating system, so from a technical point of view, the A1200 can be regarded as a smart phone.

In terms of buttons, the A1200 is also the same as the current smart phone. There are no number 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 the LCD screen of the current smartphone after all. The sensitivity, recognition and response speed of the TFT screen are not good, so it can be used normally with a stylus.

The A1200 mobile phone also has many derivatives, and the sales are not bad. In the era before the iPhone appeared, the design of the transparent flip cover and the touch screen led the trend at that time.

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

Li Weidong went on to say: I also have a touch screen mobile phone in my hand, but this mobile phone is far worse than Apple's iPhone in operation. It is not a level, and sometimes I even need to use a stylus to press accurately. Number.

Products of the same type have already appeared in the market, and they clearly tell us the pros and cons. So we make a smartphone system. If it is not as smooth as the Apple iPhone, then our products are destined to have no market.

Rebs also opened his mouth to support; I think what Chairman Li said is very reasonable. When I was doing WPS, I also learned a similar painful lesson. As you all know, there was a time when our WPS was used by Microsoft's WPS. Office hangs, and even almost withdraws from the market.

Later, we analyzed the reason, because the user experience of our products is far inferior to Microsoft Office. Everyone knows what happened next. WPS started to learn Office, copied the functions of Office, and finally came to life.

I also come from a technical background and know the importance of product performance. But after that painful lesson, I realized that not every customer needs perfect performance, and most customers choose more convenient.

Rebs spoke, and used his own experience as an example, and the few dissatisfied people had to shut up.

Apple's IOS system has advantages over Android, especially in the early era of smartphones, this advantage is 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, with the continuous optimization of the Android system, major mobile phone manufacturers also improved hardware and software, so that the Android system began to catch up with Apple's IOS in all aspects.

Some brands have even surpassed Apple in optimizing the functions of Android phones, such as the camera function. 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 are gradually offset by the improvement of hardware. With the blessing of powerful hardware, the Android system will also run smoothly.

Of course, the surplus of mobile phone hardware is still more than ten years later. In 2008, the configuration of mobile phones was pitifully low, and the superiority of Apple's IOS system was even more obvious.

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

Apple's IOS system is, after all, a closed system, and the chip of Apple's mobile phone is specially designed according to the IOS system. The hardware and software of Apple's mobile phone can be deeply integrated, which is impossible for an open system.

Even Li Weidong also makes a closed system, but with the current technical level in China, he can't design a corresponding chip, and he can't manufacture other hardware devices.

Therefore, Li Weidong can only take the open source road of Android. Since he decided to open source, Li Weidong's mobile phone system will not face Apple, but Android.

This competition is like a few people being chased by beasts. 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, a group of engineering leaders left one after another, but Li Weidong stopped Rebs.

There is one more thing to trouble you. I made two small games. If you want to make them, you have to work hard for your Xishanju! Li Weidong said.

Xishanju is a subsidiary of Kingsoft Group responsible for the game business. It was the earliest game studio in China. It was developed back then and was considered a role-playing game that could compete with the ring. And this IP also made Xishanju eat for a lifetime.

Li Weidong handed the game plan to Rebs. Rebs looked at the name of the game and said to himself, Is this a fighting game? This sounds like a casual game.

However, Rebs' expression changed very quickly. He was looking forward to it, and turned into What kind of rubbish is this!

Dong Li, these two games you want to play seem to be small games! Rebs said.

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

Haha, this thing can't be done by just finding a programmer and writing a few strings of code. Rebs's tone was full of disdain, as if to say that letting Xishanju play this kind of game is like killing a chicken with a knife. !

Li Weidong said: I plan to move these two games to the smartphone, that is, use the screen operation of the smartphone to replace the mouse operation. With the current hardware level of the smartphone, it can only bring this game. It's a simple little game.

Rebs pondered for a moment, then said, Don't mention it, if you really use this kind of small game on a smartphone, it's really interesting. Nowadays, mobile games basically require physical button operations. If it can be directly displayed on the screen It's a bit like a science fiction movie, and it's really technological.

Li Weidong continued; Mr. Lei, you should look down on mobile games. In my opinion, after ten years, mobile games will become mainstream, and major game companies will have to rely on mobile games to survive! Maybe you guys The Xishanju, also has a mobile version!

...

The financial turmoil caused by the subprime mortgage crisis in the United States has begun to sweep the world, and Japan and Europe are the first to be cut off.

As a loyal licking dog of the United States, Japan has always liked to buy American financial assets. In the past few decades, Japan has always been the largest holder of U.S. debt. With so many dollars in their hands, the Japanese naturally have to find a way to spend them. Various financial products in the United States are a good place to spend 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 also spared no effort to sell subprime-related products to German investment banks.

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

Fortunately, both Japan and Germany at that time had strong family backgrounds, and they themselves had very strong industrial strength, and they had accumulated a large amount of foreign goods reserves over the years, which could withstand the impact of the financial turmoil.

However, for some lazy countries, life is not so easy, such as the European Pig Five Countries called by later generations.

In order to tide over the financial crisis, these countries began to borrow on a large scale, and they already had a lot of debt. Coupled with the economic downturn, the country was unable to repay these debts, and eventually the European debt crisis broke out. It also took several years for the European economy to slow down.

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

By convention, this is another wave of political infighting.

The ruling Republican Party wants to borrow the subprime mortgage crisis and launch a tax rebate policy to gain more votes. US Treasury Secretary Paulson directly stated that as long as the tax rebate policy is passed, the US economy will accelerate growth in late 2008.

Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan also stood up to support, saying that the worst stage of the subprime mortgage crisis has passed, and the US economy has begun to recover.

The U.S. government is very good at whitewashing peace. Even though the world’s economy has been devastated by the U.S. subprime mortgage crisis, U.S. politicians can still say that the economic outlook is optimistic!

It is of course impossible for the Democrats to implement the tax rebate policy. First, the Democrats have always been relatively opposed to tax cuts. Second, the Democrats do not want the Republicans to gain more votes because of the tax refund policy.

At the same time as the customs tax rebate policy, the Democratic Party also supports the labor union to carry out a campaign to win more worker votes. The general strike that put GM into bankruptcy occurred 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. No matter how stupid people are, they have realized that the subprime mortgage crisis that the U.S. government said is over is a lie. The worst has just come.

Although the Bush administration is not good at economics, the American political circle has never lacked economic elites. Even if the politicians are Knowing Kings and Sleeping Kings, their staffs are more than a monkey.

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

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

However, when the bill reached Congress, it was blocked by the Democrats. The Democrats reasoned that the US$700 billion was too little and should be bought more, so as to save the US 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 rescue of the financial bill, preferably until the end of the US election in November.

Because if the Financial Rescue Act is implemented before the general election, it will be regarded by the public as the achievement of the Republican Party, and when the presidential election comes, 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 the financial rescue bill is introduced at this time, the credit will definitely go to the Democratic Party, and it will also be a bonus for the new president.

As a result, this financial rescue bill was delayed until November 25th, and at that time the *** had been elected as the 44th president of the United States. This financial rescue bill was equivalent to giving *** a good hand.

The European Central Bank was much quicker by comparison. They started injecting capital into the European banking system when Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy.

If it weren't for the European debt crisis, perhaps Europe would get out of this financial crisis earlier than the United States.

...

In the meeting room of the People's Bank, people walked in one after another, and all of them were well-known figures from major financial institutions.

Director Sui of the insurance company also came to this venue.

During the U.S. subprime mortgage crisis, Director Sui's insurance company made a lot of money through short selling. Therefore, Director Sui recently gained a high promotion and became the vice chairman of the insurance company's strategic investment committee.

This strategic investment committee is directly under the board of directors and is higher than the various departments of the insurance company in the organizational structure. As for Director Sui, the vice-chairman, as long as he goes further, he can enter the board of directors, get a director's position, and become the most core decision-making level.

Many people present knew the news of Director Sui Gao Sheng, and after seeing him, they stepped forward to congratulate him.

Chairman Sui, you are so high up, why don't you invite us to a meal!

It's the deputy, the deputy chairman. Director Sui said so, but his face was full of joy.

Xiao Sui is so young and promising, and a full-time job is definitely just around the corner! When I was still in the bank, I saw that Xiao Sui was definitely not in the pool!

The person who was talking was an old colleague of Director Sui when he worked 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 Xiao Sui.

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

Director Sui said, looked behind the old leader, and then asked, Which leader will we lead this year's meeting?

After all, Director Sui came out of the bank, and he was in this circle. When encountering a former leader, of course he had to take the initiative to say hello.

You don't need to look for it, I will lead the team today. The old leader paused, lowered his voice and continued: It was originally according to the arrangement in the company that Director Wang led the team to participate in the meeting, but Director Wang received it. The transfer notice, so I couldn't come, and the other leaders didn't have time, so I was temporarily replaced.

Director Wang has been promoted? Director Sui immediately asked.

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 stunned for a moment, this is clearly a demotion! To manage the service center and training center, what real power can he have? This position is basically equivalent to letting Director Wang eat and wait until he retires.

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 because of the subprime mortgage crisis in the United States. Who can go bankrupt as an investment bank as big as Lehman Brothers! We have business dealings with Lehman Brothers, and even our bank has lost a lot of money, such a large amount of money. Loss, someone has to find someone to take the blame!

The old leader paused, then said: Then the above began to investigate, saying that such a serious financial risk, how could there be no warning? Then it was found that your company took advantage of the subprime mortgage crisis to make a fortune on Wall Street. It was Li Weidong from the Puppy Group who gave you the inside information, right?

There's no inside information, it's all about basic financial operations. Director Sui quickly covered it up. After all, getting inside information to trade profitably is not something that can be said with great fanfare.

Okay, Xiao Sui, are you still sloppy with me! Besides, in our circle, how can there be an impermeable wall. The old leader continued to whisper: You still remember that three or four years ago, Director Wang was killed. I received a loan from Li Weidong, and since then Li Weidong has no business dealings with our bank.

The above believes that if Li Weidong is willing to give us inside information, we will not have such a big loss, and maybe we can make a fortune. It is also because of this matter that the above finally let Director Wang take the blame. Punishing a director is also an explanation for the banking supervision department.

The old leader said with a long sigh: This director Wang is also unlucky. When he became a director back then, it is understandable to kill the company's loans for the sake of Liwei. It shouldn't be, it's Li Weidong who killed him. The loan applied for made our bank stand in a deadlock with Li Weidong. Now, there is a legitimate reason for him to take the blame!

Director Sui nodded in agreement, and thinking that he had just been promoted to the vice-chairman, he couldn't help but sigh: I still have to hold Li Weidong's thigh tightly!

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