Chapter 714: Gao Shengka and the Blame Man

Chapter 713

As soon as the game of reinvesting project profits appeared, it immediately caused a wave of reshuffle 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.

The developer is also in a dilemma. If you say you don't agree to invest, the project will go to his family, but if you 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 developers who are like shell companies, are quickly eliminated.

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

Rebs has put together a team, and Li Weidong's funds have already arrived, so he can do a lot of work next!

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 Puppy Electric's office to send a batch of air purifiers later! Li Weidong said.

The logistics department should go buy it, but since there are free ones, I just saved a fortune. Rebs said, and began to introduce the people in the meeting room to Li Weidong. Poached by big technology companies.

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

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

Xiaomi? Is there any special meaning? Rebus asked.

This time, it was Li Weidong who was stunned. Li Weidong thought to himself, didn't you name Xiaomi by Rebs? Why did you ask me about my special meaning?

Li Weidong immediately responded accordingly: I was thinking, millet is the food we eat every day, and 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 use rice, it sounds louder than millet!

Corn is also good. The word 'jade' sounds nice! It has a good meaning.

The meaning of sorghum is also good!

The name sorghum sounds like a wine seller.

Calling corn is like making starch!

A group of bigwigs from engineering started discussing a name.

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

Since Chairman Li first mentioned Xiaomi, let's not change it, let's call it Xiaomi Technology! Rebus said, he also thinks the name Xiaomi is very good.

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

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

Of course, Li Weidong couldn't say nothing, otherwise he would definitely be regarded as a waste boss.

It's like when a meeting is held, the leader must sum up a few words at the end, even if the summaries are not nutritious or even have nothing to do with the theme, but this process is still necessary.

Fortunately, Li Weidong was also well prepared. He said, Everyone just discussed a lot of technical issues, and I want to talk about user-level issues. 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 the perspective of users?

Without waiting for everyone to answer, Li Weidong replied on his own: The biggest difference between a smartphone and a traditional phone is the screen. The screen of a smartphone can replace the keyboard of a traditional phone, making the operation of the phone easier, and it can implement many keyboards. Operation that could not be completed.

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

When it comes to sacrificing 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 even more important. As a system, if the performance is not good, it will not be recognized by users even if it is launched on the market. At that time, our products will be very easy. will be defeated by competitors.

Li Weidong immediately replied: It would be great if we can combine the 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, we can improve it step by step. Upgrade through patches or system upgrades.

Everyone is an expert, you should know that no software 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 many patches to fix system vulnerabilities and improve system performance. Mr. Lei's WPS has been out for several generations!

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

As Li Weidong said, he took out a mobile phone, it was Motorola's A1200, and it was also a classic of Motorola.

The A1200 is a flip phone, but it's different from previous flip phones. Most of the flip phones at that time had the screen on the flip, but the A1200 used the Ming series of translucent flips, and the screen was on the body.

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

In terms of buttons, the A1200 is the same as the current smart phones, there are no number buttons from 1 to 9, that is to say, 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 today's smartphones after all. The sensitivity, recognition and response speed of the TFT screen are not good, so it needs to be used with a stylus.

The A1200 mobile phone also has many derivatives, and the sales are not bad. In the era before the iPhone, the design of the transparent flip cover and the 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: I also have a touch-screen mobile phone in my hand, but the operation of this mobile phone is far worse than Apple's iPhone. It is not at the same level. Sometimes I even need to use a stylus to press accurately. Number.

The same type of products have already appeared in the market, and they clearly tell us the advantages and disadvantages. So when we make a smartphone system, if it is not as smooth as Apple's iPhone, then our products are doomed 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 learned a similar painful lesson. Everyone knows that there was a time when our WPS was taken by Microsoft's 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 that of 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 he used his own experience as an example, so those dissatisfied people had no choice but to shut up.

Apple's IOS system has advantages over the Android system, 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 pictures, lower memory usage, and smoother operation.

Later, with the continuous optimization of the Android system, major mobile phone manufacturers also improved the software and hardware, which made the Android system start to catch up with Apple's IOS in all aspects.

Some brands have optimized and improved the functions of Android phones, even surpassing Apple. For example, 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 hardware improvements. With the support 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 became 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.

After all, Apple's IOS system is a closed system. Apple's mobile phone chip 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 works on a closed system, but with the current domestic technology level, he can't design a corresponding chip, nor can he manufacture other hardware devices, and he certainly can't achieve the level of Apple's IOS.

Therefore, Li Weidong can only take the open source path of Android. Now that he has decided to open source, the future competitor of Li Weidong's mobile phone system is not Apple, but Android.

This competition is like several people being chased by ferocious 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 phone 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 Rebus.

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

Xishanju is a subsidiary of Jinshan Group responsible for the game business. It used to be the earliest game studio in China. The Swordsman Love, which was developed at that time, can be regarded as a role-playing game that can compete with Legend of Sword and Fairy. And the IP of Swordsman Love also made Xishanju suffer for a lifetime.

Li Weidong handed the game plan to Rebs, and Rebs looked at the name of the game, and said to himself: Fruit Forbearance, is this a fighting game? Angry Birds, This sounds like a casual game.

However, Rebs's expression changed very quickly, from looking forward to What kind of crap is this!

Mr. Li, the two games you want to play seem to be small games! Rebus said.

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

Hehe, just find a programmer for this thing, and you can't make it by writing a few lines of code. Rebs' tone was full of disdain, as if to say that asking Xishanju to make this kind of game is simply killing a chicken with a sledgehammer !

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 drive these two games. It's a simple little game.

Rebs pondered for a moment, and then said, Not to mention, it would be really interesting to use this kind of mini-game on a smartphone. The current mobile games basically require physical buttons to operate. If it is operated on the Internet, it is a bit like a science fiction movie, and it is indeed very technological.

Li Weidong continued: Mr. Lei, you can underestimate mobile games. In my opinion, after ten years, mobile games will become the mainstream. At that time, all major game companies will have to rely on mobile games to survive! Maybe you The Xishanju, also wants to make a mobile version of Swordsman Love!

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The financial turmoil triggered by the US subprime mortgage crisis has begun to sweep across the world, and Japan and Europe were the first to be cut.

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 been the largest holder of U.S. debt. With so many dollars in their hands, the Japanese naturally have to find ways to spend them. Various financial products in the United States have become 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 spared no effort to sell subprime mortgage-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 lost the most besides the United States.

Fortunately, both Japan and Germany at that time had strong family backgrounds. 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 Pig Five as later generations call it.

In order to survive the financial crisis, these countries began to borrow on a large scale, and they already had a lot of debts. Coupled with the economic downturn, the countries were unable to repay these debts, and finally the European debt crisis broke out. This also made it take several years for the European economy to slow down.

As the initiator 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.

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. 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 and said 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 the peace. Even though the world economy has been severely damaged by the U.S. subprime mortgage crisis, U.S. politicians can still say that the economic prospects are optimistic!

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

While blocking the tax rebate policy, the Democratic Party also supports trade unions in campaigning to win more worker votes. The general strike that bankrupted General Motors happened 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 U.S. government’s claim that the subprime mortgage crisis has passed is simply lying. The worst was just coming.

Although the Bush administration is not good at economics, the American political circle has never lacked economic elites. Even if politicians are knowledge kings and sleeping kings, their staff members are better than each other.

At this time, the U.S. government also realized that the government must take a strong hand to intervene in the financial market in order to survive this crisis.

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

However, when the bill reached the Congress, it was blocked by the Democratic Party. The reason for the Democratic Party was that 700 billion US dollars was too little and they should buy more, so as to save the US financial market.

But in fact, this is just an excuse for 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 general election, it will be regarded by the public as an achievement of the Republican Party. When the presidential election is held, 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 election in November, and the financial rescue bill is introduced at this time, then the credit will definitely be credited to the Democratic Party, and it will also be a bonus for the new president at that time.

As a result, the financial rescue bill was delayed until November 25th. At that time, Trump had already been elected the 44th president of the United States. This financial rescue bill was tantamount to giving Trump a good hand.

In contrast, the European Central Bank moved much faster. They began to inject capital into the European banking system when Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy.

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

...

People came in one after another in the meeting room of the pedestrian bank, and they were all prominent figures from major financial institutions.

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

During the subprime mortgage crisis in the United States, Director Sui's insurance company made a lot of money through short selling, so Director Sui was promoted 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 that of various departments of the insurance company. As for Director Sui, the deputy chairman, as long as he goes one step further, he can enter the board of directors, get a director position, and become the core decision-making layer.

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

Chairman Sui, you have already been promoted, why don't you treat 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, his full-time job must be just around the corner! When I was still in the bank, I could tell that Xiao Sui is definitely not someone in the pool!

The person who spoke was Director Sui's old colleague when he was working in the bank. He is much older than Director Sui, and his position is half a level higher. He is familiar with Director Sui, so he is directly called Xiao Sui.

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

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

After all, Director Sui came from the bank, and he was mixed in this circle. When he met the 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: Originally, according to the arrangement in the bank, Director Wang was to lead the team to participate in the meeting, but Director Wang received The reassignment notice, so I can't come, and the other leaders don't have time, so let me take over temporarily.

Director Wang has been promoted? Director Sui asked immediately.

The higher-ups have made some adjustments to Director Wang's business. He is now in charge of the service center and training center. The old leader said.

Director Sui was taken aback for a moment, this was clearly a demotion! To manage the service center and training center, what kind of real power can you have? This position is basically equivalent to letting Director Wang live 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 wasn't caused by the subprime mortgage crisis in the United States. How can an investment bank as big as Lehman Brothers go bankrupt! We have business dealings with Lehman Brothers, and even our bank lost a lot of money. Such a big bank You have to find someone to take the blame for the loss!

The old leader paused, and then said: Then the higher-ups began to investigate, saying that such a serious financial risk, how could there be no warning? Then it was found out that your company took advantage of the subprime mortgage crisis to make a fortune on Wall Street. Li Weidong from the Puppy Group 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 insider information to make profitable transactions is not something that can be said to the outside world with great fanfare.

Okay, Xiao Sui, are you still playing sloppy with me! Besides, there is no impenetrable wall in our circle. The old leader continued in a low voice: Do you still remember that Director Wang was killed three or four years ago? I received a loan from Li Weidong, and since then Li Weidong has never had any business dealings with our bank.

The higher-ups 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 still make a fortune. It was also because of this matter that the higher-ups finally let Director Wang take the blame. Punishment of a director can be regarded as an explanation for the banking supervision 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 loan for the sake of standing up. He shouldn't have never done it. He killed Li Weidong The loan we applied for made our bank directly quarrel with Li Weidong. Now there is a legitimate reason for letting him take the blame!

Director Sui nodded approvingly, and thinking about how he had just been promoted to vice chairman, he couldn't help sighing in his heart: I still have to hold Li Weidong's thigh tightly!

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