Volume 7 I've Been Here Chapter 1000: Carrot and Stick
"Why is it you?"
Nan Yi glanced at Xiao Nan opposite him, picked up the wine glass and took another big sip.
Xiao Nan didn't answer but asked: "What happened?"
"It has nothing to do with me. I'm just lamenting the lightness of life. Didn't your friend Lin Huishan tell you that I'm married?"
"I told you, she's overly concerned, and there's nothing wrong with us." Xiao Nan took the cup handed to him by the boss, poured himself a cup and took a sip.
"Lin Huishan's eyes are quite sharp. She sees through me. I must be honest with you. I have no intention of changing my wife, nor do I have the motive to develop you into a lover. I just want to have fun with you, the kind that does not require responsibility. To use foreign language, it is a One Night Stand, that's all."
Xiao Nan shook the wine glass in her hand, without a trace of anger, and said calmly: "I am a lady. Do you think it is appropriate to speak to me so directly?"
"William Somerset Maugham once said something that makes a lot of sense. He said why are many women cheated by men over and over again? Because their demands can only be met by cheaters, and normal people can't meet them at all.
I am honest with you, but you think I am not gentle enough. When I gently deceive you with white lies, you will say I am a liar and not honest enough. I can't serve you. It's better for us to stay away from each other. "
"Hmph." Xiao Nan sneered, "I find you are quite self-righteous. Do you have a standard or formula in your mind to describe all women? Every time you meet a woman, you fit her into your formula and then draw a conclusion?"
"Ha, when did you become a worm in my stomach? Yes, you know my mind about women. To be honest, I do have a standard for measuring women in my heart."
Nan Yi leaned back in his chair and smiled faintly, "It's just that my standards neither belittle women nor have any impact on women who have nothing to do with me. It can only affect myself. In fact, everyone has a standard of judgment in their hearts, otherwise how can we distinguish between likes and dislikes."
"You're not wrong to say that, but you're deliberately misinterpreting what I meant and avoiding the main point." Xiao Nan shook the cup, hit Nan Yi's cup with the bottom of the cup, and drank the wine in the glass.
"Lin Huishan said you can't afford to play, so don't get to know me any better. I'm quite popular with women. If you get to know me too well, you'll get stuck in it. Just now, a girl was sent to the hospital. I don't know if she can be saved, and..."
Nan Yi picked up the wine glass and took a big sip. "Even if she can be saved, she will have psychological and physical wounds that cannot be healed. She may live a very painful life in the future. If one day you fall in love with me and find that you cannot get my love, you will also be very painful and even commit suicide. Why bother? Let's just stop it."
"Hahaha." Xiao Nan laughed and said, "Nan Yi, you usually like to live with a mask on, right?"
"Tsk!" Nan Yi said with a smile: "You have a sharp eye. Tell me your analysis of me so that I can examine myself from a third-party perspective."
"What you said just now was true but false, and it also contained a bit of hypocrisy and strategy. It seemed like you were trying to persuade me, but in fact you were trying to arouse my curiosity. Once a woman is curious about a man, she is not far from liking him." Xiao Nan talked freely, "Moreover, when you said this, you didn't think about it seriously at all. You just said it naturally, which shows that this is your usual way of speaking."
Nan Yi clapped his hands and praised, "Excellent, the formula you have in your mind for judging men is great, at least it's very accurate in my case. You said I'm hypocritical, I admit that, I am a little hypocritical, as for strategy, it shouldn't count, I just said that, more out of ridicule.
How should I put it? I was a little dissatisfied with Lin Huishan for investigating me behind my back. This dissatisfaction was accumulating in my heart, and then something happened today, which had a big impact on me. Compared with what happened today, the thing between you and me is nothing at all.
Let me be frank. Although you are in line with my aesthetic, it is just that. If it can happen, it is the best. If it can't happen, it's okay. Especially now, I don't care. I have lost interest in you. I am too lazy to talk to you and use any strategy. "
"What happened to you?"
"I don't like to tell third parties about the people I have crossed paths with as gossip. What's more, you are a reporter, so I am not willing to provide you with creative material."
"Please use more precise words. I am a journalist, not a novelist."
"I think it's about the same. Those who write novels don't research information rigorously, and those who write reports make up data at random. They are birds of a feather."
"It's nonsense and pure slander." Xiao Nan said angrily.
"Really?" Nan Yi glanced at Xiao Nan, "I'll give you a title, and you write the content of the article."
"you say."
"A deep discussion of Americans' views on the Chinese. This is the title. I will give you another $5 million. Please write a factual article for me. No speculation is allowed. What I want is a summary of the true views of 266 million Americans. It must be objective and not include your subjective opinion."
"You are making things difficult for me. Let alone five million, even if you gave me fifty million, I would not be able to write an article that meets your requirements."
Nan Yi slammed the table and said, "Nonsense! My college English teacher, an old scholar who had never been to the United States, could talk about the political history and cultural customs of the United States in great detail. He could even describe how white people treated their black neighbors, how they lived in poverty, how they went hungry for nine meals out of three days, and how they had to eat only coarse grains and vegetables. He could describe everything clearly.
When Americans meet, they always ask: "Grantfather Nan, do you eat no?"
The American man on the other side replied: "eat eat, Grantmother Xiao, today's son one It's a nice day."
Look, my teacher has reproduced the way Americans greet each other. At first I didn’t believe it, but after I went to Chinatown in New York, I believed it. This is indeed how people greet each other.
You have never been to the United States, but you know so much about it. I gave you $5 million, but you can't even write an article? Is it your ability or your character that is problematic? "
"Hahaha." Xiao Nan burst into laughter. "Nan Yi, you are so mean. Translate what you said in English."
"Master Nan, have you eaten? Yes, I have, Madam Xiao, it's a nice day today."
Xiao Nan shook his head and smiled: "Nan Yi, you are such an interesting person."
"hehe."
Nan Yi picked up the wine glass and continued drinking. He had already drunk three bottles, which was much more than his usual amount of drinks.
Nan Yi has always been restrained in drinking. Even at a party, three or four taels of liquor and two bottles of beer are the limit. Within this range, it is a kind of enjoyment for him. If it exceeds this range, it becomes a social occasion. He does not drink more not mainly for health reasons, but because he hates to recall the days of picking his throat in the toilet, and hates the more than two kilograms of alcohol forced by life.
He believes that the best destination for bottles of wine worth tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of dollars is to spit it out into the toilet along with the gastric juice.
He poured it, drank it, poured it again, drank it again. After four and a half bottles of beer, Nan Yi stopped and looked at Xiao Nan again, "To show my absolute respect for you, let's split the bill for this meal."
"I'm not used to this kind of respect." Xiao Nan shook his head and said happily.
"This is advanced international experience. We should catch up with the international standards as soon as possible." Nan Yi said, taking out a wallet and shaking it at the stall owner between his fingertips.
"Nan Yi, you are so realistic. If you back down, I won't even be willing to drink two glasses of wine from you. Last time at the Chess Tea House, you were very generous."
Nan Yi waved his hand, "Don't mention last time, did you find the money?"
"I used the change to buy two nice lunches." Xiao Nan smiled shyly.
"Good."
After paying the bill, Nan Yi looked around and asked the boss for a plastic bag to put the uneaten fried skewers in.
"Do you live far away?"
“A little.”
"Should I send you off?"
"Of course I will. Taxi rides are expensive."
"Let's go."
Nan Yi took Xiao Nan into his car. After Xiao Nan told Gangxu the destination, the car started.
As the scenery outside the window receded in the rearview mirror, Xiao Nan, who had taken a look at the car, turned to Nan Yi and said, "Why is it a bullet head? Don't you businessmen like Benz?"
"Did you know that the Benz is equipped with a steel pipe as standard? When the Benz is moving, it looks pretty good. But once it stops, a man with a gloomy face smoking will be sitting inside. Halfway through the cigarette, he will wave his hand, and a group of thugs will get out of the car, open the trunk, take out steel pipes and machetes, and stage a real-life fight."
"By not riding the Tiger Head Run, are you trying to distinguish yourself from those people you think you are?"
"No, because the Benz is expensive, I can't bear to buy it." Nan Yi patted the window sill of the bullet head. "Previa can be translated as God or foresight. The name has connotations, the price is not too expensive, and it is spacious. It is very convenient if I want to do something bad."
As he spoke, Nan Yi's face darkened and he shouted to Gangxu, "Drive to a remote place, female reporter, please bury it deeper after you're done."
Xiao Nan was stunned at first, then she realized that the driver did not respond to her request, nor did she make any extra moves. She immediately realized that Nan Yi was trying to scare her, "You are such a disgusting person."
"I'm trying to alert you. Don't get into a stranger's car easily next time. I just want to satisfy my desire to talk to you. Maybe the next time I'll do it, I'll do it to you. Even if I don't rape you first and then kill you, I'll take a few photos after I've done it to you. Do you want to have whatever you want, or do you want to fight to the death?"
Xiao Nan trembled all over, her heart filled with fear. Nan Yi's words might very well become reality. She recalled the several times she had taken a ride without any precautions before, and she was filled with fear.
"Hey, we know each other now, do me a favor."
Xiao Nan woke up from his fear, "What?"
"I want the newspapers your newspaper company has published in the past ten years. You must have some in your warehouse. I can pay you the price of waste paper or the price of the issue."
"You're putting me in a difficult position. I'm still in my internship period." Xiao Nan said with a wry smile.
Nan Yi smiled calmly and said, "How could I possibly make things difficult for you? Just tell your president that the newspaper is wanted by a potential advertising client. I will be publishing a lot of advertisements in the future. There are more than one newspaper in Fengtian with a large circulation and wide coverage. It's up to your president whether you want to fight for it or not."
"You want to help me?"
Newspapers and publishing houses have long been market-oriented. Anyone who can attract advertisements is a hero in the company. Even for a newspaper like Fengtian Daily that relies on government funding, advertising heroes should not be underestimated. Of course, the highest status is still the imperial writer.
"Not really. I'll just go to your newspaper and ask for the advertising fee. I'll ask you to pay me a certain amount, and I'll give you some benefits. I don't have to pay anything extra, so why not?"
"Thanks."
"You're welcome." Nan Yi looked out the window and said faintly, "I just told you to be alert. The previous sentence was strategic."
Xiao Nan thought about it and laughed, "I was bewitched by the benefits you offered and didn't pay attention at all. You are such a bad person, always calculating. You advised me not to get involved before, but now you are tempting me with benefits."
"You don't have to. I'll stand outside your newspaper office after get off work tomorrow and go through all of your female reporters and find someone who's less troublesome. It would be even better if I can find someone who's going in for internship with you."
"You are so hypocritical, Nan Yi, you are holding a carrot in one hand and a stick in the other. You clearly still have evil intentions towards me."
"Hey, you think you're a fairy. Be more humble and don't think so highly of yourself. Be careful or you might fall to your death."
"Am I not a fairy in your eyes?"
“Tsk.”
"Hahaha."
When they arrived at the place, Nan Yi watched Xiao Nan, with a smile on her face, walk into the unit stairs before leaving.
When he got up the next day, Nan Yi saw Tianxian already sitting in the living room.
"How come Tiger Cub hasn't come back since you took over?"
"Tiger cub just left. I'm not on shift and I just got up." Tianxian replied.
"Alive?"
"She survived, but the doctor said she has lost her fertility. Also, the damage there is severe, so the recovery period will be very long... She will probably be reluctant to have sex in the future, and won't be able to get married."
"Have her family been contacted?"
"Not yet. She doesn't have her ID card on her, so there's no way to contact her."
Nan Yi thought for a moment, "Be a good person to the end. Once her condition stabilizes, arrange for her to be transferred to another hospital or city. That injury won't kill her, but rumors may spread. Remember to observe her to see if she has brains. It's best to get back the money you spent, otherwise it will be a big loss."
Nan Yi suddenly felt a little regretful about the bold words he had said yesterday. They were not related to each other in any way, and if she couldn't make money for him and he had to raise her as his daughter, he would feel very guilty.
After coming back from morning exercise, Nan Yi ate the steamed buns, fried dough sticks and porridge made by Mei Zhengyi at the dining table.
Now that they had their own nest, Mei Zhengyi and Gao Wangzhong immediately rushed over to take up their posts. From then on, Nan Yi no longer had to go out for breakfast. Mei Zhengyi's breakfast-making skills were already good, and over the years, he improved them according to Nan Yi's taste. In Nan Yi's eyes, there was no breakfast better than the one made by Mei Zhengyi.
After breakfast, Gao Wangzhong examined Nan Yi's body. All indicators were normal. He opened his teeth to check and found no tartar. His teeth were neat and straight. His tongue coating was good, his tonsils had no tartar, and he had no athlete's foot at the corners of his mouth. His breath was fresh and slightly sweet. It was definitely a good mouth for kissing.
At nine o'clock in the morning, when the dazed Xu Lu came out of Tianxian's room, Nan Yi forced her to get herself ready and took them to Northeast Software.
"Liu Yibo, the general manager of Northeast Software, is the first doctoral student in computer applications in our country. He studied abroad and became a university professor in his early thirties. I have never met him, so I will temporarily classify him as a knowledge-based businessman.
I'm going to have a conversation with him in the field of technology later. You don't understand those things, but you can't show your fear. Just pretend to listen to me. When Liu Yibo looks at you, just smile and be subtle...
Remember, the first time I call you, hand me the A1 folder, the second time I call you, hand me the A2 folder, don’t make a mistake.”
On the way, Nan Yi sharpened Xu Lu's gun before the battle. Even if it couldn't be sharp, it had to be polished. He had to bring the person with him. Xu Lu had been exposed to the business style of the underworld school before, and she had to adapt to the switch to the gentle school. Moreover, she had never been exposed to business conversations and negotiations, so she had to learn.
"Also, your role later will be my secretary, not the vice chairman of Xianlu Capital. I will not introduce you by your position when I introduce you. If I introduce you as the vice chairman, Liu Yibo might talk to you, and your hollowness will be exposed, which will make him look down on us."
"Why am I such a hollow person?" Xu Lu complained with a lack of confidence.
"You know in your heart that money is not easy to make, and being a boss is not easy. You must have something in your head. If you want to be a boss without anything in your head, you can only be ruthless. You should know a lot of such people. I have been to various markets in Fengtian and found that many hot-selling products have people behind them who are controlling or attempting to control the wholesale channels."
"I know!"
On the way, Nan Yi asked Gangxu to pull over and find a place to stop for a while. After Xu Lu was ready, he went to Northeast Software again.
In 1976, gas rescue worker Liu Yibo was recommended to go to university. He chose computer science over physics. In fact, he didn't know the difference between computers and calculators at the time, but this accidental encounter allowed him to catch up with the wave of the information revolution.
After graduating from the School of Engineering, Liu Yibo went to the United States to study for a doctorate on the recommendation of his supervisor. He became China's first doctoral student in computer applications, and later returned to his alma mater to teach, becoming China's youngest university professor at the age of 33.
The founding of Northeast Software was purely accidental. In his own words, "I didn't originally intend to start a business, but I gave birth to the child and had to support it."
When Liu Yibo was studying in the United States, he found that it was common for scientific research institutions to combine their achievements with the industry. However, there is no such condition in China, and many people even think that it is not glorious for professors to go into business.
Fortunately, the dean of the School of Engineering stood up and supported it: "We can give it a try. If it fails, we will never do it again."
So, Liu Yibo and two colleagues started their entrepreneurial journey with 30,000 yuan and three broken computers. It was not smooth at the beginning. The software industry in Fengtian and even the whole country was in a blank stage, and many people in Fengtian still regarded software as shampoo.
The birth and rise of Northeastern Software has deep roots in Japanese companies. At that time, Alpine, a Japanese company specializing in automotive software systems, went to the Institute of Technology, hoping to engage in industry-university-research cooperation.
In 1991, Alpine Institute of Engineering, the predecessor of Northeastern Software, was established, with the Institute of Engineering holding a 51% stake. Initially, Liu Yibo wanted to build a research institute, but when he went to register, the industrial and commercial department only allowed the establishment of a company, and insisted on adding the word "company" after the Alpine Institute of Engineering, even though it was added in brackets.
The emergence of Japanese companies gave Liu Yi-bo the most valuable capital and experience. The cooperation with Alpine brought a large number of orders from Japan and put Northeast Software on the road of international outsourcing.
Today, Northeast Software is thriving in the Japanese software outsourcing business. In addition to Alpine's business, several other Japanese software companies have also handed over their low-end work to Northeast Software.
Nan Yi has a deep understanding of technology outsourcing. He worked in this business in his previous life. He is well aware of the characteristics of software outsourcing. Those large companies will get rid of non-core businesses in order to reduce R&D costs.
Especially now, the cost of hiring a software engineer in developed countries such as Europe, America, and Japan can hire a whole room in China. Software development sounds very technical, but outsourcing work is often the least technical part.
In particular, many Japanese companies write various frameworks first, and use frameworks and templates when writing code, which does not encourage innovation.
For a current Chinese software company, although international outsourcing business cannot absorb too many advanced international technologies, nor can it accumulate rich technology, it is the easiest to achieve profitability and accumulate funds. Only with funds can it engage in the development of other software with independent intellectual property rights.
Nan Yi wants to get involved in China's software development business, but he has no interest in software and game development for the general public. There are too many studios and experts who do cracking. As soon as the genuine software comes out, all kinds of cracked versions follow and fill the streets. All the profits are taken away by pirates, and software companies can only eat dust.
Nan Yi's positioning is very clear. In China, it only wants to develop industry solutions and develop industry software with relatively high barriers to entry such as telecommunications, taxation, finance, electricity and medical care, and then connect with Dafengche, starting with outsourcing, and then slowly absorbing the core of EDA software and embarking on its own industrial software path.
No matter how advanced and complex a software function is, it can always be developed as long as money is spent and a large number of software engineers are employed. However, this operating method is useless for industrial software. From the perspective of technical difficulty alone, the development difficulty of industrial software is incomparable to that of operating systems. Its difficulty lies in professional knowledge and data accumulation.
In an industrial software company, software development engineers are only basic members, and the core members are engineers in the industry field. For example, for an industrial software in the power field, in addition to software engineers, there are also a number of power engineers involved in the development. Moreover, in order for this software to become popular, it must have participated in many power projects and accumulated a lot of data.
Data is the core of industrial software and is priceless.
Does industrial software make money?
The profit is still much higher than that of ordinary word processing software, but compared with the popular online games, it is simply a garbage project with high investment and low output, which can be thrown away directly.
Nan Yi has been planning its industrial software business for more than a decade and has been investing in it globally. Although it has made a small profit so far, the funds invested in this field have long been moved to other places, and the funds have gone through countless setbacks.
But if he didn't get involved in the field of industrial software early, how could he collect data on the development process of industrial software? How could he get some of the core data of industrial software?
Nan Yi never believed in overnight success. He only believed that all success requires accumulation and time. The seeds of his national industrial software were sown more than ten years ago, but the expectation of seeing them bear fruit was put off until twenty years later.
Nan Yi is a bit stupid, he can't learn to be like the strong man who spent trillions of dollars to develop semiconductors, nor can he match the ambitious woman who made lofty statements like "1 billion this year, 5 billion next year, I don't believe she can't make chips". Although he has the bonus of time travel, he still can't learn the "slogan winning method". He only knows to start from bit by bit and let the trickles flow into the ocean.
When planning his software business, he could only start with outsourcing, which had the lowest technical requirements, and tried his hand at game piracy. He was small and weak, and he was afraid of hurting his back if he started too ambitiously.
A bullet-head car costs hundreds of thousands, which is not cheap. The reason why Nan Yi bought this car is that it is comfortable to sit in, and secondly, many people in Fengtian know this car and know that it is expensive.
Sometimes a good car is a face. To use a line from a movie, driving a good car requires salute, driving a good car means you are a good person, and those who ride in a good car are naturally the best of the good people.
Good people should naturally enjoy some convenience and should be able to go to some places without any obstacles. Northeast Software is a good company and it favors good people. Nan Yi and Xu Lu did not encounter any obstacles and easily got to Liu Yibo.
After the greetings, Nan Yi did not adopt a roundabout strategy, but went straight to the point. He waved at Xu Lu, and Xu Lu handed him the A1 folder.
Nan Yi handed the folder to Liu Yibo, "Mr. Liu, please take a look."
Liu Yibo took the folder and asked in surprise: "Boss Nan, what is this?"
"Mr. Liu, you might as well open it and take a look first." Nan Yi said mysteriously.
Upon hearing this, Liu Yibo opened the folder, which contained only a thin A4 paper with a three-column table drawn on it, including the company name, company address, and logo. Some were ticked, while others were unmarked.
"Mr. Liu, the names with a check mark behind them are the ones that we at Xianlu Capital have already negotiated with, and we can sign the contract at any time. For the ones without a mark, we can sign them as long as we run over. Mr. Liu once studied in the United States, majoring in computer science, so I believe you must have heard of the names of these companies."
Liu Yibo raised his head and looked at Nan Yi, "I wonder what President Nan meant by showing me this?"
Nan Yi smiled and said, "Boss Liu, if we, Xianlu Capital, guide these customers to Northeast Software, I wonder what we can get?"
Liu Yibo thought for a moment and asked tentatively, "Profit difference?"
"Mr. Liu may not have paid much attention to my self-introduction before. In addition to being the chairman of Xianlu Capital, I am also the president of Green Core Development. Green Core Development is not well-known in China. Mr. Liu may not know that it has a lot of investments in India and has good relationships with companies involved in software outsourcing business such as Infosys, Stan, Wipro, Patni, and CSC."
"Mr. Nan, you might as well be more direct. I'm a technician and I'm not proficient in business matters." Liu Yibo heard the hidden meaning in Nan Yi's words, but he couldn't tell what Nan Yi wanted for the moment.
"Mr. Liu is a quick talker, so I'll be frank with you. If Xianlu Capital gives Northeastern Software 50 million worth of business within three years, how many shares of Northeastern Software can Xianlu Capital take? Of course, we can sit down and discuss in detail and come up with a standard. Only businesses that meet the standard will count."
Liu Yibo was surprised and asked, "Boss Nan wants to exchange business for shares?"
