Chapter 9 Eight

March 8th was a sunny day. Kang Cheng made a very serious and comical package for himself to welcome the arrival of Women's Day, but instead of dating gay women, he went to a company that called himself an ISP (Internet SERVICE PROVIDER) companies apply.Calling yourself an ISP was a very fashionable thing at the time, but after a few years, no one dared to say that they were 100% purebred ISPs, because ISPs couldn't make money. Kang Cheng wore a goldlion tie with red ground and yellow tulip flowers that day. He bought this tie for 10 yuan from a college student who came to the dormitory to sell ties.His understanding of the tie is that the harder the better, he knows nothing about the fabric, but he thinks that men don't need a tie, they just need a good belt. Wearing a tie is just for others to see. Others will not come up to touch it if they see that you are straight. Touch the fabric, if someone comes up to touch the fabric, it means that the relationship between each other is extraordinary, and it doesn't matter whether the fabric is good or not.If a woman comes up to touch the fabric of your tie, she has no intention of it, so you can rest assured that she can touch it; if a man comes up to touch your tie, a fight is inevitable, preferably paper Tie, so that the golden cicada can get out of the body, otherwise it will be troublesome.Although the belt is hidden under the clothes, a good belt will give a man a sense of security. There will never be the danger of the belt being broken and exposed when drinking, and a good belt often makes a man straight.According to this logic, Kang Cheng sold a real leather belt for more than 100 yuan.I borrowed my three-knob leather shoes, and the beige double-breasted suit carefully selected by Li Jun in the big sale for 180 yuan, which is very formal.Kang Cheng's figure is that of a suit: broad shoulders, straight back, and long legs.After spraying tap water with Xiao Han's flower-raising watering can and combing his hair briefly, Kang Cheng is already very suave.A few years later, Kang Cheng developed an addiction to collecting ties, and his view of ties made a 180-degree turn.

We watched Kang Cheng walk out of the dormitory, and wished him good luck, perhaps this is how a rich man begins! Kang Cheng arrived at the IHW company on Baiyi Road one hour before the application time. The slogan "1+NET" was written on the company's facade. Although Kang Cheng didn't understand what 1+NET meant, he already knew that NET (network) Interesting, it connects the whole world into a network, and it will be very informative to have a look on the Internet. You don't even need to go abroad to know what people in Africa or America are thinking, and you can even chat with them in English.Kang Cheng was excited by this cause, because ISPs help ordinary people get online. This is like a rocket launch base. It represents science and mystery. People will believe what you tell them. It’s not the same as selling rat poison on the street. It can be considered a business.

There are a lot of people applying for the job, and a hall of about 50 square meters is crowded.This hall is just a facade of IHW in Zhongguancun, and it is filled with many GAT EWAY2000 computers."IHW Time and Space" is written on the computer, and there are many columns such as Internet service, IHW life information, etc. The Internet provides various useful and useless information about work and life.The most important thing is that these computers are connected to the Internet. It's a magic button to go to the world. It's an amazing button. With it, you have the British Museum, and you can walk around the FBI. Then go to the Vatican Pope's site to listen to the New Year's bell, and send an E-mail to Spielberg, saying that you have a good script that can make a dead body movie that is more real and cruel than "Saving Private Ryan" .If you have the ability, you can also press this magical mouse to drag a lot of banknotes over. All in all, you hold the mouse to hold the world.

The numerous modems in the exhibition hall were chirping and rattling, and the entire space became a rat's nest.Kang was lying on a table like a mouse answering the written test questions.The general idea of ​​the written test questions is that a general manager's secretary arranges a day's activity schedule for the general manager.This includes that the general manager will hold an important meeting with the branch manager about local business development, and will make an important speech at the meeting; what time will the general manager's old mother arrive at Beijing International Airport by plane from Hong Kong; At noon, I want to invite a big customer to have a meal on the top floor of the Jingcheng Hotel; two important employees have asked the general manager to approve a salary increase, otherwise they will change jobs; in the evening, I will invite my old mother to have dinner at the Fangshan Restaurant... Kang Cheng was dazzled by more than a dozen activities, thinking that being the general manager is too tiring.Kang Cheng saw that this question had nothing to do with him. He was sure that he would not become the general manager's secretary, but for the interview later, he had to pass the general manager's secretary, so he still completed this non-intelligence game very seriously. question.

After completing the questions, he waited until 7:00 p.m. before it was Kang Cheng's interview. He was already very hungry. In order not to lose his breath during the interview, Kang Cheng went to a pink bakery next to him and spent more than 20 yuan to buy a foreign cake to satisfy his hunger. Kang Cheng likes to eat foreign cakes because there are no Chinese cakes in the bakery. Kang Cheng felt extremely uncomfortable when he was half full for 20 yuan. Wipe the crumbs off his mouth and go back to the mouse's nest, where he is interviewing a girl with short tassels behind Kang Cheng, so Kang Cheng has to wait patiently.

There were three people interviewing Kang Cheng, two men and one woman.One of them was a man in his early thirties, wearing a dark blue suit and a tie with small white flowers on a blue background. Will UNIX do it?meeting!How much will it be?You can be a system administrator, and you can also use C to develop programs in the UNIX environment. What about WINDOWS?will use! What is HACKER?There is no need to answer this question, I have heard of HACKER even if I don’t know computers! ...Kang Cheng felt that he answered every question he asked very well. The examiner looked at Kang Cheng with a half-smile and asked Kang Cheng another question: Do you usually dress so neatly?Kang Cheng's blood pressure rose to his face, his face was very red, and a sense of resistance that could not be suppressed was threatened. He felt that he was much nobler than the examiner in front of him, but his expression seemed very confident. Zhong Nei had already decided not to come to this company, so he said clearly and slowly with a moderate smile on his face: I usually wear very dirty work clothes to work, and today I wear them so neatly because I value this company. Now I don’t think so, you Can you tell me your name, we will meet later.

The examiner obviously had the experience of humiliating others many times, and he didn't feel any embarrassment at Kang Cheng's refute, and calmly told Kang Cheng his name: Zhang Fu. Kang Cheng got up and walked in the dark Zhongguancun. Although his expression was calm, his heart was full of waves. He said to himself: Zhongguancun belongs to me. Kang Cheng has been distributing resumes at various job fairs for a long time.The International Exhibition Center recruits every Monday, the National Cultural Palace recruits every two days, and the talent centers in various districts of Beijing recruit every day. Catching up with the recruitment tide has become a major landscape in Beijing, and Kang Cheng has become an erratic leaf in this landscape.With his initial confidence in his self-worth, he went to various job fairs and interviews, but in the end he would rather lie in the dormitory and watch Quanyong's "Nine Parts of the Dragon" than go to the street to find a job.Once a company that produced shampoo said that in order to improve the technological content of the company, it recruited Kangcheng to build a company-wide information system, including a complete set of computer management for the company's purchase, sale and storage.After Kang Cheng left, the company changed a boss. He thought that the most important thing now was market share, so he temporarily reassigned Kang Cheng to sell shampoo. A colleague is a girl from Wenzhou who has rich experience in hair salons. If she loses one year of reading, she drinks one bottle of ink less than Kang Cheng. At the performance report meeting, Kang Cheng always felt uneasy and depressed like a poor man at a dinner party with a group of rich people.He walked away from the shampoo company without receiving half a month's salary.

On the second day after Kang Cheng finished watching "The Nine Parts of the Dragon", Brother Hou unexpectedly appeared in Kang Cheng's dormitory, which flattered Kang Cheng.I haven't seen Brother Hou for a long time.Hou Ge's demeanor is still there, he doesn't talk much, without a smile, the expression before a major decision.Brother Hou asked Kang Cheng what he was doing, Kang Cheng said nothing, Brother Hou said to make two rounds of mahjong, there is something to talk about.Seeing Brother Hou's appearance, Kang Cheng knew that he had something more important to say than pinch of hemp.

In Brother Hou's dormitory, there were already two people sitting at a mahjong table.A 26-year-old man with a white face and long Rendanhu wearing glasses who is not short because he is stout looked at Kang Cheng as if looking at a commodity, and then nodded. Kang Cheng knew that it was not Brother Hou who was going to talk, but this Dude. The old man said, "My surname is Gan, so please call me Forrest Gump." Kang Cheng smiled friendly and gave his name.Forrest Gump said: "Kawabata Yasunari, Yasunari, I have read his book, the perfectionist." "Aestheticism." Yasunari handed over a sign, and Forrest Gump nodded and smiled.Brother Hou has been playing cards in silence.Before the round of mahjong was finished, A-Gump asked Kang Cheng which branch factory he was in, and Kang Cheng made excuses.A-Gump, who was looking up at the cards, looked up at Kang Cheng, and said with a bright smile, "What are you doing now?" Kang Cheng said that he was reading a novel in the dormitory, and A-Gump patted a card he had just picked up and said, "Ning Que Don't mess up, have courage." "Being forced to do nothing." "Heroes are all forced out," A-Gump stopped playing cards, leaned back slightly, and said, "I should say that I didn't belong to any unit two years ago It's gone." "Then what are you doing?" "Observing Zhongguancun!"

Kang Cheng has been to Zhongguancun several times, but he really doesn't have a good impression.There are tall poplar trees growing beside the long section of the road, and the most important thing is that there are open-air drainage ditches of agricultural civilization on both sides of the trees.At the beginning, he never believed that the various small doors hidden behind the bushes were the new force of China's high-tech. It was not until he applied for a job at IHW that he realized that high-tech was really beyond appearance.But the tricycles hauling goods all over the street and the rural women selling CDs and diplomas with children in their arms confuse him again: Is this Zhongguancun, the birthplace of China's high technology, which is famous all over the country and intends to be famous all over the world?If this is the case, Kang Chengzhen can't make up his mind to come here to realize his self-worth.

"After your observation of Zhongguancun, what did you find?" Kang Cheng wanted to hear A-Gump's advice out of curiosity. After all, he just walked around Zhongguancun and saw some superficial phenomena. A-Gump pondered for a while and said, "Let me tell you a story that is well-known to women and children in Zhongguancun. I named this story Zhongguancun Revelation. Zhongguancun is a living textbook for realizing personal value, and it is also a way to realize personal value." Vanity Fair. Zhongguancun not only refers to the crowded street sandwiched between two rows of trees, it has many values ​​worth exploring..." A-Gump was a little complacent when talking about Zhongguancun, and almost forgot the story, as if Zhongguancun is a very slippery piece of watermelon rind, and this watermelon rind has become his surfboard. As soon as his thoughts land on this piece of watermelon rind, he rides the wind and waves and talks endlessly.Prompted by Brother Hou, A-Gump returned to the Zhongguancun Apocalypse. "In this way, there was a rural youth who wanted to find a job with his brother-in-law in Zhongguancun because he didn't want to do farm work at home. His brother-in-law said, what can you do as a farmer in Zhongguancun? He was speechless, just saying that you can't see death No help. Under the repeated lobbying of the siblings, his brother-in-law agreed to let him come to Zhongguancun to help him look at the warehouse. Once his brother-in-law went to Shenzhen to look at the goods, and was detained by the Shenzhen police for 15 days due to personal life problems. Right here In 15 days, there was a serious shortage of 15-inch monitors in the Zhongguancun market. He sold all 50 15-inch monitors in his brother-in-law's warehouse to a computer manufacturer, and then brought 20 sets of 486 machines, and sold them to the education committee in his hometown. A classmate of mine got 500,000 RMB and registered a trading company within 3 days with a company specializing in company registration. He bought 200 15-inch monitors and returned 50 to his brother-in-law. Waiting for him When my brother-in-law came back from Shenzhen, he handed his brother-in-law a business card with the title of general manager of the newly established trading company, saying that he had resigned to become the general manager. Then his business became bigger and bigger, so big that the world's top 500 computer companies wanted to compete with him. He signed the general agency agreement in China..." "This is a typical story of an empty-handed white wolf." Kang Cheng said, looking at the card. A-Gump said: "What if this farmer is you? With this money, you may do a better job than him. He can do trade, but he is not high-tech. Only high-tech is the most valuable. You listen How much money does Bill Gates earn in a minute?" Kang Cheng frowned and said, "It's a pity that I'm not that farmer!" As a result, this sentence made everyone present, including Brother Hou, laugh. Only Kang Cheng Do not laugh. Forrest Gump said: "Of course we are not just like farmers just to make money, if we tie together there will be a better version of the Zhongguancun Apocalypse! "The greatest value of high technology is that you have no way of knowing how valuable it is. It is this unknown value that can confuse people. This is the same feeling as chasing a girl before you catch her." Forrest Gump talked about high technology very much Excited, obviously his understanding of Zhongguancun is not at the level of saving machines and selling them for money.Kang Cheng listened to the cloud and mist, feeling uncertain in his heart. Forrest Gump went on to say: "What is the biggest high-tech right now? It is the computer industry. What is the real money that the United States can make now? It is Silicon Valley! Only Silicon Valley can really create value. The people in the old reputation say that the money earned by Silicon Valley is new money." What makes the most money in the computer industry? It is software! What is the most essential thing in software? Its ideas! Think about it, how valuable is the idea of ​​a graphical interface? What does WINDOWS have? There are many better software than WINDOWS Yes, but people like WINDOWS because it has the best interface, and users like it as simple as possible, so WINDOWS developed a WYSIWYG idea, and then a plug-and-play idea, absolutely, no matter how others operate The system can’t do Bill Gates. Bill Gates earned 60 billion US dollars last year. What is the concept of 60 billion US dollars. Suppose Bill Gates works every day for 1 year, 365 days, 10 hours a day, 1 hour and 3600 seconds, 1 He works 13,140,000 seconds a year, and he earns $4,560 per second. Even if he is faster than a bank counter, asking him to count 100 green bills, counting 45 in 1 second will make him emphysema. Whose finger can vibrate like this? Except the spring. So Bill Gates won’t bend down to pick up the money scattered on the ground, because it takes him 5 seconds to bend down to pick up the money. It’s not as good as opening the laptop to work. This is the knowledge economy, and a good man doesn’t earn a lot of money.” Forrest Gump’s rhetorical and down-to-earth speech stunned Kang Cheng and Hou Ge, not Kang Cheng to Bill.Gates was fascinated, but felt that all this had nothing to do with him.People only care about the things in front of them, who would be restless about the stories in the distance?This feeling is like a movie star, no matter how beautiful she is, she is not as beautiful as the neighbor's daughter. A-Gump saw that everyone's reaction was mediocre, so he stopped to smoke a cigarette and said, "Let's talk about ourselves. I think young people like us with computer knowledge will not believe that we can't be a farmer in Zhongguancun. I have an idea. We unite together to develop in Zhongguancun and use our knowledge to create value. The era of relying on physical strength to make money has passed. Earn money with intelligence and engage in knowledge economy. Brother Hou and I thought about it for a while, and decided to open a technology development company in Zhongguancun. The registered capital of a technology development company is only 100,000. The grain store made a small fortune by selling rice, and agreed to borrow a sum of money and deposit it in my account first, so that we can register a company with the Industrial and Commercial Office. Each of us has shares in the company. It is better if you can contribute capital now. If you can’t contribute capital, you can join with technology shares. The company now has two businesses that can be developed, one is a kind of network software developed by Hou Ge, and the other is a project received by a Zhongguancun friend. We use it to do it, and we can earn money for processing Fee, without any investment, it’s all about the knowledge economy.” Kang Cheng felt that this idea was good. Although he didn’t know much about Forrest Gump’s personality when they first met, he basically didn’t have any risks, and going to Zhongguancun to exercise would not hurt.Kang Cheng listened carefully, with a smile on his face. Brother Hou explained his Internet accelerated download software intermittently, feeling like letting a person with a tone deaf sing.It is said that this software can accelerate the speed of Internet access, and can make the access not to be dropped in the middle. It is a very economical and practical software for those who use MODEM to access the Internet. Kang Cheng cast admiring glances at Brother Hou.Brother Hou is not good at talking, but what he does and what he says is absolutely credible. Relying on Brother Hou's reputation, Kang Cheng decided to join Forrest Gump's technology development company. A week later, A-Gump got a passbook of 100,000 yuan with his name printed on it.To put it more clearly, all of Kang Cheng's possessions now is a wooden box under the bed filled with half a box of books and half a box of clothes. He can only contribute, and Brother Hou can also contribute. Thirty days later, Kang Cheng, Hou Ge and A Gan's Yongtai Technology Development Company listed in an empty house in an elementary school in Zhichunli.They used whitewash to whitewash the 30-square-meter room, and then borrowed an unused desk from the school and connected a telephone. All the office supplies in the company were available, and the investment in fixed assets was less than 5,000 yuan, so they could unplug the telephone and move at any time. "Knowledge economy, as long as you have a few smart heads on your shoulders." A-Gump said while trying to dial the phone.Kang Cheng and Hou Ge quickly entered the role of wage earners, eating and eating and cleaning the house. They spent the first day of the company's opening as a group cleaning. The next day A-Gump went out to contact business, Hou Ge moved his fragmented computer from the toilet workshop in the dormitory to Yongtai Technology Company, and started the commercialization of the software after connecting the power supply.Kang Cheng is very interested in the Internet. He thinks it is a sign of a new era, and there are unlimited business opportunities on the Internet.In order to give this software a very good name, he borrowed a "Modern Chinese Dictionary" from the school teacher.Brother Hou lacked commodity awareness and modern awareness in choosing software names, so he named his network software "Ahoukang Network Access Acceleration Insurance Software".Kang Cheng said: "As far as the name of your software is concerned, people think it is for treating bronchitis after hearing the first part, and think it is for insurance sales after hearing the latter part. Let me choose a name for the software." After Kang Cheng's repeated deliberations, he followed Simple, easy to remember, auspicious, distinctive, catchy, non-plagiarism, with Chinese characteristics, and the principle of sustainable development, finally named Hou Ge's software "NetEx No. 1".Since then, Zhongguancun has a software named "Network No. 1", but not many people know about this software. At present, there are only three people: Brother Hou, Kang Cheng and Forrest Gump.