The last time Cao Yongluo met Zhou Xin was after the New Year's Day of the new millennium. When Zhou Xin visited Zhangjiang Park, Cao Yongluo went with him.
At that time, the Mphone had not yet been released, and mass production had not even begun. The main business of Yongxin Technology, which he founded with Zhou Xin, was still the production of Matrix keyboards.
He had very little involvement in this business. He was only involved in the preliminary supplier selection. His family helped find professional managers to check it. He was still in school at the time and was relatively free from work.
Since he decided to run Yongxin Technology well, Cao Yongluo has been deeply involved in the operation of Yongxin Technology since last year. Especially since the middle of the year, he has been preparing for Mphone. Yongxin Technology is responsible for part of the mobile phone assembly and casing production.
At the same time, he also had to take care of his graduation thesis. Cao Yongluo felt that he was so busy during that time that there was almost no breathing space. This also caused him to lose weight and look a lot darker than when he met Zhou Xin at the beginning of the millennium.
Seeing Zhou Xin's almost unchanged face, Cao Yongluo sighed with emotion: "Zhou Xin, we haven't seen each other for a long time, almost two years.
In just two years, I feel like I have been separated by a century. In the past two years, in the process of running Yongxin Technology, I have a new understanding of the world. "
Zhou Xin said: "I have never been in the manufacturing industry, but just by looking at the changes in your appearance, I can probably guess that this period of time must be very hard."
When Cao Yongluo grinned, Zhou Xin had the illusion of going back to the time when he first arrived in this time and space. At that time, Cao Yongluo treated everyone with the generosity of northerners when he invited them to dinner in the dormitory.
“The manufacturing industry is much harder than the Internet industry. Well, maybe the Internet industry is also very hard, but manufacturing is physically hard, while the Internet industry is more mentally hard.
As for you, relying on your superior IQ, you only need to use your imagination to do things that others cannot do no matter how much effort they put in. "
After actually participating in the front line of business operations and being deeply involved in the operation and management of a company, Cao Yongluo had a new understanding of how great it was to succeed in Zhou Xin's first venture at Amerikan.
Judging from the media and listening to myself, these difficulties are not one ten thousandth of the real difficulties.
The biggest fear when operating a manufacturing industry is that there are no orders. Without orders, machines are idling and workers pay as usual. The whole pressure is so great that outsiders can hardly imagine it. Yongxin Technology does not have this difficulty, Matrix's orders will even be allocated to them based on their operating conditions.
I will give you a list of how much you can do. The specific size of Yongxin Technology's operations depends entirely on Cao Yongluo's management level.
Even so, Cao Yongluo felt that running a business was too difficult, both physically and mentally.
After Zhou Xin smiled and hugged Cao Yongluo, he said: "I also have my own pressure. I am just relaxed on the surface. In fact, the mental pressure is no less than others.
There is no such thing as easy in the adult world! "
Cao Yongluo agreed very much: "You have indeed been living a very tight life. When we were still at Yanda, you were the first to get up and the last to go back every day. Your daily schedule was comparable to that of an ascetic.
I was originally worried that you would never find a girlfriend, but I didn’t expect you to move faster than me. Why don’t you introduce me? "
Cao Yongluo was referring to Li Jingyi, who was standing next to Zhou Xin, wearing a pink evening dress and holding Zhou Xin's arm. Zhou Xin said: "Cao Yongluo, my former roommate at Yanda, the assembly and production of Mphone in China was outsourced to his company. .”
Then Zhou Xin introduced to Cao Yongluo: "Li Jingyi, my girlfriend is also from Yan State University and is two years older than us."
After finishing speaking, Cao Yongluo waved his hands repeatedly: "Hello, senior sister, you don't need to introduce me much. When the news of your relationship with senior sister first came out, senior sister's personal situation was already exposed everywhere on the Weiming Lake Forum.
Senior sister, you are lucky to be with Zhou Xin. Before knowing this, I always thought that he was not interested in the opposite sex. Zhou Xin is very outstanding. I don’t need to say more about his achievements. There is no one among Yan University who has higher material achievements than him. Zhou Xin also has a very good personality. During the days when he was with us, he was always very hardworking, optimistic and positive. His only drawback was that he was not very gregarious. But genius is always unsociable, and we understand his unsociability very well.
Zhou Xin, you are also very lucky. Your senior sister is a shining star of the School of Mathematics at Yanda, and she is very smart. I have seen your senior sister’s transcript on the Weiming Lake Forum. Girls can achieve the highest grade points in the majors of the School of Mathematics at Yanda. Top ten, that’s a big deal. As for personality, my senior sister and I have just met her for the first time and don’t know her well. I believe she can attract you, so there will definitely be no problem with her personality.
Anyway, congratulations to both of you. "
Cao Yongluo felt that Li Jingyi was so lucky. There were many bigwigs in Yanjing who wanted to marry Zhou Xin. Not only Yanjing, but also many established families in America wanted to marry Zhou Xin. He had heard about it in Yanjing.
Even if she is just Zhou Xinming's girlfriend, she is lucky enough. Why did Cao Yongluo say Zhou Xin was lucky at the same time? Because on this occasion, giving face to Li Jingyi at this point in time is giving face to Zhou Xin.
Li Jingyi kept a polite smile and stood beside Zhou Xin dignifiedly: "Thank you, junior brother. Unfortunately, I couldn't meet you when I was in Zhangjiang. I'm very happy to be able to meet you in Los Angeles this time.
As Zhou Xin's roommate, you can share more of Zhou Xin's stories at Yanda with me. He himself is unwilling to tell me, as if he is not worthy of his status at Yanda. "
Li Jingyi just exchanged polite greetings and stopped talking after finishing her polite remarks.
Zhou Xin said: "After the dinner, we will find a place to talk in detail. Before, we either contacted by email or by phone, and we didn't talk clearly about many things.
In other words, I only know roughly what happened, but I don’t know the specific details. "
This is a celebration dinner hosted by CAAS to celebrate China's accession to the WTO.
There were many influential Chinese people in America who came to the scene.
But considering Zhou Xin's identity, no matter how many famous Chinese come to the scene, Zhou Xin is definitely the most eye-catching object.
Therefore, many people wanted to come up and talk to Zhou Xin, but because he had been chatting with Cao Yongluo, no one else came over. Cao Yongluo also realized this, and he quickly said: "You go and do your work first, we can have enough time to have a good time in the evening." Have a chat.
I will be staying in Amerikan for several days. We can make an appointment tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. "
When the dinner was about to begin, the people who came to chat with Zhou Xin disappeared, and Li Jingyi breathed a sigh of relief.
"Haha, isn't it tiring to hold on to this kind of situation all the time?" Zhou Xin asked in a low voice.
Li Jingyi drank water on the surface, but actually sighed: "Expression management is an art. I feel like my mouth is going to be stiff. I would rather write code than participate in this kind of activity."
Zhou Xin said: "I thought you had been used to it for a long time."
Li Jingyi: "Not at all. Whether the company under your name holds a celebration dinner or various activities, I have to maintain social etiquette, but because we are all your subordinates or partners, I can be more casual.
This is not an appropriate occasion. If I don't act dignified and decent, I don't know how I will be arranged in private. "
After Li Jingyi came to America, she was actually very lonely. Zhou Xin's circle of friends were almost all at least one step older than him, and most of them were business partners. Even if their wives wanted to have a good relationship with her, They couldn't talk and go together.
A middle-aged white woman from the rich class of America and a young girl who grew up in an ordinary family in China, and in an era when the material gap between China and America was huge, they had almost zero common topics.
Because of Zhou Xin's status and identity, these women would be very concerned about Li Jingyi's feelings when dealing with her, so it was not difficult to maintain superficial friendliness.
The only person who grew up in a similar environment to her and whose age was not much different was Robin's wife. However, Robinn's wife gave her a feeling of being too shrewd, and Li Jingyi also found it difficult to get close to her. Jerry Yang’s wife is a Costa Rican with Japanese ancestry, and she and Li Jingyi have nothing in common.
Almost all of her graduate school classmates knew her identity, which made it difficult for everyone to stay calm when getting along with Li Jingyi.
Zhou Xin is usually too busy, and it is difficult to give her emotional value. In such an environment, the only people Li Jingyi can count as friends in America are two Chinese women with good family conditions, Wang Xuelan and Chen Sien.
The ancestors of these two women were famous figures during the Republic of China, Amerikan who came before the founding of the Republic of China. Compared with my ancestors, I am definitely in a poor state, but compared with ordinary people, I am still much better.
But they are just friends.
The two men reminded Li Jingyi before she attended the party: "Relax, this is just a small case for you, even if you have any extraordinary behavior at this celebration dinner, such as singing in public, or Jump on the table and waltz and no one will say anything about you."
"Jingyi, don't listen to her nonsense. If you behave in a slightly inappropriate manner, Amerikan's Chinese circle is very small. As soon as the dinner party is over the day after tomorrow, all kinds of rumors will spread. It's better not to make a mistake if you can. Make mistakes.”
Li Jingyi knew what their unfinished subtext was. It was roughly that she felt that she was just lucky to be Zhou Xin's girlfriend, and then singled out the things she didn't do well as support for this argument.
She had seen too many similar comments in Chinese online forums in the past. Whenever she performs well, netizens will find fault.
Zhou Xin comforted him: "Don't worry, no one dares to gossip in front of you."
Li Jingyi replied: "I know who dares to refute your face, and I am used to talking about me behind my back, but after all, I still want to help you gain face and avoid being talked about behind your back that you have no vision. "
Zhou Xin squeezed her hand: "I have long passed the stage of being affected by other people's comments.
And at this stage of my life, no matter what I do, there will always be someone to help me explain it and explain it to me rationally. What's more, you are good enough. "
The fact that Zuckerberg's wife is not good-looking in later generations does not prevent netizens from finding enough reasons for Zuckerberg and his wife to get married.
After a brief exchange with Li Jingyi, Zhou Xin took the stage as the representative of CAAS and gave a speech:
"China's accession to the WTO is a major event in world political and economic activities. It has landmark international significance and far-reaching influence. China's economy has developed rapidly in the past 20 years and has become a powerful economic development force. After China joins the WTO, the two sides will influence each other, and the economic and trade cooperation between China and America will become closer.
We hope that when Chinese enterprises participate in global economic competition, they can catch up in the field of science and technology as soon as possible and rely more on technological advantages rather than resource endowment advantages."
After the dinner, Li Jingyi went back first, and Zhou Xin and Cao Yongluo went to a high-end private club in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles to continue chatting in detail.
"Yong Luo, long time no see, remember the principles we talked about before." Zhou Xin reminded.
Cao Yongluo only drank some red wine in the evening, which was trivial to him and did not affect his sobriety at all. Not to mention a little red wine, even half a pound of white wine, he can keep his brain awake. At most, the ability of the cerebellum to control balance is temporarily lost.
He knew what Zhou Xin was talking about. All chats in Amliken followed a zero-trust mechanism, which meant that all the content of their chats would be leaked by default, and they would communicate on this basis.
Cao Yongluo said: "Understood, I didn't want to talk to you about business matters.
You are also a shareholder of Yongxin Technology. The company's quarterly and annual reports will be sent to you every year. I will report to you every year, including the operating conditions.
These don’t need to be said here. I don’t need to solicit business for Yongxin Technology. Our problem now is that there are too many businesses to complete, not no business.
Especially after joining the WTO, because we help Mphone OEM and assemble, many mobile phone companies want to find us as suppliers, especially those in Neon and Korea. "
After Cao Yongluo stopped, he continued: "When you actually run your own business, you will find that the real world and the world you think are two different things.
I have been in Yanjing before and have never been to other places? The average monthly income of Yanjing sanitation workers is 2,000 yuan per month.
Here is the average salary of front-line workers. The monthly income of the most workers can even exceed 5,000 yuan.
In the Yangtze River Delta region, more than half of private enterprises and Sino-foreign joint ventures are in arrears with workers' wages. Yongxin Technology can settle their wages every month in accordance with the contract, which is already a first-class factory. Previously, matrix keyboards were counterfeited by other factories, and our workers were even afraid that Yongxin would go bankrupt and lose their jobs.
The Yangtze River Delta region is already considered a developed region in China, even the Yangtze River Delta, let alone other places. When I was building the factory, I also went to the Central Plains region for investigation, and the situation there was even worse. "
As for the average salary of Yanjing's frontline sanitation workers, which exceeds 2,000 yuan, this data comes from a China News Network report in 2001 on the income of Shenhai sanitation workers.
(End of chapter)
