Replay 07: Opening the Temple of Learning

Chapter 304 Closed door

"I see. It's the same if I bring a few spare batteries." Lu Dehai readily agreed.

Around 2010, mobile phones still had removable batteries for charging. Later, when Apple came out, the batteries became non-removable.

Subsequently, battery replacement became the privilege of mobile phone sellers, and the spare batteries and socket-type rechargeable batteries that were everywhere in the streets and alleys disappeared from the stage of history.

The situation that Lu Shan described was very common at the time. There were always people walking around on the train selling things, including power banks, which cost about 150 yuan each and could only be used once. It was a rip-off.

Don't ask why Lu Shan knows so much, just ask that a friend told him...

Dad had new things to do, so Lu Shan didn't bother him too much. Lu Dehai was a man who wouldn't be fooled, and being honest didn't mean being stupid.

In fact, Lu Shan also wanted to go with them, but Lu Dehai refused. His original words were: "Don't get involved, just find someone to go with you." The implication was that he should find friends or people his own age to go out and play, but where would he have the time to do that?
Lu Shan was also happy to have some free time, as he would have to deal with company matters in a few days.

Jiyue, Zemeng and Bansi have made steady progress with breakthroughs, and every key node has to be controlled by themselves. Although a lot of power has been decentralized, these are three thriving companies, not three breakfast stalls selling steamed buns.

Jiyue's technology has gradually transitioned to the big data era. The collection of user habits and the portrayal of user images have become more accurate, laying a solid foundation for precise push notifications.

At this time, Jiyue is evolving into a company like Google and will occupy the Internet search market in the future.

Some of Zemeng’s content is similar to Jiyue’s, that is, program data services, which is what Oracle does.

Simply put, it is to develop computer programming technology and create good data frameworks. In the future, whoever wants to develop software can come to Zemeng or Jiyue to buy the framework and then fill it in by themselves.

Whether it is changing the skin or modifying it, it saves a lot of time.

The following era was the age of APPs, and the development difficulty was not high. Basically, you just needed to buy some frameworks and modify them.

In addition to data services and program framework building, Zemeng also focuses on network security, which is its current flagship product. Under the influence of Lu Shan, many companies in Xiaguo have purchased Zemeng's security services, and their performance has improved very quickly.

According to Lu Shan’s plan, Zemeng or Jiyue will set up a network service consulting company in the later stage to provide customers with a complete set of network services.

For example, security protection, and the construction of the entire network ecosystem.

Ji Yue is an Internet platform company and Ze Meng is a computer technology company, but the two have a lot in common, and it is difficult for Lu Shan to separate them clearly. It would be better to set up a department that connects the two to achieve efficient communication in the future.

"We are still short of people!" Lu Shan had to think so much just about the development direction of the two companies. He had an impulse to transfer Zheng Kaige, Tao Bo, Zhang Kaifeng and other people to form a management team so that he could feel more at ease.

After thinking about it, forget it.

Companion Silicon is also expanding at a high speed. Senior Zhang Kaifeng and his colleagues can no longer stay in Jiangzhou City, and take turns traveling to inspect the construction status of production lines in various places, that is, the acceptance work.

This work alone takes up a lot of time, not to mention the further study and training from all over the country. Senior Zhang Kaifeng and his classmates are already too busy to spare time.

In addition to expansion, BanSi is also constantly improving its technology and building technological barriers to prevent Westerners from getting smart and entering this industry one day.

It is necessary to build up technological barriers as soon as possible to deter Western capital.

Western capital is not the Xia government. There are some industries that have no hope of making a profit but are very important to the country. The Xia government will enter the game, but Western capital is profit-seeking in nature and they often do not.

This is why Lu Shan feels that Xia Kingdom will definitely return to the top of the world. A nation with thousands of years of uninterrupted civilization, full of foresight and determination, cannot be compared with those Western countries with only a few hundred years of civilization.

What to do if you are short of people? Lu Shan is not willing to go out and find headhunters to poach people. Those high-paid mercenaries have no integrity and no sense of identity. If they can be poached by themselves, they can be poached by others.

Who would dare to entrust core business to such people?
But if we don’t give the core tasks to these people, what’s the point of hiring them with high salaries?
So we still have to train our own people and can only wait for the students in the natural science laboratory to be trained.

The progress is going smoothly now. They carry the traces of their original education. The traces of the exam-oriented education have created good study habits and perseverance in their hearts, but also wiped out a lot of imagination. For example, the reading comprehension in the Chinese language test is nonsense. Even the author can't do it right.

There is no need to include such reading comprehension in the test paper. There are more allusions, words, typos, interpretations of different words, classical Chinese, and writing. Anyway, there are test contents. Reading comprehension is the most hurtful. Everyone has to abandon imagination and blindly guess the meaning of the questioner. There is no room for divergence, and it is not even worth remembering.

Now the natural science laboratory is gradually opening up students' restricted thinking and liberating their minds step by step.

When you reach a certain level of education, this is what you have to do.

In fact, it is best to do this in kindergarten, followed by university.

Elementary school and middle school are not suitable, as they are a stage that focuses on fixed accumulation.

Lu Shan went to the natural science laboratory more often than he attended graduate courses, and getting a graduate degree no longer meant much.

Lu Shan is quite happy to teach students in the Natural Science Laboratory. When communicating with young people who have liberated their minds, sometimes good ideas will emerge. Lu Shan regards students as young people, but in fact, he is the youngest.

Before we knew it, the land handover procedures for the graphene battery project were approved.

Lu Shan temporarily assigned this project to Zemeng Company because the supercomputer was placed in Zemeng and involved a large amount of calculations, so this division made it easier to manage.

Lu Shan took Tao Bo to the Graduate School of New Materials Industry to handle the formalities, which included getting the right of use contract and having both parties sign a contract for the transfer of the right of use.

Although the city had agreed to hand over the land to Lu Shan, it was just a letter of intent, equivalent to Lu Shan submitting an application. After the application was approved, the legal formalities had to be followed, and generally speaking, no one dared to go against such a decision, especially since Liu Hongming agreed on the spot.

But this time Lu Shan and Tao Bo were turned away. The people from the research institute said that there was no appointment, so they asked Lu Shan and Tao Bo to wait and discuss the land issue after things were settled here.

Lu Shan didn't say anything. It was fine to sit down. At most, he could go into the Singularity Laboratory to do experiments. When he was tired, he could come out to rest. After all, it was a whole day. But Tao Bo couldn't do that. He spent every second seriously and also had to think about the company's affairs.

After sitting there for a whole morning, there was still no progress. Tao Bo asked twice, but was told that it had not been completed yet.

Tao Bo couldn't help but complain to Lu Shan: "We've already made an appointment, why do people here have such a lack of sense of time?" Lu Shan also realized that something was wrong. The clerk's demeanor was really abnormal. How could anyone look so amused? His tone was even a little impatient.

So Lu Shan stepped forward and asked firmly, "Are you guys free?"

"Didn't I tell you that we're still working on it? Wait!" The receptionist was indeed impatient.

"This is the city's approval, and the appointment is today. Even if the dean doesn't have time, he will always arrange for someone to handle this matter. Now I want to ask if even the person in charge doesn't have time?"

"Uh... yes, he went out to take care of something." The receptionist was a little confused, this question was a bit unexpected. He had only been notified to try to keep the people here. It was obvious that these two people were not welcome by the institute, but she really didn't know the answers to the other questions.

"Okay! Since he's out taking care of things, can I ask where he's going? We can go straight to him."

"It's not convenient to disclose your itinerary. It involves... other units, and they may not let you in." The receptionist really wanted to applaud his own cleverness for coming up with such a reason.

"Then do you know who is in charge of this matter? Can anyone give me his phone number?"

"I can't give you the phone call, so just wait patiently. I will contact you when I have time."

Lu Shan stared at the receptionist's eyes calmly for a few seconds, which made the receptionist almost scared.

"What are you doing?"

"It's been a whole morning, and you haven't called anyone. How do you know the progress of others' work? You don't know who is in charge of this matter!"

"I……"

Tao Bo was very angry at this time. What a guy, he was treating him and Lu Shan like fools!

I was busy dealing with Ze Meng's problems with my head down and didn't pay much attention to it.

And he subconsciously thought that the city had already given a heads-up and the research institute would not cause any trouble, but he didn't expect that it was the research institute that was causing trouble!

Tao Bo was about to say something angrily, but Lu Shan waved his hand to stop him, and then calmly said to the receptionist: "Find someone else to handle it, and don't get involved in this matter."

The receptionist now understood what he was getting into. Anyone who could come here to do business would not be an ordinary person, let alone someone who was specifically named by the higher-ups to be troubled.

Can ordinary people be treated like this?
So the receptionist was used as a gun, and if there is a reckoning, he will be the first one to escape.

Thinking of this, the receptionist broke out in a cold sweat. He immediately reported the matter to his supervisor and said that he was about to get off work and whoever was due could come.

Anyway, I have some manpower and I won’t be fired because of this kind of thing. It’s better to just stay away and watch the fight between the gods and do the bystander yourself.

The front desk couldn't stop Lu Shan, so Liu Hongming called him a waste and sent a middle-level manager to deal with it.

The middle manager appeared in a swagger, apologizing: "I'm sorry, I just explained that several deputy leaders are indeed out. I'll take the information here. I'll contact you after verification. Can you leave me your phone number?"

After all, he is a middle-level manager, so his words and deeds are different. Anyway, I accepted the things first and did not reject him. But verifying the information is hard to say. It takes time to verify the information, and how long it takes depends on your mood.

"The document is stamped by the city government. If it doesn't work, you can make a phone call here. It shouldn't take long." Lu Shan didn't give in to his excuses and let him handle it on the spot.

“This… this matter is indeed not small. I don’t have the authority to coordinate, so I have to wait for the leader to coordinate. Please wait a moment!” The middle-level manager was almost stumped by the question. Fortunately, he dealt with it by saying that he did not have enough power, which sounded reasonable.

If you don't have the necessary level, you naturally don't have the right to know.

Is it reasonable? It is very reasonable. Lu Shan did not say much, but slowly pulled Tao Bo, who was about to explode, away from here and went out to eat.

"Mr. Lu! They are deliberately making things difficult for me! I want to complain about them! It's so abominable that they made us wait for the whole morning!" Tao Bo was very unhappy.

"Eat your food. Only when you are full will you have the energy to solve the problem." Lu Shan used a serving chopstick to pick up food for Tao Bo. He looked relaxed. He had already figured out what to do.

Originally, Lu Shan planned to let Tao Bo go back to work and let him do it himself.

On second thought, this is also a rare opportunity for Tao Bo to know that things are not always smooth sailing.

After eating, take a nap.

The research institute is an administrative class and it is daylight saving time, so we don’t start work until 3 pm, which is similar to where I am.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, Lu Shan and Tao Bo, who looked unhappy, appeared at the New Materials Industry Research Institute again. Everyone was already at work and looked at Lu Shan and Tao Bo in astonishment.

What's going on with these two people? Why are they here again?

"Is the leader back?" Lu Shan asked calmly. The receptionist called out the middle-level manager again. After receiving a negative answer, he sat at the reception seat and drank tea leisurely.

At noon, the middle-level manager reported the situation to Liu Hongming. Liu Hongming gritted his teeth and asked his men to continue to drag Lu Shan and prevent him from solving the problem.

Liu Hongming just wanted Lu Shan to ask him for help. He was so young but he didn't know how high the heaven was and how deep the earth was. He didn't know how to respect his elders. He just came to do things with the approval document. He was really ignorant!
Before the two units did business, they didn't even say hello, didn't meet in person, and didn't even invite each other for meals. There was no rules!
Liu Hongming's method has been followed for the past few decades, and it was still popular even in the era when Lu Shan had not yet been reborn, but it was not as serious.

But Lu Shan was extremely disgusted with this set of behavioral rules. Isn't it enough to just do the work according to the rules and procedures? He had to do so many things, turning the work that was supposed to be done into a gift, a privilege. The status of both parties in the work became unequal all of a sudden.

If he were to live again, Lu Shan would not continue to indulge this kind of atmosphere, which would only lead to serious internal friction and a huge waste of social resources. When a bunch of smart people are drinking, making connections, and studying human relationships, how much talent is wasted and how much efficiency is reduced?
"Lu Shan has been drinking tea? He didn't say anything?" Liu Hongming was very surprised.

"Yes, his only request was for more water," the middle-level manager wiped the sweat off his face. He was a little tired from running up and down. There were surveillance cameras in the hall, but they couldn't be seen from Liu Hongming's office.

(End of this chapter)