Replay 07: Opening the Temple of Learning

Chapter 342 Borrowing the East Wind

During the participation process, Lushan’s employees can gradually become proficient in using the Endless Compiler, which will be of great benefit to Zemeng’s own application development in the future.

After mastering the Endless Compiler, you can also use related technical features to reverse optimize existing applications on the market and make these applications compatible with the Zemeng operating system.

It sounds simple, but it is difficult to operate, so it requires the employees' full commitment and Lu Shan's personal participation.

Gradually guide everyone to overcome every difficulty, master the technology solidly, and take the team's capabilities to a higher level.

The employees were a little afraid at this time, although they were all young and energetic, and were top talents recruited by Lu Shan himself.

However, when faced with a project like developing an operating system, there is still no clue.

Lu Shan noticed that the employees were not in high spirits and their expressions were not right, so he knew what they were thinking. So he decided to dispel their concerns through a discussion, otherwise the project would not achieve the expected results.

"You can also tell us your ideas about the operating system development project. Just tell the truth. If it cannot be solved, we will put it on hold and do everything according to the rules." Lu Shan promoted democracy and the meeting atmosphere was very relaxed, so employees have always been happy to share their views.

After asking around, most employees felt that this project was not very realistic at the moment. Simply put, they were against it.

There are several reasons for opposition, and they all sound reasonable.

The first reason is to burn money!
When Microsoft developed the Windows system, it cost at least hundreds of millions of dollars. That was 20 or 30 years ago. How much would that be today?

It’s definitely hard to calculate, but it will require a lot of money.

After development, subsequent maintenance, upgrades, and bug fixes all cost a lot of money.

The money you spend now is just an appetizer, it will be a bottomless pit in the future!
Everyone was somewhat skeptical of Lu Shan's financial resources. He had only been in business for a short time, and no one could have imagined that he would have accumulated such a huge fortune in such a short time.

The second reason is more difficult, that is, insufficient manpower.

Zemeng was established not long ago, and the team is very weak. It's not that everyone's skills are not strong, but that there are too few people.

Lu Shan’s admission requirements are high, and not many people can get in.

In addition, the business requirements are high, so a bunch of high-quality talents are needed to handle one business. Then, Zemeng's business is divided into several sectors, so it seems that there are not enough people.

Developing an operating system is a huge project.

It takes hundreds of people to develop a game on the market, let alone an operating system. If the number of people is less than 200, people will say that the boss is an amateur.

Lu Shan is definitely not an amateur, but Ze Meng only has a few dozen people at most, and some of them are engaged in network security business all over the country. How many talents can be squeezed out!

Unless everyone can do the job of ten people, there is really no way to solve this problem.

Finally, there is the question of market prospects.

Are there no other operating systems in the world besides those mainstream ones?

Of course not, at least not in the past.

In the beginning, there were many schools of thought and a hundred flowers blooming. However, after so many years of capital selection, user selection, and iteration of its own technology, only a limited number of operating systems survive.

Don’t think that things will be easier if there are fewer competitors. Fewer competitors means that the threshold of competition is ridiculously high. The few that survive will all be giants and industry leaders.

Ze Meng started playing in the peak competition right away and didn’t even participate in a practice match. Can the system he created satisfy the market?
This really needs to be put up as a big question mark!

Each of the few surviving operating systems has been tempered and tested by the market. The user habits and psychology have been thoroughly studied, and the products are already quite perfect. Can Zemeng grab territory or even erode the past overlords in the extremely narrow market space?

It’s hard to say. At least I haven’t seen any successful cases in Xia Country. Maybe my colleagues in Xia Country don’t even dare to have this idea.

If users don't buy what you make, the money will be wasted. The ecological chain is not established in one day, and word of mouth is not built in one day. After Zemeng's products are released, it will take time to have a large user base. Spending time means spending money, but spending money does not necessarily mean success.

The reasons are all correct, provided that they are placed in other companies, but Zemeng is Lushan’s company, so this does not hold water.

Lu Shan's face was still kind, but his tone was serious: "I admit that what everyone said makes sense, but this project still needs to be promoted because we have reasons to do so."

The most important reason is, in a broad sense, a matter of mission; in a narrow sense, it is sentiment.

It is an indisputable fact that Xiaguo does not have its own operating system.

Judging from Lu Shan’s previous life when he was reborn, even after more than ten years, there still was no such thing.

The system that was closest to successful development was Warwick's system. However, even though Warwick was very powerful at that time, it could only promote its own system on a small scale.

Until the moment Lu Shan was reborn, the market share of Huawei operating system was surprisingly low. You have to know that at that time, the country had already issued an order that the internal system must be localized, but it still failed to advance quickly.

The specific reason is what I mentioned before, the development of many applications, software, hardware, etc. are based on the Windows system.

Warwick has its own system, so the original applications and software cannot be adapted.

At this point, Lu Shan shook his head: "A fully domestically produced operating system that can be used in all aspects is of great significance to a country. Every computer industry practitioner should have such a sense of mission!
From a personal perspective, why can foreigners come up with an operating system but the Xia people can't? The Xia people have been glorious for thousands of years, proving that they are an excellent nation. They just dozed off in the past two hundred years, allowing the Westerners to catch up."

When the topic came to this point, everyone's hearts began to get hot. Yes, why!
Seeing that everyone's faces began to change, Lu Shan understood that this group of young people still had blood in them, and that things could be accomplished if they could win people's hearts.

So Lu Shan added fuel to the fire: "If we keep using foreign operating software, we will always be controlled by foreign countries. No one knows how many backdoors there are in the system, and no one can guarantee that they can find and block all the backdoors.

Then the entire country's computer security and Internet security will be at great risk.

Remember what happened more than a decade ago?
You may still be young, so why not check what the Americans did? They took advantage of their technology and turned off the GPS, causing the Galaxy to drift at sea for more than a month, and causing some of our missile launches to fail!

Just because such an incident hasn't happened in the Win system yet doesn't mean that Xiaguo is safe.

It is possible that on an invisible battlefield, they have already taken advantage of this weakness and caused incalculable damage to the Xia State!

So, does anyone still think that this operating system should not be launched? "

Lu Shan remained calm and looked around with a firm gaze. The employees' eyes also became firm, and they obviously approved of him.

Then, Lu Shan smiled and relaxed: "Don't be nervous. I'm not blaming you. It's really difficult, and I feel very stressed. But you can think of it this way. There are difficulties, but the prospects are bright. This is a huge market. Once you take it down, you can make money all over the world. By then, your income will increase many times. You can't deny this."

The employees laughed easily. Lu Shan was a straightforward person. He had both public and private interests in doing things. He never hid anything. He spoke directly and never made empty promises. Researchers got their salaries, and when things were done, they got dividends.

Lu Shan further elaborated: "The operating system market has been controlled by the Western world for too long. Everyday computers, industrial production equipment, and so on are all Western operating systems. Through these means, Westerners can get whatever they want and do whatever they want.

You've all heard of bundling, right? "

The employee nodded subconsciously. Who hasn't heard of this these days? Mobile phone packages are like rice fields, expensive and impractical. In order to make their own phone bills and traffic data look good, the operators force the packages to be bound.

The main focus is to arrange packages for users based on the performance the operator needs.

Lu Shan continued, "That's what Westerners do. When they're clearing out old equipment that can't be sold, they'll bind the system. That means if you don't buy their junk, you can't use their system. If you already have foreign equipment, you have to buy it!

This is not a matter of a hundred or eighty yuan for a mobile phone package, it's a matter of one million or eighty thousand yuan.

They can shut down the system remotely, but if you don’t buy the junk, you won’t be able to use it. This is killing the companies in Xia Country.”

After giving a few specific examples, the employees were completely aroused.

Those examples were not fabricated. Lu Shan had many more cruel examples that he hadn't mentioned, and it would take him several months to finish talking about them.

“Although Coco Assistant has made me a lot of money, enough to live comfortably, I can’t do that. When you are alive, you have to do something meaningful, at least you won’t regret it when you look back at it when you are old.

I will participate in research and development with you all, and we will advance and retreat together. I hope you can help me develop an operating system that belongs to the Xia people. Thank you all here in advance. "Lu Shan thought about it and reported a four-square fist.

This was the first time that such a gangster-like behavior was seen. The employees did not laugh, but instead imitated Lu Shan and clasped their fists in response.

The boss is so active even though he has plenty of money. Do I have the right to just sit back and relax?

"So what are we specifically responsible for?" Employees have already started to ask about the content of their work, which is a good sign, but Lu Shan smiled mysteriously: "Not in a hurry yet, we need to take advantage of the east wind!"

"Dongfeng?"

"wind?"

Lu Shan smiled but did not answer, asking them to go back and deal with the matters at hand first, and there would be arrangements in a few days.

It turned out that Lu Shan had already reported to the Xiaguo Academy of Sciences and relevant state departments. His purpose was very direct: to get money!
For such an important project, Lu Shan didn’t develop it just for himself, so it is justified for him to ask the country for research and development funds!
In his report, Lu Shan explained in detail the reasons for developing a domestic operating system. Anyway, it was enough to just repeat the reasons for the meeting once.

The higher-ups are not stupid, they must have known the importance of domestic operating systems. Even if they didn't know, the report also provides some popular science, and you can find a practitioner to ask and you will know that Lu Shan is not exaggerating.

Besides, Lu Shan has already said it very clearly in his report.

Lu Shan said in the report that he also knew that the country now needed to develop research in many fields and that funding was probably insufficient, so he would not ask the country to provide a specific amount of funding.

If the money given by the state is not enough, I can just use all the profits to develop this system. If the higher-ups don't give me money, I can just recruit young people from school to participate in the project. Anyway, Xiaguo was able to accomplish something when it was even more difficult in the early days of its founding, so now that the conditions are so good, I'm sure I'll succeed!

Recalling the good and bad times, reminiscing about the past years, Lu Shan couldn't think of any reason why his superiors would disagree.

When the higher-ups saw Lu Shan's report, they were quite shocked.

Lu Shan's level of awareness is comparable to that of the people back then. It is hard to imagine that in this materialistic world there are still such pure young people.

After being shocked, I was also very dissatisfied. If foreigners can do it, why can't we Chinese do it? We must do it! We must do it well and then go back to seize the market.

Foreigners have been earning this money for too many years and have earned it too happily. It’s time for Xia Guo to ask for some interest!
Especially the group of people above felt a little embarrassed when they saw Lu Shan comparing the past with the present.

Even though the country was in such a difficult situation back then, the Xia Kingdom still managed to create a national treasure. The conditions now are much more relaxed than before, so there is no excuse for failure.

The top leaders of the relevant departments quickly held a meeting for this matter. At the meeting, the bigwigs did not make decisions directly by shouting, but held a full discussion.

The relevant departments seem to be indecisive, because there must be a process for doing things, so as to avoid one person having the final say. When something big happens, there must be more discussion, and it is easy to cause big problems if you only listen to one person.

The situation on the Xiaguo Academy of Sciences' side was much simpler. After reading the report, they decided to allocate 10 million yuan and send a team to assist.

Does this mean that the Xiaguo Academy of Sciences is too casual?

Obviously not. The Xiaguo Academy of Sciences itself has cooperation with Lu Shan, so the procedures are very simple and direct.

Basically, they participate in the form of business, and there are contracts to follow. The previous investment and subsequent output distribution are all traceable. Therefore, as long as the Xiaguo Academy of Sciences is optimistic about this project, it can follow up with confidence.

Besides, even without a contract, the Xiaguo Academy of Sciences would still give money to people, because the scientific research capabilities that Lu Shan had demonstrated before were so high that they had completely impressed the Xiaguo Academy of Sciences.

According to the Xiaguo Academy of Sciences, "Whatever Lu Shan wants to do, he will succeed. If he can't do it, there's no need to let others do it!"

(End of this chapter)