My Age of Investment

   Chapter 798

  The next stage of the development layout of the domestic network has been initially completed, and Xia Jingxing returned to the business headquarters of Vision Capital.

  On this day, he suddenly received a call from Deng Feng.

   "Jingxing, an old gentleman wants to visit you..."

  After listening, Xia Jingxing looked surprised. He didn't expect this old gentleman to visit him.

  Deng Feng didn't answer the phone for a long time, thinking that Xia Jingxing didn't want to see him.

  So he explained a few more words: "Jingxing, in my opinion, the damage caused by the Ark and Hanxin incidents to China's independent innovation of science and technology cannot all be attributed to Lao Li alone.

  After leaving the conscience computer, Mr. Li has been running for domestic chips and domestic operating systems. He deeply feels that the gap with the international leading technology is getting wider and wider. In a hurry, it is estimated that he was taken advantage of by someone with a heart. "

  Xia Jingxing pondered for a moment, and then replied: "Okay! Then see you, anyway, the old man's starting point is always good."

   "Well, I will bring him to see you right away."

  Deng Feng was very happy on the other side of the phone. Xia Jingxing agreed to meet, and he could be regarded as completing an old friend's request.

   More than an hour later, Deng Feng appeared in Xia Jingxing’s office with a thin old man wearing a suit and full of silver hair.

   "Lao Li, this is what you call the "national hope"."

  Deng Feng smiled and pointed at Xia Jingxing, and then introduced to Xia Jingxing the old man beside him—Li Guangnan, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and former chief engineer of Conscience Computer.

   "Lao Li, welcome you to come and guide the work." Xia Jingxing smiled and handed out his hands, appearing very respectful.

  "I dare not be the guidance, but I just hope that I can contribute my modest contribution to the country's independent innovation of science and technology."

  Li Guangnan's posture was very low, and his tone was full of shame.

  In the past few years, he has stabbed a lot of baskets. It can be said that he has almost completely defeated the fame he has accumulated in his early years. He is also notorious in the Chinese science and technology circle.

  A few days ago, he saw in newspapers and the Internet that Xia Jingxing bombarded Mu Zhixin, his former partner and today’s mortal enemy.

  I was so excited that I almost jumped up!

  Not gloating, but finally finding like-minded people.

  In 1994, he had a quarrel with Mu Zhixin because of his plan to develop chips independently, and the complaint even went to Tiexiang.

  In the end, he was defeated by Mu Zhixin, who was more experienced in struggle, and left the conscience computer that had been struggling for ten years sadly, and all the shares were taken back.

  But he did not extinguish the flame of his dreams. He has been running around for domestic chips and operating systems.

  He is willing to be the one who holds the salary for everyone, even if it is frozen and snowy, he will not hesitate.

  As long as someone raises the banner of independent innovation, he is willing to bring his own dry food to the platform, endorsement for others, help matchmaking, introduce various resources...

  This almost became an obsession in his heart.

  As long as there is hope, he will not let it go, even if he bet on all his personal reputation.

  Because of this obsession or shortcoming, he has been used time and time again, chip fraud to defraud scientific research funds, and real estate in the name of making cores...

  In this year, Ark Technology built a building in Zhongguancun, and Hanxin was publicly reported by employees with a conscience.

  For a time, public opinion is boiling, and the chip has become the most questioned technology industry, and even the state has reduced its policy support.

  He rushed to the forefront, naturally at the center of the whirlpool of public opinion, coupled with the secret promotion of his old opponent, he almost became a big liar, a clown.

  Under this situation, Xia Jingxing was still willing to see him, which made him full of gratitude, because this actually represents an identification with him, and it is also the kind of emotional support he needs most and lacks.

  Xia Jingxing greeted Li Guangnan and Deng Feng to sit down, made tea for the two again, and chatted slowly.

   "Mr. Xia, I heard that you bought a mobile operating system company in the United States? You also invested in Spreadtrum and GigaDevice?"

  Li Guangnan put down his tea cup and looked at Xia Jingxing with piercing eyes.

  Xia Jingxing nodded, “Yes, we are developing mobile phones ourselves. These are the supporting industry chains. In addition to these, Envision Capital has also invested in more than a dozen companies in the mobile phone industry chain.”

  Hearing this, Li Guangnan’s muddy eyes instantly brightened a lot, and he admired: “It’s a big deal! With such a complete layout, it is very hopeful to become a top technology company in the world.”

  Xia Jingxing smiled, "Do your best!"

  Li Guangnan frowned, "Mr. Xia, if I can say something simple, Envision Capital has the strength, and your leader is so young and courageous. You must not let this era be worthy of you.

  Chips and operating systems are the atomic bombs in peacetime. The Chinese must be at ease in their own hands and have the right to speak in the world of science and technology.

  Otherwise, no matter how big your company is, no matter how tall the building is, it will be built on other people's foundations, and it will fall down as soon as you push it down! "

  Xia Jingxing did not directly dislike Li Guangnan's words. On the contrary, he felt that the old man was very foresight.

  The reversal of the old man's case in the previous life was almost started after ZTE was sanctioned.

  What the old man said is the truth.

  Perhaps the old man’s abilities are outdated and his vision is limited, but this sense of crisis is worthy of recognition.

   More than ten years ago, the old man worked in a program-controlled switchboard at Conscience Company, and made this department the second largest department after microcomputers.

  After the old man left, the program-controlled switch business was cut off by Mu Zhixin, but Huawei started with this business and became a leader in the communications field.

   "We have internal considerations, and we plan the development plan from multiple perspectives such as industry, ecology, and national conditions."

  Li Guangnan was not very satisfied with Xia Jingxing’s answer and said: “Mr. Xia, I think you should work together in the three fields of mobile phones, operating systems, and chips to achieve the goal of self-sufficiency.

  In this case, even if there are any changes in the international world in the future, your business will not be too passive. "

  Xia Jingxing feels that this old man is really persistent. If he is an ordinary person, he may be directly irritated by being held up like this by the old man.

  However, he knows that the old man is also very sincere and hopes that China's technological innovation can make great progress.

  "We have plans in this regard, and self-sufficiency is also our ultimate goal."

  Hearing this sentence, Li Guangnan was finally satisfied, and said with a smile: "Then President Xia, which angle do you plan to start from? I am familiar with the chip, and I can help match up what talents and policies are needed."

  Xia Jingxing knew that Li Guangnan had committed another old problem. As long as he was a chip and operating system, this old man would not let it go, and now he has started to recommend himself.

  If you are the owner of a leather bag company, you don’t know how happy you should be. With the help of this kind of enthusiastic and prestigious old man, it’s not too easy to get some money.

  "Semiconductors and operating systems are both systematic and long-term major projects. At the same time, they also need a good and sustainable ecosystem to provide strong support."

  Xia Jingxing looked at the enthusiastic old man, smiled and said, “We are already conducting some investigations, and funds are also in preparation. If necessary, I will definitely bother Mr. Li to take action. I hope that you will be able to support him.”

  Li Guangnan waved his hand, "No problem, as long as it is a company that is really committed to making chips and operating systems, I will support it free of charge."

  "In that case, I specially hire you as our company's senior consultant to provide our company with some consulting services."

  Xia Jingxing looked at Li Guangnan with a smile. The old man was actually quite bitter. He planned to give the old man an honorary title, help him realize his dream, and at the same time defeat the conscience-based “Trade, Trade and Trade” with the “Technology, Industry and Trade” route.

  And in his opinion, the old man still has a lot of family and country feelings.

  In the 1980s, Li Guangnan gave up 70 times the domestic salary in Canada and chose to return to the poor and white motherland. This is because Li Guangnan has always had a dream of rejuvenating the country through the technology industry.

Li Guangnan, who was born in 1939, had a deep pain for "the country is weak and being bullied by others". The old man once said: "The experience of escaping since childhood is something I will never forget. It made me understand that the country should be prosperous and strong before it will not suffer. Bullying by others."

After becoming the chief engineer of Conscience Company, Li Guangnan took the lead in the research and development of the two major products of "Han Card" and "Microcomputer", helping Conscience Company to achieve a cumulative sales of 4.7 billion in 1994, successfully listed, and became the largest in China at that time. Technology company.

  Even the name "Conscience" company is named after the Conscience Hancard (LX-PC).

  When Mu Zhixin first took charge of Conscience Company, he invested 200,000 in principal and was defrauded of 140,000.

  If there were no blood transfusions from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and without Hanka’s product making the first pot of gold, Conscience Company might have died in the 1980s.

  Many netizens in previous lives believed that Conscience Company should listen to Li Guangnan’s advice in the 1990s, and either die heroically or become a true light of the nation.

  And even if they die, they can ignite themselves, illuminate the way forward for latecomers, and leave some valuable chip talents.

  Because after 2000, there is a very shortage of chip talents in China.

  There are also many people who proceeded from reality and conducted various researches, inferences, and analyses. They believed that Intel could not do it 100%. Following Li Guangnan’s suggestion, Conscience could not survive the 1990s.

  Xia Jingxing felt that all kinds of speculations were possible, and at the same time regret that Li Guangnan was a little untimely. Even if he was brave like Don Quixote, he was no match for a windmill that was numb and insensitive to independent research and development.

  "Would you like to hire me as a consultant?"

  Li Guangnan looked happy at first, then calmed down, and said: "Will it cause you negatives? Otherwise, forget it, I don’t want this title, and I can run for you as well."

  To tell the truth, the old man saw Xia Jingxing and his vision capital as if he saw a treasure. He was really worried that because of his own negativity, the treasure company that was finally discovered would cast a shadow of failure.

   "When I do things, I have always been not afraid of what others will say, and I am not afraid of shadows, there is nothing to worry about, so let's decide!"

  Xia Jingxing said very strongly not to give the old man a chance to resign.

"it is good!"

  Li Guangnan did not pretend to be sentimental, and accepted the errand very happily.

  At this moment, he felt extremely satisfied, because he had found a goal to fight for.

  Looking at the old academician who was happy like a child, Xia Jingxing felt that he should have done the right thing.

  No matter how the outside world questioned Li Guangnan, it is an indisputable fact that he appealed for chips and operating systems for 30 years.

  Someone once criticized Li Guangnan: If you leave the platform of conscience, you can't do anything. Why don't you build chips and operating systems on your own? It's just that you don't have that ability.

  Xia Jingxing feels that this kind of remark is like why not eat meat, an industry that takes decades to shake up in a country, can all the burdens be placed on one person?

  Li Guangnan himself has no money, and is limited by the environment of the times, and is limited by his age, it is already difficult to make some substantial things.

  However, portraying the old man as a pioneer of independent technological innovation and shouting, in order to inspire more talents to devote themselves to chips, and the industry to serve the country, may be the correct way for the old man to use it.

  It is not suitable to arrange for the old man to go to the front line to engage in technology, or to take the overall situation.

  Because he has been out of the front line for too long, if the conscience company decided to build chips back then, the old man has been doing it until now. He has more than ten years of industry experience.

  Due to various considerations, he can only seek senior R&D personnel from major international manufacturers to be the executive level, because those who are at the forefront of the battlefield and hear the artillery can gain insight into the development trend of the industry.

  For the old man, he can join the big project of independent innovation as a part of it, witness the completion of his wish, and what position he can hold, he must not care about it.

  After a conversation, the old man left happily. Before leaving, he did not forget to tell Xia Jingxing: Next, he will investigate the market for Envision Capital, collect talents from all parties, and contribute some of his own strength.

  Sent away Li Guangnan, who had recovered his passion, and Deng Feng, who had not spoken much, spoke up.

   "Are you really going to recruit Li Guangnan into the company as a consultant?" Deng Feng asked tentatively, "Intentionally disgusting?"

   "One hand!"

  Xia Jingxing did not conceal his true thoughts, and told Deng Feng in a brainstorming manner.

  He intends to promote Li Guangnan as the spokesperson of the company, and at the same time push the old man into the mainstream of the scientific and technological circle, and carry the banner of China's independent research and development, so as to divide a distinct development path from the conscience system.

  In a few years, he doesn’t even need to take the initiative to attack the conscience system. As long as they do a good job in independent research and development, it will be in sharp contrast with the conscience system. In the future, some people will criticize the conscience system.

   "What else?" Deng Feng continued to ask.

  "The old academician has been running around for half his life. Regardless of his achievements, his spirit is worthy of encouragement. It can be regarded as a reward given to him by enterprises like ours who are determined to innovate independently."

  Deng Feng nodded, he basically knew how to use the old man.

  "Then you have to pay attention, you just took off the "head-and-lose" hat not long ago, so don't be put on new hats of "fake" and "enclosure"."

  Xia Jingxing's face was calm. Li Guangnan did a lot of "ridiculous things" over the years, which also caused the old man to suffer countless questions, accusations, and verbal abuse.

  Among them, two things have the worst impact.

The first one was Chen Jin, a professor at the School of Microelectronics of Jiaotong University, who boldly handed over a batch of Motorola chips imported from the United States to migrant workers to polish off the Motorola trademark with sandpaper and put it on the independent label of "Hanxin No. 1". Passed the certification test of the experts of the technical appraisal group.

  Uh, Li Guangnan is the leader of the technical appraisal team.

  After this incident, many people felt that Li Guangnan did not understand chips at all.

  Some people also said that Li Guangnan only identified the technical level of the chip, and where can he tell that this is the chip and source code he bought.

  At that time, many veteran academicians and members of the expert group in the chip industry participated in the appraisal, and the conclusion was that the chip level was very high, helping my country to catch up with the 30-year distance in one fell swoop.

  In addition, SMIC has also reached a cooperation with Hanxin, and the industry leader Zhang Rujing even said a lot of good things for Hanxin.

Hanxin No. 1 has reached a framework cooperation with several domestic appliance manufacturers, and has received 1.5 million orders from international manufacturers; Hanxin No. 2 collects IP patent licensing fees from international customers; Hanxin No. 3 directly enters IBM’s The whole system scheme.

The   Hanxin trick is very realistic and dazzling.

  Later, Hanxin was exposed by its own employees on the Tsinghua BBS forum, and all the process of fraud was announced.

  At the end of 2005, the whistleblower sent a letter to dozens of relevant units and sent Chen Jin an e-mail titled "Go to God and Repent."

  However, it was not until January 2006 that the report letter spread widely on the Internet that the official investigation team was established.

  After half a year, Modu Jiaotong University finally admitted that Chen Jin’s superb presentation technology had deceived everyone.

   Then, Chen Jin was dismissed from various official positions and funds were recovered.

  As for the “legal sanctions” that the whistleblowers expected, the school notice did not show that they actually escaped the sanctions. Thinking carefully, it is extremely scary!

  This incident is the biggest scandal in the history of Chinese chip design, and it has also become a historical unsolved case.

  Official experts, school officials, and academicians are all involved, and there is no way to distinguish between true and false.

  Ark Technology is a little more reliable than Hanxin. This company was originally set up by Li Delei, a lifelong professor of York University and Motorola's architect, to make money in Beijing, specifically to undertake his chip design business outsourced by Motorola and Hitachi.

  Behind, Hitachi became suspicious of Li Delei’s outsourcing. The Beijing company, which was thousands of miles away, had run out of food and was in danger.

  It just so happened that Li Guangnan, who left Conscience, is still obsessed with China’s independent innovation chip + operating system.

  When he saw Li Delei’s team at Beijing Capital Company, Li Guangnan’s eyes were bright: with embedded CPU+Linux operating system, he cut into the network computer (NC) field.

  So, Li Guangnan helped to attract investment to continue the life of Ark Technology, and then an official order was purchased. Beijing City purchased tens of thousands of NC machines, and Zhongbeihai all stopped to help promote NC machines in the west.

  For a while, Ark's science and technology are in the limelight, and the official Ark is also very much looking forward to it, hoping to achieve an important breakthrough in the field of science and technology.

   But soon, two constraints pushed Ark to the brink of bankruptcy.

  In units that focus on promoting NC machines, people feel that NC machines are difficult to use, and the constraints of the desktop application ecology are very obvious.

  At the same time, the Wintel (Microsoft and Intel) alliance has also been formed on the server side, and it is difficult to advance only one end of the breakthrough.

  Some non-essential units can tolerate NC machines with such a poor user experience, but the Public Security Bureau can’t.

  The Beijing Public Security even specially asked Tsinghua experts to issue an appraisal: NC cannot be used.

   Later, Ark Technology was forced to engage in real estate.

  This matter cost tens of millions of official subsidies.

  However, how could this little money be able to do the Wintel Alliance.

  In short, this incident has also become one of Li Guangnan’s evidence of crimes everywhere.

  Also this year, Li Guangnan asked the state to support the development of the Ark CPU, and “pleasure” to the Ministry of Science and Technology, which is equivalent to admitting that he was wrong.

  Xia Jingxing feels that this does not mean that Li Guangnan's moral level is low. At most, it means that he is not clear enough about the market, the industry, and the technology. It is always good to give it a try.

  Furthermore, Li Guangnan did not profit from it. He put the research subsidy funds in his pocket. Even if he was selfish, he mostly wanted to prove to Mu Zhixin that his line was correct.

  However, one thing is certain is that Li Guangnan is not suitable for executive level, or even for making suggestions.

  Participate in more forums and university lectures to spread the spirit of independent innovation to more people. Perhaps it is the best arrangement for him, for the company, and for the industry.

  　 Checking Li Guangnan's information was delayed, and it’s a chapter today. I found that Li Guangnan was quite controversial. After ZTE was sanctioned, there were fewer controversies. The conscience computer became more and more rubbish, and there were fewer controversies.

  　　 really wanted to understand what kind of person Li Guangnan was and whether he knew technology. After checking the data for five or six hours, he found that there were still many doubts, so he could only infer and give a definition by himself.

  　　 What do you think of him?

  (End of this chapter)