He didn't care that Fang Chen was bullying him again.

Wu Maocai said directly: "Ni Guangnan."

Ni Guangnan!

Fang Chen was stunned when he heard this name, which should not appear at a Silicon Valley technology conference.

After a few breaths, Fang Chen came back to his senses with a strange look on his face and said, "Invite Mr. Ni here now."

Although this thing sounds incredible, Wu Maocai would never lie to him.

Why could he keep such an unreliable thing like Wu Maocai by his side? Apart from the instructions of the old man and Brother Laifu, it was because Wu Maocai was loyal and would never deceive him.

This is the most important trait of the people around you. Whether other people are smart or not, their ability to do things, and whether they can observe words and emotions can all be left behind.

Moreover, he is not bragging, after so many years of training, Wu Maocai is indeed much better than before.

Soon, Wu Maocai led Ni Guangnan in.

When we met the year before last, Ni Guangnan was still so thin and wearing a baggy suit that didn't fit him well.

But what was completely different from the year before last when he was talking about Lenovo's plan to build a programmable computer was that he was in high spirits and energetic. At this time, Ni Guangnan looked much more decadent, with the skin on his cheeks drooping, and his beard was unkempt, full of slovenliness.

and haggard meaning.

Seeing this, Fang Chen couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

To put it bluntly, anyone in the situation that Ni Guangnan is currently facing would probably become haggard.

As someone who always pays attention to Ni Guangnan, Fang Chen naturally knows what happened to Ni Guangnan.

The dispute between Ni and Liu in the previous life will inevitably break out in this life.

Since Liu Chuanzhi invited Ni Guangnan to co-found Lenovo in 1984, Ni Guangnan's status in Lenovo can be said to be lower than that of one person and higher than that of ten thousand people.

Liu Chuanzhi even declared in the company, "As long as what Lao Ni says is correct, Lao Ni is the effective figure 1, and other scientific and technical personnel are 0. These 0s can only achieve results by following Mr. Ni."

Indeed, at that time, Liu Chuanzhi said so and did so.

Ni Guangnan developed the Lenovo 286 motherboard in Hong Kong, but because he was catching up with the progress, Ni Guangnan forced the 286 motherboard to be launched, which still had flaws.

After something went wrong, a vice president in charge of production in Lenovo's president's office wanted to investigate Ni Guangnan's responsibility.

In the end, Liu Chuanzhi had no choice but to step on the stage and yelled at him with all his heart: "Any conflicts that occur with Lao Ni are all your fault. If you do this, it is Mr. Ni's fault if something goes wrong. If you are at fault, you

You have to bear it. If it doesn't work, I will transfer you back to Yanjing."

This incident ended with Liu Chuanzhi transferring him back to Yanjing.

In this way, the two spent nine years that could almost be called a deep love and seamless cooperation.

And just this year, as the country relaxed tariffs on imported products such as computers and televisions, almost all well-known computer companies in Zhongguancun gave up operating their own computer brands and settled for the next best thing.

Brand agency.

Great Wall is engaged in IBM, Founder is engaged in DEC, and Sitong is engaged in Compaq. As for Shi Yuzhu, who is the most popular in the industry, he has also started to change his career into health care products and real estate speculation.

In addition, Lenovo's flagship product, Hanka, has plummeted in sales since computers directly support Chinese. More than 7,000 dealers cannot sell many Hanka cards in a day.

It can be said that Hanka has no contribution to Lenovo's revenue.

At this time, Lenovo's transformation can be said to be imminent.

But on how to transform, Lenovo's two souls, Liu Chuanzhi and Ni Guangnan, had a fierce dispute, fatal differences, and even a struggle broke out between the two major lines of "trade, industry, and technology" and "technology, industry, and trade."

Liu Chuanzhi's "Trade, Industry and Technology" route believes that at this stage, we must give full play to the scale advantage of PC assembly and seize the market.

Ni Guangnan's "technology, industry and trade" route believes that we should continue to increase investment in technology, tackle high-tech fields such as chips, and take the road of independent innovation.

Then a violent conflict broke out between the two. Liu Chuanzhi wanted to set up a general engineering office to evade Ni Guangnan's rights as chief engineer, and Ni Guangnan even threatened to resign.

It seems that there is nothing surprising that Ni Guangnan, a close friend and comrade who has been together for more than ten years, suddenly turned against each other and turned swords on each other. Ni Guangnan's face looked so ugly.

Later, Liu Chuanzhi bowed his head and decided to cancel the establishment of the General Engineering Office and continue to work hand in hand with Ni Guangnan to work hard for the development of Lenovo.

But Ni Guangnan, who insisted on taking the "trade, industry, and technology" route, had no intention of compromising on Liu Chuanzhi's "trade, industry, and technology" route. Instead, he was determined to create a new technological commanding height for Lenovo.

The direction chosen by Ni Guangnan is exactly "chip".

Thinking of this, Fang Chen was stunned for a moment. He seemed to know why Ni Guangnan appeared here.

It is completely normal for a person who wants to make chips to go to Silicon Valley.

Immediately afterwards, Fang Chen looked at Ni Guangnan with an expression full of the smile that Grandma Wolf had when looking at Little Red Riding Hood. He believed that Ni Guangnan's tragic experience in his previous life and the tragic situation of Huaxia Chip would be drastically changed.

"General Engineer Ni, long time no see. No, I should be called Academician Ni soon."

Fang Chen took Ni Guangnan's hand, warmly asked him to sit down, and said with a smile.

At the academician selection meeting held some time ago, Ni Guangnan was successfully elected as the first batch of academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.

Ni Guangnan's face moved slightly and he forced a smile.

Becoming an academician is probably the only good news for him this year.

But the breakdown of the friendship with Liu Chuanzhi, the disputes between them, and where Lenovo was going to go, and how he should convince Liu Chuanzhi to do "chips" were all like big rocks weighing heavily on his heart, making him

I really can't laugh.

"Mr. Fang, don't make fun of me. Being named an academician only shows that everyone recognizes the trivial work I have done. As for the chief engineer..."

Having said this, Ni Guangnan gave a wry smile and said, "You probably won't be able to call me that much longer. You might as well call me Lao Ni."

To be honest, he has always had a good impression of Fang Chen, and he also approves of Qingtian. He even bluntly said in Lenovo many times that Qingtian is the most dreamy working environment for Chinese scientific researchers.

In Qingtian, not only do scientific researchers earn high incomes, it is also much easier to establish scientific research projects and obtain scientific research funds.

To put it bluntly, as the chief engineer of Lenovo, the research funding he receives every year is actually not as much as the research funding of the head of the laboratory of a branch of Qingtian.

After all, you must know that Qingtian’s research funding is basically calculated in billions, while Lenovo’s annual R&D funding is not even 10 million. How can this be compared?

The most important thing is that the boss Fang Chen supports the work of scientific researchers, and the company develops around the advancement of scientific research and technology.

To be honest, with a boss like this, as a scientific researcher, he is happy to work twenty hours a day.

And he believed that Qingtian's scientific researchers thought the same way.

Otherwise, how could Qingtian have so many technological innovations and invention patents that shocked the world.

It is even Qingtian's development that supports his inner persistence on the "technology, industry and trade" route.

In his view, it is because Qingtian firmly adheres to the "technical industry and trade" route that it can produce so many excellent products, and then it continues to develop upwards every year.

But for some reason, Liu Chuanzhi just couldn't see this and wanted to pursue "trade, industry and technology".

Hearing what Ni Guangnan said, Fang Chen smiled and said nothing.

He still wanted to insist on calling him Ni Guangnan, Mr. Ni.

It’s just that this Mr. Ni is not the other Mr. Ni. The previous Mr. Ni was Lenovo’s Mr. Ni, and this Mr. Ni is Qingtian’s Mr. Ni.

In the future, Lenovo will definitely not be able to accommodate Ni Guangnan, and the development of Qingtian, especially the development of chips, cannot be separated from Ni Guangnan.

Therefore, Fang Chen has always firmly believed that Ni Guangnan will be his man sooner or later.

"I've also heard a little bit about what happened between Mr. Ni and Director Liu. I think Mr. Liu's development ideas are wrong. Maybe for a while, Lenovo can live a lighter life and even develop faster."

Some, not even the life and death of the company need to be considered, but Director Liu will definitely regret it in the future, and Lenovo will definitely be in trouble for this." Fang Chen said with a hypocritical face.

He had not heard anything about Ni Guangnan and Liu Chuanzhi, so he sent people to break into Lenovo Company.

In addition, although in later generations, everyone recognized that the "technology, industry, and trade" route was the kingly way, they never considered why 99.99% of enterprises in China actually followed the "trade, industry, and technology" route?

There is no other reason. The road of "technical industry and trade" is really too difficult. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is a narrow escape.

It can be said that the vast majority of companies that follow the "technical, industrial and trade" route cannot support them. They develop technology, then rely on the technology to make money, and then invest in technology research and development after making money. This is a positive cycle.

Most companies basically have not developed the technology, and then the company dies due to high investment in technology and high operating costs.

This is also the reason why most enterprises in China are criticized as copycat factories and assembly plants.

Even Qingtian, if he hadn't supported the development of Xiaobawang and Qingtian Communications from Russia, from sniping the pound, and from selling Malaysian oil fields, how could Xiaobawang and Qingtian Communications be where they are now?

But Fang Chen does not think that most of these companies should include Lenovo.

Lenovo is now one of the top technology companies in the country, and it relies on the Chinese Academy of Sciences, so it should follow the path of "technology, industry and trade".

If even companies like Lenovo don’t dare to take the “trade, industry and technology” route, then do other companies in China dare to take it? Can they take it?

Therefore, Lenovo has made a very bad start and has also laid huge hidden dangers for Lenovo's future decline.

After hearing what Fang Chen said, Ni Guangnan couldn't help but his eyes lit up and his fists clenched subconsciously.

Fang Chen's words once again strengthened his determination to follow the "technical industry and trade" route. He must find a way to save Lenovo and not let Lenovo slip into the quagmire of death bit by bit under the leadership of Liu Chuanzhi!

He also became more determined in his persistence in his current ideas.

"Mr. Fang, with your words, I now feel that I am on the right path." Ni Guangnan said excitedly, holding Fang Chen's hand.

Seeing the genuine joy in Ni Guangnan's eyes, Fang Chen couldn't help but darken his expression.

This miserable world sometimes cannot tolerate simple scientific research and technical talents like Ni Guangnan.

Fang Chen changed his voice and asked curiously: "General Manager Ni, why are you coming to the United States this time? Are you invited to attend this Silicon Valley Technology Conference?"
To be continued...