"Modems are too expensive. An imported one costs more than 800 yuan on average. With Lenovo's current production, if one is installed on each machine, it will cost at least 20 million yuan. Nowadays, people all over China who need to access the Internet can even

There are not even five thousand, there is really no need.”

Hearing Zhang Shuxin's complaints about him, Yang Yuanqing's face turned red, but he still spoke harshly.

After hearing this, Fang Chen glanced at Yang Yuanqing with a strange expression, and then quickly returned to his original state.

Can he say that some companies are destined to be unable to lead the trend of the times, and sometimes even fail to follow others?

Regardless of Liu Chuanzhi or Yang Yuanqing, there is no need to be overly harsh for not being able to lead the Internet wave in China, but he does not believe that Yang Yuanqing does not know about the mighty Internet wave happening in the United States next door?

After several years of development, the number of Internet users in the United States has exceeded 10 million, and these users all need modulation regulators.

Even China has already planned to start preparations for the backbone of China's public computer network. It can be said that an Internet wave sweeping China is about to come.

But at this moment, Yang Yuanqing can still say that modems are too expensive and users don't need them. This is simply stupid.

To put it bluntly, the current modem, and even all network hardware markets, are completely blank for the current Chinese computer industry. Whoever can seize it first and meet users' Internet needs will take the lead among users.

machine, and completely secured its position as the number one personal computer in China.

Not noticing the strange light in Fang Chen's eyes, Zhang Shuxin continued: "In addition to the modem, the network card must also be imported from abroad. In addition, the access network is completely blank. You don't know, even me

I pulled a network cable from the Academy of Sciences for the network in this room."

The modem is responsible for inputting and parsing the analog signals transmitted through the telephone line, while the network card is responsible for transmitting the signals incoming from the modem into the motherboard and CPU chip, and each network card comes with a MAC when it is produced.

address.

This address is equivalent to the house number of the network card on the network. It is absolutely impossible to repeat it. It is assigned by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers when it leaves the factory.

After all, if the house number is wrong, then the information will be sent to the wrong place.

However, as the technology matured, the cost of network cards was greatly reduced, so most of them were integrated on the motherboard.

Hearing Zhang Shuxin talk about access network, Fang Chen couldn't help but nodded.

Here I want to talk about the operating mode of the network.

Because it relies on telephone lines, there is not much difference in the link layout between the Internet and fixed telephone lines.

First, select a key city in each of Northeast China, North China, Central China, East China, South China, Southwest, and Northwest China, and set up a regional backbone network to connect these regions with each other.

Then, among the provinces under the jurisdiction of the region, a provincial backbone network is established within the province to connect the various cities in the province.

The city has established a municipal backbone network to connect various districts and counties.

Districts and counties are connected to towns, and towns are connected to villages.

In this way, a large network spread across the country is established layer by layer.

As for connecting to the Internet abroad, you only need to set up a few international exit routers in a few core cities.

But unlike landlines, landlines only require a telephone line, a fixed-node switch, and some auxiliary equipment to operate.

If you want the network to operate normally, you need to be connected to the network.

The access network refers to all the equipment between the backbone network and the user terminal. Its length is generally several hundred meters to several kilometers, so it is vividly called the "last mile".

And because backbone networks generally use optical fiber structures and have high transmission speeds, the access network has become the bottleneck of the entire network system.

However, for Yinghaiwei at this time, there was no so-called access network problem at all. Pulling a network cable directly from the Academy of Sciences was simple, crude and effective.

Fang Chen chatted with Zhang Shuxin for a while, and after getting what he wanted from Zhang Shuxin, he said goodbye and left.

This made Zhang Shuxin and Yang Yuanqing confused for a while. Until now, they still haven't figured out why Fang Chen came here.

No matter how you look at it, Fang Chen seems to have come here unintentionally and wandered around for a while, but from Fang Chen's words, they faintly felt something different, as if he had a deeper meaning.

After walking out of the door, Su Yan grabbed Fang Chen's hand and asked with a smile: "Why, are you interested in this company and are you ready to acquire it?"

Hearing this, Fang Chen couldn't help but be startled, and then immediately laughed. After holding Su Yan's hand tighter, he said with a playful look: "Why do you ask that?"

"I'm not listening to you. I usually invest in some American companies, especially computer and Internet companies. Since Yinghaiwei is the first Internet company in China, and I think this new pattern is quite big,

He should be able to do something great." Su Yan stuck out her tongue and asked with a slight blush.

This was probably the first time in the past few years that she had asked about Fang Chen's business affairs.

But, to be honest, she really felt that Zhang Shuxin did a great job, and it was rare for her to see a woman who could start a business and have such a broad and pioneering spirit.

In addition, although she almost never asked Fang Chen about business matters, she had spent a long time with Fang Chen after all, especially in the past year or so, Fang Chen's time in Yanjing has been longer than the time he spent away from home.

Therefore, she also indirectly learned about some of Fang Chen's investment trends.

Moreover, Yinghaiwei’s initiative, which pioneered the Internet in China, is also worthy of encouragement.

Furthermore, Yinghaiwei is really too small. With Fang Chen's current level of wealth, he would spend a drop in the bucket. No, take a little bit of the funds that should be invested in other Internet and computer companies and invest them in Yinghaiwei.

That's enough.

However, the most important thing is that Fang Chen is interested. If Fang Chen is not interested, why would he take the initiative to drag her out to go shopping and see this Yinghaiwei time and space.

After all, Fang Chen is such a lazy person on weekdays. Everyone knows that he can't go to the Sky Tower three times a week, let alone go shopping.

But when she suddenly thought that Fang Chen pulled her out because he wanted to see Yinghaiwei Time and Space, rather than sincerely going shopping with her, Su Yan's face suddenly changed and she gave Fang Chen a hard look.

At this glance, Fang Chen felt baffled as he stared at him. He didn't do anything, so why were he glaring at him?

"I am indeed interested in the Internet and computer companies. Zhang Shuxin's situation is indeed quite big, but whether she can make a career is still a huge question mark. To be honest, I am not optimistic about her." Fang

Chen shook his head and said with a sigh on his face.

In the previous life, Yinghaiwei's failure was somewhat regrettable. Until 2018, some people still missed Haiyingwei, the pioneer of the Chinese Internet. But in fact, if you think about it carefully, Yinghaiwei's failure was actually destined.

By 1996, Zhang Shuxin’s enlightenment work on the Chinese Internet for more than a year finally received rich rewards.

In that era, China Internet was Yinghaiwei, Yinghaiwei was China Internet, and Yinghaiwei was the only choice and the only service provider for Chinese people to browse the Internet.

Yinghaiwei not only has fresh air, a vast territory, and a rainbow of honor within reach, but also has investment from the China Xingfa Group under the Economic and Trade Commission.

Huaxia Xingfa Group made a strategic investment of 60 million in Yinghaiwei and obtained 70% of the shares.

Although Zhang Shuxin and her husband's shares were diluted to 26%, due to the increase in Yinghaiwei's market value, their net worth tripled to 21.6 million yuan, making them the leading new generation of female billionaires in China.

At the same time, the company's employees have grown from the initial three to more than 100. Media outlets across the country, large and small, are promoting Yinghaiwei and its ideal of "writing the legend of China's Internet service provider" in endless articles every day.

But in 1997, Zhang Shuxin quickly encountered Waterloo. Only one-tenth of the revenue target of 90 million yuan that year was achieved, more than 9 million yuan. Most importantly, due to several failed investment plans, he lost more than 20 million yuan.

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Therefore, in 1998, the major shareholder Xingfa Group quickly dismissed Zhang Shuxin from the position of president of Yinghaiwei, and since then Yinghaiwei has completely disappeared from everyone.

However, the reason for this result is that apart from the fact that the major shareholder, Xingfa Group, is short-sighted and did not realize that it was impossible to make a profit in the early days of the Internet, the most important problem still lies with Zhang Shuxin.

Zhang Shuxin comes from a media background, so he is very good at publicity and planning.

"How far are Chinese people from the information highway - 1,500 meters to the north." It was written by her. This sentence instantly caused an uproar in China. Countless people were asking, what is the information highway?

Later, Zhang Shuxin’s content development and planning also proved this point.

Even in later generations, people fairly admit that in the early days of network services, Yinghaiwei spread almost all the basic concepts about the Internet to the Chinese people.

However, Zhang Shuxin did not act as the person in charge of the company. The most important thing that needs to be paid attention to is how to make the company develop sustainably.

She only focuses on what she wants to do and what she can do to better popularize the Internet and let more people know about the Internet, so the stall is extremely huge.

But often, if you take too big a step, you can easily pull your balls.

It was precisely because of the heavy investment that Zhang Shuxin had to leave sadly after several failures.

Someone once commented on Zhang Shuxin, saying that Zhang Shuxin behaved too much like an official within the system.

As a government, it only needs to plant sycamore trees, lay a solid foundation, and attract the phoenix to come. As for when the phoenix will come and which sycamore tree it will land on when it comes, it does not need to be concerned.

As an enterprise, you need to ensure that every penny you invest is meaningful and must be returned to your enterprise.

Moreover, Zhang Shuxin has major flaws in enterprise projects and management, or it may be said that he does not have the ability to manage an enterprise.

Zhang Shuxin once calculated that Yinghaiwei's online game profit for that year was 10 million yuan in 1997. She also asked employees to come up with 10 high-level game software within three months. At that time, all Yinghaiwei's network bandwidth was fully used.

It is impossible to reach the goal of 10 million yuan in 24 hours, and it is even more impossible to produce 10 high-level game software in 3 months.

Yinghaiwei's online services are charged. However, the development trend of the Internet industry in the future shows that this approach is a complete failure. It is tantamount to turning the website into an isolated island with very expensive landing tickets, isolated from the turbulent waves.

, an open and free ocean of information.

In this regard, Zhang Shuxin never made up his mind to change course, which was probably Yinghaiwei's first big failure.

What's particularly bad is that Yinghaiwei also used a set of communication protocols that are different from the Internet's TCP/IP. At that time, the Netscape browser and IE browser, which were well known to the majority of netizens and the easiest to find, were used in the so-called "Across Time and Space"

Yinghaiwei cannot be used. This is tantamount to fighting against the entire world's network standards with the strength of one family, and of course it brings great inconvenience to users.

Protests against this continued from users to within the company, but it was not until October 1997 that Yinghaiwei announced the cancellation of this rule. During these two long years, Yinghaiwei's senior managers insisted on not changing the regulations.

, turned out to be "the company spent a lot of money and manpower to develop special software that cannot be discarded casually."

But clinging to so-called technological innovation while ignoring market demand is a common problem in the production methods of the industrial era. Therefore, in a sense, excessive criticism of Zhang Shuxin is undoubtedly harsh.

Because she cannot systematically conduct market research for a completely new thing, nor can she conduct feasibility research for something that does not exist in the market.

As a strategy maker, Zhang Shuxin's most regrettable mistake was that she did not conduct a timely and systematic study of failures and did not carefully consider some of the latest unexpected events in the industry as special opportunities.

Zhang Shuxin seems to "know" what the market should be like better than her clients, so she often regards some surprises in the process as an insult to her own prediction ability and professional knowledge and rejects them.

She did not expect that these accidents might be the real direction of development.

She even failed to keep in mind the motto: Enterprises should not proudly create or transform the market, but should do everything possible to satisfy the market.

But fortunately, one Yinghaiwei fell, and countless Chinese Internet companies stood up.

In the same year, China ushered in a year when the Internet was booming, a year when China's Internet commercialization really started!

From 1998 to 1999, Sohu, NetEase, Lianzhong Games, 3721, Tencent, Sina, and Alibaba were established one after another.

Even two years later, Sina, Sohu, and NetEase were listed on Nasdaq!
Chapter completed!