Riding the wind of rebirth

Zhou Zhi didn't want to experience the bloody lesson of being strangled in his previous life again.

Although China already has strong industrial strength, there are bound to be some shortcomings in its layout, and hostile forces will take advantage of these shortcomings.

Although the blockades and sanctions were broken through time and time again by the tenacious Chinese people, the process was very painful and cost a lot of painful price.

In his previous life, the state-owned enterprise where Zhou Zhi worked faced such a situation. Finally, after learning from the painful experience, the company turned to the domestic supplier market and conducted a similar "comprehensive survey" in advance. It eventually achieved national substitution and the products produced reached military quality.

It was precisely because of that major survey and replacement that the company received a large number of orders from the military, which enabled the company to embark on a path of self-strengthening development. Zhou Zhi was also appreciated and promoted for the database upstream and downstream analysis tools he developed during the survey work.

However, during that process, Zhou Zhi deeply understood the malice from the developed world and the cruelty of international competition, which also affected his decision-making in this life, that is, to fully occupy the entire industrial chain, including the market, and strive to surpass it.

Although it is impossible to copy the path of Microsoft and INTEL, Zhou Zhi believes that it is not impossible to develop the soft + hard model of smart mobile communication devices and further upgrade to the Internet of Things.

He has never told anyone about his specific ambitions, but he has actually been working towards this goal.

Now that Mageff had vaguely figured out his true self, Zhou Zhi couldn't help but feel his heart beating wildly with fear.

He believed that Mai Xiaomiao and Mai Mingdong would not tell Mai Jeff these things. It was more likely that these were analyzed by Mai Jeff based on the information he had, which was really admirable.

I could only smile and say, "There's an old Chinese saying, 'If you aim high, you'll get something in the middle.' If you set your goal higher, even if you get the result you want in the end, it will at least be within an acceptable range, not the worst."

"Dad, it seems that you are very satisfied with George?" Mai Xiaomiao smiled happily, and let go of her father's arm and put her arm around Zhou Zhi's.

"What...what are you satisfied with?" When McGeff saw his daughter leaning on Zhou Zhi, he couldn't help feeling sudden and nervous.

There is also some incredible feeling and instinctive resistance in one’s heart.

"You're right. I really admire the thinking of the Clover leader." Mai Xiaomiao said with a smile, "Look, that's him."

"Him?" This time it was McGeff's turn to be shocked: "What do you mean? Your grandfather is his subordinate?"

"No, no, Academician Mai Mingdong is the chief technical consultant of our group, just like Xiao Miao." Zhou Zhi quickly explained: "They are on the technical route, and I am on the management route. We each have our own responsibilities at work, and it's not a question of who is whose subordinate."

"Yes, he helped me build the intelligent computing system I told you about." Mai Xiaomiao leaned on Zhou Zhi with his head tilted, feeling very proud: "You said that we couldn't do it here or in Europe, but we did it in China."

“Ahem…” Zhou Zhi interrupted and quietly pinched Mai Xiaomiao’s hand: “It’s just a prototype. It’s only a prototype. It has only completed some phased verification.”

"How much did you spend?" McGeoff was really shocked, because he had privately estimated that Mai Xiaomiao's project would require at least 200 billion US dollars to set up. At this stage, no information company is willing to invest in this direction. After all, this system needs to be widely distributed in the wide area network and its performance can only be realized after it is generally improved.

The daughter left in anger because of this. She only said that she wanted to go to her grandfather's house to relax, but after she left, she only came back now.

The Mai family seemed to let their children run free. Mai Mingdong was vague about what he said to Mai Jeff, saying only that Xiao Miao was working on a project with a few young people in China and was in a good mood, so there was no need to rush her back. Mai Jeff was very clear about his daughter's abilities, and felt that whatever she did in China's information technology "desert" should be able to amaze Chinese technicians. However, he never expected that his daughter had not given up her idea and had already started experiments in China.

"This... I haven't really done any specific statistics." Zhou Zhi smiled shyly, "So far, we have only invested three times, but the cost of developing the Xiaomiao system in China is much cheaper than developing it here."

At first, Mai Jeff had a good impression of the calm and elegant young man in front of him. He thought he was the college student Mai Xiaomiao met on the campus where his grandfather worked, and many ideas had already run through his mind.

For example, if this young man is really good, I can find a way to get him to study abroad at New York University or Columbia University, get an MBA in my name, and then use Louise's connections to find a decent job in an investment bank, and after a few years, become a citizen through marriage, which is almost the same path I took when I stayed in New York.

When Xiao Miao's grandfather retires, the family will be together happily again.

However, from what he knew now, things seemed to have deviated quite a bit from what he had thought, and McGeve couldn't help but feel a little panicked.

Although the family has always been building a "democratic family" and has always upheld the principle of "supporting the wishes of the children", it is impossible to support my daughter to settle down in a poor place for the rest of her life!

"We'll talk about it in detail when we have time." McGeoff decided to leave this issue to his wise wife: "Let's go back to Long Island together this weekend and take a short vacation."

"Okay." Mai Xiaomiao nodded: "Dad, what time do you have class this afternoon? Let's have lunch together."

"Oh, okay." McGeoff certainly wanted to observe this "prospective son-in-law" in front of him more carefully.

"Karam and Rose, come along too." Zhou Zhi invited, "It's rare for Xiao Miao to come back, you two should chat more."

There are still many good places near the college. Because people from Wall Street like the environment here and it is adjacent to the business school, they will come to the college area for lunch, which also increases consumption in the college area.

"Let's go to PerSe? You loved that place when you were little."

McGeve secretly set a trap. PerSe is a Michelin three-star hotel. If four people want to eat well, the cost will not be low. Zhou Zhi invited Karam and Rose, and he would delay paying the bill when the time comes to see how Zhou Zhi behaves. He can probably have a preliminary assessment of his character and financial strength.

Mai Xiaomiao frowned and said, "I feel the food at PerSe is a bit salty now... Let's go to Le Bernadin. We just had Italian food this morning, so let's switch to French food for lunch."

McGeve thought it was all over. His daughter was also a wealthy woman. If she took over this, she would not be able to see Zhou Zhi's performance.

But according to Chinese tradition, this is the first time Zhou Zhi and I meet, if Zhou Zhi wants to show off, he should pay the bill. Well, there is also a chance to observe. Le Bernadin is more expensive than PerSe...

"Dad, Dad?"

"Ah? Okay, let's go to Le Bernadin." Countless thoughts flashed through McGeve's mind. (End of this chapter)