Reaching for the stars with one hand

Chapter 166
This is the first time Zhang Yong came to Zhonghe's office. The whole building is just like the boss's style, solid, simple and practical, without any extra frills in the decoration.

With some admiration, Zhang Yong followed the receptionist to Gao Ping's office and sat down in the reception area.

"Zhang Yong, I haven't seen him since I came back from Germany. How are you?"

"I'm relatively free. I only take money but don't have to work. Other than that, everything is fine." Zhang Yong said with a self-deprecating smile.

"Oh, is there such a position in SKydon? I'll go to work too." The two laughed together.

"Don't be kidding, Mr. Gao, I'm very depressed. I never know what will happen tomorrow. I'm going to the United States on a business trip. By the way, is there anything else I need to do?"

"Apologize to me? What's the matter?" Gao Ping was puzzled.

Zhang Yong calmed down, and told Gao Ping about being entrusted by Shao Wenjie and then contacting Xiaowei.

"Mr. Gao, I'm really sorry about this matter. I haven't seen Xiaowei for too long. I ignored his danger."

Gao Ping finally understood the ins and outs, "If it's this matter, it's unnecessary, and it's none of your business. It's not that Shao Wenjie doesn't know Xiaowei. If you don't contact him for him, he will find Xiaowei eventually. And Our control over users is indeed a bit stricter, and we will relax appropriately in the future. This guy Shao Wenjie thinks that I, Gao Ping, are not easy to talk to. In fact, it may not be that difficult for him to come to me on his own initiative. Also, we know It’s not necessarily to snatch orders from partners, it’s really just for management.”

Zhang Yong was noncommittal, "Mr. Gao, you can't control this. When a salesman sees a business opportunity, it's like a leech sees blood. It's very difficult for you to stop them. Unless you simply let go of the ban, otherwise, people like Shao Wenjie Partner, it is not easy to trust you."

Gao Ping nodded: "Trust between people is always the hardest thing. As for Payson, we actually had a conversation. Hadi, a profiteer, got Xiaowei's conditions and turned around to talk to us. It's just me refusing to accept it. If I offer better terms than Xiaowei, it will only make this Middle Eastern hooligan cheaper."

Zhang Yong still couldn't let go, "I know that Python is one of the few companies with mature board technology. You once let me pay attention, and I studied their products in particular. They should be one of your acquisition targets , I am very worried, I have ruined your plan."

Gao Ping smiled, "Thank you for your concern, I am very grateful. But in fact, you have overestimated your ability a bit. Your little influence, in fact, cannot influence the overall situation of the acquisition. Let me tell you something, so as not to You always take the responsibility on yourself..."

"Xiaowei's method is not clever, but it is just a few years of bulk orders and a one-time payment. Hardy's life is not so easy. A one-time high payment is very attractive to him, even if it does not work in the long run. It's not a good thing. He came to talk to me, hoping that I could offer better conditions than Xiaowei, and I definitely refused. But I took the opportunity to propose the acquisition...."

"As you said, I have wanted to take down Payson for a long time, but I have never found a suitable opportunity to do so, so I have never talked about it. Now that everyone has reached the point of breaking up this time, there is no taboo, so I directly mentioned it. This matter..."

"In a sense, I want to thank you, Zhang Yong. Although I lost Payson, at least I won't waste more time on Payson."

"What? Hardy is unwilling to sell Pyson?"

"No, of course he would. It's just that this Middle Easterner is extremely greedy, and his offer is higher than Mag's."

"How is this possible?" Zhang Yong sighed, "Although Mag's business is sluggish, it is about to lose its voice. But after all, it has decades of accumulation, and there are many complete series of products, including very leading handheld RTK and GIS, The board technology is also mature. And it has a complete system of R&D, manufacturing, marketing, and sales network. Python has sold the measurement product, which is just a board, how can it be worth so much.”

"You are very right, but Hardy just thinks that his business should be worth more than Mag. Therefore, the two sides need to continue to entangle. I have to thank you for making a quick decision for us."

While the two were talking, a woman suddenly poked her head in from the door to look around, and happened to meet Zhang Yong's eyes.

Gao Ping felt Zhang Yong's gaze, and then turned to look at the door.

"Li Mei, what's the matter?"

The woman outside the door replied: "No, I have nothing to do, I just want to see who Zhang Yong is."

Gao Ping laughed, Zhang Yong looked puzzled, and he greeted with a stage fright, "Hi, I'm Zhang Yong, what do you need from me?"

"Something happened many years ago, and now I just want to see you. I'm sorry, Mr. Gao, I'm sorry to bother you. I'm fine."

Gao Ping said with a smile: "You tried your best and still lost, but the opponent didn't even know you existed. Are you still not convinced?"

Li Mei turned and left, and the voice came from afar, "Of course I will be convinced if I lose, but next time we meet again, it's hard to say who will win and who will lose. I will remember him."

Gao Ping looked at Zhang Yong's full of doubts, and thought it was extremely funny, but he didn't want to explain to him, it seemed cuter this way.

"In the future, you will know who she is, and continue to talk about us. Xiaowei made an accurate attack this time, and succeeded in one blow, taking away a very good business from us, and it is also a territory we have worked so hard to build. He was easily cut off by him. He is very powerful, but I never admire him, he is very smart, but he is just a speculator, not an entrepreneur. …”

Zhang Yong had to agree with Gao Ping's point of view, "Actually, when I was in Tiangong, I was a little confused. I hardly ever met a company leader who was smarter than Xiaowei, but I couldn't understand why he would put the title of China's No. Tiangong, a professional GPS company, almost disappeared."

Gao Ping said: "He is too smart. Smart people are not willing to work hard. They prefer to seize the best opportunity and then take a shortcut. No matter the original SKydon or Tico, Xiaowei can always grasp their most valuable The timing is the same for Payson this time. I fought hard for several years, and he directly took the fruit. But I said I don’t admire him, that’s why. Entrepreneurs need to have vision and be able to see There is no doubt about Xiaowei's ability to see opportunities that others can't see. But a few good opportunities in a person's life are enough, and more often, it is hard work after getting good opportunities. Xiaowei has already He is obsessed with finding good opportunities, and he never works hard. He holds opportunities that others envy, and never cherishes them. After exhausting the dividends brought by the opportunities, he lets go and looks for new opportunities. … "

"In this way, he may be able to make some money, but he will never be able to make it big. He will never be able to own a real business, and he will never be an entrepreneur."

Speaking of this, Gao Ping smiled and said: "So, Zhang Yong, you go to the United States this time. If you want to condemn Xiaowei's injustice and stand up for us, you don't have to. This matter has passed. But what we said in Germany I have never given up. I have seen the success of Big Dipper and Compass technology, but this does not mean that our views are wrong. If there is such an opportunity, remember to tell me, and we will win it together.”

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On the day when Zhang Yong set out, the weather was good and the traffic was good.

He actually arrived at the airport early, successfully completed the check-in and check-in procedures, completed the customs clearance procedures, and passed the security check.

After the security checkpoint, he leaned on the table and began to organize his clothes and backpack.

Intuitively, Zhang Yong felt that someone was watching him.He looked up and met a man in black.

This is a stranger, Zhang Yong does not remember knowing this person.But the man in black had a half-smile expression on his face, which seemed to be aimed at Zhang Yong.

He saw Zhang Yong looking up at him, so he nodded politely and seemed to smile a little.

Zhang Yong could only nod his head as a response.But Chinese people are not used to greeting strangers like this, so Zhang Yong quickly lowered his head to avoid the other party's gaze.He packed up his things, carried his computer bag, put his boarding pass and passport into the small satchel hanging on his chest, and walked towards the boarding gate.

The huge Capital Airport T3 looks modern and stylish, but the structure and facilities may not be reasonable. He found that there is actually a long way to walk.

The man in black came up, the two were very close, and the man seemed to have something to say.But Zhang Yong quickened his pace intentionally or unintentionally, and the man in black saw that the distance between the two was gradually widening, so he stopped chasing and walked in another direction.

Zhang Yong shrugged, it turned out that he was a rich man, and the man walked towards the first-class waiting room.Could it be a rich man with a problematic personality orientation? Zhang Yong was amused by his own thoughts. He strode towards the registration gate and quickly forgot about it.

……

The flight finally took off. After the plane stabilized, Zhang Yong turned on the audio-visual system on the plane, picked out a movie, "2012", and started watching it.

The sky-shattering Yellowstone Park, the father who hastily took his children to escape, the foolish man who foretold the future... Zhang Yong was watching with enthusiasm when a white flight attendant suddenly came in front of him.

"Excuse me, are you Brother Yong?"

Zhang Yong frowned. He was not very happy that someone interrupted him watching the movie. At the same time, he felt that the stewardess was really rude. Shouldn't he be called Mr. Zhang?Why do you call Yong brother directly?
"I am, what's the matter?"

"Hello, brother Yong. Your friend helped you upgrade, if you want, you can come with me to the first class seat."

"My friend? First class?" Is there such a thing as this?Zhang Yong was a little dazed.

"Yes, he said he was your friend. If you don't know him, I'm sorry to bother you, and I will help you reject him."

"No, no," Zhang Yong immediately thought, how could he lose the first-class cabin he got like this, "He is my friend, a nephew of my wife, and he calls me uncle."

The stewardess seemed to think that this uncle was a little too young, but she didn't care.She shrugged, "Okay, then you come with me."

The huge space, the sofa seats that can lie down, and the thoughtful service of the beautiful stewardess, the feeling of first class is really great.Zhang Yong took his seat, changed into his slippers, ordered himself a glass of juice, and lay down comfortably.

Afterwards, he turned his head and found that the man in black that he had seen at the security check was beside him.

"Thank you, it feels great. Excuse me, do we know each other?"

"You're welcome." The man replied politely.

"We have met, to be precise, I have met you, but you should have no impression of me. I know your name is Yonger, I am not sure about your Chinese name, because you all spoke English at the time. You have a The brother with wild upward hair growth, and a German partner named Mark, that guy is blond and blue-eyed, but he is two meters tall. Am I right?"

Now Zhang Yong was really stunned, "I thought you had misunderstood the person, but it seems not, you really met me, in the special zone?"

According to the man in black, when Zhang Yong, the madman, and Mark were together, it could only be the days when they were debugging the fake base station network in the special zone.

"To be precise, it is a food stall in the special zone. Sorry, I listened to your conversation, of course I did not intend to eavesdrop. But your conversation opened a new door for me, and we may be partners in the future. "

Zhang Yong tried his best to recall the scene of that day. He chatted happily with the angry maniac and Mark. It seemed that there was someone in the seat next to him, but he never noticed it. Looking at the man at this time, he was just a stranger, and he couldn’t communicate with that day. get in touch.

Little did he know that after the three of them left, the man sitting next to him stood up and commented on what they had done. (Readers who don't remember the details can read Chapter 60 "I Want Baozi")
"Well, even if you heard our conversation, you still remember me. But what relationship do you have with us now?" Zhang Yong didn't understand. If the other party was a practitioner in this industry, he would definitely know.But it was clear that this person was not in the satnav industry at all.

"This is my business card. Let me introduce myself. My name is Liu Yining. I am an Internet practitioner. Ma Yun used to be my boss. I just left Alibaba. This is my new company. Maybe you hear it for the first time. The name of the company, but one day, all practitioners and users of satellite navigation will know us."

Liu Yining spoke calmly, but with a firm tone, as if what he said had become a fact.

Zhang Yong has a strange feeling in his heart. After decades of hard work by a group of us, a little-known Internet person said that one day, everyone will know him.

He looked at the business card and searched for the location.Zhongxun?The crowd searched for him thousands of times, and he suddenly smiled. He thought of Shao Wenjie again, "The one who came up with this name is probably a liberal arts student."

"What does your company do?"

"Like you, provide location services, high-precision location services."

"But I've never heard of you, how do you serve? The internet industry doesn't seem to have anything to do with us."

"That's not the case. The Internet model can actually be applied in any industry. I heard what you said about location-based services based on pseudo-base stations in the Special Economic Zone. After that, I did some homework. The more I researched, the more excited I became. This is clearly the best Internet. application. After years of preparation, I have now resigned from all positions in Ali and established this new company. It will represent the future development direction of Beidou services."

"Oh, thank you for upgrading me. I remembered that I haven't finished watching a movie." Zhang Yong had no interest in talking at all. We are a group of practitioners, why should you, an Internet company, provide services.With so many Beidou companies, you, a new company that no one knows, stand up and say that you want to represent the direction of Beidou services.

Liu Yining saw Zhang Yong's displeasure and was not angry.

"We are not an industry, so it is inevitable that some words are not speculative. But believe me, many things that Internet companies do are criticized at the beginning, but in the end they slapped everyone in the face. I listened to your conversation in the special zone. The first impression after arriving is that you are going in the wrong direction. But it is normal. The three of you are actually technical talents from three parties, and they all have the same technical thinking. In fact, the technology of pseudo-base station is similar to the skill of killing dragons. , since there are no dragons in the world, it is useless at all."

"Yes, after all, the world's top network algorithm scientists are not as smart as the Internet." Zhang Yong replied bluntly, the base station network is his freedom and dream, and he cannot accept Liu Yining's belittling of this .

Liu Yining was still calm, "It's not a question of who is smarter, but a question of thinking patterns. Brother Yong, I'm sorry, can you tell me your name?"

"My name is Zhang Yong."

"Well, it really is you. If your movie is not that important, give me a moment, and I will introduce the service concept and model of Zhongxun's location. I know that you are an expert in GNSS, and you will not even communicate and debate with each other. Don't you have any confidence?"

"Okay," Zhang Yong nodded, "All ears."

Two hours later, Liu Yining stopped his introduction meaningfully, and the disdain and impatience on Zhang Yong's face were gone, but his face turned slightly pale.

He closed his eyes and tried to calm himself down. "Freedom and dreams" are his words and ideals. He once devoted all his efforts to promoting pseudo-base station technology and enjoyed it because of this goal.

Now, he suddenly discovered that Zhongxun's model seems to be closer to his "freedom and dream".

However, this is obviously an enterprise outside the industry, and it may not even understand surveying and mapping.What will the future of Beidou and GNSS look like?The inherent framework in his heart was completely shattered, and he couldn't help being extremely puzzled.

After a long time, he opened his eyes. "Mr. Liu, just follow your idea. But the Beidou location service still needs a carrier and a professional terminal. The service can never exist without hardware."

Liu Yining nodded, "I never said that GNSS hardware is not important, but the future is just a carrier, and service is our core concept."

Suddenly Zhang Yong's heart moved, "What is the purpose of your trip to the United States?"

(End of this chapter)