this man is not calm

Chapter 477 Easy to Get Started

Communication between young people is much more direct, without so many twists and turns.

After a brief chat, Jin Shang learned that Shi Wenhui's parents were in the building materials business, selling wooden furniture, aluminum alloy pipes, stone, ceramics, and soft furnishings. It seemed that her ancestors had been very famous craftsmen, who were very famous woodworking masters and quite influential in western Sichuan.

After entering the modern era, a group of people inherited the craftsmanship of their ancestors, deeply cultivated the home improvement market, and gradually gained momentum, radiating to the southwest and gradually moving across the country.

It is an obvious traditional route of shifting from industry to commerce. It has three or four second-tier or even quasi-first-tier brands, especially in the field of traditional wooden furniture, and it does have some strength.

Shi Wenhui herself came to Beijing to study at university and chose the more common accounting major, most likely intending to stay in Beijing to develop her career.

"The home improvement industry is great. With the great development of real estate in the future, it should be very profitable if you can take advantage of it."

"Really? I don't understand the general situation. In the past, my family has trained talents through the master-apprentice method. In recent years, we have also started to use some automatic and semi-automatic equipment, which has greatly improved efficiency. Therefore, we have been able to expand out of western Sichuan and grow stronger. However, it is still far from your business..."

The young lady spoke quite honestly. Her family did not expect her to inherit the family business. She had many brothers and sisters, so there was no need for a mediocre daughter to become the backbone of the family. She herself did not care much about the family's properties.

Jin Shang thinks there is one thing about the elders of the Shi family that is very good, and that is that they can treat their children equally. Such clear-headed parents can fundamentally eliminate conflicts among the next generation.

From this point of view, the family tradition is still very good.

"If the core competitiveness is wooden furniture, the craftsmanship of the master is crucial, and the raw materials cannot be neglected. The forest coverage rate in western Sichuan is not very good, and environmental protection has become increasingly strict in recent years. There is a lot of wood in Yunnan and Guizhou, but... we should not expect too much!"

"Yes, I am really worried."

"If you want to develop in the southeast coast or around the Bohai Sea, you can ask cousin Yunying to contact me and help import some. South America is rich in forest resources, especially the precious red wood, which is quite popular. North America and Northern Europe are also OK, but it's hard to get a share. There are some in Southeast Asia, but the quality is unstable and the output is difficult to guarantee."

"Eh? I guess our family doesn't have any foreign exchange. Good wood is hard to come by, so it's good to have it, but..."

Shi Wenhui smiled bitterly and shook her head. Her business had just entered the national market, so how could she have the time to think about these things?
"Don't worry about that. I have so much outstanding foreign exchange that I don't know what to do with it. My overseas subsidiaries can't use that much, and it would be too much of a loss to transfer it back directly. It's better to make use of our advantages and buy some scarce resources. Over the past year or so, we have mainly imported forage grass, maple syrup, paper pulp, coal, corn, etc. I'll buy a little of each, and I won't worry about not being able to use it up anyway. There are not enough domestic forest resources to share, so it's normal to buy from abroad..."

“Do you have too much foreign exchange to burn?”

Shi Wenhui covered her mouth and laughed secretly.
"Nowadays, earning foreign exchange is the most important thing for businessmen. An electrical appliance factory in my hometown earns millions of foreign exchange a year, and it is very precious."

"Beijing is a different city."

With a reserved smile, Jin Shang continued to explain,

"MP3 players are easy to sell, and cultural products are very popular in the Western Pacific and across the ocean. In addition, among the subcategories of cross-border e-commerce, the growth rate of white household appliances is very exaggerated. Although the profit is not high, it is not difficult to sell millions of color TVs a year. They are good quality and low price, and are still very popular!"

Lao Jin has been engaged in textile and clothing exports for several years, but its total export volume was surpassed by Jinxi Culture in one year. This is enough to show how popular high value-added home appliances, consumer electronics and cultural products are.

Shi Wenhui, who was quietly listening to Jin Shang's "bragging", smiled without saying anything. She gently poked Zhang Yunying's arm with her arm. The eldest cousin belatedly interrupted and said:
"Serve the food, and let's talk!"

"it is good!"

Jin Shang readily agreed. It was getting late and it was not a good idea to waste time.

Just after two dishes were served, Zhang Yu and Mei Fengchun, who had changed their clothes, came in, followed by Li Xuan who arrived late.

"Why did you come just now? Sister Shi and the bunch of grown men are running out of topics to talk about!"

Jin Shang took his fiancée over and sat her down. He couldn't help but jokingly said,
"Where's Old Dai? Is he gone?"

"He went to discuss something with the TV station. He will probably come back and show up later. He was busy day and night for a few days and finally got the job done."

"Mr. Dai is just too proud to show his respect. If he were a little thicker-skinned, his life would be much more comfortable."

"If he really was that kind of person, would you still take him out to play? The literary and artistic circles have become increasingly corrupt in recent years. It's rare to find someone who is a good person and values ​​friendship and loyalty."

"That's true."

As the saying goes, birds of a feather flock together. Sometimes, it is really hard to explain the reason why several people from obviously different circles can become good friends.

Next, everyone talked about some popular topics from time to time, such as football, celebrities, gossip, weather and the college entrance examination.

The college entrance examination that was held not long ago really gave candidates across the country a scare because it was so difficult. Some who were caught off guard, especially girls, burst into tears as soon as they left the examination room, which caused a lot of controversy.

Everyone has their own opinions on this issue, but Jin Shang himself is too lazy to express too many opinions.

The Chinese are too obsessed with examinations, and the emphasis on selection of candidates clearly exceeds that of other civilizations. This kind of thing is brought up and discussed every year.

In comparison, Jin Shang is more concerned about how many students who have money and time to spare will be attracted to the online game "Fengshen" after the college entrance examination and summer vacation, and join the big family of electronic game players.

"Ashan, can you give me a set of top-quality equipment from your online game?"

"Ok?"

Hearing this, Jin Shang couldn't help but look at Mei Wenhui who was winking at him.

"You, with your thick eyebrows and big eyes, have also started playing online games?"

"I saw some people talking about it, so I tried it and got addicted to it. I was addicted to it and played until dawn."

"Won't that affect the work? Uncle and aunt won't care?"

"It's okay. I asked someone to help me level up and earn gold. It's just that the good equipment is in short supply and I can't buy it."

"So you're looking for me to drop your equipment? You dare to even think about it..." Jin Shang sighed speechlessly, but still told him a few hidden GM accounts in private, and he could just find out and get the benefits himself.

"Thank you very much."

"In the past two or three years, you haven't said 'thank you', and you got a good thing because I made you 'virtual equipment'."

"It's really fun. I'm planning to set up a guild and start a new sect."

"Okay, okay, just do it yourself."

With Mei Wenhui's knowledge and experience, he actually likes to play the online game "Fengshen", which is enough to prove that this game is really good and much more sincere than "Legend of Mir 2" which was released a few years later in his previous life.
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In late July, North China began to enter the hottest time of the year. Beijing also experienced relatively rare extreme high temperature weather, with the highest temperature of the day exceeding 37 degrees. Even the poor quality asphalt roads showed signs of melting.

At this time of year in previous years, even in Beijing, where everything is available, there would be staggered electricity consumption, and occasional power outages in certain areas. But this year, there has been no such situation.

It can be seen that the smart energy industrial park established by Jinxi Culture plays a very important role. In addition to its own use, it can also provide energy to the city's power grid to a large extent when needed.

At the same time, a number of electric shuttle buses began to appear in smart city parks and various important locations radiating from them, providing travel support for people nearby.

This type of car cannot be said to be advanced. The power batteries used are lead-acid batteries and nickel-metal hydride batteries, which can only be said to be barely adequate. As power batteries, they still have too many shortcomings.

Lithium iron phosphate batteries have initially shown their superiority and have a large market in the energy storage field. However, lightweight research has not made decisive progress, so they cannot be installed in cars to replace traditional fuel-powered machinery.

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The development of technology does not happen overnight. Jin Shang has pointed out the direction, and scientific research has achieved some results, but it is still far from practical application. This is not something that can be changed by one or two inventions, but a complete system engineering.

For example, the Wuling Zhiguang van, which dominates an ecological niche in China, can be found in streets and alleys all over the country. This thing is inexpensive, can carry cargo and tow people, is sturdy and durable, and can adapt to various demand environments. Logically, shouldn't it be selling well in Africa, South America and Central Asia, and even occupy a dominant position in the same ecological niche?
In fact, the opposite is true. Wuling Sunshine does not sell well abroad. It is far less popular than Japanese pickup trucks, small box trucks, etc., and it is even inferior to Indian cars.

what is the reason?
It's very simple, to be honest, it's not worth mentioning. The Wuling Sunshine's good quality and low price are based on reduced configuration and power, and are designed to adapt to domestic usage conditions and road conditions. Its working environment assumes that there will be extensive road traffic. Not to mention high-standard black asphalt roads, there should be smooth cement water, right?

But in Africa, South America and Central Asia, the infrastructure limits the performance of vans like Wuling Zhiguang.

It's covered in mud on rainy days and dust on sunny days. Not to mention asphalt roads and concrete roads, there isn't even a road. With the capabilities of a van, it's impossible to run on it. Only a few models that have been tested in actual practice can adapt to it.

In China, the van is the "Wuling Magic Car", but in some places, it is not a car and cannot be used as a means of transportation.

This is the case with automobiles, consumer electronics, and IT software and hardware in this life. When the system is not established and cannot fully exert its power, many things that will be taken for granted in the future cannot be done now.

It’s like the search engines that are currently troubled by the lack of basic applications.

Jinxi Culture, which has already released the new Bai Ze 98 operating system and applied two patches, is still unable to come up with a product that can match the technical strength of Jin Shang's previous life, Baidu, when it was first launched.

Don’t think that worm crawling, category indexing, and paid ranking are things that any technical team can do. However, it is incredibly difficult to build a decent search engine from scratch.

I have to say that when Dr. Li returned to China to start his own business, he had some real knowledge in his hands.

As the boss, Jin Shang is actually a jack of all trades and not very knowledgeable. He can only guide product design based on his memory and arrange development progress according to mature plans that have been tested in the market.

"There are more and more web addresses. It is impossible for netizens to write down the addresses of frequently used websites in a small notebook like before and look them up every time they use them. The demand for search engines is very strong. Our company's Jinxi browser can only solve part of the problem. It is a temporary solution and not a fundamental solution. As time goes by, the problem will still get worse."

"Engineer Yang, you have also realized that the navigation-type classification of portal websites will sooner or later become unsustainable?"

To put it bluntly, today's portal websites are actually places for advertising, or selling advertising space, just like putting up billboards on the road and placing advertisements deep inside buildings.

In many cases, it is even necessary to manually register and adjust the website links on the layout.

This is too much trouble.

The technical content of search engines may be much higher than everyone expected, and it is difficult to make major adjustments in a short period of time.

"Boss Jin, you probably understand this. The limitations of portal navigation are too great. It may have a small market at the beginning, but in the future... it will be very difficult."

Yang Qi felt helpless when he thought about the fact that the technical center still needed to waste manpower and resources to change the URLs and paths for the website's promotional and advertising spaces every day.

It is clearly an epoch-making new tool that brings convenience to people, but after using it, it becomes more troublesome than before.

This is obviously wrong.

However, it is really difficult to make a search engine. It is extremely troublesome to just embed a keyword index within the Bai Ze 98 system.

A search engine that was very close to a complete form like the one in the previous life is now very difficult to make because the costs and benefits are totally mismatched.

and so……

"Or should we follow the instructions of the technical center and conduct a preliminary screening of software and websites using Jinxi Computer Manager and Jinxi Antivirus as the core?"

These days, computers are a new thing, and most Chinese people don’t know how to use them at all. Being able to type, edit documents, adjust the layout, and print smoothly are all considered good skills.

Compared with complicated and difficult to understand textbooks and instructions, the one-stop fool-proof package service is more efficient.

Just click a "Must-Install" button, and all the commonly used networks and programs will be here.

It's too troublesome. Many people really can't handle it. It's better to keep it simple.

"Easy to use is a less obvious but very effective advantage. I think the reason why our company's IT software and hardware products can gradually open up the market is because they are very friendly to novices and they can master basic operations in a very short time. In most cases, these little skills are enough for netizens of this era."

When computers were still very high-end and mysterious production and scientific research equipment, pulling them down from the altar and placing them alongside home appliances was the basis for the popularization of home computers.

(End of this chapter)