That year the flowers bloomed 1981

Chapter 1263: Our brother is worried about us
After Li Juan returned home with Li Ye and Wen Leyu, she was pulled into the bedroom by Li Ying who could not wait any longer.

"Why do you look unhappy? What happened? Did you mess up?"

Li Juan slowly shook her head, and then said melancholy: "Do you think we are a burden to Big Brother? Big Brother has to take care of everything for us."

Li Ying asked curiously, "What do you mean?"

Li Juan explained: "My report to Pan Xiaoying went smoothly, and she even asked me to be in charge of this project. But later my sister-in-law told me that Pan Xiaoying didn't value this project at all, but only my big brother. Don't you think this is my big brother using his connections to support me?"

Li Ying asked in surprise: "What's wrong? Are you suffering from some hypocritical bad habit? Did big brother help you and make you sick?"

"no."

Li Juan said anxiously and angrily: "I felt that our brother had trained us for so long, we should be able to help him, but in the end we still end up dragging him down."

Young people generally have strong self-esteem, so after Wen Leyu said, "Pan Xiaoying values ​​your brother," Li Juan felt a little strange.

Li Juan admitted that Li Ye was a good brother, but she had always wanted to prove that she was "useful".

Now that they finally have the opportunity, Li Ye doesn't know computers, but Li Juan considers herself a professional, so she tries her best to prove herself.

As a result, Pan Xiaoying "did not take it seriously", which made Li Juan, who was determined to complete the project, depressed.

[Then am I not the same as those people who only use backdoors and don't do their job properly? ]

"I told you that you are hypocritical and you still don't accept it"

Li Ying cursed her sister angrily, and then suddenly felt something was wrong.

She squinted her eyes and thought for a long time, then shook her head firmly: "No, it's definitely not right. Others don't take this project seriously, but it doesn't necessarily mean that my brother doesn't take it seriously. You must be wrong."

Li Juan, who was feeling depressed, suddenly brightened up: "How did you know that? Tell me quickly."

Li Ying frowned and said in a teaching manner, "Think about it, over the years, among all the projects that our brother personally pointed out, which one was unsuccessful? Which one was not profitable?"

"When my brother asked Hao Jian and the others to sell hemp candy, did anyone see that it was a good business to make a lot of money?"

"When my brother asked Hao Jian, Jin Peng and others to go to Yangcheng, who could have thought that there would be Fenghua Clothing today?"

"When my brother submitted his article to Mr. Pei's magazine, who would have thought..."

Li Ying recounted in one breath the many cases in which Li Ye had "turned stones into gold" over the years, and not a single one of them was aimless or done casually.

Li Juan also became serious, and asked impatiently, "You mean, the thing my brother asked me to do is the same as Fenghua Clothing?"

"I don't know if it can be the same as Fenghua's costume, but it must be very important."

Li Juan frowned slightly, then said: "Let's analyze it. Since the BBS our brother mentioned is very popular in Dengta, why doesn't Pan Xiaoying like it?

Pan Xiaoying is a woman who has reached her current position. She must be a smart person. She must think there is an important difference between Dengta and our inland areas, so we can’t develop here.”

"Compared to the lighthouse, our inland areas have a large population, relatively backward technology, underdeveloped economy, and poor individuals. What do you think is the problem?"

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Li Juan got Li Ying's hint, thought for a while and said helplessly: "It should be because of poverty!

If you want to access the BBS platform, you first need a computer and then a telephone line. Not to mention ordinary people, even units with poor performance cannot afford it."

Computers in the 1990s were cheaper than those in the 1980s, but generally cost more than 10,000 yuan each, and even the better ones cost tens of thousands. The initial installation fee for a telephone line was also several thousand yuan.
This one point alone limits the possibility of rapid popularization.

Moreover, based on Li Juan's understanding of the communication company, when the real project is implemented, if you want to connect to the BBS, you will probably have to pay an additional fee. With all these factors combined, ordinary people can't afford it. So despite Li Juan's exaggerated words in the report, Pan Xiaoying thought that this thing "can't be done", and just gave Li Ye a face and let Li Juan play around.

And this is actually the case.

In the original time and space trajectory, dial-up Internet access, which began in the early 1990s, cost 1,500 yuan per month, equivalent to half a year's salary for an ordinary worker.

Therefore, the number of Internet users in the mainland grew extremely slowly, barely reaching 200,000 in 1997. After the surge in 1998, it finally broke through one million.

Therefore, it is highly likely that netizens of this era are not ordinary people. They either have a lot of money at home, or they are the ones who have great advantages in their workplace.

For example, the writer Guo Xiaosi started writing online when he was in high school in the 90s. How embarrassed were those students who couldn't even afford the internet fees to go to an Internet cafe?

Others, like the author of "The Legend of Sun Wukong", worked in computer institutes, universities or telecommunications bureaus and were the first to be exposed to the Internet.

Given such environmental conditions, it is no wonder that Pan Xiaoying would not be optimistic.

But Li Ying became excited.

"I understand. Our brother is really smart."

“Like you said, with current technology, it is unlikely that ordinary people will be able to access BBS, but users with mobile phones are an excellent customer base!
Those who can afford a mobile phone also have enough money to buy a computer, so I chose this project based on the characteristics of your unit."

Li Juan thought for a moment and said, "But many people who use mobile phones don't understand computers!"

"It doesn't matter. Rich people want face. If they don't know computers, can't they hire someone who does?"

Li Ying said confidently: "And do you remember when my brother talked about the Fengyu computer, didn't he make a request - to make a computer that even flower growers can afford?"

"My brother is optimistic about the domestic computer market and believes that computers will drop in price quickly and become popular quickly, but others don't realize this. Predicting economic trends is the secret of my brother's ability to help people make money."

Li Juan was stunned by what Li Ying said, and murmured, "Is that so?"

"Forget it, why don't we just stop guessing and just ask our brother?"

Li Ying pulled Li Juan up and went to find Li Ye.

Li Juan quickly said, "Our brother drank too much and might have fallen asleep."

Li Ying: "Impossible, when has our brother ever been drunk?"

The two little girls hurried to Li Ye's place, and sure enough, Li Ye hadn't gone to bed yet.

When Li Ying told Li Ye all her guesses, he was really surprised.

[This little girl is a talent! ]

Li Ye said: "It's not that others can't see through it, but they won't be tempted by the return in ten years. The investment return cycle of this project is relatively long, maybe seven or eight years or even more than ten years."

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After the two girls came out of Li Ye's room, Li Juan said, "Will the payback for this project take more than ten years? No wonder Pan Xiaoying looked down on it. I don't know where she will be promoted to in more than ten years."

Li Ying sighed and said, "My brother has been thinking about us and worrying about us."

Li Juan: “.”

"Think about it, a dozen years from now, isn't that the day when little Youan will grow up? This is preparation for our brother!"

(End of this chapter)