Reborn in the red age

"Teacher Li, we are from the same hometown. We should not forget our roots. The development of our hometown is ours."

"Wait, where are you from? Hmm"

"Qindao"

"The people from Qindao are nothing but my fellow countrymen. Why are you trying to play the emotional card with me?"

Without waiting for the person on the phone to reply, Li Qingfeng hung up the phone without hesitation.

Ever since the news came back, Li Qingfeng's phone has been ringing non-stop. The callers are all from investment promotion offices in various cities across the country. Without exception, they all want Li Qingfeng to hold the first World Counter-Strike Championship in their own city.

Those who had nothing to do with Qingfeng Li all spoke in a nice tone when they called, saying that they wanted to invite Qingfeng Li to dinner for a face-to-face meeting.

The ones that are related are just like the phone call just now, which plays the emotional card, and they are basically from various cities in the province.

I don’t know what these people are thinking. There isn’t even an airport in the local area, yet they want to host such a big event. How can they say that?
Hu Jiabao, who was standing by, looked at Li Qingfeng and asked curiously, "Who called? Why are you cursing?"

"Nothing, just a random person." Li Qingfeng rubbed his temple and replied casually. He was exhausted by all these calls these days. Li Qingfeng now wanted to pull out the SIM card.

"Oh"

Hu Jiabao nodded and opened his mouth to say something, but was a little embarrassed to speak.

Li Qingfeng had been having a headache because of the phone calls during this period, and he didn't notice anything unusual about Hu Jiabao. He unplugged the battery of his mobile phone, went into the study, chased away Chuyi who was playing games on the computer, and sat down to insert the CS game disc.

Chuyi, who was kicked out, angrily waved his fist at the closed door and went to the sofa to watch TV.

Although Chuyi is usually carefree, he was often beaten by Hu Jiabao when he was a child. So he subconsciously uses his skill of observing Hu Jiabao's words and expressions when facing Hu Jiabao.

After just sitting on the sofa for a while, he noticed that Hu Jiabao was not in a good state.

He quickly paused the TV with the remote control, spread his hands, and said innocently, "I changed the disc because you didn't want to watch it. If you want to watch it, take it. Don't quarrel with me over such a small matter."

"It has nothing to do with you, just watch your disc." Awakened by his daughter's words, Hu Jiabao retorted to Chuyi in an unhappily.

Chuyi curled his lips, thinking about Hu Jiabao's inexplicable temper, but he didn't say anything more. He just pressed the play button again. His eyes seemed to be staring at the TV screen, but his mind was still on Hu Jiabao, wondering what was wrong with her.

After a while, Chuyi couldn't help but ask out of curiosity, "Mom, what are you thinking about? You've been thinking about it all night."

"What do I think have to do with you? How can you be so curious at such a young age?"

"Tell me, maybe I can help you."

Facing Chuyi's gaze, Hu Jiabao thought about it and finally decided to tell Chuyi what he was thinking.

After listening to what Hu Jiabao said, Chuyi immediately patted his chest and promised that he would take care of this matter.

Regardless of Hu Jiabao's reaction, Chuyi stood up from the sofa, rushed to the study room and opened the door. In front of Li Qingfeng's astonished eyes, he took off the headphones on Li Qingfeng's head and started giving orders.

"Dad, hasn't our company decided on a venue for the competition yet? You can just book it at my grandma's place. Then you can go visit my grandparents."

Looking at Chuyi who gave him the order, Li Qingfeng smiled. She was just a daughter. If it was his son who dared to do this, Li Qingfeng would have slapped him long ago.

Looking outside, Qingfeng Li took back his headphones from Chuyi and asked with a smile, "Did your mother ask you to ask?"

"What does it have to do with my mom? This is my own idea. I miss my grandparents." Chuyi crossed his arms, raised his chin slightly, and continued, "Don't change the subject. Just say whether you agree or not."

"I agree. My daughter has spoken. How can I not agree?"

"Okay, then get ready. I'm going to call my grandpa now."

"and many more."

"What's wrong?"

Li Qingfeng stopped Chuyi who was about to leave and said with a smile: "Since you chose the place, then I'll leave this matter to you. I'll approve the funds for you, and then you will be in charge of this competition. How about that?"

"Sure, no problem. It's just a competition. I'm often in charge of organizing our school's competitions. Compared to our school's activities, your competition only has a few more people. It's nothing."

Li Qingfeng thought Chuyi would back down due to the difficulty, but he didn't expect Chuyi to be so confident and agreed directly.

This made Li Qingfeng feel like he didn't know what to say for a moment.

Facing Chuyi's provocative eyes, Li Qingfeng thought about it, nodded and agreed to let Chuyi be responsible for the preparations for this event, and told her to report to Huaxin Building tomorrow.

"Forget it, I'm still a student. My main goal right now is to study. I'll do this kind of thing after I graduate."

"Okay, that's it. I haven't finished my summer homework for today yet, so I'll go back and do it first." Having said that, without waiting for Li Qingfeng's response, Chuyi quickly walked out of the study.

Looking at Chuyi who was fleeing in panic, Li Qingfeng could not help but shake his head. This child was so shameless, and he didn't know who he looked like.

Before going to bed at night, Qingfeng Li looked at Hu Jiabao who didn't dare to look at him, and said with a smile: "Okay, sorry to tell me that you have learned to command me to go out."

"I'm embarrassed to tell you this because I see that you've been upset about this matter these two days." Hu Jiabao lowered his head slightly, a blush appearing on his face.

"We've been married for so many years, what's there to be embarrassed about?"

Hu Jiabao looked at Li Qingfeng with sparkling eyes: "What about what I told you on the first day of the new year? Can it be held in Gusu?"

"Gusu is not possible. There is no airport or large stadium there. There is no condition to hold large-scale competitions."

"Oh fine"

Hu Jiabao was a little disappointed when he heard this answer. People born in the 1950s and 1960s still have deep feelings for their hometown and would receive certain benefits from their hometown if they have the chance.

Hu Jiabao did not get involved in investment matters, fearing that it would affect Li Qingfeng's judgment. However, in matters that did not involve investment and could be done anywhere, Hu Jiabao still wanted to seek some benefits for his hometown.

Sensing Hu Jiabao's disappointment, Li Qingfeng thought for a moment and said, "Although we can't stay in Gusu, we can go to Jinling. They are in the same province, and it's your provincial capital. It can also be regarded as seeking benefits for your hometown."

"What do you mean by one province? I don't admit it. Our Gusu is Gusu, which is not the same as Jinling. If it can't be done in Gusu, it doesn't matter where we go," Hu Jiabao curled his lips and said disdainfully.

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They forgot that they were scattered. They only recognized the city they were in and did not recognize Jinling as the big brother at all.

Neither Hu Jiabao's hometown nor Li Qingfeng's hometown has the basic conditions to host such a large event.

Apart from the two popular cities, Li Qingfeng picked out four places in China and asked them to choose one. These four places were the capital, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Jinling.

According to the current urban development in China, only these four cities have the ability to host international events with a scale of more than 10,000 people.

It’s not that these four cities have developed so well. In Li Qingfeng’s opinion, they are just average. The main reason is that the current infrastructure in other cities in the country is too poor.

The cities along the coast are not so bad, as they have some infrastructure. But if you move inland, apart from the provincial capitals which are barely acceptable, the other prefecture-level cities are poorer than the other.

The gaming industry has always been a highly profitable industry in any era. Since the launch of Counter-Strike, the electronic game division of Lemon Company has once again experienced the joy of the launch of Tetris.

Since the CS and graphics cards released this time are bundled together, the hot sales of CS around the world have boosted the already sluggish sales of video memory chips from Huaxin, and truckloads of them are shipped out every day at a price that is 20% higher than before.

According to speculation from foreign professional organizations, it is generally believed internationally that if graphics card production can keep up, CS sales will exceed 10 million before Christmas this year.

Compared to Lemon Company, Huaxin is the one that really made a fortune.

With Huaxin's production capacity, it is easy to produce tens of millions of video memory chips.

Although Huaxin cannot compare with giants like Intel and TSMC, which can produce tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of chips per month, its production capacity is not small. It can easily produce two million chips per month.

The chip shortage in the market is only temporary, mainly because the inventory of graphics card manufacturers is being consumed rapidly and the inventory cannot keep up for a while. When the chips sent from Huaxin's warehouse arrive at the card dealers' warehouse, the chip shortage in the market will be alleviated and prices will return to normal.

That morning, Li Qingfeng personally led a team to the airport to pick up Wu Simin who had returned from America.

"Oh, our great hero is back. Come on, let's all give a round of applause to Comrade Wu Simin."

Standing on the airport runway, looking at Wu Simin who had just come down from the plane ladder, Li Qingfeng was the first to greet her, with a smile on his face, and asked everyone to applaud quickly.

The people following behind Li Qingfeng immediately followed suit and applauded. Among them, Xie Wanmin clapped the most vigorously, his hands almost turned red from clapping.

It’s not because he agrees with Wu Simin so much, but because Xie Wanmin got promoted.

The astronomical number of orders during this period not only stunned the senior management of Huaxin, but also stunned the people above them.

In just half a month, nearly US$1 billion in purchase funds were deposited into Huaxin's bank account.

And these are just the preliminary purchase orders. According to the current hot sales of graphics cards around the world, Huaxin's revenue this year must be no less than 5 billion US dollars.

The country's current foreign exchange reserves are only over 100 billion yuan. A small company like Huaxin has such a large annual revenue. It is not an exaggeration to pay too much attention to it.

The higher-ups held a meeting overnight to discuss the matter and increased the importance attached to Huaxin again. Xie Wanmin, who was originally assigned to Huaxin Nursing Home, instantly attracted the attention of the leaders. Within two days, a document was issued from above to promote Xie Wanmin by half a level.

Xie Wanmin himself had not expected that, originally thinking that he would retire at Huaxin Nursing Home, he would suddenly have a turning point. At his age, he could actually make further progress and even have the hope of joining the ministry.

Since receiving the promotion documents, Xie Wanmin has been like a chicken with its blood pumped up, carrying an insulation board and wandering around the company's R&D department all day long.

They were either talking to this person or that person, and the content of their messages were all about encouraging the R&D personnel to work hard.

When he knew that Wu Simin had returned to China this time, he insisted on coming to greet her, and threatened that he wanted to take a good look at this "Mulan".

Wu Simin felt a little embarrassed by Li Qingfeng's teasing, and smiled: "Teacher, please don't tease me. I have always followed your instructions. This trip to America, I was able to achieve such results, all thanks to your command."

Before Li Qingfeng could say anything, Xie Wanmin came up impatiently, grabbed Wu Simin's hand, and said excitedly: "Manager Wu is too modest. Your ability is obvious to all. This time, Teacher Li sent you to the United States to be responsible for the release of "Counter-Strike". It is simply a model of knowing people and making good use of them."

After looking at the excited Xie Wanmin and then at the confused Wu Simin, Li Qingfeng smiled and shook his head.

If he didn't know why this guy was so excited, Li Qingfeng would have thought that this old guy wanted to take advantage of the girl.

Wu Simin looked at the old man who held her hand tightly, and kept a polite smile on his face: "You are too kind. This is the result of the joint efforts of the team. I just did my part."

"What's the point of giving an award?"

Seeing that Xie Wanmin was about to speak, Li Qingfeng could not help but interrupt him, "Old Xie, you can talk, but can you please not hold the hand of a female comrade? This is rude!"

After being reminded by Li Qingfeng, Xie Wanmin realized that he was still holding someone else's hand. He immediately pulled his hand back and apologized to Wu Simin awkwardly.

Li Qingfeng smiled and shook his head, then introduced their respective identities to each other.

After a brief greeting at the airport, Qingfeng Li invited Wu Simin to take his car back home.

In the car, Wu Simin reported the situation in America to Li Qingfeng: "Teacher, since I came back, America's evaluation of us has been mixed, but overall it is within controllable range and has little impact on us."

"Well, I'm not too worried about this aspect. What about e-sports? Do the players in America recognize this game?" Li Qingfeng nodded and asked about e-sports.

"Teacher, you may not know that after my investigation over this period of time, I found that there are already rudiments of e-sports competitions in the United States. There are even semi-professional e-sports players. Some communities, companies, and even individuals will hold a small e-sports competition every now and then, but they are all small-scale competitions, and the first prize is only a few hundred dollars at most."

"Our first prize of $100,000 has caused a sensation in the American gaming community. Many people have called us to inquire about how to participate in the competition."

After listening to Wu Simin's story, Li Qingfeng was first happy, and then shocked.

Damn, America already has semi-professional players, so the top three places in this competition will definitely be taken by those foreigners, right? (End of this chapter)