My Lord, you need to stand up!

Chapter 367 Does Games Promote National Prosperity?

It wasn't until Steve walked into the three-story, three-story, open-air floor, which was 4,000 square meters in size, that he was able to get a basic idea of ​​the scale of Wei Dong's project.

The sanitary napkin factory currently has seven or eight thousand employees, plus manpower from the jeans factory, printing plant, construction site, and even an engineering corps "camp" that has been set up as temporary prefabricated houses in the distance.

Tens of thousands of people work and live in this 100,000-square-meter factory area.

Apple, which had $1.5 billion in revenue last year, didn't have that many employees.

And this does not include the Shangzhou factory and Xishan factory that Wei Dong mentioned, as well as his main sales team.

Wei Dong only had a simple general manager's office here.

We held two simple and low-key work meetings.

First, confirm that the jeans factory needs to expand its production capacity, ensuring that the production ratio of export fashion styles is around 5,000 pairs per day to meet the export sales needs of Japan and Citibank. In addition, a complete foreign trade company needs to be established in Shanghai to improve the work of customs declaration, clearance and handover of goods. Wu Shengyun, who is currently inspecting the various sales branches, can try to start working on this first.

Next, the construction of the sixth-level factory building can be slowed down or even suspended, and the main construction efforts can be focused on the adjacent dormitory area. The goal is to complete the eight-story brick-concrete collective housing first, in order to prepare for the possible imminent commencement of the Xishan Building construction.

The Liujin Commercial Building, the Zoo Dormitory Building, and the Xishan Scientific Research Building are all almost identical high-rise buildings of more than twenty stories.

In Jiangzhou, where no similar buildings have been completed yet, Wei Dong actually dared to promote the construction of three sites simultaneously.

The managers present were both excited and under immense pressure.

Wei Dong was indeed forced into real estate development: "Old Geng will be in full control of the construction, and Chi Shiming will be responsible for all aspects of real estate planning, progress, and project approval. We are not building for profit, but at this stage we need enough high-rise buildings to meet the needs of outstanding talents for accommodation, research and development, and office space for commercial institutions. Therefore, please increase revenue and reduce expenditure, and fully support real estate construction."

Qin Yuye, who had just applied a face mask and rushed over, led the applause in support.

Now she is the biggest holder of cash, and also a very valuable holder of foreign exchange.

Riding the wave of Apple's resurgence in popularity, 50,000 pairs of jeans are shipped to Japan every month. Even if they sell for $40 or $50 a pair in Tanaka, the $20 landed price still nets a million dollars.

Such high profit margins are rare in both domestic and international trade industries.

Not to mention that after the Demimore jeans advertisement was launched, Qin Zhiming said that his old customers who had previously owed him HK$60 million were all looking for him hoping to resume business relations.

Therefore, Shen Cuiyue, who represented the sanitary napkin factory, was very close to the female Hong Kong businesswoman and was willing to send some of her best workers to the jeans factory first.

The Hong Kong businessman manager saw that the famous IT businessmen from Citibank were sitting to the side of Rang Weidong, listening in, and couldn't wait to report the news to Lao Heng and the others.

They also want to enter the Citibank market and make US dollars.

So it wasn't until just before dinner time, when Wei Dong drove to the historic Jiangzhou Hotel, that he finally had a chance to talk to Steve.

He thought this guy was just accompanying him back and taking a look around the mainland, and that he should leave soon: "I have two or three factories of similar size, producing food, sanitary napkins, cameras, and tape recorders. Tomorrow I will see various injection molding and titanium alloy samples delivered. I don't need to brag to you, those are all my own production plants, which can control costs and quality to the maximum extent and help you reduce product costs."

Steve was surprised that Wei Dong left the factory in a very ordinary minivan, while the Hong Kong businessman manager drove a Toyota Corolla, and Chi Shiming and his assistants followed behind in a Mitsubishi Pajero.

So he looked at the shabby little van repeatedly, feeling a little sorry for the genius: "Are you... practicing asceticism?"

As expected, Shen Cuiyue didn't pick out the clothes, cosmetics, and skincare products herself. Instead, she first set up a table in the office area to display all the electrical appliances and computers.

Anyway, there are visiting groups and inspection teams every day, and they send people to guard this thing worth tens of thousands of yuan.

Then I loaded the clothes and cosmetics into the van and leisurely sorted them in the back. I could always tell the difference between children's clothes, men's clothes, and women's clothes.

Qin Yuye couldn't help but give her hints about which items were particularly expensive and which were more suitable for older women...

Actually, they are all between eighteen and twenty-four years old, so there isn't that big of a difference.

Anyway, we need to stretch the battle lines.

So now, upon hearing Steve's words, Fengchu has to turn back and talk to the Hong Kong girl about the words he's unsure of.

Wei Dong was quite proud: "Maybe you've never seen poor people, and there aren't any poor people around your company, so you can't understand the sense of accomplishment I feel in being able to change the lives of so many people around me. Two years ago, I was a very poor guy, and I know very well what poverty can bring, so it's very interesting that I can lead so many people to change their lives now."

Unexpectedly, Steve responded: "I have seen it. Ten years ago, I went on a pilgrimage to India, shaved my head, hiked across the Himalayas, and lived for a month in a mud-brick hut on a potato farm, examining my life with an ascetic attitude."

Not only was Wei Dong surprised, but all three girls were also surprised. Is this how men grow up?

Steve's ability to become a world-class leader is truly remarkable: "During those days of wandering, I was troubled by the poverty I saw everywhere and the suffering I experienced. It was precisely during that period that I reshaped my life beliefs, a subtle yet important transformation from spiritual to practical."

Wei Dong could almost hear a transformation similar to his own rebirth.

In this way, men who were doing drugs, having promiscuous sex, writing poetry, and chasing women in the hippie life found their direction: "That was the first time I began to think that perhaps Thomas Edison's contribution to improving the world was much greater than that of Karl Marx and Carolyn Bhabha combined."

It's quite interesting that, apart from the woman from the martial arts world who had no idea, the other three, including Rang Weidong, only knew two of the names. Who are Edison, Marx, and Carlo Barba?
Qin Yuye wanted to ask who Marx was: "Master Yin San is very famous, and there are many of his followers in Hong Kong."

Steve shrugged: "He was also my pilgrimage target, but he passed away before I could reach him on foot. Perhaps that was his guidance to me."

Wei Dong suddenly realized: "A scientist and inventor who can change the way people live seems to be an industrialist as well, and can improve the world even more?"

Steve nodded: "There are many things in this world that we cannot change, and there are countless world changes, political upheavals, and religious conflicts. But from beginning to end, if we improve the world like Edison did, we can transcend all these disturbances and stand firm in the midst of them."

Having witnessed sixty years of change, Wei Dong truly understood these words.

Human beings are so insignificant in this world, yet they can also be so great.

The three names mentioned likely represent three different paths to sainthood.

Edison's path was precisely the most realistic one.

At the age of nineteen, Steve Jobs also grasped this true meaning of life. He returned to Citigroup and founded Apple, which went public on Wall Street five years later.

Wei Dong is now somewhat certain that it was this seemingly ordinary-looking white man who shaped the later colossal Apple.

Only such a person can become a leader who guides the times.

However, he had no intention of bowing down in worship at all.

Even if the other party is very generous and wealthy, and has the prospect of enjoying the best life at Citibank.

None of them could sway Wei Dong.

Compared to two years ago, when I stood bewildered under the basketball hoop, completely lost and just wanted to find someone to lean on.

He has now decided to take charge himself.

Even the most brilliant people can learn from others along the way.

Therefore, the top-notch cuisine at Jiangzhou Hotel only costs a little over 300 yuan per table. It was enough to entertain foreign businessmen, and even the vegetarian dishes alone were enough to satisfy Steve, who had never seen the world of Master Chef.

Wei Dong only had time to hug Dong Xueying and the child before he had to rush to the city to report.

This is a matter of attitude.

Sure enough, they were waiting here too: "I heard he's the president of a company representing the most advanced electronic computer technology. What kind of investment changes can he bring to the country and Jiangzhou?"

Wei Dong carried a set of the Famicom, a Toshiba laptop, and an Apple II computer.

The security guards helped him carry it over and placed it on the table in the conference room.

"This game console costs $60, this is the most advanced laptop currently available, the T1100, which costs $1900, while Apple's most famous and best-selling Macintosh cost $1300."

Everyone present was trying their best to understand the relationship between these three things.

So it's still necessary to go out and see the world. Even if Wei Dong had the ability to see things in real life, he still wouldn't be able to make the connections.

Now, with surprising precision, it says: "Look at this laptop. It's advertised as being able to attach the monitor and carry it around, allowing you to work from home or in the office anytime. But actually, if you remove the screen, it's just an Apple II..."

As the world's first business computer, the Toshiba T1100 defined the laptop computer, which from then on required a flip-up screen.

However, due to technological limitations, the display screen is flipped open from halfway, resulting in a low-profile widescreen display the size of an 85-key keyboard.

There's also a section of the fuselage behind it.

I don't know if technical experts in Europe, America, and Japan have this kind of reverse thinking, but Wei Dong immediately discovered the secret: the back of this laptop is exactly where an Apple II computer would put a monitor or a small TV.

Integrating the keyboard and chassis into one unit was a common design for early computers. Toshiba T1100 probably didn't realize that by simply adding an LCD screen for portability, it had already pioneered a new path.

Now, seeing him cover his Toshiba laptop with his hand, and comparing it to the Apple computer next to it which had no monitor, the group nodded silently, but were still a little puzzled. Is this how computer research is supposed to be done?
Even someone who doesn't understand science would find this a bit too mystical.

However, in recent years, there has been a lot of talk about metaphysics in China, such as Qigong being led by rocket experts.

So we can listen to what we don't quite understand, but try our best to understand.

Wei Dong then picked up the $60 game console again: "Actually, the main processing chip inside is the same, and the electronic structure is similar. This game console can play video games when connected to a regular home TV. It is actually a kind of computer program. The remote control is the keyboard input signal. This is the path I have found for the popularization of computers and the development of the industry in China. We produce learning machines that cost about 200 to 300 yuan, and use these learning machines to plant the seeds of computer learning in the minds of teenagers across the country. We also use these learning machines to help the domestic electronics industry catch up with the world's advanced level."

Hopefully, this won't turn into a situation where the country thrives on gaming.

(End of this chapter)