My Lord, you need to stand up!

Chapter 410 Only Divine Artifacts Can Turn the Mundane into the Miraculous
Especially the broadcast of the TV series "Liu Weixin".

This instantly made Jin Zhuoqun a hot commodity.

But what he gleaned from it was an incredibly amazing path that even Wei Dong found unbelievable.

The broadcast was scheduled for mid-July, allowing Wei Dong to return to Jiangzhou and sort out all the affairs.

The Electronic Computer Research Center began to transform the "X" computer from a working state of copper wires, flying wires, and semiconductor components to an integrated motherboard and assembly line production form.

The brand-new computer manufacturing and assembly plant, under the guidance of engineers from Hong Kong-owned home appliance factories and production line technology experts, is preparing its production lines on the fourth floor of the fourth floor.

Wei Dong finally managed to get the latest "air-cooled and water-cooled" building-style central air conditioning production blueprints and processes from Hong Kong. He then asked the elevator workshop of Hongyan Machinery Factory on the fourth floor to handcraft a simplified version.

Although the cooling efficiency is only average, the factory produces a large quantity of goods that are plentiful.

A dozen or so large fans lined up in a row, humming loudly, could lower the temperature by ten degrees or so and deliver cool air down the floors through huge metal square pipes.

The entire electronic computer research center has moved to the fourth floor, so we no longer have to work in sweltering heat of 30 or 40 degrees Celsius.

All the technical staff and experts also received brand-new XEX work uniforms, ranging from T-shirts and jeans to suits and overalls for work.

A sense of belonging instantly surged.

Wei Dong still misjudged one thing.

The watershed moment for this third-line factory's transition from military to civilian production was 1982—yes, the same year that saw a bumper harvest and better-tasting wines.

The entire mainland's military industry and state-owned enterprises are moving towards a hard decoupling from military to civilian use.

Although there have been constant reminders since the reform and opening up in 1977 or 1988 that we should adapt to the market and make changes, most people still didn't take it seriously.

When the deadline arrived in 1982, many factories really went out of business.

Just like Xishan Factory and Hongguang Factory, they were both hit hard in this wave.

It's possible that factories like Xiangshan Factory, which had previously achieved some success in converting military equipment to civilian use, didn't feel the impact as deeply in 1982 and were therefore somewhat dismissive.

All military factories and research institutes that suffered in 1982 were given a chance to start over.

We will work even harder!
Among this group of scientific and technical personnel, quite a few have been selling popsicles (because the research unit has refrigeration equipment), selling roast duck (again because the unit has baking equipment), tutoring, repairing home appliances, and doing all sorts of other things to make a living in the past two years.

Now that I have the opportunity to go back to work and pick up familiar objects, I'm working incredibly hard.

There's no such thing as slacking off or being lazy. In the entire work environment, anyone who dares to be lazy will be warned to leave the R&D team and technical group as soon as possible, lest they spoil the whole thing.

Some people even felt guilty that they hadn't tried hard enough to get to where they were before.

Now, looking out the window, those soldiers and their families from the infrastructure construction team are still living in makeshift shacks, while the three newly built tenement buildings have been given to them.

Workers from sanitary napkin factories and jeans factories also expressed their sincere gratitude, because it was thanks to the computer workshop that they were able to enjoy the factory's air conditioning.

I cherish this feeling of being valued even more now.

The progress is very fast. High-specification integrated circuit boards are something that domestic technology cannot currently achieve, but ordinary circuit boards are not a big problem.

Moreover, by changing Weidong's strategy and focusing on the computer host, the device was freed from its original integrated keyboard and chassis form and became its ultimate form.

The machine body has much more space, making it more suitable for the current somewhat clumsy and bulky combination of domestic electronic components.

Making the exterior look nicer can hide this problem.

The construction team, which had experience in steel processing plants, assigned a squad of skilled workers to form a temporary chassis prototype workshop. Using simple equipment, they bent, hammered, polished, and painted prototypes of chassis and keyboards.

Aside from inspecting the zoo and other construction sites, Wei Dong basically spent all his time here, keeping watch.

He had no computer knowledge, but these things later became common sense.

The case design and keyboard feel will be clear once you see it made.

Especially membrane keyboards.

This was a period characterized by a shortage of supplies, high prices for imported materials, and insufficient technological capabilities.

Mechanical keyboards have a high barrier to entry.

Using a membrane keyboard to achieve a cheap and durable replacement is absolutely necessary.

This keyboard research group became one of the two most important teams, working in parallel with the memory card research group.

After all, other research and development on computers were industrializations based on Apple computers, with little innovation.

These two steps are purely "innovative".

In particular, we are making great efforts to develop "memory cards" with game card interfaces, which is a new technology that can be patented both domestically and internationally.

Japanese manufacturers haven't dared to overturn the North American mindset regarding disk storage; they only use it as a game card, not even for game storage.

In North America, many personal computers were still using tape recorders for auxiliary recording. That's right, those ordinary tape recorders that could be connected to an Apple II computer via an audio cable to record digital signals onto magnetic tape via audio transmission.

Isn't this a step backward in history?

The mainland is now exhibiting characteristics of overtaking on a curve, a phenomenon common in later generations, where those who start late but arrive early directly use the final form.

Wei Dong decided to skip 5-inch floppy disks, 3-inch floppy disks, optical discs, and other portable storage disks, and directly use this plug-and-play card method to solve the transfer problem.

Anyway, the disk capacity is only 512K at this time. Although the storage chips used in game cards can only reach 64K capacity in China, we can just solder ten chips on and arrange them to solve the problem.
Miracles happen with great effort!

Then they further encouraged the experts who went to Shanghai to "study and improve" their software programming skills to spend more time figuring out game development.

Learning on a computer without games is incomplete.

Themes like the Three Kingdoms, Water Margin, and Journey to the West can all be used, but let's skip Dream of the Red Chamber; straight men don't care about that kind of effeminate stuff.

Have you read Mr. Zha's martial arts novels? Let's make some classic plot points into mini-games.

As a result, you could often see those eccentric researchers in the factory canteen, walking around and gesturing like they were practicing some kind of "ice palm" technique.

The construction team members, including the older women with children, quickly pulled their kids away, warning them not to mess with this kind of guy, and then gave the experts extra meat and vegetables.

If you appreciate the beauty of communal living, you won't become so obsessed.

After nearly a month, Qin Yuye finally returned and, together with several Hong Kong-based factories, shipped a container from Hong Kong under the guise of producing samples.

It was filled with all kinds of summer clothes, casual wear, suits, and children's clothing, plus a bunch of lamps, home appliances, and all kinds of computers and game consoles that could be scavenged in the Hong Kong market.

Wei Dong only asked for these last few things, but Boss Qin, who had made money, brought four 29-inch TVs, which were the most fashionable in Hong Kong at the time, plus a 50-inch Sony rear-projection TV.

The latter was a luxury item in Hong Kong at that time, with a unit price of more than US$10,000, which is equivalent to HK$90,000!

But by this time, the payment for the second month's shipment of 50,000 pairs of jeans each to Japan and North America had already been received in Hong Kong, which amounted to two million US dollars!
Even Qin Zhiming had to compliment his sister and tell Barbara to take care, because Uncle De had already transferred 60% of the shares of Colorful Cowboy to Qin Yuye as promised.

The remaining time is until the couple gets married or De's Enterprises officially begins its investment in mainland China, at which point the entire company will be transferred.

Even for a billionaire family like the De's Enterprises, an export business of two to three million US dollars a month is a very lucrative project.

However, Qin Yuye's advertising campaigns in the US and Japan, along with Wei Dong's assistance to De's Enterprises in real estate development in Jiangzhou and Shanghai, make it impossible for Uncle De to break his promise.

He only regretted that his daughter, who was in charge of the colorful cowboys, had come back to the mainland with him, only to wander around Guangzhou for a while before returning home.

Look at Qin Yuye now, she has become one of the most promising young female entrepreneurs in Hong Kong's entertainment circle.

It is said that Uncle De, who has always doted on his daughter, has become quite disappointed and has begun to reduce the allowance he gives her.

These gossips were all brought back by Qin Yuye along with the shipping containers, fully expressing his smugness at how he managed to block the heiress of a billionaire family.

Dong Xueqing was annoyed but still had to thank her.

Because the containers have been thoroughly inspected by customs, sufficient taxes are paid, and they are transported by our own fleet of vehicles to be unpacked at the factory.

Qin Yuye emphasized that he had specially bought about a hundred sets of clothes for the Dong sisters.

Who can stand this.

Wei Dong was left to watch as the moving company's professionals unpacked and moved the 300-pound, 50-inch floorstanding rear-projection TV, which was taller than a person.

He refused to move it to his office to show off: "Put it in the food court area, put it high up, so everyone can watch TV in their spare time. Right, isn't that TV series going to air in the next couple of days? Everyone can enjoy it together..."

Shen Cuiyue quickly set up the food court. In addition to finding two senior apprentices from Master Zhao's restaurant to be head chefs and in charge of the most upscale reception restaurant, she also prepared food for her and Weidong to try, since everyone in the factory wanted to open a restaurant.

For a time, even the tens of thousands of people in the neighboring Hong Kong business industrial park only knew to keep Consort Shen by their boss's side, completely forgetting about Qin, the Hong Kong businessman, let alone Empress Dong or Consort Dong.

The once all-powerful Shen Laosan ate to his heart's content. Together with his own spicy hot pot restaurant, he gathered forty other food stalls to move into the already partitioned food street for free. The five-meter by six-meter partitions could accommodate a few tables in addition to the kitchen.

But the main reason was the large outdoor space of 3,000 square meters, which led Wei Dong to request that a basketball court be built in the middle, and then a large number of wooden outdoor tables and chairs be placed around it.

Every evening, many people gather here to eat, drink, and play ball, making Wei Dong less eager to go back and have sex with his wife.

The team includes thousands of soldiers and their families, hundreds of newly arrived electronics technology experts, and thousands of employees who get off work in shifts.

They all really liked the atmosphere of the old third-tier factory and were eagerly anticipating moving into the factory's residential complex, which would make their lives perfect.

Wei Dong was thinking about setting up an open-air cinema, since they had a rear-projection TV, they could use it as a video rental store.

In the mid-to-late 1980s, having such a large screen and video recorder was a magical tool for many towns to get rich first.

Wei Dong certainly wouldn't stoop to earning such a small amount of money.

But I really want to watch this play with everyone.

(End of this chapter)