My Lord, you need to stand up!

Chapter 607 Advanced does not equal civilized

This would have prevented Wei Dong from knowing about Lin Wangfu and Creative Sound Cards for sixty years in his previous life.

Little did they know that this guy would later become Steve's major business rival, with whom he fought a bloody battle.

Steve Jobs built his Apple MP3 player on the back of Lin Wangfu's multi-billion dollar failure, which allowed him to seize the world's throne in digital portable music players and subsequently create the first-generation Apple phone with an identical appearance.

That's how wonderful things are in this world.

Wei Dong was implicated in a cross-incident twenty years earlier than expected.

Steve provided Wei Dong with Southeast Asian business locations, but not even Singapore.

But whether it's the business focus leaked by IBM or the computer distribution mentioned by smugglers, both point to Singapore as the core of the computer industry in Southeast Asia.

This is a reality that Steve, far away in North America, neither knew nor could possibly know.

Wei Dong arrived in Singapore precisely at this crucial juncture in 1986.

She also turned down offers from Chow Yun-fat, a famous film star.

Although he secretly came over three days later, because at that time no one knew that he was actually talking about marriage with a Singaporean girl.

But his arrival would inevitably lead to Wei Dong's itinerary being surrounded by all sides.

Because if Wei Dong were to enter Singapore and carry out his work using the business models of European and American companies or the official methods of mainland China, it would be absolutely impossible for him to have any interaction with Lin Wangfu at the repair shop.

Ironically, it was his basketball social media salesman, whose wife was overjoyed by the news of their marriage certificate, who learned about this information from a college student and made the connection.

Thanks to the fact that the neighboring National University of Singapore and Polytechnic University don't really like playing basketball, Wei Dong ended up at the relatively unremarkable Min Nan University of Technology and Engineering, where he met Lin Wangfu, a junior who graduated from there a few years ago.

Every step was unexpected, yet every link made perfect sense.

The key point is to make the communication between Wei Dong and Lin Wangfu very comfortable.

When talking to a foreigner about computers, he will definitely be wary, guarding against saying anything that can or cannot be said.

Moreover, with multiple language translations required, things are even more likely to go wrong. For example, when the group landed in Penang, Malaysia, 600 kilometers away, the Apple business manager led the team to the industrial area.

When Wei Dong saw the green tangram sign at the entrance of the park and the huge "AMD" abbreviation next to it, he immediately realized that this advanced microprocessor company was a strong player that had been able to compete with Intel for decades.

Even the most computer illiterate person, who knows nothing about Creative sound cards, still has some knowledge of the later heart of a computer: Intel and AMD.

Damn it, Qin Laomei was translating advanced microprocessors or powerful chips the whole time, so he couldn't contact her at all.

Thinking of this, he glared fiercely at the translator.

Even a full-time translator would be trembling with fear at the thought of offending the boss.

He was all smiles after just getting his certificate.

I took the opportunity to suggest that I go shopping, since you have a professional translator.

This was exactly what Wei Dong wanted, and he was finally able to hand his daughter over to them.

So it's more comfortable to communicate with men.

During the hundreds of kilometers of the journey, Wei Dong spent the entire time conveying to Lin Wangfu what kind of games he was going to make!
He racked his brains to express to Lin Wangfu that he absolutely had to create a multiplayer shooting game.

Wei Dong remembers it very clearly: in the mid-to-late 1990s, after the tax network project was launched by Old Lady Shi, the young people in the bureau would secretly gather in the computer room to play games. After being caught a few times, computer rooms sprang up like mushrooms after rain on the streets outside.

There was no internet access, so it wasn't an internet cafe. It was just a computer lab that followed the old model of arcades for Famicom and Saturn consoles, with a few computers strung together to play games. Of course, it was euphemistically called a computer learning lab, so it was incredibly popular with the nearby primary and secondary schools every day.

This was the origin of his initial idea to build a large computer room in Singapore before the internet.

Even without internet, this thing can become a hit as an arcade.

Wei Dong first saw computer games when the young people in the bureau gathered to play Delta Force. He watched from the side of the computer room door for a long time, sighing and envying.

Then I found out that games like "The Legend of Sword and Fairy", "Xuan-Yuan Sword", and "Three Kingdoms" had been popular for several years, and these guys had played a lot of games when they were in college.

Were college students in the 1990s really that addicted to games?

Anyway, it was almost twenty years later that Wei Dong got the old surveillance computer in the security booth, which was mainly used for the parking lot billing system.

Even with poor performance, a colleague secretly installed a few old games from the 1990s, which helped pass the time during all-night shifts.

So Wei Dong gave a precise description of what kind of game "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" was. He was a master at it.

I don't know anything about computers, but I've already figured out how to unify the whole country in this game.

Especially version 2.0, which is an old game that Wei Dong would still play even when he was sixty years old and on duty.

These things were impossible to explain to people in the mainland, in the Xishan computer industry cluster. It was difficult to explain to Lao Huang and the others that we came from a third-tier factory to make games.

The old folks just can't understand how we could make games out of decades of hard work and sacrifice in the Third Front construction.
If Wei Dong dares to mention this, they might even be so disappointed as to rebel.

So let alone making a good game, that's impossible.

This generation lacks a gaming mindset and deeply despises anything that leads to idleness and neglect of one's studies.

Therefore, Wei Dong could only hope that such geniuses would emerge from the new generation of computer enthusiasts in universities and even primary and secondary schools.

This process will definitely take several years and may even slow down the overall software development process.

In any case, Wei Dong also needs to understand that gaming is a very important factor in the rapid development of computers, not only in terms of hardware demand, but also in terms of generating economic revenue from various software development projects.

At least for the young people in the bureau and the institute, from the late 1990s to the early 2010s, they were all assembling computers to play games, until mobile games began to replace this model.

This is giving Wei Dong a bit of a headache, and he's considering whether he should recruit some computer talent from Hong Kong.

Now it's unnecessary; Lin Wangfu seamlessly transitioned into the role.

His fervent love for computers stemmed from a desire for entertainment; he wanted to connect his two greatest passions: computers and music.

So I grasped the concept of game development immediately.

Because of its long colonial history, Singapore's official language is English, which has given this predominantly Chinese and Malay city-state the same ease of access to programming languages ​​in its IT industry as India later did.

He was making notes with great excitement throughout the flight. He would be recruiting a large number of people for sound card companies and speaker companies, while also selecting and forming a game company.

This means that Weidong will hold 70% of the shares, while he will take 30% to be responsible for establishing the software base.

We originally planned to set up a gaming branch in Penang as well.

According to his account, Penang and Singapore, these coastal cities that are among the most developed in Southeast Asia, were actually supply points for European fleets such as the East India Company during the colonial period.

It left behind a large number of traces of European management and operation, which is why it was able to develop earlier than other regions.

After settling in Penang, it became clear that the presence of prestigious institutions like the Malaysian Institute of Technology and Universiti Malaysia Penang, which focus on engineering, effectively supports the development of the electronics industry.

But Wei Dong was immediately excited and made up his mind to bring the AMD factory back to Shenzhen no matter what.

He didn't even hide it from Lin Wangfu: "I want to take control of this factory and move it next to our sound card factory and speaker factory."

Of course, his reason was purely business strategy: "I already have a computer factory in Shanghai that can produce 100,000 units per month. Now all the 6502 chips are purchased from North America, which means that I am always held hostage in subsequent business negotiations."

Here he even quoted Steve's attitude towards the European branch factory that he had mentioned to him: "This is a conspiracy. First, they desperately helped me build up the factory's production capacity, and then suddenly cut off my main chip supply. Then they could easily control me. 100,000 units of production capacity, just think about how many workers are waiting to work and eat. I also have supporting CRT factories, memory chip factories, keyboard and mouse factories. Once the main chip is gone, all these factories will become scrap! Then they will buy these factories at low prices, and I will go bankrupt."

Now that Wei Dong is so close to Apple, he doesn't think things will stay this way forever.

Even if Steve doesn't seem to have any obvious national or racial class barriers, it's impossible for him to pin his hopes for the future of such a huge industry on someone else.

Lin Wangfu, who had never experienced a battle of this scale before, was taken aback: "Is it really that dangerous?"

Wei Dong suppressed his emotions and said earnestly, "You may have grown up on this route and think that Western civilization has driven the development of these places. But advanced does not equal civilized. Chinese civilization is the most magnificent civilization in human history. Think about what I'm saying. That white culture of the Anglo-Chinese is just robbery and plunder. They are only pretending to be gentlemen now because they have money. Just imagine if my scale affects their interests, do you think they will turn against me? So we must first ensure that we have no weaknesses and have our own 'weakest link'!"

Even though he had his own opinions on who the light of civilization was, Lin Wangfu was still full of admiration when he heard the barrel theory again: "I understand, sound card chips will also rely on this production system that we control."

Wei Dong finally nodded: "That's right. Even if you and I are partners, we must remember this relationship of mutual benefit. I will not undermine your control over sound cards and speakers. What I want is huge industrial exports to generate foreign exchange and the establishment of large-scale industries. My real business is docks and containers."

In order to develop the domestic semiconductor and computer industries, Wei Dong now dares to say anything outrageous.

Of course, Qin Yuye was happy not to have to translate the ghost stories himself.

It seems that now that she's married, she's showing her true colors a bit. "Bob, you take good care of my husband, and I'll take the kids sightseeing."

Yu Xiaoqiu, who still wanted to work hard as a secretary, was captivated by the beautiful coastal scenery of Southeast Asia.

(End of this chapter)