I, Yan Jiefang, will live to 2025 in this courtyard house.

Yan Jiefang can be considered a man of action.

The next day, he went to the two universities in Hong Kong: the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the University of Hong Kong Island.

As for the university of science and technology, which was only established two years ago, there's no need to go there.

This time, he wanted to act quickly and recruit about 10 experienced server setup specialists and assistants as soon as possible.

Even if you don't understand, it doesn't matter much. If you still can't do it, he'll just teach you directly.

If he doesn't use some tactics, people will simply ignore him.

There was no other way but to resort to a less desirable solution.

He quickly signed agreements with the two schools.

They recruited more than a dozen computer science teachers and graduate students.

In addition, he found a high-level electromechanical contractor to handle things such as UPS, precision air conditioning, anti-static raised floor, and gas fire suppression.

He just wanted these people to set up the server as required, and they could deal with the networking later.

Despite being one of the Four Asian Tigers and having a highly developed economy, Hong Kong lags far behind mainland China in terms of internet development.

Currently, only the Chinese University of Hong Kong in Sha Tin, New Territories, has a single 64Kbps dedicated line connecting to NASA's Ames Research Center in the United States, which is connected to the NSFNET backbone network.

This is Hong Kong's only channel for real-time connection to the global Internet.

Furthermore, this line is managed by the HARNET academic network, which is composed of various colleges and universities. The policy strictly prohibits commercial use and bandwidth subleasing, and it is only open to teaching and research activities of Hong Kong universities.

It was naturally impossible for Yan Jiefang's company to use this line.

Besides, even if he managed to connect to this line through some means, the internet speed was still far too slow.

This isn't urgent; it will take three or four months just to buy a few small machines.

It's August now, and in three or four months, it will be around 1993!

Once the data center is successfully built, it will definitely be in the first half of next year.

Let's leave it at that for now; he's not in a hurry to get it done.

After hiring a local professional manager, Manager Ruan, to oversee the matter and bringing him on board, he left Hong Kong alone.

The eldest brother is currently very close to Little Jew, so he's staying here for the time being.

After returning to the special economic zone, Yan Jiefang began to deal with the matter of the acquired Changxin Electronics factory.

After several months of renovations, all the old equipment in the workshop has been removed, and new equipment is being installed step by step.

He was too lazy to renovate the old workshop here; it would be used to produce game consoles and educational machines as a transitional measure.

These things are all short-term.

Next are VCD players, VCD power supplies, remote controls, and game VCDs.

After 2000, the company began producing portable DVD players (flip-top portable DVD players with LCD screens), CD players, MP3 players, car audio and video systems, and car navigation systems.

After the factory expands, he may also venture into branded computer assembly and the production of various computer accessories.

Let's leave it at that for now!

In addition, Yan Jiefang also asked Director Zhou to communicate with the government about applying for new land to build factories and employee housing.

A few days later, Director Zhou came to report with documents that the leadership had only approved a 5000-square-meter industrial plot.

Yan Jiefang could tell at a glance that the leaders had only approved it because they were giving him face.

Otherwise, it's possible that there won't even be 3000.

Because the government has already predicted that this area of ​​Shangbu Industrial Park will become a commercial district in the future (later Huaqiangbei).

The supply of newly added large-scale industrial land is tightening. There will be no large-scale approval of new industrial plots, and there is no willingness to allocate large areas of residential land to support them.

Moreover, this is a mature industrial area with limited open space, so providing 5000 square meters is actually quite generous.

Didn't you see how happy Director Zhou was to get this land?

But how could Yan Jiefang be satisfied with just this little bit of land?

He's a man destined for great things.

There's no way to rely on Director Zhou; his abilities are limited.

Yan Jiefang had no choice but to take matters into his own hands.

After friendly negotiations, the electronics factory obtained a 50,000-square-meter industrial land plot, plus an additional 100,000 square meters of residential land for employees.

Old Zhao, who had just finished building his new workshop, heard about this and immediately went to find Yan Jiefang:

"Boss, leave the factory and housing construction to me, you can't go wrong! I'm an expert in this!"

Yan Jiefang shook his head inwardly: This old guy has developed occupational diseases from working in construction.

He took two documents out of the drawer and handed them to Lao Zhao:

"Take this to Lao Ma and ask him to talk to the design institute and get the blueprints out as soon as possible."

Old Zhao took the document, turned around, and ran away:

"Boss, don't worry, I will definitely pass on this message to Comrade Ma."

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While Yan Jiefang and Yan Xueqian were busy in the south, in August, the second and third sons also played a four-nation football match in Beijing.

This is the second edition of the Dynasty Cup football tournament.

The competition will be held from August 22nd to August 29th.

It was over in about a week.

With the Yan brothers leading the charge, the national team unsurprisingly and easily won the championship and the Dynamo Cup.

This competition also allowed neighboring countries to witness their national team's top football players for the first time.

Several Asian football powerhouses have unanimously regarded their national teams as formidable opponents.

As a result, the brothers faced various forms of targeting during the Asian Cup in October and November.

But in the face of absolute power, all attempts to target them are futile.

Under their leadership, the national team stood on the Asian Cup champion's podium for the first time. (In reality, they lost 1-3 to Japan and finished as runners-up.)

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After several months of hard work, Yan Jiefang finally got everything sorted out, including the land and equipment for the electronics factory.

The electronics factory finally started production of two products: the Shuimu Learning Machine and the Jinbu Game Machine.

They also launched a product called "GG": "Use the ShuiMu Learning Machine to get into ShuiMu University!"

Due to their superior quality and the widespread availability of GG products, these two products quickly captured a significant market share from products like Subor upon their release.

Furthermore, the Shuimu Learning Machine is a new type of all-in-one product, which has won the "love" of many children and is selling like hotcakes.

Orders poured in from all over the country, and Changxin Electronics Factory was working three shifts around the clock, but still couldn't keep up with the demand.

In the end, they had no choice but to suspend the Progress game machine and focus all their efforts on producing the Shuimu learning machine.

Don't be fooled by the fact that this product only costs a little over 200 yuan at the factory, but it's being sold at double the price in department stores and electronics stores across the country.

The net profit per machine at the electronics factory is about 50 yuan.

Yan Jiefang shook his head: The profit is so-so.

But Director Zhou was all smiles, showing his back teeth; he was very satisfied with the current scene.

As a veteran factory director, he hadn't seen such a bustling scene in many years.

On this day, Yan Jiefang was planning when to return to Beijing when Yan Xueqian brought Xiao Youyi to him.

What are you doing here?