Break out of the courtyard

"Uncle, how are you going to sell this computer?"

This question has been asked many times by the smart children of the Tang family, but no one has answered it.

However, the one who asked the question this time was Tang Lie, the eldest grandson of the Tang family, who was pushed to the front by a group of Tang family members.

Zhang Heping, who was typing the code, glanced at his nephew Tang Lie and said unhappily, "Are you guys stupid? Do you need to ask me about this?"

After he finished speaking, the quick-witted young man of the Tang family quickly walked out of the study room without making a sound.

After those slow-reacting Tang family members also ran to find Chen Shuting, who was in charge of commerce, Tang Lie glanced at the person who was still playing computer games in the study, "Uncle, this computer seems to be very suitable for playing games."

"Yeah!" Zhang Heping responded.

Seeing Zhang Heping staring at the monitor with a frown on his face and his fingers tapping rapidly, Tang Lie had no choice but to run over and use his power to overpower him, occupy a computer, and learn how to operate the keyboard and mouse.

As for computer sales, Tang Lie is still hesitating whether to get involved.

After all, the fact that he and Tang Qiang made money from selling mobile phones had already made other brothers and sisters jealous!

……

On the last day of 1981, Director Wang brought Ma Xiuzhen to Hong Kong Island under the pretext of celebrating Zhang Heping's birthday.

Director Wang came here this time, receiving an order from his superiors, to inquire about how Zhang Heping was going to use the computer host he had developed, because domestic technicians could not figure out the relationship between this computer and the individual.

On the afternoon of the 31st, Director Wang arrived at the Zhang family's home in Hong Kong Island. After seeing a group of netizens playing games in front of 9 computers on the second floor, as well as Zhang Heping who was too busy at another computer to go to the airport to pick up his mother, she quickly understood what a personal computer is.

Compared with the densely packed codes on the monitor in front of Zhang Heping, the visual images on the other nine computers are much more intuitive and clear.

However, Zhang Heping was perfecting a computer system called "Window of the World", and the supporting office software, visual programming software, and drawing software were quite time-consuming, so Zhang Heping did not say much to Director Wang.

It was not until the next day, New Year's Day 1982, at Zhang Heping's 32nd birthday party that he had to put down his computer and go out to socialize, and then he spoke a few more words to others.

"Mr. Zhang, I heard that the personal computers you tendered for last year have already been produced. When will they be put on the market? I will definitely buy a few more to show my support!"

Zhang Heping raised his glass and gestured, then said with a smile, "Mrs. Qian's family is engaged in electronic processing, so you really need to buy a few more personal computers. If your family can develop matching electronic products, it won't be a problem to earn tens of millions of dollars a year."

"Mr. Zhang, I heard from Sister Xin that your personal computer can play mahjong. Can we see it today?"

"Mrs. Liu, I'm sorry! The personal computer is still debugging the system and software, so it's not convenient to show it to you yet. When the product is mass-produced, I'll put a few in your activity room and you can play with them as you like."

"Mr. Zhang, does your personal computer need a box?"

"Just talk to Shu Ting about this."

After Zhang Heping dealt with the wealthy wives in the Heping Real Estate circle briefly, he walked up to Director Wang and his mother Ma Xiuzhen with a smile, "I've been quite busy lately, Aunt Wang won't blame me for not entertaining you well, right?"

"You idiot, you assembled 20 hosts and took 10 for yourself, but at least you should have told the factory engineers how to use them!" Director Wang Sumei scolded, "When I was asked by my superiors, I didn't know anything. I am so embarrassed."

Zhang Heping said with a smile: "It doesn't matter. After a while, when our personal computer advertisement comes out, I promise to help you get your face back!"

"By the way, those factories must speed up production this month and don't take holidays during the Spring Festival. Tingmei Trading will give them five times their wages and bonuses this month. They must assemble 5 personal computers before the end of the month. I want the whole world to hear the sound of our computers starting up as soon as possible!"

"Okay! Boss Zhang is rich and powerful. I will definitely staff you with all the staff and ensure overloaded three-shift production!" Director Wang said with a smile: "However, how about we find a place to sit down and discuss the price of those computer hardware?"

"From what Aunt Wang said, you are not satisfied with the offer Shu Ting gave you?" Zhang Heping said as he looked towards the crowd, searching for his concubine Chen Shu Ting.

Director Wang said hurriedly: "She offered too much. The factory price of a computer host is 5000 magnesium yuan. Are you and those distributors not making money?"

"I thought you thought it was too little!" Zhang Heping said with a smile, "I am just setting an example for other domestic factories to not sell good products at a low price. If you think the money is too much, just think of it as my donation to the Hope Project Fund."

"That won't do!" Director Wang immediately refused, "Let's put it this way. If you want to donate, just donate it yourself. Don't even think about using my money."

Zhang Heping chatted with Director Wang for a while and then went to greet other people.

With the big-mouthed offensive of the third generation of the Tang family, many people in Hong Kong Island knew that the personal computer that Tingmei Trading had previously tendered for was produced.

People who are close to him, such as Baochuan Wang, all want to take advantage of today's birthday party to get some information to see if they can get involved in this business.

Who would complain about having too much money?

However, the wholesale price of 1 yuan per unit is really a test of financial strength, which makes many people hesitate.

But after January 1, Zhang Heping deployed 10 computers installed with the "Window of the World" system to various companies under the Heping Group as office computers, assisting personnel in drafting documents, and helping accountants check financial statements, etc.!

A week later, Zhang Heping donated 1000 office computers to the Hong Kong government and began to deploy servers in Hong Kong Island Telecom, preparing to build Hong Kong Island's Internet and electronic stock trading system.

Five days later, Zhang Heping donated 5 office computers to Hong Kong Island Securities before the market closed on the 22nd of this month. During the Chinese New Year period, he sent people to the Hong Kong Island Stock Exchange to test the electronic stock trading system proposed by Zhang Heping.

Zhang Heping offered his employees five times the salary to work overtime, but he himself did not get involved because he did not receive such treatment.

So, you still need to rest on New Year’s Eve because tomorrow will be very busy!

……

February 1982, 1, the first day of the Lunar New Year.

In the morning, the number of people coming to Zhang's house to pay New Year's greetings increased by 57% compared with last year. Most of these extra people included last year's newborns and people who put aside their dignity to pay New Year's greetings in search of business opportunities.

After all, the functions and interfaces of the first batch of personal computers launched by Tingmei Trading have already been discovered by most businessmen.

Anyone who is not a fool knows that this kind of personal computer will sell well, even if it costs more than 10,000 US dollars per unit!

Besides, these days a large cabinet-style business computer costs hundreds of thousands of dollars, so a personal computer that costs ten or twenty thousand is really not expensive.

The key point is that as soon as the first batch of personal computers came out, Zhang Heping put them in the company workplace, compared them with old-fashioned business computers, and they were also photographed by the director of the TV station's advertising department.

Of course, in Zhang Heping's view, making money is a trivial matter. Whether Hong Kong Island Securities can carry out electronic stock trading is what he values ​​most in the near future.

However, among the crowd of people who came to pay New Year's greetings this morning, there was a Japanese islander, the only one who entered the Renheyi community alive and met Zhang Heping's family...