Chapter 101 Fudge and excuses
Zhong Gaoshan held the mouse in a very awkward position, clicked on the White House website for a while, and stood up and said, "Xiao Du, come and tell us how these websites were built. Of course, if it involves the commercial secrets of your company, then don't say it."
"Building a website is not difficult, it's not a secret."
Since Du Qiu decided to train employees by teaching by example, of course, teaching tools such as whiteboards and fountain pens are indispensable in the warehouse. There are a lot of them, with 5 whiteboards. He asked Yuan Tiangang to move all the five whiteboards to the middle of the warehouse, lined up in a row, and then gave this group of bureaucrats a popular science and knowledge of the Internet with the theme of "How to build an official website of a cloud city government".
After listening for a while, Zhong Gaoshan felt that Bai Yuquan was right. Du Qiu was a person who was not good at socializing but was very good at talking about technology. When dealing with people, he either didn't speak or spoke hard. He offended several people in a short while, but he explained the technology and was easy to understand. Even people like him who had almost never touched a computer can understand it, and he listened with relish.
"To sum up, the official website of Yuncheng City Government has been created. It includes the above five columns: Enter Yuncheng, the Window of Leaders, Investment Guide, Organizational Settings, and Government Affairs Policy." Du Qiu explained while drawing a picture, drew 5 pages on 5 whiteboards, then put down the pen and said: "This is just a temporary design by me personally as an example. If Secretary Zhong really wants to build a website, he can find some experts to investigate and discuss before making a decision."
"If you want to know the experts who build websites, there is no better place in Yuncheng than you." Zhong Gaoshan re-read the content on the 5 whiteboards with interest, and then nodded and praised: "Xiao Du, I have read many reports before that you are a genius and have never believed it very much. Now you can't believe it anymore. You can think about things that you temporarily think about, which is rare, and it's rare!"
Bai Yuquan was quite excited and rubbed his hands and asked, "Mr. Du, how much does it cost to build a website like this?"
"I don't know that in the United States, a page costs about $1,000." Du Qiushi said, "This is just the price of a static page, and dynamic page costs about $2,000, and this is just the cost of designing a web page, not including other fees such as server, bandwidth, and domain name registration."
“So expensive?!”
"There are few people who understand this technology now, so the labor cost is very high. When there are too many people who learn it in a few years, it will be cheaper. Maybe it can be done in a few dozen dollars." Du Qiu took the water cup handed over by Jiang Danfeng and said lightly: "Scarcity is precious. Not only technology is the case, but websites are also the same. If only Yuncheng has an official website in the country, it will definitely cause a sensation. Maybe even foreign media will report it. But if it is done in a few years, every city in the country will have an official website, and the effect will not be as good as it is now."
"Ten thousand years are too long, I have to seize the day. Xiao Du's words are reasonable." Zhong Gaoshan nodded repeatedly and asked, "Xiao Du, please help us calculate, how much budget is required if you build the entire website?"
"I don't know this. I am a technical person and don't understand business matters very well. The prices just now were heard from me when I went to the United States a while ago." Du Qiu took advantage of the lack of drinking water to wink at Jiang Danfeng and said, "I am just CTO. The company's CEO is Chen Dayou. He is responsible for all business matters. He is still in the United States and is very familiar with the market there."
“What does CTO mean?”
"The CTO is the chief technology officer, the CEO is the CEO. The United States is called this, which is equivalent to the domestic general manager." Jiang Danfeng and Du Qiu cooperated very well. After explaining the noun softly, he reminded: "Mr. Du, it is past 7 o'clock in the evening in the United States. Mr. Chen should not have had a rest yet. Why not call and ask."
"You fight."
"Can you do international long distance here?"
"Yes." Jiang Danfeng picked up the phone on an empty table, dialed the phone from San Jose, talked to Chen Dayou in English, then pressed the hands-free button, and held it in front of Zhong Gaoshan in a very elegant manner, and said, "Secretary Zhong, please tell Mr. Chen yourself."
Zhong Gaoshan enjoyed her preferential treatment very much. He took the phone and said, "I am Zhong Gaoshan, Secretary of Yuncheng City, Mr. Chen, you..."
"Oh Uncle Zhong, don't tease me. When I went to greet you a few years ago, didn't you call me Xiao Chen?"
There are countless people who wish Zhong Gaoshan a New Year greeting every year. I have long remembered whether Chen Dayou had paid New Year greetings, but after he said this, he felt very proud and said with a smile: "Okay, Xiao Chen, that's the case. I went to your company for inspection today and saw..."
Everyone gathered around the phone and listened attentively to Zhong Gaoshan's call, Du Chunhua quietly touched Du Qiu and asked in a low voice: "Brother, those foreign orders?"
Du Qiu smiled without saying a word, just pressing the calculator. Du Chunhua gave him a blank look and said in a smaller voice: "Is it okay?"
"Just a few numbers, what's the problem?"
Thinker’Notebook’s website is real. Du Qiu made it specially and posted it online on his mother’s birthday on April 30, giving her the title of CEO of the first shopping website in China. However, in fact, the website was launched for three days, and only dozens of users who accidentally bumped into it browsed it and could not buy anything at all, because there was no purchase button on the page, and only provided a contact information for agents.
In 1995, domestic infrastructure was still relatively backward. Railways, roads and air transportation were not developed, the logistics industry had not yet emerged, and there was no complete credit card system like the United States. It was difficult for sellers to mail, buyers to pay, and there was no soil for B2C shopping websites at all, so they could only do B2B business. For overseas customers, if they only sent a few books at a time, the cost would be too high, and they would only make small profits, which would not be of much significance.
Yesterday, Du Chunhua received a notice from the city committee secretary that he was going to visit the company and immediately called Du Qiu to tell him. Du Qiu told Chen Dayou again when replying to the email. Chen Dayou thought this was a rare business opportunity, so he called in the middle of the night and asked Du Qiu to take out the shopping website as a guise and forge a few eye-catching data. Then, using the selling point of "attracting foreign businessmen to invest in Yuncheng" to fool the municipal government to build a website and make a fortune from it.
This guy is really cruel. Uncle Zhong kept calling, but he was so unscrupulous that he asked for $20,000 when he opened his mouth, which scared Zhong Gaoshan and kept saying it was too expensive. Chen Dayou changed the currency to RMB, bargained for a while and then reduced it to 100,000 yuan, and then never dropped it again. He talked about the random tricks of running the train, and described the future prospects as a storm. Zhong Gaoshan felt excited and had a lot of thoughts.
"Xiao Chen, you can get a feasibility report and get it back and I'll take it back for a meeting to discuss it."
"No problem, I'll write it now."
After talking about the website, Du Qiu struck while the iron was hot and introduced the company's R&D plan for office software. As for the operating system and database, he didn't say much, because it was too professional, and it was useless to say that these people couldn't understand.
If building a website makes a group of bureaucrats think a lot, then making office software makes them overjoyed, because this thing is not only very profitable, but also very valued by the state. Kingsoft, Sitonglifang, and Giant Group all make their fortunes. Many national leaders have visited and inspected these companies. They can not only create economic highlights, but also show their faces in front of leaders. They are a hot commodity among the popular ones, and no one doesn't like it.
"Xiao Du, your company is here to settle in Yuncheng. Our municipal party committee and government welcome it very much and attach great importance to it. If you have any difficulties or difficulties in the future, just call me directly. If you can solve it in the morning, you will never delay it until noon. If you can solve it in one day, you will never take two days!"
"Thank you, Secretary Zhong."
Zhong Gaoshan lingered in the warehouse for one morning, even lunch was eaten in the canteen of the institute. He didn't leave until about 2 pm. After the bureaucrats left, Du Chunhua sat in front of Du Qiu's computer, looked at the shopping website several times, and asked: "Brother, do you think there are really foreigners coming to us to place orders through this website?"
"There are tens of thousands of websites all over the world. If foreigners want to know about this website, they have to spend money to advertise. Otherwise, others don't know the URL, so how can they ask you to place an order?"
"How much does it cost to advertise?"
"I'm looking at what country. I think this kind of notepad that focuses on text may be popular in RB. I'll help you advertise when I go to Kobe in a while."
Du Chunhua's expression moved slightly and asked, "When will you go to Kobe?"
I applied for a visa in Beijing last time, but I was rejected. I am busy now. I will try it in June and July.”
"Do you want me to go with you?"
"What should Jinyan do if you leave? Wenxiu can't take care of it alone. Let's go together when the company's business stabilizes in the second half of the year or next year." Du Qiu delayed the time and said as if nothing had happened: "Miko said that the place where I used to live was completely destroyed by an earthquake and fire, and now it has been re-planned into a park. I'll go over to worship and come back in two or three days."
"Okay." Du Chunhua was silent for a moment and asked again: "I heard from Danfeng that you are going to Thailand in how many days?"
"When I came back from the United States, I read a travel magazine on the plane. I thought the scenery in Thailand was good, so I wanted to go over and have a few days to play." Du Qiu sat next to his mother, looking through the documents, and said in an inadvertent tone: "The company has recruited many newcomers, and it will be very busy in the next period of time, so I plan to go over and relax for two days on the weekend and then work wholeheartedly."
"It's good to go and have a few days to play. Take Danfeng with you, and you have someone to take care of."
Chapter completed!