Tan Family Cuisine is one of the most famous official dishes in China. It was originally a family banquet for Tan Zongjun, a bureaucrat in the late Qing Dynasty. It is known for its exquisite ingredients, deliciousness, softness and tenderness, and has a unique flavor. However, except for Du Qiu, the few here are either locals in the capital or people who live in the capital for a long time. They all have their origins and have eaten them many times, so they did not care much about the dishes, but focused on Snapdragon and business.

"Du Qiu, I can't understand why you did a good job in Beijing before, why did you suddenly move Snapdragon to Yuncheng?" Wanpingguo put some whirlwind stew in a bowl and said, "The capital is at the foot of the emperor, and it is very rich in resources. As long as it makes a little noise, the whole country will know it. I only have 30 million yuan in funds for China Online. I shouted a few slogans to the outside world and went to several newspapers. Wang Peng has 400 million yuan in funds for Xunye Jin.com, and last year I got the approval of the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications for Internet business, but no one knows how much he is in Pengcheng."

"400 million?" Liu Yunlai, who was eating shark fin, was a little surprised and looked up and said, "Boss Wan, I thought you were the richest among the five companies that have obtained Internet service licenses. I didn't expect there would be a richer owner. What is this Wang Peng's origin? Where did he get so much money?"

"This person is very mysterious. I have never seen him before. I only heard that it is related to the army." Wan Pingguo is familiar with him, so he picked up the wine glass and touched it, and said, "You have a close relationship with the army, so you can go and inquire."

"Yunlai has been discharged from the army for many years, so why are you still close?" Sun Shaojie helped her husband clear her husband and said regretfully: "Du Qiu, how good it would be if you put Snapdragon in the capital? If you don't say anything else, you will at least take advantage of media reports. For example, if you cooperate with Microsoft this time, if you are in the capital, you can find heavyweights to support them when signing the contract, and then you will definitely be on the front page of "News Broadcast" or "People's Daily".

When Chen Dayou and Silverberg signed the contract, Sanjiang Provincial TV went to shoot a short news video, but after being selected to CCTV, he was shot and failed to appear on the News Broadcast. According to Liu Yunlai's inquiry, CCTV's director believed that Microsoft's senior vice president was insufficient and there was no important leader of the party and government organs to appear, so it was not considered a major news at all, so it was cut.

According to the rumors revealed by Jiang Danfeng, Chen Dayou was very disappointed with this. He turned from love to hate and vowed to ban CCTV. He refused to accept their interviews in the future and refused to appear on their program. Although no CCTV reporter has interviewed him so far, he has never been on CCTV programs.

"Everything is good in the capital, but there is something bad." Du Qiu pointed at Wan Guoping and Zhang Shuxin with his hands, and said: "There are too many competitors, and it is difficult for Snapdragon to stand out, so just stay away and be a countryside domineering king."

"You Snapdragon is a real technology. Wan Pingguo and I are in the service industry, not the same business, so there is no competition." Zhang Shuxin shook his hand and said, "Du Qiu, no matter how I think you are, you are not a person with no courage or ambition. There must be your reason for going to Yuncheng. Tell me, if Yuncheng is so good, I will also move the company there to develop."

"It's really because there are too many competitors. Isn't there an old saying that it's better to be a chicken head than a phoenix tail. Although the capital has all kinds of conveniences, there are too many large companies and the government does not pay attention to us. Although the economy of Yuncheng is a bit bad, the government regards companies as treasures and can work on technology with peace of mind."

In fact, for the Internet industry in the 1990s, the best entrepreneurial city was Pengcheng. Because it was close to Hong Kong, it could connect to the international Internet through the submarine cable there. It was faster than other cities in the mainland, and it was active in economy, open-minded and friendly to small and medium-sized enterprises. Therefore, it seized the first-mover advantage and has been the most prosperous city in China's IT industry since 2000.

Except for Pengcheng, the competition differences between other large and medium-sized cities are not obvious. Although Beijing and Pujiang have a large population and developed economy, they are too bureaucratic. The government is relatively conservative and do not attach importance to the Internet industry at all. They also look down on small companies like Snapdragon. They cannot get too good preferential policies and have high cost of living and working. The Internet industry and manufacturing industry are different, and they require few supporting facilities. As long as there is a computer and a network, they will work the same everywhere. Therefore, there is no need to stick to big cities.

Although Yuncheng is not near the sea, it is not far from Pujiang. Moreover, as a famous city of science and education, there are three key universities and research institutes of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. It has sufficient talent reserves and can fully support the company's early development. In addition, the local economy is very average. Snapdragon makes a big news every now and then, which is a prominent existence. When the government sees it as a son, it wants to give all the benefits it can give, which is more beneficial than developing in big cities. For example, the electronic tax calculation software can easily get orders in Yuncheng. If you don't even think about it, you can't even think about it. The complicated software companies in Zhongguancun have long gnawed all their bones.

Of course, the most important reason is that Du Qiu is a very nostalgic otaku. He has transformed his hometown into a famous high-tech city in China and even the world. The sense of accomplishment is amazing...

After chatting for a while, Zhang Shuxin talked about the topic of excessive Internet access costs, encouraging Wan Guoping to form an alliance with her and go to the Telecommunications Bureau to negotiate for preferential treatment. Wan Pingguo was quite interested in this proposal because his starting point was relatively high. Most of the company's customers were foreign executives and staff of foreign consulates. Yinghaiwei's customers were mainly domestic small and medium-sized enterprises. There was no competitive relationship between the two for the time being, and the biggest rival was the Telecommunications Bureau.

"Shaojie, you can help us promote more in the Science and Technology Daily, put some pressure on the telecommunications bureau, don't just suck blood, at least put some blood on it."

"Sister Zhang, Science and Technology Daily is no better than the People's Daily. The articles on it have no influence on bureaucrats." Sun Shaojie shook his head and smiled, saying: "And the telecommunications department belongs to the state and has no independent pricing power. The Ministry of Finance has the final say on how much it costs."

Du Qiu suddenly asked, "Have you ever heard of vd and dvd?"

"VD, I know, DVD players are very popular now." Zhang Shuxin asked with some confusion, "What is DVD?"

"DVD is also a DVD player. It is still in a state of research and development and has not been officially put into production. VD is actually just a temporary transitional product of DVD." Du Qiu explained the difference between the two and then said: "European and American developed countries have relatively high requirements for many things, such as DVD players. They think the VD picture quality is too poor and cannot record programs like video recorders, so they have no interest in it. However, it is different in China. Because the video recorder is too expensive and not popular, VD is very popular and sold very well."

He picked up the teacup and took a sip of tea, and continued: "In Internet access technology, European and American countries have also made such a problem. There is a very famous scientific research institution under the United States At&T, called Bell Laboratory. In 1989, they invented a new technology for accessing the Internet, called dsl. Dsl is divided into symmetry and asymmetric conditions. The technology with asymmetric uplink and downlink bandwidths is called adsl. The theoretical uplink rate of adsl is 1mbps and the downlink rate is 8mbps."

In 1995, 64k modems were not popular yet. The fastest speed on the market was only 33.6k, and the adsl was hundreds of times faster than it. Therefore, Wan Pingguo was surprised and asked with wide eyes: "So fast?"

Zhang Shuxin didn't care much, and said while drinking soup: "Does this technology use optical fiber? We can't do optical fiber."

"This technology does not require optical fibers. It can use ordinary telephone lines like dial-up Internet access, but a separator is required to install on the client. This thing is more expensive, so it cannot be promoted for a long time, but..." Du Qiu stopped and looked at the two of them, and then continued: "If the speed is reduced, such as reducing the downlink rate from 8mbps to 1.5mbps, there is no need to install a separator. Just install a special modem. Moreover, users can also make phone calls while surfing the Internet. In other words, using Adsl does not need to go through the telephone switch of the Telecommunications Bureau, so there is no need to pay additional telephone charges."

Zhang Shu was very surprised, put down the spoon and asked repeatedly: "Which company does this kind of special cat production? How much does it cost?"

Wan Pingguo was a little surprised and asked half-believably: "Is this kind of technology necessary to support the telecommunications department?"

"They really need their support, but they just need to renovate on the existing lines, and the cost is much lower than laying optical fibers." Du Qiu made a calm gesture and said, "I just said that European and American countries have higher requirements, so they have been struggling for several years and never thought about reducing the speed. So no manufacturer has produced this kind of adsl equipment, just like VD. As early as 1993, manufacturers such as Sony and Philip set VD standards, but have not produced them and have been desperately studying DVDs. So last year, Wan Yan took the lead and produced them in China."

"Du Qiu, what do you mean is that we can find a manufacturer in China to produce this kind of adsl equipment by ourselves?"

"The American National Standards Association developed a draft standard for adsl last year, so I only know some knowledge about this, and it is not clear how to produce it."

Zhang Shuxin and Wan Pingguo looked at each other, and then said, "Wan Pingguo, I have a relationship with the Chinese Academy of Sciences. You have a relationship with Stanford at Qingcheng University. Let's find someone to ask for information separately and see how this adsl is done."

Wan Pingguo nodded repeatedly, saying that there was no problem, and he tugged his hands with emotion and excitement, saying: "If the Internet speed is as fast as Du Qiu said and the price of the transformation is acceptable, then this adsl is an amazing thing, especially suitable for China's national conditions."

"It's good to have a fast internet speed, but the biggest benefit is not to pay additional telephone bills."
Chapter completed!