If you go back twenty years, thirty years ago, how would you become rich?

Generally speaking, you can buy World Cup and Olympic lottery tickets, then buy houses and gold with bonuses, and then enter the Internet market to at least become a capital tycoon, with no problem with the net worth of hundreds of millions.

If you have financial and management skills, you can choose to run an industrial path. In the early years, you introduced two refrigerator production lines and then you could count money. But remember to sell the production lines in 1987 and 1988, and then wait for the 1990s to enter the stock market, such as the deep development, the Bohai Sea in Shandong Province, two bridges and one mouth, etc. At this time, you can buy whatever you have in the stock market. Anyway, you can make money without brains. Just remember to avoid 327 treasury bonds in 1995.

By the mid-1990s, you have already killed all the Chinese stock markets invincible, and it’s time to start a novice village. Go to the United States to acquire various Internet and Internet concept stocks, but it’s still a brainless wave. If you see those who have an impression, just buy them. Remember to sell them before the Internet bubble in 2001, and then wait to buy the bottom. If you want to develop a country in real life, you can still use strong capital - in the 1990s, you probably won’t forget to cut Japanese wool and the Southeast Asian financial crisis.

If you have less than 10 billion yuan in value, you will acquire various high-tech industries and then try every means to move back to China to make industrial layouts and build a science and technology empire. By around 2010, you may have reached the peak of the world and Dugu Qiubai was defeated.

But these practices are a little less challenging for Hu Wenhai. Yes, they are challenging. At first glance, the development route is determined. As long as you accumulate money step by step, you will wait for others to worship.

How boring should this kind of life with almost no challenge? If it is written as a Qidian Time Travel Novel, it would probably be a complete failure, right?

So for Hu Wenhai, what is money? After all, it is just a piece of paper. What is ridiculous is that people who regard it as a pursuit often cannot get it. However, people who do not have it in their eyes are favored by it.

As a rebirth, Hu Wenhai's performance after he arrived in the United States has long proved that money is not an obstacle to him. If necessary, he can find a way to make money at any time.

If a person is not short of money, his vision will naturally not be focused on money. Hu Wenhai still remembers a time travel novel he once read. The protagonist traveled to the Austro-Hungarian Empire and became Princess Sissi. During the American Civil War, he took it for granted to support the North in various favors and sold products to make money.

However, after the United States reunified, why did he suddenly realize that he did not support the South in supporting the United States to bleed, or even split the United States, or let the United States maintain slavery?

Yes, this is the different perspectives of looking at the problem. Hu Wenhai took his eyes out of making money and couldn't help asking himself, can he cheat Americans hard before the Internet begins?

Simply put, Hu Wenhai felt that he was absolutely necessary and could he try to bring Americans into the ditch. As long as he thought that the US information industry might develop into a Japanese technology tree in the future, Hu Wenhai felt that at least he would not be in vain for his rebirth.

So, how should we bring Americans into the ditch? Hu Wenhai thought about it and decided to see if he could give Intel a secret first.

And Cisco is the one Hu Wenhai chose to stab Intel.

But of course, he has not completely figured out the specific plan yet. But at present, there is at least one idea, which is a situation he thinks is possible.

Intel is undoubtedly monopoly, and agricultural company AMD has never actually threatened Intel's dominance. It is this monopoly that allows Intel to maintain a closed system rather than an open system like ARM. In the entire x86 architecture market, Intel is the king of facts.

Intel can gain a monopoly position first because it has no competitors at the same level, and secondly because it does not have a downstream market similar to monopoly. Think about it, if there is no assembly machine in this world, and brand machine sales are concentrated in the hands of one or two large companies. Then no matter how much Intel calls for the wind and rain in the chip market, it will have to kneel downstream facing the same monopoly, at least it will be greatly clamped.

So, how can we eliminate the assembly machine and dominate the entire brand machine in one fell swoop?

Hu Wenhai believes that the key is to eliminate the concept of "computer". At least who has heard that someone has bought and assembled TVs? When buying a TV, he will care about how much memory the TV has, which system on-chip system is used, and what brand of adapter is used?

No consumer cares about these things. What they care more about is whether the TV looks beautiful, whether the plane is right angled, and how big the size is, are all intuitive data.

Why is this happening? Because in the minds of consumers, television is a consumer product, while computers are scientific equipment. Hu Wenhai’s purpose is to turn computers into consumer products that look like TV.

Only in this way can a downstream force that can be equal to Intel. Only in this way can one easily get rid of the x86 architecture system on one day.

Reflecting on the execution level of this strategy, the first thing Hu Wenhai has to do is to change the cornerstone of the future Internet network - routers. Since you want to sell computers as TVs, then transform the TV network first.

However, these ideas are still relatively far-reaching. For the time being, Hu Wenhai needs to grasp the direction of Cisco's development first.

"Because I think the talents of both of you are trustworthy." Hu Wenhai's face remained unchanged and said sincerely: "The router will definitely achieve market success under the promotion of the new company, so why should I do extra things? I hope that the two can give me a chance, not only to acquire the patent share in Stanford University, but also to create a new company as the early operating expenses."

"I don't know how many shares Mr. Hu... intends to own?" Leonard asked cautiously.

"I would like to ask first, what is the current transmission rate of your multi-protocol router?" Hu Wenhai did not answer directly, but raised another question.

Leonard and Sandy looked at each other, and then hesitated to give the answer: "Our router can reach a transmission speed of 64KB/s."

"But your router still uses dedicated lines?"

"Yes, use coaxial cables." Leonard nodded and admitted.

Hu Wenhai couldn't help laughing when he heard his answer. After all, this was the era when the Internet had not been invented yet, and it was the wilderness of the Internet.

The network protocols currently running include X.25, TCP/IP and IPX/SPX. The local area networks composed of these three network protocols cannot communicate with each other because of different protocols. It is not right to say that there is no Internet, because the original network of the US military still exists at this time and can communicate over telephone lines, but this efficiency is quite "hehe". At this time, the modem used in military networks is 80-103A produced by Hayes, with a transmission rate of only a pitiful 1.2Kbit/s.

The unit is Kbit/s, which means that in the application, you have to divide it by 8, which is the real speed of KB/s...

In order to transmit data between two computer LANs, of course, a relatively large bandwidth is required. Cisco's router can reach a speed of 64KB/s, which is already the rate of 512K broadband in later generations. For 1984, it was already quite abundance of speeds.

But in order to have such a fast speed, the cost is the cost. Cisco's early routers were not small, and the operation and maintenance were relatively complicated, so the lines were not to use local calls, they could only be dedicated lines!

Moreover, it has to be a coaxial cable dedicated line. This construction cost is really unbearable.

"Okay, I have an idea." Hu Wenhai vowed: "If the two agree with my ideas, then I can invest one million US dollars and hold 49% of the shares. If you think it is not suitable, it would be a pity. I am willing to give out 300,000 US dollars and hold 30% of the shares."

This is obviously an unequal choice. One million accounts for 49% on one side, and 300,000 accounts for 30%. The former is equivalent to valuing Cisco in the future valuation of 2.04 million, while the latter values ​​Cisco in one million.

But Leonard did not recklessly choose the former, but asked, "Can I hear your idea?"

"Of course there is no problem." Hu Wenhai said cheerfully: "I have a plan, what if we connect all the LANs in the entire United States through a router?"

"This is impossible for the time being, the cost is too high." Leonard subconsciously retorted.

"No, the cost is very low, we work with the cable network. By renovating the cable network and utilizing cable transmission lines, this plan is not out of reach."

"this……"

"Think about what a big market this will be!" Hu Wenhai saw that Leonard was a little hesitant and continued to work hard: "How long will it take for the market to accept the router product by relying on the company to promote it slowly? If you can directly enter the homes of many ordinary people through the cable TV network network, this is the real big market!"

"Ordinary people? What kind of ordinary people do? What do you do with routers at home?"
Chapter completed!