Thursday, August 17, 1995, the day before the opening of the first China Internet Conference.

Lei Jun put a few folded clothes into the trunk, closed the lid, and zipped it up, and suddenly felt a sad feeling of wind and Yi Shuihan, and he couldn't help but sigh softly.

Mrs. Zhang Tong, who was standing in front of the closet to sort out the items, turned her head and looked at him, and asked, "What's wrong?"

"Nothing." Lei Jun sat down on the edge of the bed and said calmly: "Last night, begging Bai Jun to call me and said that Zhang Xuanlong went to Yuncheng this time and was planning to sell Jinshan to Snapdragon."

In many people's impression, the famous Kingsoft Software was founded by Qiu Bojun. In fact, it was not the case. Kingsoft was originally a company established by Zhang Kaiqing, a overseas Chinese who returned to China, in 1973, and was managed by his son Zhang Xuanlong after the 1980s.

Zhang Xuanlong has a very business vision. He invested in Zhongguancun when he was just established and cooperated with Sitong Group to sell 286 compatible machines. He is one of the earliest compatible machine manufacturers in China. In 1988, he met Qiubaijun because of a printer driver software, so he invested in him to develop Kingsoft Hanka and ps1.0. Then he cooperated with Founder Group, defeated competitors such as Lenovo and Giants, occupied the dominant position in the domestic word processing software market, and became a star product in domestic software.

In 1994, Founder Group acquired a stake in Kingsoft, Hong Kong and reorganized Founder (Hong Kong). Before the reorganization, Zhang Xuanlong gave Qiu Baijun a villa worth 2 million yuan to fund him to establish Kingsoft Computer Co., Ltd. in Zhucheng. Both of them nominally held half of the shares, but it is obvious that as an investor, Zhang Xuanlong had more say in major decisions of the company.

At the end of 1991, Lei Jun, who had only been graduating from university for half a year, met Qiu Baijun, who had achieved success and fame at that time, and was highly appreciated by him. He went to Zhucheng for an internship in January 1992, joined Kingsoft in July, and returned to Zhongguancun to establish the Kingsoft Beijing R&D Department. In July 1994, the R&D Department was upgraded to Jingcheng Jinshan Software Company. Lei Jun, who was only 25 years old, became the general manager and received a Jetta sedan presented by Qiu Baijun. It was a young man with a successful career and full of energy.

However, things are impermanent. After only one year of their enthusiasm, they became discouraged. Because the "Pangu Component" that took three years and spent more than 2 million yuan to be developed, the response was far less than expected after it was launched in April, and its reputation and sales were bleak, which put Kingsoft in a dilemma.

On one hand, Microsoft is aggressively surrounded by attacks, while Snapdragon is poaching at all costs. The company is panicked and the prospects are bleak. It is reasonable for the boss to sell off the losses. However, Lei Jun has been in Kingsoft for 4 years and has bet on a lot of hard work and emotions. It is difficult for him to accept the fate of being acquired for a while.

"What do you say to Bojun?"

"Microsoft has opened a high salary of 700,000 yuan a year to poach him, and he is still considering it."

"So much?" Zhang Tong was surprised and said: "Microsoft is worthy of being an international giant, with a wealthy and powerful salary. This salary is almost the same as the total salary of the Six Snapdragon Gentlemen."

"Snapdragon is also recruiting him. His salary is not as high as Microsoft, but he has options dividends." Lei Jun was silent for a few seconds, and then said: "Qiu Baijun doesn't want to work for Americans, and he can't get the prospect of Snapdragon, so he has been hesitating. He plans to go to Yuncheng first and then make a decision."

Compared to Qiu Baijun, Zhang Tong is more concerned about her husband's future. While packing up scattered personal supplies, she asked: "Last time Du Qiu said that if he acquired Kingsoft, he would ask you to be the general manager of the Beijing R&D Center. The scale is at least ten times larger than now, right?"

"He said ten times is ten times?" Lei Jun disagreed and said: "Kingsoft Hanka and PS Software have sales exceeding 200 million last year. When Founder and Kingsoft merged, they only paid 40 million to buy 50% of the shares, with a valuation of only 80 million yuan. Snapdragon only sold $4 million to Microsoft, and could it be valued at more than 2 billion yuan? I don't believe it."

"What's the use of those venture capital companies in Silicon Valley that you don't believe it. Besides, Du Qiu's technical strength is there, don't you admire him?"

"I have nothing to say about technology. I just think he is too impetuous. He is so fond of me. He wants to do everything and is not focused enough. He also promotes it in the media whenever there is any disturbance. Computer software is not a health product. Technology is the first. As long as the product is made well, people will naturally buy it. What's the use of those gimmicks?"

If Du Qiu was present at this time, his chin would probably fall to the ground when he heard this. You should know that Xiaomi is one of the most gimmick marketing companies in more than ten years later...

"Didn't you reflect on the fact that Pangu is not selling well a few days ago because the marketing is not done well?"

"That's different. We have already made the products. We haven't kept up with the marketing. They have no shadows in the products. So we started to do marketing..."

The couple were talking, but they heard a knock on the door outside. Zhang Tong said, "It's probably my colleague who is here. You go and open the door and I'll be fine right away."

Zhang Tong and Lei Jun are college classmates. They both graduated from Jiangcheng University's computer science and currently work at Founder Group. Kingsoft and Founder have very close business ties. In the 1990s, state-owned enterprises had housing distribution benefits, and many people did not have the concept of buying a house. Therefore, the couple has always lived in Founder's collective dormitory building.

Lei Jun walked out of the bedroom and opened the door. He saw a guy with a small flat head and glasses outside. He had seen him at a dinner party before. He was named Zhou Hongyi, who, like himself, also from Hubei Province. He just joined Founder Group in July this year and worked in the same department as Zhang Tong.

Zhou Hongyi is not tall, only about 1.7 meters tall, carrying a bulging backpack, looking a little head-heavy. He was in high spirits and said anxiously: "Lei Jun, are you ready? Let's go quickly when you're done."

"Come in and sit for a while. Zhang Tong is packing his things. It will be fine soon, a few minutes." Lei Jun called him in and asked casually: "What are your name on Idio?"

"I'm too outdated. I rarely go to Snapdragon bbs." Zhou Hongyi was a little proud and said with a smile: "I wrote a post about software engineering on BBS. Du Qiu thought it was well written, so he replied and asked for contact information, and then called me to visit Snapdragon in person."

What's so great about Du Qiu calling you...

When Lei Jun was studying at Jiangcheng University, he not only won several national and provincial competition awards, but also developed commercial works such as encryption software, antivirus software, and Hanka. After joining Kingsoft, he wrote two programming books in his spare time, which were published by Jingcheng University Press and Qingcheng University Press respectively. With his early 20s, he can definitely be considered talented and extraordinary. There is no talented man who is not arrogant, so he doesn't catch a cold about Du Qiu, and his view of Zhou Hongyi is also poor, thinking that he is too superficial.

After Zhang Tong packed up his baggage, Lei Jun drove the Jetta bus that Bo Jun gave him to the location of the Jinshan Company office building in Beijing, preparing to gather there with other netizens, and then take a charter flight to Yuncheng.

The Beijing city has superior conditions and gathers many universities. It was the city with the strongest Internet atmosphere in China in 1995. This time, more than 100 netizens were going to Yuncheng to attend the Internet conference. With the support of Du Qiu, Liu Yunlai directly booked a Boeing 737 aircraft in line with the idea of ​​making big news and gathered netizens with plenty of time to send them to Yuncheng. As for other scattered netizens, they had their own itinerary and they would reimburse their air tickets or train tickets after they arrived.

Jingcheng Jinshan Software Company is located in a 4-story building made of red bricks near the east gate of Renmin University. It has mottled yellow exterior walls, dimly lit corridors, and toilets shared by men and women at the corner of the stairs. Whether it is architectural style or internal facilities, they are similar to the small Red Building where Du Qiu lived when he was working as a notepad at Yuncheng University, and belongs to the product of the same era.

When Lei Jun and others arrived, many netizens had gathered in the Little Red Building, which was very noisy. Fortunately, there were a few people wearing Snapdragon company cultural shirts maintaining order and not being in chaos.

Zhou Hongyi saw that the leader was a beautiful woman with long hair shawls. She had a pretty face and gentle temperament, and was very eye-catching. She asked, "Is that a love for maple leaves?"

Pipi Maple Leaf Love is Jiang Danfeng's online name, but it is limited to Dragon's Sky BBS. The pinyin abbreviation deng is used on Idio. Because Idio does not support Chinese id, Kingsoft has not opened the Internet yet, Lei Jun rarely goes to bbs, and is not familiar with it, and asked: "Who?"

"Jiang Danfeng, Du Qiu's female secretary."

Lei Jun had never seen Jiang Danfeng, but had seen this beauty and introduced: "Her name is Dai Yi. She used to be the secretary of Snapdragon eO Chen Dayou, and now she is the assistant of Snapdragon Vice President Liu Yunlai."

"Is that true? There are so many Snapdragon beauties."

Zhou Hongyi was very interested in Dai Yi and ran over to meet him. At this time, a taxi drove over at the entrance of the alley and two men walked out of it. Lei Jun knew that the person wearing a short-sleeved polo shirt was Wang Zhidong, the general manager of Sitonglifang. Another person with long hair, a floral shirt, and dressed like a rock star, didn't know him.

"Mr. Wang, I heard that you went to the United States last month to inspect. When did you come back?"

"I just came back a few days ago."

"You Sitongli side are also interested in the Internet?"

"I went to the United States this time and felt that it was outdated by software simply. The Internet is the future development trend, so I planned to visit Yuncheng and see how Snapdragon was made." Wang Zhidong talked with Lei Jun excitedly for a while to go to the United States to inspect and introduced: "This is Zhang Chaoyang, a postdoctoral fellow in physics from MIT. He wants to return to China to start a business and build a Hina- website. I heard that Yuncheng is going to hold an Internet conference, so I plan to go and check it out."

A postdoctoral fellow at MIT actually returned to China to build a website?

Is the Internet really so good?

When Lei Jun met Zhang Chaoyang in the capital in the north, he was far away in Yangcheng in the south. Ding Sanshi, who had just been on the South China office of Sybase Company for 3 months, boarded the train to Pengcheng, preparing to meet with Ma Huateng, a netizen on Idio, and then take a plane to Yuncheng together.

At the same time, Ma Yun, the owner of Hangzhou Haibo Computer Service Co., Ltd., and his wife boarded the train to Yuncheng, preparing to take advantage of the China Internet Conference to recruit several talents who can make web pages, Haibo is an intermediary company that helps domestic companies build web pages. Each project charges 20,000 yuan, of which 12,000 yuan will be handed over to a web production company in the United States. If you can make web pages by yourself, you can kick the Americans away and significantly increase profits.

On the eve of the storm and the sages arrived, Du Qiu stood in the warehouse of the Institute of Quantum Physics, looking around the empty room, and said with a very literary voice: "An era is over."

"Mr. Du, I'll take a pose and I'll take a few photos for you to commemorate."

"Let's go together and take a photo."
Chapter completed!