"Ordinary employees buy Seiko, Tissot, and Citizen, with suitable prices and reliable quality. They are quite face-saving when worn. If Mr. Du, of course, he would have to buy the best Swiss watches, such as Patek Philippe, Jaeger-LeCoultre, Vacheron Constantin..."

"I once bought an Omega lady watch for my sister. Did you buy it wrong?"

When Du Qiu was in junior high school, mobile phones had become popular in China on a large scale. With mobile phones, watches were no longer a necessity, so he never had the habit of wearing watches. Before traveling through time, he had tried a smart watch and bought a smart watch. After wearing it for only three days, he threw it into the drawer and ate it dust. After traveling through time, if he didn't have to wear an electronic watch because his elder brother in 1995 was too bulky and inconvenient to carry it, he wouldn't even want to wear an electronic watch.

So if you look into it, Du Qiu became interested in watches for a short time, so short that it only started one day, which started after the opening ceremony of the Internet Conference. He saw Bai Yuquan's Longines in the morning, Yang Fan's Rolex at noon, and Zhao Hongfei's semester in the evening. The watches of these three people were not only available yesterday, but it was only the first time he noticed them yesterday.

This strange situation made Du Qiu a little confused. He always felt that there was some commercial inspiration in it, but he couldn't think of what it was for a while, so today he took the initiative to talk about watches with Liu Yunlai. Unfortunately, he couldn't find any clues after talking.

All the experts attracted by the Paos algorithm have two tricks, not easy people, so He Lixing provided a thick conference report with more than 30 pages, and many of them involved very cutting-edge and complex technologies in 1995, and some core problems did not even solve them until 2000.

Fortunately, the distributed system was Du Qiu's professional direction when he was studying for graduate school before traveling through time. He had a lot of knowledge about this in his brain and computer, so it seemed very relaxed. While talking about the watch and flipping through it, it took only ten minutes to finish the report.

"Mr. He, these three issues are quite complicated. I haven't considered them clearly yet, so I won't discuss them later." Du Qiu took a pencil and drew a few circles in the report directory, saying: "This, this... these issues are very critical in engineering implementation and are company secrets. I won't discuss them in depth now. What do you think?"

He Lixing doesn't like sports. His hobby is to study electronic circuits and likes to use soldering irons to mess with various scrapped computer parts. Therefore, he is nicknamed Engineer He, known as He Gong. As the executive who communicates with Du Qiu most frequently in the company, he has become accustomed to his high efficiency. After looking at it, nodded and said, "I feel the same as Mr. Du. These questions are more sensitive and are indeed not suitable for in-depth discussion."

"When you communicated with those experts yesterday afternoon, did anyone express his willingness to work part-time in our company?"

"Several doctoral students from the three local colleges in Yuncheng are very interested in studying for doctoral studies, but none of them are yet to do so."

"It seems that you don't show off a rabbit." Du Qiu smiled, turned the catalog to the second page, and said: "These are not very commercially meaningful, but they are more important in academics. If you study thoroughly, you can publish at least five or six high-quality papers. I will put some real information out later to see if they can still sit."

In order to curb the smoking addiction, Liu Yunlai stuffed several chewing gum into his mouth, and the bite was creaking. He was a little confused when he heard this, and asked with a smile: "Now the doctor's requirements are so low? Are you willing to come to work if you give me some dried fungus fish?"

"Mr. Liu, you haven't been to the company forum for a while, right?" He Lixing took the chewing gum box he handed over and explained: "This is an online word invented by Mr. Du. Posting all nonsense and meaningless posts online is called irrigation, and posting refined and practical, without nonsense is called dry goods."

"It's interesting, quite vivid." Liu Yunlai laughed and said, "The Internet is developing so fast. It's out of date if it's not available for a few days. When the conference is over, I'll take a good look in the forum."

He Lixing is a pragmatist and is not very interested in visiting forums. He said, "Actually, there is nothing to visit. It's just a place where netizens pass the time. It has no other use except for communication skills and chatting nonsense. I usually only last once every three or four days."

Who said that the forum only has these two functions?

The forum can do anything...

Du Qiu had a flash of inspiration and finally figured out why he suddenly paid attention to his watch, because this thing was the most perfect experimental product for e-commerce in 1995!

If we look at historical experience, the most suitable product for e-commerce in the 1990s was books. Because books are standardized products, merchants can ensure uniform quality, customers do not have personalized needs, basically do not need after-sales service, and are not easy to damage, and have low logistics requirements. Therefore, in the first wave of e-commerce, most of them started with books, and the most representative ones were Amazon and Dangdang.

However, book business emphasizes small profits but quick turnover, and the number of users is very important. However, the domestic Internet was just starting in 1995, and there were too few netizens. For example, the official Snapdragon Forum is already the most popular online community in China. The total number of registered users is less than 1,000, and there is no basic condition for selling books.

But watches are different. This thing is a high-profit luxury item. It is also produced by standardized production and guaranteed quality. Although customers have personalized needs, there is less room for choice. Shopping malls in major cities have professional maintenance points, and after-sales service pressure is very small. The only disadvantage is that the logistics requirements are relatively high, but there is no big problem, because in 1995, most netizens gathered in developed cities such as Beijing, Pujiang and Pengcheng, and have never seen the high-quality service of SF Express. They have only enjoyed the garbage service of China Post, which is easy to fool. They only need to deliver to specific cities and then let them pick it up by themselves.

More importantly, before mobile phones became popular, watches were a must-have, and any office worker must have personal items. In 1995, netizens who had computers and could access the Internet must have good work and financial conditions, and they just had the ability and desire to buy famous watches. Moreover, these people have a relatively large social influence, which can form a demonstration effect and attract more people to become interested in the Internet.

"Brother Liu, I mentioned several ways to make money with the Internet at the opening ceremony yesterday. At that time, I cited air tickets and train tickets as examples, but these two things are controlled by the state, and it is difficult for ordinary netizens to experience them personally." Du Qiu also ate a chewing gum and said: "Since you know watches very well and have acquaintances in Hong Kong, it is better to wait for the Internet conference to hold an online purchasing activity to help company employees and interested netizens purchase a batch of affordable watches from Hong Kong to see how the response is. If it is ideal, you can expand to other products and accumulate experience for future shopping websites."

Liu Yunlai was deeply impressed by Du Qiu's impromptu speech yesterday. When he heard this, his eyes lit up, but he quickly shook his head and said, "Buy a few watches in Hong Kong for yourself to use. You don't have to pay taxes when entering the country. The price is much lower than in China. However, if you purchase a large number of watches at one time, you have to pay taxes when entering the country, otherwise it will be smuggled."

"Even if you pay taxes, it's cheaper than in China, right?"

"If you encounter discount activities, it will still be cheaper than in China. Domestic agents are too dark, asking for prices and a lot of water." Liu Yunlai touched his chin and thought for a while, nodded and said: "Even if the price does not have an advantage, there are far more brands and styles available in Hong Kong than in China. I think this can be tried."

"Let me ask Yuan Tiangang to open a section in the forum, which is called the famous watch world. You can find some information for him and ask him to post some posts to create momentum."

"Okay, I have hundreds of watch magazines at home, which are just right for use."

At this time, Bai Yuquan came over and knocked on the door and notified that the experts had arrived. Du Qiu went to the conference room with He Lixing to continue the Paos algorithm seminar that was not completed yesterday.

Even though he made a lot of reservations, Du Qiu still crushed the audience, with more than 20 people attending the seminar for two hours, and half of the time he explained it to others. His amazing performance completely convinced those experts in the system.

When the clock on the wall of the conference room pointed to 10 o'clock, Du Qiu stopped when he saw it, and stood up and said, "Due to time constraints, today's seminar is over here. If you have any new ideas, you can send me an email at any time. If you can't go online, you can also send an registration message. Of course, if you are willing to come to Snapdragon for face-to-face communication, I'm even more welcome."

Professor Pan from Beijing University took off his glasses and said half-heartedly and half-lostly: "Xiao Du, it's a pity that you haven't attended college. As long as you are willing, I will immediately report to our principal and leave you a special recruitment quota next year. You don't have to take the college entrance examination, and you can go to undergraduate, master and doctoral studies!"

"Professor Pan, you came to our Yuncheng as a guest, but blatantly dig the treasures of Yuncheng. Isn't it reasonable? Xiao Du's career and family are in Yuncheng. If you want special recruitment, you should come to our University of Science and Technology. How could you go to your school?"

While several professors were eager to love each other and broke each other, several other doctoral students who were attracted by Du Qiu asked: "Mr. Du, yesterday, Manager He said that Snapdragon has a work-study program in distributed systems. Can we outside the country participate?"

"Of course, as long as the requirements meet, we will not only provide a subsidy of 50 to 200 yuan per day, but will also reimburse round-trip train or air tickets."

"Damn it! He is so rich. If he wants to have 50 a day, he will be 1,500 a month, which is higher than the salary of most state-owned enterprises. If he wants to have 200 a day, he will be 6,000 a month, which is much higher than the salary of foreign-funded enterprises."

"If someone has restrictions, first of all, you must meet the requirements."

"Mr. Du, does the research results during work-study work belong to Snapdragon or ourselves?"

"The commercial achievements belong to Snapdragon, and the academic achievements belong to you." Du Qiu pointed to Bai Yuquan who led several employees into the conference room and said: "If you are interested in this project, you can go to Manager Bai for details and get relevant information and the commemorative thermos for this meeting."

Bai Yuquan cooperated with raising his hand and greeted him. While directing the employees to distribute thermos to the experts present, he walked to Du Qiu and said softly; "Manager Xu is back with a blonde beauty named Jennifer, waiting for you in the lounge."

Xu Yongrui will attend the Snapdragon product launch tomorrow, and he has already arranged it when he comes back...

But what did Jennifer suddenly come to Yuncheng for?
Chapter completed!