Chapter 13: Dare to question your grandfather?

  "What? You're going back home?" Zhao Yongping stared at Aleksey, his mind almost short-circuiting.

  Alexei was somewhat embarrassed: "Zhao! Although I agreed to help you at the beginning, at least for a year, but... now the Soviet domestic situation is unstable, Gorbachev's economic reform is struggling, and the whole nation is working together. My mentor called me and told me that I must return to serve the country, he plans to drive economic development with technology..."

  Zhao Yongping leaned against the table, on the verge of collapse, feeling extremely depressed.

  He had just put together a team with great effort, and the company had just been reorganized, but the main development personnel were about to leave.

  What does the domestic turmoil have to do with you? If the domestic situation is unstable, can't you just go back and be like a magic needle that calms the waves, turning the turbulent situation into calm waters instantly?

  Even Gorbachev can't handle it, you'd better not get involved, just stay here and work for me, making pirated game cartridges is fine, isn't it?

  Being an expert in China, making a lot of dollars and RMB is so comfortable, having status and money, being respected by others. What are you going back for? Can rubles be eaten as food?

  Zhao Yongping wanted to say ten thousand words, but this phrase "dedicate to the motherland" is really hard to deny!

  His head was aching all over and as a result he couldn't utter a single word of persuasion.

  "If Alex leaves, can you hold up the R&D department, Yang Kechang?" Zhao Yongping asked.

  "I'm fine, Director Zhao!" Yang Yun was confident, Aleksey had handed over everything to him and he had almost learned it all.

  Zhao Yongping sighed, waved his hand: "Forget it... Aleksey, if you need help, just speak up. Yang Kechang, I'll find a few more helpers for you, the development team of Little Overlord is counting on you!"

  Aleksey indeed received a call, but it was not from his teacher, rather the person in charge of Nintendo's Kyoto branch.

  Yang Yun knew their chance had finally come!

  Only Yang Yun saw Aleksey off, Zhao Yongping was too busy to get away and could only send a jeep from the factory to take the two of them to Yangcheng Railway Station.

  Yang Yun said: "Remember our bottom line, for every game card issued with a Russian block, charge a patent fee of $5. You are Soviet people, you can be tougher in negotiations, the Japanese dare not to mess around, they were scared by nuclear weapons."

  Alexei smiled: "China also has nuclear weapons. Besides, patent usage fee negotiations, how can they be linked to nuclear weapons? Yang, if possible, help Zhao more, he is my first friend in China."

  Yang Yun smiled and nodded: "Don't worry, I won't charge him royalties for using Tetris. Aleksey, let me reiterate, dollars are the hard currency, never use rubles or renminbi to settle with the Japanese, not even the appreciating yen!"

  Aleksey disagreed and winked: "I know, you're worshipping the foreign and fawning on outsiders!"

  Yang Yun squeezed her eyes: "Japanese devils are even more infatuated with foreign things! They see your big nose and blue eyes, they're probably going to kneel down!"

  According to the agreement, Alexei will haggle with Nintendo's negotiation expert in Beijing. This year is Nintendo's 100th anniversary and also the first year of Game Boy's release. Nintendo will not give up Tetris at all. This year must be the first year for Tetris to shine!

  Yang Yun rode a Jeep back to the company, and Zhao Yongping's secretary called out to him, asking him to go to the workshop.

  Normally, Yang Yun would not enter the workshop. His R&D equipment had all been moved to the comprehensive building, where there were green trees, electric fans and cool breezes, without the pungent smell of electronic components being soldered in the workshop.

  Zhao Yongping is now with Production Department Head Ma Kechang, taking five people to visit the production line, four men and one woman, three middle-aged people, two young people.

  "Let me introduce you all, this is your technical department leader, Yang Yun, Director Yang!" Zhao Yongping said with a smile.

  Five people came up one after another to shake hands, and even the only girl was no exception, very generous.

  "Shen Jun, from the Computer Science Department of USTC, participated in the successful development of microcomputers KD-4 and KD-5 in 1983. He holds a master's degree from USTC and is an expert in hardware."

  The first person is awesome!

  USTC and CAS jointly cultivate the country's earliest batch of computer experts, independently develop microcomputers, develop domestic CPU Loongson, the first national high-performance computing center, all from USTC. It is China's best computer research base, cultivating a large number of computer professionals for the country!

  As a computer science undergraduate who was almost mixed up in the world, Yang Yun felt bitter in his heart and wondered if he had studied the textbook written by this expert named Shen Jun...

  "Welcome! Welcome! Welcome Mr. Shen's guidance work!" Yang Yun stretched out his hand proactively.

  Shen Jun is a middle-aged man in his thirties or forties, wearing glasses, with a bit of the intellectual's arrogance, but not daring to put on airs. As for academic qualifications, Zhao Yongping was also a graduate student at Renmin University, and here he could only rely on this little school halo.

  And as for making money, I'm afraid ten Shen Jun's horse riding skills can't compare to Yang Yun, he knows that the two small games developed by Yang Yun have sold out orders worth tens of millions.

  So in front of Zhao Yongping, Shen Jun was not too reserved and arrogant, with a smile on his face, he took Yang Yun's outstretched hand.

  Zhao Yongping continued to introduce: "Ma Liang, a third-year student at the Lingnan College of Chongshan University, whose tutor is Huang Guangli, the person in charge of the Torch Plan in Chongshan City. Little Ma came over for an internship this summer."

  Yang Yun's face was beaming with a smile as he hastily shook hands with Ma Liang: "Welcome, welcome! Young and promising, young and promising!"

  The first one is a professional big shot, and the second one is probably a famous teacher's apprentice, both are local, can't afford to offend them.

  "Zhu Shiqiang, senior researcher at China Electronics Corporation."

  Yang Yun wiped his sweat: "Welcome! Your Cot learning card is really good! Welcome to work at Little Overlord."

  "Zhang Guotai, Deputy Director of the Pyramid Learning Card Development Team."

  Yang Yun's face was covered in sweat, and he dug up another competitor: "Welcome! Little Overlord is in need of your rich experience. With everyone's efforts, Little Overlord's tomorrow will be even more beautiful!"

  "Su Xiuyun! A top student from the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts! Director Yang, aren't you always saying that our school's art department is lacking? Please learn from Su, you young people should interact more with each other, it's nothing!"

  "Hahaha!"

  Why use "socialize" when you can just say "communicate"?

  A group of people burst out laughing, leaving Yang Yun embarrassed and unsure whether to reach out, as well as a shy little girl with a flushed face.

  At noon, they had lunch together. Zhao Yongping didn't discuss it and directly let Shen Jun become Yang Yun's deputy. The others were all assigned to these two people, who arranged the research and development matters on their own.

  Yang Yun was nervous, having been reborn for three months and basically still working alone on technical research and development. Now, he suddenly found himself leading a group of elite university students and professionals from the 80s to do R&D, which greatly increased his pressure.

  According to Zhao Yongping's private introduction, Shen Jun is a technical madman. He came out of the University of Science and Technology of China less than two years ago, expecting that with his technical skills he could jump into the ocean and become a pearl, but unexpectedly he almost drowned, and was finally found by the Zhongyi Group from some corner, promised an ultra-high salary, and poached to Xiaobawang Company.

  I don't know if this clever mind has been reborn in the waves of the ocean.

  Yang Yun looked at Shen Jun's silent appearance, not knowing if he would be interested in office politics. He didn't want his subordinates to only focus on intriguing and competing with him for power and benefits, rather than doing their job.

  Yang Yun convened the first meeting of the R&D department, sat at the head, looked around in a circle, enjoyed the feeling of being the boss for ten seconds, and then said: "Next, I will arrange the work. According to the requirements of the parent company, Xiaobawang will immediately enter the FC market, not a moment can be delayed. As for the production and design of the console, does Shen Gong think it's difficult?"

  Come on, even high-end domestic microcomputers have been designed, will this broken FC still feel struggling?

  "It's very simple."

  Yang Yun smiled: "It's self-owned intellectual property rights, best to be compatible with all cassette tapes produced on the market. If not, at least it should be compatible with Xiaotiancai, Jinyin Ta, Kote and Youniko, these four companies."

  Shen Jun was new to this and wasn't very familiar with the compatibility of the cassette tapes, but his strong confidence made him dismiss it outright: "No problem."

  Yang Yun stopped explaining: "Then trouble Shen Gong, the design of the entire production line can refer to the existing Unico production line, make necessary improvements, increase efficiency, reduce error tolerance, and quickly produce our own assembly line for Little Overlord."

  Shen Jun remained silent, and Yang Yun took it as a sign that he had accepted the order.

  Yang Yun continued to assign tasks: "Zhu Gong, Zhang Gong, Xiaobao Wang must issue their own learning cards. You have worked in Cort and Pyramid, develop a brand new set of Xiaobao Wang learning cards, is there any problem? How long will it take?"

  Zhu Shiqiang and Zhang Guotai exchanged a look: "If there are no special requirements, it will take about a week to sort out from scratch. If there are other revision requirements, more time is needed."

  Yang Yun nodded: "No need to revise, take the current version of ours, um, that is, the one being burned on the production line, remove the Cort logo inside, and it's almost done. Note, still need to have independent intellectual property rights! You understand!"

  Of course, it's just a matter of changing the appearance, everyone is copying each other.

  Two people received the order.

  Yang Yun continued: "Ma Liang, you haven't graduated yet. Su Xiuyun majored in fine arts. For now, the two of you don't have many tasks assigned to you, so focus on learning. Ma Liang will follow Shen Gong to learn about hardware, and Su Xiuyun will follow Zhu Gong and Zhang Gong to learn about software."

  Having arranged everything for everyone, Yang Yun closed his notebook in satisfaction and prepared to adjourn the meeting.

  "Our tasks have all been assigned, what are you doing?" Shen Jun suddenly spoke up.

  The atmosphere suddenly turned cold.

  How dare you question your grandfather? Yang Yun's face turned black with rage.