.Chapter 78

After walking around the Amur Steel Plant, Zhang Yan didn't say anything. He was an amateur in steel smelting. His judgment on steel was based on the insights of the Red Star Steel Plant engineers he brought. After recording the equipment information of Amur Steel Plant, there was still a lot of work that needed to be sorted out.

It was already past five o'clock in the afternoon when he returned to Yinzhou from Khabarovsk, but Zhang Yan was still very excited. The engineers accompanying him were also excited. When the Hongxing Steel Plant was at its highest, the annual output was only 60,000 tons, and basically all produced crude steel. The equipment of Amur Steel Plant had an annual production capacity of one million tons, and most of the steel produced was special steel, which could be used for national defense and military use. This was a disadvantage in the Soviet side, but in China, this was an advantage. If the assembly was successful in Yinzhou, the competitiveness of the Hongxing Steel Plant would be greatly improved.

However, the chief engineer of Hongxing Steel Plant expressed his concerns: "Mr. Zhang, although this idea is very good, can you really move the Russian factory back as it is? I looked at the Russian equipment. Although it is much more advanced than ours, some places are much worse than Baosteel's equipment."

Zhang Yan nodded, which was also as expected by him. The Russians' equipment has always been stupid, black and thick, and they are particularly efficient. Although China's heavy industry was established with the help of the Soviet Union, after so many years of estrangement, the difference between heavy industry in China and the Soviet Union has become more obvious. It is probably not a little difficult to simply transplant the Soviet steel plant to China.

Zhang Yan once saw an expansion pack, which means that a certain American company uses a computer to simulate and transform. As long as the specific parameters of the device are input and the goals they want to achieve after the transformation, the computer can automatically calculate and how to deal with it is the best choice.

The name of the company seems to be called International Commercial Machinery Company. If Zhang Yan remembers correctly, it has a very loud abbreviation - ibm. At this time, ibm had not entered China. Zhang Yan dialed a phone number based on his own memory. Intuition told him that the after-sales phone number at the headquarters of ibm should be the same as the phone number 17 years later.

The phone was connected, and fluent American voice came from the opposite side, "Hello, is there anything you can do to help you?"

"Oh. I am a user from China. I want to know if you have a set of software like this. He can customize a company's assembly line according to my needs, or can use the first-determined transformation target to export how to transform the assembly line?"

The other end of the phone paused for a moment. "Hello sir, the company does not have such products yet. With your questions and professionalism, we will transfer this phone to our technical department. Maybe those young men can answer your questions and wish you good luck. Young people from the mysterious ancient country."

After the phone beeps, he was transferred to another man. Zhang Yan said his request and immediately attracted his praise. My name is Smith, the manager of the commercial development department. I have listened to the customer service report. I am so happy to meet a partner with the same idea. We have this set of software. This is the most creative software I have ever developed. Although it is very difficult, I think it is enough to make me excited and leave other things alone to complete the development of this project. I am also very happy that you can become the first user of this set of software. Can you tell me the problem you are facing now, the more detailed the better."

"Well, well, I have a steel plant now, and the problem I face is that some equipment is aging and low production level. I want to replace some of the equipment and build a steel plant with higher efficiency and more production capacity and move it to a place that suits it. Do you think it can be done?"

"Oh, God, why not buy a new set of steelmaking equipment? Wouldn't this reduce these troubles?"

After listening to Smith's dialect, Zhang Yan almost turned over with anger, saying, "What is money and what is full man? I don't know that hungry man is hungry. After listening to Smith's dialect, Zhang Yan understood. He tried hard to explain to Smith: "If you do that, you will spend a lot of money and I will go bankrupt, so I will make some necessary improvements instead of pushing it down and starting over."

"Oh, I understand, the purpose of doing this is to save money. But I want to tell you that the price of such a software is not cheap, it costs at least $1.5 million, because you are the first user. Of course, I am not a person from the negotiating department, and maybe the price is much higher than this. I think you should be mentally prepared."

Zhang Yan's answer was very simple: "No problem, I hope you come here immediately and bring your expensive software."

Smith laughed happily, "Oh, I think this is OK. My friend, as long as I sign the agreement, I will fly over immediately and will appear in front of you within three days."

A few days later, after paying a price of 1.3 million US dollars, Zhang Yan got this software as he wished. At the same time, in order to better debug this software, Smith also took the initiative to ask to come to Yinzhou to conduct software testing on the spot. When Smith turned on the computer, the familiar operating interface of Os2 appeared in front of Zhang Yan again.

Time flies, and it reappeared yesterday. As the operating system that ibm has high hopes for, it was defeated by Microsoft in the end. It has been reported in various reasons for failure, but it has not lost points in technology. This is not a kind of irony for Os2.

"What's wrong? How do you look sad? Are you regretting the cost of this software? There's no need to. When this project is completed, you will definitely feel that you have made a big profit. Believe me." Smith's finger flexibly tapped on the keyboard. The black ibm exclusive keyboard made a pleasant sound, the black ibm case, the black ibm monitor, everything is ibm, and this may be the problem with ibm.

"Oh, Smith, I think that although os2 is technically advanced, it should be better."

"Well, do you think there is anything worth improving on Os2?" Smith didn't care. This just shows his confidence in his company's operating system. As a graphics operating system, Os2 has a performance that is not inferior to Apple's operating system. Although it has not overwhelmed Apple yet, Smith believes that it is only a matter of time sooner or later.

"Of course, I think it's a stupid thing to bundle software and hardware. Os2 should cooperate with those compatible machine manufacturers so that Os2 can run smoothly on those compatible machines; another thing is to add the concept of windows so that users can easily use the computer even if they know nothing about the computer."

Smith shook his head: "Zhang, you're right. Your talent on computers is amazing, but you also know that our company is so large that I'm just a small commercial development manager and I don't have the ability to decide these things. Okay, let's not talk about this topic, but you'd better want to debug the program."

Zhang Yan understood Smith's mood. ibm has long been the ox-ear of the world's computer industry and has been regarded as a symbol of the United States' technological strength and a fortress of national competitiveness. However, after entering the 1990s, the blue giant became staggering and even to the brink of collapse. Before Gouse, ibm's loss once reached US$5 billion before taking office. Now, ibm is in a state of confusion. Everything within the company is the same, but the company is still in losses. No one knows what went wrong, let alone how to solve it. Only Zhang Yan knows that ibm's decline lies in not seeing the trend of the times clearly. In an era of advanced development, a closed company is not allowed to be free.

Maybe it will not be until Guo Shina comes to power that ibm will regain its innovative spirit and return to the first position, but what does that have to do with himself? Zhang Yan ridiculed himself for eating carrots and was worried about it, and turned his mind to the transformation of the Amur Steel Plant. In this busyness, Zhang Yan ushered in the Spring Festival in 1991.

The 1991 Chinese Spring Festival was unforgettable for the Soviet workers of the Amur Steel Plant, because they met Chinese on this day. More than a thousand workers appeared in the factory. They rented houses that they often went to, and more than a dozen people crowded in one room. They got up before dawn every day, worked until dark, and did not rest on Saturdays and Sundays. Only after several complaints were received, these Chinese were forced to reduce their working hours.

The diligence of Chinese workers is enough to shame the arrogant Russians. With the efforts of these hardworking workers, huge metal pipes are lifted into trucks and then transported to the train station, loaded onto the car washes there, and sent along the winding Heilongjiang to the destination - Yinzhou, China.

All equipment was packaged in wooden crates, stuffed into containers with eye-catching marks, loaded on trains, and then unboxed on the black soil plains in the northeast. Then, they were strictly in the Soviet Union and returned to their original state according to the marks. The whole project was very large. If it were not for Smith's software, it would be almost impossible to install and debug such a steel mill based on manpower alone.

The demolition project is in full swing. As investment increases, many people have noticed Zhang Yan's actions, and one of them has shown extraordinary attention to Zhang Yan.

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