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Chapter 231 Participating in the ICPC Qualifiers?

"ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest Shanghai Qualifiers? ICPC?"

Xu Qingshan looked at the short message Chen Dayue sent him.

On September 9 this year, the online preliminaries of the 20th ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest Asia Qualifiers (Shanghai Division) will be held at East China University.

Chen Dayue came to ask Xu Qingshan if he was interested in participating.

After all, as early as the first half of the year, Xu Qingshan had already demonstrated his talent in the computer field. Although Chen Dayue was not clear about Xu Qingshan's strength in more practical projects such as programming, as the life mentor assigned to Xu Qingshan by the current Peking University leadership, he would remind Xu Qingshan of these relevant competitions.

The main purpose is to prevent Xu Qingshan from missing a lot of information because he is in Yuanpei College.

The Institute of Information Science and Technology has already notified us.

Xu Qingshan was somewhat interested. He simply replied to Chen Dayue, who replied immediately, telling him that if he was interested, he could go directly to the dean's office of the Institute of Information Science and Technology after finishing the Introduction to Information Science and Technology class tomorrow afternoon. He had already informed Mei Hong, who would help him handle it.

If I were just an ordinary student of Yuanpei College, there wouldn't be so many department heads and deans to help me deal with these trivial matters.

But if this person is Xu Qingshan.

Then the deans of all colleges will be eager to find him to show their faces.

In fact, Chen Dayue could handle the registration for the ACM preliminaries, but when Mei Hong came to Chen Dayue to talk about this, he repeatedly emphasized that if Xu Qingshan was willing to participate, he must let Xu Qingshan find him because he had something to tell him.

After Xu Qingshan agreed, he casually searched for some information about ICPC on his mobile phone.

However, I found out that the 33rd ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest Global Finals was held in Stockholm, Sweden in late April this year.

The team from the St. Petersburg Institute of Informatics, Precision Mechanics and Optics from Russia successfully defended the title.

Huaqing University next door took the runner-up, St. Petersburg University won the third place, Saratov University won the fourth place, and the top four schools all won gold medals. Oxford University, Jiangdong University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Altai Technical University won the fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth places and won silver medals. Warsaw University, Waterloo University, Tbilisi University, Carnegie Mellon University, and South China University of Technology won the ninth to thirteenth places and won bronze medals.

The Kyoto University team did not even make the final list of winners.

In engineering, even though Kyoto University has also invested a lot of money in the construction of the School of Information, it is still difficult to see any results.

This is exactly the same as Huaqing's huge investment in mathematics construction.

These two brothers can be considered twins in a way.

"what happened?"

Jiang Huanxi woke up slowly and saw Xu Qingshan opening his computer and holding his phone in deep thought.

There was no class in the first period in the afternoon, so the two of them went back to Yandong Garden for a short nap.

"Teacher Chen asked me if I would like to participate in the ACM Programming Contest. I agreed. We will need three people to form a team. You can ask Ye Qianqian to come as well."

Xu Qingshan made up his mind.

"hold head high?"

Jiang Huanxi sat up from the bed. She was wearing a lace nightgown and looked a little dazed.

"But Qianqian doesn't understand computers? I don't know much either. I may be able to do math-related algorithms, but I'm not very good at writing programs."

Jiang Huanxi was a little grumpy when she woke up.

However, she didn't get angry when she woke up. Instead, she got up from the bed softly and moved to Xu Qingshan's side.

Xu Qingshan understood, reached out and held her in his arms, letting her sit on his lap.

"It's okay, I can do it."

Xu Qingshan was also thinking in his mind that he didn't have so many aspirations for this kind of competition, he just wanted to participate. After all, he himself had never tried to challenge a high-difficulty programming competition, so this was a good opportunity to give it a try.

"If we two can't help."

Jiang Huanxi has always hated holding Xu Qingshan back, and this is one of the important driving forces behind her current hard work.

"It doesn't matter. I haven't tried it either. This time, our focus is on participation."

Xu Qingshan stroked the girl's hair gently and spoke slowly.

"OK."

Jiang Huanxi buried her little face in Xu Qingshan's neck and squinted her eyes, enjoying the warmth of a close lover.

"By the way, I have to take a leave of absence from my evening class tonight. That class is in the chemistry field, and I need to go out for a while. Do you want to come with me?"

Xu Qingshan was talking about Wang Chuan.

"Can I come along?"

Jiang Huanxi raised his head.

"of course can."

That night, after the 7th and 8th classes, Xu Qingshan took Jiang Huanxi out of the east gate of Peking University. Wang Chuan was already waiting outside the gate in a Maybach.

Since we are already college students, there is naturally no need to hide our talents under a low profile.

And there are countless luxury cars in Beijing.

Even this classic Maybach would at most attract a few glances from passers-by, but it would not be the focus of much attention.

Xu Qingshan opened the door first to let Jiang Huanxi get in, and then he got in from the other door.

"Boss lady, boss."

Wang Chuan was very considerate. He greeted Jiang Huanxi as soon as he got in the car.

However, this name sounded a bit strange and Jiang Huanxi was a little slow to react.

"Let's go, is the restaurant ready?"

"Xiao Nan Guo, we have booked a private room. Mr. Lin should be almost there by now."

"it is good."

Jiang Huanxi was a little nervous.

She already knew that she was going to have dinner with Xu Qingshan's uncle and grandmother tonight. But the real reason why Wang Chuan came to see Xu Qingshan was in the car.

"Brother Chuan, how is the situation on both sides recently?"

"The yard over at the South Pond has now completed the formalities and started to demolish some of the external buildings. The design team has been hired and is currently doing a field survey. When the survey is finished, we will see what style of design you like."

Wang Chuan held the steering wheel with both hands and spoke.

"Okay, let's go check it out after dinner."

Xu Qingshan nodded.

"The situation with the milk tea shop is a bit more complicated. The shop with the best business on the corner rejected the acquisition intention, but a small shop next to it agreed, but the lease of that shop is about to expire."

"How's the store doing?"

Xu Qingshan asked.

"In the survey, that small shop had the highest reputation and repurchase rate, but because it was run by only one person, orders were slow to come in, and the prices were higher than the ones next door, so the customer flow was not that large."

Wang Chuan drove steadily without looking around.

"The information is on the passenger seat. You can take a look."

"The owner of this shop uses fresh fruits to make milk tea and fruit tea? And he researched the tea styles himself? The response is good?"

"Yes, that's why the price of their milk tea is several yuan higher than the store next door that has the most customer traffic."

Xu Qingshan looked at the pile of information and pictures taken at the scene in the file bag provided by Wang Chuan.

From the perspective of market research, Wang Chuan has done a very good job, with a kind of aesthetic that combines the skills of a private detective and a data analyst.

“The research was well done.”

"I followed the boss's advice and formed a temporary team. I was at most in charge, and all other details were done by the people in the team."

Xu Qingshan was quite satisfied.

Wang Chuan has shown that he has a certain ability to lead a team, so he can safely hand over the milk tea brand to him.

"Then go talk to the owner of this small shop. I see his lease ends in November?"

"Yes, he is now struggling with whether to renew the lease because the customer flow is not enough, the profit margin of his shop is not high enough, and the rent will increase again in the next period."

"No more renting."

Xu Qingshan put away the information and said.

"You set up a company that is responsible for incubating milk tea brands. In the early stage, you should start with a milk tea brand. You should talk to the owner of this small store and ask for his people and equipment. He will be the manager of the first flagship store, and you should also set up a research and development team to study more milk tea and fruit tea styles."

As soon as Xu Qingshan opened his mouth, he set the tone for the next goal.

"The store doesn't need to be rented there any longer. It can directly rent a large store in Wudaokou Shopping Center."

“That probably wouldn’t be cheap.”

Wang Chuan hesitated.

Although they are in the same area, the prices of ordinary street-side stores and stores inside well-known shopping malls are different.

“This money should be spent to build a brand image.”

Xu Qingshan said.

"The new shop will start renting in November, and we will try to open it smoothly in December."

"During this period, you can hand over the connection with the design team of Nanchizi Street to my uncle and let him handle it part-time, and you can focus on the milk tea brand."

"In the past month or so, you should first do some research in Beijing, then go to Shanghai and Hangzhou to check out Cha Baidao, Mixue Bingcheng, Shuyi Shaoxiancao, and the Coco we drank that day. Go and do some research and learn more about them."

Xu Qingshan’s words made Wang Chuan hesitate for a moment.

"If you want to use the car."

"Just leave the car in Yan Dongyuan first. I have a driver's license. You can go about your business with peace of mind."

Xu Qingshan smiled.

"Once this matter is done, we can just hire a new driver under the company's name."

"Ok."

Wang Chuan was memorizing the names of those milk tea brands.

"For the new company, I will invest all the capital, you will own 13%, I will own 80%, and the remaining 7% will be used as equity incentives for R&D and marketing."

"First, build up the first direct-sale flagship store. I'll sort out my thoughts tomorrow and the day after tomorrow and arrange a specific resource integration model for you. You can familiarize yourself with it in advance."

"I will be involved in the early stage of the company's start-up and operation. You also need to get started quickly. The follow-up will be arranged for you. Just go for it boldly and don't be afraid of losses or anything."

Xu Qingshan said.

"You are mine, and it is worth the cost to try and make mistakes."

"thank you boss."

Wang Chuan gripped the steering wheel tightly with both hands.

After a while, the car stopped at the entrance of the mall, and Xu Qingshan asked before getting out of the car.

"Okay, don't you really want to eat together later?"

"No, I plan to go to other milk tea shops."

Wang Chuan remained steady, but the unstoppable excitement in his eyes proved that he was also looking forward to future developments.

Maybe I’ve been staying up late to work too much recently. My heart felt uncomfortable when I was typing last night. I lay down on the bed to relieve it, and I fell asleep as soon as I lay down.

Today I will make up for the early morning update, and try to advance the evening update time. Yesterday I finished all the more complicated work recently, and I can’t endure it any longer. I am too overdrawn.

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(End of this chapter)