From the 7th Steel Company to the Synthetic Division

Chapter 392 Trying to poach Lei Jun!

After talking for an hour or so, the deal ultimately fell through. The main reason was that Liao Qiuxue was indeed very sincere and felt that the new company couldn't handle such a large order.

Chen Jun understood Liao Qiuxue's concerns, so he didn't press the issue further.

We've decided to hold off for now and think of a solution first.

Looking at his watch, he realized it was almost noon. He smiled formally and invited her, "Qiuxue, I've known you for so long, but I've never properly invited you to dinner."

"Well then, it's lunchtime now, how about I treat you to lunch?"

"you……"

Liao Qiuxue raised an eyebrow and said expectantly, "Busy Chen, can I take this to mean that you want to go on a date with me?"

"Pfft~~"

Chen Jun was drinking tea when he heard Liao Qiuxue's outrageous words, and he was so startled that he spat out the water he was drinking.

Fortunately, Chen Jun had a quick enough reaction time from his training and managed to cover his mouth with his hand in time, preventing Liao Qiuxue from getting a face full of water.

"Why? Isn't it?"

Seeing Chen Jun's embarrassed expression, Liao Qiuxue seemed very satisfied with her words, her eyes crinkling into crescent moons as she stared intently at Chen Jun.

"Uh, this woman... why is she being so aggressive today? Is she trying to take our relationship to the next level? Or is it just a prank?"

Chen Jun muttered to himself, suddenly feeling that as a soldier, he couldn't be so cowardly, and it was too shameful to be so passive in front of a woman.

He took two tissues to wipe his mouth and hands, and regained his calm and composure.

Smiling, he met Liao Qiuxue's gaze directly and said in a very magnetic male voice, "Want to go on a date? I think now is just right, but I don't know if you're scared or if you dare to come with me."

Chen Jun knew that Liao Qiuxue was a competitive woman, so he quietly used reverse psychology.

"Am I afraid?"

Liao Qiuxue proudly straightened her back, her well-endowed breasts standing out, creating a very visually striking effect. She raised her willow-leaf eyebrows and said, "You're not a tiger in the mountains, do you think you can eat me up?"

"Go, I absolutely have to go today. Not only do I have to go, but I also have to have a lavish lunch—a real feast on you, the big spender in the military, hahaha!"

After Liao Qiuxue finished speaking, she covered her mouth and laughed, as if she could see Chen Jun's wallet being emptied.

“The army provides food, lodging and a salary. I was just wondering what to do with the money. Qiu Xue, where do you want to eat? Let’s go there.”

After Chen Jun finished speaking, he deliberately acted like a wealthy man, patting his pocket with an expression that said, "I have money."

"Okay, this is what you said."

Liao Qiuxue's big, dark eyes darted around as she smiled sweetly and said, "Then let's go to the Cui Palace Hotel. It's the best hotel in Zhongguancun. Busy Chen, you'd better make sure you have enough money in your wallet."

"Okay, you're in charge. Shall we go now?"

Chen Jun still has a strong impression of this restaurant; it's one of the few old restaurants he remembers.

"Wait here for a moment, I'll go arrange the work, and then we'll leave." Liao Qiuxue stood up and said this before walking out of the office.

As Liao Qiuxue turned away from Chen Jun and walked out, her expression returned to that of a boss with aloofness.

Liao Qiuxue presents a cold and aloof image to the outside world, only revealing her true self in front of very close friends, and is especially special in front of Chen Jun.

As Liao Qiuxue left the office to arrange work, information about the Cui Palace Hotel came to Chen Jun's mind.

This restaurant, located at No. 76 Zhichun Road, HD District, Beijing, in the core area of ​​Zhongguancun, does have a certain reputation in Zhongguancun.

The antique-style pyramidal roof and glass curtain wall design have even been nominated for one of Beijing's Top Ten Contemporary Buildings.

The cost of living is naturally not low.

It is not only a designated hotel for government receptions by the HD District Government, but also one of the best choices for all enterprises in Zhongguancun to receive guests.

Liao Qiuxue's choice of the Cui Palace Hotel as the venue for her "date" with Chen Jun was indeed very sophisticated.

Since it was their first formal date, there were certain requirements for the environment and privacy, and the Cui Palace Hotel was one of the few in Zhongguancun that met those requirements.

The reason Chen Jun has such a deep impression of the Cui Palace Hotel, which was poorly managed and was transferred in 2016 in the original timeline.

The main reason is that the acquirer of the Cui Palace Hotel was none other than the then-rising star, "Jingdong".

This became JD.com's technology headquarters!

From this piece of information, Chen Jun learned about the Cui Palace Hotel. He also checked some information and discovered something even more interesting.

That is, Kingsoft Software, around 2000, was also affected by the stock market bubble and the impact on the Internet, and had to carry out a strategic transformation.

Therefore, under the leadership of then-CEO Lei Jun, a conference was held at the Zhongguancun Cui Palace Hotel to decide to enter the enterprise market.

This decision, which concerned Kingsoft's strategic transformation, was referred to by outsiders as the "Kingsoft Reform".

In other words.

At this special juncture in 2000, the Zhongguancun Cui Palace Hotel was the core "social center" of the Internet, attracting a large number of top Internet talents.

If you're looking to find top-tier internet talent, the Cui Palace Hotel is a good option.

"On the other hand, if we could meet Lei Jun and find a way to get him to help with the programming, the difficulty of the command system would be reduced by at least half."

Chen Jun muttered to himself, genuinely somewhat tempted.

China's first generation of top-notch programmers were few, but each of them had an extremely legendary life and played a key role in the development of China's internet.

Lei Jun is the one among China's first generation of programmers who will have the best future.

They've got amazing mobile phones, and their cars are legendary too.

Before founding Xiaomi, Lei Jun was already quite famous in the industry.

Back in 1990-1995, before Lei Jun became a senior executive at Kingsoft, his main job was software development and programming.

Speaking solely of DOS/WIN development in China, Lei Jun can be considered "one of the top programmers".

It wasn't something he boasted about himself; it was an assessment from industry authorities.

Qiu Bojun, known as the father of WPS in China, spoke highly of Lei Jun in front of the media.

"Lei Jun is the fastest programmer I've ever seen at debugging code. He writes assembly code like poetry, which is a pleasure to read."

A colleague at Kingsoft also commented: "In the 1994 WPS codebase, the modules that Lei Jun was responsible for had the lowest failure rate in the entire company, with only 0.3 bugs per thousand lines."

Some people have been lavish in their praise of Lei Jun, and Lei Jun himself has also had his "god-like moment".

During his job interview at Kingsoft in Zhuhai in 1992, Lei Jun wrote a cracking program on the spot and solved the memory lock problem set by the expert Qiu Bojun.

During the fight against the virus in 1994, they reverse-engineered a variant of the Taiwanese macro virus within 3 hours and released a dedicated removal tool for RI.

All of this shows that Lei Jun, who was later known as Lei Jobs, is truly a skilled programmer and can definitely be considered a top-tier programmer.

Unfortunately, he's now the CEO of Kingsoft, a high-ranking executive in the internet industry. Getting him to work on a digital command system while continuing to focus on his forte—coding—is a very difficult task.

Lei Jun is not the only one like this.

The most influential computer magazine at the time, Computer Weekly, specially selected China's top ten programmers in 1994. By 2000, each of them had already achieved great success.

Yan Yuanchao, ranked first, is famous for his "CCDOS Chinese Character System" and is the founder of the Chinese characterization of PCs.

Wang Zhidong, ranked second, is best known for his work "Chinese Star," which created the first Chinese Windows platform and is the founder of the emerging internet platform Sina.

The third-ranked person is Qiu Bojun, whose most famous work is "WPS 1.0". His technological breakthrough is in the field of independent office software system. He is now the honorary chairman of Kingsoft Software.

Wang Yongmin, ranked fourth, is remarkable for his Wubi input method, which easily revolutionized Chinese character input efficiency and led him to found Wangma Company.

Zhu Chongjun, ranked fifth, is best known for his "CCED Chinese Spreadsheet Software," and is the pioneer of domestic spreadsheet software.

Lei Jun is ranked sixth!
Ranked seventh is Wu Xiaojun, whose representative work is the "2.13 Chinese Character System", which supports a Chinese character environment with multiple printer drivers.

Bao Yueqiao, ranked eighth, is the founder of Lianzhong Games and his representative work, the "UCDOS Chinese Character System," a popular Chinese DOS solution.

Wang Jiangmin, ranked ninth, created KV100 antivirus software, the first antivirus engine with an upgradeable capability.

Liu Xu, ranked tenth, is best known for his Rising Antivirus Card, a pioneer in hardware-level virus protection, and is now the founder of Rising Antivirus.

These are all outstanding members of the first generation of programmers during the early days of the Chinese internet.

If we could get them all together, creating a digital command system would be a breeze; it could probably be completed in less than three months.

Unfortunately, they've mostly become big shots now, making it very difficult for them to go back to being programmers.

However, it's not absolutely impossible.

Chen Jun believed that as long as he operated well, he could extend an olive branch to them through the military level, preferably at the theater command level.

Even if we can't get everyone to come and help, taking part of the operation shouldn't be a big problem.

for example:

Yan Yuanchao, Zhu Chongjun, Wu Xiaojun, and Wang Jiangmin have not founded any companies or become senior executives in any companies.

As long as we invite them from the national military level to help out for a short period of time, there shouldn't be too much of a problem.

Of course, there's a premise to this.

That means they must be invited at the national level. Only if they act out of a sense of national righteousness and patriotism will they be willing to help Chen Jun build a command system.

Otherwise, if it were an ordinary private company, even offering enough money wouldn't necessarily be enough to hire them.

Therefore, the first thing Chen Jun needs to do is to find a way to communicate with the military as soon as possible and get the military leadership to come up with a solution.

Whether it's the military paying them to "manufacture" or conducting joint research and development through military-civilian cooperation.

We must come up with a mature and feasible solution!

Chen Jun was preoccupied with how to recruit talent, while Liao Qiuxue arranged her work outside. The two of them then left the company together and took the elevator to the underground parking garage.

I rode in Liao Qiuxue's car to the Cui Palace Hotel for our date.

As the granddaughter of a billionaire in Shanghai, Liao Qiuxue drives a Santana, a very low-key car, rather than an expensive luxury car that costs millions.

This made Chen Jun look at Liao Qiuxue with even more recognition of her character.

It is truly rare to be so young yet so humble and composed.

From the moment Liao Qiuxue jokingly asked Chen Jun if he was going on a date, and Chen Jun smiled and answered directly that it could be considered a date.

Both of them already knew the other's answer, and their relationship was basically settled.

Only a thin membrane, as thin as a cicada's wing, remained to block it.

Their relationship had reached a point where they understood each other implicitly, so the atmosphere of their conversation in the car was naturally more relaxed, and even carried a hint of intimacy.

The intimacy between the two increased significantly, and the topics they discussed became more intimate and private.

In order to help Liao Qiuxue understand him better, Chen Jun took the initiative to tell her some interesting things that happened in the army, but which did not violate the confidentiality regulations.

Liao Qiuxue, who thought the military would be very rigid, realized for the first time that the military could be so interesting.

As Chen Jun told more and more stories, Liao Qiuxue's curiosity was piqued, and she became somewhat interested in the olive branches that Chen Jun had previously extended.

"If I really join the army and live and work with him, it might be a good choice."

Liao Qiuxue herself didn't know why this thought suddenly popped into her head, and the more she thought about it, the more interested she became, which she found incredible.

If there were an observer at this moment, they would definitely be able to see the reason at a glance.

Nothing else.

It's all because of love.

Chen Jun's charisma is undeniable; he became the spiritual leader of everyone in the Seventh Steel Battalion and is also one of the most outstanding young officers in the entire army.

Attracting a woman in her twenties is a piece of cake.

The Cui Palace Hotel is not far from the Entrepreneurship Building. It takes less than ten minutes to drive to the hotel. There are doormen who will park your car at the main entrance.

Liao Qiuxue had obviously been here many times, and she led Chen Jun inside with ease.

Because they had called ahead to make a reservation, the receptionist at the door quickly checked their information and then led them to a window seat.

Liao Qiuxue, who came out shouting that she wanted to take advantage of the big spender and make Chen Jun bleed a lot.

When they arrived at the restaurant, she didn't order the most expensive dishes. Instead, after asking Chen Jun if he had any dietary restrictions, she ordered three dishes that she thought were quite good.

It would take some time for the food to arrive, and Chen Jun thought of the idea he had come up with earlier.

He tentatively asked, "Qiuxue, if I could find you a few capable programmers, or find a way to turn this project into a military-civilian cooperation project..."

Then, if you were to be in charge of this project, would you be confident that you could develop a digital command system within a year?

Chen Jun still wanted to give the credit to Liao Qiuxue.

Perhaps it was out of personal motives, or perhaps something else.

Chen Jun was also confused.

"I don't know much about military-civilian cooperation, so I won't comment on it for now. But if you can find experts, the really powerful big shots in the industry, it's not impossible to achieve this in just six months, let alone a year."

Liao Qiuxue has absolute confidence in her programming and leadership abilities.

"Okay, your words are enough."

Seeing Liao Qiuxue's radiant confidence, Chen Jun immediately felt reassured.

(End of this chapter)