The Grandmother in the Siheyuan

Chapter 359 Big Brother
"It would be good if we could make a comeback. International shipping lanes are a matter of life and death." Mr. Yang nodded: "In the future, as we open up more and more, we will suffer if we don't have our own shipping companies on the ocean."

"Rest assured, in the future, without us, there will be no international shipping on the oceans."

Old Yang said with a smile, "Of course I'm relieved, there's someone to carry on the family tradition."

Time flies, and we're about to enter the 1990s. People have high hopes for the future. In another ten years, it will be the 21st century. It seems that once we enter the 21st century, the whole world will undergo earth-shattering changes.

Liu Guodong is taking the postgraduate entrance exam this year, and his daughter is starting school this year, so Liu Feifei is finally free.

At the beginning of the year, leaders from the Ministry of Industry spoke with Liu Hua, saying, "Now the higher-ups hope that you can take big strides and accelerate the pace of development."

Liu Hua hesitated, then asked, "But?"

"Don't worry, the restrictions will be lifted soon." The leader reassured him, "We'll make an exception for you now, and your company can be completely separated from the collective."

"Isn't this a bit inappropriate? It's not that I don't trust you, it's that I'm worried someone might come after me later."

The leader smiled and said, "If you're afraid of everything, just focus on developing your business. People will naturally explain things to you."

The leader gave Liu Hua a document, the gist of which was to expedite his work, get rid of the burdens as soon as possible, and accelerate development.

Therefore, in March 1990, Liu Hua registered his own company, Taiyi Group, and after paying a fee to the two affiliated groups, he completely bought out the two companies.

The district was quite unwilling, as these two companies were their cash cows. If they were registered under their names, they would not only receive a fee every year, but they could also get reimbursed for any expenses they incurred.

Now that the decoupling has happened, the money is gone, and nobody would be happy to replace them.

However, you can't fight city hall. The higher-ups issued a special document, and there was no way to avoid decoupling. Anyone who dared to obstruct the process would have to sit on the sidelines.

Liu Hua also registered a company, Taiyi New Energy, which belongs to Taiyi Group.

Taiyi New Energy currently has only one task: to produce batteries for future PHS phones. Originally, Liu Hua did not plan to produce them himself, but instead handed them over to Tsinghua University.

But now that he can break free from these constraints, he might as well jump into the new energy industry, which is the industry Liu Hua will be joining in the future anyway.

Doing scientific research alone is so enjoyable. Liu Hua no longer needed to go through those normal procedures and acquired a battery factory on the verge of bankruptcy in Beijing.

Liu Hua did not directly present the lithium battery processing technology. Nowadays, mobile phones generally use nickel-cadmium batteries, which are large in size, have low density, and charge slowly. Most importantly, they have a memory effect, which can easily cause the battery capacity to decrease when recharged before the battery is completely depleted.

This is why people often say that the new battery should be completely drained before recharging. Liu Hua directly used the processing technology of nickel-metal hydride batteries, which was already a crushing start.

Nickel-metal hydride batteries have high energy density, are rechargeable, environmentally friendly, safe and stable, have no memory effect, and most importantly, are inexpensive.

The new battery factory was on the verge of bankruptcy, but its equipment was still in good condition. They were facing pressure from the external environment, not their own problems. Liu Hua could be considered to have gotten a bargain.

After spending just two months integrating his resources, Liu Hua began producing the new battery. Once the new nickel-metal hydride battery was ready, Liu Hua took it directly to the Xiaolingtong (a type of mobile phone) project team at Tsinghua University.

"Everyone, I have made the batteries that our mobile communication terminals need."

One professor suddenly realized: "I said, why didn't you assign me a battery project in the first place? Why didn't you find someone majoring in chemistry or physics? I was wondering at the time, do you think our mobile communication terminals use dry cell batteries?"

“How could we possibly use dry cell batteries?” another professor said. “Even if we were to use them, we would use nickel-cadmium batteries.”

"Wrong," Liu Hua boasted. "These are nickel-metal hydride batteries that I developed and produced myself. Our new batteries have a large capacity, are safe and environmentally friendly, and are also cheap."

“Perfect timing. Our chips are almost finished, and the batteries are out too. We can integrate them into a single unit.”

Liu Hua decided to entrust this task to graduating graduate and undergraduate students, which would not only train the students but also potentially yield excellent creative ideas. After all, the thinking of young people may be more in line with the spirit of the times.

He went to the Beijing Post Office himself: "Our Tsinghua University team can produce the initial terminal in two months at most. What about your communication protocol?"

"The communication protocol is almost complete."

Liu Hua nodded, closed his eyes and thought for a moment: "Now all that's missing is an operating system."

Liu Hua went home and started working on the operating system. There have been many operating systems in history, but in fact, the PHS (Personal Handyphone System) did not have an operating system. The architecture of the PHS was based on communication protocols and hardware. The PHS communication protocol was very simple. It simply used microcell technology to connect the telephone to the fixed telephone network digitally and wirelessly.

Of course, the year after that, the PHS phones started to get fancy, adding all sorts of functions, making them basically no different from mobile phones, and thus an operating system emerged.

Liu Hua planned to provide him with an operating system from the outset, even if it was rudimentary, since he held a patent for the Linux operating system.

So he decided to develop the PHS operating system based on your operating system, and then it would be used in mobile phone operating systems and smartphones. This generational development made it easier for people to accept.

After a month, a group of carefully selected undergraduates, led by graduate students, completed the integration of the entire Xiaolingtong system.

Liu Hua shook his head. "Sigh, I really can't give them too much expectation. These kids probably think that the most advanced mobile communication terminal right now is the 'big brother' phone."

So they designed a PHS phone similar to the big brother mobile phone. Because the PHS phone's components were not as big as the big brother mobile phone, the design was more compact.

To make it even bigger, these guys simply increased the amount of battery used, making it heavy and large, which certainly looks very imposing.

Inside the lab, Liu Hua, holding this bulky contraption, began to unleash a torrent of criticism on a group of students.

"Looking at this thing you designed, I've realized something: you haven't seriously studied the history of semiconductors. I need to do some serious research on the history of semiconductor development. How did you pass your exams? Who made sure you passed?"

One undergraduate student retorted, "Professor Liu, isn't our design good enough? Our design looks even more imposing than the old mobile phone; it can be called 'Big Brother Big Brother'!"

(End of this chapter)