Xiaomi Heavy Industry, its first entrepreneurial venture!

Chapter 272 Drinking Millet Porridge! (Second Update!)

Lin Yi followed Lei Jun out the door and saw those so-called friends. He was completely stunned.

Because he didn't recognize any of the people in front of him.

However, the people opposite him seemed to know him.

As soon as I walked over, a middle-aged man in his forties greeted me with a smile:
"President Lin, it's true that seeing is believing! I didn't quite believe President Lei when he said you would show up!"

"Now that I've seen him, he's even more handsome in person than in the photos!"

Seeing the person who greeted them so warmly, Lin Yi looked slightly confused, while Lei Jun, seeing this, quickly introduced them:

"Mr. Zhang Chengyi, the head of Qualcomm's China region."

Just after Zhang Chengyi was introduced, several more people came over and greeted Lin Yi warmly.

You can't hit someone who's smiling, so Lin Yi was naturally happy to greet them as well.

After greeting him, he immediately turned to look at Lei Jun.

Beside him, Lei Jun, having finished introducing Zhang Chengyi, was talking to him when he caught a glimpse of several more people approaching. He apologized to Zhang Chengyi and quickly moved to stand between Lin Yi and the group.
"This is Mr. Lin, the general manager of Xiaomi Heavy Industry. His company has always been committed to creating miracles."

"The battery you've been waiting for will be available soon."

Turning his head, he said to Lin Yi again:
"This is Yao Shuheng, the head of Texas Instruments in China, Mr. Yao!"

"This is Mr. Jimmy Basil, the head of Intel China..."

"Who is this……"

After spending a few minutes getting to know these people again and exchanging phone numbers with them, Lin Yi finally broke free from the crowd, walked to the side, and found a place to hide himself.

The company that opened for business today is Xiaomi Corporation, not Xiaomi Heavy Industry.

I am not the main character.

Since I'm not the main character, I have to do the job of a supporting character.

Sure enough, after he deliberately disappeared, those who were originally looking for him turned their attention to Lei Jun.

After chatting with these people for more than ten minutes, the auspicious time for the opening ceremony arrived.

Lei Jun apologized to the crowd, pushed through them, and walked to the very front of the opening ceremony, standing on the 10-centimeter-high platform.

He brought the microphone to his lips and coughed lightly twice.

The sound of his cough drew everyone's attention to him.

Reflecting the gazes of these people, Lei Jun showed no stage fright whatsoever; on the contrary, he appeared even more excited.

He likes this feeling.

That's exactly the feeling of being the center of attention!

After standing for a while, he pressed the microphone again and addressed the crowd:

"Today is May 6, 2010, the opening day of our Xiaomi company!"

"The original idea was to have a quiet meal with a few people, and that would be the start of the company's business."

"However, I met a benefactor."

"Because of his help, I got to know everyone here. I thought, since it's the opening day, let's make it a little more lively."

"I convinced several of our senior executives overnight!"

"And that's why we have today's opening ceremony!"

"We are also grateful for your kindness in taking time out of your busy schedules to attend our ceremony today."

“Thank you everyone!”

At this point, Lei Jun suddenly bent down and bowed to the people standing in front of him to express his gratitude.

After expressing his gratitude, he stood up straight and clapped his hands gently.

"Among the guests who have come today, there are friends from overseas."

"So, I need to explain to our overseas friends that in our Chinese tradition, speaking on stage during an opening ceremony is just a formality."

"What we really value is the banquet that follows the ceremony!"

"Now, let's give a warm round of applause to welcome our chef!"

"Welcome to our banquet!"

clap clap clap!
After he finished speaking, Lei Jun was the first to clap. As his clapping sounded, the door of the company next door opened, and several burly men carrying casserole dishes walked out of the door.

We arrived at the ceremony venue.

Seeing the people serving the food, Lin Yi quietly blended into the crowd and found a seat.

The burly man placed the pot he was holding on the table and lifted the lid.

Without the lid to cover it, the steam from the pot instantly billowed out.

At that moment, everyone could see clearly what was in the pot.

It's a pot of millet porridge!

The golden millet is plump and round, and when boiled in water, it becomes exceptionally sticky and adorable.

The burly man left with the pot lid, and soon returned with several dishes.

Lifting the lid off the plate, what was revealed made Lin Yi's eyelids twitch involuntarily.

The dish under the lid is made with millet.

Steamed pork with millet flour.

Steamed pork ribs with millet flour.

Millet rice crackers.

Millet fried meatballs.

Millet stuffed tofu balls.

Looking at the dishes made from millet on the table, Lin Yi quietly gave Lei Jun a thumbs up not far away.

Cruel person!

Definitely a ruthless person!
However, it's truly remarkable that he managed to find a suitable chef to prepare so many dishes specifically made with millet.

He stood up, skillfully picked up a bowl, and served millet porridge to the people at the table.

Finally, he sat down with a bowl of millet porridge in his hand, gently stirred it with a spoon, and put a small spoonful of millet porridge into his mouth.

The millet porridge had a slightly salty taste.

It's the base flavor given by the chef.

Why do people drink savory porridge?

Why not just have sweet porridge? Why make the porridge salty when there are already pickled vegetables?
Shaking his head, Lin Yi finished his millet porridge and turned to deal with the other millet dishes.

I must say, the chef's skills are excellent!
taste good!

After everyone had eaten and drunk their fill, the people who had come to watch the ceremony left one after another. In the end, only the people from Xiaomi and a bystander, Lin Yi, remained.

After everyone had left, Lin Yi asked Lei Jun:
"So, what are you thinking about?"

"Who sets up a dining table in the company for their opening ceremony and then treats everyone to millet porridge?!"

Hearing Lin Yi's question, Lei Jun patted his chest and said with a smug look on his face, "Me!"

The blunt response from the other party left Lin Yi speechless for a moment.

Nothing to say.

After cleaning up the mess from the opening ceremony, it was already afternoon.

After chatting with Lei Jun about some work-related matters, Lin Yi decisively took his leave.
"I still have some work to do today, so I won't bother you any longer."

Seeing Lin Yi about to leave, Lei Jun quickly came over and said, "Let me see you off!" "I happen to have some work-related, but also somewhat personal, questions I'd like to ask."

The two got into the car, and Lei Jun drove to the hotel as Lin Yi instructed.

It took Lei Jun more than an hour to drive his car into the hotel parking lot.

After delivering the person, Lei Jun didn't leave in a hurry. Instead, as Lin Yi turned to leave, he called out to him:
"Mr. Lin, if..."

"I said, if I want to enter the overseas market, what methods should I use to attract those people with my product?"

Hearing this series of questions, Lin Yi frowned, then leaned against a pillar in the parking lot and smiled at Lei Jun:

"When entering overseas markets, you just need to maintain the cost-effectiveness we discussed before."

“Every country has rich and poor. The rich have money and can do whatever they want.”

"As for ordinary people, they don't have that much money, so they are more driven by practical needs."

"If you really want to go to sea, you'd better set up your system properly!"

"Also, pay less attention to opinions online, especially those from people who like to flash ROMs."

"They have the technical skills to ensure that they can successfully flash the device."

"Others blindly follow suit, then turn their phones into bricks, and in the end, you're the one who suffers the consequences!"

Reminded by Lin Yi, Lei Jun blushed, turned his head away, and chuckled awkwardly.

Since deciding to start making mobile phones, he has been collecting information on various forums.

The most discussed topic on these forums is how difficult those mobile phone operating systems are to use.

In these discussion threads, someone will always say that they downloaded a certain mobile operating system from a certain website.

I fixed that malfunctioning smartphone I had.

perfectly worked.

He also asked questions on these forums, and many people left comments saying that the phone must be given high permissions.

He saw these opinions and planned to release the system that everyone had made after a while, and write out the complete flashing process for people to use first.

First, exploit the bugs within.

Then use this system to match your phone.

However, judging from Lin Yi's words, doing this only benefits those skilled at flashing ROMs.

Such people are very rare, considering China's population of over one billion.

But most of them are people who don't know how to flash ROMs!

These people will blame themselves when the system malfunctions.

Then, when they sell their own phones and encounter problems while flashing the ROM, they blame themselves!

Very annoying!

Fortunately, Lin Yi reminded him.

Fortunately, nothing has started yet, so there's still a chance to make changes.

Having thought all this through, Lei Jun nodded emphatically to Lin Yi:

"Thank you for reminding!"

"I was planning to release our system in two months, but now it seems that it may be delayed by two months."

Upon hearing this, Lin Yi remembered that according to the original timeline, Lei Jun was supposed to release his first-generation system online in August of this year.

This is for a flashing expert to demonstrate.

During this period, their system has been widely praised for its smooth operation and user-friendly UI.

Their system is easy to use, which highlights the incompetence of other mobile phone manufacturers, and then the war of words begins.

Among the complaints, the most common one was that no one told him that if he didn't follow the instructions during the flashing process, he would brick his phone.

Lin Yi waved his hand lightly: "It's not that serious!"

"Just release your system as usual, but don't have too high expectations when you release it."

"Make everything clear, especially the part about how not following the instructions could brick your phone."

"The rest shouldn't be a big problem!"

Hearing this, Lei Jun immediately felt more confident and said, "Understood!"

"Then I will provide all the necessary reminders and then publish it normally."

"Get the system up and running first, then use my system to match the phone!"

"By the way, Mr. Lin, could you spare one of your production lines for me later?"

"Actually, this is what I mainly wanted to talk about!"

"Whether it's in China or overseas, I need to have production capacity."

Lin Yi calmly turned around and patted his chest:
"Don't worry, as I said, I will leave you a production line."

"Then I'm relieved!" Receiving the promise, Lei Jun's smile widened, and he pointed to the hotel:
"Then Mr. Lin, please take your time to rest. I'll head back now."

"goodbye!"

"Goodbye!" Lin Yi watched Lei Jun drive away from the hotel entrance until the car disappeared from sight before turning around and going upstairs.

Back in the hotel room, I opened the hotel safe and took out the suitcase.

Open the suitcase, take out the four documents inside, hold them in your hands, and gently caress them.

These four documents are valuable.

With these four documents in hand, Xiaomi Heavy Industry can be considered a semi-military factory, and can openly produce those cross-production items.

Those are the high-tech ones.

Those are the good things!
We'll sell missile parts on the official website then.

Disassemble a missile into its parts, and you can buy whichever part you want.

of course.

This store does not provide after-sales service. If you assemble it yourself, just don't complain if there are any problems.

Lin Yi gently ran his fingers over the documents, touching all four of them, before putting them back into his briefcase and locking it in the safe.

The legality issue has been resolved!
Cool!
After bouncing around in the room a few times, Lin Yi opened his laptop, connected the network cable, connected to a VPN, and crawled onto the external network to start searching for news from the Middle East.

Search, browse, but don't comment.

It didn't take him long to find a timeline list posted by a frontline reporter on Facebook.

This timeline list details the actions of several Middle Eastern countries over the past two days.

On the morning of February 5, 2010.

At 9:00 AM local time in Saudi Arabia, the head of Saudi ground missile forces issued a stern warning to Israel and Iran, prohibiting the presence of missiles and aircraft in Saudi airspace!

At 10:00 AM local time in Iran, Iranian Revolutionary Guard Commander Mohrabad officially appeared and stated that Iran is prepared for both possibilities; Iran is not clay to be molded at will!

At 11:00 AM local time in Iran, America's 5th Fleet moved from the Gulf of Oman into the Persian Gulf, crossed Iran's claimed territorial waters, and formally entered Iranian territory, where it clashed with the Iranian navy.

At noon local time in Iran, Revolutionary Guard Commander Mohrabad officially ordered the Revolutionary Guard to enter a state of war and prepare to fight the enemy!

At 13 p.m. local time in Iran, three Israeli warplanes arrived in Tehran, dropped two bombs, and flew away.

At 14 PM local time in Iran, an American fighter jet formation departed from Ali Salem Air Base, arrived in Tehran, but did not drop bombs. Instead, it circled around Tehran, turned back, and flew to Oman.

[At 16 PM local time in Qatar, General Benjamin Mahan, the frontline commander of the America's Central Command, stated that America's mission in the Middle East is to bring liberation, freedom, and democracy to the oppressed people, and that she does not wish to engage in conflict with others, much less bring war.]

At 19 PM local time in Iran, Iranian Revolutionary Guard Commander Mohrabad stated that they would show Israel what cruelty truly means.

(End of this chapter)