Song Xiaoman helped Xu Yiyang apply for a temporary card and left Xu Yiyang's contact information and the contact number of the agency.
On the way Xu Yiyang picked up the car and left, he called the other party directly.
The other party told Xu Yiyang on the phone that the current transaction price of private license plates is generally around 120,000-130,000.
The agency can help with all the relevant procedures, eliminating the need for him to do it himself.
After the license plate is photographed, Xu Yiyang only needs to pay, which costs 2,000 yuan.
Xu Yiyang paid a deposit of 10,000 yuan in the past, and he didn't need to worry about the rest.
After the auction agency obtains the index, you will go with them to the vehicle management office to inspect the car, select the number, and list it.
Xu Yiyang drove to the furniture store again to buy a batch of home appliances and furniture for himself.
The house type of Zhonghai Yujing is four bedrooms, two living rooms, three bathrooms, and an open balcony, so Xu Yiyang prepared to use one of the bedrooms as a study and workroom, and use one of the remaining three rooms for himself and leave one for his sister. , parents leave one.
In addition to furniture and appliances, he also installed a desktop computer for himself and bought some office printing equipment.
After spending hundreds of thousands in one breath, furniture and appliances began to be installed one after another.
At this time, he himself had been staying in the hotel opposite.
The furniture and appliances are all done, but the network cable is still missing.
Xu Yiyang originally planned to go to China Telecom to build a narrowband network, but he did not expect that China Overseas Telecom was developing a broadband trial network and was currently recruiting the first batch of ultra-fast network experience users across the city.
It is said that the speed of this telecommunications broadband trial network is at least three times faster than the speed of the local ATM network, reaching the leading level in the country.
Xu Yiyang paid for one without hesitation. This is the advantage of a big city. The pace of development in many fields is faster than that of a small city.
This was broadband in 1999. In mainland China, only China Shipping was the first to launch this service. It was a trial network and was not officially commercialized.
Xu Yiyang is equivalent to the self-funded guinea pig of the experimental network.
According to the installation master, registration for the trial network has been stopped, and there are only 118 users in the entire China Overseas Network.
It can even be said that at this stage, there are only these 118 home broadband users in the entire Chinese mainland.
Xu Yiyang is one of these 118 people.
Although the broadband in 1999 was very slow in his eyes, compared with the 64K speed of the modem, it was already as fast as lightning.
The first thing Xu Yiyang did after getting online was to search the Yellow Pages online, hoping to find a software development company to customize and develop a management software for Jiayang Education.
With the management software, I can check the operation status of Jiayang Education at any time anywhere with a network. I am not in Yingzhou now, so such management software is necessary.
However, when he started looking for relevant information online, he encountered an embarrassing problem.
Baidu has not yet been established.
Without a search engine, it is equivalent to being in a world without a map, and it is very difficult to do anything.
Although Google was born, it seems that it has just begun to provide search engine services. Xu Yiyang gave it a try. For the time being, it only has certain support for English searches, and basically no information can be found in Chinese searches.
A search engine is not a product developed that can search the entire Internet.
After it is developed, it needs to use crawler tools to crawl massive amounts of page information on the entire Internet.
The information must be crawled down first, and then users can be supported to search for the crawled content.
It's like there are one million people in a city. If you want to build a search engine about people, you must first input the information of these one million people, otherwise it will be meaningless.
There was no search engine, which made Xu Yiyang almost bald. He could only try domain names that he was familiar with one by one. After searching in a large circle, he found the address of the enterprise yellow pages from Hao123, which he had just launched.
Then he searched for Zhonghai's software development company in the Yellow Pages, and he actually found some relevant information.
The moment he found these companies, Xu Yiyang finally breathed a sigh of relief.
I feel like a human being lost in the primeval forest. After searching for a long time in the dark, I finally see the shadow of human beings.
No wonder search engines are so important in the Internet industry.
Without search engines, people's efficiency in the online world is greatly reduced.
After getting information about several Chinese software companies from the China Yellow Pages, Xu Yiyang began to contact them.
He first called and communicated with each one, explaining his intention on the phone and saying that he wanted to customize and develop a management software for internal use of the training institution.
These companies were very interested in the jobs that came to them, and they all proposed to communicate with Xu Yiyang in person, so Xu Yiyang took a day to meet with the heads of these companies one by one.
Xu Yiyang first went to several companies that worked in regular office buildings in the city. These companies were all relatively large, with at least dozens of employees.
However, during the negotiation process, the heads of these companies said that due to the recent heavy workload, timeliness cannot be guaranteed.
After Xu Yiyang told the other party his specific needs, the time given by these companies ranged from half a year to one year.
If you are developing a software with complex functions and huge architecture, not to mention half a year to a year, two or three years is acceptable.
But the key point is that the management software Xu Yiyang wants is not that difficult. A mature small team can develop it in a month or two.
Unfortunately, no company can promise to complete development within two months.
Finally, Xu Yiyang drove to the company farthest from him.
After searching all the way according to the address provided by the company, Xu Yiyang discovered that he had arrived at the gate of an old community.
Before coming, the other party only gave Xu Yiyang the address of "No. 21 Guanghai Road" and also told him to call him and he would come down and pick him up.
Unexpectedly, No. 21 Guanghai Road is not an office building, but a residential complex.
Xu Yiyang dialed the other party's number with some suspicion. Before he could speak, the other party hurriedly asked: "Mr. Xu, are you here?"
"We're here." Xu Yiyang said, "But this place looks like a community, not an office. Am I going to the wrong place?"
"You're right, you're right!" the other party said hurriedly: "Wait a moment, I will come down to pick you up. What color clothes are you wearing?"
Xu Yiyang said: "I was in the car and the car was not registered."
"Okay!" the other party said enthusiastically: "Wait a moment, I'll be here right now!"
Xu Yiyang waited for a moment with suspicion. A young man wearing shorts, a vest and flip-flops hurriedly ran out of the community.
The young man looked a bit slovenly in his mid-twenties. After he came out, he looked around and saw Xu Yiyang's car. He was stunned for a moment, then checked before running over and knocking on the door in surprise. Knock on the car window.
"Mr. Xu, right? This is Liu Mingchao who is communicating with you on the phone!"
Liu Mingchao was very surprised. Xu Yiyang looked only eighteen years old, but he was actually the owner of an education and training institution. Moreover, he drove an Audi at such a young age. This car must cost six to seven hundred thousand, right
Xu Yiyang looked at Liu Mingchao at this time and asked: "Does your company work in a community?"
Liu Mingchao said sheepishly: "Our company is relatively small, so in order to save costs, we work in residential buildings..."
Speaking, Liu Mingchao hurriedly added: "But don't worry, Mr. Xu, our team is very strong. Everyone, including me, graduated from Huazhong University of Science and Technology. We have two master's degrees and three bachelor's degrees. You can Let’s go up and investigate first.”
Xu Yiyang felt a little confused in his heart.
I had only contacted Liu Mingchao by phone. I had never had any contact with him before, and I didn’t know his details.
If you go to an office building to talk about cooperation, it's okay. If you go to a residential building, if you encounter criminals who are fishing, it will really be a disaster.
The social security in 1999 was much worse than twenty years later, and Xu Yiyang did not dare to take it lightly.
Moreover, when Xu Yiyang saw the environment here, he no longer had any hope for Liu Mingchao's team.
Even if what he told was true and there was no danger to himself, in Xu Yiyang's eyes, a micro-entrepreneurial team of only five people might not be able to achieve anything great living in a place like this.
In this case, there is no need to follow him up.
Xu Yiyang was trying to find a reason to decline and drive away, but suddenly he thought that he said he was from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, which allowed Xu Yiyang to grab a clue.
Huazhong University of Science and Technology was later renamed Huazhong University of Science and Technology. It is a 211 and 985 double first-class key institution. In a previous life, Zhang Xiaolong, the founder of Tengxun WeChat, seemed to have graduated from this school!
So, Xu Yiyang asked tentatively: "In which year did you graduate from Huazhong University of Science and Technology?"
Liu Mingchao said: "I graduated from the Department of Telecommunications as an undergraduate in 1992 and as a graduate student in 1995."
Xu Yiyang pretended to be probing and asked: "By the way, there seems to be a developer in your school named Zhang Xiaolong. Do you know him?"
"We know each other!" Liu Mingchao immediately became excited and said, "Brother Xiaolong is my senior brother. We are in the same undergraduate department. He is two years older than me. We were a mentor when we were in graduate school. How did you know him?"
Xu Yiyang was surprised and said: "I have used Foxmail developed by him. Are you familiar with him?"
Liu Mingchao nodded: "We are very familiar. When he was working on Foxmail the year before last, he wanted me to go to his place. However, I just came to China Shipping and wanted to do something on my own, so I didn't go. Now Foxmail is planning to sell it. It is said that It could be sold for several million, and to be honest, I feel a little regretful when I think about it now."
Xu Yiyang thought to himself that since Liu Mingchao knew Zhang Xiaolong and knew that he was working on Foxmail, it proved that Liu Mingchao was not lying.
Then his worries about Liu Mingchao disappeared.
Moreover, Xu Yiyang realized that through Liu Mingchao, it was possible to get in touch with big names like Zhang Xiaolong.
Although Xu Yiyang has no plans to start his own business, a technology company or an Internet company yet, it is always good to get to know such an awesome person in advance.
Taking a step back, even if I want to carry forward my own style, it would be a good thing to introduce Zhang Xiaolong to Ma Huateng in advance. After all, I hold 40% of the shares of Tengxun. The better and faster Tengxun develops, the more beneficial it will be to me. benefit.
So Xu Yiyang nodded and said to Liu Mingchao: "As for business matters, let's go to your company to discuss them in detail."
Liu Mingchao was overjoyed and said hurriedly: "There is no place to park inside. Please park your car on the roadside. We are in the first building."
This chapter counts as number 10!
(End of chapter)