Chapter 404 Facts speak louder than words
Li Yan woke up on the sofa. He was planning to watch some TV to relax and then go to sleep.

As a result, as I watched, I wanted to regain some of the "joy of youth", so I decisively downloaded some games that were "childhood memories" in my previous life but are just right for now.

Unexpectedly, occasional relaxation combined with crazy "ding ding ding" gaming skills gave him enough positive feedback, making him so happy that he couldn't stop at all.

After playing for a while, Xilihulu broke through 60% of the progress and became a master of the game.

I think I am so handsome.

In fact, with his current memory, understanding, reaction, concentration, thinking speed, neural recruitment and other abilities, playing games is basically a dimensionality reduction attack.

Whether it is strategy or operation, there is basically no difficulty.

Therefore, it only takes about ten minutes from the beginning to the end to complete a game.

When Li Yanshuang started to feel bored after playing for three hours, he quickly brushed his teeth and went to bed.

Although staying up all night would not be considered a big deal for him now, he had just used overclocking continuously, so it would be better for him to get enough rest.

Li Yan has fewer dreams when her brain is very tired.

But the first night of 2011 was almost entirely a dream.

Li Yan actually knew very well that as the progress of the Jiaolong phone improved, his fame would gradually increase. He was afraid that once the news of the "completion of the Hetu system" was released, his social influence would be further enhanced.

But his legend is no longer just spread in a small circle, but he has become a real "celebrity".

This has a fatal attraction for Li Yan, who has been struggling with "what it means to be alive" in his previous life.

Li Yan also knew that if the Jiaolong phone could be manufactured as he dreamed, it would not be difficult to sell it with impressive figures amid so much attention and expectations - as long as he had the ability to control costs.

By then, he will have become a man with a net worth of tens of billions or even hundreds of billions. The magnitude of his wealth will have crossed many levels, and his life will inevitably take a different direction.

Don’t even talk about bringing your parents to New Taipei and letting them grow vegetables in a villa in the city center.

Food, drink, entertainment, houses and luxury cars are all part of daily life.

Li Yan certainly wouldn't take these as his life goals, but he wouldn't pretend to be noble and treat money as dirt.

He also loves fame, wealth and power.

Just rebirth and cheating, it's too unambitious to only regard these as pursuits.

The extravagant and decadent life in his dream made him feel a little dazed when he woke up, accompanied by a strong sense of emptiness.

Just to put it bluntly, how much money can you spend on a lavish life?
With his current ability to make money, as long as he doesn't deliberately seek to spend all the money, it's enough for him to enjoy eating, drinking, buying a house and a car without having to deal with a mobile phone.

The so-called unimaginable happiness of rich people is actually just a different concept of spending money. When you have tens of billions in your hands, there is no difference between a ten-yuan pork trotter meal and a five-thousand-yuan private dish.

What makes Li Yan feel unreal is that this dream is not an unattainable daydream.

The most difficult "self-developed system" of the Jiaolong mobile phone has been completed. There are many loopholes in the software and hardware that can be taken advantage of, and the flexibility of "meeting the standards" is also higher.

It can be said that the day the Luoshen kernel is completed, the launch of the Jiaolong mobile phone is a foregone conclusion.

No matter how you look at it, the Jiaolong phone can at least reproduce the grand occasion of the Chuangzu W8.

"My mind is really confused," he said, rubbing his temple while brushing his teeth. "This is more exciting than winning the lottery."

The topic about the successful development of the Hetu system was fermenting wildly on the Internet. Li Yan's mobile phone had dozens of missed calls and 99+ text messages.

He opened Weibo with great interest, and the webpage even froze for a moment.

"Be prepared to be a celebrity, Li Yan." He said to himself, "Damn, there's actually a bit of pressure."

The leaders and bosses who couldn't contact Li Yan were making wild guesses. They felt that it was inappropriate to continue disturbing her, but they couldn't suppress their curiosity. At the same time, they were worried that if they contacted her too late, Li Yan would be abducted by someone else. They were all very uneasy.

Everyone is looking forward to the day when the Hetu system will be successfully developed, and they also know that many things will change when that day comes, but they didn't expect Li Yan to be able to do it before New Year's Day.

Even the haters were not prepared.

Under the gaze and expectation of many eyes, Li Yan did two things that no one expected.

One is not to hold a press conference for the Hetu system, but only to display it to interested investors to show that such an achievement has indeed been achieved.

Secondly, in response to the planned and organized questioning and smearing, he chose to personally confront them.

Linjiang Province tried hard to organize a meeting, hoping that Li Yan would use their platform to hold a press conference. As a result, Li Yan himself received several waves of investors in Future Technology, catching the province off guard.

The boss was so anxious that he shouted directly at the meeting, "Future technology must belong to Linjiang!"

The outside world naturally expressed doubts about Li Yan's actions, and the main point of attack was naturally that "Li Yan has no real results at all."

After two days, the news still remained at the point of "successful research and development" which was devoid of any substance. The skeptics became emboldened and launched a variety of criticisms.

Not only did the small fry show up, even the top executives of a major mobile phone manufacturer in Beijing personally stepped in and retweeted several Weibo posts questioning Li Yan, and also posted a long article of their own.

The doubts started with Li Yan's boast that he would complete the Hetu system in one month. People believed that he released the news of the successful development of the system just to maintain his image, and then started the old-fashioned discussion of "creating a god". However, having learned from the experience of being killed in the past, they will become much smarter now.

It is not to directly deny Li Yan's past achievements, but the platform of deification created by public opinion has made it difficult for Li Yan to step down, and one feels sorry for Li Yan for being addicted to it and unable to extricate himself.

The implicit meaning behind his words is actually the same: you are obviously capable, so why do you insist on indulging in the pleasure of creating a god?
This relatively non-radical view won the approval of many neutral and uninformed people and gradually gained momentum.

After all, Li Yan is only sixteen years old and a minor, so attacking him will not bring any good results.

The only effective approach is to focus on attacking the group that "recognizes Li Yan", cutting off everyone's support for Li Yan, and fundamentally shaking their idea that Li Yan is omnipotent.

However, soon after, as many capital companies released information about investing in future technology, the neutral crowd was shaken again.

Especially when Bailan Capital gave 1 billion yuan with a generous gesture, it shocked the technology circle.

Wu Lansheng, the CEO of Bailan Capital, is famous for his stability. He has always invested only in the industrial sector and never takes long-term investments. He will not take a bite of a pie that does not see a return.

Now they have directly given 1 billion yuan to Future Technology. How optimistic are they about it?

The executive was the one who was in a dilemma. He spent the entire afternoon in front of his computer, thinking hard, and saw that a system development engineer from another mobile phone manufacturer had blasted Li Yan on the Knowledge Planet forum, listing Li Yan's "seven sins" from the perspective of system development difficulty.

The general meaning is that Li Yan ignored the "objective laws" of system development and did not realize how many things need to be considered for a commercial operating system. He took a semi-finished product and used his reputation as a genius to harvest investment, "bringing immeasurable negative impact on a group of diligent development engineers like me." It's quite harsh, what made the investors misjudge the difficulty of system development, what made the industry atmosphere become impetuous, what led to the distorted values ​​of contemporary young talents, etc....

The executive was excited by what he saw and thought he could extract the essence of it and then add fuel to the fire.

When I refreshed my page, I saw this post was pinned to the top.

An account named "Teacher Li Yan" replied to him:

"You are a bad person, don't bark. This article of yours offended not me, but the investors. It seems that it will indeed bring immeasurable negative impact to the project you developed. I hope you only represent yourself, and not Changlong Company, which thinks it is a research and development company because it launched a copycat phone that uses the Robert system."

The executive frowned and refreshed the page. There was a chorus of applause below. According to the latest reply, he also saw the poster's incompetent rage:
"At such a young age, he has used human flesh. He didn't learn any good things, but he did learn a lot of despicable means. The website has also set up a top post so that the post cannot be deleted. No wonder people say that Boss Li has no bad things. It turns out that he has such a deep background! If you can't afford to offend me, can you afford to hide from me?"

The executive refreshed the page again, and this comment was actually pinned to the top of the page. "Student Li Yan" also responded below.

"You didn't even know that I created the Knowledge Planet. I suddenly have no interest in talking to you, but thank you for educating everyone about how outrageous and awesome I was. Hang it up for everyone to see. I'll go find someone else."

Find...someone else?
The executive suddenly felt something was wrong and switched back to Weibo, searching for Li Yan's account. He immediately saw several fresh replies.

"If you are willing to give me a starting investment of 50 million, I will show you the system."

"Yes, it is indeed a semi-finished product. The Jiaolong phone is the finished product."

"I know you. You are an administrator in the 'Future Technology Public Opinion Group 2'. You can earn 100 yuan by posting a template with a popularity of more than 5. You have used at least accounts. You are willing to make such hard-earned money. Let me show you a way. Help me be an undercover in the group. If you find one person, I will give you yuan."

"I'm Li Yan, not Li Yan. I give up. Can you be more professional?"

"Yes, the future technology is indeed not my future technology, it belongs to my father."

"I really like keyboard warriors like you. You can always help me find some of my awesomeness."

……

The executive broke out in a cold sweat and quickly opened his Weibo. When he was about to delete it, he suddenly saw the number "@my" increased by one. For some reason, he clicked it.

"Dude, as a public figure (if you count) you have to be careful with what you say and do. The Internet has memories. I took a screenshot for you, but don't say I photoshopped it later."

Now it’s a difficult situation. It’s neither right nor wrong to delete it. After enough big guys recharged Li Yan, even the neutral people who were originally instigated by him turned around and spit on him.

Those who stayed behind were all purified idiots, saying that Li Yan was laundering money...

This kind of support was so overwhelming that one fan could defeat ten haters. The executives said they couldn't stand it anymore and finally had to delete the post and apologize, becoming a famous clown in the technology circle.

Li Yan's counterattack was beyond everyone's expectations. Most people, including those who supported Li Yan, thought that his current status was different from before and he should be too lazy to spend time and energy dealing with these fly-like black fans.

"You also know that it's just like a fly, so you have to slap it a few times, right?"

Li Yan responded to a fan’s question in this way.

With the final 2 billion investment from Yili Group, doubts about Li Yan became increasingly rare.

It's a simple truth. It's OK to question Li Yan's fraud. Maybe some lay investors can't see it, and maybe the leaders of the New Taipei Science and Technology Bureau can't see it. But are the provincial leaders who support him stupid? Or is Wu Lansheng stupid? Or even Wei Yili stupid?
Thinking that so many top bosses are idiots can only mean one thing: those who think so are real idiots.

No one wants to be considered an idiot, so the stance changes smoothly.

Instead, the public was surprised that Li Yan could get such a high investment in one go, and thus became more looking forward to the finished product of the Jiaolong mobile phone.

Wang Zi was already confused. She felt that she was not able to cope with the position of housekeeper, so she sincerely went to Li Yan and asked for help.

Li Yan agreed. Although the difficulty of what he needed to do next was not as high as developing the system, the workload was much greater.

Future Technology needs to make a dramatic turnaround immediately and become a "big company" in earnest.

Recruiting people, establishing company structure and management system, expanding office space, personnel appointments... these are all tasks that Li Yan is not very interested in, but she cannot trust anyone else to do it, not even Wang Zi.

Especially when it comes to personnel appointments, this right once given out cannot be taken back.

Everyone knows that technology will need to expand in the future. Even many of Huang Zhan's employees are yearning for it. Huang Zhan has nothing to say. He can't ask Li Yan to refuse on his own initiative. A forced melon will not be sweet.

As a result, the “veteran employees” began to have more ideas.

Under normal circumstances, they should be very excited now. They have worked hard and made great contributions. It would be difficult to convince people if they are not allowed to be in management, and the boss's prestige would also be challenged.

When a startup company has secured huge investments and its major projects are on track, even its veteran employees have finally made it.

However, in future technology, in the magical future technology, under the even more magical boss Li Yan, everything is different.

Sun Miao has a relatively high profile, but he believes that he has not worked hard enough and has not made much contribution. The success of the project cannot be said to have nothing to do with him, everyone in the startup team, and even all the employees, but it is indeed not a very big relationship.

With Li Yan's appeal, he could still get the project done even if he directly asked the province to allocate some people from state-owned enterprises to cooperate.

What's more, Boss Li is also very clear about this, which is why he decided to make an example of Zhang He and Wang Li.

Everyone knows that in Li Yan's eyes, only the four friends who initially worked with him to create the concept phone from scratch can be considered veterans.

However, Li Yan still made a statement to the initially appointed management team at the celebration party, saying that as long as the work did not decline, the dividends would only be higher and not lower.

His style is to give up profits but not power.

Besides, Li Yan doesn’t like playing financial games, and Future Technology will not be his only company. Taking shares may not necessarily be better than high profit dividends.

Zhou Yang and Li Guangde’s thoughts are not that complicated. The higher Li Yan’s influence and the stronger the project’s presence, the happier they are.

They had originally come here to fulfill their own needs, and now both of them had sparks in their eyes and were full of motivation.

The company's expansion was progressing in full swing. After getting Li Yan's promise not to move out of New Taipei City, the New Taipei City Government took positive action and arranged an industrial park for Li Yan in the central area of ​​Xinqiao District. They didn't even ask for rent, and they only paid for the water and electricity bills.

The idea is good, and emerging industrial parks do need some high-profile companies to move in and drive them. Relatively speaking, the old Rongxi industrial park is not very convenient in terms of transportation, and the building style is not as modern and advanced as that in Xinqiao District, which does not quite fit the positioning of future technology.

But Li Yan refused.

The reason is, "Now this place is closer to New Taipei Middle School, which makes it convenient for me to go to class."

The leaders could only smile and applaud him.

(End of this chapter)