"Professor, this is authentic Indonesian kopi luwak coffee. It tastes the best. Try it."
Wang Yaocheng came in with coffee, and the room was immediately filled with the rich aroma of coffee.
Professor Sun Zhongxiu took the coffee and tasted it with a smile. The rich and mellow taste of civet coffee contained a hint of mint.
"It is indeed top-notch coffee, and the taste is quite authentic. Thank you, Xiaocheng."
"Professor, please don't mention it. I haven't thanked you yet. The cashier operating system you wrote for our supermarket played a huge role in the actual application on the first day."
"Hahaha... take people's money and eliminate disasters with them."
Professor Sun Zhongxiu smiled heartily: "A few graduate students and I typed computer code for half a month, and finally came up with this cashier system.
So far, it's running pretty well.
In view of the problems in today's specific application, after returning home, we still need to further improve this cashier operating system, and the workload is not small.
If the cashier system is not good enough, your 200,000 yuan will be hot to my hands."
Wang Yaocheng smiled and sat next to Professor Sun Zhongxiu, thought for a while and said: "Professor, you are joking. In today's society, it is said that making missiles is not as good as selling tea eggs. It is a completely confusing statement.
Social progress and human development require strong support from science and technology.
These tea egg sellers can't do that. I hope your corporate cashier software based on the Linux operating system can be gradually improved.
I have an idea that I would like to discuss with the professor in detail."
"What do you think? Tell me and listen."
Professor Sun Zhongxiu was very interested. He looked at this tall, young student with a sincere look on his green face, and he felt deeply touched.
Such a huge Carrefour supermarket, with its numerous employees and mountains of goods, was actually built by this freshman.
This really overturned Professor Sun's three views and changed his understanding that the power of capital can be so powerful.
a month ago,
Wang Yaocheng took the initiative to find Professor Sun Zhongxiu and talked about his willingness to invest his own money, hoping to write a set of enterprise cashier software.
Professor Sun Zhongxiu was so surprised that he did not believe that all this was true until a huge sum of 200,000 yuan was sent to the computer laboratory.
From then on, he paid special attention to this unique young man.
"Professor, this is what I think. The cashier system based on the Linux operating system has initially achieved success.
However, there are still many bugs and shortcomings that need to be further improved.
Moreover, the Linux operating system itself is only a preliminary framework. Currently, there are only more than 10,000 lines of code available, which is far from enterprise-level applications.
This requires a large number of manpower and long hours of unremitting work in order to achieve greater results.
On the one hand, we continue to improve the application scenarios of the cashier system, and on the other hand, we also need to deepen the improvement of the operating system code. This is a long-term project that may take ten years or more."
Seeing that Professor Sun Xiuzhong was listening intently, Wang Yaocheng came up with a very attractive plan:
Pacific Company provided funds, office space, and equipment to jointly establish a high-tech software company with the Computer Science Department of Jinling University, focusing on enterprise-level application scenario operating systems.
This proposal made Professor Sun Xiuzhong very excited, and he was silent for a long time.
Without it, I just lack money and ears.
Although as a national key university, Jinling University has hundreds of millions of financial allocations every year, it still cannot make ends meet.
As a comprehensive national key institution of higher learning that combines liberal arts, science, agriculture, industry, and commerce, it has dozens of departments, tens of thousands of students, and more than 4,000 faculty members.
To train each college student, the state spends nearly 10,000 yuan a year, and only charges a symbolic tuition fee of 160 yuan.
Coupled with the large number of professors in various disciplines and the scientific research needs of young and middle-aged backbones in the discipline, the resources that can be assigned to the computer department are extremely limited.
not to mention
As a national first-level key discipline, Professor Sun Zongxiu is not the only academic figure in the Department of Computer Science at Jinling University.
He is just the most outstanding young and middle-aged expert, and there are also department directors, deputy directors, and older generation experts and scholars, no less than five of them.
"Xiaocheng, uh, this is a very good idea, but I can't answer you now. I can only report this situation to the dean of the department. It may be studied in the school."
Professor Sun Xiuzhong smiled bitterly and could only answer his students like this. He knew clearly in his heart:
Even if it gets the green light all the way, it will take at least half a year from study to approval of this proposal.
At this time, a burst of cheers came from the accounting department not far away, breaking the silence of the night.
immediately
Manager Zheng Fushan walked in with a daily report with an excited face and said: "Boss, we released a big satellite. Today, the turnover in the supermarket reached 15 million, and the per capita consumption was 52.5 yuan."
"Okay, great."
Wang Yaocheng had expected this, but he didn't expect the sales to be so high. It was really popular.
The average supermarket profit margin is around 20%, which means that a gross profit of more than 3 million yuan is recorded in one day. This is an out-and-out cash flow monster.
Customers used their fiery enthusiasm to happily embrace the new retail format and cast a firm vote of approval.
Since then, in the heart of Jinling City, a company that rivals the two major retail giants in the north and south has proudly emerged - Carrefour Supermarket.
The Gulou business district where Carrefour Supermarket is located will inevitably be built with Carrefour Supermarket as the core, forming an urban core business district independent of the north and south.
The scope extends eastward to the Provincial TV Station, Arctic Hall, Jiming City, Jinling City Government and surrounding high-consumption groups two kilometers away.
To the west, it covers many units and residential areas including Jinling University, Haihe University, Southeast University, the provincial government, the Provincial Cancer Hospital, and the Provincial Brain Hospital.
To the north is the Gulou Hospital, a key tertiary hospital in the country, as well as numerous banks, provincial agencies and corporate units.
The Gulou core business district occupied by Carrefour covers the residents with the highest spending power in Jinling City, the provincial capital, and is in an invincible position.
In addition, supermarkets, a brand-new retail format, have been warmly welcomed by customers, and it is inevitable to achieve great success.
seven days in a row
Carrefour Supermarket is booming in Jinling City. Newspapers and radio stations have reported endless tidbits and news, which has intensified the sales boom.
People living in provincial capital cities are curious to know:
In a large comprehensive supermarket covering tens of thousands of square meters, you can take whatever you want. It is as magical as a fantasy!
Who doesn’t want to try this kind of shopping experience that has never been done before?
The crowded crowds in the newspaper pictures not only did not scare away the lively Chinese people, but instead intensified the herd mentality.
If so many people are buying them, they must be good things. If you don’t go there, wouldn’t you be losing money?
Ever since, the real severe test reached its climax on the first day of the New Year's holiday.