Rebirth of the Rich Second Generation's Growth Diary

Chapter 117: Others are presenting their achievements, but you are holding a product launch? [Happy New Year!]

After the competition ended that day, life returned to normal and Li Xu continued to devote all his energy and time to the scientific research competition.

In addition to participating students, some scientific research enthusiasts, and teachers, the provincial-level scientific research competition will also involve representatives from some companies.

Some of the representatives of these companies sat on the judging panel, while others mingled among them as visitors.

They were trying their luck to see if there were any works with higher commercial value in the competition.

Most of them are small and medium-sized enterprises.

These small and medium-sized enterprises are often not technology-oriented, but have strong OEM capabilities and can quickly put scientific research works into production.

In contrast, larger companies with their own scientific research teams do not need this.

But there are exceptions, such as Sheng Feng.

Wang Chuan from Shengfeng called Liu Dashan, the teacher in charge of the provincial scientific research competition, and said, "Mr. Liu, are there any eye-catching works in this competition? Please keep an eye out for me!"

Generally speaking, the probability of there being works with commercial value in this kind of youth scientific research competition is not very high, but Wang Chuan, with the mentality of preferring to miss out rather than let go, casts a wide net. If he can find a loophole, that would of course be the best.

Liu Dashan smiled. "You know what? This year, there's actually a product with great commercial value. However, I think the product they've created is already very mature. It's not just a concept, but their experimental data is detailed and they have a lot of samples, which shows they've already achieved scale. Buying it won't be easy."

Wang Chuan immediately became interested. Could such a high-quality work be presented at a provincial competition? He thought for a moment and said, "I wonder what kind of product could earn such high praise from Professor Liu?"

Liu Dashan was not in a position to reveal too much at this time. Although Li Xu and his team's product had already been overwhelmingly selected as the first among the submitted works, the result would still have to be officially confirmed after the works were displayed on site.

So, he just said vaguely, "It's a management system for home appliances."

Wang Chuan's eyes suddenly lit up and he said, "Isn't that exactly our company's main business? Professor Liu, could you please arrange a seat for me this time?"

Liu Dashan suddenly said with a smile: "You are right. We welcome any company that wants to participate! We are happy to see scientific research results transformed into commercial results."

This is not the first time that Liu Dashan has communicated with others about smart energy management systems.

Ever since his son told him about this system, people often asked him for information about this scientific research competition.

After a while, many people who were paying attention to this competition learned from various channels that there would be a system worthy of attention in this competition.

It is not true to say that Li Xu and his team's energy management system has a very high technical content.

After all, it was created by a few high school students.

The greatest significance of this system is that the first person to come up with it needs to put in the most effort, and the cost for those who come after them will be lower if they follow the predecessors.

Now that there are templates, any scientific researcher in a large enterprise with a little bit of skills may be able to build a more powerful management system in a short time.

The reason why everyone is paying so much attention to it is that, on the one hand, this work is already very mature and can be put into production directly, and on the other hand, people have seen the potential of the people behind this system.

Only those who understand can deeply appreciate how amazing it is for a high school student to create a mature business project.

It’s not a small-scale operation, but can be put into production directly!
In addition to the interdisciplinary scientific research capabilities of those high school students, what is more important is their ability to coordinate and collaborate.

From this team, we can see the characteristics of a mature scientific research team: spending the least money to do the biggest things, team members collaborating with each other, and maximizing the use of resources. This is not only a scientific research case but also an excellent management case.

What is most important these days? Talent is the most important, so what everyone is interested in is not only the project itself, but also the members of the project team.

Therefore, although we still don’t know what kind of system the energy management system is at this time, judging from the information we have learned, it is enough to attract the attention of some companies and even universities.

This time, the attention to the provincial competition is obviously higher than ever before. Everyone wants to see what kind of team created this system.

……

In a blink of an eye, it was time for the final results presentation of the provincial competition in May.

As a participating team, Li Xu and his colleagues arrived at the venue early.

It is worth mentioning that Liu Yunfei's bald head has grown short hair and he also followed the team.

Yes, the original team of four people has now become five.

Liu Yunfei also joined the team.

Liu Yunfei has not attended college, but he is two years older than Li Xu and the others. As a junior college graduate, he is still a little nervous about such a scene.

He had previously helped find loopholes in the system and identified the two culprits, Xiong Haiyang and Zhang Junquan. In addition, he spent several weeks further upgrading the system's security system.

In a sense, his contribution is no less than that of his other friends.

Originally, he could just take the money and leave, go back to his work of cracking commercial products, and take some gray orders by the way.

But Li Xu had other ideas.

In his previous life, Liu Yunfei had been there.

Li Xu felt that Liu Yunfei should not end up like that.

After Li Xu paid Liu Yunfei part of the remuneration, he sincerely invited him to join his team.

Naturally, other people have no objections.

That day, Liu Yunfei was stunned for a long time, and asked with a complicated expression, "But I didn't even finish high school. I only went to a technical secondary school. Are you sure you want me to join your team?"

Li Xu responded with a smile: "What does this have to do with academic qualifications? Is there anyone on our team who understands system security better than you?"

Liu Yunfei said disdainfully: "That's not the case."

Li Xu then said to Liu Yunfei earnestly, "To be honest, the jobs you're doing now do make money, but do you really plan to do them for the rest of your life?"

These words were not meant to be disparaging, and Liu Yunfei naturally knew that.

Although he has good skills, he has also thought about working for some serious large companies. However, every time he sent out his resume, people would not be able to get an interview as soon as they saw the words "technical secondary school student". So he could only live like this, muddling through his life.

Is he content with this?
The answer is obvious.

I met Li Xu before because of Lu Zhuofeng.

Lu Zhuofeng helps others modify cars. For some special cars, such as BMW, the car computer will lock some engine performance when the system leaves the factory.

Lu Zhuofeng would then find him to help unlock the system, and they became regular partners.

Naturally, we will also introduce some common customers to each other.

Although Li Xu was not a rich second-generation who played with cars, Lu Zhuofeng regarded Li Xu as a potential customer at that time and often organized groups to play with him.

After a few interactions, Liu Yunfei got to know Li Xu.

Li Xu gave Liu Yunfei the impression of being just an ordinary rich second generation.

Among the rich people he knew, apart from being a little more childish, there seemed to be no other characteristics.

Until a while ago, Li Xu found him and asked him to help with that matter.

At that time, Liu Yunfei just thought that it would be a bastard not to make money, and he didn't think too much about it.

What he did at that time was indeed very simple.

After completing the order, Li Xu invited him to help upgrade the security system.

During this process, Liu Yunfei's contact with Li Xu gradually became more frequent and in-depth.

This process overturned all his previous impressions of Li Xu.

Let’s talk about their system first… Let’s not talk about the security aspect for now, but their intelligent energy management system is indeed a new product he has never seen before, and it is very interesting.

While helping to upgrade the security system, he would naturally communicate with Lei Yinbing, Ye Ruida and others.

I also gradually realized that these people are all extremely smart geniuses.

If I hadn't put all my time and energy into network hacking techniques and taken advantage of their time, I might not have done better than them.

Even so, especially the one named Ye Ruida, I just briefly explained some hacking techniques, but I didn't expect him to be able to quickly learn from them and find the key points of the technology from time to time.

After several discussions, Liu Yunfei became more and more frightened.

That guy's comprehension ability and IQ are far beyond that of ordinary people!
In addition, the guy named Lei Yinbing is also amazing. Although his IQ is not as good as Ye Ruida's, he has a tenacity in his bones. Once he decides to do something and can do it, he will stay up all night like crazy to get it done.

In comparison, the girl named Xue Xue is not as capable as the other two, but her creativity should not be underestimated.

All in all, the three people in this team are first-class talents.

Then the most outrageous thing comes... These three people obey Li Xu's orders. It can be said that Li Xu's will is the will of their team!

This is what surprised Liu Yunfei the most.

It was clear that when I dealt with Li Xu before, he was still a frivolous and naive high school student from the rich second generation.

After this incident, the image of Li Xu in his mind changed completely: mature and steady, considering things very carefully. Not only that, his most terrifying ability is to see through people's hearts!
So when Li Xu made the invitation, Liu Yunfei went back and thought about it for two nights before accepting it.

He saw a kind of hope in Li Xu... It was the first time he saw such a strong ray of hope after hitting a wall so many times and becoming disheartened.

Although he is two years older than Li Xu and the others, he is still a young man.

The passion he saw from their team also made him feel a little envious.

Try it!
A voice in his heart told him this.

He also looked forward to seeing what he could achieve by following Li Xu.

If you really fail, you can always go back to your old job.

……

Only six research groups finally made it to the final presentation stage. Theirs is the most important and comprehensive project, and also the one with the highest attention and difficulty.

In a huge conference room, the judges sat in the first row, and then the project team members represented by the companies and a large number of scientific research enthusiasts gathered together.

When Li Xu and the other four were sitting in the contestant area, someone approached them.

"You are the energy management system team, right?"

A boy wearing glasses took the initiative to talk to Lei Yinbing.

Lei Yinbing ignored him and turned his gaze to Li Xu.

They have become accustomed to Li Xu representing the team in negotiations with others in situations where external communication is required.

Li Xu took over the conversation, "Yes, we are." The boy pushed his glasses, smiled faintly and said, "I heard that your project has been internally selected as the first place?"

Li Xu's eyes flickered slightly, and he immediately shook his head and said, "I haven't heard of such a thing."

The other party didn't dwell on this topic too much and said, "We came here with a learning attitude. We must take a good look at your project when the time comes!"

After a few simple conversations, the other party returned to his seat.

Xue Xue frowned and whispered, "What does that guy mean? Does he mean that we used unfair means?"

Liu Yunfei had a cynical smile on his face: "Do you want me to find a way to play a trick on him?"

Ye Ruida shook his head and said, "I've heard some rumors before. Our project is very popular, and many people come here just for us."

Lei Yinbing said smugly, "Our project is already much better than theirs! What did that kid mean by asking that question with such a venomous tone? Haha?"

Li Xu thought for a moment and said, "It's okay. It's normal to have doubts before seeing our project presentation, but we have strong capabilities, so there's no need to worry about that."

Xue Xue asked, "Have you finished your speech?"

Li Xu smiled calmly: "Don't worry, I will definitely surprise everyone when the time comes!"

With Li Xu's confident speech, everyone calmed down.

After the exhibition of works began, representatives from each participating team took turns to speak on stage.

The huge screen at the back of the conference room was playing a PPT presentation.

I have to say that they are indeed the best group of teenagers.

Although some of the topics seem to be relatively immature, if it were not for the limitations of financial resources and the cognition of this era, Li Xu would not dare to say that he would definitely do better than them.

But unfortunately, I just have the money and my knowledge is more than ten years ahead of this era, which means that my work is destined to amaze the audience with its overwhelming momentum!
It seemed that they were worried that the works of others would be overshadowed after Li Xu went on stage, so Li Xu was arranged to be the last one to go on stage.

When it was his turn, he took a shallow breath and then walked onto the stage with steady steps.

……

After Li Xu came on stage, the scene suddenly became quiet.

Li Xu's eyes swept across the faces of the audience, he took a deep breath, and then began to recall in his mind the aura of those well-known presidents, especially the men of Lei Jun, when they introduced their own products.

After a moment, he had adjusted himself to the best condition.

Li Xu's white shirt was slightly stained with sweat. He suddenly grabbed the mineral water bottle on the podium and put it down heavily, waking up the judges who were dozing off in the back row.

“Dear judges!”

He imitated the replay of Lei Jun's press conference he'd watched over and over, his index finger arcing in the air. "Do you know how much electricity wasted in the best high school residential building in the province last year? How many iPhones could it charge?"

The big screen exploded with flying icons of the latest Apple mobile phones, and finally stopped at the blood-red number "5210 units".

The bald judge in the first row adjusted his glasses - this high school sophomore actually dared to use the price of the latest model of the hottest mobile phone as the conversion unit!
"A good socket on the market costs 80 yuan."

Li Xu took out a black square wrapped with tape from his trouser pocket.

"And the smart switch we modified using the router core module—" He paused deliberately, and the PowerPoint behind him cut to a screenshot of a Taobao order, "cost less than thirty!"

The sound of pen tips breaking was heard from the audience, and whispers began to be heard.

Li Xu walked quickly to the judges' table, the tips of his leather shoes almost touching the edge of the table. "Traditional solutions still use fixed threshold warnings, which is like putting an iron cage around every appliance."

He suddenly checked the surveillance video of his living room. At two o'clock in the morning, the red standby light of the TV was flashing strangely in the dark.

"The energy-saving system we developed—"

Li Xu pressed the remote control, and the video suddenly sped up. The red wavy lines representing power consumption were interrupted by streaks of blue light. "We don't need artificial intelligence. We just need to teach it to recognize the breathing rhythm of electrical appliances."

Colorful waveforms popped up on the big screen at the right time. They were the soundprints of electrical switches recorded by them using thirty second-hand mobile phones.

Some manufacturer representatives began to lean forward.

Li Xu suddenly pulled out a cardboard box from under the podium and poured out twenty modified sockets. "These are one of the products we manufactured. Don't worry, they have passed the national 3C certification."

He picked one up and plugged it into the wall socket. On the real-time monitoring map on the big screen, the light spot representing Jinchuan No. 9 Middle School suddenly began to pulsate.

Naturally, there were teachers from No. 9 Middle School who also attended the event. Seeing this scene, they were so excited that they kept rubbing their hands together, took out their mobile phones and started taking pictures. They had already started thinking about how to write the press release after returning.

Li Xu is really a smart kid!

"Experimental data?"

Li Xu suddenly changed to a Lei Jun-style wry smile and said, "We can't afford commercial electricity meters, so we installed smart sockets in each volunteer's home."

Xue Xue was already grinning from ear to ear... It was so funny, they were obviously being so generous as to offer it to everyone for free...

But it is obvious that Li Xu's explanation has more of a high school student's flavor and is more approachable and down-to-earth.

The big screen scrolled through screenshots of QQ chats, and the household electricity consumption data obtained in exchange for "helping with winter vacation homework" eventually converged into a steep downward curve.

He calculated the 23% average electricity saving rate as "enough money saved each semester to buy 145 cups of Typhoon Shelter milk tea."

Typhoon shelters are very popular in this era.

Seeing this PPT, most of the young people at the scene smiled.

When the security test page popped up, Li Xu deliberately slowed down his speech: "We have flashed the encryption system of Lao Luo's English training class for each module—"

He deliberately emphasized the word "Lao Luo", and several young judges in the audience smiled knowingly.

At this time, Lao Luo had just started his business, and this is a joke that only young people of this era can understand.

"It's not as good as bank-level protection, but it's enough to prevent the neighbor from stealing my network."

The last PPT is a hand-drawn cartoon: a girl with a ponytail is using the electricity she saved to buy "Five Years of College Entrance Examination and Three Years of Simulation", and the dialog box says "What is more important than saving electricity is learning the method of controlling variables".

Seeing this scene, most of the students present couldn't help but burst into laughter.

Damn, this is so funny...

Liu Dashan said to the young judges next to him, "This presentation is really interesting."

At this point, the other participating teams have already intuitively felt the gap between them and Li Xu.

It's not just the difference in the works, but more importantly the difference in the presentation.

They tremble three times every time they speak on stage, read their PPTs dryly, and give mechanical speeches, which can even make the judges and audience fall asleep.

As soon as Li Xu came on stage, his first words were a bombshell.

There is no nonsense, it is short, but every sentence has a meaning, keeping up with the hot spots and trends!
From the moment he uttered his first sentence, he completely stirred up the emotions of the audience!

The exhibition of works is not over yet.

The subsequent PPT began to show scenes of their team in the laboratory.

As we prepared to turn the room into a laboratory, everyone was covered in dust as they moved the equipment in, but their faces were filled with hopeful smiles.

One night when he stayed up late, Lei Yinbing fell asleep in front of the computer with his instant noodles still steaming.

Xue Xue celebrated her birthday in the lab. Everyone gave her their blessings, and she clasped her hands together devoutly and made a silent wish...

Seven or eight photos were played in succession, all of which were photos of them staying up late and spending their youth in the laboratory.

"Next, let me introduce the members of our team..."

Li Xu introduced them one by one.

Everyone listened very carefully, not missing a single detail.

After introducing the team members, Li Xu suddenly bowed 90 degrees, and when he stood up, the back of his shirt was soaked.

“Maybe our code still smells like instant noodles, but—”

He raised the smart socket module, and the ending sound exploded in the lecture hall—

“This is the technical temperature that youth should have!”

Thunderous applause suddenly broke out at the scene.

Xue Xue's eyes were full of stars.

“Maybe our code still smells like instant noodles…”

“But this is the technical temperature that youth should have!”

These two sentences are so perfect!
Her nose felt sore and she turned to look at Lei Yinbing and Ye Ruida, only to see that the two older boys had tears in their eyes even more exaggeratedly.

Xue Xue couldn't help but burst out laughing and mocked them: "No way, why are you so pretentious?"

Ye Ruida smiled indifferently and shook his head, while Lei Yinbing snorted and said, "You little girl, you don't understand the romance of us science and engineering guys at all!"

Lei Yinbing's emotions kept surging.

Especially when Li Xu put the photo of him lying in front of the computer with instant noodles next to him on the PPT, it was obviously a very disheveled photo, but after seeing it, he wanted to cry every minute.

Just like Li Xu said, this is the warmth that youth should have!

Liu Yunfei also expressed his feelings. It must be said that this demonstration was really touching for the main creative staff.

Even he felt his blood boiling, let alone Ye Ruida and Lei Yinbing who had been there from the beginning?
Liu Yunfei looked at Li Xu, not knowing what he was thinking.

While the members of several teams were just feeling it, the representatives of the manufacturers were completely confused.

no……

Other people’s achievements displays are real achievements and works displays, but this guy... is clearly holding a product launch conference!

Can you still play like this?

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P.S. Happy New Year! Hardworking Cheng Cheng, on New Year's Eve, while everyone else was enjoying the Spring Festival Gala, I was still quietly writing away in my room, dedicating a 6,000-word chapter to you! This book is the one I've been most diligently updating since I started writing. Any compliments or votes?

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