Rebirth of the Rich Second Generation's Growth Diary

Chapter 158 Successive Victories
According to the concept of the smart campus plan, it is naturally not just about express lockers.

On campus, the morning sun shines on the outer walls of the teaching building, and students hurry by with their books in their arms.

In every corner of the school, other functional modules are also being promoted in full swing.

Although there are no obvious results in the construction of software functions such as school credit scores and social modules for the time being, the writing of program codes is proceeding in full swing.

At the same time, on the main road of the campus, trucks from logistics companies slowly drove in. After the start of school, smart express lockers were transported into the campus in batches for installation.

In recent days, construction scenes can be seen near various student dormitories.

The workers are busy in the designated areas.

Installing the express cabinet itself does not require much technical skills. The workers refer to the drawings and assemble the modules in an orderly manner. The sound of clanging and hammering can be heard from the construction site. The progress is fast and the efficiency is extremely high.

A girl just returned to the dormitory door. The sunlight shone on her, and her shadow was stretched out long.

She saw a large cabinet downstairs that was not used during the morning class, neatly stacked there.

The girl looked curious and paced back and forth beside the cabinet, looking left and right, but she couldn't figure out what it was used for.

The same doubts lingered in the minds of many students, and many of them were curious about this cabinet that suddenly appeared.

Someone ran to ask the workers who were installing it. The workers stopped what they were doing, smiled naively, scratched their heads and said, "We are responsible for the installation. We don't know what we do specifically."

Some students were also dissatisfied. After all, these express lockers took up a lot of space. Some were installed in the narrow gaps between buildings, and some directly occupied the space originally used for vending machines, making the originally convenient shopping area a bit messy.

Just when everyone was full of doubts, this mood did not last long.

Because people in the school started distributing flyers to each dormitory.

In Li Xu's dormitory.

Zhang Chenghui sat on the edge of the bed, holding the flyer that Li Xu and his team had made. His expression was very complicated. He looked at the flyer for a while, then at Li Xu again. He couldn't help but sigh and said, "You are really amazing. I don't know what's wrong with your brain. You came up with such a brilliant idea so quickly and implemented it. You really have a great business sense. You deserve to be so successful."

After saying this, he showed a look of regret on his face, and then he added: "You will never understand how pitiful the situation of the poor is."

After hearing what Zhang Chenghui said, Liu Dongyang turned around and laughed.

After laughing, he got out of bed, walked over to Zhang Chenghui, picked up the flyer, looked at it carefully, and then said with admiration, "So, as long as we link our courier information on the campus card app, we can directly use the campus card to open the smart express locker, right?"

Li Xu sat at his desk, nodded, and said, "But currently, we only support postal express delivery."

The postal service was the first one that Li Xu's team negotiated with. It was one of the express delivery companies that Tang Qiaoning was in charge of.

Tang Qiaoning was indeed very capable. It didn't take her much effort. It only took her one day to successfully negotiate the postal service.

Later, Lei Yinbing, Ye Ruida and others connected the postal express delivery into the system in just two or three days.

Because of the protocol conversion box, the problem of different data transmission formats of each express company can be perfectly solved.

Liu Dongyang returned to his computer, tapping away at the keyboard. He then turned around, chuckled, and said, "I specifically ordered something via postal delivery just to try it out."

As the students who were working and studying went from dormitory to dormitory, the flyers in their hands were delivered to the students one by one, and the function of the smart express lockers quickly spread by word of mouth among the student community.

Although postal express delivery accounts for a very small proportion of all express delivery, there are still some.

Downstairs of a dormitory building, the afternoon sun was warm as a girl wearing plush slippers walked slowly to the smart express locker.

She first glanced at her mobile phone to confirm the information was correct, then she took the campus card and swiped it lightly on the card reader of the smart express cabinet. With a "click", a cabinet door popped open.

This scene was seen by a classmate passing by. The classmate sighed softly and walked towards the express delivery center on his own.

There is no way. Currently, only postal express is compatible with this function, but the speed of postal express is too slow. People would rather walk a few more steps to the delivery center to pick up the express than wait for two more days to pick up the express in the smart express cabinet downstairs in the dormitory.

This information was quickly fed back to Li Xu and others.

During this period, the lights in Li Xu's company's conference room were always on.

The frequency of meetings has increased significantly.

On the one hand, Ye Ruida and Lei Yinbing must always push the project forward.

On the other hand, Xia Xiaohe and Tang Qiaoning must continue to communicate with other express delivery companies.

This requires everyone's wisdom and talents. After all, it is impossible for Li Xu to always go to negotiate in person.

During a meeting, Tang Qiaoning, her face brimming with excitement and eyes sparkling, said, "I'm almost on the verge of taking over Yunda. Old Ye, I can discuss the specific construction details with Yunda's technical staff this afternoon."

Ye Ruida sat at the conference table and nodded.

Li Xu was a little surprised, then looked at Tang Qiaoning with an approving look, nodded and said, "I didn't expect you to negotiate with both companies so quickly."

After saying that, Li Xu glanced at Xia Xiaohe beside him without showing any expression.

At this time, the lights in the conference room were a little dazzling. Xia Xiaohe lowered his head and sat on the chair, his fingers unconsciously playing with his cuffs. His eyes were a little wandering and slightly dazed.

Seeing this, Li Xu asked softly, "Xiaohe, have you encountered any difficulties?"

Xia Xiaohe came back to her senses, was slightly startled, hesitated for a moment and said: "I will be almost there even without me."

Tang Qiaoning looked at Xia Xiaohe silently, thought for a moment, and then said, "Actually, I've found that negotiating with these courier companies requires some technical skills. Since I don't know much about technical matters, I always bring a friend with me."

Xia Xiaohe raised her head with a puzzled expression on her face.

Tang Qiaoning went on to explain, "To be precise, it's an older sister. She works in my father's company and is a science and engineering woman. She's the one who helps explain some of the technical stuff."

Suddenly remembering something, Tang Qiaoning quickly added, "Of course, I just explained the principles to her. It doesn't involve the core technology of our solution. Anyway, with her around, this work will go much more smoothly."

After hearing Tang Qiaoning's explanation, Xia Xiaohe felt even more depressed.

She knew how the other party did it, but she couldn't think of a corresponding solution for a while.

Since entering university, she has devoted all her time and energy to Li Xu and his team. Apart from a few friends in the team, she has no other circle to meet people who can help her.

The other technically savvy people in the team were all too busy to accompany her to the negotiations.

Li Xu looked at Tang Qiaoning with some approval. A salesperson with a technical engineer is indeed a very common and effective configuration.

Then Li Xu looked at Xue Xue and said, "Xue Xue, if you are not very busy during this period, please accompany Xiao He to the courier company."

Xue Xue sat aside, chin in hand, thought for a moment and said, "That's fine. I really don't have much to do during this period. I just need to wait for a few express delivery companies to join and add a few access ports on the app."

After she finished speaking, she looked at Xia Xiaohe and said with a smile, "Then Xiaohe, I'll go with you."

Xia Xiaohe raised her head, nodded, and finally a smile appeared on the corner of her mouth.

……

With Xue Xue's joining, or perhaps Xia Xiaohe had already done enough work, all that was missing was the finishing touch.

All in all, it wasn’t long after school started that we had already negotiated with several other express delivery companies.

A few days later, in the office, Lei Yinbing and Ye Ruida, two core technical backbones, huddled in front of the computer, with codes flashing on the screen.

Together, they completed the protocol conversion for the smart express locker, and this smart express locker was finally able to meet the requirements of the six core express delivery companies.

At this point, the smart express locker has finally entered its complete form.

At the same time, the credit point system and social system also launched the 1.0 test version.

Because of defeating the Lei Lifeng project from Huajing University in the previous semi-finals, Li Xu's popularity in Peking University and Tsinghua University has been further enhanced.

Naturally, thanks to An Duoduo's operation, posts about Li Xu are very popular in the school forum.

Strike while the iron is hot. After the two core smart functions were launched, at the instruction of Li Xu, An Duoduo issued an initiative in the forum.

The content is to invite all students in the school to come up with ideas and jointly improve the credit score system and social matching mechanism.

To be honest, these two functions can really help students.

Except for a very small number of academic elites who are immersed in research, the vast majority of people in Peking University and Tsinghua University are very happy to find like-minded friends.

Therefore, there is a high demand for credit scoring systems and social matching functions.

After a period of time, with the active suggestions of classmates, these two functions have been gradually improved.

During this period, Li Xu's mentality also changed completely.

This is Li Xu's second year at Peking University and Tsinghua University, and he has naturally completed the "demystification" of these schools.

You can look at it with a more peaceful mindset. The excitement and ignorance when you first entered here have been completely replaced by a sense of calmness.

On the one hand, this change is due to a more thorough understanding of Peking University and Tsinghua University, and on the other hand, it is naturally due to the improvement of abilities.

It is still the best university, and Li Xu is still proud to be a part of it.

But he also knows that compared with being proud of his alma mater, it is more proud to make his alma mater proud of him.

After the beginning of spring, the weather gradually becomes warmer.

By the second semester of my sophomore year, the course schedule was much more relaxed than it had been in my freshman year.

Many classmates are communicating with each other or going abroad, but Li Xu still maintains his own pace.

During this period, we successfully entered the finals of the entrepreneurship competition. What we need to do next is to continue operating for six months, and then take the operating results after six months to the final stage.

For Li Xu, participating in this startup competition is more than just a competition. His team has grown from the initial core members to several more people, not counting temporary employees, and has now hired two more people who can work full-time.

In fact, according to the requirements of the competition, after six months, the company must be able to create at least 20 jobs to pass the competition.

But Li Xu was not in a hurry to expand the staff. The position of twenty people was easy for them.

However, Li Xu is extremely cautious about every person he recruits. Atmosphere is the most important thing. With too many people, problems are inevitable.

The weather is getting warmer, and after the company officially started, it is actually not that busy.

Not just him, but others too.

Every day when Li Xu goes for a morning run, he can see couriers riding electric tricycles delivering cartloads of packages to various residential apartments.

The couriers put the packages into the smart express lockers with ease, and the students no longer go to the delivery center to pick up the packages.

People can easily adapt to a convenient life, and once they get used to it, it is difficult to go back to the past.

You can pick up the express delivery by going downstairs. You don’t even need to look for it. You can find your express delivery by just swiping your card. It is much more convenient than before.

Technology changes life. In a sense, Li Xu has also changed the lifestyle of students at Peking University and Tsinghua University.

Of course, compared to the team that created the smart express lockers in the previous life, Li Xu is a plagiarist who copied the future.

But he also made innovations on this basis, at least it is more suitable for schools, especially colleges and universities with college students as the main body.

Whenever Li Xu sees scenes related to smart express lockers, he feels a sense of pride.

It's a wonderful feeling to actually make a difference in someone else's life.

Li Xu began to empathize with Lei Jun's experience before starting his first business, when he had already achieved financial freedom but still felt very painful.

This kind of spiritual sense of accomplishment is indeed not something that can be brought by material things.

The school's operations no longer require too much manpower.

There is a saying that goes like this: a new project may require a team of fifty people at the beginning of development, but after the project is implemented, operation and management often only requires two or three people.

After participating in the entire process, Li Xu finally understood why in his previous life there were so many positions in the company that seemed meaningless to him, and why there were meaningless people who received salaries but were useless.

That is because construction is the most difficult part, and after it is built, these people seem to become redundant.

This feeling brought Li Xu endless inspiration, and he wrote an article titled "Creative Jobs and Trends".

In the past two years, the saying "even pigs can fly" has been widely circulated, and it can be said that Li Xu's article just hit the hot spot.

The core logic of the article is that when the social economy is developing, especially when it is in a period of rapid development, there is a great demand for creative jobs.

But as the economic growth slows down and the demand for creative jobs decreases, this group of people will face the dilemma of unemployment.

Li Xu clearly remembered that in his previous life, before he was reborn, many programmers in their thirties faced this dilemma.

The reason is that they were in their twenties when the Internet was experiencing its golden age.

Today there is Taobao, tomorrow there is Momo, and the day after tomorrow there is Meituan. Every day there are hundreds of Internet projects emerging and developing.

As a result, the demand for developers continues to rise, but as creativity continues to be used up, there is no longer such fertile soil.

If one hundred people develop an application, but only two or three people are needed to operate it, then the remaining ninety-seven people will naturally face the dilemma of unemployment as they have no new programs to develop.

What Li Xu didn't expect was that this article of his, which was originally just a work of inspiration on a whim, was noticed by the teachers.

Not only was it published in the school journal, it was also recommended to an economic journal, which directly helped Li Xu complete all four years of credits.

Of course, for Li Xu, credits are not an important thing. This entrepreneurial project alone is enough to meet the credit requirements.

Having said that, if we look at it from the perspective of capital, when a program is developed, the company has no new applications to develop. At this time, the extra developers naturally become costs that can be reduced.

That is why it is said that when capitalism came into this world, dirty blood was flowing in every pore from head to toe.

Of course, Li Xu couldn't abandon his teammates, but fortunately he had insisted on the policy of streamlining the staff from the beginning.

The two people recruited only do administrative work on a daily basis. Liu Yunfei is based in the capital and does not have to go to school, so he is responsible for the maintenance of the system.

Others still go to school and do what they should do, and get paid as usual, which is great.

When the pace of this area slows down, there will naturally be more time to do other things.

Li Xu often takes walks by the lake, and An Duoduo follows him every time.

She was very considerate and took care of everything for Li Xu. In her words, "I am your vice president, so of course I will take care of everything for you."

The two of them walked slowly along the lakeshore for a few laps, chatting about random things along the way.

An Duoduo is not a person who likes gossip, but Li Xu will still bring up some interesting news in the school as topics.

As Peking University and Tsinghua University are places that are under the magnifying glass of almost the entire country and are closely watched, hot news in one or two schools can easily become major national news.

The most interesting news is naturally the one related to people.

For a while, even An Duoduo was very popular, just because after she won a grand prize representing Peking University and Tsinghua University at the sports meeting, she became the forum goddess of Peking University and Tsinghua University for her outstanding appearance and temperament, and was even included in the discussion of campus beauties.

For a while, Li Xu often teased An Duoduo about this matter.

"You're already a candidate for campus beauty. Why don't you endorse our project next time? Oh, I'm really a little stupid. I should have thought of doing this earlier."

An Duoduo couldn't say that she was accustomed to Li Xu's half-joking teasing, but she wasn't too surprised either.

The response was: "It's too insincere for you to say it now, but I think it might be better for you to be the spokesperson."

Li Xu shook his head and said seriously, "I'm not even famous at all, although I'm a bit handsome..."

"what?"

"what……"

An Duoduo lowered her head and said with a smile, "If you become a spokesperson..." She raised her head again, her eyes lighting up a little, "You'll be like Dong Mingzhu, famous, and then I'll..."

"What are you talking about?"

"Chasing you."

"Uh……"

"What are you surprised about? I'm just a fan..."

"Oh……"

……

In fact, when the pace slows down, time will seem to pass very slowly.

It seems like a very long time has passed, but when you really calm down and count, you find that only a short time has passed.

It was only a month before everything was on track, but it felt like their smart campus solution had been in place for a long, long time.

Seeing that the time was ripe, Li Xu flew back to Jinchuan University.

This time he also brought dozens of pages of operational results reports from Peking University and Tsinghua University.

This time, the Reform and Development Department of Jinchuan University did not waste any time and immediately signed a purchase contract with Li Xu.

Li Xu successfully obtained his first truly profitable project.

Good things come in pairs. Shortly after Jinchuan University signed the contract with them, the neighboring Jinchuan University of Science and Technology, also under recommendation, contacted Li Xu and asked for help in construction.

These two projects cover the upgrade of the campus card system and the construction of smart campuses including credit scores, smart express lockers, etc.

The combined profits of the two projects amount to several million.

With the experience from Peking University and Tsinghua University, although the two projects seem to be very large, in fact many things are ready-made and do not require too much effort.

We have obtained the project and have contacted the manufacturer to start production.

All this had little impact on Li Xu's pace of life.

Except when the contract was signed, everyone in the team celebrated together.

As for the money earned, Li Xu also promised that it would be distributed as dividends to everyone at the end of the year.

The days are still calm and peaceful.

But in fact, a month has passed since the finals began, and the funding pool for this entrepreneurial competition is as high as 500 million yuan.

There are too many companies eyeing the 500 million investment fund, so the seemingly peaceful life is destined not to last long.

Although Li Xu was prepared to face the storms, he also imagined various possible conflicts and difficulties.

But he still didn't expect that the first huge wave would come so suddenly and violently, almost knocking him to death on the beach.

At four o'clock in the morning, Li Xu was awakened by a call from Liu Yunfei.

(End of this chapter)