Great Power Technology

August 6, 16:00, Shenzhen, chip project team joint headquarters.

"How is the progress of road construction now?"

Chen Hao, who was sitting in the chair, asked.

"At present, the basic construction surface cleaning has been completed, building materials have been brought in, and paving can begin immediately. It is expected that the road bed excavation will be completed within 8 hours, and a layer of asphalt will be laid starting at 2 a.m. If everything goes well, the third layer will be completed tomorrow afternoon Asphalt paving can be put into use after 12 o'clock the day after tomorrow."

“Why does it take so long between one and three layers of asphalt?”

Chen Hao frowned.

According to his previous understanding, it actually does not take long to build a three-layer asphalt road, especially if there is sufficient mechanical assistance.

Now that the most difficult construction surface cleaning has been completed, and a lot of manpower is needed to support the excavation of the road bed, why does it still take so long to pave the road?

"Mr. Chen, it's like this. The temperature has begun to drop at night in this weather, and the speed of asphalt demulsification and coagulation will be affected. This is an off-site factor that cannot be controlled."

"But we are not idle during the waiting period. We will carry out roadbed construction. This road must carry large-loaded vehicles and has high requirements on the quality of the roadbed, so we cannot just perfunctory."

After hearing this, Chen Haocai finally nodded.

"Strictly control the construction plan. If it doesn't work, add more people!"

"There is no need to add more manpower. The manpower has reached saturation. Adding more will only affect efficiency. On the other hand, we also have requirements to control the size of the staff. If there are more people, confidentiality work will be more difficult."

"However, there is indeed no problem with manpower, but there is a problem with funds. The county's fiscal funds will not be able to support it."

"The funding has not been received yet? How much is missing?"

"The budget allocation process is too long and it's too late. The current short payment is about 3 million."

Chen Hao fell silent. He looked around the venue and looked at the person in charge of the finance department.

"Can you allocate funds urgently?"

The person in charge nodded and replied:

"The quota is available. I will transfer the funds immediately, but a detailed account is required, and it may take about half a day."

"Can half a day be enough?"

Chen Hao looked at the reporter again.

"Yes, but it is best to make an emergency payment to purchase daily necessities. Now the local residents are very enthusiastic and we have received a lot of voluntary donations of materials, but it is best to settle the payment quickly. It costs about 200,000. "

"You can't even come up with 200,000? How did you make the budget??"

Chen Hao slammed the table.

"Mr. Chen, this is too urgent, and the plan is temporary. We really have no choice."

"I'll pay the money. Give me an account and I'll transfer it right away."

Everyone looked at the speaker, who was Ye Zhou.

Chen Hao raised his hand and pressed it, then said:

"Stop talking nonsense, it won't be your turn to step in if anyone steps out. Xiao He, go file a report and transfer funds from the SASAC's logistics account. I'll approve it!"

"Understood, let's do it right away."

After the topic of road construction was over, Chen Hao immediately organized the next topic. This kind of meeting was not like a retreat in the agency. Each topic required a lot of decision-making and discussion, and Ye Zhou was also mentally exhausted.

He finally understood what Chen Hao meant when he said "he will become the busiest person".

After finally getting through the break, lunch was delivered directly to the conference table. Chen Hao walked to Ye Zhou with a plate and sat down, with a tired look on his face.

"How are you, are you getting used to it?"

Ye Zhou raised his head with a wry smile and replied:

"You have to get used to it even if you're not used to it. In Hua Ji's words, grow up quickly on the battlefield."

"It's good to have this awareness. Your burden will become heavier and heavier, and you will surpass my position at a very fast speed in the future. The pressure will be even greater when the time comes, so be prepared in advance."

Ye Zhou nodded, the two of them looked at each other and smiled, and began to quickly put the already cold lunch into their mouths.

On the other side of the sea, a conference room was filled with senior strategic analysis consultants. Everyone had only one problem to solve:

What are you doing?

"Judging from the current situation, we really can't find any evidence that the other party has an advantage in the negotiation. What they have in their hands is just an EDA at best. I really don't understand why they want to delay the negotiation to this point. degree."

The speaker was a handsome white man with long hair, and his face was full of doubts.

"Not only the negotiation, we assessed that Ye Zhou, the key player in the negotiation, the other party also spent a huge amount of money to maintain him."

"Their protection level for Ye Zhou is very high. As long as a stranger approaches, they will immediately conduct a comprehensive review. Several of our operations have failed due to such actions. Now I seriously doubt that Ye Zhou still has something hidden in him. More secrets.”

Another dark-skinned man said.

After the recent setbacks against Ye Zhou's series of actions, he has gradually lost patience.

"So we know nothing about what secrets this Ye Zhou has, and we still know nothing about what trump card the other party has?"

"Objectively speaking, this is indeed the case."

Everyone in the conference room fell silent. After a moment, a white-haired man spoke:

"In fact, there is no need to be so pessimistic. All current conflicts revolve around the issue of the chip industry. No matter what their plans are, it is impossible to break through the bottleneck of chip manufacturing. This is our absolute advantage."

"What we are worried about is actually that they have made breakthroughs in certain specialized areas of the industry and will use it as a threat to force us to make concessions in negotiations."

"According to Dr. Eisen's judgment, the areas where the other party is most likely to make breakthroughs are packaging and silicon wafer production. It is impossible to make breakthroughs in the key etching and wafer production links because they cannot build a photolithography machine."

"So, the worst-case scenario is that the other party uses more chips in exchange for some benefits from us, which essentially does not pose much of a threat to our dominant position."

Everyone nodded in approval. They had always been absolutely confident in their country's technological strength. The reason why they wanted to go to war was just out of caution against their biggest opponent.

Deep down, no one thought they could be defeated.

"What about the previous layout of Blackstone Capital? We have already followed the bet and plan to take this opportunity to severely damage the other party's financial market. Do we still want to continue to short?"

The white-haired man thought for a moment and replied:

"Yes! Keep going short!"

"In the worst case scenario, even if the other party does make a breakthrough in a single process, it will not be able to change the reality that their industry is incomplete and they cannot manufacture chips."

"In this case, the market will still collapse, but it will collapse later and require more hot money to hit it."

"But coincidentally, we are not short of money at all!"

"So, go ahead and do it boldly. This time, we will teach them a lesson and make them suffer for not cooperating!"