Game within game: chess player

Three days later, countless news converged on Ye Fang.

The first news is that Su Yue bought a [-]-square-meter office building in the core CBD area of ​​Taipei city center. The company is registered as Jiangshan Holdings. Jiangshan Holdings is wholly owned by Ye Fang's Longpai Petroleum, with a registered capital of NT$[-] billion. Su Yue serves as the legal person and general manager of the company.

Billion Capital is not considered a large or medium-sized enterprise in Taiwan, but it is also a rare training opportunity for Su Yue, which at least allows her to apply what she has learned. The task Ye Fang gave her was to recruit people and build an investment management team as soon as possible to prepare for the acquisition war of unified enterprises.

In the future, Ye Fang, a Taiwan-funded enterprise owned by his subsidiary, will also be destined to decentralize management. Ye Fang has no one he can trust in this special region of Taiwan. If he has to have someone, it can only be Su Yue. After all, the two are related by skin. people. In Ye Fang's opinion, delegating power to a company means either he can trust his brothers and sisters, or it is his own woman.

If there is no former, we can only choose the latter. Regarding Su Yue, Ye Fang had already made it clear long ago that he was destined to be a wanderer in his life and would not be restricted to a certain country or region for too long. If you want to be your own woman, you must first be clear about this. You are destined to not be able to give Su Yue the lifestyle of an ordinary family. Secondly, for Su Yue's safety, Ye Fang cannot admit the relationship between the two, including Su Yue. Publicity.

Of course, Ye Fang also made an agreement with Su Yue that if Su Yue couldn't bear this kind of life in the future and wanted to start a family of her own, Ye Fang could let go at any time without getting entangled. At that time, Ye Fang promised to give Su Yue a valuable settling-in allowance. , but from now on Su Yue will withdraw from Jiangshan Holdings and hand over management rights.

Su Yue, like He Chaoqiong, is a typical career-oriented woman who wants a career rather than a family. At least at this stage, Su Yue has chosen a career and promised that Ye Fang will make Jiangshan Holdings a first-class enterprise in Taiwan.

Ye Fang is like a mystery to Su Yue, but Su Yue is not anxious to know too much information about Ye Fang. This is a burden for Ye Fang and a burden for himself. At this point, Ye Fang has to admit that Su Yue's emotional intelligence is definitely comparable to that of He Chaoqiong.

The second news is that Liu Jianzhong, the leader of the Tsunami Hall of the Sihai Gang, finally managed to save his life after 48 hours of rescue, but unfortunately he will lose the qualification to be a man forever, and the comminuted fractures of his limbs will make him lie in bed for at least half a year. .

The position of Tsunami Hall leader is vacant. Yang Guangnan, the current leader of the Sihai Clan, was furious when he heard the news. He believed it was a provocation to the entire Sihai Clan and ordered its three branches, Haifeng Hall, Hailang Hall and Haiyi Hall, to find out who committed the crime within a time limit. It's up to the law. It's just that Sister Yun, the most important insider of the Tianlun Dynasty, is missing now. The Sihai Gang is currently searching for Sister Yun with all their strength, and of course the person involved, Su Yue.

Like Sister Yun, Su Yue also disappeared. Including the place where she used to live, the Sihai Gang searched for her but found nothing.

Ye Fang knew that the Sihai Gang might not be able to find Sister Yun, but finding Su Yue was only a matter of time, so Ye Fang decided to solve the Sihai Gang's problem after finishing the investment exchange meeting with Chen Yongcheng.

The third news is that Chen Yongcheng has contacted senior executives of TSMC, Hon Hai Precision, Asus Computer, MediaTek and ASE Group. These companies are currently in a critical period of development. Among them, TSMC, MediaTek and ASE Group are capital-intensive enterprises, involving chip development and peripheral industry chain production. They are capital-heavy industries. Financing needs are anytime and anywhere, but the return cycle is relatively long.

ASUS Computer and Hon Hai Precision are mainly engaged in the consumer electronics industry, focusing on personal and business computers. Currently, the computer business is experiencing a blowout development around the world, so they have the best profit prospects. These two companies are in a period of rapid development, with orders in short supply and capital needs mainly for the construction of production bases. However, they stated that they could only transfer a small amount of equity.

ASUS Computer has made it clear that the emperor's daughter has no worries about getting married. During the period of rapid development, when the business volume is doubling several times a year, it is definitely not willing to sell too much equity because of its sufficient cash flow.

Chen Yongcheng gave written information about several companies to Ye Fang, and each company's attitude toward capital investment was truthfully reported to Ye Fang. Ye Fang promised Chen Yongcheng to think about it and then interview them one by one.

The fourth news is about the Japanese consulting company that Xiang Yu secretly investigated. Xiang Yu took the opportunity to apply for the front desk staff to enter this Japanese company. Xiang Yu successfully applied for the front desk job with his outstanding appearance and conversation. One position.

Xiang Yu initially observed that all the middle and senior management of this Japanese-style enterprise are Japanese employees, and more than half of the lower-level employees are local Taipei employees with Japanese ancestry. Some front desk and cleaning employees are non-Japanese and Taiwanese locals of non-Japanese ancestry. Because in the eyes of Japanese companies, this type of position should not be done by Japanese employees. After all, it is a low-level job and can only be done by local Taiwanese.

This Japanese company is a management consulting company to the outside world, but it never accepts business orders from the outside world and has no operating income. From this, Xiang Yu speculated that this company should be a consulting company engaged in intelligence collection. Now Xiang Yu has obtained all the personal information of the Japanese company's executives and has asked Tiewei to follow them head by head to see what they can find.

Intuition told Xiang Yu that this Japanese company must be related to the disappearance of his third brother.

In Ye Fang's room at the hotel, Ye Fang took the information submitted by Chen Yongcheng and discussed possible future investment projects with Su Yue.

"These companies are all gold-devouring behemoths, especially TSMC. As far as I know, TSMC has also reached a bottleneck period in its development. Externally it faces dual operating pressures from Intel and IBM, and internally it faces the pressure of iteration of chip products. If this level is reached, TSMC's ability to leapfrog the past and future development will be limitless. If it cannot leapfrog, TSMC is likely to become a foundry for second- and third-tier products, or be acquired by competitors, so now is indeed the best time to start.

Similar to TSMC, there is also MediaTek, but MediaTek's strength is worse than TSMC. I think these two companies can be the first choice. "Su Yue analyzed seriously.

Ye Fang knew nothing about the situation in the chip industry, but he was very optimistic about the prospects of this industry. This was all due to the forward-looking analysis report Bi Xingfa showed him. After listening to Su Yue's words, Ye Fang said directly, "Invest wherever you want. You can negotiate the investment amount and shareholding ratio. The future profits and losses will also be yours."

Su Yue rolled her eyes at Ye Fang and asked, "You have to give me a bottom line. I don't even know what investment amount to negotiate right now."

Ye Fang thought for a moment and said, "One billion!"

"One billion?! New Taiwan dollars?!" Su Yue was obviously disappointed.

"It's US dollars, look at your pattern!" Ye Fang rolled his eyes at Su Yue.

"One billion U.S. dollars!" Su Yue opened her mouth and did not speak for a long time. She never thought that one day she would be able to control one billion U.S. dollars or tens of billions of New Taiwan dollars.

"If Haojiang Casino was still swallowing gold and South Africa's oil wells were still losing money, there would be more funds, so you have to save some money." Ye Fang said.

"Boss, why do you have so much money at such a young age?" Su Yue asked with a smile.

"This is all my hard-earned money, and I paid for it with my life." Ye Fang replied and said seriously, "Let's come up with a plan as soon as possible, and we will start talking tomorrow."

"Roger, boss!" Su Yue then began to study the information of various companies carefully, and initially targeted two companies. One was TSMC and the other was ASE Group. If ASUS Computer can also negotiate, they can also consider it. . That night, Chen Yongcheng received news from Ye Fang. Chen Yongcheng said that he could immediately coordinate these companies to meet with Ye Fang at the hotel.

In the next two days, Su Yue, on behalf of Ye Fang, contacted TSMC, ASE Group and Asus Computer. TSMC was happy to accept Ye Fang's investment and asked for one billion US dollars, and was only willing to sell no more than [-]% of the shares. It can be said to be extremely stingy. Later, Su Yue investigated TSMC's business development status. Since TSMC's listing and financing in New York four years ago, its financial situation has been greatly improved.

Especially recently, TSMC has directly received outsourcing orders from Intel, which has suddenly increased TSMC's market share. This year, the company's operating income directly exceeded 10 billion US dollars. TSMC's development space was suddenly opened up. If it had been six months earlier, TSMC would not have been at this price. Now $[-] billion cannot even be exchanged for a board seat at TSMC.

ASE Group is very interested in Ye Fang's investment. Although ASE Group has also completed listing financing, it is still eager for funds. He is willing to transfer 5.00% of his equity in exchange for US$[-] million, and also promises to give Ye Fang a board seat.

As for ASUS Computer, they simply refuse to accept equity financing, because ASUS Computer's current orders have been scheduled for two years. If Ye Fang is willing to invest, the two parties will jointly establish a company in South Africa or simply enjoy dividends without any voting rights.

When Su Yue informed Ye Fang of the preliminary opinions of the three parties, Ye Fang laughed at himself and said, "It seems that this billion US dollars is not worth much in Taiwan."

"My boss, don't look at the companies you want to buy. They are all top-notch companies in Taiwan, and they are also large companies in the world. If it weren't for the US dollars you invested, I think they would I may not even meet you." Su Yue said.

At this time, Ye Fang suddenly received a call from Chen Yongcheng. Ye Fang agreed casually with "Yeah" and "Yeah", and the last sentence was "Let him come, I'm at the hotel now."

After putting down the phone, Ye Fang rushed to Su Yue and asked, "Do you know Zhang Rujing?"

"Zhang Rujing?!" Su Yue thought for a while and said, "I seem to have seen news about him in the newspaper. This man is also a man of great influence. He opposed TSMC. Later, the company was annexed by TSMC. It is said that he later went to the mainland to build a Factory. What, does he want to see you?"

Ye Fang nodded and said, "He is upstairs now. Go pick him up."

"Okay." Su Yue agreed.

After a while, Su Yue walked into the room with a man in his fifties. At first glance, he was a technician, and his whole body naturally exuded the aura of a scholar.

"Hello, Mr. Zhang." Ye Fang first stretched out his hand to Zhang Rujing. Zhang Rujing was a little different from Ye Fang's young age. He looked about the same age as his own child. He was a little stunned for a moment. "Hello, Mr. Ye!"

Ye Fang and Zhang Rujing sat down as guests and hosts respectively. Su Yue poured a glass of water for them respectively, and then sat quietly aside.

After Ye Fang and Zhang Rujing exchanged brief greetings, Ye Fang learned that Chen Yongcheng and Zhang Rujing were friends. After Zhang Rujing's World Semiconductor Company in Taiwan was swallowed up by TSMC. Zhang Rujing took the $20 billion cashed out and resolutely gave up on TSMC stocks, and instead went to mainland China to start a second business and build a factory, and continued to engage in research on semiconductor chips.

Now Zhang Rujing's SMIC has just been established and is in the process of building factories and purchasing equipment. Due to TSMC's blockade and heavy financial pressure, the relevant equipment Zhang Rujing purchased are all second-hand, so it can be said that it is difficult to start a business.

As an old friend, Chen Yongcheng was very concerned about Zhang Rujing's process of building a factory in the mainland. When he learned that Zhang Rujing was struggling due to financial constraints, he told Zhang Rujing about Ye Fang's intention to invest in the semiconductor industry in Taiwan, and hoped that he could come to Taipei if he had time. Talk to Ye Fang.

SMIC, founded by Zhang Rujing, is facing heavy financing pressure. Capital-heavy industries such as semiconductors require investing shareholders to have extremely high strategic vision and strong financial strength. Once the funds are invested, it may take ten years to reap the benefits. When he heard that Ye Fang was dissolving his relationship with TSMC, Zhang Rujing resolutely returned to Taiwan to fight for Ye Fang's funds. He absolutely did not want Ye Fang to invest his children in his old enemy TSMC.

Ye Fang's funds are just the icing on the cake for TSMC, but they are really a timely help for Zhang Rujing.

When Zhang Rujing told Ye Fang about his grievances and grievances with TSMC, Ye Fang couldn't help but sigh at the powerful power of the combination of capital and politics. TSMC’s position in Taiwan’s business community is unshakable, and the Taipei government naturally obeys TSMC’s words.

Although Shida Semiconductor Company, which Zhang Rujing previously ran, developed rapidly and was once the third largest semiconductor company in Taiwan, it was still too weak to face the giant TSMC, and could only be cannibalized by capital in the end.

It is undeniable that TSMC is now a giant in Taiwan, and no one can shake it. When politics began to tilt toward TSMC, Zhang Rujing's defeat in Macheng was already doomed. However, Ye Fang really admired Zhang Rujing's courage. He actually gave up TSMC's stocks and resolutely went to the mainland to start his second business. This is like a hero to the country and the people.

Ye Fang pondered for a moment and asked directly, "How much financing do you need?"