Break out of the courtyard

Zhang Heping was somewhat surprised by the arrival of his brother-in-law Tang Ren.

However, after learning the reason why Tang Ren came, Zhang Heping felt relieved. After all, Tang Ren is the chairman of Hong Kong Colorful Investment Co., Ltd.!

Zhang Heping had already learned the cause of the incident from Director Wang. Experts from the United States used a miniature camera to secretly photograph the color screen-related technology, and most of them ran away during the Chinese New Year holiday.

Then, the funding problem that Zhang Heping was worried about arose.

Brother-in-law Tang Ren came to tell Zhang Heping that Youhao Investment Company could not come up with the second batch of funds, allegedly because the Magnesians had changed their minds, and the Japanese wanted to wait until the Magnesians' money was in place before they would give it.

For this reason, Zhang Heping first went to ask Director Wang... No, Comrade Wang Sumei has retired.

Aunt Wang replied that she was retired and no longer in charge of such matters, and that Zhang Heping’s current superior should be contacted for such matters.

So Zhang Heping called Director Sha of the Science Printing Factory again.

As a result, the old guy was lazy and asked Zhang Heping to directly contact Xiao Yongwei, the director of the Shenzhen Ultra-Thin Color Screen Joint Venture Production Plant.

Finally, after Zhang Heping called and talked to Director Xiao, he went home and prepared to return to Hong Kong.

My father-in-law Tang Ming is here to attend a consultation meeting later this month, but my brother-in-law Tang Ren said he will return to Hong Kong Island two days later.

So, Zhang Heping arranged for them to stay in the suite at the Capital Hotel.

After obtaining his father-in-law's consent, Zhang Heping invited Lao Yan from the Houhai Street Construction Team to take people to renovate the three-in-one courtyard house at No. 29 on the Di'anmen side.

On the afternoon of March 3, Zhang Heping flew back to Hong Kong Island with his two wives and children.

Wei Chunqiao, the head of the Umbrella Company, personally led a team to pick up the plane, with 6 Japanese bulletproof off-road vehicles...

"Where is that Hongqi car?" Zhang Heping asked casually after getting in the car.

"He was driven away by Mr. Tang's driver."

Wei Chunqiao's answer was just as Zhang Heping expected. As for the change in the way Wei Chunqiao addressed Tang Yi, Zhang Heping did not correct him.

Afterwards, Zhang Heping asked about the employee recruitment situation of Umbrella Company.

Zhang Heping returned to Taiping Mountain and confirmed that there were no problems with Umbrella Company's security plan and personnel arrangements for the year. He then rode his motorcycle down the mountain and bought an eye mask magnifying glass to facilitate the inspection of the golden mask fragments and the brain wave converter maintenance skills.

The next day, after Zhang Heping handed over the task of sending the children to school in Hong Kong Island to his first wife Chen Shuting, he rode a motorcycle and took his luggage to the Shenzhen Science Printing Factory.

Although Shenzhen had not yet been labeled as a special economic zone at that time, it had already built several industrial parks, accommodating hundreds of processing factories.

Science Printing Factory, the factory director Sha Zhixiang is now Zhang Heping's superior.

According to Director Sha, Sha Zhixiang was his pseudonym and he did not tell Zhang Heping his real name.

He and Zhang Heping are currently in the confidentiality force, with the number... Both of them are at the regimental level, with the administrative treatment of a 14th-level director, but no salary!

After Zhang Heping finished looking at his new certificate, he smiled and said, "It means that Director Sha and my salary still depend on the performance of the Science Printing Factory!"

"Of course not!" Director Sha said with a smile, "The efficiency of our factory will depend entirely on Deputy Director Zhang from now on."

Zhang Heping chatted with Director Sha for a while, dropped his luggage, and rode his motorcycle to the Shenzhen Ultra-Thin Color Screen Joint Venture Production Factory, where he got the previously agreed list of joint venture factories from Director Xiao.

Then, in Director Xiao's office, he called each joint venture factory one by one to inquire about the construction progress.

Director Xiao listened to the questions Zhang Heping asked over the phone for a while and couldn't help but say, "Engineer Zhang, there is a group of technicians and experts gathered at the Magic City Semiconductor Special Equipment Joint Venture Factory. Do you want to go there and give some guidance?"

Snapped!

Zhang Heping hung up a phone call and frowned at Director Xiao. "I won't go to the joint venture factory where Japanese magnesium experts gather for the time being. Don't disclose my schedule."

"Is it because of the technical information leak?"

"No!" Zhang Heping picked up the microphone again, "It's because they didn't give us follow-up investment. I want to show those Japanese magnesium experts how fast we can develop without their cooperation."

After calling the joint venture factories according to the phone numbers on the paper, Zhang Heping ticked 10 joint venture factories on the paper and handed it to Director Xiao. "Please inform the directors of these 10 factories that I will visit them at any time in the next three months. The time is undecided."

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After Zhang Heping parked his motorcycle at the Science Printing Factory, he got on the 212 jeep arranged by Director Sha, took his luggage, and went to Huadu with two young drivers.

Capital Chemical Plant was helping the Semiconductor Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences to research photoresist, so it did not participate in the joint venture. This allowed Huadu Chemical Plant to take advantage of the situation and set up a Huadu Photoresist Joint Venture Factory in a joint venture with the Shenzhen Ultra-Thin Color Screen Joint Venture Factory.

The director of the Huadu photoresist joint venture factory had just received a call from Director Xiao of Shenzhen City, and before he had time to arrange the reception, the car that Zhang Heping was riding in had already arrived at the gate of their factory.

In the following week, under the guidance of Zhang Heping, three types of ultraviolet photoresists were developed that were suitable for the 3-nanometer i-line light source.

The reason for such a long delay was that negative cyclized rubber-type photoresist had already been produced, but the Capital Chemical Plant was unwilling to share the production process, so Zhang Heping had to ask for natural rubber from Banna and make it again.

The other two are polyethyleneoxyethyl cinnamate and cinnamaldehyde photoresist.

Two days after Zhang Heping left the Huadu photoresist joint venture production plant in jeep No. 212, the plant asked for help from other joint ventures and other domestic semiconductor equipment manufacturers, urgently needing equipment to verify three newly manufactured photoresists!

Zhang Heping’s second stop is the most complicated mask production process!

The most core technology of this thing is the design of the mask.

After obtaining the relevant design requirements, a photolithography machine is used to photoetch the corresponding patterns on the raw materials, and the unnecessary metal layers and adhesive layers are washed away to obtain the finished mask plate.

Speaking of it, it's just a matter of two sentences, but the actual production process is comparable to a simplified version of chip production.

It took Zhang Heping five days to get to the joint venture mask production factory in Yundu, but he only stayed in the factory for three days and three nights, and produced a set of 5 soda mask plates.

After instructing the Yundu mask joint venture factory to wait for two months and then announcing the production of new masks on its own, Zhang Heping carried a box of lenses customized by the optical instrument factory and rushed to the next stop, Shudu.

After Zhang Heping rested in the car for half a day, the two drivers reported to him that the Huadu photoresist joint venture production plant had successfully attracted a group of Japanese magnesium experts and successfully detained them by adding inspection equipment to the plant.

Two weeks later, as the news that the Shudu joint venture had developed an etching machine spread, a large number of Japanese magnesium experts who had originally stayed in Shanghai hurriedly took a boat to Shudu.

As for why they didn't take a plane, they said it was due to weather problems, plane problems, problems with the airport in Shudu, etc.

As the eight joint ventures announced one after another that they would manufacture related products based on the color screen related technologies, the time quietly came to May.

More than two months have passed, and a group of Japanese magnesium experts have gradually come to their senses!

They speculated that it was possible that Tingmei Trading Company sent a technical team to the mainland to provide technology!

Moreover, the technical team was deliberately avoiding them!

After private discussions among these Japanese magnesium experts, they decided to stake out the Kundu mask joint venture production plant!

In their opinion, the mask is the most core production accessory. If the mysterious technical team in Hong Kong wants to help the mainland improve semiconductor production technology, they cannot avoid the mask production link.

In addition, the design ideas, principles, and logic of each mask are the core technologies of semiconductor chips!

It's like the original formula of Coca-Cola. Coca-Cola has so many cola production plants all over the world, but once the original formula is lost, the entire production chain will come to a halt.

The same principle applies to mask design. Even if all semiconductor equipment is produced, without a mask that conforms to the operating logic, the entire production chain will not be able to produce related chips.

However, when the Kundu mask joint venture production plant suddenly announced on May 5 that it had produced a set of 16 soda masks, Japanese magnesium experts were stunned.

Where is the Hong Kong technical team?

Despite the strict precautions taken by the Japanese magnesium experts, the director of the Kundu mask joint venture production plant actually said that the mask was produced by their factory's technical staff!

When the Japanese magnesium experts came to their senses and remembered that the lithography machine project of the Magic City Semiconductor Special Equipment Joint Venture Production Plant had not yet been realized, the foreigners suddenly realized.

After more than two months of hard work, they seem to have gathered nearly half of the parts for the lithography machine!

"The Magic City Semiconductor Special Equipment Joint Venture Factory has gathered a group of Chinese technicians and experts. Could it be that they have received the news a long time ago and have been waiting for the technical team from Hong Kong Island?"

"Do we have anyone left to guard the factory in Magic City?"

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