Break out of the courtyard

"Boss, the Japanese are here!" Wei Chunqiao trotted to the outside of Villa 118 and said to Zhang Heping who was riding an electric bicycle, "They didn't bring any food this time, but they handed over the camera and photos they took secretly."

Zhang Heping rode his bike to stop in front of Wei Chunqiao, took a few photos and looked at them. They were very blurry; it was obvious that the photographer's hands were shaking and he had no experience.

In fact, Zhang Heping was not worried about the leak of the basement, but he could not accept traitors.

They were provided with houses and high salaries, and even had small buses to pick up and drop off those without cars. It's not too much to ask for a little loyalty from those school dropouts!

"Burn it!" Zhang Heping handed the photo back.

"Look, the Japanese people over there..."

"Don't pay attention to them. Just arrange the security work for the next few days." Zhang Heping said and continued to test drive the car.

Zhang Heping could tolerate what the Japanese had done before, not to mention that this time they just took a few photos.

The key point is that the Japanese not only helped Zhang Heping find a traitor with a fickle mind, but also helped him prove to the foreigners that there were no laboratories in the two communities.

……

The next day, on the 10th, the Tingmei trade bidding meeting was held on the 3rd floor of the Hilton Hotel.

People from both the Mei and Han sides were driven to the corridor and were not even given the chance to listen in the hallway.

By the way, the group of robbers brought back by Mei and Han had a military background and are still in a coma.

The "robbers" had been determined to have been injured in the line of duty and were handed over to the care of their respective families.

Although they were still living in the hospital, they could not be dragged away by the superiors of Mei and Han at any time and handed over to Zhang Heping for treatment.

On the other hand, the Japanese are much more ruthless!

Today's bidding meeting was somewhat beyond the expectations of foreigners. Tingmei Trading did not directly allow the Chinese side to win the bid, but instead adopted the previous method of selecting three from multiple choices and then selecting one from three.

"I know you are all wondering why Tingmei Trading Company doesn't cooperate directly with China." Zhang Heping stood on the temporary podium, looking at the group of people coming from the mainland, and said lightly: "Because their efficiency and yield rate make me very dissatisfied!"

"As for why Nichia Electric and Philips were selected, I can only say that they offered conditions that I think are feasible. Whether they can win the bid depends on the subsequent negotiations."

"Okay, let's move on to the next bidding item, 800MB hard drive!"

As soon as Zhang Heping finished speaking, the representatives of foreign companies who had originally just come to join in the fun and find out whether there really were technologies such as 16M DRAM memory, 800M hard disks, and 128MHz central processing units, now set their sights on the Japanese and Dutch people, wanting to know what conditions they had offered.

Unfortunately, how could this kind of business competition method be told to outsiders?

But after lunch, the Japanese were forced by Magnesium Dad to briefly explain why they were selected as candidates for memory, hard disk and CPU processing in the morning.

Sell ​​51% of shares of Fujitsu, Toshiba and Nichima Electric respectively!

These three Japanese companies have invested a lot of money in DRAM memory. After the 16-megabyte DRAM memory is on the market, they will inevitably face huge losses or even bankruptcy.

Rather than being eliminated by the market in the future, it is better to take a chance, exchange shares for technology, and then wait for the company to appreciate in value.

However, the Japanese did not mention a key point: the shares they exchanged for technology only accounted for 20% of each company. The remaining 31% of the shares required Zhang Heping to spend money to acquire them in the Japanese stock market.

That’s why Zhang Heping said that it depends on the subsequent negotiations.

As for the people from Philips, they ignored the Magnesian guy and after listening to the Japanese guy's explanation, they got up and went downstairs to prepare for the bid in the afternoon.

It's not because the Netherlands, the country behind Philips, is so powerful, but because their technologies are all independently developed, unlike the Japanese who learn from the Chinese, so they have the confidence.

The conditions offered by Philips were to directly quote the technology licensing fee and the budget for purchasing equipment such as lithography machines, and skipped to the Canton Fair stage.

In the evening, when the guy from Magnesium heard that the bidding in the afternoon was for optical modems, switches, servers, etc., he became completely nervous.

"They want to set up an Internet connection between personal computers?" The man from Magnesium was very surprised. "Are you sure?"

……

The next afternoon, Tingmei Trading Company's bidding meeting ended.

The imagined negotiations did not start on the third day.

The reply a group of shortlisted foreigners received was that Tingmei Trading Company was conducting background checks on some companies that wanted to exchange shares for technology.

The foreigners waited for a while and finally arrived at the Canton Fair in Huadu.

Then, an explosive piece of news spread that there was a large exhibition hall in the Canton Fair, which was full of 365-nanometer lithography machines, etching machines, and related supporting equipment and materials.

As soon as the news came out, many countries heard the news and sent their respective semiconductor experts and procurement teams to Huadu, but they were blocked in Hong Kong Island.

On April 4, the second day after the first phase of the Canton Fair ended, Director Wang could not help but come to Hong Kong Island to discuss follow-up matters with Zhang Heping.

"Heping, are those foreigners at the foot of the mountain looking for you?" Director Wang asked Zhang Heping who was sitting on the sofa, then looked at the landline phone that had been unplugged.

Zhang Heping said helplessly, "They were originally going to Huadu to see the lithography machines. You didn't let them enter, so they were picked up by the Magnesium guys and came to my side to gather intelligence. What do people in China think?"

Director Wang sat on the sofa and explained, "I wanted to call you to talk about this, but your phone was always unreachable."

"There were too many harassing phone calls. I changed three landline numbers, but they were all leaked!" Zhang Heping said, glancing at the black mobile phone on the coffee table. This phone number had never been told to outsiders, but calls could be made normally.

However, he did not tell the number to Director Wang, Sha Zhixiang and others.

Director Wang stared at Zhang Heping's expression and got down to business. "The higher-ups want to withdraw our equipment, such as lithography machines and etching machines, so that we won't participate in the upcoming Canton Fairs. We'll bring them out for display at the Autumn Canton Fair."

When Zhang Heping heard what Director Wang said, he couldn't help but frown, feeling as if his bridge had been demolished after he had crossed it.

You know, the display of 365-nanometer lithography machines and other equipment was made possible by his submission of 193-nanometer related technical information.

Director Wang saw that Zhang Heping looked unhappy, so he explained, "The Japanese recently sent a delegation and are discussing with the higher authorities how to further deepen cooperation between the two countries."

"The Japanese are willing to provide a full set of automobile production lines and CNC machine tool production technology, just to build a joint venture with us to process memory, hard disks, processors, etc. In addition, they can also help us export our products."

"My superiors asked me to come here and ask for your opinion. If you disagree, continue the display."

"Auntie Wang!" Zhang Heping frowned and said, "Do you know that the orders for the Xiongqi wine sold by Tingmei Trading have been signed until 1984? If I hadn't stopped them, the orders could have been signed until 10 years later."

"Now here comes the question. Do you know why I don't expand the production of Xiongqi Liquor? Do you think I'm stupid if I don't make billions of dollars?"

Director Wang is good at managing personnel matters, but he doesn’t know much about business, so he just shook his head to indicate that he didn’t know.

"Because scarcity makes things valuable!" Zhang Heping looked at Director Wang and explained, "Because I still have to make money for the distributors below!"

"If I put a large amount of Xiongqi wine into the market all at once, it will inevitably lead to a price reduction of Xiongqi wine, which will in turn dilute the profits of distributors."

"That's business, you have to think not only about yourself but also about the people under you."

"By the same token, when you were considering lithography machines and etching machines, did you ever consider the life and death of factories that make optical lenses, photoresists, and silicon crystal rods?"

"Can the domestic demand for machines support the entire semiconductor industry chain? Do you want to create dozens of factories that lose money every year for the government?"

Director Wang was silent for a moment, and after sorting out the logic, he asked, "Do you mean to continue the demonstration?"

"Yes, it's for sale!" Zhang Heping said speechlessly:

"We sell machines and consumables, and let foreigners pick up scraps behind us. We will make their research speed never catch up with the manufacturing speed of our new equipment and new products, and make their semiconductor technology research have a gap. In the future, when they talk about semiconductors, they have to look at our face!"

"This is a conspiracy!"

"Because semiconductor equipment and products can be reverse-engineered, as long as we release new equipment and products, they must buy them back for research, otherwise they will fall behind!"

"When the precision reaches below 10 nanometers, especially below 3 nanometers, the whole world will have to rely on our semiconductor equipment and chip exports."

"But..." Director Wang hesitated, "There is a prerequisite here. Our technology must always be ahead."

"Auntie Wang!" Zhang Heping suddenly laughed, "You don't have enough authority!"

"You little bastard, I am in charge of all your affairs now, and you actually said that I don't have enough authority!"

"Auntie Wang, you might as well ask about the whereabouts of my classmate Zhao Jianguo. Then you will know whether your authority is sufficient."

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