Cai Jieming has not had a good life recently, and this can be seen from his appearance.

Cai Jieming, who was once full of energy, has no arrogance on his body now. It can be seen that his face is full of fatigue, and his clothes seem to have not been taken care of for a long time. Even his hair can be seen in some silver wires.

Rather than saying that he is a semiconductor design expert, senior engineer, and a successful person with higher education, he is now more like a failed salesman with a frustrated life without hope.

Cai Jieming has been completely destroyed by his life during this period.

He is carrying a debt of 20 million US dollars, and it would be okay if the money failed to invest in a wafer factory. But the loss of this money is a deficit caused by speculation in the textile market in Bohai Province.

Legally speaking, he embezzled public funds. Although no one in mainland China will hold him accountable. But behind this money, several investors are quite powerful abroad, I am afraid that he will never have the chance to leave the jurisdiction of the mainland in his life.

At least in the 1980s, the development gap between the mainland and the treasure island was quite disappointing.

Although he still has millions of RMB in his hand, he is enough to spend his life in the mainland carefree. This is no different from the destruction of his future for Cai Jieming, who has ambitions in his heart.

After returning to the imperial capital, Zhang Lu was soon investigated by the Discipline Inspection Commission for his loss of power due to his backing. What was the final result? Cai Jieming did not find out any news.

In this way, the promise that he had asked to help him win the treatment of the CPPCC will naturally disappear.

But just as he was in confusion, things seemed to suddenly turn around.

"Mr. Cai, please sit down."

Cai Jieming took a deep breath and finally cheered up a little. He looked Hu Wenhai up and down carefully, as if he wanted to imprint his appearance in his head.

It was this young and inconspicuous man who ended up with what he is now. However, from beginning to end, this was the first time he saw Hu Wenhai's face.

Now, looking back at the decision to come to the mainland, it is really ridiculous.

He has no information, and he doesn't even know what background Xinke Company is. He thinks that there will be no companies worth mentioning in the mainland, and that his technical advantages will be treated like a backward.

However, the fact is that the other party did not target him specifically. He was just doing his own thing, but Cai Mingjie lost all the 20 million US dollars he had in his hand, but he did nothing, and even creating a slight obstacle to Xinke's wafer factory was not achieved.

In the final analysis, he and Zhang Zhongmou underestimated Xinke Company too much and did not think that mainland companies would have any knowledge. Isn’t it normal to invest in the mainland with his resume and get superior treatment?

Well, in this era, it is not uncommon for people with this kind of thinking. Foreign and Chinese are not lacking in the awareness of "first-class foreigners".

As for whether Taiwanese businessmen are considered foreign businessmen, please refer to the division of the Ministry of Commerce.

Cai Jieming sat on the sofa opposite Hu Wenhai, seemed to hesitate for a moment, and then said, "I want to make a deal with Mr. Hu."

Hu Wenhai crossed his hands, crossed his legs, reached out to make a gesture of asking for help, nodded and said, "Please say it."

"I... I have a message on my hand. I think Mr. Hu should be interested. It is about the wafer fab." Cai Jieming was a little hesitant at first, but once he opened his mouth, he would no longer have any psychological burden.

"Mr. Cai wants to use this news, what should he exchange for?"

"A investment." Cai Jieming quickly entered the role of a businessman and said neatly: "I want to ask Mr. Hu to invest in me and set up an IC design company. After the Xinke wafer fab is put into production, there must be products, right?"

"Haha, Mr. Cai doesn't have to worry about the products of Xinke Fabs. Our fabs only have production capacity issues, no product issues."

Hu Wenhai smiled, put down his legs, and leaned over: "But I can still give Mr. Cai a sum of funds to you to set up an IC design company in mainland China. Don't worry, no matter whether your news is important or not, I will give you this investment."

Cai Jieming didn't know that when Hu Wenhai said this, he almost laughed like an internal injury. Cai Jieming's FEMA has the ability to design baseband chips in the future - although it is really unbearable to complain about performance, it relies on counterfeit phones to occupy a considerable territory in the market.

His abilities are still trustworthy.

Cai Jieming didn't expect that Hu Wenhai would agree to his request so happily, and he didn't even have a bargaining process. As for the investment funds issue, this actually doesn't need to be discussed at all.

If Cai Jieming's IC design company can make a profit, then it will naturally be that it will invest more and more. If it cannot make a profit, then he will have no position to continue investing.

As for Cai Jieming's technical ability, he still has some confidence in himself.

The thing that I was most worried about was solved like this, and Cai Jieming looked a little radiant.

He nodded and simply told Hu Wenhai and Pan: "Dissatisfied with Mr. Hu, I came to the mainland because I was actually entrusted by someone. This person is Zhang Zhongmou, the director of Baodao Institute of Technology."

"Zhang Zhongmou?"

Hu Wenhai remained calm on the surface, but was a little surprised. But soon, he figured out the reason.

Zhang Zhongmou's TSMC and Xinke fabs will inevitably form a competitive relationship in the future. Only when TSMC can strangle the mainland's wafer fabs in their infancy will TSMC have a way out.

"Yes, Zhang Zhongmou has always had the idea of ​​setting up a wafer fab in Baodao. The Xinke Fab in Magic City poses great threat to him. He found me and gave me 20 million US dollars in funding, hoping to hinder the construction progress of Xinke Fab through investment."

Cai Jieming swallowed secretly and stared at Hu Wenhai's face.

He didn't know if Hu Wenhai would take his anger on him when he learned about his plans, and might even invalidate the investment he had promised.

However, he only saw a calmness on Hu Wenhai's face. With the general trend he has accumulated now, there would be no more room for TSMC to live. Hu Wenhai would not have any illusions about Zhang Zhongmou, who had been kicked out of the road blocking stone list. Isn't the attack from the enemy ordinary? Of course, Zhang Zhongmou may no longer be qualified to become General Hu's enemy now.

"Please continue." Hu Wenhai made a calm tone with a calm tone.

"However, the 20 million US dollars have all been lost in the textile storm in Bohai Province before." Cai Jieming said frustratedly: "I have been looking for opportunities in the mainland during this period, but the laws of the mainland will not handle the company procedures for me, the Baodao people, so I had to wait for opportunities in the imperial capital before. However, recently, a group of middle-level technicians who came to the mainland with me, some of them went to the south."

Cai Jieming paused when he said this, gritted his teeth and said the most critical information: "From the news sent back by these people, Zhang Zhongmou may have arrived in the mainland in person."

"You mean, Zhang Zhongmou, the director of Baodao Institute of Technology, has arrived in the south? Can this Baodao agree?"

Hu Wenhai was a little incredible. Zhang Zhongmou's identity was probably not that easy to come to the mainland on Baodao.

"Behind Zhang Zhongmou is not himself. It is not difficult to transfer from the United States to Xiangjiang to enter the country with a different identity."

Hu Wenhai touched his chin and thoughtfully: "He wants to recruit the middle-level managers you bring, do you want to build a wafer fab in the mainland?"

"I don't know this, at least in the current situation, there is a possibility." Cai Jieming spread his hands and smiled bitterly: "This is all the news I know. In my current state, it is not easy to know these news."

"Okay, thank you Mr. Cai for the news he brought to me." Seeing that Cai Jieming had no more information, Hu Wenhai simply reached out to see him off.

Cai Jieming shook hands with Hu Wenhai with some anxiety, and was sent out of his office by Qin Kai.

Turning around, Hu Wenhai looked at Xiao Feifei who was always sitting in the office listening, and pondered: "Manager Xiao, will this matter in Nanguang Daily be related to Zhang Zhongmou?"

Xiao Feifei nodded seriously: "I think it is very likely that since Zhang Zhongmou is hostile to Xinke Fax, it is very likely to take the Nanguang Daily report as a condition. No, the Nanguang Daily report cannot even become a negotiation condition, and it is more likely to be just a matchmaker."

"Go and check it out, find out the truth."

Hu Wenhai said firmly.

...

The report effect of Nanguang Daily continues to ferment, gradually moving from criticizing Xinke's business ethics to accusing the characteristics of the Chinese nation.

Lack of business contract spirit, lack of business ethics, lack of care for humanities, eager for quick success and instant benefits, and use any means...

In the report of Nanguang Daily, Xinke Company seemed to have become a concrete manifestation of these abstract concepts. Later, it even proposed that money cannot buy everything. China's backwardness is not only backwardness in technology, but also backwardness in culture.

Finally, they finally burned the war on Xinke Fax.

"Money can buy advanced equipment, but cannot buy advanced management concepts and business spirit. Instead of investing huge amounts of money to do a project without a future, why not open up the investment window and let the advanced Western cultural spirit transform our society first?"

"Okay, it's very good!" Mr. Wang laughed and put down the Nanguang Daily and nodded with a slight pride: "It's just a pity that the influence of Nanguang Daily is too small. Not many people can see such a good article."

Deputy Minister Huang sat next to him and laughed: "Don't worry, Mr. Wang, this is just a try. If Bohai Province really doesn't have any follow-up measures, I can arrange for some provincial newspapers to reprint them."

"Hey, thank you Minister Huang. I heard that Bohai Province has sent a letter of protest from the official letter? How about it, is the pressure too much?" Mr. Wang asked with concern.

"What's the point of doing business for President Wang?" Deputy Minister Huang laughed and said, "We are separated from Bohai Province by the entire China, and they have no choice but to do anything to us."

"Yes, Hu Wenhai's new science and technology wants to build the Empression City Special Zone, and we don't think about his money. Since that's the case, it depends on our own!" Mr. Wang said proudly: "What kind of new science and technology they build in the Magic City is to rely on domestic technical strength to make it? But with the help of the new science and technology, Mr. Zhang would not have convinced so many foreign companies to invest in joint venture wafer factories in our province, right? Haha!"

Zhang Zhongmou also held a newspaper in his hand, which was the same as what Mr. Wang read. He just finished reading quietly, put the newspaper down and asked: "Mr. Wang, Vice Minister Huang, I would like to ask when will you let those influential newspapers and media reprint these reports from the Nanguang Daily?"

"Mr. Zhang, don't be anxious. After all, the joint venture negotiations have not yet come to an end." Mr. Wang glanced at him and said calmly: "If the project has made satisfactory progress, isn't this a trivial matter of reprinting news just a finger?"

"I understand." Zhang Zhongmou stood up and nodded, "I will continue to urge the joint venture to speed up the negotiations, and I hope that Mr. Wang, you can keep your promise."

"Of course." Mr. Wang sat on the sofa and nodded proudly.

Looking at Zhang Zhongmou's hurried steps, Deputy Minister Huang opened his mouth and finally looked at Mr. Wang with some hesitation and said.

"Mr. Wang, Nanguang Daily is a tabloid. The current trend is not a big problem. If we arrange for the provincial newspaper to reprint and comment, the political risks here..."

"I know, it will cause a dispute over the route." Mr. Wang nodded as if nothing had happened: "Why, Minister Huang is afraid?"

"Scared? How could I be afraid?" Deputy Minister Huang said this, but his expression was a wry smile.

"What are you worried about?" Mr. Wang pointed at him with his finger, as if the teacher was teaching the students a lesson: "You can't see through the current situation? If the central government makes a decision, I wouldn't dare to pick the tiger's beards of the new department! But which central media has said that? What does this mean? It means that there are differences in the new department and there is no idea. Such a large-scale private enterprise threatens the red line with public ownership as the main body! Do you think Xiucheng is still the main body now? This is a big line dispute, and I don't know how complicated it is."

"At this time, what is the difference between the routes of comprehensive introduction and self-reliance? Instead, it does not involve the choice of a big route. As long as our wafer fab is also started, we can see that not only his Xinke company can do things, but also no need to eat pigs with hair without being a butcher. By that time, the importance of Xinke will be only money left. No matter how much money is, do you have the right to use it in China?"

Minister Huang swallowed, and finally became more courageous. It was not that he was timid, but that this pirate ship was easy to get on and off. Although Mr. Wang was very polite, this was ********** after all!

Perhaps it was because Mr. Wang's pressure had been effective, or perhaps the province was also eager to implement the joint venture wafer fab project. After Zhang Zhongmou received considerable preferential conditions from the province, he finally convinced several foreign companies behind it, and the joint venture wafer fab project gradually began to surface.

The news of the United States' International Rectifier Company (IR), Essex, STMicroelectronics, Japan's Toshiba and Mitsubishi, and Fairchild. When news of these six companies' intention to invest in joint venture wafer fabs in China spread, half of China's semiconductor industry was about to boil.

What are the companies of these six companies? IR is the world's largest power semiconductor design company. Almost half of the world is using their technical solutions to make power management systems. Although Esses is a new company established in 1983, its rectifier bridge technology is an important advance that the industry can hardly bypass. It can be said that it has been the limelight in recent years.

Needless to say, STMicroelectronics integrates two major European semiconductor companies, namely Italian SGS Semiconductor and French Thomson Semiconductor, and has become an important pole in the world semiconductor market in terms of scale.

Toshiba and Mitsubishi are both "old friends" of the Chinese, and their electronic product technology was able to compete with the United States in the 1980s.

The last Fairchild company is even more amazing. Although it has become increasingly steep, it is a company that claims to have nurtured Silicon Valley. The lean camel is bigger than a horse. Its parent company, National Semiconductor, has unique technology in industrial power semiconductors and has a strong capital. It has a place in the power semiconductor market for automobiles and industrial systems.

How can these six giants in the semiconductor industry not be excited if they are actually standing behind the same joint venture wafer fab?

Cooperating with the news of the establishment of Xinke Semiconductor some time ago, it is clearly the pace of the upcoming rise of China's semiconductor industry!

However, it is not easy to get these six companies to stand together. The joint venture wafer fab not only gave the best conditions for attracting investment, but also broke the principle that the joint venture must have state-owned shares account for 50%. In the letter of intent, 60% of the shares were given to these six companies for the first time.

Moreover, among the shares of the joint venture wafer fab, not six companies hold 10% of the shares, but six companies first establish a joint venture company, and then the company holds 60% of the shares of the joint venture wafer fab.

Although a formal joint venture contract has not been signed, the signed letter of intent is also quite binding on each company.
To be continued...