Everyone is always happy during the Chinese New Year, but Zhou Shuo’s return is destined to make some people less comfortable during the Chinese New Year.

Just after the Chinese New Year, Deputy Mayor Jiang Ning got angry again in the office. The secretary stood at the door of the office and knocked calmly. The angry voice inside gradually stopped.

"Come in!" Jiang Ning calmed down and shouted loudly.

The secretary pushed open the door and walked in, silently packed up the fragments of the glass that Jiang Ning threw on the ground, and then stood in front of his desk.

Jiang Ning rubbed his eyebrows and asked tiredly: "How is it, has the news been confirmed?"

The secretary pushed his glasses and opened his notebook and replied: "It has been confirmed that it was 10 200mm electronic-grade single crystal furnaces purchased from Japan's Toshiba Ceramics Company, with a total value of US$5 million. The entry procedures have been completed at the Xiucheng Port Authority. Now the goods are stored in the port warehouse and can be taken away at any time."

"One or two are not worried!" Jiang Ning slapped the table and said, "This matter involves the use of foreign exchange. Can't the customs check him?"

The secretary looked at the notebook and turned a page and said, "The customs reply was that this money does not involve export foreign exchange issues. The funds should be the profit generated by Zhou Shuo's own investment in Japan. It does not belong to current account and capital account, and it is not within the scope of national foreign exchange supervision."

In the 1990s, foreign exchange was regulated. In the early years, the state's foreign exchange reserves were insufficient, and the State Administration of Foreign Exchange always belonged to Pixiu, only entering and not leaving. The so-called current account, in simple terms, refers to the continuous foreign exchange income of the domestic export business. The corresponding capital account refers to the foreign exchange investments of foreign capital in China and the one-time transfer of foreign exchange.

In terms of regulations, these foreign exchanges are the amount of foreign exchange they need to be returned as much as they are exported. Exporting units do not allow these foreign exchanges to be misappropriated or returned to the country. Although this regulation seems unkind and unreasonable, it is actually very necessary.

On the one hand, it is precisely through this method that China has accumulated a total of trillions of US dollars in foreign exchange. On the other hand, it is also the country's supervision of the foreign exchange market that enables the RMB to be strong for a long time. It will not be a forbidden international financial tycoon like Soros, and can withstand the pressure of the United States and insist that the RMB does not appreciate.

"What investment? Our country is so difficult now, so he still has money to invest in Japan? Check him out to see if he has escaped foreign exchange supervision!" Jiang Ning said in disbelief.

"It's been checked." The secretary said with an unnatural expression: "Zhou Shuo's principal invested in Japan is the repayment of transactions with Microsoft, and has been transferred to his domestic account within the specified time."

"Return to China?" Jiang Ning asked in disbelief: "What investment did he make? He can make five million US dollars so quickly!"

"He invested in Nikkei stock index futures, and then..." The secretary closed his eyes and said in pain: "In the Hanshin earthquake, the investment increased by at least seven or eight times."

"Nonsense!" Jiang Ning slammed a pile of documents on the head of the secretary and shouted in anger: "He Zhou Shuo is a god, can he calculate it? Why did he just invest in Nikkei stock index futures? The Hanshen earthquake made him money? I think it must be his concealed foreign exchange income, and he took the opportunity to launder money! Check it out for me and check it hard!"

"Yes!" The secretary quickly stood at attention, allowing the documents scattered into paper to fall to the ground, and his forehead was bruised and swollen.

Jiang Ning sat behind the desk angrily, thought for a while, waved his hand and said, "You go out first, let the driver prepare. I will go to the San Dieban Group office later."

The secretary responded, sorted out the documents on the ground first, and put them back on Jiang Ning's desk, and then he retreated in a little embarrassed manner.

After waiting for more than an hour, Jiang Ning called the driver to the office of San Dieban Group.

"Mayor Jiang!" Solomonovsky, vice president of San Dieban China, came out from a distance.

"Mr. Solomon is so polite. Please come so far to welcome me." Jiang Ning said with a spring breeze on his face.

"Where you are a distinguished guest of our San Dieban Group, that's nothing." Solomonovsky was a stout Caucasian. Compared to shaking hands, he prefers to give people a bear hug.

"Oh!" Jiang Ning was slapped by Solomonovsky's thick arms, and almost didn't get angry. However, he was not angry at all. Instead, he said with unsatisfaction: "The etiquette of you foreigners is different, and it exudes a sense of enthusiasm!"

Solomonovsky smiled and moved aside and said, "Mayor Jiang is here to invite him in. The chef has made the steak and eat it together!"

Jiang Ning's eyes lit up when he heard this, his steps briskly, and he smiled and said, "That's great, then I'd better meet me by chance!"

The office is a small three-story courtyard. Although Solomonovsky is a Caucasian, he is an authentic white-skinned ABC. He grew up in the United States since he was a child. Since he discovered that Vice Mayor Jiang Ning especially likes Western food, he specially invited an Italian Western food chef in the imperial capital to open up his relationship with the government.

The Italian with a tall nose with a big hat opened the chair for Jiang Ning and asked in pidgin Chinese: "Dear Mayor, how mature do you want today's steak?"

"Three mature!" Jiang Ning smiled and said, "The steak must be covered with blood to make it delicious!"

"Come on, potatoes and beef, let's run into communism!"

"Oh, this beef is good, soft enough, rotten enough, and tasty enough!" Zhou Shuo took a few pieces of it and couldn't help but give him a thumbs up.

Yao Dao is different from Zhou Shuo. The potatoes he likes the most are potatoes. He specially picked a few pieces of soup and sucked them. He took a bite and found that there were layers of sand in the potatoes, which was the most delicious.

"The master's wife's craftsmanship is really nothing. It's been so many years since I've been eating it all!" Yao Dao said with a look of enjoyment.

"Do you remember that you just started working and rushed to brush my lunch box just to use steamed buns to apply the soup base?"

"Oh? Master Yao still has this history?" Zhou Shuo asked the old man opposite the table with interest.

The old man had silver hair and the gullies on his face were as thick and solemn as if on the loess. Although he was not young, his every move was as thick and solemn as a general who commanded thousands of troops on the battlefield.

"Master, let's not reveal this shortcoming, okay?" Yao Dao smiled bitterly and shook his head and said, "Principal Zhou is here this time, and I hope to invite you to come out. Whether our decades of history in Huaguang Factory can continue depends on you."

The old man didn't care and smiled and said, "I don't care whether Huaguang Factory can continue. Anyway, the class has been handed over to you, and it is not my responsibility to not be the chief engineer well. If Huaguang Factory is really gone, it is also fulfilling its historical mission. As long as the country can continue, what does the small collective benefit count?"

"Hey, Master, your personality has not changed at all for decades." Yao Dao shook his head and said, "This time, Principal Zhou imported 10 electronic-grade monocrystalline silicon furnaces from Japan. This is not only an opportunity for Huaguang Factory, but also the hope of our country's monocrystalline silicon industry. In order to achieve technological breakthroughs, you must not leave the mountain."

"Who said I wouldn't agree?" The old man chewed the beef, squeaked the wine, and smiled: "I have no choice but to contribute to the country's quartz industry or not!"

"That's great!" Zhou Shuo couldn't help but shouted: "In fact, the material of the quartz crucible coating has been determined, which is barium hydroxide in octa-water. The problem now is, how to determine the barium coating process, you still need to make an idea in this regard."

Zhou Shuo only had some understanding of this knowledge in his previous life. In principle, he might be able to say something, but if he really had to put it into production and determine the process, he would have to be confused. The coating technology of barium hydroxide on quartz crucibles is not a secret in twenty years, but now it is still a commercial secret of major wafer fabs. As long as a breakthrough can be made in this area, the crystallization rate can be immediately pulled to a higher level.

But industrial production is not everything that goes well after you know a recipe. It can even be said that a technology can be applied and completing theoretical research is only the first step in the Long March, and there are countless problems that need to be solved later.

For example, since barium hydroxide is needed to be coated, then barium hydroxide solution needs to be prepared. How to prepare this solution? What is the ratio of barium hydroxide to water? How much is the quartz crucible heated during the spraying process? What is the spray density? What is the spraying time limit? How to ensure the coverage of the solution and the uniformity of the coating...

"Hahahaha!" Solomonovsky laughed exaggeratedly and shook his head, "Mayor Jiang is too concerned. With the technical level of you Chinese, it is simply a fool to master the technology of electronic-grade quartz crucibles."

Deputy Mayor Jiang Ning was not embarrassed at all. Instead, he nodded with emotion and said, "Yes, the technology of our Chinese people is too far inferior to that of foreign countries. However, Zhou Shuo bought electronic-grade single-crystal furnace equipment in Japan. If you imitate it on this basis, you must be careful."
Chapter completed!