Chapter 188 A fire in winter
The next morning, Li Siming took a plane to Shenzhen in a hurry.
Last night, a rapid phone ringing woke him up. The call was called by Shuai Shuai. His incoherent words made Li Siming fall into an ice cellar. Last night, the top floor of the company's science and technology building caught fire, and the company's most important technical files were stored to burn it. It was the result of the hard work of all the company's engineers over the past few years. This is undoubtedly an important blow to the thriving MSI Technology Group.
Li Siming rushed back to the company in a hurry, and the company was busy. The fire burned everything on the ninth and tenth floors beyond recognition. The steel windows were melted and turned into twists, and the ground on the first floor was covered with broken glass. The firefighters had already finished extinguishing work. The engineers who came to work in the morning stood outside the isolation belt, staring blankly at the burned tenth floor.
Director Liu of the Public Security Bureau came here at the first time last night, and Shenzhen party and government leaders also rushed to organize the fire extinguishing. They suspected that this was a man-made arson case and perhaps there were deeper secrets, so even the leaders of the national security department came to the scene. At present, technical appraisal experts are investigating on the spot.
As soon as Li Siming stepped into the company, he was surrounded by engineers. Zeng Zhi and others sighed while cleaning up the mess.
"Aming, the fire started around 11 o'clock last night. Fortunately, it was discovered early, and various fire protection measures were implemented effectively. There were also many people working night shifts in the electrical appliance company. They all came to help and did not burn the floor below. But they still burned all the technical information on the two-story laboratory! There were also some advanced equipment and instruments." Xu Dashuai said, his face was white and black, and his voice was hoarse.
"Tell me quickly, is anyone injured?" Li Siming asked anxiously.
"Several people were injured, and they were injured when putting out the fire later, and they were all fine!" Xu Dashui replied.
"That's good!" Li Siming forced a smile after hearing this, "As long as everyone is there, everything will be fine, nothing worse than this!"
"Vice General Li!" Director Liu of the Public Security Bureau saw that Li Siming had come, and hurried over to say hello, "I am very sorry that such a thing happened. But don't worry, our public security department will investigate carefully and find out the reasons, and will never let the destructors get away with it!"
"What are you finding?" Li Siming asked.
"According to our preliminary investigation, it was ignited from two trash cans on the ninth floor at the same time. Your company's cleaners have always cleaned the trash cans in the morning and afternoon, and no one cleaned them at night." Director Liu said, "We will start with the investigation of your company's internal personnel! Because we suspect it is man-made!"
"That's so thank you!" Li Siming said, "But I have a request. It's not a good idea for you to fight so much. I don't want all of our engineers to be suspicious. Everyone is not what I want to see, but I want people to be suspicious of each other. You can investigate secretly and don't have to have too much impact, what?"
"It's good!" Director Liu nodded and agreed.
Li Siming's arrival seemed to have found the backbone. He walked the steps of the building under the gaze of everyone. The crowd calmed down and waited for Li Siming's anger. However, Li Siming did not express his anger, but he was very glad:
"I am very sorry and angry. When I heard this news last night, I thought that our outstanding work in the past few years has been setbacks due to this fire. At this moment, I feel the same as everyone. These valuable technical materials are our efforts and summary of our efforts. It is precisely because of your efforts that we have achieved our current achievements.
But things have happened, just like the water that has been poured out, it is hard to contain it. We do not need to regret what has happened, because it is useless at all.
But I am very glad that none of you were injured, which is a blessing. Because you are the most important property of the company, and these are not measured by technical solutions and charts. We started from scratch, built such a prosperous company from childhood to adulthood, from scratch, and we can do the same today. The ancients said: If God will give great responsibilities to this person, he must first make his heart and mind hard and his muscles. This is a small test for us by God, and we should bravely accept this challenge.
If we just sighed over and sighed about the ruthless teasing of fate, then we would accomplish nothing. The real warriors should face this small setback before us. Back then, when we were on the battlefield, when we defeated the superior enemy with our inferior forces and weapons, when other troops were glad to our fearlessness and glory, we quietly packed up the bodies of our comrades, cheered up, and embarked on a more rugged road until the final victory!
Indeed, MSI Technology has achieved countless achievements in the past seven years and has been named "National Technology Savior". Without this fire, we will encounter other blows. This reminds us that we must always be prepared and prepare for greater challenges.
But we are all still alive, and our thinking ability is still as normal as before. As long as you and me are there, I believe we will recover soon and will definitely be better than before!”
Li Siming stood on the steps, one hand was placed between his waist, and the other hand was waving hard in the air, his eyes moving firmly among the crowd, with a solemn expression and a passionate tone. At that moment, he seemed to remember Duo Jie in his life, but he became more and more courageous. Li Siming was even a little excited. He had gone too smoothly in the past few years.
Li Siming is undoubtedly the leader of everyone, the captain of a giant ship that is expanding in scale. The kind of commander is the kind of army. Li Siming's passionate speech is like a battle song, allowing everyone to abandon the pain in their hearts and regain confidence. One detail is that Li Siming has almost instinctively repeatedly emphasized that talent is the first priority, which touched all engineers. The factory can be rebuilt when it collapses, and important technological secrets can be burned and they can be rebuilt, but morale cannot be devoid of, and confidence cannot be devoid of. Li Siming is very clear about this.
"It's no big deal, no one can break it, no one can establish it!" Li Siming comforted Shuai Shuai and others. Shuai Shuai has never had a rest last night. He always thinks that his work has not been done well, giving people an opportunity to take advantage of it.
"I'm afraid I can't recover in less than six months!" Watanabe sighed, "This is a heavy loss for us, but fortunately it happened at night."
"What's the big deal? What's the harm in rebuilding? We didn't do it step by step back then. Technical secrets can be burned, but as long as the things in the brains of technicians are still there, we can still be reborn from the fire!" Zeng Zhi was quite confident.
"Well said, you will be reborn from the fire!" Li Siming said, "No matter what the results of the investigation by the public security department are, we still need to review this fire prevention awareness and safety awareness. We are not afraid of thieves remembering but afraid of thieves thinking about it!"
News of a small fire that occurred in Shenzhen in winter quickly spread across the country, flew overseas, and spread at the fastest speed in countries around the world.
"Where did that person come from?" Li Siming asked the day after the incident.
"I am a short-term intern, from November." Xu Dashuai said, "Let him run away!".
Li Siming understood that in order to introduce talents, the company collaborated with American universities very closely, providing some internship positions for some international students who were interested in joining the company, so that interns could get to know the company earlier before graduation. After the fire, it was soon discovered that one person was missing that day. Unexpectedly, this Chinese compatriot with yellow skin and dark hair was actually a ungrateful wolf. Many people in the Science and Technology Building have always worked very late, and no one cared too much about who left late.
After learning from one's mistakes, Li Siming suddenly remembered an old saying: Being careful of others is indispensable. Li Siming believed too much about other people's ethics. He should have thought that someone could do anything for money. Retribution. During the day when the incident happened, he was still scolding those who were fawning in Beijing. Unexpectedly, his backyard caught fire. The fire in winter was really burning strong! Li Siming was still scared, and the loss was not irreversible, but it took a lot of time.
"This guy ran away faster!" Zeng Zhi said, "I don't know who his foreign cadre is?"
"Maybe we should see if we can get some benefits?" Li Siming said.
Li Siming simply did not associate this 100% man-made fire with Intel, the world's largest semiconductor company, because if Intel did this, it would undoubtedly be self-destruction, which would be too damaging. However, Intel seemed to be the second victim, because the company was still fighting lawsuits and verbal battles with MSI semiconductor, and mixed with complex political factors and trade wars. Both sides seemed to have an irreconcilable hatred. Judging from the motives of crime, Intel obviously had such a motive. Chinese media deliberately led to public opinion in this regard. Intel was a mute and sacrificial manure - it was hard to say.
"We deeply regret the fire that occurred at MSI. We admire MSI's outstanding contributions to modern IC manufacturing and computer microprocessors, but our company clarifies the fact that we are a listed company with a long history and strictly abide by the laws of the United States and the laws of the country where the market is located. Our shareholders come from all over the world, have good business ethics, adhere to the principles and positions of market competition, oppose unfair competition, and have always had a good record. Therefore, we strongly protest the allegations imposed by those who do not know the truth and make trouble on our company. We hereby declare!"
This is an announcement made by Intel's board of directors and a helpless move.
This is obviously a hot news topic. Everyone analyzes the truth of the incident like Sherlock Holmes. Some people even claim that this is a big scam written and directed by MSI Semiconductor, because Li Siming is a "gold director" and has a very basic acting foundation.
The fire aroused public anger within China, just like the Eight-Nation Alliance entering Beijing again. Intel is wronged, but it is hard to explain. Who told you to sue MSI semiconductor in full swing, and people always involuntarily lead the incident to the lawsuit. Intel, which has always refused negotiations, has to put aside its attitude and negotiate with MSI semiconductor. This is a process of mutual accusation and shirking responsibility. In Intel's view, this is also a process of retreating to advance!
One of the results of the incident, all large companies have strengthened their security awareness and used MSI's examples as negative teaching materials. This can be regarded as MSI's "selfless contribution" to the world, right? It only made Li Siming and his MSI Group suffer, and they had to collect their confidence and become the phoenix reborn in the ashes.
Chapter completed!