Chapter 75 Offensive and defensive changes
September 6th at 10 am, reception room.
"Mr. Vinson, we understand your demands very much, but I believe that as a professional who has been engaged in investment work in China for many years, you should also understand our policies."
"In any country, the market is closed. Although both of us trade based on margin trading contracts, we cannot operate redemption actions outside the market during the market closing."
"This holiday was indeed a sudden one, but it was not completely without warning. We sent you a notice that the opening time might be delayed. At that time, you did not ask for redemption, didn't you?"
Vinson, who is in charge of the agency idfc business, was anxiously paced in the reception room. He knew that his current attempt would hardly succeed, but he had to work hard again.
Before today, he had almost no doubts about the success of this investment. On the one hand, he believed in the professionalism of Blackstone Capital, and on the other hand, it was out of confidence in his own country.
This is the confidence accumulated over decades or even hundreds of years.
During this time, no one has ever challenged their authority.
But, today, it seems that things are beginning to change something that makes him uneasy.
Although the above command only says that the other party may have mastered the 7nm technology, based on his years of understanding of the official in China, if he only mastered such a technology that was not enough to change the entire situation, the other party would not be able to use such a strategy in a daze.
Whether it is the delay in negotiations or the undercurrents in the financial market, they have far exceeded their own cognition.
The only factor that allows him to maintain trust in instructions is the rational education he receives.
It is impossible. No matter from any perspective, they cannot master more advanced technology than their own country. This is an objective law.
It’s not that you can still break objective laws directly, right?
Thinking of this, he spoke:
"Mr. Li Rui, I know my request is unreasonable, but now we are facing an emergency and we must draw a large amount of funds for other purposes. So, I want to discuss with you whether we can give us an exemption outside the process?"
"You also know that redeem at this time will actually not lose any loss to you--the stock price has been on a downward trend recently, and we have to give up the profits we are about to get."
Li Rui, who was sitting behind the desk, shook his head firmly.
It’s not that he is unwilling to open this back door. In fact, their company without any principles actually does a lot of illegal operations when facing such large customers.
But this time, they received the red line order from their superiors.
Whoever dares to open this hole will die.
"It's not a dismissal, it's a literal death."
This is the leader's original words.
He doesn't know the reason, nor does he need to know it.
Just implement it firmly.
No one is willing to sell his own wealth and life for the sake of that little breach of contract under such circumstances.
"Mr. Vinson, I'm sorry, I really can't."
Looking at Li Rui's firm expression, Vincent sighed.
He turned around and drove the Qianhai office building, looking at the crowds running in a hurry on the street, and suddenly had an ominous premonition in a trance.
He always thought that the capital he represented was encircling and suppressing Chinese capital, but he did not expect that he was the prey that was trapped in the encirclement and suppression.
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At 16 pm, the Chouguo business representative and the Huaxia business representative had the last round of negotiations on Yinglongeda.
"We can accept the conditions for 400 end users proposed by you, and further concessions can be made in terms of price and function, but only if you must complete the contract with us in the shortest time possible."
"These rounds of negotiations have been delayed for too long, and we have lost patience. If we continue to delay like this, we have to doubt your sincerity."
Lu Siwen's tone was very tough, but by this time, everyone in the venue had already heard his bluff.
Chen Hao took a sip of tea slowly and then replied:
"I am very sorry to notify you, Mr. Lu, that according to the conclusions discussed by many of our companies, our conditions on the technical side have changed."
"We decided to stick to the conditions proposed by Mr. Ye Zhou at the beginning, that is, Yinglongeda must be used without restrictions."
"In addition, in terms of business, we still insist on not touching the terms related to grain import and export. As for other compensation, we can give you appropriate discounts in terms of automobile import tax."
“The discount amount is…3%.
"Bang!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Lu Siwen on the screen slammed the table and stood up.
"3%! Mr. Chen Hao! Are you kidding me?! What is the difference between such a discount and no? Send beggars??"
Looking at Lu Siwen with an angry face, Chen Hao was unmoved at all.
"Mr. Lu, this is our condition. If you feel dissatisfied, we can sit down and continue talking. I believe that we will always come up with a result."
Lu Siwen forced himself to suppress his anger and sat down again, then gritted his teeth and said:
"Mr. Chen Hao, the negotiations have reached this point. I don't think we need to hide it anymore. We have already made a preliminary understanding of what your backup plan is."
"But, I would like to advise you here, even if you can truly achieve your goals, that is already within our expectations!"
"You cannot shake our dominance in the field of technology. This is the last piece of advice we can give you from the perspective of technical strength!"
"I will only say such advice once!"
Hearing Lu Siwen's words, Chen Hao's eyes gradually became cold.
He put down the teacup in his hand, looked directly at the other person, and said word by word:
"Do you really think you can threaten us with a domineering attitude like you are now?"
"Do you really think you can speak unscrupulously in front of us, saying 'From the point of strength'?"
"I can tell you clearly that you have no right to say this, whether in the past, present, or in the future."
"Maybe objectively speaking, our technical strength in the chip field was indeed different from yours."
"But now, the offense and defense have changed, Mr. Lu!"
"You wouldn't think that the factory that your satellite is aimed at is only a 7nm chip that is a big street, right?"
"It's so ridiculous... Do you think you can really escape our eyes when you're inside the border?"
"What you know is nothing but what we want you to know."
"Now, I can tell you that what you want to know will be released nationwide in an hour."
After saying that, Chen Hao cut off the video call directly.
The negotiations have come to this point, and there is actually no need to continue the negotiations.
On September 6, at 14:00 pm, the first 5nm chip wafer was successfully trial-produced at Spark Factory.
At 15 o'clock, the chip wafer passed the mid-test, which means that the "Zhiwei" lithography machine is operating well. Even if there is indeed a problem after the final packaging, it is only a problem of technical details and does not affect the fact that the lithography machine is successfully manufactured.
At 18 o'clock, the first 100% domestic 5nm chip "Kaitian 1" was officially exposed, and major official media reported it uniformly.
The whole country was shocked.
Chapter completed!