Author: quiet thoughts

Hongchuan Electric's mid-year advertisement has aroused heated discussions throughout Tokyo. Clubs with overlapping businesses will pay attention to his products, and companies without overlapping businesses will pay attention to his subsequent market announcements.

Enterprises want to be in the market. In addition to the initial announcement, there are many follow-up tasks that need to be promoted.

For example, the initial public offering prospectus, briefing session, market details, etc. will be announced one after another in the coming months.

As far as Hongchuan Electric is concerned, it is currently undergoing an external audit and has not made any public announcements for the time being.

But the approximate time is within those two weeks, because the review by Deloitte and Beiyi has come to an end.

As for Hongchuan Kaede, the figure at the center of Hongchuan Electric that everyone is discussing, he has not appeared in public at this moment, but drove to Chiba Prefecture in a low-key manner with people from outside the group.

What are you here for? Should you invest in building a factory?

That time he planned to build a CD factory, but the location was chosen in Chiba Prefecture, across the sea from Tokyo.

Since the 1950s and 1960s, it has been a cluster of chemical and material industries.

Most of the raw materials and industries can be found in Dongyou Service, and the processing of optical discs also belongs to the chemical materials industry.

So if we want to build a factory, is Chiba the best choice? It is just across Tokyo Bay from Tokyo, so transportation is relatively convenient.

As for why Hongchuanfeng built a CD factory, is it planning ahead for future industries?

The laboratory at SIC has determined that CD-ROM will be released next year.

As the first industry standard that he participated in formulating, Hongchuan Feng also attaches great importance to it.

Of course, I need to be prepared for the technology that will change the future storage landscape.

The format will be launched next year, and then the CD-ROM must be officially put into production next year.

He can already imagine that in the future, the technology that SIC has been researching for more than two years will definitely become another money printing machine for Hongchuan Electric.

And in addition to CD-ROM, the CD player that will be launched next year also requires a large number of records to support its release.

Hongchuan Electric's optical disc factory will also do external work next year, if a record company wants to release CDs.

Well, it's ready-made in Chiba. It's very close to Tokyo. You can come over at any time to check the progress of the pressure plate.

Although the formats of CD-ROM and CD-DA are different, 90% of the processing technology is the same, and the difference lies in the different molds.

Therefore, after external evaluation by Hongchuan Electric Co., Ltd., they all believed that building an own optical disc factory was a very necessary option.

At this time, Hongkawa Kaede was discussing the location of the factory with government officials in Chiba, and suddenly Assistant Komatsu, who was accompanying him, hurried over.

After apologizing to the Governor of Chiba beside him, Hongchuan Feng walked aside alone and asked, "What's wrong?"

"Fujitsu's Matatsuka Michiyoshi-san and Tokita Ryuji-san just called. It seems there is something very urgent."

Assistant Komatsu, who was in charge of answering the phone in the car, also looked serious at this time.

It is not difficult to tell from the anxious tone of the other party just now that there must be something pressing.

Hongchuan Feng was stunned when he heard about Fujitsu.

Is there something wrong with our own chip? It shouldn’t be. SIC8089 has been on the market for almost a year and there are no major bugs.

But there was no way he could be sure that Bulong was related to him. Hongchuan Feng also changed his expression to serious.

"Do you know what happened? What did the wrong party say?"

"They refused to say specific things, but they emphasized several times that they wanted to see you immediately."

It seemed that something was really going on. Hongchuan Feng turned around and glanced at Governor Chiba who was still standing not far away and sighed.

Forget it, I'll come back to visit another month.

If there is no other way, Hongkawa Kaede can go over and explain the situation to Governor Chiba, and leave in advance if there is an emergency.

Heitaro Nakajima, who was accompanying Bu Nao, will still stay there. He also has his own professional opinions on the construction of the CD factory.

The Governor of Chiba also expressed generously that it was normal for the president of the Meiji Group, Sangma, to be in the city again soon.

Saying goodbye to Chiba in a hurry, Kojima immediately drove back to Tokyo.

They didn't even enter the door of their own Hongchuan Electric Co., Ltd., they went straight to the Fujitsu headquarters in the port area.

As soon as they arrived, the staff who had been waiting for a long time immediately took Benikawa Kaede and the others to Matsuka Moriyoshi's office.

"Hongchuan-san, you are here."

As soon as he entered the door, Matsuka Moriichi went to greet him.

"Mazuka-san, what's wrong? Why are you so anxious?"

Hongchuan Kaede was very surprised to see Matsuka Moichi's face turned red and panic-stricken.

Not only did he disagree, but even Tokita Ryuji of the Electronic Products Division had the same expression.

The positions of these two people at Fujitsu are not at the ministerial level, and they are not at the top level.

But now, their appearance really matches their identities.

Hearing Hongkawa Kaede's question, Matatsuka Moriyoshi was unambiguous and immediately handed him the Yomiuri Shimbun on the table.

Before he could ask in detail, Hongchuan Feng lowered his head and saw that the thick black news headlines were extremely conspicuous.

"IBM teamed up with the FBI to arrest Yue Li, a Mitsubishi employee, and a commercial espionage case was revealed!"

Hongchuan Feng secretly took a breath, just one sentence, but the amount of information was amazing.

Not only the Yomiuri Shimbun, but also the Menstruation News in the Legs and the Asatsuki Shimbun have similar reports.

"Yueli, a Mitsubishi employee was arrested for industrial espionage!"

“Clever Trap: FBI Undercover Agent’s Expose Operation Leads to ‘Big Deal’!”

Each headline is more sensational than the last, and not only that, the reports are often accompanied by photos of arrests.

A neon man wearing a tie and shirt, with his legs behind his back and leg cuffs, walked dejectedly in front.

Behind him, a foreigner put one leg in his pocket, holding the other leg with the neon man in front of him, and walked out of the airport without noticing.

To be honest, the scene looked just like an owner trying to teach his disobedient dog a lesson.

Although he did not read the specific content of the news report, Hongchuan Kaede already had a rough idea of ​​what happened.

After patiently reading the information in the leg in detail, Hongchuan Feng finally understood the more detailed appearance.

The facts were exactly what he thought. It was indeed a case of commercial espionage, and it had extensive implications.

Two days ago, in the United States, which is on the other side of the world, two members of the capital government announced the details of the arrest of Yueli and Mitsubishi employees.

The FBI director declared at the press conference, "This investigation is a good example of how they need to be alert to Neon's efforts to infiltrate their high-tech industry and steal critical secrets in all aspects."

Two days after the incident, Neon began to report the incident on a large scale.

Various news outlets also interpreted in detail the outside details of the commercial espionage case between Yueli, Mitsubishi and IBM.

In general, regarding whether to obtain technical information about the IBM mainframe 3081K, Yue Li's liaison officer in the United States secretly sought confidential information from Palin, a former IBM employee.

Palin, the former director of IBM's Computer Systems Laboratory, was shocked when he received the first ten volumes of secret information on the 3081K model provided by Yue Li.

Although he has left IBM, he also knows that it is IBM's most confidential mainframe technical information, and the confidentiality level is very high.

But at this moment Yue Li took the initiative to come to the door and asked if he could get the seventeen volumes of Cheng Dong.

That made Palin realize that there were astonishing trade secret transactions.

After much consideration, Palin ignored the huge compensation offered by Yueli and turned around and told her old employer, IBM, about the matter.

Is this a typical fishing law enforcement case or an Infernal Affairs story unfolding?

After IBM obtained the information, it decisively contacted the FBI.

At this time, IBM had a large amount of business cooperation with the U.S. government, and almost all servers and computers in government departments were provided by IBM.

That includes the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the FBI, so IBM has a very close relationship with the government.

Facing the wrong information provided by IBM, the FBI sent an agent posing as an IBM technical consultant.

At the same time, the FBI asked Palin to pretend to agree to Yue Li's conditions, and introduced Yue Li's liaison officer to the FBI's posing as a technical consultant.

In response to the agent's ambiguous attitude, Yue Li's liaison officer flattered him in every possible way and promised various benefits.

In fact, at this time, the FBI already had enough evidence to arrest Yue Li's liaison, because every meeting they had was secretly recorded and even videotaped.

But the FBI and IBM wanted to catch a bigger fish, so under the spell of the fake technical consultant, Liaison Yueli took him directly to Neon.

In the neon hotel, the director of Tsukidate Kanagawa Computer Factory personally met with the fake consultant.

Because of the huge temptation of US$500,000, the fake agent pretended to agree to Yueli's request to obtain the technical information of the remaining seventeen volumes.

After returning to the United States, IBM and the FBI soon settled the matter and notified Yue Li's senior management to personally come to the United States to collect the information.

Could it be that the stupid Yue Li was just picking up the goods at the door without warning, but when he entered the door, he was pushed to the ground by several burly men.

At the same time, Mitsubishi also had the same situation. Mitsubishi employees even took the information to the airport and prepared to fly back home immediately.

However, the FBI had already set up a dragnet there, and the wrong party was caught as soon as he showed up.

The commercial espionage case was laid out last year, in October 1981, and was not officially closed until the end of June next year.
To be continued...