Reborn in the red age

Professor Xu, who had finished the discussion and was about to leave, was pulled back by Li Qingfeng. The three of them had a long talk in the office, discussing in detail the future of the lithography factory.

The lithography plant has passed theoretical verification and proved that it has certain feasibility. The next step is to gradually carry out verification and exploration.

Funds will start to be expended from this stage, and Professor Xu and Academician Wang have given a preliminary budget of 500 million US dollars.

If the verification fails, the 500 million will be wasted. If the verification succeeds, at least 2 billion US dollars of scientific research investment will be needed before the lithography plant is built.

If you encounter difficulties in technical research, the money will increase rapidly and may even double.

Judging from the current domestic situation, this astronomical sum of money is something that only Lemon Company can afford, and even the national treasury cannot afford it.

After hearing about the funds needed, even though he was mentally prepared, Qingfeng Li still felt a little heartbroken.

Damn, the starting point is 2.5 billion, and the possibility of doubling is not ruled out, and it’s US dollars.

Even someone as wealthy as Li Qingfeng felt a little pain in the flesh.

Li Qingfeng took a deep breath, met the two people's anxious eyes, and expressed his position in a firm tone: "Academician Wang, Professor Xu, you can rest assured. As long as the verification is passed, whether it is 2 billion or 4 billion, the company will support it to the end."

After hearing Qingfeng Li's statement, Professor Xu looked at Qingfeng Li approvingly, his eyes full of admiration.

"Well, Mr. Li is indeed a man who started from scratch and expanded his business to the whole world. He is really courageous."

Professor Xu patted the armrest of the sofa heavily, sat up from the sofa, and patted his chest to guarantee: "I am here to make a military order. As long as the verification can be passed, I will build the lithography factory even if it costs my life."

Li Qingfeng waved his hand and said calmly: "Professor Xu, I don't need to risk my life. It's just 20 or 30 billion US dollars, a small number. I can afford it."

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For a moment, both of them didn't know what to say. It's a small number, we can afford to pay it. Is this what human beings say?

Ignoring Li Qingfeng's Versailles speech, Academician Wang tapped the table gently and spoke slowly: "If there is no problem with funding, we must invite outstanding domestic technical talents to join us as soon as possible. Huaxin's technical talents alone are far from enough."

Professor Xu nodded in agreement and said: "We can consider recruiting some overseas Chinese scientists. Foreign technology is advanced. If overseas Chinese scientists are willing to join, the development of the lithography plant will be greatly accelerated."

"Forget about overseas Chinese scientists. They won't come back and they might even lead to leaks of our plans." Li Qingfeng shook his head and rejected the idea of ​​recruiting Chinese experts.

"Teacher Li is too pessimistic. During the war of resistance, overseas Chinese saved money and donated money and materials to support the war at home. Although they were overseas, they still had patriotism."

"You said it was during the Anti-Japanese War, when the survival of the nation was at stake. Now is not the moment of national survival, so it is unlikely that they will give up their comfortable lives abroad and return home."

"Why not give it a try?"

Li Qingfeng shook his head: "No need to try, we can tell from the return rate of overseas students that the talents we train ourselves are all like this, not to mention those Chinese who grew up overseas."

"I think"

Qingfeng Li interrupted Professor Xu and said, "Professor Xu, don't think about the overseas Chinese. Before the lithography plant has achieved certain results, the lithography plant project must be kept absolutely confidential."

"What Mr. Li said makes sense. The success rate of recruiting overseas Chinese is low and the risk of leaks is high."

Academician Wang also agreed with Li Qingfeng's opinion. He glanced at Professor Xu and said, "Let's focus on discovering and cultivating domestic talents. Domestic universities and research institutions have also cultivated many outstanding talents. The talents cultivated by our country are no worse than those cultivated by developed countries overseas."

The investors and project leaders all shared this opinion, and the newly joined Professor Xu could not continue to fight for it, so he had to give up the idea of ​​recruiting overseas Chinese.

The following discussion mainly focused on domestic talent discovery. Both Academician Wang and Professor Xu were very familiar with the talents in the field of domestic lithography machines.

The two of them started to list various talents in the field of domestic lithography, while Li Qingfeng was responsible for recording their names and the units they belonged to.

An hour later, Li Qingfeng shook his sore right hand and looked at the densely packed names and units on the notebook, his heart filled with emotion.

I didn’t pay much attention to it before, but now that I have summarized it, there are still many talented people in China.

Closing the notebook filled with names, Qingfeng Li solemnly assured the two, "Don't worry, I will arrange for people to visit the names on the list tomorrow and recruit as many people on the list as possible."

Professor Xu did not stay in Huaxin for long. After everything was settled, he said goodbye and left. He is still known as the father of optical discs and is working on optical discs in Wudaokou. He can only join Huaxin after completing the current project.

Li Qingfeng personally saw Professor Xu off. While waiting for the elevator, He Guangqin came over with an expedited printed employment contract.

Li Qingfeng smiled and handed the contract to Professor Xu: "Professor Xu, this is Huaxin's employment contract. The salary and benefits are written on it. Take it home and have a look. If you are satisfied with the treatment Huaxin gives you, just sign it. If there is anything you are not satisfied with, we can negotiate again."

"Okay, let's get in touch after I've seen it."

Professor Xu casually put the contract in his briefcase and took the elevator downstairs.

Downstairs, after shaking hands with Li Qingfeng again with a smile, Professor Xu rode his bicycle and left Huaxin Building.

Looking at the figure riding the bicycle away, Li Qingfeng was filled with emotion. This was a true genius.

Despite foreign blockades and embargoes, we independently developed a lithography machine with complete intellectual property rights.

After the failure of the lithography machine project, he turned to the development of storage optical discs and took the title of the father of the optical disc.

After Professor Xu disappeared from his sight, He Guangqin murmured quietly: "The life of researchers in the mainland is too hard. Such a famous scientist actually relies on a bicycle to get around."

"You know nothing. This is because of his noble character. Professor Xu has a lot of patent income from CDs, and he donated all the income to the school for scientific research. If this money was used for personal enjoyment, Professor Xu, the Bentley, could afford it."

"Why donate it?"

He Guangqin took a deep breath. As someone who grew up in a capitalist society, he could not understand Professor Xu's behavior at all.

Li Qingfeng turned his head and looked at him. He was silent for a long time before he said, "Maybe it's because of faith."

Returning to Huaxin Building, Li Qingfeng asked about the main purpose of coming to Huaxin today, the research and development progress of digital chips.

After learning that the research and development of digital chips has been basically completed and that samples have already been hand-mixed in the laboratory, Li Qingfeng was very pleased.

Since the establishment of Huaxin, Li Qingfeng has invested a lot of money in it, and now he can finally see the returns.

"Now that the chip has been successfully developed, how is the development of the digital mobile phone at Jiyang Intelligent Communication going?"

Jiyang Intelligent Communication Equipment Co., Ltd. is the company that produces domestic mobile phones. Neither Huaxin nor Lemon Company has any intention of producing mobile phones.

Li Qingfeng's plan is that Huaxin will produce digital chips, Lemon will develop the mobile phone operating system, and the work of assembling and selling mobile phones will be handed over to domestic companies.

As long as you grasp the two core elements of mobile phones, you can make huge profits. Why do you have to sell mobile phones yourself?

Since that would be a waste of energy and wouldn't make much money, it would be easier to let all the domestic mobile phone manufacturers work for you.

"Jiyang has already started research and development. They have the support of the Fourth Research Institute and sufficient technical strength. They have made a lot of money from producing mobile phones over the years. They can independently develop GSM mobile phones without the support of our Huaxin," said Xu Yuanming with a smile.

Speaking of domestic mobile phones, Li Qingfeng remembered that he had not paid attention to the prices for a long time, so he asked Xu Yuanming about the current prices of domestic mobile phones.

"According to your request, we have been lowering the price of domestic mobile phones over the years. Now the price of a domestic mobile phone on the market is 5,200 yuan, which is 600 yuan cheaper than the initial price."

"In addition, the sales of domestically produced mobile phones have also boosted the domestic parts factories. The quality of domestically produced mobile phone parts has improved by more than one level, and the production price has also dropped slightly."

Listening to Xu Yuanming's story, Li Qingfeng nodded with satisfaction.

This is the significance of developing domestic products. As long as one link is developed, it can drive the development of the entire industrial chain and technological improvement, and create more employment opportunities in the country.

Li Qingfeng thought about it and felt that it was too slow for a single manufacturer in Jiyang to produce mobile phones.

After the equipment at sea is shipped back, Huaxin's production capacity will have to be greatly increased. If it relies on itself, it will take a long time for Huaxin's digital communication chips to make a profit.

"So, you can contact powerful domestic companies and institutions and let them participate in the research and development of mobile phones."

Xu Yuanming said with some embarrassment: "Most of the domestic enterprises that are capable of designing and producing mobile phones are state-owned enterprises. They have their main business. If they are asked to cross industries and enter the mobile phone field, they may not be very interested."

"When you invite them, tell them that as long as the mobile phones they design have excellent performance and good quality, we will help them export overseas."

“Will you really help them export?”

"Let me put it this way first, and we'll talk about the details later."

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Although Xu Yuanming felt that Li Qingfeng's proposal was unreliable, he still visited domestic companies with technological strength one by one according to Li Qingfeng's requirements.

The visits to companies went smoothly. In the first two days, he had to visit each company one by one. But after the news spread, many companies began to contact Xu Yuanming on their own initiative.

Not only companies producing technological products have expressed their willingness to manufacture mobile phones, but in order to fulfil their promise of exporting and earning foreign exchange, even those making steel, ships and tractors have rushed to Huaxin to discuss cooperation.

Looking at these corporate representatives who came to him for export, Xu Yuanming was a little worried. If the mobile phones were produced and the promise to help them export was not fulfilled, wouldn't these powerful state-owned enterprises in the country tear him apart?

Xu Yuanming quickly found Li Qingfeng who was at the Lemon Company downstairs and said, "Teacher Li, these people are all here for export. If they fail to do so, these powerful state-owned enterprises in China will be offended."

"Don't worry, don't worry. Since I dare to say so, I must be confident." Li Qingfeng was not in a hurry. He smiled and patted Xu Yuanming's shoulder.

“Do we really have to help them export?”

Li Qingfeng straightened his expression and said, "Of course, you think I'm joking. In the domestic market, at most we can sell more than 100,000 units a year. What can we do with such a small market share? Huaxin can't even use up its production capacity in a month. If we want to digest the production capacity, we still have to rely on overseas markets."

"There are dozens of companies that have come to us, including those that make steel and tractors, and they all want to produce mobile phones. We can't help them export, right?"

Li Qingfeng waved his hands in disgust: "Of course not, these unreliable companies should all be driven away. When they heard about foreign exchange, they jumped at it like seeing bones, without considering the situation of their own companies."

"Okay, now I know what's going on."

"Remember, the export requirement is that the designed mobile phone has excellent performance and good quality. If it does not meet these two prerequisites, we will not help export."

With Li Qingfeng's instructions, Xu Yuanming felt relieved, straightened his clothes, and went upstairs to meet with the representatives of the state-owned enterprises.

After several days of screening, Xu Yuanming selected five companies that had the conditions to produce and design mobile phones from those that were interested in cooperation.

Four of them are state-owned enterprises, namely Great Wall, which produces computers, Jiyang Intelligent Communications, an old friend of Huaxin, Oriental Communications, which introduced Motorola's advanced mobile communication technology, and Panda Electronics, a veteran company in the domestic electronics industry.

The other is a private enterprise, Bird Company from Ningbo, which produces Chinese pagers.

When Li Qingfeng saw Bird's name on the list of cooperative enterprises handed over by Xu Yuanming, he was very surprised.

It’s only 1994, and Bird already has the ability to develop mobile phones?
Li Qingfeng pointed at Xu Yuanming and asked curiously, "Why can a private company be included in our cooperation list? Is there anything special about this company?"

"The founder of this company graduated from Xi'an Jiaotong University with a degree in computer science, and he is very creative. The first Chinese BP machine with independent intellectual property rights in China was developed by his company."

"The founding team of Bird came to us personally and begged to cooperate with us. I think we can give them a chance and let them try it out."

Li Qingfeng nodded with interest, readily approved the cooperation between Bird and Huaxin, and instructed Xu Yuanming to give Bird more technical support. (End of this chapter)