"Are you really doing the translation of director Wu Jianye?"

Han Enzhen nodded as a matter of course and said, "Yes, what's wrong?"

"I just saw him get into Lee Kun-hee's car!" Han Eun-jeong's boyfriend said in a complicated tone.

Han Eun-jung said in disbelief: "How is it possible, he is just a director, how can Lee Kun-hee send a car to pick him up, will you be mistaken!"

"I may have misread the president's car, how could Lee Kun-hee's car be wrong!"

Two people.......

.......

The car came to a typical Korean manor, when Wu Jianye got out of the car, he saw that there was already someone waiting for him at the door, and when the man saw Wu Jianye, he immediately bent down slightly and said in English: "Director Wu, our president has been waiting for you for a long time, please come with me!"

Wu Jianye nodded, and walked into the manor under the leadership of the other party, the style of the manor can be seen to be obviously with the domestic Jiangnan style, pavilions and courtyards, you can see it everywhere.

Under the leadership of that person, Wu Jianye and others came to a room, and there was already a middle-aged woman wearing classical hanbok waiting at the door of the room.

"Director Wu, welcome to Furong Pavilion, I am Representative Jin of Furong Pavilion, this is my business card, you are welcome to come over often in the future!"

After Wu Jianye took the business card, he said with a smile: "Thank you!"

At this time, Wu Jianye already understood what this was, this should be a place similar to the kind of private club in China, but looking at the decoration here and the temperament of the boss, it is obviously the top club of the stick.

Of course, Lee Kun-hee, who is not the top, can't be treated here!

Representative Jin opened the door, Wu Jianye walked in, and saw that the room looked very neat and simple, except for a dining table in the middle, there was no other thing, some similar to RB's tatami room!

At this time, the middle-aged man in his forties who was sitting in the middle also stood up, welcomed Wu Jianye with a smile and said, "Director Wu, welcome!"

Wu Jianye stretched out his hand and said with a smile: "President Li is too polite!"

The middle-aged man is naturally the current president of Samsung, the hidden emperor of the stick, Lee Kun-hee!

Samsung's strength in the stick does not need to be described too much, even if it is only 1990, Samsung is still the most powerful group company in the stick, a subsidiary of Samsung Holdings, almost all the industries of the stick.

And Samsung's most powerful semiconductor business is actually developed in the hands of Lee Kun-hee.

However, at this time, Samsung's semiconductor business was not yet dominating the world like later generations, and the semiconductor business of sticks at this time was only producing cheap products, and had not entered the mainstream of the world!

However, the semiconductor business is the business that Lee Kun-hee values the most.

After the two sides sat down, they began to greet each other, Lee Kun-hee praised Wu Jianye for his youthful achievements and won glory for Asians, and Wu Jianye reciprocated Li Jian-hee's praise for being a once-in-a-century management genius.

Anyway, it's a business blow to each other.

However, Wu Jianye clearly knew that it was absolutely impossible for Li Jianxi to invite himself over and blow the business to each other!

At this time, the Jin representative of the Furong Pavilion had already begun to serve food for their private room, and Li Jianxi personally invited guests, so he naturally took over the entire Furong Pavilion, in fact, even if the Furong Pavilion was open normally, it would not entertain more guests every day.

After the dishes were served, Wu Jianye found that Representative Kim had asked Lee Kun-hee's secretary about something in a whisper, so he said with a smile: "President Li, Director Wu, the next thing is for our prostitutes from Furong Pavilion to perform with everyone, I hope the two of you can like it!"

Lee Kun-hee laughed and introduced Wu Jianye: "Director Wu, the prostitutes in Furong Pavilion are the best in the whole of Seoul, please enjoy them!"

Wu saw that the night guest said casually: "Then it is better to be respectful than to obey your fate!"

As Representative Jin clapped his hands, the door was opened again, and a girl in a classical stick palace court dress walked in, bowed slightly, and began her performance.

In fact, the prostitute performance of the stick is similar to the geisha performance of RB, and in ancient times the prostitute belonged to the untouchables, and usually received various artistic training in the workshop from an early age, such as musical instruments, calligraphy, dance, literature, female celebrity, etc., and some also included medical skills, providing performances and serving guests at banquets.

In ancient times, a girl had to go through a ritual called a pan head and put on a hair tie before becoming a formal prostitute.

Prisoners who have committed the grave sin of their families are also demoted to prostitutes.

It is a similar concept to the degraded minister's female dependents in ancient China who were sent to the Department of Teaching.

However, the development of prostitutes on the stick has been very different until now, most of the current prostitutes are some girls who learn dance, come here to earn some extra money, of course, there are also people who hope to meet more rich people through this road, after all, in this era, those who can come to a place like Furong Pavilion to consume are the top rich people in Seoul!

The prostitute's appearance is very delicate, with a standard beauty goose egg face, and a little baby fat, but what makes Wu Jianye more curious is her eyes, and she always feels a touch of sadness in them, but Wu Jianye doesn't have too many ideas, a prostitute with a stick is just a prostitute, and it has nothing to do with him.

To the accompaniment of classical music on the sticks, the prostitute began his own performance.

At this time, it is naturally impossible for Wu Jianye and Li Jianxi to talk about anything serious, in fact, there is a wine service here, but neither Wu Jianye nor Li Jianxi is not very interested in such a service, and the relationship between the two has not yet reached the point where they give each other their own profligate side of friendship.

Represented by Kim, he softly explained to the two of them the origin and story of the dance performed by the prostitute.......

When the prostitutes performed the dance, Representative Jin said, "Yucca, come and toast President Li and Director Wu!"

Under the introduction of Representative Kim, Wu Jianye already knew that the prostitute's name was Dan Silan, who studied classical dance at the Seoul Academy of Arts!

Dan Silan carried her skirt, came to the two of them, knelt at the dining table, someone had already brought her a wine glass, Dan Silan toasted Wu Jianye and Li Jianxi with a calm face!

When all this was over, Li Jianxi gave everyone a look, and everyone left the room in understanding, Wu Jianye knew that Li Jianxi was going to talk to him about the purpose of inviting him this time!

"Director Wu, I know that Tunan Technology, a subsidiary of your group, is making every effort to develop the semiconductor business, but now the global semiconductor market is not very good, and our group is interested in acquiring the semiconductor business of Tunan Technology!"

Lee Kun-hee said directly.

Regarding Li Jianxi's request, Wu Jianye actually vaguely guessed the money for the banquet, so there is not much surprise now, in fact, Li Jianxi almost has a paranoid trust in the semiconductor business.

In the sixties and seventies, the global electronics industry developed rapidly.

Lee Byung-cheol, also known as Lee Kun-hee's father and the founder of Samsung Group, is keenly aware that this high value-added industry is the hope of the stick's future.

But his idea is only to work for RB Sanyo.

At that time, the monopoly of semiconductor technology was in the hands of the United States and RB, and Li Bingzhe did not dare to have too many extravagant hopes.

Most of the company's people, including the president who is close to him, are opposed to investing in semiconductors, and even the government is not optimistic.

At this time, his youngest son, Lee Kun-hee, who returned from studying in the United States, stood up and said to his father: "Dad, even if it's just me, I have to try that thing!"

So, in the radical remarks that "semiconductors will bring down Samsung", Lee Kun-hee started his own business.

In 1974, he used his own funds to buy a Korean semiconductor company, aiming at the emerging memory technology at the time.

Memory, also known as memory, is the main component of most electronic products. According to different technologies, it is divided into many types, and the current mainstream is DRAM memory, the former is used as mobile phone and computer system memory, and NAND flash memory, the latter is used as mobile phone flash memory and solid-state drive (SSD).

However, Lee Kun-hee's semiconductor road has not gone smoothly, he has traveled to Silicon Valley more than 50 times, introduced technology and talents, poured huge efforts and investments, and still continued to lose money.

In desperation, the father finally made a move and sent a capable man to assist his son in the future.

The two oil crises made him realize that in a small country with few resources, Samsung's future is semiconductors.

"I have to start this business before I close my eyes, so that Samsung will be safe and sound. ”

In 1983, Samsung officially declared war on memory by establishing its first semiconductor factory in Giheung, Gyeonggi-do.

However, both father and son underestimated the brutality of the battle.

People have the impression that the price of electronics is falling every year.

But the memory is very strange, it is the same as chemicals, it is a heavy asset, a strong cycle, the price fluctuates sharply, the price rises and falls, the money is counted until the hand is soft, and the fall even wants to cut itself.

The good thing is that once you survive the recession, you are the boss of the world.

In this industry, there is only one strategy, either take the money to smash the opponent, then be stoned to death by the opponent with the money.

Intel was one of the earliest players in the industry, bringing DRAM to mass adoption in 1970 and sweeping 80% of the market four years later.

After that, the Japanese rose to the occasion and defeated Intel.

By the time Samsung got its hands on the market, the Japanese were already world hegemons.

Finally broke through the technology blockade and purchased 64K DRAM technology from Micron, which was inconspicuous at the time, and encountered the industry's first recession.

In 1984, as soon as Samsung introduced 64K DRAM, the price of memory plummeted, from $4 per piece to 30 cents per piece, at a cost of $1.3 per piece. In other words, a loss of $1 per piece produced.

By the end of 1986, the accumulated loss was $300 million, and all equity capital was in deficit.

In fact, until 1987, when Li Bingzhe died, he did not see Samsung Semiconductor make a profit.

Due to the market recession, Intel, the former industry leader, was forced to withdraw, and Japanese manufacturers such as EC have also reduced their investments. Only Samsung doesn't know what to do, and is like a gambler who is crazy to buck the trend.

"The more difficult it is, the more you have to invest more. The losses that lasted for more than ten years not only failed to shake Lee Kun-hee's belief, but instead aroused his fighting spirit.

In order to overcome the technical difficulties, Samsung hired engineers from RB and used weekends to teach the technology to the stick.

At the same time, we went to the American semiconductor company to recruit experienced stick people. Inspired by patriotic feelings, these people gave up their careers for many years, returned to the stick, sacrificed all holidays, and went into battle day and night.

Among this group of people, there is a young man named Chen Daji, who refused IBM's repeated retention and joined Samsung without hesitation, on the grounds that "I really want to win RB once". The young man later became the CEO of Samsung Electronics.

However, it is not enough to have a passion for blood.

In 1983, when Samsung developed 64K DRAM, the key technology was five years behind RB.

At 256K, it is 2 years behind RB, and at 1M, it is still 1 year behind.

During this period, the Samsung people were ridiculed by RB. But they didn't pay attention to it, but buried their heads in it.

In 1987, Samsung people who had worked hard for many years finally ushered in a turning point in the industry.

In that year, the United States initiated an anti-dumping lawsuit against RB Semiconductor, and the two parties reached an export restriction agreement.

As a result, DRAM prices rebounded, and Samsung rose to the occasion, not only achieving profitability, but also beginning to lead RB in technology.

In fact, the development of Tunan Technology is similar to that of Samsung, although Wu Jianye knows what technology is the most important, but he himself does not understand the technology inside, so for Tunan Technology, their development is not much faster than Samsung.

In particular, the special identity of Tunan Technology has made the technical barriers and difficulties he suffers even more powerful than Samsung.

The development route of Tunan Technology is actually somewhat similar to Samsung, and the focus of their attention is similar, 84 years when Samsung has been tracking LCD technology, with the emergence of laptops, it has also opened the LCD era in human history.

During this period, liquid crystal technology has gone through countless iterations to give birth to thin-film transistor liquid crystal displays (TFT-LCD), of which RB companies represented by Sharp occupy 90% of the share.

Tunan Technology is also cooperating with RB enterprises to develop its own LCD technology.

Let's put it this way, in order to break the technical barriers, the annual research funds and losses invested by Tunan Technology have reached a loss of nearly 200 million US dollars per year!

This amount is not something that ordinary technology companies can afford, if it weren't for the very strong sales of Tunan Technology's products, Tunan Technology's current profits would be negative!

Zhou Tao was also suspicious of these projects, and discussed with Wu Jianye whether to suspend the development of these scientific research projects first.

However, Wu Jianye knew how important technical barriers were to a technology company in later generations, so Wu Jianye said at that time that Ningken Yaoguang Group would subsidize Tunan Technology every year and develop it, so that his lifeblood would not be caught in the future!

This is why Tunan Technology invests in the construction of laboratories for many world-famous universities every year, in order to not lag behind others in this best era of rapid development of science and technology!

Wu Jianye tapped on his desktop and said with a smile: "President Li, originally as a senior in the business world, we should respect our predecessors, but now Tunan Technology's semiconductor business is still losing money, but we Tunan Technology can still accept these losses!"