Chapter 414 of the text Taizu powder

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Meng Zhengfeng rearranged his clothes a little nervously, although it was already the end of July, and the weather in the Northeast could also heat people up like dogs.

Thirty years later, in such a day, it is difficult to drag people out of a room with air conditioning and watermelon. If there is another sofa of the same style as Zhang Geyou, it will basically be a waste.

But in the eyes of Meng Zhengfeng, who is already in his forties, he has experienced more difficult days than this. People say that thirty is standing and forty is not confused, but he is starting again in the year of not being confused, and he can only let himself seize every opportunity that must be cherished.

The biggest news of ST Group recently is undoubtedly the newly established Information Engineering Division. As the first new business unit after the completion of the group's structure, countless people are focused on the position of the head of this division.

It stands to reason that with ST's consistent preference for young people, many people are speculating about how young this minister will be. But when the answer was about to be revealed, many of the people who got the news first were shocked.

Forty-three-year-old Meng Zhengfeng, who had been a soldier and started a business, lost all his wife and children in the end of his business, and had to divorce to avoid debts. When he was desperate, he saw the recruitment advertisement of Xinke Company, and such a person, who had not joined the company for even a year, was appointed by Hu Wenhai to become the head of the Information Engineering Division.

Not only were those in the know surprised, but even Meng Zhengfeng himself was a little skeptical that he was dreaming.

But in any case, the preparatory report of the Information Engineering Division was indeed handed over to him. Under the high temperature of more than 30 degrees in the sky in July in the northeast, Meng Zhengfeng was already sweating in front of the office building, but he didn't know how many people were envious of the crime he suffered at this time.

The new office building of the group has not yet been completed, but several small buildings near the group's site have been bought before they are used to house the group's departments that have long been crammed in the Xinke guest house.

The Information Engineering Division shares a small building with ST Electronics, a subsidiary of ST Group. In addition to the shares held by the ST Group, Ni Guangnan, Zhang Xingnan, Luo Zheng and several other researchers from the Institute of Electronics also hold some shares.

The shares of ST Electronics are not a rogue trick without giving money, even if it is still only a stage of preparation for the establishment of a grass platform, and some "well-informed people" from the Ministry of Electronics Industry, the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, and the Ministry of Railways are already trying to buy these shares in the hands of researchers in a roundabout way.

Of course, no researcher, no matter how ignorant he is, will choose to sell his shares at this time. But in any case, the practice of ST Electronics has indeed greatly stimulated the enthusiasm of these researchers of the New Academy of Sciences.

The minute hand of the watch has gone around again, but Hu Wenhai still did not appear at the originally scheduled time, and many people around couldn't help but whisper. Meng Zhengfeng was the only one who was meticulously buttoned with his shirt, and he didn't even move his upright posture.

After a while, a car stopped in front of the small building with a creak, and everyone was silent. However, when the car door opened and Ni Guangnan walked down, almost everyone couldn't help but sigh in disappointment.

"Lao Meng, time is running out, you come with me!" Ni Guangnan ignored the others, glanced at his watch, beckoned and shouted: "Take Wen Jiàn, let's take a plane to the imperial capital in a while!"

"Go to the imperial capital?" Meng Zhengfeng was a little stunned: "Don't you want to see Mr. Xiaohu, why do you want to go to the imperial capital?

"I have arranged your daughter's affairs, Xiao Peng in the real yàn room is a single girl, and she has nothing to do at night, so she can help you take care of your daughter for a few days. Ni Guangnan walked into the office building while talking, and spoke as fast as a machine gun: "Originally, it was arranged for you to report to Mr. Hu to the Information Engineering Division, but there was a sudden emergency in the imperial capital, and I am afraid that I don't have time to listen to your report." However, there is an hour from Xiucheng to the emperor, and we can only meet on the plane. ”

"Alright, I'll go get ready. Meng Zhengfeng nodded, and hurriedly ran up: "By the way, Brother Ni, how long are we going to go, can we come back tomorrow?"

"Tomorrow?" Ni Guangnan shook his head: "You are ready to leave for a week, I don't know when the affairs of the imperial capital will end, and we will go to the demon capital next." The ST fab will be put into operation in August, so maybe you'll have to follow suit. ”

"Oh good"

Meng Zhengfeng quickly packed up his feelings, quickly stuffed a stack of papers into his briefcase, turned around and didn't even wipe his sweat, and followed Ni Guangnan out of the house and got into the car.

Xiaolingzi Airport outside Xiucheng was originally only a training airport for the Air Force. Since the beginning of the previous year, a helicopter crew has been stationed here. On weekdays, when nothing is going on, this crew also trains with the pilots of the aviation school, and occasionally the unit will seconded this crew to perform several tasks. But after they have completed their missions, they always return to the airport as soon as they are on standby.

The helicopter piloted by this helicopter crew is the Black Hawk helicopter civilian 70 passenger and cargo helicopter imported by China from the United States.

Needless to say, this helicopter is the one Hu Wenhai bought by car. However, due to the safety and comfort of the helicopter, he rarely flies this helicopter on weekdays.

However, there are always exceptions, and when there is an emergency, this helicopter comes into play.

This was Meng Zhengfeng's first time on a helicopter, and he looked out the window with some apprehension and curiosity, until the scenery outside the window was getting farther and farther away from him, and finally turned into an inconspicuous trace on the ground.

The Black Hawk helicopter was not comfortable to ride, and although it was a civilian modification, the cockpit was still filled with muffled propeller noise.

Hu Wenhai was wearing a seat belt and sat opposite Meng Zhengfeng. Next to him were Wang Ye and Qin Kai, and the two of them only had a stern face at this time. Ni Guangnan threw the ear bag to Meng Zhengfeng, and made a demonstration himself, signaling him to put the ear bag on the same.

Meng Zhengfeng put on the ear bag, and sure enough, the sound of the engine was much quieter. The sound of a person's speech can be transmitted directly to the other person's ear bag via guò radio.

"Mr. Hu, this is Meng Zhengfeng, the minister of the Information Engineering Division. ”

Hu Wenhai looked Meng Zhengfeng up and down and nodded with satisfaction.

If Meng Zhengfeng at this time has any characteristics that can attract him, Hu Wenhai feels that it should be down-to-earth.

This is a down-to-earth person who looks like a farmer entrepreneur, but with a little more quiet and self-confidence. Even if he was appointed as the head of the Information Engineering Division, he did not have the slightest pride and spirit, on the contrary, he seemed to have a little more weight between his eyebrows, and even the wrinkles at the corners of his eyes seemed to be deeper.

"Hello Mr. Hu, I"

Without waiting for Meng Zhengfeng to finish speaking, Hu Wenhai began to wave his hand: "Needless to say, polite words, my time is very urgent, we can't say a few words on the plane." ”

Meng Zhengfeng nodded hurriedly: "Then I will start to report directly, the preparatory work of the Information Engineering Division has achieved a phased result, and it can be said that it has now begun to enter the operation stage." First of all, the cooperation between the 412 Institute and the General Number Institute, we coordinated the Electronics Research Institute to transfer four R&D personnel, according to the current progress, within two months there can be product identification results, the group must be prepared as soon as possible, prepare goods and funds. ”

"Okay, wow, tell me, what support do you want?"

"I think we need to start from two aspects, one is people and the other is things. In terms of personnel, there is no problem for the four R&D personnel in the early stage to provide support for the two cooperative institutions, but if our cooperative institutions are expanded, I am afraid that the manpower of the Electronics Research Institute will not be enough. Therefore, I think that it is still necessary to focus on ST Electronics, and ask the research institute to provide training for the technical personnel of ST Electronics, and then our technicians will provide technical support for cooperative institutions, and separate R&D personnel and technical service personnel. ”

"Well, that makes sense!" Hu Wenhai nodded and said: "Our business expansion is still based on Xinke Electronics, and in the future, we will expand Xinke network, Xinke software and Xinke system, of course, it is impossible and should not let the researchers of the Academy of Sciences focus on these places." I think this training should start as much as possible, and the Academy of Sciences should also try its best to cooperate! This is also to reduce the burden on you!"

Meng Zhengfeng flipped through the text in his hand, and then said: "This is the human aspect, and the other is the preparation of materials. If we want to provide core technologies and solutions, then the key chips of the ST 01 platform must be available. 68,000 and dedicated, at least 100,000 pieces should be prepared respectively. ”

"100,000 pieces?" Hu Wenhai and Ni Guangnan glanced at each other and said with a smile: "Minister Meng, your appetite is really not 100,000 pieces of 68,000 and earmark, I can't say if I can get it." In this way, you and I will go to the commissioning ceremony of the Xinke wafer factory next month, and if you can meet your requirements, you can personally ask Chief Engineer Lu. Anyway, I can give you a reassurance here, as long as the conditions allow, I will absolutely support your work!"

That's all Hu Wenhai can do, it took a year and a half for the Xinke wafer factory to be put into operation, and the world's leading process level was forced to become world-class, which is also a careful thought that Americans are so generous and willing to come up with their own chip production lines. However, even so, the 15-micron chip process is still unique in China.

How high the yield can be achieved after it is put into production, Hu Wenhai himself is also uncertain. But he expects that the early yield is likely to be around 50, or even below 50 is an acceptable situation.

If you want to increase the yield rate to the level of your American counterparts, no matter how optimistic you are, you have to take half a year to a year.

For 100,000 pieces of two chips, if the new technology wafer fab really starts production capacity, it will take less than a month. In the case that the yield rate cannot be improved, two months is enough. It's just that the cost of this first batch of chips may be much higher than that of Motorola. This is really paying tuition, even if it is a loss, you can only bear it.

In fact, Meng Zhengfeng himself does not know about these problems? This information will be regularly reported in the reference materials within the group. For example, if you ask a researcher from the Academy of Sciences to conduct training, he can do the same directly to Ni Guangnan. The production arrangement of the new technology wafer factory has long been planned. The 68000 is the flagship product of the ST Group, and this classic has a wide range of applications in China, and it has been produced for at least ten years.

The key is Hu Wenhai's attitude towards the information engineering division.

His words, which could have been played in the training of the academy to play ball, will immediately be regarded as a very important thing. It is also Hu Wenhai's sentence that when the 68,000 produced by the Xinke wafer factory is allocated, it will give priority to meeting the share of Xinke Electronics as much as possible.

After these two requirements were met, Meng Zhengfeng finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Hu Wenhai smiled, stretched out his hand to look at Meng Zhengfeng, and said in a curious tone.

"Come, since I have agreed to all your requests, I have to tell me what you plan to do, right? The ultimate goal of the Information Engineering Division is to build a nationwide information network, does Minister Meng have a formed thinking about this?"

"A national information network, I think, should include three parts. Telephone network, computer network and cable TV network, the advantage of ST Electronics is here, our ST 01 is based on the digital network switching system, so it has the ability of triple play. But with all due respect, even if we take out all the capital of ST Group, it is impossible to achieve a nationwide network on our own. In order to achieve this, it is necessary to unite the forces that can be united. ”

Meng Zhengfeng didn't have to think about it, he had been thinking about Hu Wenhai's question for too long. From the moment he learned that he was likely to become the head of the Information Engineering Division, he was constantly deducing in his mind how to achieve this goal.

With China's land area, if you want to lay a communication network covering the whole country, you don't have to think about it without more than 200 billion capital.

Xinke, far from such a capital scale, is still a lot behind. Not to mention that it's not even a matter of money, it is unthinkable to do such a big project in China without official support.

Hu Wenhai nodded and listened: "Oh, then what forces do you plan to unite?"

"The Ministry of Electronics Industry, the Ministry of Railways, the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, and the Ministry of Electric Power, the strength of these ministries and commissions is the foundation that Mr. Hu has laid, but I must say that the support from above is not enough. Ministries and commissions can only come up with policies and capital, but when it comes to reality, they still have to rely on the local strength of the project. Therefore, I believe that we must rely on Tietong, support Tietong Company and Telecom to fight in the ring, and only in the process of competition can we promote the domestic information industry as quickly as possible. For Tietong Company, because it is a latecomer, it has a lot of baggage, so it can adopt some more radical strategies. For example, joint ventures with local governments. ”

It was rare for Hu Wenhai not to agree with Meng Zhengfeng's words, but instead frowned. Because from his words, a familiar term broke into Hu Wenhai's mind.

Chinese and foreign.

In the early years, Unicom used to adopt the method because Unicom had no money in hand, so a large number of joint ventures with local governments to promote network construction.

However, there is also not so much money to invest locally, and many foreign companies that have long been eyeing China's telecommunications industry see opportunities. They first set up joint ventures with Chinese companies, and then the joint ventures set up local subsidiaries with Unicom, thus circumventing Chinese law that requires foreign investment in the communications industry.

In the end, in order to go public, Unicom had to clean up the joint ventures formed by "China and foreign countries", and had to spend more money to acquire the shares held by foreign capital.

However, in the face of such a big cake in China's telecommunications market, how can foreign capital let it go? As a result, China Unicom has ruthlessly cut a piece of meat from the dividends obtained from its listing, and has no choice but to give away a large amount of warrants that can be realized in large quantities after listing.

Hu Wenhai decided to remind Meng Zhengfeng, and after a moment of silence, he said: "But have you thought about it, although the profitability of the communications industry is good, there may not be money in the local area." Once other investors are brought in locally, it is likely to bring unpredictable variables. ”

Meng Zhengfeng suddenly laughed and nodded confidently, which made Hu Wenhai really look at him a little differently.

"I've also thought about this question, and it's really possible that the local government won't be able to come up with this money. My idea is that ST Group will work with Tietong and the local government. ST Group will provide the equipment, Tietong will provide the operation, and the local government can invest in the shares with future dividends. ”

"Dividends in the future?" Hu Wenhai looked at Meng Zhengfeng with some confusion, waiting for his explanation.

"Local governments may not have money, but banks around the country certainly have money. Meng Zhengfeng said confidently: "As long as we establish the company first, for example, in the registration process, Xinke will provide equipment worth 3 million, Tietong will invest 3 million operating resources, and the local government will provide capital investment of 3 million dividends in the future." In this way, the registered capital of the company is nine million. The company borrowed 9 million from the local bank and lent another 3 million to the local government as capital to invest. The local government does not need to actually contribute, and when the three million dividends are repaid, they can get the income from the local subsidiary. ”

"Oh, that's theoretically possible. Hu Wenhai hasn't thought too much about it, but intuitively feels that this mode of operation is really mysterious.

Working with local governments to get loans from local banks is a good move. This Meng Zhengfeng, it seems, may still be a fan of Taizu.

In front is the united front, uniting a force that can be united. Later, the countryside surrounded the city, and the ants gnawed the elephants to solve the capital problem.

As he said before, the investment cost of the national network is too large for ST Group to bear. Borrowing from other banks in China, not to mention where to find collateral, let alone an annual investment of 20 billion yuan or 200 billion yuan in 10 years, which bank has the strength? Yes, this project is more difficult than opening a hole in the Himalayas.

But if it is broken down to zero, there will be no problem with the ability of the local government to borrow money from local banks. Local governments are looking for different bank related accounts, so the pressure to disperse is much less. This adds up to a lot, which will not be less than 200 billion, but the difficulty of borrowing is orders of magnitude lower, and the pressure has also been transferred to local governments.

Sure enough, Meng Zhengfeng then began to explain his calculations: "First of all, this is a screening process, and being able to get a loan from a local bank at least shows that the local government's operational capacity is quite qualified." Secondly, as a joint venture party, the local government must vigorously support the marketing of Tietong in order to obtain dividend income as soon as possible. The bank's loan can be used as a part of the equipment payment to ST Electronics. This part of the income is enough for us to maintain a state of no loss, and strive to be ahead of the telecom to roll out the network across the country. As long as we scale up and form a preconceived market situation, our follow-up products will be able to create greater profits. In the future, as long as we have used our products before, operators will definitely give priority to purchasing from us for the upgrade, maintenance, and even equipment replacement of communication equipment. ”

The more Hu Wenhai listened, the more excited he became, and he couldn't help but pat his thigh and shouted: "Okay, this plan is really good." Let's do a few pilots from Bohai Province first, and if it is feasible, I will help you communicate with Tietong!"

"Thank you so much, Mr. Hu. Meng Zhengfeng smiled happily.

The Black Hawk helicopter landed in a military camp in the imperial capital, and Hu Wenhai, who had discussed the road with Meng Zhengfeng, looked a little tired.

However, there was not much time left for him, and before he had time to rest, a car with a military license plate drove over. Ni Guangnan and Meng Zhengfeng were stopped, and Qin Kai and Wang Ye accompanied Hu Wenhai and got into the car with curtains hanging on the windows.

"Secretary Chi, why did you come here in person!"

As soon as Hu Wenhai sat down from the back seat of the car, he was startled by the people around him. Secretary Chi sat next to him with a frosty face and a gloomy face.

"The situation is urgent, where can I sit still!" Secretary Chi waved his hand, and the driver drove the car out of the barracks steadily. It wasn't until the car drove on the road outside that he exhaled and said, "Mr. Hu, this time it really depends on you, otherwise no one can count on it!"

"Tell me what the hell is going on. Hu Wenhai nodded, and couldn't help but frown when he saw a person like Secretary Chi who was moody, which showed how big the matter was this time.

Secretary Chi sighed and said in his original form: "Originally, the Iraqi side was very interested in tapping the potential of the three, and we made a set of plans according to the ideas you gave, and Saddam Hussein was very satisfied with this plan." But as you said, Iraq's funds have bottomed out now, but it can help us pull Kuwait, China and Iraq to do this project together, that is, the question of making more money and earning less. The Kuwaitis have money, and they can advance Iraqi funds. ”

"Isn't that good? What are the harsh requirements of Kuwait?" Hu Wenhai asked.

"Nope. When Secretary Chi said this, he almost gritted his teeth: "The problem is not Kuwait!"