Chapter 514: Watching the Fire from the Other Shore

"Worried about the employment data in Texas after Xia Bai disbanded the TI semiconductor R&D team? What is there to worry about, Mr. Xia Bai must have a way to create more low-cost jobs, even if he didn't want to create them, he can trade them.

In this case, whether it is the number of employed people, corporate profits, or income tax paid to the state, it will be a win-win situation for at least five years. ”

This passage was bluntly analyzed by Gu Biao when he received a consultation call from Senior Bill.

His words have been said very bluntly, if he didn't treat the other party as a brother, he wouldn't be so straightforward.

If you are only obsessed with specific indicator data, it is easy to brush. Historically, in the late 80s in the United States, in the wave of self-destruction of technology companies, many companies laid off teams with high labor costs, created cheap labor employment opportunities, and played games with local governments and labor unions, which was not soft at all.

It's just that they fired a group of groups with an annual salary of hundreds of thousands of dollars, and created an annual salary of 20,000 US dollars, and the short-term total cost of the enterprise is still obviously large.

The dismissal of the basic R&D team leads to a decline in the competitiveness of the enterprise, at least 5~7 years later, when the next generation of technology matures and the product is launched, it will completely collapse.

It's all too easy to figure out.

In other words, Texas Instruments is now 84 laying off the semiconductor research team, and the sequelae will not appear until about 90 years.

In 90, the current governor of Texas was no longer the governor, and Senior Bill was no longer a member of the Southern Economic Development Policy Committee.

After I left, the flood was raging.

Zhang Zhongmou didn't know what was going on in the dark corner above his head, so he ran around without a door, and his shouts couldn't be heard, and he suffocated his ambition to reimburse "Beauty Xi".

For the rest of September, Texas Instruments didn't know exactly what was going on, but in short, CEO John Shabber's opposition was completely swept away.

Then the semiconductor R&D team, which received a high salary but could not create profits for the company in two or three years, was laid off, fired, and adjusted in batches......

Moreover, it is a layoff of the "business layoff", so the union cannot control it.

Of course, the specific measures of the adjustment do not need to be announced to the public, and only the data to be released is the data.

That is, how many people have been adjusted, how many people have been recruited, and what is the proportion of education/skill titles......

What are the adjusted third-quarter profit and revenue figures, and what are the expected figures for the fourth quarter......

In other words, what investors need to understand is only numbers, they can't see the difference between specific people and people, at most look at how many undergraduates you adjust and how many undergraduates come in, which is detailed enough.

As for whether there is a difference between this scientific research undergraduate who gets an annual salary of $200,000 and a liberal arts undergraduate who gets $20,000, how can shareholders understand this.

In the first week of October, Texas Instruments' stock price soared by seven or eight percentage points! The reason, of course, was that after adjusting the business, the company's data suddenly became more pretty.

Of course, only Gu Wei, Peterson, and Schwarzman know that it will take several months, or even half a year, for this wave of upward movement to fully ferment and maintain a high level for the last two or three years.

If Gu Biao wants to ship shares of Texas Instruments, it will be at least the first quarter of next year, which is a better arbitrage space.

"Good" always has to be discovered by shareholders slowly, and it is impossible to see the effect completely immediately because of a personnel adjustment.

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After a month of mediation by all parties, digging a pit and stumbling blocks for Zhang Zhongmou from a bird's-eye perspective, and framing the US imperialist Zhongliang, as the dust gradually settled, Gu Biao and Mina also returned to Watsengton, and they were quite emotional in their hearts.

"I really didn't expect that there would be so many contradictions and intrigues within the US imperialists. ”

In the villa on the banks of the Potomac, Mina lies on a deck chair on the balcony with a parasol on it, peach iced tea in her hand, and sighs gracefully.

Gu Biao was lying on the recliner next to her, holding a newspaper in his hand, looking at today's latest Dow Jones quotes, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he replied in a good mood:

"Where there are people, there are internal factions, and if we are engaged in diplomacy, don't we want to discover the contradictions of interests among foreigners and see who can be used by us for the time being? Have you forgotten what you learned in school? ”

Diplomacy never relies on eloquence to seek interests, but only by using interests to strive for interests. It's just that people who do well can be generous to others and take out the interests of others as their own bargaining chips in exchange for their own interests.

As long as you catch this place where the interests of other people's individuals or small groups are not at odds with the interests of the United States, then it is very easy for Americans to betray the country.

Other Chinese in the 80s could not do this thing, it was nothing more than that their understanding of the outside world was not deep enough and the stereotype was strong, so the scale could not be released.

More importantly, because Americans also have the stereotype that "Chinese do not understand Americans", they will be less wary of Chinese in this regard. The result is cheaper Gu Xiao, an outlier among the Chinese.

It can be said that there is no hero at the time, so the vertical son became famous.

Mina turned over and rubbed on Gu Wei's chair: "People haven't forgotten, in the past two years in Iraq, I didn't do that." It's just that I always thought that only poisonous countries like Iraq were like that, but I didn't expect the Americans who claim to be patriotic people to do the same. ”

Gu Biao couldn't help but laugh and said: "It's ridiculous, human nature is the same, you just had too little contact with Americans." ”

He smiled proudly, as an old yin beep, every time he succeeded in crushing the enemy intellectually, it would bring him pleasure, just like the serial perverted S man maniac can be hard when he is an S person, it is a truth.

"You're laughing at me again!"

Gu Ao's recliner creaked under the weight of two people, but fortunately, Mina weighed only more than 80 pounds, so it didn't collapse.

However, if the force is unstable, the situation is different.

Ten minutes later, the recliner creaked and shattered, the two wooden chair legs were broken, and Gu Biao fell heavily with the back of the chair on the floor of the balcony, grinning in pain.

Luckily, the balcony was carpeted.

However, Gu Biao still cared about his woman very gentlemanly first: "It didn't hurt." ”

Mina said distressedly, "You still ask me, how can I be in pain." It's all my fault, it's probably you who hurt. ”

Gu Biao couldn't help but say: "Men have rough skin and thick flesh, so I'm afraid of any pain." It was the first time I wished I had gained weight. ”

Mina: "Why? Fat is not handsome, be careful I don't want you!"

Gu Biao: "If I get a little fatter, you won't be in pain when I use it as a meat pad for you in the future." ”

Mina's face flushed: "It's bad! It's going to make me cry again! Do you think I'm so touched!"

Gu Biao patted Mina, signaled her not to press it, then got up and dusted off her clothes, and said, "You also prepare, we may have to return to China in the next few days." Walkman, record company, congratulating Senior Bill, and letting Deyi kill himself, all four things are over, and there is no reason to stay longer. ”

Mina gracefully smoothed out the wrinkles on his clothes, and kindly reminded: "Then don't you have to poach Zhang Zhongmou's laid off R&D team immediately?

Gu Biao Zhizhu said in his hand: "It's not so fast, Zhang Zhongmou is the executive vice president of Deyi after all, and a person who has achieved such a high position, even if he completely falls out with John Xia Bai, and Xia Bai is willing to drive him away, it will not be able to be done in a month."

It's early October, and I estimate that Zhang Zhongmou will have to wait until at least December, before Christmas, to completely hand over and leave - if he is assumed to be determined. If you are not firm enough, it is possible to delay it until next year's Lunar New Year.

If we are too positive now, we are more likely to be provoked by unnecessary associations. I have investment money in Blackstone Fund, which I can't hide sooner or later, and it will definitely be known to people in the industry in the future.

At best, the scale of my capital injections and the extent of my influence on the Blackstone Fund are still vague and unclear. If Zhang Zhongmou now thinks that I killed Deyi's semiconductor division, how can he be willing to obey?

We have to figure it out slowly, and wait until he gets on the thief ship in the future and doesn't come down. I think that Zhang Zhongmou should calm down for more than a month and go through the formalities of leaving. Then, I contacted him again in November, so that when the 'coincidence' was almost over, the formalities for him to leave Deyi had just been completed. ”

As soon as Gu Biao said this, Mina immediately understood in seconds, and was very supportive of her husband's decision:

"Then I'll go and prepareβ€”but, if you don't do it right away, at least you have to arrange for someone to monitor their movements, right?"

Gu Biao smiled: "Of course, you can rest assured, Zhang Zhongmou himself is not moving now, it doesn't mean that I won't accept any of the people laid off by the Deyi Semiconductor R&D Department - in the past few days, I have recruited two hardware scientific researchers with the signboard of Tiankun, and they will be shelved in Tiankun as a 'technical talent reserve'."

These people were all Zhang Zhongmou's subordinates who were originally close to him, and if he controlled the two of them a little, he would be able to grasp the movements of their team by knocking on the side. ”

Seeing that her husband was so carefully arranged, Mina tilted her head and thought about it, and it seemed that there was really nothing wrong with it, so she didn't say anything more.

The timetable for the complete poaching of Deyi's dismissal of the backbone of the technical team was set by Gu Biao in mid-November, more than a month later.

As for the location, it is not necessary to come to the United States again at that time, and it is completely possible to contact the intermediary remotely by chance, and then ask Zhang Zhongmou to visit Xiangjiang.

Gu Biao doesn't want to appear in front of the other party, "I am very powerful in the United States, and people from all walks of life have brothers", which would make people suspicious.

Only by placing the home field in Xiangjiang will the other party's vigilance be relaxed, and they will subconsciously feel that "Gu Biao is just an ordinary and slightly successful businessman in the United States, but it will not affect all walks of life in the United States." So the pot that happened to Deyi before didn't care about the trouble. ”

In addition, it also took more than a month for Gu Biao to subtly guide Zhang Zhongmou to slowly concentrate his hatred on the "financial capital of the stock market", so that he hated the stock market to the core.

Just like after the defeat of the Germans in World War I, when they first started peace talks, they would not have thought of hating the financiers who "stabbed them in the back". You have to wait for them to calm down and see the faces of all sides at the Paris Peace Conference before you conclude the hatred.

Gu Biao also has to wait for the other party to sum up his bitter hatred for the stock market, otherwise how can he be willing to take refuge in a great country without a stock market.