Chapter Seventy-Nine: A New Idea

"When I was in elementary school, I saw a red flag at the gate of the provincial government, and I haven't seen it since, but I didn't expect Du Qiu to get one back. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info"

"This car used to be only available to high-ranking officials at or above the provincial and ministerial level, and it was definitely more magnificent than driving out. ”

"It's just a good look, it's okay on the outside, it's too bad on the inside, just take the old-fashioned sofa as a seat, it's terrible. ”

Hongqi CA770 began production in 1965, to 1981 discontinued, the various models added up to a total of less than 1300 units, by 1995, the vast majority of them have been scrapped, not scrapped car condition is also very poor, and Du Qiu got back this car is better maintained, at least 8 into new, highly recognizable shape and full of legendary history is very topical, soon attracted a lot of passers-by to come to watch, pointing, and commenting.

Du Cunzhi has always had a lot of opinions on Du Qiu's indiscriminate spending money to buy a car, and at this time he was also interested, and sat in under the help of everyone, and experienced the style of the country's leaders, and on the way home, he inquired: "Xiaoqiu, where did this red flag come from?"

"It was sent by a friend in Pujiang. Du Qiu didn't want his family to think nonsense, when he discussed with Du Cunzhi before, he only said that there was a powerful son who wanted to invest in Snapdragon through Yang Fan, but he didn't specify who it was, explaining: "The red flag looks majestic, but in fact, reliability, safety and fuel economy are not good, it can only be placed at home, and has no practical use, so it is not very valuable, it is said that it can be bought for tens of thousands of yuan in the second-hand market in the capital." ”

In the hearts of the older generation, Hongqi has a supreme position, more upscale than the Mercedes-Benz that costs millions, Du Cunzhi was skeptical, and asked: "Hongqi is not a car that ordinary people can sit in, the person you said last time gave it?"

"Yes, his father used to work in the Pujiang municipal government, and this is the car he used to use back then. ”

"Even if it's only worth tens of thousands of yuan, this car is not ordinary, what did he give it to you for?"

"I have a project in Pujiang, the investment amount is relatively large, and I asked him to be a consultant with a high salary, and he gave me this car in return, and the gift is just an exchange. ”

Du Cunzhi heard that it was a business dealing, so he didn't ask any more, Jiang Danfeng, who was sitting in the back row, was a little curious and asked, "What is the project?"

"My private investment is still in the early stages of preparation, and it will probably not be seen until next year. ”

Jiang Danfeng sighed softly and said, "Mr. Liu, they came back on the evening of the 10th, you stayed in Pujiang alone for two more days, and you only came back today, just for this project?"

"Well, this project has a relatively large investment and needs the support of the Pujiang Municipal Government, so I inspected it for two more days. ”

As Liu Yunlai predicted, after the valuation of Snapdragon soared by 10 times, Lianhe Investment Company gave up the idea of buying shares, anyway, with their background, there are countless muffled and wealthy businesses to do in China, and there is no need to put hundreds of millions of dollars on Snapdragon under huge risks and controversies.

As early as noon on 10 August, the investment talks were over, and Du Qiu stayed in Pujiang for two more days, mainly to see if there was any possibility of cooperating with Jiang Gongzi -- the Gongzi Party was a double-edged sword, with advantages and disadvantages, and as long as it did not involve politics, normal business cooperation could still be carried out.

According to the information provided by Liu Yunlai, Jiang Gongzi studied semiconductor physics in the United States, got a doctorate degree in electrical engineering in 1991, worked at Hewlett-Packard for two years, and held an important position in the Pujiang Branch of the Chinese Academy of Sciences after returning to China in 1993.

In Du Qiu's memory, he only knows that Jiang Gongzi has done these three things: first, he served as the vice president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, second, he participated in the establishment of China Netcom, and third, he invested in the establishment of Hongli Semiconductor.

Before the crossing, these three things were just gossip on the Internet, meaningless, but after the crossing, these three things became extremely valuable advanced information.

The Chinese Academy of Sciences is China's top scientific research institution, with strong strength and abundant talents, and in the 90s, when the academic system was still very rigid, it will greatly enhance Snapdragon's R&D capabilities by establishing a good relationship with future senior leaders and cooperating with each other.

Only when the hardware conditions of the network are improved can the Internet industry develop and grow, and China Netcom is engaged in the construction of network facilities.

Netcom has two stages, originally called small Netcom, founded in 1999, the goal is to build a high-speed optical fiber backbone network through the country, and then lease to Telecom, Unicom and other ISP service providers, to be the "operator's operator", the idea is very good, but unfortunately born at the wrong time, just founded not long after the Internet bubble burst, huge investment can not recover the cost, and can not be listed for financing, so in trouble, on the verge of bankruptcy.

Fortunately, Netcom has a deep background, in 2002 China Telecom restructured, was split into two companies in the north and south, Netcom swallowed elephants, and the northern 10 provinces of Telecom and Jitong merger, the establishment of a large Netcom, but unfortunately indigestion, poor operation, not only serious losses, but also engaged in netizens complained, not long after the 2008 Olympic Games was merged into Unicom, since disappeared.

As a crossing party, Du Qiu knows that in the mid-to-late 90s, the optical fiber network is a loss-making business that takes money as waste paper burning, one is because the optical fiber technology is not mature, but the whole industry is in a state of frenzy, and the cost performance is very poor, and the second is because there are too few netizens at this time, the utilization rate is very low, and the cost cannot be recovered at all.

When Du Qiu had dinner with Zhang Shuxin and others in the capital, he said that he wanted to borrow the skin of China Unicom to build an Internet access service company in the form of "China and foreign countries", the purpose was to build a small demonstration network in Yuncheng and use it as a template for domestic Internet infrastructure.

Now, by chance, I have met Jiang Gongzi, who has a deep background, so why not fool him into going to Netcom a few years in advance? If Netcom had been established a few years earlier, it would have been very likely to seize the tail of the Internet bubble and go public in Hong Kong or the United States around 2000 to make money for foreign investors.

It doesn't matter if it fails to be listed, telecommunications is a monopoly industry, and the country has the backing, since it can enjoy the huge profits brought by the monopoly in the future, then it is a few years in advance to lose money now, and it is also a cycle of heaven to be cannon fodder for the development of China's Internet.

However, the project Du Qiu said is not Netcom, because private enterprises are not qualified to meddle in the telecommunications business, the project he said is Hongli Semiconductor, which was jointly founded by Jiang Gongzi and Wang Wenyang, before he crossed, the company merged with Huahong to establish Huali Microelectronics, with two 12-inch wafer factories, which can provide 28nm chip foundry services, and is the strongest semiconductor company in China except SMIC.

Wang Wenyang is the eldest son of Wang Yongqing, the richest man in Taiwan, and was very hopeful of becoming the second-generation successor of Formosa Plastics, but in November 1995, an extramarital affair scandal broke out, and Wang Yongqing was kicked out of his home and went to the University of California, Berkeley as a visiting professor for a year, and then went to the mainland to develop, and in 2003, he and Jiang Gongzi co-founded Hongli Semiconductor - the first letter of the company's English name, representing the name of Wang Wenyang's mistress.

With the development of his career and the accumulation of wealth, Du Qiu's desire is more and more, and his ambition is getting bigger and bigger, at first he only wants to do software and the Internet, and now he wants to grasp software and hardware together, ready to get involved in the semiconductor manufacturing industry.

This is mainly done from three aspects, one is that before the crossing, China's Internet industry was very prosperous, no one except the United States paid attention to it, and the semiconductor industry was weak, if you can make a career in this field, the sense of achievement is far stronger than copying software or network technology.

The second reason is to share risks, after Yang Fan's tossing, after Du Qiu's reflection, he felt that all business should not be stuffed into Snapdragon, eggs in one basket are easy to overturn, and the net should be widened, more wasteland, and cunning rabbits, so that even if there is no foresight after 21 years, he can still resist various risks and be invincible.

In addition, there is another reason, that is, the consumption of funds, Du Qiu only took more than half a year to become the richest man in China, a few years later the world's richest man is not a problem, the husband is not guilty, sitting on a huge amount of money is not used, and the fat pig to be slaughtered is no different, and semiconductor is a capital-intensive industry, can be called a gold-swallowing monster, you must know that in 1995 to build an 8-inch wafer factory, not counting technology transfer fees and employee recruitment fees, the cost of various hardware alone needs at least 1 billion US dollars!

Du Qiu's current capital can't afford to build a wafer factory, but the semiconductor industry is not only a wafer factory, but a complete set of ecosystems, he stayed in Pujiang for two days, and successfully said that Jiang Gongzi and himself cooperated to build a chip design company, accumulate experience and reserve talents, and when the time is ripe, he will enter the bureau to do a wafer factory.