Autumn breezes and yellow foliage lead a winding path into the depths of a secluded tulip forest. At the end of the road, there is an old thatched pavilion, and the three people drinking tea in the pavilion have a leisurely expression, but one of them is white.

Talking about 'good at the top, bad at the bottom', Kyle who drinks tea here is a Hua Guotong, who worked in Peking for seven or eight years in his early years, and can also speak fluent Chinese. In the past, Kyle regarded drinking tea as a kind of culture, and after drinking it for a long time, it became a habit, and the beauty of the artistic conception that was completely different from British black tea was tasted. In his words, John Bull's black tea is too straightforward, while Huaguo's tea culture has a subtle beauty, which is very suitable for a middle-aged person like him, who is already calm.

The one who is close to the ink is black, and Kyle's calmness is also inseparable from Li Jiaming. In the past, Kyle was a standard American, shrewd and capable, and often danced the orangutan dance in the nightclubs of Sanlitun. However, after getting on Li Jiaming's ship, under the huge work pressure, and the boss was not in a hurry to do anything, the former IBM regional manager became more and more calm, and he actually looked a little like his other nominal boss, Wang Zhidong.

In Kyle's own words, the American style of work is not good, especially the kind of personality that is keen on performance. If you are keen on performance, you will inevitably be impetuous, and you will have less time to think and not be able to concentrate on doing things better.

Maybe it's sincere, maybe it's a business technology, or maybe it's the wisdom of survival. This kind of language cannot be studied in detail, but can only be regarded as small talk between friends. Li Jiaming, who looked at ease, added some tea to this partner and friend, and diverted the topic to talk about the location of the branch of the research institute.

The negotiations with FL were over, and although Hanhua had the initiative, he didn't get much advantage from Yang Zhiyuan in the end. For Shirley, it was indeed a big disappointment, but for Li Jiaming and Kyle, who knew the inside story, it was not too surprising.

Applied technology is not as good as pure theory, which can be built up with money and time. Hanhua is already a behemoth with its own bank, with cash reserves of more than 100 billion US dollars, and now it wants to enter the chip field, and if they are FL or Intel, they will do everything possible to stop it. If it weren't for Hanhua pinching FL's life, maybe they wouldn't even be willing to transfer outdated technology.

However, for Hanhua, which has no experience in designing baseband chips, even outdated technology still has reference value. Funds can indeed pile up technology, Hanhua is not short of funds, what is lacking is time, and the blame can only be blamed for being too short-sighted back then, only developing ordinary chips for iPods.

In the face of Kyle's self-blame, Li Jiaming disagreed, and explained: "We can't say that, we were also forced to be helpless at that time. ”

"No, no, it's just that we were too conservative and believed in the social division of labor too much. If you had tightened your belt as you had thought at the beginning, you wouldn't have been passive today. ”

This still can't be said, the Li family clearly had that idea at the beginning, but they also thought that Hanhua at that time did not have that strength. At that time, it was the most critical time to develop the iPhone, and he didn't have the confidence to blossom on multiple lines, so he didn't insist too much.

"Thank you".

Kyle raised a glass of thanks, which made Li Jiaming can't help but laugh, and joked: "Kyle, we are partners and friends, you don't have to put your position so low." ”

Perhaps, Kyle with his glass can't help but laugh, but still thanks the old guy for sharing the responsibility for him. Hanhua has come to this point, although Kyle has contributed a lot, but he is also shrouded by Li Jiaming's aura. At that time, Li Jiaming decided to vigorously develop chips, and Wang Zhidong and his technical staff supported it, but the administrative management headed by him opposed it. I didn't think that what seemed to be the right and safe thing at the time now seems to be a missed opportunity because of conservatism, and the responsibility naturally falls on Kyle, who was opposed at the time.

"Stop, it's over! Let's talk about the Sorting House, what do you think? ”

Kyle had a lot of thoughts, but she had to apologize for being conservative back then.

A few years ago, Li Jiaming had the idea of relocating, and submitted it to the board of directors for a vote, but it was rejected by Kyle and their votes. Now it seems that it was another wrong choice, and it was very troublesome.

Hanhua has a research institute and commercial real estate covering an area of 1,500 acres in Beiping, which can be affected by the rising housing prices, but that is only superficial. With the rapid development of Hanhua in recent years, the total number of employees has exceeded 200,000, and nearly half of them are concentrated in the headquarters of Beiping, where 100,000 people want housing, transportation, and a comfortable working environment.

The salary of Hanhua is very high, the annual salary of domestic employees is 100,000 yuan, and 200,000 or 300,000 yuan is a common phenomenon, but in the face of housing prices of 50,000 or 60,000 yuan, or even 780,000 square meters, even middle-level managers with an annual salary of 450,000 yuan can't help but sigh. GCA is a high-tech enterprise, and it is inevitable to pay attention to the quality of life of employees, and such high housing prices have seriously affected all aspects of employee housing, travel, and health.

The high housing prices are the general environment, and Hanhua does not have the strength to solve it, and the government cannot provide land like buying radish and cabbage more than ten years ago, and allow Hanhua to build its own employee community. The only way to solve the problem is to leave, find a city with not so high housing prices, good environmental protection, good infrastructure, and an industrial base, and relocate most of the people there, and only regard the headquarters in Beiping as a symbol. In addition to solving those problems, this operation can also free up those commercial real estate and generate new economic benefits.

But Klye's idea was different from Li Jiaming's, and he didn't expect it.

"Xunyang?"

Not only Li Jiaming, but even Zhang Quanbao, who came here to receive the new instructions, was stunned, how could they fall in love with Xunyang? If it was Li Jiaming himself who chose the site like this, it could be said that Sangzi had a strong concept, but Kyle and these white people have no sense of hometown, and it is common for them to travel between several cities and even countries for work.

"Yes, we think Xunyang is the most suitable, not to mention the land price and environment, the key is that it has a complete industrial chain, and our iPhones are also produced here. The location of the branch here is conducive to the seamless connection between R&D and production on the one hand, and to lay the foundation for artificial intelligence on the other hand.

Clearly, the cost of labor in your country has also begun to rise, and it will swallow up a lot of foundry expenses in the next few years. At that time, Foxconn will have to introduce a large number of robots, and we have made considerable progress in flexible robots. ”

"But, but", Li Jiaming said 'but' twice, and in the end he didn't come out with 'but', but agreed to Kyle's plan.

In addition to the reasons mentioned by Kyle, there is also a very important reason for the location in Xunyang, and the commercial real estate of the Hanhua headquarters is very valuable, and it is impossible for Kyle, as a shareholder and director of the company, not to have a little idea. Now the domestic real estate industry is so crazy that it is not an exaggeration to say that it has kidnapped the entire national economy. If the branch is established in a first-tier city, the company will inevitably suffer huge losses when the real estate bubble bursts.

Yes, that's the reason, don't say it's Li Jiaming, even Zhang Quanbao, who was in the audience, guessed it.