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For those in the IT world, Dresden is still quite famous. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info was originally the equivalent of a Silicon Valley in Germany. Infineon, which originated from the semiconductor division of the Siemens Group, and Globalfoundries, a foundry spin-off from the manufacturing division of AMD, are located here. After all, East Germany has been investing here since the 1970s, and although the economic benefits are not satisfactory, it has also accumulated a lot of money.

The blitzkrieg of the richest man in Tang, the first battlefield chose this field. Under the stars, he inspected ZMDI, the most representative semiconductor factory in the region.

In 1988, ZMDI developed the 1MB chip technology of dynamic random access memory - U61000, regardless of performance, production and other issues, it is enough to toss the actual results, which is second to none in the Eastern camp.

In order to get off to a good start, Tang Huan took great pains to first make a name for himself from the most familiar and skilled aspects, that is, to acquire ZMDI, and then create a model project.

"If the acquisition of ZMDI can be completed, in addition to the fact that there will be no layoffs, the salary income of employees will immediately be on par with that of the developed western regions of Germany." The richest man in Tang said cleanly in public.

There is no more tangible promise, East Germany cried and rushed to sell himself to West Germany, isn't it just to live a good life, the guarantee of the richest man can be said to hit the nail on the head.

In fact, no force dared to come and grab ZMDI with Tang Huan.

You know, as far as dynamic random access memory technology is concerned, in the whole equation, Europe is lower than the United States, and the United States is lower than RBRB and lower than Tang Huan - where RB wins lies in the economies of scale that are not bad for money, but in the field of high-end products such as memory used in servers, the market share is also fifty-five.

In this case, Siemens, which is most likely to reach out, can only be discouraged.

Pointing to the people running around outside the office, Tang Huan meaningfully instructed his team: "Whenever I invest in a place, I attach great importance to localized operations. This time I came to invest in East Germany, which can be said to be taking advantage of the situation, but we must not have the mentality of giving to the other party. After all, after so many years of collectivist education, their simplicity still deserves respect. Most importantly, ZMDI's unique market share within the scope of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance is something I need to inherit. ”

The Council for Mutual Economic Assistance is a political~political economic cooperation organization established by the Soviet Union composed of socialist countries, which is equivalent to the Eastern Bloc version of the Western camp of the European Economic Community.

When it was first established in January 1949, the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance included six members: the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Czechoslovakia. Subsequently, Albania, East Germany, Mongolia, Cuba, and Vietnam joined in; In 1973, the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance signed cooperation agreements with Finland, Iraq, Mexico, and Nicaragua.

Since its establishment, the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance has been a regional economic organization in the world in terms of trade volume second only to the European Economic Community, and has played a great role in promoting economic exchanges between member countries. Of course, objectively it also strengthened the economic control of the Soviet Union over other member states and weakened its economic independence~, which is inevitably worse than the consideration made by the European Economic Community for the equal respect and compromise of the interests of each member state.

The member states of the European Economic Community include 16 countries in Western Europe, covering a population of 270 million; Although the number of member countries of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance is only 10, it covers a population of 450 million people on three continents: Europe, Asia and the Americas.

With the drastic changes in Eastern Europe that began last year, it is a matter of time before the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance goes down the stage of history, but in reality there is always an inevitable inertia - the love between the member countries of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance cannot disappear immediately, and ZMDI, whose products are very popular within the scope of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance, have a great chance to inherit some legacy.

Tang Huan, who had this plan, could only be described as beautiful when he started to do things, and then the media in Dresden launched an overwhelming report, praising Tang as the richest man one step ahead of others and bringing new hope and vitality to the troubled local economy; Even German Chancellor Helmut Kohl once again stated that Tang's investment would play a very good role in the economic reconstruction of a reunified Germany in the future.

The reunification of the two virtues is not a matter of touching the lower lip with the upper lip and saying "we are reunified", and the "reunification" is really completed, including life, wealth, faith, etc., there are huge differences, and integration requires a process.

In fact, more than 10 years after the reunification of Germany in the original time and space, the time for the reunification of the two regions is more than 15 years, and the development gap between the two regions of Germany is still very obvious. Even in the former East Germany, unemployment was in the double digits, so much so that the "East German complex" emerged, that is, people began to feel nostalgic for the egalitarianism of the East German era.

In order to promote true integration under the surface of unity, Germany will need a lot of money in the long run. For this reason, Helmut Kohl came up with the idea of a "solidarity tax", that is, on the basis of the income tax that no one can avoid, at a rate of about 5 percent.

No matter how high-sounding it may seem on the surface, no one wants to let someone else's hand reach into their pocket.

As a result, the affected individuals and companies have mixed feelings about the "solidarity tax" and are very entangled.

As Germany's chief executive, Helmut Kohl naturally felt invisible pressure. At this time, Tang Huan's rise made the prime minister suddenly find an excuse to lobby - Tang, an outsider, showed a touching view of the overall situation in the process of acquiring ZMDI; Our own people in Germany, are we still not as good as Tang?

Seeing this scene, the richest man in Tang couldn't cry or laugh, he didn't realize that he actually had such a great sentiment - well, this can be regarded as the "due duty" of the German girl's handler.

The acquisition of ZMDI was so beautiful, Tang Huan, the big boss, naturally did not need to continue to spend energy on specific matters, so he turned his attention to the goal of Zeiss Jena, who had already done the preliminary work.

As early as 1846, the 30-year-old German optician Carl Zeiss established a precision optical instrument factory in Jena, and in 1847 he mass-produced his first microscope, a simple microscope suitable for anatomical work using only a single lens. By 1866. The plant sold its 1,000th microscope.

With this success, Carl Zeiss chose a new challenge: the development of a compound microscope. Together with the 26-year-old physicist Dr. Ernst Abbe, who joined as a research mentor, he studied the scientific fundamentals of optical products, and in 1872 they finally produced the compound microscope, which was the ancestor of all modern compound microscopes.

The quality of such products naturally depends on the key component of the lens. Theoretically, the research result, Abbe sinusoidal condition, can greatly improve the quality of lenses. But the problem was that there was no glass of sufficient strength to test this doctrine at that time. It wasn't until 1879 that the 30-year-old glass chemist Dr. Otto Schott joined in and made a huge breakthrough, producing a new type of glass in 1886 and producing an apochromatic_lens, an achromatic objective, which opened up a new path for microscope objectives.

Carl Zeiss died in 1888, shortly after the creation of this epoch-making microscope. In his will, he transferred his stake to his son, Roderick, Lodirick. Lodirick sold his stake to Ernst Abbe, who founded the Carl Zeiss Foundation in 1889. A new group was formed through this organization as the owner of the ZEISS family of plants.

With the success of microscope products, ZEISS's product line naturally extended to cameras, telescopes and other related fields, and then became the darling of the military in the era of continuous war, producing various military optical products for the German army, such as telescopes, rangefinders and shooting sights for the army and navy, bombing sights for the air force, etc. In order to prevent the location of the manufacturer from being exposed. ZEISS also used the product code BLC during World War II.

In 1935, ZEISS improved the anti-reflective coating formula of Harrod Dennis Taylor in the United Kingdom, and applied it to the German army's military sights and rangefinders, so that the lens would not be exposed due to reflection. This is the world-famous T coating, which also became an important scientific and technological secret of the German army during World War II.

It is precisely because of this irreplaceable technology and product advancement that ZEISS has become the focus of attention of both warring parties.

Although the United States and the Soviet Union had already negotiated the terms of the division of Germany in the Yalta Treaty, and Zeiss in Jena, East Germany, should be occupied by Soviet troops, Georg Patton's Third Army Corps still crossed the border and invaded this area and Dresden, where the Zeiss company was located, and in the name of "assistance," some technicians and equipment were swept away as quickly as possible overnight and transferred to West Germany, a territory of the Allied forces.

Among them, 126 scientists and engineers who were coerced were settled in Oberkochen in the U.S. occupation zone, and the Carl Zeiss Foundation, the management and top-level control organization of Zeiss, was moved to Stuttgart, the U.S. occupation zone, thus eventually forming today's Zeiss AG.

When the Soviet army took over Jena, all that was left was an empty factory building and some first-class optical glass and production machinery that the American army could not take with them. Of course, the Soviets would not return empty-handed, so they immediately seized all Zeiss machines on the grounds of war reparations, transported the remaining resources back to the Soviet Union, Ukraine, and Kyiv, and transported some of the remaining scientists back to Russia by plane to serve the Russian optical industry for several years -- the folk legend that Lao Maozi's telescope was as good as a razor, and this had something to do with it.

Plundered by the two giants, Jena and Dresden were naturally swept away, but fortunately, as an optical equipment production center for nearly a century, it was not so easy to be robbed simply and rudely, and the local technicians left behind restored the Zeiss factory in Jena, East Germany, which is Zeiss Jena, the richest man in the Tang Dynasty.

In the early years of the Cold War, ZEISS AG and ZEISS Jena continued to work closely together in the development of products. It was not until 1953 that the East German government~ government announced that the two companies were forbidden to cooperate any further, and Zeiss Jena even lost the export rights, and the two Zeiss were completely separated.

ZEISS AG in West Germany immediately re-registered the ZEISS trademark in order to prevent it from being used by ZEISS Jena in East Germany. This trademark dispute between the two parties lasted until 1971. Only then did an agreement be made, an agreement was made, and a compromise was reached.

ZEISS AG, which occupies an advanced position in the market of the Western camp, and ZEISS Jena, which occupies a dominant position in the market of the Eastern camp, naturally have the same business and very similar product lines due to the same origin and ancestry, and there is fierce competition in telescopes, cameras, lenses, etc.

At this stage, ZEISS AG in West Germany is a medium-sized, technologically advanced technology company; Zeiss Jena in East Germany is a much larger and more bloated group. The latter is currently in trouble due to a defect in the mechanism, but this does not prevent the covetous eye.

There is no doubt that the first competitor, Zeiss AG, must hope to eat Zeiss Jena like West Germany annexed East Germany, and it also has the right time, place, and people that other forces do not have, which is almost an inevitable trend.

However, Tang Huan has never lacked ways to grab food, he rarely went into battle in person, and when Zeiss Jena gave a speech that still retains a large number of people's enterprises, he said from the bottom of his heart: "There is an unavoidable consensus in front of everyone that if Zeiss AG merges Zeiss Jena, the same position will inevitably be redundant, and Zeiss Jena, who is already bloated and bloated, will definitely carry out large-scale layoffs." ”

"Imagine that overnight, a large number of employees at ZEISS Jena will lose their jobs, and your generation will become the victims of the painful period of personnel adjustment."

"If I buy ZEISS Jena, it will continue to stand on its own~ and be revitalized in Jena, the most authentic birthplace."

"Ernst Abbe, one of the founders of ZEISS, is not only an excellent scientist and entrepreneur, but also implements the system of 8 hours a day, paid holidays, paid sick leave, pensions and other systems in ZEISS, becoming a pioneer of the modern employee protection system."

"I admire the character of Ernst Abbe and would like to let Zeiss Jena continue this tradition. I've heard of my performance at ZMDI, and that's a good example. ”

"All in all, I have come here, not for condescending handouts, nor for ruthless annexation, but for solidarity and friendly cooperation."

Tang, the richest man with strong financial resources, really wiped out Zeiss AG's "bloodline" advantage after using his offensive plan, and he immediately became furious, and angrily reprimanded Tang Huan for hindering the unification plan of a great enterprise.

In this regard, Mr. The richest man just replied lightly, "Actually, if you sell it to me, you can also achieve reunification." Or, think about it? (To be continued.) )