Chapter 284: The Black Hand Emerges
By the iPhone 5, the gap between Apple and Tianxin Electronics has narrowed a lot. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 When Info was first released, the sales of iPhone5 broke the record of iPhone4S, and it was only 300,000 short of the release day scheduled to be created by "Starry Sky 3", after that, Apple used Jobs to hype, alluding to iPhone5 as its posthumous work, playing the sentimental card, iPhone5's three-day sales exceeded 4 million, and the sales volume in the first month exceeded 13 million, tying the sales record created by "Starry Sky 3".
The success of the iPhone 5 has shown the world that Apple is worthy of being Apple, and Jobs is worthy of being Jobs.
Lei Jun naturally didn't want to see Apple's turnover, and Cook naturally didn't want to admit defeat, and the two sides launched fierce competition for the high-end smartphone market. However, even if the competition is fierce, neither side uses the price war, and at this point, everyone still has a tacit understanding.
Due to the rapid growth of the international smartphone market, the two sides are in competition, and the sales of products are rising. In the first quarter of this year, Tianxin shipped 44 million smartphones, followed by Apple, which sold a record 41 million iPhones. The outbreak of the two companies stunned everyone, including Samsung Electronics, which was closely chasing after them, was a little dumbfounded.
In any way, the iPhone 5 has been successful, but the price of success is relatively large. In order to suppress Apple's development momentum, Lei Jun launched the groundbreaking "Starry Sky 3S" in advance, which can be regarded as a response to Apple.
"Star 3S" did not disappoint Tianxin Group, the number of reservations on the day of release reached 2 million, breaking the record set by "Star 3", and the first week sales also set a record, reaching 5.5 million, with monthly sales of more than 16 million, becoming the world's most popular smartphone.
Due to the performance of "Starry Sky 3S", the outside world has greater expectations for the listing of Tianxin Electronics, everyone is hard, Tianxin Electronics will achieve the world's largest IPO after half a month, and some employees who hold shares of the company are looking forward to the company's listing. The Tianxin community has reported that once Tianxin Electronics is listed, it will create 35 billionaires and more than 2,000 multimillionaires.
So far, in addition to Lu Yang, Su Yan, Lei Jun, Ye Wenbing, Wang Chuanfu, Lu Yuhan, Mark Benioff, and Zhao Tai who hold more than 1% of Tianxin Electronics' shares are likely to become billionaires. Other executives, who hold stakes ranging from 0.1 percent to 1 percent, are also proper billionaires, depending on their financial resources.
There is no doubt that the listing of Tianxin Electronics will be the largest wealth creation campaign in the history of China, and it will create a group of super-rich people in the Tianxin system.
In order to ensure the smooth listing of the company, in early May, Su Yan, Lei Jun and Ye Wenbing, the three giants, went to the United States to preside over the listing of Tianxin Electronics with Mark. According to the usual practice, this listing should be presided over by Lu Yang himself, but Lu Yang can't live or die. He is the boss, and no one dares to force him.
At two o'clock in the afternoon, Su Yan and others arrived in Los Angeles, USA, which is also the headquarters of the North American branch of Tianxin Group.
Outside the airport, a yellow-haired man dressed in ordinary clothes walked to a corner and covered it slightly with his neckline.
"Head, the target did not appear, confirmed, the target did not appear!" The man whispered, his eyes sweeping around.
"Roger, retreat immediately!"
The man tightened his leather jacket, put his hands in his jacket pockets, looked around for a week, and quickly left.
Los Angeles CIA Division, Durant and several of his men are in a meeting.
"It has been confirmed that Lu Yang did not come to the United States." Durant said expressionlessly.
No one answered his words.
"We originally thought that when his most important company went public, the other party would definitely come to the United States in person. But now it seems that we were all wrong. Durant slapped the table unwillingly.
Since the CIA confirmed that Lu Yang provided top technology to the Huaxia military, they began to target Lu Yang. The CIA's first plan was to get the core technical information of Tianxin Group through a sudden hacker attack, and it would be great if there was information about Huaxia robots in it.
However, the first plan failed a month ago, and it failed inexplicably, for which Durant, the head of the plan, was scolded by his boss.
"Sir, this defeat is not a bad thing." Whatever the reason, Durant has to blame the reason for the failure on artificial intelligence, "According to our experts, the other side has a very powerful artificial intelligence, at least much more powerful than ours!" ”
The CIA attaches great importance to Durant's intelligence on the artificial intelligence of the Tianxin Group, and then organized a group of experts to demonstrate, and the final conclusion is similar to that of Durant, if the Tianxin Group does not master the artificial intelligence that is stronger than God, this hacking operation will definitely not fail.
After this situation was reported to O'Guanhai, the White House instructed that no matter what, the other party's artificial intelligence must be obtained.
The CIA knew that a cyberattack would not work, and began to hatch a second plan. Tianxin Electronics will be listed in the United States, which is a well-known thing, and their plan is to use this opportunity to secretly arrest Lu Yang in the United States. Although the risk of doing so is not small, with the power of the United States, it can still be done without hiding from the outside world.
However, Durant didn't expect that Lu Yang didn't come to such a big event as Tianxin Electronics' listing, which made their plan ruined again.
"Head, we may be able to arrest these Huaxia people, they are all the most important assistants of the target, and they should know about artificial intelligence." Durant's henchmen suggested.
"Stupid, these people are close to the target, but they know that the chance of AI is just over 40%. Even if they knew about it, and we succeeded in apprehending it, do you think the target would trade AI for their lives? The other immediately reprimanded.
"What do you think?" Durant didn't say anything, and asked casually.
"Don't act unless you can see your target!" Durant's most relied on subordinate, Kutuman said.
"What if the target never comes to the United States?" Durant asked rhetorically.
"Then we'll force him to come to the United States!" Kutuman smiled slyly.
On the third day after Su Yan and the others arrived in the United States, a piece of news shook them to the outside.
The U.S. Department of Commerce said at a press conference on Monday morning that Tianxin Electronics' products may endanger the information security of the United States, and that all sales of Tianxin Group products in the United States will be suspended from now on. The Ministry of Commerce will organize an investigation team as soon as possible to investigate this matter. If this is true, Tianxin Group will face charges from the U.S. government, and at that time, Lu Yang, as the company's legal person, is likely to be held criminally liable.
After the news was announced, not only Su Yan and others were stunned, but also major media in the United States.
"What's the plot?" There are countless questions in everyone's minds, and no one thought that this kind of thing would happen at the juncture of Tianxin Electronics' listing.
Su Yan and the others immediately panicked, and only Mark noticed the hidden meaning behind it. He has been on Wall Street for decades, and he is all too familiar with the methods of the American government.
Even so, he did not expect the government to intervene.
"Could it be that those big consortia have taken a fancy to Tianxin Electronics?" Mark Benioff conjectures.
"I'll contact the boss immediately, Mark, we are not familiar with the situation in the United States, and I want you to investigate why the US government is doing this." Su Yan quickly reacted and assigned a task.
"I'll go right away." Mark knows the importance of time and doesn't hesitate at all. But in fact, his heart is far less decisive than he seems.
"If it is really those big conglomerates, I must get out of this whirlpool as soon as possible, those people do things, but they are unscrupulous. It's just, should I remind Lu Yang? Mark hesitated.
At two o'clock in the morning, Lu Yang was woken up by Pangu. When he sleeps, Pangu will help him block most of the numbers, and only a few numbers can be connected, including Su Yan's.
"Boss, there's something wrong with the United States." Su Yan organized the language and explained the matter in detail, but there was nothing to say, after all, they didn't know much about the origin of this incident.
"Boss, are you coming to the United States in person?" Su Yan felt that the matter was very important and had to say.
Lu Yang thought about it for two minutes and made a decision that Su Yan didn't expect.
"You and Lao Ye, Lao Lei will come back immediately, don't worry about the affairs of the United States for now, just leave it to Mark and Ronald." Lu Yang said in a deep voice.
Su Yan reacted for a long time and muttered, "What about the listing?" ”
"Postpone indefinitely!" Lu Yang's words were a little cold.
"Okay, I got it." Su Yan didn't ask why, there was no point in asking at this time, all they could do was to act according to Lu Yang's orders.
After putting down the phone, Lu Yang didn't feel a little sleepy. He turned his room into a snowy mode, and the temperature in the room quickly decreased, which made Lu Yang calm down as well.
"Was it a coincidence, or was it premeditated?"
Lu Yang felt that this matter would not be so simple, and seemed to verify his judgment. Thinking of the bizarre hack before, he felt that his enemy was already clear.
"If my guess is correct, the other party must be trying to force me to go to the United States, and once I do go, I am afraid that there is no way to guarantee my personal safety. In the United States, no matter how many bodyguards I hire, it would be impossible to stop the state institutions. Unless, I expose the existence of the Heavenly Mecha! ”
Lu Yang's thinking gradually became clearer, and he felt that this was the truth.
"Why would the U.S. government want to do something to me? Even if Tianxin Group develops well, it will not let them do it. I think there may be several reasons, one is that the big consortium that can influence the government's decision-making wants to annex Tianxin Group, the second is that the other party thinks that I may threaten the interests of the United States in the future, and the third is that I have already threatened the interests of the United States......"
Lu Yang went through the matter from beginning to end and put forward several conjectures.
"The first and third conjectures aside, the second conjecture is the least likely, as the world's only superpower, the United States is unlikely to do anything to the richest man in the world because of a certain possibility in the future. After all, it is still very risky to do so, and the slightest leak of news will cause a backlash from Huaxia. So, which is closer to reality, the first conjecture or the third? ”
"The scale and prospects of Tianxin Group are good, but compared with those big conglomerates that control the political economy of the United States, it is simply a drop in the bucket. If the other party really wants Tianxin Group, the most reasonable way should be to wait for Tianxin Electronics to go public, whether it is an acquisition or a covert annexation, which is more effective. The roots of the Tianxin Group are in Huaxia, even if they catch me, it is unlikely that they want to get the Tianxin Group, and in the end, it will be cheaper for the Huaxia government......"
"The first and second possibilities are excluded, and the most unlikely third possibility becomes the only one!"
Lu Yang calmly made a judgment, even if the enemy he was facing at the moment was the strongest country on the earth, Lu Yang was not afraid in his heart. On the contrary, he breathed a sigh of relief, at least for now, he had identified his enemy, and at the same time was slowly understanding why the enemy was against him. (To be continued.) )