Chapter 299: Bill's Shock

The year 2002, March 7.

The United States began airstrikes against Taliban and al-Qaeda targets in Afghanistan in retaliation for al-Qaeda, which was sheltered by the Taliban at the time.

And they were asked to hand over the mastermind of 9/11, bin Laden.

When the Taliban learned about it, they rejected their demands outright, but said they could take responsibility for the 911 incident.

This almost monkey-like move completely annoyed the Pentagon.

The coalition forces formed by the United States and Britain soon entered Afghanistan and made contact with the local Northern Alliance.

The two sides subsequently reached an agreement to cooperate in overthrowing the Taliban authorities and to carry out air strikes against various Taliban and Al-Qaida strongholds that night.

The United States used different types of weapons in the first round of air strikes.

At the same time, they also dropped a large amount of relief supplies during the airstrikes, which, according to them, "are for the relief of civilians injured in the airstrikes." ”

Three days of continuous bombardment.

Al-Qaeda has suffered a major blow, and its power in the north is beginning to disintegrate.

March 10, evening.

The Taliban core fled Kabul under the cover of night.

However, satellite photographs from the United States indicate that the remnants of al-Qaeda are present in the 2,740-metre-high mountain range west of Mount Godra.

The Special Purpose Team (SOF) calls the area the "Remington Barrier".

Thereupon.

Operation Snake has officially begun.....

Meanwhile.

Bill Gates and Infinity executives have held several rounds of negotiations in a row, and even if he is very impatient, no substantive progress has been made.

Both sides insist on their own words, and Infinity is stubbornly biting the bottom line of the source code and refuses to back down, but Bill is bound to get the source code.

He can't tolerate that someone shares this market with himself.

However, he is also very aware of his strengths, so he is not worried that the other party will refuse to cooperate with him.

But until now, he still didn't know what the other party really wanted.

In the meantime.

Director Zhang was also very concerned about this matter, and called Lin Zeju many times to inquire about the progress of the negotiations.

After all, this is Bill Gates, even if his position as the richest man in the world is squeezed down, he is still the most important rich man in the United States.

He said that he tried not to embarrass others too much.

Lin Zeju disagreed, business negotiations, of course, are interests first, how can there be any human accidents, otherwise wouldn't it become a project bidding.

In his spare time, he also takes Bill around.

It's just that after seeing the headquarters of Infinity Corporation, a whole large piece of land, Bill was surprised, very surprised!

Such a large land is owned by Infinity Company.

In addition, people on the other side complained that the number of researchers in the company has increased from 300 to more than 3,000 now.

There are also tens of thousands of technicians and production workers, who have far exceeded the original design of the accommodation permit, and they are ready to expand the company's footprint again!

All this has refreshed Bill's inherent impression of Huaxia!

Such a large research institute integrating research, development, and business is rare even in Europe and the United States!

Not to mention the beautiful environment of Infinity Company, just the observation of advanced experimental equipment made him unable to believe his eyes.

Didn't it mean that a technology embargo was imposed on Huaxia?

Why are these instruments here no worse than those of large American research institutes?

There are also a few instruments and equipment, which he has never seen in the laboratories of Europe and the United States!

With so much advanced equipment, so many scientific researchers, and the research strength of an infinite company, how terrible it must be!

He couldn't help but take the liberty of asking Lin Zeju, only to know that these instruments were all products of Infinity Company, a subsidiary of one of the research departments, and Infinity Precision Instrument Manufacturing Company.

They use first-class equipment for their own use, supply small quantities to national laboratories, sell second-rate products domestically, and they are ready to further develop international markets and sell their instruments and equipment to other countries.

The initial target is the third world countries.

Lin Zeju even took him to a machinery factory outside the company for a field visit.

It is said that this company often helps infinity companies OEM, and it is one of the more closely cooperated enterprises.

The company has grown from a small workshop to more than 50 machines now.

The owner is a simple middle-aged man.

When he heard that Bill Gates was going to visit his factory, the whole person was in a daze, if Lin Zeju's assistant hadn't come to inform him in person, he would definitely think that someone was talking nonsense!

Immediately after, the news leaked out somehow.

At five o'clock in the afternoon, the workers who were supposed to get off work refused to leave, and stood by the machine one by one, pretending to be pretending, and wiping the machine tool with a cleaning cloth.

Damn, I don't know how diligent I usually are!

Since the launch of a series of cooperation agreements with Infinity, some of the companies they work closely with have completely adopted the new work system.

All employees changed to an eight-hour working day, working in three shifts, and the salary level more than tripled on the original basis.

These increased wages are specifically subsidized by Infinity Inc.

In order to cultivate more practical technical talents.

The company will regularly send people to conduct some technical training for workers.

When it was first introduced, many workers were very uncomfortable, and some even felt that they did not deserve such a high salary.

They used to work 12 hours a day, and they were used to it.

So much so that I leave work so early now that I don't know what to do.

But the factory owners resolutely implemented the new system.

He had to comply, but Infinity investigators often hung out and would permanently disqualify them from cooperating if they found a violation.

And the infinity companies have said that they are just giving the workers the value they deserve.

This made the factory owner not only moved, but also awe-inspired.

It is worthy of being the light of the nation and the representative of foreign-funded enterprises.

In many cases, it is not that their factories do not want to raise the wages of their workers, but that the profit margins are really limited, and there are too many imps to deal with, otherwise they come to check every day.

Now, although the requirements for processing products for Infinity are very high, their order profits are also very lucrative.

The industry knows it.

They never default on the payment of goods, they all pay with one hand and deliver the goods with the other.

They will even take the initiative to give support for technology and equipment.

The factory has developed to the present, and they have almost no external processing, just eating the orders given by the infinity company, you can eat and support!

When Lin Zeju and Bill walked in, the factory owner immediately greeted him excitedly, and a group of skilled workers in blue uniforms stood behind them.

Bill looked at them slightly.

Finding that they were generally relatively young, estimated to be only about 20 years old, he couldn't help but sigh that in the United States, many young people of this age are still listening to professors in college.

And they have become excellent skilled workers.

Many of them, when they saw him, their hands and feet trembled with excitement.

That kind of "fanaticism", like seeing a star.

made his trip to China, which was not very smooth, save a lot of self-confidence.

After all, his legendary entrepreneurial history has long been exposed by countless media, and major bookstores have his success books.

In Huaxia, it is normal to meet a few of his admirers.

It's just that when he saw the little boss of the factory, pointing to a five-axis linkage machining center, saying that this machine was just second-rate equipment.

Bill was dizzy!

These instruments and equipment, in the United States, are used in many small laboratories, but they are contemptuously regarded as second-rate goods by this factory owner who only has a junior high school education!

In this way, the equipment used by Infinity must be the best precision instruments in the world!

This answer, after he saw the latest LCD screen production line of Infinity Company, has been confirmed to a certain extent.