Chapter 206 Setting up a trap
A low pressure filled the office of the CEO of Huangtian Group.
Qiao Yanzhi looked at topics such as "Sky", "Material Machine", and "Shi Nian'an" on the hot search lists of major platforms, and his face turned blue with anger.
Even though he asked all the platforms under Huangtian to remove all the reports, the popularity of related topics continued to increase.
When netizens realized that Huangtian was deliberately suppressing the popularity of the material machine, they began to mock Huangtian.
[Hilarious! Doesn't God love to boast about technology leading the future? How come when technology that could change the world finally appears, he starts deleting posts and controlling comments?]
[Of course, because our future can only be led by our technology giant, Emperor Tian]
[Emperor Heaven: We support fair competition! (Assuming the opponent is weaker than me)]
[I can see that the sky that suddenly appeared out of nowhere is a real threat to the emperor.]
At the same time, KOLs in the technology industry also analyzed Shi Nian'an and Tianqiong's technical team in detail, which excited netizens.
【A role model for our generation! 】
[Big woman! Receive career luck! Receive wealth!]
Shi Nian'an is truly remarkable. At such a young age, he's already carved out a niche in the male-dominated tech industry.
[Shao Zhao laughed. Shi Nian'an is just a vase on the stage. The CEO of Tianqiong is her stepmother.]
[What stepmother? This company originally belonged to her father, and the material machine was actually his invention. Her stepmother is eating up the entire family! You women are still so smug. You have no morals or bottom line.]
[Mr. Rumor is here again. Men are always petty. Unfortunately, 99% of the technical team of Ren Tianqiong are women.]
I heard that Tianqiong Company has good benefits and no overtime. This is the situation with female leaders. Look at Huangtianbaye, they still brag about men being able to withstand pressure and endure hardship, promoting the wolf culture. If you like to eat, I wish you all to eat more.
[Emperor Qiao Ba Zong: Busy deleting posts and controlling comments, please don't cue me!]
[Hahahaha, the vision of male leaders is as small as a few sticks]
With a click, the screen in Qiao Yanzhi's hand suddenly cracked, and his white knuckles trembled slightly.
He gritted his teeth and said, "A bunch of poor people with unhappy lives, all they can do is bark a few times on the internet."
Just thinking of Shi Nian'an's calm, confident and sparkling look in the video, a storm of jealousy and hatred brewed in his eyes.
This woman is becoming more and more like the white moonlight in his memory.
Six years ago, Mi Wanlan, the only daughter of the president of Baiye Group, resolutely chose the former over her family business.
After saying goodbye, the heartless woman boarded a flight abroad without looking back.
In recent years, Mi Wanlan has run his overseas subsidiaries very successfully, and his actions have become more and more decisive and firm.
Qiao Yanzhi knew very well that there was no possibility of him and Mi Wanlan getting back together, and as proud as he was, he would never bow down to a woman.
So, when he first saw Shi Nian'an, who looked somewhat similar to Mi Wanlan, at the seminar, he immediately had the idea of possessing her.
It seemed as if this would make Mi Wanlan, who had resolutely left at the beginning, surrender and bow down before him.
More importantly, if Mi Wanlan knew that he had a lover who looked like her, she would definitely be so disgusted that she wouldn't be able to eat.
When Mi Wanlan was unhappy, he was happy.
But what Qiao Yanzhi didn't expect was that Shi Nian'an, that ignorant woman, actually rejected him and has now become a hot figure in the technology circle.
How could he possibly swallow this?
Do you really think you can compete with him with a material machine? Dream on!
At this time, Zhang Siwen walked into the office and reported in a panic, "Boss Qiao, Tianqiong is in the spotlight right now. Our deliberate suppression has only brought them more attention. The trend of public opinion is very unfavorable to Huangtian. Do you think we should…"
Qiao Yanzhi interrupted coldly, "No need, the Emperor of Heaven is not afraid of a tiny sky like her."
"Prepare two plans. First, arrange for someone to bid for Tianqiong's first-generation material machine at the auction next week. Give the laboratory one month to crack their technology!"
Zhang Siwen hesitated a little. "Doing this would only bring legal risks, and there wouldn't be enough time..."
Qiao Yanzhi glanced at him and he immediately fell silent.
"Can legal risk be called a risk? The winner takes all, and Tianqiong has nothing to lose! Time is running out, so I'll find a way to poach engineers from Tianqiong's technical team. I want to seize the market before Tianqiong launches its second-generation material machine!"
Zhang Siwen lowered his head slightly, cold sweat dripping from his forehead, and quickly wrote down, "Okay."
Qiao Yanzhi sneered and continued, "Second, contact all shareholders holding Tianqiong shares and buy them out at a high price."
Zhang Siwen glanced at the information. "Mr. Qiao, according to our investigation, the current shareholding distribution of Tianqiong is: Zhou Fanyi holds 49%, Shi Nian'an holds 41%, and the other senior executives hold 10% each. If Huangtian wants to have absolute control of Tianqiong, it needs to acquire at least 51% of the shares."
Qiao Yanzhi's eyes darkened. He knew Shi Nian'an. This man would never sell out his father's company for money. So he could only start with her stepmother.
The relationship between stepmother and stepdaughter is already fragile. In addition, neither of them holds more than 50% of the shares, and it is difficult to determine who is responsible for the company's decision-making. He doesn't believe that there will be no conflicts between the two.
Thinking of this, a ruthless look flashed in Qiao Yanzhi's eyes, and he said coldly: "At all costs, take all of Zhou Fanyi's shares."
"What I want is not just the sky, but also Shi Nian'an, kneel down and beg me!"
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The launch of Tianqiong Technology's first-generation material machine shocked the world and caused a huge sensation in the scientific community.
As early as the last century, physicists proposed the hypothesis that "all matter can be composed of a most basic particle" and called it the God particle.
However, before the emergence of the material machine, everyone felt that this would always be just an unattainable conjecture.
It was not until today that this hypothesis was presented to the world in an extremely realistic way that people had never imagined.
The video of the Tianqiong press conference has gone viral in the circle, and all the theoretical research of scientific researchers over the past few decades has become waste paper.
"This is an absolute scam! There's no way such a small device can reconstruct particles... Wait and see, you've all been fooled!"
"Oh my god! If particle recombination is real, the superconducting particle collider project we just approved for 8 billion will be scrapped."
"Is Tianqiong still short of people? I have a PhD in condensed matter physics and can buy a plane ticket back home immediately. Even a lab assistant position would be fine!"
Other industries also talked about this, especially the CEOs of the energy industry. When they saw Duan Yucai used material machinery to synthesize metal ore, their faces almost cracked.
Meanwhile, the atmosphere at Tianqiong was even more lively. Initially, seeing the deserted press conference, they had thought the event would be a failure, but it turned out to be an unexpected success.
The company that was once on the verge of bankruptcy came back to life overnight, the factory started running again, and began to produce the second-generation material machine in full swing.
Meanwhile, immediately after the press conference, Shi Nian'an held an online auction. All 1,000 physical machines were sold out in just two hours, with bids rising one after another. The highest price reached 20 million.
At that moment, Shi Nian'an and the others were nervously staring at the rapidly jumping numbers on the screen, their faces flushed with excitement, and even their breathing became rapid. When the final transaction was fixed at 16 billion, the entire company erupted in excited cheers.
"16 billion..." Shi Nian'an whispered softly, his fingertips trembling.
She never dreamed that she could make so much money in her life. Her father had committed suicide by jumping off a building because he owed 50 million yuan, but now this money is worth thousands of 50 million yuan.
Unfortunately, the dead cannot be resurrected. She could buy back the house and car, but she couldn't buy back her father's life. The dead can only accept their fate, and this world ultimately belongs to the living.
Shi Nian'an never forgot that Tianqiong could be what it is today thanks to Zhou Fanyi. It was she who brought the company back to life and created a myth that shocked the world.
She walked into the CEO's office with the data, her cheeks still flushed with excitement. "Mom! We succeeded! The first batch of 1,000 units, the final sales volume, 16 billion!"
Chi Yan was looking through the list of investors who wanted to cooperate with Tianqiong. Upon hearing this, she looked up from the documents with an unusually calm expression, "Didn't I tell you? You'll need my position in the company."
Shi Nian'an immediately stopped smiling and said, "Yes, Mr. Zhou."
She looked at Chi Lan quietly, not understanding how she could remain so calm.
Chi Li threw the documents in her hand on the table, leaned back in her chair, and said calmly: "It's only 16 billion, are you satisfied with this?"
Shi Nian'an was stunned.
Chi Li's eyes were cold. "Don't forget our opponent is the Emperor of Heaven. Look at this, Qiao Yanzhi wants to buy out my shares and forcibly acquire Tianqiong."
Shi Nian'an took the document on the table, glanced at the acquisition terms on it, and his blood ran cold.
She slammed the file shut and said angrily, "Don't even think about it!"
After saying this, he felt a chill in his heart. Facing a capital giant like Huangtian, could Tianqiong really hold on?
When she looked up, she saw Chi Li looking at her. As if she had noticed her worry, a reassuring smile flashed across her calm eyes.
"Don't worry, I won't let him succeed."
You know, her goal is to completely overthrow the behemoth Huangtian, so how could she be happy about the little success in front of her?
As for Huang Tian's little tricks, she really looked down on them. Wanting to crack the technology of the material machine was simply wishful thinking. As for poaching talents from her team, that was even more impossible.
However, she could use the same trick against Qiao Yanzhi and let him experience the taste of failure.
Thinking of this, Chi Yan smiled and waved to Shi Nian'an, "Come here and do something for me."
Shi Nian'an walked over and couldn't help but widen his eyes when he heard her words.
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Sixteen-year-old Liu Yu always felt that in the cold city of S, even the sunshine had to be paid for.
Unlike the industrial park with high-rise buildings across the street, the urban village where she and her mother live has only densely packed handshake buildings and cramped and damp corridors.
Every time she came back from the weekend, she always had the illusion of traveling through time and space, suddenly falling from the bright and clean campus into another dark world.
Day after day, she curled up at the grease-stained table to do her homework. Her short youth passed by quickly amid the sound of water dripping as clothes were hung out to dry outside the window, the constant shouting, and the roar of machines in the basement shops.
Liu Yu did not think that such a life was unbearable. She had excellent academic performance and firmly believed that her future was bright. She even secretly vowed in her heart that she must be admitted to S University and must take her mother away from this poor and dark world.
One day, she will own a house with sunshine on all sides!
However, the plump and crystal dream collided head-on with the skinny reality and shattered in an instant.
That day, my mother, who worked as a cleaner in a five-star hotel, limped back, clutching her wrinkled cleaning uniform, her eyes empty and numb.
Liu Yu stood up suddenly, grasped her rough hand with thick joints, and asked anxiously, "Mom? What's wrong with you? Did that hotel supervisor scold you again?"
Liu Xiuwen slowly lowered her head and said in a low voice, "I broke the hotel manager's antique vase, and they said I have to pay 20 million in compensation."
"What?" Liu Yu was stunned, as if struck by a bolt from the blue. Twenty million? Even if her mother swept toilets her entire life, she wouldn't make twenty million!
She was so desperate, and felt that the future was bleak. She couldn't help but blame her mother, "How could you be so careless? Don't you know that you can't touch rich people's things casually?"
Liu Xiuwen hurriedly defended herself, "Mom, I really didn't know! He put the vase in an unsealed courier box and threw it on the ground. I thought he was going to throw it away, and I accidentally... broke it."
Seeing her anxious tears, Liu Yu felt a pang of pain in her heart. With red eyes, she said, "Mom, this isn't entirely your fault. Why do they bully me like this?"
She suddenly grabbed Liu Xiuwen's wrist and was about to walk out. "Let's go find a lawyer now. I won't study anymore. Even if I have to work, I will fight this lawsuit with them!"
Liu Xiuwen quickly stopped her, "Yu'er, don't worry. Mr. Xu said that as long as I can apply for a material machine, I can use it to pay for the vase."
Material machine? Liu Yu was stunned for a moment.
The topic of material machines has been very popular these days. Even someone like her who doesn't use a mobile phone has heard about it from her classmates.
She immediately took out her mobile phone and downloaded Xinhuo to check the application requirements.
Although material machines are rare and expensive, the application requirements are very simple:
Applicants must be women with an annual family income of less than 10,000 yuan, or have special family backgrounds, such as single mothers, disabled women, or unemployed women in the family whose children are at risk of dropping out of school... As long as one of the conditions is met, you can apply.
After submitting the application, the company will arrange for a special person to conduct on-site verification and eventually select one thousand users to receive the material machine for free.
Liu Yu's fingers trembled slightly as she swiped the screen. A single parent, unemployed, disabled, and even burdened with huge debts... There was really no one more suitable than her mother!
A dark thought suddenly flooded her mind. Could it be that Mr. Xu from the hotel had known this for a long time, so he deliberately used an antique vase to scam her mother?
She hurried to check the value of the material machine.
When I saw that the highest transaction price of the material machine was 20 million, my head buzzed and tears suddenly welled up in my eyes.
"Mom, you've been tricked!"
After hearing Liu Yu's speculation, Liu Xiumen also reacted.
But the hotel has surveillance and purchase receipts, so even if we know they set up the trap on purpose, we still have to pay the money.
A heavy sigh was heard in the dim room where not a single ray of sunlight could penetrate.
"Just think of it as borrowing money to ward off disaster. This material machine is not something we can afford to enjoy in the first place."
No matter how smart Liu Yu was, he was just a student who had never been in society. He had no idea how to deal with Mr. Xu. After hearing what his mother said, he had to accept it no matter how unwilling he was.
She helped her mother apply for a material machine on her mobile phone. Two days later, people from Tianqiong Company came to verify the situation. After discovering that they were indeed in financial difficulties, they reported Liu Xiuwen's name.
A week later, the final list was announced, and Liu Xiuwen's name was on it.
The mother and daughter cried with joy, but then they thought about having to compensate Mr. Xu with the material machine. The smiles on their faces froze and gradually turned into sadness and despair.
They clearly hoped to escape their fate of poverty every day, but even when the opportunity to get rich was right at their fingertips, they couldn't grab it.
"Yuer, sometimes whether a person is rich or poor is determined at birth and cannot be changed." Liu Xiuwen said in a low and hoarse voice.
"I, your mother, was never meant to enjoy happiness. I'm sorry for bringing trouble upon you."
"Mom," Liu Yu hugged Liu Xiuwen's thin body tightly, her voice choked with sobs, "Don't say that. When I get into college and find a good job, I will definitely be able to let you live a good life!"
But, can you really live a good life if you get into a good university?
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