The investors he raised were unhappy; who wants to throw their money into a puddle? Thus, a debt crisis dragged him down.
Xing Baohua told him that one must take things one step at a time, and eat one bite at a time. You can't get fat overnight. Indigestion is a minor issue; you could easily choke to death if you're not careful.
After Lao Mou left, Xing Baohua asked Xie Yingying to scan a copy of the drawing and email it to Xiao Tian. Xiao Tian would then print it out and submit it. Aren't there many experts still studying it there?
After all, professional matters should be left to professionals to analyze.
By evening, Xiao Tian had replied to the email. It was a precise, high-resolution message from the Electronics Department.
Not long after Xiao Tian replied, people from relevant departments came to visit, so Xing Baohua had to work overtime to accompany them and report the whole matter.
Lao Mou has been highlighted by relevant departments, and his communication equipment has also been subject to technical scrutiny.
When Xing Baohua returned home, he saw Lao Mou standing alone at his door waiting for him.
After getting off the bus, Xing Baohua walked over but didn't invite the man inside to sit down.
"Is there anything else that hasn't been explained clearly?" Xing Baohua asked.
"I'd like to discuss the shares with you."
"Forget about integrated circuit factories, I don't care. I've given you enough hints today. You're so old, how come you don't understand anything? In the electronics field, I only want you to do well in the mobile phone business. Okay, go back, we have nothing more to talk about. This is your last warning, don't touch integrated circuits for now. If you do, I'll have to consider switching to a mobile phone manufacturing factory that I can support."
After saying that, he ignored Lao Mou and walked directly into the courtyard.
Old Mou watched Xing Baohua's retreating figure, pondered for a long while, before disappearing into the night.
Back at the Rice Guesthouse, where Lao Mou was a regular, two people from the Manchurian Investment Promotion Bureau were waiting for him in his room.
When they saw Lao Mou return, they all stood up and asked, "He still hasn't agreed. I don't know what he's thinking. Why would he push the money away?"
“They’ve gotten used to the beauty of the US dollar and don’t know the allure of the ruble. Do you think they might take the blueprints we gave them, make direct contact with the Far Easterners, and ditch us to go it alone?” said a man surnamed Zhang.
The investment promotion agent surnamed Li shook his head and said, "Probably not. He doesn't even know the quantity or who he's trading with. Even if he did, if word got out, it would have a worse impact on his rice business. I'm thinking it's better if we go it alone. The city has already held a meeting and said they will fully support Lao Mou in building the integrated circuit factory."
"I think we should forget about it! Mr. Xing is right. We should take things one step at a time. Let's build up the mobile phone business first, and then we can consider building integrated circuits."
Seeing that Lao Mou had compromised, the two investment promotion officials stopped asking questions. After all, they hadn't come to discuss business, but rather to represent the local government's emphasis on building the factory.
After chatting for a while, the group went their separate ways.
That evening, Lao Mou called the professor of electronic technology who was currently serving as his advisor for consultation.
"How long does it take from factory construction to equipment commissioning?"
How long does it take to train employees?
These consultation calls were recorded by the relevant departments, and records were kept of who made the calls and who the other party was.
Xing Baohua had given this old guy experimental lessons before, but he never learned his lesson. In fact, back then he didn't even understand what kind of technology it was.
After listening to the consultant's advice, Lao Mou realized that it would take at least three years from building the factory to installing the equipment and training the employees.
In other words, our friends in the Far East cannot complete their shipment in the short term, let alone use the proceeds to exchange for navigation satellites.
That evening, he also called a friend who was in the ocean trade to ask how many new ships are launched worldwide each year.
"I just rent a ship and load a load of containers. How would I know how many ships have been launched worldwide? But if you really want to know, there is a way. All the major shipyards are publicly listed companies. You can find someone to look at the annual reports of listed shipyards and see how many orders they have. Once you get a rough estimate, you can get a number."
His friend gave him a crooked idea, and surprisingly, Lao Mou actually believed it.
I called the capital company to arrange for someone to collect shipyard data tomorrow. Are we doing navigation? The first thing to consider is the ship.
You need to know how large this customer group is in order to estimate how big the market is.
However, what Xing Baohua and Lao Mou didn't know was that someone from a certain organization hidden in the rice was also reporting Lao Mou's situation through other special means.
Old Mou frequently visited Xing Baohua, which drew attention to the matter.
Little did this old fellow know that he had attracted the attention of two major departments. The CIA's investigation revealed that Lao Mou had frequent contact with the Far East, so he was given special attention.
They've even sent people to infiltrate the area. Perhaps they can get some important information from Lao Mou.
Xing Baohua began dealing with some interpersonal relationships after the New Year, since he wouldn't be home from the first to the fifteenth of the lunar month.
I made calls to everyone I needed to call.
The renderings of the world's tallest building have been completed and need to be confirmed before the design institute begins to draw based on them.
Xing Baohua had no choice but to go to Shanghai to attend this meeting.
Of the dozen or so renderings, Xing Baohua liked the cylindrical one the most. After comprehensive review and approval by multiple departments, the final rendering was determined.
After the meeting, the publicity department will release this picture so that the public can see what the world's tallest building looks like.
Besides attending meetings, Xing Baohua also went to the Shanghai Electronics Institute. After all, they had cooperated on the Ghost matter before, and he came this time to see if there was any potential for cooperation.
After all, it's a specialized institute, and it has many valuable resources.
Electronic research institutes like this generally don't cooperate with local manufacturers; they have their own factories for production, and even if they do cooperate, it's usually internal cooperation.
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