Chapter 2159: Dreaming

Zhang Zhongmou had a rough experience. He was born in Ningbo in 1931. When he was young, his family migrated to Nanjing, Guangzhou, Chongqing, Shanghai, and Xiangjiang to avoid the war. He spent most of his childhood in Xiangjiang and finally settled in Chongqing.

Despite the bumpy road, Zhang Zhongmou never gave up his studies because of his family background. His father was the director of finance in Yin County, Ningbo City, and his mother was a descendant of Xu Shidong, a famous book collector in Ningbo in the Qing Dynasty.

Zhang Zhongmou dreamed of becoming a writer when he was a child. Due to the civil war, Zhang Zhongmou went to the United States to study abroad. He embarked on a journey in a foreign country and completed his studies at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

18-year-old Zhang Zhongmou entered Harvard University in the United States. He was the only Chinese among more than 1,000 freshmen in the school. One year later, Zhang Zhongmou transferred to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, specializing in mechanical engineering. At the age of 24, he received a master's degree in the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Bachelor of Science.

After graduation, by chance, Zhang Zhongmou joined Sylvania, and began his life with semiconductors. Because he knew nothing, Zhang Zhongmou devoted more energy to research and successfully stepped into this industry.

After accumulating certain experience, Zhang Zhongmou joined Texas Instruments at the age of 27; here, Zhang Zhongmou's first battle established his reputation in the semiconductor industry, and then he continued to rise within Texas Instruments.

He successively served as the vice president and senior vice president of Texas Instruments, and was the third person in Texas Instruments, second only to the chairman and president; at this time, Texas Instruments had already become the world's number one, with 60,000 employees worldwide, half of them Zhang Zhongmou management, Zhang Zhongmou was the first Chinese to enter the top management of a large American company.

Later, Zhang Zhongmou set his sights on Intel, the biggest competitor of Texas Instruments at that time, and directly hit Intel's proud memory business to the point of being unable to fight back, so he could only find other ways out; Being able to beat Intel to death gave Intel a chance to breathe. Zhang Zhongmou also returned to Baodao to serve as the dean of the Industrial Technology Research Institute because of disagreements with the top management of Texas Instruments.

During this period, he was still unwilling to let go of the semiconductor industry. In addition to taking up his job and making outstanding contributions to the development of Taiwan's semiconductor industry, Zhang Zhongmou was also looking for opportunities to start a business. Although he is now fifty-six years old, But he is still ambitious and wants to make a career out of it.

His idea of ​​starting a business is the same as what Shen Long said just now, which is to take advantage of Baodao's labor cost advantages to provide OEM services for electronic companies in Europe, America and Japan. The company he plans to not design products, but only provide semiconductor design companies with production. It was also in line with reality at that time, because at that time there were no large companies with independent design capabilities in Taiwan like Intel and Texas Instruments, but they had the advantage of labor costs. The workers in Baodao were able to complete product design, and their salaries were higher than those in Europe, America and Japan. Workers are lower, sure to attract a large number of customers.

But his idea did not get the support of Baodao.

Neither businessmen nor government agencies understand the pattern of the world's semiconductor industry as well as Zhang Zhongmou, and they don't think there are business opportunities here; so although Zhang Zhongmou has the ability and ideas, he still hasn't raised the funds needed to start a business.

The foundry industry is an asset-heavy and labor-intensive industry. Zhang Zhongmou’s salary at Texas Instruments is quite high, and he has accumulated a lot of assets over the years, but compared with building a foundry, it is far from enough.

Today he heard that Shen Long also had the same idea as him, how could he not be surprised, "It's really awesome, I have worked hard in the semiconductor industry for more than 20 years before I came up with such an idea. Mr. Fang is only in his 20s this year. I am so old, right? You can see this step, which really makes me admire! So, Mr. Fang wants to invest in me?"

"That's right!" Shen Long nodded, "I can contribute 100 million US dollars to help Mr. Zhang build this factory, and Mr. Zhang will be responsible for the management and operation of this factory. The key components are handed over to Mr. Zhang’s factory for production.” In this way, even the first order was settled.

"What conditions does Mr. Fang have?" Zhang Zhongmou asked. He was already tempted in front of 100 million US dollars. strength.

"I want this company to open in Xiangjiang, which can save me a lot of transportation costs, and the electronics industry in Xiangjiang is developing rapidly, and Mr. Zhang can also find enough skilled workers and supporting enterprises here." Shen Long said, He wouldn't put this chicken that can lay golden eggs on Baodao.

"However, Xiangjiang has a reserve of technical talents..." Zhang Zhongmou hesitated. After all, Xiangjiang is much smaller than Baodao, and the number of universities is even rarer, especially the talents in science and engineering.

"Please rest assured Mr. Zhang. I am also a member of the preparatory committee of Xiangjiang University of Science and Technology. This newly established university will offer corresponding courses to train electronic talents for Xiangjiang. Only by introducing talents can the people here in Baodao get higher salaries than those who stay in Baodao.” As long as you have money, you don’t have to worry about finding talents.

"If Mr. Zhang has this demand, even if he spends a lot of money to recruit people from the United States, it will be no problem! Mr. Zhang might as well take a look at my design for this foundry!" Shen Long was not afraid that Zhang Zhongmou would not agree, he took out his own Let Bai Ze design the drawings based on the current state of science and technology in this period.

The technical level contained in it has exceeded Zhang Zhongmou's plan for his own factory, so it's fine if he agrees. If he doesn't agree, even if he starts a company in Baodao, he will be crushed by himself.

Coupled with the equity and salary promised by Shen Long to Zhang Zhongmou, this negotiating strategy of carrots and sticks made Zhang Zhongmou helpless. After going back and thinking about it for a few days, Zhang Zhongmou accepted Shen Long's invitation and began to process his resignation After completing the formalities, I am going to take my team to Xiangjiang.

After finishing the official business, Shen Long also took a break, drove Long Jiwen and Ruan Mei to start his own trip around the treasure island, enjoying the rare leisure time.

At the same time, Zhou Jisheng couldn't sleep well these few days. He could dream of his wife Sister Hua almost every night. Every time Sister Hua appeared in his dreams, she died of a heart attack. After the scene in front of Zhou Jisheng, he stared blankly at him after the end, as if he was asking Zhou Jisheng why he didn't avenge himself.

Feeling guilty, Zhou Jisheng approached Shenggu and asked Shenggu to help him interpret his dreams.