Reborn in the red age

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He Guoyuan, the founder and chairman of ATI (Array Technology Industry) and Yetian Semiconductor in Chinese, was leisurely eating an authentic Cantonese breakfast prepared by his Chinese nanny when his mobile phone on the dining table suddenly rang.

He Guoyuan raised his eyebrows, put down the soup spoon in his hand, looked at the caller number displayed and saw that it was his secretary. He picked up the phone unhappily and pressed the answer button.

Just as he was about to start scolding, he heard the anxious voice of his secretary Du Shiyun through the microphone.

"The chairman has had an accident. The performance of the graphics accelerator card promoted by the mainland company called Huaxin is real. It has been confirmed by professionals at the press conference. The performance far exceeds the 3D Rage we released last week. A partner called early in the morning and asked to cancel the previous order."

He Guoyuan's expression instantly turned extremely ugly. He held the phone tightly and asked in a low voice, "Are you sure the performance far exceeds our product?"

"Chairman, the news has been confirmed. Huaxin's graphics card data is indeed far superior to all products on the market. Our 3D Rage has just been released and it has already failed." Secretary Du Shiyun's voice was full of worry and anxiety.

After confirming the authenticity of the information, He Guoyuan no longer had the appetite to continue eating the sumptuous breakfast. He hurriedly put on his clothes and rushed to the company.

This morning, not only ATI, but almost all graphics accelerator card manufacturers in the world are experiencing similar situations. The products that have been released are facing poor sales, and the next-generation products under development have been forced to be suspended. The R&D teams of various companies have fallen into confusion and panic.

However, ATI is the worst off among them. The 3D Rage, which it spent a lot of money to develop, is facing the possibility of being eliminated just one week after its launch.

The large number of chips that ATI had produced with full confidence before were suddenly ignored, and ATI suffered heavy losses this time.

Huaxin, a little-known small company, held a product launch conference and staged a Nezha Conquers the Dragon King event for its peers all over the world.

After the press conference, Huaxin sent thousands of wafers and sample cards to motherboard manufacturers, evaluation media, game studios and other units around the world for their evaluation.

After the graphics cards that were sent out were tested and it was confirmed that the performance of the samples was as demonstrated at the press conference, the entire West fell silent.

However, public opinion about Huaxin did not change. Except for some gaming newspapers reporting on the game CS, major mainstream media chose to turn a blind eye to Huaxin's graphics cards, as if nothing had happened and the press conference was pretended not to exist. No media reported on Huaxin's graphics cards.

The TV station simply quietly withdrew the content that mocked Huaxin, and banned artists from mentioning Huaxin and its graphics cards in the media in the near future.

In just two days, Huaxin, a fraudulent company that was condemned by the Western media, disappeared without a trace.

On the third day after the press conference, before heading to the Mercedes-Benz Automobile Factory in Harbin, Li Qingfeng had a private meeting with Intel's vice president, Pullen.

Looking at Pulun in front of him, Qingfeng Li said with a smile: "Mr. Pulun, how have you been in China these days? Have you visited our Forbidden City and the Great Wall?"

"Of course, I was fortunate enough to take some time out to visit the Forbidden City and the Great Wall. They are truly breathtaking wonders. This tour has given me a deeper and more intuitive understanding of Chinese culture. It also made me more aware of why the companies born on this land have such strong creativity and drive, just like the huge shock that Huaxin has brought to us this time," Pullen bowed slightly and replied with emotion.

"Really? That's great. I'm honored to receive such high praise from Mr. Pullen."

"You're welcome. China's cultural heritage is like a treasure buried deep underground. The more you dig, the more you'll discover its brilliance."

From the Forbidden City and the Great Wall in the capital to the Statue of Liberty and the Golden Gate Bridge in the United States, the two chatted for half an hour in the office.

In the end, it was the foreigner Pullen's lack of energy cultivation that ended this boring mutual flattery.

"Mr. Li, there's no need to beat around the bush. Let's get straight to the point. Is there anything you want me to meet about?"

Qingfeng Li pursed his lips and said with a smile: "Of course, we will continue our previously unfinished cooperation."

"Uh" Pulun was stunned and didn't react. He said subconsciously: "Didn't you firmly reject our invitation for cooperation?"

"I did reject you firmly before, but I thought of a question these two days."

"what is the problem?"

"Will Intel be so angry that Huaxin rejected your cooperation invitation that you forbid Swift 95 from running on your CPU? For example, when our graphics card is plugged into a computer, Intel's CPU will not run."

After saying this, Qingfeng Li looked at Pullen with a half-smile.

Pullen's face flashed an unnatural look, but he quickly regained his composure, cleared his throat and said, "Mr. Li, Intel is a company that upholds the principle of fair business competition. We will not easily take such extreme measures, not to mention that this violates the antitrust law."

Li Qingfeng curled his lips, not believing a single punctuation mark in what Pullen said.

It must be said that the antitrust laws in Europe and the United States are indeed very strict. For example, the "choose one of two" in the later "3Q" war in China is unimaginable in European and American society.

Whenever this happens, the Penguins will be fined until they are penniless.

Although it is strict, it is very easy for Intel to use some tricks to make Huaxin's graphics card unable to work properly, as long as it is not done openly. After all, Huaxin is a Chinese company and Intel is an American company.

Without arguing with Pullen about the issues of fair competition and antitrust law, Li Qingfeng directly and frankly told Pullen that the cooperation between the two parties can still be discussed, and except for patent sharing, everything else can be negotiated.

However, I couldn't talk to Pullen, so I went back and told Intel's board of directors to come up with a fair, just and specific cooperation plan framework before discussing the cooperation.

After saying that, he stopped talking nonsense with Pullen and told him to go back to America and come back to continue the discussion after coming up with a cooperation framework.

After returning to the hotel from Huaxin, Pulun excitedly packed up and returned home. Although this trip did not meet his expectations, there was still a chance to continue the cooperation discussion.

When Li Qingfeng was packing his down jacket for the trip to Harbin that night, he asked Hu Jiabao who was helping him, "Aren't you on vacation now? Do you want to go to Harbin together?"

"What will happen to the two children if I leave?" Hu Jiabao put down the clothes in his hands and said hesitantly.

Li Qingfeng said indifferently: "Just wait for us to come back home. They are not three-year-old children anymore. They can take care of themselves. Besides, don't they still need Xiao Cai to cook for them?"

"Is this okay?" Hu Jiabao, who hadn't been to the Northeast for many years, looked a little hesitant when he heard Li Qingfeng's advice.

“Why not?”

As he spoke, Qingfeng Li put down the clothes in his hands and went to the living room to ask the two children for their opinions.

When Li Qingfeng said that his parents were going to the Northeast and would leave them at home for a few days, the two children's eyes lit up instantly. They stopped watching TV, stood up from the sofa, patted their chests and said that they would wait for them at home and told Hu Jiabao not to worry about them.

Hu Jiabao, who was already worried about the two of them at home, became even more worried after seeing this situation.
In the end, Hu Jiabao decided to stay at home to take care of the children, and wait for Li Qingfeng to return from the Northeast, and then the family would go home together to celebrate the New Year.

Since Hu Jiabao was not going, Li Qingfeng could only call He Guangqin, and the two of them went to the airport to board the plane in a low-key manner early in the morning.

On the plane from the capital to Harbin, He Guangqin curiously asked Li Qingfeng: "Teacher Li, a lot of board manufacturers and Wall Street financial companies have come to Huaxin in the past two days, but why didn't the Western media report on our world-changing press conference?"

"It's normal. This is how the Western media is. The West has been superior for more than a century. They look at us Asians like monkeys without hair. How could they easily acknowledge the achievements of us Chinese?"

"The current silence is a precursor to the coming storm. Once they analyze our sample cards and find a suitable excuse, they will openly criticize us in the media, saying that Huaxin plagiarized their Western technology and was the first to release such an awesome graphics card," Li Qingfeng said nonchalantly as he flipped through the storybook in his hand.

Li Qingfeng had long seen through the inner nature of Westerners. The cultural hegemony and technological monopoly thinking that had been formed in the West for a long time had already been deeply rooted.

In their eyes, the Western world is the birthplace and center of science and civilization, and other regions, especially Asian countries, can only be followers and imitators.

Huaxin's transcendence in hard power this time is undoubtedly a huge challenge to this inherent cognition, and the Western media will not admit it so easily.

He Guangqin thought about what the West had done over the years and couldn't help but nodded in agreement.

Then he continued to ask curiously: "Then when they find an excuse to smear us, how should we fight back?"

"What's the point of fighting back?" Li Qingfeng put down the story in his hand and looked at He Guangqin curiously, not understanding why he asked that.

"Aren't we going to engage in a war of public opinion with them?"

“Why do we have to fight a war of public opinion?”

When He Guangqin was asked by Li Qingfeng, he didn't know how to answer for a while. He racked his brains and thought of a sentence he had read before: "The high ground of public opinion is there. If we don't occupy it, our enemies will occupy it."

I looked at He Guangqin in surprise. I didn't expect that this Hong Kong man who was born under the capitalist system would say such a thing.

Li Qingfeng nodded: "This sentence is indeed good, but it is not applicable to our current public opinion war."

"I do not understand"

"The West is the lair of Westerners. The high ground of public opinion has long been occupied by others. Moreover, they have built bunkers and set up machine guns on the high ground. We are unarmed. What can we use to occupy it?"

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The plane slowly stopped at Harbin Airport. Li Qingfeng and He Guangqin wanted to leave the airport quietly with their luggage, but as soon as they took the luggage off the cabin, the captain and several flight attendants came over with excited expressions.

"Teacher Li, welcome to Harbin. I am the captain of this plane. I and all the crew members are your admirers."

After shaking hands with each of the flight attendants, Qingfeng Li asked curiously, "How did you recognize me?"

"Teacher Li, you must be joking. Everyone in the country knows you. You are a national hero and the pride of our people. Your photos are everywhere in the newspapers. We recognized you as soon as you got on the plane."

"That's it"

Li Qingfeng nodded stiffly, thinking to himself that he had been through a lot during this period and had a lot of contact with the media. Should he wear sunglasses when going out in the future?

"Teacher Li, can you take a photo with us?" The captain looked at Li Qingfeng expectantly, fearing that he would be rejected.

Li Qingfeng would never refuse such a small matter as taking a photo.

When the flight attendants heard what had happened, they all came over excitedly. The captain and the flight attendants surrounded Li Qingfeng and took a group photo in the cabin.

"Teacher Li, this is a note someone just gave me, asking me to pass it to you."

After getting off the plane, He Guangqin looked around and saw that there was no one around. He stretched out his right hand to Li Qingfeng in a low voice, with several small pieces of paper pinched in his palm.

"Who gave it to you?"

“They are all flight attendants”

"You keep it. This is the employee benefit for accompanying me on this business trip."

"How can that be so embarrassing?"

As he spoke, He Guangqin quickly put the small note in his hand into his pocket.

Looking at He Guangqin's movements, Li Qingfeng's mouth twitched. This kid is really quick.
Huaxin has been making huge moves recently. Just as the captain said just now, Li Qingfeng and Huaxin have now become national heroes and the pride of the country.

Especially after the 50 million bonus after the press conference was reported by the media, Li Qingfeng and Huaxin became nationally famous figures. Pick up anyone in China at random, and he may not know what specific business Li Qingfeng is in, but he definitely knows that Li Qingfeng took out 50 million as a bonus for his employees.

Li Qingfeng came to the Northeast at this time, and he was destined not to be able to keep a low profile.

Ordinary people would only admire Li Qingfeng's wealth and generosity, but in the eyes of local officials, Li Qingfeng was definitely a hot commodity.

If we just give employees a bonus of 50 million, then if we can attract local investment, it will have to start from several hundred million.

Therefore, when Harbin learned that Li Qingfeng was coming to attend the Mercedes-Benz car launch conference, the local government quickly organized relevant departments to discuss reception matters and decided to welcome the pride of the country with the highest standards.

When Li Qingfeng and He Guangqin walked out of the airport, the local reception staff who had been waiting at the exit greeted them with smiles on their faces.

Sitting in the Mercedes-Benz 300 sent by the factory, looking at the sirens flashing on the police car leading the way in front, Li Qingfeng's mouth twitched.

Even the police car was used to clear the way. With such a big battle, I might have to pay a heavy price this time. (End of this chapter)