Reborn in the red age

The year 1996 was a memorable year for many Chinese people. This year, major events and profound changes occurred in people's livelihood, military and economy, which were enough to influence the direction of the times.

The beginning of this year was not smooth. Ten days before the Spring Festival, a vicious case that shocked the whole country occurred in the capital. In broad daylight, two armed robbers fired twelve shots in front of a bank, resulting in two deaths and one injury, and robbing more than one million yuan.

Less than half a month after the Spring Festival, something happened in the southeast, which attracted worldwide attention. The country was even more indignant, and the newspapers were filled with the latest news at sea every day.

The aircraft carrier battle group that Li Qingfeng paid for and bought from Big Brother through Mou Qizhong two years ago played a big role in this conflict.

Although the training time is still short and no real combat effectiveness has been formed, it is sufficient for deterrence and confrontation.

It was not like in another time and space, where fishing boats were mobilized and "handmade warships" were sent out to confront the enemy's aircraft carriers.

"Qingfeng, if a war breaks out this time, should we immigrate?"

Hu Jiabao had just returned from his hometown a few days ago after celebrating the Chinese New Year when he encountered this crisis. Watching the overwhelming reports on TV and in newspapers, as well as discussions among colleagues at school, Hu Jiabao returned home and looked worriedly at Li Qingfeng, who was sitting on the sofa drinking tea and reading a newspaper.

Li Qingfeng put down the newspaper in his hand and raised his eyebrows at Hu Jiabao: "Why? Are you scared to death?"

Li Qingfeng didn't find it strange at all that Hu Jiabao asked this question.

The atmosphere is tense now, although the people are generally patriotic and are saving money to donate to the country to build aircraft carriers, shouting slogans such as "join the army to serve the country and die on the battlefield".

However, among the middle and upper classes, there will always be a small number of people who will consider their own retreat, thinking about leaving the country and starting a new life abroad.

"If it were just us, we would never immigrate no matter what, and we would rather die on our own land. Chuyi and Shiwu are still young, and we as parents cannot help but consider their two children."

As he spoke, Hu Jiabao's eyes reddened slightly, his hands twisted together unconsciously, and his heart was full of confusion.

Li Qingfeng sighed, held Hu Jiabao's hands, and said seriously: "Don't worry, there will be no fight at all, and it won't take long to return to normal."

"Really? Many of my colleagues at school said that this time there might be a fight. Some of them have even resigned from the school and are preparing to go to Europe."

"Whether to fight or not, the initiative is in our hands. Our top secrets have been sold. How can we fight?"

"The top secrets were sold? Where did you hear this?"

"Of course I have my own channels. Don't worry about it. Just don't tell anyone. Besides, even though our business is overseas, if a fight really breaks out, others can escape, but we can't."

"why?"

"My name is known to people all over the country. I need to stay here to stabilize people's hearts."

Hu Jiabao was skeptical about what Li Qingfeng said about the leak, but he did not ask any further questions. In the next few days, Hu Jiabao looked worried every day. He would watch the news on TV after work and even chased Li Qingfeng out of the study to discuss the situation with others on the forum.

This situation continued until the end of the military exercise, and the confrontation between the two sides gradually eased. As the tension dissipated, Hu Jiabao finally felt relieved. He no longer had to worry about a real fight breaking out and his family being caught in a dilemma.

Although the situation is stable, people who need to escape still have to escape. Now there are long queues in front of foreign embassies every day, all of whom want to go abroad.

Compared with China, more people are running to Taiwan. The stock market has plummeted, and capital has flowed out significantly. Those who have some money are planning to flee to a foreign country for refuge.

The country's weak foundation and the flight of wealthy people did not have much impact on the economy. On the contrary, the crisis aroused the patriotic enthusiasm and national cohesion of the people across the country, making the whole country more united in devoting itself to economic development.

The upper echelons have been pushing for rapid economic development, the domestic economy has begun to advance in great strides, and private enterprises have begun to flourish. Unfortunately, the development path of state-owned enterprises has gone a little astray.
In this crisis, the domestic company that suffered the greatest losses was Huaxin.

Originally, Intel sent representatives to China after the Spring Festival. However, who would have thought that just a few days after landing and before the talks had even begun, such a large-scale confrontation broke out between the two sides.

After seeing the news, Intel's representatives were so scared that they flew away overnight, fearing that they would be caught and beaten to death by the angry people if a war broke out.

Even the major graphics accelerator card manufacturers that Huaxin had negotiated with before the New Year do not dare to come to China, and Huaxin's chip graphics card sales are currently at a standstill.

"Old Xu, the confrontation is over for now. Hurry up and contact those card dealers you have agreed to meet with and ask them to come to China to discuss cooperation." After returning to Huaxin, Li Qingfeng immediately urged Xu Yuanming to speed up the negotiations on cooperation for the graphics card chip business.

Xu Yuanming frowned and said with difficulty: "The confrontation is over, but the impact has not been eliminated. Now the Western world is frantically spreading rumors and slandering China. Our Huaxin's reputation was already bad, and now it is even worse."

"so?"

"So those card vendors temporarily refused to buy our graphics cards and planned to negotiate again after the situation stabilized completely."

Since graphics cards have threatened the Western cutting-edge technology industry, after realizing that there was considerable resistance in establishing a global sales network, Huaxin decisively gave up its plan to produce graphics cards and instead switched to the NVIDIA model, only producing chips and not assembling products.

Graphics card manufacturers buy Huaxin's GPU and video memory chips and assemble and sell them themselves.

Although the profit is low, it can quickly capture the market, and it is not too ugly and will not create too many enemies for itself. This is how manufacturers in the future market will play.

Hearing the news reported by Xu Yuanming, Li Qingfeng could not help but rub his brows. For businessmen, especially those with international business, the most feared thing is this kind of situation.

In other words, Huaxin has money. If this happened to any small business, its capital chain would have collapsed and it would have gone bankrupt long ago.

Faced with this situation, Li Qingfeng didn't know what to say and could only instruct the factory to continue production. Anyway, CS had not been fully developed yet, and there would be no better product than Swift 95 in the next year. Li Qingfeng was not in a hurry to ship the goods.

Let Xu Yuanming keep in touch with those international card dealers, and once the situation is completely stabilized, contact them immediately to ship in large quantities.

In April, when the situation had completely stabilized, Li Qingfeng did not wait for the international card dealers to come to Huaxin to sign the contract and pick up the goods, but instead waited for a notice from above.

Holding the document in his hand, Qingfeng Li didn't know what to say for a moment.

"Teacher Li, the current policy of enterprises going public is vigorously promoted by the government. Our Huaxin has developed so well. I suggest that Huaxin go public. You can consider it. After all, going public can attract more funds and provide strong support for the company's R&D and market expansion."

As per the instructions of his superiors, Xie Wanmin personally came to Li Qingfeng's office to introduce the benefits of going public. Throwing the documents in his hand aside, Li Qingfeng spread his hands and said speechlessly: "Huaxin is not short of money, and those international card dealers will soon come to China to clear out Huaxin's inventory, which will immediately bring in an astronomical amount of money. Why do we need to go public to raise funds?"

"Hey, Mr. Li, you don't know that this year we plan to promote the listing of qualified companies on a large scale. We have given 200 listing indicators nationwide, and the planned stock issuance scale this year is 10 billion."

"Two hundred listing indicators? Ten billion in scale? Damn, where do all these leeks come from?"

After hearing about the 200 state-owned enterprise listing indicators and the issuance scale of 10 billion, Li Qingfeng couldn't help but stand up from the stool.

This is so fucking scary. This is not just cutting leeks, this is pulling out the leek seedlings.

Hearing Li Qingfeng's exclamation, Xie Wanmin didn't understand what leeks meant and thought it was leek and egg dumplings, so he quickly said, "Teacher Li, do you want to eat leek and egg dumplings? Do you want me to notify the cafeteria and send up some dumplings?"

"No, no, it has nothing to do with dumplings. Are the two hundred indicators real? Have they been confirmed?" Li Qingfeng waved his hand without giving him an explanation, and instead asked about the authenticity of the indicators.

"Of course it's true. And according to gossip, if the stock issuance this year is good, another 5 billion will be issued in the middle of the year."

Li Qingfeng couldn't help but light a cigarette. He needed to calm down now.

Li Qingfeng knew about the listing indicators, which appeared in the early stages of the development of the capital market and were also called by economists at the time as the last straw to revitalize state-owned enterprises.

What this probably means is that if a company obtains this listing indicator, it does not have to consider the company's operating conditions at all and can go directly to the exchange for listing.

Private enterprises should forget about it. Such good things will not fall on their shoulders. If they meet the standards, they can go to the stock exchange to be listed. The indicators are generally given to local state-owned enterprises.

All the profitable and listed companies had already been listed several years ago. Li Qingfeng knew very well what the current situation of the remaining companies was.

To put it bluntly, as long as the remaining companies can survive without relying on bank grants, they are already healthy companies.

What is the purpose of letting Huaxin go public at this time? To increase the confidence of stockholders? To attract more people to enter the stock market?
After finishing a cigarette, Li Qingfeng frowned and looked at Xie Wanmin: "Old Xie, you don't have to say anything. Huaxin is not short of funds and does not need to go public."

"Well, Mr. Li, the above documents have come down. If you don't let Huaxin go public, wouldn't that be a hindrance to the leaders?" Xie Wanmin was anxious and quickly spoke to dissuade him.

"How can Huaxin's failure to go public be seen as a slap in the face of the leadership? The document clearly states that the decision to go public should be based on the actual situation of the enterprise. The current situation of Huaxin is that it does not need to go public."

For a moment, Xie Wanmin didn’t know what to say. The document said so, but you were specifically mentioned as being recommended for listing. Don’t you know what that means?

He wanted to persuade him again, but Qingfeng Li didn't give him a chance. He just used the excuse that he had something to do and drove Xie Wanmin out.

Xie Wanmin sighed helplessly, stood up, seemed to want to say something but stopped himself, and finally left the office silently.

Li Qingfeng, who was sitting in the office, could not help but sigh. The last handful of rice to save the state-owned enterprise was not very effective. There were a lot of rice weevils underneath. If he continued to sprinkle rice on top, wouldn't that just feed the rice weevils and make them fatter?

It is the shareholders who bear all the consequences.

After rejecting Huaxin's IPO, many people came to lobby Li Qingfeng to list Huaxin.

The visitors all spoke politely, without saying a single harsh word. They just gave Li Qingfeng earnest advice on the truth.

Facing these lobbyists, Qingfeng Li received them all politely, serving them delicious food and drinks, but no matter what the other party said, he just wouldn't give in.

After a while, she found that Qingfeng Li was just not interested in her and gradually stopped coming.

Just as Li Qingfeng was talking to them, Huaxin's first batch of international customers finally arrived.

After more than half a year of production, the large quantities of chips piled up in the warehouse have finally begun to be transported to the airport one truck at a time.

When the first batch of goods was shipped out, Li Qingfeng personally led people to the factory to check the delivery status.

Looking at the warehouse full of chips, everyone at Huaxin had excited looks in their eyes, because these things were all money.

The packaged shipping price of defective chips is US$150, and the prices of other levels of chips increase by US$.

The pro professional version chip and driver package are sold at a sky-high price of US$1500.

Although the warehouse is not big and only stores 60,000 chips, its value is frighteningly high.

Seeing the first batch of 20,000 chips leave the factory smoothly, Li Qingfeng smiled and said, "Good, good, we must do a good job of fire prevention. The goods in our small warehouse are worth tens of millions of dollars. If a fire occurs, our losses will be huge."

"Don't worry, our factory's fire prevention measures are absolutely the most stringent in the country, and the fire prevention is comparable to that of a chemical plant."

"That's good, that's good, but we still don't take it lightly. Didn't another gangster rob a money transporter recently? We also need to do a good job of security in our factory. Our chips are much more valuable than RMB of the same volume. As long as we have a way, we can cash them in. Don't let those gangsters know the value of our chips and come to steal our chips."

"That makes sense. I will apply for additional security measures right away."

"Ha ha"

After the first manufacturer placed the order, other international card dealers who had been waiting and watching also heard the news and started to take action. Huaxin's orders came in like snowflakes.

In just a few days, orders worldwide exceeded 300,000 pieces, with a total order value of nearly 200 million US dollars.

The profit from these 300,000 chips alone has recovered all costs, including research and development, and there is still a considerable surplus. The speed of making money is comparable to that of a money printing machine.

After learning about the revenue situation, Xie Wanmin almost laughed his face off. (End of this chapter)