Reborn in the red age

Chapter 530 Hu Jiabao's Improvisational Education
Strictly speaking, Huaxin is a foreign-funded enterprise, and theoretically the foreign exchange income can be retained in cash. However, Li Qingfeng did not do so. Instead, after the first batch of sales proceeds entered Huaxin's account, he immediately asked someone to go to the bank to convert the US dollars in the account into RMB.

The Wassenaar Arrangement will be signed next month. Currently, Huaxin's 0.8-micron production line, which only started formal production last year, is already the most advanced equipment currently available.

If we want to upgrade to 0.35 microns, which will be officially commercialized this year, we will probably have to wait until , or until the lithography factory project that Huaxin is secretly developing can be successfully completed.

For the time being, Huaxin does not have a large demand for foreign exchange. Instead of just letting it sit in the account and earning interest, it is better to sell it at a good price.

The staff of the foreign exchange bank designated by Huaxin took over Huaxin's foreign exchange exchange business. After learning that tens of millions of dollars were only 30% of the payment for Huaxin's sales, the staff were stunned.

I knew that the chip developed by Huaxin was powerful, but I didn’t expect it to be so powerful. It’s only been a few days, and the first batch of goods has received $200 million. If it takes a year or two to sell, what will happen?
When Huaxin’s sales were announced, the whole country was instantly excited.

Reform and opening up has entered its 17th year. Although the domestic economy has been growing at a rapid pace year by year, there are still no outstanding products.

The products exported to Europe and the United States have not changed much since the 1980s and are still primary industrial products such as needles and thread.

The computer industry promoted by Li Qingfeng is a little more prominent. It exports some computer accessories and computer screens that are not difficult to manufacture with the advantages of high quality and low price.

Currently, Huaxin's high-end chips are exported to Europe and the United States. In just a few days, the export value has reached nearly 200 million US dollars, making it the first high-end high-tech product exported to Europe and the United States.

Domestic public opinion was jubilant, and the people were extremely proud of Huaxin's achievements. Huaxin and Li Qingfeng once again appeared in the newspapers as national heroes.

Knowing that people were talking about him again on the streets, Qingfeng Li disguised himself with great interest and started strolling around the streets of the city with his driver and bodyguard, Sun Aidang, hoping to hear what ordinary people thought of him.

The car was driving slowly on the main road of the city. When we stopped at a newsstand on the street, we saw a few people discussing newspapers outside the newsstand.

He immediately called Sun Aidang, who was driving, and asked him to stop the car on the side of the road and accompany him for a walk.

The two got off the car and walked to the newsstand. Li Qingfeng bought a newspaper and pretended to be reading a newspaper, listening to the conversation between the people next to him.

A young man in plain clothes asked curiously, "Brother, you said that Huaxin sold more than 1.6 billion in three days, how much money did he make?"

"How much do you earn? I'm thinking at least 1.4 billion or 1.5 billion," a slightly older man nearby gestured and spoke in a high voice that could probably be heard ten meters away.

The young man's eyes widened, his face full of disbelief: "Oh my God, how can I earn so much?"

"Didn't you read in the newspaper that this chip is made of sand? How much does sand cost? You can just dig it up from the ground. A truckload of sand costs a hundred yuan, but once it's processed in a factory, it can become tens of millions."

Listening to their discussion, Li Qingfeng couldn't help but twitching the corners of his mouth. This was too much nonsense. It was true that the chip was made of sand, but who told you that it cost nothing to make a chip out of sand?

If it is sold for 1.6 billion, we can earn 1.4 billion or 1.5 billion. If we can't earn that much, who can we ask for the compensation?
The discussion among the few people made Sun Aidan a little unbearable. Although Sun Aidan was a driver, he had been following Li Qingfeng for many years and knew something about the chip manufacturing process.

We know that the main raw material of chips is silicon, which is extracted from sand, but the chip manufacturing process is not as simple as processing sand.

If it were that simple, the country's chip industry would have developed long ago and chips would not be so expensive.

Just when Sun Ai was about to go up and explain to them, she was stopped by Li Qingfeng, who told her to keep listening and not interrupt, to see how far they could go.

At the beginning, it was fine, they were just discussing how much money Huaxin could make from selling chips and how much money Li Qingfeng could make, but the content of the discussion later became more and more off-topic, almost making Li Qingfeng's nose crooked with anger.

It was the young man who first brought up the topic. He looked dreamy and murmured softly, "You said Qingfeng Li has so much money, so how does he spend his daily life?"

"How else can you live?" The older man raised his eyebrows with a lewd smile on his face. "You must live in a big villa, eat the best food, have girls by your side, and do nothing every day, just wait to count your money. Aren't all the rich people on TV like this?"

When the topic of romance is brought up, people around you immediately become interested.

Immediately, the guy who had not spoken on the chip just now interrupted: "Hanging around? No, there is a small boss who runs a factory over there, and he has three or four wives. How can a rich man like Li Qingfeng only have two or three wives?"

"No way? Isn't it illegal to marry three or four wives?" Upon hearing about marrying three or four wives, the young man exclaimed in surprise.

"You look so uneducated. How is it illegal to marry three or four wives? Isn't it okay if you don't register?" The older man slapped the young man on the head and said unhappily, then turned to the guy who had just spoken and said:
"Yes, yes, that makes sense. It's my fault that I don't have enough experience. After all, he is so rich. Two or three wives are not enough. I think he should be a bridegroom every day. The bride entering the bridal chamber should at least be a beautiful and elegant female college student."

"More than that, I think there should be models and celebrities as well."

"That's necessary"

Li Qingfeng, who was listening nearby and was almost furious, grabbed Sun Aidang, who was about to rush up and teach them a lesson, with one hand.

They were just bored and gathered together on the roadside to brag and chat. They were all just talking for fun and there was no malice involved. It would not be wrong to say that they were slandering or spreading rumors.

No matter whether it is the speaker or the listener, no one will take it seriously. The conversation will end after a while of listening and laughing.

He threw away the newspaper in his hand, turned around and left, dragging Sun Aidang with him, and hurried back to the car.

"Brother Li, these people are going too far. How could they slander you like this? Why didn't you let me go up and teach them a lesson?" Sun Aidang, who was sitting in the driver's seat, spoke angrily while starting the car, his hands still tightly gripping the steering wheel, his joints turning white from the force.

Li Qingfeng rubbed his temples and sighed helplessly: "Why bother with them? They don't understand anything. They just want to have fun. They don't have any bad intentions."

Sun Aidang was still indignant when he heard this, but he knew that Qingfeng Li was right, so he started the car angrily and slowly drove away from the newsstand. Sitting in the car and watching the scenery passing by outside the window, although Qingfeng Li said that he didn't care, he still felt a little uncomfortable in his heart.

If I really enjoyed it, that would be fine, but the problem is that I really didn’t enjoy it at all.

The car returned to Huaxin Building. Li Qingfeng had just arrived at his office when He Guangqin came over and said, "Teacher Li, CCTV wants to interview you, a national hero. Do you want to accept their invitation?"

"Forget it. I've been in a bad mood lately and it's easy for me to get mad at people during interviews. Please don't say anything bad in front of the camera," Li Qingfeng waved his hands repeatedly to refuse.

In the past, Li Qingfeng was very interested in the interview with CCTV. After all, who doesn't want to stand under the spotlight and listen to others' praises? But today, when he heard the discussion about himself by ordinary people, Li Qingfeng suddenly felt that being famous was not a good thing.

There is only one woman, Hu Jiabao, in the country, and people have rumored that he has three wives and four concubines. If he really does something and is photographed by someone who recognizes him, what will happen then?

"Okay, then I will reject CCTV's interview invitation on your behalf."

"Hey, wait." When He Guangqin was about to leave, Li Qingfeng stopped him and said, "We still have to give face to CCTV, but forget about interviewing me. Ask Xu Yuanming if he is willing to be interviewed. After all, he is the general manager of Huaxin."

"Okay, I'll contact Mr. Xu now to see what he thinks."

With the strong sales of Huaxin's chips overseas, Xu Yuanming has been walking around the company with a rosy face every day recently.

When He Guangqin found him and asked him if he would participate in an interview with CCTV, Xu Yuanming agreed without hesitation.

In the past, most of the media interviews with Huaxin were conducted by Li Qingfeng, which resulted in the fact that now people all over the country only know Li Qingfeng and not Xu Yuanming, the general manager of Huaxin.

Xu Yuanming has long wanted to be interviewed to increase his popularity in the country. After all, fame is something every man wants.

Xu Yuanming attached great importance to this interview. In order to ensure the professionalism and depth of the interview, he also specially prepared a detailed document covering the development history, technological innovation, market layout and future planning of Huaxin Technology, and provided it to CCTV reporters as a reference for questions.

On the day of the interview, Xu Yuanming appeared in front of the camera wearing a neat suit, with a confident smile on his face, and looked energetic.

Under the light, he began to tell the story of Huaxin in an orderly manner, from the initial difficulties in forming a team, groping forward in a simple laboratory, to breaking through numerous technical barriers and successfully developing competitive chip products. He also talked about his tragic experience of being discriminated against while washing dishes during his study in the United States. He spoke so excitedly that he shed tears.

At the end, Xu Yuanming also imitated Li Qingfeng and shouted the slogan to the camera: Science and technology will make the country prosperous, and industry will make the country prosperous.

We once again call on all enterprises across the country to embark on the road of technology, industry and trade at the appropriate time, not to indulge in easy profits from trade and put technology behind, but to take a long-term view and actively engage in technological research and development and industrial upgrading. Only by mastering core technologies can huge profits be brought in.

At night, Li Qingfeng was at home, watching Xu Yuanming on TV, talking about his difficult experiences as if they were real. He just found it funny. This guy really understood the true meaning of establishing a character.

Hu Jiabao watched Xu Yuanming talking on TV, and suddenly held Li Qingfeng's hand. He said with a sad expression: "Old Xu, a Hong Kong native, suffered so much and was discriminated against when he studied in the United States. When you were studying in the United States, your life was even more difficult than his, right?"

Li Qingfeng was stunned. He didn't understand what Hu Jiabao meant. He had told her how he was doing when he was studying in the United States. Why did he suddenly ask her this?

Just when Li Qingfeng was about to speak, he saw Hu Jiabao winking at him and nodding at the two children who were looking at him curiously.

Having slept in the same bed for so many years, the couple still had some tacit understanding. Li Qingfeng immediately understood what Hu Jiabao meant. Hu Jiabao wanted to use this topic to educate the two children.

Understanding Hu Jiabao's meaning, Li Qingfeng's face immediately showed a trace of bitterness, and then he sighed softly, and said in a low voice with some emotion: "When I first arrived in America, I was unfamiliar with the place and couldn't speak the language. In order to have a place to stay, I could only rent a dark and damp basement. There was no sunlight all year round, and there was a musty smell everywhere. Rats and cockroaches were rampant in the room."

"The academic pressure is even heavier, but the education level in our country is relatively weak. In order to keep up with the course progress in the United States, I have to study until three or four in the morning every day, and then I have to force myself to get out of bed and go to the classroom at six in the morning the next day."

As he was speaking, Qingfeng Li felt a huge force coming from his hand. He looked down and saw Hu Jiabao winking at him, indicating that the man was exaggerating too much and he should be more reliable.

"cough cough"

Realizing that going to bed at three or four and getting up at six was indeed a bit absurd, Li Qingfeng coughed twice and changed the subject, talking about being hungry and freezing: "In winter, the basement was as cold as an ice cellar. I was wrapped in a thin quilt, shivering with cold, and my hands and feet were covered with frostbite. In order to save some money, I often only ate one meal a day. Sometimes I was so hungry that I could not see black and I was staggering when I walked."

When the two children heard this, their eyes widened with shock and heartache.

The two children's eyes suddenly turned red and tears welled up in their eyes.

Chuyi rushed to Li Qingfeng with tears in her eyes, and cried on Li Qingfeng's shoulder.

Fifteen was also shocked. He held Hu Jiabao's hand, not knowing what to say.

Hu Jiabao looked at the children's reactions and was very satisfied with this "improvisational education".

He immediately took the opportunity to pull the two children to start his own education: "You see, your father did not give up despite the hardships he faced back then. He has achieved what he has today through his own efforts. You have your father's blood flowing in your veins, and you must inherit his excellent qualities in the future. No matter what difficulties you encounter in study or life, you must not back down easily. You must learn to cherish your present life and work hard to pursue your dreams."

Comforting the first-grade student Li Qingfeng, he almost couldn't help laughing while listening to Hu Jiabao's teaching.

This little phrase is so complete, I don't know where he learned it.

(End of this chapter)