Who would still be a social slave when they are so rich?

Chapter 289: Can’t we conduct research independently?
When Ji Wenbo walked into the central courtyard and saw the entire courtyard clearly, he was stunned.

“I didn’t expect to see Suzhou garden-style scenery in the courtyard!”

Pavilions, towers, ponds, and koi!
But when you see the scenery of the central courtyard, if you don’t know, you might think you are in a Suzhou garden.

Ji Bowen had seen many Siheyuan and Suzhou garden-style buildings, but this was the first time he had seen a combination of the two, and in the imperial capital where every inch of land is valuable.

Ji Wenbo believes that the cost of creating this scene is enough to buy a big house in first- and second-tier cities.

"Don't just stand there. I'll take you around after we meet the boss!" Pei Rang patted Ji Wenbo on the shoulder and strode towards the pavilion.

At this time, Su Chen was already sitting in the pavilion, leisurely brewing the top-quality tea he got from Grandpa Xiao.

Seeing Pei Rang and Ji Wenbo walk into the pavilion and stand aside, he waved his hand casually and said, "Just sit down, no need to be so awkward!"

Hearing this, Pei Rang was not polite at all. He sat down next to Su Chen, picked up the fruit that was airlifted from abroad on the table, and began to eat quietly.

Ji Wenbo was stunned when he saw this. He didn't expect Pei Rang to be so rude.

After coming to his senses, he also sat on the stool, but he sat opposite Su Chen, and did not eat the fruit on the table casually like Pei Rang.

Instead, he sat upright, as if waiting for Su Chen's inspection at any time.

As the boiling water and tea leaves blend together, a tea fragrance gradually fills the entire pavilion.

The two of them who smelled the fragrance of tea fixed their eyes on the fairness cup that Su Chen had brewed tea in.

At their age, they don't have any other hobbies, but they have a special liking for tea tasting.

Especially Ji Wenbo, he is a die-hard fan of tea ceremony, he has been drinking tea for decades and has countless tea collections at home.

As soon as you smell this aroma, you will understand what authentic top-grade tea is.

Compared with the tea brewed by Su Chen, the tea in my collection is nothing!

Su Chen picked up the fairness cup and poured three cups, placing two of them in front of Pei Rang and Ji Wenbo respectively.

After the two of them hurriedly thanked Su Chen, they turned their eyes to the teacups in front of them, and carefully picked up the cups to taste them as if they had seen something precious.

Su Chen did not find anything strange about their behavior. He could see that Pei Rang and the other man were people who liked tasting.

If the two of them just picked up the tea and started drinking it like Zhu Bajie eating the ginseng fruit, that would be a real waste of such good tea.

"Oh~" Pei Rang put down the teacup in his hand and couldn't help but let out a long sigh.

"What? This tea is not to your taste?" Su Chen raised his eyebrows slightly and looked at Pei Rang with a scrutinizing look in his eyes.

Pei Rang saw Su Chen's eyes and trembled slightly. He cursed himself in his heart for being so cunning in front of his boss. However, when he thought of such precious tea leaves,
After a slight sob in his throat, he responded, "Boss, that's impossible. Your tea is the best I've ever tasted, but..."

A dejected look immediately appeared on Pei Rang's face.

"But after drinking your tea, I'm afraid that my own tea will taste like chewing wax when I drink it again!"

"Oh~really?" A strange look flashed across Su Chen's face. How could he not see that this old guy Pei Rang was just thinking about his tea!

"Of course!" Pei Rang nodded his head like pounding garlic, and said with a pitiful look: "Hey, when I think about not being able to drink your tea in the future, I feel like my whole body is losing a lot of energy!"

Listening to this increasingly outrageous reason, Su Chen glared at Pei Rang unhappily. He really didn't care about his face just for ordering tea. If the senior executives of the group saw this, they would definitely laugh their heads off.

Mr. Pei, who is always serious, actually pretends to be pitiful. Who would believe it if I told others about it?
"Old Pei, hasn't anyone told you that you're a terrible actor? You're talking so much just because you want tea leaves. When you leave later, just take a can with you!"

"You still look so pitiful. If you want tea, just tell me directly. Don't you think I, your boss, should give it to you?"

"Really?" Upon hearing this, Pei Rang stood up and looked at Su Chen excitedly.

Su Chen curled his lips speechlessly, "Fake!"

"Ah~ Boss, don't!" The smile on Pei Rang's face froze instantly.

"Alright, alright, I'll give it to you later. If you continue to perform for me, it will really be gone!"

Pei Rang immediately became serious after hearing this. The serious President Pei switched online and said to Su Chen very seriously: "Thank you, boss!"

Su Chen nodded slightly when he heard this, picked up the teacup and took a sip, then looked at Ji Wenbo who was standing beside him, and naturally saw the hint of envy in his eyes.

"Let's talk about business!"

As soon as these words were spoken, Ji Wenbo immediately realized that they were directed at him, and hurriedly took out a resume from the briefcase he was carrying.

Yes, it’s a resume!
Even Ji Wenbo, who is already very famous in the domestic professional manager circle, cannot avoid this.

Su Chen took the resume handed over by Ji Wenbo and found that it was unusually thick.

Ordinary people would only have a simple resume, but the resume in Su Chen's hand seemed to have four or five pages, worthy of being an experienced professional manager.

"Swish~" As the sound of Su Chen flipping through resumes rang out, Ji Wenbo became inexplicably nervous.

Before coming, Pei Rang also gave him a brief explanation, saying that there was a very important company that needed a person in charge. If he could pass the boss's test, he would become the focus of attention in the country and even the world in a short period of time.

As a professional manager, in addition to making money, one naturally hopes that his name can be recorded in the history of this industry!
For this reason, he specially made this exquisite resume, writing down all the important experiences of his first half of life on it without concealing anything.

Because Ji Wenbo knew that the more important the interview was, the more attention should be paid to details. Perhaps a small problem would make him lose points in front of the boss and become the failure of this interview!

After five minutes, Su Chen put down the resume in his hand, poured some hot tea into his cup, took a sip, and then said, "Ji, do you mind if I call you Old Ji?"

"I don't mind, I don't mind. Boss, it will make me seem more friendly if you call me Old Ji!" Ji Wenbo quickly waved his hand and responded with a smile.

"Hmm~" Su Chen smiled and nodded. He tapped the resume on the table twice with his right index finger before asking:

"I just looked at your resume and found that you have a bachelor's degree in electronics. I wonder what you think of the domestic chip industry?"

"Chip industry?" Ji Wenbo was shocked when he heard this term. Combining this with the gossip he had heard from Pei Rang before, he realized that if he still didn't know what the company was like, he would have no use as a professional manager.

Ji Wenbo did not rush to answer, but sorted out the thoughts carefully in his mind.

Su Chen did not chase him to talk, but sipped his tea and waited quietly.

After a long while, Ji Wenbo looked up at Su Chen and said, "Boss, the domestic chip industry has lagged far behind the world level since the chip scam. Even if we try to catch up, we are still far behind." "Of course, there are many domestic reasons for this. After all, the slogan "It's better to buy than to make" is not just a slogan. This has also led to us crossing the river by feeling the stones in chip manufacturing."

"In addition to the immaturity of chip-related technologies, there are also restrictions on the manufacture of chip lithography machines. Even if we invest a lot of money, it will be of no avail!"

Ever since the chip scam was exposed, the country has paid special attention to this aspect and has given strong support to chip research. The emergence of various support funds has also allowed many top domestic technology companies to invest in chip research.

Big companies like Penguin and Ali have invested a lot, and even Gree, which manufactures air conditioners, is no exception. It is said that they have invested hundreds of billions of dollars.

But what about in the end?

It's all a lot of noise but little results, and there hasn't been much gain. Even if someone has developed a chip, it's at most an integrated chip.

Compared with those foreign chips, there is a generation gap, and to some extent, the gap is more than one generation!
It is conceivable how miserable the domestic chip manufacturing industry is.

This has also led to domestic chip manufacturing companies focusing their energy on the manufacturing of mid- and low-end chips. It can be said that domestic mid- and low-end chip manufacturing has reached saturation.

Finally, Ji Wenbo looked at Su Chen very seriously and said, "Boss, if our company also manufactures mid- and low-end chips, then I am not very optimistic about the company's future development!"

Ji Wenbo did not say anything against his will to deceive Su Chen. After all, the most basic ethics of a professional manager is to tell the truth.

Upon hearing this, Su Chen and Pei Rang looked at each other, and a smile appeared on their faces at the same time.

Ji Wenbo, who was standing by, was so confused when he saw this. He didn't know why his boss and President Pei were both laughing. Was there something wrong with what he had just said?
As if he also saw the doubt in Ji Wenbo's heart, Su Chen explained: "What you said is indeed true, but there is one thing that is wrong!"

"I wonder what point you are talking about, boss?" Ji Wenbo asked curiously.

"Hahaha~" Su Chen chuckled, and his expression immediately became serious. After looking at Ji Wenbo meaningfully, he slowly said: "We are not researching low-end and mid-range chips, but..."

Su Chen deliberately kept it a secret, and sure enough, Ji Wenbo's eyes widened instantly, and he asked in a trembling voice, "Boss, you don't mean to say that we are independently researching high-end chips, do you?"

After saying that, Ji Wenbo muttered in self-denial: "It's impossible. Not to mention whether we have high-end chip technology, how can we develop it when we don't even have a photolithography machine?"

"Could it be that they used an etching machine? But the technology of the etching machine cannot produce high-end chips, right?"

As a professional manager for many years, Ji Wenbo has worked for high-tech companies. Naturally, he is familiar with chip manufacturing and knows how complicated this industry is.

Not to mention high-end chip technology, even the qualifications to buy a lithography machine are not something that ordinary people can possess.

Ji Wenbo, who couldn't figure it out, could only look at Su Chen with a curious look.

"Do you think we can't develop high-end chips and lithography machines ourselves?" Su Chen did not directly respond to Ji Wenbo's doubts, but asked Ji Wenbo back.

"Research it yourself?" Ji Wenbo was completely dumbfounded at this moment. There were only three words in his mind: "Impossible"!
But seeing the indifferent expression of his boss and Pei Rang's composure, they all showed the value of these words.

"Gurgle~" Ji Wenbo swallowed the saliva in his mouth and looked at Su Chen nervously, "Boss, we are not really going to develop high-end chips on our own, right?"

As for the photolithography machine... Ji Wenbo didn't even dare to think about it.

If this lithography machine is really so easy to develop successfully, then ASML would not be the only lithography machine manufacturing company in the world. The specialized wall they have built alone has blocked the path for those researching lithography machines.

"That's right. We have not only broken through the barriers of high-end chip technology and independently developed 10nm-level chips, but we have also successfully developed lithography machines, and..."

Su Chen's tone couldn't help but become more serious, "These two are now able to achieve mass production!"

These pieces of information rang in Ji Wenbo's ears like a bombshell, and he was completely stunned, feeling as if he was dreaming.

"10nm-level chips, independently developed lithography machines, and mass production?" Ji Wenbo suddenly felt that his cultural level had dropped a lot.
He knew all these words, but when they were put together, they felt extremely unfamiliar to him.

After three to five minutes, Ji Wenbo gradually came back to his senses. He now understood what Pei Rang had said to him before. As long as he became the head of this company, he would become the focus of the whole country and even the world in a short time.

Whether it is the 10nm chip or the lithography machine, any one of them alone would be breaking news around the world, let alone they appear together.

"Old Ji, I wonder if you have the confidence to run Xiaxin International well?" Su Chen asked after Ji Wenbo recovered.

As soon as he finished speaking, Ji Wenbo stood up and assured excitedly: "Boss, don't worry, I can definitely run Xiaxin International well. Nvidia and TSMC will be trampled under our feet!"

At this moment, Ji Wenbo seemed to have returned to the time when he first entered society, his heart filled with high morale!

"It's good to have confidence, but there are some things I need to tell you in advance!"

Su Chen was still very satisfied with Ji Wenbo's reaction. If he still had no fighting spirit after knowing the situation, then Xia Xin's person in charge would have to find other suitable people.

"Boss, you say!"

Ji Wenbo also sat back in his chair and took several deep breaths before calming his inner excitement.

"Professional matters should be handled by professionals. You know this principle well!"

"From now on, you will be responsible for the operation and management of Xiaxin International. As for the research, it will be separated for confidentiality and Professor Wu will be in charge."

Ji Wenbo naturally knew the value of this chip technology, and confidentiality was definitely the top priority. Reducing contact on his side could also reduce the chance of leakage to a certain extent.

What's more, he has no achievements in chip research. It is a taboo for an outsider to only know the insiders, and Ji Wenbo is aware of this.

"Boss, I will do my best to cooperate with Professor Wu!" Ji Wenbo expressed his attitude with just one simple sentence.

As the head of the company, his job, in addition to running the company well, is to ensure the progress of chip research.

Although he didn't know what kind of person Professor Wu was, he also understood that Xia Xin could live without Ji Wenbo, but not without Professor Wu.

"Hmm~" Su Chen nodded slightly, "When can you arrive at the post? We are currently lacking a person in charge to support the company!"

"Boss, I'm available anytime!"

When he came again, Ji Wenbo was ready to take up the job at any time. Besides, he was not young anymore and no longer had to worry about his family's feelings like he did when he was young.

Su Chen pondered for a moment after hearing this, and called out to Chen Fei who was feeding the koi outside the pavilion.

"A Fei~ Call Xiao Peng and ask him to arrange a group of people to come to the capital!"

Chen Fei was stunned for a moment, glanced at Ji Wenbo, nodded in response, then walked to the side, took out his cell phone and made a call.

(End of this chapter)