Rebirth 08: Rise from copycat phones

Chapter 254 The Boss is Domineering
The next day, Xu Shenxue put aside his daily work and accompanied Lin Yaxian to the hospital for a check-up. The hospital also received corresponding notifications and made preparations.

Xu Shenxue and his group entered the hospital directly from the hospital's basement parking lot without disturbing the general public.

The truth is that Xu Shenxue was accompanied by too many people when he traveled. There were dozens of security personnel alone, and he was accompanied by a whole convoy wherever he went.

If you don't make arrangements and preparations in advance, it can easily cause unnecessary onlookers or even negative impacts.

After arriving at the hospital, the test results came out quickly.

A middle-aged female doctor stood in front of Xu Shenxue and said a little stiffly: "Mr. Xu, your wife is indeed pregnant. According to the examination results, everything is very healthy."

After hearing this, Xu Shenxue nodded with a smile: "Thank you, Director Sun!"

Then he said to an elderly man next to him, "Thank you, Dean Wang, for taking time out of your busy schedule to accompany my husband and me for the checkup."

Dean Wang laughed out loud and said, "Mr. Xu, you are worrying too much. I would like to thank you even more for your kindness over the past few years!"

"In the past two years, we have received a lot of equipment donations from Mr. Xu, and the serious illness assistance fund launched by your company has also helped many of our patients reduce their huge financial burden."

Xu Shenxue said, "This is what a citizen should do. By the way, I just heard that your hospital's obstetrics and gynecology department is also lacking. I have achieved some success in my career and I want to give back to our medical cause. I will arrange a donation later. I hope Dean Wang and Director Sun will not mind."

Upon hearing this, Dean Wang and Director Sun, especially Director Sun, immediately showed great joy: "How could we dislike it? We welcome Mr. Xu's kindness!"

After a round of inspection, the results were very smooth.

After Xu Shenxue left, he arranged for the public relations department of Zhiyun Group to donate a batch of medical equipment to the hospital in the name of charity. At the same time, they launched a charity event to care for pregnant women and donated a sum of money to assist some pregnant women in the hospital who were in financial difficulties with their prenatal checkups, childbirth, and subsequent babies.

All in all, the amount involved exceeds 100 million!

Soon, the local hospital launched a very low-key attempt at a family doctor program for pregnant women, exploring the feasibility of family doctors for pregnant women, and arranging for doctors and nurses to provide home physical examinations and care for pregnant women who registered for delivery in the hospital.

Lin Yaxian, as a pregnant woman registered for delivery in the hospital, became one of them.

Director Sun of the hospital's obstetrics and gynecology department personally led a pregnancy and delivery team to formulate various plans specifically for Lin Yaxian and more than a dozen other first-batch candidates.

Of course, there is no need to let outsiders know these things.

What outsiders know is that the hospital has publicly announced that it has received a donation from Zhiyun Group!

The outside world is no longer surprised by Zhiyun Group's various donations. As a global multinational enterprise, Zhiyun Group actually makes a lot of donations.

These are all part of corporate public relations. Some donations are really made to buy fame, such as when a natural disaster occurs in a certain place.

Some are purely for profit transfer, which happens very frequently in overseas areas.

Zhiyun Group has been sponsoring a large number of various charitable funds throughout the year, and many of the helmsmen of these so-called charitable funds are the wives, women, mothers and other family members of certain congressmen.

Then there are some more practical education funds and medical funds, which will not be donated directly, but will select some qualified individuals for support.

The largest amount of these is support for poor students in China. Zhiyun Group provides certain financial assistance to at least tens of thousands of poor college students every year.

Of course, quite a number of them are joint colleges established by Zhiyun Group and some famous universities, or some majors that Zhiyun Group urgently needs.

For example, outstanding students in the fields of semiconductor design and semiconductor manufacturing in China can easily apply for places in Zhiyun Group’s poverty-stricken college student support program.

There are many different charitable activities in Zhiyun Group, but it is undeniable that most of these actions are strongly purposeful!
For these large listed companies, there must be a reason for where every penny goes.

It is either for the sake of corporate image, or in exchange for some preferential policies, or simply for the purpose of transferring benefits, or to obtain some professional talents that the company urgently needs.

As for those who simply donate money, there are actually very few of them.

After returning from the hospital, Xu Shenxue still did not go to work, but stayed at home with Lin Yaxian.

However, I haven’t fallen behind in work. Now is the information age, and many things can be done through online office.

After accompanying Lin Yaxian for several days in a row, Lin Yaxian herself felt a little uncomfortable... She was still in the early stages of pregnancy, and her body was healthy and nothing was wrong, nor did she have any severe pregnancy reactions.

This was not much different from usual, but Xu Shenxue was always around, asking about her well-being.

I felt pretty good at first, but after a few days I started to feel that Xu Shenxue was an eyesore. He wouldn't let me eat or move.

So within a few days, Xu Shenxue was kicked out to work.

Lin Yaxian said this to her mother: You say he is a grown man and doesn't go to work, but hangs around a pregnant woman like me every day. I would be annoyed even if he is not annoyed... And he is used to being a boss and giving orders outside, so when he comes home he acts like a big boss and wants to take care of everything.

Mother Lin didn't know what to say after hearing this. Her son-in-law was not an ordinary person. He was even busier at work than her husband. He took time out of his schedule to accompany her, but you were still not satisfied... But she could only go along with what her daughter said, because she was a pregnant woman!

After being kicked out to work in the company, Xu Shenxue actually felt a little relieved!

To be honest, he chose to work from home these days because Lin Yaxian became pregnant. He also heard that women may become more emotionally sensitive after pregnancy and need more company, so he chose to work from home so that he could better accompany Lin Yaxian.

But in his two lives, he had never actually coaxed a woman, let alone tried to be around a woman... To be honest, he was not used to it, and was not good at it.

So these two days have been a bit awkward.

Now that Lin Yaxian said that she didn't need him to accompany her and asked him to go to work, he just went along with it.

After arriving at the company, standing in the office on the 51st floor and looking at the bay outside, Xu Shenxue felt much more relaxed.

Or is this job suitable for him?

After briefly dealing with some daily affairs that had accumulated over the past few days, Xu Shenxue held a small meeting with a group of people from Liuhe Investment.

The meeting was held to discuss a cash-out plan in response to the recent fluctuations in Zhiyun Technology’s stock price!
In fact, in the past two years, Xu Shenxue has been carrying out a cash-out plan and has cashed out hundreds of billions of dollars. However, the main body of the cash-out is not Xu Shenxue's personal shares, but several offshore companies under his control.

The large number of Zhiyun Technology shares held by Xu Shenxue are actually all held through these offshore companies and funds. The public is not even aware of many of the holding companies.

At the same time, cashing out does not always involve selling shares in the secondary market, but more often involves share transactions between institutions.

Recently, the stock price of Zhiyun Technology has fluctuated too much. Xu Shenxue has a hunch that this time the stock price will probably continue to fall, and may even fall below the 500 billion US dollar mark.

The reason is very simple. There is some deviation between the outside world's expectations of Zhiyun Technology and Zhiyun Technology's actual operating direction.

In the past, investors generally treated Zhiyun Technology as a light-asset company such as a fruit company. Therefore, its price-to-earnings ratio was generally higher than that of traditional manufacturing industries. At the same time, the outside world generally believed that Zhiyun Technology's gross profit margin was very high.

With light assets and high gross profit margins, coupled with the fact that Zhiyun Technology's various smart terminal products are hot-selling around the world, its sales volume is extremely exaggerated.

All these have led to the continued rise in Zhiyun Technology's stock price, which has twice exceeded the market value mark of 600 billion US dollars. Although it is no longer 600 billion US dollars, it has fluctuated between 550 billion US dollars recently, which allows Zhiyun Technology to still maintain its position as the world's largest company by market value.

It is worth noting that the share prices of fruit stocks have also fallen sharply in recent months.

The reasons are similar to those of Zhiyun Technology. The gross profit margin did not meet expectations, sales did not meet expectations, and at the same time, R&D investment increased significantly, which ultimately led to the financial report not meeting the expectations of many analysts and investment institutions.

For example, the Fruit 5/5P launched by Apple in September has performed very well in the market, but its overall sales are still surpassed by the S12 series.

The most important thing is that the gross profit margin of fruits has dropped by 11 percentage points compared with the same period last year. Last year, the gross profit margin of fruits was more than 47%, but this year, the gross profit margin is only 36%.

The gross profit margin dropped even more than Zhiyun’s.

At the same time, in order to cope with the huge threat posed by Zhiyun and continue to suppress a number of mobile phone companies such as Sixin, Fruit has also invested heavily in the research and development of various new technologies in the past two years.

A typical example is fingerprint recognition technology. In order to develop this fingerprint recognition technology, Apple acquired a fingerprint recognition company in the early stage, and then spent more than 2 billion US dollars on technical research and development in the later stage.

There are many similar projects!

On the one hand, it needs to keep up with Zhiyun's pace and invest heavily in research and development in the fields of voice assistants and even artificial intelligence, and then it also needs to develop aluminum alloy bodies and fingerprint recognition.

On the other hand, Fruit must continue to develop some projects with its own exclusive advantages, such as system R&D and upgrades, SOC R&D and upgrades, as well as many other spare parts, system services and other miscellaneous things.

There are actually quite a lot of research and development projects for fruits. In addition to R&D investment, in order to ensure the leading edge of new technologies, a large number of various companies are acquired every year.

The operating model of super large enterprises like Fruit is actually quite similar to Zhiyun.

Zhiyun also acquires a large number of small and medium-sized companies every year, licenses patents, etc. At first glance, it seems that all industries are being laid out, but in fact it is not... Sometimes Zhiyun makes various acquisitions not for the original company's main business, but more for some patented technologies and some of their sub-projects.

Therefore, it is often seen that after Zhiyun Technology acquires a company, it will split up the company, stripping off the technical patents or business departments it wants, and then repackage the others and sell them.

Throughout the entire process, in fact, only the core senior management of Zhiyun Group knew why these companies were acquired.

The 3D facial recognition project is a typical example. In the past two years, Zhiyun Technology has successively acquired many companies related to 3D facial recognition. However, until now, the outside world still does not know that Zhiyun Group has a 3D facial recognition project.

Occasionally, some industry insiders see some of Zhiyun’s actions and make some speculations. For example, this year Zhiyun Technology spent more than 300 million US dollars to acquire an overseas company, Primesense.

This company is engaged in 3D structured light sensors... However, this is different from the 3D structured light sensors used in mobile phones that people are familiar with in later generations. This thing is currently used in games.

A group of industry insiders firmly believed that Zhiyun was going to develop 3D gaming equipment!

No one has ever thought that Zhiyun Technology intends to use this thing directly on mobile phones!

This cannot be blamed on them, because Zhiyun Technology has actually done a lot of similar acquisitions of technology companies, many of which seem to have nothing to do with mobile phones at first glance.

If ordinary people, some so-called industry insiders, could accurately judge the next strategic direction of Zhiyun Technology through some of Ziyun Technology's acquisition behaviors, they would have made a fortune long ago.

The same is true for fruits. There are many different types of investments and acquisitions.

Plus huge investment in research and development.

This has also led to huge investments and R&D expenditures on fruits in recent years.

Gross profit margins fell sharply, investment in research and development increased, and sales fell short of analysts' expectations.

As a result, the fruit's stock price also fell sharply.

Zhiyun and Fruit both received a cold reception in the capital market for similar reasons: the capital market overestimated the earning power of these two companies, thereby pushing up their stock prices. Later, when they discovered that although these two companies were very profitable, they were still not as profitable as they had imagined, the stock prices began to fall.

Xu Shenxue was very clear about this, so he thought of cashing out while the stock price was still good, and then buying back the shares when the stock price fell to the bottom.

This way, you can not only cash out, but also make a lot of money.

Of course, this kind of thing cannot be done directly, especially selling shares directly to the secondary market, otherwise a huge fine will be imposed at any time, so it is done by some offshore companies under its umbrella, and cash is cashed out through some complex capital operations.

After discussing with a group of business elites, legal advisors and some accountants under him, Xu Shenxue finally decided to cash out about 10 billion US dollars of shares in the next few months.

The money is expected to be used in the electric vehicle and Internet sectors.

The electric car business is not just about making the car, it also requires a lot of investment... This is a typical capital-intensive industry, and you can't play it without money.

The billions of investments before, plus the tens of billions of loans from banks, are just a drop in the bucket!

Xu Shenxue also needs to inject more funds into Hailan Automobile to build the entire electric vehicle industry chain and research and develop new technologies.

With such a huge investment, the goal is naturally very ambitious. Xu Shenxue wants to build HaiLan Automobile into his second 100 billion enterprise!

If you want to achieve a market value of hundreds of billions of dollars in the future, the initial investment is naturally indispensable.

Investment in the Internet is also essential!

With the rapid development of the domestic Internet, especially the mobile Internet, the Internet industry is also in a rapid development stage, and various mobile Internet applications are rapidly becoming popular.

Liuhe Investment, owned by Xu Shenxue, has successively invested in a large number of domestic Internet projects, including food delivery, taxi-hailing, online shopping, and short videos.

On the one hand, these Internet projects make money quickly, allowing Xu Shenxue to obtain more investment returns in a short period of time, and then withdraw money for investment in basic fields; on the other hand, they can provide a large amount of data, providing sufficient training data for AI projects.

Anyway, with Xu Shenxue's vision for the future, you won't lose money on your investment.

After finalizing the strategic direction at the meeting, Xu Shenxue did not sit idle, but immediately attended a strategic investment meeting.

The negotiation team from Jingxi and the negotiation team from Liuhe Investment Department are negotiating on Jingxi's strategic financing. In recent years, Jingxi has rapidly grown into an important online sales platform for 3C products in China, and many smart terminal products under Zhiyun are also sold through this platform.

Very early on, Xu Shenxue instructed Liuhe's investment department to maintain contact with Jingxi and to invest if there was an opportunity.

As Jingxi continued to develop rapidly, and in order to cope with the competition from other online shopping platforms, the most important thing was that the self-built logistics platform they built was too expensive, and the funds raised previously were gradually insufficient, while Liuhe Investment asked them if they needed funds every few days.

As a result, the two sides finally began to strengthen their contacts this year.

Last month, after several meetings between the two parties, they basically reached an investment intention, but the specific valuation and investment amount still need to be negotiated.

In order to obtain large investments and the support of Xu Shenxue, the world's richest man, Jingxi's senior management team personally came to Shenzhen to meet with Xu Shenxue and outlined Jingxi's future development blueprint at the meeting.

After the meeting, Xu Shenxue had a simple meal with the boss of Jingxi and talked about the online shopping platform.
Three days later, Liuhe Investment formally reached a strategic investment agreement with Jingxi. Liuhe Investment led the investment with US$300 million, and some other domestic funds followed with US$130 million, bringing the total strategic investment to US$430 million for Jingxi.

As a result, Liuhe Investment became one of Jingxi’s important shareholders.

Of course, don't expect to get controlling stakes or anything like that. This kind of strategic investment is more for sharing the benefits of subsequent development.

This kind of investment case involving 300 million US dollars of one's own capital would probably be very worrying and important for ordinary wealthy people, but for Xu Shenxue it was just a small matter.

In fact, from beginning to end, Xu Shenxue only attended one financing meeting, met the other party once, and the deal was finalized after a meal.

Every year, Xu Shenxue's companies have to acquire or invest in a large number of companies, and the amount of hundreds of millions of dollars is actually quite small.

The truly huge investments are those in the semiconductor field, which are worth tens of billions or even hundreds of billions of dollars.

The commissioning ceremony of the second phase of Zhiyun Microelectronics Shenzhen Production Base, which Xu Shenxue attended a few days later, was such a heavyweight project.

Ding Chengjun, general manager of Zhiyun Microelectronics, personally introduced the project to Xu Shenxue
"The initial investment of our Zhiyun Microelectronics Shenzhen production base project has exceeded 5 billion US dollars. The core is two 12-inch wafer fabs and two 8-inch wafer fabs, as well as supporting factories such as packaging factories."

"Last year, the first phase of the Shenzhen production base was completed, with an eight-inch plant and a twelve-inch plant put into production. This summer, the second eight-inch plant was also completed, and now the second twelve-inch wafer plant has been completed and put into production."

"In addition, we at Zhiyun Microelectronics have also planned the third phase of the project in this production base to build a third 12-inch wafer fab, a state-of-the-art packaging plant and other supporting factories. The third phase of the project is already in the early stages of equipment installation and commissioning, and it is estimated that it will be completed and put into production next summer."

"The total investment in the entire Zhiyun Microelectronics Shenzhen production base project will exceed US$6.5 billion."

"In addition, the second 12-inch wafer fab that went into production today uses the latest 28-nanometer process technology from our Zhiyun Microelectronics!"

"After the three phases of the project, our production base will increase from 2+2 to 3+2, becoming the largest semiconductor production base in China."

Xu Shenxue listened while walking towards the huge factory building in front. He attached great importance to this project.

The three twelve-inch wafer fabs in the Shenzhen production base are different from the two twelve-inch wafer fabs in Jiangcheng. The wafer fabs in Jiangcheng are mainly used for the production of memory and flash memory.

The chip factories in Shenzhen are mainly used for the production of logic chips, which are traditionally referred to as CPU and GPU chips.

Of course, no matter which one it is, Xu Shenxue attaches great importance to it, and the Shenzhen production base happens to be nearby, so he came to see it when the first phase of the project was put into production, and now he has also come to see it when the second phase of the project is put into production.

Looking at this large-scale factory, Xu Shenxue couldn't help but sigh: "We have been struggling for several years, and finally we have gradually caught up in the field of semiconductor manufacturing."

Ding Chengjun also said: "That's right. Now we want to have factories and technology. We want to be the best in the country and also the best in the world."

Today, Zhiyun Microelectronics is the only chip foundry in China that has a 32-nanometer process, not to mention the 28-nanometer process.

The 28-nanometer process is currently the most advanced process in the world.

In terms of production capacity, Zhiyun Microelectronics already has six 12-inch wafer fabs for producing various advanced chips, as well as five 8-inch wafer fabs for producing various types of chips with medium and low processes.

The production capacity of the 12-inch wafer factory accounts for 80% of the country's 12-inch wafer production capacity!

It is undoubtedly the leading company in the domestic chip foundry field, far ahead of other domestic chip foundry companies.

Among them, the 32-nanometer process, which has been put into large-scale production, has been used to produce various chip products under Zhiyun Group, including mobile phone SOC, computer CPU, AI chip, graphics card and other chips that have great requirements for advanced technology.

At the same time, it also manufactures various types of chips for other chip design companies and has even accepted many overseas orders.

In addition, there is 3D NAND's flash memory process, which is also used to produce Zhiyun's flash memory particles.

In the memory field, Zhiyun Microelectronics' process level has stabilized the production of 30-nanometer process, and the trial production of 25-nanometer process has also been successful. It is now launching a mass production plan for 25-nanometer process memory.

In the two core areas of logic chips and storage chips, Zhiyun Microelectronics' technical level is able to keep up with the world's first echelon.

In Xu Shenxue's view, these are the fruits of his hard work over the past few years!
The only thing that makes Xu Shenxue dissatisfied and even worried is that most of the equipment and consumables used in these advanced wafer factories that produce chips are imported, making it very easy to be strangled.

For example, the typical equipment, lithography machines, are all DUV immersion lithography machines produced by ASML of the Netherlands. Currently, only the DUV immersion lithography machines produced by this company can meet the requirements of 32nm/20nm process chip production.

The HL-ARF6508 DUV dry lithography machine developed by Gulf Technology cannot do this job!

Even the use of double exposure technology is very difficult, as there is a requirement for overlay accuracy. The first DUV dry lithography machine of Gulf Technology has an overlay accuracy of only eight nanometers. According to Gulf Technology's technical research, if double exposure is to be carried out, the overlay accuracy must be at least 5.6 nanometers. Only in this way can a -nanometer process be achieved through double exposure.

Unfortunately, the current overlay accuracy of Gulf Technology's lithography machines cannot reach this level.

Even if it could be achieved, it would be of no practical use.

Because the cost is too high!
Today's 45-nanometer process chips are already considered outdated chips. If you still use multiple exposure technology to significantly increase costs, you will lose money.

Of course, this is under normal market conditions... this can also be done under abnormal market conditions.

Therefore, Gulf Technology has also conducted some research on this technology, which can be regarded as a research and development of technology reserves, but it is actually of no use!
After all, even if an extreme event such as a war breaks out, with Gulf Technology's technical capabilities, it will be able to maintain the operation of a large number of imported DUV immersion lithography machines.

Zhiyun Microelectronics imports quite a lot of DUV immersion lithography machines.

Currently, there are 63 DUV immersion lithography machines that have been put into use, including those that have arrived and are being installed and debugged.

This corresponds to the monthly production capacity of 150,000 12-inch wafers planned by Zhiyun Microelectronics before.

In addition, there are a large number of orders for DUV immersion lithography machines. Because Zhiyun Microelectronics is still building more wafer fabs and continuously increasing its production capacity, ASML delivers 20 to 30 DUV immersion lithography machines to Zhiyun Microelectronics every year.

As for how many imported DUV immersion lithography machines Zhiyun Microelectronics will eventually have, on the one hand it depends on when foreign countries impose sanctions on Zhiyun, and on the other hand it depends on when HaiLian Technology achieves a breakthrough in technology and develops its own DUV immersion lithography machines.

HaiLan Technology also has the ability to perform basic maintenance on these imported DUV immersion lithography machines, which is sufficient to ensure their operation.

Therefore, even in extreme cases, Zhiyun Microelectronics does not need to use its own DUV dry lithography machine to produce 45-nanometer chips.

That's not necessary.

After attending the commissioning ceremony of Zhiyun Microelectronics' second phase project, Xu Shenxue simply flew to Zhiyun Microelectronics' Tongcheng headquarters to inspect Zhiyun Microelectronics' advanced process R&D team to see the R&D progress.

Currently, Zhiyun Microelectronics is working on the 22-nanometer process, which is already the most advanced process technology currently available and is almost approaching the physical limit of the current DUV immersion lithography machine. Its research and development difficulty is quite high.

When Xu Shenxue went to see it, he noticed that the R&D team's progress was slow, so he quietly increased the allocation of scientific research system quotas for process R&D personnel.

They were given an S-level scientific research quota.

At present, Xu Shenxue has only two S-level scientific research titles on hand. Before, he only had one, which was used alternately in key projects such as chip manufacturing and semiconductor equipment.

Now that Xu Shenxue has exchanged for another S-level quota, he will be able to use an S-level scientific research quota for a long time in each of the two major fields of semiconductor manufacturing and semiconductor equipment.

This will bring about greater improvement in scientific research efficiency!

In addition to the S-level scientific research places, Xu Shenxue actually exchanged for more than 20 A-level places in the past year, and a considerable portion of these new places were also used in Zhiyun Microelectronics or Gulf Technology.

Xu Shenxue has always attached great importance to the R&D progress of these two core enterprises.

As for the R&D projects in other companies, although they are also important, there are currently only a small number of A-level quotas, and it is basically enough to bring a group of B-level and C-level people.

As for the advanced S-class and A-class, Xu Shenxue prefers to use them in the core semiconductor field.

After taking a tour around the R&D department at Zhiyun Microelectronics' headquarters and chatting with Professor Liang Song for half a day, Xu Shenxue went to the factory to take a look.

Only halfway through the inspection, some bad news came from Qiongzhou Island. The Nantianmen 5 rocket of Nanmen Aerospace Company exploded again...

As for why I say again.

Of course it’s because it exploded not long ago!
Since its successful first flight, the Nantianmen 5 rocket has carried out six more flights. However, during the third flight, the recovery of the first-stage rocket exploded again.

Today's launch was the seventh time, and it exploded again.

Although each launch took off successfully and successfully sent the satellite into the predetermined orbit, the recovery of the first-stage rocket was not very smooth. It only flew seven times in total, and the recovery of the first-stage rocket exploded twice.

But this time the explosion is a little different from the last time.

The last time it exploded, the first-stage rocket could no longer correct its posture when it was still dozens of meters away from the landing platform, and it fell diagonally with a bang... It attracted global attention, and a group of people criticized the technical maturity of reusable rockets.

This time, Xu Shenxue saw the video sent from the scene. The first-stage rocket looked normal when it was landing, but it exploded when it actually landed.

I guess some new problem has arisen!

Because of this rocket launch, many media and even ordinary people went to the scene to watch and film, so many photos and videos circulated on the Internet in the first moment of the explosion.

Xu Shenxue opened his cell phone and took a look. He saw overwhelming news reports about the failed recovery of the Nantianmen 5 rocket.

A group of so-called experts or netizens are questioning and criticizing the feasibility and safety of Xu Shenxue's reusable rocket.

In this regard, Xu Shenxue was too lazy to pay attention to them. They were a bunch of frogs in the well who couldn't tell right from wrong!
However, he was also worried that the personnel at Nanmen Aerospace Company would be affected, so he chose to call Lao Deng, the chief designer of the No. 5 rocket.

After the call was connected, Xu Shenxue said:
"Old Deng, I saw the news. It's okay. We should find the problem carefully after the explosion. Finding the problem is the most important thing!"

"I'm telling you, it's just a first-stage rocket that blew up. Why are you apologizing? There's nothing to be sorry about. This kind of technological exploration is always bound to fail!"

"Besides, we are not losing out. The rocket has been launched successfully, the satellite has been sent up, and the money has been collected. If this stage of the rocket can be recovered, we will naturally make a profit. If the recovery fails, at most we will not make any money!"

"I don't need this little money!"

"Zhiyun's stock price has dropped much more than this today. In the time it took me to talk to you on the phone, my stock price may have shrunk by more than this amount!"

"Compared to this, the money the Rockets have is nothing!"

"Hey, Old Deng, you need to have a bigger picture and stop worrying about these trivial matters. Otherwise, I'm going to doubt whether you can keep up with me!"

"The pattern needs to be expanded, understand!"

"Do you think your boss, me, looks like someone who can't blow up a rocket?"

"Work hard, appease your colleagues, ignore those idiots outside, and find out the problem of the rocket explosion as soon as possible!"

"The sea recovery plan is going to be stopped? That won't do. We can't mess up our plans because of a bombing. The sea recovery test must continue. According to what we agreed last time, you have to conduct a sea recovery test for me next spring. You can't postpone it! I have made an appointment with someone to watch the fireworks... No, to watch the rocket launch!"

"I'm not afraid of an explosion. Didn't I just say that? It doesn't matter!"

"Okay, I know that you guys who work in technology tend to get stuck in a rut, so I called you to let you know!"

"Don't be afraid, just keep going. I'm not afraid of explosions. I have plenty of money!"

After hanging up the phone, Deng Feiyue, who was at the Qiongzhou Nanmen Rocket Launch Center, looked at the group of engineers around him who looked nervous and worried.

Deng Feiyue took a deep breath and said, "The boss said, let's go ahead and carry out the offshore recovery plan. We don't have to worry about the explosion. He has plenty of money anyway!"

A group of engineers who were originally quite worried were stunned when they heard this. After a few seconds of silence, a young engineer finally sighed: "The boss is so domineering!"

"I don't accept anyone but my boss who doesn't take money seriously!"

(End of this chapter)