Hexagonal God

Chapter 606 Tariff Stick
Su Mo was determined to announce the news, and his leader agreed.

After all, Su Mo is a private enterprise, so he won't interfere too much.

Everything this kid does is always beneficial to the country. He now has a very good impression in the eyes of the top leaders, and they let him do most of the work.

Therefore, this news was scheduled to be broadcast during the prime time of the Spring Festival Gala.

This year, my uncle's family is all here, including Su Qiang who has been in Guilin. Su Mo transferred him to Su Tang Travel Company as the general manager, so that he will be closer to home and it will be easier to take care of him if anything happens.

Uncle and Auntie ran away in anger because of Li Xiuxiu's matter that day, but came back today. They probably still felt that they couldn't fall out with Su Mo because of this matter.

In fact, they are just trying to comfort themselves. They have no capital to fall out.

The children also came to the Su family, and the villa became more and more lively.

When having the New Year’s Eve dinner in the evening, there were three tables full of people in the Su family villa.

Several foreign chefs from the Middle East brought up the roasted camel, and the New Year’s Eve dinner officially began.

All kinds of good wine were on the table and everyone was very happy.

As a parent, Su Qingshan gave red envelopes to all the children.

Of course, the red envelopes were prepared by Su Mo in advance, all in cash, namely 8888 Euros, 8888 US Dollars, and 8888 RMB, a total of three stacks.

Everyone happily accepted the red envelopes and said a lot of auspicious words to the old man.

Su Yu and Su Shuang were so happy when they received the red envelopes. This year, their parents didn't ask for the red envelopes back. The children were older now, so they just gave them pocket money.

By the time of the Spring Festival Gala, everyone is having a great time drinking.

After Zhou Shen, a star from Su Tang, finished his performance, the Spring Festival Gala inserted the news that Su Tang Technology Company had developed a photolithography machine.

This news did not cause much shock in the Su family. Everyone was already numb to Su Mo's big moves. Didn't they see that there were Su Tang's advertisements throughout the Spring Festival Gala?

Last year's collection of five blessings started today on the fifteenth day of the twelfth lunar month, and now it has become the collection of ten blessings.

They are drinking water blessing, electric car blessing, Moyin blessing, tourism blessing, real estate blessing, film industry blessing, technology blessing, shipping blessing, engineering blessing and Youth Foundation blessing.

Anyone who collects ten blessings can participate in the lottery, the minimum is one hundred yuan, and the upper limit is one thousand yuan.

This event attracted more than 700 million people across the country.

There are also more than 300 million overseas users participating, and the total number of participants exceeds one billion.

However, it is not so easy to collect the ten blessings. The Youth Foundation’s blessing cards are limited to 30 million.

For this event, Su Mo sponsored 5 billion this year, which made Moyin's domestic users officially exceed 800 million and its overseas users exceed 1 billion, making it a truly phenomenal software.

It is said that the most difficult Youth Foundation Fu Card was even sold for one hundred US dollars per piece, and it is not known whether the person who bought it can make a profit.

Although Su Mo lost money, this event also attracted a lot of fans for him. His current number of global fans has officially exceeded 1.5 billion.

However, there is still a long way to go to reach 2 billion, and Su Mo is trying his best to increase the number of fans as much as possible, because there are only more than seven months left before the end of the mission "I will go forward even if there are thousands of people against me".

Several members of the Su family and Su Mo's girlfriends have gathered at Shifu, eager to participate in the lottery.

Although the news about the lithography machine came out, Su Mo found that most people did not realize the importance of this news to the country.

After all, there are very few people who truly understand lithography machines, and many people don’t even know what they are used for.

Ordinary people don’t know the importance of chips, nor do they know where they are used.

You can't force ordinary people to understand these things. It's enough if only some cutting-edge people and the elite understand them.

Ignorance is a kind of bliss, and this statement is also true.

But although most people don’t understand, in the eyes of those who do, this news is incredible.

After the news was broadcast on the Spring Festival Gala, discussions on this topic on Moyin quickly became heated.

Especially overseas, because of the Ten Blessings event, hundreds of millions of people watched China's Spring Festival Gala on Moyin and participated in the lottery.

As a result, as soon as this news came out, it caused an uproar on the Internet.

In particular, the United States made direct calls to the Netherlands and Japan, asking them whether they had leaked the lithography machine technology.

Because for so many years, Western countries have been imposing a technological blockade on our country, not allowing China to participate in any cutting-edge things, trying to suppress it and prevent our country from rising.

Among them, the photolithography machine is a very important technology. If my country solves the problem of high-end chips, many high-tech fields in the West will be unable to suppress it.

So when this news came out, the Western world was shocked.

After repeated confirmation, both the Netherlands and Japan denied the possibility of leaking lithography machine technology, so the White House held an emergency meeting overnight.

The topic of the meeting was the news about the Su Tang photolithography machine interview.

The person who chaired the meeting was President Obama, who had suffered two consecutive setbacks at the hands of Su Mo.

Obahei was extremely angry with Su Mo.

He feels ashamed when he thinks about the failure of those two sanctions.

Afterward, they reviewed and analyzed the situation and realized where they had lost. Su Tang had made rapid progress in the high-tech field, and their IP address, through some unknown technical means, could no longer be locked by conventional means. This was their first failure.

The second time was definitely because they used software to increase their permissions, and even the bank system couldn't find out where the problem was. No one had the authority to freeze their accounts. This was the second failure.

These technical problems can only be solved by technical personnel, but those stupid technicians are paid high salaries and have not yet found a way to deal with Su Tang, which makes Obahe extremely frustrated.

Because of his two failures, there are now many voices questioning him, his domestic support rate is declining, and the prospects for next year's general election are somewhat bleak.

In order to keep his position, Obahei knew that the person who tied the bell must be the one to untie it.

He must truly get rid of Su Tang, a company that poses an increasing threat to them, in order to restore the people's confidence in him and win the general election next year.

It's just that this matter needs an excuse, and he has been waiting for such an opportunity. Now, this opportunity has finally appeared.

For the Western world, which has long advocated the China threat theory, any news of China's rise is unacceptable.

If it is at the national level, it may be more difficult to deal with, but if it involves specific companies, it is not difficult to deal with.

After Obama's proposal and a night of discussion, the plan to sanction Su Tang Enterprise was finally put forward.

This time, Obahei came up with a perfect plan.

Increase tariffs!

Since the Moyin software cannot be shut down, just ignore it and target Su Tang's industry.

All Su Tang products entering the US market will be subject to a 100% tariff!
After investigation, they found that Su Tang itself produced a lot of things.

The most important electric vehicle project had previously been under a contract to build a factory in the United States, but they decided to put it on hold indefinitely on the grounds that the review had not been completed.

As a result, Su Tang's electric vehicles can only be shipped by sea, and there will be no profit after the tariffs are added. Such a decision is enough to drag down a company.

They also found out that Su Tang had acquired China's Dajiang UAV Company and would expand into overseas drone markets in the future, so they would also impose tariffs on him.

In the future, if Su Tang has chips, then many other related products are destined to be put into production in factories, such as mobile phones, computers, and even passenger planes and ships, etc., will all be subject to tariffs!

This is a rough, one-size-fits-all approach, extremely arrogant and unreasonable.

Obama even announced on the spot that as long as he was president, he would impose sanctions on the Su Tang company to the end, as this was related to the future international status of the United States.

Moreover, there was no room for negotiation on this issue. He didn't believe that Su Tang could find a solution this time.

No matter how advanced Su Tang's technology is, he is helpless in the face of such a conspiracy.

On New Year's Eve, everyone in the Su family drank too much.

Su Jiancheng and his brothers drank happily and sang Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy on the spot. The grown men were beaming with joy and looked very high-spirited. They were so happy.

Later, Luo Qun, Bai Mengqiao and others, who were professionals, also sang a few songs in the living room, winning applause from the whole audience.

Later, when we were eating dumplings, everyone felt dizzy. After taking a quick bite, we went to sleep.

Su Mo also drank a lot. The old year passed and the new year came. This year Su Mo had greater goals.

As long as he completes this system task of going forward even if there are thousands of people against him, he has almost no personal requirements.

After withstanding three rounds of sanctions, the company's affairs are now completely back on track.

He is looking forward to seeing how big a career he can achieve and even how much change he can bring to the world through his own efforts.

Su Mo slept soundly on the night of the 30th, but the next day, he received some bad news.

The President of the United States, Barack Obama, personally delivered a televised speech.

“The threat from Chinese companies.”

"As we all know, the world's richest man is now in China. This amazing young man, Su Mo, has created a business miracle."

"His electric cars have completely defeated our Tesla electric cars. Now many electric car companies around the world have gone bankrupt."

"And he has made a breakthrough in the field of lithography machines, which proves that in the future, more Western companies will be impacted by the East, which will lead to a series of problems such as increased unemployment, reduced fiscal revenue, international conflicts, social unrest, and even a devaluation of the US dollar."

"As president of the world's only superpower, I have an obligation to address this issue."

"Here, I tell Su Tang Company's CEO, Su Mo, that from now on, we will impose a 100% tariff on all products of your company. You either relocate your business entirely to the West, or face comprehensive sanctions from the West. Not only will the tariff not be lowered, it may even be raised. We know you want to build many high-tech factories, but there will be no market for them in the Western world."

"Our country and our allies will boycott your company's products. I believe that within six months, it will be enough to drive your company bankrupt."

"I ask our allies to support my decision. This is not just a matter for the United States. It is related to the reordering of the entire world order."

Such a blatantly bandit-like speech almost announced the death penalty for the Su Tang company in the eyes of others.

Su Tang had avoided the previous two sanctions through clever means, but this time the increase in tariffs was a blatant and direct collection of money, which there was almost no way to avoid.

After Obama's speech, the countries that had suffered losses in the previous two times by following his actions, this time, followed suit and issued statements to echo him, announcing a 100% increase in tariffs on all current and future products of Su Tang.

These people also saw the threat that Su Tang's high-tech technology posed to them, and they were ready to kill Su Tang completely with one blow.

(End of this chapter)