Please make money.

"Yes, the knife of love is too cruel. Besides, the benefits of our group are quite high. How can you not find a wife with this salary?"

"What's the point of just looking at the welfare benefits? It's hard to say about feelings."

As dusk falls, the neon lights in the steel jungle of Tianhai City light up one after another, illuminating this international metropolis with bright lights.

The wind is cold and the city has a normal population of nearly 25 million, but every Chinese New Year, it becomes a deserted city.

Twenty million people make a living in this city, but they still miss their hometown towns, their hometown fishing villages, their hometown mornings and evenings.

Alia raised her hand and touched the cold floor-to-ceiling glass window, as if she was shaking hands with the self opposite her.

“If I have to say, I hope that those who died in the neon lights can come back to life when the sun rises tomorrow.”

"Bang------"

The sound of fireworks came from afar, and on the distant river bank, the New Year's Eve fireworks exploded early.

Lele put away the game console, came over to watch the fireworks, and after a while handed Alia a lollipop.

"Miss."

"Ok?"

"Happy New Year."

"……Um."

439-Otter fell down! Sad

"Come to think of it, is New Year's Eve a festival that has always existed?"

Sunika asked her family curiously, but they had no answer.

She is currently renting a hotel apartment, and everyone is making dumplings~

Literally making dumplings, the ingredients were spread out on the table and my mother was still kneading the dough.

She was going to make shrimp dumplings for Sunika. The nine-segment shrimps had already swelled and been chopped up.

Obviously, as a former salesperson in a department store, Mother Su has an extremely sharp eye and will grab good stuff as soon as it’s on the shelf.

In her words, there is actually nothing good about Tianhai. If she has to say something, then the Aili supermarket is somewhat interesting.

She is used to wandering around there and playing there all day long.

But there is no such thing in my hometown, and I don’t know when I can expand there.

Sunika felt that as her hometown was a third-tier city, she probably shouldn’t even think about it.

Instead of worrying about asking Ai Li to drive there, it would be better to move the whole family here.

I heard that new head offices have been opened in seven provinces. Perhaps you could consider moving to a provincial capital?

Before this, neither Sunika nor her mother had ever said that they would consider moving because of a supermarket.

I can only say that Aililai really gave too much...

The father was looking at his phone and gave the search engine answer to his daughter's question.

"I just found out that the Spring Festival was set by Yuan Datou. How strange!"

“Really?” Sunika didn’t even wipe her hands. She looked over and then showed a look of contempt: “Another marketing account…”

These marketing accounts are so shameless nowadays that they don’t care about anything else just to attract attention.

She took out her cell phone: "Xiao Ai~"

【I am here--】

“The origin of the Spring Festival!”

【The Spring Festival, a legal holiday on the first day of the first lunar month, is commonly known as the "New Year", "New Year", "New Year's Day", etc. It is also called "New Year" and "New Year's Day". It is a folk festival that combines getting rid of the old and starting anew, worshiping gods and ancestors, praying for blessings and warding off evil spirits, reuniting with relatives and friends, celebrating entertainment and eating. Do you want to hear more? 】

"Xiao Ai, search for Spring Festival, Yuan Datou, and related."

Sunika, with flour on her hands, said this, and the icon representing Xiao Ai on her phone turned twice.

[The Spring Festival, the name of the legal holiday officially determined by Yuan Datou, was originally January 1st of the Gregorian calendar...]

With Xiao Ai's explanation, everyone realized that the name "Spring Festival" was just decided by Yuan Datou.

After the Gregorian calendar was first adopted, Yuan Datou stipulated that January 1 of the Gregorian calendar every year is the Spring Festival.

However, the common people have been celebrating the Lunar New Year for thousands of years and are very unhappy with this tough approach.

Therefore, later on only January 1 was designated as New Year's Day, and the first day of the first lunar month was still the Spring Festival.

Later, Donghuang continued to use this AD calendar until now.

In comparison, the name of New Year's Eve is older, and it was recorded in Lü Buwei's "Lüshi Chunqiu" thousands of years ago.

"Xiao Ai, why is it called New Year's Eve?"

【The reason why New Year's Eve is called New Year's Eve is to understand it in two ways. The last night of the year is called "Sui Chu", which means that the old year is gone and the new year begins. Chu means to get rid of it; Xi means night, the last night to bid farewell to the old year, so it is called New Year's Eve.】

Xiao Ai is very useful, even a little too useful, it's almost like a normal person speaking.

The whole family uses mobile phones from Aixing Technology. Su's father and mother also tried it and found that their classmate Xiao Ai was relatively dull.

"Why is yours so powerful?"

"Because it's a beta version, an internal test version, we ask more questions to collect data."

In fact, Sunika did not tell her parents that Xiao Ai is now able to perform basic natural language processing.

Some of the copywriting she wrote during this period was commissioned by her mobile phone assistant.

This smart voice assistant is much more powerful than other brands of mobile phones, it is simply a black technology.

"When the next generation comes out, it will probably be equipped with this version."

"Next generation? Hasn't your phone only been on the market for a few months?"

"Hmm, so there's still about half a year until the replacement time—"

……

……

"The reason why it takes another half a year is mainly because the tape-out is not going smoothly."

Mr. Chen was wearing his coat and talking on the phone with a colleague on the balcony about work.

"Yes... We have mastered the 14nm technology, but it is not enough. We alone cannot achieve mass production of advanced technology... Well, the industrial park is one thing, but the industrial chain is more important. The scale of the integrated circuit industry in Tianhai is large enough, but we are the only one that has crossed this watershed. We have to lead them..."

In fact, 14nm is not only a watershed, but also an entry threshold for high-end manufacturing.

Even after a few years, this process will be sufficient.

Mr. Chen even dares to predict that in five years, 80% of the chips used in the world will definitely be based on mature processes above 14nm.

This is actually understandable, as most devices that use advanced processes are devices such as mobile phones and laptops that need to take into account space, performance, and power consumption.

The reason why mobile phones need to be equipped with new process chips is because the space in mobile phones is very limited.

So high-performance chips are needed to solve the power consumption problem - but how many such devices are there?

Earlier, the Dongjiao Research Institute forced its way from 32nm to 20nm and started working on 14nm in order to overtake others.

In fact, this incident also happened in another world line, but the manufacturer that skipped 20nm was Samsung.

The person who accomplished this was the famous [Crystal Brain Madman Liang Mengsong].

Liang Mengsong first worked for AMD, a well-known agricultural company.

Alia's parents disappeared along with the plane just to buy this thing.

At that time, AMD and Intel were fighting each other. Liang Mengsong had not yet touched upon logic chips under AMD, but was instead working on memory.

During his tenure, he published more than 350 patent articles. He is truly a genius. Those articles are still in the patent library.

In the 1990s, Liang Mengsong joined TSMC and learned management from Chiang Shangyi.

His teacher also joined TSMC in 01 as a technology director. Together, the master and his apprentice began to compete with IBM for 130-nanometer copper plate manufacturing technology.

The two big bosses, Liang Mengsong and his master Hu Zhengming, almost forced the battle to a win, and IBM was defeated so badly that its mother couldn't recognize it.

Originally, they were just competing for the crown of 130-nanometer copper plate manufacturing technology, but after the battle, they found that even the share of chip production had been taken away. It was after that battle that TSMC became the world's largest chip manufacturer.

According to his resume, he should have become the head of TSMC, or at least a vice president.

As a result, a guy of unknown origin was parachuted in and disrupted Chiang Shangyi's internal succession plan.

Liang Mengsong left in anger and jumped to Samsung, which offered him a salary three times higher than that of TSMC.

In order to recruit him and his team, Samsung arranged a special plane for them to visit their families every weekend.

At that time, Samsung was in the process of upgrading from 28nm to 20nm.

After spending some time understanding the R&D, production, technology and equipment aspects, Liang Mengsong said it was not possible.

We must skip 20 nanometers, or even 16 nanometers, and go directly to 14 nanometers.

Everyone was dumbfounded at the time - how could this thing jump like this?

But Liang Mengsong did it. In 15, Samsung developed 14nm, while TSMC was still at 16nm.

Because of this incident, Samsung had the opportunity to take advantage of TSMC and snatched the order for Apple A9 that year.

Later, this big shot returned to the mainland and worked for SMIC, and it seems he is still there now.

It’s a pity that Liang Mengsong doesn’t exist in this world line. Alia asked him about it at the beginning.

But with Engineer Chen and a team that is no less capable than Liang Mengsong - isn't an annual salary of more than 6 million a good deal?

For Mr. Chen, more than 6 million seemed like a lot, but for Alia, it was a bargain.

It was only Mr. Chen who didn't have the need to go back home to visit his family every week, otherwise Alia would have to offer her own private jet to him.

"After the New Year, I'll go talk to the young lady about this. The industry chain is said to be worth 500 billion, but only about 30% or 40% of it is really useful... Yeah, yeah, I think so too..."

After chatting for a while and hanging up the phone, Mr. Chen tightened his clothes and returned to the room.

In the warm room, Mr. Chen's mother just came over with a bowl of ginger soup.

"Here, drink this to warm yourself up. Also, your cell phone just rang."

Mr. Chen drank the spicy ginger soup, picked up his personal mobile phone in confusion, and then saw the text message sent by Alia.

[It’s Chinese New Year, so take a few days off. If your work phone is busy, your health is more important. Also, if someone wants to poach you during the Chinese New Year and ask you to change jobs and get a raise, just tell me how much he wants, and I’ll triple it!]

Mr. Chen pursed his lips, moved his fingers slightly as if he wanted to say something in return, but in the end he just replied with "Happy New Year".

Whether to change jobs or not had actually been decided when Alia suddenly appeared out of nowhere.

I have enough money for my own needs. A salary of six million a year is enough to provide a good living condition for myself and my mother.

There are only two things left.

One is an ideal, the other is to repay a favor...

"mom--"

"Ok?"

"Let's watch the Spring Festival Gala. The young lady still has a show."

“Is there a show?”

……

……

"Yes, there is, but I don't know what it is... Hope? What is that? Singing?"

"Then wait and see. I also want to see how much this Alia resembles her mother."

On Chinese New Year's Day, Boss Jiang was in prison, eating melon seeds with his father.

In Bauhinia, if you want people who eat oranges to come out casually, that is unlikely.

But if the sponsorship is enough to improve living conditions, then it's still possible.

With Jiang Sheng's former status as a big shot, he would have lived a good life even if Jiang Tianyi had not returned.

Although he lost his freedom, he found a way out! Imprisonment was the only way out!