"Teacher, were you tempted just now? You almost stayed in Lenovo!" Jia Yapeng said with a grin.
"You little bastard!" Ni Guangnan glared at Jia Yapeng. "Do you think I'm a fool? Can't I see that Liu Chuanzhi is harboring evil intentions? "
"That's not true. I think Chairman Liu treats you very well. He has always reserved the position of chief engineer for you!" Jia Yapeng said.
In fact, Jia Yapeng remembered that in the reports related to Lenovo in the future, such a paragraph was indeed recorded.
Since Ni Guangnan's resignation, even until 2020, Lenovo no longer had a chief engineer position. Ni Guangnan was indeed the only chief engineer of Lenovo since its establishment more than 40 years ago. From this point of view, Lenovo and Liu Chuanzhi were still very close.
"Haha!" Unexpectedly, Ni Guangnan sneered a few times, and then said, "This is where Liu Chuanzhi is the best at playing tricks. You see, he no longer has a chief engineer position. Nominally, it seems to be to commemorate me, but in fact, he doesn't want a second chief engineer in Lenovo. He doesn't want a second Ni Guangnan."
"The position of chief engineer was set when the Chinese Academy of Sciences funded the establishment of Lenovo. Only engineers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences are qualified to sit in this position. He is using me as an opportunity to remove the position of chief engineer. This means that the Chinese Academy of Sciences can no longer send senior executives to intervene in Lenovo. Lenovo will become his own Lenovo. Do you understand?"
"Gasp …" Boss Jia took a deep breath. No matter how smart he was, there were always some things that he couldn't understand. After being enlightened by Ni Guangnan, Boss Jia realized that this was really an excellent method. He could not only get the title, but also completely exclude the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
"In addition, he no longer has a chief engineer position, which means that he no longer wants to innovate and make breakthroughs in technology. Liu Chuanzhi has made technology into an unchanging policy of Lenovo. From this point, I also understood that even if I really agreed to Liu Chuanzhi's request and became the chief engineer again, I would only become his signboard and receive a salary of more than ten thousand yuan a month. That's all. Chips and whatnot, it would be wishful thinking in this lifetime! "
"Besides, you have already invested 23 million US dollars. If I return it now, wouldn't I be cheating you?" Ni Guangnan glared at Jia Yapeng.
Jia Yapeng said worriedly, "That's fine. In fact, it's still a problem whether the equipment can arrive or not. Although the Netherlands agreed to deliver the equipment for the sake of money, they are still very worried about Ba Tong's interference. This is a batch of the best equipment. I'm afraid that if Ba Tong interferes, they will really have to return all the equipment!"
The Batumi, whose full name was the Coordinating Committee of Paris, was an organization secretly set up in 1949 by the West to limit the development of socialist countries.
There were 17 member states in the Batumi, including the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Portugal, Spain, Canada, Greece, Turkey, Japan, and Australia.
These 17 member states represented the most powerful and technologically advanced western countries in the world at that time. The purpose of these countries was to block the technological development and economic exchanges of socialist countries.
The Batumi severely restricted nine categories, including advanced materials, material processing, electronic devices, computers, telecommunications and information security, sensors and lasers, navigation and avionics, ships and marine equipment, and propulsion systems.
The other was a list of military products, including all kinds of weapons, ammunition, equipment, and combat platforms. There were 22 categories in total.
Why did Hua Xia rely on himself and rely on himself to do everything?
Actually, it's not that China wants to do everything themselves. It's just that even if you have money, you can't buy it. People will not sell it to you. They are trying to use this method to restrict the technology of socialist countries. It's just like the technology lock in the Three-Body Problem, locking China's technology development.
However, what these countries did not expect was that because of their blockade, China was forced to research and manufacture everything on its own.
Hua Xia was also famous for being stubborn. After 70 years of blockade, Hua Xia was forced to become a country with a full industrial chain and the only country in the world that could produce all kinds of industrial products.
What was even more unexpected to those western countries was that once Hua Xia's technology was blocked, Hua Xia began to research and develop on its own, and then began to industrialize and mass-produce. Then, it sold things at a low price.
The simplest example was the seamless steel pipe. At that time, the seamless steel pipe was highly sophisticated technology. The price of one seamless steel pipe was equal to the price of hundreds of ordinary steel pipes. Western countries relied on the seamless steel pipe to make a lot of profits from other countries. It could be said that they made money by doing nothing.
Later, Hua Xia wanted to import seamless steel pipes from abroad. Therefore, the Batumi thought that Hua Xia would use seamless steel pipes to produce missiles. Therefore, they banned the export and did not sell it to Hua Xia.
In the end, Hua Xia was self-reliant. After painstaking research and development, it produced seamless steel pipes by itself.
However, Hua Xia did not need so many seamless steel pipes, so it took it to the international market to buy it.
The production cost of Hua Xia's seamless steel pipes was 6,000 yuan per ton. If they went to the international market, they would find that the price of seamless steel pipes was 200,000 yuan per ton, and it was in US dollars.
Therefore, Hua Xia saw that this was a great thing. Then, it did not care about the market monopoly and directly sold it for 100,000 US dollars per ton, halving the price.
As a result, countries all over the world ran to buy Hua Xia's seamless steel pipes. The western countries saw that it was impossible and lowered the price to 80,000 US dollars.
Hua Xia directly lowered the price to 50,000 US dollars. The western countries gritted their teeth and lowered the price to 30,000 US dollars. Hua Xia directly lowered the price to 10,000 US dollars.
Because the western countries' production cost of a ton of seamless steel pipes was 15,000 US dollars, but Hua Xia only needed 6,000 US dollars. How could they compare?
In the end, the entire seamless steel pipe market became Hua Xia's market. The western countries had been embargoed for half a day, but they ended up losing their own industries.
Back to the topic, although the Soviet Union had collapsed, Batumi was still around. These large-scale electronic research equipment were all prohibited on Batumi's embargoed list. Therefore, Boss Jia was worried that if Batumi intervened, they would not be able to buy back these equipment.
"Don't worry, it's fine. Batumi is basically not in charge now. It's just in name!" Ni Guangnan said with a smile.
"Batumi's countries have long realized that something is wrong. They are not so stupid as to give up Hua Xia's huge market and profits!" Ni Guangnan explained, "And I heard that Batumi is having a meeting. It seems that they want to completely disband Batumi."
It turned out that since the 1980s, Batumi's countries had realized that something was wrong. They had been embargoed, and Hua Xia was living a better life, while Batumi's profits were being eaten away by Hua Xia.
Therefore, Batumi began to gradually give up its control over many projects. From more than 400 controlled projects at the beginning, it was reduced to 270 controlled projects, and in 1987, it was reduced to 130 controlled projects.
In 1991, with the collapse of the Soviet Union, Batumi had completely lost its purpose. Therefore, in the past year, Hua Xia had imported a lot of advanced equipment from abroad, and all of them had arrived safely. Batumi was basically in a state of suspension, so Ni Guangnan was very confident that all of these equipment could be transported safely.
"But that's not right. Why do I remember that in 2020, there will be a lot of embargoed items, such as photolithography machines. The Netherlands was prepared to sell a photolithography machine to Hua Xia, but in the end, the United States blocked it with some agreement!" Jia Yapeng pondered for a while, then began to frantically recall the memories in his mind.
With the help of this top student's body, Jia Yapeng's incomplete memories really came back to him.
It turned out that Batumi was indeed disbanded in 1993, but in 1996, on the basis of the Batumi agreement, a Wassenaar agreement was established. This agreement was much more explicit. It was specifically to restrict the development of Hua Xia's technology.
"It seems that we have to seize the favorable period from 1993 to 1996 to buy a lot of technology and equipment!" Boss Jia touched his nose and pondered.
The years 1993 and 1996 were the only empty window period, which was the most important empty window period for Huaxia. However, at that time, Huaxia thought that Batong had been disbanded and that there would be no new Batong, so they didn't realize the importance of this empty window period and didn't spend money to buy a lot of precious technology or equipment.
After the Wassenaar agreement was established, everything was too late.
"Elder Ni, I think it's time for you to write a letter to the country!" Jia Yapeng said to Ni Guangnan solemnly.
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