Chapter 572 I am Mud
Lu Yiming didn't react for a moment and asked, "Who?"
Guo Guangchang repeated: "Lu Zhiqiang, the boss of Oceanwide Group."
After hearing what Guo Guangchang said, Lu Yiming seemed to have some impression, but he was busy now. In addition to studying, he also had to worry about the company's affairs. How could he remember these cats and dogs? However, he thought that he must have some power to persuade Guo Guangchang to pass on the message, so he asked: "He invited me to dinner? Why?"
Guo Guangchang smiled bitterly and said, "What else can it be? Let's make peace. It was actually Lu Zhiqiang who arranged for reporters to slander you and target Fuda Microelectronics. But listen to my advice, it's better to resolve a feud than to create one. Anyway, you don't have much to lose, so why not just make peace. That guy is not a pushover, I don't think it's necessary for you to keep fighting."
"Oh, it's him."
Lu Yiming dragged out the word, and a figure gradually emerged in his mind.
Guo Guangchang thought Lu Yiming agreed, so he smiled and said, "Then see, when are you free?"
Lu Yiming smiled and said, "Senior, that's right. First of all, I think I didn't provoke anyone, right? You are mine, and I never take the initiative to make enemies with anyone."
Guo Guangchang thought of Boss Liu, and then said silently: "Yes, I know that my junior is very low-key."
Lu Yiming grinned slightly, as if Guo Guangchang was right in front of him.
"So, senior, you see I am such a low-key and cultured young man, and this Lu Zhiqiang came to mess with me and spread rumors about me. Now I don't know what he wants to do, he wants to get rid of me by inviting me to dinner? Senior, although my title of the richest man is false, it is not something that can be manipulated by others. He can mess with me if he wants to, and he can make peace if he wants to. How can this be justified in the world?"
Although Guo Guangchang felt that what Lu Yiming said made sense, and he even felt aggrieved for Lu Yiming, who made him a member of the Qinshan Club? This matter was ordered by the big brother of the Qinshan Club, Boss Liu, so he had to bite the bullet no matter what.
"Junior, I know you feel wronged. And young people are full of energy. If they are not, they are not young. But this matter, in the final analysis, originated from a misunderstanding. The piece of land granted to you by Zhonghai City was previously favored by Lu Zhiqiang. In order to obtain this land, he used a lot of connections and spent a lot of money. In the end, the land belonged to you. He was also confused for a moment. Without careful investigation, he preconceived that you took advantage of him, which led to the subsequent events. In doing business, the most important thing is to make money in harmony. Since he has shown sincerity, I think you can accept his apology."
Lu Yiming couldn't help laughing: "Isn't it still him who has the final say? If he wants to mess with me, I'll let him do it. If he wants to apologize, I'll have to agree. How can this be justified? If we don't agree, there's no need to persuade us anymore. Senior, I really don't have anything in common with them."
Lu Yiming hated people like Boss Liu and Lu Zhiqiang from the bottom of his heart.
Wanting to make money is not a problem, but the way these two people make money is really shameful.
Seeing that persuasion was of no use, Guo Guangchang could only sigh silently, as he had no other solution.
"Well, I'm just a messenger. I've already delivered the message. Since you don't want to go, I won't say anything. As a senior, I sincerely hope that you have a bright future."
"Thank you, Senior. I wish you peace and happiness, too."
"Hey, it's not even the New Year yet, why are you talking about auspicious things? That's it for now, I'm hanging up, I'm going to talk to the other side."
"Um."
In the presidential suite of a top hotel in Zhonghai City, Boss Liu said to Lu Zhiqiang with a serious face: “Qiangzi, I think you should stop. I just got the news from above that Lu Yiming is very important to them and must not be touched.”
Lu Zhiqiang was not convinced, and he said loudly, "The authorities are going to come forward to protect that little bastard Lu Yiming? Why ?"
Boss Liu sighed, also unhappy, and said: "Just based on his investment of 10 billion in the semiconductor field, if you can also show such courage, the government will protect you."
Lu Zhiqiang was suddenly speechless.
Not to mention that he can't come up with 10 billion yuan, even if he could, he wouldn't invest it in the semiconductor industry. What's the difference between this and throwing money into the sea?
It's not like he's been kicked in the head by a donkey.
In fact, no one who can sit in their position is a fool.
Now the country's economy comes first, and all the money is used for trade. The chip industry, which has large investment but slow output and does not affect the country for the time being, will naturally give way to economic development.
Now Lu Yiming has taken the initiative to be the fool and spend money on chips. If they succeed, the country will directly benefit. If they fail, the country will not suffer any economic loss.
Protecting a fool like this is a no-profit business for the authorities.
Lu Zhiqiang just didn't want to accept it. After all, he had been in the industry for so many years and had never encountered any setbacks. Now he was being attacked by a young man and couldn't move. He felt wronged just thinking about it.
"Is it really impossible to put a damper on his arrogance? We are the Qinshan Society."
Boss Liu said slowly, "The Qinshan Association is nothing in front of the country. The situation is stronger than people. Lu Yiming is in the limelight now. The higher-ups are planning to let him participate in the selection of the top ten outstanding young people in the country, and there is a high probability that he will be selected. If you show up now and go against Lu Yiming, you are singing against the country. You should know the consequences of doing so."
"grass!"
Lu Zhiqiang couldn't help but swear. He was really feeling very uncomfortable right now, but he had no way to deal with Lu Yiming.
Boss Liu added, "I've already asked Guo Guangchang to talk to Lu Yiming. When the time comes, you can set up a few rounds of toasts and this matter will be over."
Lu Zhiqiang was very upset: "Why do I have to host the banquet myself? Shouldn't it be the kid surnamed Lu who should apologize to me? He was the one who took my land first. Besides, he has only been in the business for a few years? How many years have I been in the business?"
Boss Liu was speechless: "It's already this hour, and you're still talking about these martial arts seniority issues. Just settle the matter first. At worst, you can find a chance to retaliate later."
Just at this moment, Boss Liu's cell phone rang and he flipped the cover to answer it.
The call was from Guo Guangchang.
"Boss Liu, Lu Yiming refused."
Boss Liu's face darkened all of a sudden, and his tone became gloomy: "He doesn't even give me face?"
As the head of L Company and the leader of Qinshan Society, Boss Liu would be treated with respect by everyone, whether in politics or business? But when it came to Lu Yiming, he even refused his invitation to dinner!
Guo Guangchang smiled bitterly and said, "Boss Liu, no matter what, he is still a young man under 20 years old. He is also the richest man and the stock god. It is normal for him to have a temper."
"Okay, that's it."
After hanging up the phone, Boss Liu was still feeling a little depressed. He didn't expect that he would be rejected when he took the initiative to seek peace with Lu Yiming.
After all, he is one of the decision-makers of the Qinshan Society. Don’t he even have this little bit of status now?
Young people nowadays really don’t know any rules at all!
Boss Liu looked at Stephen Lu with a rather playful smile and said jokingly, “Okay, now you don’t have to worry about inviting him to dinner, because I just tested him and he refused.”
"He still refused?"
Lu Zhiqiang felt even worse.
He originally thought that asking him to host the first round of drinking was already enough of a courtesy to Lu Yiming, but now it seemed that Lu Yiming didn't even want to give him that little bit of face.
"What do we do now?"
After all, Lu Yiming is now under official protection, so he must be able to do things without any taboos. If he really comes to cause trouble for the Fanhai Group, that would not be good news.
Boss Liu was at a loss now, and instead became familiar with Lu Zhiqiang: "Why did you offend a young man when you could have offended anyone else? Now that things have happened, what can I do? In short, you should be quiet for a while. If there is anything that is not cleaned up, deal with it quickly. If Lu Yiming catches you, it will be difficult to deal with it."
Lu Zhiqiang looked depressed. Doing this would undoubtedly cause the Pan-Ocean Group to suffer huge losses and even miss a great opportunity for rapid expansion.
But he dared not disobey Boss Liu's words. After all, there was a rival like Lu Yiming watching closely from the side. If any problems really occurred in the Oceanwide Group, he might face a thundering blow from his rival.
At night, Lu Family Garden.
During the meal, Shi Caijiang was shocked to learn that Lu Yiming had once again rejected the olive branch extended by Qinshanhui.
He was just a small fry, even if he wanted to join the Qinshan Society, the Qinshan Society would not look at him seriously. He knew how powerful the Qinshan Society was, so he was surprised by Lu Yiming's decision.
"Last time you blasted L Company's trade, industry and technology line. Now Qinshan Club is headed by Boss Liu. You have repeatedly rejected Qinshan Club, which means you are not giving face to Boss Liu. What deep hatred do you have with him?"
Lu Yiming smiled and said, "Of course we don't have a deep hatred for each other. I just don't like him."
"You don't like him? Haven't you ever met him? How can you dislike him?"
Lu Yiming said: "This morning, two researchers from the Academy of Sciences came to apply for jobs, so I also learned about some things about the Institute of Computer Science through them..."
It turned out that as early as January 1995, Mr. Liu, the president of L Company, had concurrently served as the director of the Institute of Computing Technology, becoming the only technology entrepreneur to serve as the director of a research institute of the Xiake Institute.
It was not until October 1998 that Boss Liu stepped down as director of the Institute of Computing Technology.
During this period, he almost did nothing, and even tried his best to prevent the development of the Institute of Computing Technology of the Academy of Sciences in key technology fields. For example, the self-developed chip project was strongly obstructed by Boss Liu.
Fortunately, the country reacted quickly and replaced the director of the Institute of Computing Technology with courageous scholars such as Li Guojie and Sun Ninghui, and began to vigorously promote the Loongson project. However, if this plan is to be implemented, it will have to wait until at least next year.
It can be said that Boss Liu, with his own efforts, has delayed the technological development of the entire Xia country in the semiconductor industry, making the technological gap between Xia country and European and American powers in chips increasingly larger.
How could Lu Yiming like him?
One month later.
The Fuda Microelectronics Laboratory has now been upgraded to a new level, with all kinds of instruments and equipment that can be purchased filling the laboratory. Some of the equipment is even prohibited from being sold to Xiaguo by the Wassenaar Arrangement. But as long as you are willing to spend money, there are some desperate people who are willing to take risks.
With such good scientific research conditions, plus Lu Yiming's promise of a million-dollar annual salary, the researchers who joined the Tianxin project seemed to be energized and worked day and night in the laboratory to tackle technical problems.
Among them, the craziest is the team led by Hu Weiwu.
A month ago, on the second day after joining FuDa Microelectronics, Hu Weiwu began to devote himself to CPU design. He even hung a sign in the laboratory that read "How many chances do you have in your life to fight?" and led all members of the team to work day and night.
Due to time constraints, the team had no time to read papers or conduct experiments when determining the pipeline structure. Hu Weiwu and his partners relied on their past knowledge accumulation and crossed the river by feeling the stones. Every time a mistake was made, they started over again. Almost everyone gave their time to the laboratory.
Hu Weiwu even made a strict rule that every evening and Saturday would be counted as working hours, and Sunday would be considered an overtime day, and only overtime would be notified separately.
Even Lu Yiming, who heard about Hu Weiwu's madness from Yu Jun, felt secretly moved in his heart, saying that with such a reckless attitude, it was no wonder that he could become the "Father of Loongson."
However, no matter how much he lamented, if Hu Weiwu continued to play like this, these scientists would be ruined by him sooner or later. Therefore, on a sunny afternoon, Lu Yiming personally went to Fuda Microelectronics and found Hu Weiwu.
In the laboratory, Hu Weiwu's hair was messy, his face was covered with beard, his complexion was sallow, and he had dark circles under his eyes. It was obvious that he had not had a good rest for quite some time.
"Team Leader Hu, I heard that you and your team members worked all night again last night? They said you haven't left the company for three or four days."
He glanced at the instant noodle bag in the trash can outside the transparent glass wall of the laboratory and became even more speechless.
Obviously, in order to save time, Hu Weiwu was too lazy to go to the cafeteria. He just got a pot of boiling water in the laboratory, squatted at the door and ate instant noodles for a meal.
When Hu Weiwu saw Lu Yiming, he noticed that it was already dawn outside the window and the sun was shining in at an angle.
“The debugging phase was a big challenge,” he said with a serious face. “Every time I encountered a problem, I had to analyze the application, operating system or processor again. A small mistake would take a lot of time, so I just lived in the lab.”
Lu Yiming admired Hu Weiwu for being so enthusiastic about scientific research. As a layman, he knew how precious such determination and perseverance were.
After all, laziness is human nature. For the sake of his scientific research career, Hu Weiwu can even overcome his own nature.
If such people cannot succeed, who else can succeed?
But if they continued like this, Lu Yiming was afraid that if the chip didn't come out, Hu Weiwu would lie down first, so he quickly persuaded him: "Team Leader Hu, there is no need to work so hard. If you ruin your health, it will be a big loss for our Fuda Microelectronics. The instructors have said that health is the capital of revolution. Only if you have a good body can you work healthily."
Hu Weiwu said confidently: "I am still young, so what does this level of intensity mean?"
After listening to this, Lu Yiming was also at a loss whether to laugh or cry. He said, "But we don't advocate overtime culture here. I heard that you called team members who had already gone home to the laboratory several times, sometimes even after midnight. Aren't you afraid that their wives will scold you in their hearts?"
Hu Weiwu looked helpless and said in defense: "Those few times, when we were verifying the correctness of the processor function, we used the FPGA verification system to run the LINUX operating system and found a very small error, so we had to call people over to make corrections immediately."
Although Hu Weiwu said it lightly, this kind of work is usually very tedious. Lu Yiming knew that it would take at least eight hours just to modify the design and create a new FPGA burning file.
Hu Weiwu sighed and said, "Only by working 24 hours a day can we guarantee several opportunities to modify the design. Our country's technological accumulation in this field is really too backward, and we have to catch up. When we were developing the two bombs and one satellite, we organized a room full of people to calculate with an abacus just to race against time. In fact, our current situation is similar to that time. Chips are powerful nuclear bombs."
At Fudan University of Microelectronics today, due to the emergence of test-takers like Hu Weiwu, it has become normal for each group to stay up all night.
As far as Lu Yiming knows, on several mornings, Hu Weiwu opened the door of the laboratory at six or seven o'clock, and found that his colleagues had not gone home again, so he leaned back in his chair and fell asleep with the mouse in his hand .
Hu Weiwu looked at Lu Yiming and said, "Boss Lu, I know this is a bit inhumane. They are my team members. I recruited them personally, and I feel bad for them. Sometimes I see them fall asleep due to exhaustion, but I have to understand their progress, so I have to wake them up. After discussing the progress, everyone continues to work hard."
"That being said, you should at least pay attention to your pace. Not resting for a few days like this won't actually improve your efficiency. After all, after working for a long time, your thinking will be sluggish. So, you should study the shift system. If there is a real need at night, leave a few people to work overtime, and the others must rest. And no one can work overtime for consecutive nights."
"Boss Lu, this..."
After all, when he was at the Computer Institute of the Xiake Academy, he was idle every day. Now that he has the opportunity to do research, he wishes he could have twenty-five or thirty hours a day. Now that Lu Yiming forces him not to work overtime, Hu Weiwu feels a little uncomfortable.
Lu Yi knew that it was impossible to do scientific research without overtime, and he was extremely disgusted with people like Boss Liu. If it weren't for the obstruction of people like them from the "trade, industry and technology" faction, why would Hu Weiwu and others sacrifice their health to catch up with the pace of European and American countries?
