Chapter 575: This World Needs the Truth
Although he knew that Lu Yiming was the richest man and that his support for the chip industry came from the bottom of his heart, for Li Guojie, who earned only a few thousand yuan a month and whose research funding had rarely exceeded one million yuan in years, Lu Yiming's five hundred million yuan was beyond shocking.
Normally, he would be happy for a long time if the computer department approved a few hundred thousand or even a hundred thousand, but it was rare to get over a million in a year. But now, Lu Yiming asked for five hundred million, who could afford it?
“Gulp…”
Li Guojie could clearly hear the sound of himself swallowing his saliva.
"Five hundred million...Mr. Lu, are you sure you didn't say it wrong?"
Lu Yiming raised his eyebrows and asked, "Why? Is it too little?"
Li Guojie waved his hands quickly, smiled bitterly and said, "No, no, no, Mr. Lu is just joking. What I want to say is that the total assets of the entire Xiake Institute of Computer Science are not even 500 million. Mr. Lu is so generous that I am a little uncomfortable for a while."
Hu Weiwu laughed and said, "I was the same as you before, but since I came to Fu Ri Microelectronics, I have gradually adapted to Mr. Lu's pace. Don't think that Mr. Lu is generous with his money, but every penny is actually spent wisely."
Li Guojie thought of the sea cucumber, abalone and lobster he had eaten at noon, rolled his eyes and jokingly said, "Does what we had at noon also count?"
Lu Yiming said: "Of course! Food is the first necessity of the people. Only by eating and drinking well can we form high combat effectiveness."
Li Guojie was simply unable to complain about Lu Yiming's remarks. In fact, during the time he had been out of the cafeteria, he had been thinking that according to the standard of the cafeteria of Fu Ri Microelectronics, the money spent on food alone every year would probably be hundreds of thousands. Wouldn't it be better if this much money was used for scientific research?
But later, when he heard Lu Yiming asking for 500 million yuan at the first sign of the matter, Li Guojie suddenly realized that he really had never seen the world. Lu Yiming casually asked for 500 million yuan in cooperation funds, and he still cared about the annual food expenses of several hundred thousand yuan?
Li Guojie couldn't help but sigh in his heart, perhaps the Computer Institute was too poor.
"Since President Lu is so sincere, we will naturally not be vague. I will go back to Xiake Institute and have a good chat with Director Sun about this matter."
Although Li Guojie also has a company under his name, Lu Yiming wants to cooperate with the Computer Institute of the Xia Academy of Sciences. The current director of the Computer Institute is Sun Ninghui, so only Sun Ninghui has the right to decide on this matter. He, the former director, is just a voluntary errand boy.
"If that's the case, I'll just wait here for good news."
Lu Yiming is still very confident about this. After all, money makes the world go round. With 500 million yuan to spend, the Computer Institute of the Xiake Academy of Sciences will not be able to resist the temptation.
Although he was the former director, Li Guojie's determination to work for domestic chips had not changed. So when he heard that Lu Yiming was willing to cooperate, he came without saying a word. Now that Lu Yiming has agreed to invest 500 million yuan in the Computer Institute of the Xia Academy of Sciences, Li Guojie did not have the ability to do so, and directly said that he would go back to the Computer Institute of the Xia Academy of Sciences to report.
Lu Yiming admired Li Guojie very much and said immediately: "Director Li, why don't you come work here? I can provide you with a scientific research environment."
Li Guojie didn't expect that Lu Yiming not only wanted the relationship with the Computer Institute, but also wanted him to come and work.
He smiled and said, "Boss Lu, don't forget that I also have a company under my name. I'm the boss, and I'm still working for you?"
Lu Yiming laughed and said, "Everything depends on human effort."
Li Guojie thought Lu Yiming was just joking. After saying a few polite words, he left Fu Ri Microelectronics and took the nearest flight back to Beijing.
At the Computer Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Sun Ninghui hosted Li Guojie in his office.
"Director Li, what brings you here today? You haven't come to inspect the work for a while."
Although Li Guojie now runs a company outside and is an entrepreneur, Chinese people still prefer to address him by his official title.
After all, among the four classes of scholars, farmers, merchants and artisans, Director Li sounds a few levels higher than General Manager Li.
Li Guojie laughed and said, "If you keep doing this, I will have to call you Director Sun."
The two were colleagues before and became directors at the same time. According to some unspoken rules in the system, Sun Ninghui was able to become the director thanks to Li Guojie. Therefore, the relationship between the two is quite good.
Sun Ninghui sat happily opposite Li Guojie, took out a small bag of tea from the drawer, and boiled water to make tea on the tea table.
"Tell me, do you have any good news to tell me?"
Li Guojie said excitedly, "It is indeed good news. I went to Zhonghai to find Hu Weiwu yesterday. I originally wanted him to return to the Institute of Computer Science. After all, the Institute of Computer Science has just applied for a one million yuan fund."
Talking about this, Sun Ninghui was somewhat surprised: "He is willing to come back?"
Li Guojie said: "No."
Sun Ninghui suddenly lost interest and said, "He has no plans to come back, so what good news are you talking about?"
Li Guojie said: "Although he has no plans to come back, I met Lu Yiming, and he is willing to cooperate with our computer department on the CPU project."
"CUP project?"
When Sun Ninghui heard this, his face changed slightly and he said seriously: "Isn't this still in the confidentiality stage? How did he know? Did you tell him?"
Li Guojie quickly clarified, "Do you think I am that kind of person? When I heard Lu Yiming say this, I was also shocked. I thought it was Hu Weiwu who told him. But it turned out that Hu Weiwu didn't know about this at all. Lu Yiming said he guessed it."
Sun Ninghui obviously didn't believe this statement: "You can guess this? Do you really think he is a god?"
Li Guojie waved his hand and said, "Hey, don't worry about it. He knows about it anyway, and he is very interested in it. He said he would invest 500 million in this project."
"How much? Five hundred million?"
Sun Ninghui suddenly lost his composure.
After all, they had been applying for this one million yuan in funding for more than a year, and it was only approved now.
Lu Yiming asked for five hundred million right away. What does that mean?
That’s enough for them to apply for five hundred years.
Li Guojie seemed to be very happy to see the shocked expression on Sun Ninghui's face. He joked: "How is it? Shocked, right? I was also shocked when I heard him say that before. I thought he mentioned the wrong unit. After all, 50,000 yuan is not a small amount. How is it? Do you think this project is worth cooperating with?"
Sun Ninghui said immediately, "Nonsense, he directly offered 500 million yuan, how can we not cooperate? When can we get 500 million yuan by ourselves? With this money, the progress of the CPU project will be accelerated immediately. But after all, Lu Yiming is a capitalist, and I don't know if he has other suggestions. This needs to be considered in the long run."
Li Guojie admired Sun Ninghui's caution: "That's right, you should not have the intention to harm others, but you must be on guard against others. When the time comes, both parties should have a good discussion and try to come up with a plan that satisfies everyone."
The next morning, Sun Ninghui called Lu Yiming, agreed that both parties could cooperate, and invited Lu Yiming to Beijing to discuss cooperation.
Lu Yiming immediately took Shi Qingxue and Yu Jiayi to the capital on the "Yiming".
On Zhongguancun South Road, Lu Yiming stood at the entrance of the Computer Research Institute of the Xia Institute of Science, which has a very modern style. I looked at the mottled facade of the courtyard wall covered with creepers and shook my head slightly, saying, "This is too old-fashioned."
After all, it has been established for more than 30 years, so it is inevitable that it shows some signs of age.
Walking into the yard, there are several big trees with lush branches and leaves reaching into the sky.
Sun Ninghui came to greet them with a group of senior executives from the Computer Institute.
"Mr. Lu, I have long heard of your name. Today, I see that you are indeed a hero at a young age. Let me introduce myself. I am Sun Ninghui, the director of the Computer Institute, and this is..."
Lu Yiming had long been immune to such compliments, but he still said politely: "It turns out to be Director Sun, hello."
Both sides introduced their respective entourages one by one.
Sun Ninghui said politely, "Mr. Lu has come from afar, why don't we sit down and have a cup of tea and take a break? I'll take you to visit the computer institute later, have lunch together at noon, and discuss cooperation issues in the afternoon. What do you think?"
Lu Yiming said: "Director Sun has made very good arrangements."
Because the framework of cooperation had been drawn up in his mind before, Lu Yiming took the initiative in the afternoon meeting on cooperation and performed with ease. The two parties agreed that Lu Yiming would donate 500 million yuan to the Computer Institute in the name of Future Capital for the research and development of domestic CPUs. The copyright of the research and development results belonged to the Computer Institute, but the company invested by Future Capital had the right to use the results.
Of course, Lu Yiming wanted to invest directly in the Computer Institute, but the Computer Institute is a national research institute and does not accept social capital investment, so Lu Yiming can only make donations. Lu Yiming only uses the technical talents and technological achievements of the Computer Institute, so donation and investment are just different terms. In essence, he has already got what he wanted.
After the contract was drafted and both parties reviewed it and found no problems, Sun Ninghui said with a smile: "Mr. Lu, we will arrange a donation ceremony at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning to officially announce the CUP project plan to the outside world. We will sign the contract on the spot at that time. What do you think?"
The authorities have always liked these formalisms. Although they seem to be of no use, everyone is very keen on them.
Lu Yiming had no objection to this, and immediately said, "Everything will be arranged by Director Sun."
The next morning, the signing ceremony was held in the auditorium of the Computer Institute.
Many official and unofficial media were present and the scene looked very lively.
At ten o'clock, accompanied by the "Welcome March", Sun Ninghui and other leaders of the Computer Institute of the Xiake Institute entered the venue, while on Lu Yiming's side, there were only Lu Yiming and Yu Jiayi.
Witnessed by reporters, Sun Ninghui announced that Future Capital would donate 500 million yuan in research and development funds to the Institute of Computing Technology, and signed a donation agreement on the spot.
After several speeches by leaders , reporters asked questions.
A reporter stood up and said, "Hello, Mr. Lu, I'm Zhou Yudong from Pengbai News. First of all, thank you for your investment and support for Xiaguo's scientific research and your positive contribution to scientific and technological progress. We noticed that you have made many donations in the past two years. For example, not long ago you prepared 1.6 billion funds to donate computers to schools to cultivate computer talents. In addition, this time you invested another 500 million to support the Xia Academy of Sciences' Computer Institute to develop domestic CPUs, etc. The cumulative donations have exceeded 4 billion yuan. In terms of the amount of donations alone, Mr. Lu, you are already the 'first philanthropist' of our Xiaguo."
After hearing what the reporter said, everyone remembered that Lu Yiming seemed to have donated a lot of money.
You know, the fourth richest man in Xia Country today is Mr. Ren from Huawei Group. His personal assets are only 4.2 billion. Lu Yiming's donation alone is almost equal to Mr. Ren's entire fortune.
What does arrogance mean?
This is called arrogance!
He really deserves to be the richest man in Xia Country. He is so rich.
The reporter continued, "What I want to ask is, why did you choose to make such a large donation at this time?"
Lu Yiming was very modest and said, "I don't dare to be the first philanthropist. Future Capital is a company with a sense of social responsibility. Our business philosophy is to make the world a better place. So no matter when, we will invest in areas that we think are appropriate."
There was warm applause at the scene.
Then, another reporter stood up and said, "Hello, Mr. Lu. I am a reporter from Guanwang. What I want to ask is that there are still many remote areas in Xia Country that are very poor. Since Mr. Lu is so keen on charity, have you ever considered doing something for the poor people in these areas?"
As soon as this question was asked, Lu Yiming immediately smelled a familiar scent.
XXX, you are so rich, why don’t you XXX?
What a familiar sentence pattern.
However, with Lu Yiming's personality, he was not afraid of such a question. He immediately said, "Our country is vast and rich in resources, and there are problems of unbalanced and insufficient development. However, development problems must be solved by development, and pure charity cannot solve this problem. Therefore, Future Capital currently has no investment plans to support the lives of the poor."
Although this answer was expected, it also made some people excited.
"Mr. Lu, does this mean that you only do charity work in areas that will be rewarding to you?"
"What kind of charity is it if you don't invest in poor areas? Isn't it still a business after all?"
Many people have even started taking notes secretly, and the word "hypocrisy" appears in many people's notebooks.
Facing everyone's doubts, Lu Yiming said calmly: "As the old saying goes, it is better to teach a man how to fish than to give him a fish. Guangming Daily pointed out that poverty alleviation must start with motivation and poverty alleviation must start with wisdom. In the future, capital's charity will mainly focus on education and scientific research. We plan to invest in the establishment of primary and secondary schools in some remote areas to popularize basic education, because only in this way can more people in Xia get rid of poverty. Simply giving them food and clothes cannot help them get rid of poverty. I hope you realize this."
With this explanation, everyone naturally understood Lu Yiming's idea, and had to admit that supporting education and scientific research is indeed the fundamental solution.
Another reporter stood up and said excitedly, "Mr. Lu, what you just said is really eye-opening and enlightening. I am actually from the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau. My family has been extremely poor since I was a child. If I hadn't studied very hard in junior high and high school and successfully passed the college entrance examination and walked out of the mountains, I would probably still be a cowherd in the mountains now."
When talking about these past events, the reporter was obviously deeply moved and his voice was choked with sobs.
"I once thought about going back to build my hometown, but my own strength was too weak to do anything. I was also very confused and didn't know what I could do. Now that you said this, I understand how to help my hometown get rid of poverty and backwardness. Only education and knowledge can truly change a person's destiny. I hope that more children in the mountains can come out, see the beautiful mountains and rivers of the motherland, and broaden their horizons, instead of always guarding their own small piece of land and being eliminated by the turbulent times."
Lu Yiming led the applause and said approvingly: "You said it well! To prevent the children in the mountains from being eliminated by the times, this can be used as a starting point for poverty alleviation! Media reporter, what is your name?"
"Deng Cong."
"Deng Cong, right? I'm here to ask you for a favor."
Deng Cong was caught off guard. How could the richest man ever ask for help from others?
He asked excitedly, "What's the matter? Tell me."
Lu Yiming said: "It is our responsibility as social entrepreneurs to help the poor and revitalize education. We have achieved success and should give back to society. But I hope that every penny of the money for charity will be put to good use. Therefore, I hope you can take the lead and introduce the power of the media to supervise the use of charity funds and promptly expose and condemn bad behavior. Be an investigative reporter with a conscience. I will cover your expenses, and you will spread the truth to the society. If the people I send out take advantage of the charity funds, you can also expose them. I can express this attitude in front of everyone today."
Deng Cong never expected that Lu Yiming would actually give him such a job. Thinking that this could be considered a contribution to the cause of poverty alleviation, Deng Cong agreed without thinking twice.
"Okay, I'll take this task. Mr. Lu, actually, last time at the press conference of Junzi Interactive Entertainment, I agreed with your opinion very much, so I rushed here as soon as I got the news. Today you have given me such an important task again, and I would like to make it clear to you that I will do my best to expose the truth and be a qualified investigative reporter."
Lu Yiming was upset about the disappearance of the National Investigative Journalists Group, so he wanted to train such a team. He said: "Okay, I can fund you to form a team. As long as you insist on justice, I can be your strong backing in any situation. After all, in this world, we need the truth."
