Chapter 680 You’re Going to Be a Father
Yu Kebao was a rather stubborn and upright person. He could not stand the behavior of Yin Zihao and others, so he resigned directly to express his disapproval, not to mention the fabricated stories in The Sun.
After reading the newspaper, he was so angry that he could not help but tear the newspaper into pieces and cursed: "This is simply slander. It was clearly that foreigner who came to conduct academic exchanges and wanted to steal our scientific research secrets. Now he is turning the tables and accusing us of stealing their things? This is simply unreasonable."
Seeing Ding Kebao shaking with anger, Lu Yiming immediately comforted him, "Don't be angry, Professor Yu. It's not worth it if you get sick from anger. The Sun has always had no moral integrity. They can write news that is even more ridiculous than Story Club. Don't take it too seriously. Professor Bruno also said that we are thieves. I'm very curious about what evidence they can produce to prove that we are thieves."
Tan Hongbo sighed and said, "I got some information from other channels. Not only do they have evidence, they have also caught the thief, Gu Lizhi. I guess he has been thrown into jail now."
When Lu Yiming heard this, he immediately laughed and said, "This is really a case of evil being punished. Greed is not good."
When Yu Kebao heard that Gu Lizhi was arrested in England, he suddenly became melancholy. He remembered that Gu Lizhi's family was poor and almost the whole village supported him to go to college and study until now. They thought that he would have a bright future, but now this kind of thing happened. It was really sad.
If their family members and villagers got this news, they would be so desperate.
England.
Sitting in the police car, Gu Lizhi was terrified.
How could he, a kid from the countryside, have ever seen such a scene? He was honest and simple in Xiaguo, let alone England, thousands of miles away?
"I'm not a thief! I'm innocent! I want to see Professor Bruno! I think there must be some misunderstanding here!"
However, no one paid any attention to him despite his shouting.
What he didn't know was that Bruno Juett was now in danger.
When Bruno Juett privately met with several school directors to convince them to support his graphene research.
If there are results in the end, everyone will be happy and have fun.
But now the technological achievements of graphene have been taken away by others. Bruno Juett spent so much money and occupied so many resources, but in the end, he got nothing. How can the school directors let this go?
So in the end there has to be someone who takes the blame.
Bruno Juett is a professor after all, and he certainly won't take the blame. After much thought, the most suitable person to take the blame is no one other than Gu Lizhi.
What awaits him will be imprisonment, lawsuits and huge compensation.
Since ancient times, traitors will never have a good end anywhere, especially in England, a country known for its meanness and ingratitude. Even their own people who have made contributions are treated harshly in various ways. How could a traitor like Gu Lizhi run over there and actually think that he could enjoy wealth and glory from then on and reach the peak of his life?
I can only say that he is still too naive.
In fact, the Sun's report was just a temporary sensation and was done for money.
Except for the English, other European and American powers simply treated it as a joke. After all, such words were too stupid.
Did Bruno Juett’s academic achievements get stolen by Yu Kebao?
Anyone who can make it in the academic world is not a fool. Naturally, they can see that MoXin Technology is far ahead of Bruno Juett's team in terms of research time and project progress. Isn't it obvious who plagiarized whom?
Lu Yiming did not sit idly by. He contacted Li Qiu, formed a large team of lawyers, and traveled to Europe to begin defending his rights.
Of course, Lu Yiming would not let Moxin Technology be wronged, nor would he let all the researchers down. When Li Qiu and his team set out, Lu Yiming told them that the lawsuit must be accepted at any cost.
Tan Hongbo also mobilized his own energy and made the matter known to the world.
When hearing that domestic scientists had broken through foreign blockades and mastered crucial technologies for the 21st century, the country certainly would not miss such an opportunity and began to provide support for rights protection in their own way.
All of a sudden, there were more reports on this incident on television, radio, and newspapers, and various official statements were released one after another. It can be said that this gave Li Qiu and others the strongest support within the possible limits.
Li Qiu and his team are not fighting as a team, and it is not just Lu Yiming who is supporting them behind the scenes.
Behind them is an entire country and hundreds of millions of compatriots.
Zhonghai Jiaotong University.
Both Ding Kuilin and Yin Zihao were punished by the school.
Ding Kuilin was demoted and Yin Zihao was directly fired.
After all, if the two of them hadn't betrayed the national interest, none of this would have happened.
Not only that, the research results on graphene, the paper in Nature magazine, all the glory belongs to them, China University of Political Science and Law.
Now, it's all gone.
Although most of Moxin Technology's students are PhD students from Zhonghai Jiaotong University, Zhonghai Jiaotong University is now in the spotlight, and dares not even say a word, let alone take credit for the fact that all the team members are PhD students from Zhonghai Jiaotong University. It is because of the two traitors, Ding Kuilin and Yin Zihao, that Zhonghai Jiaotong University is now in a very passive position, and has even been criticized by the higher authorities.
Although there was a lot of commotion outside, Lu Yi seemed not to be disturbed at all.
In March, the grass is green and the birds are singing.
Lu Yiming sat on a rattan chair in the yard, taking a nap with his eyes closed. Shi Qingxue ran over, hooked her arms around Lu Yiming's neck from behind, and said with a smile, "You're going to be a father."
“What the hell!?”
Lu Yiming almost fell off the rattan chair, his eyes widened, and he turned his head to look at Shi Qingxue's abdomen with a puzzled look on his face.
"That's not right. It shouldn't be like this. It doesn't make sense..."
Shi Qingxue covered Lu Yiming's eyes and said with a pout, "Hey, hey, hey, what are you thinking about? This is what I'm talking about!"
She took out a newspaper from behind her back, unfolded it, pointed to the front-page headline and said, "Look, the richest man has a new title: the father of graphene."
When Lu Yiming saw this, he breathed a sigh of relief, then curled his lips and lay back in his chair: "Tsk, I was so happy for nothing."
When Shi Qingxue heard this, she felt embarrassed and angry, and her little pink fists hit Lu Yiming one after another.
"I hate you. You just think about random things all day long."
"I'm not just imagining things."
Lu Yiming gave a wicked grin, immediately took Shi Qingxue into his arms, and touched her all over.
"Don't...in broad daylight...and..."
Before he finished speaking, a cough was heard, startling the two of them.
Shi Qingxue quickly stood up, and when she saw that it was Shi Caijiang, her face immediately turned red to her neck, and she ran away with her head lowered.
Lu Yiming secretly thought it was a pity, but he also calmed down and said to General Shi Cai, "Why are you here?"
Shi Caijiang smiled and said, "I can't come to see my daughter. I saw a newspaper on the way here saying that you are now known as the father of graphene."
Lu Yiming said: "I don't know why this title was given to me. It's inexplicable."
Shi Caijiang saw the newspaper on the coffee table and said, "You haven't read the report yet? That Yu Kebao... is that his name? When he was interviewed by the media, he said that you funded the establishment of Moxin Technology and you taught them the experimental method, so the discovery of graphene should be attributed to you first."
After hearing what General Shi Cai said, Lu Yiming suddenly realized and said, "No wonder."
Shi Caijiang sat on the chair next to Lu Yiming and said, "It's 2002 now. I read the annual development report a few days ago. Xia's economy has reached a new level. Its GDP has exceeded 10 trillion yuan for the first time, and its per capita GDP has reached 1,000 US dollars."
This year, the economy of the Xia Kingdom, known as a miracle, maintained a high growth rate of about 8% for many consecutive years, shocking the whole world. Countless capitalist countries turned their attention to this ancient oriental land.
It was also in this year that the real estate industry in Xia State began to develop rapidly, which can be summarized in eight words: "rapid growth and strong supply and demand."
Since the beginning of this month, the average growth rate of real estate has reached 28.2%, which is 3.5 times the growth of GDP!
The growth rate of completed real estate area also reached 28.3%, the growth rate of sales area was 29.8%, and the growth in sales reached 37.1%!
If it were just market factors, it would be fine, but the key is that policies are also boosting the development of the entire real estate industry.
On February 21, the People's Bank of China issued a notice to lower domestic deposit and lending rates again.
This is the eighth interest rate cut following the reduction in deposit and loan rates in 1996. Specifically for personal housing commercial loans, the adjusted interest rate is 4.77% within 5 years and 5.04% for more than 5 years.
The reduction was greater than the average decline in loan interest rates, reaching 0.54 percentage points.
Half a month later, on March 5, the People's Bank of China and the Ministry of Construction jointly discussed and decided to lower the interest rate of individual housing provident fund loans. The adjustment range is from 4.14% to 3.6% for loans under 5 years, and from 4.59% to 4.05% for loans over 5 years.
There is no doubt that this move has further boosted the housing demand of ordinary people in the market.
Ordinary people see benefits, but capital sees opportunities.
This is the real reason why Shi Cai came to find Lu Yiming.
"The rise of the real estate economy in China is a foregone conclusion. How about we increase our investment in real estate in the future?"
This is the overall trend, and even if Lu Yiming is the richest man in Asia, he cannot stop it. Moreover, the overall real estate market is booming, and if he doesn't make money, the money will be taken away by others, so there is no reason to let it go.
"Yes, every year I will raise funds in Hong Kong through the Future Fund and invest in Lean Real Estate."
But General Shi Cai was obviously not satisfied with this, and said, "Don't we still have 5 billion US dollars of funds that are not used? With such a huge financial advantage, we can definitely occupy half of the domestic real estate industry."
At this time in the country, major real estate groups had not yet risen, and 5 billion US dollars in funds was enough to crush any competitor.
However, Lu Yiming shook his head and said, "I have other uses for the five billion dollars. As for the investment in Lean Real Estate, it is enough to build a business district ecosystem around the Yiming Plaza project. There is no need to force your way into the commercial housing market. Not only will you offend people, but you won't make much money either."
The idea he has always adhered to is that houses are for living in and not for speculation, and he also has a clear understanding that when doing real estate in China, it is hard to tell who will make money from whom, so whoever likes to do this can do it.
Shi Caijiang was speechless, and couldn't understand Lu Yiming's words: "What do you mean you can't make much money? The profit of the real estate industry seems to be quite high, right?"
Lu Yiming analyzed seriously and said, "You are just assuming this. Apart from the cost of buying the land and deducting the construction cost, how much profit do we actually make? If we borrow money from the bank, we still have to pay interest. In the end, the profit will not even be 10%. This is the current profit, and I am afraid it will only be lower in the future. I work hard to earn this little money, and I have to bear the stigma. What am I trying to do?"
The financial officer was speechless and said helplessly, "That can't be said. If financial leverage is used well, the real estate industry will develop very fast. The main reason is that the country is promoting land finance, so it is safe to develop commercial housing. Why not take the free money?"
Obviously, as a qualified capitalist, Shi Caijiang's ideas are normal and reliable.
After all, there is little risk and you can make a lot of money, so why not do it?
But what if Lu Yiming is a reborn person and comes back to work in real estate?
Is it low or not?
It's just full of vulgar fun and not challenging at all.
Lu Yiming shook his head firmly, "No need to persuade me. When it comes to making money, I always like to take the biggest share. I'm not interested in other people's leftovers."
To put it bluntly, the real estate industry is about grabbing land. It is not a complete capital game. In essence, it is a power game, and everyone is competing for backing and influence.
Lu Yiming is not a coward and does not like to curry favor with others, so he naturally will not get too involved in the real estate industry, which is an industry where people have to rely on others for their livelihood.
Seeing that persuasion didn't work, Shi Caijiang wisely changed the subject: "What do you plan to do with your $5 billion?"
Lu Yiming did not hide it and said: "I plan to continue investing in the semiconductor-related industry chain, especially the upstream of the industry."
Shi Caijiang was shocked when he heard this and couldn't help but persuade him: "Are you crazy? The entire industry spans multiple different technical fields, including semiconductor materials, semiconductor equipment, chip design, chip manufacturing, packaging and testing, major electronics and computers. This means that if you want to stand out, it is not enough to make a name for yourself in a certain field, but you have to be equally good in all sub-fields!"
The probability of wanting to be the leader in a certain niche field is almost the same as buying a lottery ticket.
Lu Yiming's idea is to break the monopoly of Europe and the United States in all sub-sectors and catch up with or even surpass them in technology. This is equivalent to buying lottery tickets continuously and winning the jackpot, otherwise it is impossible to win.
Using the power of Xia alone to challenge the entire Western world?
If this isn't madness, then what is madness?
Over the past six months, Shi Caijiang has done some research on the development of the global semiconductor industry because Lu Yiming often mentioned semiconductors. Although he is not completely familiar with it, he has memorized it by heart and has some understanding of it.
But precisely because he knows this, he despairs about the semiconductor industry network built by the United States. This is a hegemonic industrial alliance. Anyone who wants to challenge America's semiconductor hegemony will not only face America as the leader, but all of the European and American powers!
The island nation's once booming semiconductor industry once attempted to challenge America's dominance in this field. Then, what happened to the world's second largest economy?
Although the island nation still retains half of the semiconductor industry, anyone with a discerning eye can see that it is just a last-ditch effort. The island nation, which used to live a relatively good life, will soon find it difficult to make ends meet.
With this previous experience as a lesson, how dare Lu Yiming, as a private capitalist, plan to challenge America's dominance in the semiconductor field?
What’s the difference between this and committing suicide?
Shi Caijiang couldn't understand, and didn't think Lu Yiming had any chance of success.
Not to mention 5 billion US dollars, even 50 billion or 500 billion would not be enough.
Facing General Shi's persuasion, Lu Yiming said with a firm look: "I know that our Xia country's semiconductor industry has many shortcomings, and there are countless lessons to be learned in the sub-sectors, but the best time was ten years ago, and the second best time is now. It is better to do it than not to do it. If we don't make up for it now, the cost will only be greater if we want to make up for it in the future."
Shi Caijiang's eyes were complicated, and then he sighed: "You really have a sense of family and country. In this regard, I am not as good as you."
Lu Yiming smiled and said, "You overestimate my political awareness. To me, semiconductors are just about casting a wide net. If you catch more fish, either the project will be a big success and you will get rich overnight, or the capital chain will break and you will die overnight."
Lu Yiming was very calm about this: "Anyway, I have already bought a lot of properties in the four cities of Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen. If the investment in the semiconductor industry fails in the end, I can just go back to being a landlord and live on the rent every month."
"As for me, I don't have the determination and courage to risk my life for my country, but I also want to fight because I don't accept it. In this world, why should Europe and America make the rules of the game? As the saying goes, things change over time, and it's time for our Xia country to rise."
Hearing that he could still be a landlord if he failed, Shi Caijiang breathed a sigh of relief and then said, "So you invented graphene, and you're planning to overtake others in the semiconductor field?"
Lu Yiming said: "I do have this in mind, but graphene is a long-term goal and cannot solve the current dilemma. After all, the output of graphene is still too low. If you want to commercialize it, it will be difficult to produce results without decades of continuous investment."
Shi Caijiang frowned: "So what are you going to do next?"
Lu Yiming smiled and said: "Graphene is a smokescreen I released. My subsequent investment focus will be on lithography machines!"
