133: Chapter 134 A Hundredfold ATM for Blindfold Harvesting! Global Asset Targeting from a God's-Eye Perspective

Ten billion US dollars!

At this time in 2012, this amount was equivalent to nearly sixty billion RMB!

What was even more terrifying was that this was merely the "first phase" provided by the authorities!

This was equivalent to the state directly cutting off half the landscape of the domestic semiconductor industry, placing all its chips of national destiny, without reservation, onto the gambling table of Jiyuan Technology!

"Regarding the domestic market, you have Xinghuo Platform and Meituan, those two massive cash-cow printing presses; I know you are not short of RMB.

But if you want to truly land the chip production line and go overseas to poach raw materials and technical details, you must have a massive amount of hard currency foreign exchange in your hands."

Secretary Shen Hai's tone on the other end of the phone was grave as he instructed word by word:

"In order to protect you to the greatest extent and prevent Jiyuan Technology from becoming a thorn in the side of Western intelligence agencies and Silicon Valley giants too soon, this ten-billion-dollar foreign exchange fund will absolutely not be wired directly into your account in the name of the authorities. That would be no different from exposing yourself."

"Beijing will launder and split it through foreign exchange banks, offshore trusts, and several secretive overseas sovereign wealth fund channels. They will be disguised as normal commercial loans or equity financing for the overseas investment department of your Hong Kong Jiyuan Technology. You can use them as prepayments for purchasing large-scale, high-end, precision equipment from overseas. In short, the background will be washed completely clean and injected into your offshore account in batches."

"And after taking this money, you have only one core goal. Before the end of this year, the state wants to see the first chip mass-production line that completely belongs to us, physically landed in Zhangjiang, Shanghai!"

Listening to Secretary Shen Hai's firm words, Shen Du felt a surge of hot blood rush straight to his brain, and even his breathing became somewhat heavy.

This was the courage of a great power; this was the terrifying wager of the state machine once it was fully operational!

This was no longer a simple commercial investment. This was a high-stakes gamble that staked the technological direction of the entire country for the next few decades.

And at the center of the vortex where the two giant waves converged, he, Shen Du, was the only person chosen by the state!

Within just a few days after the call ended, on the offshore account of the overseas investment department of Jiyuan Technology, far away in Hong Kong, that string of US dollar numbers, composed of countless zeros, began to jump crazily upward at a breathtaking speed.

The ten-billion-dollar bet on national destiny had, without anyone noticing, already been secretly transferred and fully arrived!

On the other end of the phone, Secretary Shen Hai's voice had slowed down slightly, but the overwhelming pressure, like Mount Tai pressing down, remained undiminished:

"Shen Du, this ten billion dollars in foreign exchange is not for you to take for free; this is a military order that the state has placed on your shoulders."

"I have already personally made arrangements with the Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park. In the next two days, the Shanghai authorities will give you the green light. They will directly approve several plots of land with the best locations, the largest areas, and the best security conditions specifically for you."

Secretary Shen Hai's instructions fell like a rapid-fire cannon:

"Next, you need to personally lead the effort to establish a wholly-owned chip manufacturing subsidiary under Jiyuan Technology. Not only must you build the modern factory for me, but the state also requires you to gradually achieve self-developed breakthroughs in the underlying core components while building the factory!"

Secretary Shen Hai looked at the obscure technical terms on the report in front of him and read them out, one word at a time:

"The authorities have clearly instructed: since that heavily modified machine of yours was assembled, then the high-pressure cold plasma generator components, the Superconducting magnetic interference array component, the silicon-germanium-carbon superlattice hybrid materials, as well as the micro-deposition chamber components—these things must be capable of localized self-developed mass production when you build your first chip factory!"

For Secretary Shen Hai, this was a harsh and rigid requirement. But upon hearing these terms, Shen Du, leaning back in his boss chair, instead curled his lips into a relaxed arc.

In fact, the top authorities had no idea. Compared to struggling against the EUV extreme ultraviolet light source that the West had blocked for decades and which represented the highest optical crystallization of all mankind, replicating these pure physical components and superlattice materials was, relatively speaking, simply much easier with the support of the existing technological foundation!

Shen Du did not hesitate at all; he took a deep breath and firmly established the military order:

"Understood! Before the end of the year, a complete chip mass-production line will definitely physically land in Zhangjiang!"

"Good! That sentence from you is enough."

Secretary Shen Hai seemed very satisfied with Shen Du's decisiveness. Before hanging up the phone, the tone of this iron-fisted figure who controlled Shanghai suddenly became incomparably deep. He threw out the last trump card given by the highest authorities in Beijing, which was also the heaviest trump card:

"As for that laboratory in the Sheshan air-raid shelter, several of the elders have spoken personally. As long as those technical maniacs inside don't go messing around with things like human cloning or research that seriously violates the bottom line of human ethics..."

Secretary Shen Hai paused, then conveyed the extra-legal privilege of the state's highest will, word by word:

"The state will never interfere with any technical experiments inside, no matter how big the commotion or how outrageous the data. That place is the absolute immunity zone for your Jiyuan Technology."

Entering early April, with that huge amount of official foreign exchange totaling ten billion US dollars, like a hundred rivers returning to the sea, it quietly flowed into the top-secret account of the overseas investment department of Hong Kong Jiyuan Technology.

In Shen Du's hands, he finally grasped a Dragon-Slaying Saber capable of stirring up a storm of blood and slaughter in the international capital market.

With the national team providing the bottom line, there were naturally specialists to coordinate and advance the land-grabbing for the chip production line in Zhangjiang. Shen Du, having a rare moment of leisure, sat in his large boss chair, staring deeply at the Bloomberg terminal in front of him, which was flashing with red and green numbers.

Under his "God's-eye view," which transcended the era by more than a decade due to his rebirth, the global capital market at this moment was simply a completely undefended super gold mine!

The future veins of wealth slowly unfolded in his mind like a crystal-clear blueprint for dimensionality-reduction strikes:

Gold hedging: The international gold price was about to plummet all the way during the subsequent major market washout, until it smashed out a historical deep pit of $1,050/ounce. That would be the perfect opportunity to bottom-fish and build a base position against inflation.

Digital gold: Bitcoin, which was currently just a niche toy in the geek circle with prices hovering only between $10 and $13, was about to usher in a crazy myth of a hundredfold or even ten-thousandfold increase.

A-share carnival: The A-shares, which were currently painfully grinding at the bottom of a long bear market at 2000 points, would soon, with the help of leveraged funds, start an epic crazy bull market heading straight for 5178 points.

US stock duo: The IPO bell-ringing for the social media giant Facebook had entered the countdown. And on the other side of the ocean, the Silicon Valley madman Musk and his Tesla were about to announce a shocking turnaround from loss to profit for the first time, ushering in a wave of violent surges.

These incidents, one after another, were all super ATMs that could multiply assets by tens or hundreds of times even with one's eyes closed!

But this ten-billion-dollar pool was simply too large and involved sensitive multi-channel overseas operations. Shen Du could not use this money to invest himself. He needed an absolutely loyal, ruthless, and completely self-aligned "agent" to help him crazily harvest in the overseas capital markets.

Quickly running through the candidates in his mind, Shen Du's gaze finally settled. He picked up his phone and dialed Hong Yun's number.

With Shen Du's commercial intuition, he naturally understood that the bonus period of the show livestreaming industry where Hong Yun was currently situated had already been squeezed out by major platforms. It had completely entered a saturation period, and making money was no longer as easy as it used to be. It was time to pull her out of that small pond and push her into the true deep sea of global capital.

"Hello, President Shen..."

The call connected, and Hong Yun's voice, carrying a hint of laziness and charm, came through the receiver. Many days had passed since that last gathering, but this shrewd Sister Hong clearly had not yet fully recovered from the lingering charm of that night and Shen Du's strong aura. Even her response sounded a bit absent-minded.

"Hong Yun, if you are free during this period, come to Shanghai immediately."

Shen Du did not exchange pleasantries; his tone was calm but carried an undeniable sense of command: "Clear your mind. Put aside those petty profits from livestreaming for now; I have a real big picture here that I need to discuss with you in person."

Hearing the words "big picture," Hong Yun on the other end of the phone instantly perked up. That keenness of a businesswoman immediately overcame all romantic thoughts. She didn't even ask what it was specifically and agreed without hesitation: "Understood, I will return to Shanghai in the next two days."