183: Chapter 184 A Comprehensive and Intricate Scheme of Self-Inflicted Injury: Shen Du's High-Stakes Gamble and Hundreds of Billions in Collateral

In the private room.

Shen Du's deliberately prolonged pause just now left everyone's nerves hanging in mid-air.

He wasn't in a hurry to reveal his trump card.

Instead, he calmly picked up the goblet in front of him and took a light sip of the scarlet wine.

As the slightly astringent wine fragrance spread through his mouth, Shen Du finally looked at everyone without haste and spat out the second half of his sentence:

"The difficulty is, of course, our adversaries within the country."

As soon as these words were spoken, Zhou Zhenghai, Wu Tianheng, and the others reacted immediately.

The capital of the Beijing Circle, the powerful figures in various regions.

Those vicious wolves that had just been beaten back by them in the previous meat grinder were all staring dead at this piece of fat meat, Shanghai, from the shadows, probing their internal weaknesses at every moment.

"If we want to completely deceive the financial experts on Wall Street when Jiyuan Entertainment goes public in the Hong Kong Stock Market next year,"

Shen Du placed his wine glass on the marble tabletop, making a crisp sound:

"We must prepare in advance. We have to deceive these opponents who watch us with magnifying glasses every day, right under the noses of those in the country."

Zhou Zhenghai frowned. As a trader, he knew the difficulty of information warfare:

"President Shen, this kind of hundred-billion-level cross-border capital transfer. The noses of those informants in the country are sharper than dogs; conventional diversions simply won't fool them."

"Therefore, the most brilliant scam is never a bluff, but making the fake look real."

Shen Du crossed his hands under his chin, his gaze extremely cold:

"The first step is that you all must not only pretend to the outside world that your capital chains have been completely dragged down by investments in semiconductors, but also earnestly start spending real money to frantically recruit top-tier talent related to your respective industries. Start doing R&D for real!"

With these words, Shen Du pulled a thick stack of documents from the black briefcase beside him.

Without any nonsense, he pushed these eight military orders for R&D directions, drafted overnight, across the smooth marble tabletop to the eight hundred-billion giants.

Accompanied by the light sound of paper rubbing against the tabletop, eight top-secret documents slid precisely to each tycoon.

Wu Tianheng picked up the top page first, and Su Yunjing also pushed up his glasses, quickly glancing down.

When they saw the industrial division on the list, which was precise to an outrageous degree, the pupils of several hundred-billion oligarchs shrank almost simultaneously.

Shen Du didn't give them too much time to digest it.

He supported his hands on the tabletop, and his highly penetrating voice exploded in the private room, starting this epic pre-war roll call:

"Uncle Su, you hold the top pharmaceutical synthesis laboratory in the country. From tomorrow on, the R&D of photoresist and electronic-grade high-purity chemicals is your death order! I want you to completely cut off the possibility of foreign capital holding us by the throat with chemical consumables."

Su Yunjing's fingers gripping the document tightened, and he nodded heavily.

Shen Du shifted his gaze, staring at Qin Zhengye like a knife:

"Uncle Qin, Sheng Tang Communications and the Thermal Power Group are your base. I want you to use the hardest UHV infrastructure to build an energy base for future ultra-large wafer fabs that will never lose power! At the same time, prepare for the full-scale application testing of the new architecture baseband chips."

Qin Zhengye took a deep breath, a touch of fanaticism igniting in the depths of his eyes.

"President Chen!"

Shen Du didn't give anyone a chance to breathe:

"Don't just focus on calculating accounts for your e-commerce server cluster. You must risk your life to smash out the underlying ecosystem and cloud servers for the new architecture! What we are building is our own software moat."

"Uncle Fu, ditch those traditional residential properties that have no technical content."

Shen Du looked at Fu Zhaonan:

"What I want is a super-clean wafer fab with the world's highest seismic resistance and Class 100 dust-free standards. This is the physical fortress of hardware manufacturing!"

Fu Zhaonan gritted his teeth and drank the red wine in front of him in one gulp.

"Uncle Wu, Uncle Zhu."

Shen Du looked at the two cores of the traditional giants, "You have the deepest foundation and the strongest heavy asset operation capability. The snatching of global high-quality mineral supply chains and the purification of large-size semiconductor silicon wafers are left to The Wu Family. The highest-end 3D packaging and testing before chip factory release are left to the Zhu family!"

Finally, Shen Du locked his gaze on Zhou Zhenghai and Li Jianfeng.

"President Li, same old rules. Continue to grind on the cutting-edge mechanical equipment in Zhangjiang and maintain absolute independent research and development of all core hardware."

Shen Du paused, his tone becoming icy:

"Uncle Zhou, you don't do technology. But I want you to use that hundred-billion capital pool to not only control the overseas market but also to raise the most ruthless legal team in the world. Build a global patent firewall for Jiyuan Technology that no one can break through!"

After the orders were issued, the private room fell into extremely heavy breathing.

The eight giants looked at the tailor-made military orders in their hands, feeling their scalps tingle.

Shen Du was not dividing the cake at all.

Instead, he was forcibly melting their eight families' originally scattered industries into a super semiconductor war chariot that was completely closed-loop and could not be throttled by the West from any single node!

Looking at the heavy industrial division table in his hand, the expression on Wu Tianheng's face changed for a long time.

He slowly pressed that thin sheet of paper onto the marble tabletop.

He keenly grasped the most grounded, yet most difficult to operate, blind spot in Shen Du's entire grand plan.

"Nephew Shen, there is no problem with R&D. As long as the money is in place, we can make a splash even if we smash it hard."

Wu Tianheng frowned and bluntly raised his doubts about the actual operation:

"But you just said that we should pretend that the capital chain is tight to fool those hungry wolves in the country who are staring at us. Then what exactly should we do to pretend to be 'poor' without any flaws?"

He shook his head, directly denying those conventional commercial diversions:

"If it's conventional means like balancing the books or deliberately delaying some supplier payments, it certainly won't fool those experts in the Beijing Circle. After all, at our level, our foundation is too thick. Even if the main business loses tens of billions, it is difficult to have any real financial distress in real life."

Facing Wu Tianheng's questioning, Shen Du couldn't help but smile.

He waved his hand casually.

He abandoned all those high-end financial camouflage methods and threw out an extremely crude underlying logic.

"Uncle Wu, since we want to pretend to be poor, we naturally have to start from your personal private lives, most thoroughly and comprehensively."

Shen Du leaned forward slightly, his eyes looking at these hundred-billion oligarchs who were used to fine clothes and food:

"I also know that this method seems very rough in many high-end financial games and capital strategies. It can even be said to be the lowest-end operation."

"But this world is just that fucked up."

Shen Du changed the subject, tearing open the skin of reality:

"If you lose tens of billions on the books, the outside world can't see or touch it, and they might even suspect that you are cooking the books. But in the feedback of real society and those pervasive commercial probes, a cliff-like plunge in living standards is the most direct, most eye-catching, and most ironclad evidence to completely dispel the doubts of hostile forces!"

It must be said that Shen Du's words, like a heavy hammer, precisely hit the logical point of human nature.

Wu Tianheng took a deep breath.

He knew too well that the commercial spies and opponents' informants planted around them might not be able to see through complex offshore capital flows. But they could definitely understand the dishes on the tycoons' dining tables and the pomp of their outings.

He nodded slowly, his gaze becoming extremely heavy, and asked directly:

"Then how do you want us to pretend?"

Shen Du nodded and threw out the cruel details of this "comprehensive bankruptcy show".

"First of all, I have to trouble your eldest sons and daughters."

Shen Du's tone had no pity, cold as a precisely calculated machine:

"Starting from tomorrow, cut their pocket money in a cliff-like manner. Even, force them to sell their limited-edition sports cars, luxury watches, and luxury bags in the open circle."

Watching the slightly twitching corners of the eyes of several giants, Shen Du pointed out this logic:

"I want those commercial spies to see with their own eyes the resentment that erupted within your wealthy families because of the 'cut-off of food'. Create a realistic illusion that the capital chain has completely broken and you can't even protect your offspring."

The private room was terrifyingly quiet.

Everyone knew that this was simply a disaster for those pampered second generations. But compared to the future trillion-dollar territory, this little sacrifice was not worth mentioning.

"Secondly, it's you yourselves."

Shen Du pointed to the exquisite high-end custom suits they were wearing:

"In the shopping mall, you must still show that crazy gambler mentality and maintain normal capital flow. Even pretend to grit your teeth and fill the blood of the main business into this bottomless pit of semiconductors. But in your private lives, your level must undergo a visible downgrade."

"Don't throw away old clothes or those high-end custom suits directly if they have small damages; send them to the tailor shop to be repaired and worn."

Shen Du pressed both hands on the tabletop, his gaze sharply sweeping across the audience:

"Before we successfully close the net in the Hong Kong Stock Market next year, all of us, besides keeping the offshore accounts tightly covered! Whether it is cutting company benefits, deducting year-end bonuses, or personal private life, we must all comprehensively show embarrassing financial distress!"

"If necessary, you even need to publicly hold auctions to sell those idle manors, yachts, and other non-core assets on hand!"

Shen Du hammered out the emphasis word by word, outlining the ultimate goal of this bitter-meat strategy:

"We want to send a strong signal to the outside world: You eight major consortiums have been completely squeezed dry of the last drop of blood by my Shen Du's semiconductor dream!"

The entire private room was silent. This kind of self-destructive acting could be called the most brilliant "black under the lamp" in commercial history.

"And in fact!"

Shen Du suddenly lowered his voice, an extremely dangerous brilliance erupting in his eyes:

"These funds that you 'lost' or 'squandered' on the surface have long flowed into the overseas ambush circle through the secret channels built by Uncle Zhou. The bullets are loaded, just waiting for the moment when Jiyuan Entertainment rings the bell next year!"

The eight people looked at each other, and the light flashing in their eyes became complicated.

They dared to throw out hundreds or thousands of billions in real money to gamble on a trillion-dollar future. But to let them sacrifice the face of the entire family, and even let the whole family "suffer and act" together. In this nearly crazy plan, there were still too many uncontrollable risks and unknowns.

Shen Du sat in the main seat, seeing the hidden weighing and hesitation in the eyes of these old foxes clearly.

He understood the inferiority of capital too well.

If it were just a logically perfect plan, it would be impossible to drive these oligarchs standing at the top of the pyramid to cooperate without reservation.

Therefore, Shen Du did not give them any room to retreat, and directly revealed his hardest and most fatal trump card.

"Gentlemen!"

Shen Du's voice exploded abruptly in the private room.

He stood up abruptly, his hands heavily supported on the tabletop, his eyes like a head wolf completely plunged into madness:

"If it succeeds, in this wave of the Hong Kong Stock Market, we can earn back all the investment we put in in the past, doubled or even tenfold!"

He stared dead at Wu Tianheng and Zhou Zhenghai, throwing out the chip that they simply could not refuse:

"If it fails... I, Shen Du, am willing to share all the future profits of the chip foundry, Meituan, and Jiyuan Entertainment in my hands with you all forever, as compensation!"

As soon as these words were spoken, the air in the entire private room was instantly ignited and completely boiled over!

Wu Tianheng's fingers holding the cigar shook violently, and Zhou Zhenghai, who had always been calm, gasped in disbelief.

Su Yunjing, Li Jianfeng, Qin Zhengye, and others looked at each other.

Everyone's breathing became heavy at this moment.

The names Shen Du just reported were his most profitable, most cash-flow-terrifying, and most dominant core assets currently in his hands!

This group of old foxes instantly calculated this account in their minds:

Even in the worst case, the Hong Kong Stock Market plan collapsed completely. At most, they would have a short-term break in cash flow and accompany Shen Du in a face-losing farce.

But as a bottom-line return, they would directly divide Shen Du's internet money-printing machine that was terrifyingly huge!

This is a heaven-defying gamble using Shen Du's entire net worth and future as collateral!

If they lose, they still have Meituan and Jiyuan Entertainment to continuously replenish their blood; but once they succeed...

After the brief shock, the eyes of the eight people instantly erupted with fanatic and bloodthirsty light.

They would completely become the behind-the-scenes controllers of the global semiconductor empire!

Facing this feast where even the retreat was paved with gold by Shen Du, these old foxes would rather sink to the bottom of the Huangpu River with the ship than ever get off the boat.