208: Chapter 209 The Trojan Horse Unleashes Its Power! A Secret Alliance Olive Branch Spreads Behind the West's Back

"Boom!"

Accompanied by a low and manic roar of an engine.

The black Porsche Panamera with a consecutive-number license plate, like a beast tearing through the night, drove out of the underground garage of the Yonglu Tingquan Pavilion.

Not until the car had driven two blocks away, completely clear of the club's vicinity.

Chen Fei, sitting in the driver's seat, let out a long breath, his tense nerves finally relaxing.

He rested one hand on the steering wheel.

His other hand touched the one-million-yuan cash check in his suit pocket, which still carried body heat, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but curl upward wildly.

He immediately picked up the phone on the passenger seat and dialed Shen Du's number.

"Brother Shen!"

As soon as the call connected, Chen Fei couldn't suppress the excitement in his tone, reporting like a machine gun:

"It's done!

These Koreans are absolutely crazy. To get five minutes with you in three days, they shelled out a five-million 'door-knocking brick' directly!

A one-million deposit check is in my pocket right now!"

"Five million for five minutes?"

On the other end of the line.

Shen Du, sitting in the top-floor office of Jiyuan Technology, felt a flicker of light in his deep eyes upon hearing this offer.

He then let out a calm chuckle.

"It seems these Koreans are truly pushed into a corner by our technology and are determined to meet me."

Shen Du leaned back against the leather chair, his fingers tapping lightly on the desk.

"Then, Brother Shen, how shall we arrange the meeting in three days?"

Chen Fei asked for instructions: "Should I have someone clear out the largest 'Heaven' VIP room at Yonglu and set it up more grandly?"

"Grandly? Do they deserve that?"

Shen Du's voice turned cold instantly, carrying the unquestionable pressure of a superior:

"Since they paid such a high price, I must show mercy and hear what they actually want to say.

But Chen Fei, you must remember, this meeting must absolutely not be any form of 'formal reception'."

Chen Fei felt a jolt in his heart and immediately perked up his ears: "You mean..."

"If I go to meet them with great fanfare, it's equivalent to telling these foreign investors that I, Shen Du, am very interested in the chips they hold.

That is a major taboo at the negotiating table."

Shen Du looked at the dazzling night view of the Magic City outside the floor-to-ceiling window, his tone deep and shrewd, personally setting the tone for this play:

"In three days, I will go to Yonglu.

But my trip is to handle private matters; it has nothing to do with those Koreans."

"What you need to do is arrange a perfect 'chance encounter'."

Shen Du pointed out the key: "In front of them, I must be in a state of 'complete ignorance'.

You must find a way to invite me into their room under 'compelling circumstances'."

"Only in this way will I always be the god high above, whom they struggled so hard to meet!

The initiative must be firmly grasped in our own hands!"

Listening to this textbook-level psychological game from Shen Du.

Chen Fei on the other end felt his scalp tingle, instantly enlightened.

High!

It's simply too high!

The Koreans spent five million, fully believing they bought a business meeting.

Little did they know, in Shen Du's script.

This five million just bought a chance for Shen Du to "accidentally bump into" them, and it even depends on Shen Du's mood!

"I understand, Brother Shen!

Don't worry, I guarantee I will arrange this play flawlessly for you!"

"Go arrange it."

Shen Du replied flatly and hung up the phone.

After hanging up, the empty top-floor CEO's office returned to silence.

Shen Du threw the phone onto the wide mahogany desk.

He stood up slowly and walked to the huge floor-to-ceiling window.

With his hands behind his back, he overlooked the brilliant, decadent Oriental Magic City beneath his feet.

In Chen Fei's eyes, this was just a brilliant psychological game of "five million for five minutes".

But in the eyes of a chess player like Shen Du, who stood at the center of a trillion-dollar game.

This five minutes involved a massive net capable of tearing apart the Western technology blockade.

Shen Du's deep eyes reflected the brilliant neon lights.

His thoughts drifted to the secure phone on his desk that connected directly to the authorities not long ago.

It was Secretary Shen Hai who called personally.

"The official assessment results are out."

On the phone, the voice of Secretary Shen Hai, who had always been unflappable even if Mount Tai collapsed before him, was surprisingly filled with a rare, irrepressible excitement:

"The Koreans are not here to steal secrets this time.

Not just Samsung Electronics, the chaebol.

Even the Korean authorities behind them are showing us their goodwill for an alliance through this 500 million USD order!"

Hearing this assessment, even Shen Du was slightly moved at the time.

You know, in the highly sensitive field of semiconductors.

Korea, as a bridgehead for the Western technology camp, had always been strictly guarding against China.

What exactly could make them risk offending Wall Street and actively extend an olive branch to Jiyuan Technology?

Secretary Shen Hai gave the answer directly on the phone:

"Technology! It's absolute technological crushing!"

"Do you remember the 100 million scale of low-end home appliance chips we OEM'd for Samsung last year to test the waters?"

Secretary Shen Hai became more excited as he spoke:

"The intelligence department spent a high price to get Samsung's internal test evaluation report.

The batch of chips they put into their flagship appliances showed terrifying quality that felt unbelievable!"

Because of the process used, the chips produced by Jiyuan Technology were twice as large.

But in terms of power consumption and heat generation, they were so low that it defied the physical common sense of contemporary semiconductors!

"Due to the extremely low power consumption and almost no heat, this directly caused the failure rate of Korean appliances equipped with our chips to drop off a cliff!"

Secretary Shen Hai recounted the core data from the intelligence:

"This also saved Samsung a massive amount of trouble and billions in huge costs in subsequent chip packaging, motherboard thermal design, and fatigue life testing!"

Low power demand and low heat generation meant that the lifespan of electronic components would be infinitely extended.

Performance could remain as excellently stable in any harsh extreme environment as it was in the laboratory!

"Previously, it was just low-end appliance chips, and they had already tasted the irresistible sweetness.

Now, when they discovered that we could even OEM the most core high-speed memory chips, and they still possessed this 'heaven-defying heat dissipation' attribute..."

Secretary Shen Hai's voice carried a sense of pride:

"The Koreans are completely broken!"

Recalling the conclusion that Secretary Shen Hai could not hide his excitement on the phone.

Shen Du slowly withdrew his drifting thoughts.

He stood in front of the huge floor-to-ceiling window, overlooking the brilliant Oriental Magic City beneath his feet.

Deep in his profound eyes, a scorching wildfire capable of starting a prairie fire quietly ignited.

The official's assessment and the sharp sense of smell Shen Du had honed in the business world reached a perfect consensus at this moment.

Korea, as a small peninsula nation that had long survived in the cracks between the great powers of the East and West, had a kind of extremely snobbish yet sober pragmatism and admiration for strength engraved in its bones.

In the past, the reason they faithfully acted as a bridgehead for Western technology blockades and strictly guarded against China.

Was because Wall Street and Silicon Valley held hegemony in the semiconductor field.

But now, things were different.

That batch of "big guy" appliance chips from Jiyuan Technology that tested the waters was like a Trojan Horse, seemingly crude but actually filled with nuclear weapons,

tearing a shocking hole in the semiconductor defense line that the Koreans were proud of, with a posture of near-brutal "dimensional reduction strike"!

Excellent performance, extremely low power consumption, heaven-defying heat dissipation, cliff-like drop in failure rate...

When these terrifying data that defied the physical common sense of contemporary semiconductors.

Were placed squarely on the desks of the top brass of Samsung Group.

The scales in the hearts of those profit-seeking Korean chaebols had completely tilted.

If China had really secretly mastered this underlying technology capable of overturning the entire world's semiconductor landscape.

Why would they still follow their Western masters in engaging in technology blockades?

As long as they could board this technological giant ship of Jiyuan Technology that was destined to soar into the sky.

As long as they could get the OEM or even authorization for this heaven-defying process.

Even if it meant backstabbing the Western camp and bearing the monstrous pressure of offending Wall Street, the Koreans would absolutely not hesitate!

This was the obscure yet heavy olive branch of alliance that the Korean authorities, through Samsung Electronics, threw to China behind that 500 million USD memory order!

"The so-called international joint sanctions and technology blockades have never been an iron plate."

Shen Du stood with his hands behind his back, looking at his own cold and majestic face reflected on the glass window.

A corner of his mouth hooked into an arrogant sneer.

The business world is like a battlefield, and the game between countries is even more so.

There has always been only one truth in this world:

When you have no trump cards and no core technology in your hands.

The blockade net set by others is an impenetrable wall, and you can only be manipulated and slaughtered like a beggar.

But when you truly possess the absolute strength to ignore all rules and directly overturn the entire chessboard...

That seemingly airtight Western technology blockade net is just a joke that collapses at a single touch!

"Five million for five minutes..."

Shen Du turned around.

His gaze crossed the wide mahogany desk, having penetrated space, seeing the game in the Tingquan Water Pavilion in three days.

This five million was not only the "letter of allegiance" handed over by Samsung Group.

But also the first domino pushed over for Jiyuan Technology to truly move towards the world and disintegrate the Western technological hegemony!

"In three days, I want to see just how far the knees of you Korean chaebols can bend."