252: Chapter 253: Hijacking All of Europe's Pension Funds, Cold Engraving Machines Undergo Upgrade

Mid-January 2015.

Inside a VIP lounge at a certain European stock exchange.

General Manager Chen Shengqiang stood before the blinds, watching the growing crowd of financial media gathered in the square downstairs.

He turned his head to look at Shen Du sitting on the sofa, lowering his voice:

"General Manager Shen, our foundry in Europe only finalized its site selection last week, and the first construction team only officially entered the site to start work this morning."

"Logically speaking, a shell project where even the foundation has not been laid well,"

"can basically not pass the financial regulatory review here, let alone directly ring the bell and list today."

Shen Du picked up the black tea on the table and took a sip, his expression as usual without responding.

Duke Victor, sitting opposite Shen Du, put down his teacup.

He leisurely tidied his suit cuffs, leaned against the back of the sofa, and smiled:

"Mr. Chen, the compliance process of financial regulation is used to restrict ordinary enterprises."

"When the person who makes the rules is willing to enter the field, those processes are just a threshold that can be moved at will."

Victor turned his head to look at Shen Du, pulled out a thick document from the briefcase beside him, and pushed it to the center of the coffee table.

"Just last night, I cleared all the joints of the securities market, and all cumbersome review procedures are completely exempted."

Victor reached out and pointed at the cover of the document:

"As for how to shut the mouths of the media and the public outside, I have also prepared the most perfect reason for you."

Shen Du put down his teacup, reached out to open the document, and glanced at it.

Above was a commercial statement agreement jointly signed by multiple top European communication operators and veteran car companies.

"This is an exclusive procurement order lasting up to ten years with a total value exceeding hundreds of billions of euros."

Victor explained steadily from the side:

"From the moment the bell rings today,"

"not only all communication base stations in Europe, but also high-end automotive chips and semiconductor mobile phone chips for the next ten years,"

"will be specified in black and white to be exclusively produced and manufactured by Jiyuan Technology's foundry."

Victor looked at Shen Du and spread his hands:

"With this official-backed open conspiracy statement,"

"a leading semiconductor enterprise holding hundreds of billions of euros in orders going public does not have any irregular operations, and everything is logical."

Half a month later.

Inside the temporarily rented Jiyuan Technology European office, General Manager Chen Shengqiang stood in front of the large trading display screen.

Looking at the almost vertically upward stock price K-line chart on it, he subconsciously loosened his tie.

"General Manager Shen, this move of 'empty order smashing' by you and the Duke has completely fed the appetite of these European capitals."

General Manager Chen Shengqiang turned around and handed the market weekly report in his hand to Shen Du sitting behind the desk.

Just half a month ago.

When that super procurement order lasting up to ten years and totaling over hundreds of billions of euros was made public,

throughout the European market, those opposing voices that originally questioned Jiyuan Technology for "illegal listing" and "shell cash grabbing"

vanished overnight.

"The initial issue price of ten euros per share when listing has officially broken through eighty-five euros at the market opening this morning."

General Manager Chen Shengqiang pointed at the constantly jumping red characters on the screen, his tone carrying a trace of unreality:

"Under the instigation of these European old money,"

"the countries participating in the joint statement directly used domestic government bonds and pension pools as the first wave of main force,"

"and forcibly smashed them into our plate."

Shen Du took the weekly report, opened it, and glanced at the capital inflow details above.

The profit-seeking nature of capital was vividly demonstrated in these half a month.

With the official large order of hundreds of billions of euros as endorsement, plus the forced pull of European local core capital,

Jiyuan Semiconductor, a company whose factory foundations were still being piled, completely became a gold mine in the eyes of global investors.

Without needing to do any roadshows, massive overseas hot money swarmed in like sharks smelling a scent.

The huge capital flow directly locked Jiyuan Technology's stock price firmly at the daily limit board.

For half a month continuously, there was no sign of any pullback.

"As long as there are sufficient benefits to bottom out, no one will care whether our headquarters building is built well or not."

Shen Du closed the report, threw it on the desktop, and set the core logic of this game:

"Now, most of Europe's pensions and government-issued bonds are trapped in our stocks."

"Even if Jiyuan Technology is a paper-mâché shell,"

"they will actively use steel bars and cement to help us cast it into the most solid fortress."

General Manager Chen Shengqiang looked at the stock price as stable as Mount Tai on the screen.

Just as he was about to turn around to pour a glass of water, the tablet on the desk suddenly popped up several urgent pushes from overseas tech media consecutively.

He picked it up, glanced at it a few times, and sneered:

"General Manager Shen, the semiconductor giants in the United States can no longer sit still."

"Qualcomm, NVIDIA, and Microsoft have just released a joint statement."

Shen Du raised his head: "What did they say?"

"Quite similar to our expectation, playing the technology card."

General Manager Chen Shengqiang handed over the tablet: "They high-profilely announced that they will forcefully push a new generation process of 48 or even 28 nanometers within this year."

"Between the lines, they are blowing wind to the capital market."

"Implying that the 68-nanometer production line in our hands is backward production capacity, wanting to use this wave of technological generation gap to smash down our stock price in Europe."

Shen Du took the tablet.

Without even looking at those lengthy statements, he directly switched back to the real-time broad market of the European securities market.

The red K-line representing Jiyuan Semiconductor was still steadily nailed at the position of the daily limit board, without even a trace of downward fluctuation.

"They can't smash it down."

Shen Du pushed the tablet back onto the desktop:

"Now we don't need to step forward to counterattack at all; European local capital and media will actively bite for us."

As if to verify Shen Du's words,

General Manager Chen Shengqiang just refreshed the information interface.

The front-page headlines of several mainstream European financial and tech media had already crushed up overwhelmingly.

General Manager Chen Shengqiang looked at those sharply worded bold titles on the screen and couldn't help reading them out:

" 'An immature new process equals the risk of not leaving the laboratory!' 'What automotive-grade and industrial-grade chips want is power consumption stability and low cost, rather than aggressive technological iteration!' "

"These European mouthpieces are more active than us in defending the market now."

General Manager Chen Shengqiang shook his head.

"Interests are tightly bound together."

"Smashing our market now is smashing the rice bowls of European pensions and domestic bonds, so they naturally have to protect it desperately."

Shen Du leaned against the back of the chair, his tone steady:

"Moreover, over the past half year, the 68-nanometer chips we output have long made a solid reputation of low power consumption and high stability in all walks of life in Europe."

"Users are accustomed to stable iteration with a transition period."

"The US side directly pulling such a large span now will only make market customers question their yield rate and lifespan."

General Manager Chen Shengqiang nodded in deep agreement:

"Indeed."

"This wave of joint voice not only failed to suppress our stock price, but instead brought fire to themselves."

"I just saw internal news."

"Qualcomm and NVIDIA, in order to appease customers' doubts about lifespan risks,"

"have been forced to delay the rhythm of new products and rush back to the laboratory to redo durability tests."

General Manager Chen Shengqiang looked at the data completely sealed at the daily limit board on the screen and let out a long breath:

"General Manager Shen, the broad market can be considered completely stabilized."

"As long as European capital does not withdraw, no one can cross this moat."

Shen Du nodded slightly and withdrew his line of sight from the trading display screen.

After half a month of intensive operations, the entire commercial closed loop of listing in Europe was finally buckled seamlessly.

The flesh, blood, and interests of the European market were completely bound to Jiyuan Technology's chariot at this moment.

Just at the moment when Shen Du reached out to pick up the teacup and was ready to explain the details of the next step of production line promotion,

a long-absent electronic prompt tone without any emotional color suddenly sounded abruptly in the depths of his mind.

"Bip——"

"Main Quest: 'Cross the Four Seas' has been completed."

"Complete the overall listing preparation of Jiyuan Technology, impact the European stock market to ring the bell, and the total market value exceeds 10 billion US dollars, perfectly achieved!"

"Cross-era dividend rewards are being distributed, choose two out of three."

Those semiconductor giants in the United States were still counting on using advanced processes that had not left the laboratory to suppress Jiyuan Technology.

But they didn't know at all.

Shen Du braved compliance risks and went to great lengths to forcibly knock open the door of the European stock market at this time node,

waiting precisely for this moment of system settlement.

Now, that sufficient "new technology backup move" was finally officially unlocked and entered the arena:

"Option 1: Core technology of high-precision industrial paintbrushes."

"Option 2: Cold Etching Machine nanometer-level precision enhancement technology."

"Option 3: Cross-era flexible glass wafer preparation technology."

Shen Du's hand holding the teacup paused slightly in mid-air.

His brain ran rapidly, his gaze sweeping over the three options in his mind, directly eliminating the first item "industrial paintbrush".

Under this historical background, this tool was not without substitutes.

Since he had just made a final decision to let Fu Zhaonan lead a team to land a new factory in South Korea,

he could completely take advantage of South Korea's local mature semiconductor precision processing technology,

and cooperate with Samsung's existing industrial chain resources for reverse mapping.

Directly according to the specifications of the Cold Etching Machine, he could readjust and polish a usable set of industrial paintbrushes.

There was no need at all to waste precious reward slots on this.

Shen Du didn't hesitate at all, and decisively locked onto the last two items in his consciousness.

Choosing the Cold Etching Machine precision upgrade could directly smooth out or even crush the 28-nanometer generation gap about to be launched by the US side from the bottom layer.

And that cross-era flexible glass wafer technology

was a true dimensionality-reduction material, enough to completely subvert all future smart terminal forms.

"Rewards have been distributed."

As the system voice faded away, Shen Du leisurely took a sip of black tea and steadily placed the teacup back on the desktop.

General Manager Chen Shengqiang keenly perceived the pause in Shen Du's action just now, leaning forward slightly:

"General Manager Shen, what's wrong? Do you still have any concerns about the hardware end?"

"No concerns."

Shen Du looked at General Manager Chen Shengqiang, his tone steady and crisp:

"Don't worry about the matter of process generation gap."

"You immediately notify Xu Hao to clear out the test area."

Looking at General Manager Chen Shengqiang's somewhat surprised gaze, Shen Du pushed the teacup in his hand aside and explained the subsequent trend:

"Since Europe's interest plate has been welded shut, it's time for us to change the market's appetite."

"Get ready to take over the upgrade plan of the Cold Etching Machine."