48: Chapter 48 There's a mineral vein beneath my family's factory.

Chen Hao's voice became shrill due to extreme excitement.

"The purple light shines through, there is no impurity coating, and the purity is at least over seventy percent! And this hardness... it doesn't need deep high-temperature dismantling at all!"

A technician wearing glasses ran over, took out a portable X-ray spectrometer he was carrying, pressed it against the stone's surface, and pressed the detection button.

Two beeps sounded.

A string of data popped up on the screen.

The technician fell onto his backside on the ground.

"Brother Chen, this raw ore comes with associated stabilizer components. It doesn't need yttrium star stone catalysis; we can just put it directly into the micro-engraving machine tool for separation and use it!"

Chen Hao turned his head sharply to look at Lu Chen.

"Brother Lu, this... this pile..."

Chen Hao pointed at those several mountains of ore.

Lu Chen leaned against the metal door frame, took out a cigarette case, and lit one.

"This is just a small part."

Lu Chen exhaled white smoke, "Drill down along this land, and this associated purple niobium-tantalum vein is another twelve hundred meters long."

The entire underground space was deathly silent.

There was only the humming sound of the ventilation fans.

The outside world was worried to death over a single gram of catalyst.

Major car companies thought Chenguang Electronics was going to completely shut down and run out of gas.

The Morgan Consortium thought they had grabbed Lu Chen by the throat.

As it turned out, the guy had dug up a self-sufficient gold mine under his own factory.

Even more than half of the purification steps were saved.

Lu Chen held his cigarette and pointed at the pile of ore.

"Now that we have the materials, I'm still going to the Great Northwest tomorrow, but the work at home cannot stop."

Lu Chen looked at Chen Hao's bloodshot eyes.

"Aren't they blockading us outside? Didn't they say we would go bankrupt in three days?"

Lu Chen walked up to Chen Hao and reached out to pat his shoulder.

"Notify everyone to work in three shifts. Push all equipment and machines to operate at the red line. Use this pile of stones to push production capacity to the limit for me."

Lu Chen's voice was not loud, but it slammed into everyone's eardrums.

"Since Wang Teng wants to hold a global launch event in three days."

"I want to drown the entire overseas capital alive on that day using the sea of batteries we produce."

At the same time.

In the city center of Jiangcheng, the top-floor conference room of the Morgan building.

Wang Teng changed into a high-end custom suit.

Jason sat opposite him, and next to him sat several editors-in-chief of well-known domestic media.

"Mr. Jason, please rest assured."

Wang Teng picked up his red wine glass, "I have already booked the convention center. Three days from now, Tengfei Electronics will simultaneously ship one hundred thousand physical graphene fast-charging batteries. We aren't creating gimmicks; we will occupy the market with ready stock."

Jason raised his glass and clinked it.

"Is there any movement from Lu Chen's side?" Jason asked.

Wang Teng grinned.

"I bribed the owner of a boxed lunch stall near their factory. This afternoon, an armored cash transport vehicle drove into the Chenguang Electronics factory. I heard they were paying out severance to the employees. They know themselves that they can't hold on any longer."

Jason pushed up his glasses.

"Prepare the media press release. Three days from now will be the death date of the Chenguang Electronics Solid-state battery."

Wang Teng tilted his head back and downed the red wine in one gulp. A flash of excitement crossed his eyes.

"Lu Chen, this time, I want to see how you die."

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Fifteen meters underground.

The roaring sound was deafening.

The fully automatic miniature intelligent assembly platform was running at full speed, and the indicator lights were flashing frantically.

Chen Hao was wearing an anti-static suit with a sweat-soaked white towel hanging around his neck, his hands operating rapidly on the control panel.

"Big Mouth Liu! Keep up with the feeding speed! Don't drag your feet!" Chen Hao roared while turning back.

Big Mouth Liu ran over pushing a cart piled high with dark purple raw ore, panting heavily from exhaustion.

"Brother Hao, the purity of this ore is just too outrageous!"

Big Mouth Liu moved the ore box by box to the feeding port.

"We didn't even go through the pre-acid washing and high-temperature desulfurization processes; we can use it directly after it's cut by the micro-engraving machine tool!"

"This is because the foundation of the associated ore is solid!"

Chen Hao wiped the sweat from his forehead.

The ultra-precision CNC micro-engraving machine tool erupted with blinding sparks, the nano-scale cutting heads ruthlessly stripped away the ore's skin, and the high-purity purple powder was poured directly into the packaging assembly line through pipes.

Large batches of finished solid-state batteries were spat out in a line, falling into the transport crates.

Several college students held testing instruments, aiming them at the finished products to scan codes.

"The yield rate is one hundred percent."

A college student wearing glasses had shouted until his throat was hoarse.

The college student next to him sat slumped on the ground drinking water, pointing at the mountain of cardboard boxes nearby.

"Brother Hao, this shipping speed is too wicked. In these three hours, the warehouse has already been filled with five thousand batteries. Do we still need to maximize production capacity?"

Chen Hao sneered.

"Isn't foreign capital cutting off our food supply? Isn't Morgan trying to kill us?"

Chen Hao slapped the control console.

"Push all machines to the red line for me. No stopping for twenty-four hours. If you're tired, go to the sleep pod nearby and lie down for half an hour. We will use this pile of raw ore to level the entire world's market!"

Everyone roared in unison and threw themselves into work frantically.

On the ground, in the factory office building.

The conference room door was tightly closed.

Old Zhou stood in front of the conference table, his face glowing with health.

He was clutching a thick stack of market research reports tightly in his hand.

Sitting next to him were three middle-aged men in suits and leather shoes.

These were the senior sales directors that Old Zhou had just poached yesterday from various major joint-venture car companies with an annual salary of one million.

The leader was named Wu Dong.

Lu Chen sat on a swivel chair, casually spinning a silver lighter in his hand.

"General Manager Lu, production capacity has completely exploded."

Old Zhou swallowed his saliva, trying his best to suppress his excitement.

"According to the progress of those lunatics in the underground laboratory, in three days, our factory will be able to produce at least fifty thousand finished products in stock!"

Lu Chen stopped spinning the lighter.

Wu Dong immediately stood up and turned on the projector.

A set of data comparison charts popped up on the screen.

"General Manager Lu, this is the global new energy market pricing strategy we made overnight."

Wu Dong's voice was excited as he pointed his finger at the screen.

"The high-end graphene batteries controlled by the Morgan Consortium are only sold to top foreign car companies and are not quoted to the public. On the black market, a set is hyped up to three hundred thousand, and you still have to wait in line for three months."

Wu Dong changed to another slide, which was full of data on Chenguang Electronics solid-state batteries.

"Our battery has a range of two thousand kilometers, doesn't lose power at minus forty degrees, and charges fully in five minutes. This is freaking alien technology that is twenty years ahead of Earth."

Wu Dong excitedly pressed both hands on the tabletop.

"I stake my fifteen years of professional experience on this: let's price it directly at five hundred thousand. We don't need to engage in any hunger marketing. If we start selling today, by tomorrow, the purchasing presidents of major car companies will be kneeling at our factory gate to fight for the goods!"

Old Zhou was frantically fiddling with a calculator on the side.

"Five hundred thousand per set."

Old Zhou's eyes were shining, "Fifty thousand units of stock, if they all sell out, that's twenty-five billion!"

Old Zhou's hand holding the calculator was shaking.

"The vein is our own, and the college students are desperately compressing process losses. The cost is forty yuan at most. With this profit margin, even a money-printing machine would jam. General Manager Lu, by next month, you will definitely be the richest man in the province."

The other two sales supervisors nodded repeatedly, their faces full of admiration.

Lu Chen threw the lighter onto the table.

"Are you finished?" Lu Chen said indifferently.

Wu Dong was stunned for a moment.

"General Manager Lu, if you think five hundred thousand is conservative, we can directly set a starting auction price of one million. After all, the monopoly technology is in our hands."

Lu Chen pointed to the wastebasket in the corner.

"Throw that pile of scrap paper in your hand into it."