12: No sincerity, bureaucracy kills people

Stone Forest, a high-end cafe.

Inside an expensive private room.

Sat three extremely well-dressed, middle-aged greasy men.

Among them, seated in the center C position, was Li Ke, who had previously called Meng Hao.

As the Deputy Director of the R&D Department of Guoguang Automobile Group, Li Ke exuded an arrogant aura from his bones.

In any technology-based enterprise, the R&D department is the backbone, and the Deputy Director of the R&D department is even more of a key figure.

Li Ke's brother-in-law, the Deputy Chairman of Guoguang Automobile Group headquarters, had long promised him that after working for another three to five years, he would be transferred to a subsidiary of Guoguang Automobile Group to serve as the General Manager.

“Director Li, we flew all the way from Kyoto City to Shilin, a third-tier city. Who are we meeting?”

To the side.

Li Ke's assistant, Zhu Hong, the Director's assistant with pointed ears and monkey cheeks, asked with a flattering smile.

“Not sure.”

“It's a task assigned to my brother-in-law, who is also our Group's Deputy Chairman, by the Chairman.”

“They say they've taken a liking to a highly capable expert.”

“According to my brother-in-law, this expert has developed a production line for 12nm process chips.”

The two assistants instantly held their breath and looked at him with awe.

Developing a production line for 12nm process chips, let alone in China, would make them an extremely impressive talent, even globally.

Pfft.

Seeing the two assistants' solemn and respectful expressions, Li Ke burst into laughter.

“If they were truly that impressive, it would be impossible for us few to come into contact with them; instead, the General Manager of our Guoguang Automobile Group would personally handle the negotiations.”

“I heard that Wang Qianda, the General Manager of Chida Real Estate, recommended this ‘expert’ to our General Manager Li Bin.”

“And the reason for his recommendation is that this ‘expert’ helped his son, Wang Cong, build mechs worth tens of millions each.”

Mechs?

Wang Cong?

Tens of millions each?

This feeling, how does it sound Li Ke a charlatan who bought a flashy toy for a landlord's foolish son?

The expressions of anticipation and respect on the faces of Li Ke's two assistants instantly vanished.

In their opinion, the General Manager of Guoguang Automobile Group was too embarrassed to reject Wang Qianda, so they sent a few of them to Shilin City to go through the motions.

...

After a simple wash, Meng Hao put on a cheap white shirt with no logo, drove the half-used GL8 that came with the factory purchase, and went to the factory.

Since it was a hundred-billion-dollar deal, he naturally had to take it seriously.

The chip module included with the system was not enough; he also specifically took a 300mm diameter wafer from the A01 production line as a sample.

By the time Meng Hao arrived at the agreed-upon cafe, an hour had passed.

When Meng Hao walked into the private room where Li Ke and the others were, the atmosphere instantly became somewhat awkward and solidified.

Li Ke sized up Meng Hao.

A T-shirt with no logo.

One hand clutched a chip module with exposed wires.

The other hand held a shiny wafer without outer packaging.

Meng Hao, in his early twenties, did not look Li Ke an otherworldly expert or an IT master at all.

If it weren't for his incredibly handsome face, this “young expert” Meng Hao looked completely Li Ke an average student from a third-rate university with mediocre grades and no outstanding qualities.

Li Ke even felt that if the suspected chip module and wafer in Meng Hao's hands were replaced with chickens, ducks, and geese, he would look completely Li Ke a young man from the countryside who had just arrived in the city.

Li Ke and the other two, who were already skeptical of Meng Hao, became even more dismissive when they saw his attire.

“Are you Meng Hao?”

“I am Li Ke, Deputy Director of the R&D Department of Guoguang Automobile Group.”

“On behalf of Wang Qianda, Wang, we specifically flew from Kyoto City to have a chat with you.”

He didn't mention the matter of purchasing the hundred-billion-dollar chip manufacturing technology at all.

His words even revealed a strong sense of contempt.

It seemed as if Meng Hao would never have had the chance to meet Li Ke in his lifetime if Wang Qianda hadn't recommended him.

“Have a seat.”

“What you are holding in your hand, is that the so-called 12nm process chip module?”

“And what you are holding in your other hand is... a wafer?”

If it weren't for the sake of Principal Wang and Wang Cong, the big customer, Meng Hao would have definitely turned around and left immediately when faced with Li Ke and the other two, who exuded a bureaucratic aura and whose disdain for him was evident.

“This wafer looks Li Ke the real deal.”

“What manufacturing process?”

“Where did you get it?”

Li Ke crossed his legs and asked in a condescending manner.

“12 nanometer process.”

“The yield rate can reach over 80%.”

“Produced by my own factory.”

Meng Hao replied.

He even knows about the 12nm process?

He even knows that there is a yield rate when wafers are cut into chips.

Could this kid really have some skills?

Li Ke's attitude improved slightly.

“Looking at you, you must have just graduated, right? Where do you work?”

“Did you graduate from Tsinghua University in Kyoto? Or Fudan University in Shanghai? Or Shitou University in Jiang Province?”

“Is the institution you work for Huaxin or Guoxin or even TSMC? As far as I know, currently in Asia, only these three chip R&D units are the most advanced.”

Meng Hao shook his head.

“None of them.”

“Produced by my own factory.”

“Furthermore, I haven't even graduated from university yet.”

Li Ke and the other two exchanged strange glances.

Suppressing their laughter, they pretended to examine the wafer carefully for a while, then casually tossed it aside.

“You're saying that an unknown small workshop produced this 12nm process chip wafer, and can even achieve an 80% yield rate?”

“Do you know that even a top chip company Li Ke TSMC is doing well if the yield rate can reach 30% when producing new sample wafers.”

“We are not that young master from the Wang family; we are not that easy to fool.”

“In recent years, there have been many cases of using foreign technology to defraud China's national subsidies.”

Li Ke had already completely labeled Meng Hao as a “ fraud” ( fraud) in his heart.

“I have looked at this chip...” Li Ke paused: “...I will take it back to Guoguang Group and have professional engineers evaluate it.”

Li Ke almost blurted out that he had seen it with his own eyes and that it was not a 12nm process chip wafer at all.

As expected of the Deputy Director of the R&D Department of Guoguang Automobile Group, even Li Ke, who got his position through connections, was more reliable than the “Awei Reviews” UP master who claimed to be able to evaluate nanometer-level chips with the naked eye.

The conversation ended.

However, Meng Hao had no intention of leaving.

“Any other questions?” Li Ke looked at Meng Hao strangely.

“The wafer, the chip, you have to pay for them!” Meng Hao replied.

This bureaucratic, judgmental, and condescending Li Ke made Meng Hao very unhappy, and he had no intention of giving away the wafer and chip for free.

“How much?” Li Ke grinned.

“Five million, not too much, right?” Meng Hao replied.

“You really dare to ask.”

“However, Wang Qianda, Wang's face is indeed worth 5 million.”

“Give me your card number. I came with funds this time, so I'll transfer the money directly to you.”

A few minutes later.

After confirming that the 5 million had been credited, Meng Hao finally got up, ready to leave.

Before leaving, he left a few words.

“I am very sure that you will pay for your arrogance and rudeness sooner or later.”

“When that time comes, don't come crying and begging me!”

“Among China's state-owned national enterprises, it is precisely scumbags Li Ke you, who are judgmental and full of bureaucratic aura, that will cause them to decline.”

Facing Meng Hao, who had finished mocking him and left, Li Ke was not angry at all, only thinking he was complaining after his “scam” failed.

“Who said this trip was in vain.”

“When we report the expenses later, we'll say we spent fifteen million, and the extra ten million will be split among the three of us.”

“This useless chip and wafer, we'll throw them to the colleagues in the R&D department's evaluation team for testing and analysis later.”

“As far as I know, the various chips waiting for testing are already scheduled for two months later.”

“In more than two months, my brother-in-law will probably have forgotten about this matter.”

Li Ke, who had taken advantage of the situation and embezzled tens of millions of Guoguang Group's assets, hummed a tune and returned with his two assistants.

You are providing Dami Mi Gang's great country military industry: starting from black technology to dominate the world Meng Hao Qian Chen