Chapter 45: Come Help Me
Fan Ren generally doesn’t drink coffee; it’s mostly used to stay awake while working overnight.
Although the effect is quite average.
Jin Qiaoying wrapped herself in the blanket, her body’s trembling gradually slowing, and some color returning to her face.
“So, as long as I agree to transfer the patent, your mother can be buried in the Jin Family Ancestral Tomb?”
Fan Ren’s words broke the silence. Jin Qiaoying sighed; saying these things now was meaningless. She just nodded without speaking.
“What then? Any plans?”
Jin Qiaoying looked up at Fan Ren, her gaze falling on her suitcase, revealing confusion: “Return to the family, wait for the family’s arrangement, maybe marry a very rich man.”
Fan Ren knew she was still thinking of trading her personal interests for the family agreeing to move her mother’s remains to the ancestral tomb.
“Come work for me, how about it?”
Eagerness flashed in Jin Qiaoying’s eyes, but she quickly thought of something and shook her head.
“Xinghai can grow very large in the future; in ten years, or decades, reaching a hundred billion scale won’t be an issue.”
She didn’t say the rest, but Fan Ren knew what she meant.
She only wanted her mother’s ashes moved to the ancestral tomb; Fan Ren couldn’t help her with that.
Fan Ren smiled, unperturbed.
He knew that relying solely on batteries and high-voltage radio wouldn’t quickly develop Xinghai to the same scale as San Xin.
But Xinghai’s technological development obviously went beyond that.
“Five years! Come work for me, and in five years, I have confidence to let you, relying on Xinghai, properly arrange your mother’s matter openly.”
After speaking, Fan Ren took the empty coffee cup to the tea table to get some water, not urging her, waiting for her answer.
Jin Qiaoying’s abilities were beyond doubt, and Xinghai happened to lack talent in business management.
Fan Ren had originally thought of hiring with high salary, but Xinghai’s current scale was too small to attract truly big-picture business talent.
And the Jin Qiaoying before him happened to have the ability to manage a hundred billion enterprise.
Moreover, her abilities were obvious to all; in an old multinational giant enterprise, she had the strength to make a single district’s business number one.
Jin Qiaoying cast a puzzled gaze; though she had some fondness for Fan Ren, even for Liu Jun.
In them, Jin Qiaoying saw her younger self just out of school: as boss, willing to set aside pride for a single deal, tirelessly going door-to-door begging for cooperation.
Moreover, Fan Ren was a typical tech otaku; as boss of a multibillion company, drinking cheap coffee, living in the office, sleeping on a narrow folding bed.
Material comforts seemed irrelevant to him.
But this didn’t make her trust Fan Ren with naive faith like a young girl.
Five years to build Xinghai to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with San Xin?
She didn’t doubt her own abilities, but Xinghai’s current platform was insufficient!
San Xin Group wasn’t just a leader in some industry; it was a giant multinational with stakes in many industries, from electronic components to light industry, even heavy industry domains, all with significant influence.
Just taking market value, an imprecise metric, San Xin’s current market value was a terrifying nearly 3 trillion.
While Xinghai’s battery domain and high-voltage radio domain combined didn’t reach that market scale.
Did Fan Ren not know this?
At this thought, the puzzlement in Jin Qiaoying’s gaze carried some expectation.
This was a man who could create miracles.
Wasn’t the solid-state battery one?
Who could have imagined that this solid-state battery, shattering traditional lithium battery domains with huge improvements in functionality, convenience, and safety, was developed by the man before her.
Fan Ren handed her the teacup refilled with hot water, nodding lightly at her gaze.
“Next, Xinghai will spin off independently to establish High-Voltage Radio Company, Solid-State Battery Company, and Xingyun Manufacturing, which will soon invest heavily in building factories.”
Jin Qiaoying held the hot water in her palms, nodding: “I know, but it’s not enough.”
Fan Ren sat across from her, lit a cigarette without hurry. He organized his thoughts on future arrangements, then spoke.
“After these are done, Xinghai will travel light and fully enter the semiconductor industry. This is a huge market; as a pure technology company, Xinghai can’t ignore semiconductors.”
As he spoke, he poured himself a cup of water, took a sip with the hand holding the cigarette, and continued: “I know, achieving results in semiconductors isn’t overnight.
So next, Xinghai will establish a semiconductor laboratory, and besides next year’s investment project budget, all annual revenue will go into semiconductor chip research and development.
And personally, though I hold 100% of Xinghai, I probably won’t get a single cent in dividends for a long time.”
“All?”
“Yes, all revenue will go to semiconductor chip research and manufacturing.”
Fan Ren nodded affirmatively, ignoring Jin Qiaoying’s doubt. He stood, went to the window, pulled open the curtains; a slight breeze dispersed some of the office’s smell of smoke.
“You might wonder where my confidence comes from, to view the world’s most cutting-edge tech product so simply.
Sorry, but regarding these, I can only tell you it’s a trade secret.
The only thing I can say is that Xinghai is taking a brand new path, not the thoroughly exploited old road of traditional silicon chips.”
Jin Qiaoying gazed at Fan Ren’s back, shock uncontrollably in her eyes.
If what Fan Ren said was true, Xinghai’s annual revenue wasn’t low; instead of using it to expand market and capture solid-state battery and high-voltage radio markets, it would invest in the chip industry, known as the industrial brain.
And boldly claiming a brand new path.
She knew how fanciful it was, since San Xin Group was involved in semiconductors, and she knew how difficult it was.
But was high-voltage radio easy?
Was solid-state battery easy?
“Telling you this, I’m not afraid to admit Xinghai lacks people. Don’t laugh, but with Vice President Liu and me, I’m not familiar with business, and though he’s from a business family, his vision is limited.
Not to mention far-off things, just spinning off Xinghai and establishing subsidiaries will be challenging enough for us two.
And that’s because Xinghai is a private company, so many processes don’t need much consideration.”
Hearing this, Jin Qiaoying couldn’t help asking: “So, the spun-off subsidiaries will list in the future? What about Xinghai?”
Fan Ren nodded; chip research and development required funds beyond a simple number—billions make a splash, hundreds of billions make a sound.
Though he had the full tech, equipment costs, lab setup, consumables, etc., all needed money.
Without listing, where would the money come from? This was one fundamental reason for spinning off Xinghai.
Moreover, even after spin-off, patent technology ownership remained with Xinghai parent company; just this ensured Xinghai’s invincible position.
The benefit was relying on subsidiaries’ listing to obtain large funds to support Xinghai, allowing him to invest in semiconductors quickly.
