Chapter 52: Lithography Machine Detained
“What! It’s been detained?”
In the Xinghai General Manager’s Office, Jin Qiaoying was full of disbelief after hanging up the telephone.
She knew that the nations of the White Alliance had all signed treaties imposing equipment embargoes on related enterprises in China.
But the 14nm lithography equipment purchased by Xinghai was not on the relevant embargo list.
How could it suddenly be detained by customs, and without giving a clear reason.
Jin Qiaoying’s expression became somewhat grave as she picked up the telephone and dialed out.
Although it should be late at night on the other side of the ocean at this moment, she couldn’t worry about such minor details.
“Isn’t this the esteemed eldest princess? Don’t you know how important sleep at night is for a woman?”
“Hiller, back in university when you were playing in bars until late at night every day, you didn’t say that. Is anyone beside you? I have something to ask for your help with.”
“Dear, I’ll take this call.”
Jin Qiaoying heard the cloying voice coming from the telephone, got goosebumps all over, and helplessly sat down on the sofa with her hand on her forehead.
Her best friend had a devilish figure, and heaven had also generously given her an angelic face.
She had been adept at navigating among the elite since university days.
Calling her was because Jin Qiaoying knew that with her connections, inquiring about such a small matter was no problem, and because the identity wasn’t high-profile, it wouldn’t attract others’ attention.
“Hey, dear, speak up. For someone like you to disregard social etiquette and disturb my sweet dreams in the middle of the night, it must be something extremely important, right?”
From the telephone, Hiller’s voice came through with a hint of curiosity.
Jin Qiaoying didn’t explain anything and went straight to the point: “Our company has a batch of equipment that was seized by customs. It’s not important equipment on the embargo list. All the relevant paperwork is complete. And there are substitute products domestically in China, but due to production capacity issues, the delivery cycle would be very long.”
“Someone dared to seize San Xin’s equipment?”
Hiller on the other end of the telephone interrupted her in shock, and only then did Jin Qiaoying realize that Hiller had no idea what had happened to her.
“Forgot to tell you, I’m no longer working at San Xin. I’m now employed at Xinghai Technology. Have you heard of it?”
“Oh my god. That Xinghai Technology that’s recently risen in the battery domain? As expected of you, jumping from a San Xin district manager to a small company. That doesn’t seem like a wise decision.”
Jin Qiaoying didn’t say much in response but urged: “I’ll send you the cargo number. Help me check what’s the issue with it.”
Hiller chuckled coquettishly, not minding Jin Qiaoying’s attitude, and replied: “Got it, you dream-disturber.”
After saying that, Jin Qiaoying thanked her and hung up the telephone.
Rocky City in the rich area, on the other side of the ocean.
After hanging up the telephone, Hiller pondered for a moment between her brows but couldn’t figure out why her university best friend had left the perfectly good San Xin Group to join a small company that had just been founded not long ago.
She then walked into the room.
On the bed, that little man from China had fallen asleep again.
A strange smile appeared on Hiller’s lips as she lightly got onto the bed.
South Island Country.
As soon as the private plane carrying Jin Ze landed, he got straight into the luxury sedan that had been waiting for a long time and headed to San Xin Headquarters.
In the meeting room at headquarters, all those present were relevant persons in charge with real power in San Xin Group, and seated at the head was an elderly person with white hair.
The elderly person was precisely Jin Zhiyong, the previous generation Group Chairman who had been in charge of San Xin Group for over 30 years.
In the meeting room, it was precisely because of this elderly person’s presence that, even though the main person hadn’t arrived yet, the atmosphere was very quiet and solemn.
Jin Zhiyong was now advanced in age, and beneath his head of white hair, his aged face had eyes as sharp as a hawk.
“Grandfather, sorry to keep you waiting.”
In the meeting room, with Jin Ze’s arrival, the atmosphere suddenly relaxed a bit.
Jin Zhiyong’s gaze turned to his grandson at the door, immediately revealing a kindly smile.
“Next time remember, since I’ve now returned to the company, address me by my position. Alright, come and sit.”
Hearing this, Jin Ze smiled and nodded, not refuting.
Although everyone up and down San Xin Group regarded him as the Group successor, he knew the reason for all this was his grandfather.
He didn’t dare to be arrogant and sat down beside Jin Zhiyong.
“Alright, everyone’s here. Speak up. What urgent matter called us here for a meeting? I’ve heard that you used my connections to detain a batch of 14nm lithography machines procured by a small Chinese company in the United States.”
As he said this, everyone in the room immediately showed surprised expressions.
Using connections that even Jin Zhiyong would value, just to handle such a trivial matter. In their view, it was a bit of nonsense.
For this relatively backward process lithography equipment, China could already produce it and it had long been removed from the embargo list. Suddenly detaining these now, weren’t they afraid of getting themselves into trouble?
Jin Ze nodded, didn’t directly state the reason, but took out the prepared information and distributed it to the many shareholders in the room.
“Everyone, take a look first. This is the information I compiled on Xinghai Technology, the company that holds patents for high-voltage radio and solid-state battery technology.”
As his words fell, they gradually got a general idea of some information on Xinghai Technology from the materials.
Jin Ze’s gaze sharpened as he said softly: “Surprised?”
Jin Zhiyong didn’t speak. In recent years, most company affairs had been handled by Jin Ze on his behalf. His current purpose was to watch this grandson he was very satisfied with steadily take over his position step by step.
“This Fan Ren of Xinghai is absolutely a top genius. Perhaps many here previously didn’t pay much attention to him, since after all, Xinghai Technology’s current market value isn’t even tens of billions. It’s negligible before us at San Xin.”
Yes, although surprised that from the materials, Xinghai’s development history was only a short year, and in such a short time, they had successively developed two technologies with extremely high market value.
But this wasn’t enough to make those present care much.
San Xin’s industries spanned widely, with a market value as high as nearly 30,000 billion, and even with Xinghai’s impressive achievements, it was still as insignificant as an ant before San Xin.
Jin Ze didn’t mind everyone’s attitude. Previously, when he strongly proposed spending 50 billion to acquire the technology patents from Xinghai, many inside the company weren’t satisfied with his approach.
Although San Xin’s market value was as high as 30,000 billion, pulling out 50 billion in cash outside of planned budgets wasn’t that easy.
Jin Zhiyong wasn’t surprised either. If he knew that Jin Ze had even been willing to sacrifice Jin Qiaoying, who knows what he would think of this grandson.
But Jin Ze had strongly insisted on acquiring Xinghai’s technology, and as his grandfather back then, he could only back his grandson.
After all, no matter what, Xinghai’s technology did have enormous revenue potential. It just required shelling out a large sum of cash.
Although it was rejected by Xinghai.
Jin Ze continued: “What I’m about to say next, everyone must take seriously. This is also the main purpose of inviting everyone here today.
We learned from the Team Leader of Group 4 in Xinghai’s Technical Department that Xinghai has currently invested all its revenue into their new project.
This project might sound fanciful to those present when said aloud: graphene chip!”
Jin Ze paused, looking at the indifferent expressions on everyone’s faces, inwardly pitying them.
“But look back at the Xinghai development history in your hands, and this Fan Ren’s personal introduction. What would you all think?”
He couldn’t help but become extremely serious.
