The rebirth of the Hong Kong Island chaebol, starting with a short-selling Eagle Sauce

In the 80s, there was a lack of entertainment items, and watching TV could be said to be people's only way of entertainment.

As long as there is a TV at home, the whole family will definitely be waiting in front of the TV on New Year's Eve, waiting for the party to start.

At this time, "television fever" swept across urban and rural areas across the country.

In economically developed villages, the TV penetration rate is nearly 90.00%.

In the rural concept at that time.

"Buying a TV" is not only a way of entertainment and leisure, but also a symbol of "eliminating poverty and becoming rich" and a "ten thousand yuan household".

Of course, color TVs are still luxury goods and cannot be bought with money.

You have to buy it with a ticket!

Of course Wang Zhengyi knew the value of this invitation.

This invitation is a relatively special round-table invitation. The camera will scan the front row, the main object of interaction between the host and the actors.

The most important thing is that a round table can seat 4 people!

During lunch, Wang Zhengyi proudly took out this invitation in front of the gambling king.

It is very similar to some people in later generations who show off military parade invitations, Olympic opening ceremony tickets, and World Cup tickets in their circle of friends.

"Father-in-law, let's go to Kyoto to watch the Spring Festival Gala live together."

Watching the Spring Festival Gala live?

The gambling king couldn't help being stunned. He was excited and a little bit sour at the same time. Why did Wang Zhengyi have an invitation letter but he didn't!

The stubborn gambling king didn't want to see Lao Wang look proud.

But when I thought about it, this was a good opportunity to show my face in front of the whole country.

He could only grit his teeth and say:

"Okay, let my Chaoqiong drive the car when the time comes."

Obviously, he has a psychological shadow on Lao Wang's driving skills.

The group of people were all happy, but Wang Lei fell into deep thought.

He suddenly thought of a piece of dusty history.

Since the 80s, Longguo has begun exporting color TV sets to Xizhou.

Because of their low prices, the profits of several local home appliances in Xizhou such as Philips of the Netherlands, Thomson of France, and Grundig of Germany have plummeted. People in Xizhou are jumping out of their skins in a hurry!

The famous Philips began to sell off its fledgling lithography machine business in order to save itself due to a sharp drop in profits from home appliances! ! !

Lithograph, this magical machine, holds the lifeblood of semiconductor technology.

It is the core equipment used to make chips.

Many people know that this is a black technology that is stuck in our beautiful country.

The money we spend on purchasing chips every year is more than oil!

Once the supply of chips is cut off, it will be a catastrophe.

As early as the 60s, Philips was researching lithography machines, and it has many technologies that are at the forefront of the world.

But at this moment, foreigners do not realize the importance of lithography machines, because tens of millions of dollars in research funds are spent every year. Faced with this bottomless pit, Philips once thought about selling the lithography machine business.

They did indeed do this. On April Fool's Day in 84, they completely divested the photolithography machine business and established the famous ASML with a small company.

If Wang Zhengyi and Du Wang hadn't happened to talk about the price of color TVs at the dinner table, he would have almost forgotten this period of history.

It was not until 1996 that the United States took the lead in signing the Wassenaar Agreement.

The content of the agreement is simply as follows:

The Beautiful Country and its friends began to impose the strongest technical barriers and weapons embargo on the Dragon Country, including lithography machines.

Long Guo was arranged by Ying Jiang.

Thinking of this, Wang Lei avoided everyone and first called Robert.

"Boss, you want to buy a photolithography machine? That thing is not cheap."

"If it's not cheap, buy it. Also, ask ASML if it needs funds. I'll invest as much as they want."

"If ASML rejects our investment, you threaten them. They are not the only ones researching lithography machines. We in Cayman Capital have the strength to spend billions of dollars to support its competitors."

Robert immediately realized the importance of the photolithography machine. This was the first time he saw his boss so eager to acquire a company.

If he were the president of ASML, he would probably agree to Cayman Capital's investment without hesitation.

Having money and a richer father, is there anything more wonderful than this?

After notifying Robert, Wang Lei thought about it and still felt it was not safe, so he made another call to Peninsula Vice President Qiu Mingxiang.

Qiu Mingxiang, who was on the other end of the conversation, was enjoying a rare vacation and immediately answered the call from his boss:

"Boss, what are your orders?"

There was a sense of alienation in his voice, and he was obviously still brooding over what happened last time when Wang Lei asked him to get out.

"Mingxiang, I was too serious last time. We have been brothers for so many years, and you don't know my temper."

Qiu Mingxiang was just a little short-tempered in front of Wang Lei. He regretted it as soon as he said the words. He quickly adjusted his mood and apologized:

"My employee management was not in place. After what happened, I have been reflecting and blaming myself."

"Stop it, who doesn't make a little mistake? Let me tell you something serious. Have you heard of Asmai?"

ASML was reorganized not long ago, and it is not well-known now. It is still in the unpopular field of lithography machines. It is normal that Qiu Mingxiang has not heard of it.

Unexpectedly, Qiu Mingxiang said:

"Of course I know. I have an old colleague who works as a technical expert at ASML."

Hearing Wang Lei's excitement, he hurriedly asked: "Has he ever considered changing jobs?"

"Boss, do you want to poach people?"

"Yes, I plan to set up a new R&D room in the peninsula to specialize in the development of photolithography machine technology."

"As long as you are willing to spend money, it should be easy to poach him. He has been complaining to me about ASML recently."

It turned out that after Philips separated the lithography machine business, it and ASM each invested US$210 to establish ASML.

Not only were they extremely poor, the company did not even have a decent office space. Philips built a row of simple prefabricated houses in front of its luxurious office building for them to work.

ASML's original 47 employees were all from Philips' lithography team. They believed that they had been kicked out by Philips and kicked out.

With no R&D funds and extremely harsh office conditions, a group of employees were discouraged and their morale was extremely low.

"Mingxiang, no matter how much money you spend, you must recruit your former colleague and tell him that as long as he helps me recruit a technician, I will give him a reward of 100 million US dollars!"

Hearing this, Qiu Mingxiang couldn't help but take a breath.

He understands semiconductor technology and the importance of photolithography machines, but he still couldn't help but ask:

"Boss, developing lithography machines requires a lot of capital investment. Wouldn't it be better for us to buy ready-made ones?"

"Lao Qiu, have you forgotten that when I asked you why you came to Stanford to study, how did you answer me?"

"Reading for the rise of China?"

Qiu Mingxiang still remembers that when he said this sentence, the overseas students from Long Kingdom burst into laughter, and only Wang Lei looked at him with approval.

Among his friends who went to study in the beautiful country, only two of them chose to return.

He immediately understood why Wang Lei valued the research and development of Keguang Machinery so much. They could not use it, but they could not live without it!