Chapter 162: Empire's Twin Jades

From ancient times to the present, in every trade and industry, there is territory. From the chaos of the world when heroes divided the land, down to the carriage and horse firms, it is all like this.

The Han Zhaolie Emperor also benefited from Yizhou and Hanzhong, which led to the tripartite confrontation, rather than wandering around under the fence of others before!

For Dongling High-Tech, it is also the same. Now occupying the digital cordless phone industry, it has at least initially had its own territory, having users, sales channels, and revenue, so it can advance to attack and retreat to defend. Even if it enters other industries or launches other products and fails, it still has the basic plate of the digital cordless phone industry and won't collapse suddenly.

And before, Dongling High-Tech looked like flowers and brocade, but it was a rootless duckweed. Once targeted or if a product failed, it was very likely to be beaten to death with a stick.

In Hanxi provincial capital, after Sirius appeared in front of the world, Dongxin Semiconductor became famous in one battle. For the domestic chip industry that had almost extinguished its fire, Dongxin Semiconductor almost became the only bright lamp.

Almost without Dongxin Semiconductor actively recruiting, quite a few practitioners in the chip and semiconductor industry, and even big shots, ran to Dongxin Semiconductor to have exchanges.

And domestic semiconductor manufacturers, not to mention, were almost swarming, wanting to get orders from Dongxin Semiconductor. Now Dongxin was the only company in the country that could place orders with chip manufacturers. Not hugging this thigh was unreasonable.

The originally unknown Dongxin Semiconductor had been as noisy as the New Year these past few days. Chip practitioners, semiconductor manufacturers, and media reporters made the downstairs of the Dongxin Semiconductor office building bustling with noise and excitement.

Liudmila, who had just followed her mentor from the old Maozi side to Hanxi to finish the procedures, stood at the office door, curiously looking at the noise downstairs.

The group of people below weren't dressed fashionably. From Liudmila's perspective, they couldn't compare to the dress of that group of people in West Germany and France on the old Maozi side before.

But Liudmila saw that those people below were all full of spirit, and the smiles on their faces, as well as the expectations for the future, could almost be seen with the naked eye. Thinking back to the desperate and numb faces he saw on the streets of the old Maozi side, Liudmila couldn't help but sigh.

If one could survive at home, who would be willing to leave their hometown and come to a foreign land to make a living? Liudmila was a top student in the mathematics major at Moscow University. When the old Maozi empire was still there, there was no problem with employment for this major. The old Maozi's treatment for people in engineering majors was still not bad.

But when Liudmila graduated, it happened to be the time when the Giant Bear collapsed. The entire old Maozi empire collapsed suddenly and was torn apart. "Better to be a peaceful dog than a person in troubled times"—only those who have truly experienced this sentence in reality will understand what it means.

Liudmila and his generation of old Maozi people experienced this sentence. When the fanaticism of overturning the old Maozi empire faded, and the few major oligarchs of the old Maozi supported by America and Western Europe monopolized the old Maozi and Eastern Europe's food, clothing, housing, transportation, energy, media, foreign trade, and other industries, a piece of bread became a problem for Liudmila and the others.

Even eating became a problem, let alone doing academic research. Academic research in the old Maozi, which was in chaos, had long since stopped. Liudmila and the others in the mathematics major were even more awkward.

As for those old Maozi people who believed in the propaganda of Western media before, sold their family property, and ran to Western Europe and America excitedly, they soon knew the gap between fairy tales and reality. Even the oligarchs were skinned and cramped when they arrived in America, and their last drop of oil and water was squeezed dry, let alone those ordinary people.

Liudmila heard that his senior brothers who arrived in America didn't get the bright, high-paying positions like university lecturers, engineers, and Wall Street analysts as imagined. Those positions were all positions fought for by ten thousand people for the local people in America. How could they let these people from countries that were once "dead enemies" come to do them!

Americans were always vigilant toward old Maozi people. How could they truly use people from old Maozi? This led to old Maozi people in America being unable to find a decent job. Even jobs like washing dishes and being a coolie couldn't be found. This led to old Maozi people in America only being able to engage in one of the oldest professions of mankind—mixing in gangs.

In this regard, for old Maozi people who were in a chaotic state and often fought, they were familiar with the road. Relying on ruthlessness and bloodiness, they were more ruthless than the Italian Mafia, Irish gangs, and African-American gangs. They soon made a name for themselves in old Maozi, and more and more old Maozi people who couldn't survive in America joined them.

But this also led to old Maozi people having an even worse reputation in America, and even because of bloody means, Americans were even a bit terrified. However, this also completely cut off the possibility of old Maozi people integrating into American society. The old Maozi people who ran to America later had an even worse life.

Running overseas had no opportunity, and staying in old Maozi was also not full. For Liudmila and the others, apart from despair, what else was left?

When a company from the East threw an olive branch to Liudmila's mentor, Anatoly, wanting to recruit a team of old Maozi mathematicians to do R&D, Anatoly soon found Liudmila and the others, and then they came to Hanxi together.

Before coming, Liudmila and the others actually had no bottom in their hearts and didn't know what the situation was here. But facing hunger and seeing their family members also hungry together, Liudmila and the others fundamentally had no room for choice.

And after arriving in Hanxi, finishing the work visa, being assigned accommodation, and being pre-paid a salary worth $500 each, which was given to Liudmila and their family members, Liudmila and the others' hearts were settled.

"I just called my family, and they have already received the $500!"

The door to the office where Liudmila and the others were was pushed open. An old Maozi person with a bushy beard pushed the door open and ran over excitedly, shouting to Liudmila and the others.

The ruble of the old Maozi now was no different from paper, and prices changed several times a day. US dollars, pounds, and marks instead became hard currency. These few hundred US dollars were enough for Liudmila and their family members to fill their bellies.

"Now it's working time!"

Just when the group of old Maozi people in Liudmila's office were discussing the US dollars remitted to their families, Anatoly, who led them to Hanxi and was also the person in charge of their team, clapped his hands and said to everyone.

Anatoly was thin. He had quite a reputation in the old Maozi mathematics circle. The key was that he had participated in multiple R&D projects of the old Maozi and had rich experience in leading R&D, which was also the reason why Dongxin Semiconductor chose Anatoly.

"Everyone, work harder. Today, the Boss of Dongxin Semiconductor will come here. If the work isn't finished, Dongxin Semiconductor won't renew the contract with us in the future!"

Hearing Anatoly's words, Liudmila and the others didn't dare to delay time anymore and began to get busy in a tight-knit way.

Anatoly and the others' team now was mainly responsible for optimizing the lithography machine software for Dongxin Semiconductor, as well as optimizing and upgrading the chip projects led by Ni Guangnan and the others, improving calculations, etc. They mainly did auxiliary work, but the workload was not small at all.

After getting busy for an hour or so, a burst of noise came from outside. Anatoly called Liudmila and walked out. Liudmila knew that the major shareholder of Dongxin Semiconductor was coming.

After going out, Liudmila saw quite a few people outside. Among them, the leader was Ni Guangnan and a lady. He saw his mentor Anatoly, and when he saw the two, his attitude was very respectful.

"Academician Ni!"

"Professor Huang!"

Ni Guangnan and Huang Lingyi, who were talking, saw Anatoly, and both responded to Anatoly very politely. They both highly recognized the ability of the mathematics team led by Anatoly. With the team led by Anatoly, they could save quite a lot of trouble.

Seeing Anatoly's respectful, and even somewhat fawning, expression toward Ni Guangnan and Huang Lingyi, Liudmila's expression was complex. In the past, Anatoly in the old Maozi side also had the treatment that Ni Guangnan had in Dongxin Semiconductor now. Quite a few powerful figures in the old Maozi municipal units at that time had to give Anatoly a few points of face. But now, it was already a change of things and people.

"Li Zong!"

Just when Liudmila was feeling a thousand emotions in his heart, he saw a group of people coming. When he saw the leader, Liudmila couldn't help but be astonished. Li Dongling's age, he felt, was a few years younger than those oligarchs on the old Maozi side.

Thinking of the rumors he had heard these past few days about Dongxin Semiconductor, as well as Dongxin Semiconductor's parent company Dongling High-Tech and Li Dongling.

Liudmila heard that Li Dongling started from scratch, established the current Dongling High-Tech, Dongxin Semiconductor, and a host of other companies, and also hard-hit Microsoft, Siemens, Toshiba, and a host of other companies. One had to know that these giant companies walked sideways in the old Maozi, but they suffered losses in Li Dongling's hands. Comparing Li Dongling with those oligarchs in the old Maozi, Liudmila felt it was completely a world of difference!

"Academician Ni!"

After shaking hands with Ni Guangnan, Li Dongling said to Huang Lingyi, "Welcome Professor Huang to join Dongling High-Tech!"

Huang Lingyi looked at Li Dongling in front of him, carrying a hint of emotion, "Dongxin Semiconductor is the only company in the country now willing to develop chips. If we don't come here, where else can we go?!"

Once this sentence came out, whether it was those who joined Dongxin Semiconductor before or the R&D personnel who newly joined with Huang Lingyi, they all sighed in their hearts.

Li Dongling just smiled upon hearing this. With two big shots in the domestic chip industry like Ni Guangnan and Huang Lingyi sitting in Dongxin Semiconductor, it was like the Empire's Twin Jades, enough to let Dongxin Semiconductor gain a firm foothold in the chip industry!

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Li Dongling only smiled upon hearing this. With Ni Guangnan and Huang Lingyi, these two titans of the domestic chip industry, presiding over Dongxin Semiconductor, it was like having the "Twin Pillars of the Empire"—enough to allow Dongxin Semiconductor to gain a firm foothold in the chip industry!

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