Chapter 167: Where to Find a Kindred Spirit at the End of the World

At the airport in the provincial capital of Hanxi, Wu Xinyi, General Manager of Dongxin Semiconductor, was flipping through the materials in his hands. He was preparing to head to America to find MIPS and apply for authorization for Dongxin Semiconductor to use the MIPS chip architecture.

Ni Guangnan and Huang Lingyi were excellent at technology, but things like negotiations—where you slam tables and argue until your face turns red—were not things those intellectuals could handle. They couldn't bring themselves to be shameless at critical moments. If Ni Guangnan could have been shameless, he wouldn't have been so passive at Lenovo.

Wu Xinyi was different. When he was at Huajing Semiconductor, he had followed teams abroad to inspect many manufacturers, so he had much richer experience in dealing with foreign companies.

Before departing this time, Wu Xinyi had also spoken with Li Dongling to discuss some strategies for negotiating with MIPS.

Closing the materials, Wu Xinyi had a better understanding of MIPS. The founder of MIPS was the godfather of Silicon Valley, a Turing Award winner, and former Stanford President John Hennessy.

Only such a big shot had enough resources and connections to withstand Intel's pressure and launch the MIPS chip architecture. If it had been anyone else, they would likely have been acquired long ago.

Currently, the only company Dongxin Semiconductor could find to cooperate with was this one. As for the British company ARM, compared to MIPS, it could only be considered a little brother. Apple, which had invested in ARM, was already disappointed in it and was preparing to sell off its ARM equity.

It would take another dozen years for ARM to develop. Even if they bought ARM now, it would be useless. In the future, Dongxin Semiconductor might have the opportunity to bring it into the fold, but for now, buying it back was truly useless. Of course, whether they could afford to raise it was also a question...

As for the RISC architecture that could rival Intel's x86 architecture in later generations, it would take another fifteen years to be developed by professors at UC Berkeley. By that time, Dongxin Semiconductor would likely have already developed its own architecture.

Flipping through the business card in his hand, Wu Xinyi said to Lü Wenhua, "This year, your foundation has really been in the spotlight, especially the Qilin Award. Media outlets like the China Youth Daily and the Youth League Daily have all reported on it!"

And that scene where a student appeared in a village and the whole village pooled money for tuition had appeared within these few years.

Wu Xinyi took it and looked, suddenly understanding. It was written: Lü Wenhua, Investment Manager of the Zhixing Foundation. Before heading to America this time, Li Dongling had told Wu Xinyi that someone would be traveling with him.

"Manager Wu, right? I'll have to trouble you to take care of me on this trip!" The person was very polite and handed a business card to Wu Xinyi.

The China Youth Daily, the Youth League Daily, and many other educational newspapers and magazines had extensively reported on the Zhixing Foundation and the Qilin Award, hoping that more scholarships like the Qilin would appear. Many universities had also extended olive branches to the Zhixing Foundation, hoping to introduce the Qilin Award.

"I wouldn't dare. This time in America, there will be people from Dongling Gao Ke's American office to meet us!"

Under these circumstances, the Zhixing Foundation was willing to cooperate with universities to provide Qilin scholarships to students with poor family conditions and excellent academic performance, which was naturally welcomed by the universities.

Starting this year, the Qilin Award under the Zhixing Foundation officially began cooperating with Hanxi Jiaoda to reward some students with scholarships. The Qilin Award basically covered the winner's food, tuition, and accommodation for one year.

Just as he put down the materials, Wu Xinyi caught a glimpse of a figure appearing before him. The person was in his twenties, wearing a pair of glasses, giving a scholarly and refined impression.

With the increasing scale of university enrollment, the funding for various universities had become increasingly tight in recent years. Relying solely on allocations from the education department couldn't sustain them. Starting last year, a batch of universities began charging fees, and the scale was even larger this year. By next year, it would basically cover all universities, and free university education would basically become a thing of the past.

"A drop in the bucket!"

Lü Wenhua shook his head helplessly and smiled bitterly. "The Zhixing Foundation can do too little; the funding is far from enough!"

"I don't know, what are you going to America for this time..."

After a brief silence, Wu Xinyi asked Lü Wenhua with some curiosity. He didn't know what Lü Wenhua, an investment manager for the Zhixing Foundation, was going to America for.

Hearing Wu Xinyi's words, Lü Wenhua glanced at him. Thinking that both of them were arranged by Li Dongling to go to America this time, he still said, "Looking for some investment opportunities. The Zhixing Foundation needs stable income to continue providing the Qilin Award and the Hezun Award!"

When Li Dongling launched the Qilin Award and the Hezun Award, he established the Zhixing Foundation and established the strategy of letting it invest to obtain income and then carry out charitable work, rather than blindly giving it blood transfusions.

Wu Xinyi became even more curious upon hearing this. He didn't know what Lü Wenhua was trying to play at, actually wanting to run to America. But he also knew that some things were not convenient to ask too much about.

After finishing his talk with Wu Xinyi, Lü Wenhua began to take out a notebook and started writing and drawing on it, his brows furrowed from time to time.

Lü Wenhua was also a graduate of Hanxi Jiaoda, majoring in Financial Management. When Li Dongling proposed to Hanxi Jiaoda that he needed an investment manager, Lü Wenhua was recommended to Li Dongling by Hanxi Jiaoda.

Lü Wenhua was not an old hand in the investment industry, but he could be called a genius. His grades were excellent during school, and during his internship, he joined a securities company. If nothing unexpected happened, he would enter a bank or become a high-paid employee at a securities company in the future.

But after receiving the call from Hanxi Jiaoda and hearing that it was Li Dongling recruiting an investment manager for the Zhixing Foundation, Lü Wenhua thought about it and gave up the contract with the bank and securities company that was almost in his hands, joining the Zhixing Foundation instead.

This trip to America was also Li Dongling's first after he took office.

Honestly, Lü Wenhua didn't know much about internet companies. This wasn't to say that the domestic internet was lagging behind America, but that the whole world was the same bird-like state right now. The investment banks on Huaerjie didn't understand the internet either.

Internet terms like browsers, portals, and e-commerce were completely incomprehensible to them, and they didn't value them at all. It wasn't until internet companies led by Netscape ignited the market and investors who invested in them and bought their stocks obtained hundreds or thousands of times the return that Huaerjie turned its gaze to the internet industry.

Whether Huaerjie understood the internet didn't matter; what mattered was that investing in this thing could bring them huge dollar returns, and that was enough!

Li Dongling finding Lü Wenhua to serve as the investment manager for the Zhixing Foundation was actually because he valued his youth, his unfettered thinking, and his strong learning ability. Changing to an old-school investment manager would make them very resistant to unfamiliar fields they weren't familiar with, which wouldn't be as easy to use as Lü Wenhua. This had nothing to do with ability; it was purely about cognition and habits.

And this time, Lü Wenhua went to America to find opportunities to invest in several internet companies. Li Dongling gave Lü Wenhua several investment targets.

For the Zhixing Foundation, which had a fund scale of only 2 million USD, taking out 300,000 USD at once to invest was definitely a big move. Lü Wenhua felt anxious, always feeling that this was no different from scattering money into the water...

The plane rushed into the clouds. Wu Xinyi and Lü Wenhua, both carrying various thoughts, prepared to head to America.

And while the two of them left Hanxi, in the courtyard where Li Dongling lived behind the Dongling Gao Ke headquarters in Pingyang, Yao Luoying was sitting lazily on the sofa with her legs crossed, watching TV, with plenty of snacks and fruits by her side.

It was rare for Yao Luoying to have a break from Feiyan Company today. She watched TV comfortably, occasionally popping a grape into her red lips. Yao Luoying's gaze looked to the side, seeing Li Dongling writing something at his desk.

After looking several times and seeing that Li Dongling didn't turn back, Yao Luoying pursed her lips, then jumped off the sofa and ran toward Li Dongling.

A faint fragrance permeated the air. Li Dongling looked up and saw Yao Luoying's pretty face appearing before him.

Yao Luoying looked at the paper in Li Dongling's hand, which had quite a bit written on it. Seeing the first few words, she couldn't help but read them out: "Tianya Net..." ===== CHAPTER 168 =====