Chapter 569: Using One

Dai Er, sitting in the front of the car, listened to Lin Qingyang's words with considerable dissatisfaction. He knew that Lin Qingyang had also studied abroad in America and was a professionally trained expert in financial management; he was surprised that he had now started dabbling in metaphysics.

"Just because Dongxin Semiconductor is a subsidiary of Dongling High-Tech, we have to invest in it? This is an investment of several hundred million US dollars!" Dai Er said to Lin Qingyang with dissatisfaction.

Lin Qingyang glanced at Dai Er and handed a document to Chen Zuhan. "When you truly understand Dongling High-Tech, you will make some different discoveries!"

"In fact, ever since the Walden Investment Foundation was established in the mainland, we have thought about investing in Dongling High-Tech, but unfortunately, we were a step late. We have already lost the best opportunity to invest in Dongling High-Tech, or rather, we have been missing opportunities all along!"

"The year before last, last year, and perhaps even now, investing in Dongling High-Tech—looking back a few years from now—might have been an investment sufficient to earn Walden a huge return!"

Lin Qingyang said, "I know this doesn't quite fit with probability theory, but the facts are just like that. Since the day Dongling High-Tech was founded, it has never failed once. Who dares to say that the Dongxin Semiconductor project definitely won't succeed?"

A look of helplessness appeared on Lin Qingyang's face—the kind that comes from knowing a truth that is unbelievable, yet is truly the reality.

"As a project under Dongling High-Tech, Dongxin is currently researching domestic computer chips for the mainland and is also building a chip production base."

"If Dongxin Semiconductor's domestic computer chip succeeds, and its performance exceeds expectations, will that chip production base still be short of orders?!" Lin Qingyang said.

Chen Zuhan looked at the materials related to Dongling High-Tech that Lin Qingyang had handed over. Looking at the projects since Dongling High-Tech's inception, there was truly not a single failure. This terrifying success rate made even him, an investment veteran, frown deeply.

If it were any other investment company, they might be suspicious after reading these materials, but Chen Zuhan couldn't be suspicious, because damn it, Walden International's development over these years had also been as if aided by the gods.

Walden International had actually only been established for ten years, but in the technology sector, especially the chip field, it was already renowned and rarely failed in its investments. In ten years, it had become an investment giant in the American tech sector, with a host of powerful figures supporting it from behind; otherwise, it wouldn't have become a giant in the investment industry in such a short time.

Chen Zuhan had also leaped from a science and engineering guy to a big shot in the investment industry within a few years. Some of the companies he had invested in previously were based entirely on intuition, with no logic to speak of.

Just like the currently red-hot internet industry—did the Zhixing Foundation, Sequoia Capital, and SoftBank, which invested in Yahoo earlier, really have absolute certainty that Yahoo would be a hit? They didn't dare to be sure at all, but they invested anyway!

Looking at the Dongling High-Tech materials in his hand, Chen Zuhan shook his head and gave the materials to Dai Er.

Dai Er flipped through the Dongling High-Tech materials, and the more he flipped, the more shocked he became. If the information here was all true—that Dongling High-Tech had never failed once to this day—then he now understood a little why Lin Qingyang could say just now that because Dongxin Semiconductor was an industry under Dongling High-Tech, he wanted to bet on Dongxin Semiconductor!

In America, all kinds of scammers were rampant, and the most brilliant among them was the Ponzi scheme. Was this thing really that sophisticated? In reality, it could be seen through at a glance: invest a sum of money, and you could get huge dividends every year, higher than the profits of Huaerjie investment banks.

Normal people could feel that this thing was a scam, but as it happened, a large number of people fell for it, including celebrities, congressmen, old white men, and so on.

And the reason they fell for it was very simple: because the Ponzi scheme project could pay dividends on time at the beginning. When those watching from the sidelines watched for the first month and the other party paid dividends, and the second month they still paid dividends, and even for one or two years they continuously gave investors large dividends, who could still resist?!

When a Ponzi scheme project continuously gave investors huge returns for years on end with outrageous dividends, whether it was a scam or not, the leeks watching from the sidelines no longer cared.

Applied to Dongling High-Tech, did Dongling High-Tech have good luck in the past, or did those projects just happen to succeed? Was the reason important?

It was not important at all. Anyway, in the eyes of the outside world, Dongling High-Tech's projects were hits every time and had received huge returns.

In the future, even if it were a project that would hit a snag, as long as Dongling High-Tech did it, no one would dare to say that this project couldn't be done. This was inertia. As long as it hung the golden signboard of Dongling High-Tech, the outside world would develop the idea that this project was reliable, even if in the eyes of laymen, it was truly unreliable!

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Inside the Dongxin Semiconductor office, Li Dongling, Wu Xinyi, Lin Benjian, and others were waiting for the arrival of the Walden International side.

"If we can start construction this year, the chip production base will take at least about three years to complete. I'm afraid the first-generation Song Tianji chip won't be able to catch up with Dongxin's own production!"

Lin Benjian said to Li Dongling, who was playing with a Shenzhou electronic dictionary, after calculating the project. The electronic dictionary in Li Dongling's hand was the latest prototype; both the software and hardware were already taking shape, and it was just waiting for the final testing to be completed before mass production began.

At the latest, before this year's National Day, the first-generation Shenzhou electronic dictionary would basically begin mass production, and then advertisements would be launched for it to go on sale.

To what extent Dongling High-Tech's performance could soar this year would probably depend on the two projects of the electronic dictionary and the repeater in the second half of the year.

If these two projects could explode, then Dongling High-Tech's revenue would likely increase by a large margin compared to last year!

What Li Dongling was playing with just now was the "Fumo Ji" game developed by the Xishanju game studio for the electronic dictionary. The development time for "Kaixin Xiaoxiaole" was too short, so it probably wouldn't catch up with the release of the first-generation electronic dictionary; it would have to wait for subsequent versions to be loaded for sale.

The electronic dictionary's screen was not large, but Li Dongling felt that playing the "Fumo Ji" game was quite good. For Li Dongling, who had been exposed to various types of games in his previous life, he could play it, let alone for people of this era—it was estimated that those who liked games couldn't resist the temptation of this game.

Xishanju's development of Fumo Ji had a very pure purpose: they just wanted to develop a game for the electronic dictionary that could run normally on its limited memory; they weren't thinking about things like microtransactions.

This kind of pure game, on the contrary, made it easier for players to get into it and experience the dedication and hard work of the game developers when they were developing the game.

However, this was probably the last pure period of the game industry. Later on, microtransactions, point cards, etc., would basically sweep the entire game industry. Game developers would also have KPIs, and games with few microtransactions would basically be eliminated!

Putting away the electronic dictionary, Li Dongling said to Lin Benjian, "Good food is not afraid of being late. As long as the Song Tianji chip can succeed, once Dongxin's chip factory is built, the orders for the Song Tianji series chips in the future will all be for this chip production base!"

"The people from Walden International have arrived!"

At this moment, an assistant came in and said to the group. Li Dongling, Wu Xinyi, and the others also went out to greet them.

"General Manager Chen, I've long admired your name!"

When Wu Xinyi saw Chen Zuhan, he was the first to extend his hand. Chen Zuhan was a veteran in the semiconductor industry and a long-established figure; his reputation was very loud. Compared to Wu Xinyi, his seniority in the industry was much higher.

After Wu Xinyi, Lin Benjian also stepped forward and hugged Chen Zuhan. "Old Chen, I've finally waited for you to come. It really wasn't easy to invite you over!"

Having been in the American semiconductor industry for many years, Chen Zuhan and Lin Benjian were old acquaintances. The two had a good relationship in the past, and they were even closer in Hanxi.

"With an invitation from you, Dr. Lin, how would I dare to delay? To tell you the truth, after I received the news, I had already declined quite a few meetings and invitations and rushed over here as fast as I could!" Chen Zuhan said with a smile. "I didn't expect, Old Lin, that you would come out of retirement here!"

Lin Benjian smiled; he could hear the meaning in Chen Zuhan's words. If he had released the news of coming out of retirement, quite a few large semiconductor manufacturers would probably have invited him over.

"A mountain doesn't have to be high; it is famous if there is an immortal. The landscape of Hanxi is no worse than other places!" Lin Benjian said to Chen Zuhan with a pointed meaning.

Hearing this, Chen Zuhan glanced at Lin Benjian. He didn't expect Lin Benjian to defend Dongxin Semiconductor so much.

He knew Lin Benjian's character; he looked like a nice guy, but he had a firm personality. Even when he was at IBM back then, he hadn't defended his old employer like this. Because his philosophy on developing lithography machines didn't match IBM's, he was merciless when it was time to criticize. He didn't know how many chips Dongxin Semiconductor had offered to actually "buy off" Lin Benjian.

"When I was in America, I had heard of General Li Zong's name and had always hoped to meet him. Today, I have finally fulfilled my wish!"

Chen Zuhan carried the capability of a science and engineering guy, and after years of training in investment banking, he had become a bit more sophisticated. His actions often hit the nail on the head without making people dislike him.

"General Manager Chen is too polite. Please!"

Li Dongling extended a hand, and the group walked toward the inside of Dongxin Semiconductor. Dai Er and Lin Qingyang, who were following on Chen Zuhan's left and right, took the opportunity to carefully observe Dongxin Semiconductor; they were going to conduct an overall assessment of Dongxin Semiconductor.

Chen Zuhan looked at the vast Dongxin Semiconductor in front of him and said to Li Dongling on the side with a joking tone, "General Li Zong's operation of the Himalaya Radio and the listing of Feiyan Technology is really a big move. Investing in Yahoo is also a finishing touch. In terms of investing in the internet, General Li Zong's Zhixing Foundation is far superior to Walden here."

Walden had also invested in quite a few companies over the years and had received returns, but compared to Li Dongling's investment in the internet, which often yielded returns of over a hundred times, there was no comparison.

To tell the truth, Chen Zuhan also had the idea of having Walden invest in the internet industry, but different industries are like mountains apart. Playing with semiconductors, Chen Zuhan and his group of subordinates were all experts, so they didn't need to worry about being fooled and harvested like leeks.

But in the internet industry, Walden was a rookie. Even those big investment banks on Huaerjie were fooled one after another, let alone Walden.

Li Dongling glanced at Chen Zuhan and could guess his thoughts. "General Manager Chen is too polite. As long as this cooperation on the chip production base can succeed, then everyone will be on the same side. In the future, for internet projects, we will naturally cooperate with each other!" ===== CHAPTER 570 =====