Chapter 701: PlanB

Unfortunately, although Tan Zhenhua is the big boss, even though he has just spent a huge sum of money inviting all the members of the company on a trip to China, and everyone’s impression of China is pretty good, his proposal is not surprisingly bad. It was all opposed.
The opposing opinions ranged from too far away for communication and management to imperfect supply chain, difficulties in parts procurement, to uncertain policy trends, excessive investment risks, and so on.
Although according to ARM's current shareholding structure, he actually holds the right to dictatorship, it is not appropriate to force such a resolution. At least for now, Tan Zhenhua does not want to leave the impression that he is a dictator within ARM. That is extremely detrimental to the plan he wants to carry out in the future, and may even lead to the departure of key personnel in the company. Such things are too common in a developed business society like Britain.
But in the end, Xiao Tan Tan still made a ruthless statement. He asked Chris Curry to compile a list of all the components and equipment suppliers needed to produce ARM computers, and he threatened that based on this list, he Tan Zhenhua decided himself Invested in a factory in China to fix all the above equipment and components supply channels, and gave up the ruling right as the controlling shareholder of the company in the supply chain reconstruction, and only required fair participation in ARM's supply chain competition.
Both Hermann Hauser and Chris Curry were seized by Tan Zhenhua’s final decisive aura, agreed to his plan, and said that as long as the conditions of the factory invested by the boss are the same as those of other supply chain competitors So far away, they will choose the boss's factory—just kidding, they have never seen it before, or even heard of it. There are bosses in this world who can do this.
As for the two newly joined PhDs, Sophie Wilson and Steve Fogg, because they are not familiar with Tan Zhenhua, they very wisely chose not to comment on Tan Zhenhua’s final plan. It is more important that the company can guarantee sufficient capital investment for the CPU they are developing. As for how the money comes from-who cares?
Tan Zhenhua finally left ARM in a somewhat unhappy manner. This was not only because his goal was not fully achieved. In fact, when he proposed to produce computers in China, he had already imagined this possibility. What he was depressed was actually The reasons listed by all the opponents in the company are actually quite reasonable.
At present, China, as Curry said, no matter in terms of the timeliness of logistics, the timeliness of information communication, or the convenience of component procurement, they do not have the ability to compete with Britain in several important links of the supply chain. The ability of the local, Japanese, South Korea, and even Taiwan to compete, I am afraid the only advantage is the cheap labor cost-even this is not even compared with the surrounding developed countries and regions in the East Asian electronics industry. Significantly, because even though the average wage level of Huaxia workers was only a few dozen yuan a month at this time, its production efficiency was much lower and the official exchange rate of RMB to US dollar was still around 1:3.
This is also the reason why Huaxia’s exports of industrial products are mainly light industrial products, especially textiles. After all, at this time, China has the most extensive and reliable source of skilled garment workers, and almost every hostess of the family can be skilled. They use sewing machines and needles and threads, even doctors like Tan Zhenhua’s half-bucket of water are no exception.
However, he was determined to do this, and also decided to set up this factory in Shenchuan, the bridgehead of Huaxia.
In doing so, in addition to obtaining the greatest degree of policy support, it is also because Shenchuan and Xiangjiang are separated by a river, and in the foreseeable future, Xiangjiang will surely become an important re-export port in international trade, whether from logistics transportation or components. In terms of procurement, they can obtain the maximum comparative advantage.
Moreover, Tan Zhenhua just scanned the list of equipment and component suppliers provided by Curry, and found that in addition to CPUs, a considerable number of parts manufacturers are from East Asia, especially the Wa country, which gave him more Ample confidence.
The distance between Japanese and Xiangjiang is not far, and most Japanese manufacturers will set up offices in Xiangjiang, and use this as a forward base for trading with China Mainland. Tan Zhenhua believes that it should be possible to reach a long-term supply chain agreement with these manufacturers. It's possible.
Well, there is another person who may be able to play an unexpectedly important role in this matter. The former director of Toshiba Electronics Microelectronics Laboratory Fujio Masuoka-kun is now ours.
Oh, when it comes to Toshiba, it always feels like something extraordinary is about to happen... Has the Kumagayagawa, who has yet to meet, have done business with Lao Maozi? In this matter, do you want to get a kick, and how can you get a kick?
Tan Zhenhua thought about these things and walked into Jacob Rothschild's office.
Jacob, who has cooperated with him many times and has been very profitable every time, welcomes Tan Zhenhua’s arrival very much, and his attitude towards him has long changed from being condescending when he first met to seeing him now. As an equal partner, he gave him a big hug as soon as he met, and without Tan Zhenhua's request, he automatically took out the best black tea he had collected to entertain him.
In other words, Jacob originally wanted to use Tan Zhenhua as his own agent to insert China into China. He hoped that if he was obedient, he would reward him with a little leftovers as a reward. He wanted to come to Rothschild's leftovers for such a thing. For a little guy from a poor country, it is already an incredible wealth, but the current situation is that the cooperation between the two seems to have been dominated by Tan Zhenhua and through the cooperation with this little Chinese guy. , Constantly gaining huge profits...
Capitalists, partners who can bring themselves excess profits must be best friends.
Therefore, Jacob has already regarded Tan Zhenhua as his own year-end friendship, and the conversation between them has become very casual, even when discussing some more sensitive topics.
"Eric, according to your strategy, our public relations team has systematically carried out targeted reports on McDonnell Douglas past accidents. At the same time, it has secretly spread many rumors against McDonnell Douglas. These rumors and reports have played a role. According to the results of our investigation, the current attendance of McDonnell Douglas aircraft is far lower than other aircraft in the same class. This also makes major airlines put more pressure on McDonnell Douglas. At the same time, you should have observed that, At present, McDonnell Douglas stock price has been hovering at a low level, which is obviously very detrimental to their financing from the capital market. However, at present, it is still quite difficult to defeat or even split McDonnell Douglas by relying on these means."
Jacob summarized his work in the previous period in a brief and concise way: "Eric, you, me, and several of our partners have already made a lot of money from shorting McDonnell Douglas, but for McDonnell Douglas, For a large number of companies, these are not fatal blows. Therefore, our two main partners are obviously not satisfied with this."
Tan Zhenhua frowned and said, "You said Boeing and Mellon? They should have gained considerable benefits from this incident, right? Whether from the capital market or from the actual order perspective, they should be the main gains. Right? What else are they dissatisfied with?"
Jacob shook his head and said: "Eric, from the standpoint of a friend, I have to remind you that although you are now a very successful businessman, you are not yet a qualified capitalist. You don’t understand including me. How greedy these capitalists, including me, are. You have lifted their appetite and created an opportunity for them. Then, they will never stop at the petty profits they are getting now. What they want is you. The greatest interest they portrayed."
Tan Zhenhua said helplessly: "Although I also want the best interest, I have really tried my best under the current situation. I heard that the FAA's final investigation report on the accident will be released soon. It should be the last one. Opportunity, what things will develop by then is beyond the scope of what I can predict and control."
Jacob nodded, suddenly raised his eyes to face Tan Zhenhua, and said word by word: "Eric, someone asked me to tell you about McDonnell Douglas, don't intervene anymore, they will take over everything, of course, you still Can operate in the capital market, they will not interfere with your profit in this area."
Tan Zhenhua was taken aback for a moment, then suddenly he stared at Jacob and asked in a trembling voice: "Jacob, do they want to..."
Jacob did not answer his question head-on, or even dared to meet Tan Zhenhua’s gaze. Instead, he lowered his eyelids and whispered in a voice that only the two of them could barely hear: "I don’t know what the specific situation is. , I just heard that they seem to have a PlanB."
For no reason, Tan Zhenhua felt like he had fallen into an ice cellar, and his blood had frozen at this moment.