Rewrite the Technological Landscape

Chapter 498: The Crisis Begins

On the day when he saw the news, Gu Junhui, who was reporting to work, couldn't help being curious, "Mr. Meng, it's nothing new for companies to use public opinion to suppress their opponents. Why did this incident become such a big deal?"

Meng Qian patiently analyzed, "Probably because of a coincidence, the credibility of the United States has declined rapidly in the past four years since the Iraq War, which has aroused the dissatisfaction of some people in the United States, and what Americans care about most is human rights and freedom. The point of contradiction is fairness and discrimination.

The outbreak of many mass incidents is not due to a specific incident. The gap between the rich and the poor has increased in the United States in recent years, capital hegemony has been rampant, media credibility has plummeted, and unfair incidents occur frequently. This is the fundamental reason. The reason for the Apple incident It can be fermented because Apple, as a company of the right size, is very suitable to be the target of everyone's attacks.

In a sense, apart from the initial group of people who participated, few of the people behind really care about Apple’s life and death, and they rarely really feel wronged for us. They are actually complaining for themselves. "

"Then Meng always thinks how big things can go wrong?"

"It's almost the same. Now we still lack some more explosive factors. It is enough for us to hit Apple in the face." In front of Gu Junhui, Meng Qian will definitely not talk about foreshadowing or experiments. .

While chatting with Gu Junhui, Meng Qian's cell phone rang, "Secretary Liu, ok, ok, I understand, thank you Secretary Liu, let's have a meal together in two days, ok, ok, then hang up, um, ok, Umm, hang up, ummmmm, ok, um, hang up, um, ok, then I'll hang up first, um ok, ummm, ok, hang up"

"What's wrong?"

"Jinzhou is ready to start construction."

"Great, we have built the 7th generation line, and the gap with Neon Country and Koryo Country is even smaller."

"Sony didn't actually spit out too much technology this time, but it's enough. You can go back to work first, and I'll call Howard."

"good."

On August 1, Meng Qian and Howard went to Jinzhou to participate in the groundbreaking ceremony. This time, the 7th generation line finally invested 21 billion, the state subsidized 3 billion, Dafeng Group contributed 12 billion, of which 5 billion was a loan, and Sony contributed 6 billion , according to Sony's current financial situation, plus Sony's previous investment in the domestic 8th generation line in Neon Country, Sony should not be able to spend much money to invest in LCD screens. At least Sharp wants to ask Sony for 10 billion like in the previous life. Sony will definitely not be able to take out the soft sister coins.

And with the advent of August, a global crisis officially kicked off.

On the next day, August 2, the German Industrial Bank suddenly announced a profit warning, and the German financial industry was in shock. Then, a few days later, on August 6, the tenth largest mortgage lender in the United States, the American Home Mortgage Investment Corporation officially It filed for bankruptcy protection with the court, becoming the second large mortgage lender in the United States to file for bankruptcy.

The bankruptcy of the U.S. Mortgage Investment Corporation once again made the subprime mortgage risk a point of discussion in the U.S. As a result, two days later, Bear Stearns, the fifth largest investment bank in the U.S., announced the bankruptcy of two of its funds. On August 9, Paris, the largest bank in France, The bank announced the freezing of three of its funds, and the reasons for the collapse of these five funds were all due to the subprime mortgage problem in the United States.

At this time, Europe fired the first emergency response to the subprime mortgage crisis. The EU publicly stated that the subprime mortgage crisis in the United States would lead to huge financial risks in Europe. On August 10, the European Central Bank made it clear that it would intervene, and the result was on August 11. , Central banks around the world injected more than 326.2 billion yuan to rescue the market within 48 hours, and the Federal Reserve injected 38 billion yuan into banks three times a day.

Throughout the subprime mortgage crisis, there are two countries that have been affected the most, one is the United Kingdom and the other is the neon country.

The core reason for the UK is that the pillar industry is the financial industry, so when the global financial turmoil hit, the UK was the first to bear the brunt. As for the neon country, there are two major reasons. It’s useless to just recover for 2 years. When the new financial crisis comes, it will make things worse. Another problem is that the nine major banks in the Neon country hold more than one trillion neon coins in the United States’ subprime guaranteed securities.

Soon, on August 13, Mizuho Group, the parent company of Mizuho Bank, the second largest bank in Neon Country, announced a loss of 600 million Neon Coins related to the US subprime mortgage. However, there is no panic in the Neon Country at this moment, because the experts in the Neon Country are saying that the secured debt certificates invested by our Neon Country Bank are all with the highest credit ratings, and there will be no problems.

Although the stocks have already started to fall, there is really no panic in the Neon country at this time. Everyone should eat and drink, like Sharp, who is still worrying about the 10th generation line. The decline is called a normal callback in the Neon Securities News at this time.

On August 14, the Central Bank of Nihong Country injected capital again to rescue the market, but everyone still didn’t take it seriously. It was also on this day that Mikio Katayama came to Meng Qian and directly asked Meng Qian if he wanted to join the 10th generation line project.

In fact, Sharp's 10th-generation line process has been going on for a long time, but it is slower than the previous life. The previous life was officially announced on July 31 and initially invested 380 billion neon coins, which is 24.4 billion when converted into soft sister coins. This life has not yet Official announcement, but in the final analysis it is a matter of money.

In fact, Sharp had already foreseen their failure when they decided to initially invest 24.4 billion. Even if there is no financial crisis, they may fail, because now the industry is more inclined to estimate that a 10-generation production line will invest more than 50 billion. It took a long time to even get half of the money. The 24.4 billion is not entirely Sharp’s money. There are loans and other companies’ participation. According to reports, Sharp itself only has 17 billion.

Although when the construction officially started, it was added up to 31.6 billion, but it was still not much more.

So if there is no financial crisis, can Sharp produce 20 billion in two years? Many people are also very skeptical when looking back at history.

And now Sharp has encountered the same problem as Sony. To attract investment from domestic companies, either they have no money, or they want technology. Sharp’s 10th generation line is the world’s number one. Of course, he doesn’t want to give the technology to others. So Mikio Katayama thought of Meng Qian's fat again.

"When does Sharp's 10th generation line want to start?"

"Before October, the site has been selected, and now it is necessary to finalize all the cooperative relations in the early stage. Mr. Meng mentioned before that he wants to enter the 10th generation line project, so I have to come to confirm this with Mr. Meng. matter."

"I do have this idea, and if Sharp's side is willing to open the door, I'd love it."

Mikio Katayama immediately made a gesture to wait a moment, "Mr. Meng, listen to me first, the 10th generation line involves our top-notch core technology of Sharp, so we decided after internal discussion that we will not do anything to join the 10th generation line. This is definitely not aimed at the Dafeng Group. We have now contacted Toshiba and Panasonic, and Mr. Meng can find out.

This is for our self-protection at Sharp, but as an ally, we can guarantee the supply and price advantages of large-size LCD screens in the future, and at the same time, your investment can be exchanged for corresponding share returns. "

Meng Qian pondered, "Then I also have one thing I want to tell Mr. Katayama."

"Mr. Meng, please tell me."

"Recently, Mr. Katayama, who invested in Dafeng Group, probably knows about it, so we really can't spend much money now, but the profitability of Dafeng Group is well known. I don't know if Mr. Katayama will allow us to pursue it in a few months. cast?"

Meng Qian’s appearance made Mikio Katayama feel that he really wanted to join the 10th-generation line project, and what he heard meant that he accepted no need for technology. Mikio Katayama would definitely be happy, because the money for the 10th-generation line was invested a little bit. No one-time investment, "Of course, no problem, we can sign an agreement."

"OK."

Mikio Katayama stayed in China for a few days, and the two sides quickly worked out an agreement. The agreement meant that the two sides finalized a 15 billion cooperative relationship, and completed all the details of this cooperation within 6 natural months. Both parties must fulfill Don't try to cheat anyone with the corresponding obligation.

However, Meng Qian specially added the force majeure factor, that is, natural disasters and man-made disasters, and one of the man-made disasters is the lack of funds caused by a large-scale financial crisis.

Mikio Katayama looked at this note and smiled, "Is Mr. Meng worried about the subprime mortgage crisis?"

"A little."

"Haha, don't worry, there will be no problems. This time the global response is very fast. You can see that the US stock market has started to rise again."

Meng Qian smiled, "That would be the best."

Mikio Katayama also smiled and signed his name on the agreement.

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