Duan Yongping frowned and fell into silence. His heart was a little confused.

After dozens of breaths, Duan Yongping suddenly raised his head, stared straight at Fang Chen, and asked seriously: "Let me ask you one last question, if we..."

Duan Yongping paused for a moment and looked troubled.

After a few seconds, he smacked his lips, and then said decisively: "I mean, what if, if we can't catch up with those foreign companies in the research and development of core technologies, what are you going to do? Keep insisting.

how long?"

After saying this, Duan Yong lowered his head and did not dare to look at Fang Chen.

He knew what he said was really frustrating.

It has never been able to catch up with those foreign companies. If this conclusion comes true, it will really collapse people's faith and make anyone who works hard completely despair, and his whole life will be gloomy.

After all, if there is no hope, what is the value of hard work?

But he couldn't help but say it, because it was very likely true.

You must know that although Qingtian will invest a lot of manpower, material resources, financial resources, and energy to develop these core technologies, it does not mean that its efforts will definitely yield results and it will definitely be able to catch up with the advanced technologies of those foreign companies.

After all, those foreign companies will not stagnate and wait for you to catch up, and they will work hard to move forward.

The story of the tortoise and the hare is known to everyone at home and abroad in ancient and modern times, and no one is stupid.

Furthermore, not to mention how much technology those companies have accumulated in the past, and some have formed patent barriers, just speaking of strength, there are many that are much more powerful than Qingtian now.

But there is one most important thing.

That is, the reason why the scientific and technological level of Western countries can catch up from behind is that it surpassed China during the Qing Dynasty and reached the level it is today.

That can only mean one thing, that is, the scientific and technological level of Western countries is progressing faster than that of China.

Many academic experts and professors say that the gap between China and the West's top technology is now 30 to 50 years. This does not mean that in another 30 to 50 years, China's technology level will be on par with the West's.

It’s just that in another thirty to fifty years, China will be able to catch up with the technological level of the West at that time.

As for how much Western science and technology has advanced in the past three to fifty years, only the devil really knows.

Therefore, the research and development of Qingtian's core technology has never been able to catch up with the technological strength of Western companies. This is really normal, and the probability of it happening is extremely high.

He wanted to know what Fang Chen would choose if he really faced this situation.

As soon as the thought came to his mind, Duan Yongping raised his head and looked at Fang Chen quietly with no expression on his face.

He knew there was something wrong with what he just said.

In other words, he is not actually so pessimistic in his heart.

But he still had to say these words, and he had to say them legitimately and confidently.

After these years of getting along with each other, why didn't he know that his strategic vision, control of the future, choice of path, and ability to solve difficult problems were far inferior to Fang Chen.

But as the saying goes, a wise man will always make mistakes. If Fang Chen is the only one with an opinion in the entire company, he, or all the senior executives of Qingtian, will only obey General Fang's orders and act like a puppet on a string. This is really

Is it good?

His thirty years of experience and the books he had read clearly told him that this was not a good thing.

Therefore, his ideas are often contrary to Fang Chen's, or even completely different. He is basically the opposite of Fang Chen.

He did this to provide Fang Chen with another possibility, another direction, and to help Fang Chen check for omissions.

I hope Fang Chen can hear some opposing voices, weigh the pros and cons, and finally draw a conclusion.

He believed that the conclusion at this time would be more correct and foolproof.

This is why he often mentioned various objections, and did things that irritated Fang Chen a lot. His face was pressed to the ground by Fang Chen. He didn't know how many times he rubbed it, but he still remained unyielding.

The reason for perseverance.

He is the CEO and second-in-command of Qingtian. He can only play this role and this villain.

Fang Chen looked up to the sky and sighed, then looked at the ceiling and murmured: "To be honest, I don't know. Old Duan, you know my character. In these matters, as long as I still have money in my hand, then I will

I will definitely stick to it.”

Speaking of this, Fang Chen lowered his head and smiled nonchalantly: "It's either success or death. There's probably no third way."

He could actually understand Duan Yongping's thoughts and knew that this was probably the truth.

Just like Huawei's HiSilicon, after Huawei was included in the sanctions list by the U.S. Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security and was not allowed to import any U.S. chips, dozens or even tens of thousands of chips that the company had built over the past 20 years were transformed overnight.

Hundreds of chips were taken out of the safe.

All spare tires were turned on overnight.

How tragic this is!

What a heroic act!

What a strategist!

But among them, what Fang Chen saw was more helplessness.

If nothing else, Huawei's hundreds of chips are probably not as good as American chips.

Otherwise, how could Huawei abandon the chips it has worked hard and spent a lot of money to develop and buy American chips?

To put it bluntly, if it were not sanctioned by the Bureau of Industry and Security of the U.S. Department of Commerce, these hard-working chips would probably end up being permanently sealed in a dark safe and completely sunk.

It can only be a spare tire, and it will never become a full-time employee.

Moreover, the chips researched by HiSilicon can only guarantee that Huawei's products have chips that can be replaced. I'm afraid there is a big question mark as to whether they are easy to use and whether they can achieve the original performance.

If you think about it this way, probably many of the core technologies he now requires the company to develop can only be relegated to safes.

After all, there are a lot of technologies and industries where the winner takes all, and the second and third sons don’t even get to drink soup.

Especially in the chip industry, if AMD hadn't developed the Ryzen series, it would have finally turned around 180 degrees. Otherwise, it would have been rubbed on the ground by Intel and ridiculed every time it released a new product.

It has even fallen to the point where it needs to accept Intel's shareholding in order to survive.

In other words, if it weren't for the existence of antitrust laws and if Intel became the dominant player, it would face the fate of being split up, AMD would probably be dead.

Even the second child was fucked to death, which shows how cruel the competition in the chip industry is.

And he honestly asked himself, could Qingtian really defeat so many foreign companies and become the number one?

Fang Chen is really not sure.

However, he should have confidence, confidence in Qingtian, confidence in himself, and confidence in China.

There were so many industries in the previous life. According to the classification of the United Nations Industrial Catalog, there are a total of 525 subcategories of industry in the world. China has all of these 525 subcategories, and about half of them have ranked first in the world.

In other words, except for a few technologies, China has already reached the forefront of the world, so he does not need to be so pessimistic.

After a moment of silence, Fang Chen smiled and patted Duan Yongping on the shoulder, "Okay, it's not important. The worst thing is that the company will lose everything, so what!"

"This company belongs to you. If you want to compensate, you can compensate. I have no objection."

Duan Yongping rolled his eyes at Fang Chen angrily.

Look, are you talking like a human being? You've already lost all your money to the company, and you're still talking about it.

"I just thought, when Feng Lun and his brothers are almost busy, build a row of villas for us, me, you, Berezovsky, Ma Yun, Chen Mingyong, Jin Zhijiang, Shen Wei, and Yelena and Luzhkov will have one apartment each, and then build a community next to it with two to three thousand houses, and then all of them will be written in our names and settled directly under our individual names."

Speaking of this, Fang Chen put away the reverie in his mind and said with a smile: "When the time comes, we will rent them all out. I just calculated that if two or three thousand houses are built, the average number of houses will be eight of us. A person can probably own more than 300 houses, and it is basically guaranteed that the rent can be collected every day, and one family can be collected every day, which is enough to live on."

"When you get older and can no longer collect the rent, you will sell the house. I estimate that a house at that time can be sold for five to six million, and more than three hundred units will be worth two billion, which is enough. That’s it, that’s enough.”

Seeing Fang Chen's serious and not fake appearance, Duan Yongping felt a warm current in his heart and at the same time, he was really dumbfounded.

He really didn't expect that Fang Chen had already found an escape route.

Moreover, being a landlord is nothing more than receiving rent every day, so why do you want to make such a fuss?

He really accepted Fang Chen's bad taste.

And what’s so tiring about collecting rent?

If you are tired of collecting rent, there will be no easy work at the end of the day.

Moreover, his dignified CEO Qingtian was considered a well-known figure in China. In the end, he was reduced to collecting rent to survive. No matter how you think about it, it was not that big of a deal.

But he had to admit that Fang Chen's idea was quite good and highly feasible.

He had a casual chat with Feng Lun. As for the house in Yanjing, if you find someone to build the house yourself, especially as Fang Chen said, they don't even sell to outsiders, which means you don't even need to hire a sales team. A house may not cost more than 100 million yuan. After all, most of the house prices in Yanjing now are less than 1,000 yuan per square meter.

Is this less than 100 million money considered money to Fang Chen?

It's just that he has some objections to the price of a house. In the future, will a house in Yanjing be as expensive as five or six million?

His salary income is already among the top in China. Those who can surpass him, including the bosses of companies, probably don't exceed one or two hundred people, but they can only buy one house a year.

We can’t say that in the huge city of Yanjing, only a few hundred or two hundred people can afford to buy a house, right?

But he was prepared to discuss the matter with Fang Chen in detail. If he opened his mouth, according to Fang Chen's temperament, the house would not be worth two or three thousand units, but would be at least ten times larger.

He didn't want to be stuck with thousands of house bills all day long.

"Your plan is really far-fetched, but let's talk about it. Berezovsky and Elena's parents are Russians. Are they willing to be landlords with you?"

Duan Yongping had already made up his mind and planned to follow Fang Chen all the way to the end, Duan Yongping joked with a smile.
To be continued...