Chapter 166 Crossing the River Dragon
What Su Yuanshan said was both right and wrong.
Yuanxin's overall structure had already taken initial form in the provincial capital.
In Shanghai, the R&D center would focus on the wafer fabrication plant, the CPU division, and the future lithography machine division.
With the addition of long-term planning, it would easily support the establishment of a 2,000-mu (approximately 133-hectare) Science and Technology Park.
However, at present... there was indeed no major project ready for Beijing.
This was largely because the network infrastructure was still underdeveloped—
In the future, Su Yuanshan's old employer would operate more than a dozen R&D centers worldwide.
Each center had its core focus, but the real enabler was the advancement of the internet, allowing synchronized global operations.
Right now, just between Yuanxin and Xinghai's joint mobile chip and CPU project, their monthly international phone bills alone were running over a hundred thousand yuan—unbelievable, right?
...
After returning to his hotel room, Su Yuanshan began packing his luggage.
Chen Jing sat on the sofa, thinking for a moment before suggesting,
"Why don't you have An Siying bring two people from the President's Office here tomorrow? That way, I can handle more affairs while staying here."
Su Yuanshan paused in the middle of folding his clothes and turned around, eyes wide.
"What's wrong?"
"That," Chen Jing said, smiling as she watched him hastily stuff clothes into the suitcase, "don't tire yourself out."
"Hehe, you know how to care for people now?" Chen Jing chuckled, the dimples that had not appeared for a long time flashing briefly.
"Of course I care!" Su Yuanshan said righteously, "This year alone, we have the Shanghai Science Park, the wafer fab project, plus the mobile phone launch, and base station deployments...
Negotiations for the fab will probably take several rounds.
You really need to take care of yourself!"
Su Yuanshan stared at Chen Jing for a few moments, realizing she indeed looked thinner than when they first met.
He made a heartbroken face and said,
"See? You're already getting skinnier."
"..."
Chen Jing didn't know how to respond to that.
She simply smiled and changed the topic,
"Those are minor matters; negotiations are just part of the job.
Right now, I still need to watch over all the materials for the mobile phone factory, not to mention your lab projects..."
"Alright," Su Yuanshan said, "I'll have them come over.
You can also pull a few people from the branch office to help.
Just don't overwork yourself.
Call me anytime—my phone is on twenty-four hours."
"Mm," Chen Jing nodded.
Seeing Su Yuanshan once again messily shoving clothes into the suitcase, she sighed helplessly, finally stepping forward to help him fold and pack properly.
"Hehe... Thanks!"
Su Yuanshan grinned.
Chen Jing shot him a look,
"They say men never truly grow up. Looks like it's true."
"...Are you implying I'm old?"
Chen Jing looked at Su Yuanshan's youthful face and suddenly snapped back to reality.
This guy... wasn't even twenty yet—at least not by Western age standards!
"Fine, fine—you're very young," Chen Jing said, laughing softly, reaching up to touch her still fair and tender cheeks.
"It's me who's getting old."
"Twenty-four years old... a beautiful young lady!"
"Correction: twenty-three!"
Su Yuanshan clapped his hands in mock admiration.
"A twenty-three-year-old young lady! Like a blooming flower—don't even mention the word 'old' again."
Chen Jing: "..."
At that moment, the beeping sound of Su Yuanshan's pager came from the suitcase.
Since cell phones couldn't roam nationally yet, Su Yuanshan had gotten a 128 national paging service.
Only a handful of people had his pager number.
He picked it up and glanced at the message—it was from his office.
Slightly startled, he quickly called back using the hotel phone.
The voice of Zhou Xiaohui came through,
"President Shan, President Shi from Giant called your mobile earlier.
He said he has something urgent to discuss—he plans to rush to the provincial capital tomorrow."
Su Yuanshan was surprised. "Did he say where he was?"
"He's in Shanghai—just returned from Japan."
"Uh... what did you tell him?"
"I said you were scheduled to fly back tomorrow, but I'd check with you first."
Su Yuanshan pondered for a few seconds and then smiled,
"Alright, I'll stay one more day. Contact him for me—tell him I'll be waiting at the Hilton Hotel café tomorrow."
"Got it."
Su Yuanshan turned around, shrugged, and said,
"Well, looks like we're staying another night."
Chen Jing pursed her lips, trying not to laugh.
"I think you're just inviting fleas onto your head."
She knew that Su Yuanshan had organized the Caotang Association recently.
Other than Yuanxin, the other participants were all basically "little brothers"—some were tiny startups that couldn't even be considered formal companies.
Yet Su Yuanshan paid them great attention.
In her view, Su Yuanshan was clearly just making trouble for himself—he was too free and had nothing better to do.
"You don't understand..."
"Yes, yes—you're the big boss.
Want a late-night snack?"
"Eating!"
The next morning at 8:50, Su Yuanshan and Chen Jing arrived at the café ten minutes early.
Unexpectedly, Shi Dazhu was already there waiting.
Seeing that Chen Jing was also present, Shi Dazhu was clearly startled for a moment but quickly put on a bright smile and shook hands warmly.
"President Shan, President Chen—are you here in Shanghai for business talks?"
After they sat down, Shi Dazhu probed carefully.
After all, he was now worth over a billion yuan.
And he was well aware of Chen Jing's position in Yuanxin—her presence alongside Su Yuanshan meant the business must involve top-level decisions.
"Yeah, we just secured about 2,000 mu of land," Su Yuanshan said lightly.
Shi Dazhu's expression instantly became serious.
Over the past month, he had been traveling overseas and hadn't heard much news.
"Hehe, building a wafer fab—not real estate," Su Yuanshan added casually.
Shi Dazhu immediately understood and laughed,
"Of course! That's a massive investment.
Building a fab costs way more than building apartments."
Su Yuanshan nodded, smiling. "It's manageable.
Old Shi, how was your inspection tour?"
"Truly eye-opening!" Shi Dazhu said, exhaling heavily, his eyes sparkling.
"When you step outside, when you immerse yourself in their society, you realize... capitalist countries are rich!
Even ordinary people are rich!
It makes you think of the lies we were told as kids—how they supposedly lived in deep misery... tsk tsk."
Su Yuanshan laughed heartily at that, as did Chen Jing.
"Whether it's gaming, commerce, entertainment, or office software, it's so hard to develop anything here domestically.
Overseas, their strong copyright systems and intellectual property awareness have created the perfect soil for computer software industries."
Su Yuanshan nodded with a smile.
"Exactly.
Until we find a new business model, selling software copies is the only way for a startup studio to survive.
And in China... that soil doesn't exist yet."
"Yes!
But the biggest harvest from this trip wasn't just that," Shi Dazhu said.
"I made a rough analysis of the gaming markets on both sides, and I found that the cultures of gaming are completely different between them."
As he spoke, Shi Dazhu pulled out a handwritten document from his briefcase.
"Also, since I love playing games myself, I made a small survey of player habits and needs in both markets."
Looking at that document, Su Yuanshan's eyes lit up.
Was this crossing dragon about to soar into the skies?
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