the world is at stake

Contracts for contracts, this is the essence of the collusion between Zhou Qingfeng and Lieutenant General Miller.

Robert even took the initiative to ask: "Harden, since you have a relationship with China, do you want to purchase some scrap materials that the Defense Logistics Agency replaces from the warehouse every year? I remember you mentioned this demand."

With DLA's all-encompassing stockpile, the concept of 'scrap material' is huge.

"Is it possible?" Zhou Qingfeng expressed surprise.This Robert has gone crazy in order to make money, he has no morals, and he is openly betraying the country.

Robert raised his voice on the phone, "Of course, we are friends. Every year, the Logistics Bureau destroys a lot of materials, and some things can be sold to make money. I will give you the best price."

"I'm interested, very interested." Zhou Qingfeng promised heavily, "It would be even better if I could visit your warehouse."

"Look, this is of course no problem. The property of the Logistics Bureau is spread all over the world. I can open all the warehouses of medium and low security levels to you, and you can go in and pick them at will."

Speaking of this, Robert himself sighed: "You don't know how many things are stored in the warehouse of the Logistics Bureau. There are a lot of equipment that will cost money if they are destroyed. It's better to sell them.

I bet you can't imagine what the countless warehouses contain.If you're willing to pay for the shipping, I can even give you a lot of stuff for free, freeing up storage space is good too. "

Zhou Qingfeng became more interested, "That's it, show me around your warehouse when you have time."

Chapter 10 The First Contract

After hanging up the phone, Zhou Qingfeng's smile turned into calm.

A dinner without a fixed time and place is insincere.Robert's 'invitation to visit' cannot be taken too seriously.

The words of the two sides are enthusiastic, but the cooperation still has to be slow.The logistics colonel was obviously "drawing a cake" to Zhou Qingfeng, saying that the future cooperation has great prospects and more efforts are needed.

The contract for 200 million barrels of shale oil must be executed immediately. 'Holy Light' placed the order, and the follow-up work was given to 'Three Barrels of Oil' to follow up with the help of the 'Victoria's Secret' office.

It would take about four 'Panamax' tankers to ship it back home from Texas.Next until the end of the year, similar transportation tasks will not stop in order to complete the contract of 1.2 million barrels.

Zhou Qingfeng stayed at his villa in the suburbs of Washington, and the weather was calm.But the order he sent back from the United States made the 'Victoria's Secret' team scrambled just now.

'Sacred Light' bought the 'Qimonda' patent packaged and sold by 'Infineon' for US$500.

After the relevant patents were brought back to China, Yilan licensed them to mainland semiconductor manufacturers for free according to Zhou Qingfeng's instructions.This pushed 'Holy Light' to a high-profile position in public opinion and gained a lot of attention.

Continuous high-value intelligence, coupled with free authorization of 'poverty alleviation' style, continuous operation made the elders of the Standing Committee very satisfied with 'Holy Light'.

Therefore, the China Development Bank specially provided an unsecured low-interest loan for 'Holy Light', a total of 01 million U.S. dollars.In addition, the "[-] Special" fund for the development of the semiconductor industry has specially approved one billion yuan to "Shengguang".

This money is like timely rain, and the fab that landed in Ganzhou has financial security.However, due to technical limitations, its construction process can be regarded as a combination of soil and foreign.

Nearly one-third of the [-] engineering personnel of 'Qimonda' in Virginia were retained, and they moved from the United States to Ganzhou with the factory.The rest of the staff will be recruited from home and abroad.

As for equipment, except for the 65nm DDR2 memory production line that is being dismantled, Ilan purchased equipment according to the industry plan given by 'Boston Consulting'.

This sale revealed that the gap between China's industrial support and the world's advanced level is too large, and the United States and its henchmen have absolute advantages in all aspects of semiconductor technology.

EDA semiconductor design software, including front-end logic design and back-end physical design, the United States has a monopoly advantage.

In terms of semiconductor equipment, ion implanters, measuring equipment, etching equipment, SOC testing machines, etc., the United States and its henchmen still have a monopoly advantage.

In addition, applied materials, including the most basic wafers, photoresists, sputtering targets, polishing liquids, special gases, a lot of things are imported.

The industry profile given by 'Boston Consulting' is only a few hundred pages thick, and the complete development plan is printed out and needs to be stored in a room.

Among them, any one of them is a leading foreign project.

Domestic research and development and accumulation in the same field are extremely weak.Even if there is, it only occupies the low-end market, the cost is high, and the yield rate is still low.

This makes it useless.

If no one uses it, don't even want to develop it.

And then it's a vicious circle.

According to Zhou Qingfeng's request, Xiao Jinlang took the industrial development report provided by 'Boston Consulting' to various domestic scientific research institutes for questioning.

The reply I got was that I basically agreed with the Yankee's research, and there is no substitute at the same technical level in China.

But Yilan asked in surprise after reading Lao Xiao's reply: "You actually have a complete set of semiconductor industry corresponding to the United States?"

Ah... Old Xiao scratched his head embarrassingly when he was old, "We are still relatively backward, and many technologies are behind by 30 to [-] years."

But Yilan shook her head, "Backward? My motherland is even more backward, and many of my people have not even entered modern civilization.

My education at the Ecole Normale Supérieure.In the propaganda of the French media, China is that kind of...evil, backward, weird, and absurd society.

If Victor hadn't asked me to come, I don't think I would ever set foot in China in my life.I originally thought that China was similar to the Middle East, and it would be nice if there were less wars. "

Yilan curled her lips while talking, "However, the Western media has always deceived and distorted the facts. They demonize us in the Middle East, and it is normal for them to demonize China by the way."

The thick development plan would take a long time just to read an overview. Yilan is not a semiconductor major, so she could only shake her head with a wry smile, "Victor is right, we just need to pay for it."

Uh... Xiao Jinlang, who was sitting across from him, really wanted to ask what it meant?

Yilan explained casually: "'Holy Light' will invest in two lines, one will use foreign technology and equipment, and domestic supplements will be used. The other will use domestic equipment, and we will continue to use it regardless of whether it is good or not."

Ah... Xiao Jinlang pursed his lips, not knowing what to say—this mysterious Victor really came to help the poor.The kind who hold hands, work tirelessly, go deep into the grassroots, and don't ask for anything in return.

Like a living Bodhisattva.

Lao Xiao thought about it and said: "There are more than a dozen companies in China that are engaged in semiconductor design software, such as Huada Jiutian. There are more equipment, such as Shanghai Microelectronics, North Huachuang, etc. There are also materials, and various scientific research institutes. a lot.

Although the strength is very weak, it is there anyway. 'Holy Light' is willing to pay for their equipment and services, which at least plays a leading role.Mmm...very good, very good. "

Between the words, Lao Xiao felt heavy.

'ZTE' was fined once by the US in 2010, and in two years it will be blackmailed by the US for billions of dollars.Just like this, don't even think about getting rid of the fate of being squeezed.

Zhou Qingfeng didn't intend to remind, because the 'ZTE incident' was a huge shock to the country.The whole country is discussing the issue of being stuck by the United States.

Many people don’t shed tears when they see the coffin, and they don’t know the pain until they are stabbed a few times. If they don’t get stabbed a few times by the United States, the well-known people will continue to advocate that economic behavior should be resolved by the market.

You can buy food if you have no food, you can buy equipment if you don’t have equipment, and you can buy materials if you don’t have a way to survive.

'ZTE' being sanctioned directly led to the shutdown of the company. 'Huawei' is stronger and has also suffered huge losses.Next came Sugon, Haikang, and a series of domestic companies and scientific research institutes were sanctioned.

After feeling the pain, the whole country abandoned their illusions and prepared to fight to the end.

It doesn't matter what the common people say, and some people who say "one sentence is worth ten thousand sentences" must change their minds.However, there are a lot of these vegetarians in government agencies, enterprises and institutions.

The semiconductor is stuck, and someone must come out to lead the way, to use the lithography machine of SMIC, the etching machine of SMIC, the large wafer of Shanghai Silicon, the EDA of Beijing Phalanx, and the photoresist of China. Target materials, specialty gases, and more.

This matter was procrastinated and did not start until the height of the trade war.It wasn't until 2020 that the entire West began to collectively target China, forcing domestic bureaucrats with rigid thinking to find a way.

In the end, it was a 'happy funeral'.

Why did you go early?

Fortunately, the domestic "Huawei" still has a spare tire, but unfortunately there is only one "Huawei" in the country.

If Zhou Qingfeng wants to win this space-time adventure, he must change as much as possible.What he can think of is to do the layout and integration five years in advance.

It's nothing more than spending money, it's nothing more than a poor level, and it's nothing more than being ridiculed at the beginning.If you take a long-term view, you will pass if you are thick-skinned.

"Say something happy." Seeing Lao Xiao's serious face, Elan smiled and said, "Mr. Xiao, we have received some orders for military supplies from the U.S. Department of Defense, and we want to find manufacturers in China."

As mentioned before, the first one is the $1.38 million military uniform.

The project contract and specification requirements have been issued, indicating that the order was received by an established defense contractor, but in fact the order was handed over to Xiao Jinlang all the way.

U.S. military uniforms cannot be produced by just looking for a garment factory, but Chinese military bedding factories have been receiving international orders for military products.

In Southeast Asia, South America, Africa, and the Middle East, the military uniforms in many places come from China, and the quality is even better than that made in the United States.

Remember the 'Wilp' company mentioned earlier?

The reason why this company got caught wrong is because the quality of imported Chinese military boots is so good that it won't break after four or five years of wearing.American products will break after two years of wearing.

The logistics department found that the consumption of their own military boots had decreased. After investigation, it was discovered that... it turned out that 'Wilp' replaced the expensive and rotten American products with better and cheaper Chinese products.

'Wilp' company uses Chinese products, the cost is reduced by half, and the profit is higher.They simply reduced production and jobs in their own factories and turned to imports.

The unlucky 'Wilp' company's background is not strong enough, so it was found out.

Now that Uncle Zhou gets the same order, he still finds a Chinese factory to produce it.He specifically ordered—you get what you pay for, right?The quality is as good as the American ones, don't make them too good.

The military quilt factories in China with numbers starting with numbers can't laugh or cry, because they produced the batch of 'Wilp'.At that time, I thought that the quality of products exported to the United States must be strictly controlled.

As a result, the check was overdone and the buyer was sent to jail.

It's good now, the order is coming again, and the materials can be saved.

When 'Wilp' imported Chinese military boots, it pretended to sew on the 'Made in China' logo.

When Uncle Zhou comes to make troubles, there is no need for 'Made in China', and the American flag or 'made in USA' will be posted directly.

A large-brimmed hat, $95.

Boat caps are cheap at $25.

Khaki top, $300.

Same pants, $100.

Shirt, $70.

Then there's the jumble of ranks, badges, identification badges, collar badges, ties, tie pins, tie pins, belts, gloves, boots, socks.

Hehehe... After product proofing and small batch trial production, the contract of 1.38 million US dollars was fully produced in only one and a half months, and it was loaded and shipped to the other side of the ocean in early June.

Several state-owned quilt factories happily slapped their thighs, and they made a profit from the deposit given by 'Shengguang' alone, and they were all profits when the final payment was received.This kind of bullying welcomes it to come again next time.

The container floated in the Pacific Ocean for half a month and arrived at the port of Los Angeles at the end of June.

Los Angeles Port Customs has no right to check this shipment at all.In the name of supplies for troops stationed overseas, the Defense Logistics Agency directly sent people to take away hundreds of containers.

Anyway, Colonel Robert and Zhou Qingfeng have to pay attention to the first business deal.Both parties arrived at the port warehouse at the same time and sent personnel to conduct sampling tests.

But before the test results came out, the Colonel approached Zhou Qingfeng and asked, "Harden, can you tell me how much money you made from this business?"

Uncle Zhou shook his head without hesitation, "This is a commercial secret."

Chapter 11 Who will investigate?

Hundreds of containers arrived at the port and were directly pulled away by the convoy of the Defense Logistics Agency.

Considering that there are so many law enforcement agencies in the United States, in order to avoid accidents, Zhou Qingfeng still led a team from Washington to supervise.Accompanying him are more than a dozen "hunting dogs" from Bureau G, always responding to emergencies.

Fortunately, Los Angeles Customs did not easily provoke the forces of the army, and quickly released the container.Zhou Qingfeng didn't have to take the risk of exposing his identity to intervene.

After the goods are handed over and accepted, the money must be settled.Uncle Zhou absolutely cannot accept half-yearly payment or end-of-year payment.In a hurry, he will be armed to ask for money.

Colonel Robert was not in any trouble, after all, both sides still had bigger oil business going on.

From April to June, a batch of shale oil is shipped from the port of Texas every week, with a transaction volume of two to three hundred barrels of nearly [-] million or even more than [-] million US dollars each time.

Shale oil is light oil with high refining efficiency and low cost.

'Holy Light' only seeks to control the power of buying and selling, and there is no price increase for reselling.The domestic "three barrels of oil" is also very happy with this business.

In contrast, the refining of heavy oil in Venezuela is very difficult, requiring refineries to increase a lot of processes and costs. The "three barrels of oil" are purchased as a political task while pinching their noses.

In addition, there are a large number of 'local refineries' in China, such as Shandong.Its refining capacity reaches 30.00% of the total capacity.They need to import crude oil but lack quotas, so they have to beg the Ministry of Commerce like grandpa suing grandma.

'Sacred Light', which has free import rights and can be supplied openly, has become the ancestor of 'Land Refinery'.

"Shengguang" is a par price for "three barrels of oil", but it has to increase the price by [-] to [-]% for the "local refinery".The 'Land Refinery' that has no import quota is also happy, wishing to swallow all the imports of 'Holy Light'.

By the way, China is not only the world's largest importer of crude oil, but also exports tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of tons of refined oil every year.Domestic demand for crude oil is dire.

Because the prospect of cooperation with 'Holy Light' has been promising all the way, the stock of 'Pioneer Resources' has been rising in a straight line, and the shareholders behind it are enjoying excess profits and are very satisfied.

Lieutenant General Miller even regarded 'Deputy Director Harden' as his best friend.If it wasn't for the deputy director's pursuit of keeping a low profile, he would be happy to introduce him to other military or political friends.

Of course, this is still inevitable.

Stock transactions must be made public, and shale oil will be a hot spot in the U.S. economy in the next few years, and it will inevitably attract the attention of investors all over the world.

The appearance of 'Holy Light' was hard to conceal, and it was watched by those who cared.

When Zhou Qingfeng returned to Washington from Los Angeles, the Brotherhood who also traveled across the world was tracking the clues he left behind.

Also in Washington, D.C., Langley-on-Potomac.

Inside the fortress-like CIA headquarters building, the senior agent Jannason, who is in charge of overseas intelligence analysis, stared coldly at the whiteboards in the office, frowning.

Various strips of paper are taped to the whiteboard, with messy diagrams and lines drawn on them.There is also a world map next to it, with unknown words marked on it.

The number of time and space candidates far exceeds Zhou Qingfeng's expectations, but human beings instinctively unite, gradually forming a situation where the four dominate.

The American-dominated 'Brotherhood'; the Franco-German 'European Will'; the 'low-key club' of members of the Commonwealth of Nations; and the Russian 'Holy Alliance'.

These four are all Western-themed, and together they control 80.00% of the selected candidates.

The reason is that the leaders of these four families have mastered the 'most equal' law of time and space, and have the special ability to surpass other chosen ones.