Siheyuan: Taking over the steel mill

Satisfied with the decision, Suchen said, "Thank you very much, Director. I can delegate the details of setting up the company to my assistant. If there is anything that needs coordination during the process, please feel free to contact me."

"I want to express my gratitude for your patriotism," the aviation department leader said sincerely. "Thanks to your enthusiastic funding, we are able to promote the country's progress in rocket research and development."

As our country has been at a disadvantage in this regard for a long time, the aviation sector has been lacking breakthroughs in recent years. Now with Suchen's funding, they can better accelerate their research and development progress and achieve their goals.

For the leader of the aviation department, this is also an important political achievement, so he is naturally very grateful for Su Chen's appearance.

After some polite conversation, Su Chen successfully obtained the opportunity to launch the satellite. After achieving his goal, he did not stay in the aviation department for too long.

Because of this incident, Su Chen thought of another aspect of future development. At present, the production capacity of the Red Star Steel Rolling Mill and the Changhong Tractor Factory is almost saturated. If further development is to be achieved, new facilities must be built from scratch.

Therefore, he resolutely decided to go to the outskirts of Beijing to look for a satisfactory wasteland. This time the site selection was much easier than the last time.

Last time, it was because they needed to build a heavy water research plant, and that place had to be set up in a remote place. But this time it was different. Su Chen planned to build a more universal factory, so he quickly selected a suitable wasteland.

At that time, there were many wastelands in the suburbs of Beijing waiting to be developed, so the price for sale was quite low. Su Chen hardly bargained, and the other party voluntarily lowered the selling price.

Because in the current era, very few people would buy land in the suburbs of Beijing. Even the price that Su Chen thought was very cheap was still expensive in the eyes of most people at that time. Moreover, they did not realize the value of these lands, resulting in these wastelands being completely unpopular.

Since someone is willing to buy it, he is naturally willing to sell it at a lower price. After Su Chen selected a piece of wasteland, he personally conducted an on-site inspection.

This wasteland is located near the capital, not particularly remote. According to future standards, this land should be within the scope of the capital, but whether it is outside the fifth or sixth ring road is still unknown. But these issues are not important at this stage.

Now, the government has no regulations that factories cannot be built in the suburbs of Beijing, but encourages them to move to the outer suburbs. So Su Chen seized the opportunity and quickly started the development.

He stood in this wasteland covered with weeds. At the moment, it was still empty, but when the factory was built, it would become full of life.

Su Chen bought this piece of land in order to build a wafer fab from scratch. A wafer fab is a factory that specializes in producing wafers.

Wafer is a front-end process in the semiconductor industry. It is a production process for making various semiconductor components on single-crystal silicon wafers. Each silicon wafer can integrate thousands or even tens of thousands of identical circuits and other components.

Unlike the current Red Star Steel Rolling Mill and Changhong Tractor Factory, the production of wafers requires extremely precise operations and technology, and the price of equipment is also extremely expensive. In the future, wafers will be widely used in the manufacture of chips for various electronic devices.

This means that the wafer fab will become a key node in the supply chain of all electronic products that require chips. Electronic products such as mobile phones and computers cannot be separated from wafers. It was through his experience in his previous life and his understanding of computers and mobile phones that Su Chen learned about this relevant information.

He remembered that the news at that time mentioned that there were only ten top wafer fabs in the world, and only one or two of them could be contacted. Unfortunately, these wafer fabs were not owned by the country, so in the field of chips, China had been strangled by foreign countries for many years.

Against this backdrop, Su Chen resolutely decided to build his own fab. Perhaps it was not obvious in the short term how much profit the fab would bring, because at that time, the demand for chips did not surge as it did later.

For example, in the future, almost everyone will have a smartphone, from the elderly in their 80s to children who have just learned to walk. Almost no one does not have a mobile phone, and some people even have multiple phones. With such a huge shipment volume, the number of chips required is naturally huge, not to mention the needs of computers and other smart devices.

Therefore, Su Chen's early layout can take the lead in occupying this track when other wafer fabs are not yet mature. Once Su Chen has established a complete production chain, other manufacturers will hardly pose a threat to its position even if they follow up. At that time, this wafer fab will be like a living gold mine, constantly creating wealth for Su Chen.

However, the capital and technology investment required to build a wafer fab is equally huge. This is not a short-term project. To get a wafer fab on track, it requires the efforts and support of many technical experts.

In Su Chen's opinion, it would still take a long time to build and put into production. This technology was just a bold goal in his eyes, and even if there were mistakes, they were within his tolerance because he had enough funds for experiments and learning.

Looking at the empty space in front of him, his heart was filled with lofty ambitions. Although it was still an empty space at the moment, Su Chen had already sketched out a glorious future in his mind - when the wafer factory was built, it would be the foundation of the country, and the country would no longer have to worry about being controlled by others in the chip dilemma.

Thinking of this, he was extremely excited. This was the career blueprint in his mind: relying on all the insights into the future, he would continue to accumulate more advantageous resources. Only in this way would the development path become wider and wider.

After imagining what the future wafer factory would look like, Su Chen reluctantly closed the car door and returned home.

He is about to prepare talents and technology to start the wafer fab construction project. Even though a large amount of chip production capacity is not needed at present, it is always good to prepare in advance. Su Chen does not want to hand over the dominance of this field to others.

It has become a top priority to implement the wafer fab construction project as soon as possible, and I started to arrange related matters as soon as I returned to the office. This is crucial to the strategic layout of the entire manufacturing company in the future.

Although building a wafer fab cannot be completed overnight, several days have passed after a series of arrangements such as jointly developing rockets with an airline company were completed.

In the past few days, although Su Chen has handed over many things to his assistant, he still has a lot of work to finalize personally.

During this period, Su Chen found that his current assistant seemed to be unable to keep up with the pace. Assistant Zhang not only had to manage various businesses within the Red Star Steel Rolling Mill, but also had to follow Su Chen's instructions to set up new enterprises and plan new factories. Obviously, the pressure had reached a critical point.

Therefore, Su Chen decisively decided to promote two other assistants to assist him.

He wanted one assistant to set up the new company and manage the company's daily operations, while another would track research-related issues. In this way, the original assistant, Mr. Zhang, only needed to focus on managing the trivial tasks within the factory.

However, since Su Chen felt that Mr. Zhang was very capable, he still gave him some important design work.

As soon as Su Chen issued the order, the Red Star Steel Rolling Mill quickly selected two suitable new assistants. These two new assistants were both young and energetic, and their abilities had been unanimously recognized by the factory.

But even so, Su Chen did not directly appoint them. He still decided to interview the two candidates. The two young people performed well in the interview and had unique insights in various fields, which eventually won Su Chen's recognition. Su Chen decided to quickly let them officially start working in their positions and share some of the tasks originally undertaken by Mr. Zhang.

However, on the one hand, Mr. Zhang felt very grateful to Suchen for being so considerate of the hard work of his staff; on the other hand, he deeply blamed himself for not being able to perform his job well, forcing Suchen to arrange other people to help, so he worked even harder.

Faced with such a change in mood, Su Chen immediately saw through his thoughts: "You have done a good job, don't think too much. Everyone's carrying capacity will have its own limits at different times. This time it is not because of your mistakes or lack of diligence, but because I gave you too many responsibilities."

After hearing this, Mr. Zhang felt even more guilty and redoubled his efforts in his work. Looking at this dedicated assistant, Su Chen understood his feelings and did not continue to comfort him. He just shook his head and left the scene.

Recently, Su Chen has been in a state of intense operation, and he is physically and mentally exhausted. He plans to arrange a short vacation for himself after finishing the current matters. Looking back at the time when he was an ordinary employee, he could enjoy two days of vacation every week. After becoming the factory director, he is busy every day, and can only take a break occasionally during office hours. At present, it seems that Su Chen is indeed considering using this vacation time to spend time with his wife Yang Xue. Just when he wanted to call Yang Xue to tell her, his subordinates came to report the situation. "Director, that official is visiting again."

Su Chen waved his hand and told him to leave. He thought: Is he here again? But thinking that this gentleman has been visiting my office recently, he must be here to chat and drink tea, so maybe it's the right time for me to tell him that he will go on vacation.

The frequent visitor was none other than the only military officer leading the group.

Su Chen didn't care too much, because he had a very close relationship with the military leaders, and it was no big deal for them to go to each other's office for a cup of tea. Therefore, he still did not change his vacation plan.

But Su Chen still decided to report to his leader first and then call Yang Xue.

However, before Su Chen could pick up his phone, his office door was pushed open.

Su Chen raised his head and saw the military leader walking in quietly with a mysterious expression on his face.

Just as Su Chen was about to speak, he saw the military leader move aside the door and a man wrapped in a turban came in. When Su Chen saw this man, his eyes lit up.