Chapter 618

When sun Jingmeng was sent back to the Conservatory of music, sun Jingmeng didn't say he would return his shirt. Naturally, Zhang Ke couldn't take his clothes off her - but he had the idea. He rode back to Dongda. Du Fei and Meng Le were still drinking in the faculty canteen, so he went to drink with them again. The so-called temperament is the same. Du Fei and Meng Le also had a good talk.

The next few days were quiet. Sun Jingmeng was busy with the decoration of the bar. Du Fei said he would organize an Internet cafe in Xuefu lane. He would spend more time preparing.

Looking back ten years later, several existing Internet cafes in Jianye city in September 1997 can be called ancient memories. At that time, the more famous and formal network in Jianye city was an Internet cafe named wilt in the city center, which was jointly funded by a technology company and the post office. It was first established at the end of 1996.

Du Fei applied to be an Internet cafe administrator in wilt.

Without personal exploration, it is difficult to understand an industry thoroughly; Details cannot be built completely by imagination. Especially in 1997, in China, the Internet cafe industry is still in the exploratory period in the dark, and there are not many experiences and lessons to learn from.

Zhang Ke thought that Du Fei's insight and spirit could make him one step ahead of others, so he didn't think of extra pointing.

When Du Fei disappeared, Zhang Ke insisted on going to the grade office every day to report to Ying Mao and write posters. Instead, he had the opportunity to drink and chat with Meng Le, and was a little indifferent to the news from the outside world.

On September 16, Thailand replaced its third Ministry of Finance and formally submitted a rescue request to the International Monetary Fund on the condition of abandoning part of its economic sovereignty. However, Zhang Ke knew that Thailand's economic collapse would come more quickly and thoroughly.

Three months ago, middle-level people in Thailand were still wearing Swiss watches, wearing French famous clothes and trousers, and drinking wine from famous wineries. The family would go to seaside villas on weekends. Now they have to mortgage their cars to make up for some of the losses - even if they have cars, they can't afford to support them. Financial and industrial institutions have closed down continuously, the number of unemployed people has increased dramatically, and the enrollment rate of private schools that have just opened in September has also dropped sharply - previously, they were crowded, and private hospitals are facing the same dilemma. The high consumer groups in Thailand seem to have been swept away and buried under the sea by a sudden financial storm, and the sales of gold and diamonds have declined by * *, The door of the luxury store is crowed

These are the current situation of Thai society described by Chen Xindong, Jiang Wei and others to Zhang Ke through e-mail during their trip to Southeast Asia; Chen Xinsheng wrote in his email: "Thailand at this time can be described as: 'today there are more cars driving out of the highway than on the highway!'"

Many people will regard summer forest fires in low latitudes as a normal phenomenon. When the rainy season comes, the forest fires ignited by summer drought will naturally be extinguished. In short, the forest fires in the tropical rain forests of Sumatra and Kalimantan in Indonesia will disappear every year.

In mid August, the raging fires in the tropical rain forests of Sumatra and Kalimantan in Indonesia began to burn again. At that time, Indonesians did not know how much shadow it would bring to their future.

Until mid September, after the torrential rain in the rainy season flooded the earth several times, the forest fires in the two places had not been extinguished. Indonesians began to realize that this might be troublesome.

As a representative of domestic entrepreneurs, Chen Xinsheng visited Singapore with Ye Zhenmin, executive vice minister of the Ministry of foreign trade and economic cooperation and deputy director of the China International Liaison Office. The smoke and dust from the forest fire in Indonesia has affected Singapore. Chen Xinsheng described in his email that their plane to Singapore had to hover over Singapore for more than an hour before landing due to the sudden heavy fog.

As early as a year ago, ye Zhenmin, who clearly pointed out the disadvantages in the Southeast Asian economic system and predicted the financial storm, became famous after the real outbreak of the Southeast Asian financial storm. On the contrary, the American economist grugman, who was the first to be alert to the danger of the Southeast Asian economic system, was not the most influential person.

Hong Kong has just returned. The central government's greatest effort is to maintain Hong Kong's economic stability. It is also an inevitable choice to join hands with the governments of East Asian countries to resist financial giants. It is also a time to give full play to and demonstrate the power of great powers. Ye Zhenmin is naturally the most suitable candidate to promote this work.

While the International Monetary Fund is still making difficulties for the Thai government and putting forward various harsh conditions, ye Zhenmin suggested to the domestic government to provide the Thai government with a government loan of US $20 to help it survive the most difficult moment.

The Singaporean authorities have always been the strongest supporters of the Thai government, but the Singaporean authorities should be concerned that a large amount of international hot money has been continuously impacting their monetary system and can not spare the strength to assist the Thai government and other neighboring countries. Domestic assistance to the Thai government at this time can further strengthen the relationship with the Singaporean authorities, It also paves the way for the wafer factory project to introduce manufacturing technology from Singapore.

After ye Zhenmin's visit to Singapore, he will also go to the Philippines. Chen Xinsheng first returned to Jianye and reported some details and achievements of his trip to Southeast Asia to Zhang Ke.

It was probably the smoke and dust from the Indonesian forest fire that left too much deep impression on Chen Xinsheng. Chen Xinsheng met Zhang Ke and mentioned again the matter of being trapped over Singapore for more than an hour.

At this time, it should be the rainy season in Singapore. Fog weather is rare. Zhang Ke has been to Singapore twice. He is not particularly impressed by the pocket country of garden city.

Zhang Ke just smiled faintly.

"How long do you think the forest fire in Indonesia will last?" Zhang Keming asked. No one knows better than how long the fire will last. At least it will last until the end of December. At this time, no one except him realized that the underground coal seams in Sumatra and Kalimantan had been burned, right? Even if the fire on the ground is extinguished by the rainstorm, the underground fire source will not extinguish all year round. In addition, the tropical rain forest on the surface will be burned up.

"It's really hard to judge," Chen Xinsheng squeezed his lips. "There's no time to go to Indonesia to have a look..."

Among the four tigers in Asia, Indonesia is the weak tiger with the most backward economy and the one with the most thorough and disrespectful economic damage. Zhang Ke even instructed IDA electronics to completely abandon the Indonesian market in early June. Naturally, Chen Xinsheng's trip to Southeast Asia did not include Indonesia in his itinerary.

"I think it will last for quite a long time," Zhang Ke said. "I've been watching quite a few news reports these days. Indonesia is the largest wood pulp supplier in Asia, and Indonesia's tropical forest fires continue to spread, which may affect the wood pulp supply in Asia for a long time..." Zhang Ke thought it was hypocritical to say so, This is simply a forest fire that has a long-term direct impact on the supply and demand of global forestry resources.

Chen Xinsheng returned to Jianye to report to Zhang Ke about his trip to Southeast Asia. Jianye is only qualified to travel around. Zhang Ke said that he frowned and seriously considered this possibility - the forest disaster in Indonesia has forced many pulp factories near the edge of tropical rain forest in Indonesia to shut down, resulting in tight wood pulp supply in Asia, However, everyone did not realize that this situation would intensify and continue for a long time. They all thought that the rainstorm with the rainy season would extinguish the forest fires in Indonesia and restore the balance of wood pulp supply in Asia.

With the scale of Xinguang paper industry, it is impossible to hoard a large amount of wood pulp. Zhang Ke's chosen path is to actively come out and invest in the acquisition of the equity of one or two pulp enterprises when the financial storm has damaged the economy of Southeast Asia and enterprises seriously lack financing channels.

Zhang Ke also asked Chen Xinsheng: "when Mr. Guo Songyan came back to Jianye, it also showed that the funds in the hands of Guo group were tight. Would they be willing to sell the equity of their pulp enterprises?"

Guo Yunyuan group's largest food enterprise, but its Yunyuan paper industry is also famous in Southeast Asia.

"Just pulp enterprises?" Zhou you asked.

"Well, they are willing to transfer papermaking technology, and we can talk to them," Zhang Ke said, "Regardless of the long-term tight supply of wood pulp, we should also look for a stable supply source of wood pulp overseas. The scale of Xinguang paper industry is becoming larger and larger. In three years, the investment in fixed assets of paper industry alone has exceeded 1.2 billion. In particular, the newly invested phase II project is about to be put into operation and will continue to expand, so we need to look for a stable supply source of wood pulp overseas; On the other hand, our forestry speed in China is also constantly improving. It is necessary to build pulp factories in the later stage. At this time, the acquisition of equity of overseas pulp enterprises is also regarded as preparing for the future... "

In June, Zhang Ke transferred the income of Yuexiu holdings last year to China and added a total of 400 million yuan to the forestry project of Xinguang paper. For such a large-scale forestry, it is necessary to build a pulp factory to digest a large number of industrial forest resources in the later stage, and finally form a complete forestry integrated large-scale paper industry system.

Xinguang paper can not be regarded as the largest paper group in China, but the scale of forest management is much larger than those in the same industry. The domestic forest paper integration project has just started, and the courage and decision of Xinguang paper are amazing.

"Well," Zhou you nodded, but still hesitated, "there is a possibility of further devaluation of Malaysia's currency. Is it too early to sell at this time..."

"I also think Malaysia's currency may depreciate further. However, Malaysia's economic foundation is the best among the four tigers in Asia, which means that when the financial storm passes, Malaysia's economy may recover as soon as possible, and the currency exchange rate will naturally return to the normal level. It is unnecessary to consider short-term interests to invest in the acquisition of equity. On the other hand, I At this time, when we talk with Guo group, can't we just use this as a chip to lower the other party's bid? "

"How much can it be reduced?" Zhou you expressed doubts about this. At this time, the key Jinhu secretly entrusted Guo Songyan, chairman of the board of directors of Guo Yunyuan group, to jointly raise funds for the project of investing in the wafer factory.

"If you can take advantage of both sides, you should insist on taking it." Zhang Ke smiled rudely. "You can talk about specific things. In short, Jinhu has frequent contact with Guo's group, and you also need an excuse that can hide people's ears and eyes..."

The investment project of the wafer factory must not disturb the Taiwan authorities or the Malaysian authorities at this time.

Aida electronics and Chen Xinsheng are quite famous in the industry. They have frequent contacts with Guo Songyan. They don't know when they will attract the attention of relevant parties. The cover work should be done well. Once the Taiwan authorities are alerted in advance, it will come to naught.

Of course, Liu Zhicheng's worries are the biggest obstacle to the wafer factory investment plan.

Chen Xinsheng's visit to Singapore with Ye Zhenmin was quite pleasant. On the other hand, Chen Xinsheng's visit to Singapore with Ye Zhenmin also represented the firm support of the domestic government, which also gave Liu Zhicheng, Guo Songyan and others strong confidence.

It's not that Liu Zhicheng can't see his efforts. He first rushed his wife to Singapore to accompany Liu Ming, who is studying at the National University of Singapore, in preparation for his eventual escape.

There will certainly be concerns. Once he leaves TSMC in this way, he should be able to cancel his options from TSMC, and his equity in TSMC will also be frozen. It is impossible for him to move all his relatives and friends out of Taiwan; In addition, without conscience, he had to abduct his engineers and technicians and their families to Malaysia first - after all, he only said that he would build a wafer factory in Kuala Lumpur, and after they joined the technology company that has actually been secretly controlled by Jinhu and set up in Kuala Lumpur, Only in this way can they choose to go or stay - after all, not everyone is willing to settle in the mainland; In addition, he is also worried about policy changes in the mainland.

"Whatever conditions are easy to talk about, we should try our best to dispel his concerns," Zhang Ke frowned and thought for a while after listening to Chen Xinsheng's talk about these situations. "The key is to turn their people around... Of course, we should also use their concerns to resist the possibility of government investment and shareholding. I don't want to be restricted."

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