Since we have arrived in Shandong, let’s have fun.

Liang Duo and Kong Ning accompanied Tan Mingyan to go around Shandong, climbed Mount Tai, and went to Laoshan, and arrived in Penglai. What satisfied the fourth lady the most was to take the king to ask for a set of four treasures of Wenquxing's study at the Confucius Temple in Qufu.

That night, Tan Mingyan showed the four treasures of the study to Tan Xiaotian, and Tan Xiaotian laughed in silence.

Qufu receives so many tourists every day. If this thing is really useful, wouldn’t everyone become the top scorer in the college entrance examination?

The little fat Liang Duo has been here for more than a year. He has followed Zhou Wuan and worked hard since the factory was established. After more than a year of training, he has obviously lost a lot of weight. Although he is still so short, he looks much healthier.

In the group of Yanjing's sleepless night, the closest ones to Tan Mingyan are Shasha and Liang Duo, who love the house and the Wu. Tan Mingyan likes Liang Duo's girlfriend Kong Ning very much.

Liang Duo told Tan Mingyan that his and Kong Ning's wedding date will be scheduled in April next year, and one will be held in Yanjing and one will be held in the West.

Tan Mingyan immediately said that she would definitely attend their wedding.

Liang Duo gave her a Porsche 911 back then, and Tan Mingyan has always remembered this incident. Now the fat man is getting married, so she will give her a big gift no matter what.

Tan Mingyan thought about it and decided to imitate her third brother Tan Mingdong and give them a pair of Patek Philippe couples.

Tan Mingyan and his son were traveling around, but Tan Xiaotian was not idle. The start date of the second phase of the project has been set, so it was logical that he had nothing to do. However, officials at the provincial and municipal levels of Shandong and Qingdao visited him like a lantern. The central meaning is only one. The situation in Tianmo New Materials is now very good, and Shandong is interested in promoting Tianmo's listing.

Tan Xiaotian had thought about the issue of listing, but he was very resistant to this matter.

Tan Xiaotian warmly welcomed the company he invested in to go public, but once it involved the company he led, he was very reluctant.

There are two reasons. One is that the finances of listed companies must be made public so that their personal wealth will be exposed to the public. The other is that companies that have a real future and are not short of funds can develop well without going public. Tianmo New Materials has mastered the most advanced graphene technology in China and will not lag behind in the next ten years. Moreover, with his support behind, there is absolutely no shortage of funds, so there is really no need to go public.

Once listed, his own assets will be exposed more or less, and the company's profits will be distributed to shareholders, which he thinks is not cost-effective.

However, the officials in Shandong could not resist the bombings in turn. Tan Xiaotian had no choice but to use the word "drag" method, saying that Tianmo New Materials' production capacity is too small now, and he would consider going public after the second phase of the project is completed.

After staying in Shandong for a week, Tan Xiaotian took his wife and children back to Yanjing.

There was no way, the officials in Shandong were so enthusiastic that they persuaded them to drink and make a variety of tricks. If they stayed there, Tan Xiaotian was afraid that his body would not be able to bear it.

****Tan Xiaotian just returned to Yanjing when he received a call from Zhan Zhiyun from Europe.

The two XT series lithography machines he ordered from ASML in May have been produced and will be shipped to China soon. In addition, ASML's president Andrew wants to visit China in early December.

Since Tan Xiaotian visited ASML's headquarters last time, ASML has realized the importance of the Chinese market and is preparing to set up an office in China.

This is good news.

Tan Xiaotian immediately notified the seven-member team of the Semiconductor Association, Liu Zhi, deputy team leader Ren Zhengfei, as well as Lei Jun, Jack Ma, Robin Ri and Ma Huateng.

When the other six people heard Andrew was coming to China, they immediately realized that this was a good opportunity. On the phone, the seven people agreed to go to the Shanghai Stock Exchange together to welcome Andrew.

In addition, Tan Xiaotian paid only a deposit for purchasing the lithography machine. Now that he has produced the finished product, he has to make up for the remaining payment. The total price of the two lithography machines is close to US$200 million. Secretary-General Lei Jun immediately asked the association's accounting to transfer the remaining payment to the ASML account.

At the end of November, a group of seven people went to the Shanghai Stock Exchange and lived in Tan Xiaotian's horse farm.

The seven people held a meeting at the horse farm for a day and finally decided to allocate the two lithography machines to Hays and China Microelectronics in the form of a shareholding, both of which are corporate members of the association.

At the same time, the seven people also realized that with the explosive growth of China's smartphone production capacity, only two lithography machines were far from meeting the demand. They unanimously decided to order ten lithography machines from ASML when Andrew visited China.

On December 2, Andrew flew to the Shanghai Stock Exchange and Tan Xiaotian arranged him to the horse farm. For several days, Andrew met with major domestic chip manufacturers and negotiated. He realized that the booming Chinese market will be the main battlefield of ASML in the future.

It’s a pity that ASML is limited by the United States and cannot sell the most advanced lithography machines to China, otherwise the output value of ASML may double.

Andrew agreed to the Semiconductor Association's request.

With the assistance of the Semiconductor Association, ASML's Huaxia Office quickly set up a location, and in the future, the opportunity for Chinese companies to purchase lithography is very convenient.

In mid-December, two highly sought-after lithography machines arrived in the Shanghai market, and Hays and CMI Electronics each took away their lithography machines.

At the same time, domestic lithography machine manufacturer Shanghai Microelectronics has also sent technicians to settle in two companies. The road to developing its own lithography machine is long and far away, but if you don’t want to be controlled by others forever, you will eventually take the first step.

After seeing Andrew away, Tan Xiaotian smoked a cigarette outside the airport.

Ren Zhengfei came over, "Mr. Tan, what are you thinking?"

Tan Xiaotian looked at the legendary figure, "I was thinking that our country has overcome many difficulties, and I don't know if we can cross this level."

Ren Zhengfei said nothing.

In his previous life, in 2015, my country spent more money on imported chips than oil. In 2018, the United States sanctioned ZTE, and the Chinese people realized how uncomfortable it felt to be strangled. In 2019, the United States began to sanction the country again, banning the country from using American semiconductor components for mobile phones, allowing the country to enter a state of survival and death of "no cores to be made and no cores to be bought". Then, it cracked down on China's 5G technology around the world... Of course, Ren Zhengfei didn't know about these things.

Tan Xiaotian can only use this method to help them, take advantage of the time difference and gain a living space for Chinese companies.

"Xiaotian, the country has been silently accumulating strength."

The old man finally said this.

"I know that the original intention of the Semiconductor Association was to help national industries like Huawei."

"The chips are really expensive."

Ren Zhengfei sighed.

The Semiconductor Association, established in June this year, raised a total of 48 billion yuan. Now, it has only been half a year and has spent 15 billion yuan. By the time the production of the ten lithography machines is completed next year, it will have to spend more than 7 billion yuan at once.

The chip industry is simply a bottomless pit for burning money.

"No matter how difficult it is, I have to persevere. No matter what others do, I will definitely support the association to the end."

Tan Xiaotian said lightly.
Chapter completed!