Era: Starting from divorce from female college student

Chapter 322, The mastermind behind the scenes, eyes wide open
Nineteen seventy-one passed quietly, and nineteen seventy-two came.

Zhao Mancang originally planned to return to Beijing on New Year's Day, but he never expected that something would happen again in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

At that time, he was in Los Angeles inspecting companies such as Robotics Computer Company and Fairchild Semiconductor, and at the same time keeping an eye on the release of Hollywood movies. Unexpectedly, he received a call from the Mbandaka mine.

"How many people were lost?"

The person on the other end of the satellite phone was Xie Pingzhou from the Black Cross Force. After he and Zhao Mancang verified each other's identities, they immediately reported the situation.

This time, foreign capital wants to intervene in the mineral resources of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and they have set their sights on the Mbandaka mine.

In fact, there are many mines in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, such as the Katanga copper belt.

Perhaps this foreign capital also knows that the forces in the Katanga Copper Belt are complicated and more difficult to deal with, so it has set its sights on the relatively "weak" Mbandaka mine?
So far, more than thirty people from the Black Cross Force have been sacrificed.

When Zhao Mancang heard the news, he almost fainted.

Wow, these people are really awesome.

The Black Cross Force was Zhao Mancang's backup force, and this was the first time it suffered such heavy losses.

The battle had just begun and more than 30 people were lost.

Damn it, if the fight continues, won’t more people be lost?
What a fuck!
"Alright, alright, fight back fiercely! I don't care who it is, I must avenge myself!"

At that moment, Zhao Mancang gave Xie Pingzhou an order directly via satellite phone:

"Also, have Lake Butler, Ye Weidong, and Ding Shoushun return to Hong Kong Island and recruit people immediately."

"I'll deal with the aftermath after I arrive. Anyway, the deaths of my brothers won't be so easy to deal with."

"Also, Old Xie, please remind everyone not to make any more senseless sacrifices. You must protect yourself. Put on those bulletproof vests."

There is absolutely no need to question the Black Cross Corps' fearless spirit. In any case, Zhao Mancang is not worried about this.

On the contrary, Zhao Mancang was worried that these commanders would become too arrogant and fall into the enemy's trap or be surrounded, resulting in more casualties. That was not a scene that Zhao Mancang wanted to see.

"Okay, boss, I understand. I will do a good job in this regard!"

Xie Pingzhou nodded solemnly and agreed.

After hanging up the phone, Zhao Mancang did not go to Africa immediately, but finished his work with Sam first.

The Mbandaka mine is guarded by the Black Cross troops, and Zhao Mancang is not worried that they will be wiped out immediately.

What's more, he spent money to hire so many people and even gave them a gold mine as a base. If they lost even such a base, there would be no need for the Black Cross Force to exist.

There are also several small teams in the small town of Iskushuban in the Middle East. Similarly, Zhao Mancang did not let them go to the Democratic Republic of the Congo for support.

There's no rush yet.

At the headquarters of Fairchild Semiconductor, Zhao Mancang attended today's shareholders' meeting.

It was called a shareholders' meeting, but in fact it was just a meeting between him and the management.

Robert, Blank, Herni and other management personnel are not just management personnel, they are also technical engineers.

In 1961, Zhao Mancang invested in a Strawberry Holdings Company under the alias Smith, and then used this Strawberry Holdings Company to invest in Fairchild Semiconductor.

By the year 1972, a full ten years had passed.

In 1964, Fairchild Semiconductor developed the projection lithography machine, and in the following years, it raised Fairchild Semiconductor's revenue to an unprecedented level.

It was in 1968 that Fairchild Semiconductor began to develop a deep ultraviolet lithography machine with a 193-nanometer light source.

However, the development of such a lithography machine is indeed difficult.

During this period, Fairchild Semiconductor could only continuously update other small technologies and slowly improve the projection lithography machine technology.

At the beginning, Fairchild Semiconductor came up with a projection lithography machine that used 400-nanometer light source technology.

In the middle of last year, we finally achieved a breakthrough in the development of a lithography machine with a 250-nanometer light source technology.

It is still being improved and is waiting for the establishment of a production line, after which large-scale production can be carried out.

In other words, Fairchild Semiconductor could make a lot of money again.

Zhao Mancang is now relieved because back home, next to the Tamron factory, the lithography machine research center established on January 19, 1964, has not only mastered the production technology of 400-nanometer projection lithography machines after so many years of hard work.

We have also developed a 200-nanometer projection lithography machine.

Now it depends on whether Fairchild Semiconductor will come up with the 193-nanometer deep ultraviolet lithography machine first or the domestic lithography machine research center will come up with it first.

According to the information Zhao Mancang learned before leaving Beijing last November, the lithography machine research center, a subordinate unit of the Jiaolong Comprehensive Organization, had completed 38.2 percent of the progress at that time.

Fairchild Semiconductor is still just getting started and is much slower than the lithography machine research center.

But we must also understand one thing, that is, Fairchild Semiconductor is very strong, and this company's technological accumulation and other aspects far exceed the lithography machine research center.

Therefore, even though they are far ahead, Zhao Mancang dare not guarantee that the lithography machine research center must have developed it earlier.

It is difficult to explain scientific research clearly.

After inspecting the situation at Fairchild Semiconductor, Zhao Mancang nodded with great satisfaction.

He had high expectations for Fairchild Semiconductor. Not only did he want it to make enough profits for him, he also wanted it to stay in Silicon Valley and become the leader of Sam Semiconductor.

After inspecting Fairchild Semiconductor, Zhao Mancang called Xie Pingzhou again on his way to Robot Computer Company.

From the latter, Zhao Mancang learned that in the past ten hours, the number of enemies near the Mbandaka mine had not increased, but these people had not retreated either.

According to the current situation, they will not give up until they complete the mission.

Zhao Mancang heard this and then said:
"In that case, I'll call the town of Iskushuban and ask them to send two teams to support you."

"But don't be lazy, you must guard the mine for me, otherwise I will make you pay."

Xie Pingzhou nodded quickly, indicating that there was no problem and that even if he died, the mine would not change the flag.

Die as hell!

After hanging up the phone, Zhao Mancang wished he could fly to Africa right now and wipe out those who coveted the Mbandaka mine first.

What a hassle!

However, he still chose to trust Xie Pingzhou, hoping that they could successfully eliminate the enemy and avoid so many casualties.

According to the Black Cross Corps' casualty compensation regulations, the compensation for each death is quite high.

Although this company is profitable and also has a gold mine, Zhao Mancang feels sad every time someone dies.

At the Robot Computer Company, Zhao Mancang came to the conference room and sat down, then listened quietly to the management's work report.

But this time he heard something unusual.

Today's personal computers may look like game consoles, but some people have actually started using them as personal computers.

And there are already two companies producing personal computers on the market, one is called Alice and the other is Ping An.

The emergence of these two companies shows that the personal computer industry has matured.

The rise of an emerging industry often starts with multiple competing companies.

"Boss, we've also checked and found that several established brands like IBM have already produced new personal computers, and their prices are even lower than ours. However, their technology and other aspects are far inferior."

Upon hearing this, Zhao Mancang immediately asked:
"Did they plagiarize our technology patents? If so, kill them!"

The executive immediately shook his head.

Because according to the technical department's testing, IBM and other companies did not plagiarize, nor did they dare to plagiarize.

Although Robot Computer Company rose later, it has been a top giant in the Sam computer industry since 1969.

An Apple system allowed the Robot Computer Company to expand rapidly, and it soared at a very rapid rate, with revenue and profits also skyrocketing.

Subsequently, many emerging technological products have emerged one after another, such as the recent personal computer, which has taken the lead, occupying 90% of the market share, leading the way and being extremely powerful.

"That's good. Keep a close eye on them. Don't give them any chance to breathe."

After a pause, Zhao Mancang continued:

"I will continue to invest 30% of my profits in new projects this year. I need to ensure that the company maintains strong innovation capabilities to ensure our market competitiveness."

"There are many mathematicians at Princeton University, as well as Harvard University, MIT, Stanford University, etc. We are all partners, so don't be reluctant to invest money."

"In addition, the company's supervisory department must also take action. The company's internal audit and supervision mechanism needs to be further improved. I give you high salaries in the hope that you will not take action rashly. Otherwise..."

Many executives at robotics and computer companies earn high salaries.

Although Zhao Mancang has not fired anyone so far, it would not be such a simple matter if he really were to be fired.

I hope every executive will be so dedicated to their duties and not play tricks.

The company's internal supervisory department is actually just a deterrent.

The only companies that can truly find out everything about all the executives within Robot Computer Company are actually two external companies.

Zhao Mancang also established his own independent accounting firm modeled after the Big Four accounting firms.

Such companies will use third-party cooperative agencies to audit companies such as Robot Computer Company, Wanjia Supermarket, Mario Airlines, Aucma, and Mayflower Media Group.

And later, there is the Hong Kong Development Bank as a guarantee.

In short, every time Zhao Mancang came to Sam's to inspect the work, it was just a formality.

The real action is behind the scenes. After leaving the Robot Computer Company, Zhao Mancang thought about it and decided to set up a software company.

Let’s call this software company Microsoft.

Home office software system!
Why cultivate another software giant?

That's Sam's local feature. They have the so-called antitrust law here.

At this time, the Robot Computer Company had already become a super giant. If there was no other giant to compete with it, it would easily be cut off by other capitals.

Rather than being pushed into the abyss, it is better to take the initiative to establish such a company to avoid the fate of being divided.

As long as there is confrontation, there is nothing else to fear.

In the next few days, Zhao Mancang used the name "Alan Stone" as a new alias and compiled the personal information of this alias.

Then Microsoft was founded.

On the other hand, he was keeping an eye on the situation in Africa, and would ask Xie Pingzhou to call every other day to report on the progress there.

At the same time, Zhao Mancang was still keeping an eye on Hollywood.

The December Christmas and New Year period has passed, but surprisingly, the box office revenue is comparable to last year's.

I don’t know if it’s because of the devaluation of the US dollar, so everyone thought it was inflation and started spending money like crazy.

The four giants, Paramount, 20th Century Fox, Universal Pictures and MGM, each released a blockbuster film.

During this period, every giant company releases a blockbuster, so the competition among them makes the entire market extremely hot.

According to the conventions of the cultural industry, the most popular movies should siphon off the luck and attention of other films released at the same time.

However, the movies released by the four giants of Paramount are all of different genres, and everyone has tacitly separated the genre wars.

After the Christmas and New Year period, 1971 became completely a thing of the past.

The four giants all did a great job in their annual final battle, and they are sure to win big red envelopes this year.

In addition to paying attention to the box office of these movies, Zhao Mancang is also paying attention to the production of blockbusters such as "The Qin Empire", "Top Gun", and "Classic of Mountains and Seas".

Whether it is "The Great Qin Empire" or "Classic of Mountains and Seas", these movies have one characteristic, that is, they are full of Chinese cultural heritage.

Therefore, Zhao Mancang was very nervous.

You know, even though he's spent years cultivating Sam's audience, there's no guarantee they'll be interested in a movie like this.

When the movie is released, whether it makes a profit or not is not the issue. The key is the audience's evaluation, which is the most important thing.

It’s a pity that personal computers were just beginning, otherwise, we could have created relevant website reviews to focus on the audience’s true evaluation of the movie.

Television reporter interviews, street comment surveys and other methods are all very good, but these may not all be true comments.

The comments on the Internet are the most authentic.

However, there is no point for Zhao Mancang to worry now. He will only know the result after the movie is produced and released.

Amidst the busy schedule, Microsoft was established. Zhao Mancang recruited dozens of technical talents from IBM and other companies, and then began to lay out the plan.

A week later, Zhao Mancang had to leave Sam and fly his own plane to Africa.

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, near the Mbandaka mine, after Zhao Mancang arrived here, he did not go to find Xie Pingzhou and others, but disguised himself as an enemy and sneaked into their command post.

In the command room, Zhao Mancang saw two SAM officers.

"As I expected, someone really is involved in this matter. Haha, I want to see who is targeting my property."

After seeing the two SAM officers, Zhao Mancang understood everything.

After all, if there were no one supporting them from behind, how could the local warlords in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have the strength and courage to provoke the Black Cross forces again and again?
In the following time, Zhao Mancang did not alert the enemy, but quietly entered the village and explored slowly.

Through the insect drone, Zhao Mancang quickly locked onto the two Sam officers who went out every two days. They would go to nearby cities and secretly contact people.

In an ordinary room, Zhao Mancang controlled the insect drone and docked it steadily on the beam, secretly monitoring and eavesdropping on everything in front of him.

The two officers had already seen a man in a suit who looked out of place.

"It's been over half a month, and you haven't taken over the Mbandaka mine yet. I'm very disappointed."

The man in the suit scolded with an ugly expression:
"I really don't know what you're doing. This so-called Black Cross unit only has five or six hundred members. Why haven't you taken it down in such a long time?"

"You should know that our Sam Base was previously wiped out by them. It would be unwise of us not to avenge this."

When Zhao Mancang heard this, his eyes widened. My goodness, how could the Black Cross Force be blamed for the Mbandaka mine incident?

This is clearly what the Jiaolong Army did.

The Black Cross Army and the Dragon Army are completely different, okay?

The Jiaolong Army is purely Chinese, and their combat style is more decisive and efficient, and they are there to protect the Jiaolong Foreign Trade Company.

But they have all moved to the Katanga copper belt. How come the man in the suit didn't find out this?

The Black Cross Force members include veterans from the mainland as well as veterans from other places, and the personnel are more mixed.

Of course, even so, the combat effectiveness of the Black Cross Forces would not be much worse.

What's more, this force has more people and more versatile weapons and equipment. Of course, most of them are weapons from Sam, and the others are European and Moscow weapons.

There are AK47s in Moscow, which are very popular all over the world and are pretty cool.

If the man in the suit didn't investigate thoroughly and instead put the blame on the Black Cross Force, wouldn't that be like finding a pretext to accuse someone of a crime?

It seems that someone is actually targeting the Mbandaka mine under the pretext of this.

Of course, no matter what the reason is, Zhao Mancang will not let go of those who are hiding behind the scenes.

After the two officers left, Zhao Mancang still did not stop investigating. He wanted to see if there was anyone else behind the man in the suit.

"Fuck, wearing a suit in a place like Africa, you're going to die of heat."

Zhao Mancang complained, but the man in the suit was strolling leisurely in the garden, not feeling hot in the suit at all.

Half a day later, the man in the suit came to the other side, and it turned out to be Sam's base.

At this time, Zhao Mancang had already replaced another new insect drone.

The battery life of the insect drone is not weak, but it certainly cannot work like this for a long time, so it must be replaced.

Inside Sam's base, the insect drone was very well concealed, following the man in the suit at an altitude of about three meters, more than ten meters behind him.

No one noticed the insect drone, and even if they did, they wouldn't take it seriously, because this is Africa, there are many insects, and it's normal.

If it were in the bustling Manhattan area, such an insect would certainly be very eye-catching.

Soon, the man in the suit came to a large office, where Zhao Mancang saw several Sam White men.

These white people all have very different auras, and two of them are relatively fat.

After the man in the suit gave his report, Zhao Mancang also got to know several of them.

It seems that this man named Gabriel is the real mastermind behind the incident, because it is this man who wants to take over the Mbandaka mine.

In that case, don't blame Zhao Mancang for killing him.

However, Zhao Mancang didn't eavesdrop on Gabriel's background, which made it a bit difficult to deal with him.

Because Zhao Mancang was worried that if he killed Gabriel, would it attract more powerful enemies?

It is obvious that Sam's side is made up of big capital consortiums. They beat the small ones and then the old ones come out. Isn't this normal?

"Why think so much? Just do it first!"

So, Zhao Mancang took back the insect drone and began to camouflage.

He needs to disguise himself and enter Sam's base, then kill this man inside the base.

This time, he couldn't wipe out Sam's base again, otherwise the Black Cross Force would have to abandon the Mbandaka mine.

After disguising himself, Zhao Mancang successfully entered the base, and then followed his memory to find the large office.

However, Gabriel was no longer here.

When Zhao Mancang took out the insect drone, he realized that Gabriel was about to leave the base.

"Damn, can I still let you leave smoothly?"

This is absolutely not allowed!
So Zhao Mancang didn't think too much about it. He rushed out immediately, took out a rocket launcher, and aimed at Gabriel who had already got into the car.

When they saw the rocket launcher, everyone was scared to death.

What a guy! He dares to do this in Sam’s base?
Gabriel was so frightened that his face turned pale as paper, but he did not react in time and did not jump out of the car at all.

The bodyguard tried to pull him, but he was only halfway there when the rocket launcher shell reached the car and quickly exploded.

Boom!

After a loud bang, Gabriel's body was gone.

Elton, the commander of Sam Base, was furious when he saw this scene.

(End of this chapter)