r18novel Chapter 52 The 28 Billion Hole
Chapter 52 The 28 Billion Hole
Lin Yu didn't even look up, continuing to operate the keyboard.
"arrive!"
Wang Lei was startled and quickly stood up straight.
"Send a copy of the salary system document for the Singularity Algorithm to each member of Professor Li's team. The personnel contracts should be signed by tomorrow."
Wang Lei immediately sent out an encrypted file to the group.
The members of Li Jianbin's team almost instinctively opened the tablets at hand.
When the contract on the screen was clearly seen, gasps of astonishment echoed throughout the control center.
[Position: Chief Chip Architect]
Salary: 800 million RMB per year (before tax)
[Bonuses: Project milestone achievement bonus, year-end performance bonus, with no upper limit]
[Options: 0.05% of original shares of Singularity Algorithm]
……
Li Jianbin's pupils contracted sharply as he looked at the contract assigned to him.
As the deputy chief commander of a national-level project, he enjoys special allowances from the State Council. Yet, all his income in a year is less than a fraction of the annual salary stated in this contract!
Not to mention the original shares that he couldn't understand at all, yet seemed incredibly tempting.
"This...this..."
The senior researcher who asked the first question was so excited his lips were trembling. "This is more than twenty times higher than the salary at our old institution!"
"This is insane, absolutely insane..."
"This isn't a research trip; they're here to hand out money!"
In an instant, the dark clouds of concerns about employment and dignity that had just hung over everyone's heads were swept away by this simple and brutal power of money.
Faced with absolute, unimaginable wealth, that pitiful sense of superiority and confusion appears utterly vulnerable.
Looking at the renewed, even more fervent light in the eyes of his subordinates, Li Jianbin was filled with mixed emotions.
He opened his mouth, wanting to say something, but found that he couldn't utter a single word.
Finally, he took a deep breath, looked at Lin Yu, and asked the most crucial question.
"Where's the money?"
Li Jianbin's voice wasn't loud, but it instantly silenced the entire control center.
"The Loongson project is a bottomless pit. Just purchasing consumables for the lithography machines costs hundreds of millions of yuan a month. There are also salaries for top global talent, server maintenance, materials research and development... The initial capital required is at least two billion yuan."
Li Jianbin stared intently at Lin Yu. "Your company has so much money sitting in its accounts?"
All eyes were once again focused on Lin Yu.
Yes, no matter how big the pie is painted or how tempting the contract is, if the money isn't in place, it's all just empty talk.
Sweat began to bead on Wang Lei's forehead. He knew better than anyone that the company only had the ten million yuan that Shen Yue had invested, which probably wouldn't even be enough to pay the first month's salaries.
Xia Zijing opened her laptop expressionlessly, pulled up a budget sheet, and projected it onto the big screen.
[Budget for Phase One of the Loongson Project]
Staff salaries (for three months): 1.2 million
[Server Cluster Expansion: 3.5 Million]
[EDA software licensing and secondary development: 7 million]
[Advance payment for patent acquisition of embargoed material (topological insulator film): 10 billion]
【…】
Total: 28.6 billion
An astronomical figure was thrown at everyone.
Looking at that number, Wang Lei felt dizzy and almost fainted on the spot.
Even if you sold him, you wouldn't be able to scrape together a fraction of the money.
Lin Yu finally stopped what he was doing.
He turned his chair around, glanced at the numbers on the screen, and his face remained as calm and indifferent as ever.
"Two billion? That's too little."
He took out his phone, unlocked it, found a number, and dialed it.
The call was connected.
"Director Shen."
Lin Yu's tone was calm and even. "It's me, Lin Yu."
On the other end of the phone, Shen Yue's voice carried an undisguised mix of excitement and respect: "President Lin! You...you wanted to see me?"
From the moment Lin Yu secured the Loongson project, she had already changed her address for him from "classmate Lin Yu" to "President Lin" in her mind.
"Help me schedule a meeting with the Penguin board of directors."
Lin Yu said.
Shen Yue paused for a moment: "A board meeting? President Lin, you mean...?"
"I don't want to talk to Ma Huayun anymore; he's not qualified."
Lin Yu leaned back in his chair, one hand in his pocket. "I need to talk to the people who can make the decisions. Tell them I'm only giving them one chance to buy the future of Penguin."
"Time: Tomorrow morning. Location: They'll decide."
"Is it possible?"
Shen Yue's heart was pounding on the other end of the phone.
This is about to reveal the true intentions!
She could almost picture the expressions on the faces of those high-and-mighty internet tycoons when she relayed those words verbatim to the Penguin board.
"It can be done!"
Shen Yue answered without hesitation, her voice trembling slightly with excitement, "President Lin, I'll arrange it immediately! Even if they hide on the moon, I'll find them for you!"
hang up the phone.
Lin Yu tossed his phone onto the table and scanned the entire room with his gaze.
Li Jianbin, Wang Lei, and dozens of top experts all looked at him with the eyes of someone looking at a monster.
Is this how you talk to investors?
Is this how you arrange a meeting with the board of directors of a trillion-dollar corporation?
Does this kid really know what he's doing?
Ignoring everyone's gaze, Lin Yu stood up and stretched.
"Alright, we'll have a result regarding the money tomorrow."
He yawned and said to Xia Zijing, "Let's go eat. I'm hungry."
After saying that, amidst everyone's stunned gazes, he led Xia Zijing straight out of the main control center.
It's as if that 2.8 billion hole is just the cost of a meal.
The room was left with only people looking at each other, their worldviews teetering on the edge of collapse and reconstruction.
Half an hour later.
Shen Yue called back, her voice filled with disbelief.
"Mr. Lin... Tencent... has replied."
"They agreed."
"Time: 10:00 AM tomorrow. Location: Top floor conference room, Penguin Coastal Building, Shenzhen."
Shen Yue took a deep breath and added the most crucial sentence.
"Penguin's founder and chairman of the board, Mr. Ma, will attend in person."
"He said he wanted to see for himself the young man who dared to put a knife to a penguin's neck."
Shenzhen, Penguin Coastal Building.
The city's iconic buildings are currently shrouded in a somber atmosphere.
On the top floor, in the circular boardroom overlooking the entire Shenzhen Bay, sat a group of the most powerful people in the Chinese internet world.
Ma, the founder and chairman of Tencent's board of directors, is a middle-aged man with a gentle demeanor and frameless glasses, sitting in the main seat.
His expression revealed neither joy nor anger, but the way his fingers were interlaced on the table, the slight pressure from his knuckles, betrayed his inner turmoil.
To his left are the president and executive director of Tencent... each of them is a big shot whose every move can shake the industry.