Rebirth of the 1980s: The Military Industry Empire

"Yang-ge, that Liu-gong is completely finished." Nie Xiaoqian said to Qin Yang, "Wang-gong and Zhang-gong both believe that Liu-gong staged a self-inflicted injury to embezzle the money. They have been released, and Liu-gong will be judged. With two hundred thousand, he probably won't be out for thirty to fifty years."

"Yeah, it's best to let him stay in there."

"Yang-ge, it seems like that Liu-gong didn't do anything out of line," Nie Xiaoqian still didn't understand.

"He's about to," Qin Yang said, "I'm just nipping the danger in the bud."

Three words appeared in Nie Xiaoqian's mind: trumped-up charge. Yang-ge is really too amazing. With a trumped-up charge, he killed this Liu-gong.

Staying inside for decades, after coming out, he won't be able to do anything, right?

However, since Yang-ge said he would do bad things in the future, then it can't be wrong. Can Yang-ge be wrong?

"Yang-ge, after our plan to develop chips was leaked, many units want to cooperate with us. Among them, the Capital Electron Tube Factory is the most eager. For them, if there are no new projects, they are afraid that it will be difficult to get rid of the loss-making situation. Once the higher-level leaders ask them to transform and be responsible for their own profits and losses, they are afraid that they will go bankrupt."

Capital Electron Tube Factory? Qin Yang was immediately jolted. After rebirth, this is the famous BOE!

The Capital Electron Tube Factory was also one of the 156 projects in those years. After all, just after the establishment of the East, everything was waiting to be rebuilt, and electron tubes were also quite scarce, so it was urgent to have its own electron tube industry. In 1956, this factory, code-named 774, was officially put into production after two years of construction. After that, the electron tube factory began its glory.

All domestic radios, radars, and even the first artificial satellite, used electron tubes produced by the Capital Electron Tube Factory! Moreover, they also developed the semiconductor industry and tinkered with integrated circuits.

However, the planned economic system also restricted the development of the electron tube factory. Entering the 1980s, the demand for electron tubes greatly decreased, especially the orders from the defense department were greatly reduced, and the quality of the semiconductors and integrated circuits they produced was not high, so they began to enter losses.

These years of losses can still be borne by the state, after all, they are state-owned enterprises, but in 1986, the state suddenly said that it would no longer bail them out and let them enter the market and be responsible for their own profits and losses.

This was completely like becoming an unloved child. After struggling in the market for a few years, the factory was already insolvent, not to mention developing and growing, it couldn't even pay the bank's interest.

This continued until 1992, when the factory finally ushered in new leadership. Wang Dongsheng, who had worked in the factory for more than ten years and was already 35 years old, rejected high-paying jobs from other companies and took over this long-loss-making factory, starting a rebirth and finally becoming a giant in the LCD industry.

Now, although this factory is still backed by the state, it has been losing money for years. After all, except for airborne radar, no electronic equipment needs electron tubes anymore.

It just so happens that Factory 960 wants to develop the chip industry, so let's simply join forces.

Of course, the saying of strong alliance is from the Capital Electron Tube Factory. In the eyes of many people, this Capital Electron Tube Factory is about to become a burden.

"Yang-ge, are we going to cooperate with them?" Nie Xiaoqian asked.

Qin Yang shook his head: "This kind of old factory has many drawbacks. We would rather build a new factory than toss around with the old factory."

When it was first built, the factory was full of energy. When the Soviet experts withdrew, the army lacked advanced high-power electron tubes, and the electron tube factory immediately stepped forward and said, let's do it!

The entire factory worked together, and soon the required models were developed, solving the urgent need of the troops.

However, after decades of development, there have been many stubborn problems, such as having more people sitting in the office than in the workshop, such as raising a group of lazy people who are good at being opportunistic, such as some people only caring about their own interests and often asking the factory for this and that. Many habits have been formed, and it will take a lot of effort to change them and let the factory be reborn.

Qin Yang didn't want to toss these things.

"Okay, then I'll go reject them."

"No, let's still meet them," Qin Yang said, "Although we don't intend to cooperate, there are some things I still want to say to them."

"Okay."

Zhang Hong, the director of the Capital Electron Tube Factory, rushed over immediately after receiving the news.

"President Qin, our Capital Electron Tube Factory is an old enterprise, with awareness and realm. Your Factory 960 wants to develop chips, and we can just unite together." After coming in, Zhang Hong was also straightforward.

"No, Director Zhang, we plan to build our own factory separately, so we won't be doing it with you."

What? Zhang Hong was instantly surprised. If you're not doing it together, then what are you looking for me for?

"Your factory's operating conditions have not been good in recent years," Qin Yang said, "You should see that if you lose the support of the state, I'm afraid you will encounter a great crisis, right?"

"Yes," Zhang Hong sighed, "Being prepared for danger in times of peace, we have long seen this problem, but everyone has been engaged in the planned economy for decades, how to develop and grow in market competition, we have no clue."

Everyone still wants to continue to contribute to the country's construction, but you actually say that we are occupying the toilet without shitting?

"Now, you can first send some people to study in the West, learn international finance, and learn market economy," Qin Yang said, "After these young people come back, give them important responsibilities, and you can reserve talents."

Zhang Hong nodded: "President Qin, you are right."

No matter when, talent is the most important thing, reserve talents first.

"Second, is to update your products. There is Moore's Law in the field of microelectronics, have you heard of it?"

"We know that chip updates are very fast, and once you fall behind, you will never catch up."

"Yes, although your electron tube factory is also engaged in chips, it is impossible to achieve scale. Your costs are high, your profits are low, your technology is backward, not to mention electron tubes, which are already obsolete products."

"President Qin, we all know what you said, but the electron tube production line that was built so hard back then cannot be wasted like this," a factory leader said.

"So we must open our minds. You are making electron tubes. If you change the production line a little, can you make picture tubes?"

Electron tubes are vacuum tubes, and picture tubes are also vacuum tubes. They both use glass as the shell, and there are filaments, deflection electric fields, etc. Using the electron tube production line to make picture tubes, the investment is small and the results are quick.