Chapter 400: What I Fear Least Is Fines
"Beep beep beep beep!" Zhang Menglong was sitting in his office, appreciating this year's report.
More than two hundred factories around the world had signed contracts with Silicon Moonlight, with the total amount of contracts reaching over a trillion US dollars, which was absolutely unprecedented in the entire semiconductor industry.
Because there had never been any company that had achieved such a technological monopoly in the semiconductor industry, where several companies often ran in parallel, thus the global market share was divided into several pieces.
But this time, only Zhang Menglong's Silicon Moonlight had the production capacity, they had no other choice, in this case, who else could make money if not Zhang Menglong?
Once, companies like Four Stars Group were upstream in the Huaxia semiconductor industry, but now, they had become Silicon Moonlight's biggest downstream.
It had to be said that the folks from Qingqiu Country were flexible, directly ordering several hundred billion US dollars worth of single wafers from Silicon Moonlight, so that they could also act as middlemen to earn a processing price difference, which could temporarily and barely maintain their status within the semiconductor industry.
Not only that, Silicon Moonlight also signed agreements with many countries to establish branch factories, after all, relying on a single company for production, the supply of chips was still quite strenuous, and there was a very long delivery cycle.
But if the factories were opened in those countries, then they could also make maximum use of the local manpower and material resources to significantly shorten this process.
Almost the entire world welcomed Huaxia to open factories in their countries. At one point, even the number of factory heads that Silicon Moonlight had to dispatch globally seemed somewhat insufficient.
"Menglong, you've done very well," said Zhou Lao, keeping in touch with Zhang Menglong frequently since their last meeting, "Our Huaxia can hold our heads up high now, and it's all thanks to you!"
"Hahaha, Zhou Lao, you flatter me. I'm really just in it for the money, not as noble as you imagine," laughed Zhang Menglong, "You helped us secure a 90% tax reduction, I should be thanking you."
"What's that? The things you've given to the country, let alone 90% tax reduction, even giving you a large sum of money wouldn't be too much," laughed Zhou Lao, "But I heard that you offered those Westerners and Kaibong folk eight times the price? You really are ruthless!"
Zhou Lao originally thought that simply doubling the price, four times the price, was already very aggressive, but he didn't expect Zhang Menglong to pull off an ultimate doubling.
"I still think I'm being too kind to them," said Zhang Menglong, "The fact that I'm willing to sell to them is already their greatest luck, and as for this ultimate doubling, they can take it or leave it!"
"Although we've given you the relevant policy support and domestic monopoly law cannot reach you, you need to be careful. A large part of the International Antitrust Committee consists of Westerners, and they might come looking for trouble."
"No problem," Zhang Menglong chuckled, "I'm actually hoping they come looking for trouble!"
"Ah?" Zhou Lao was taken aback, not understanding what Zhang Menglong meant.
"Hehe, that's a secret!" Zhang Menglong laughed, "Ah, speaking of the devil, I need to take a call!"
Zhang Menglong picked up the office phone, "Hello, this is Zhang Menglong. May I ask who's speaking?"
"This is Mobai!" came a voice with an unfriendly tone from the other side.
"Oh, Mr. Mobai, it's been so long, have you missed me?" Zhang Menglong laughed.
"Mr. Zhang, let's dispense with the pretense," said Mobai, "Your pricing is outrageous. I demand a fair and just import price!"
"How is this price unfair or unjust?" asked Zhang Menglong, "Your company previously refused to supply us with wafers. Compared to your company, we've been extremely considerate."
"Oh, right, I remember saying something along the lines of 'when the time comes, you will definitely be kneeling in front of Silicon Moonlight's doors, begging us to sell you the chips,' and if you come to me in that way, I might just change the price from double to super double!"
"Zhang Menglong, you are going too far!" Mobai struggled to control his emotions. If they really did kneel in front of Silicon Moonlight, they would never be able to hold their heads high again.
"I haven't finished yet. If you kneel in a more creative manner, I might even consider giving you just double the price," Zhang Menglong continued, "And if you call me 'Daddy' twice, who knows, I might just give it to you at the original price?"
"Bang!" Mobai slammed the table hard, "Zhang Menglong, you need to understand that the International Union now has Monopoly Laws, and what you're doing is a serious monopolistic act. If we sue, you will definitely be punished by the Monopoly Law."
Initially, when they arbitrarily imposed a blockade on Huaxia, it was because they had many suppliers; they could spread the risk of being accused of monopoly.
But now, with Zhang Menglong alone on top, this behavior of monopoly could truly be substantiated!
"Oh!" Zhang Menglong just responded indifferently.
"Oh?" Mobai suddenly felt like he was punching cotton.
Wasn't Zhang Menglong supposed to show weakness due to the fear of punishment by the International Antitrust Law? Why did he seem totally unafraid?
"Alright, if there's nothing else, I'm going to take a shit!" Zhang Menglong hung up the phone, "There are always some dumbasses who think they're really something."
"You!" Just as Mobai was about to explode, all he was left with was a dial tone.
...
Nearly half a month had almost passed, and Zhang Menglong had almost forgotten about this matter when Xu Huan brought him what seemed like bad news.
"Boss Zhang, there's trouble! This morning, members of the International Antitrust Committee served us with a notice. Silicon Moonlight has been accused of monopoly by Qualcomm Electronics and 12 other enterprises from various countries, and now they have started an investigation against us."
"Oh." Zhang Menglong remained completely indifferent.
"Boss Zhang, if this charge is confirmed, we may face a huge fine." Continue your journey with My Virtual Library Empire
"A fine?" Zhang Menglong's tone suddenly became excited.
"Have you heard of Fimo International? It is one of the world's top three tobacco giants. A few years ago, they were sanctioned by the international antitrust organization for engaging in monopoly, paying a fine of 1.12 billion US dollars," Xu Huan thought Zhang Menglong was excited because of the fear of the fine and immediately began to explain the seriousness of the situation.
"Based on our company's current export scale, if the International Antitrust independently confirms our monopolistic behavior, our fine will at least amount to several billion US dollars!" Xu Huan's tone was very grave.
"Oh? Is that so?" said Zhang Menglong, "Xu Huan, listen carefully, make sure to fully cooperate with their investigation, give them any documents they want!"
"Ah? Boss... Boss Zhang, don't we need to take any measures? This..."
"If they want to fine, let them fine. After all, the thing I'm least afraid of is fines," Zhang Menglong laughed, "Go on and prepare a few new contracts. Don't just double it; go for the ultimate double, raise the export price by 16 times!"
"Ulti... Ultimate double?" Xu Huan's mouth twitched. Zhang Menglong was really ruthless. When others went to the International Antitrust to complain, he was ready to utterly crush them!