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At the end of October, Ren Xuanhan, who had been recuperating for more than half a month, returned to the company. Before he could enter his office, he ran to Jiang Fanxi's office first.

"There is an American company that is willing to sell us a 5nm lithography machine! And it is the original Dutch version!"

Jiang Fanxi was shocked: "What?"

Ren Xuanhan handed over a folder.

She took it and opened it. There was a color page for the latest lithography machine introduction, a formal quotation and purchase and sales contract, as well as customs declaration information required by the buyer.

Take a look at the price and the amount is exactly the equipment refunded by Taiwanese manufacturers and the compensation for breach of contract.

Jiang Fanxi stood up excitedly: "How did you contact this company?"

"I asked my classmates from the United States to help contact me."

Most of Ren Xuanhan's classmates in the United States are engaged in IT work, and it is not impossible to get in touch with lithography machine suppliers. Jiang Fanxi did not doubt that he had him and took out the purchase and sales contract, took photos, and sent it to the company's legal affairs.

While editing the email, she said to Ren Xuanhan: "If the contract is fine, let's sign it quickly and call the advance payment as soon as possible, the sooner the better!"

"Yes! The sooner the better!"

After finishing the email, Jiang Fanxi closed the laptop, looked at Ren Xuanhan sitting in front of him, and smiled warmly: "How are you doing now? Are you feeling better?"

Ren Xuanhan forced a smile and said, "I feel much better after knowing that someone is willing to sell us lithography machines."

Jiang Fanxi nodded.

I think so, the spirit of collapse due to career setbacks naturally needs to be cured by the improvement of career.

She asked, "Then start work today?"

Ren Xuanhan nodded: "Yes."

Jiang Fanxi stood up, stretched out his hand at him, and the two of them grabbed a brief scrutiny.

"Ahan, congratulations on returning to the team!"

"Thanks."

...

The next day, Jiang Fanxi received a return from a contract from an American manufacturer and immediately remitted the advance payment of the lithography machine to the other party.

According to the contract delivery period, the lithography machine arrived at Tianjin Port 35 days later, but the other party sent a bill of lading the next day after the remittance.

The lithography machine has departed from Amsterdam, the Netherlands and can arrive in Tianjin at the latest in early December.

Jiang Fanxi was once worried about something going on this time. The lithography opportunity was intercepted by the customs and could not come out of the Netherlands smoothly. Now that he saw that the thing was already on the sea, a hanging heart fell back to his heart.

...

The laboratory operation returned to normal, and Jiang Fanxi began to deal with the matter of holding a press conference in January.

She spent most of her time working in the laboratory for chips, and she only went there for a few days.

Fortunately, Tang Yi is now in charge of FX's investment. Sometimes there is a report on things, Jiang Fanxi will report to him verbally at night, so he saves other procedures and doesn't even have to write emails, let alone meetings that are just wasting time.

If Li Haiyan was still in charge at this time, Jiang Fanxi would probably be so busy that he would swear.

Tang Yi has also returned to Shenghua to work recently, but he has a family who has never spent most of his time in the factory like before. He is busy until 10 o'clock in the evening to go home. Now he gets off work at 5 o'clock like other employees, and then drives to Zhongguancun to pick up Jiang Fanxi.

The two discussed taking advantage of the Spring Festival holiday in 2021 to hold the wedding and stabilize their lives as soon as possible.

...

Life is passing quickly in the busy life, with one month left, and 2020 is about to end.

Looking back on this year, Jiang Fanxi was in a very complicated mood.

Even if outsiders think that her company is still operating, and the accompanying robots are still being sold on the market, and even open offline experience stores in many cities.

But only she and Ren Xuanhan themselves know that the net profit of the accompanying robot this year is only 10%, the revenue is not much, but the expenses are not small at all, so the net profit naturally drops a lot.

If this continues, there may be problems with cash flow in the future.

A sudden outbreak of epidemic completely changed people's lives. Although everyone is working hard to maintain it and hopes to keep life as it is, everyone knows that everything is different.

The epidemic has made most people's financial situation tight, no longer spending more money on non-essential daily necessities, and the sales of accompanying robots, upgrades and peripheral services have not met expectations.

Fortunately, he did Cheng Kai's project this year, and Hanren not only received more than 50 million in project consultation fees, but also received several million in annual service fees every year.

Hanren's company is small and the fees are low. After deducting the revenue from not much expense, paying a portion of the tax. The remaining Jiang Fanxi and Ren Xuanhan can share the remaining ones equally.

FX is larger, with hundreds of employees alone, and the monthly salary, rent of three-story office buildings, plus offline sales expenses, a lot of money is added. Moreover, she and Ren Xuanhan have few shares in this company. If the revenue and profit are not ideal, they will almost not share much money.

"I was naive at the time," Jiang Fanxi laughed, "I did my own calculations. As long as the accompanying robots can sell one million, we can get the money for chip projects. This year, I don't know if the epidemic will counterattack next year or the next year. It's lucky that the company will not go bankrupt, and I still want to pay more than 100 million yuan in dividends?"

Ren Xuanhan comforted: "The epidemic is a force majeure factor, no one can predict it, don't blame yourself."

"I'm fine." Jiang Fanxi took out his cell phone, "What do you want to eat at noon? I'll order a meal."

Ren Xuanhan was about to speak when the phone in his pocket suddenly came up and saw that it was called by the customs declaration company in Tianjin.

He answered: "Hello, I'm Ren Xuanhan."

Jiang Fanxi ordered a duck rice for himself, and held his cell phone and waited for Ren Xuanhan to finish his phone call.

"What? Shouldn't the lithography machine arrive at the port these two days? How could this happen?"

When Jiang Fanxi heard something was wrong with the lithography machine, he shook his hand and almost fell to the ground.

She looked at Ren Xuanhan in panic.

"Is it because the customs does not allow it to be entered or what is the problem? Haven't the customs declaration information been submitted to you?"

After a minute of silence, Ren Xuanhan hung up his phone weakly.

Jiang Fanxi said nervously: "What's wrong? What's wrong with the lithography machine?"

"The lithography machine has arrived at Tianjin Port and is waiting to enter the customs. However, the Dutch equipment dealer found out that we are a Chinese company and now we are going to sue the American company that sells our equipment for violating the "Wasenner Agreement". The lithography machine will be arranged to be transported back to the Netherlands in the near future."

"What?" Jiang Fanxi stood up, clenched his hands into fists, and couldn't stop shaking. "The United States is a member of Watson's country, why is this happening?"

Ren Xuanhan shook his head weakly: "When the Czech Republic was going to export 'passive radar equipment' to us, the United States put pressure on the Czech Republic to force the Czech Republic to stop this transaction... It should be similar to our situation this time..."

...

All afternoon, Jiang Fanxi was in a low mood. When he was about to get off work, he finally couldn't hold back and hid in the bathroom and cried.

She didn't understand the political game behind the lithography machine and chips, but it was still extremely painful to actually usher in this result.

This feeling is as desperate as being told that "you will never be born"...

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