Into Unscientific Chapter 203

  Chapter 203 continues the fine tradition of Prohibition (6.4K)

"What did you say?"

  In the dean's office.

  Looking at Xu Yun and Gu Qunqing who came together.

  Tian Liangwei's brows were already knit into a ball at this time, with puzzlement and anger in his tone:

   "Why is this happening?"

   Not long ago.

  He had just finished approving a project report in the hospital when he received a message from Xu Yun:

  Nutrien refuses to provide Huadun Biotech with FOERDT632 serial production lines!

   Mentioned earlier.

  The production process of "One Mantis Killer" is divided into two parts:

  One part is the cyclization-structuring production link, and the other part is the filling production link.

  The former is high-tech, while the latter is low-tech.

   Among them, for the latter, Xu Yun and others chose TC708 from Modu Chemical for filling production.

  The cost of the whole set of equipment is very low. The total price of 14 sets of modules is only more than 200,000 Huaxia coins, and there is a three-year technical extension warranty.

The cyclization-structuring link involves the production of 10-epoxy-3,6-undecadiene, including nickel acetate/sodium borohydride catalytic hydrogenation, Sharpless asymmetric epoxidation, alkyl epoxy Reactions such as rearrangement, etc., so the equipment requirements are very high.

   In the current international chemical industry.

  Only the FOERDT632 sequence equipment of Maple Leaf Country Nutrien Company meets the requirements of Xu Yun et al.

  Although Nutrien had a certain degree of premium in terms of selling price at that time, the 30% premium happened to be stuck at a point where it was neither embarrassing nor embarrassing.

  In addition, at present, no domestic enterprise has the production capacity and experience of related equipment.

  So Xu Yun and others could only record this account in a small book earlier, and then purchased the other party's equipment.

  However, what Xu Yun and others did not expect was that.

  After deciding on the amplification line.

  Gu Qunqing sent an email of intent to the other party as usual, preparing to discuss the matter of increasing production capacity.

  Unexpectedly, only two hours later, the manager received a reply in his mailbox:

  Nutrien Company refused to provide production equipment, including but not limited to all equipment between FOERDT632 and FOERDT646.

  Below the mail is a big official seal and the signature of the board of directors.

  One glance is true.jpg.

  This email is undoubtedly a disastrous news for Huadun Biotechnology, which has just entered the right track.

   It means one thing:

  If Xu Yun and others can't find a replacement equipment manufacturer, then the average daily production capacity of "One Mantis" will always stagnate at the current level.

   Today's daily supply is 20,000 pieces per day, and the cost is calculated at ten yuan, which is 6 million yuan a month.

   This is obviously an unacceptable situation for everyone.

   So after receiving the message.

  Gu Qunqing immediately contacted Xu Yun, took him to Tian Liangwei's office, and informed Tian Liangwei of the situation.

   After all, Tian Liangwei is a big boss who has experienced storms. After the initial surprise, his expression quickly returned to normal, and he asked seriously:

   "Manager Gu, why did the other party send this email? Do you know the reason?"

   "Not to mention whether this practice violates trade laws, at least there are some logical problems, right? How can there be no business?"

   "Could it be that they are preparing to take the opportunity to raise prices, so they deliberately put us under psychological pressure?"

  Gu Qunqing shook his head when he heard the words, and took out a document from his body:

   "Academician Tian, ​​take a look at this."

  Tian Liangwei took the document, adjusted his glasses, and looked at it seriously.

   After a while.

  He raised his head in surprise, his eyes widened slightly:

   "Wassenaar Agreement?"

  Gu Qunqing nodded, exhaled a long breath, and said affirmatively:

   "That's right, the FOERDT632 set of equipment entered the Wassenaar agreement list in the early morning of the day before yesterday."

  Tian Liangwei slapped the document heavily on the table:

   "These bastards!"

   Students who like to read industrial literature should know one thing.

   Whenever the history of China's industry is mentioned, people often add the attributive "glory is mixed with blood and tears" in front of it.

   Among them, the root cause of Huaxia's industrial development mixed with blood and tears is naturally hostility from abroad.

  The direct barriers to this kind of past appearance are many embargo regulations.

   For example, the famous Batumi.

  The official name of Batumi is the "Export Control Coordinating Committee", which was secretly established in November 1949 under the proposal of the opposite sea.

  Because of its headquarters in Paris, it is often referred to as the "Paris Coordinating Committee".

  Batumi is a product of the Cold War and an unofficial international organization assembled by developed industrial countries in Europe and America in the field of international trade after World War II.

   Its purpose is simple:

  Restrict the export of strategic materials and high technology from member countries to social x countries.

  Included in the embargo list are military weapons and equipment, cutting-edge technology products and rare materials and other three categories with tens of thousands of products.

  Due to the restrictions of Batumi, many of our equipment can only be developed from scratch, and we will break the monopoly step by step.

   Among them, there are quite a few companies that have successfully broken through, and most of them have now become the dumplings of the Republic's industry.

   But what is more, are the piles of corpses piled up under the banner of glory.

year 1994.

  Batumi disbanded.

  But it didn't take long for the West to come up with a new agreement:

   Wassenaar Agreement.

  The "Wassenaar Agreement" is also known as the Wassenaar Arrangement Mechanism, and its full name is "Wassenaar Arrangement on Export Control of Conventional Arms and Dual-use Items and Technologies".

  Eagle, Neon, and John Bull are all signatories, more than forty in total.

   Huaxia ranks first among the verification targets of the Wassenaar Agreement.

  Notwithstanding the provisions of the Wassenaar Arrangement, member states decide on their own whether to issue export licenses for sensitive products and technologies, and notify other member states of relevant information on a voluntary basis.

But in fact.

   "Arrangement" is completely under Eagle's control.

   Like 2004.

  Czech officials had approved the Czech arms export company to sell 10 "Vera" radar systems with a total value of 55.7 million US dollars to Rabbit, but under pressure across the sea, the Czech Republic finally canceled the contract.

year 2006.

   Huaxia signed a cooperation agreement with Italian Alenia Space Company to launch Italian satellites.

  But also due to the intervention of the other side of the sea, the Italian side finally canceled the cooperation agreement at the cost of economic and reputation losses.

   Another example is now.

  At present, the top 15 semiconductor equipment suppliers in the world are all restricted by the Wassenaar Agreement, so we cannot buy the most advanced chip manufacturing equipment.

   Therefore, domestic companies can only cooperate with the Belgian Microelectronics Research Center, that is, IMEC, to save the country with a curve:

  IMEC first buys equipment from ASML Applied Materials. After 5 years of use, it meets the requirements of the Wassenaar Agreement, and then resells it to domestic companies.

  5 years is enough for semiconductors to update the market three times.

  This is the fundamental reason why our domestic chips are backward—you can't buy new equipment at all.

  As for the "Wassenaar Agreement" to go further, it is a one-on-one sanction.

  For example, Huawei, as everyone knows, is like this, which belongs to a comprehensive technical blockade.

   Now that FOERDT632 has entered the embargo list, it is reasonable for Nutrien to refuse to sell it.

   But after finding out the reason for Nutrien's refusal, Tian Liangwei's brows still did not loosen, and he was still somewhat puzzled:

   "Strange, why did FOERDT632 enter the Wassenaar Agreement so soon?"

   "Our product has just been released, so is it worthy of such a big fanfare?"

   "Big fanfare?"

  Gu Qunqing sighed with a wry smile, and explained:

   "Academician Tian, ​​this is the biggest mistake we collectively made—we ignored the special nature of 'one cockroach'."

  Tian Liangwei could not help but have a question mark on his head:

   "Special properties?"

  Gu Qunqing nodded slowly and said with emotion:

   "This product of ours can be regarded as the only product with the possibility of monopoly in the biochemical field since the founding of the People's Republic of China. In science fiction terms, it is a dimensionality reduction attack."

   "And a monopoly represents the right to speak. Do you think those people may give us this kind of room for growth?"

   After finishing speaking, he paused, looked at the thoughtful Tian Liangwei, and continued to add:

  “The first time we purchased equipment was more than ten days ago. At that time, those competitors didn't understand our production process and didn't know which company we would cooperate with.

   "It is impossible for them to include all chemical companies on the embargo list, which allowed us to purchase three FOERDT632 equipment smoothly."

   "As soon as our acquisition contract is signed and the papers and patents are released at the same time, those people will naturally know that our partner is Nutrien."

   After speaking, he pointed to the document again, and continued:

   “The current secretary-general of the Vienna Contact Point of the Wassenaar Agreement is Mitsuo Itabashi, a neon man, and it is not difficult to push equipment into the list.”

  “They were ready for the embargo as early as the beginning, so it has nothing to do with the time of product release. They have already been eyeing us.”

  "If hackers can't get in, then use practical means to limit our development."

  Tian Liangwei looked at the document in front of him, and fell into silence.

really.

  As Gu Qunqing said.

  The opponents of Huadun Biotechnology did not start targeting them after the product was released.

  Actually, not only from HKUST's elimination of the live broadcast, but even from the accident in Building 14, those opponents have been eyeing Huadun Biotechnology.

  If it wasn't for Chang Licheng's astuteness at that time, Wang Zhaomin might have cheated the sample away.

   Foreign enemy Foreign enemy.

  The word "enemy" can explain everything - it is not a fair competition, but a battlefield!

  Think here.

  Xu Yun on the side also sighed faintly.

   Actually.

  Huadun Biological Sciences has made sufficient preparations in all aspects, whether it is public opinion, public relations or network security, there are few loopholes to speak of.

  But who would have thought that the other party didn't talk about martial arts, and directly made trouble with the equipment shamelessly?

  It's like two restaurants competing. A restaurant with good craftsmanship is ready for the other party to come to quarrel, spread rumors in the neighbor's house, and even go outside the door at night.

   As a result, the other party directly used the relationship to prevent the vegetable farmers from delivering food to you. Who would have thought of this?

   This is out of the category of commercial competition or "black people", it is purely shameless.

   On the other hand.

  The direct reason for those people to do this is naturally that they don't want Huadun Biotech to seize the market and form a monopoly.

  But the deeper reason—for example, why the "Wassenaar Agreement" can take effect is because they don't want to see any Chinese companies able to stand up.

   They are like overseers standing on the edge of a deep pit.

   Whenever a palm struggled up from the bottom of the pit, they would stretch out their feet with grinning grinning, and trampled on it heavily.

  Until the palms couldn't support it and completely loosened, and as the climbers below fell into the deep pit, they would spit hard towards the bottom of the pit and patrol their territory again.

   There is a good saying.

   For the mainland, there are only two countries in the world—China and foreign countries.

  This statement is not unreasonable.

  Think here.

  Tian Liangwei couldn't help but looked up at Xu Yun, and asked:

   "Xiao Xu, what are you going to do next?"

  Xu Yun was silent for a moment, his face looked a little dignified:

   "Teacher, first of all, let's make sure that Nutrien's situation is obviously not an exception."

   "I confirmed with Aaron on the way here that there are currently only seven foreign companies that have the production technology of cyclization-structuring, and all of them are members of the Wassenaar Agreement without exception."

   "If there is no accident, these seven companies will also not provide us with related production equipment."

   "All the only options we have right now are"

   "Look for domestic products!"

   "Domestic?"

  Hearing this word, Tian Liangwei was taken aback for a moment, and then frowned:

   "Xiao Xu, the cyclization-structuring process involves transition metal catalysis and the spirocyclization reaction of ring skeletons. This is a technology that has only been popularized in 17 years."

   "Laboratory preparation is definitely no problem, and many domestic laboratories can do it."

   "However, if we want to add this link to the production equipment, it may be difficult to find a suitable manufacturer in China."

  As the executive director of Huadun Biotechnology, Tian Zhigang also contributed to the company's preparatory stage.

   So he is clear.

   Among the current domestic chemical manufacturers, few companies can be found that have the ability to add cyclization-structuring links to the production line.

   Otherwise they wouldn't have picked Nutrien in the first place.

   True.

  You let companies like Huaxia Petrochemical spend a lot of money on research and development, but it's not impossible to break the technical barrier.

  But this kind of customized research and development requires a lot of money, and time is not something Xu Yun and the others can wait for.

   According to Xu Yun and Gu Qunqing's plan.

  If you really can't find a suitable company, you can only use expensive experimental equipment to temporarily produce containers to forcefully expand production.

   But this way.

   The production cost of "One Mantis Extinguisher" will be raised to an extremely terrifying figure. It is not known whether the profit of a finished product will be one yuan.

   So looking at Tian Liangwei who looked embarrassed, Xu Yun and Gu Qunqing looked at each other, trying to persuade:

   "Teacher, if you think about it carefully, is there any domestic company that can do this?"

   "It's okay to pay a premium if it's not possible. Anyway, it's for our local companies to make money."

  Tian Liangwei's brows were still tightly knit together, looking a bit tangled.

   After half a minute.

  He still picked up the mouse and clicked on a website.

  The name of this website is 'Suiren', and it is an academic BBS under the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

  Users can search some content on it, such as patents or journal progress, etc., as well as some more advanced scientific research progress.

  Just enter relevant information on Suiren.

   Some content between the third review and third review and release will be displayed first to avoid collisions.

in short.

  Website users don't have to wait until the final disclosure stage, and can learn about relevant information earlier than ordinary people.

   Then Tian Liangwei entered a series of 11-digit codes:

  984867

  The beginning 98 is the serial number of industrial production, which means that the search content is in the industrial field rather than laboratory results.

  4 is the chemical code.

  8 represents a non-large container.

  67 Cough cough, in the future, I have to report my ID card in the bureau.

   After a while.

  Two pages of search results appeared in front of Tian Liangwei, with 10 pages per page.

  These are related to the search serial number, but most of them are marked with foreign countries.

   Then Tian Liangwei began to look slowly.

  He had seen this search result more than a week ago, and he had a general idea of ​​the overall situation.

  Theoretically, in such a short period of time, this unpopular technology will not have any major breakthroughs, so this time he looked relatively relaxed.

   But soon.

   When scanning to the content of a certain column.

  Tian Liangwei's expression froze suddenly.

   He let out a small sigh, leaned forward slightly, and quickly opened the secondary connection.

   A few seconds passed.

  He suddenly raised his head from the screen, and said to Xu Yun:

   "Xiao Xu, good news, a state-owned enterprise broke through the production conversion of Sharpless asymmetric epoxidation last week!"

   Hear this statement.

  Gu Qunqing was a little confused due to her inappropriate major, but Xu Yun's pupils shrank fiercely.

  In the cyclization-structuring process, there are mainly two processes that are most difficult to industrialize.

  One is transition metal catalysis.

  The second is Sharpless asymmetric epoxidation.

  These two processes are technical barriers that are relatively easy for standard laboratories but very difficult for industrialization.

  After all, the popularity of cyclization technology itself is not very high, let alone such derivative technologies.

  Being able to break through any one of them means that there is a probability of mastering the entire set of technologies in a short period of time.

   After recovering.

  Xu Yun quickly looked at Tian Liangwei and asked:

   "Teacher, which factory is the other party?"

   "Sinoma Technology? Or Lu Thai Holdings?"

  Tian Liangwei shook his head lightly, and said:

"neither."

"neither?"

  Xu Yun was taken aback for a moment:

"Who is that?"

  Tian Liangwei turned the screen towards him and said:

   "Hanhua Machinery Group, the person who submitted the technology is their factory director, named Lin Zhenhua."

Note:

  This embargo plot is adapted from real events, and the prototype is Shen Ji, one of the 18 Arhats of the year.

   There is a wave of linkage with Qi Da, and soon you should also see Xu Yun in his book

  (end of this chapter)

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