The long night is long, not only Wang Hongfeng and Tang Weide are sleepless. There are also a group of people who cannot fall asleep peacefully, thousands of miles away from Tokyo, Japan.

In the boardroom of Nikon headquarters, another new agenda was placed on the table of the directors. What was slightly different from the last time was that a bright color appeared in the conference room of all men. As the director of the lithography machine department, Shiraishi Morina was sitting on the last one by the door, but after all, he was concessioned to attend the meeting.

President Kimura, who was still Nikon, was the first to speak, and his eyes passed by everyone present, focusing on Mori Na Shiraishi at the door.

Although he was already in his sixties, he still swallowed his saliva gently. Shiraishi's figure is really good, unlike Japanese, but his appearance is quite oriental, with dignity and charm coexisting. People are unconsciously attracted to it and want to completely push down the man's kindness.

Although Shiraishi Morina was far away, she still couldn't help but frown gently. She had already been familiar with the gazes that came from President Kimura. In Japan, it was very difficult for women to get involved in the workplace. It would be fine if all kinds of rumors, but the naked eyes of the boss and colleagues made her never get used to it.

In contrast, this made her miss her previous days in China. Although Chinese men will inevitably show admiration when facing her, they will not be despised because she is a woman. Women with work in China will not only have a high status at home, but will not be discriminated against by men in the workplace.

Although they would be amazed at the beauty of Shiraishi Morina, they really showed respect for her from the bottom of their hearts. No one regarded her as an alien or had an inexplicable arrogance, especially from Fang Jiange and Zhou Shuo, she had a rare experience of what equal communication is between men and women.

"Minister Shiraishi, please tell me about the situation in China." President Kimura's words floated over from above, which made Shiraishi's Morina slightly withdraw his thoughts.

She cleared her throat and nodded and said, "Yes, President Kimura. I am very sorry, we have not been able to prevent Huajing Group from completing the identification of the data in one month. Currently, the 142 omissions have been proposed. The lithography machine department is speeding up to improve the technical data. The subsequent nanograting technology has to be transferred to it according to the contract..."

"Okay, there's no need to talk about this." President Kimura knocked on the table and interrupted Shiraishi's Morina.

He said impatiently: "The Supervision Department will naturally make corresponding punishments regarding this mistake, but today's meeting does not involve this issue. Calling you here is to illustrate the immersive lithography technology mastered by Fanhan Group."

"Hi!" Shiraishi Morina nodded quickly, sorted out her ideas and continued: "Through contact with Zhou Sang, president of Fanhan Group, has confirmed the existence of immersive lithography technology from him. However, under the premise of losing nanograting technology, we no longer have the initiative. After consideration, I proposed that Nikon can use funds to acquire this plan. Zhou Sang's reply to this is that it costs at least $2 billion..."

"Two billion!"

As Shiraishi's voice fell, noisy and angry shouts suddenly sounded in the conference room. The directors sat on it and whispered, and some even began to slap the table and scold her loudly. Even the directors who were still observing the gentleman's understanding could clearly see their dissatisfaction on their faces.

"What is the right thing for the small Panhan Group to ask us Nikon for such a large sum of money? Does he think he is applying materials or IBM?"

"It's just too much to deceive others, too much to deceive others! I think I'd just buy this company."

"Quiet, quiet!" Tsuruta knocked on the table and said loudly: "Everyone, please let Minister Shiraishi finish his words!"

Under the specialized inspection of Tsuruda's specialist eyes, the voice in the conference room gradually became smaller. However, everyone's eyes looked at Shiraishi's Morina Nao as if they were looking at robbers, obviously treating her as Zhou Shuo's substitute.

In this strange atmosphere, Shiraishi Morina pursed her lips and gritted her teeth and continued: "I said on the spot that my authority was limited and I could not negotiate any conditions on such conditions. Zhou Sang also expressed his understanding at the time and just asked me to convey the situation to Nikon's board of directors."

Shiraishi Mori Nai felt a little relieved. Fortunately, the only conversations between her and Zhou Shuo were the only ones who were talking to him. If these old men knew that the price of 2 billion was shouted out from her mouth, these people would definitely come up and tear her apart. She shook her head silently. In fact, to be honest, if she could buy Nikon to dominate the lithography machine market for $2 billion, this business could be said to be a big profit.

However, this is $2 billion after all, which is half of Nikon's annual turnover. Within Nikon, it is impossible to make such a big sacrifice for the lithography machine market. After all, Nikon's main business is not the manufacturing of lithography machines, but the production of cameras, lenses and optical instruments. Lithography machines in Nikon are just a very important department, but not that important.

It represents Nikon's ultimate technical strength. But it is not Nikon's main development direction.

Shiraishi Morinara calmed down and continued: "In addition, Zhou Sang has proposed another way of cooperation. The lithography machine department can be independent from Nikon and become a subsidiary of Nikon. Fanhan Group invests in this subsidiary with immersive lithography technology. Its shares shall not be less than 49% of the shares."

In contrast to the previous reaction of $2 billion, Zhou Shuo's plan was thrown out, but the conference room was silent. President Kimura looked at Tsuruta's specialist beside him, tilted his head and asked softly: "Tsuruta's specialist, how do you think of this cooperation?"

Hetian specialist lowered his head and thought about it. Of course, he was unwilling to accept Zhou Shuo's proposal. As one of the only two giants in the optical technology market, Nikon has a very large position and investment scale. However, the corresponding Fanhan Group wanted to only produce an immersive lithography technology, which would occupy 49% of the shares of the lithography machine subsidiary, which was much larger than the previous two billion.

Despite this, Tsuruda Specialist had to seriously consider the possibility of this implementation. Because unlike the acquisition of immersive lithography technology for $2 billion, this solution does not require any substantial capital to be used. Although it is necessary to give up 49% of the lithography machine division, if ASMA can completely get rid of the cutting-edge field of lithography machines, then the effort is still worth it.

"From my personal perspective, I think immersive lithography is worth $2 billion." Tsuruda paused, looked around from the conference room, suppressed the opposition from everyone below with his eyes, and then continued: "But Nikon's own financial situation is absolutely impossible to allow us to take out this money. So it should be the only possibility to use 49% of the shares in the lithography machine division to exchange for immersive lithography technology."

"Please note that although Fanhan Group will occupy 49% of its shares in its future lithography machine subsidiaries, it still does not have the ability to interfere with Nikon's operations." Tsuruda smiled and said confidently: "After all, the Chinese are still very knowledgeable and do not know the power of capital. As long as we get immersive lithography technology, we can drive it out of the lithography machine subsidiaries through capital operation, or reduce their shares to a very small level."

The specialized words of Hetian made everyone below nodded. Nikon is a large multinational enterprise with a history of 80 years. What does Panhan Group have? How many assets can Zhou Shuo save in less than two years? Faced with Nikon with hundreds of billions of dollars, isn’t it as easy to expel Panhan Group as crush an ant?

Seeing the expression of approval below, Tsuruda Specialist couldn't help but smile confidently. He turned his head and looked at President Kimura and asked, "President, what do you think of this proposal?"

President Kimura pondered for a moment and nodded, "Since that's the case, I think everyone will vote first."

Tsuruda's specialist cursed in his heart and never saw him come forward to make any real decisions. He always pushed the decision to the person below. Is this kind of responsibility worthy of being the president? Sooner or later, I will kick you, the guy who is in a position of vain, from this position!

However, on the surface, Tsuruda's specialist could not see any dissatisfaction. He smiled and clapped his hands, gathered everyone's eyes and said, "If no one has any other opinions, let's raise our hands to vote first. Please agree to independent the lithography machine department into a subsidiary and use its 49% stake to exchange for immersive lithography technology from Fanhan Group--"

The conference room suddenly raised his arms. Although no one agreed, the number alone was more than half.

After counting points, Tsuruda finally couldn't help laughing. There were more than eight people in the conference room who had raised their hands, which was not counted as himself and President Kimura. This means that this proposal has been recognized at the board of directors, and it was a good start for him who was determined to make a difference in the lithography machine market.
Chapter completed!