Chapter 325 - 302: Brother Ling Snorted with Laughter
Chapter 325: Chapter 302: Brother Ling Snorted with Laughter
As a Righteous Giant, Master Ye naturally saw it as his bounden duty to subdue demons!
This great battle raged for a full two hours. Only after the Little Fox Demon’s repeated pleas for mercy did the Righteous Giant finally cease his assault.
Ning Ruoxi’s pretty face was flushed as she lay limp in Ye Ling’s arms, unable to muster even a shred of strength.
All right!
’The Little Fox Demon’s combat prowess still needs work.’
Ye Ling decided to spare the Little Fox Demon for now. With one arm around her, he used his other hand to search for news about the Xia Wei Group on his phone.
Currently, social media sites both abroad and at home were buzzing with discussions about the Western consortium’s joint campaign to suppress the Xia Wei Group.
The impact of this incident was huge!
The last incident, in the end, was just a coordinated action by a few tech companies.
But this time... tech companies like Guge were merely the public face of the operation. Behind the scenes, there were entities at an even higher level!
This crackdown could undoubtedly be described as a thunderous blitz!
Numerous chip manufacturers announced one after another that they were canceling their partnerships with the Xia Wei Group, pushing the company into a truly desperate situation...
’From what I know, both of the Xia Wei Group’s primary and secondary chip suppliers have explicitly stated they will terminate their partnerships!’
’Is it that serious? Without chips, how are they supposed to make smartphones...’
’Aren’t these Western corporations going too far? They suppressed the Xia Wei Group last time, and now they’re at it again?’
...
On Xia Country’s social media, this topic generated the most discussion. Upon hearing the news, everyone expressed immense anger!
This wasn’t the first time the Xia Wei Group had been suppressed. The last operating system crisis had only just passed, and now they were stirring up trouble again?
This was no longer a covert attack; it was an overt one!
Ye Ling read the comments and couldn’t help but sigh.
’Should the people of Xia Country be angry?’
’Of course, they should!’
The unfair treatment Xia Country’s companies had suffered over the years was simply too much, practically countless...
’But why have Xia Country’s companies always just bowed their heads and taken the abuse?’
’Because the technology is in their hands. They hold the dominant position!’
’There’s nothing to be done, we’re just behind them after all...’
’Yeah... In the end, it’s because they hold the core technology. Otherwise, we could be the ones setting the rules!’
...
Amid the angry comments, there were still some rational analyses to be found. Many people even stated they would enter the semiconductor industry to help Xia Country achieve a breakthrough in this area.
’Honestly, compared to sheer anger, comments like these are far more useful!’
Only by recognizing where one lags behind can one make a breakthrough and escape that backward position.
Ye Ling briefly scanned the online situation, then opened the Xia Wei Group’s official social media page.
The Xia Wei Group’s official page had not yet made any statement regarding the incident.
"The Xia Wei Group?"
Ning Ruoxi, nestled in Ye Ling’s arms, happened to glance at what he was searching for. She raised an eyebrow and asked.
"Mhm," Ye Ling nodded slightly.
"I’ve been watching the news recently. Those Western corporations are just too much!" Ning Ruoxi couldn’t help but mutter.
"They are going too far, it’s true. But when it comes to matters of capital... there’s no absolute right or wrong. Whoever controls the technology and the patents holds the power and gets to make the rules!"
Ye Ling sighed with emotion.
’Did those Western financial consortiums do something wrong?’
’From the perspective of Xia Country’s companies, they were definitely in the wrong. After all, those companies were just developing normally, yet they were treated this way. It was undoubtedly unfair.’
’But the technology belongs to them. If they don’t want to let you use it, they won’t!’
’And if Xia Country’s companies held the patented technology, they could also forbid the Western consortiums from using it.’
’It’s all the same principle!’
This was precisely why Ye Ling always emphasized the need to control one’s own technology.
In running the Tianxin Technology Company, for instance, his first step was to secure the patents, not to break ground on factories.
Because.
He knew that only when all the patent applications were approved would the technology truly belong to Tianxin. Otherwise, it was all meaningless.
"This news must be having a huge impact on the Xia Wei Group, right?" Ning Ruoxi asked.
"Actually, not really," Ye Ling replied, shaking his head.
"Oh?"
Ning Ruoxi couldn’t help but raise an eyebrow again.
Most of the online chatter was negative toward the Xia Wei Group, with no shortage of harsh criticism. From her perspective, it had to be having some effect on them, right?
"We can’t just look at the surface; we have to analyze the fundamentals. The Xia Wei Group isn’t a publicly traded company on the stock market, so the impact of public opinion on them is actually very small."
Ye Ling added with a slight smile, "The fact that this news spread so quickly online means someone was pulling strings behind the scenes! These people are probably trying to imitate what I did before."
When Ye Ling had moved against the Fruit Group, he had used public opinion to cause a major crash in their stock price, setting a precedent...
The Western consortium’s actions this time were remarkably similar to Ye Ling’s previous strategy!
However, Ye Ling didn’t think their methods were all that clever.
’Just ask yourself, is exposing something like this really a good thing?’
’If the Xia Wei Group were a public company, fine, you could make a killing on the stock market. But the Xia Wei Group is a private enterprise!’
’Spreading this kind of news only serves to trigger the patriotic feelings of the people of Xia Country, making them prioritize supporting their own national companies.’
"If I’m not mistaken, the Xia Wei Group’s phone sales are about to see a huge surge," Ye Ling said with a small smile.
In fact, Ye Ling’s guess was spot on.
Some of the news circulating online this time had indeed been released by those Western corporations. Their goal was to copy Ye Ling’s previous maneuver.
Brother Ling could only say that they were, after all, far too inexperienced!
’Methods can vary in countless ways, but the most important thing is the result.’
For example, when Ye Ling wanted to attack the Fruit Group’s stock, he manipulated public opinion to make its share price rise or fall.
Unfortunately, those people hadn’t grasped this point. They only focused on the surface-level action: Ye Ling used public opinion to move against the Fruit Group!
But is simple imitation really effective?
In the week after the Western consortium released the news of its joint suppression of the Xia Wei Group, the company’s sales didn’t fall—they rose. They even broke the record for the highest single-day sales!
When Ye Ling saw these numbers, he couldn’t help but snort with laughter.
He seriously wondered how those Western guys had ever managed to get this far.