It was obvious.
Meng Hao wasn't being kind.
To fulfill the system's requirement and change public perception of Huarong Technology from a private enterprise to a military-industrial one, he was going all out.
Although Qin Muyan and the team managing the livestreams on various social media platforms had stopped babbling about "private" for the time being.
But!
As Qin Muyan's camera lens entered the factory gate.
Almost every worker's uniform bore the words "Private Enterprise Huarong Technology."
Of course.
As factory uniforms.
It was normal to have a unified style.
And printing the company name on uniforms to boost employee morale was also customary!
But!
Whose designer's masterpiece was this?
The words "Private Enterprise" completely occupied the front and back of the uniform's space.
As for the words "Enterprise Huarong Technology," if you didn't look closely, you couldn't see them at all.
It was intentional.
This was absolutely intentional.
This was most likely not the fault of the fashion designer.
But rather the requirement of Meng Hao, that lively fellow.
Then there were the lathes, equipment, and instruments.
Every single one of them was plastered with the big label "Private."
Even.
The tens of thousands of dazzling parts, regardless of size or shape, were uniformly labeled "Private."
"Holy crap."
"I'm going to puke."
"I feel like my optic nerves have been insulted."
"Now, no matter what I look at, I feel like it's printed with the big label 'Private'."
"Brother Hao, Brother Hao, please, stop this madness!"
"..."
At this moment.
Meng Hao, while guiding the camera, held his phone and strode towards the interior of the factory. m..oΓg
His phone screen was connected to the livestream backend.
Yes.
Since the broadcast resumed.
The various "old shallots"... no, the slightly older female streamers, cooperating with Qin Muyan in constantly flooding the platforms with "private"... and during this time spent wandering the factory.
According to the system backend statistics.
The number of danmaku containing words like "military industry," "weaponry," or "military enterprise" had decreased by 99%.
However.
The frequency of terms like "Please Brother Hao," "Stop this madness," "brainwashing," and "private" had significantly increased.
Especially the word "private," which had seen a massive surge of 13233%.
Very good.
Meng Hao was satisfied.
This indicated that his strategy was extremely effective.
As expected!
This batch of netizens responded to force rather than gentleness!
What he and Mech Ji had been mumbling about for nearly half a year had finally been completely turned around by his small strategy, changing the public's perception.
Look.
He, Meng Hao, was truly a genius.
Although he was mostly a hands-off manager, in the eyes of experienced administrative personnel like Cheng Hua, he was an insincere boss.
But.
That was just an outward perception.
Meng Hao believed.
His usual demeanor of being clueless about administrative management was entirely a misconception.
Most of the time, he was intelligently suppressing things!
After confirming that no clumsy individuals were still spamming that Huarong Technology was a military enterprise.
Meng Hao then calmly turned off his phone screen and secured it.
The livestream for the research and manufacturing of the lithography machine was about to begin.
As for the livestream work.
It could be left to Qin Muyan and those "old shallots" responsible for broadcasting, feedback, and interaction on various platforms.
As for the word "private" that constantly appeared and spammed, Meng Hao didn't bother whether it had caused extremely negative effects on the mental and physical health of millions of viewers.
Anyway.
The general audience was focused on the research, development, manufacturing, and repair of the lithography machine.
Everything else was not important.
...
If someone told you that a lithography machine could be "hand-crafted,"
Would you think they were talking nonsense?
In fact.
At the very beginning of lithography machine research, they were indeed "hand-crafted."
In the initial stages of lithography machine research, a company called "Fairchild Semiconductor" first proposed the concept of a lithography machine.
And the earliest process was the "silicon planar manufacturing process." The main consumable components of the earliest "lithography machines" using this process were taken from the developing equipment in photographic supply stores.
As for the concept of "hand-crafting"... well, the inventor of integrated circuit technology, Intel founder Robert Noyce, did indeed, truly, and actually use optical machine tools to grind "lithography machine" lenses.
Therefore.
From small devices weighing hundreds of kilograms like satellites, to medium-sized lithography machines weighing over a hundred to two hundred tons, to large rockets weighing thousands to tens of thousands of tons... even nuclear bombs.
The principles and structures are not that complicated.
The key is.
Continuous refinement, structural complexity, and technological advancement.
Many technological achievements, once revealed, are worth nothing.
However.
The vast majority of countries lack that kind of technology and equipment.
And these technologies and equipment are like tall buildings.
Ordinary children can build the foundation of a wooden or stone high-rise.
Newly initiated masons can build a three-room tiled house.
But constructing an Empire State Building, thousands of meters tall, requires thousands of specialized professional craftsmen.
Furthermore.
There are the costs of materials.
Whether it's the large-scale iridium needed for the high-precision alignment system, the palladium needed for the ultraviolet light source, the kilograms of platinum required for the etching module, or the rhenium used in the exposure system... even the indium alloy casing, which needs to be measured in tons to reduce vibration and ensure accuracy, are astronomical figures.
Iridium, palladium, and rhenium, being radioactive substances, are extremely scarce strategic resources for various countries, with prices often tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of US dollars per gram.
Taking indium metal, which has the largest demand, as an example!
For a lithography machine weighing over 100 tons, the indium metal required for manufacturing the alloy is at least ten tons.
The current market price of indium metal is $300 USD per kilogram, which is $3 million USD per ton.
This is the least valuable of the rare metals.
In fact.
Similar to photographic functions, a lithography machine is, in a sense, an extremely expensive single-lens reflex camera.
However, the "film" of an ordinary SLR is digital data or optical film.
The "film" of a lithography machine is a wafer containing thousands or tens of thousands of chips.
For ordinary people, the SLRs costing tens or hundreds of thousands are jokingly called "SLR drains three generations."
Not to mention the lithography machine, which represents the pinnacle of human semiconductor technology... therefore, the price of an EUV lithography machine, sold at 150 million Western Alliance currency, equivalent to 1.2 billion Great Xia currency, is understandable.
Expensive raw materials, exquisite technology, ultimate scientific advancement...
These elements combined have destined the lithography machine to be a product unique in human history, representing one of the pinnacles of human technology.
The lithography machine is not only a work of art in technology but also a luxury item that ordinary people can only gaze at from afar!