At 10:30 PM, inside a walled compound in Luzhou.
Meng Yuanzhi was just about to rest when he received a reply from his secretary. He thought for a dozen or so seconds and immediately decided to have his side proactively contact Orange Technology.
In 2012, Luzhou was not yet a "new first-tier city." Its core industries were concentrated in home appliances, automobiles, liquid crystal panels, and food.
Over a decade later, netizens would jokingly call Luzhou the "City of Gamblers."
The first gamble was three years ago when, against all opposition, it invested 80% of its fiscal revenue in Jingdongfang. The second was five years later, when it established Changxing Storage Technology as a joint venture, which promoted the domestic production of memory chips, with Lenovo and Xiaomi as its main customers.
This time, Meng Yuanzhi wanted to gamble again. He set his sights on Orange Technology and Chen Yansen.
