Under Ding Yun's fierce counterattack.
The first wave of attacks from her peers was successfully weathered, leaving them with an impression that she was not to be trifled with, thus reducing future troubles.
However, this did not mean that the problems were over.
As long as those companies were still in business.
They would inevitably seek opportunities to cause trouble again.
Moreover, as the functional skincare products under Ding Yun Daily Chemical Company sold increasingly well, their sales grew, and their reputation improved, it was believed that more and more competitors would join the ranks of attacking Shi's Daily Chemical Company.
This might even provoke multinational daily chemical giants to take action.
If they engaged in fair competition, competing on price and effectiveness, Ding Yun would certainly not be afraid. However, she feared they might resort to underhanded tactics and conspiracies.
Even if she could withstand it, she would inevitably be severely weakened.
Therefore, after successfully fending off the first wave of attacks, Ding Yun immediately began to mobilize the profits of her daily chemical company to purchase several new alloy technologies, as well as new solar conversion technologies with an efficiency rate of about seventy percent. Then, she began to secretly establish legitimate sources for these technologies and publish papers.
Of course, these papers were not published under her name. Instead, they were published under the banner of the Shi Group's long-dormant laboratory. Since the patents and other intellectual property were all in her possession, she did not mind giving away the credit.
With the publication of the paper on integral special alloys.
It soon caused an earthquake in the related industrial chain.
State-owned military enterprises came knocking.
Naturally, cooperation followed.
Although Ding Yun did not earn much money from these new alloys, she at least found herself a powerful backer.
In addition, the high-efficiency solar conversion technology allowed her to step into the high-tech field, establishing connections and cooperation with several groups in China's high-tech sector, transforming her from a mere real estate magnate.
In fact, no matter how profitable real estate projects were.
They were looked down upon by those in technology. From their perspective, real estate lacked technological content, contributing nothing other than draining the savings of the public and increasing tax revenue and national income.
It was no different from the coal barons of yesteryear.
Therefore, it was reasonable for this industry to be called "tu da kuan" (rich but uncultured).
However, as Ding Yun led the Shi Group to develop in other directions and achieved some results, and as those results were highly desired by certain technology groups, her entry into relevant circles became natural.
And then, of course, it was about continued development.
Developing towards high-tech and high-income industries.
However, even so, Ding Yun remained extremely tired, and the progress of the mission was slow. This was because the source of every new technology she acquired was untraceable.
It required her to spend a great deal of effort to manage it.
This part could not be delegated to others.
At the same time, the emergence of each new technology inevitably offended many competitors. Ding Yun had to deal with this as well. After all, relying on the military industrial group's backing did not mean she could trouble them with everything.
Coupled with the need for a large amount of money to purchase technology.
And it had to be cash flow.
This truly made it difficult for Ding Yun not to worry.
In addition, the scope of her operations was expanding.
She did not have many subordinates she could trust.
All these circumstances led to Ding Yun working herself to exhaustion for a year, almost to death, yet the profit earned was not high. If this situation continued, Ding Yun suspected she would only face three possible outcomes.
One, she would die of exhaustion within twenty years.
Two, she would last twenty years, but the mission would fail.
Three, she would neither die of exhaustion nor last twenty years before someone discovered something was amiss and she was assassinated.
After all, it was one thing for a conglomerate to suddenly produce one or two or three to five technologies, but to continuously churn out new, high-tech innovations – was everyone else foolish?
Or were all the geniuses in the world working for their company?
Let alone other competing enterprises.
Even other countries would have to find a way to eliminate her.
After completing her annual review, Ding Yun immediately felt that she could not continue like this. Continuing in this manner would only make her more tired and more dangerous.
It would also be very difficult to become as rich as a nation.
Because, based on her speculation, the "rich enough to rival a nation" mentioned in the "Duo Cai Duo Yi Ka" (likely referring to a system or item) meant the country she was currently in.
If her guess was correct, to truly achieve "rich enough to rival a nation" would require her to work for another seventy to eighty years, which would still be difficult to accomplish. So why continue to struggle?
Knowing that success was impossible and exhausting herself to death.
Was that not simply asking for trouble?
However, Ding Yun was not willing to give up.
Therefore, after a period of deliberation and hesitation over the Lunar New Year, Ding Yun finally decided to take a gamble, to see if she could try to cooperate directly with the state, to directly present the "Duo Cai Duo Yi Ka" to the state for negotiation, and to let the state help her become the world's richest person.
As for the price, since she had no intention of getting married and having children, nor of leaving her inheritance to relatives and friends.
At worst, her assets would all go to the state after her death.
This way, the state would not have helped in vain.
Moreover, she couldn't take the money she earned with her. This deal was a win-win, with neither side losing.
With this idea in mind, Ding Yun quickly leveraged the connections she had accumulated during this period to contact several academicians from research institutes, and then, through them, she continued to connect with higher authorities, eventually meeting with the nation's highest leader.
Naturally, Ding Yun did not tell the whole truth during the process. She only said that she had accidentally obtained this item. Initially, out of selfishness, she had hidden it, wanting one hundred billion in cash.
Unexpectedly, later, the money was not given, and instead, some messy tasks appeared, which she felt she could not control. Moreover, the value of the new changes far exceeded the past.
It could bring great help to the country.
Therefore, she thought of handing it over and cooperating with the state.
Although Ding Yun's explanation was far-fetched, the "Duo Cai Duo Yi Ka" was something everyone could see. Moreover, the one hundred billion in cash that Ding Yun had previously produced, as well as the subsequent technologies she had provided, now seemed somewhat suspicious upon closer inspection and investigation.
Not to mention that Ding Yun had also purchased a new technology at a low price from the Wealth Mall in person and directly materialized those technologies for the nation's highest leader, Elder Guo, to see.
Therefore, no matter how much Elder Guo felt his worldview was shaken.
He eventually accepted the matter and quickly convened the major elders and councilors for a private meeting to discuss specific cooperation principles.
Finally, a plan for cooperation with Ding Yun was determined.
The plan was simple: the state would take over subsequent matters, provide interest-free loans, tax exemptions, and other benefits. Manpower arrangements, enterprise establishment, factory setup, product promotion and sales, and even exports would all be handled by the state.
The profits earned would be registered under Ding Yun's name.
All enterprises would also be under Ding Yun's name.
From then on, Ding Yun would no longer have to be as tired as she was in the past year. The state would mobilize all available resources and personnel to help her make money. This efficiency would absolutely be thousands of times more powerful than if she were cheating.
After all, no matter how capable an individual was.
They could not compare to a nation.
Completing the relevant tasks would naturally be a piece of cake.
Of course, the most important point, that all assets would revert to the state after Ding Yun's death, was also written into the plan. The highest leader even thoughtfully added a clause: if Ding Yun had descendants, not only would her original assets before the plan began be fully preserved, but one percent of the newly acquired assets could also be left to her descendants.
In short, both parties were satisfied with the terms.
Therefore, after the formal signing.
An unprecedented era of prosperity began.