Leng Zhiruo did not speak. Although she had already accepted the current outcome, Leng Zhiruo was unable to accept that Hu Jing would willingly become this wife. Only she and Zhi Wen were qualified to hold such a status.
"What does Mother say about this?" Leng Zhiruo suddenly asked.
"We'll cross that bridge when we come to it..." Boss Huang also looked bewildered. After all, his mother-in-law was still in the dark. In fact, apart from Leng Zhiruo and Leng Zhiwen, most other members of the Leng family were also in the dark.
Leng Zhiruo left soon after. She had only appeared here to show her attitude and presence. If she had stayed any longer, it would have been too much. Moreover, the entire delivery room made her feel extremely uncomfortable.
Boss Huang naturally had to stay with Hu Jing, to talk and ease her anxious emotions.
"Boss, have you thought of a name for our child?" Hu Jing asked directly after regaining some clarity.
"We're married now, you can actually call me husband!" Huang He chuckled.
"No, I'm not used to calling you that. I still prefer calling you Boss!" Hu Jing smiled. Huang He shrugged his shoulders. "Fine, whatever you like. You like calling me Boss, and Zhi Ruo and Zhi Wen both like calling me brother-in-law. I guess I'll never be a husband!"
"You were never meant to be anyone's husband, rich people can't do this job!" Hu Jing grinned, mocking him unceremoniously.
"Alright, regarding the name, I've thought about it for a long time. Since my name is Huang He, why not find a name from this timeless quatrain about the Yellow Crane Tower!"
"The ancients rode the Yellow Crane away,
Leaving this place with the Yellow Crane Tower.
The Yellow Crane gone, never to return,
White clouds drift aimlessly through the ages.
Clear rivers reflect Hanyang's trees,
Fragrant grass carpets Parrot Isle.
At dusk, where is my homeland?
On misty waters, sorrow arises!"
"This child is the eldest. Let's take from the line 'The ancients rode the Yellow Crane away.' It's a shame, if it were a girl, calling her Huang Xiren would be perfect, and I'd be happy to be her horse. But since it's a boy, there's no way he'll ride on my back. So, let's take the character 'Qu' and name him Huang Qu." Huang He said.
"Just 'Qu'? That simple?" Hu Jing was a little displeased.
"Names, simple and catchy are the best. Besides, it'll be easier for the teacher when he makes him copy his name. If you insist on some so-called elegant, pleasant-sounding, classical, and grand names, you'll end up with a bunch of Huang Zixuan, Zi Rui, and then an endless lineage of Zi's!" Huang He complained.
"..." Hu Jing rolled her eyes but didn't argue about the name anymore. Instead, she kept murmuring softly in her heart, "Huang Qu, Huang Qu... Qu... It's quite interesting!"
Huang He continued to chat with Hu Jing for a while longer. Little Huang Qu was brought back to Huang He and Hu Jing. Hu Jing then held Huang Qu tightly, unwilling to let go, even enduring waves of pain. It was as if someone might snatch Huang Qu away.
At this moment, a secretary delivered a document. Boss Huang opened it and a smile immediately spread across his face. "The fish has taken the bait."
"Boss, who have you tricked this time?" Hu Jing asked curiously.
"Here, take a look and see if my head secretary is still competent!" Huang He handed the document directly to Hu Jing. Hu Jing, with her usual shrewdness, began to analyze and summarize the intelligence. This was something Hu Jing was very familiar with, even though she had practically stopped touching company work after becoming pregnant and had devoted herself to her pregnancy.
This was a document from the technology procurement department of Jiangnan Group, indicating that their European technology procurement team had made a breakthrough. Several companies that had previously refused to transfer their technology had gradually come around in the past few days, agreeing to technology transfers at quite reasonable prices, which did not exceed Boss Huang's expectations.
"Boss, are you planning to get into electric vehicles?" Hu Jing asked with a smile after reading the document thoroughly and pondering for a while.
"You truly are my most capable secretary. You saw what I was planning at a glance!" Huang He laughed heartily. "That's right, Huang He isn't as powerless as he claimed on the phone, even delaying PT. On the contrary, the current Boss Huang is ambitiously looking to expand into a new market, which is the electric vehicle market."
Although in 2006, venturing into electric vehicles was definitely a dead end, Boss Huang, who was well aware of the development over the next decade, clearly understood that the era of electric vehicles was inevitable.
The trend of electric vehicles replacing traditional fuel vehicles was unstoppable, and anyone who dared to defy it would be crushed into dust by the torrent of the times.
It was still possible to have doubts before 2022, because many people still stubbornly believed that fuel vehicles were superior to electric vehicles, and that the charging disadvantages of electric vehicles could not be rectified.
However, as fuel prices universally surpassed 9 yuan in 2002, even the most stubborn fuel vehicle owners had to decide that their next car would definitely be an electric vehicle, otherwise they would be completely working for gas stations.
Of course, wealthy individuals like Boss Huang did not need to worry about fuel prices, but he needed to consider how to profit from the trend of oil-to-electricity transfer.
However, the matter of electric vehicles was currently only a framework in Boss Huang's mind. No one else knew, nor could they have imagined that Boss Huang would actually want to develop electric vehicles.
Even Goldman Sachs, which spent millions of dollars annually to collect information on Jiangnan Group and investigate Boss Huang thoroughly, could not guess that Boss Huang was collecting battery-related technologies to develop electric vehicles.
After all, in the eyes of all business people at this time, electric vehicles were merely toys that were not presentable, had no market development value, and at best could only be used as golf carts.
"How did you guess electric vehicles?" Boss Huang was also very curious, as Hu Jing had been away from her secretarial duties for almost a year, yet she could still guess his intentions. This truly surprised Boss Huang.
"It's not that hard to guess. You've told me more than once when we were in the car that the future belongs to electric vehicles. With your personality, it's not surprising that you'd want to get into electric vehicles," Hu Jing said.
"You're good! But you've only guessed half of it!" Huang He chuckled. "Building cars is too troublesome, and nine out of ten car manufacturers lose money. In the end, they're just deceiving investors. Jiangnan Group's future development path is very clear: not to compete with the public, not to compete with the vast number of entrepreneurs, leaving them ample space to survive. We only need to master the highest-end technologies and produce the most advanced technological products, and that will be enough!"
"Therefore, I will never invest in building an electric vehicle production plant, nor do I intend to create my own electric vehicle brand. My goal is simply to be an electric vehicle platform provider, offering complete electric vehicle technology solutions to all enterprises worldwide that aspire to enter the electric vehicle industry, as well as core technologies in batteries and vehicle control systems!"
"And believe it or not, in the future, just as controlling oil could control all cars and further control the entire world's financial system, whoever controls electric vehicle batteries will also have the opportunity to control the entire financial system."
"So we need these Europeans' patents in batteries to facilitate our layout in the electric vehicle industry!" Hu Jing flipped through the thousands of different battery patents contained in the intelligence and exclaimed, "The most advanced technologies and patents in batteries in all of Europe are all here!"
"That's right. With these technologies, Jiangnan Group will no longer have any barriers in the battery industry. Instead, these patents and technologies will become barriers for us to deal with others."
"It's rare for Goldman Sachs to do something good, helping us acquire these patents. Otherwise, it would have taken a year for those technology procurement guys to get those self-important old aristocrats in Europe to open up!" Huang He said with no small amount of pride.
"Boss, would Goldman Sachs make such a foolish decision if you hadn't set another trap for them?" Hu Jing asked decisively.
"No, there are no traps!" Huang He waved his hand. Then, through his secretaries, he remotely managed the operations of Jiangnan Group from the hospital room, allowing Jiangnan Group to establish a battery-related business unit in the shortest possible time, expanding from these battery technology patents to create an entire battery kingdom belonging to Jiangnan Group.
"However, Boss, the expenses are not small either. Looking at the data on this intelligence, the total acquisition amount for all battery-related patents exceeds 1 billion euros. Will this cause difficulties for our company's funds?" Hu Jing asked with some concern.
Although she knew that Huang He actually controlled billions of dollars, she also knew that these billions of dollars did not actually belong to Jiangnan Group but to Huang He himself. Furthermore, Huang He's hundreds of billions of dollars had never appeared on Jiangnan Group's accounts, so Huang He's hundreds of billions of dollars could not be used for the development of Jiangnan Group. All of Jiangnan Group's funds were earned by itself.
But the problem was that Jiangnan Group's expansion rate was also very fast, and it was never stingy with research and development. The annual R&D expenses almost depleted all of the company's earned profits.
Although she didn't know the current financial situation of Jiangnan Group, Hu Jing knew very well during her tenure that at most, there were only a little over two billion yuan left in Jiangnan Group's accounts. For Jiangnan Group to spend 1 billion euros to acquire these patented technologies, it was actually a bit short of funds.
"Alas, you don't understand. Where there is outflow, there is inflow. We can purchase technology, and we can also sell technology!" Huang He said with a chuckle, clearly implying that someone else was about to face misfortune.