As a mage, I just want to pursue the truth

Chapter 196 Returning to China
Zheng Li has been away from Huaguo for a long time, and almost always participates in the daily operation and management of Kechuangbiology through remote communication and agents.

A company with a living founder like this can guarantee strong control even if the founder is overseas.Not to mention that Zheng Li is still the absolute core figure of Kechuangbio's research and development team.

If Zheng Li is a scientifically innovative creature inherited from his immediate family, he will inevitably face internal struggles after staying overseas for so long.

As for whether the result of the struggle is emptied or whether the control of the enterprise is still firmly in one's own hands, it depends on the individual's ability.

Zheng Li's first stop was to return to the headquarters of Kechuang Biology in Suzhou.

"How? Have you found anything?"

"No, at least from the perspective of the magnetic field, Zheng Li doesn't have the slightest aura of a mage.

You must know that after injecting the magic brain with the ability to cast spells, the magnetic field of the human body will change to a certain extent, and this change is as dazzling as lightning in the dark to the perception of other mages. "

The magician from Huaguo was specially invited to the wharf in Gusu, in order to judge whether Zheng Li might be Meilin.

There are many unreasonable things about Zheng Li, although they can all be explained by geniuses, but what if?
"Is it possible that Zheng Li can cast spells without a magic brain? So you can't perceive the different magnetic fields on his body?"

"Impossible, the cellular structure of human beings determines that it is impossible for us to interfere with the material world.

Magic is impossible without a medium as a bridge between the material world and the personal spiritual world. "

"Okay, temporarily lower Zheng Li's suspicion level."

After Huaguo officials learned that Zheng Li had returned to China, the first thing they did was to investigate whether he might be Merlin.

Whether it is true or not determines Zheng Li's official hospitality level after returning to China.

If it's just the richest man in Asia, if you want to win over Zheng Li and the local governments at all levels of Science and Technology behind him, it's fine.

If it was Merlin, or if he dug up magic coins, then the importance of hospitality would increase.

"Director Zheng, long time no see."

The headquarters of Kechuang Biology occupies a large area of ​​Jinji Lake in Gusu. Cheng Gang was full of emotion when he saw Zheng Li.

Who would have thought that when starting a business, only three people held a venture capital of 5000 million, and they were able to achieve a market value of [-] trillion, and completed the myth of [-] times capital appreciation.

Kechuang Bio has become a classic case in the investment circle, and the gold content of hard technology is fully reflected in Kechuang Bio.

In the past year, there is another company whose hard technology has been frequently mentioned, and that is Deep Blue Storage.

As the only company in the world that masters biological storage, it is also a Chinese company that has attracted a lot of attention.

Because it is a central enterprise, Deep Blue Storage has very good treatment and at the same time, it has done a good job in confidentiality management of employees.

Any information related to the enterprise is not allowed to be disclosed.

The outside world's understanding of Deep Blue Storage only stays on the product, and most of the gossip circulating on social media is false.

The valuation of Deep Blue Storage by foreign investment banks exceeds 600 billion yuan.

Deep Blue Storage is the number one unicorn company in the world, and foreign capital covets it.

Not only foreign capital, but there are also many ghosts and monsters in Huaguo who want to get involved. A year has passed, and no one has succeeded.

In the current era, what the investment circle values ​​most about start-ups is your technological content and team R&D capabilities.

Zheng Li was also emotional. He could see with the naked eye that Cheng Gang had aged a lot, and his mental state had obviously weakened.

"It's been a long time, but we have meetings online almost every week."

Cheng Gang then introduced the senior management team of Kechuang Bio to Zheng Li.

The executive team introduced themselves one by one and shook hands.

Most of these executives, Zheng Li, have only met on the Internet, and this is the first time they have seen real people when they return to China.

After the pleasantries, Zheng Li sat in the middle of the big conference room and looked at the executives sitting on both sides:

"Hello everyone, I'm very glad to meet you in real life. I've been in Lion City for the past few years, and all meetings with you are online."

"It's rare to come back this time. I want to communicate with you what kind of company Kechuang Bio is and what our corporate vision is."

"In recent years, we have talked a lot about the corporate vision. Take Brother Lei's rice as an example. The corporate vision is to enable everyone to enjoy the fun of technology."

"And their development over the years has indeed achieved this. What about ours?"

"The statement on Kechuangbio's official website is: to become a leader in technological breakthroughs."

"But have you ever thought about how to do it? This is a very ambitious goal, and it cannot be achieved by me alone."

What Zheng Li thinks in his heart can be realized by me alone, but it is definitely impossible to realize it by myself without revealing my true identity.

"We invest 30.00% of our annual income in research and development every year, which is higher than spending. It can be said that we are the company that invests the most in research and development in China."

"It's even blunt to say that we are already a leader in certain fields. In the field of brain-computer connection, we are not only a leader, but also a standard setter in this field."

"At the end of last year, we convened a committee of the brain-computer connection industry, and under our leadership, the standards for brain-computer connection were formulated. Neuralink can only obey obediently even if it is unwilling again and again."

"But this is only temporary. Looking at the glorious companies in the past from a historical perspective, there are very few companies that have been at the forefront of technological breakthroughs for decades."

"Take the example of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company. They monopolized American's telecommunications business in the 20s and invested [-]% of the profits of the telecommunications business into Bell Labs every year.

Inventions such as radio telescopes, transistors, digital switches, the UNIX operating system, and the C language all came from Bell Labs.

As a result, Bell Laboratories, the Pearl of the Telephone and Telegraph Company, was sold to Nokia. "

"So I don't expect Kechuangbio to be a company that leads the development of science and technology forever, but at least I hope that I will be before I retire."

"It will be at least 30 years before I retire. During these 30 years, I hope to do more research and make more contributions to society."

"I hope everyone will create a good working environment for researchers in terms of personnel and management."

"The profit margin of our company is actually very high. There is no need to make money for money. I don't need everyone to show their contribution to the company by working overtime or forcing their subordinates to work overtime."

"For an R&D-oriented company, the company's internal atmosphere must be relaxed and comfortable, so that R&D talents can have sufficient creativity and motivation."

"Although I am a workaholic myself, I don't expect my employees to be like me."

Even though many executives have no real contact with Zheng Li, Zheng Li's workaholic level is a recognized fact within the company.

Even when some middle managers ask their subordinates to work overtime, they sometimes use Zheng Li as an example:
"The big boss works until 360 o'clock in the evening every day, [-] days a year without a break, what's wrong with asking you to work overtime?"

Although Kechuang Bio has never advocated overtime work under the management of Li Miaomiao, but there is no way for someone who graduated from a big factory to come to the middle management of Kechuang Bio to bring overtime culture.

And like this kind of middle-level leader who takes the lead in doing overtime, even if his boss doesn't like it, he can't say anything.

As for employees' internal slander, most of them will not affect the status of middle management.

Zheng Li saw this situation on an anonymous forum within the staff, when he directly left a message below:

"If your work hours are saturated, you can refuse unreasonable overtime requests."

But such behavior cannot be completely prohibited.

The bigger the company, the top managers cannot directly interfere with the grassroots employees.

Especially when Zheng Li takes the lead in working overtime, some middle managers will force their subordinates to work overtime to produce results in order to climb up.

For example, the pharmaceutical pipeline is at a stage where only the input but not the output can be seen because it has been burning money.

At this time, it is obvious that the first to make the results pipeline can obtain the greatest benefits.

As the private enterprise with the highest market value in Huaguo, the competition within Kechuang Biotech is no less fierce than that of Huawei.

Therefore, the pharmaceutical pipeline is the most extensive section within Kechuangbio, with [-] research routes, each of which wants to be the first team to enter the clinical trial stage.

Not to mention that the salary offered by Kechuang Biotech is no less than that of Internet giants.

Compared with the work intensity of major Internet companies, employees will feel that if they take this salary but the workload is not saturated, will they face the end of being optimized later.

Why does it become normal for domestic Internet companies to work overtime, whether it is a large factory or a small company.

On the other hand, the Internet giants in American have never heard of any company working overtime?
And foreign Internet companies are no less than domestic in terms of valuable open source project contributions.

This is because foreign Internet companies do not update versions so frequently, release new functions, and iterate products.

Domestic Internet companies have achieved the ultimate in small steps and fast iterations.

However, Kechuang Biotech is not an Internet company or a biomedical company. Simply piled up workload cannot produce results.

This is not something that can be achieved by piling up people.

If it is effective to gather people, with the number of domestic graduates in related majors, Huaguo has already achieved catch-up in the field of biomedicine.

"In addition, let me talk about the company's short-term goals. In terms of endorphins, I have completed the first phase of research and development of industrial production methods.

The follow-up optimization work was handed over to the company's R&D team. It is the goal to reduce costs and optimize the production process, but the quality of the products cannot be reduced. "

The production of endorphins has high requirements on production workers, and appropriately simplifying the production process can improve production efficiency to a certain extent.

"The other is the lithium metal cathode material. The graphene coating actually has a lot of room for optimization. Now the three-dimensional structure of graphene may not be the optimal solution.

Including the design of the lithium metal cathode structure may not be the optimal solution. We have made a lot of attempts in this area in the past six months, and we can increase investment appropriately in the future. "

"The rest is the brain-computer connection and the research and development of innovative drugs. We are the leader in the field of brain-computer connection, and this is what I am mainly responsible for."

"The follow-up is mainly to convert electrical signals into neural signals, and then the research and development of virtual reality. This process will be very long."

"During the R&D process, the company's revenue increment can only be provided by innovative drugs."

"Then we have to create a good environment for the staff to really improve their effectiveness."

"We're not a CRO, and we don't have that much urgency about timing."

CRO refers to the medical research and development contract outsourcing service organization. Since it receives orders from customers, there will be a strong time limit. What kind of results must you give at a certain point in time.

Therefore, when CRO companies receive projects, overtime is the most serious.

"Finally, it's a pleasure to meet you all in real life."

Zheng Li's speech in front of executives today, he knew that after he finished speaking, all relevant people would get the original version of his speech.

His speech is just to be more in line with the habits of normal people, and the content of his speech must be in line with his age.

If it wasn't for the purpose of reducing the suspiciousness of this vest, Zheng Li would not have planned to say so much.

Zheng Li's attitude towards overtime work is very simple, and even his attitude towards work is very simple. It doesn't matter whether you work or not.

Work when you want to work, and don’t work if you don’t want to work. Most of the work is optimized by artificial intelligence, and the rest of the research and development work is all based on self-consciousness.

It's just that this kind of thinking is not applicable to the current situation, and primary artificial intelligence cannot be replaced on a large scale.

Moreover, it is impossible for Zheng Li to take out the artificial intelligence.

"Cheng Gang, what are your plans after retirement?"

Zheng Li and Cheng Gang met alone in the office he hadn't stayed in for many years.

Zheng Li and Cheng Gang had already communicated with each other before, and then Cheng Gang stepped down from the position of general manager on the grounds that he was old and lacked energy.

Cheng Gang: "Let's do some angel investment in the biomedical industry to see if we can discover some valuable companies."

"The other thing is to take good care of the elderly. If I live to be 80 years old, I still have more than 20 years left."

Cheng Gang has made a lot of profits in the capital market with the backing of Sci-Tech Biotech over the years.

The investment company under his name, apart from the failure of the first business investment in two mRNA vaccine companies, the subsequent investment business has made profits and losses.

Over the past few years, Cheng Gang's investment company has become somewhat well-known in the industry.

After Cheng Gang resigned from the position of general manager of Kechuang Bio, he personally participated in the operation of the investment company. As the co-founder of Kechuang Bio, he is still very attractive in the startup company in the field of biomedicine .

Zheng Li: "Maybe you will discover the next scientifically innovative creature."

"It's good. It's not a problem to live to a hundred years old."

Cheng Gang smiled wryly: "It's not that easy. A company like Kechuang Biology is a miracle."

"The probability of discovering two miracles is even lower than winning the lottery."

"I don't expect to be able to discover companies of the level of scientific innovation and biology. As long as I can invest in a company listed on the Science and Technology Innovation Board, I will be satisfied."

"You can't always expect to repeat your peak in life. It is necessary to lower your expectations appropriately."

(End of this chapter)