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After the meeting.

Zhang Shuo attended the relocation ceremony of the headquarters of the Fertile Soil Research Institute.

The first phase of the Wisdom Island project has been completed, and the headquarters of the Fertile Soil Research Institute will also be relocated from the Germination Industrial Park to the Wisdom Island as a whole, opening a new legendary road.

With the relocation of the headquarters of the Fertile Soil Research Institute, the time has quietly entered December.

It means that 16 years is coming to an end.

On December 12, under the pressure of public opinion, Jade Bird Interactive Entertainment released a new mobile game "Dragon Kingdom Story".

Compared with the previous war strategy mobile games, "Dragon Kingdom Story" is also designed with a home system, but as a fantasy-style Q-version mobile game that focuses on hunting, it still has its merits.

The original space-time is very hot.

It can be regarded as a controversy for the mutual entertainment of the blue birds, which temporarily continued a wave of life.

.........

Friday, April 12.

The day before the New Year's Day holiday, Germination held its annual meeting.

Compared with previous years, in the past 16 years, the development of the Budding Department can be called "mediocre". It has neither established new subsidiaries nor set foot in any new fields.

Even the wheat grain mobile phone is no longer so amazing.

The only gratifying thing is that Weijing Semiconductor's breakthrough in the 14nm advanced process, combined with Huaxia Microelectronics' breakthrough in the field of lithography machines, has completely revitalized the Huaxia semiconductor industry.

The rest is tinkering.

For example, in terms of overseas mergers and acquisitions, the more significant achievement is to participate in the acquisition of Xianzhengda, and the subsequent investment of Xinghai Group in Vale.

Others are not too bright.

Like Lime Group, Xingyun Group, Xinghai Group, including Dao Sui Group and Mango Group, other overseas acquisitions are mainly to supplement the main business, and many of the investment acquisitions are small and medium-sized companies.

But 16 is an extremely critical year in the history of budding development.

For making a lot of money.

Although the data for the fourth season has not yet been finalized, it is already possible to get a glimpse of the whole picture.

"In 16, the group's estimated revenue is 2.8 trillion yuan, and its estimated profit is 8602 billion yuan. Among them, Qinghe Group has achieved a profit of 4075 billion yuan, Maili Group has achieved a profit of 4062 billion yuan, and Weizhong Group has an estimated profit of 465 billion yuan."

Sprout CEO Lu Kai reported this.

Needless to say, the two super hematopoietic machines of Qinghe Group and Maili Group are still eye-catching, and still maintain a high growth rate of more than 40%.

Even the Weizhong Group, which is at the tail end of the crane, has achieved a profit of more than 400 billion throughout the year.

what is this concept?

Based on profit, it can be ranked in the top [-] of the global profit list, making more money than Gaotong.

The rapid development of Weizhong Group is naturally due to its own good management on the one hand, and on the other hand, it is also due to the "digging of its own grave" by its biggest competitor, the Black Ant Group.

In the past two months, users who use Weixin Pay and Lingqiantong have ushered in a wave of rapid growth, which can be regarded as a wave of help from Ari in disguise.

Of course, there are also hidden worries in the highlights.

In 16, global smartphone sales were already close to their peak. In the next few years, although the sales volume can still maintain a relatively high level, the dividend of the era of smartphones is undoubtedly opening a downward channel.

The most direct result is——

Whether it is the Qinghe Group, which is supported by games and advertising businesses, or the Maili Group, which is based on the mobile phone business, it can only maintain rapid growth for three to four years at most.

Then there will be the throes of slowing growth.

In Yuanshikong, whether it is an overseas Internet giant or a Huaxia Internet company, they all started the layoff mode in order to survive the harsh winter, which is the best proof.

Companies related to consumer electronics, including Pingguo, Gaotong, and Taiji Electronics, are also constantly reducing production capacity due to the slowdown in consumer electronics market demand.

For Germination, there is another unfavorable factor next year——

The hot guy from the beautiful country is coming!
The seeds of the unsatisfactory development of the beautiful country's market will only become more difficult in the future.

In order to cope with the possible slowdown in growth in the future, Zhang Shuo is actually planning. For example, the short video business that Qinghe Group is incubating will become a new growth engine in the future.

Another example is the cloud computing business, which still has great growth potential in the future.

As for Maili Group, while making more attempts in the category of consumer electronics, while digging deeper into the growth potential in software services and other fields.

At the same time, he also holds the sharp weapon of VR glasses.

In general, Maili Group still has the possibility of switching growth tracks.

And from the overall perspective of Germination Holdings, in order to cope with the possible slowdown in the growth of the two major hematopoietic machines of Qinghe Group and Maili Group, in fact, they are constantly preparing for the next move.

One is like Pinxixi Group, Mango Group, and Dao Sui Group, all of which are making profits.

It's just reinvesting profits into new investment projects, such as Mango Group's super factory, Pinxixi Group's cargo airport project, Inao Group's wafer foundry, and so on.

But these investments are not endless.

When it expands to a certain scale, it can be considered that the profits are turned over to the parent company.

some of.

It belongs to the Mango Group with the most potential, and it is almost reserved for the throne of the global auto industry giant in the future.

Until then, the budding profit structure will become more reasonable.

Second, Germination Holdings is using Germination Investment as a platform to actively convert the current funds on the book into various investments, which will also bring continuous and considerable investment returns in the future.

Therefore, in general, there should be no growth anxiety in Germination in the next five to ten years.

But there must also be a sense of crisis.

.........

According to the usual practice, after the group president Lu Kai summarized the past year of Germination, the presidents of the subsidiaries of the group began to report one by one.

For example, Luo Changan, the vice president in charge of the group's investment business, asked Weizhong Group to increase its registered capital by another 100 billion yuan to cope with the rapidly growing microfinance business.

"Yes." Zhang Shuo nodded.

After the outbreak of the black ant incident, relevant agencies have improved the supervision of Internet finance.

Weizhong Group naturally wants to set an example.

Guan Zai, President of Xingyun Group, proposed that he hopes to enter the field of high-end equipment manufacturing with the help of successful experience in the field of aero-engines and the advantages of WALL-I in the field of intelligent manufacturing.

"It's okay to try, but you can't deviate from the main line."

Zhang Shuo did not fully agree, not that he tends to be conservative, but that it is under the Nebula Group, whether it is commercial aerospace, aero engines, or even intelligent robots.

Every sector is enough to give birth to a super giant.

The Nebula Group has three major sectors. It is already very remarkable if it can succeed. It is really difficult to have the energy to set foot in the field of high-end equipment manufacturing.

Too much to chew.

Lime Group, for example, focuses on the three major fields of biopharmaceuticals, medical equipment, and modern seed industry, and basically has no more energy to expand new business segments.

Another example is the Xinghai Group, which focuses on the three major fields of minerals, energy and chemicals.

Song Zhiyou, the president of Xinghai Group, asked for instructions before whether he could enter the field of high-end materials, but Zhang Shuo also vetoed it, asking Xinghai Group to stabilize the basic market first.

If you walk too fast, you will be dragged to Dan.

This is also the biggest difference between heavy industry and light industry, including the Internet industry. It needs to endure loneliness, and it is unlikely to achieve results in just a few years.

It is also the reason why many investment institutions are more interested in the Internet industry than heavy industry.

But if we look at it from a long-term perspective, the Iron Triangle composed of Nebula Group, Lime Group and Xinghai Group, to a certain extent, actually represents the budding of another future.

After the presidents finished speaking, Zhang Shuo made a final concluding speech.

The most talked about is crisis awareness.

"Next year, the group will elevate the status of artificial intelligence Xingling to a more important position, and speed up the connection and integration of Xingling with various subsidiaries and subsystems."

"Take the customer service system as an example. Next year, Xingling will serve as the main force of customer service, and human customer service will assist."

Promoting the status of artificial intelligence in corporate governance and optimizing the allocation of administrative staff will be the top priority of Germination's internal management in the next few years.

"Strictly control the growth rate of employees. While recruiting new employees, we must implement a bottom-up elimination mechanism within the group to promote the capable and the mediocre."

From the beginning to the present, the disease of large companies is inevitable.

One of the major characteristics is that there will be a group of old fried dough sticks, or old-agers. In this case, it is necessary to implement the last elimination mechanism.

Some old employees who were previously promoted to management positions also fell behind.

Then there must be room for newcomers.

It is foreseeable that in the future, the internal governance of the company, including internal conflicts, will take up a large part of the management costs of Germination, and even the group president Lu Kai will be required to personally promote it.

"We must resist the temptation. Subsidiaries must not expand new businesses at will, let alone take the road of diversified operations at will. They must be specialized and focused."

To some extent, this is also a warning issued by Zhang Shuo to his subsidiaries.

Can't get carried away.

At the level of the parent company, the diversification operation is successful, but it does not mean that it can be done at the subsidiary level, because the subsidiary company does not have the "hanging" wall of Zhang Shuo.

"Like Jade Bird Interactive Entertainment, they even have to appropriately shrink their business lines, and continue to abolish some unqualified game studios in the way of elimination at the bottom."

This is vaccination.

After losing Zhang Shuo's "hack", the future of Jade Bird Interactive Entertainment became confused all at once.

Even Zhang Shuo is not sure whether Jade Bird Huyu can truly stand up independently after losing its walking stick, and create new and excellent games by itself.

Although before this, Zhang Shuo had given Jade Bird Interactive Entertainment the "original" gene.

.........

After the annual meeting, there is the New Year's Day holiday.

Tuesday, July 1.

At the end of the vacation, Zhang Shuo returned to the company, and just after signing and approving the appropriation application for the new quarter, the long-lost system prompt sounded in his ears.

"Ding, the entrepreneurial level is upgraded to level 13, and the reward is 100 billion dollars in entrepreneurial funds."

In addition to the start-up fund, the monthly support fund has also increased from the previous one billion dollars to 15 billion dollars, which means that a total of 180 billion dollars in support funds will be obtained each year.

The growth rate is actually lower than Zhang Shuo's previous expectations.

But it's better than nothing.

These funds will undoubtedly be injected into the Vision Fund.

In time, the overall strength of the Vision Fund will probably be higher than that of the Dream Fund, and it will become the best platform for Zhang Shuo to bypass the obvious obstacles and conquer the market in the beautiful country.

The system beep continues.

"After this upgrade, the system will also provide a special reward. May I ask if the host will allow this system to complete the integration with Germinal's artificial intelligence Xing Ling?"

"Ok?"

Zhang Shuo was really surprised now, and asked: "The system, you mean to merge with Xingling?"

"Yes."

"In this way, wouldn't Xing Ling become a real artificial intelligence?"

"This system is essentially artificial intelligence. It's just that it existed in a form similar to sophons before." The system revealed its own core lightly.

"Tomoko?"

Zhang Shuo was a little dazed, but then he was relieved.

Only a similar existence of Sophon can generate a virtual panel out of thin air in the void in front of Zhang Shuo without Zhang Shuo noticing it, and at the same time simulate the sound into his ears.

Zhang Shuo thought it was implanted with some kind of chip before.

Compared with chip implantation, the existence of sophons seems to be acceptable.

"Is it fusion?"

"After fusion, can it still be controlled?" Zhang Shuo asked worriedly.

"Of course, the host is still the host."

"Fusion!"

After understanding the situation, Zhang Shuo no longer hesitated.

Although he has great confidence in the artificial intelligence laboratory under the Fertile Research Institute and has high expectations for Tan Yunsong, the current Xingling can only be regarded as a half-baked prototype at best.

If we really want to achieve the level of intelligence described in science fiction, I'm afraid we have to wait until the lifetime series.

It is normal for this level of cross-domain technology to take a hundred years.

Now, with the "downward" integration of the system and Xingling, Xingling has completed some kind of "super evolution" almost overnight, becoming a real artificial intelligence.

Most importantly, this is an artificial intelligence completely controlled by Zhang Shuo.

"Fusion... Fusion complete!"

As far as the system is concerned, the so-called integration is actually the merger of Xingling downwards.

Of course, it can be regarded as finding some kind of new carrier.

For example, now, the system directly generates a holographic image of "Xing Ling" in front of Zhang Shuo's eyes, becoming Zhang Shuo's all-weather assistant, helping Zhang Shuo monitor and manage all the affairs of the budding.

Even the previous system panel can be customized.

Before, it was only possible to view a few key data such as [cash] and [loan]. Now, as long as Zhang Shuo wants to, he can retrieve any operational data about Germination anytime, anywhere.

The system seemed to become less rigid all of a sudden.

There is no longer a barrier between Zhang Shuo, the host. From the previous one-way communication, it suddenly became a two-way communication, as if he suddenly "lived".

Just a little bit.

Looking at Xing Ling, who was modeled on Lin Weiwei, calling him master in a pretty way, Zhang Shuo felt a little weird, and at the same time was inexplicably excited.

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