Return to the exciting era of 1999

Chapter 2200: New Track Competition

"It's the same as usual today. The electric toy car in the lower left corner is unmanned. Five lucky viewers are invited on a first-come, first-served basis. It's sold at a 10% discount. If you have children at home, you can try your hand speed. Today, in order to give back to everyone, we are giving away an all-terrain vehicle that uses a graphene super battery and has a range of 750 kilometers!"

"The car is heated and temperature-controlled with graphene materials, has automatic accident judgment function, automatic risk avoidance function, automatic parking function, and remote automatic start-up driving function."

"That means you can start your car from five kilometers away from your home, and it will automatically drive to the designated location to pick you up. High technology is for a more convenient life. Everyone, first come, first served. Today's live broadcast ends here, and the competition of hand speed will begin soon."

Facing everyone, Lu Lu switched the screen.

Inside is a high-tech product manufactured by Yiyuan Intelligent Manufacturing. The first all-terrain vehicle is very sci-fi and tough.

In the camera, a 1.8-meter-tall model with long legs shows every detail of the car, including its headlights and automatic control system, expandable trunk, huge trailer hook and strong traction.

In 0.1 milliseconds, all the products in Lu Lu's live broadcast room were sold out, especially this car, which had more than 50,000 orders. In the end, it was bought by a 30-year-old young man lying down.

"I can roughly guess where Ji Donglai is. I'm going to drive this car to the scene to take a look. I'll send you a video then. Everyone, please wish me the best!"

As a supporter of Yiyuan Intelligent Manufacturing, the other party is also a pragmatist.

On the first day after receiving the all-terrain vehicle, we made corresponding modifications. We purchased fifteen graphene batteries from Yiyuan Intelligent Manufacturing and put them on the vehicle. We drew a line from Hebei directly to Horgos.

The other party established fifteen supply points along the way, and then took a fancy to the provincial road amid the blessings of a group of netizens, and reported the progress once a day.

Of course, this car did not disappoint the other party. The 600-kilometer range mark was definitely not a lie. At 590 kilometers, the other party's battery started to switch, and at 1,200 kilometers, the other party started looking for a place to eat and stay in a hotel.

The negotiations between Jiang Haokun and the foreigners also entered a white-hot stage, because the foreigners thought it was too expensive! Just like the negotiations between the Chinese and their ancestors, the other party could only give Uni-Yuan Intelligence a fraction of their psychological expectations for the space power transmission project.

According to Jiang Haokun's offer, the other party would need to sell a country to satisfy him.

At the same time, Yiyuan Intelligent Manufacturing’s middle and senior management meeting was held again, this time by Zhao Shuying at the Hebei base.

Everyone's faces were not very good at this time. The reason was simple: Yiyuan Zhizao's businesses began to be sold one by one, and the company's old colleagues gradually became passers-by.

Even the smartphone business, which represents high-tech in the eyes of these people, has begun to be sold, and has been replaced by the more advanced EUV lithography machine project. Many people feel a strong sense of crisis at this time.

After all, many people in her company couldn't keep up with the business, and rejuvenation was a huge challenge for managers over 45 years old. Xin Li had optimized the company several times, and everyone didn't know if they would be on the next list.

"Boss Zhao, can you persuade Boss Ji to slow down a bit with this money and invest it in our company's traditional fields, even in the Internet of Things? Even a one-yuan supermarket would be fine!"

"If we invest all our money in future projects, our company's rate of return will drop, and it will be hard to explain to anyone!"

Several company executives began to suggest to Zhao Shuying that many core contents could not be seen by several people, but Zhao Shuying could see them.

Zhao Shuying and his group had some similar ideas, the only difference was that Zhao Shuying was able to speak, while several others had no chance at all.

Just like this, a group of people expressed their opinions, the clerk kept recording, and Zhao Shuying's face began to look ugly.

Generally, middle-aged and elderly managers have begun to promote traditional projects, and only some young people are firmly following Ji Donglai. When it comes to high-tech projects, young people prefer them.

The reason is simple. Traditional projects are all handled by this group of old people, who are between 40 and 50 years old. They occupy the main positions and leave almost no room for young people.

Only when working on new projects or new fields can young people have a chance to breathe.

The meeting lasted for two hours, but Zhao Shuying did not make a clear statement. In the evening, Zhao Shuying connected with Jiang Haokun and several others via video link and gave feedback to several people on today's projects at the base.

In particular, a group of domestic veterans have begun to complain about the company's large investment in the high-tech field. In the energy project alone, Yiyuan Intelligent Manufacturing has already invested tens of billions of yuan and is still pouring in more money.

As for the chip printer project, together with the chip project, the entire company has spent almost the same amount of money. Now, the EUV lithography machine project has been added, which is all money-burning.

The proportion of traditional project investment is too small, and the space for these people is also getting smaller. "If this continues for a long time, people's hearts may be unstable, especially the one-yuan supermarket, which is now the company's key profit project. We need to pay attention to it!"

When talking about the current situation of domestic companies, Zhao Shuying is somewhat worried.

Even if we take a step back, this is where the company's headquarters is located. Although foreign countries have a great influence on it, the focus is still on the domestic market.

"Boss Zhao, Boss Ji told me a story about the process of burning charcoal. It is about the process of forming charcoal. Five pounds of wood are burned into one pound of charcoal. It seems very wasteful to outsiders! But in the process of burning, all the parts that are not easy to burn will be burned!"

"Why do this? Charcoal can burn at 1600 degrees Celsius, and wood can burn at a maximum of 1000 degrees Celsius! I don't need to tell you the uses of these two things. Our previous industry layout model and high-tech industry model are one wood and one charcoal! It's the same substance, but the effect is better when it's burned!"

"Some things seem to be burned a lot and wasted a lot, but in fact what's left is more valuable! Wood is 300 yuan per ton, and 1.5 kilograms of charcoal is 20 yuan!"

"You are all witnesses of the company's start-up process. I came later! From the beginning, Yiyuan Zhizao made elevator parts for Swell, to now our company makes high-tech chips, settlement centers, and energy plans for the whole world! Now we are charcoal!"

"If anyone really can't keep up, we can only let them step down. We have no other choice. Sister Zhao, you know better than anyone how much benefits we have given to employees over the years, so I don't need to say more!"

Jiang Haokun was not impressed when thinking about these old people in the company.

On the one hand, Jiang Haokun was not there during the early stages of the start-up, but has joined the team at the current stage.

Which stage is more difficult? It’s hard to say! But now is definitely not easier than the early stage, because the situation is more complicated. In the early stage of starting a business, at best you will be swallowed up, but now? It’s a life-and-death struggle.

In the early stages of a startup, a company can still be sold, but now once a weak company is ruined from top to bottom, so many people are hoping to wipe out the entire unified intelligent manufacturing and let all scientific achievements vanish into thin air.

If we let our guard down a bit, all the company's efforts over the past 20 years might go to waste.

Zhao Shuying's face looked a little ugly at this time, because it was not without these ideas. Now if it involves optimization, President Xin has already withdrawn, what about himself?
"Mr. Zhao, maybe everyone has a lot of doubts about Mr. Ji's next phase of the moon landing plan. Let me give you an example! Currently, the storage units in our data center are basically traditional mechanical hard drives, with a small number of super hard drives."

"In the latest data centers, we have adopted helium-encapsulated solid-state hard drives. This process can reduce the friction between the head and the disk surface, and extend the service life of the hard drive exponentially."

"And we can get more storage space. Previously, 6 TB was the limit, but now we can get up to 75 TB! It's just a hard drive as small as the palm of your hand! And the temperature and power consumption are also about one-fifth of the original hard drive!"

"How much does our data center earn each year? Mr. Zhao, you've also looked at the financial statements! What limits us most now are power consumption, temperature, and storage space. The moon landing plan seems to be completely unnecessary and a waste of time and money!"

"But the latest research shows that helium is very abundant in the soil on the surface of the moon. If we can collect helium on a large scale after landing on the moon, we will be able to obtain a cheaper, more efficient, large-storage, and low-energy data center!"

"Globalization has disintegrated, and the next step is the world of blockchain. Whoever has enough computing power and storage space will be able to take the lead! President Ji's moon landing plan is definitely not a temporary idea!"

"Do you really think Mr. Ji is dreaming? He is a technical CEO, and every decision he makes is based on massive amounts of data. I dare say that no other CEO in the market can compare to him. If all our technologies were made public, the total market value of Yiyuan Zhizao would exceed 10 trillion US dollars. But he just won't say it. He wants perfection!"

"Boss Zhao, don't be so honest all the time. You should show your skills to these people! Our moon landing plan is top secret now. Once the commercial moon landing is launched, I dare say that the people who order moon soil and even helium from us will line up from Nanjing to Paris!"

Seeing that her sisters were now confused, Hu Xinyu smiled and began to explain.

Zhao Shuying didn't understand at first, and her mouth opened wide as Hu Xinyu spoke. It took her a long time to realize that she seemed to have fallen into the old man's misunderstanding.

Especially the matter of helium, Zhao Shuying also knew about it.

The computing center at the company's financial center is a helium hard drive. Engineers have built a bracket on it and do not allow people to get close to it because they are worried about it leaking.

The computing speed is fast. The server room used to be stuffy, but now the temperature has dropped a lot.

All the hard drives in the company are now being gradually replaced. Thinking about how Ji Donglai had been asking the R&D center to develop various high-tech products, including rocket engines, Zhao Shuying understood.

(End of this chapter)