Reborn in 2011, 985 missing from two copies

Chapter 516: Drone deployment, the final trump card
The most time-consuming delivery link is when drones deliver the food to the residential area, and then the food is delivered to the door by the deliveryman.

The cost of food delivery is greatly reduced and the efficiency of food delivery can be greatly improved.

After users place an order, the delivery time can be shortened by more than half. For some stores that serve food quickly, the delivery time can even be shortened by 80%. There is no need to worry about the food getting cold in winter.

Not only will the delivery boys not lose their jobs, their jobs will also become easier and safer.

Whether you pack your meals for a hotel stay or deliver the meals to your doorstep for the last mile within a residential community, there is no danger.

It is much safer than riding a bike at high speed on the road and weaving in and out of traffic.

In the future, when Xingyi Technology's drones are put into production, this concept can be fully realized.

While greatly improving efficiency and reducing costs, it also increases the happiness index of delivery boys.

Technology should make life better, not squeeze people's living space.

This is Wang Yi’s consistent purpose.

Including the future AutoNavi driverless taxis, before the survival problem of AutoNavi drivers can be solved well, Wang Yi has the technology but will not promote it blindly, causing AutoNavi drivers to lose their jobs.

On the contrary, some best of both worlds approaches will be adopted to achieve a win-win situation.

For example, we can let experienced drivers of AutoNavi Taxi buy driverless taxis of Xingyi Technology as a stake, and the subsequent profits will be split 55- between the two parties.

In this way, Xingyi Technology's costs can be reduced, and AutoNavi drivers will have a stable income after sleeping, and they don't have to drive online ride-hailing cars every day.

Whether you find a job to earn a second income or just lie down and enjoy yourself, it's much better than before.

Wang Yi knows clearly that in ten years, online ride-hailing services will no longer be easy to run and the income will not be as high as it is now.

In many cities, people run away in silence.

Like Jeju in the past, with the subway connected directly to the airport, all online car-hailing and taxi orders near the airport have decreased by 90%.

The commuting time is similar between the subway which costs a few yuan or a dozen yuan and the online ride-hailing car or taxi which costs dozens or a hundred or two hundred yuan, so most people will choose the subway.

Especially during peak hours, the subway is faster than online ride-hailing services.

Even if the subway cannot reach the destination directly, people will choose to take the subway first and then take a ride-hailing car or bus.

It can be said that the future of online ride-hailing is getting worse year by year.

Even without driverless taxis, making a living by driving a ride-hailing car will only become increasingly difficult.

Instead of doing this, it would be better to buy an AutoNavi driverless taxi, earn some income while sleeping, and then find another job.

It's much better than wandering the streets every day and not making much money.

In order to prevent Xingyi driverless taxis from being bought by investors and ordinary drivers from being unemployed, Wang Yi will impose restrictions:

Xingyi driverless taxis will not be sold to capital!
Don’t sell to the rich!
It’s not even for sale!
Only sold to experienced drivers who have worked for Gaode Taxi for many years!
Based on a comprehensive assessment of the number of Gaode taxi orders, working hours, age, economic status, etc., Gaode drivers with the longest driving time will be given priority to purchase, and so on.

In the future, autonomous driving companies such as Baidu will promote driverless taxis, food delivery companies such as Meituan will promote drone delivery, JD.com and SF Express will also promote unmanned express delivery vehicles... It can be said that this is the general trend.

If Wang Yi does not follow suit, the costs will be higher and the prices will be more expensive. He will be abandoned by users and will go bankrupt.

But Wang Yi will not be like other giants who take advantage of others’ misfortunes.

Instead, we will use a win-win cooperation approach to provide better development for AutoNavi ride-hailing drivers and Ele.me food delivery riders.

In addition, Wang Yi has another consideration for making drones, which is to prepare for the worst.

With the rapid rise of Xingyi Technology, Lao Mi will definitely be desperate and do everything he can.

If the sword of Damocles falls completely, Wang Yi will dare to turn the table over and transform and develop aerospace and military industry!

The other party was worried about the threat posed by Xingyi Technology in the field of technology, so they imposed a complete blockade.

There was no other way, Wang Yi could only engage in military industry and aerospace to fight back.

With the strength and financial resources of Xingyi Technology, the twin-tailed scorpion drone, honeycomb drone swarm, unmanned airship, and unmanned ship can all be planned and produced in advance.

The threat will only be greater!
The next step is to develop Xingyi car and driverless cars to accumulate experience.

You know, all automobile giants can quickly transform into military giants in special times!

The structure of a tank is not difficult compared to that of a new energy vehicle, it’s just that the materials used are more special.

In fact, almost all of the world's auto giants can transform into producing tanks and combat vehicles during special periods.

Similarly, those fireworks factories can also transform into producing ammunition during special periods...

Of course, some bloggers may bring up the efficiency of polar bears in producing tanks in the last century, saying that tanks are difficult to produce and that car companies simply cannot make them...

This is all nonsense.

What was the industrial level in the last century? What is the industrial level now?

Moreover, our production efficiency and industrial capacity are ten or even dozens of times that of polar bears!
If we are to create a cutting-edge product like the White Swan, there are indeed some technical difficulties that need to be overcome.

But the tank is not a white swan. The technical content of the two is completely different. Nezha can build it without BYD.

Under extreme circumstances, transformation into military industry is also a form of checks and balances, or Wang Yi's trump card.

When the sword of Damocles was struck down, Xingyi Technology's internationalization instantly declined and it became difficult to move forward.

Then Wang Yi directly launched cutting-edge drones and sold them to certain forces in need.

Although it is a civilian drone, it has powerful performance and is used on the battlefield. There is nothing we can do about it.

Turning the tide of the war and changing the situation were all accidents.

A 3000 yuan drone can easily destroy a 6000 million yuan tank!
The casualties were 1:20000!
Completely changing the current battlefield mode has nothing to do with Wang Yi.

By then, even Lao Mi will probably be confused.

If you could just put away the sword of Damocles, it would be fine to stop here.

If they continue to strike hard, they will severely damage Xingyi Technology.

Then Wang Yi made a comprehensive transformation and went all in on military industry and aerospace.

Relying on Xingyi Technology's drone research and development strength and foundation, a large cellular drone swarm is also integrated.

When large swarms of drones are deployed en masse and there are enough of them, even aircraft carriers will have to retreat.

Even Musk’s Starlink was built ahead of time.

Regardless of how useful it is, just occupy the track resources first!

As for bowing to the other party and asking for peace, or swallowing one's anger, that is impossible.

Wang Yi is tough and will not learn to bend down, he can only fight to the end!

The basis of all this is to make the drone first!
Heart is worse than action.

Wang Yi spent two days planning this matter in detail, and on the third day he directly convened a high-level meeting!

"In the past few years, we have established many business units, all of which have achieved good results and even great success. The mobile phone business unit in particular has become the first in the country and the top three in the world."

Last year, the sales volume of Xingyi mobile phones surpassed Apple by a slight margin, ranking third in the world after Samsung and Nokia.

There is no other reason. Apple only released one flagship phone last year, while Xingyi Mobile released two new flagship phones, xphone 1pro and xphone 2, as well as an ultra-low-priced xphone 1 that costs less than three thousand yuan and is selling well.

The three mobile phones crushed the previous and next two generations of Apple flagships, causing Apple's sales to decline. However, the Xingyi mobile phone slightly surpassed Apple.

This year, with the launch of the Unlimited mobile phone and Nokia's decline, the Xingyi mobile phone has the hope of going further.

But it is hard to say whether it can surpass Nokia.

After all, a lean camel is bigger than a horse. Nokia sold a total of 3 million units last year.

There is still hope that the sales will be around 200 million this year.

Wang Yi continued: "The number of users of the Changchat Division has exceeded 5 million, ranking first in the country."

“Even the gaming division has achieved good results and has a large number of popular games.”

"The Ele.me business unit and the AutoNavi business unit also performed extremely well."

"But this is not enough."

“This year, we will also launch a new business unit.”

"One of them is the drone division!"

"Next, we will invest huge amounts of money to develop drones!"

“Our goal is to become the best in the industry and the best in the world!”

Wang Yi’s view on drones is very clear: either don’t do it, or if you do it, you must be the best in the industry.

In fact, Wang Yi admires Lei Jun’s business acumen.

Lei Jun is also very optimistic about drones. He started to plan the research and development of drones in 2014, announced the appearance patent in 2015, and released the first Xiaomi drone in 2016.

Although it failed, this business acumen is still very strong.

The same is true for MiTalk in its previous life. Although it was defeated by WeChat, it started earlier and also had a very keen business sense.

There is also an earlier e-commerce company, Joyo.com, which started in 2000, three years earlier than Taobao!
This business sense is simply terrible.

But unfortunately, Lei Jun sold Joyo.com to Amazon.

Later, when he saw that Jack Ma became the richest man with the help of Taobao, Lei Jun really regretted it.

From Joyo.com to MiLiao to mobile phones to drones to smart homes...

In his previous life, Lei Jun accurately stepped on all the nodes, but unfortunately most of them did not persist or failed.

Fortunately, Xiaomi mobile phones and Mi smart homes have achieved huge success.

But this time, it's difficult for Lei Jun.

Changliao, Xingyi mobile phone and Xingyi smart home launched one after another, making it difficult for Lei Jun to move forward.

Now that even drones are being made, there’s no need to start with Xiaomi’s drones.

Wang Yi continued: "Whether it is Xingyi Logistics or Ele.me food delivery, drones will be needed in the future."

"More than a decade later, low-altitude economy is the new trend!"

More than a decade later, the economic situation is far less prosperous than it is now.

The Internet is in a cold winter, the financial bubble, and the real estate industry is cooling down...

Even sneakers and Pop Mart are no longer popular.

Those shoe speculators, looking at the "high-priced shoes" they have hoarded in their rooms but cannot find anyone to buy them, and no one wants them even at a discounted price, are really in tears.

Even the price of Moutai has come down.

Under this situation, there is an urgent need to open up new opportunities and revitalize the economy.

Wang Yi believes that the low-altitude economy is a good start and a blank market. Especially as drones have shown great power on the battlefield, they can also play a huge advantage in the civilian field.

But everyone at the scene was skeptical, and someone even said:
"Chairman, is it realistic for Xingyi Logistics to use drones to deliver goods?"

"Yeah, isn't it a bit far away?"

Everyone spoke one after another.

Wang Yi doesn't mind this, as it is a limitation of the times.

In 2013, Wang Yi could not have imagined that drones would become so powerful that they could kill tanks in seconds in a few years.

Wang Yi could not have imagined that the price of the BMW X5, which currently sells for one million yuan, would drop to five or six hundred thousand yuan in ten years.

Who would have thought that Maserati, which is now respected worldwide, would see its sales in China drop by 84% ten years later, with monthly sales of only 38 units, and its booth at the auto show had to be moved to a corner...

What’s even more unexpected is that domestic new energy vehicles, capable foreign brands such as BBA, have given up.

All I can say is that the changes in the next ten years will be too fast and too disruptive.

But the subordinates didn't understand these, so Wang Yi could only slowly expand the thinking and vision of the senior management:
"In the next ten years, there may not be much change or progress abroad, or even a regression. But China will develop rapidly and change with each passing day."

“Drone delivery is not incredible, it is even necessary.”

"Let me give you a simple example. Everyone has been to Mount Tai."

Everyone nodded.

"So what do they use to deliver goods on Mount Tai?"

"Porters!" a senior executive said:

"Their physical strength is really amazing. I had a hard time climbing Mount Taishan without anything. They carried 100 kilograms of goods and took five hours one way to reach the summit of Mount Taishan. Some of them even reached the summit twice in one day! I admire them so much!"

"Yes, compared to them, our physique is too poor."

Wang Yi nodded: "Yes, the cargo transportation in Mount Tai is all done by porters, but what about ten years later? Twenty years later?"

"As they age and become physically weaker, these porters will gradually retire. By then, can we expect the next generation of young people to become porters? How likely do you think it is that they will continue to work in this field?"

Hearing this, everyone started to speak:
"Times have changed. In the future, people born in the 90s and 00s will be asked to work as porters. We can't say there won't be any, but there really aren't many who can do this."

"That's right. They were raised with love by their parents. How could they bear to see their children suffer like this?"

"No matter how useless my son is, I can't bear to let him do this hard labor even though I'm raising him."

"The problem is that even if you want to do it, you can't carry it. Climbing Mount Tai alone is exhausting, and you have to come back to rest for several days. It's unrealistic to ask him to carry 100 kilograms of goods up Mount Tai!"

"The younger generation can't keep up, so we can use cable cars to transport goods!"

"Forget about the cable car. The cable cars on Mount Tai are used to transport passengers. There are strict restrictions and they cannot be used to transport goods. Once goods are transported, it is easy to be overloaded, which will affect the life of the cable car. If an accident happens at such a high altitude, at least dozens of people will be injured or killed, and at worst hundreds of people will be injured or killed... Who can bear this responsibility?"

After hearing this, everyone stopped talking. This was inevitable.

As for building another cableway system specifically for transporting goods, that is unrealistic and the cost is too high, and it will take forever to make a profit.

Wang Yi said calmly: "Then here comes the problem! In the future, the older generation of porters will gradually retire, and the new generation will not be able to take over. The cable car has to carry passengers, so how to transport goods up the mountain? How to transport the garbage down?"

Everyone was silent: "..."

Wang Yi smiled and said: "The only solution is drones!"

"Using a drone, we can carry 100 kilograms or even 200 kilograms at a time, which is equivalent to the load of two challenge workers. A round trip from Zhongtianmen to Chaoyang Cave only takes 5-10 minutes!"

"This is the power of technology, and also the power of drones! This is also the goal of our Xingyi drones!"

There was applause at the scene, and everyone completely understood Wang Yi's intention.

Wang Yi continued: "Whether it is Xingyi Logistics or Ele.me food delivery, drones and unmanned delivery will be needed in the future."

"Today, the Xingyi UAV Division was established, divided into five departments."

"The first sector, the micro-UAV sector, has an empty weight of less than 0.25 kg and a payload of less than 2 kg, and is mainly used for camera or toy-level applications."

"The second department, the light UAV department, has an empty weight of no more than 4 kilograms and a maximum take-off weight of no more than 7 kilograms. It is used for short-distance transportation, express delivery, food delivery, line inspection, maritime rescue, fire reconnaissance, etc."

"In the future, express deliveries from Xingyi Logistics and takeout from Ele.me can all be delivered using this type of lightweight drone."

"The third sector, the small drone sector, has an empty weight of no more than 15 kilograms and a maximum take-off weight of no more than 25 kilograms. It can be used for inspection, testing, education, aerial photography, surveying, military, photogrammetry, etc."

"The fourth department, the medium-sized UAV department, has an empty weight of more than 15 kilograms and a maximum take-off weight of more than 25 kilograms but not more than 150 kilograms. Its main function is logistics transportation, such as cargo transportation in the scenic areas of Mount Tai and Mount Huangshan. It can also be used for agricultural plant protection, spraying pesticides, and emergency rescue, etc."

"The fifth department, large drones, with a maximum take-off weight of more than 150 kilograms!"

"For now, let's just focus on these five departments."

"Jian Ziyan, from now on, recruit relevant talents and assign them to the corresponding departments. Then, according to the abilities and resumes of the recruited talents, project managers will be assigned. As for the five department directors, they will be vacant for the time being, and when a department has outstanding output, they will be promoted to director. Ziyan, arrange the supervision and assessment work."

"Yes!"

Wang Yi’s meaning is very clear, everything depends on strength.

In order to prevent laymen from managing professionals, Wang Yi did not transfer senior executives from other departments to be the head of the drone business unit.

There was no way. Neither Wang Yi himself nor Zhu Changlin and others were familiar with the field of drones.

If you really force yourself to be the boss, you will just be an amateur managing the professionals, and that will be what you end up being.

On the contrary, Wang Yi made up his mind to directly recruit professional talents in the field of drones, both big and small, and appoint them as project managers in various departments after assessment.

At the same time, an assessment and evaluation department will be established. As long as the proposed projects are promising and meet the needs of Xingyi Technology, funds will be invested in research and development.

As long as research and development results are achieved, the project manager can be promoted from project manager to department head or even department director based on the size of the results and market performance!

If the output is too outstanding, he will become the head of the drone business department!

Of course, if we could directly recruit an industry expert to serve as the head of the drone business unit, that would be fine.

It's just more difficult.

Even DJI only launched a small drone, the Phantom 1, last year.

To put it bluntly, DJI is just a newcomer now, let alone other companies.

The entire drone industry is currently in its early stages of development.

DJI doesn’t have much technical accumulation.

Therefore, Wang Yi gave up investing in DJI and chose to make his own Xingyi drone!

After the meeting, everyone left, and Jian Ziyan stayed until the end:
"Chairman, I have a concern. In the future, Ele.me and Xingyi Logistics will use drones for delivery. Then, won't the deliverymen and couriers all be out of work?"

Wang Yi waved his hand: "What we want to do is not to replace food deliverymen and couriers with drones, but to achieve win-win cooperation. Many food delivery orders are still delivered manually."

"Some orders will be delivered by drones, and the deliverymen and couriers will become packers, responsible for packing machines. In residential areas, they will become the last mile deliverymen, delivering to the door."

"Our drone food delivery will start in large shopping malls, commercial streets and large communities, opening up dedicated routes."

"After the user places an order, the system will group several orders from the same community, the same shopping mall or the same commercial street together."

"After the merchants deliver the food, the deliverymen stationed in the mall receive the logistics order, go to various stores to pick up the food, and then load it into the drone. By scanning the code, the drone recognizes the information and automatically flies to the food cabinet or square in the target community."

"The deliverymen stationed in the community scan the code to pick up the food and deliver it to your door one by one."

"In the early stage, some pilots may be needed to control the drones, familiarize themselves with the routes, and accumulate data. In the later stage, all drones will be flown automatically without pilots."

Jian Ziyan's eyes lit up: "I see, this can greatly improve efficiency and will be more popular with users. If the food is delivered to the takeaway cabinet downstairs, users will have to go downstairs to pick it up. I'm afraid many users won't like it."

Wang Yi nodded: "Yes, if you are willing to go downstairs to pick up the food, don't order takeout. You can just eat at the nearby store."

Whether it’s takeout or express delivery, customers like door-to-door delivery.

Whenever it is placed in Cainiao Express Station or takeaway food cabinet, users will want to curse.

After all, I have already spent the express delivery and delivery fees, but they don’t even deliver it to my door, and I have to go downstairs. Isn’t this a rip-off?
For this reason, Wang Yi gave up the model of using drones to airdrop food cabinets and chose to have deliverymen stationed in the community to deliver food to the floors.

Perhaps the cost is higher, requiring a delivery person stationed in the residential area and a pick-up person stationed in the business district, which means paying the wages of two more people.

But there are also advantages, which is that the deliverymen still have work to do and can earn money, and their happiness index and safety index are greatly improved, so they will not be completely replaced by drones and become completely unemployed.

In addition, with this model, one person is responsible for picking up the food and loading it onto the machine, and one person is responsible for collecting the food and delivering it to the door, so it is entirely possible to deliver multiple orders at one time!
If there is only one order in a community, orders from several nearby communities can also be delivered together.

The airdrop delivery locker model can only deliver one meal at a time, and the customer has to go downstairs to pick up the meal.

In this respect, it is not as competitive as Wang Yi's door-to-door delivery model.

Young people these days would rather spend two dollars more on delivery fees than go downstairs to pick up the food.

Wang Yi's model delivers multiple orders at one time, which is more efficient and profitable.

Even after deducting the wages of the two deliverymen, greater profits can still be achieved.

It will not cause delivery workers to lose their jobs, and there will not be much resistance when it is implemented.

It's not like Baidu's Carrot Car, which was criticized before it was widely promoted...

"As for the development of drones, Beihang University should have a lot of relevant talents. Ziyan, go and find some. It would be best if you can find a big shot."

"Okay, Chairman." Jian Ziyan responded.

Wang Yi understood that the development of drones could only be done slowly.

We are just starting to recruit people, and it will take several months to set up the team.

If there is any output, it will be by the end of next year, or even the year after!

There is nothing we can do about this.

Wang Yi didn't want the Xingyi drone to be like the Xiaomi drone, which landed at a high speed just after taking off and was called a "crash" by netizens.

Of course, Xiaomi said that it landed automatically due to low battery, not "crashing".

But it’s hard to say what exactly happened.

But later on, they provided free motor replacement and maintenance services to crowdfunding users... This must be due to quality issues.

Soon, the Xiaomi drone was taken off the shelves.

Wang Yi couldn't accept this kind of thing.

The Xingyi UAV must be stable. If it is not powerful enough, it cannot be branded as Xingyi Technology and can only be branded as Wujie Technology at most.

If the performance is relatively bad, the brand of Unbounded Technology will not be damaged and will be directly destroyed, and the entire R&D team will be N+1!

Don’t leave any one behind, open them all!

At Xingyi Technology, Wang Yi will provide sufficient R&D expenses and adequate remuneration.

But if you spend money, get a high salary, but have no output, you are a waste!

Must be fired, blacklisted and never employed again.

(End of this chapter)