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Chapter 137 Surprising Sales

"According to our news, the new type of Ebola virus is still raging in more than 20 African countries including Rainbow Country and Kania, and has infected millions of people. Please read a group of newsletter below."

"The development of a new Ebola virus vaccine by the Chinese Academy of Sciences"

"Because of the severe outbreak of the new Ebola virus, in addition to the necessary supplies, my country has decided to temporarily suspend flights to countries seriously affected by the epidemic, such as the Rainbow Country and Kanya."

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Compared with the African countries where the virus has ravaged, the Chinese government immediately took active measures to block the way the virus spread to China.

So at present, the concentrated outbreak of the new Ebola virus is still in the African continent, followed by Europe and North America. Although there are many Asian countries, the number of infected people is the least.

Compared with the tragedy of the outbreak of the new Ebola virus in Africa, Huaguo is very peaceful.

Pengcheng.

Chensheng Technology Industrial Park.

The production lines of medical supplies built up overtime are busy 24 hours a day.

Countless masks, protective clothing, and disinfection supplies are produced by these factories.

In addition, Chensheng Technology Group has also placed huge orders with many domestic medical companies for these medical supplies.

However, domestic businesses are not stupid. As early as the outbreak of the epidemic in Africa, they began to hoard medical supplies, preparing to make a fortune.

Although Chensheng Technology Group was the fastest, it was not able to buy all the supplies.

Inside the office of the Vice President of Arc Light Automobile.

Zhang Mingbo, who was wearing a suit, was making a video call with Lu Chen with a serious face.

"Mingbo, how is the medical supplies I ordered you to purchase going?"

"Dr. Lu, with the approval of the board of directors, the group has spent 30 billion US dollars to purchase medical supplies around the world. At present, all the supplies are transported to Kanya International Airport by air and sea. It is expected that the first batch of supplies will arrive within ten hours."

After hearing this, Lu Chen on the other end of the video nodded.

30 billion US dollars in medical supplies is really not a small amount.

If it weren't for the amazing cash reserves of Chensheng Technology Group, it would not be easy for any company to spend such a large amount of money at once.

Immediately, Lu Chen continued to ask: "Has the sales of Arc Light Automobile been affected?"

"Dong Lu, since the outbreak of the epidemic, the sales volume of Arclight Automobiles has not declined, but has increased to a certain extent!"

"Oh?"

Lu Chen was a little surprised.

Normally, when an epidemic breaks out, except for necessary supplies, the sales of other products will definitely be negatively affected.

However, the sales of Arc Light Automobile not only did not decrease, but increased further, which had to surprise Lu Chen.

Seeing Lu Chen's puzzled expression, Zhang Mingbo excitedly explained: "It's driverless!"

"In addition to the Huaguo market, developed countries such as Europe and North America, under the pressure of the epidemic, had to pass the self-driving arc car bill. Now foreign arc cars can also use the self-driving function!"

Hearing this explanation, Lu Chen finally understood why the sales of Arclight cars did not fall but rose.

The new type of Ebola virus, like other viruses, is mainly transmitted through contact, and the driverless function of Arclight cars can largely avoid contact transmission during traffic operations.

Especially for public transportation industries such as taxis and online car-hailing.

Sure enough, Zhang Mingbo went on to say: "After the outbreak of the epidemic, foreign online car-hailing industries have placed orders for our arc cars. Uber alone placed an order of 46 billion US dollars to us."

Uber is a well-known online car-hailing company abroad. Obviously, the other party intends to take advantage of the outbreak to play a big ticket.

The outbreak of the new Ebola epidemic is not only a disaster, but also an opportunity.

For example, for online car-hailing companies, due to social distance restrictions, passengers have to choose arc cars that are safer and have driverless functions.

In this way, online car-hailing companies such as Uber seem to have invested a large sum of money in buying a car at one time, but the profits they brought afterwards are extremely rich.

This account can be known after a little calculation.

After purchasing the Arclight car, they spend almost nothing except electricity and negligible operating expenses, and the company's profit margin can even exceed 80%.

In the face of such huge profits, no company can remain calm.

Lu Chen could even imagine that if Arclight Automobile's self-driving bill can be passed smoothly, the capital behind these online car-hailing companies must have put a lot of effort into it.

"Director Lu,"

Just when Lu Chen was secretly happy about the sales of Arclight cars, Zhang Mingbo whispered, "However, our production of Arclight cars seems to be unable to keep up."

"Is there a problem with the production capacity of the domestic production base?"

Lu Chen focused his eyes.

"No," Zhang Mingbo shook his head. "There is no problem with the domestic production base. It's your side. Isn't there an outbreak in Kanya? I'm worried."

Hearing this, Lu Chen waved his hand directly: "Don't worry, there is no problem with the production capacity of the production base here. No matter how many orders you have, I can solve them all here."

This is not Lu Chen's nonsense.

The arc light car production base in Kanya has not been brought into a state of shutdown due to the suspension of front-line workers.

On the contrary, it ushered in a big explosion of production capacity during this period!

The solution to this problem is naturally the T-1 robot.

Compared with ordinary workers, the T-1 robot is obviously more hard-working. Not only does it not require wages, but it can even work 24 hours a day as long as it has sufficient power.

It has to be said that from an economic point of view, the T-1 robot has surpassed ordinary workers by a lot.

If it were a capitalist, the first thing to do would be to fire all the ordinary employees under him. After all, there are more than [-] workers who only pay wages every day, which is an astronomical sum, but Lu Chen did not do this.

However, from the perspective of efficiency, it is an inevitable process to eliminate ordinary workers from factories.

Lu Chen also always believed that it is impossible for human beings to stay on the mechanized production line forever. This kind of work that mechanizes human beings is a huge waste of human talent.

Taking advantage of this epidemic, Lu Chen needs to think carefully about how to arrange these more than [-] workers.

Hang up the communication.

Lu Chen found Qin Ruolan and asked another important question.

Although the epidemic situation in Kanya was extremely severe, because Kanya was sparsely populated and the epidemic was mostly concentrated in cities, Qin Ruolan, who had been busy working in Huanyu Agricultural Company, did not feel how serious the epidemic was.

What's more, Huanyu Agricultural Company uses completely unmanned agriculture. With the gradual improvement of Kanya's domestic water conservancy projects, the first batch of super seeds planted on a large scale are almost mature.

In other words, the season of autumn grain harvest has arrived.

(End of this chapter)