this man is not calm

Chapter 438 Imminent
The increase in transportation capacity has greatly alleviated the pressure on warehousing and logistics, especially the speed of intra-city and inter-city express delivery in the Gyeonggi region has increased significantly, making the delivery of e-commerce orders faster and faster. A large number of customers who had doubts about online shopping have begun to become loyal customers of Jinxi Mall and have developed the habit of relying on the Internet to enjoy a convenient life.

With the help of the year-end promotional activities, the "three horses" headed by e-commerce, offline life and today's chat began to boost the head office's year-end transaction volume to rise sharply. Correspondingly, the cash flow turnover speed is also getting faster and faster.

In an era when the GDP of the capital is still struggling to reach 200 to 300 billion, a local private enterprise's daily transaction volume during an event is close to 1 billion, and its monthly turnover exceeds 10 billion. What a terrifying event this is.

Even if this terrifying trading volume cannot be sustained throughout the year, it is still quite exaggerated.

More than one-tenth of the city’s GDP is directly or indirectly related to Jinxi Culture. Who can believe that this is a young company that is only a few months away from three years of establishment?

With such a large transaction volume, even if the nominal profit margin is very low, it is impossible that Jinxi Culture will not get nothing in return. Even if it is kept for half a year and the money is deposited in the bank to earn interest, it will be a lot of profit.

What's more, Jin Shang is also a very skilled financial trader. The title of "Junk Bond King" is not undeserved. Everyone in the domestic bond market knows that there is such a big player in the industry.

As for the large-scale investments made earlier, most of them have proven to be successful.

If Jin Shang were not too young, had a limited social circle, and was not particularly outspoken in the business world, I'm afraid many people would have come to him seeking cooperation.

Jinxi Mall is at the center of controversy, and countless people have used their connections to try to cooperate with it. Unfortunately, the best opportunity has been missed. All attempts to persuade them were in vain, but they all failed to act accordingly. Now that the roles have been reversed, Jin Shang is no longer in a hurry.

The annual average transaction volume growth rate of over 100% is simply terrifying. At this time last year, it could be explained as a low base and the large increase was no big deal. To say anything sarcastic this year would be a bit of a lie.

Jin Shang no longer wants to worry about direct financing. It plans to issue convertible bonds through private placement channels and then list them on the secondary market. This will not only attract a group of small and medium-sized investors, but also use employee stock ownership to stabilize the management and maintain the stability of the e-commerce platform.

Anyway, the opportunity has been given. If Jin Shang wants to get a big bargain again, he doesn't mind going directly to the Growth Enterprise Market for listing. It doesn't matter whose money he takes, as long as it can help the company's development.

While Wei Shuangping was busy dealing with the year-end promotion with the assistance of Li Xuan and Jiang Long, the big boss of Jin Shang was not idle either. He went to inspect the installation and commissioning of the first phase of the data center rack with satisfaction, and took a look at the operation of the large-scale photovoltaic panel power generation system that had been connected to the network.

Prestressed brackets and tracking light systems are the basis for efficient use of solar energy. The former is installed by CSSC Electromechanical Co., Ltd. In the field of steel structure manufacturing, shipbuilding is a dimensionality reduction attack, and it has a natural advantage in this regard. Once they are familiar with the complex hull structure, it will be easy to get started in road and bridge construction, building construction or pre-installation of structural parts as long as they understand the corresponding specifications. The latter is a bit complicated. CSSC Electromechanical Co., Ltd. may have some technical accumulation in the field of sensors, but it is a bit weak in intelligent control.

In view of this, Jin Shang spent some money to buy some inexpensive and practical technologies from relevant foreign companies. Combined with Jin Xi Culture's relatively solid computer software and hardware systems, it developed a fairly easy-to-use fully automatic function module that can directly adjust the inclination of photovoltaic panels and can also retrieve data from the background for manual control.

This thing looks simple, but at the end of 1997, it was still not easy to develop a product by yourself.

After signing the relevant documents, Jin Shang and Qi Zhaoyun came to the power plant again. Looking at the dark photovoltaic panels facing the warm winter sun, they couldn't help but feel a sense of satisfaction in their hearts.

"You know, photovoltaics are not about the more intense the sunlight or the higher the temperature, the higher the power generation efficiency. Instead, they are most ideal under low temperature and light conditions. The humid, hot and rainy south is not particularly suitable, and there are not many sunny days in the ice and snow in the north, so they are not very useful..."

"In other words, the best places are the northern plateau, the edge of the desert, or the Gobi Desert, where there is little rain and good sunlight?"

"This is inevitable. Beijing... even the entire North China, whether it's photovoltaic or wind power, the resource abundance is only slightly valuable. Compared with Julunbo, Mobei, Zhangbei, Northwest, Hetao and the Loess Plateau, it's far behind. If it weren't for setting an example and clearing the way for the establishment of a data center, I would never have done such a troublesome thing in a place like Beijing where every inch of land is valuable."

Of course, it would be difficult to enclose such a large area without some special reason. In fact, Jin Shang also took a fancy to the pumped-storage hydropower units in the Beijing North Reservoir and the Imperial Mausoleum, and planned to develop a large feng shui solar-thermal cogeneration project. Unfortunately, he could not get it in a short time.

There is also an excellent location downstream of the Guanting Reservoir, which is perfect for building a super-large wind farm. Jin Shang also wants to get involved. As for how to get involved, Huailai in the northwest is a rare grape-growing base in North China. By joining hands with his second uncle to support a local red wine brand and leveraging the advantages of local specialties, he should be able to establish a good relationship.

Throw a stone first to test the water and see how the situation is. If you can really get it, that would be great.

But this is still too far away, we haven't reached that stage yet.

The two walked under the photovoltaic panels. Qi Zhaoyun knocked on the sturdy steel column and asked curiously:
“Why are the photovoltaic panels installed so high? It will make cleaning difficult…”

"This is a rainy day preparation!"

Jin Shang sighed and replied,

"First, it is to free up space so that the lighting conditions under the photovoltaic panels are slightly better, which is conducive to the growth of shade-loving forage grasses. In addition, don't you think that this distance is actually enough for medium-sized agricultural machinery to come in and operate?"

"That's true! But... why do we have to hire some workers to do the mowing? Can't we just use machines?"

"I would like to do that, but labor is cheap, and with such a small area, it's not worth it to grow grass and harvest silage properly."

Big machinery, big industry and big farms are certainly exciting, but considering that this is just an experimental comprehensive factory area, Jin Shang wants to let those who doubt him see what photovoltaic sheep and photovoltaic cows are, and how this model can play a huge role in controlling desertification and salinization in the north.

Without any real skills, how can you convince others and get a large piece of land?

Even if it is a desert saline-alkali land with low economic value and no food production, you need to have some "high technology" to make the local government willing to transfer the land. Medium-sized agricultural machinery is the mainstream in China now, and the persuasiveness is appropriate.

and……

"There is a phenomenon that goes against common sense. In the operation of large-scale farms, unless a suitable comprehensive utilization model is explored, the efficiency of manual labor plus convenient small agricultural machinery is more cost-effective than directly using large machines. In the final analysis, the wages are still too low..."

For example, Jin Shang has tried hiring people to cut the grass manually, using diesel lawn mowers that can be carried on shoulders and operated by one person, micro harvesters, or manual baling machines, which are much more cost-effective than driving large harvesters.

In the Central Plains and North China, the penetration rate of agricultural machinery is actually a bit embarrassing. When the harvest or sowing season comes, a special profession is born. A group of agricultural machinery drivers with professional qualifications join together to buy a super expensive large agricultural machinery. In addition to doing their own farm work, they also provide paid services to nearby farmers. At the end of the year, the money they earn from farming their own land may not be as much as what they earn from helping others sow and harvest.

This is actually the same as what my second uncle Zhang Hua did when he teamed up with his peers in his hometown to rent airplanes to spray pesticides. It is a special business transaction derived from a mutual aid-based working method. If there is a demand, there will naturally be someone to provide the service.

Although they are both farming, the traditional self-sufficient farmers and the new-age super-large farmers are doing the same work, but in essence they are not the same profession.

Looking at this leveled photovoltaic power station in front of us, the weeds underneath have turned yellow. After plowing, some ecological waste was scattered and a batch of perennial cold-resistant overwintering forage grasses were transplanted. Currently, there is only a shallow crop. When it is almost done, the cattle and sheep will be driven over to graze on the grass, and the grass will be harvested manually for silage, or replanted and fertilized regularly.

The biogas digester has started operating and is basically self-sufficient. It can also provide the necessary hot water for heating the cowshed and sheep pens. The photovoltaic ecological greenhouse is not operating at full capacity yet and is only used to grow some vegetables.

It will take a long time for technicians and workers to adapt and work smoothly.

Jin is not in a hurry about this. As long as the power generation starts and the data center runs smoothly, we will see later whether the other supporting facilities are just gimmicks or real things.

"Boss Jin has really put a lot of effort into this 'small place'. Not only does it have a garbage recycling and treatment center, a sewage physical field, but it also has gas storage tanks and a gas station. It has more than enough for its own use, and can also provide some resources to the outside world."

"If the location is not suitable, I would like to set up a large-scale garbage recycling plant or landfill. Although it is dirty and tiring, it is really profitable."

For example, the byproduct of kitchen waste - gutter cooking oil - can be fermented again to produce ethanol, or put into biogas digesters to produce biofertilizer and gas, which are all very profitable.

In addition, recycling waste paper, plastic bottles, glass bottles, scrap metals, etc. is also a good business.

At a time when labor costs are low, there is indeed a lot of room for profit.

Especially for Jin Shang, having a "golden finger" to improve efficiency is a perfect match for him in the agricultural and animal husbandry industry where success or failure is determined by human resources and the fate is the only choice.

Sometimes Jin Shang also doubted whether he had chosen the wrong direction. Instead, he should go into farming and raising pigs, and learn from the ancients to pass on the tradition of farming and studying from generation to generation, so that he could maximize the role of the "golden broom". However, after thinking about it, he gave up. In terms of creating value, nothing is more efficient than the two-legged "oxen and horses". Now agriculture and animal husbandry seem to be more interesting, but as time goes by, it may not be the case.

Finally, Jin Shang and Qi Zhaoyun went to see the fast-growing forest park and more than 30 wind turbines that had been hoisted. This thing is extremely troublesome to debug. Unlike photovoltaic power, which emits direct current and can be used directly after being integrated and pressurized by a junction station, wind power generation is essentially an active network, which involves quite troublesome phase switching. For such a high-power wind farm, the construction of a converter station is quite troublesome. Not only does local planning need to be done, but also an application must be submitted to the power grid for external design, otherwise it will not be possible to connect to the Internet at all.

This is not something that Jinxi Cloud Service can handle alone, and it requires external collaboration.

According to conservative estimates, it will take until March next year before the grid can be connected for initial power generation.
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Although there is still a long time to go before the Spring Festival, in the last month of the Gregorian calendar year, Jin Shang can already clearly feel that the work enthusiasm of his employees has been declining.

This is not something that can be changed by human power. During the New Year holidays, there are a lot of things to do in the company as well as a lot of personal affairs.

As usual, Jinxi Culture began contacting its allies to prepare for this year's Spring Festival Gala. Of course, before that, various evaluation and commendation work must also be carried out.

In addition, contacting the railway transportation department to order train tickets for company employees to alleviate everyone's worries is a routine operation.

Amidst all this turmoil, Jin Shang seemed to have a bit of free time except for running around in various meetings and social events.

For important matters, once a decision is made, subordinates will naturally carry it out, and Jin Shang himself can take the time to care about things that interest him more.

During the one-month release period, the total domestic box office of the movie "Resident Evil" successfully exceeded 100 million, and the overseas box office was close to 60 million. The overall situation is slightly better than expected. Perhaps the global box office can exceed 200 million. This data is already very satisfactory.

Games, comics, toys and image licensing also reaped a lot of profits, bringing a successful conclusion to Jinxi Culture's 1997.

Another big surprise is that the TV series "Journey to the West" has gradually revealed an extraordinary appeal, from being loved by a large number of fans in the beginning to being the focus of public attention, especially since the plot of "Havoc in Heaven", this legendary IP has completely entered a new realm. The word "breaking the circle" is not usually used, but "Journey to the West" has done it, and it seems to have brought people back to the era when "the streets are deserted" when a hit series was released.

As televisions have become more and more popular, there are more and more satellite TV stations, people's entertainment methods have become more diverse, and TV dramas of various themes have emerged in an endless stream. The audience is no longer inexperienced and will watch whatever is available. As long as the film or TV series is decent, they will buy it.

There are popular TV series, such as "The Legend of White Snake" and "The Strange Cases of the Song Dynasty" which were broadcast earlier this year, but compared with them, the influence of "Journey to the West" has really exceeded the imagination of most people.

(End of this chapter)