this man is not calm

Chapter 496 Small talk
The main purpose is to take advantage of the holiday for the main families of both sides to meet and get to know each other.

Most of the three-day holiday has passed. We divided into several groups according to personal interests, and everyone played their own way. We also arranged someone to act as a "temporary tour guide", so it didn't feel boring.

Everyone was in high spirits on Saturday and went to several tourist attractions to check in. The children preferred places like theme parks, while the young girls and boys liked to follow fashion trends, go shopping in the shopping district, and watch movies.

On the Mid-Autumn Festival, Jin Shang was invited to attend two short meetings in the morning, and he insisted on spending the afternoon at home.

As the business grows bigger, many social engagements become more difficult to avoid.

Business activities are still okay, but if you miss some key policy meetings, it will still have a big impact.

I declined the lunch party and rushed home, finally not missing lunch.

I was originally planning to book a private room at Yuanqilou, but after thinking about it, I decided to eat at home. It’s a day for family reunion, and it would add a festive atmosphere.

Hosting a banquet at home is different from hosting a banquet outside, as some conditions may be different.

However, when the housekeeper Lao Bian directed Que Sheng and two temporary housekeepers to move a super large dining table that could seat thirty people from the warehouse, Jin Shang was still surprised.

"We have this kind of thing in our house? I've never discovered it before..."

Lao Jin responded cheerfully:
"Don't mention you. I don't have any impression of it. If I think about it carefully, I've only seen it twice, and that was when I was very young."

When Jin Shi was a child, he and his two older sisters were raised by Old Madam Xian, and they probably didn't have many opportunities to have a grand banquet.

It was probably only used when the eldest sister Jin Lanzhi and the second sister Jin Lanyun got married.

This big family didn't seem to care much about the unnecessary ostentation, but they did prepare some things.

While waiting for the meal to be served, the father and son chatted for a while. Jin Shi brought up the topic and asked:
"You're so busy this morning. What about the energy work meeting? Is what you did... so relevant?"

"Well, it's very important!"

Jin Shang paused and replied,

"You know about the recent climate conference, right?"

"What convention, protocol or something?"

"That's the way it is! The higher-ups don't have many cards to play. They just keep repeating the same old stuff like controlling sandstorms and greening the mountains and rivers. There's no real 'hard stuff' to show for it."

There are more and more topics about environmental protection and carbon emissions in the international community, involving disputes and interests in all aspects.

Taking it too seriously may seem like an exaggeration, but if you really don't care about it at all, you will put yourself in a very passive situation.

"New energy, biofuel?"

"I just found out the result too! It has been decided that aviation gasoline (kerosene) must be forced to contain 2% biofuel. My laboratory has already formulated biofuel that can be freely mixed with traditional diesel and kerosene. We can even use biofuel completely for fueling..."

The price of aviation fuel is more than twice that of ordinary internal combustion engine fuel. Considering the cost of refining biodiesel from waste cooking oil and kitchen waste, as well as scale and production limitations, the only option is to go for high value-added.

Therefore, the indispensable aviation fuel came into view.

"Two percent... so little? After all the trouble, the result is mediocre!"

"It's good that it can be implemented smoothly! Let's first solve the problem of whether there is one or not. If there is a precedent, it will be easier to handle in the future."

"One step forward every day?"

Jin Shang smiled implicitly:
"No later than March next year, aviation kerosene mixed with biofuel will be tested in some areas..."

"March? That's only half a year."

"The trial scale will not be too large, and the speed of promotion and increase will not be too fast. I estimate that the proportion of biofuel will increase by 2% in two to three years..."

"It seems... the force is not particularly strong."

Jin Shang curled his lips and said disdainfully:

"The proposal put forward by Europe is even more ridiculous. It is expected that the requirement to add 2% to aviation fuel will be enforced in 25 years."

"Then... isn't that just empty talk? It's the same as saying nothing. Twenty years later, who knows what the global situation will be like?"

At this point, Jin Shi seemed to understand a little bit why Jin Shang's recent "big business" had been going so smoothly.

At least two of the right time, right place and right people are present, and many projects may have already entered the vision of senior management.

Apart from other things, a place like Julunbo, although a little remote, has beautiful mountains and rivers. It is not easy for ordinary people to make a big investment there, even with the help of a "local tyrant" to help introduce them.

To put it bluntly, the wind of the times is blowing, and the business that used to be struggling to make ends meet now seems to be forced to rush forward.

Wind power and photovoltaics, data centers, new energy hydrogen production, alcohol oil fuel, "green alcohol" carbon fixation emissions, etc. are all very convincing "source-grid-load-storage" integrated supporting projects, which are much more reliable than those superficial products in Europe and the United States that only talk but do not take action.

This is why many of Jinshang’s projects that seem difficult to implement can be carried out smoothly.

In addition to Huang Zhengkuo's escort, there were more eyes watching. With more attention, many "little tricks" could be exposed, and naturally no one would trip them up.

"In short, we should take the lead. Two percent is not much, so it won't cause a backlash from the original stakeholders. Besides, we can freely control the scope of promotion. Anyway, we have it, so let's not talk about the amount for now. No matter how good others' words sound, they are not convincing if they are floating in the clouds."

"That's true!"

It is not a big deal to point fingers and act dictatorially from the moral high ground. As long as you stand tall and firm, you are not afraid of others' gossip. The struggle for future development rights is a long-term game process, which will not be too in-depth for a while.

"In addition, we talked about the trial of ethanol gasoline in five provinces including the Northeast..."

“Does it include Gyeonggi?”

Jin Shang shook his head, denying Lao Jin's guess.
"The places I expected, such as Gyeonggi and Jiaodong, are not on the list. Instead, the plan to use dual-fuel vehicles and ships, natural gas heavy trucks and electric vehicles has been praised. However, things like refining waste tires and plastics into oil should be done with caution, and can only be done in the wilderness far away from densely populated cities..."

As if realizing that this was not quite accurate, Jin Shang added:
"The traditional distillation method is not very effective because it is too polluting. However, low- and medium-temperature catalysis or leaching and dissolution methods are not restricted. Pyrolysis and reforming to produce hydrogen (methanol) can be done."

Even the waste heat in the final exhaust gas must be utilized. As for the carbon dioxide in it, it must be collected using carbon capture technology and used as raw material for the production of "green alcohol".

“It sounds like it’s quite troublesome.”

"It is very difficult to improve carbon capture technology. Fortunately, my application for an electric arc furnace smelting workshop was approved. It is mainly used to process scrap steel, aluminum and copper, and is committed to producing high value-added alloys, wires and cables, aviation aluminum, automotive aluminum alloys, special steels, etc."

Electric arc furnaces consume a lot of electricity, and the smelting cost is higher than today's mainstream steelmaking method. The advantage of electric arc furnaces is that they can accurately control the furnace temperature and smelting progress, and use additives to control costs to achieve ideal results.

Furthermore, if the material is scrap metal that is recycled for secondary use, a preferential subsidy can be obtained.

All in all, the biggest expense when an electric arc furnace is started is electricity, which happens to be the strength of new energy wind and solar power stations.

In order to solve the consumption problem and stop selling to the power grid at low prices, Jin Shang put a lot of thought into it.

In the vicinity of large cities, the development of environmental recycling and waste secondary utilization industries is still very promising. However, in grassland cities like Julunbo, which have vast land, sparse population and cold weather for most of the year, attention should be paid to the development of greenhouse indoor planting and breeding, biofuels and dual-fuel (natural gas) vehicles, etc.

The news about the upcoming construction of high-speed railways and new electric locomotives was not widely circulated, but the father and son of the Jin family already knew a lot of inside information in advance.

For a long time in the future, the direction and planning of high-speed railways will also take into account whether the local electricity supply is sufficient, how high the price is, whether it can meet demand, and save costs.

"After all, everything needs electricity. Cheap energy is almost the lifeblood of industry. If the measures in the climate agreement are really implemented, it will cause great harm to developing countries."

It is fine for those small countries that have no hope and no future, but how can the real big countries make substantial progress in the future global game under the framework of the International Trade Organization? This climate agreement may very well be related to the formulation and implementation of rules.

To give an easy-to-understand example, if a country or region is identified as the culprit for global warming and the intensification of the greenhouse effect due to excessive pollution and carbon emissions, it will not be able to enjoy a series of tax incentives and will have to endure discriminatory and exclusive trade rules.

Obviously, it would be a terrible thing if we had no say in such major events that concern the fate of the world, and everything we do would be ineffective.

In essence, this is an agreement that seems very fair but is actually more favorable to the strong (first movers). The more problems there are with absolutely fair standards and rules, the more unfriendly they are to the weak.

The clothing and textile factories under Jinshi are becoming more and more deeply involved in import and export trade, and have a deeper understanding of this matter.

Good quality and low price is indeed the only way to do business, but trade between countries is not determined by price alone. There are many things to consider. In fact, the consideration of good quality and low price is still relatively low in priority.

Things that are too far away are out of the reach of the father and son. However, when it comes to what Jinxi Culture is doing now, Jin Shang made a very firm conclusion:

"In the field of the Internet, our country is unique. No other country has the potential to match ours. Even the whole of Europe (around the Mediterranean) cannot compare to ours. Europe and the United States combined can barely be compared to ours."

Comparing with the current cultural atmosphere, geographical environment and population base, as long as we include the domestic, Western Pacific, traditional sphere of influence, and countries influenced by Chinese culture, such a large market size is overwhelming.

It just so happens that the Internet is a magical place that can transcend the barriers of time and space and connect people thousands of miles away.

As for those countries with insufficient resources and small size, they cannot even guarantee the electricity to keep their data centers running, not to mention the massive number of programmers and technical engineers needed to support them. The technological frontiers of the information age have basically nothing to do with them.

"By the way, what does Hao Qilian want to talk to you about?"

"The official announcement of the split of Telecom has been made. There are some things that I need to deal with."

"PhS?"

"Not only that, there are also data centers, broadband servers, SP business revenue sharing, and the renewal of Fetion's cooperation. As for the rest... I need to meet people and find the right person to do anything in the future."

Speaking of this, Jin Shang sighed a little dissatisfiedly:
"The construction of domestic fiber optic infrastructure is still a bit slow. I want to build the headquarters of the Central China Data Center, but it is not going well. The radio and television network is being rolled out there, and the promotion of PHS is going smoothly. As for the Internet..."

Most of the people in black Internet cafes play LAN games such as Dynasty Warriors, StarCraft and Counter-Strike. More and more people play the online game Fengshen, but it is not mainstream yet. The machine performance is slightly poor and the network speed is unstable.
The situation is much better for the regular big turtles. Many of them play the online game "Fengshen", and many of them drink tea, chat, and surf the Internet.

Everything has its priorities. Ordinary people in many places have basically no need to buy computers or run network cables, but they have an urgent need to install cable TV, receive more channels, and watch more high-quality programs.

As for the micro-cellular base stations and Xiaolingtong connected to the fixed-line network, Jin Shang cannot expect too much now. The research and development, popularization and upgrading of 2G and 3G networks are very fast. At present, they have not impacted the basic base of Xiaolingtong. It is not that there are any problems there, but that the pockets of ordinary people are not particularly full. A mobile phone that costs several thousand yuan is still too expensive.

"I heard that Xiaolingtong's revenue from phone bills in the third quarter exceeded 10 billion?"

"How can it be that much? The revenue from SMS fees and wireless value-added services is nearly one-third. The recharge cards are actually discounted. This money has to be shared with the first-tier operators, and the rest..."

"That's a lot! Don't think I don't know the share ratio between you. Also... as the secondary operator of the service, you can take 20% from the beginning."

"You already know everything, so I won't go into details."

Jin Shang laughed awkwardly a few times and stopped quibbling.

As the Xiaolingtong service matured and was gradually rolled out across the country, there were more than 90 million online users, contributing a lot of phone bills every month, with SP services accounting for the bulk of consumption. Coupled with the trend brought about by the shocking number of text messages during the Spring Festival, Xiaolingtong became a real goose that laid golden eggs.

No wonder Dopod in its previous life was able to develop into a unicorn with an eight-digit market value in a very short period of time. It was so comfortable to make money without doing anything.

Seeing that Jin Shang was not too nervous, Jin Shi reminded him sincerely:

"You have to be careful when you make a fortune. Besides, you've made too much."

(End of this chapter)