Rebirth 08: Rise from copycat phones

Chapter 285 A man is a boy until he dies

Shenzhen Zhiyun Headquarters Park.

In the Liuhe Investment office area in Building A, a group of senior elites from the Liuhe Investment department are reporting to Xu Shenxue on a series of important recent changes.

"According to our comprehensive analysis, as 4G networks are deployed around the world, mobile Internet traffic in China and around the world has exceeded PC terminal traffic. Mobile Internet has covered the world in the second half of last year, forming a new generation of Internet core network."

"Based on the rapid development of mobile Internet, a variety of new business ecosystems and lifestyle changes have emerged!"

“Especially at home, the changes are happening more rapidly.”

"Thanks to the rapid changes in mobile payments, a large number of Internet usage and consumption scenarios such as online shopping, online car-hailing, online ticket purchase, online games, online reading, and online videos have been supported."

"The transaction volume of Jingxi Shopping Platform, which has received multiple rounds of investment from Liuhe Investment Fund and Zhiyun Future Investment Fund directly under our company, has continued to increase significantly, and the growth rate is very rapid. This year, the company will also introduce strategic investment from Tencent to make final preparations for listing."

"The company's investment in online shopping platforms has yielded initial results. It is expected to generate approximately US$2 billion in share appreciation profits after listing. There is still much room for development in the online shopping sector."

"We plan to hold these shares for a long time to obtain higher returns and also to maintain our voice in the online shopping market."

"The short video sector in which the company has invested is also experiencing a relatively rapid growth. The company's strategic investment in Beat Technology has been very successful in its trial of news content business, has improved the integration of big data recommendation algorithms, and is currently actively developing a short video platform."

"Nanshou Video, which was invested by another company, has already started to promote the short video business and is currently developing rapidly."

"The two short video companies invested by the company currently have very good prospects, and are also promoting subsequent development step by step according to Mr. Xu's strategy."

Xu Shenxue said: "The short video field is still a good new track. You should also pay more attention to it in the future to see if there are other people joining in. If there are, acquire them if you can, and suppress them if you can't. The market capacity of short videos is still relatively small and there is no room for a third company."

The person from the investment department continued, "In the field of online ride-hailing, the four domestic online ride-hailing platforms that our company has invested in are all developing rapidly. Our company is far ahead of other competitors in this field. The four platforms invested by the company together account for about 73% of the domestic online ride-hailing market."

"At the same time, we have also invested in three online ride-hailing companies in the ASEAN region, and we all have certain competitive advantages in the local area."
"In order to cope with external competition and further expand the market, we will orderly promote the merger of the above seven online ride-hailing platforms to a certain extent."

“After the merger, the online ride-hailing company is expected to control more than 85 percent of the domestic online ride-hailing market and 30 percent of the online ride-hailing market in the ASEAN region.”

"After the merger, we will directly hold about 36 percent of the shares of the online car-hailing company. At the same time, investment funds that have a concerted action agreement with me, including Future Fund, Weiku Fund, Blue Ocean Fund, etc., will also hold about 25 percent of the shares. By then, we will be able to complete the actual control of this travel platform company."

"After the integration is completed, we will promote the overseas strategy, compete with Uber globally, especially in ASEAN and other regions, and actively guard against Uber's entry into the domestic market. According to our reliable information, Uber is already actively planning to enter the domestic market."

At this time, Xu Shenxue said, "I won't take care of the overseas market. You guys can handle it on your own and make the right business decisions, but..."

"But the domestic online car-hailing industry is of great importance. I went to a meeting some time ago, and the meeting mentioned many data security issues such as public data security and map data security."

"Therefore, in the subsequent integration and competition of the domestic online car-hailing market, we must avoid the infiltration and control of foreign capital, and we must not let the control of the company fall into the hands of others, which may lead to any accidents. If necessary, we can appropriately introduce more concerted action funds to join in the competition."

"Our layout in the online car-hailing market is not a purely commercial act, nor is it a capital feast. It is our responsibility. You must understand this clearly."

The head of the investment department said: "We understand this."

Xu Shenxue said: "Do it well. In this market, it doesn't matter whether you make money or not. The key is to promote the integration of mobile Internet and life, and then promote the development of our smart terminal hardware and the entire electronic consumer and semiconductor fields."

"Of course, we also take on some social responsibilities."

"After all, when the entire online car-hailing market develops, it will still be able to provide a large number of additional jobs, which is even more important."

“This is not only true in the online car-hailing industry, but also in the food delivery industry!”

"You have to know that we don't lack this little money, so when I said I wanted to invest in the food delivery industry, my purpose was very clear to you, which is to take on some social responsibilities and provide some jobs."

"Therefore, in the subsequent competition, especially in the operation of enterprises after the competition is over, we must ensure the four words of social responsibility."

When Xu Shenxue first got involved in the food delivery and online ride-hailing fields, there was no mature market to speak of. The explosion of these two markets was driven by Xu Shenxue's investment.

Xu Shenxue is not involved in these two industries for the sake of making money. If it comes to making money, there is no company or track that is more profitable than his Zhiyun Group.

Furthermore, investments in various games and Internet companies can also bring very rich returns... In this regard, Xu Shenxue will not talk to you about social responsibility, morality, etc., just reap what you should reap.

But for some things, Xu Shenxue’s investment is not for money, at least in the two areas of online ride-hailing and online food delivery.

How much money can be made in these hard-working industries? Xu Shenxue feels ashamed to see people exploiting the lower class to make a few coins.

The reason I am still involved in it is purely because of some sense of responsibility.

Since you have the money and the ability to change the rules of the game, you should do your best to provide people, especially the unemployed and young people who can't find jobs, with an emergency way to survive.

It’s just that after the market was developed, a group of people became excited when they saw the emerging industry, thinking they had discovered a new track, and then all kinds of messy capital came rushing in to try to make money.

In response, Xu Shenxue said, "I don't want to make this money, and you shouldn't even think about it. Just lie down and earn the money you deserve, such as harvesting the leeks of the rich and the middle class."

How dare you rob the lower class people of those few coins?
If unscrupulous capital dares to enter the market, Xu Shenxue will start a price war and crush them... letting them enjoy the feeling of losing all their money.

In their eyes, ordinary people are the weak ones, who can be manipulated however they like and harvested however they like...but at the same time, in Xu Shenxue's eyes, they are also little punks, who can be manipulated however Xu Shenxue wants.

Therefore, various subsidy and money-burning wars have been launched in the online car-hailing market and the food delivery market recently. Xu Shenxue, together with a group of investors acting in concert, started a vigorous money-burning war with those capitals that wanted to come and grab money, and beat them completely out of their temper!
The world's richest man can easily throw out billions or even tens of billions of funds to burn, so what can they use to compete?

A bunch of fools foolishly thought that Xu Shenxue came here to make money, so they also wanted to come here to eat meat and drink soup, but in fact, Xu Shenxue came here to spend money to create jobs for the bottom level.

It is conservatively estimated that the two industries combined can create 20 million jobs. How can such an important industry be controlled by unscrupulous capital?

Xu Shenxue couldn't stand it anymore!

As for why he did this, Xu Shenxue made so much money relying on the wave of the new era, he had to do something!

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At this time, someone from the investment department said, "In the food delivery field, we also insist on public welfare first. This is the case for the three food delivery platforms we invested in. We will continue to promote the merger of these three food delivery platforms in the future to enhance market competitiveness and cope with the competition from the other two major competitors."

"But they can't compete with us, not just because we have more funds, but because we can keep making no money, but they can't. They have to make money eventually, and they can't keep wasting time with us like this. Sooner or later, they will give in."

Xu Shenxue said: "Just keep doing it, it's good."

In these two fields, Xu Shenxue actually did not invest in conventional startups from the beginning. Instead, he chose to make direct acquisitions, or simply find people to start companies and invest his own money, and then introduce some concerted funds to avoid various involvements.

Therefore, the control is relatively greater, and at the same time, Xu Shenxue's idea can be better implemented: to carry out public welfare projects.

At this time, the head of the investment department was still introducing other projects.

"In the entertainment sector, our company's investment philosophy is to focus on cultural output. At the end of last year, Yihai Technology, together with our company's investment fund, jointly promoted the overall acquisition of Shanda Literature."

"Under our promotion, the online literature sector has launched an overseas online literature strategy and is promoting some representative translated works to overseas markets. At the same time, it has launched original online literature in multiple languages ​​such as English and Spanish, further expanding the influence of Chinese culture in overseas regions and serving the group's overseas cultural strategy."

"In addition to online literature, we have also promoted the acquisition of several film and television production companies and comic production companies, and merged them with the literature sector to form 'Yi Hai Culture'. Subsequently, we will launch targeted film and television dramas for overseas markets to further expand cultural influence, especially in Europe, ASEAN, and South America, where the group focuses on cultural penetration."

"The same is true in the gaming field. Yihai Network is preparing to launch several highly targeted games in overseas markets. Among them, the competitive battle mobile game "Peak Showdown" has entered the late development stage and is expected to be launched in the global market this fall with the new generation of S series flagship phones. Some modern Chinese elements are incorporated into the game."

Xu Shenxue flipped through the reports in his hand and said, "Our investments in the entertainment sector are firmly centered on cultural output and serve the group's overseas strategy!"

"As for the domestic market, just do what you have to do. The focus is still on the overseas market. Making money is not the only purpose, not even the main purpose. The core goal of the cultural sector is to have a cultural influence and then promote the development of the group's overall overseas business. You must keep this in mind!"

"At the same time, in the process of cultural output, we should not engage in so-called traditional culture, local culture and other messy things. What I want is modern and technological Chinese elements, especially the technological elements of our Zhiyun. We should brainwash potential overseas customers repeatedly so that when they see China, they will think of modernity, technology, and our Zhiyun. When they think of our Zhiyun, they will think that our Zhiyun products are the top technological products."

"You still need to communicate this to the people in charge of the cultural and entertainment sectors, and try your best to support and encourage a positive, technological, and modern image."

"In addition, I have recently seen some people who always like to import some backward and ignorant works from abroad that smear the image of the country. For such people, our entertainment sector and related affiliated companies should be banned to let them know that there are some money that cannot be made."

"We can't be promoting it here every day while they are smearing and denigrating it on the other side."

"If the Korean Lee family knew about this, they would definitely laugh at me. How can I survive outside when I have such poor control at home?"

Xu Shenxue believes that the commercial value of the so-called entertainment field is not great. For example, online literature has such a small market, and the film and television drama market derived from IP is actually very limited. They are just insignificant marginal businesses in ordinary Internet giants.

This is even more true for Xu Shenxue.

However, many of the investments made by Xu Shenxue are not based solely on commercial value, but have many other purposes.

In the field of domestic food delivery and online ride-hailing, this is a social responsibility and can be considered a public welfare project. Of course, we still have to make money in overseas markets.

The field of culture and entertainment has nothing to do with responsibility, and making money is out of the question. What Xu Shenxue values ​​is the cultural influence brought by the field of culture and entertainment.

Ordinary companies don’t care about these things, but multinational giants like Zhiyun Group will pay attention to these projects that seem to bring no direct benefits.

The relationship between Four Stars and Korean dramas, or Hallyu, is a very typical example of how cultural output drives business development and product exports.

How many people got to know Korea through various fake and high-end Korean dramas, and then regarded Korea as a technologically advanced country!
Various Korean dramas and other cultural works are leading the charge, brainwashing people, while the four stars are following behind with various technological products such as mobile phones and computers to grab the market.

When many people see this four-star Korean logo, the lofty image of South Korea and its large companies portrayed in Korean dramas comes to their mind.

This is a good first impression. You will directly regard their products as high-tech products from developed countries, world-class products, etc.

The same goes for products from big corporations like Hollywood and American Fruit.

Various Hollywood blockbusters, especially science fiction blockbusters, have made people all over the world exclaim in excitement, and naturally left in their minds the impression that the United States is powerful, its technology is particularly awesome, and its products are also awesome.

Then when Apple's technology products rushed overseas, even if people had never heard of Apple before, when they heard that it was an American company and an American mobile phone, they would have some initial sense of trust: Oh, a first-class technology product from a developed country, it must be not bad.

In contrast, Zhiyun is lacking in this regard.

To exaggerate a little, Zhiyun has to do the opposite in terms of culture. It is not that the culture and technological image assist Zhiyun, but Zhiyun assists the culture and technological image.

This is fucked up!
Many people in overseas countries, especially those without much knowledge, subconsciously think that this is a low-end, cheap product when they hear that it is a Chinese product. On the contrary, some people who know it will change their views after knowing that it is a Zhiyun product: Oh, it turns out to be a Zhiyun product, so it’s okay…

But what the top executives of Zhiyun Group want is: when overseas consumers see this mobile phone, they will think, oh, it’s a Huaxia mobile phone, not bad... wow, this phone is a high-end brand among Huaxia mobile phones, Zhiyun mobile phone, that’s even more awesome, they must buy it!
Unfortunately, it is not visible at the moment and it will be difficult to achieve this in a short period of time. In response to this, Zhiyun Group’s public relations and marketing departments are working hard around the world to gradually and slowly reverse the negative impact of local people on Chinese technology products.

This is not an easy job.

Today’s large-scale investments in the entertainment sector are also based on this purpose. It is not just about investing domestically, but also about promoting cultural exports.

Zhiyun Group has also tried to indirectly invest in some cultural fields, especially film and television dramas, in other overseas regions, especially in several major markets, and then implant some concepts of technological China.

Multinational giants like Sixing and Zhiyun often do things that seem to have nothing to do with their business, which may seem difficult to understand at first glance.

However, as long as we analyze it in depth, we can actually make a preliminary analysis of their motives.

It’s just that these unrelated things will not be exposed... After all, for an enterprise of Zhiyun’s level, if you try to make a film or TV series or online novel, it would be ridiculous. People would suspect that you are going to fall and not do your job properly.

Therefore, the entertainment sector is all handled by Yihai Technology, a subsidiary of Liuhe Investment.

Yihai Technology, formerly known as Yihai Network, started out as a mobile game company. Later, their own mobile game business developed very well, and they gradually entered the PC game market.

Xu Shenxue also continued to invest money in them, which was used to acquire some Internet companies, especially the mobile browser UC, and obtained an important traffic entrance for the mobile Internet.

Subsequently, with Yihai Interactive as the main body, it began to get involved in the field of culture and entertainment, acquired Shanda Literature and several film and television production and comics production companies, and integrated them into Yihai Culture.

Yihai Technology Group is formed by several subsidiaries including Yihai Network, Yihai Culture, Yihai Software, and Tiaodong Technology.

This is a comprehensive Internet company with gaming business as its core, entertainment industry as its auxiliary, and short videos and other fields as well.

It is also an important enterprise that Xu Shenxue has laid out in the Internet field.

The development is pretty good now, especially the gaming business under Yihai Interactive is developing very well.

Many previous mobile games have achieved huge success, especially Kingdom Protector, Candy Crush Saga, and Fish Fight. Each of these games has been a hit and brought in huge revenues.

At the same time, there are a large number of games targeting overseas markets that are also very profitable.

At the Yihai Technology presentation the next day, Yihai Technology CEO Huang Jianian introduced the development of their various core businesses to Xu Shenxue.

"Our company's core business is currently the gaming business, of which the mobile gaming business has maintained rapid development. Many of the company's important products have long been at the top of the best-selling lists in various channels. The Candy Wars action mobile game released by the company in the second half of last year has been a success in many markets around the world, contributing new revenue growth to the company!"

"In 13, our company's mobile game business has achieved a total revenue of approximately US$13 billion worldwide, continuing to defend the title of the world's number one mobile game company, and occupying approximately % of the global mobile game market!" In , according to analysis by some analysis agencies, the global mobile game market was approximately US$ billion, and Yihai Technology captured % of the market share, which is a very impressive result.

"Half of the mobile game market comes from the Asian market, especially our domestic market, and we have a leading position in the domestic and even Asian markets. At the same time, we also occupy a certain market share in the American and European markets."

Huang Jianian continued, "According to our analysis, with the large-scale shipment of smartphones, the stock of smartphones on the market has further increased. This year's mobile game market will continue to explode at a high speed. It is expected to grow at a rate of about 20%, reaching a scale of about 21 billion US dollars. In the next few years, it will continue to maintain rapid growth and reach a market size of more than 30 billion US dollars within three years!"

"To this end, our company will continue to increase investment and layout in the field of mobile games. This autumn, we will release the competitive mobile game Peak Showdown. In addition, Candy Wars, which we released at the end of last year, is still popular in many countries around the world. Our company's mobile game business this year will continue to usher in relatively substantial growth."

"In terms of PC games, we have launched a number of online games to the market, and overall we have performed well. Last year, we earned a total of about $800 million in revenue from PC games, but the investment in research and development and marketing is relatively large, so the overall profit is average."

"At the same time, we have also entered the console game market and are preparing to launch a sci-fi shooting game. It is still under development and is expected to be launched on the market next year. This sci-fi shooting game will also be launched on the PC market at the same time later."

"In the future, we plan to adopt some successful IPs in online literature and promote some money-making game strategies in mobile and PC game businesses to increase overall revenue."

"Of course, our core business is still high-quality mobile games and large-scale games. After all, the overseas market is our company's main market, accounting for more than 40% of our company's game business revenue."

Unlike a large number of domestic game companies that only focus on the domestic market, Yihai Technology under Xu Shenxue is also actively exploring overseas markets in addition to the domestic market and has achieved considerable success.

Many games under Yihai Interactive have achieved quite good revenue in overseas markets, especially the company's flagship product Kingdom Protector.

This seemingly simple card game has attracted a group of players in almost every country in the world. It has a large number of players in the Asian, American, and European markets. To date, it still contributes $800 million in revenue to Yihai Network every year.

This game is also the most profitable game in the history of mobile games, contributing more than US$4 billion in revenue to Yihai Network.

Then Yihai Network copied itself and came up with more than a dozen skin-changing games. Different skin-changing games targeting different national markets were successively launched in overseas markets, which also brought Yihai Network hundreds of millions of dollars in annual revenue.

It can be said that the game Kingdom Protector and a series of reskin games alone can bring Yihai Network more than US$1 billion in revenue each year.

"In addition to the game business, our company's entertainment business, which was launched last year, has steadily developed its online literature business. We have focused our investment on overseas online literature business, with early deployment in markets such as Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, Indonesia, and Singapore to promote the development of overseas literature. At the same time, we are also planning to develop markets in the United States and Europe."

"However, the overall market capacity of this part of the business is small, and its main role for the company is to provide excellent content and IP and serve the cultural output strategy!"

"The company's other short video business is still in the early stages of development and has not yet had much impact on growth."

"In terms of e-commerce business, we are exploring the layout of low-price online shopping platforms, but this also requires time for early accumulation."

Xu Shenxue listened to the reports of various businesses under Yihai Technology, and then said: "Games, literature, film and television, short videos, e-commerce, browsers and other business sectors must be effectively connected to achieve the internal circulation of traffic and ultimate monetization."

"Short videos and browsers are typical traffic entrances. It is very important to disguise the traffic from these traffic entrances and then guide it to e-commerce and gaming businesses!"

"But more importantly, the output of culture. I have mentioned this before. You should understand how important this is to me and the entire group!"

Huang Jianian was naturally very clear about the importance of this: "Don't worry, President Xu, we have been making steady progress in cultural output and will definitely not hold the group back!"

Although Yihai Technology Group is already a relatively large Internet company in China, it is just one of Xu Shenxue's many companies, and a not very important one at that.

The main function of Yihai Network is to output culture and provide more data in the future.

Of course, you have to make money.

Since Yihai Network is wholly owned by Liuhe Investment, which is Xu Shenxue's sole proprietorship, it is easier to mobilize funds. At the same time, some of Xu Shenxue's daily expenses and foreign investments are also based on this company as a platform.

From time to time, funds are transferred from this company to its parent company Liuhe Investment, and then used for investments in other fields, such as semiconductors, aerospace, and electric vehicles.

In the entire Liuhe investment system, Yihai Network is actually a cash machine!
Therefore, whether this company can make money is still very important.

Not only Yihai Network, many other Internet companies invested by Liuhe Investment can also provide Xu Shenxue with a large amount of funds.

Compared with Yihai Interactive and a few other relatively special companies, Liuhe Investment's investments in most other Internet fields are relatively pure financial investments. The investors wait for the appreciation and then cash out at the right time.

In this respect, it is quite similar to conventional wind head mechanisms.

After finishing the report on Yihai Network, Xu Shenxue took Lin Yaxian and the children on a business jet to Qiongzhou Island to watch the upcoming sea recovery test of the No. 5 rocket.

After the successful sea recovery of the first No. 4 test rocket last year, Nanmen Aerospace shocked the world and continued to advance its technology, transferring the corresponding technological achievements to the No. 5 rocket.

After all, although the No. 4 test rocket also uses the Suzaku engine, it is a small rocket with a single engine and a take-off weight of only tens of tons.

However, Rocket No. 5 is a behemoth with seven engines on the first stage and a maximum take-off weight of more than 560 tons.

There is still a big difference between the two.

The technical success achieved on Rocket No. 4 does not mean that it can be completely transplanted to Rocket No. 5 and achieve immediate success.

If we want to successfully recover the No. 5 rocket at sea, there are many technical problems that need to be solved.

After continuous technical research and several experimental tests, the problem of system docking between the recovery platform and the recovery rocket was especially solved.

Nanmen Aerospace is preparing to once again launch the sea recovery test of the No. 5 rocket.

"We are quite confident this time. After all, last month, we conducted another sea recovery test of the No. 4 rocket, which was also a complete success."

"Our technical team at Nanmen Aerospace believes that we have mastered a number of key technologies for offshore recovery, and these technologies can be transplanted to the No. 5 rocket. At the same time, we have also made a lot of technical improvements to the No. 5 rocket."

"At the same time, we also used supercomputers to conduct a large number of tests and simulations of simulation models."

"Overall, we already have all the technology to recover the No. 5 rocket at sea. Now, it's time to see if it's really feasible!"

Deng Feiyue, chief engineer of Nanmen Aerospace, expressed full confidence.

"Last year, when we first used the No. 5 rocket for an offshore recovery test, although it failed, we had expected the failure at that time. It was a loss that had to be made in order to obtain a large amount of experimental data!"

"But this time is different, this time we are heading for success!"

After hearing this, Xu Shenxue said, "It's good to have confidence. I don't know much about technical matters. Since you have confidence, then give it a try. It doesn't matter if it doesn't work. Find the problem, solve it, and then try again for the third time!"

Although the technical team appeared very confident, Xu Shenxue still chose a more conservative answer, mainly to relieve the pressure on the technical team.

Otherwise, someone might say, “Since you said it can succeed, then it will definitely succeed. If you fail, you will be beheaded.” This can easily put too much pressure on the technical team.

This is not the South Gate Aerospace way of doing things.

The field of aerospace has traditionally been very special. People are always pursuing a 100% success rate and would rather succeed than take any technical risks!
This is what traditional aerospace agencies do, not what commercial aerospace companies like Nanmen Aerospace do.

Commercial enterprises like Nanmen Aerospace treat such experiments and tests as tests in the research and development process. Regardless of whether the test fails or succeeds, all expenses incurred are considered research and development expenses.

There is no need for any additional psychological pressure.

This kind of attitude is what allows Nanmen Aerospace to frequently launch rockets and conduct various tests, while also maintaining a research and development attitude in which explosions do not matter.

The number of test rockets that have exploded at Nanmen Aerospace in recent years is more than the number of failed launch tests by space agencies around the world combined during the same period.

Before the first successful land recovery, Nanmen Aerospace had carried out more than 20 recovery tests with Rockets 1 to 4, and all of them failed without exception... In the eyes of outsiders, Nanmen Aerospace was a complete failure.

But what outsiders don’t know is that the launch of these test rockets is not all for the purpose of testing recovery technology. Quite a number of them are actually also for testing rocket engines, namely the Suzaku-1 engine, hull, flight control system, first and second stage rocket separation systems and other various rocket technologies.

As for why a land recovery test is required in the end, it is naturally because the rocket has been launched, and if you don’t conduct a recovery test it will eventually turn into pieces.

It would be better to conduct a recycling experiment to utilize waste.

Therefore, outsiders saw Nanmen Aerospace explode more than twenty rockets in one breath!

However, during this process, Nanmen Aerospace has perfected many key technologies including the Suzaku-1 rocket engine, flight control technology, first and second stage rocket separation technology, second stage rocket ignition, first stage rocket engine repeated ignition, and of course recovery technology.

So it is true that Nanmen Aerospace’s rocket recovery technology was developed through explosions.

Not only did the early No. 1, 2, 3, and 4 rockets explode during their test flights, but the No. 5 rocket also had good luck during its maiden flight and was successfully recovered in one go.

The subsequent No. 5 rocket began to carry out various flights at a high frequency. Although they were all commercial flights, Nanmen Aerospace continued to conduct various tests. Anyway, after sending the commercial satellite to the predetermined orbit, Nanmen Aerospace will use the first-stage rocket to conduct various related recovery tests.

Various tests also lead to recycling explosions from time to time.

The five Type 5A first-stage rockets built earlier were all blown up last year before their service life expired. Now, the Type 5 rockets in Nanmen Aerospace are all second-generation, namely the Nantianmen Type 5B rockets.

A total of five B-type rockets have been produced and are currently taking turns to carry out commercial flight missions.

"The rocket carrying out the flight mission today is the N5B7. This is its third flight. Although it has already flown three times, its hull structure and engine are in very good condition, not much different from when it first left the factory. It has also been strictly refurbished by us to ensure that there will be no problems."

Following Deng Feiyue's introduction, Xu Shenxue also saw the huge rocket standing on the launch tower in the distance.

The rocket is nearly seventy meters high. From a distance, it is not snow-white, but a little black...especially the first-stage rocket at the bottom.

This is because during the recovery process, the paint on the outside of the first-stage rocket is baked black due to friction with the atmosphere and the high temperature generated by the rocket engine during the launch and recovery process.

At the beginning, Nanmen Aerospace would clean the recovered rocket hull and repaint it, but later it simply stopped painting it... It was a waste of paint, and paint also has mass, so painting a large hull would also add some weight.

When a rocket is launched, every gram of weight is very precious, so it is naturally a good thing if the weight of paint can be saved.

So later on, Nanmen Aerospace simply stopped painting the recovered first-stage rockets.

As a result, the rockets produced by Nanmen Aerospace do not look very beautiful, with obvious signs of smoking and a gray and black appearance.

Deng Feiyue continued: "The first half of this post-launch mission will be a regular commercial flight mission. We will launch two foreign-commissioned communication satellites into space. After the first and second stage rockets separate, the second stage rocket will continue to fly and perform the satellite launch mission, while the first stage rocket will return to the earth and then land on our offshore recovery platform according to the predetermined procedure."

"In order to better observe and collect data, and also to facilitate people's viewing and subsequent publicity, our offshore recovery platform is not far from the coast."

"If the offshore recovery test is successful, subsequent offshore recovery platforms will be deployed in the Pacific and Indian Oceans."

"For this purpose, we have designed and built several offshore recovery platform ships and several ocean-going command and support ships in advance."

"Similarly, we have ordered a total of three ocean-going space measurement ships. The first one has been put into service and is currently deployed in the Pacific Ocean to measure rocket launches and satellite monitoring missions."

Following Deng Feiyue's explanation, Xu Shenxue also had a general understanding, while Lin Yaxian, who was holding a child at the side, looked at the huge rocket in front of her with great curiosity.

After a moment, she said to Xu Shenxue, "It looks so spectacular. It's hard to imagine that such a large rocket can be smoothly recovered after being launched into space."

Xu Shenxue said: "We will know more about the situation when launching and recovering it later!"

Lin Yaxian said: "I now understand why you like these things. Playing with rockets is much more interesting than playing with sports cars. I don't know why those people like playing with sports cars. Sports cars are not as fun as rockets."

After hearing this, Xu Shenxue said silently: "Maybe it's because of poverty!"

Lin Yaxian nodded seriously: "That should be it. My second brother is a poor guy and he likes to play with sports cars."

Deng Feiyue, who was standing by, was a little speechless when listening to the couple's conversation, but he still said, "Yes, this big rocket is a man's real toy. Sports cars and the like are still a little less interesting."

"Boss Xu, why don't you throw more? I'll give you a whole rocket weighing more than a thousand tons. The sight of a giant rocket weighing more than a thousand tons soaring into the sky is exciting and fun just to think about."

Xu Shenxue said, "You said the heavy-lift rocket No. 6. It's not impossible to launch more. So, if you can successfully recover this big guy at sea today, I will allocate an additional 500 million yuan in research and development funds for the heavy-lift rocket No. 6, and all R&D personnel will receive double performance bonuses this month."

Deng Feiyue was immediately excited when he heard this: "Is Mr. Xu serious?"

Xu Shenxue said: "Of course I take it seriously!"

Deng Feiyue immediately said, "Well, Director Xu, let me tell you, today's 500 million plus the extra performance bonus, I, Deng, will definitely take it!"

Deng Feiyue went about making various preparations with excitement, while Xu Shenxue accompanied Lin Yaxian around the rocket factory and introduced the rockets to her.

When Lin Yaxian saw his excitement when introducing the rocket, she couldn't help but think to herself, as expected, this man will be a boy until he dies.

My husband is such a mature and steady man, but now when he comes across his favorite rocket toy, he is no different from an ordinary teenager.

Men, who doesn't like big rockets...

(End of this chapter)