Rebirth 08: Rise from copycat phones

Chapter 406 Heading to Guangcheng
Although it is not a holiday or a weekend, the highway between Guangzhou and Shenzhen, as the main land transportation artery between the two megacities, still has very heavy traffic.

In the evening, a fleet of sea-blue black cars stood out among the heavy traffic, attracting the attention of many passing car owners and passengers.

Leading the convoy was a Sea Blue SEV. The black SUV body looked large and domineering, and the Sea Blue car logo on the front of the car was very conspicuous in the sunset.

Behind this sea blue SEV, there are two identical sea blue SEVs!

Behind the three Sea Blue SEVs in front, there are three that look exactly the same. Just by looking at the appearance, you can tell that they are very expensive Sea Blue SLCs!

This large luxury sedan produced by Hailan Automobile is the cheapest model in China, but its landing price is now over 1.5 million yuan. Several models with a price of 1.2 to 1.3 million yuan that appeared in the early years are no longer on sale.

If it is a high-end or top-end model, the price will be close to two million or even more than two million.

There is also a bulletproof version, and the price is basically over five million!

And it’s the same car that the world’s richest man, Xu Shenxue, drives!

The Sea Blue SLC, whether in terms of price positioning, technology, interior, or brand positioning, is one of the top large executive luxury sedan models on the planet, competing head-on with the Mercedes-Benz S-Class, BMW 7 Series, Audi 8 Series, and Rolls-Royce.

Whether overseas or at home, the Hailan SLC is undoubtedly the top large luxury sedan.

In the past two years, many bosses of large domestic companies have chosen to buy the Hailan SLC as their official vehicles, so most of the sales of the Hailan SLC are actually contributed by the domestic market.

It’s not that these Mercedes-Benz S-series models are bad, but they lack a bit of flavor… Especially compared to the Aquamarine SLC, they always give people a country bumpkin feeling for the bosses who ride in traditional gasoline luxury cars!
Although these are the opinions of ordinary netizens on the Internet, the big boss doesn't want to be treated as a bumpkin by netizens!

Therefore, from the beginning, many bosses and executives in the technology industry, especially the Internet industry, purchased and rode the Hailan SLC, and later it gradually spread to CEOs of other industries.

Finally, a trend gradually formed that truly successful and capable bosses either drove a Hailan SEV or a Hailan SLC!

These arguments are the result of years of hard work by Hailan Automobile's marketing department...

Some of the jokes and short videos on the Internet that promote the Aquamarine SLC and belittle Rolls-Royce seem to be created by the video bloggers themselves, but they are basically driven by the Aquamarine Automobile’s marketing department.

Years of brand marketing have also made Hailan Automobile a truly high-end luxury brand recognized by many people.

This is also the reason why many car owners will pay more attention when they see a large group of sea blue cars next to them on the highway.

Besides, on weekdays, when people see one or two sea blue SLCs on the street, they may not take it seriously... There are bosses everywhere, and there are even more bosses who buy sea blue SLCs, so it is not surprising.

But this fleet of all-sea-blue cars is still very curious.

After the three Aquamarine SLC large luxury sedans, there were five Aquamarine SEVs, one of which even had a red cross medical logo.

This kind of domineering and eye-catching fleet of all sea-blue cars is undoubtedly only seen when executives of Zhiyun Group or other companies under Xu Shenxue travel.

Not to mention Xu Shenxue, even Ji Chenghe, Gu Zhiming, Ding Chengjun and other group executives who travel on business actually travel with several bulletproof sea blue cars... These group executives also have security personnel, but the number is not that large, and most of them are ordinary office workers.

Xu Shenxue's situation is more special.

Therefore, there are more security and office staff accompanying the trip, and outsiders don’t know that all the models in the fleet are bulletproof.

In fact, Xu Shenxue was not sitting in the three middle Hailan SLCs, but in the third Hailan SEV. In daily life, he personally prefers to ride in the Hailan SEV, which is safer and has a better view.

The three sea-blue SLC luxury cars in the middle were occupied by security personnel and some of Xu Shenxue's accompanying staff, such as assistant directors of the board office of Liuhe Investment.

A total of eleven Hailan SEVs and Hailan LSCs were speeding past on the highway.

This situation causes many other vehicles on the road to dodge involuntarily. Large trucks or ordinary cars driving slowly in front often change lanes to the side when they see this kind of convoy behind them.

But there are also people who like to watch the fun and the cars. Sometimes they will keep speed and follow in the lane beside them, and even take out their mobile phones to take pictures.

However, all of these sea-blue cars have dark windows, so it is impossible to see clearly who is inside from the outside.

But one thing is certain, a convoy of this size is definitely owned by the senior management of Zhiyun Group... In this part of the country, no one can have such a scene except those senior management of Zhiyun Group.

It’s not that they are not rich enough, but that they don’t have the courage or confidence!

In China, other entrepreneurs are just entrepreneurs, or maybe even capitalists, and those corporate executives are just ordinary corporate executives... But the top executives in Zhiyun Group are big-name figures who make the headlines of global political and economic news.

For example, when executives of Gu Zhiming and Ji Chenghe's level go abroad to inspect business and market...the local country often uses the word "visit" to describe it, and local heavyweights often go to the airport in person to receive them.

The levels are different!
Well, if you are a top executive in a manufacturing company with the largest market value in the world, with revenue of more than 400 billion US dollars, business around the world, more than 600,000 direct employees, millions of indirect employees, and directly affecting the livelihoods of tens of millions of people...you can also get this treatment.

Not to mention the top level, there are executives at the level of vice president of the group who are only ranked second in the group's power sequence, such as Yang Pinglin, president of Zhiyun South America. He may not be well-known in China, and many ordinary people don't know there is such a person, but he is in the news every few days in various American countries.

It would certainly be an exaggeration to say that his every move will affect the local economy, but the impact is still significant, especially when Xu Shenxue's companies are currently trying to open up certain new markets in South America and transfer part of the supply chain.

Yang Pinglin is not a mobile phone seller in South America. Instead, he is the representative of Xu Shenxue and has various contacts with local people. He is deeply involved in the Brazilian factory of Hailan Automobile.

Zhiyun Group’s overseas channels have never been solely Zhiyun’s own overseas channels, but have also served as unified overseas channels for many other companies under Xu Shenxue… This is also to avoid duplicate resource investment and improve the efficiency of capital and other resource utilization.

It's just not made public.

Nowadays, when ordinary people meet executives of Zhiyun Group in other places, it is normal for them to be curious, take photos, or even send short videos on the spot.

However, on several mainstream platforms, these contents that expose the whereabouts of Zhiyun executives are often strictly monitored by big data... Of course, users can send out these contents, but unless you forward them directly to someone you know, the other party can see them. Otherwise, don't expect other strangers to see them, because this kind of content is often directly blocked from traffic, and there will not be even the slightest traffic exposure.

Once you send it out, it will basically fall into oblivion, and no stranger will be able to see it...

This is called: big data recommendation!

It is a powerful tool for creating an information cocoon. It is very easy to use and everyone who has used it says it is good.

Xu Shenxue likes to use this trick very much. It is especially useful when maintaining the corporate image and marketing products.

The convoy moved forward, and in the third Hailan SEV, Xu Shenxue was flipping through the documents in his hand.

There is a lot of information, including not only MMK34 materials, Yu Taihe's project team's information, but also all the information of the Artificial Intelligence Materials Research Institute.

Of course, what he cares most about is the MMK34 material and the Yu Taihe project team!

First, I took a quick look at the MMK34 material... There's actually nothing interesting to see, because there's no data. All you can see is the project name and indirect... Under the confidentiality regulations, any information on MMK34 materials is prohibited from being leaked, and everything is locked up in the Artificial Intelligence Materials Research Institute.

Even Xu Shenxue only knew some basic information verbally from Professor He, but the detailed information was still unknown. Now, he was more interested in Yu Taihe's project team!

He didn't know Yu Taihe, and he was not familiar with him, because Yu Taihe was just a R&D staff member who had been employed for about a year, and his technical level was only W7...

For ordinary workers outside, the W7 level may mean an annual salary of hundreds of thousands or even millions, making many ordinary people envy the big guys in the base.

However, in the huge R&D system of Zhiyun Group, the W7 level is just a grassroots R&D management position... It is the team leader level in many ordinary project teams... There are at least twenty people of this level, even in the Artificial Intelligence Materials Research Institute.

Then in the Artificial Intelligence Materials Research Institute, there are several senior engineers at the W9 or even W10 level.

Further up, there is the large base of Guangcheng Zhiyun Science and Technology Park, which also has many W10-W13 level scientists.

As for the top-level W15 and the second-top-level W14, there are extremely few of them. There are only three or four W15s in the entire Zhiyun. They are all top scientists who are personally recognized by Xu Shenxue and take turns to use the SS-level scientific research quota.

There are so many engineers, scientists, and top scientists in Zhiyun Group... Yu Taihe is just an ordinary grassroots technician among them. At most, his research direction is relatively niche, and he is engaged in the emerging field of artificial intelligence materials.

No matter how Xu Shenxue thought, he had never imagined that a room-temperature superconducting material could be developed by such grassroots technicians.

What he had been expecting before were those talented scientists, such as Professor Wang Binyao, who was also working in the field of materials... The talent of this scientist was visible to the naked eye. Anyone who had met him would say that he was a top genius, and he had also achieved many results. The development of semi-solid-state batteries was heavily dependent on his research results.

At the same time, the materials and consumables needed for many core semiconductor equipment such as lithography machines under development are heavily dependent on his many research results... It can even be said that without his research results, the EUV lithography machines under development now would not even have lenses to use... because there are no corresponding materials.

Xu Shenxue used to think that if anyone could develop these cutting-edge technologies such as room-temperature superconducting materials, it would most likely be Professor Wang Binyao...especially since he had given him most of his precious SS-level scientific research quota.

In the past six months, Professor Wang Binyao's research and development progress has been quite rapid. He has published many heavyweight papers in the group's internal confidential publications. His basic theoretical exploration in the field of materials is very in-depth... According to a group of old men in the headquarters' technical committee, his many theoretical studies in materials science have reached a level that they cannot understand... It is too advanced.

Therefore, the technical committee at the headquarters now pays Professor Wang Binyao for his various research projects with a blind eye... Anyway, they have no idea what he is researching!

Such a top talent actually bears the expectations of many people...even if others tell him not to feel any pressure.

But the exclusive R&D funds approved by Xu Shenxue himself...starting at 2 billion US dollars per year, there is no upper limit, you can spend it as you like, no matter what project it is, as long as you propose it.

I won’t talk about the direct R&D funds. There is basically no upper limit. You can spend as much as you want. What’s more important is that in the entire system under Xu Shenxue, many R&D centers, research institutes, and enterprises are cooperating with you... You tell them what to do, and they will do it according to your instructions!
If you say today that you need a piece of equipment with special standards for your experiments, within a few days the equipment customized for a specialized laboratory will be delivered directly to you.

If you ask for a material with certain properties, the entire group will search the world over. If we can find it, we will try every means to get it. If it does not exist in reality, we will directly set up a project team to carry out special research and development for you.

In short, I can meet all your requirements...and all you have to do is focus on your own work, and then we will see what happens.

Professor Wang Binyao is not stupid, so he naturally feels people's expectations of him: no one asks him to produce anything... because they themselves don't know what they want.

But everyone, openly or secretly, is actually expecting him to create something new and groundbreaking... As for what it is, you, Wang Binyao, decide.

However, Professor Wang Binyao is also a contestant with super strong ability to withstand pressure. In the past six months, he could still watch girl groups dancing as usual... Every day after work, he would watch girl groups dancing and singing without fail.

As a top genius, his brain circuits are somewhat different... and his way of relieving stress is a bit special, but it doesn’t matter. The agency under the second brother of the Lin family is dedicated to solving these problems for him, and even formed a dance troupe just for him, just to dance for him.

The expenses of setting up a dance troupe and getting some other girl groups to come and dance occasionally are nothing compared to the R&D funds and group resources spent by Professor Wang Binyao...

If it was Professor Wang Binyao's team that made room-temperature superconducting materials, Xu Shenxue would not find it strange, and would even feel that it was natural.

But Yu Taihe...what the hell is this!

With a technical level of W7, he is a grassroots R&D personnel in the entire R&D system... He is just the team leader of a project team, but he led the team to achieve such super black technology results.

To be honest, Xu Shenxue's first reaction was disbelief, and he still has doubts even now... maybe the experiment went wrong.

As for deliberately deceiving him, Yu Taihe and other technical management probably don't have the courage to do so.

Therefore, it is possible that data errors may occur in the experiment, leading to some misunderstandings.

The second feeling is: How could Yu Taihe achieve such a high level of research and development results?
In particular, he looked at the R&D funds of Yu Taihe's project team in the past year. Even if the salary expenses of the entire project team were included, the investment in R&D funds was at most around 15 million... The currency unit was still Chinese Yuan.

This amount of money is not even a sesame seed in Zhiyun Group's R&D system!
Zhiyun Group's planned R&D investment this year has reached 80 billion US dollars, ranking first in the world and the sum of several high-tech giants behind it.

Zhiyun Group’s investment in R&D is terrifying. People all over the world, even Africans, know that Zhiyun’s crazy group of lunatics are super crazy when it comes to technology R&D!
The R&D investment of 80 billion US dollars, converted into Chinese yuan at the current exchange rate, is about 520 billion... This is a very exaggerated number.

What is even more exaggerated is that although the salaries of Zhiyun Group's employees are very high, which is a top-notch standard in China, compared with the salaries of R&D personnel in high-tech companies with relatively high incomes in Europe, the United States, Japan, South Korea and other countries, Zhiyun Group's R&D personnel salary expenditures are still on a relatively low level.

However, this does not mean that the quality of life of Zhiyun Group's R&D personnel is worse. On the contrary, it is actually higher... This involves a comprehensive issue of inflation and the local purchasing power of currency, which is quite complicated.

To put it simply, the same annual salary of $100,000 is considered ordinary middle class in the United States, nothing special... but in China, if you have an annual salary of $100,000, you are definitely in the high-income class, and the quality of life you enjoy is very good.

All in all, the quality of life of Zhiyun Group's R&D personnel is actually among the best in the world.

But even so, the income of Yu Taihe and the members of his project team is not considered high in Zhiyun.

There are a lot of R&D personnel with annual salaries of hundreds of thousands in Zhiyun.

But it was this group of people who actually developed the MMK34 superconducting material.

To be honest, Xu Shenxue felt very strange!
With doubts, Xu Shenxue finally rushed to Guangcheng Zhiyun Technology Park and finally met Yu Taihe and his project team members.

My first impression when we met was that he was just an ordinary guy... I didn't sense any domineering aura of a top genius from him.

However, Xu Shenxue still had a big smile on his face: "Hello, Dr. Yu, I heard that you made something amazing. Look, I ran over two hours to get here. Come on, show me what it is!"

In front of Yu Taihe and other technical personnel, Xu Shenxue looked friendly and was not wearing a suit or tie, but just ordinary casual pants and a white shirt.

Looks very down-to-earth and friendly!

Yu Taihe also didn't expect that he would actually see Xu Shenxue, the real big boss!

They couldn't help but feel a little nervous, but they managed to hold back their nervousness and said, "Director Xu, please follow me. We are conducting the third repeat experiment in the laboratory. The previous two experiments have been successful, and the samples are inside!"

Xu Shenxue noticed his nervousness and said immediately: "Don't be nervous, I'm not a man-eating tiger, relax. Besides, this is a good thing for you, so don't be nervous!"

Xu Shenxue didn't stay in the laboratory for long. He came out after just a few minutes and said to Yu Taihe, "Tell me, money, power, research, whatever you want, we have everything you want!!"

As he spoke, Xu Shenxue looked around at the other project team members present: "I guarantee that every member of the project team will become a billionaire, I say!"

(End of this chapter)