Rebirth 08: Rise from copycat phones

Chapter 484 The Weird Lin Brothers

On August 14, Xu Shenxue appeared at a low-altitude UAV take-off and landing field of Xiaojiang Technology in the suburbs and watched the X low-altitude UAV being put into practical use for the first time.

The actual application this time is a short-distance material transportation route with an air range of more than 30 kilometers, with limited altitude and area, and avoiding densely populated areas.

It is said to be transporting cargo, but in fact there is no really meaningful cargo on board... This is actually a test route.

Xiaojiang Technology will be able to use this freight route to conduct long-term, high-frequency actual transportation tests!
The test results will directly affect the future of the X14 low-altitude drone!

Xiaojiang Technology touts the X14 low-altitude drone as a miracle drone, but it has only conducted various small-scale internal tests, so it’s hard to say whether it’s reliable or not!
So, whether it is a mule or a horse, take it out for a test. If it can achieve long-term, high-frequency flight without any accidents and prove its safety, the subsequent path will be easier.

If an accident occurs, you can basically forget about getting any flight permission.

No one would allow a low-altitude aircraft that would fall down while flying to appear on the market, and then fly all over the sky...

Therefore, the safety of the X14 low-altitude drone must be high enough!
On the contrary, in the military field, the safety of the X14 drone is not so strict!

Xu Shenxue couldn't help but sigh as he watched the X14 low-altitude drone take off with more than kilograms of cargo, carry out its mission according to the scheduled route, and head to the take-off and landing field on the other side kilometers away.

Making a low-altitude drone is harder than making a semiconductor...

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Xiaojiang Technology’s X14 low-altitude drone project is one of the more embarrassing products developed by Xu Shenxue.

In the early years, Xu Shenxue was working on this thing with the concept of low-altitude flying cars in mind, which were intended to replace cars to a certain extent and be used for people's daily commuting and rapid transportation of lightweight goods.

This is his vision and attempt of the future transportation model and intelligent urban transportation system!
However, after they were actually developed, it was discovered that multi-rotor low-altitude drones have not yet found suitable application scenarios in the civilian field, but have shown great potential value in the military field.

Since its release last year, the X14 low-altitude drone has received orders totaling hundreds of millions of dollars worldwide, but the vast majority of these orders are from various shell companies and ultimately go to military agencies in various countries.

But there are actually very few orders in the real civilian field!

A relatively large number of civilian orders still come from drone transportation companies under Xiaojiang Technology, that is, drone operating companies that are currently conducting actual route operations and various operational tests... a typical case of selling to oneself!

In addition, there are sporadic orders from wealthy people around the world who are not short of money. Basically, they buy them for fun and experience.

This is so embarrassing!

The reason for this situation is that the current X14 low-altitude drone has not actually replaced the role of cars, but has instead replaced the role of light helicopters to a certain extent.

It is actually very convenient for people to travel by car on a daily basis, but the take-off and landing of the X14 low-altitude drone also requires certain site conditions. It is impossible to land anywhere. At least a piece of open space is needed!
Simply put, the X14 low-altitude drone can only be taken off and landed in places where light helicopters can be taken off and landed... The size of the two after they are unfolded, and the requirements for the take-off and landing sites are actually similar.

At the same time, the X14 drone has a short range. The current version with the longest range has a range of only kilometers.

This also greatly compresses the daily application scenarios of the X14 low-altitude drone.

So far, only the self-operated drone operating company under Xiaojiang Technology has purchased a batch in China, mainly for various tests. For this purpose, the higher-ups have specially approved a low-altitude route for Xiaojiang Technology to use for various tests.

However, there are still many legal issues with low-altitude drones like the X14, and countries are still unsure how to manage this new type of transportation...

You say it is a manned aircraft, but it doesn't need a pilot. You say it is a drone, but it is quite big and can carry passengers.

So how to define and manage low-altitude drones is also a problem.

At the same time, there is also the problem of airspace management in China. Airspace cannot be used by anyone just because they want to. They have to make various applications in advance before they can use it, which is very troublesome.

Overseas, the management is relatively relaxed, but many countries currently manage the X14 low-altitude drone as an aircraft, so it is also very troublesome.

In this situation, the current X14 low-altitude drone can at best replace part of the light helicopter market!

But the problem is that the market for light helicopters is very limited and cannot support a large enterprise.

Compared to the numerous problems in the civilian field, the X14 low-altitude UAV is different in the military market...it can even be said to be shining!
Its most unique feature, which is also valued by the military forces of many countries, is that the X14 drone can fly at a very low altitude...it can fly at high speed at treetop height or even lower.

The VT07 artificial intelligence flight system it carries is sufficient to ensure the safety of ultra-low-altitude flight.

A low altitude means that the distance to being detected by radar is short and the probability is low!

In addition, it is small in size, has low take-off and landing requirements, and does not require a dedicated pilot, making it very flexible and convenient to use.

In addition, although this thing doesn't look big, it can still carry 300 kilograms of cargo or personnel. Under special circumstances, if the cargo hold is removed, it can also carry 350 kilograms of cargo.

This has made many people see its potential in the military field: flying at low altitude and high speed in high-threat areas, delivering supplies to the front line and evacuating the wounded.

It is faster than a transport vehicle, has better passability, and can be used on any terrain!
Cheaper, lower flying altitude and safer than a light helicopter!

Also, and importantly, it does not require a pilot, which means there will be no casualties if it is shot down while transporting supplies.

At the same time, its onboard artificial intelligence flight control system allows it to perform various transportation tasks without the need for remote control and without worrying about electronic interference...and this is very important in high-threat battlefields with extremely complex electromagnetic environments.

Due to these many advantages, as soon as the X14 low-altitude drone appeared, not many civilian products were sold. Instead, various shell companies placed orders worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Even the Americans purchased a batch through Specialist Smith.

Of course, after purchasing, most countries will modify it on their own, especially the communication modules, most of which will be replaced directly, but the underlying artificial intelligence core cannot be replaced, so there is no need to worry about threats to their own security.

Even at home, a batch of specially customized X14 low-altitude drones were purchased to transport supplies, transport the wounded, and perform other emergency tasks.

However, it was not Xu Shenxue's original intention to make low-altitude drones for the military field. What he wanted to do was to make low-altitude drones that could be popularized on a large scale and used by ordinary people, and to replace cars to a certain extent.

And there is still a long way to go...at least the current batteries are not very good. The energy density in the batteries is limited, and the battery life of the X14 is too short.

The range is only 150 kilometers, which doesn't have much practical value!
Xu Shenxue expects that after solid-state batteries are developed in the future, the range of the X14 low-altitude drone can be further increased to kilometers or even more than kilometers, while further reducing its size and lowering the requirements for take-off and landing sites.

And these take time!
As for now, let’s just sell the military version first. Anyway, many people in the military industry are very interested in this thing. Let’s make some money first to maintain the subsequent research and development of the project.

After encouraging the X14 low-altitude UAV project team at Xiaojiang Technology, Xu Shenxue also took a look at other multi-rotor UAV projects at Xiaojiang Technology.

From small consumer drones to medium-sized aerial photography drones that can carry professional cameras, and then to large drones that can transport cargo and spray pesticides.

Xiaojiang Technology has a wide range of drones, ranging from a few hundred grams to fifty kilograms, which can be used for personal consumption, professional film and television aerial photography, security and surveying, complex terrain lifting and transportation, agricultural plant protection and other fields.
In the field of drones, Xiaojiang Technology is professional and the world's largest civilian drone company. Its market share has long been above 80%... It has no real competitors at all!

Therefore, Xu Shenxue didn't care much about the specific operations of Xiaozhuang Technology... He provided some funding in the early stage and some scientific research quotas. The rest of the things were directly handled by the management and technical personnel of Xiaozhuang Technology, and Xu Shenxue didn't have to worry about it.

After finishing the inspection of Xiaozhuang Technology, Xu Shenxue returned home. As soon as he got home and talked with Lin Yaxian and others, he saw Lin Yaxian's second brother running over again.

And this time, he came here for something real, he actually said he was going to get married.

This surprised Xu Shenxue a little. He didn't expect that the second brother of the Lin family would actually want to get married one day... He originally thought that this playboy had no intention of getting married in his life.

Lin Yaxian's second brother has always been rather eccentric, and has been in the entertainment industry for a long time, so he doesn't have a very good reputation in their social circle.

Lin's parents were also very disappointed with their second son and would say a few words to him whenever they had the chance.

As a result, Lin Yaxian also had some opinions about him. Lin Yaxian was a relatively traditional person. In addition, with the improvement of her social status in recent years, she also paid more attention to her own and her family's reputation. Therefore, she was rather disgusted with the fact that the second brother of the Lin family insisted on joining the entertainment industry and mixing with a group of actors every day.

The main reason was that the second elder brother of the Lin family was a little desperate in the early years. He dated female celebrities and models every other day. For this, he was kicked out of the house by his parents. The family was divided in advance, and he was only given some cash and real estate and other properties, depriving him of the right to inherit the family's core assets, several companies.

However, people grow up, and slowly the second brother of the Lin family has matured. Although he still runs a film and television company, he no longer hangs out with female stars, nor does he show up in public every day. Instead, he has learned to hide behind the scenes and treat the entertainment industry as a career.

His career in the entertainment industry is doing quite well now, and he has built up a fortune of tens of billions!
Of course... there is still a lot of water in this net worth of billions!
After all, no matter what, he is Lin Yaxian's second brother, and this identity naturally brings great help to his career.

Neither Lin Yaxian nor Xu Shenxue had ever provided him with any special convenience, but he was Lin Yaxian's second brother after all, and the management of many companies under Xu Shenxue would give him some face. Some advertising orders that could be given or not would be given to him.

When Yihai Culture is producing some film and television dramas, they will give him some face and let him arrange some suitable artists under its company to participate in the performances. For example, the two supporting actresses in this year's popular Zhiyun advertising drama "Thirty Not Love" are actors under his company.

As for Jump Video, it will also give some preferential treatment to the entertainment companies under its company, including some traffic support.

Some of the internet celebrities in the jumping videos, especially the beautiful internet celebrities, are contracted internet celebrities under the company of the second brother of the Lin family.

Relying on Yihai Technology for a living, the second brother of the Lin family can be said to be doing very well... After all, although Yihai Technology Group is nothing in Xu Shenxue's career map, for the entertainment industry, Yihai Technology is a capital giant!

Yihai Technology Group owns Yihai Video, a traditional Chinese video website, and Tiaodong Video, a short video app. Yihai Culture also has a literary website, several film and television production companies, and an animation production company.

Not to mention the entire Yihai Technology, even if we take Yihai Culture alone, it can beat those traditional entertainment industry companies in the so-called entertainment circle.

In recent years, several domestic Internet giants have entered the entertainment industry on a large scale in order to compete for user time, superior content, and traffic, trying to control content from the source!
Those so-called traffic stars are actually tools created by these large Internet companies... As for traffic stars, the core lies in the word "traffic"!

Who controls the traffic? In the hands of major Internet companies!

Internet companies are engaged in content development, so they want to obtain stable, productive, and reproducible content... and increasing IP by using traffic stars has become one of their options.

Trying to produce a large amount of content using an assembly line production method, and then retain users and gain more user time!
The seemingly glamorous entertainment industry, especially the film and television industry, has become the downstream industry of these Internet giants!

The career of the second brother of the Lin family also rose during this process by relying on Yihai Technology. He now has several top traffic stars and a group of big internet celebrities under his command, and he also makes some film and television dramas!

In the past few years, the second elder brother of the Lin family has been devoted to his career in the entertainment industry. I have never heard that he has any thoughts of getting married. I didn't expect that he would suddenly talk about getting married.

Even Lin Yaxian was surprised.

He immediately asked, "Which family is it? The An family that mom mentioned some time ago?"

The second elder brother of the Lin family shook his head: "It's not the An family. I know what the An family thinks. They don't fancy me at all. They value you. I don't need to marry someone who doesn't love me!"

"My girlfriend is from an ordinary family. She is the liaison manager of a cooperative company. We got together after a few interactions and I proposed to her yesterday!"

After looking at her second brother for a few seconds, Lin Yaxian suddenly asked, "Are you getting married because of pregnancy?"

When the second brother of the Lin family heard this, he was speechless: "How did you know? I haven't told anyone yet!"

As he spoke, a smile appeared on his face again: "We just went to the hospital for a check-up yesterday, and it turned out that she is pregnant!"

Lin Yaxian said unhappily: "With you, if you hadn't gotten married because of pregnancy, you would probably still live to be sixty!"

Xu Shenxue had no interest in who the second brother of the Lin family was going to marry, but he was very interested in the idea of ​​him getting married and asked a few more questions.

During the process, I also asked the security department on behalf of the second brother of the Lin family. The security department responded that there was nothing wrong with the woman's family and there was no messy situation...which led to the possibility that she was deliberately seducing the second brother of the Lin family in order to get ahead.

But this is human nature, who doesn’t want to marry a rich man!

Besides, the second brother of the Lin family doesn’t care himself, so Xu Shenxue naturally doesn’t bother to say anything more.

Finally, she said, "Since you are planning to get married, you should settle down and live a good life. This way, Old Taishan won't have to worry too much!"

Although Xu Shenxue was younger than him, the gap in their status was too big. In addition, Xu Shenxue was facing a group of subordinates outside every day, and his tone of voice was somewhat like that of a superior or elder when he spoke.

The second elder brother of the Lin family has also gotten used to it!

Lin Yaxian said, "Find someone and bring him back to meet her. We're getting married soon, but she hasn't even met him yet. How about her parents? Have you told them?"

The second elder brother of the Lin family said, "I haven't told you yet. I'll tell you later."

As he said that, he glanced at his sister, and then said, "Sister, how about you go home with me to see my parents and have dinner together?"

Lin Yaxian naturally knew that the second brother of the Lin family was afraid of his parents and was also worried that his parents would not agree... The Lin family's parents still paid more attention to the so-called equal match, and the girls they had tried to introduce to the second brother of the Lin family were all daughters of families in the circle.

The second brother of the Lin family found a girl from an ordinary family and said he wanted to get married. God knows what his parents would think.

After all, he is the second brother of the family. Lin Yaxian immediately said, "Okay, then I will accompany you back for dinner!"

Xu Shenxue didn't care much about their family affairs, and he just ignored it after hearing the gossip.

Afterwards, Lin Yaxian and the second brother of the Lin family went out and returned to her mother's home.

He didn't come back until after ten o'clock in the evening. As soon as he came back, he said to Xu Shenxue: "My second brother really pissed off my mother this time, but my father didn't have any objections. He said it was good as long as we can get married!"

Xu Shenxue said: "But as long as he likes her, it's fine. A family like ours doesn't lack the woman's money!"

Lin Yaxian said: "It's not about money, but the family environment and the different concepts brought about by the growing environment!"

"My eldest sister-in-law comes from a family with some wealth, but still...ah..."

Last year, she took the wife of Lin's eldest brother, who is also her sister-in-law, to attend a fundraising charity dinner for disabled children. For them, this kind of occasion is to deliver checks on behalf of their husbands, reflecting the social responsibility of entrepreneurs.

But her sister-in-law was so stingy that she only signed a check for 500,000 yuan, which made her uncomfortable!

The Lin family went out to attend this kind of charity dinner, and they went with Lin Yaxian, so it would be unreasonable for them not to sign a check for several million.

If she doesn't intend to pay, she might as well not go. No one is forcing her to go!

Lin Yaxian has also set up several charitable foundations of her own. She also attends some charity dinners and auctions every year, and donates more than 1 billion yuan to charity each year.

No one asked her family to donate so much, but at least a few million have to be given. Her family is not short of that. After all, they are a family with assets worth hundreds of billions!

As a result, they only signed a check for $500,000, which was so petty!

From then on, she never brought her sister-in-law to these occasions, as she couldn't afford to lose face!
Lin Yaxian is a person who cares more about her reputation!
But after sighing, Lin Yaxian added: "However, my second brother is almost 40 years old, and it's time for him to get married. As long as he likes it, it's up to him!"

The marriage of the second brother of the Lin family is also a long-standing problem for the Lin family. He is almost 40 years old and has not yet married. His parents are anxious. Lin Yaxian has also talked about it several times. Now that he is finally getting married, there is nothing more to say.

A few days later, the second elder brother of the Lin family brought his fiancée to visit the elders of the Lin family. Lin Yaxian also went there and came back saying that she was a nice and smart person. She also took a photo to show Xu Shenxue. Xu Shenxue took a look and found that this person was actually quite ordinary-looking and not a beauty.

This woman is really capable as she was able to trap the second brother of the Lin family in such a situation!

After that, Lin Yaxian often went back to her parents' home to prepare for her second brother's wedding... The woman was pregnant, and the wedding couldn't be delayed too long, otherwise it would not look good to have a wedding if the pregnancy was obvious.

Xu Shenxue also went there and chatted for a while, and listened to Lin's father's nagging... The content of his nagging was quite interesting. His eldest son, the eldest brother of the Lin family, started a so-called new business last year, saying that he wanted to enter the smart electric vehicle industry, but ended up investing more than one billion yuan and didn't get a penny... Lin's father was very angry!
It’s not that the smart electric vehicle industry is impossible to develop. It has been a very prosperous industry in recent years. The problem is that it is being developed too poorly!
It even got to the point that Lin's father suspected that if he completely gave up power and handed over the family business to the eldest brother of the Lin family, he would probably squander the entire family business in a few years!

Xu Shenxue was speechless about this. The eldest brother of the Lin family was also a person who liked to make trouble. He had lost a lot of money in the past when he was engaged in original research and development of drugs, and now he had lost more than ten billion yuan in the smart electric cars.

The way he was doing it, the Lin family's assets wouldn't be enough to sustain him for long.

After chatting with Lin's father, he also sat down with Lin's eldest brother to drink tea. During the conversation, it was obvious that he was in a low mood.

Finally, I said: It’s too difficult to do something!

Xu Shenxue had nothing to say about this!
The eldest brother of the Lin family fully demonstrated what it means to not be afraid of the second-generation rich eating, drinking and having fun, but to be afraid of the second-generation rich starting a business...

(End of this chapter)