Reborn Technology Upstart

The year 2004 was relatively uneventful. There were only two bright spots. The first one was that Qilin Agricultural Development Group started selling Lingmi in May.

It’s just that the production capacity is not large. After all, it has only been more than four months since Ye Zishu gave them the technology to sell it. The Lingmi currently sold is all grown in the urban planting base they built before.

So the price was very expensive at the beginning. For example, the suet rice that Ye Zishu thought was 30 yuan ex-factory price was bought at the market price of more than 60 yuan, which directly doubled.

Amber rice, which is more energy-rich, has also risen directly from 100 yuan per catty preset by Ye Zishu to 230 yuan per catty, because the yield of this kind of rice is lower.

Regarding the sales of Lingmi, Qilin Agricultural Development Group did not make much fanfare, because the production was insufficient, and the promotion was of little significance, and it was directly sold in their sales channels.

Most people are attracted by the high price of these rice. After all, rice can be sold so expensive, there must be a reason for it, at least the public thinks so about the products provided by his industry.

Of course, it is not that there is no rice that is more expensive than Lingmi. Kirin Grain and Oil Industry Group also has a lot of high-value grains. For example, the colorful rice mentioned above belongs to the more expensive category.

Therefore, the reason why people are attracted to buy it is not only the high price, but also the name. Lingmi can’t be called casually, and domestic people find it difficult to hear it.

When I learned that Lingmi contains special life energy, which is beneficial for the human body to absorb, and has incredible effects on the human body. The most obvious effect is that the power will be greater than before.

Since the words are so mysterious, I naturally don't mind buying some to go back to eat. Although for ordinary people, the burden of eating high-priced Lingmi for a long time is heavy, there is no pressure to eat occasionally.

After buying it and eating it, it will naturally be unstoppable, and it is hard to say that it can increase strength. After all, the consumption time is still short, but the taste is really unparalleled. For many people, it is a top enjoyment.

Even if you eat it in your stomach, you can still feel the pleasure from your body. This is the effect of the human body slowly absorbing life energy, which makes people want to stop.

As a result, it is conceivable that the price of suet rice, which was originally 35 yuan per catty, soared to 70 yuan in an instant, which directly doubled. The terminal sales price of amber rice, which was originally 120 yuan, directly rose to 260 yuan per catty.

And there is a further upward trend. Amber rice is a bit expensive, but even if the retail price of suet rice rises to 70 yuan, many families are still gnashing their teeth, but they can't afford it.

After all, even if he is receiving social security benefits, his monthly income is 40,000 yuan, and the average daily income is over 1,000 yuan. It is not difficult to eat suet rice that is less than 100 yuan.

It’s just that for a family of two with more children, it may feel painful. For a bachelor, there is basically no pressure to consume suet rice.

In just two weeks, all Lingmi rice in the market was sold out. Those who couldn’t buy it had to go to Qilin Agricultural Development Group to make a reservation.

The total amount of reservations in the country is as high as 200 million tons. As far as edible rice is concerned, with such a large amount of reservations, the average annual consumption per person is 307 catties, which is already very scary.

It's just that the output is difficult to keep up with in time. At present, Qilin Agricultural Development Group is cooperating with Qilin Timber Industry Group to speed up the construction of urban agricultural planting bases.

In addition to the two of them, the other company that changed its plan was Kirin Energy Industry Group. The energy consumption of planting Lingmi was terrible, and the original controllable nuclear fusion construction plan could not keep up with the changes.

Like ordinary suet Lingmi, it consumes 45 kilowatt-hours of electricity without producing 1 catty. If such a reservation is made, the total energy consumption will be as high as 18 trillion kilowatt-hours.

There has been a conventional power gap in our country before, and they are planning to build a controllable nuclear fusion facility with an annual power generation capacity of 5 trillion kWh to make up for the domestic power gap.

It's just that I didn't expect that the annual power consumption of just one Lingmi is as high as 18 trillion kWh.

Far exceeds the power generation capacity of the controlled nuclear fusion they are building.

There is no way. On the one hand, they adjusted the controllable nuclear fusion construction plan, directly increasing the annual power generation of controllable nuclear fusion to 40 trillion kWh, plus the previous solar energy with an annual power generation of 23 trillion kWh.

There is also hydropower invested by the national power sector. The total annual power generation in my country may reach 65 trillion kWh, while the total power generation in other countries in the world is only a dozen trillion kWh. From here, we can see the gap.

The reason for such advanced construction is that Ye Zishu will suddenly develop a high-energy-consuming business, and it will be troublesome if it cannot meet the power supply at that time.

The construction period of controllable nuclear fusion facilities is as long as about 3 years. In this era of rapid change, 3 years is enough for too many things to happen. Instead of being so passive, it is better to build more power generation facilities.

However, after reading their new power generation plan, Ye Zishu believes that they need to be prepared to increase the annual power generation capacity of controllable nuclear fusion to 100 trillion kWh.

Lingmi is just the beginning. The technology he provided to Qilin Agricultural Development Group is not just as simple as Lingmi, but a complete technical system.

Based on these technical data, they can confidently develop other crops containing life energy, and even meat products, and these products without exception are quite energy-consuming products.

In addition to cultivating the mind, spiritual practice is also cultivating energy. Just like modern industry, everything is inseparable from energy supply, so the demand for energy in the future will only increase, never less.

For Kylin Agricultural Development Group, they saw the direction of agricultural upgrading. In the past, they mainly focused on the research and development of new products in order to increase the value of agricultural output.

It’s different now. Any food that contains life energy can be sold at a high price, and consumers are willing to pay for it. The high price is not just speculation, but really worth the money. .

Therefore, in the future, in addition to continuing to develop new varieties, Kirin Agricultural Development Group will also make all their agricultural products contain life energy.

Ye Zishu proposed to increase the power generation capacity of controllable nuclear fusion to 100 trillion degrees. In fact, it may be relatively conservative. If all people’s food contains life energy, the energy needed is definitely much higher than this.

And as the effect of martial arts training becomes more and more obvious, the appetite of martial arts practitioners will also increase, and the amount of agricultural products consumed by the whole society will only increase.

Unless you break through the body training stage and enter the Qi training stage, you will be able to achieve the legendary bigu effect. You can survive without relying on ordinary food, but you also need food support with high life energy. Although the amount is less, the energy consumption will only increase. high.

Don't think that there is a lot of energy in this way. In fact, when the practice system is really up, the per capita energy consumption will be very scary, and Ye Zishu can't guarantee it. Only relying on the nuclear fusion function, the energy will not be enough.

But this is something he should worry about. To reach this level, the human cultivation system has really reached a very high level. At that time, the entire civilization level will definitely solve this problem.

Not to mention other more advanced energies, if it really reaches this level, there are so many stars in the universe, enough for human beings to use, and then it will be enough to directly develop star energy.

Just like Ye Zishu dispatched the unicorn beast to the sun to absorb energy, maybe when the time comes, human beings will be able to sit by the sun to absorb energy directly.

Even if we don't do this, there may be technological means to develop the energy of stars in the future. In short, when civilization reaches a certain level, there is always a way to solve the problems encountered.

Perhaps it felt that there was no sensational event this year, which seemed a bit dull, so in August, Huanyu Group officially announced their new aircraft manufacturing plan.

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Although Leaf Book provided them with a new design in this area last year, they have not fully studied it until July this year.

This can't be blamed on the stupidity of the Huanyu Group's scientific research staff, but the design of the new aircraft he provided is very complicated, making many things very difficult to understand.

As mentioned earlier, new industrial manufacturing methods will greatly reduce the difficulty of manufacturing complex industrial products. This does not mean that new industrial manufacturing is very simple as a whole.

If it is really simple, the price will not be too high, and the added value of the industry will not be very high, because most of the difficulties are concentrated in the design stage.

The design of traditional industrial products mainly focuses on three-dimensional structural design. Even complex industrial products are nothing more than the accumulation of simple industrial products, and it is not particularly difficult to disassemble them.

With the new manufacturing technology, the design part is no longer a simple three-dimensional structure design, but involves a life-like construction. It is necessary to imagine the three-dimensional structure after design and consider many non-structural design issues.

Therefore, new manufacturing technologies require much higher capabilities and breadth of knowledge than traditional industrial manufacturing. Of course, the things produced in this way are not comparable to traditional manufacturing.

What's more, it has only been more than two years since the scientific research personnel under his subordinates received the information on the new manufacturing technology system provided by him, and they have not yet fully understood the entire technical system.

Therefore, looking at the aircraft design he provided is not so smooth. You need to review his design and the technical information he provided before. You need to verify each other to understand.

At present, no one can understand the product design provided by him without relying on the technical information he provided before, because this is not something that individuals can do.

After all, the new manufacturing technology actually simulates the structure of life and involves the creation of life. The complexity is very high, and it is definitely not comparable to the traditional macro-manufacturing industry.

There is also the support of the related design system provided by him. If you leave the design system provided by him, your design will be like a book from heaven, and you will have no clue at all.

In the latest news released by Huanyu Group, it will update its existing aircraft, including its civil aviation aircraft, civil helicopters and personal aircraft.

Needless to say, civil aviation aircraft have almost monopolized the domestic civil aviation market at present. This is definitely not a monopoly formed by administrative power, but a result of real strength.

The upgraded civil aviation aircraft will be completely driven by electric power, and its appearance will also be greatly changed. It will have obvious flying biological characteristics, and its energy consumption will be much lower than it is now.

Their original energy consumption is 20% to 40% lower than that of the passenger planes of the other two aviation giants, and the energy consumption of new civil aviation passenger planes will be reduced by more than 50%, which is less than 30% of the energy consumption of previous civil aviation passenger planes.

Because it is a supersonic civil aviation, if the energy consumption cannot be reduced under normal conditions, the energy consumption will be higher in the state of supersonic cruise, and these costs must be paid by customers.

Now according to the new design, even in the state of supersonic cruise, the energy consumption of their civil aviation passenger aircraft will not be higher than the current civil aviation passenger aircraft.

This means that for the same money, customers can enjoy higher transportation speeds, which greatly saves customers' time and highlights the value of civil aviation.

Now domestic civil aviation is a bit embarrassing. Their advantages are gradually replaced by super maglev transportation. Many people will give priority to super maglev between the two.

Fortunately, the population in the country is large enough. Even if civil aviation airliners are at a competitive disadvantage, it will not make them unable to operate. There will always be some people who need to take civil aviation airliners for various reasons.

However, this embarrassing situation still exists. If there is a new civil aviation airliner, the competition and differentiation between the two will be completely opened, and civil aviation will not be so embarrassing.

If it is said that although the civil aviation airliner is embarrassing, it is not impossible to sell it, and the sales of their personal aircraft are even more pessimistic, and they have not met Ye Zishu's previous expectations at all.

Although this is also related to the relatively expensive price, it often costs several million yuan, or even tens of millions of yuan, and ordinary families are not yet so extravagant.

However, it is an indisputable fact that the sales scale is small. We should not take any measures and let the market develop naturally just because we feel that the price is not affordable by ordinary people.

The production cost of the personal aircraft produced using new manufacturing technology this time is much lower than before. As for the selling price, it depends entirely on Huanyu Group.

Because the most important part of the design is the most valuable. If calculated according to the value of knowledge, the overall price should be higher than before, because the manpower and material resources spent in the design stage are very large.

However, when Ye Zishu designed the personal aircraft, he didn't spend too much effort, ignoring the value created by the design part, and only calculating the value of the manufacturing link, it was very cheap.

Especially as the income of the domestic people gradually increases, it is not impossible for ordinary families to buy personal aircraft in the future. After all, one or two million yuan is enough for ordinary families to save for a few years.

The new personal aircraft has higher comfort, better safety, less noise, and can even be parked in one's own garage with a relatively small footprint.

However, Ye Zishu believes that this kind of idea is unlikely to be realized. If it is true that every household has an aircraft, it means that my country's aircraft management will face huge problems.

Moreover, in most cases, the utilization rate of personal aircraft is not high, and civil aviation management will not be completely relaxed. For most of them, it is easy to buy and troublesome to use, which is not worth the candle.

In the future, personal aircraft will still be developed in the form of leasing, so that the utilization rate of the aircraft will be much higher, and the cost borne by the family will be much lower, which is obviously more cost-effective.

The news of these aircraft did not cause a big sensation. After all, before the real thing came out, there were no related renderings, and ordinary people still had the original appearance in their minds.

The news that really caused a sensation was that the World Group announced the construction plan of the Sky City. According to the practice of the World Group, the Sky City will compete with luxury cruise ships.

This means that the city in the sky is not just a means of transportation, but also equipped with facilities for eating, drinking, and entertainment. How much space is needed, and it is called the city in the sky.

Then there is a problem, how to fly a city in the sky that can carry so many people to eat, drink and have fun, at least the current technology cannot make such a huge aircraft fly.

Someone naturally thought of the power system of the starship. The starship is bigger than the city in the sky of the Huanyu Group. It can fly, and it can also fly into space. It must have a more advanced power system.

If the power system of the starship is used, it is not a problem for the city in the sky to fly. At least many people will connect the two. After all, Huanyu Group is also one of the starship manufacturers.

In fact, there are still people discussing the power system of the starship. Because it is too large, many people have made a lot of ideas, and they feel that it is difficult to send a 55-kilometer-long starship into space.

Therefore, the city in the sky of the Huanyu Group has attracted a lot of attention, not only from the private sector, but also from officials from many countries. They all want to learn about the power system of the starship through the city in the sky.

It's not that they think they can learn something secretly, but once they determine what the starship's power system is, they will have a clear research direction, which is much better than trying to figure it out by themselves.

It is often easier to walk the path of others. I am not the only one who does not have the idea of ​​touching stones. As long as it is an intelligent creature, it has this consciousness, and it will progress faster if it walks the path that others have stepped on.

According to the plan of Huanyu Group, ordinary aircraft will meet with you one year later, but the construction of the city in the sky will take two years, and the construction time will be significantly longer.

Perhaps in conjunction with the publicity, Huanyu Group announced a new aviation manufacturing plan, Wancheng Foundation immediately followed, not only promised to purchase new aircraft, including civil aviation airliners, but also helicopters and personal spacecraft for leasing business.

In addition, Wancheng Foundation placed 5 orders for Sky City, and the order amount for each Sky City was 500 billion yuan, which cost a total of 2.5 trillion yuan.

Not to mention this, Wancheng Foundation promised that if the business is very good, it will buy 45 Sky City in the future, increasing the number to 50, and the total cost will be as high as 25 trillion yuan.

Not to mention 50, just 5, which shocked many people. So far, no other company has dared to make such a big bet because the risk is too high.

With such a high price, even according to Ye Zishu’s thinking, the minimum fee per person is 50,000 yuan, excluding intermediate consumption, and it will take 10 years to recover the cost if the staff is full for a long time.

In fact, the energy consumption of such a large aircraft will definitely not be very low, and such a high price cannot guarantee long-term full crew, and the actual cost recovery period is longer, perhaps 20 years is also possible.

The longest service life of a sky city is only 50 years, and the profit cycle is not very long. If there is a slight problem in operation, it is likely to be a loss situation.

What's more, the initial investment scale is too large, and ordinary companies simply don't have the strength to do so. Moreover, Sky City is currently only sold to mainland companies, which further reduces the number of buyers.

If Wancheng Foundation didn't place an order, Huanyu Group's Sky City would really only be played by themselves, and the project might even be shelved.

Wancheng Jiye's choice to buy is not groundless. They have personally seen the design effect of the sky city, and the boss designed it himself, so they are so confident.

As for making money, Wancheng Foundation believes that as long as it does not lose money, it is fine. Just like the current aviation industry, it is not a profiteering industry in itself, and cannot be operated with the mentality of a profiteering industry.

As for whether there will be passengers, they think there is no need to worry, not to mention the international market, the domestic market alone can satisfy the operation of 50 Sky City.

50,000 yuan may be a huge sum of money for people in many countries, but it is not unaffordable for domestic people. Unless they go to play every year, it is really not very expensive.

If there are really only 50 Sky City, even if it is full all year round, it will take more than 20 years for the domestic people to experience it once, and it will take a rotation once, so there is no need to worry about no tourists.

The most important thing is that it is very difficult for ordinary people to go to the starship to experience it. After all, it is not an ordinary civilian facility, and even if they have money, they cannot experience it.

Many people will settle for the next best thing. Although the city in the sky is incomparable to a starship, its length is not much smaller than that of a small starship. It is not too much to compare it together.

Based on the above information, Wancheng Foundation is still very confident in the operation of Sky City, not to mention their huge capital, they also need to find suitable business projects.

Even if the business project is in a low-profit state, it is much better than putting it in the bank. In the past few years, they have made tens of trillions of yuan in profit every year, and it is not easy to spend it.

This topic lasted from July to the end of the year, until it was replaced by another topic, that is, the matter of the starship. According to the time node, the construction of the first fleet will be completed by the end of the year.

By December, there was still no movement on Ye Zishu's side, and all the companies under him seemed to be running faster like clockwork.

The first is the Kirin Resource Development Group, which began to send starship operation staff to the assembly base of the Protoss Group to familiarize themselves with all aspects of the starship in advance.

It is not an easy task to drive such a huge machine. Even if it is a general-purpose robot, it must come to learn in advance and be familiar with all the links.

The second is to hold frequent meetings. Since the system is very large, even if the construction is completed according to the plan, it needs to be confirmed from beginning to end to ensure nothing goes wrong.

The next step is to send relevant personnel to communicate with relevant government departments to pass some laws and regulations as soon as possible. Even if there are no laws and regulations, we must do a good job in communication.

After these tasks were completed, Protoss Group and Kirin Resource Development Group jointly announced the first flight date of the starship, and set the first flight date as January 1, 2005.

As long as the first flight is successful, medium-sized starships will generally not land on the ground unless there are special circumstances, and will be parked in outer space for a long time, and the transportation of materials will be completed by small starships.

The reason is very simple, that is, to reduce energy consumption, and secondly, to create a sense of mystery. If it can fly randomly in the sky and underground for a long time, everyone will definitely guess that it is not a traditional power system.

Only staying in outer space for a long time will make people feel that entering space once, the energy consumption is very scary. In addition, there are not many suitable parking spots on the ground.

It must not be parked directly on the ground. With its weight, a piece of flat ground can be directly pressed into a lake, and the construction of a ground berth is also expensive, and it is impossible to build a large amount of it.

So the best way is to lift off directly from the assembly plant. After entering outer space, don’t easily return to the ground. The transportation of materials and personnel can be done by small starships.

Of course, there are also special berthing points on the ground, but there are no plans to build too many. Currently, apart from the assembly plant, there is only one maintenance berthing point, which is located in Tengger.

It used to be a desert, and it was located in the northwest, sparsely populated, coupled with the open terrain, it is very suitable for construction and maintenance of berths, and there are not many other suitable places.

This maintenance mooring point can meet the maintenance work of all starships below 100 kilometers, and it can be further expanded in the future so that it can repair starships above 100 kilometers.

In addition, many small starship berths will be built across the country, mainly used as personnel and material transportation bases, otherwise all materials need to be gathered together, which is time-consuming, laborious, and costly.

In the future, around these berths, there will be many other functional areas built. After all, minerals mined from space need to be transferred at these berths, or even directly smelted here.