Rebirth of the big era of online games

Chapter 439 Photovoltaic Industry
(During the half-year break, my son had a mild cerebral palsy gene mutation, my wife had a broken lumbar spine, my mother underwent surgery for acute enteritis, and my father had a herniated lumbar disc and couldn’t move. Two days ago, my mother-in-law was just diagnosed with colon cancer...)
The deployment of shipbuilding and munitions industry in "Ark: Nautical Century" is just an idle time left by Fang Jie in the world of Ark, and he didn't invest too much time and energy.

Its main purpose is to find some work for the boring professional players in the game studio, so as not to harm domestic games.

As for stimulating player consumption, resource consumption, accelerating the progress of civilization, or disgusting island countries, those are just incidental. After all, controlling the general direction of Ark International is already invincible.

Moreover, the arms dealer is not his family in Ark International, so it is not worth mentioning. In this regard, the partners of Citigroup are professional and experienced, and they have been deployed in Ark World for a long time. up.

Even under the urging of these guys, the version of "Ark: Age of Navigation" was only released, and they were already impatiently asking Ark Games to make persistent efforts and continue to develop the next version of "Ark: Age of Empires".

Obviously, "Ark: Age of Empires" is the version of land warfare in Ark World. Although the name of the stand-alone game "Age of Empires" is quoted, the two are not very related.

Because the war form of "Ark: Age of Empires" must be directly equipped with hot weapons, and the technological content of its hot weapons should be similar to the level of the First World War in the early stage.

However, to open this version, technically, in addition to the full openness of the land map, the corresponding game system and algorithm must be further updated. After all, the game mechanics of cold weapon war and hot weapon war are completely different.

But then again, it's useless to be anxious, the game map alone can't be done in one click or two.

There is no need to rush for success, but to let the "bullets fly for a while" and maintain the current ecology in Arkworld for a period of time is the best choice.

Moreover, since the planning and establishment of Ark International in 05, it has grown into a behemoth like it is now after 4 years. We need to slow down and lay a solid foundation.

Among other things, the personnel organization structure of Ark International and its many subsidiaries is so chaotic that it has to be reorganized. This is not a problem that can be solved in the short term with money, and it will take time.

More importantly, Fang Jie has spent too much time and energy on the Ark International project over the years. Instead, he has been a little perfunctory with the domestic Boiling Group. It is time to "look back".

In the past, the boiling group had Xia Hao and Liao Shunbin, a gang of "wolf-natured" executives sitting in charge. Although there were indeed a lot of troubles, the advantage was that the style of the entire boiling group and its subsidiaries was forging ahead.

But now, Boiling Group lacks this group of people, and its style is indeed stable, but it feels a little more conservative than pioneering. This has a lot to do with the character of the left-behind high-level people, such as Iron Man, Tiger, Li Xiangjun, etc. Each of them is as dull as an old scalper, reliable and reliable, but it is difficult to give people extra "surprises".

Of course, this is not to say that the development of Boiling Group and its subsidiaries is not good. In fact, even if it develops step by step, its growth speed still attracts the attention of the industry.

For example, the latest established subsidiaries, Zebang Auto and Zebang Travel, have become leaders in the industry after just a few years of development, especially Zebang Mobility, which can be said to be the best among them. The number of employees and drivers under the company alone is as high as 500 million!
These 500 million employees are not temporary workers, but serious regular workers who have paid five social insurances and one housing fund!

A company with 500 million employees...

It seems that there is no semicolon in the whole country, or even the whole world, right?

And this is just the result of step-by-step development. If an "evil capitalist" like Xia Hao is at the helm, it is not surprising that the number of employees will double again. You must know that before Fang Jie was reborn, the number of online car-hailing drivers in the country in his previous life It broke through 3000 million!
Of course, even if Boiling Travel is done step by step, it is not difficult to get the number of drivers to more than 1000 million. The reason why we didn’t do this is mainly due to the production of Boiling cars.

Boiling Auto produces 100 million vehicles per year, 80 of which are untouchable and thrown to Boiling Travel, but it is still a drop in the bucket, so Boiling Travel is actually people waiting for cars. A driver can be dispatched at any time.

The reason why Boiling Auto didn't expand its production can't be blamed on the management for not wanting to make progress, because this is the result of the big boss Fang Jie's forced suppression.

Because in Fang Jie's view, there is really no need to produce so many boiling cars now. It's not that they are not easy to sell, and it's not that they don't make money, but they don't want to go back and waste too many resources.

Booming Motors will eventually take the route of new energy vehicles, and now Booming Automobiles produces gasoline vehicles, which will sooner or later be replaced. The more they are produced now, the more they will be eliminated in the future, and it is not environmentally friendly.

So he decided to wait for BYD, one of the shareholders of Boiling Auto, to mature the new energy vehicle battery technology, and more importantly, wait for the entire country's power grid infrastructure and power supply to catch up.

Although it is much stronger than it was in the 8s and 90s, electricity consumption across the country is still relatively tight, especially in summer. In order to ensure production, some areas and even the whole country will still "cut the power supply".

As far as Fang Jie knows, in the 03 years from 2015 to 12 in his previous life, there were 6 large-scale "power cuts" across the country, almost once every other year.

Even though the total installed capacity of Tianchao Power has ranked first in the world after 2015, there will still be power cuts in 2020, but at that time it was not because of insufficient electricity, but because of the soaring price of thermal coal.

In China, coal prices can skyrocket, but electricity prices can’t go up indiscriminately. State Grid is a state-owned enterprise that needs to protect people’s livelihood, and thermal power accounts for 70%. Therefore, the more power generated, the more it loses money. Later, it has to reduce power generation and limit power.

The reason why the emphasis is on electricity and new energy issues, and Fang Jie also has the idea of ​​​​drawing his attention back to China, is actually mainly because the relevant departments and business representatives from Hubei Province in China have recently visited him for help.

To put it simply, the photovoltaic companies in Jiangcheng Optics Valley, and even the photovoltaic companies in the whole country, can no longer live happily. They want Fang Jie, the richest man in China, to help him.

Jiangcheng Optics Valley, the reason why it was named Optics Valley at the beginning, became Jiangcheng High-tech Development Zone. Its urban strategy is to make this place the photovoltaic industry center of Huaguo.

In fact, before 2007, Huaguo’s photovoltaic industry was really strong. Its photovoltaic products had a market share of more than 90% in the international market. It can be said that it almost monopolized the international market. Therefore, the high-tech development zone of Optics Valley was established and It is indeed a good decision to attract the vast majority of photovoltaic companies in Huaguo to settle here.

However, will the international capital tycoons and related industrial capitals sit back and watch Huaguo turn the photovoltaic industry into a global monopoly, and then count the money until their hands cramp?

That's obviously impossible!

We must know that Huaguo seems to be rising peacefully on the road to achieve great rejuvenation, but in fact there are battlefields everywhere, but there is no smoke of gunpowder war, and ordinary people are not aware of it at all.

Photovoltaic industry is such a bloody battlefield where foreign capitals compete wits and courage repeatedly.

In his previous life, Fang Jie didn't know the inside story, but this time he was approached by a group of photovoltaic business owners from Optics Valley. After some exchanges between the two parties, he realized how deep the water was.

Specifically, this matter is that Citigroup was the first to conduct the most thorough research on photovoltaic-related technologies, which can be said to be far ahead of the world.

As early as 1979, President Carter of Citigroup gave a speech in front of the newly installed solar energy system on the roof of the White House. At this time, it coincided with the world oil crisis. He used an impassioned speech to express to the world: solar energy is the future!

What he didn't say, though, is that the system cost $28 to build and only provided enough energy for a kitchen water heater...

The high cost of photovoltaic products is its main flaw. In the end, most of the related technologies remain in theory, and the related industries have not been established. , or the roof of the White House?

Foreign capital is not stupid, they don't do things that don't make money, no matter how advanced the technology is, no matter how environmentally friendly new energy sources such as solar energy and wind energy are, they will still put them on the shelf.

However, Citigroup didn't like something and couldn't bear to do it, but Tianchao didn't hesitate to plunge into it.

In 96, there were still nearly 8000 million people without electricity in Huaguo, mainly distributed in the northwest region, far away from the power grid and scattered. The cost of power grid laying was too high in the past, so small independent photovoltaic power generation systems became the preferred choice.

At the same time, the national level has also seen the potential and prospects of new energy. In order to prevent oil from being stuck and serious coal pollution, it is an important supplement to the energy strategy, so it decided to support this industry and implement the "Bright Project" "Send electricity to the countryside.

The two most important policies of the Bright Project are to give preferential loans to photovoltaic companies and subsidies for power transmission.

That is to say, if you don’t have the money to start a photovoltaic business, the state will lend you money to do so. The interest on the borrowed money is very low or even no interest. The state will give you additional subsidies for the electricity produced, and sell it to the market at the same price as thermal power.

You must know that the production cost of thermal power is 0.38 yuan/kWh, while the cost of solar power generation at that time was 1 yuan/kWh. In other words, every time a company sells 1 kWh of electricity, the state will subsidize 0.62 yuan!
This kind of thing that serves the whole people, but it is not easy to take advantage of it, I am afraid that only Huaguo in the world can do it. Maybe Huaguo still has more or less problems of this kind, but from a macro perspective, in the Florists are definitely the luckiest people on earth today.

Of course, the national level is not doing business at a loss. With the passage of time and technological progress, the production cost of photovoltaic products will gradually decrease, and eventually the cost of power generation will drop below the cost of thermal power. At that time, the advantages of photovoltaic power generation will surpass everything. Energy, bursting out with huge prospects.

But it will take a long time, at least 10 years or more, foreign capital can’t wait, but the structure of the Celestial Dynasty is not as big as it is, and it has always concentrated its efforts on big things. Some things will bite the bullet even if they suffer huge losses for 1 or 20 years. Do.

In foreign countries, since 03, the environmental protection fighters in the western world finally came to the fore, clamoring for clean energy and environmental protection, and gradually formed a kind of political correctness.

Under this pressure, or in order to gain the support of voters, Western countries have to pay attention to pollution and environmental protection issues, and have launched clean energy projects one after another, so that the international demand for photovoltaic products has skyrocketed.

Against this background, with domestic support and foreign assistance, coupled with China's low labor cost advantage, the international market share has reached more than 90% in one fell swoop, monopolizing the global photovoltaic market.

But there is a serious hidden danger in this.

As a high-tech industry integrating optics, electromagnetism, semiconductor, machinery, chemical industry, etc., the photovoltaic industry has a high technological content in the entire industrial chain.

However, the current photovoltaic enterprises in Huaguo lack manufacturing technology in the upstream of the industrial chain, such as polysilicon, monocrystalline silicon, silicon wafers, photovoltaic glass and other production technologies. 90% of them are in the hands of Western countries, and the downstream industrial chain lacks power station technology. , 90% of the sales market is overseas.

For example, the most typical phenomenon is the domestic semiconductor chip industry, which is well known in previous lives.

All in all, Huaguo's photovoltaic industry products are mainly concentrated in the middle reaches of the industrial chain, that is, photovoltaic modules, because there is no technology in this area and it is purely manual labor...

Relying on manpower for resources, and then using resources for technology is the hurdle that almost all Chinese companies must pass through in this era. There is nothing wrong with it. The so-called "Made in China" was actually "Made in China" at the beginning, and what they earned was only cheap processing. Fees, the upstream and downstream high value-added industries that really make money, are all in the hands of foreign companies.

However, the gimmick of "90% international market share" is really dazzling, and even if it's just a little bit of hard work, it has made a lot of money for Huaguo photovoltaic companies with the "high-tech" hat. From 2005 to 2007 In just 3 years, [-] photovoltaic companies have gone public in the United States!

Therefore, the photovoltaic companies in Huaguo have drifted away, frantically adding production lines, and other companies have seen that this thing makes money, and they have state support, and they also rush into this industry. As a result, in just three years, there are thousands of photovoltaic companies in China. .

In fact, it’s okay if life goes on like this, but how can foreign related companies and international capital turn a blind eye to this?
International capital emphasizes bandit logic, especially Western capital.

The general routine is: first use technology to crush you, such as charging high patent fees or technology blockade, if technology cannot be suppressed, then drive you out of the market, such as anti-dumping, tariffs, etc. If it is easy to use, then directly rob, or even start a war.

But before that, if the technology and the market are in their hands, there is another way: use financial means to loot!
Western capital is at the ancestral level when it comes to finance, while these domestic photovoltaic companies can be said to be naive and naive in this respect.

In the international market, domestic photovoltaic companies are like a buffalo walking in the desert, stupid and easy to bully, fat and delicious, so since 2005, from Wall Street to London and Frankfurt, international capitals have all focused on this buffalo, and Very tacitly set a consistent goal: to encircle the photovoltaic industry in Huaguo!
As a result, these international capitals took advantage of the surge in demand for photovoltaic products to drive up the prices of upstream raw materials such as polysilicon and monocrystalline silicon. USD/kg, soared twelve times!
However, as a domestic photovoltaic processing enterprise that is only a midstream processor, the upstream technology and downstream finished products are not in its own hands. Naturally, it has no pricing power. Coupled with the internal vicious competition of thousands of domestic enterprises, it has to fall into the high price purchase of raw materials. The strange circle of selling processed products at low prices.

In fact, this matter is not considered a strange circle in China. Fang Jie's father, Fang Wanxing, works in a large smelting company. During the 90s, affected by the international non-ferrous metal market, it has always been like this.

It imports ores at high prices, and then produces non-ferrous metals. The main product is copper, but the more it produces, the more it loses money. It is completely dependent on selling the gold and silver that is extracted from it, otherwise it would have closed down long ago.

So after the photovoltaic company in Jiangcheng Optics Valley explained the situation, although Fang Jie only got a general idea, he also felt the same way, and instantly understood the market logic in it.

This logic, to put it bluntly, is that Western capital has no moral integrity, does not engage in human affairs, artificially manipulates and deliberately sets the trap, and uses financial tools to ransack domestic big dogs.

But this matter, the tuition fees that should be paid have to be paid. If Fang Jie is not a reborn person, he will still be played around by foreign capital.

What's more, he feels that the domestic photovoltaic companies are a bit disappointing. After making so much money and even going public, they don't want to make progress. They don't buy technology and talents to open up the upstream and downstream industrial chains, but take the money. Continue to expand the production line of the midstream industry without any sense of crisis.

"Why not? Almost all of our major factories have invested tens or even tens of billions of dollars to build polysilicon, monocrystalline silicon and other raw material factories!"

"In addition, we have also signed futures price contracts with foreign upstream raw material producers to control the risk of raw materials continuing to rise!"

"but……"

When these people were still complaining and explaining, Fang Jie had already guessed the result without listening to it. He couldn't help but rolled his eyes and couldn't help scolding his mother in his heart.

What the hell, don't you play "EVE", don't you know how we ransacked the entire EVE world through futures?
There is actually no essential difference between my own way of making money in futures in EVE and the way foreign capital is playing in the photovoltaic industry now. If he is a foreign capital, he will definitely use the same way as a domestic company.

For example, the upstream of the entire industrial chain is the bully mine, and the downstream is to send undercover agents to fight against the foreign army to stimulate market demand. During this period, when will the ore be produced, at what price, how much will be produced, and when will the foreign army fight among themselves? , with whom to fight, the overall control is in the hands of the niubi army, and then use this to make a fortune through financial means.

The same can be said for the wild operations of foreign industrial capital in reality.

For example, seeing that domestic photovoltaic companies start to produce raw materials by themselves, foreign industrial capital can ship goods ahead of schedule and suppress prices, and then push the price of $500/kg back to $40/kg, or even lower.

As a result, domestic manufacturers of raw materials that have invested heavily have not yet started production, and are already unable to make ends meet, and are also caught in a vicious cycle of increasing production and losing money.

At the same time, taking advantage of the high price of raw materials, they signed futures contracts with domestic photovoltaic companies that have already been frightened to ensure that no matter how much the price of raw materials rises in the future, they will still purchase at the current price.

You see, we foreigners are so considerate and take the initiative to control risks for you.

However, after turning around, foreign industrial capitals copied the guys together and knocked down the price of raw materials. As a result, domestic photovoltaic companies saw the price of raw materials plummet and returned to before liberation, but they could only stand on a high post and continue to purchase goods at high prices according to futures contracts. The cost is upside down, and eventually the bank goes bankrupt!

Are these domestic companies like those logistics players in EVE who specialize in production and processing, but are eventually caught by Fang Jie?

So, is reality and games similar in purpose?
Whoever said that games are a cancer is a scourge. If these companies sent individuals to EVE to hang out with Fang Jie a few years ago to learn experience and lessons, they would not be fooled around by foreigners!
In fact, Fang Jie's judgment is not wrong, the way foreign capital deals with domestic photovoltaic companies is exactly the same.

The only difference is that domestic photovoltaic companies actively ask foreigners to sign futures contracts, and once they sign a contract, it will be a five-year contract.

Today, there are still 2 full years left before the expiration of most corporate contracts, but everyone can no longer live.

In fact, 80% of the thousands of photovoltaic companies established during the past three years have closed their doors. The rest of the companies that can come to ask for help are some well-known domestic manufacturers. I have been lingering and panting until now, but I can't last for a few months.

If Fang Jie didn't lend a helping hand this time, Jiangcheng Optics Valley might be in name only in the near future.

In fact, Fang Jie knows that the Optics Valley of later generations is basically in name only. Before its rebirth, there were not many companies involved in the photovoltaic industry. Most of the first-generation photovoltaic companies were closed down by foreign capital 10 years ago. Now the only remaining Those companies were also established later and belonged to the second generation of photovoltaic companies in Huaguo.

Of course, whether the name Optics Valley will be a nameless in the future has little to do with Fang Jie.

As far as the family and country feelings of supporting the domestic photovoltaic industry are concerned, there is a little bit, but it is not enough to motivate him to get involved in it.

Of course, the face of the relevant government departments in Hubei Province has to be given, but the face is not so great that he is taken advantage of by paying for it.

The reason that really made him decide to get involved was mainly because of his own development needs.

The photovoltaic industry involves new energy and semiconductor industries, and the importance of these two industries is self-evident, and they are also closely related to the Internet industry. Boiling Group and Ark International have long told stories about new energy and semiconductors, and This story also complements other stories.

If the new energy and semiconductor industries cannot keep up, the future artificial intelligence, quantum communication, virtual reality, etc. will become castles in the air.

In the past, Fang Jie mainly focused on the asset-light Internet industry. Even if he invested in some real industries, such as Boiling Internet Cafe, Boiling Internet, Boiling Technology, and Boiling Auto, it was only as a necessary auxiliary to the Internet industry, not a core industry.

Now Boiling Group is already a leader in the domestic Internet industry, and the rest is to make steady progress step by step, while the foreign Ark International is also asset-light. It is only this year that it started to get involved in the industry with a big bargain-hunting acquisition this year.

Since his rebirth, it took him almost 10 years to take root in the asset-light Internet industry and complete the original accumulation. Then in the next 10 years, while maintaining the steady progress of the Internet as a basic market, it is time to do a good job in the real industry.

And since it coincides with the meeting, let's start with the photovoltaic industry.

Now that he has decided to make a move, Fang Jie will naturally not follow the rhythm of foreign capital. There is obviously a huge hole there, and whoever jumps is a fool.

In the same way, he will not get used to these domestic photovoltaic companies-you are just stupid, don't drag me to be stupid with you.

Therefore, he wants to start anew and establish "Boiling Energy"!
Strictly speaking, "Boiling Energy" is actually "Boiling New Energy". Its products not only involve traditional photovoltaic products and raw materials, but also include wind energy equipment, new energy vehicles, charging piles, battery replacement piles, and lithium battery related products and technologies. service industry.

Therefore, this company not only has a huge amount of investment, but also has a large number of participating shareholders. However, overall, the shareholders come from three camps.

The first is the boiling group camp, accounting for about 40% of the shares, including boiling investment, boiling technology, boiling travel, boiling automobile, boiling real estate and many other younger brothers. Basically, all subsidiaries related to this project have come.

After all, the executives of these subsidiaries are not stupid. The god boss finally wants to do something in the country. Youdao means not to take advantage of the bastard. Don’t miss the opportunity and don’t come again. Don’t you see it was still boiling when it was done last time Travel was established, but what kind of giant do you think he has become now?

Anyway, if you follow the boss, there is no reason to suffer, and you don't have to consider the risks at all. You dare not get in the car, and a lot of people want to get in the car!

The second camp is naturally those domestic photovoltaic companies that are on the verge of bankruptcy. There are a lot of them, including upstream raw material manufacturers such as rare earth, polysilicon, monocrystalline silicon, silicon wafers, and photovoltaic glass, and sealants, frames, and laminates in the middle reaches of the industrial chain. , junction boxes and other photovoltaic module manufacturers, as well as downstream inverters, batteries, combiner boxes, photovoltaic motor power stations and other downstream manufacturers.

Regardless of the fact that many of these companies have already been listed on Citigroup, they are actually insolvent at present, and some companies even owe hundreds of billions of RMB in bank loans, so it is impossible to buy shares of Boiling Energy with cash and silver, so we can only Invest in shares with existing technical equipment, personnel, and land and factory buildings.

Furthermore, under the opportunity of Fang Jie's face-to-face instruction, these photovoltaic companies with negative net assets plan to come out of their shells!
Why do golden cicadas escape their shells?

Well, it is to transfer the assets of the old warehouse secretly, and transfer all the valuable things in the house to Boiling Energy through a series of means, and the original company has become an empty shell, and it directly declares bankruptcy protection!
Some photovoltaic companies even declared bankruptcy on the second day after the establishment of Boiling Energy, and then the boss directly joined Boiling Energy with a group of technical employees.

In this way, the futures contracts signed with foreign countries naturally do not need to continue to be executed, which is a big burden. Of course, the domestic loans owed to banks cannot be escaped. This is another set of operating methods. In short, it will not make the country suffer. .

To put it bluntly, this trick of getting rid of the golden cicada's shell is actually Fang Jie directly flipping the table. Since international capital is playing tricks, don't blame us for starting a new one.

As for the third largest shareholder camp, it is actually one: State Grid.

It is necessary and appropriate to bring in state capital. State Grid has also invested a huge amount of money in the photovoltaic industry, and is even the major shareholder of some private photovoltaic enterprises.

With the participation of these three parties, Boiling Energy is actually called "Boiling". It is not as simple as an ordinary subsidiary of Boiling Group. It is actually "Hua Guo Photovoltaic Industry Group" with assets exceeding [-] billion ", it is nothing more than that this name is too loud and high-profile, so I borrowed the boiling vest.

Of course, there is no need to underestimate yourself. After all, Fang Jie and his Boiling Group were the link between the past and the future in this matter, so there is nothing wrong with getting the title.

This major reform and transformation of the domestic photovoltaic industry naturally cannot be hidden from the insidious and cunning international capital. However, at this time, Western countries are in the post-subprime era and are too busy to take care of themselves, so for the time being, they can only turn a blind eye after protesting to no avail. only eye.

Of course, on the other hand, international capital does not believe that Huaguo's photovoltaic industry can survive after integration, even if Fang Jieluo, the world's second richest man, is involved in this matter, they are not worried.

After all, the western countries have a huge market demand for photovoltaic products, while the Chinese side, at this moment in 09, the awareness of environmental protection in the whole country needs to be strengthened, and the photovoltaic power generation industry is only in its infancy, and the market demand is very small. As long as the western countries Capital blocks their market, and Huaguo's photovoltaic companies will inevitably have excess capacity, and they will still not be able to survive.

But this matter can't trouble the reborn Fang Jie.

(End of this chapter)