Rebirth of the big era of online games

Chapter 468 The richest man in the world, not worth mentioning

Under the influence of Fang Jie's butterfly, the launch of pure electric-powered new energy vehicles is more than three years later than in the previous life, but the related technologies are five years ahead of the same period in the previous life, or even more than that.

For example, in terms of cruising range, Boiling Car 6.0 directly reached 400 kilometers as soon as it came up, reaching the level of the same period in 2018 in the previous life, which greatly eased car owners' anxiety about the battery life of new energy vehicles.

The core component or core technology of new energy vehicles is actually the power battery, which is also the most expensive component. The manufacturing cost is almost equal to the total cost of the other components of the vehicle.

There are two types of power batteries currently used in Boiling Car 6.0, or two different research and development directions, namely ternary lithium batteries and lithium iron carbonate batteries.

The reason for doing this is of course the result of Fang Jie's foresight and persistence.

Ternary lithium batteries and lithium iron carbonate batteries have their own advantages and disadvantages. The safety of ternary lithium batteries is relatively high, and there is more room for research and development in the future performance improvement. They are also relatively resistant to low temperature and are suitable for northern environmental weather, but the cost is high and the voltage Low, the charging speed is relatively slow.

The advantages and disadvantages of lithium iron carbonate batteries are almost the opposite, and there is a large gap in energy density. The same cruising range requires more battery packs, which increases weight, power consumption and cost.

Therefore, strictly speaking, the cost of the two is similar, but the boiling cars sold to the northern market with relatively cold weather use ternary lithium batteries, while those in the south use lithium iron carbonate batteries.

But whether it is a ternary lithium battery or a lithium iron carbonate battery, in Fang Jie's new energy vehicle plan, they are only excessive substitutes. Boiling Automobile and BYD batteries are still secretly developing more advanced graphene battery technology, which is equivalent to Go hand in hand in three R&D directions and walk on three legs.

The advantages of graphene batteries are strong battery life, light weight, extremely fast charging speed, full battery life after charging in less than 1 minute, good heat dissipation, higher stability and safety, and longer battery life. The disadvantage is that The cost is ridiculously high.

However, if Fang Jie now asks Boiling Motor to build himself a car with a graphene battery as the power battery, it will naturally be no problem. Isn't it about the battery cost of about 2000RMB/gram, nothing, just spend a few hundred million on it There is.

Of course, Fang Jie's attitude towards cars has always been pragmatism. He has no interest in spending hundreds of millions on a big toy to pretend to be forced. Besides, he is very poor now, and he is reluctant to be so self-willed.

The word "poor", when used in Fang Jie's body, is simply hypocritical in the eyes of others, but it is true.

Since the decision to shift the focus of the industrial layout from the virtual economy to the real economy, Fang Jie has never been rich in his hands in the past three years. At present, several real industries under the Boiling Group are all capital-guaranteed or loss-making on the books, and they have not brought any profits at all.

For example, in the boiling over calculation, the basic investment has invested tens of billions of dollars, and it has been unable to make ends meet, and also owes a large amount of loans to the bank.

Then there is the boiling energy of the photovoltaic industry, which has just come back to life soon, and has just gained a foothold. Although it has not lost money, it has not made any profit, and this is because it is supported by state subsidies, otherwise it is actually in a state of loss.

Boiling cars didn’t make any money either, because they used a rental and sales model, and the cost recovery time was very long, at least 5 years, otherwise it would not have been limited production.

Moreover, Fang Jie wants to walk on three legs. The research and development of the three power batteries is carried out at the same time. The amount of money that Boiling Automobile burns in scientific research is three times the normal amount. .

Feiteng Technology is relatively better. The sales of various electronic products such as PHS, Huawei mobile phones, and Feideng cloud computers are not bad. It can bring tens of billions of profits to Feideng Technology every year. R&D.

Especially the core projects of FeiTeng Technology since its establishment, the most important chip research and development projects are all gold-sucking beasts, let alone withdrawing money from FeiTeng Technology, Fang Jie can't wait to continue pouring money into it to further accelerate the progress of scientific research in this area. .

If not, those chips in the supercomputing center cannot be replaced by domestic chips, and they have been constantly upgraded to reduce power consumption costs.

And you must know that a car, especially a new energy car, does not mention other components in it. The number of various chips alone is as high as more than 2000. There is no chip production capacity and chip technology support of Boiling Technology, even if the power battery technology is mature. , the boiling car 6.0 can not be available so soon with a lower production cost.

Therefore, although scientific research burns money, it is the foundation of industrial development. This part cannot only be saved, but further investment must be increased.

At present, the most advanced chip technology in China can already achieve 28nm, which is only slightly inferior to the current international top Intel 22nm chip technology. maximum return.

I believe that if you continue to spend money like this, after 5 years, the domestic semiconductor industry and technology will not only lead the world, but will at least reach a synchronous leading level, and will no longer be stuck in the neck like the previous life.

It is precisely because of the huge cost of the physical industry and the high investment in scientific research that Fang Jie has to withdraw funds from the virtual economy industries such as games, entertainment, and e-commerce, which are very profitable, to subsidize and relieve them every year. Naturally, there is not much spare money in his hands.

But then again, in terms of assets on paper, in the latest "Forbes Global Rich List" released in 2013, Fang Jie was the world's richest man with a wealth value of US$1730 billion!

Bill Gates, who ranks second, has a wealth value of only 870 billion U.S. dollars, and the wealth gap between No.1 and No.2 is more than twice as high.

The reason for such a strange situation is mainly that the number of monthly active players of “Ark” doubled under the influence of international capital last year, and many subsidiaries of Ark International, under the operation of these international capital, have also Taking the opportunity to be listed on Nasdaq, it made a lot of hype in the secondary market.

The second is the subsidiary companies of Boiling Group, except Boiling Games, such as Boiling Digital, Boiling Travel, Boiling Energy, Boiling Entertainment, Boiling Internet Cafe and many other subsidiaries. During the period of 2011-2013, they also completed the IPO plan like a dumpling. .

When the boss became Fang Jie, he no longer needed to do many things himself, and he didn't even bother to ask. Apart from signing his name on the relevant legal documents, he basically did not show up in the listing process of these subsidiaries. It is all driven by the core management of each company.

With so many companies listed one after another, and Fang Jie is the major shareholder or even the absolute controlling shareholder of these companies, his worth on paper has naturally skyrocketed.

Fang Jie was crowned the world's richest man, and domestic and foreign media rushed to report it, especially the domestic media. I really felt honored that Huaguo was able to become the world's richest man, which is too much for the people of his hometown.

However, such a big thing, in Fang Jie's view, was a matter of course, not worth mentioning, so I didn't feel any sense of accomplishment.

And these are wealth on paper after all. The U.S. dollar can be printed as much as the Fed wants to print. If it cannot be converted into real things, it is actually a string of virtual data or waste paper, and the depreciation speed is similar to that of the Fed. It is proportional to the speed of silver printing.

Therefore, on the day he was announced as the world's richest man, Fang Jie, who was so poor, started the "sell, sell, sell" plan. Taking advantage of the momentum of becoming the world's richest man, he searched for pick-ups everywhere and sold his many insignificant shares far away. Prices below the market price were scattered to the secondary market and investment institutions.

This approach is very similar to the original Bill Gates, who said that he sold Microsoft shares cheaply after retirement, but it may actually be just to cash out and leave.

The so-called cheap sale of shares, no matter how cheap, is also a big profit for Fang Jie who sold the shares. After all, in theory, the actual value of each unit is only 1 yuan, and the stock price in the secondary market is often hyped up. Dozens or even hundreds of dollars, even if you sell it at a [-]% discount, you will earn dozens of times and dozens of times.

With Fang Jie's strong memory, he can't remember how many shares he has in various subsidiaries. Anyway, there are quite a few. Of course, it is impossible to sell all these shares. controlling interest.

It is impossible to sell them all at once, otherwise no one can catch it, and it is very likely to trigger a global stock market crash.

Therefore, Fang Jie's approach is to find an asset management team to deal with these matters. If there is an opportunity, grasp the degree well, and under the premise of not overly stimulating the secondary market, the water will continue to flow, and the position will be reduced little by little.

And these gradually cashed out funds were all invested by Fang Jie into the real industry.

For example, for the first tens of billions of cash, almost all of it went to Boiling Automobile.

Boiling cars are sold in a rental mode, and they are renewed every year, so that the investment cost recovery time is very long. In the past, production was limited to control costs and gradually achieve a balance of payments.

Now that new energy vehicles are on the market, mass production is planned according to the plan, which will kill the traditional domestic car manufacturing industry in one blow, so the cost of advance payment is an astronomical figure.

This cost is not only the cost of labor, materials, and equipment for car manufacturing, but also the construction cost of new energy vehicle-related supporting industrial facilities.

For example, it is not enough to sell new energy vehicles. There must be charging stations and charging piles all over the country to charge the vehicles. Without these supporting facilities, new energy vehicles are just a pile of scrap iron.

Although the national level has also issued a series of incentive policies for the development of the new energy industry, and has also provided hundreds of billions of capital subsidies, it will take time to see the results after concrete implementation. Parents are only responsible for building the ladder, and the specific work still needs to be done Children can do it themselves.

So two months before the launch of Boiling Car 6.0, when the four major music variety shows in China were in full swing, an Internet platform company called "Boiling Charge" was quietly established.

"Boiling charging", as the name suggests, is a platform company that specializes in operating charging stations. Although it is an Internet platform, it actually includes physical industries, and the scale is not small.

The shareholders of the company not only include several affiliated subsidiaries of the Feideng Group, such as Feideng Energy, Feideng Technology, Feideng Automobile, and Feideng Travel, but also include large state-owned enterprises such as State Grid, PetroChina, and Sinopec.

Boiling Energy is responsible for energy supply, State Grid is responsible for power grid construction, Boiling Technology and Boiling Automobile are responsible for charging piles and other hardware equipment and technical support, Boiling Travel is responsible for platform construction and promotion, and PetroChina and Sinopec are responsible for providing operation sites.

Among them, Fang Jie's showy operation is to pull PetroChina and Sinopec into the new energy industry chariot.

The new energy charging stations in the previous life were either privately owned or owned by the State Grid, and had nothing to do with PetroChina or Sinopec.

This is actually normal. As traditional energy companies, out of their own interests, PetroChina and Sinopec are definitely not welcome to the new energy industry. There are fewer cars refueling and more cars charging, so what kind of money do these two companies make? , How can there be money to pay for the enviable corporate employee benefits?

If the streets are full of new energy vehicles in the future, the oil-selling companies will not be able to drink the northwest wind.

However, the new energy strategy is a national strategy. Sooner or later, new energy will replace fossil energy. If oil companies want to survive, they must consider transformation or industrial upgrading.

Originally, as the two super state-owned enterprises, the size is too large, and all kinds of relationship interests are involved. If you want to turn or even reverse, you can't turn around at all.

Fortunately, Fang Jie is now known as the richest man in the world. He is a person with a certain social energy. The whole country will give him some face. The high-level people have always trusted his strategic vision. PetroChina and Sinopec were finally persuaded and decided to board the chariot of the new energy industry and try to make some changes.

The change is not big. It is nothing more than letting every gas station network in the country find a way to free up a small area to set up new energy charging stations. Each charging station is equipped with 4-8 charging piles, and Boiling Charge is responsible for the construction and operation.

That is to say, PetroChina Sinopec invests in the land for boiling charging, and does not need to pay a penny. The relevant charging station construction costs are also borne by boiling charging. After the charging station is put into operation, PetroChina Sinopec can continue to sell oil to make money, or sell electricity. No matter how the energy industry changes in the future, the two oil companies will be able to guarantee their income during drought and flood.

To put it back ten thousand steps, even if Boiling Charge goes bankrupt at a loss, it is a big deal, and the land and property return to its original owners, and PetroChina and Sinopec will not suffer any economic losses.

Such a risk-free and generous entry condition, even if the two oil companies have some resistance to the new energy industry, there is really nothing to say, and there is no reason to refuse.

Regardless of how good the conditions are, the two oil companies are simply waiting to count the money for nothing. In fact, Fang Jie's side has greater benefits.

The biggest benefit is the gas station network all over the country.

These outlets are real real estate, which saves a lot of money for the purchase of land. It is said that Sinopec and PetroChina invested in the land, but it is better to say that Fang Jie is empty.

Secondly, the locations of these outlets are very good, and almost all of them are set up at the main traffic roads, which are convenient for car owners to rest, stop and refuel.

Especially in the expressway service area, if ordinary people or private enterprises want to do business in a piece of land, it is not necessarily possible to do it with money, but where there is a service area, there must be a gas station, then in the future Where there is a gas station, there must be a charging station, which saves a lot of trouble.

According to the situation of the previous life, the biggest anxiety of car owners about new energy vehicles is the battery life, followed by the convenience of charging, but these two anxiety can actually be regarded as one kind.

If there are gas station outlets of PetroChina and Sinopec as charging outlets, naturally, you don’t have to worry about finding a charging station. Anyway, you used to go to the gas station to refuel, but now you also go to the gas station to charge. There is no problem.

Another advantage is that relying on the existing network to lay the charging station network is extremely efficient and convenient, and the construction of the charging station network can be completed nationwide in a very short period of time.

If you buy land to build a charging station by yourself, not to mention the construction of the project, but just to buy the land, it will take a lot of time to complete the whole process. , causing a lot of trouble.

Now that the two super state-owned enterprises, PetroChina and Sinopec, have participated, all these problems have been solved easily. The savings in money, time and intangible costs are incalculable. Therefore, some benefits are given to these two oil companies. Children can't catch wolves.

It is precisely because of this, and the infrastructure madmen are also very strong, in less than 3 months since the establishment of Boiling Charge, the task of laying out the nationwide charging pile network has basically been completed.

By the end of August 2013, charging stations had been established in all high-speed service areas across the country, and 8% of all gas station outlets in cities at the county level and above were equipped with charging stations, and each charging station had 80-4 dual-use units. The charging pile can park 8-8 new energy vehicles for charging at the same time.

Of course, with so many charging stations, charging stations and infrastructure built at once, even if you don’t need to spend money to buy land, the mere 100 billion cash out funds are not enough. In the end, the national level provided more than 200 billion funds for subsidies. Then Fang Jie showed his old face and defaulted on part of the project payment, so he could barely cope.

Although the state subsidy of more than 200 billion yuan does not need to be repaid, the money to build the car is not enough, so Fang Jie had no choice but to find a bank loan.

This time, the bank is very proud, and all the banks have joined the battle, and a total of 500 billion short-term loan lines have been approved for Boiling Auto!

The reason why the bank dares to be so arrogant is that Boiling Motors has been approved a state subsidy of 100 billion yuan and a local financial subsidy of 50 billion in Jiangcheng.

Under the relevant policies, for every new energy vehicle produced and sold by Feideng Automobile, it will receive 2 yuan of state subsidies and 1 yuan of local financial subsidies, and the number of the first batch of Feideng cars is as high as 50, so there is a chance Get a subsidy of 150 billion.

Although these subsidies are distributed, it is still necessary to wait for these batches of cars to be sold and go through the relevant procedures, but in the eyes of the bank, this is a rabbit, and it can be a hawk. a sum.

And if nothing else, Boiling Motor is obviously going to make a big effort this time. The output and sales are not just 50 cars. This money is only the first subsidy, and there will be at least tens of billions or even thousands of them in the follow-up. The subsidy of [-] million is beckoning there, and there is no need to worry about the repayment ability of Boiling Car.

Of course, the state is not a big deal. This year, a car will give 2 new energy subsidies. Next year, it may drop to 1.5, and the year after, 1, until the subsidy is cancelled.

The reason why the local government Jiangcheng has also invested in the capital is naturally not necessary to explain too much. The annual tax revenue that Boiling Group brings to Jiangcheng is more than [-] billion, and giving some money back to the enterprise is not only in response to the call of national policy, but also politically correct. It can also help companies grow bigger and bring more tax revenue in the future.

With the support of the state, local governments and banks, with the basic outlets provided by PetroChina and Sinopec, and with the support of software and hardware equipment provided by many brother companies such as Feiteng Technology, it has been dormant for many years. Boiling cars can be described as even more powerful now. They need technology and technology, products and products, money and money, and policies and policies.

Now that everything is ready and the east wind is blowing, it is naturally impossible to limit it to the travel market.

On August 2013, 8, a digital auspicious day, Boiling Auto 18 was officially sold and announced that it would no longer limit production.

As a result, in less than three days, 50 pure electric power new energy Boiling Cars were sold out, so Boiling Cars whose production capacity could not keep up with the production capacity delayed shamefully. Order in full.

Not to mention the car owners and the car-making industry, even Fang Jie and the Feideng Group felt incredible about this scene.

After the investigation, it was ridiculous that most of the first batch of 50 Boiling cars were packaged and bought by Boiling Travel, and the remaining small part was bought by some fast online car-hailing and taxis. The drivers took it away.

What's even more bizarre is that after Boiling Motor announced that the stock was out of stock, the domestic traffic accident rate rose sharply in the next half month. After investigation by the traffic department, it was found that many old owners of Boiling Cars deliberately manufactured many of them. A small accident, in order to pay a replacement fee, justifiably go to the boiling car for a new 6.0 car.

Fang Jie had to apologize in person for this, saying that he did not think carefully, and he really did not think that selling cars would still be able to sell public transportation safety problems. At the same time, he also said that Boiling Motors will further expand production capacity, and I implore car owners to wait a bit. Don't be impatient, stop fooling around.

(End of this chapter)