From all-round academic master to chief scientist

The lithium-sulfur battery and control model also represent that Lin Xiao’s busy period has finally come to an end.

Then it was time to enjoy a hard-earned rest while waiting for Academician Pang Wei and his new quantum computer to be built.

As for the four Kang Chengning, although they did not provide much help during the research process, they also handled a lot of things during the experiment. Obviously Lin Xiao is also a generous person, so he also gave them to each of them. Six-figure bonuses are on offer.

As for the four people, they felt that they did not provide much help, so they did not expect to receive other rewards at the end.

Otherwise, if a student does research with his tutor and finally produces a heavyweight result, then the tutor is obviously the main contributor, but the student wants to get a share of the result because he was only responsible for doing some experiments. In part, this is obviously unreasonable.

So in the end they were able to get a six-figure bonus, which was really an unexpected surprise for them.

Of course, this bonus is nothing to Lin Xiao. Not to mention that he has become a man worth hundreds of millions relying on the dividends from two chip companies, not to mention that he still has 5% of Jinwu Energy Group. shares.

Although Jinwu Energy Group is not listed, the 5% stake is not covered by the fact that the State Grid is fully integrated into it, and the dividends it can receive every year are still immeasurable.

Of course, Jinwu Energy Group has not been officially established for more than a year, so Lin Xiao doesn't know how much money he will be able to distribute by then.

However, all in all, he is not short of money now. The money he has sent home alone has exceeded 100 million.

It's just that his parents are the kind of people who find it troublesome, and they are also a little nostalgic, so apart from some daily expenses, they don't have to worry about consumption, and there is still not much other expenses such as housing and transportation.

Of course, Lin Xiao can't control too much about his parents' affairs. As long as people live happily and ensure good health, he has long required his family to have a regular physical examination every year.

Regular physical examinations are still necessary.

After all, Lin Xiao is not sure whether he can ensure that he will not get sick in the future, or whether the health capsules that the system rewarded him with will always be effective. Although for now, he can still feel his body of health.

"Of course, rest is also necessary. It's been two full weeks."

Lin Xiao, who returned to her residence, picked up Mimi, who was still sleeping soundly, and put her in her arms while stroking her. She turned on the TV and prepared to watch a movie.

"Hmm... let me think about it, what should I watch? Then let's watch The Lord of the Rings. I haven't seen it yet..."

As he spoke, Lin Xiao started watching a movie. As for Mimi in his arms, she lay peacefully in his arms and snored comfortably.

Of course, Lin Xiao wanted to take a good rest for two weeks, but to the outside world, it was obviously not that easy.

The news that he successfully developed a lithium-sulfur battery after developing a proton battery quickly spread like wildfire.

The shock that the proton battery has just given to the world, and its advantages over Japanese hydrogen fuel cells, have once again been refreshed by this lithium-sulfur battery.

Although lithium-sulfur batteries are much inferior to proton batteries in terms of energy density, they are relatively low-cost. In addition, the most important thing is that they can be used in mobile devices.

Proton batteries are obviously inconvenient to install on mobile devices, because if the proton battery is made small, the processing difficulty will be relatively high. However, there is no such worry for electric vehicles, because the individual batteries are relatively large, so the processing difficulty is It is relatively small, and the material cost basically accounts for the majority.

As a kind of lithium battery, lithium-sulfur battery is an all-solid-state lithium battery. Compared with ordinary lithium-ion batteries, the processing difficulty is still objective, but it is also lower than that of proton batteries, so lithium The future of sulfur batteries is obviously to dominate the mobile market.

All in all, although there are certain conflicts between lithium-sulfur batteries and proton batteries, the areas of conflict are not direct.

Therefore, these two batteries are completely epoch-making technologies for the entire battery market, and they are dimensionality reduction blows for other battery technologies.

Ever since, all kinds of battery manufacturers have started to go crazy.

And this also made Lin Xiao's originally planned vacation go to waste. A lot of people called him every day, such as domestic manufacturers such as Nanfu Battery, and many foreign companies. There are few, such as South Korea's LG and Samsung, etc., and even people from Japan's Panasonic Group have come to ask for help.

Of course, the current Panasonic Group has gone through a period of reshuffle after the leader died. Now, although it was still in the hands of the Panasonic family in the end, the new leader is not Panasonic. He is of Cheng's lineage, but his cousin's father, who is also his uncle.

Of course, his uncle is not completely independent. There are several sponsors behind him.

So it is precisely because of this that Panasonic Group was embarrassed to come to Lin Xiao to try a chance.

But obviously, Lin Xiao naturally rejected all these people's visits. After all, these two technologies were promised at the beginning, and he left them to the two companies that are still assisting areas without electricity. .

What even makes him confused is why these two companies haven't come to him yet when other companies have come to look for him.

In fact, it's not that these two companies haven't come to him yet, but that these two companies still have concerns.

…

"Mr. Li, over the past few months, we have determined a total of 7.3 billion to assist the construction of areas without electricity. This is really too big a burden for the company!"

In BYD's CEO office, a group of BYD executives found Li Cai and persuaded him.

Li Cai, who was sitting in the office chair, lowered his head, frowned, and said: "Seventy-three billion is only in the next four years, so there is no need to worry about it now."

"But..." Others couldn't help but shake their heads.

7.3 billion, I don’t know how much money is put in the bank every year. After all, they are corporate accounts, and the interest on corporate accounts is more than that on personal accounts. Of course, the money in corporate accounts also has to pay taxes. , However, this is much better than spending it on a place that has no return at all, right?

After all, this is 7.3 billion!

At this time, another person shouted: "Mr. Li, I know what you are worried about. You are just worried about Chief Lin."

He said: "But Chief Lin has developed two battery technologies. No matter which one of these two technologies we get, we will make money, and now we don't have to worry about competing with Ningde for one. This There’s no need to worry, right?”

"And if we continue to invest money in the power assistance plan, the accounting department has already calculated that once the investment exceeds 9 billion within five years, our subsequent capital chain may have problems, and we will have to Go find a bank loan; and if it exceeds 11 billion, we will have to lay off people on a large scale and implement tightening policies. It will be completely unimaginable what the results will be!"

"By then we will have no money in our account, so what if we get Chief Lin's technology? We won't even have money to develop this technology, or build a factory, etc.!"

But after hearing the words of his subordinates, Li Cai still did not show a worried expression, but said: "Don't worry so much. With this technology, we can stop our previous investment in battery research and development, and then switch to With new technology, your worries are completely unnecessary now."

"As for the problem of building factories, with this new technology, part of our previous factories can be directly transformed to produce this new battery, so when it comes to building factories, your worries are not A big problem."

"this……"

After hearing Li Cai's words, everyone present didn't know how to refute it. It sounded reasonable, but if the 7.3 billion they used for charity could be used to build factories or develop technology, even if it was Only half of them, how much benefit can it bring to them by then?

But at this time, Li Cai also expressed his worries.

"I know, I am also very clear. I have thought about these worries of yours these days, but can you make a guarantee? Does our Chief Lin think that we went to him so quickly? Doesn’t it seem like we are too impatient?”

"This..." These people also hesitated, because obviously, they cannot guarantee this kind of thing.

Of course, someone still said: "But some companies have already called Chief Lin?"

Li Cai immediately asked a few questions:

"They called. That's their business. Did you see there was a call from Ningde? No? Or did you hear these battery companies claiming that they had reached a cooperation with Chief Lin?"

"Uh...no."

These people nodded again. Indeed, none of these situations had ever happened.

And if other companies really reach cooperation with Lin Xiao, I'm afraid they will have to show it off the next day. Of course, the most important thing is that this will have a huge effect on increasing the stock prices of these companies. I believe it will not happen. Any battery company can resist such temptation.

So they were all in trouble for a while.

Seeing their expressions, Li Cai smiled, then waved his hands and said, "There is an old saying, you can't eat hot tofu in a hurry, so I hope you can remember this sentence, either wait for Ning De first The other side calls first, or we wait two weeks before making a call. The more we lose our composure at this time, the more likely we are to fail."

"All right."

Seeing that their CEO has already made a decision, these people can only give up. Of course, it is only two weeks. Although it is still a relatively long time, it is also the safest.

"Well, the power aid plan will continue as usual. In the last half month, we will just burn another 200 million every day. What will greet us then is that we will be able to earn back all this money within a year. , a happy ending.”

"In addition, don't always think that we have spent so much money, as if we have not received any benefits so far." Li Cai picked up a document and a letter from his desk, and then handed it over To these subordinates.

"Let's see."

These subordinates picked up the documents and letters with suspicion, and after looking at them for a moment, their faces showed surprise.

"The higher-ups have been paying attention to us for so long?" the person who read the letter said in surprise.

Those who read the document were even more surprised: "State Grid... Oh no, it's Jinwu Energy Group. They actually plan to cooperate with us in the construction of urban charging piles? There are even designated standards?"

Upon hearing the news, they suddenly changed from reluctant acceptance to extremely happy and excited.

Let’s not talk about the above concerns about them. Let’s talk about Jinwu Energy Group’s plan to cooperate with them on urban charging piles. This is definitely great news for them.

In the foreseeable future, urban charging piles will obviously become an important part of the urban landscape. After all, if we want to promote the development of new energy vehicles in the future, charging piles are definitely a rigid need.

Moreover, according to the existing news about lithium-sulfur batteries and proton batteries, both batteries are batteries that can withstand high-power charging current, so future charging piles must be able to adapt to such high-power charging. Ability, and at this time, standards are very important.

Once they can participate in the formulation of this standard, the benefits will be unimaginable.

When they thought of this, all their worried thoughts disappeared and they became extremely excited. Then they pestered Li Cai to ask for details in this regard for a while, and then left Li Cai's office with satisfaction.

For them, the good news Li Cai said hit their hearts completely, and knocked away all their previous thoughts.

After Li Cai watched this group of people leave, he also smiled and shook his head.

This group of people, sometimes if you don't tell them some good news, they might have to file a lawsuit in front of shareholders.

He didn't believe that these people were really worried about the company.

No longer thinking about it, he was the only one left in the office.

And his face once again showed a thoughtful expression.

Now that he has decided to ask Lin Xiao in half a month, what kind of answer can he get by then?

Regarding this, he still felt a little uneasy in his heart.

After all, this is an investment worth billions. Of course, he will have this feeling of uneasiness in his heart.

But those ordinary methods cannot be used on Lin Xiao at all. According to the judgment after chatting with Lin Xiao, the needs of ordinary people, such as money and pleasure, cannot be used on Lin Xiao. Once the one on Lin Xiao's body was used, he would probably be sentenced to death directly.

Until finally, he took a deep breath and said, "Forget it, think about these things in half a month."

However, what surprised him was that he spoke to Lin Xiao within half a month.

A few days later, a call rang on Li Cai's cell phone.

When Li Cai saw the caller, surprise appeared on his face.

"Why is it Chief Lin?"

Lin Xiao suddenly called him now?

He thought of many possibilities in his mind in an instant, but Lin Xiao's call had already come, and he couldn't just leave it there.

So after thinking for a few seconds, he picked up the phone and answered the call.

"Chief Lin! Are you looking for me?"

"Haha, if I don't look for you, aren't you going to look for me anymore?"

Lin Xiao's words on the microphone made Li Cai stunned on the spot.

Then there was a burst of ecstasy in his heart, which was almost the same as when he became CEO, and even more exciting.

"you mean?"

"The day after tomorrow, when I come to Beijing, I invited you to have dinner with Mr. Kang from CATL. By the way, let's talk about the battery issue that you are most concerned about... Oh, maybe it's not that important to you, otherwise If so, you won’t need me to call you.”

"You're kidding! Of course we're all concerned."

Li Cai immediately smiled.

"Then why don't you call me? All the companies that have called me in the past few days have gone overseas. Penguin and Ali have all called me, as well as foreign companies such as ExxonMobil, Apple, etc., you are the only one. I didn’t make the most phone call to CATL.”

"This..." Li Cai said helplessly: "I also think that Chief Lin will test our patience in the end."

Lin Xiao was speechless and said: "Do I seem to be such a thoughtful person?"

"Haha, of course you are not, it was our misjudgment, misjudgment." Li Cai laughed.

"Okay, anyway, the notice has been given to you now. You can talk about anything else when you arrive the day after tomorrow."

"Okay, I will be there on time."

After hanging up the phone, Li Cai let out a sigh of relief, and a big stone fell from his heart.

In the end, he couldn't help but laugh. Unexpectedly, he was overthinking it. He probably had been in the business world for a long time, and his ideas were all round and round. He originally thought that Lin Xiao was on the second floor. It turns out they are actually on the first floor.

"This is Mr. Chief Scientist."

Shaking his head, he called his secretary and asked him to book a ticket for the trip up next week.

…

At the same time, Lin Xiao, who went to Beijing, also put down his mobile phone.

"These businessmen always think too much of people."

He laughed. He didn't have much thought to do this kind of quiz. The other party had done their best to assist the areas without electricity, so there was no need for him to embarrass them in the end.

As for whether their power supply plan or mine hunting operation is sincere, using this to demand two large companies would really embarrass the moral sentiments of the companies.

Anyway, the 1.4 billion yuan invested by the two companies is all real money.

As for the rest, he really wasn't in the mood to ask for anything else.

Of course, he could have waited until the two companies came to him before telling them. In this case, the two companies would definitely continue to work on their power supply plan and mine hunting operations every day in the future. huge investment.

However, since he will be involved in quantum computers next, he will have time by then, so he decided to finalize this matter as soon as possible.

As for whether the two companies are still willing to spend money on this in the future, he will not intervene. Each company has invested at least 7 billion. He feels that it is already a huge difficulty for the two private companies. .

"Okay, now it's time to make a call to CATL."

Without further words, he picked up the phone again and dialed Kang Zheng's number.

The conversation that followed cannot be said to be exactly the same as Li Cai's call. It can only be said that it is only half a point different. Apart from the different words and sentences, there is almost no difference in what he wants to say.

Obviously, Kang Zheng had similar ideas to Li Cai.

It wasn't until he hung up the phone that Lin Xiao couldn't help but sigh in his heart: "This is probably the unified thinking of the CEOs of these big companies."

…

Soon, the day after tomorrow, Li Cai and Kang Zheng arrived at the place where Lin Xiao was entertaining guests as scheduled. After some discussions, BYD chose proton batteries, while CATL chose lithium-sulfur batteries.

There was no disagreement between the two families and they agreed happily.

According to Lin Xiao's estimation, the two companies probably had a negotiation yesterday, and they may have reached an agreement. After all, after mastering these two battery technologies, it will be a win-win cooperation for these two companies. In confrontation, either the winner takes all, or both lose, so there is a high probability that they will only choose to cooperate.

However, these have nothing to do with Lin Xiao. Anyway, the ownership of the final technology belongs to him.

Then he discussed the distribution of interests with them. Lin Xiao's request was very simple, 40% of the net profit of each battery, and not much else.

In this regard, the two companies also breathed a sigh of relief. It was just net profit. If it were gross profit, they would probably be scolded, because their net profit was less than ten points compared with the average. If it were directly from gross profit If they take a commission, it will simply cost them their lives.

This is why Qualcomm is called a patent troll, because it takes a cut directly from the gross profit. For example, for example, how much does it cost to sell a mobile phone? Qualcomm's patents will take a percentage of the patent fee from the sales price of the mobile phone.

All in all, the 40% net profit that Lin Xiao wanted was just a little bit ahead of their bottom line.

The authorization period is five years.

This five-year authorization period can also be regarded as Lin Xiao's test of whether they can ensure that funds to assist areas without electricity are in place in the future.

"Then, thank you Chief Lin!"

"Well, this is what you deserve for keeping your promise. I won't break my word." Lin Xiao nodded slightly.

"Our power assistance plan will definitely continue forever."

"So does our Operation Mine Chase."

"OK."

Lin Xiao smiled slightly and shook hands with the two of them.

“A pleasure to work with.”

“A pleasure to work with.”

The CEOs of both companies also smiled and nodded.

Soon, the news that the two companies had obtained authorization from Lin Xiao spread quickly, and the world battery market was also shocked by this news.