pertwk Chapter 583 Now I Want to Be a Good Person
Chapter 583 Now I Want to Be a Good Person
Chapter 583 Now I Want to Be a Good Person
Suzhou, Changqing Biotechnology.
"Chairman Gao, did you deliberately arrange for Tang Yijing and Yan Feng to go to Lingjing Media on the same day?" Tang Yun asked with a smile.
"Yes, this is a good opportunity to spread the word, so that those investors won't try to get a bargain from me."
What? What's Tang Yijing's reaction?
"It's unclear what the specific reaction was, but according to Manager Song, the person turned around and left after hearing the news."
Moreover, when they left, the way they looked at Old Master Yan was as if they were looking at a plant we had hired.
Tang Yun couldn't help but laugh.
"Ha!" Gao Yuan couldn't help but laugh too.
Even though she wasn't there, she could roughly imagine the wonderful expression on Tang Yijing's face.
To be honest, if you told anyone about this price, they would all think that Yan Feng was a complete sucker.
But companies like Wanwu Group can never be judged by conventional standards...
From the perspective of maximizing profits, Gao Yuan would like to nurture it until it becomes a "mature entity" before considering financing.
Instead of being sold off cheaply in its "juvenile stage".
Yes, it's a fire sale...
Although it is not yet clear why Lingjing Media, which seems insignificant, is listed alongside Changqing Bio and Baiyeji as one of the group's three core companies in Meng Lang's future plans.
But clearly, everyone, including Gao Sheng, has not yet realized the true potential of Lingjing Media...
"But Mr. Gao, won't this scare away all the investors?"
"It's alright, gold will always shine. If it weren't for the need for development, I wouldn't even consider raising funds for this kind of company."
A lack of funds is only part of the reason; the more realistic situation is that with the rapid expansion of Wanwu Holdings' scale, it has reached a stage where it can no longer operate alone...
It's not just Gao Sheng; numerous domestic and international investors are eyeing Bai Ye Ji, this increasingly lucrative piece of the pie.
Sooner or later, they will be unable to suppress their profit-seeking nature and will show them their sharp knives and forks...
The more a company grows from the bottom up, the more it has to accept the reality that equity will become increasingly scarce if it wants to grow bigger and stronger.
Being taken in by a peaceful entity is considered good; if you don't have any connections, there are countless cases of people being coerced and exploited by both the legitimate and criminal worlds, resulting in the destruction of their families.
Social mobility, especially to the core interest circle, is an invisible war no matter where it takes place.
Raising funds for equity investment is sometimes not just because of a lack of money, but also a form of exchange and binding of interests.
Although Wanwu Holdings has found a powerful backer in Mr. Hu, as the interests involved grow larger and larger, there will inevitably come a time when it can no longer protect them.
Gao Yuan never considered putting all her eggs in one basket, so she proposed to Meng Lang early on that they must open up financing.
The listing and financing cycle is too long, and the company's operations will be subject to strict supervision and restrictions, which is not a good choice for Wanwu Holdings, which has too many secrets.
Therefore, choosing a powerful ally and sharing the benefits becomes the best option.
The Hu family was the first, the Yan family was the second, and more suitable allies will follow, being pulled onto the chariot of Wanwu Holdings to help them crush the thorns and obstacles in their path...
Even if it's Gao Sheng, as long as they can afford the price, Gao Yuan wouldn't mind letting them get a share of the profits.
After all, the other party's strength and connections will undoubtedly become a booster for Lingjing Media's globalization.
Of course, this is all predicated on having firm control over the company's decision-making process...
Each of the subsidiaries of the group that Meng Lang helped establish has its own special "historical mission".
For example, it could be used to treat Alzheimer's disease or to provide logistical support during wartime.
Some did it to accelerate the development of civilization and enhance humanity's combat capabilities...
Based on the varying levels of confidentiality and differences in technological sensitivity among companies, Meng Xiaolang, the successor to the sharing economy, has stipulated strict "sharing models" for each company.
For example, Changqing Bio is a company that is sensitive and cannot be shared.
Baiyeji is a type of company that allows for limited sharing.
Lingjing Media, due to the unique nature of its industry, needs extensive connections and markets.
In addition, there are no sensitive technologies that need to be strictly kept secret; it's the type of technology that's willing to share as much as possible as long as it can be developed quickly...
"Okay, I understand. In any case, with this 5 million, our cash flow can finally catch its breath."
The personnel costs for the game development team at Lingjing Media aren't a big issue; the main problem is the excessive computing resources they consume.
Their box office revenue sharing is slow, and they can't come up with the money, so they can only temporarily buy on credit...
Now that the subsidiaries have completed independent financial accounting, it's fine in the short term, but if it takes too long, it will inevitably cause complaints from other departments.
Now that this money has arrived, everyone can finally breathe a sigh of relief.
Gao Yuan nodded.
Compared to other companies that can already recover their own losses or even generate revenue for the group, Lingjing Media belongs to the type with a long investment cycle and slow capital return.
In addition to the initial investment of 2 million yuan in film production, the group still needs to continuously provide funding for it.
However, the difficulties are temporary.
The gaming and entertainment industry is a well-known cash cow. Once the snowball starts rolling, Lingjing Media might become one of the group's most profitable companies...
but……
“Computing power…” Gao Yuan couldn’t help but sigh.
If we were to pinpoint the bottleneck in the development of Wanwu Holdings, this rapidly progressing train, it would undoubtedly be computing power!
Bajie AI, Tianshu ERP, Zhihuishu, Computing Power Supermarket...
The essential requirement for each of these projects is computing power.
Zero's technical strength is undeniable, and its unparalleled user experience, coupled with the ever-expanding business volume, has already strained the group's computing resources.
Now, the gaming division, a major consumer of computing power, has joined the fray.
Heaven knows that developing a game map would consume so much computing power.
In short, the most frequent application reports appearing on Gao Yuan's desk during this period were requests for computing power resources...
Even though they made plans early on, and even though most of the group's recent cash flow has been spent on expanding the computing center, the computing power is expanding at a rate that is almost doubling every month.
However, the speed of computing power supply is still far from meeting the bottomless demand of various departments.
However, this can be considered a kind of happy trouble.
Money came in... so I invested in computing power... the computing power was spent... money came in... I continued to invest... and more money came in...
It's a real money burner, but it's also a real money maker...
Looking at the exaggerated profit margins submitted by the computing power department.
Gao Yuan stated.
This spending spree is so addictive...
……
White Night Chronicle, Technical Department.
"Sure enough, it's improved by another one percent! Is this rock-solid 45-degree angle optimization speed really scientific...?"
At a spacious workstation, a chubby man wearing glasses stared wide-eyed at the Bitcoin mining "energy efficiency ratio" that had just been updated on the server backend. He felt as if the sky was falling for traditional mining farm owners...
Yu Hua, whose BBS username is "Yuhuashi", is a postdoctoral fellow in Computer Science at Tsinghua University.
Um... I'm currently a newbie who just joined the AI algorithm department of Baiyeji Technology.
That's right, it's that fat guy who accepted a "mission from his master" and was sent by Zheng Qiu, that unreliable doctoral advisor, to infiltrate Baiyeji as an "undercover agent"...
Although he seemed a bit unreliable, he passed the rigorous technical assessment with his solid professional knowledge and successfully joined the technical department of Baiyeji.
Then, as soon as he entered, he received a welcome gift...
Exclusive memberships to TianShu ERP, BaJie 2.0 brand-new upgraded accounts, and Idol New Energy vehicle purchase discount coupons...
Based on the current booming market prices, these alone are worth tens of thousands.
For new employees, the emphasis is on providing maximum benefits and a generous attitude!
These extra gains alone made Yu Hua exclaim that the trip was worthwhile, not to mention that Bai Yeji also helped him earn his first pot of gold...
He glanced at his private computing power pool.
Today's earnings: +¥159.53.
That's right, this is his real-time earnings from mining in the "computing power supermarket".
It's definitely not comparable to those big shots with tens of thousands of yuan in interest on Alipay. It's still far from being completely financially secure, but it's close enough to be able to take a short break.
Including the initial 20 yuan invested with Zheng Qiu, plus the reinvestment of profits over time and the exchange of "wisdom coins" in my own account.
Based on current market prices, if he were to sell his private computing power pool now, its total value would have ballooned to around 30.
A profit of 10 is not much, but how long has it been?
Logically speaking, even if the profits from mining are incredibly high, it's impossible to earn this much in such a short time. But what can he do when he's renting a computing power pool for six months?
This is equivalent to long-term rental, which leverages the funds.
After the first wave of early adopters tasted success, more and more "miners" noticed the exaggerated mining efficiency of Baiyeji's "computing power supermarket".
When an actuary calculated the input and output, he was shocked to find that the profit margin of the "mining farm" he bought in Inner Mongolia, a place with low electricity prices, was actually lower than that of a "supermarket".
Renting is worse than buying, so what's there to hesitate about?
And so, the news spread like wildfire on professional forums...
This directly led to a massive influx of individual buyers and even mine owners from around the world, who then embarked on a frenzied buying spree.
It's important to know that these funds are typically used for purchases with a minimum lease term of six months.
Baiyeji's computing power supermarket took advantage of the special era dividend of Bitcoin, and under this "rent-collecting expansion" model, it spread to cloud computing centers across the country at a speed no less than that of shared bicycles...
It's hard to say how much global demand there is for Bitcoin computing power right now.
Even if it only consumes one-tenth of this computing power requirement, it would be enough for Baiyeji to become one of the world's largest cloud computing providers...
The Rise of Computing Power...
While bringing massive cash flow to Baiyeji, it also caused Zero's strength to increase exponentially...
Even so, Baiyeji's computing power expansion speed still couldn't keep up with the crazy market demand. As a result, the computing power resources that Yu Hua and other early adopters possessed became highly sought after, and the market transaction price kept rising.
This directly led to Zheng Qiu and Yu Hua making a fortune from their previous investment of all their savings.
Unfortunately, those Bitcoin players had such a keen sense of money that the influx of funds quickly led to a sharp decline in returns.
Investing more money now might still yield small profits, but it's nothing compared to the huge profits we made before.
Otherwise, if the snowball continues to roll for a while longer, Yu Hua feels that he might be able to buy a private bathroom in Beijing.
Looking at his earnings, he couldn't help but think of his mentor who had borrowed money to gamble everything...
He immediately picked up the phone and dialed the number.
"Hello~ who is this?" A somewhat lazy voice came from the other end of the phone.
“I am your most beloved disciple! Your almost forgotten, hardworking undercover disciple, Liu Jianming!” The fat man added a few more adjectives in an annoyed tone.
Haha! How could I forget! But I don't really like your analogy. What Liu Jianming? I'm not Brother Chen.
Even if we're acting in Infernal Affairs, we're still Chen Yongren and Inspector Wong, representing justice!
"You still have the energy to argue with me? Looks like you've been having a good time lately?"
He only invested 20 yuan, but Old Zheng put in nearly 200 million yuan, including his daughter's dowry. He probably has so much private money that his secret stash is almost overflowing...
Haha, it's just so-so! *cough cough cough...*
Suddenly, a violent cough came from the other end of the phone.
"What's wrong? Your old problem has flared up again?"
After all, they were master and apprentice, and the fat man couldn't help but show concern.
Oh, no, I just bought a few Cuban cigars to try. Hey, they're really strong... cough cough cough~
Fatty: "..."
You've made me work so hard as an undercover agent, and you're just sitting there with your legs crossed, smoking a Cuban cigar, huh?
Seemingly sensing his beloved eldest disciple's resentment through satellite signals, Zheng Qiu quickly changed the subject.
[Ahem! Um... have you seen the backend data for today's computing power supermarket?]
"Hmm! I checked, and the energy efficiency ratio has steadily increased by another percentage point."
[Hmm! Not too much, not too little, a one percentage point increase every day... What does this mean?]
The fat guy grinned. "This shows that even though they could easily get a perfect score, they deliberately try to improve by just a little bit every day..."
"Yes, that's how I feel too." Zheng Qiu's tone was somewhat strange.
This brings us to Meng Lang's statement about the gradual technological development requirement of "an OTA (Online Update) every few days, making a little progress every day."
As an artificial intelligence, Zero executed Meng Lang's casual commands with extreme precision, truly making a little progress every day...
But to outsiders, such an action would just look like a show of skill.
Oh! Others are struggling to even pass, and you're here precisely controlling your score, right near the perfect mark.
This level of difficulty is completely incomprehensible to those who are not academically inclined...
[So, what's the latest discovery? Has that elusive witcher shown up yet?]
"Stop hiding your true self all the time, please address our Chief with the respectful term 'a dragon that appears but never appears'!"
【Uh……】
What's going on? When I sent him out, he was still acting like a ghost, and it's only been a short time? And he's already the Chief... Lord?
Have you met him in person?
"The real person? The whole world is looking for him right now. Do you really think I'm 007? Or that I can join their core board of directors as soon as I start working?" The fat man rolled his eyes.
You use honorifics for him even though you've never met him, but you've never even used them for me...
Ignoring Zheng Qiu's sour tone, the fat man's eyes shone with admiration.
"Old Zheng, do you think there's anyone like this? He can code all night long, and he can also draw CAD assembly parts. He's proficient in top-notch software and hardware technologies, extremely good at project management, and his work efficiency is terrifyingly high. One of him is worth ten of them..."
There was silence on the other end of the line.
Are you sure you mean "person"?
"Yes, it's simply amazing! I originally thought it was just hearsay, how could a 'person' do something like this?"
It wasn't until I got here that I realized the outside world had no idea just how amazing our Chief truly was…
The longer the fat man stayed, the more he could sense the extraordinary nature of this company.
Don't be fooled by the company's unremarkable office building; the technological sophistication inside is on a completely different level compared to ordinary companies.
The entire process of clocking in and out is done via facial recognition; financial reimbursements are automatically approved with one click; meeting minutes are automatically organized; the efficiency of automated office work is astonishingly high...
And all of this is inseparable from one person...
Hey! I'm sending you undercover to investigate the technological prowess of the 'Computing Power Supermarket' and see if the Witcher has anything to do with those three math problems, not to convert to a religion.
Seriously, did you really do any proper investigation?
"I……"
"Tap tap tap~"
Just then, a silver humanoid robot that looked seven or eight parts similar to the Baiyeji corporate logo passed by him with a slight mechanical whirring sound and came to another workstation not far from him.
"Mr. Zhang San, employee number 8478, this is a project proposal that Mr. Li Si, employee number 8193, upstairs asked me to deliver to you. He hopes you can attend their department's R&D meeting before 3 pm tomorrow."
"Thank you!"
"You're welcome! Guardian Series Type I is at your service!"
"Tap tap tap~"
Staring at the back of the humanoid robot that turned and left, politely making way for passing employees, the fat man's eyes sparkled.
Um... by the way, Bai Yeji has recently started experimenting with using newly developed robots to replace internal company logistics...
"Hello! Hello! Are you listening?" The voice from the phone drew the fat man's attention back.
"Huh? Oh! An undercover agent? Of course I remember, but that's not important anymore~"
What does "not important" mean?
"Old Zheng, we've been master and apprentice for a while, I hope you can give me a chance."
What opportunity?
"I didn't have a choice before, now I want to be a good person."
Zheng Qiu: [...]
(End of this chapter)