001 Chapter 1 Drone Bidding

In the spring of the 21st century, a province in country Z invited bids for a civil drone project for forest protection and fire prevention, which is a coastal province at the forefront of reform and has always been a test field for many new things.

Early summer, on Friday, in the project office, a young man with a beard spoke more and more excitedly.

"Why do you want a 5 million capital verification certificate?" The bearded young man angrily questioned the staff of the project office, this young man is called Wang Xiaoyu, 32 years old this year, opened a small drone start-up company in the provincial capital, this forest fire prevention drone bidding project, pinned all Wang Xiaoyu's hopes, whether his technology company can survive, it is counting on this project. Today is the last day to sign up, but now the project office requires a capital verification certificate of 5 million, so how can Wang Xiaoyu, who borrowed 200,000 yuan last year to start a business, get it?

Director Lin of the office said lightly: "This is to ensure the qualifications of the bidding company and put an end to those leather bag companies that fish in troubled waters."

"Why isn't it stated in the tender announcement?" Three months ago, Wang Xiaoyu read the tender announcement more than ten times and confirmed that his company was qualified to devote all its resources to this bidding.

Director Lin said coldly: "The leader only asked for the added clause a month ago, what? Do I want to report back to you? ”

"This..."Wang Xiaoyu was speechless for a while, and after a while, he said unwillingly: "There must be a reason for this, right?" ”

Director Lin was already impatient with him, and while packing up the documents, he replied, "This is a work need!" After speaking, he raised his hand and looked at his watch, and he was about to leave work in five minutes.

Wang Xiaoyu's face became more and more red, his hands holding the information were trembling slightly, and he had a strong urge in his heart to slap the information folder in his hand on Director Lin's half-bald head. The cousin Xiaoqing next to her saw that the situation was not good, so she quickly pulled the corner of Wang Xiaoyu's clothes, smiled and said to Director Lin: "Director Lin, we will come back in the afternoon after preparing all the materials." After speaking, he didn't wait for Director Lin to reply, and pulled Wang Xiaoyu and walked out.

When he arrived on the street, Wang Xiaoyu complained to Xiaoqing: "Xiaoqing, we won't be able to get a capital verification certificate of 5 million yuan in the afternoon." ”

Xiao Jing smiled mysteriously, stretched out his hand and pointed forward and said, "We don't have it, but they do."

Wang Xiaoyu looked forward along Xiaoqing's fingers, and saw a small advertisement hanging on the table on the pole of the street lamp: "X is a company registration, capital verification certificate". Wang Xiaoyu said: "Is this kind of small roadside advertisement reliable? ”

Xiao Jing replied: "One of my classmates once entrusted them to register and start a company, and now the business license has come down. ”

Wang Xiaoyu said: "But this time is different, is it really reliable?" ”

Xiao Jing said: "Hey, at this time, you have to rely on it if you can't rely on it." ”

At night, on the side of the road, in the food stall under the banyan tree, Wang Xiaoyu had already poured half a bottle of jade ice into his stomach, blushed, burped, poured a full glass, and drank it all with his head up. Xiao Jing said on the other side of the table: "Boss Chen, how did you come out with your capital verification report?" We only turned it in for five minutes before it was pointed out as a fake. ”

"It's impossible, our report is unimpeded every time it is in the industrial and commercial bureau, my company has been open for several years, and I haven't seen any customer complaints."

Xiao Jing said indignantly, "I have told you in detail that this is a capital verification report handed over to the project office, not for going to the Industrial and Commercial Bureau to open a leather bag company."

The other end of the phone stopped for a while, only to hear Boss Chen say again: "Impossible, is the project office more professional than the Industrial and Commercial Bureau?" It's not scientific."

"Don't talk nonsense, your report caused us to lose the bid, and you have to take this responsibility", Xiao Jing said loudly.

"How is this possible, I only charged you a few thousand yuan for the service fee, and it is a big deal to return it to you."

Xiao Jing was so angry that he scolded: "You bastard, I'll smash your company to a pulp tomorrow ......"

Before he could finish speaking, the round table in front of him was raised high and tilted towards the opposite side. The beer bottle crashed into the plate of snails in front of him, the snails rolled all over the table, Xiaoqing hurriedly reached out to press the table, it was too late, there was a bang on the other side, Wang Xiaoyu fell to the ground with a stool, a plate of water spinach, soup and water, buckled to Wang Xiaoyu in all directions, dyed his white shirt into camouflage, there was a bunch of noodles on his mouth, and he couldn't tell whether it was the original table that was not finished and buttoned up or vomited.

Xiao Jing hurriedly ran over, hugged Wang Xiaoyu, and cried: "Brother, how can you drink like this, the business is gone, we will go to work, can we still starve to death?" ”。 He took out a tissue and wiped his face clean as he said, "We'll go home tomorrow and stop playing with these bastards."

Wang Xiaoyu burped and said in a daze: "If you don't let me play, I won't let you play!" ”。

A week later, the official website of the project office announced the list of qualified bidders, a total of four companies, the first is the leading enterprise in the field of domestic drones, SZ's small domain company, their entrepreneurial team from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, accounting for 60% of the international consumer market, is a high-tech company with strong strength.

The second is from the imperial capital of the freezing point intelligent control Co., Ltd., their entrepreneurial team from the military industry, in the formation of flight and other aspects of the absolute advantage, their pocket drone formation, once on the stage of the winter evening for the famous singer Mao XX to dance "full of fireworks", exquisite performance to the people of the country breathtaking.

The third is a rookie in the field of drones, the barley company, their boss is called Rebus, known for the production of barley mobile phones, their own intelligent operating system, programming is their forte. Of course, the most famous is the 1 billion yuan gamble between Rebus and Sister Dong.

The fourth is the AST company from abroad, which is an internationally renowned veteran drone company. At Christmas, they used drones to form an image of Santa Claus in the air, which shows that their ability to control flight is quite amazing.

These four companies are all strong, and to be honest, compared to them, Wang Xiaoyu's company is like ants encountering elephants, and people peeing on him, and it is a monstrous flood to him. In the words of one leader, it would be an insult to these high-tech companies to let a small company like Wang Xiaoyu compete with them.

However, to the dissatisfaction of these powerful technology companies, the project office requires the drone to be within a 30-kilometer radius. The source of the ignition was found within the specified time, but the cost of each aircraft was required not to exceed 200,000. You know, the most suitable equipment to find the source of fire is infrared imaging, only infrared imaging equipment, a little better cost is more than 10,000 yuan, the cost of the whole machine is not more than 200,000 yuan, the profit margin is quite limited. For this reason, Rebus once called the leader of the project office to ask if he could increase the unit price, and the leader said: "Since it is a civilian drone, there must be a price that the people can afford, if it costs millions, our army has military drones, and the cost performance is recognized by the world, can we still use bidding?"

The price war was originally a big killer in Rebus's hands, and since the price of 200,000 yuan could not be changed, he would no longer say anything. As a rising star in the field of UAVs, he is the most stressed among the four companies, at this moment, in the office, looking at the prototype that has been assembled, he asked his chief engineer with concern: "Zhou Gong, what is the chance of our machine winning?" ”

Chief Engineer Zhou once obtained a doctorate degree from a certain university of technology in the United States, and he was full of confidence in technical matters, only to hear him say: "Mr. Lei, I have ninety percent confidence in the technical performance indicators of this machine, and now the key to winning lies in two, one is stability, and the other is surprisingly successful."

Rebus nodded and said, "Then tell me what you think about the two aspects of stability and surprisingly winning."

Chief Engineer Zhou said: "In terms of stability, as a technology giant, I believe that everyone's hardware and software are passable, and it is difficult to distinguish the advantages and disadvantages. It is mainly necessary to strengthen the anti-interference aspect and form its own characteristics."

"So how do we strengthen it?"

"First of all, the shielding function should be done well to prevent accidental electromagnetic interference. Secondly, it is necessary to prevent some illegal jamming signals, such as GPS signal interference, so our machine is equipped with GPS and Beidou dual navigation system."

"Very good, after all, we are not a military aircraft, and if we can do a good job of shielding and dual navigation systems, we can basically cope with it."

"Well, so the key is to win by surprise, isn't the bidding a requirement for everyone to find the source of fire within the specified time? We will not lag behind them in this regard, but there is no certainty of victory, so I added a fire extinguishing function to the machine, carrying a dry powder fire extinguishing bottle under the belly of the machine, and throwing it into the fire field, which can extinguish the fire source within a radius of ten meters. If we can find the source of the fire and put it out, we will naturally be stronger than them. ”

Rebus clapped his hands and said, "Okay, very thoughtful, in order to add to the dramatic effect, can we create an accidental wildfire and extinguish it with our drone, wouldn't it be more convincing?" ”

Chief Engineer Zhou nodded and said: "Or Mr. Lei is thoughtful, hehe, no wonder others praise you as a marketing expert, you can indeed create miracles everywhere, I will arrange it."

Some people may wonder, but if satellites in space can detect forest fires, wouldn't it be easier to find them at low altitudes? It should be noted that satellites in space see forest fires that have already become large-scale, and due to the resolution, they are invisible to the small fire sources in the forest. The purpose of drone inspections is to find the fire sources that may cause forest fires and eliminate forest fires in the bud. This requires a high resolution, and it can't fly too high or too fast, so low-altitude and low-speed drones have become the best choice.

Ten days later, hundreds of kilometers away from the provincial capital, on the side of a football field, there were four tables in each corner, and in front of each table were two or three crew members, who were the operators of the four drone companies selected by the project office. Two huge screens were erected on the side of the stadium, showing two blazing bonfires, one for the first and the other for the second fire. Today, they are going to compete on the same stage here, with this stadium as the center, a radius of 30 kilometers, and within half an hour, to see who can find the two fire sources pre-set in the mountains and forests first.

There were hundreds of people sitting in the simple stands, some of them were relevant personnel of various bidding companies, some were news media reporters who were concerned about high-tech, and more were people who came to see the excitement, including employees of forest farms and some employees of small drone companies who were not qualified to bid.

In order to increase the range and airtime, this time their prototype is two six-axis rotary-wing UAVs, because the Forestry Department stipulates that the tender aircraft should not be limited by the site and have vertical take-off and landing functions. Each company can send two drones, one for the mission to find the source of the fire. The other is a surveillance camera used to film the performance of the mission aircraft. Each company's aircraft are operated by pilots of their choice. Let them send their own planes to shoot, also to investigate the coordination ability of the flight formation. The two drones of Damai are different from other companies, each with a white oval object under the belly, the size of a grapefruit, which looks like a dinosaur egg.

When the other three companies saw the dinosaur egg-like object, they couldn't help but mutter: this is a lot like a fuel tank, could it be that their plane is powered by jet fuel? But when he saw the brushless motors on the six axles, he shook his head self-deprecatingly, this is obviously electric, is this the secret weapon of Damai Company? An inexplicable pressure welled up in my heart.

Rebus, who was standing outside the arena, saw this scene and couldn't help but feel secretly proud that his plan was half successful. Don't look at the orders of only a few hundred planes in this province, but there are more than 30 provinces in the country, as long as the pioneering Guangdong Province is won, other provinces will be captured, which will be a big business of billions. What's more, the barley drone has been an instant hit since then, and there is no need to be overwhelmed by small domains and freezing points.

Suddenly, a whistle sounded in the middle of the court, and the referee waved the small red flag in his hand and loudly announced the rules of the game: "Now I announce the rules of the game:

First: the duration of the game is half an hour.

Second, the scope of the competition is within a 30-kilometer radius of the stadium.

Third: The drone shall not be replaced during the competition, and no energy shall be added or replaced.

Fourth: Whoever finds the two fire sources in the forest first and marks them on the electronic map will win.

Okay, now everyone hurry up and prepare, five minutes later, as soon as the gunshots rang out, everyone took off at the same time,"

Everyone hurriedly got busy, Chief Engineer Zhou checked every detail in detail, rechecked every screw on the propeller, rechecked the signals of the image transmission and flight control, and saw that there was no snowflake, and a satisfied smile appeared on his face. He gently shook the two "dinosaur eggs" under the belly of the machine with his hand, and was very satisfied with his initiative, and frightened his opponent as soon as he appeared.

To the southwest, on a hillside five kilometers from the pitch, a bearded young man came under a pine tree that was hugging two people, and the dense branches of the pine tree blocked the scorching sun, forming a huge shadow, which hung over the young man's head, and made him feel a little cool, but his feverish mind was not much clearer. He wiped the sweat from his head, laboriously untied the two large backpacks on his chest and back, took out a bottle of Nongfu Spring from the backpack and poured it twice, and his throat, which was about to smoke, was poured with cold water, which seemed to be scornful, making people feel refreshed.

He is Wang Xiaoyu, his small company is not eligible to participate in the bidding, resentful, and determined to mess up this bidding, to let those arrogant bigwigs know how powerful they are. As soon as he graduated from college, he was pulled by his classmates to engage in screen printing, to print huge advertising paintings in the waiting hall, and made some money in the early days, but because the technical threshold of screen printing was too low, others soon followed suit, and the competition was fierce, and the price could not be done anymore. After learning from the pain, he decided to change his career to the high-tech industry, so that there were fewer competitors, and soon screened out the sunrise industry supported by the country, for which he also went to South China University of Technology for two years to study, but there was not enough funds, and it was not easy to open up the situation. He invested all his energy and funds in the trial production of a drone suitable for forest protection and fire prevention, who knew that the machine came out, but was told that there was no bidding qualification, and he was almost not angry and vomited blood.

He couldn't resist the urge to retaliate, and took his cousin Xiaoqing to purchase two GPS signal jamming sources on Amazon, two powerful laser flashlights, and carried his two drones modified for forest protection and fire prevention to this bidding forest farm. Be prepared to give bureaucrats and high-tech companies a little color. By the way, Wang Xiaoyu's father, Wang Guodan, is a retired cadre of the city's forest protection and fire prevention headquarters, and the uncles and aunts of the forest protection and fire prevention headquarters watched him grow up.

He looked down the hill and saw a pile of grass burning at the edge of a farmer's vegetable patch, with a lot of water and wet mud, and the burning was very inadequate, and a curling green smoke was emitting. He sneered in his heart: Sure enough, there is a cat, lest those bidding technology companies can't find the source of fire, and they will use fireworks to cheat, there is really no bottom line.

He took out his mobile phone and dialed a number, and it was his cousin Xiaoqing who answered the phone on the other end, and he asked, "Xiaoqing, have you arrived at the location of the fire source?" ”

Xiao Jing said: "I'm here, the source of the fire is 300 meters away at the foot of my mountain, and there are three forest policemen guarding it, brother, are these things you bought really useful?" He and his cousin Xiaoqing divided the labor, one of them ambushed around a fire source, and dealt with the bidding drones separately.

Wang Xiaoyu said: "Is it useful, don't you know if you try it?" After speaking, he took out a black box the size of a cigarette box in his backpack, pulled out an antenna more than 20 centimeters long from it, pressed the switch, and a red signal light flashed and lit up, and he gently put the small box on a fork of the pine tree. looked at the time on the phone, and said into the phone again: "Qin, you also prepare, their plane is about to take off." ”

When Wang Xiaoyu and Xiaoqing were on the phone, the time was up, and in the forest farm, in the middle of the court, a "pop" starting gun sounded, and the bidding competition officially began.

The drone of the small domain company, which had long been unbearable, took off into the air, quickly crossed the height of the basketball hoop, and flew over the top of the six-story dormitory building next to it, hovered for a moment, made some adjustments, and then made a beautiful sideways tilt, and slowly flew towards the mountain peak on the left. Immediately after a surveillance UAV followed, steadily following the task plane up to ten meters, not to lose the leading leading enterprises, the two-plane formation flew steadily and fast, in a blink of an eye over the left mountain, they wanted to rely on high speed, from east to south clockwise rotation to find the source of fire.