"No money? How can it be! ”

Chen Weidong sat in his office, and after listening to his report, he was really taken aback.

The company's cash flow is so huge, how can it be so quick to run out of money, according to his original assumption, it should at least last a few more years.

"Mr. Chen, it's true, now there are only more than 10 billion left in the financial account, and according to the current pace of the company's expenditure, we can support it for three months at most." Zhan Hongtian showed a wry smile, and he also looked very helpless.

Now his finance department has more than 200 professional accountants, who handle the company's large and small income and expenditure every day, so this data will never be mistaken.

"What the hell is it that costs so much?" Chen Weidong couldn't help but be a little curious, more than 100 billion can be spent, and the speed of spending money is a match for the speed at which I make money.

"There are tens of millions of research projects and topics, but the biggest expense is the electronic laboratory, and they spend hundreds of millions of yuan every month." After thinking for a while, Zhan Hongtian replied cautiously.

Although he is the company's chief financial officer, the company's scientific research department has always been a transcendent existence.

Every time the project leaders came with the application form for funding stamped and signed by the academic committee, he only needed to arrange the appropriation.

In fact, he doesn't have any authority to ask about the use of the other party's funds, so he doesn't know what the researchers are spending their money on.

"Is that so.... You go back to work first, I will solve the problem of money, you don't have to worry. ”

"Okay, Mr. Chen."

....

Send Zhan Hongtian away.

Chen Weidong leaned back in his office chair and closed his eyes slightly.

The company is now getting bigger and bigger, and the people who rely on the infinity company to eat, directly or indirectly, at least more than 200,000 people, although the society praises their company a lot, but as an operator, he is undoubtedly a failure.

The company's financial level has never improved, and it has always been in a state of making ends meet.

If it weren't for the fact that he made a lot of money in the Xiangjiang stock market in the early years, it would not have been possible to support it until now, let alone sit firmly in the position of the world's top 100.

Up to now, there are actually quite a few profitable businesses for infinity companies.

For example, instant messaging, the game sector, the entertainment industry, equipment sales, computer machines, supercomputers, server exports, etc., are all projects that continue to make profits.

The game, in particular, is simply a gold-sucking monster.

According to the report submitted by the finance department, the revenue of the gaming division in the latest quarter reached more than 700 million RMB, an increase of 17% from the previous quarter.

This is already a very large number for 2001.

Nearly three billion for the whole year.

Many companies that are listed on the stock market do not have that much market capitalization.

But this money, if you say that it is going to be used for research and development, especially for large projects that require long-term investment, it is not worth mentioning at all.

Ordinary people can't imagine how much R&D investment those foreign tech giants spend every year, but Chen Weidong knows it very well.

That's about 20% of revenue.

It is equivalent to keeping only a little profit every year, and investing most of the earned funds in technological upgrades.

The world's No. 1 is working so hard, and the rest are not as good as his "bad students", and the cost and energy required to catch up with him have increased exponentially.

He can also take his time, let the infinity company make money slowly, and then take out a part of the net profit and slowly invest it in scientific research, so that the company's financial situation should also be very healthy.

This is also the way most companies operate.

But since you want to get something out of this era in advance, you will naturally have to pay a high price.

The difficulties of the physical industry cannot be imagined by outsiders, especially when it comes to research and development, which is simply a bottomless pit.

It all seems to be back to square one.

It seems that you have to use the lever of finance to get enough capital to support what you want to do.....

Chen Weidong sat in a swivel chair one morning, facing the floor-to-ceiling glass wall, looking at the sky outside, and the dissipating clouds in a daze.

When Li Xi'er saw his action, she knew that he was thinking about something.

Every time he had something new, he would stare out the window and sit all day, or for several days in a row.

And when he woke up from his state of distraction, he said that it would not be long before there would be a scientific research project, or a new plan, that would pop out of his head.

Li Xi'er quietly walked over, picked up the documents on his desk, and prepared to move them to his desk to review for him.

As a result, Chen Weidong was in a daze this time, which only lasted for a short time, and then he immediately stood up.

"Xi'er, you can help me notify Lin Zeju, Zhao Gong, Liu Weitao, and Yu Guangbin to come over, by the way, let Yu Guangbin and Liu Weitao bring an expert in their department who is proficient in business to come over."

Liu Weitao was originally the head of the company's automation instrument department, and once served as Zhao Gong's deputy, and later transferred to the materials department, specializing in the research and development of new materials.

Yu Guangbin is the general director of the photonic computer project in the electronics laboratory.

Specifically, he focuses on the research and development of photonic computers, spanning several disciplines such as optoelectronics, automation, computers, and materials, and coordinates the work of various departments.

Chen Weidong waited for a while, but the first person to arrive was not Lin Zeju, who was working on the same floor as him, but Yu Guangbin.

Lin Zeju is one of the shareholders of the Yellow River Group and has rich management experience, so he is responsible for the specific management of the company in Infinity.

The infinity company is getting bigger and bigger, and his work is getting heavier and heavier, and he is busy with his feet hitting the back of his head all day long, how can Chen Weidong and Chen Jie be so leisurely, even if they want to come over, they have to deal with the things at hand first.

Yu Guangbin didn't expect him to be the first to arrive, and he knew what Chen Weidong asked him to come for.

Naturally, the boss wanted to ask about the research and development progress of the photonic computer.

Photon Computer was established very early last year, and it has been almost a year since then.

The boss knew the arduous nature of the work and never interfered with their work, and even instructed the academic committee many times to give strong support to the project.

If you want money for money, people for people, and help from the outside world, the academic committee will also work tirelessly, and the whole country and even the world will find relationships and run, and negotiate with other institutions and companies to buy each other's technology, and never complain.

But until now, they have spent money like water, and they have not reported a good news to their boss!

Even, there was no progress in the progress of the study.

Everyone in the project team, from the beginning, was proud because of the company's special treatment, and showed how important their work is to the future of the company in front of their colleagues.

Later, because there was no progress, I shrank my head all day long, and I was embarrassed to come forward to say hello when I saw that my colleagues were afraid of being asked.

Everyone was holding back their energy and wanted to do something good.

Every day, the people in the photonic computer research group go to work at the earliest, leave work at the latest, and often take the initiative to work overtime on holidays.

But this photonic computer, a computer that is 1,000 times faster than a traditional electronic computer, is always like a floating cloud in the sky, which can be seen but not touched.

As of today, the scrapped parts and models of the demonstrator can fill a large warehouse, but they still haven't been able to make a photonic computer that is barely operational.

Yu Guangbin and Cen Jingping, the chief engineer of this project, discussed it when they came in, and the two of them were still honest, sitting behind everyone in ashes, not to attract attention.

But as soon as they pushed the door open, they were stunned.

Only the two of them, the first to arrive!

"Yu Gong, Chief Engineer Cen, you are here, come in, sit, sit down and talk." Chen Weidong sat on the sofa on the side of the office, warmly beckoned them in, and asked Li Xi'er to pour them two cups of tea.

Yu Guangbin and Cen Jingping, you look at me, I look at you, it seems that the boss is not angry, and it doesn't look like he wants to ask them about the teacher.

Although Chen Weidong's expression looked kind, the two of them still felt guilty, so they could only sit nervously on the edge of the sofa, put their hands on their knees, and lowered their eyebrows.

The two science and technology workers who are close to a hundred years old together dare not come out in front of Chen Weidong.

Chen Weidong saw their nervousness, and began to chat, and told them some interesting stories when they were in the island country, without adding more mental pressure to them.

A few minutes later, Liu Weitao walked in with a researcher from the materials department.

As soon as Liu Weitao entered the door, he didn't look like a little daughter-in-law like Yu Guangbin and them, but directly called Chen Weidong bitter: "Mr. Chen, when you come to me, don't you want to give our department a showdown again?" ”

"You don't know how heavy our mission is! Over there in the mechanical laboratory, Zhao Gong is like a life-urging charm, let us test the hardness of various parts for them, and the optoelectronic department has recently embarked on a drone project, asking us to get light alloy materials for them, and also said that we will make micro engines, as well as the improvement of the company's chip production line...."

"I'm desperate to grow dozens of hands now to be enough! Mr. Chen, just let me catch my breath! ”

The researcher behind him also touched his nose and smiled.

In the company, the busiest mechanical laboratory is also the most complicated, especially the subordinate automation instrument department.

As long as they are busy, they must cooperate with the materials department, and they will not let go if they are caught, and the materials department itself has scientific research projects to do, and researchers go to work, every day is like a spinning top, and they can't stop turning when they start to turn.

The two of them saw Yu Guangbin and Cen Jingping who were huddled aside, and they both pretended not to see it.

For the photonic computer project team, the annual funds are open, the most assistance from other departments is required, the academic committee strongly supports, the boss attaches the most importance to it, and it is like a son, but it can't make any achievements all year round, and many departments of the company scoff at it in private.

Especially in their materials department, there are several senior engineers with the best technical strength, including the automation department where he used to stay, and there are two chief engineers, who are still in the photonic computer project team, and they are so busy with work, but they don't want to come back.

Liu Weitao and others have very big opinions.

Seeing Yu Guangbin and the two, they didn't roll their eyes, it was already interesting enough, don't want to give them any good faces.

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