Chapter 178: Canton Fair (6.3k)
Zhao Ye plans to invest more than 2 billion yuan in the aerospace industry every year, mainly in three aspects: rockets, satellites, and engines.
At the beginning of Musk's entry into the rocket industry, he only invested $100 million, but after many rounds of financing, before Zhao Ye's rebirth, there were 29 financings, with a total financing of $9.8 billion.
Investing in the aerospace industry seems to be much cheaper than investing in the chip industry, and it can be fully supported by the financial resources of Wujiang Group. Moreover, when the country has money in the future, there will definitely be subsidies to support, and China's future aerospace industry is still relatively promising.
At present, there is only one rocket launch company in China, namely the Long March Rocket Company, which is a joint venture between Wujiang Group and the state, which will undertake all rocket launch missions in China, and far surpass Musk's SpaceX in terms of development potential.
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At this time, the whole country was jubilant!
China's successful launch of Asia-1 is of great significance.
China has once again proved to the world that China is one of the few countries in the world capable of launching geosynchronous satellites, and at this moment, China can use the Long March-3 carrier rocket for commercial launches and bring China's space technology into the international commercial market."
At present, there will definitely be many countries and enterprises that also want to launch their own geosynchronous satellite.
The cost of rocket launch in China is naturally much lower than that of the United States, the Soviet Union, and France, so the Long March Rocket Company is fully capable of undertaking rocket launch orders from various countries.
In the previous life, because China invested too little in the aerospace field, the rocket production capacity was limited, and it would not take the initiative to attract business, China missed many opportunities to make money.
But this life is different.
Long March Rocket Company has received investment from Wujiang Group, and has undergone earth-shaking changes in talent, technology, scale, and management.
It is no longer a pure state-owned enterprise, but a joint venture company with a strong sense of commercialization. The state will not engage in sales, but the Wujiang Group will; The state does not pay attention to controlling the cost of rockets, and the Wujiang Group will control the cost.
After the successful launch of the "Asia-1", the salesmen of the Long March Rocket Company also began to take action, taking the initiative to contact the space departments of various countries to ask them if they needed China's help to launch the satellite, and quoted to them that China's rocket launch fee was about 120 million US dollars.
However, this is much lower than the cost of rocket launches of more than $2 to 300 million in the United States.
The cost of the Long March 3 is actually less than 40 million US dollars, and the cost will be even lower if it is mass-produced. So, the business of launching rockets is very profitable. Even if it fails the first time, it's a big deal to launch the second and third times, even if it is a loss, it is not much.
Only when the number of rockets launched is more can scientific researchers collect information, sum up experience, and develop more advanced rockets.
Not long after Zhao Ye returned to Shanghai, the aerospace departments of seven or eight countries, including Britain, Germany, and Singapore, as well as five or six enterprises, including Motorola, were very interested in China's rocket launch project and began to send people over to discuss cooperation.
When Zhao Ye received the news, he was extremely happy, obviously China is one of the only four countries in the world that can launch geosynchronous satellites, but in his previous life, he received very few international orders, which is really a pity.
Zhao Ye looked out the window with his head held high, and said with anticipation: "China's aerospace is to seek development in international competition, as long as the situation is opened up for the first time, the road in the future will be wider and wider!" ”
"I heard that Motorola also sent people to contact the Long March Rocket Company, and it seems that the 'Iridium Project' has been proposed within Motorola!"
Speaking of this, Zhao Ye couldn't help but want to laugh.
Motorola's Iridium program is to launch 66 artificial satellites for mobile phone global communication, and then use satellite handheld telephones to dial and receive telephone signals from anywhere on the earth!
Of course, the idea is good, but, as the saying goes: "Half a step ahead is a pioneer, and one step ahead becomes a martyr."
The Iridium program may have gone too far, and Motorola became a martyr.
And there are many flaws in the whole Iridium system, for example, Iridium phones cannot receive signals in buildings, bulky equipment, high cost, unsatisfactory voice quality, etc......
This, along with a number of other reasons, ultimately led to the complete failure of the Iridium program.
The reason why Nokia mobile phones were able to surpass Motorola in the 90s is because Motorola focused on the Iridium program.
Motorola must have thought this at the time: "What is a 2G mobile phone, when my Motorola Iridium program is successfully launched, the whole world will use our Iridium mobile phone from Motorola!! ”
Therefore, Motorola does not pay much attention to 2G mobile phones, otherwise with Motorola's technical background, how could Nokia be its opponent.
Of course, Zhao Ye is happy to see it, and hopes that Motorola will go further and further on this road of no return!
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"Boss, at this year's Autumn Canton Fair, Tiangong Technology Co., Ltd. wants to show low-end CNC machine tools to the outside world, and strive to enter the international market for low-end CNC machine tools of Tiangong Technology Co., Ltd.!" Zhou Huicheng, general manager of Tiangong Technology Company, called at this time.
"It's a good thing, in the international market, most of the low-end CNC machine tools are monopolized by Japanese CNC machine tools, and we just break this situation and add a little blockage to the Japanese who have a good life!" Zhao Ye said with a smile.
"Haha, that's a must!" Zhou Huicheng laughed.
Japan's low-end CNC machine tools are not more advanced than the low-end CNC machine tools of Tiangong Technology Company, but in terms of price, there is a big difference.
A Japanese low-end CNC machine tool that costs hundreds of thousands of dollars, the same product, Tiangong Technology's quotation is less than half.
People are not ruthless, and they can't stand steadily.
Through the price war, the Japanese low-end CNC machine tools can be directly exploded.
Low-end CNC machine tools affect the development of high-end CNC machine tools, and Japanese machine tool companies have reduced their revenues, so the investment in technology research and development will naturally be reduced.
Because of the cost advantage, Tiangong Technology Co., Ltd. sells low-end CNC machine tools, and the profits are still considerable, and there is no need for blood transfusion from the parent company, and there are enough funds to support the research and development of high-end CNC machine tools.
At present, the low-end CNC machine tools of Tiangong Technology Company have just been on the market for a long time, but they have gradually opened up their fame in China, and many factories are the first choice of Tiangong Technology's products.
The production equipment produced by the subsidiaries of Wujiang Group is of course trustworthy!
Moreover, the product quality is excellent, the price is cheap, and the key is to have perfect after-sales service.
Of course, Japanese companies also have after-sales service, but domestic companies are not less pitted, the Japanese face is extremely greedy, whether it is to send technicians to repair the equipment, or to replace the spare parts of the equipment, the price, will definitely pit you vomit blood.
Tiangong Technology is not too easy to grab orders from the Japanese. If it weren't for the fact that Tiangong Technology doesn't advertise much, it might be popular all over China now. But it's normal, who sees the company that produces machine tools advertise on TV.
However, the product has a good reputation, and Tiangong Technology Company will soon be able to occupy the domestic market.
At the same time, it is also necessary to enter the international market and make foreign money, which is more fragrant than making domestic money.
When the time comes, the Japanese will not have a good life.
At this time, there is still a period of time before the autumn Canton Fair, Tiangong Technology should be prepared to meet a large number of international orders in advance, and begin to increase the production capacity of CNC machine tools.
The Canton Fair, also known as the "China Import and Export Fair", is a comprehensive international trade event with the longest history, the highest level, the largest scale, the most complete types of commodities, the largest number of buyers and the widest distribution of countries and regions, and the best transaction effect.
As long as the products of Tiangong Technology Company are unveiled at the Canton Fair, they will be able to attract the attention of representatives of domestic and foreign manufacturers.
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A few days later.
Motorola.
Vice President Jonathan Grace, who has just returned from China, briefed everyone on the cost of launching China's Long March rocket.
When everyone heard this, they were excited.
"The launch cost of China's Long March 3 launch vehicle is very low, which is good news for us, which will greatly reduce the cost of the Iridium program!" The president of Motorola said with a smile on his face, "From now on, we can design the Iridium program and start launching the first low-orbit satellite in 1994!" ”
"Well, I agree with that, and the Iridium program must begin immediately. Nowadays, GSM mobile communication technology is becoming popular in Europe. GSM is a European-led technology, which is very bad for us at Motorola. One executive nodded, then said with a worried look on his face.
As soon as the words fell, many people also realized the threat of GSM and couldn't help nodding their heads.
Motorola dominates the era of analog communications, but may not be able to dominate the era of GSM digital communications.
The Iridium program will be Motorola's killer feature!
With an Iridium phone, you can make calls from anywhere in the world, how can it be compared to GSM?
Everyone was full of confidence.
They never thought that the Iridium project would fail, after all, the Iridium project is so great and so awesome, there is no reason to fail~
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Since Zhao Ye learned that Motorola would still start the Iridium program with his previous life, he couldn't be happy.
Motorola has always been a competitor of the Borderless Group, and both companies have generated fierce competition in many fields such as chips and communications.
Compared with Motorola, Zhao Ye believes that Nokia is better to deal with.
Nokia started out as a logging and paper-making business, and then developed into a mobile phone manufacturer. In terms of technology, Nokia is obviously not comparable to Motorola.
At this time, Zhao Ye continued to design the origin engine in the office, and by August 1st, the development of the origin engine was completed, which took a total of about four months.
Zhao Ye made a copy of the origin engine, put it into the USB flash drive developed by his company, and then went to Borderless Games.
After Zhao Ye arrived at Wujiang Game Company, he immediately called the company's executives to the conference room for a meeting.
He looked around and saw that everyone had arrived, so he said: "Shenzhou Computer is expected to be released in February and March next year, in order to make Shenzhou Computer a hit, Wujiang Games must develop a variety of PC games that can be popular!" ”
"However, before developing the PC game, I designed a 3D game engine, and you guys use it to develop the game!"
As soon as these words came out, it was like dropping a bomb on the surface of a calm lake, which stunned everyone.
Now the games on the market are all 2D game engines, and Zhao Ye directly designed the 3D game engine, which can be called the king bomb!
It's not that no one has ever thought about developing a 3D game engine, but it's very difficult to develop, and no one has been able to develop it so far.
The boss is really a super genius!!
Everyone immediately admired the five-body throw to the ground.
"Boss, what's the name of the 3D game engine you developed, and how is the effect?" Wang Jizhi asked excitedly.
Zhao Ye smiled faintly and said, "It's called the Origin Engine, the effect, I can only say that it is incomparable, and you will know it when you use it." Okay, now I'm going to introduce you to the game you're going to develop with this Source engine. ”
After a pause, Zhao Ye got up, walked to the blackboard, picked up a pen and wrote a line on it, and then said: "The game you want to develop is called 'Counter-Strike', and the players are divided into two teams, the 'Counter-Strike' camp and the 'Terrorist' camp, and each team must fight for multiple rounds on a map. The way to win the round is to reach the objectives required by that map, or to completely eliminate the enemy player.
The game has a total of 6 modes, 'Demolition Mode', 'Hostage Rescue Mode', 'Assassination Mode', 'Escape Mode', 'Arsenal Mode'......"
Zhao Ye talked eloquently and introduced "Counter-Strike" to everyone in great detail.
After everyone listened, they were all excited.
This game, just listening to the introduction, they are already very excited.
Shooting competitive team battle games, there were no more than them before, this is undoubtedly creating a new game genre!
"I'm kind of impatient to develop Counter-Strike, and then we all work together in groups!" An executive looked excited.
"Haha, me too, I can't hold back the excitement in my heart! The games we used to develop were basically single-player, while Counter-Strike is a multiplayer computer game that can be connected to a local area network! Through the game "Counter-Strike", you can see that the development potential of PC games seems to be even greater than that of home games! Humans are social creatures, and even when they play games, they like to play with a few good friends, so multiplayer mode is definitely the future! ”
"Yes, with our company's Internet café plan, a multiplayer competitive shooter game like Counter-Strike will definitely be a hit!" Wang Jizhi couldn't help but say at this time.
Zhao Ye smiled, returned to his seat, took out the USB flash drive, handed it to Wang Jizhi, and advised: "The origin engine is the company's strategic weapon, don't leak it, and no one in the company is allowed to copy the software privately." ”
When Wang Jizhi heard this, he said with a serious expression: "Boss, don't worry, I know the value of the origin engine!" ”
With Source Engine, high-quality games can be developed quickly, and if competitors get their hands on them, it can be a threat to Boundless Games.
No, the meeting ends.
As soon as Zhao Ye left, everyone couldn't wait to walk towards Wang Jizhi, wanting to understand the effect of the Origin Engine.
Seeing everyone gathered around, Wang Jizhi smiled bitterly and said, "Let's go, let's go to the laboratory and test the effect of the Source Engine on the 'Nuwa Server'!" ”
"Okay, let's go!"
Everyone was in high spirits, surrounded Wang Jizhi, and walked towards the laboratory.
Soon, everyone came to the laboratory and started the "Nuwa Server", or the small "Nuwa Graphics Workstation"
Although this "Nuwa server" is only a prototype, its performance is really powerful, and using it to develop games can get twice the result with half the effort.
Wang Jizhi inserted the USB flash drive into the "Nuwa Server", then ran the Source Engine, and used it to make a simple test game.
It wasn't long before the lab erupted in shock.
"Oh my God, the rendering and the light and shadow effects are really good, the picture is quite amazing. By the way, polygon models and particle effects are supported! ”
"Look at the physical system, it's very real, every action is like reality."
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In the end, everyone was so shocked that they were numb, and they didn't know how to describe Zhao Ye, the technology is so awesome, he is definitely a super god in the computer industry!
The only thing that everyone can do is to worship!
Zhao Ye returned to the office, but he thought that there was only one PC game, and the temptation was not enough.
What to do?
He thought about it for a moment, but decided to develop Diablo, Warcraft, and StarCraft.
I have to grieve Blizzard Games, who makes your game fun.
However, before that, Zhao Ye also wanted to continue to improve the origin engine. At this time, it was not him who developed it alone, but formed a team with excellent technology.
The importance of a game engine is self-evident, it is the core of the game. In the future, game engines will even be able to be fake, and many movie shots will use game engines.
The next day, Zhao Ye came to Borderless Games again and announced the establishment of the Source Engine department.
After the establishment of the Source Engine department, Zhao Ye selected a group of talented programmers to join it, and then began to recruit mathematicians and physicists......
Games are one of the core industries of Wujiang Group, so Zhao Ye attaches great importance to the development of game engines.
The game engine project will be developed by him himself, because there were many open source game engines in his previous life, so the game engines he mastered are definitely beyond the imagination of ordinary people, such as Unreal Engine.
Unreal Engine is an open-source, commercially-charged, free-to-learn game engine developed by Epic Games. Since its birth in 1998, Unreal Engine has become the most widely used game engine in the entire game industry, with the highest overall application degree and the highest next-generation graphics standards.
Unreal Engine is not only involved in console games, PC games, mobile games and other games, but also involves high-precision simulation, strategy drills, working condition simulation, visualization and design performance, drone cruise, and many other fields.
Zhao Ye has experienced several entrepreneurship in his previous life, the first time was to develop EDA "mother of chips" software, and the second time was to see games to make money, so he got involved in the game industry, at that time, he used Unreal Engine, and he also made a very detailed understanding and comparison of other game engines.
Today, Epic Games has not yet been founded, and Zhao Ye can copy Unreal Engine without spending a penny, and learn from others to develop a better game engine.
Zhao Ye is no longer a man this time, and he is hanging up again!
How can other game companies compete with them?
Being born in the same era as Zhao Ye is destined to be a tragedy!
In the following days, Zhao Ye's work became very regular, handling the group's business every morning, going to Borderless Games in the afternoon to develop the origin engine, and sometimes guiding game developers to develop "Counter-Strike".
Until October 4th, the Canton Fair began.
Only then did Zhao Ye shift his attention to that side.
The Canton Fair is very lively, there are many foreigners, and many companies want to find business opportunities in the Canton Fair.
Zhou Huicheng brought more than 10 low-end CNC machine tools from Tiangong Technology Company to the Canton Fair site, including CNC drilling machines, CNC milling machines, CNC punching machines, CNC boring machines and so on......
The Canton Fair arranged a very conspicuous and spacious location for Tiangong Technology, and soon, the display booth of Tiangong Technology was full of people to consult the performance and price of these CNC machine tools.
Zhou Huicheng said loudly to everyone: "Tiangong Technology is a subsidiary of Wujiang Group, with strong technical strength, everyone can rest assured to buy our company's products!" ”
"It turned out to be a subsidiary of Wujiang Group, and the quality of the CNC machine tool must be fine!" A businessman from Southeast Asia was suddenly surprised and immediately full of confidence in Tiangong Technology's CNC machine tools.
The others couldn't help but nod secretly, and they also trusted Tiangong Technology a little more.
Seeing this, Zhou Huicheng couldn't help but sigh with emotion, the name of Wujiang Group is really a priceless signboard.
Zhou Huicheng didn't think much about it at this time, and hurriedly introduced the data and price of each CNC machine tool to everyone.
"Although Tiangong Technology's CNC machine tools are low-end machine tools, the quality is much better than other low-end CNC machine tools, and the price is cheap. I bought a low-end CNC machine tool from Japan for $250,000, but the same product from Tiangong Technology only sold for $150,000! Alas, I was a big loser! A Thai manufacturer said with regret and distress.
"I'm the same, I also bought a high-priced machine tool from Japan, I really regret it!"
"Or the Chinese do business is real, the products are of high quality and low price, my factory will use CNC machine tools in the future, just find Tiangong Technology Company!"
"Me too!"
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At this time, there were also Japanese businessmen who came to China to participate in the Canton Fair.
Yamazaki Mazak is a machine tool manufacturer in Japan, they produce CNC machine tools not only high-end CNC machining centers, but also a lot of low-end machine tools, which can meet the needs of customers at all levels.
In this Canton Fair, Kim Mitsuyu, as a representative of Yamazaki Mazak Company, is full of expectations!
"Miyu Tomikawa, when the Canton Fair was held in China last year, our company's machine tools were highly sought after, and achieved remarkable results, this Canton Fair, we must break the sales record, come on, !!" Kim Mitsu-woo said to the female colleague next to him with high morale, and made a cheering gesture with his right hand.
Miyu Tomikawa is tall and tall in a black OL outfit and black silk, and she is a sexy Japanese beauty, and Kim Mitsuyu, as a senior, always wants to give more care to her subordinates.
This time he went to China to participate in the Canton Fair, and he specially brought Miyu Tomikawa.
As a world-renowned machine tool manufacturer, Yamazaki Mazak Company is known to many manufacturers.
After the Canton Fair began, it didn't take long for the exhibition area of Yamazaki Mazak Company to welcome many people.
However, what puzzled Kim Mitsu-woo was that many people didn't buy it after asking about the price, which is very strange.
"Nani? What's going on? ”
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