Technological Hegemony

"Teacher, this is last month's financial report."

When the time came to September, Shen Lang put a thick stack of forms on Luo Jia's desk, and said in a deep voice: "After the final settlement, Xingchen Xihua completed a total of 140 sales in the first month of its establishment. However, due to the large-scale global marketing and advertising campaign, we invested more than 5.5 billion US dollars in publicity and distribution in that month, plus tax and cost factors, the net profit was only less than 3 billion US dollars."

Shen Lang seemed a little disappointed to report to Luo Jia, and Luo Jia showed a surprised expression after hearing it, net profit of 3 billion US dollars? This result is really astonishing, after all, Xingchen Xihua has only been established for the first month.

Everything is difficult at the beginning, Luo Jia thought that the first month would be a mess of losses, but unexpectedly he still made money, I don't know whether to praise Shen Lang's excellent marketing methods, or feel that the female compatriots are crazy about beauty.

"According to our observations on the market prospects, when the stars are on the right track, even if we estimate conservatively, it can bring the company a monthly net profit of no less than 25 billion U.S. dollars and an annual net profit of 300 billion U.S. dollars. Left and right." Shen Lang explained.

Such an exaggerated figure made Luo Jia both pleasantly surprised and apprehensive. The net profit of 300 billion US dollars per year is still the most conservative estimate. If Lu Tao, the chief financial officer, gets the news, he will hold Shen Lang and cry bitterly.

Lu Tao, the chief financial officer, has been having a hard time recently. The space program will not be profitable within the foreseeable five years, and it will spend crazy money. On average, it will spend at least an astronomical figure of one trillion US dollars every year.

Star Technology is of course rich, but at the same time of making money, Star Technology spends money even more cruelly. Scientists in the company receive the highest salary in the world and enjoy the best treatment in the world. They even provide houses and objects for free. No need a lot of money as support.

Moreover, Xingchen Technology is the largest scientific research group in the world. When ordinary people think of scientific research, they may have laboratories and rows of complicated equipment in their heads. However, the managers who actually operate the scientific research group think of money, and the experimental equipment is very expensive. Is it good, from the big hadron collider to the small bottles and cans in the chemical laboratory, which one is not made by money?

The so-called scientific research is actually a concentrated battle of intelligence and capital. How did North America's technological hegemony come about?

The Oak Ridge National Laboratory alone burned 110 billion US dollars in 2018, and there are at least a dozen such laboratories in North America, and hundreds of smaller secondary laboratories.

If you fall behind, you will be beaten. Xingchen Technology is a rising star in the global technological competition. The latecomers must have the consciousness of the latecomers. They must spend more money and invest more scientific research than the predecessors. Only in this way can they catch up and even overtake .

At present, the Star Technology stall is really too big.

The total number of engineers and researchers was 220,000 last year, but by September this year, it had exceeded 260,000. The hard-hit Japanese and Korean science and technology circles have come to defect one after another. Luo Jia has the opportunity to form the Greater East Asia Alliance , to counteract the ambitions of Western forces, so they accept all orders, so the settlement and moving expenses paid to new employees this year will be an astonishing figure.

The stars cleanse the 300 billion a year, which comes at the right time, which is equivalent to 30% of the annual funds required by the space program. Luo Jia really wants to praise the great women, they are the best! The Road to Stars and Seas depends on them to raise money!

However, Luo Jia is also worried, because this time Xingchen Xihua not only earns money from foreigners, but also from compatriots. The domestic price of Pechoin blue and white porcelain vases is as high as 1,000 yuan. It has always been a tradition of selling at low prices in the country to benefit all compatriots.

"Teacher, you can't say that." After Shen Lang learned of Luo Jia's concerns, he explained seriously: "Carmen Vortex Street Power Generation is a big project that can be recorded in the annals of history. Have we benefited our compatriots?"

Luo Jia was stunned, and said in a deep voice: "Of course, the current domestic electricity price is 10 cents per unit, which is the lowest in the world. We can set the electricity price at 20 cents, which is the lowest in the world, but our profit will be doubled."

"The reason why we don't do this is because we consider that electricity is a livelihood project, so that everyone is willing to turn on the air conditioner in summer, and no longer has to worry about electricity bills, which can greatly improve the happiness of life, so our Karmen Vortex Street Power Generation Project, although the momentum is mighty , but in fact, you have not made money selling cosmetics, if this is not benefiting the compatriots, what is it?"

Shen Lang nodded, "It's also based on life science technology. When a person is sick, it is our duty to help him treat the disease. But if a person feels that he is not beautiful enough and wants us to help her become more beautiful, then we must There is a fee, after all, helping everyone become beautiful is a non-essential added value, not our job."

"Teacher, I know your love for your hometown, but now we have a goal, a super goal that is great enough to change the destiny of all mankind. In order to achieve this goal, we should do whatever it takes to achieve it."

Luo Jia didn't say anything, since Luo Jia was thirteen years old, Luo Jia had already asked Shen Lang to read Machiavelli, and Shen Lang did not disappoint Luo Jia. When it came to killing and cutting, the young Shen Lang was still ahead of Luo Jia. superior.

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In the autumn of the sixth year of Star Technology's founding, it is destined not to be peaceful. In this era when beauty is justice, once Pechoin Blue and White Porcelain was launched, it caused a global earthquake of magnitude 18. Its influence even surpassed Star Technology's space program. At the beginning, Luo Jia launched the epoch-making Karman vortex street power generation.

This is probably the gap between ideal and reality. Of course, Luo Jia hopes that everyone can love and believe in science. However, in real life, the people are most concerned about pork prices and celebrity gossip.

"Damn Xingchen Technology, the face cream in the blue and white porcelain bottle is so expensive, the old lady can't even afford the cup of milk tea every afternoon."

"Sister, how can you wrong yourself so much? Instead of not drinking milk tea, you might as well ask your husband to quit smoking. What are the benefits of smoking? The money saved will buy you cosmetics. You will become more and more beautiful. Your husband It's also a face."

"That's right, I don't dress up to show off to those stinky men. My husband should pay for the money."

In the shopping mall, two elder sisters queuing up exchanged their experience of living at home. Although their incomes were not high, they bought cosmetics without hesitation. The Pechoin mask produced by

There are five masks in total, and the price is 1,000 yuan. If you use it every day, the minimum monthly consumption is 6,000 yuan. It is definitely a waste of money without negotiating. After Luo Jia's approval, Shen Lang also went all out to speed up the launch of new products The speed, ready to let fellow women, generously contribute to the company's space program.

And the female compatriots lived up to expectations, and devoted themselves to the extremely costly beauty business with great enthusiasm. All the women in China, and even the world, were snapping up like crazy, and all kinds of bizarre news kept breaking out, which was shocking. .

In a poverty-stricken area in Africa, a mother forced her underage daughter to marry an 80-year-old man in order to raise money to buy face cream. A policewoman in a Southeast Asian country marked herself with a price, how long a few bottles of face cream could get her, and so on.

Anyway, for the sake of beauty, the women do everything they can, staged scenes of bizarre human comedies, refreshing everyone's three views time and time again, of course, it is not difficult to see from this, the success of the money-making machine washed by the stars.

Quite a number of female compatriots are desperate to fund the great space program. This phenomenon surprises the straight men of Xingchen Technology.

Women hold up half the sky, but it’s useless to talk about it. At critical moments, they have to be willing to pay. As long as they pay, straight men are willing to admit that they are half the sky, and most of them are fine.

...

Paris, L'Oréal headquarters.

For five consecutive years, L'Oreal Group has been ranked No. 1 in the list of the most popular employers in France. They not only provide high salaries to their employees, but also have up to forty-five days of paid vacation. Even on working days, employees only need Thirty hours of work per week, which also includes an hour of tea time every afternoon.

However, the good days of L'Oreal Group finally came to an abrupt end today. For the first time in 30 years, L'Oreal's monthly report showed a huge loss of 6.2 billion euros. Such an exaggerated figure shocked the board of directors. A storm is brewing fast.

"What's going on!?" Director Roland roared angrily, "Since the company was established in 1907, it has been the largest cosmetics group on the planet, and in the past 30 years, due to our successful development of the Chinese market with huge potential, the financial The report is full of huge profits, and there has never been a loss!"

"It's good now, the loss is a mess! In just one month, we lost 6.2 billion euros!? According to this figure, it won't be long before our century-old store will close down! Explain, you must Explain it to the board of directors!"

The general manager Tudor tidied up the collar of his shirt. Facing the doubts from the board of directors, he was already panicked, but he still tried to calm down and said: "The main reason for the huge loss is that we and Xingchen Xihua Group, In the last month, there has been a brutal global attack."

"Perhaps the directors have not noticed that the ladies who wear cheongsams and sell Pechoin brand cosmetics are stationed outside the gate of our group, as well as in all shopping malls and supermarkets, and in the most densely populated areas of every city in the world."

"This kind of fierce offensive is a typical style of Xingchen Technology. As the industry leader, we can only resort to a more fierce promotional offensive than them, which has caused financial losses."

The directors nodded one after another. Although they were separated by the industry, everyone had heard of the name of Xingchen Technology. Those Chinese barbarians were very strong. Even the powerful North America is now actively resisting the Chinese invasion, which shows that they are ferocious.

Now that Star Technology has begun to challenge L'Oreal's global dominance in cosmetics, L'Oreal must counterattack. It is reasonable to spend more money for this, resulting in a deficit in financial reports.

"So, after investing huge marketing expenses, we have already won the war with Star Technology?"

"This month's loss is only temporary, starting from next month, everything will return to normal, right!?"

"Those Chinese people still worship French products, and they will still madly buy cosmetics from our L'Oreal Group. Mr. Tudor, this should be the case, right?"

The directors questioned one after another. In their opinion, this month's financial report is a huge loss. So much money has been invested, so it must have some effect, isn't it, to defend against the mad attack of the Eastern black hands, or to drive them back?

By this time, General Manager Tudor couldn't hold back any longer. He was sweating profusely, his wrists twitched one after another, and his right eyelid twitched wildly.

As a professional manager, he knows very well that the good times when the West made money lying down are gone forever. Just look at the employees of the L'Oreal Group. These French people can get dozens of times the salary of Chinese people. Enjoying amazing benefits and holidays, is it because they are smarter than Chinese people, is it because French civilization is superior to Chinese civilization?

Probably not.

It's just that they were lucky enough to take the lead in the process of the industrial revolution in the new century.

"Mr. Tudor, are you talking!?"

"What's going on now?"

Facing the silent Tudor, the directors were aggressive.

With a bitter smile on the corner of his mouth, Tudor sighed weakly, and said in a low voice: "Three years ago, when Xingchen Technology launched the industrial software project, the software department of the Dassault Group also thought like us that it was useless. How long will it take for those Chinese people who want to stand on their own feet to kneel down and beg them to provide software, because with the strength of the Chinese people, it is impossible to equalize the gap of decades in a short period of time."

The directors were silent. They seemed to have heard about this incident. At that time, the company that used Dassault CFD software should be COMAC, the only seedling of Huaxia large aircraft project.

"So now? Has Dassault's software department recovered its business?" Director Roland asked in a deep voice.

"Now?" Tudor shrugged his shoulders, "Dassault Group no longer has a software department."