Warship of Great Power

"Mr. Qin, there is a Western reporter who wants to interview us."

Listening to Xu Zhengyang's words, Qin Tao subconsciously wanted to wave his hand. Even if he didn't see this kind of person, the conversation might not be pleasant, and he might be digging holes for himself, and he might get caught in it.

However, he still said casually: "What's your name?"

"Beaumont."

"full name?"

When Xu Zhengyang finished saying his full name, Qin Tao nodded immediately: "Invite her in!"

Soon, a Western woman in her thirties walked in: "Mr. Qin, I'm glad you can accept the interview. I come from France and want to report something that surprises us in the West. I hope I can be here with you." Find the answer."

"What's up?"

"Why is the cost of producing aircraft carriers so low in the East? According to relevant analysis, the cost of building a Ford-class aircraft carrier in the United States can produce five 003 aircraft carriers here. How do you do it? Is it by squeezing labor? "

"Our workers all work voluntarily, and their wages are also very high." Qin Tao said, "Zhengyang, you go to the finance office and ask for a salary list for ordinary workers."

Xu Zhengyang was very curious, why was Mr. Qin so enthusiastic about such a foreign woman? You actually showed confidential information like salary to the other party?

However, since Mr. Qin wants it, he can just go and get it himself.

Soon, the salary table was displayed on the wall through the projector. Beaumont's eyes were filled with surprise: "An ordinary worker can earn more than 8,000 yuan a month!"

"Yes, I can guarantee that this salary schedule is indeed valid. Next, you can ask our front-line workers how much they earn per month."

Now, the minimum wage in the capital is only 700 to 800 yuan a month. Those who can earn more than 3,000 yuan belong to the white-collar class. Ordinary workers in Mingzhou Group can earn more than 8,000 yuan a month, which is definitely high-end. income.

"Moreover, this is the actual amount left after paying insurance and pension. At the end of each year, we will give an extra two months of salary as a year-end bonus. Our ordinary workers should have no lower wages than workers in the West."

"Yes, if converted, the income is about the same as that of workers in the West." Beaumont nodded.

"However, prices in the East are low, and the actual purchasing power of this money is far greater than that in the West."

Beaumont nodded again.

“If it’s not low wages, then what is it?”

"Thirty years ago, our country put forward the slogan that science and technology are the primary productive forces." Qin Tao said: "Our low costs are of course due to high technology."

"What kind of high technology is needed for shipbuilding?"

For Westerners who have never been to the East, it is indeed difficult to understand the level of science and technology in the East. Even in the impression of many Westerners, the East should be similar to Africa.

Now, Qin Tao wants to correct the other party's impression.

"Next, I'll take you to our shipyard and you'll understand. Zhengyang, make arrangements and let's go to Huating Second Shipyard."

"good."

Soon, a special plane took off from the capital and flew directly to Huating.

Sitting on the large sofa, Beaumont was very envious: "Mr. Qin, is this the life of the rich in the East?"

"No, I am not a rich man from the East, I am an entrepreneur from the East. I often need to travel between places. In order to avoid wasting time, I have this special plane." Qin Tao said: "You should know that for entrepreneurs, time is the most important thing The most important thing is that you can come back in the evening after I show you the equipment in the shipyard."

"Mr. Qin, did I disrupt your schedule?"

"It doesn't matter, as long as you can objectively and fairly report everything you see in the East so that the world can better understand us in the East, that's enough."

"I certainly will."

The Mingzhou Shipyard is still building aircraft carriers, and the level of confidentiality is very high. Therefore, Qin Tao took Beaumont to the Huating Second Shipyard to have a look, and she should understand.

Cong Ju was very curious when she heard that Qin Tao was coming. She was even more curious when she saw that Qin Tao had brought a foreign reporter with him.

So, just as Xu Zhengyang was walking in front with Bo Meng, Cong Ju spoke softly from behind.

"Mr. Qin, what is the identity of this reporter? Does he deserve your personal companionship?"

"Sister Cong Ju, this reporter can report our Dongfang fairly and objectively, and let the world know about our Dongfang and our Mingzhou Shipyard, so..."

Cong Ju nodded: "Okay, what do you want her to see?"

"Look at our production line."

"good."

"Huating Second Shipyard is a civilian ship production base. It currently mainly produces liquefied gas ships, which are also the flagship products of our Mingzhou Group." Qin Tao introduced: "Miss Beaumont, you should know that shipbuilding starts with cutting steel plates. Right?"

"Um."

"We'll start by cutting the steel plate."

This is definitely a whole new world for Beaumont!

As soon as she entered the factory, she saw several trucks transporting goods, pulling steel coils on them. However, these trucks only had a body, no front, and no cab!

"These cars..."

"At present, our smart driving is very mature. Some roads in Huating have opened smart driving test roads. As for our factory area, it has been fully popularized. All vehicles transporting goods are driverless."

"So, you saved the cost of the driver?"

"The profession of driver will disappear in the future." Qin Tao said: "For our company, the demand for drivers is getting smaller and smaller. However, as long as we don't recruit new drivers and the old drivers gradually retire or transfer to other positions, as long as they are not at fault, our Mingzhou Group will not dismiss workers."

Beaumont nodded.

"However, how are so many cars dispatched?"

"Each car is connected to the Internet, and the program can automatically dispatch and know the status of each car."

"Oh."

Think about it, since it is intelligent driving, it must be connected to the Internet.

The steel coils are transported to the destination, and the next step is unwinding and cutting. It can be seen that there are only a few workers working on the site, leisurely unloading steel coils, unwinding, and putting them into the machine, and then, everything is automatic!

"Your technology is indeed the most advanced. In Europe, these are all operated manually, but here, all are automated! No wonder your construction cost is so low. But..."

"But what?"

"Steel plates are different in thickness, and the equipment required is also different. During the use, will some of the equipment be too busy and some equipment be idle?"

"This situation does happen, so each of our equipment is connected to the Internet, and we can know the operation status of each equipment at any time." Qin Tao said: "We not only use it ourselves, but also open it to other brother units. If you want, you can check at any time to see which machine is idle."

In the shipyard, many equipment are idle, such as plate bending machines. Different plate bending machines are required to bend steel plates of different thicknesses. This will cause problems: some plate bending machines are too busy, and some plate bending machines are idle. What should I do at this time?

For European shipyards, just wait!

These have caused huge waste and increased costs, but in Mingzhou Group, these situations do not exist!

Bo Meng walked all the way and was surprised to see that one of the plate bending machines was actually making sculptures!

"This sculpture was planned to be erected by the Huating government in Zhangjiang as a model. After the design was completed, they came to us to find a machine. After checking on the computer, they found that the No. 3 plate bending machine had half an hour of free time today, so they scheduled it for production. Taking advantage of this free time, we completed this outsourcing project." Cong Ju explained on the side.

Many municipal sculptures are also made of steel plates. Thin steel plates are bent into special shapes and then welded. In the past, these were all done manually bit by bit, wasting time and money. Now, everything has become automated!

The plate bending machine bends the thin steel plate into the corresponding shape, and then enters the following process, automatically welding. In half an hour, the municipal sculpture with the shape of mountains and flowing water is made, and a layer of primer is sprayed on it!

The plate bending machine that completed this task began to continue to manufacture parts for the ship.

Click, click!

Beaumont's camera kept taking pictures, and she felt a new door slowly opening.

"Every machine can be connected to the Internet, and every machine can check the usage on the computer. What kind of high-tech is this?"

"Internet of Things." Qin Tao said with a smile: "In our future city, there is the concept of Internet of Things. If you have entered this virtual future city, you should be able to more deeply understand what Internet of Things is."

Bo Meng's face was full of doubts. Obviously, she did not understand what Internet of Things was at this time.

"I have seen it here. Let's go to the office and sit down, and you will know what Internet of Things means."

If you just talk about the concept in a hollow way, the reporter in front of you may not understand it. Just like big data, ordinary people will not understand it after talking about it for a day and a night. However, when you find that the price goes up when you buy things often, and it is cheaper when others don't buy them, you will know that big data is used for this!

The definition of Internet of Things is very complicated, a long paragraph, even if it is summarized in one sentence, that is, connecting all objects to the Internet through information sensing devices to exchange information, that is, things communicate with each other, to achieve intelligent identification and management.

This will not make people understand.

It's better to experience it yourself.

"Okay, then we go through Gate 8." Cong Ju said.

At this time, Bo Meng certainly didn't know what Gate No. 8 meant. He just followed everyone and saw the gate slowly open when he was two or three meters away from the gate.

It's nothing, it's an automatic door, there's a security guard at the door! Bo Meng followed and the gate slowly closed. Only then did she realize that there was no one guarding the door in front or behind!

Monitoring, it must be the surveillance camera next to it. The security guard was in the monitoring room. When he saw Cong Ju and others coming, he opened the door!

"The confidentiality level of this gate is not high, so I can take you in, but the second door is not okay. Each of you needs to bring a visitor card." Cong Ju said, and gave one to Qin Tao, Bo Meng and Xu Zhengyang.

"The security guard won't open the door?" Bo Meng was curious.

"Security guard? Do you think the door just now was opened by the security guard? There is an Internet of Things terminal on the door, and the camera has facial recognition. When it saw that it was me, it opened the door automatically."

Behind the camera is not a security guard, but a special facial recognition system, and it can also send instructions to the gate, and the gate can open automatically!

Listening to Cong Ju's introduction, Bo Meng opened his eyes wide, then took the radio frequency card representing his personal identity.

"This card is equivalent to an identity card. As long as you carry it with you, you can enter any door at any time here."

There are also door cards in the West, but these door cards need to be swiped. Now you just carry them with you, and the gate can sense it. Of course, it is because the gate has been connected to the Internet, and the information is transmitted through the network.

"In the future, intelligent access control systems will be like this. As long as people approach, the door will open automatically. Of course, this is just the simplest aspect of the Internet of Things application, which is not worth mentioning. We can enter the computer center through two more doors."

Beaumont was the first to walk to the second door and watched the door slowly open. It was very novel.

Passing through two doors again, he entered the computer center.

The computer room composed of a row of cabinets surprised Beaumont: "Does the shipyard need such a powerful computer?"

If it is a ship design unit, it must need powerful computer-aided design, but what does a shipyard use this kind of cabinet computer for?

"Of course it's automated production. Come, let's look at the big screen here."

There were several workers on duty inside, looking at the screen carefully. In order not to disturb their normal work and to see more clearly, Cong Ju brought Beaumont to the big screen.

It was similar to the big screen at the satellite launch center, and it was very shocking to look at. At this time, the background of the entire big screen was a bird's-eye view of the shipyard, with various icons on it.

Because it was in the form of icons, Beaumont could quickly recognize: those moving icons should be self-driving vehicles, and those fixed icons were machines and equipment.

Green represents work, red represents maintenance, white represents idle, and yellow represents unclear situations, and people need to be sent to check, but there are very few yellow ones, almost no.

The entire big screen is densely packed, there must be tens of thousands of terminals!

Beaumont looked at the doors he had passed through.

As if knowing what she was thinking, Cong Ju picked up the laser pen and pointed to that position, so the place began to enlarge and various information was displayed.

Just then, a worker hurriedly walked by. When he was about 20 meters away from the gate, he appeared in the gate's information display, character recognition... recognition was successful, name, age, type of work, authority, and even a photo in the upper right corner!

When he came over, sure enough, the door status display was open!

All this was done automatically without anyone's intervention. Isn't this amazing?

At this moment, a white machine appeared on the screen.

"Automatic welding machine No. 72 will be idle in two hours!"

"You can give it the welding task of the hydraulic pump base inside the cabin, but you need to transport a batch of materials in advance to see which car is idle!"

Soon, the new task was arranged.

Bo Meng's expression was extremely complicated: "The addition of this Internet of Things system has increased the production efficiency of your shipyard by at least three times, and the cost has also been greatly reduced. You Orientals really have a set of shipbuilding!"

"Science and technology are the primary productive forces. With the development of the times and the advancement of technology, the Internet of Things has come closer to us. Now, we only use the Internet of Things inside the factory. Later, we will expand to the whole country."

What will the scene be like?

All machines and equipment can be fully utilized. If a car factory needs a special type of bolt, and the supporting factory is too late to produce it, it can immediately find out where the machines and equipment are idle on the Internet of Things, place an order for production, and arrange logistics without wasting any time!

A mobile phone factory found that the camera inventory was only enough for one day, and it could immediately order and schedule production from any domestic manufacturer, produce during the day, ship at night, and arrive at the factory the next day!

In this way, the production of all industries in the whole country will be more efficient! There will be no situation of stopping production due to lack of any accessories. All industrial chains in the whole country will be perfectly integrated together. At that time, the cost will be lower!

Seeing Bo Meng fall into fantasy, Qin Tao smiled. It seems that this reporter has understood!

"It's noon, let's go to eat." Qin Tao said: "Let you see the application of the Internet of Things in life."

Bo Meng followed Qin Tao and Cong Ju and entered the top floor of the staff canteen. This is a pilot of the smart canteen. As long as you order food next to the table, the kitchen will receive a message, and then automatically cook the food, and finally take it out of the pot and deliver it by a robot.

When watching the robot dining car coming over, Beaumont's camera started to shoot again.

"Boss Qin, I feel like I'm in the future world."

"Yes, our future world is like this. When you have time, go to our future city and have a look. It is built according to the future smart city. Inside, reinforced concrete and chips have been perfectly combined together..."

Beaumont nodded: "Of course, of course!"

Qin Tao picked up the chopsticks and tasted the shredded potatoes. No, the taste is very bad. The automatic cooking machine is still far from practical!

However, Beaumont would not care about these tastes. In Europe, potatoes can only be boiled and roasted. They are both staple foods. Unexpectedly, they can be eaten as a dish here.

Interesting, the East is really interesting!

That afternoon, the special plane returned to the capital. Beaumont said goodbye to Qin Tao at the airport, still very excited.

"Boss Qin, before I came to the East, I thought it was very backward, but now I have a new understanding of the East. I will definitely report a real East, a real Mingzhou Group!"

"In Europe, many people still look at us with tinted glasses. Thank you for standing up." Qin Tao replied: "Thank you for promoting a real Eastern world!"

Until now, Xu Zhengyang understood Qin Tao's real intention: to let Europeans understand the East and envy the East!

PS: I have to go in every day recently and wait for the review. I am very sorry! Also, everyone, it's the end of the month, please give me a monthly ticket, and there is also a guaranteed monthly ticket for next month!