Chapter 277 Already as wealthy as anyone in the country, you have so much money that you don’t know how to spend it?
"What is the current production capacity of the brain-computer terminal production line?" As Chen Yuan left the office, Lu An picked up the landline and called He Liang.
"About 22 million units." He Liang answered on the other end of the phone.
Hearing this, Lu An thought for a moment and said: "Increase by about 50% and expand annual production capacity to 35 million units."
He Liang replied: "Understood."
It can be said that it is extremely easy for brain-computer terminal products to open up the global market. There is almost no resistance from the outside, at least so far.
Because the advantages are too great.
In a sense, if Luan did not sell brain-computer terminals to Oumei, Oumei people would be even more anxious, especially those Oumei technology giants.
Because they are more afraid of missing out on the next generation computing platform. Missing out means being abandoned by the times.
Under normal circumstances, there is no problem in expanding the annual production capacity to 50 million units, and it can be absorbed by the overall global market demand.
However, Luan still chose a more stable production capacity of 35 million units.
This is mainly because next year 2018 is a relatively delicate year, and the operation of the old boss is different from ordinary people.
If he forcibly blocks the business expansion of brain-computer terminals in the global market, it will also bring a large short-term inventory backlog to Metaverse Intelligent Control.
Although the company has ample cash flow reserves, it is already heading towards a cash flow of one trillion yuan.
However, the cost of brain-computer terminals is not cheap. If there is a backlog of 50 million units, it is equivalent to a backlog of 1.5 trillion funds that cannot be moved.
Yuanjie Intelligent Control cannot hold such a large amount of funds.
Although it will not trigger a capital chain crisis again, it will still be uncomfortable and passive.
The annual production capacity is controlled at 35 million units. Even if the international situation changes by then, Metaverse Intelligent Control can successfully digest it within two years relying on the domestic market. There is no problem.
As for the international market, how much it will cost, we must first negotiate and sign the contract, so as to avoid laying the groundwork for ourselves.
Just like these 12 major authorized partners, they have decided to purchase 11.58 million units, signed the contract, and paid the advance payment, thus ensuring that there is no risk of large inventory backlogs.
The company does not open directly operated stores overseas, but only authorized stores.
With this kind of strategy, no matter what the old boss does, Yuanjie Intelligent Control will be in an invincible position.
Three days later, Metaverse Intelligent Control reached an authorization cooperation agreement with twelve overseas distributors and officially announced it to the public.
These 12 major overseas authorized partners basically cover all developed markets in the world, including many emerging market countries.
When the outside world learned that the first batch of more than 11 million brain-computer terminals had been purchased, it also caused a huge sensation.
For such an expensive product, it has signed such a large export volume, and the combined orders have reached an astonishing US$114.5 billion. Metaverse Intelligent Control is making crazy money.
The total domestic and foreign market shipments of brain-computer terminal products for this quarter have been locked in advance at 17 million units. This business segment alone has brought more than 1.1 trillion yuan in revenue to Metaverse Intelligent Control this quarter.
The outside world thought that the company's performance in the third quarter was explosive enough, but they did not expect that the last quarter was even worse.
This ability to make money is unparalleled in the world.
Major domestic and foreign securities firms published analysis reports on Metaverse Intelligent Control overnight, generally raising the company's valuation and growth potential.
Almost all media have reported that Metaverse Intelligent Controls’ revenue next year will surpass Wal-Mart Group and become the first of the world’s top 500 companies. There is no doubt that it is a certainty.
The biggest suspense right now is whether there is any hope of surpassing Wal-Mart Group this year.
Institutional analysts expect Wal-Mart's revenue this year to be in the range of US$485 billion to US$490 billion. As the world's largest retail chain, Wal-Mart's revenue is relatively stable and will not fluctuate violently.
Therefore, analysts’ forecasts are generally quite accurate, and the error will not be large.
The expected annual revenue is US$485 billion, which is equivalent to about 3.2 trillion yuan in RMB excluding exchange rate changes.
The total revenue of Metaverse Intelligent Control in the first three quarters of this year has reached 1.45 trillion yuan, and only the last quarter is left. It is less than half of the 3.2 trillion yuan expected by Walmart Group, with a revenue gap of 1.75 trillion yuan.
It seems that the gap is huge, but the new performance growth point of the brain-computer terminal business is too amazing.
RMB 1.1 trillion in revenue has now been locked in, and the actual gap has narrowed to RMB 650 billion, and Metaverse Intelligent Control has other business segments that have not been included.
It is a high probability that businesses such as Xiaoyuan robots, bionic prosthetics, and solid-state lattice batteries will hit a total of 350 billion to 400 billion in the last quarter.
After calculation, the gap further narrows to 250 billion to 300 billion.
Whether it can surpass Wal-Mart and reach the top of the Fortune 500 this year, the biggest variable is the brain-computer terminal business, and it is the domestic market.
Overseas markets have signed shipments of 11.58 million units, and there will definitely be no increase this year.
It depends on whether the domestic market can work hard to sell another 4 million to 5 million units in the last two months, bringing the sales volume in the domestic market to the 10 million unit mark.
Jianing City, villa residence.
At weekend tea time, Meng Qiuyan and Lu An are at home.
"The outside world is now discussing whether our company can surpass the revenue scale of Wal-Mart Group this year and become the first of the new Fortune 500." Meng Qiuyan glanced at Lu An with a smile, and then said with admiration:
"The brain-computer terminal business is really very profitable. According to this momentum, it is likely to account for 70% of the company's revenue in the future."
Meng Qiuyan has always believed that Metaverse Intelligent Control will surpass Wal-Mart and become the first of the world's top 500 companies. It is only a matter of time.
But she still didn't expect this day to come so soon. She originally expected it to be three years later.
If Yuanjie Intelligent Control has no new performance growth points and relies on the continuous climbing of its original business, it will indeed reach the top in three years.
However, the emergence of brain-computer terminals, new businesses reaching their peak upon their debut, and products becoming popular all over the world upon launch, directly accelerated the time to reach the top.
Lu An said calmly: "It's just a false reputation."
Meng Qiuyan smiled and said: "You don't care about the false reputation of the top five hundred in the world, you do. There are a lot of people, the media cares about it, and most of the leaders of the relevant departments also care about it. After all, this is a super eye-catching performance indicator during his tenure." Hearing this, Lu An shrugged and was noncommittal.
After a while, Meng Qiuyan said with a troubled face: "The company's current actual book cash has exceeded the 1 trillion mark, and the growth rate continues to soar, and it will only increase in the future."
"It may double next year. There is so much cash on the books that cannot be used up. If it is not used, it will be a huge loss just by depreciation. It is really a headache."
It is really not Meng Qiuyan who is in Versailles. This is a major problem that Yuanjie Intelligent Control is currently facing.
In comparison, it is really much more difficult to spend money than to make money.
The difficulty in spending money lies in how to spend it reasonably. It does not mean that you spend it randomly with your eyes closed. It is indeed not easy to spend it reasonably.
In Meng Qiuyan’s eyes, money is not money, but a concrete quantification of high-quality disposable resources.
Spending money rationally means making rational use of the resources at your disposal.
Now Metaverse Intelligent Control is truly as rich as any other country. If it were regarded as a separate economy, it would be enough to rank among the top 25 in the world in terms of GDP.
In fact, the impact on the economy is even more astonishing. There is almost no suspense about the company's revenue exceeding 3 trillion yuan this year. The biggest suspense is whether it can exceed the 3.2 trillion yuan expected by Wal-Mart Group and become the first of the new Fortune 500.
According to comprehensive estimates, every 1 yuan of revenue of Metaverse Intelligent Control can drive about 3.5 yuan of GDP output value.
In other words, the company's revenue this year can drive an overall GDP of at least 10.5 trillion yuan. If converted into a country, according to the GDP data of countries around the world last year, it could surpass Canada and directly drop to the 10th place in the world.
This is the influence of Yuanjie Intelligence Control today, which is quite astonishing.
"Stop just making money, you should also think about how to deal with the huge amount of wealth you have earned." Meng Qiuyan said, after thinking for a moment, she raised her eyes and looked at Lu An and said:
"Should we increase the dividend? Now it is based on 20% of the net profit, for example, increase it to 25% or 30%?"
With Metaverse Intelligent Control's development momentum, within the next five years, the company's cash reserves alone may reach an unprecedented level of over 10 trillion.
When Lu An heard her proposal, he rejected it without much thought. He waved his hand and said: "No, the current 20% net profit dividend ratio is completely sufficient. Looking back in the next five years, it may even be higher.
Next year's cash dividend, that is, For example, with a net profit ratio of 20% and a minimum dividend of 500 shares, he can receive more than one million in cash dividends.
Most of the company's employees who have received allotment of shares will have their dividend income exceed their salary income next year.
Even if the 20% ratio remains unchanged, the dividend cash received will continue to rise as time goes by.
Because the company's performance will maintain high growth, Lu An is the most confident about this. The humanoid robot business has not yet reached full development.
When robots are widely used, there will be extremely terrifying growth.
Meng Qiuyan thought about it and said: "If we don't increase the dividend ratio, how can we engage in charity? This is not appropriate. It is better to support basic livelihood projects, such as funding transportation infrastructure, logistics, food baskets and other basic livelihood guarantees. , so that the general public can equally enjoy a low-cost and high-quality life. "
We heard that Lu An also directly rejected her proposal, "We don't have to do these things."
Meng Qiuyan looked at him and immediately spread her hands, "Then I really don't know how to make reasonable use of such a large amount of funds. I can only let it lie in the account and eat dust and depreciate. But this is no different from an old rich man burying his money in the backyard. It has become dead money. After all, it is not a long-term solution."
"If we control such a large amount of social wealth and resources and do nothing, someone will definitely criticize us from the moral high ground, saying that Metaverse Intelligent Control has no social responsibility, and asking us to donate generously to solve social problems."
"They created the problem, but they make us pay the bill. They will even complain and slap us first, putting the polarization of the rich and the poor on our heads.
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Meng Qiuyan's worries are not unreasonable, and there is even a high probability that her prediction will come true in the future.
Because you do in fact control a huge amount of wealth and resources, it is easy for people with ulterior motives to direct their emotional output and point the finger at you.
In the final analysis, you are too fat.
A lot of greedy people want to carve you up, day and night.
Lu An turned his head and looked at Meng Qiuyan, smiled and said calmly: "Who said I only care about making money? I have already planned how to spend money, and it may not be enough by then."
As soon as these words came out, Meng Qiuyan couldn't help being surprised, "What plan? So much money is not enough?"
Lu An said slowly: "Of course we are looking up at the stars, stepping out of the cradle of the earth, heading towards the sea of stars, broadening the boundaries of human civilization, and at the same time broadening the boundaries of our future existence."
Looking up at the stars, rushing out of the earth.
Lu An is not saying that sending a few satellites into space is called looking at the stars, but that he wants to build an orbiting space star city and a space industrial city.
To build a space city with permanent habitability in outer space, some industrial manufacturing needs to be manufactured in the zero-gravity environment of space, so related industries must be relocated from the ground to space.
To realize these business blueprints, the resources that need to be invested are measured in "trillions". Metaverse Intelligent Control's annual profits are not enough to exceed one trillion, and it needs to increase its efforts.
The longer-term goals are to colonize extraterrestrial planets, establish a permanent colony on Mars, and transform the atmosphere of Venus. These goals require an epic amount of investment and a time period of hundreds of years.
In particular, transforming Venus and turning this violent planet into a habitable second Earth may be a thousand-year plan.
The manpower, material resources, and time required can no longer be quantified simply with money.
Meng Qiuyan was stunned when she heard Lu An explain these long-term goals for the first time. She stared at him with wide eyes and did not say anything for a long time.
After coming back to his senses, Meng Qiuyan still looked straight at him and said: "As long as sufficient resources are invested in building a space star city, I think it may be possible in the next fifty years. But how is it possible to transform the atmosphere of Venus and make it the second Earth?"
Lu An said seriously: "If Venus can solve its three main negative problems The problem is that it is more suitable for human beings to live permanently than Mars. The biggest problem of Mars is that the surface gravity is too small, only 38% of that of the Earth. If people live on the surface of Mars permanently, they will become thin dogs with osteoporosis. "
"If the natives of Mars do not intermarry with the Earthlings after breeding for dozens of generations, they may even experience reproductive isolation, and in the long run they will divide into two species."
"Comparatively speaking, although the surface gravity of Venus is different from that of the Earth, it is only slightly weaker, still reaching more than 90% of the Earth's. Humans on Earth will not feel much discomfort if they settle on the surface of Venus."
After a pause, Lu An looked at the stunned Meng Qiuyan and smiled:
"From this perspective, the foundation of Venus is stronger than that of Mars. Well, it’s just that it’s far more difficult to transform than Mars, but the remaining problems, whether it’s the atmospheric pressure that’s a hundred times that of the Earth, more than 95% of the atmosphere being carbon dioxide, the weak magnetic field, and the 243-day rotation period is longer than the revolution, these problems are not unsolvable.”
“As long as human civilization can successfully enter the first-level star, these problems can be solved.”
"When humans have the ability to actively manage stars, they can transform stars."
"The magnetic field problem is also easy to solve. To put it more down-to-earth, just put a ring on Venus. Building an artificial star ring above its orbit can not only become an industrial manufacturing base, but also create a strong artificial magnetic field covering Cover the entire planet to resist solar wind and other cosmic rays."
"Where does the energy for the artificial star ring come from? Of course, it is from the sun. We build a super light sail to collect solar energy to support the star ring movement, and convert the collected energy into a magnetic field."
"At the same time, the light sail is chosen to be placed at the Lagrangian L1 point between Venus and the sun. The shadow of the light sail can block Venus's solar illumination. A second super light sail is placed at its Lagrangian L2 point. The side of Venus facing away from the sun can also reflect sunlight to the surface of Venus through the L2 point light sail."
"Through periodic adjustment of the two super light sails at L1 and L2 points, we can artificially regulate the energy radiation that Venus receives from natural sunlight, making it the same as the earth. At the same time, the two super light sails can also be manually adjusted to make Venus model. Imitation of the Earth's 24-hour sunlight cycle"
"In this way, Venus' rotation of 243 days is not a problem, even if it is tidally locked by the sun."
"The day and night on the entire surface of the planet are artificially adjusted to achieve a 24-hour alternation, making it suitable for daily life. It can also realize the artificial and active management of the four seasons of the planet's atmosphere."
"The problem of slow rotation speed causes the planet's magnetic field to be weak, which can be solved with artificial star rings to create artificial magnetic fields."
Finally, Lu An added with a smile: "Atmospheric problems , the problem of magnetic field and the problem of day and night, these three major problems have been solved through artificial active management. Then Venus will be mankind's second earth, with suitable gravity environment, suitable climate environment, and a large planet area. Of course, it will destroy Mars." After a long time, Meng Qiuyan looked at him blankly: "Are you serious?"
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