Agriculture Maniac

Chapter 406 Online Sales, 3G
Yu Yang had a casual chat with Zhu Hua, the inventor of the Sanse Internet Card, in the form of a video conference about the current status and future development trends of commercial electronic technology.

The international market was bustling with activity, and the Oriental market was also bustling with activity.

In 01, Bawang Technology launched a keyboard all-in-one computer, priced at 398 Hong Kong dollars; Sanxi Electronics Company launched a screen all-in-one computer and a TV, priced at 998 Hong Kong dollars.

In 02, factory ID cards were distributed free of charge, and the number of non-employee users increased sharply. Sanxi Electronics became widely known, and the sales volume of terminal equipment that "uses Sanxi electron tubes-RF chips, installs Sanxi UI-Chinese operating system, and can access the Sanyuan communication network" exceeded 4.2 million units.

The main users include:

Internet clubs (Internet cafes) within the factory and surrounding areas.

Terminal sales store in the trade hall (for ordering).

New Third Board companies and financial professionals (for stock trading).

Hundred Schools Alliance (for learning and teaching).

Ordinary family (watching movies, playing games, listening to TV signals in the factory).

In late 02, Sanyuan Agriculture announced that it would focus on the development of the online sales economy.

Far East Trading Company's massive online sales products have flooded into the market on a large scale with the help of Sanyuan Communication Network, Sanxi Logistics, Sanyuan Pharmacy, and Sanyuan Agriculture's investment in millions of overseas stores.

For example, wheat flour used to cost 0.7 to 1 yuan per catty offline, but now costs 0.4 to 0.8 yuan per catty online.

For example, soybean oil, peanut oil, and corn blended oil used to be 8 yuan/6L, but now they are 10 yuan/10L, and a 250ml sesame oil is given for free.

For example, glass thermos cups used to cost 2.5 to 15 yuan per piece offline, but now cost 10 yuan per 10 pieces online.

For example, hardware tools. In the past, a regular wrench cost 5 yuan offline, but now a set of hardware, including a wrench, pliers, a hammer, and a screwdriver with replaceable blades, costs 10 yuan online.

For example, agricultural tricycles used to require offline comparisons before finding what you wanted to buy, but now online shopping is instantly clear, and the price is 30% cheaper. There are also Sanyuan machinery maintenance, trade hall subsidies, and exemption of vehicle and vessel purchase tax in Dongshan and the four southern provinces.

In early 03, with the help of three series of electronic terminals, the online sales economy captured 75% of the commodity consumption in the Eastern market.

And taking advantage of the East's accession to the WTO, the red banknotes increased domestically and depreciated externally (it could buy more things domestically and exchange US dollars for more red banknotes externally), attracting more overseas capital to invest in Agriculture 3.0 through the trade hall.

At the same time, in order to prevent the online sales economy from impacting traditional industries and causing many companies to go bankrupt, such as flour mills and hardware machinery factories, Sanyuan Heavy Industry used the "old for new" policy to help traditional companies complete their upgrades and invited these companies to join the trade hall and manufacture online sales products.

In mid-03, online learning, offline experience, and online ordering became a new economic model.

Just like Shili Mall.

In the past, warehousing, displaying goods, replenishing goods, shipping out and settlement were required.

Now these processes can be handed over to the online sales supply chain, and then the focus can be on product research, improvement, R&D, promotion and related after-sales.

This not only reduces operating costs, but also greatly enhances the brand image.

In late 03, AI entered offline experience stores, helping the development of the online sales economy, accelerating product updates, providing more convenience for consumers, and making online sales a mainstream economy in the East.

Or in other words, it has become the main artery of the Eastern economy.

During this period, overseas capital did not sit idly by.

Pioneer, led by old Smith, relied on American technology companies to build a local supply chain in the East through acquisitions, equity investments, and support, while promoting its own online sales platforms, such as Amazon, eBay, and EachNet.

BlackRock Capital, led by George H.W. Bush, with the help of WB Capital, has launched better electronic terminals through investment, shareholding, and support, while developing controlled online sales platforms, such as Taobao (Ali), Dangdang (books and maternal and child products), and 8848 (non-mobile phones).

European Jewish investors, led by Walton Jr. and Tashi Warburg, either use Hong Kong as a springboard or rely on Sanyuan Agriculture to expand their investment in the East while developing online sales platforms, such as TOM Online and Net-a-Porter luxury goods trading network.

Even old Morgan was involved.

For example, Stephen, who is in charge of European affairs and Shiliying affairs, and Massachusetts Governor Romney, supported a street vendor in Hangaixi Electronic Industrial Zone through Bain Capital to establish an online e-commerce mall, mainly selling high-end flash memory cards, high-end memory sticks, high-end graphics cards, Apple products, BlackBerry series, DIY computers, etc. (originating from Chapter 307).

These e-commerce platforms originally only promoted themselves on the world Internet with the help of overseas portals such as Yahoo and Google.

However, the speed of laying out the Sanyuan communication network, as well as the successive launch of online store live broadcasts, entertainment live broadcasts, and second-hand transaction live broadcasts, have made the "slow, stuck, and expensive world Internet" pale in comparison in the East, and have also resulted in Federal Capital's e-commerce platform not attracting many consumers at all.

Therefore, Federal Capital took the lead in portal websites such as Yahoo and Google, cooperated with NetEase, Sohu, and Sina, connected its own e-commerce platform to the Sanyuan Communication Network, and also spent money on live broadcasting.

However, as time went on, Federal Capital quickly reacted.

Live broadcast requires terminal support.

Although Federal Capital slashed prices on all types of computers in order to seize the Eastern market, it even lost IBM's PC business to United.

But the cheapest computer still costs four or five thousand red banknotes.

In contrast, the Overlord keyboard all-in-one computer costs 398 yuan.

Let’s take a look at the three-series all-in-one screen machine, which costs 998 yuan.

In addition, there are free ID cards outside the factory that support "text version online sales"...

Federal Capital spends money on live streaming to attract a large number of consumers, promote the development of the online sales economy, and allow more consumers to participate. Do these participating consumers need to purchase electronic terminals that support online shopping?

For most people, there is almost no difference between a computer and Bawang Technology's all-in-one keyboard computer. Both can be used to surf the Internet, play games, and process files.

In addition, the consumption level in the East is here, and the computer needs to apply for a three-series Internet card for a monthly subscription.
Anyone who is not a fool knows how to choose.

Therefore, Federal Capital is spending money on live streaming purely to meet the urgent needs of Sanxi Electronics Manufacturing.

To this end, after the Japanese mobile phone was defeated by Nokia 1100, Federal Capital gave big gift packages to Eastern companies such as Lianxiang and Yitong that had GSM and CDMA mobile phone production licenses.

For example, Qualcomm and Broadcom supply 3G RF chips without authorization and at a loss.

For example, TSMC and Unigroup Technology do not require a deposit and do foundry work at a loss.

For example, Wasion helps with the design of motherboards for free, and then helps with production at a loss.

They even licensed the Japanese and Korean mobile phone brands to companies in the East that did not have GSM and CDMA mobile phone licenses, and ordered them to produce Japanese/Korean/Hong Kong versions of mobile phones in the East → go through customs clearance procedures → and then sell them legally in the East.

03年8月中旬，随着第一批国产智能机上市，比如联箱基于IBM Simon研发的乐蜂、亿通基于摩托罗拉天拓A6188研发的触控手写笔智能屏、酷派组装改进的三星SGH-A288···联邦资本再次催促东方加快3G项目的突进速度。

Because only when 3G becomes popular can Federal Capital get rid of Sanyuan Communication Network and suppress Sanyuan Communication Network.

Dongfang was also a little anxious at this time.

Due to the fierce foreign investment, if no way is left for Eastern "technology, industry and trade" enterprises to survive, local communication equipment companies such as Bird, Amoi and Tianyu will quickly die out until the East becomes the world of "trade, technology and industry".

It is not that "trade and skills" is bad, but this model can easily go astray and eventually remain at the "trade" stage, lose the "skills" and become compradors.

However, superiors have different opinions on promoting the 3G project.

Some hope that Sanyuan Communication Network will be integrated with the world and secure a place for Dongfang in the communication field.

Some hope to gain autonomy in the next generation of communication standards with the help of three-series electron tubes.

Some hope to wait and see who will win over Dongfang and make a suitable offer in the fierce competition between European mobile phones + European communications and Japanese mobile phones + North American communications, so that Dongfang can survive the 3G era at the lowest cost.

Some also hope to introduce 3G technology at a high price...

If we refer to another time and space, in fact, neither Europe nor the United States wooed the East, so the East did not enter the 09G era until 3.

But there is a troublemaker in this space and time.

Stimulated by the ternary communication network, Europe and the United States are more anxious than the East.

Otherwise, as more and more free off-site ID cards are issued, who will still use mobile phones?

Therefore, Federal Capital urged Qualcomm to license the subsequent research and development and improvement of CDMA technology to Eastern free of charge.

The general meaning is that once you create it, it is yours and there is no need to pay any licensing fees.

And I will give you a 30% discount on the related RF chip foundry fees.

Telecom and Netcom → Unicom, which did not have mobile communication licenses, could not sit still and quickly set up R&D teams or commissioned external technology companies to develop "? -CDMA" based on the CDMA communication standard.

Zhu Hua shared the research report in the video:

"It is foreseeable that once China Telecom and China Unicom launch their own 3G services, the market share of Sanyuan Telecom Network will be further reduced."

"After all, 3G speeds are sufficient to support live broadcast applications with current mobile phone resolutions, and the current market is still dominated by SIM card phones, while G electronic terminals cannot make calls."

"Then, when 3G internet cards flood into the East, the three-series internet cards that are limited by the coverage of the three-series communication network will also be squeezed out and lose a large number of users."

Yu Yang used another device to call up the progress of the Starlink laying of the signal tower.

From mid-June to now, one satellite has been launched every day, and today was the launch of Theta-6.

Reference parent star average radius, 6371 km.

Plus the average 220 kilometers from the surface to low-Earth orbit.

The spherical area of ​​outer space covering Jupiter is S=4πR.

That is 4x6591x3.14.

About 5.46 million square kilometers.

The signal tower covers a diameter of 200 kilometers, and a single tower covers S=πR.

That is 200x3.14.
About 12.56 square kilometers.

5.46 million/12.56...

If we want to cover the entire mother planet, we need at least 4348 signal towers.

If ground towers are combined, the number could be halved. But it would take at least five years to launch 2200 signal towers, one a day.

Yu Yang thought for a moment, paused the video call, drafted a document on "speeding up the networking speed of the ternary communication network", and sent it to the Bashu Civilian Space Center.

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the other side.

Theta-68 is rising.

Chief Engineer Lu sat in the command center, carefully checking the operating parameters and handed over the orbital insertion task to a small team consisting of an experienced technician and ten sophomores.

Then he moved to another office and picked up the plans for the small launch vehicle that would be launched in the afternoon.

Although it is called a small rocket, it is actually a signal tower satellite with a relative weight of over 2000 tons. It does not need to separate from the secondary thruster and can be directly put into orbit as a main body.

The tonnage of this small rocket is still among the highest in the world.

The main body is the Long March SY-1, which was independently developed by the Oriental Rocket Technology Research Institute based on three series of materials, three series of equipment, and three series of fuels after the cooperation between the Oriental Aerospace Science and Technology Group and Sanyuan Heavy Industries.

With a takeoff weight of 1680 tons, it has a carrying capacity of 45 tons for low-Earth orbit and 21 tons for the parent planet's synchronous transfer orbit.

The purpose of this launch mission is to test the Shenzhou spacecraft for the manned space program in October.

At this time, several important message reminders came from the employee card.

Chief Engineer Lu picked it up and looked through it. He saw the red-letter document "Speed ​​up the construction of the ternary communication network". He immediately suspended the launch project in the afternoon and called a meeting of all senior executives to discuss it.

soon.

The afternoon launch mission was canceled and 24 small satellites (sentry towers) were sent around the West Tower satellite instead, expanding the original circular signal coverage area to an octagon so that it can be seamlessly connected with the signal coverage of the surrounding signal tower satellites, thereby reducing the number of signal tower satellites launched and increasing the speed of space networking.

This satellite is also called: signal tower satellite.

Abbreviation: Xitawei.

So the future launch mission will be to launch the West Tower in the morning, launch the West Tower Guard in the afternoon, make preparations tomorrow, and launch two more rounds the day after tomorrow...
Suddenly.

Oriental Aerospace Science and Technology called.

"Mr. Lu, why was the afternoon project cancelled?"

“Collective priority.”

"???"

"Don't worry. We have recently undertaken many projects, including Galileo satellites, EU countries' meteorological satellites, and Southeast Asian countries' TV relay satellites. Therefore, our headquarters has increased investment to expand the second and third launch sites. We have four transport tracks and two platform transport vehicles. They will be put into use at the end of the month. I will restart the 'test launch of the carrier rocket + Shenzhou spacecraft' project."

"There's no time to waste."

"It's no big deal. I'll give you a Theta Space Station when the time comes, so that astronauts in outer space can have a rest."

"???"

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Office of the Chairman of Sanyuan Agriculture.

短短10分钟，信号塔星链的组网方案，就变成了‘1大8小’+‘1大8小’+‘1大8小’，令单一覆盖面扩大到250公里，也令铺设时间缩短了四分之一。

Moreover, the core part of the 30-ton sentry tower, minus the steel support, does not exceed 2 tons.

We can completely entrust such launch projects to major space launch centers in the East.

In this way, before New Year's Day, the Sanyuan communication network will cover the entire Asia-Pacific region.

This allows Oriental people from all over the world to use three series of devices to call each other.

As for international calls...
Where do so many overseas relatives come from? Are you a spy?

After Yu Yang finished all these, he used the third computer to open the list of Sanxi Electronics companies, and then used the fourth computer to open the operating system of Sanyuan Communication Network.

The so-called 'mobile phone and communications license' is actually similar to driving a car.

If you want to drive on the road legally, you need a motor vehicle driving license + driver's license.

Similarly, if you want to make a legal call, you need the phone code + network registration.

The body code is assigned by the equipment manufacturer, which requires a license issued by Industrial Information.

Network registration requires authorization from a communications operator, which in turn requires a license issued by the industrial information department.

With these two, you will have the device information and gateway IP.

Then the composition: mobile phone.

The principles of the ternary communication network and three-series equipment are similar.

The device has simply become an identity card, tied to the user; the network registration has become a radio frequency chip number, tied to the ternary communication network; and the additional registration process has been cancelled.

If applied to the communications field, it would be like driving a tractor assembled from fists, not only driving on the highway but also exceeding the speed limit, which is definitely illegal.

Therefore, three-series devices are not called 'mobile phones', otherwise it would be against the rules.

This is also the reason why his superiors fined him 50 yuan some time ago.

In other words, when a college student volunteer was helping non-factory personnel register identity cards, he accidentally called the device a mobile phone and was caught by the compliance personnel assigned by his superiors.

On the contrary, if the three series of equipment are called "factory employee cards" and "factory entry identification cards for outsiders", compliance personnel will naturally not find fault.

Based on this, asking Zhu Hua to make a mobile phone similar to the iPhone is obviously a violation of regulations.

However, calling it an employee card or identity card overlaps with Sanyuan Agriculture and is not conducive to "commercialization."

Zhu Hua obviously understood that the boss wanted him to do the mobile phone business.

"Mr. Yu, how about calling it a camera? A smart camera that can connect to the Internet and make calls."

"I can also fly and drop bombs with my camera."

"???"

"It's better to call it a handheld game console. Smart handheld game consoles are divided into mobile learning machines, mobile game consoles, mobile MP5 players, and mobile business tablets. Each has its own advantages, but all must support online calls, listening to music, watching videos, playing games, and listening to the radio."

After Yu Yang finished speaking, he suddenly remembered his second brother's computer, "It should also be able to receive the TV signal in the factory."

“I’m afraid this will require more technical support.”

"The third-tier companies will cooperate with you. What you need to do is to lead the 'handheld game console companies' and suppress non-third-tier electronic terminals - mobile phones."

Zhu Hua nodded. "Do you have any requirements for price and market positioning?"

"As for the rest, you can figure it out yourself."

"Okay, Mr. Yu."

Yu Yang ended the video call and picked up the buzzing communicator.

Take a look at the mark and press the answer button.

"Mr. Lao Bu, aren't you afraid that I will expose you as a colluder?"

"Yu, I want to talk to you about the prisoners."

"What prisoners?"

"Aynaksi District."

"Sorry, we take no prisoners in this house."

"Impossible. The head of the 13th Command Post has informed us that you have captured at least 4500 soldiers."

"This is not called being captured, this is called collective transformation, just like the Russian bear captured 30 devils and sent them to Siberia."

"Oh my God, you sent them to Siberia?"

"That's not true."

Old Bu breathed a sigh of relief, "Thank God."

“I sent them to Thailand.”

"???"

"Don't worry, it's not surgery, just a few movies."

"Movie?"

"Yes, an action movie. Very intense."

"···"

Seeing that Lao Bu didn't say anything, Yu Yang opened the factory's promotional video, took a screenshot and sent it to others.

On the ground filled with smoke and blazing fire, a burly man in green clothes, covered in blood, was carrying a comrade on his back and another comrade on his back. He was also dragging two seriously injured comrades lying on the ground with several belts tied around his waist. He walked out of the battlefield unwaveringly, stepping on the corpses of North American ruthless people all over the ground.

[Never give up, never give up!]
Old Bu: “…”

(End of this chapter)