As a mage, I just want to pursue the truth

Chapter 264: Lunar Planting

"How about visiting Baosteel's smart factory this time?"

The driving time between Gusu and Shenhai is about one and a half hours, while the driving time between Gusu and Jinling is nearly three hours.

Except for some special days, it is more convenient to go from Suzhou to Shenhai than to Jinling.

Su Province has always been known as the bulk of Su Province. In Gusu City alone, Wuzhong District, Gusu District and Huqiu District are all in a state of disrespect.

Not to mention that Gusu has never considered itself inferior to Jinling.

After Li Miaomiao visited Baosteel's smart factory, her driver drove her and her secretary back to Gusu that afternoon.

After she returned home in the evening, Li Shuyao asked while lying on the sofa.

Li Miaomiao replied: "I can only say that it looks very sci-fi and futuristic.

As for whether the specific production effect can meet expectations, it will ultimately depend on the production effect in the next six months."

In front of her family, Li Miaomiao would not say superficial polite words like she would outside.

She is cautiously optimistic about smart factories, mainly because there is too much uncertainty about them.

If smart factories are to be rolled out on a large scale, manufacturing giants must be able to see tangible benefits.

It’s not that the giants can’t afford this, the cost of one set is almost 2 billion RMB.

The benefits here are not only cost savings, but also efficiency improvements, safe production, and labor savings.

Li Shuyao said with emotion: "Recently, the secondary market has been hyping up the concept of smart industry."

“The market value of the manufacturers shortlisted for the smart factory at least doubled.”

"The fund managers in our company are asking me whether I got the news in advance and why I didn't tell them."

"My eyes are about to fly to the sky."

After working at CICC for more than two years, Li Shuyao seized the opportunity to jump from CICC to Soochow Securities as a fund manager.

CICC’s platform is definitely better than Soochow’s, but I was just a clerk at CICC, and the challenges and sense of accomplishment of coming to Soochow to take over an old fund are incomparable.

After Li Shuyao jumped to Soochow Securities, she moved to Li Miaomiao's villa and lived with her.

In her words, those who are close to the water are first to see the moon and can get first-hand information.

Although Li Miaomiao would not tell her directly, Li Shuyao could analyze a lot of clues just from Li Miaomiao's schedule and some investigations.

“Are they jealous of you? Didn’t the capital market already know about our partnership with Huawei to establish industrial VR?
As for the specific upstream and downstream companies in the supply chain, there are actually channels to find out if you want to know.”

Li Miaomiao asked as she hung her bag and coat on the white floor-standing coat rack.

Li Shuyao sighed and said, "After I went to Soochow, my colleagues in the company basically circulated my information everywhere.

Not to mention that last time you came to pick me up from get off work, a colleague took a photo of you and posted it in the company group.

The market value of the fund I manage has grown rapidly in the past two days thanks to its investments in smart industrial chain companies.

Those fund managers can see my holdings and think I know the news in advance."

A project like the one between Huawei and Baosteel requires communication equipment, a large number of robots and self-driving trucks.

It is obviously impossible for Huawei, a single manufacturer, to handle all of these tasks, and it is imperative that other suppliers be introduced.

Baosteel outsourced the entire project to Huawei, and Baosteel would not disclose in its public announcement which supplier Huawei found.

Since Huawei is not a listed company, it will not make any public announcement.

Li Shuyao complained: "These suppliers have long been included in Huawei's core supplier list.

Even ** Technology issued an announcement two years ago, announcing that the company had entered Huawei's platinum supplier list.

You don't need any inside information at all, what you need is the ability to associate.

It is obvious that for such an important project like the cooperation between Huawei and Baosteel, they would only choose suppliers with whom they have cooperated before and with whom they are sufficiently trusted.

This doesn’t require any inside information.”

Li Miaomiao smiled and said, “So not all fund managers can make money.

The private equity fund I bought from a private equity firm last year lost more than ten points in a year. "

Li Miaomiao bought the private equity purely to help a friend, and of course it was also for the purpose of wealth allocation.

Li Shuyao said helplessly: "The competition among fund managers is very fierce.

Some powerful clients somehow found out that I am your sister.

Then transfer the money from other fund managers in Soochow to me.

The fund manager's profit performance that you know is one part, and the user's purchase of shares is another part.

After I joined the company, a few large clients switched from other fund managers to me, which caused dissatisfaction. "

Clients who are powerful and well-informed generally have more funds.

"This time, because of market sentiment, companies upstream and downstream of Baosteel's supply chain were hyped up. I happened to catch this wave of market and they started to hint at various things again."

In recent years, more and more new funds have been launched.

Although the competition among fund managers is not as blatant as at the front desk, it is definitely fierce.

The front desk department of a brokerage firm is a pure zero-sum game.

Li Miaomiao didn't say anything on the surface, but just nodded to indicate that what you said made sense.

In fact, she was thinking that sometimes she would receive work calls when she was at home, and Li Shuyao could hear clues from the content of her calls.

After all, Huawei’s senior executives often call to discuss Baosteel’s smart factory project.

Baosteel can find other suppliers for any link of this project, except for industrial VR, which can only be found in Kechuang Biotechnology.

The value of the information obtained from Li Miaomiao, both openly and secretly, cannot be simply measured by money.

Any information is valuable, it just depends on whether you can find a way to realize its value, which is the so-called monetization path.

The seafarers at that time were able to foresee explosive performance in shipping through their own experience of sailing, and thus bought large amounts of leading stocks in the shipping sector and reaped the dividends of this shipping cycle.

"Okay, okay, if you're not happy working at Soochow University, why not go back to Jiangcheng University and take an administrative position.

Just prepare for two or three months and you can pass the test easily."

In the past, few people were willing to take up administrative positions at Jiangnan University. Later, as the competition became increasingly competitive, it was not uncommon to see masters from Yanda University competing for administrative positions at Jiangnan University.

Li Miaomiao said this simply because she didn't want to hear Li Shuyao complain.

As expected, as soon as she finished speaking, Li Shuyao quickly shook her head: "No, I have been in Jiangda for too many years.

Even if I really have to work in an administrative position in a university, I don’t want to go back to Jiangnan University.

What's more, in Dongwu, he was just criticized a few times, which was nothing.

Being a fund manager is quite interesting.

Next time I come to Kechuang Biotechnology for inspection, please remember to receive me."

"It would be best if Zheng Li could come in person. I've been in Gusu for half a year, and I haven't met Zheng Li in person yet. He's too much of a homebody."

Li Miaomiao nodded and said, "You just found out?"

"Zheng Li usually doesn't move when nothing happens." "The company has a special securities consulting department responsible for receiving and answering questions. There is no need for me to personally handle this kind of thing."

Most listed companies have a securities department responsible for reception. Of course, some small listed companies or companies that need securities firms to raise their stock prices will send senior executives to receive them.

However, for a company of Ke Chuang Bio's size, it is unlikely that powerful executives would personally receive securities firms for research.

"And I suggest you do more research on manufacturing companies. The manufacturing industry has developed rapidly in recent years," Li Miaomiao reminded.

Li Shuyao: "I know that the manufacturing industry has developed rapidly in recent years."

“In fact, the consumer electronics industry, which focuses on brain-computer connection VR, is developing rapidly.

Among them, companies in the upstream and downstream of the brain-computer connection VR supply chain have been hyped up and down for several rounds, and now the market value is already very high. "

“Now our fund managers are basically paying attention to the production effect of Baosteel’s smart base.

If the effect is good, then we can assume that the steel industry will gradually advance toward intelligence to replace the original industry structure.”

"Then the suppliers of this round of smart bases will receive long-term dividends, and their market value will rise, just like the companies that received LNG orders two or three years ago.

The LNG order was considered a short-term large order, but it turned out to be a long-term benefit of about five years. "

Although the Chinese stock market has no mechanism to protect small and medium-sized shareholders, the profits of listed companies have little to do with small and medium-sized shareholders.

Value investing seems a little pale in the A-share market.

But in the long run, a company's market value will eventually return to its performance.

The so-called "corporate moat" can also be reflected in the five-year comprehensive financial report.

Li Miaomiao reminded: "It's not just Baosteel. Ali and Panzhihua Iron and Steel are also developing smart factories, which are expected to be put into production in the first half of this year."

Tencent also wants to do it, but it has no experience in manufacturing, and production that concerns the lifeline of the company will not be easily handed over to them.

They need to start from the basics and build trust with steel companies before discussing the next step of a complete solution.

For Tencent, it has already fallen far behind Ali and Huawei. If it wants to enter this track again, it will take at least two years to catch up.

Tencent’s executives thought about it for a long time and finally decided to give up this track.

"It's not just the steel industry that is gradually adopting smart technology. Other manufacturing companies are also using the artificial intelligence technology they have accumulated to gradually apply it to these manufacturing industries."

Li Miaomiao is standing at a higher position and can access a lot of information that Li Shuyao cannot see.

Li Shuyao nodded and said, "I understand. I will study it carefully. If you say more, it will be suspected of violating the rules."

Li Miaomiao: "I didn't tell you any news about Kechuang Biotechnology. I was just chatting casually from the perspective of the industry."

Li Shuyao: "Ali and you have jointly established an industrial VR-related company. This news involves Kechuang Biotechnology, right?"

Li Miaomiao smiled and said, "You are quite cautious."

At the beginning of 2026, China has achieved overtaking, and through its lunar space station, China has achieved the round-trip movement of astronauts between the space station and the moon.

"The most important thing about this moon landing is to build a small base on the moon that can accommodate 5 to 10 people.

In the future, astronauts from Russia and the European Alliance may land on the moon via our lunar space station.

They will land near our lunar base and conduct scientific research activities at our lunar base."

After the successful development of the life-extending drug, the relationship between China and the European Alliance entered a new stage.

Russia contributed the data accumulated by its predecessor to China's lunar landing process.

Therefore, China promised early on to allow Russian astronauts to enter China’s lunar base.

As for the visit of astronauts from the European Alliance to China's lunar base, this matter has only been discussed recently.

Another reason why three people landed on the moon was that a very important point was to set up a branch on the moon. Three people was the minimum number requirement for establishing a branch.

"What I want to do most is to grow vegetables. What kind of vegetables do you think are suitable to grow on the moon?

And can it be eaten after it is grown? "

Planting is a racial talent of the Chinese people. No matter where they go, they always want to plant something.

The more desolate and sparsely populated a place is, the more I want to grow something.

Even in the novels about cultivating immortals, many of the protagonists are spirit plant husbands.

"Watercress, the things we need to bring include watercress seeds.

Previously, the Americans successfully planted watercress using the lunar soil brought back by Apollo.

We have also successfully grown water celery using the lunar soil brought back by our lunar rover.

However, if it can be successfully grown on the Blue Planet, it may not be successful on the Moon."

The moon is not very suitable for life.

The temperature difference between morning and night is more than 300 degrees Celsius. There is no air, but it is filled with high-energy particles and solar wind.

These are seriously detrimental to the survival of life, and even the most tenacious plants will find it difficult to survive in such an environment.

"What about cotton?"

"I don't think we will bring cotton this time. Chang'e 4 planted cotton on the moon, but the soil used was from the blue planet.

We need to plant directly on the lunar soil this time, and the only thing we can use is a temperature control device."

Plant growth on the moon would be different from that on the blue planet.

Chinese scientists knew this five years ago.

The cotton they planted at that time successfully germinated and grew leaves.

But there are some differences in the growth mechanism of plants on the moon.

"We need to take into account that lunar soil will be different from blue planet soil.

So the seeds we prepare are not just watercress, but also other seeds that have low growth requirements.”

“The lunar cycle affects plant growth.

The moon's gravity causes the tides to rise and fall, and this can affect the moisture in the soil.

So we need to plant seeds during the full moon and new moon.

During these two times, more water will be pulled to the soil surface and the seeds will be able to absorb more water.

This allows the seeds to swell, resulting in larger sprouts and better growth.”

Moon planting is a science, and it is a science with many aspects to consider.

Chinese scientists have little experience with this subject, or it can be said that there is no scientist on the entire blue planet who focuses on research in this field.

Because there is no reference sample.

If it weren't for Merlin's arrival, the Blue Star people would not have landed on the moon for more than fifty years.

How can you conduct research without samples as a real reference? It is simply unrealistic to rely on theoretical research to plant crops on the moon.

"Professor Li has sent me the principles of planting according to the phases of the moon. Everyone should read it before going up."

(End of this chapter)