As a mage, I just want to pursue the truth

Chapter 282 Current Situation
After Zheng Li finishes teaching Li Miaomiao magic, there will be some casual chatting.

Li Miaomiao usually shares some news with Zheng Li and has a chat with him at the same time.

Zheng Li is very naive in many things, but he is also extremely sharp in some aspects.

"The production data of Baosteel's smart factory in the first quarter has come out, and there has been a significant increase in both the stable operation rate of the factory and the per capita steel output and total steel output.

This data prompted Baosteel to decide to transform the entire Baoshan base into a smart factory in the next three years.

Recently, we have been discussing specific cooperation matters with Huawei.

With the will from above and Baosteel's desire to become a benchmark enterprise for China's Smart Manufacturing 2035, things are progressing quickly.

For Baosteel and even Shenhai, this is a remarkable achievement.”

Zheng Li asked: "If the entire Baoshan base is to be transformed, there should be higher requirements for information security, right?"

Previously, only one factory was undergoing smart factory transformation, and the information security requirements were sufficient at Level 3 of the Information Security Protection Program.

However, the entire Baoshan base is intelligent, with artificial intelligence taking over most of the steel production, and only a small amount being carried out through industrial VR, so a higher level of information security measures is required.

Otherwise, if a production accident is caused by a hacker intrusion, no one will be able to take responsibility, especially if the hacker is from overseas.

Accountability cannot be traced back to an individual.

As for which side the overseas hackers belong to, it may be impossible to find out.

Li Miaomiao: "Yes, I have communicated with Huawei executives before, and they want to isolate the entire Baoshan base through physical network isolation.

Then build a complete LAN internally.

This not only solves the potential risks in information security, but also gets rid of the interference from the external network and further reduces network latency.

It will take three years just to take over the Baoshan base, and the total cost of the entire project is estimated to be about 5 billion yuan.

More importantly, this is the best signboard and case for Huawei. We have even done it for Baosteel, so it should be a piece of cake for us to do it for you, right? "

China itself has written in its national strategic plan at the beginning of 2022 that the whole country must concentrate its efforts, and in the steel industry, only a few super-large enterprises need to be retained and taught well.

The general idea is that the steel industry needs to be integrated, and in fact China is doing so.

From the merger of Baosteel and Wuhan Iron and Steel in 16, to the free transfer of equity of local steel companies such as Masteel, Taigang, and Shandong Iron and Steel to China Steel, etc.

Anshan Iron and Steel Group and Benxi Iron and Steel Group merged and reorganized, and Fangda Group reorganized Dazhou Iron and Steel, Pinggang and Fangda Special Steel.

A series of events indicate that the integration of the steel industry is accelerating.

The national will is fully reflected in this heavy industry field.

If Baosteel can set an example in the smart steel industry, other large steel groups will follow suit.

The transformation of China's overall steel industry alone is enough to make Hua Wei rich.

What’s more important is that Huawei’s smart industrial team can use this as a starting point to enter more manufacturing industries.

From steel, we can move into the coal chemical industry, and after coal chemical industry comes the chemical industry, and after the chemical industry comes petroleum, etc.

The above is just an idealized development; things never go so smoothly.

The intelligent transformation of steel is only the first step in the intelligent transformation of China's manufacturing industry. The cake of China's manufacturing industry upgrading is too big. Huawei has already taken the lead. Giants such as Ali, Tencent, Pinduoduo, Qiandu, and Dami are all eyeing it.

In fact, Baosteel has always been committed to intelligent steel production. As early as five years ago, the number of Baosteel's employees decreased from 19 in 52323 to 21 in 45405.

The number of layoffs is about 7,000.

Corresponding to Baosteel's staff reduction is a substantial increase in revenue and profit, with revenue increasing from 2924 billion to 3653 billion, and profit increasing from 138.7 billion to 264.55 billion.

Baosteel was able to reduce so many employees in 2021 because they were promoting robots to replace manual operations. The robot they promoted at that time was called Baoluo robot.

The cooperation between Baosteel and Huawei was very effective, which made the leaders of Baosteel decide to gradually promote the combination of artificial intelligence, robots and industrial VR to replace manual labor in the next five years.

They want to reduce the number of employees from 45000 to less than 10000.

What does it mean to reduce costs and increase efficiency? Technological progress is the most advantageous means to reduce costs and increase efficiency.

"Just the intelligent transformation of the domestic steel industry is so imaginative. It is not just imaginative, it has already delivered some benefits.

It is certainly impossible for other Internet giants to watch Huawei eat all the cake.

According to the information I got from Ali’s senior management, their cooperation project with Pangang will also start production in the first half of this year.

Rice chose not to compete with them in the steel industry, but instead focused on the smart manufacturing of Rice cars.

When I went to Yenching for a meeting before, Senior Brother Lei invited me to dinner and listened to his introduction.

They hope to reduce the production cost of Rice cars to the same level as Tesla through artificial intelligence and industrial VR. "

Zheng Li: “When I go from the R&D center to the headquarters office building for meetings, I take the Rice bus.

In terms of ride comfort, the Rice Car is pretty good. Are they profitable now?"

Li Miaomiao replied: "Not yet, there is still a long way to go before we can make a profit. If I remember correctly, the total loss of Rice Auto last year was about 20 billion RMB.

Once the manufacturing and marketing costs are reduced, the company will be able to turn losses into profits soon.

It’s just that in the past two years, global commodity prices have risen sharply, especially materials related to new energy.

The price of lithium carbonate is about to skyrocket.

It is not easy to reduce costs.

I basically know the entire team at Dami Auto, and there is no problem with their capabilities. Sometimes starting a business really depends on whether you have hit the right trend.”

When you are an executive, you will find it very easy to meet people. No matter where you go, people will hand you their business cards and introduce themselves. Even after they have introduced themselves, there will be others who will provide additional introductions.

For example, when Li Miaomiao went to Dami Auto for an exchange, the senior management team of Dami Auto introduced themselves one by one, and then Lei Jun would talk about each executive's personal situation, personality traits and resume.

"What about Tencent? What's the current situation at Tencent?" Zheng Li asked curiously.

Zheng Li has experienced Tencent's Huanyu-Pengcheng, which is somewhat similar to the virtual city constructed in the region when he was in the Mage Alliance.

Since the Mage Alliance cannot put everyone on the same network for communication, it adopts a method similar to a local area network.

The areas under the jurisdiction of the Mage Tower share a common network.

Basically every wizard tower will have its own virtual city.

As a god of law, Zheng Li has seen many virtual cities of various styles.

It is relatively rare to move a real city into the virtual world almost intactly.

What Zheng Li didn’t expect was that virtual real estate could also be sold for money.

Virtual currency existed in the ancient times of the Mage League, but he had never seen virtual real estate.

Whether it is real currency or virtual currency, currency itself has no value, so the transition from real currency to virtual currency is easy to understand.

However, real properties and virtual properties are completely different concepts. Zheng Li became curious after hearing about how to assign value to them.

After communicating with Li Miaomiao, he learned that virtual real estate adds value through online education, but Zheng Li still felt that the price was too expensive.

In Zheng Li's opinion, knowledge is the most valuable, but on Blue Star, a copy of the latest Nature only costs a few dozen yuan.

It is also easy to find free electronic document downloads, which means it doesn't cost any money.

Li Miaomiao replied: “Because VR makes money so quickly, they put most of their energy into building the metaverse ecosystem.

Although the Industrial Internet is also being promoted, it seems to be with very little effort.

After I communicated with them, I found out that apart from the VR field, there are very few resources available in other fields.

There is still a certain amount of resource allocation to the traditional WeChat and gaming teams, but there are not many voices towards directions like the industrial Internet, which have never been popular.

I guess he doesn't intend to get involved in this mess."

"Industrial Internet was not their main business originally, but now that they have finally found the direction of the next generation of Internet revolution, they will definitely concentrate all their efforts on it.

I attended a press conference held by Tencent before, and after the conference, the vice president of Tencent said that he could give me a virtual property in Huanyu-Pengcheng. "

Zheng Li: "I can't understand why virtual real estate is so expensive and sold out in less than two days."

Li Miaomiao explained: “In human history, people have been giving value to things that have no value since ancient times.

From the earliest shells to later precious metals, and then to currency and virtual currency, these are all values ​​given by humans.

The same principle applies to virtual real estate. Human consensus gives it value. To put it more darkly, it is capital that gives it value.

All kinds of things that originally had no meaning are given value. The more such things there are, the more obvious the gap between the rich and the poor in the world becomes.

Capital harvests by assigning value to meaningless things.

BTC is worth 7 BTC, while the spot price of copper futures is only BTC. One BTC can be exchanged for tons of copper. The actual value of the two cannot be equated at all.

In fact, our current food production is enough to feed the world's seven billion people. These deliberately assigned values ​​are intended to divide society into more levels.

It's like an online game, where more and more props are given to players to classify. But in reality, there are always only two categories - players and game manufacturers.

Manufacturers sell the props they design to players in various ways to create differentiation among players.

Assets such as cryptocurrencies, funds, bonds, and equities are all game props.

People still buy virtual real estate even though it’s so expensive. The real reason is that capital has this demand and needs new types of assets. Tencent just happens to cater to this demand.”

(End of this chapter)