Xueba's computing system

Chapter 160 Harvest Time, the Origin of Trouble

Lin Yuan miscalculated again.

He expected that the group's reputation would turn around, but he didn't expect it to be so drastic and so fast.

According to Lin Yuan's previous assumption, capital will definitely be willing to invest some money in order to make a profit. So the treatment of riders will definitely be improved this time.

However, in order to save investment, it is estimated that the salary of riders will not be increased too much. Because in the current economic situation, it is rare for a labor-intensive service industry like food delivery to have an annual income growth of 5%.

If it were a 10% growth, it would be like the Buddha was alive today.

Because the consumer group of the takeaway industry is the general public, after all, the rich only have one mouth. Therefore, the income of the takeaway industry is completely closely related to the pockets of the general public.

So when Haotuan announced a 15-20% salary increase, Lin Yuan couldn't believe it.

Lin Yuan could still barely believe that the process optimization brought about by the food delivery algorithm could reduce the delivery management cost by 20%. But he didn't believe that Haotuan would be willing to give up this part of the profit completely to the riders.

The subsequent surge in Haotuan’s stock price completely dispelled Lin Yuan’s doubts.

What does "the goal is big" mean? Obviously this is it.

The benefits of reduced distribution costs are long-term and slow, and are a long process. However, the benefits of the stock market are drastic and fast.

Lin Yuan had thought about the fact that capital would use every possible means to raise stock prices, but he still underestimated capital's determination to pursue profits.

For a time, all media outlets were filled with the following message: [Haotuan helps create more jobs, riders generally get a 20% salary increase].

At first it was just a commercial advertisement, but later the group even appeared in public service advertisements.

The reason is simple, because the government organized various experts and scholars to conduct in-depth research based on the takeaway industry in Zijin City and concluded that Haotuan’s takeaway algorithm 2.0, which was improved with modern AI technology, can reduce delivery costs by a conservative estimate of about 16%.

For a labor-intensive industry, without exploiting practitioners, a reduction in labor costs of two or three percentage points, let alone more than 10%, is acceptable.

Because the actual GDP growth rate in a year is only this much.

Therefore, the government made an exception and allowed the good group to appear in public service advertisements.

After all, in order to find employment, it has come to the point where college students need to be encouraged to work in the housekeeping industry. The results of this group are truly outstanding.

Especially since Haotuan passed all the profits on to the riders, it was a shot in the arm for social employment.

As for Haotuan’s mischief in the capital market, the government just turned a blind eye.

The public has long anticipated this and is accustomed to it. The stock market bubble of Internet companies is not something that just happened on the first day, so the public allowed these Internet companies to go public in the international financial market.

In a word, it is good enough to have Big A in China, so we don’t need to have a bunch of other things that are even worse than Big A. (Of course, there are some that are not bad, but they are generally bad.)
As the storm of Haotuan swept across the southeast of Dragon Country, its share price in HK also rose by about 40%. This was truly a thunderbolt for its trillion-dollar market value.

But Lin Yuan knew clearly that the stock price was too high.

Because there is no actual big business growth in Haotuan.

For large Internet companies like Haotuan, although food delivery accounts for a large proportion of the business, the cost of food delivery is not only the delivery cost. To put it bluntly, delivery cost is just one of the links.

Even if the cost of distribution is reduced by 20% and all of it is reaped by Haotuan, the overall profit increase for the entire group will probably be only in single digits.

Therefore, this rise of about 30% is completely unreasonable and is obviously another real example of the irrationality of the stock market.

The stock market can be irrational. In Lin Yuan's opinion, this is largely because the good groups are taking advantage of the public.

Lin Yuan had never thought that this kind of operation could be possible. He thought that a good group was just a commercial nonsense. But he didn't expect that it could be combined with the policy level.

Haotuan has perfectly utilized the public's desire to improve employment, especially the urgent need to improve employment for the middle and lower classes.

At this point, Lin Yuan even wondered: Zhang Yan's master, Director Wang, had spotted this point, so he joined the game. Because this was obviously in line with the current ZZZQ.

Seeing this, Lin Yuan has gradually started to sell off his shares. In a word, Haotuan actually has no business growth, and the current stock price is just a hype.

Lin Yuan sold out one-third of his Haotuan shares when it rose by 20%, and another one-third when it rose by 30%. Now that it has reached 40%, he only retains one-sixth of the original shares.

Although he failed to sell all his money at the top of the mountain, he was not upset because of the small profit. Only after seeing the madness of the stock market, will you understand that "restraining greed" is the only way to survive the stock market.

Lin Yuan did not use the computing power system to help him trade stocks this time. It was not because he did not want to, but because the computing power system was previously trained with a short-selling model and could not cope with this long-selling situation.

He had thought about letting the system train a long model for this situation, but the system seemed to have learned its lesson. It just said: [Task to be completed...]

Because Lin Yuan was completing the system task under the pretext of publishing SCI, he tricked the system into creating a short-term sniper model targeting good groups.

But now he has made money from stock trading, but the SCI paper has not been published yet.

Although Lin Yuan made excuses like: [System, my paper is not perfect yet, can you help me train a model...]

But the system ignored Lin Yuan this time. Lin Yuan didn't know whether this was a system setting or the system itself had really learned its lesson.

However, even if the system did not cooperate, Lin Yuan's bank account already had 700 million in cash, and his stock account still had stocks worth about 150 million that had not been cashed out.

Now he finally has money.

The first thing Lin Yuan did after he became rich was to force his parents to accept that he would buy their retirement and medical insurance.

But then he discovered sadly that he could no longer buy it out in one go and could only pay over 15 years in installments.

He had no choice but to give up. Forget it, he planned to give some money to his parents every month in the future.

And Lin Yuan’s worldview has not stopped being refreshed.

Because Haotuan has also made a wave of noise in the technology circle - [AI helps to upgrade smart manufacturing].

How could such a classic case of AI improving productivity escape the attention of the technology community?

For a time, various seminars, whether organized by the government or by enterprises, appeared in the media.

Experts and scholars took the stage to review various processes and look forward to the future.

People online are saying all sorts of things.

Positive comments: my country has finally taken the lead in the field of AI applications. While people on the other side of the Pacific Ocean are still trying to use AI to communicate with humans, my country has already applied AI to the real industry.

Negative comments: Let you have a taste of the sweetness first. Anyway, when you harvest the fruits of your labor later, you only need to change a few parameters with your fingers.

Lin Yuan's life remained as peaceful as before.

That’s right, even though the good group is making a lot of noise this time, he, as the real source, is hiding behind the scenes and no one knows about it.

Although he himself really didn't want to be in the spotlight, the good group had no intention of giving him the opportunity to be in the spotlight.

Lin Yuan originally wanted to continue hiding, and he also thought that the good group would definitely not let him take all the credit for the algorithm. He just wanted to take this opportunity to ask for more money from the good group.

However, Lin Yuan ultimately underestimated the bottom line of capital.

He thought that as Haotuan failed to replicate the food delivery algorithm, he would naturally get a salary increase and be offered a long-term contract similar to a technology licensing contract.

But the good group didn't want to support this "traitor" for long.

To be more precise, Haotuan was resentful of Lin Yuan's non-cooperation - his refusal to provide a reproduction of the food delivery algorithm.

After getting the chance, the good team finally took action.

(End of this chapter)