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Chapter 660 Could the big boss be thinking of seizing a piece of land in Africa? Quick ride, a thousand-degree counterattack!
"You're not used to it yet, kid?"

Chen Zhi, standing to the side, chuckled and joked.

The roads in the suburbs of Hamla State are full of potholes, much like the village roads in China in the 1990s.

During the dry season, it's alright, at most the road surface is a bit dustier, but once the rainy season arrives, this road completely turns into a muddy, slippery road, making it impossible to walk on.

As for road repairs?

Who will fix it?

Who will pay for it?

The Central Command of Abyssinia can only control the central and northern regions, while the other areas are the spheres of influence of the Omoro and Tireg tribes, respectively.

Even if the highway is built, it will ultimately be a waste of effort because it is not under the control of the central government, so there is no need to invest in its construction.

"Brother Chen, actually I've gotten used to it. It's just that I ate too much this morning, and the road is so bumpy. Damn it, the tea egg in my stomach is about to bounce up to my throat!"

Qin Chengguo forced himself to make something up.

He didn't want to appear intimidated in front of his supervisor.

In recognition of his outstanding performance last time, the company not only rewarded him with a bonus of 10 yuan, but also offered him a promotion opportunity.

After attending a two-week training course at the South African headquarters, one can be promoted to team leader and receive a salary increase from 2.6 yuan to 3.2 yuan per month.

Chen Zhi listened, but just smiled and didn't say anything.

In his eyes, Qin Chengguo's mental fortitude was already quite strong.

The company had previously recruited many veterans. Although they had received professional training, some of them were too afraid to even fire their guns in case of an emergency, and eventually had to switch jobs to become security guards with a monthly salary of just over 10,000 yuan.

Unlike Qin Chengguo, who appears honest but shoots at the head.

To be honest, it's normal to have psychological burdens!

If Qin Chengguo didn't react at all, Chen Zhi would start to suspect that he might be a serial killer who had fled from China.

This is also why he deliberately took this route – he wanted to help Qin Chengguo shorten his adaptation period.

"Brother Chen, why do you think the big boss is hiring so many people? Could it be that he's planning to seize some territory in Abyssinia?"

Qin Chengguo lowered his voice and asked curiously.

In the past ten days or so, Orange Meat Industry has received a new batch of security personnel.

Qin Chengguo only learned in private conversations that the company had hired several hundred more people, bringing the total number of employees to over 2000.

Judging from his own salary level alone, not counting the cost of weapons and equipment procurement and daily training, Fengjun's monthly expenditure on personnel salaries would be 80 to 90 million, and the annual expenditure would be nearly 1 billion.

"Have you been watching too many movies? Fighting for territory! The company is going to partner with the Omoro tribe to develop several gold and copper mines in the second half of the year. Without guns and manpower, how are we going to protect these industries?"
Don't worry about these things all the time. Once the gold mine starts operating, do you really think the boss will lose money?

Chen Zhi joked with a smile.

In Africa, those who dare to do business here are either extremely bold or incredibly powerful.

The former, with only courage, could have made a decent living by running a small business.

But if you're too greedy and dare to get involved in businesses like energy and mining, you'll be in big trouble, and you might not even be able to save your life.

The latter is different; they have people, guns, and connections, so even mining or metallurgy can be easily managed.

"But it seems the company has bought armed helicopters and main battle tanks," Qin Chengguo said quietly.

"Hey, what's the big deal? Which multinational corporation that can establish itself in Africa doesn't have these?"

Chen Zhi rolled his eyes at Qin Chengguo.

The implication is that this is an overreaction to something so unfamiliar.

Even Mexican drug lords can buy tanks and armed helicopters, let alone Senlian Capital.

You know, when it comes to making money quickly, how can those drug dealers in North America compare to Senlian Capital?

Qin Chengguo nodded, choosing to skip the topic.

He's not stupid. He noticed it when he was training in South Africa: although the weapons of the Wind Falcon Security Company came from various sources, including the United States, the Arctic, and some European countries, a full half of them were individual soldier equipment independently developed by China.

perhaps
Qin Chengguo shrank back, not daring to think any further.

That evening, the leaders of the Omoro and Tireg tribes finally shook hands and made peace after each suffering hundreds of casualties.

After all, they all knew that if the two sides continued to fight like this, the only ones who would truly benefit and reap the rewards would be the Hamra people.

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The next day at dawn, the sky was just beginning to lighten.

Chen Yansen sat in his study on the third floor, and as usual, first checked the business progress and financial statements of each subsidiary, and then processed the emails that needed to be replied to one by one.

All the work was completed in less than ten minutes.

At this moment, through the glass window, one can see the distant sky, but it has only just begun to lighten with the first hint of dawn.

Chen Yansen continued to review the reports from various groups in the Optical R&D Center, carefully examining the key milestones in technological advancement and the current obstacles.

With the Zhulong G1051 CNC machine tool, the processing efficiency of some precision parts can be greatly improved.

With the manufacturing tools problem solved, all that remained was a breakthrough in theory and technology.

Therefore, Lin Nan and others are busy building a simplified version of the air-bearing vibration isolation optical platform.

The purpose is to use this platform to record key performance indicators of this reflective optical system, such as modulation transfer function, wavefront error, distortion, stray light, and effective focal length, in order to verify whether the system is suitable for supporting chip production below 14 nanometer process.

Any deviation needs to be analyzed to determine whether it is an assembly error, manufacturing error, or a design problem. After reviewing Lin Nan's proposal, Chen Yansen made slight adjustments and then commented: "Add a multi-band filter test group to simultaneously verify the parameter stability under extreme temperature differences."

The sky outside the window gradually turned white until it was bright.

At 8:40, Lao Huang appeared outside the courtyard gate on time.

Chen Yansen got into the car and leaned back in his seat, scrolling through the day's trending news.

Huang Boxiang then drove his car towards the Xingyuan Technology branch.

at the same time.

Upon receiving the notification, Meng Yuanzhi immediately instructed Tao Jingwen to select an 8.6-square-meter industrial park in Luyang District.

Immediately afterwards, the clearing out of the existing factories in the park was completed as quickly as possible, and then the renovation of the park was started.

A sign hangs at the main entrance that reads "Senlian CNC Equipment Co., Ltd."

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On July 28, Kuaidi Dache launched the "Kuaidi Premium Car" service.

Unlike previous driver-assisted car franchise models, Kuaidi Chuxing has adopted a self-operated cooperation model.

The company provides the vehicles, license plates, and business licenses; drivers simply need to go online and accept orders.

Furthermore, Kuaidi Dache will also purchase social security and insurance for its drivers, and provide them with a base salary and bonuses.

In short, all the drivers of Kuaidi Zhuanche are full-time employees of Senlian Capital, equivalent to the "dedicated delivery" of Kuaidi Pao riders, while the original ride-hailing drivers have become "crowdsourced".

Chen Yansen's idea was simple: Kuaidi Dache occupied 90% of the national ride-hailing market, with more than 26 million orders per day, and drivers earned as much as 500 million yuan, nearly 200 billion yuan a year.

Of the millions of ride-hailing drivers nationwide, only a little over 600 have signed labor contracts with Kuaidi Dache, contributing a paltry few thousand dollars in humanitarian aid each year.

This made Chen Yansen very dissatisfied!
Therefore, he had Cheng Weixing launch "Kuaidi Zhuanche" (a ride-hailing service), firstly to convert drivers into full-time employees, providing him with a continuous source of humanitarian support.

Secondly, it is also for brand upgrading, by setting different price standards based on vehicle model, price, comfort, and service quality, thereby improving profitability.

Upon receiving the news, Li Yanhong couldn't help but scoff, but he still decided to follow suit and planned to launch the "Didi Chuxing" service.

However, Didi Chuxing adopts a franchise model that includes vehicles.

Although Didi Chuxing has been lukewarm under Xiang Hailong's leadership, Li Yanhong has no plans to replace him for the time being.

After learning from the lessons of Cheng Wei and Wang Zhongpu, he vaguely felt that perhaps it wasn't that the two men were too incompetent, but rather that Cheng Weixing and Pei Yi were too capable.

Take Cheng Wei for example. After being ousted from Didi Chuxing's management team, he has achieved remarkable success in the shared bicycle industry.

Although its market share is not as high as OFO bikes, its valuation has reached 60 billion yuan. No matter how you look at it, you can't say that it is not capable.

Then look at Wang Zhongpu; he made Qiandu Waimai worse and worse.

In Li Yanhong's view, this person lacked both execution and creativity, yet after joining Kuai Pao Canteen, he opened more than 1400 self-operated stores in South China and Southwest China in just six months.

Even more astonishingly, these 1400+ newly opened stores achieved an average daily sales volume of 1.3 yuan.

Even within the chain restaurant industry, it can be considered a top performer.

"Is it my fault?"

Li Yanhong sometimes falls into self-doubt.

Every time he thought about this, his heart felt heavy and suffocating, as if a waterlogged sponge was pressing down on it.

No one wants to admit that their strategic vision is flawed!

Especially someone as confident as Li Yanhong.

If it weren't for its own shortcomings, Baidu could have gone public and become the number one search engine. Well, now it's number two.

Li Yanhong sighed. Baidu Search still had a 30% market share, but Lingxi Search, 360 Search, and Sogou Search were still closing in.

Just then, there was a knocking sound at the door.

"Come in!" Li Yanhong immediately suppressed all the negative emotions in his heart and responded.

With a "squeak"!
Baidu's Vice President Liang Zhixiang walked in with a bright smile on his face. As he walked, he said, "Boss, the AI ​​lab has completed the final test of Xiaodu's big language model, and its level is no less than that of Moss."

Upon hearing this, Li Yanhong's mood improved slightly; this was the best news he had heard in recent months.

"Send me the link to the test environment," Li Yanhong said to Liang Zhixiang.

"Boss, it's been sent." Liang Zhixiang replied.

Li Yanhong quickly opened the dialog box, clicked to enter the test environment, and began testing the performance of Xiaodu's large language model.

But the smile on his face quickly disappeared, and a look of disappointment flashed in his eyes. This was far from Moss's level.

It's usable and has some intelligent information distribution and processing capabilities, but it's definitely not good!

"Go live first, then continue to optimize." After a long pause, Li Yanhong waved his hand resignedly.

Something is better than nothing!
If Baidu Search doesn't retaliate, its market share will fall below 30%, which is unacceptable to Robin Li.

"Okay, boss." Liang Zhixiang breathed a sigh of relief after hearing this.

Doesn't he know the true capabilities of Xiaodu's big language model?
But he had no choice; his boss was pressuring him, and he had to produce a draft to get by first.

Two days later, on July 30, Baidu opened the internal testing channel for the Xiaodu Big Language Model.

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