You promised to build cars, so why did you go into the military industry?

[A sudden enlightenment: The wisdom of predecessors is always worth learning from. When reading other people's code, there is a chance to enter a state of sudden enlightenment.]

Your idea is excellent; it's mine now. —Song Xuewu

【Accumulating small things leads to great achievements: Every experiment, whether successful or not, can extract useful information from the results and transform it into experience value.】

Failure? No, I'm just accumulating progress. One more try, and the bar will be full. —Shen Zijie

Li Ran felt that Song Xuewu's characteristics were strange and difficult to evaluate, unlike Shen Zijie's characteristics which were more intuitive.

This is the legendary experience bar!

For Shen Zijie, the road ahead in scientific research will be smooth and without any bottlenecks.

Thomas Alva Edison famously said, "Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration."

But I'm sorry.

Inspiration? I don't need that stuff!

All sweat, 100% sweat.

Success is within reach.

When scientific research is no longer a gamble and trial and error, but a process of leveling up and conquering challenges...

"Mr. Li? Mr. Li?"

"Huh? Oh, Zhou Jie." Coming to his senses, Li Ran coughed lightly. "What is it?"

Zhou Jie handed over a stack of documents:

"This is the year-end bonus plan formulated this year."

Li Ran took the document and glanced through it.

As before, there was no annual party, no talent show, and no shoddy gifts.

There was only cash, with each person receiving an additional 6 months' salary as a bonus.

Considering that the minimum salary of United Industries employees is five times that of their counterparts in the same industry, this bonus is quite substantial.

"No problem, let's do it this way." Li Ran said, flipping through the pages. "Hmm... the application for the expansion of employee parking spaces..."

As the scale of United Industries expanded, the number of employees increased.

With their high salaries, employees had saved up some money, and many bought Lingyun SU7s at internal cost price.

This has resulted in the originally spacious parking lot now being somewhat crowded.

In other words, Li Ran lived and ate at the factory and never experienced the terrifying flow of people during shift changes.

Otherwise, this issue wouldn't have been raised only now.

"The application is approved." Li Ran signed the document while reminding the client, "Remember to install the charging station."

Just as Zhou Jie was about to leave, Li Ran suddenly called out to her:

"Wait, how's the company's finances right now?" Li Ran tapped the table with his index finger. "I'm thinking of stopping sales of the Lingyun SU7 starting this July, until the new model launches next July..."

"Ensuring that all employees receive their salaries on time is not a problem," Zhou Jie thought for a moment, "but we might have to cut back on research investment."

"Let me think about it some more," Li Ran said, gesturing for Zhou Jie to leave.

As soon as Zhou Jie left, Guo Shuyan asked:

"When did we start working on a new car model?"

"just."

"..."

Actually, Li Ran had the idea of ​​launching a new car six months ago when he realized he had remembered the date wrong.

In June 2010, the iPhone 4 was launched, opening the door to the intelligentization of electronic products.

Now, in 2012, after a period of disorder and chaos, the prices of electronic products have stabilized.

一款10.6英寸的屏幕、32GB的存储和32nm製程的晶片所组装的平板，其物料成本在1800-2500元之间。

For a car, the cost of equipping it with such a tablet-style central control unit is already affordable.

The markets and ecosystems of the two major mobile operating systems, Android and iOS, have also begun to flourish.

This is in conjunction with the 4G network that was officially launched for commercial use at the end of 2013.

Li Ran felt he needed to plan ahead and use an ecosystem strategy that integrates people, cars, homes, and the Internet of Things to completely reshape the entire automotive market.

Subsequently, Li Ran wrote down his ideas and thoughts in a document and sent it to Su Qing and Song Xuewu, asking them to try it out in their spare time.

Soon, New Year's Eve arrived.

Facing the inspection by provincial and municipal leaders, Li Ran and his colleagues, who had accumulated a lot of experience, appeared to be in complete control.

After the inspection, as usual, a group photo was taken to commemorate the occasion.

After the New Year, with the assistance of Shen Zijie and Song Xuewu, two newly promoted B-level talents, Su Qing's pressure was greatly reduced.

With the help of their unique characteristics, the development of EDA progressed as if by divine intervention.

In mid-March, Su, Shen, and Song once again applied to Li Ran for chip fabrication.

This time, everything went smoothly, and it was a success on the first try.

The team members then began to conduct comprehensive testing on the chip.

During the testing process, with the cooperation of Wang Bing and Lin Yu, Su, Shen, and Song took the opportunity to upgrade the two lithography machines.

After the upgrade is completed, the yield rate of 45nm process chips produced using double exposure technology is expected to reach 98.6%!

Unfortunately, Gao Jingming did not live to see this good news, as he once again led his team to the Gobi Desert in Northwest China.

"The winter break is almost over." Wang Lijian grabbed a handful of sand, rubbed it, and then licked it. "I heard that your solar panel production has increased several times over?"

"Yes, I optimized it!" Gao Jingming flicked his bangs. "I also improved the product. After modularization, installation and maintenance are much simpler."

"You young people are truly remarkable!" Wang Lijian clapped the sand off his hands and stood up. "Last year, we laid out more than 20,000 mu of solar photovoltaic power generation arrays, which have been running on a trial basis locally this winter. The results are good. In the more than ten years I've been here, this is the first winter I haven't had a rheumatism flare-up. I have to thank you, old man."

"No, you mustn't." Gao Jingming quickly stepped forward to help Professor Wang Lijian.

"Why not?!" Director Liu Xijun's voice came from not far away. "Not only Professor Wang should thank you, but I should thank you too, and the entire county should thank you. If it weren't for this power station, this winter would have been unbearable."

"Sigh..." Gao Jingming sighed, "I'm just an ordinary person, I really can't bear this responsibility. The people we should be most grateful to are actually the country and these hardworking laborers. Without them, this power station could not have been built."

Liu Xijun didn't say anything more, but his eyes showed approval and appreciation when he looked at Gao Jingming. He then patted Gao Jingming's shoulder forcefully.

In June, the area covered by solar photovoltaic power generation arrays reached over 40,000 mu (approximately 2,667 hectares), and it is expected that the entire installation will be completed in just over a month.

Along with the expansion of solar photovoltaic panels, not only green vegetation has also sprung up, but also flocks of sheep.

As the ecosystem recovers, the number of sheep allowed to enter has increased from just over a hundred to over a thousand.

Thousands of sheep frolic on more than 4 mu of grassland, supplemented by occasional feeding from herders.

The sheep's weight was increasing rapidly, growing exponentially every day.

"Professor Wang, I've really learned something today." Liu Xijun, who had just finished dealing with some neighborhood matters, approached Wang Lijian and couldn't help but complain, "A herdsman just came to me complaining that the sheep are too fat and hard to sell! Listen to that! What kind of talk is that! Saying that people nowadays eat better and more refined food, and don't want sheep that are too fat, saying that fatty meat is unhealthy!"