After retirement, Zhang Shuo can consider spending huge sums of money to customize a super private yacht and take his family around the world. Thinking about it, Zhang Shuo has some expectations.

………

Wednesday, May 2nd.

After returning from vacation, the first thing Zhang Shuo did when he returned to the company was to sign a new grant application.

Allocate 800 million R&D special funds to Maili Group;

Allocate 500 million R&D funding to the Fertile Soil Research Institute;

Allocate 100 million start-up capital to Mango Automobile;

Allocate 200 million operating funds to Daosui Semiconductor;

Allocate 800 million project funds to Germinal Real Estate, including 200 million special construction funds for the southern Sichuan data center.

All added together, the special allocation is 2.4 billion, which is a significant reduction compared to last month.

corresponding.

The main revenue in April was the 1.22 billion profit handed over by Jade Bird Interactive Entertainment.

Compared with March, Jade Bird Interactive Entertainment's profit increased by another 120 million. In addition to benefiting from the launch of the new game "Wangxian", it mainly benefited from the explosion of the smartphone market.

Just from the consumption of new users every month, Jade Bird Interactive Entertainment makes a lot of money.

In particular, ace mobile games such as "Crush", "Candy Crush", "Clash of Clans" and other ace mobile games have strong vitality. Even if they have been online for a year, their monthly revenue is still in a period of high explosive growth.

Future profits will be even more terrifying.

According to this trend, it is certain that Jade Bird Interactive Entertainment's monthly profit will exceed 2 billion this year, and it can even move towards the new target of 2.5 billion.

--slightly--

[Level]: Level 10 (1.38 million/50 million)

【Cash】: 5.5 billion

[Loans]: 12.34 billion (bank loans) 1 billion (corporate bonds)

--slightly--

In addition to the profits handed over by Jade Bird Interactive Entertainment, in April, there were also new bank loans of 280 million yuan and corporate bonds of 500 million yuan. The former was mortgaged with the land of the southern Sichuan data center.

Due to the acquisition of Zhanxun, the funds in Sprout's account shrank by 10 billion.

“You really can’t help but spend money!”

Zhang Shuo has been paying attention to maintaining the group's cash flow, but he still spends money like water.

Considering the planned acquisition of Ruideko in the second half of the year and the financial support required by Mango Auto, the funds on the account are definitely not enough and will be drained soon.

"We still have to find ways to continue making money."

Without much hesitation, Zhang Shuo turned to the Dream Fund's overseas account and decided to allocate one billion U.S. dollars to lend to Jiaoyang Holdings and convert it into five-year corporate bonds to support the rapid development of Germination.

Anyway, Zhang Shuo has no time to worry about overseas acquisitions for the time being.

At present, the Dream Fund's main purpose overseas is to continue to absorb U.S. stocks, and there is a support fund of US$200 million every month. Spending one billion US dollars will not have much impact on the Dream Fund.

on the contrary.

This billion dollar corporate debt can greatly improve the cash flow of Germination, allowing Germination's liquidity to reach the tens of billions mark again, allowing it to calmly plan for follow-up actions.

We won't be as tied up as we were at the end of last year.

………

After processing the grant application, Zhang Shuo immediately organized a monthly strategy meeting.

Roger and Tang Xiang were both attending the conference for the first time.

Although Roger was only appointed as the executive deputy general manager of Daosui Semiconductor, because he was in charge of Daosui Semiconductor's daily work, he was still pulled into the Development and Strategy Committee by Zhang Shuo.

It is also convenient for discussing issues related to Inaho Semiconductor.

Tang Xiang was the first to speak, briefly introducing the preparations for Mango Cars, "Mango Cars has completed the local registration and filing work in Magic City, and the office area is in the Mango Building in Magic City.

"Up to now, seven departments have been established, including functional departments, with a total of 53 people working there, and more than 250 people are going through the resignation procedures of the original unit."

have to say.

Tang Xiang has really good connections in the automotive industry, and he has built a team in a short period of time.

"In the next stage, Mango Auto's main work includes vehicle logo design and bidding, electric vehicle-related patent search and patent authorization processing, preparation of the R&D department, design department, determination of Mango Auto model, etc."

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In terms of process complexity, electric vehicles are not inferior to smartphones at all.

Even more so.

Apple has more than 100 suppliers, and Tesla also has more than 100 suppliers. The difference is that the supplier system in the automotive industry is more complete and complete.

Especially in Shanghai, there is a mature supplier system.

The main business of Mango Auto is R&D and design, as well as the complete vehicle manufacturing of Mango Auto.

More than 70% of the parts will come from suppliers.

This is why Yuanshikong Wei Xiaoli has been able to grow rapidly. It relies on the mature supply chain system of the domestic automobile industry. As long as the design plan is made, any needed spare parts can be found.

The principles of building cars and mobile phones are the same.

The structure of electric vehicles is basically the same as that of fuel vehicles, including power supply and battery management system, powertrain and drive system, body, chassis, and interior and exterior decorations.

Based on this, electric vehicles have three core technologies, namely battery, motor and electronic control.

As the "heart" of electric vehicles, the power battery's power storage capacity and charging capacity have always been areas of continuous improvement, and also determine the cruising range of electric vehicles.

Except for a few car companies such as BYD, the battery aspect is basically an "outsourcing" model.

Linde New Energy is born for this.

As the driving "trunk" of electric vehicles, the application and development of motors have been very mature.

In this area, Mango Motors can quickly make up for its shortcomings by acquiring one or two companies with mature technologies in the motor field. It is not a problem.

In the past week, Lu Kai has been leading the investment and mergers and acquisitions department to do this. Three investment targets have been screened out, and the next step is to start acquisition negotiations.

Finally, there is the electronic control.

As the "brain" of electric vehicles, the electronic control unit's improvement has always been an important breakthrough point.

It will also be a key area for Mango Automobile’s technological research.

Warwick can easily enter the electric vehicle track and cooperate with other car companies to build cars because Warwick has unique technical advantages in electronic control and assisted driving.

This is something that Xiaomi, a rookie car builder like Qihu, cannot compare to.

If Mango Auto does not want to become a pure assembly brand like Wei Xiaoli, it needs to increase investment in R&D from the beginning and have its own unique secrets. Otherwise, how can it compete with Tesla?

As the brain of electric vehicles, how difficult is it to develop electronic controls?

If you think about the frequent brake failure accidents in the original space-time Teshila, you will know how difficult it is to achieve the perfect combination of software and hardware without making any mistakes.

Happily.

The mango laboratory chaired by Chen Ping, a subsidiary of Fertile Land Research Institute, has been targeting high-end assisted driving technology from the beginning, and has already made some breakthroughs.

Because of this, Chen Ping has been appointed by Zhang Shuo as the technical director of Mango Motors, and the mango laboratory will also be moved from Binhai City to Shanghai to complete subsequent technology research and development.

Software is the soul of electric vehicles.

"Then let's discuss the model of Mango Car now." Zhang Shuo jumped into the topic, "Let's get straight to the point. The first model of Mango Car is determined to be an economical sedan, tentatively named Mango X Series."

The target is Tesla's best-selling Model 3.

Compared with Mango Motors, which had the "prophet" guidance of Zhang Shuo, Teshila's development has gone through three stages. Especially in the early days of its establishment, the development was relatively bumpy, and there was even a large loss of personnel and almost bankruptcy.

What are the three stages?

Phase one: Build a low-volume model that will sell for an expensive price.

This is Tesla’s first car, the Roadster.

This is a luxury sports car that is expensive and not very popular.

The second stage: use the money earned to develop a model with moderate production volume and lower price.

This is Tesla's second car, the Model S, a luxury four-door electric sedan. It was just delivered for sale this year and has gained market share and good reputation.

In the original year of 2013, a total of 22,442 Model S units were sold.

This was absolutely unprecedented for a newly launched electric vehicle costing more than US$70,000. Therefore, in the first quarter of the same year, Tesla made a profit for the first time and became the focus of global attention.

The third stage: use the money earned to build a high-volume, affordable model.

At this stage.

It was the turn of Tesla Model 3 to make its grand debut.

In 2018, Tesla entered China and invested in the construction of the fourth, most advanced and largest super factory in the world in Shanghai, in order to solve the problem of insufficient production capacity of Model 3.
To be continued...