Chapter 377 The Age of Knowledge

Chapter 377 The Age of Knowledge

Chapter 377 The Age of Knowledge
Early the next morning.

After exercising, Jiang Miao washed his body, had breakfast, and then went to the chairman's office in the headquarters building to continue the work that he had not completed yesterday.

Internal affairs assistant Li Zixuan has taken out the documents temporarily sealed in the safe.

He drank a cup of Phoenix Dancong tea and quickly reviewed the documents on the desk.

The first document is titled: "Assessment Report on Fragmented Light Industry" - Office 11 of the Business Research Center.

After opening it, Jiang Miao glanced through it. This was a research and development investigation report and evaluation report, and it was also the reason why the scientific research department promoted several research and development projects.

The so-called fragmented light industry is different from the previous large-scale light industry and is also different from the traditional small family workshops.

This survey report lists in detail the characteristics, current situation, industrial scale and future forecasts of fragmented light industry.

There are five main characteristics of fragmented light industry: fragmentation, high technology, family-based, small investment, and heavy patents.

The general background of its development is based on the Asian Federation in the Platinum Age. Due to the huge investment in scientific research, a large amount of technology overflow has occurred.

Take the clothing industry as an example among the three light industrial industries listed in the report.

The clothing industry is now in an almost polarized model.

One is the large-scale production of standard products.

Another is the emergence of large-scale family clothing studios.

There is nothing much to say about the former, it is just the traditional modern clothing industry.

The latter displayed amazing vitality.

The emergence of a large number of clothing studios is actually due to the various fully automatic sewing machines now available. This type of equipment can almost replace 90% of the work in the clothing production process, and humans only need to help.

This not only greatly reduces the workload, but also makes the technical difficulty of clothing production plummet. Even ordinary people only need to be trained for one or two months at the equipment manufacturer to basically be able to produce according to clothing patterns proficiently.

At present, the industry has further developed different types of production models.

For example, a pure design studio.

There are also design + production studios and production + sales studios.

And a studio integrating design + production + sales.

A studio that relies solely on design is a clothing design studio, and this type of studio makes profits entirely from patents and copyrights.

As for how to ensure patent protection?

The method is very simple.

All sewing machine manufacturers have copyright protection mechanisms embedded in their backend programs. Once an operator uses a sewing machine to produce copyrighted clothing, the backend system of the sewing machine will automatically deduct fees from the operator's patent deposit account. The general deduction amount is 1 to 5 yuan per piece.

Except for 5% handling fee and service fee, the remaining 95% will be regularly transferred to the patent holder's designated account.

Under current technological conditions, unless the operator makes copyrighted clothing purely by hand, he must pay for it when it is sewn on a tailoring machine.

This pattern is not limited to the clothing industry.

It also includes the toy industry, stationery industry, accessories industry, bamboo and wooden products industry, jewelry industry, etc.

This development trend is seen in most light industries.

After reading the report, Jiang Miao knew the inevitability of this development model.

After all, unlike heavy industry, light industry, to put it bluntly, refers to products that are directly oriented to consumers. Especially now that we have passed the stage of pursuing large quantities to satisfy our hunger, many consumers are gradually pursuing personalized consumption rather than monotonous standard products.

In the past, ordinary consumers were short of money, and the production costs of non-standard products were relatively high.

Nowadays, ordinary consumers have good purchasing power. In addition, small-category universal machine tools generally cost only tens of thousands of yuan, and some less popular universal machine tools only cost hundreds of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of yuan.

For those family-run businesses, it is very easy to obtain hundreds of thousands of start-up capital by borrowing from relatives and friends.

For example, if you want to open a clothing studio, if you know how to design, you can buy two or three sewing machines and rent a shop, and your family can run it easily.

Especially in the newly built urban areas, the shops are all managed by the government or large enterprises and will never be sold to individuals.

The reason for this situation is naturally to further suppress the gap between the rich and the poor and achieve wealth redistribution.

You can buy as many ordinary residential houses as you want, but private ownership of shops, offices, commercial buildings, etc. with commercial properties and newly developed properties is not allowed.

As for the private shops in the old town, the status quo will remain.

But anyone with a discerning eye can see that as new districts spring up one after another, the decline of old districts is basically a foregone conclusion.

This is Yang Conspiracy.

Once the new district has consumed the population of the old district, what value will the old district’s shops, office buildings and commercial buildings have?
Now the consortium is determined to achieve a rebalance of wealth.

Since the old city is difficult to change, we can simply use the new city to drain the old city’s population, cut off the source of the trouble, and completely kill the old district’s business.

As one of the think tank's technical consultants, Jiang Miao had naturally participated in the research and discussion of this kind of planning and knew a lot of the inside story.

In fact, unified rental of shops is very beneficial to the development of business and also effectively combats the emergence of sub-landlords.

When discussing the plan for a unified leasing model, the think tank discussed how to prevent the emergence of sub-landlords.

The answer is very simple, that is, the store leasing entity and the operating entity must be the same.

If the two do not agree, both parties will be penalized and banned from renting for five years.

Maybe someone is trying to be clever.

It is a trick to think that the operator and the lessee are the same person, but the actual operator is someone else.

If anyone really does this, they will go bankrupt!

Because according to the latest regulations of the consortium, in terms of debt assumption, the nominal registered operator and lessee must bear all debts of the individual business owner.

This includes water and electricity bills, gas bills, internet service fees, etc., as well as various debts generated during the operation process, which require unlimited joint and several liability.

There have been some smart-minded sub-landlords who have been cheated out of hundreds of thousands of dollars.

There is no way, because under the new regulations, individual business operators must use the registered legal person in the individual business registration certificate as the person responsible for purchasing equipment and raw materials.

Do you want to be a sub-landlord?

Okay, okay, then I will bear unlimited liability as a legal person.

After more than a dozen related cases occurred, the sub-landlords within the consortium disappeared.

Anyone with a normal brain knows the hidden dangers of being a sub-landlord. If the actual operator is a bit unscrupulous, he can risk his life to create such a dangerous business.

For example, if a large amount of equipment is purchased and then sold on the second-hand market on the grounds of aging or breakdown, all losses incurred in the process will be borne entirely by the legal person.

As for paying a deposit, it is also a dead end.

Because this type of contract is illegal, the actual operator only needs to go to court and the sub-landlord will lose the case.

Such a new model with such a big pit directly eliminated the living space of the sub-landlords. The fundamental purpose of the consortium in doing this is actually to crack down on those groups who get something for nothing and to make the business environment better.

Now you don’t need to find someone to rent a shop. You can directly log in to the official website of the Industrial and Commercial Facilities Leasing Center and choose the shop you need with your personal ID card.

The shops, commercial buildings, office buildings, industrial plants, etc. in this rental center are not only owned by state-owned enterprises, but also commercial properties owned by private enterprises and various localities.

In fact, the emergence of this rental center is also to alleviate the fiscal revenue problems in various places.

After all, the previous model of obtaining fiscal revenue by selling land and speculating in real estate has long become outdated.

Obtaining fiscal revenue through property leasing is a relatively healthy model that can be sustained in the long term.

Therefore, even though many people whose interests have been harmed are constantly complaining online, there are even more people in various places who support this decision.

The new urban areas that are springing up like mushrooms after a rain show the attitudes of various places in this regard.

The unified rental platform is very friendly to individual operators, which reduces a lot of wrangling and prevents operators from being continuously exploited by landlords.

Previously, Hailufeng Group kept purchasing stores in various places just because it didn’t want to deal with landlords.

A good business environment, the growing spending power of ordinary consumers, and the emergence of various new technologies have led to a large number of individual operators entering the market.

This has also greatly alleviated the declining agricultural population due to the emergence of indoor agriculture and large-scale mechanized agriculture.

You should know that in Seris alone, there are only about 1.8 million people engaged in agricultural production on the front line.

The first-tier agricultural population in the entire Asian Union is only about 8.4 million.

According to the current development trend, it is estimated that by around 2040, the first-tier agricultural population in the Asian Commonwealth will further drop to around 4 million.

That is to say, approximately 4.4 million agricultural population will be cleared out of first-line agriculture in the next ten years.

If such a large agricultural population leaves agricultural production, they will inevitably have to be compensated by other industries.

The only industries that can accommodate such a large scale of employment are the service industry and light industry.

After Jiang Miao finished reading this report, he applied for several related scientific research projects.

For example, "Research on Automated Production Equipment for Craft Glassware" and "Research on Automated Production Equipment for Woodcarvings".

He took a cursory look and approved the research projects.

The benefits of studying these devices are numerous.

On the one hand, this kind of small-scale automated production equipment will have a very large production capacity, which is conducive to the stable production of machine tool factories.

On the other hand, this type of equipment can receive subsidies, after all, it can allow light industry and the service industry to absorb more surplus labor.

In fact, Hailufeng Group also has this kind of personalized production chain stores.

Jiang Miao's family buys their daily clothes and accessories from their own chain store.

Many people are concerned about the quality issues of small workshops, but there is no need to worry about this.

Because these automated CNC machine tools have their own material detection systems, the machine tool system will refuse to process materials and parts that do not meet the standards.

Upstream suppliers who provide raw materials to these automated machine tools must be subject to strict supervision, otherwise they will not be allowed to engage in this industry.

Jiang Miao approved four related automated machine tool R&D projects in succession.

Then he looked at the application for the fifth project, glanced at the title on the cover, and paused.

"Application for Phase II Research on Biological Hibernation Chambers"

"So it's this project..." Jiang Miao muttered in his heart.

The first phase of research for this project was launched two years ago, and various prerequisite technologies have passed theoretical research.

When I looked at the details, it turned out to be as expected.

The team responsible for researching biological hibernation technology has applied for the second phase of research, which is to produce several prototypes of hibernation cabins.

"Not only will they conduct hibernation tests on the ground, but if the prototype passes the test on Earth without any problems, they will also send it to low-Earth orbit for testing next year. If all goes well, they plan to start human experiments the year after next."

Looking at the progress chart, Jiang Miao was thinking while browsing the subsequent content.

In fact, this technology is very important.

why would you say so?

Because traditional human cryonics technology has been proven to be unfeasible or extremely risky.

After all, most of the subjects who participated in the freezing experiments in the past were not successfully awakened, and even after thawing, their bodies turned into a pile of rotten meat.

On the contrary, the biological hibernation technology supported by Jiang Miao has made great progress in recent years. In theoretical research and some animal experiments, it has successfully awakened animals that have been hibernating for more than half a year safely.

In the future Venus exploration plan, the role of biological hibernation technology is a very important key point.

Although Venus is the closest planet to Earth, its average distance is about 4150 million kilometers.

However, since Venus and Earth both orbit the Sun in their own orbits, the distance between them is constantly changing.

When Venus is in inferior conjunction (that is, Venus is between the Earth and the Sun), it is closest to the Earth, about 3800 million kilometers; when Venus is in superior conjunction (that is, Venus is on the other side of the Sun, opposite to the Earth), it is farthest from the Earth, about 2.6 million kilometers.

At the current speed of spacecraft, it will take a relatively long time to transport immigrants to Venus.

Don’t even think about waiting until the positions of Venus and Earth are right, because that’s unrealistic.

The window period during which the Earth can travel the shortest distance to Venus each year is very limited.

In the early stage, you can consider the window of interest and fly to Venus with the shortest distance.

But in the later era of large-scale immigration, we must not only consider the window period, but also consider how to ensure that immigrants will not encounter various adaptation problems during the long-term space voyage when launching immigration spacecraft in other time periods.

If the immigrants rely on their bodies to hold on, they will still need a long recovery period of several months when they arrive on Venus.

Therefore, using hibernation technology to place immigrants in hibernation chambers to spend the long space voyage is a more appropriate solution.

Of course, it's still too early to tell.

After all, biological hibernation technology has not been formally tested on humans, let alone operated for a long time in the low-gravity environment of outer space.

With a stroke of his pen, he approved the research project.

This kind of investment is very necessary. Even if it fails, it can provide experience for later comers.

Jiang Miao is not 100% sure about how the future will develop, so he can only bet on long positions.

The same goes for the government’s investment in various scientific research projects, which are all long bets rather than going all in.

As the most powerful Asian alliance in the world, it naturally has the confidence to bet more on various scientific research directions.

In fact, this is also a common practice among many large companies. After all, investing everything in one go is too risky.

(End of this chapter)