Zheng Li asked, "What is a magic fanatic?"
Are you passionate about magic?
I'm far from being a fanatic about magic. Everything humans can do now seemed far more wondrous than magic in the past.
Kate explained, "They are the people who support Merlin."
Merlin's arrival has led to a divided public opinion.
The two sides attacked each other, and those who supported Merlin were labeled as magic fanatics.
Those who opposed Merlin were labeled Muggles.
Zheng Li said, "I neither support Merlin nor oppose him."
I just feel that what he brought wasn't too far beyond our understanding.
It only slightly expanded the boundaries of our cognition.
He was merely an external factor; the ultimate cause of the world's chaos and turmoil lies within humanity itself.
Kate sighed, "Well, maybe you're right."
But when the unexpected happened to my parents and my country, I found it difficult to remain calm.
"Okay, let's not talk about this anymore. Talking about this won't make me feel any better."
Let's talk about your paper being published soon. What are your thoughts?
Zheng Li thought to himself, "It's just published in Nature, I've already published that before."
Nature is England's top scientific journal, and as a result of the Europa League, it was naturally published in journals of member states of the League.
"I heard that you will be unanimously nominated as this year's Nobel Prize winner, and it is very likely that you will win the Nobel Prize in Physics this year."
Aren't you excited?
Zheng Li smiled but didn't say anything. He couldn't very well say, "I've also won the Nobel Prize, which you mentioned."
At the time, it caused all the other winners to miss out on receiving their awards.
I even managed to get the highest viewership ratings in history for that year's Nobel Prize ceremony, all thanks to my own efforts.
The problem is that I can't tell you any of this.
"Why are you not interested in anything?"
"This is so boring."
Zheng Li explained, "It's not that I'm boring."
Rather, my discovery doesn't gain recognition because of these awards, but rather it makes the Nobel Prize commensurate with his reputation.
These things mean nothing to me.
Zheng Li had already received the title of Mage God from the Mage Alliance, so the threshold for honors like those on Blue Star was too low to excite him.
Not to mention he had won it once before.
8:30 a.m. in Geneva is 3:30 p.m. in China.
While Zheng Li was chatting with Kate, he was also discussing cooperation with Lei Jun at the headquarters in Suzhou.
Lei Jun has been frequently visiting Suzhou in recent years, and Suzhou has become the city he spends the most time in besides Beijing.
"In fact, the range of new energy vehicles is now almost the same as that of gasoline vehicles."
Any new energy vehicle that adopts Kechuang Bio's lithium metal cathode technology has a range of over 2,000 kilometers, which is more than enough to meet long-distance travel needs.
This year marks the first time that the market share of gasoline-powered vehicles has fallen below 50%.
The gold price reversal has occurred; the time for rice and cars to recover is running out.
Lei Jun was very anxious; building cars was more complicated than he had imagined.
Or rather, commercial goods have always been very complex.
New energy vehicles involve far more components than smartphones, and have a much larger number of upstream and downstream suppliers.
Smartphones can operate purely online, and in the early stages, they can rely on online marketing and pure online shopping methods, but this is not possible for new energy vehicles.
From manufacturing to establishing offline channels, a significant amount of resources and effort are required.
Dami Auto's registered capital was 10 billion RMB, and its paid-in capital was also 10 billion RMB.
The first rice car was launched in 25 years, and only a year later, the rice car project is already running out of money.
"But rice cars have their advantages."
The rice industry has a very complete and mature supply chain.
Within the next year, we are able to achieve a profit margin of 10% per vehicle.
We aim to achieve 30% in the next five years.
We aim to achieve 50% within the next ten years.
Tesla's goal is to achieve a profit margin of 50% per vehicle.
In 2021, their profit margin per car was 30%, an astonishing figure.
Zheng Li nodded and said, "This goal won't be easy to achieve, will it?"
Lei Jun replied, "It's definitely not that easy."
However, if most operations can be automated, this goal could be achieved ahead of schedule.
The application and development of artificial intelligence has been very rapid in the past two years.
The number of employees at the rice car factory is only 50% of what was previously expected.
The emergence of industrial VR has further reduced the cost for engineers.
"It is because of these factors that we are confident that we can achieve a profit margin of 10% within a year." Lei Jun was very frank.
Because his purpose in coming here was to attract investment, Lei Jun hoped to transfer some of the shares of DaMi Auto to Kechuang Bio.
The most important purpose is not to raise funds, nor to introduce the technology of Kechuang Biotechnology, but to establish a deep cooperative relationship.
These are all secondary.
Even if Kechuang Bio doesn't invest, Dami Auto can still obtain technology licenses from Kechuang Bio and engage in technological cooperation.
Lei Jun's move is most importantly to give the capital market confidence.
The investment from Kechuang Biotechnology will give both the primary and secondary markets greater confidence and patience in the rice-based car manufacturing project.
Even Kechuang Bio and Zhengli are optimistic about Dami Auto, so we can hold onto our Dami shares and wait and see for a while longer.
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