Chapter 29
"Hello, Mr. Xia. I've heard so much about you. To have achieved so much at such a young age is truly remarkable!"
"Director Yan, welcome! Your visit is a great honor for our company. We believe this tour will enhance your understanding of our company and facilitate better cooperation."
Director Yan is the director of the Beijing Municipal Public Transportation Administration Bureau. He came to Hongqipiao to inspect the flying car project, as the bureau intends to develop this new type of public transportation.
After all, the country is so big, not everyone can afford to buy a car or a cloud-based smart home.
Ordinary people also have the right to experience new modes of transportation, and adding a new mode of travel is more conducive to relieving the pressure on ground public transportation.
"We've come with sincerity, and our requirements are very simple: safety and large capacity."
Public transportation capacity should definitely be the primary consideration. We don't need to reach the passenger volume of a subway, but at least it should meet the standard of a bus.
Neither of Hongqi Piao's current two products quite meet Director Yan's requirements. If he wants a transportation vehicle with a larger capacity, he can only choose a customized product.
"Understood, I will communicate with the R&D team and will definitely meet your requirements." In fact, before Director Yan came to Hongqi Piao for on-site inspection, Xia Ke had already communicated with him briefly online and confirmed that his requirements could be met before letting him come.
"I trust Mr. Xia to do things right. I'll wait for your good news. As long as your company's products meet the requirements, I can place an order for 200 vehicles. If the public's feedback is positive, we can place an additional order."
The aerial buses are custom-made, so their price will definitely be higher than the currently available regular models. Xia Ke mentally calculated that the cost is around 150,000. Since she runs a company and is in business, she'll definitely have to raise the price a bit. Let's tentatively set the price at 200,000, so that's 100,000 buses...
Two hundred million.
Once this deal is completed, the renovation costs for my own industrial park will be significantly reduced.
Xia Ke's mood instantly brightened.
As the saying goes, once you master one thing, you master everything. Once the core of the flying carpet is developed, building an aerial bus will not be difficult.
The first air bus with the red flag flying was produced quickly.
Considering that it is intended to be put into the market as a public transportation vehicle, Ma Yan and his R&D department also want to create an aerial train that can carry more people.
No one understands the chaos of rush hour better than Ma Yan. It's so intense that even a fat person getting on the bus during rush hour is squeezed into a paper-thin shape when getting off.
"Our group has discussed this, and we believe that to enable aerial trains or aerial light rails to travel at high altitudes, we can refer to the energy operation methods of current high-speed trains and regular trains, and adopt a distributed power approach by adding multiple flying carpet cores to the train body. At the same time, we can use high-torque electric motors and power carriages to drive the aerial train at high speeds."
"But the consequence of doing this is that the cost is too high. Director Yan only specifically requested the aerial transport vehicle, and we're afraid that he won't buy it even if we produce it..."
The cost of an empty train is tens of millions, which is beyond the reach of ordinary individuals. If they fail to reach an agreement with the government to acquire it, those tens of millions will be stuck in their hands.
"It's alright, you guys go ahead and do your research. I'll take care of the investment attraction."
The traffic pressure in first-tier cities in China is quite high. Once the product is released, there will surely be cities willing to buy the air train. Moreover, the air train is not limited to short-term intercity transportation; it can also be used for long-distance journeys across cities.
Although airplanes can reach their destination quickly in a short time, they cannot make as many stops as air trains. This alone gives air trains a significant advantage.
All product development activities should be market-demand oriented. Xia Ke's proactive promotion of the aerial train project was not only because she saw a business opportunity, but also to complete the system's tasks.
The task of personnel optimization was not difficult to complete. Given Hongqi Piao's current social reputation, recruiting people is no longer as difficult as it was in the early days. So, half a month after the system task was released, Hongqi Piao recruited the personnel that the system was satisfied with, and Xia Ke also got 20 points as she wished. Xia Ke now has 75 system points in balance.
After the company's personnel structure was improved, the system released a new task.
"As a startup, your company has already gained some recognition and successfully launched its self-developed products. However, the commercial applications of your new technology have not yet been fully explored. We are now issuing a task to develop more business models for the Flying Carpet core. You will be rewarded with 20 points for each model developed. The task is limited to 3 months."
Back to the present, Xia Ke sat in the conference room, looking at the other R&D staff in the office.
"We need more innovation and new products to inject vitality into our company. If you have any good ideas or innovations, you can tell me. As long as they are reasonable and feasible, you can receive a red envelope reward."
"Manager Ma, please forward this message to the group chat. Anyone in the company with ideas is welcome to participate."
Three cobblers with their wits combined can outwit Zhuge Liang, so Xia Ke decided to have everyone brainstorm.
All the employees at Hongqi Piao know that the boss is very generous; any reward he gives out is guaranteed to be a large and generous red envelope.
For a moment, everyone was lost in thought.
As expected, many hands make light work, and soon Xia Ke's desk was piled high with products that could be developed using the Flying Carpet core.
Flying ambulances and flying fire trucks are two types of vehicles that can quickly fly over traffic jams in emergencies to reach the accident scene, providing rescue to patients and controlling the disaster.
This is good; it's practical and easy to produce. All that's needed is to modify the existing flying vehicle's shape and add medical and fire-fighting related facilities.
Who suggested this?
Zhang Miao, a newly recruited legal counsel.
Xia Ke picked up her phone and sent a 20,000 yuan red envelope to the group chat, which was reserved for Zhang Miaoke.
Flight thrusters can be attached to the items you want to move, allowing you to use their power to move heavy objects.
This is also good; it's very practical.
If she had this thing, she wouldn't have had to work so hard when she moved. Especially since women are not very strong, there are many things they can't move on their own, so they have to hire strong movers.
Who is this? Chen Xinran, she seems to be a newly recruited camerawoman in the marketing department. It seems the young lady has quite a bit of resentment about carrying such a heavy camera around all the time.
So in the large group chat where the red flag was flying, the employees saw that the boss, who had just posted a 20,000 yuan transfer, had sent another exclusive transfer to Chen Xinran.
Flying surveillance cameras offer a wider field of view and more flexible monitoring capabilities.
Agricultural aerial sprayers can cover vast farmlands more evenly and efficiently, saving resources and completing tasks more efficiently.
Flying sightseeing vehicles allow tourists to enjoy the scenery from the air, providing a wider and more unique view.
Different personal flying attractions, such as flying wings, offer more flexible and exciting ways to enjoy entertainment.
Ding dong ding dong ding dong.
The money transfer notifications in the "Red Flag Flying" group never stopped.
Everyone in the company who received the reward was beaming with joy; they never expected to earn so much money just for coming up with an idea.
Xia Ke's face was beaming with joy. As expected, many hands make light work. In a short time, she had developed many commercial uses for the Flying Carpet core, and the electronic voice rewarding points from the system never stopped.
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