Chapter 130: Prices Did Rise As Expected: First Update
Clearly, bosses are generally more thick-skinned than their subordinates.
Professor Kalayev didn't really care.
All of the doll's reactions were designed and created by him and his team.
For them, it's a bit like a beautiful woman turning into a skeleton. No matter what the child is like, they're just a string of data.
Moreover, in Russia today, brothels have appeared openly, restricted films have entered cinemas, and videotapes of adult films are being sold everywhere.
Compared to these other factors, sex dolls are hardly groundbreaking.
However, it's not unusual for a team of them to observe and discuss the doll's reaction.
Although the concept of a boss transcends the boundaries of male and female, the boss in front of me is, after all, a young woman, and it would still be a little awkward to discuss things with her.
Therefore, the final result was that everyone except the female bodyguard Lyuba avoided the situation.
Then Lyuba watched as her boss's eyes lit up, and he started groping and hugging the doll.
Oh my god, this feels so good.
She drew the initial design sketches, especially the doll's face, which she practically sculpted herself.
Now that it's a reality, isn't he exactly the boy of her dreams?
That figure! Slim waist, long legs, curvy figure—she has everything she should have.
Especially the magnificent scenery; she wanted to touch it as soon as she saw it.
Ahem, although literary works often like to depict women's jealousy of beautiful women with good figures.
However, Wang Xiao believes that this is probably a social consciousness formed by the long-term male perspective. In fact, many people like her, old SPs, when they see a beautiful and sexy young lady, besides secretly swallowing their saliva, also want to touch her.
Oh my, how did she grow up? How did she grow up to be so perfectly proportioned?
Even a superstar wouldn't dare to be so presumptuous in front of a real person.
But when faced with the doll, Wang Xiao didn't hesitate to start playing with it.
It feels so good; words like "white steamed bun" simply can't describe it—it's so soft and fluffy.
Wang Xiao buried his face in her chest, feeling the surging waves.
Professor Kalayev and his team truly lived up to their reputation as war robots; even after the robot transformed and its functions changed, the system's sensitivity remained precise.
When the old SP touched her all over, the doll's voice was so charming that Wang Xiao almost lost his nerve.
Lyuba, listening nearby, felt a little embarrassed.
KGB agents come in many types, and each one receives vastly different training. They are also not allowed to inquire about each other's affairs.
But she felt like a trained swallow, every reaction was precise and just right.
If she were a man, she would also lose control of herself.
In fact, she was indeed swallowing unconsciously.
Wang Xiao's eyes lit up.
Half an hour later, the infatuated smile on her face was so intense that it was unbearable to look at.
Good, very good, better than she expected.
Now she is particularly convinced of one thing: if the Soviet Union had been able to devote a third of its energy to changing its development path and not fixating on the military industry, then the Soviet Union's civilian industrial strength could also have been top-tier.
However, the past cannot be retrieved, and there are no "what ifs" in this world.
Moreover, the Soviet Union's obsession with military industry was also a product of the international environment, so there's not much to regret.
All she could say was that the military industry was indeed the most effective and fastest track for advancing technological development.
Look at this doll. She originally thought that technology wouldn't reach this level for at least twenty years.
It turns out that the water simply didn't flow in the direction it was supposed to flow.
Look at the beautiful woman lying there now, panting heavily. Didn't the water flow to the right spot?
Wang Xiao released his grip with satisfaction, admiring the doll's disheveled beauty afterward. Even the rhythm of its moans was perfectly controlled.
It truly is a perfect combination of theory and practice.
Wang Xiao, in his scumbag mode, showed great tenderness towards the delicate beauty, even going so far as to tidy up her hair.
Speaking of this hair, she couldn't help but admire the maker's pursuit of perfection.
Even the hair used for dolls is real hair, and it's one of the most expensive types of wigs.
To find enough hair, they also partnered with recycling companies and barbershops.
The long hair and braids that people collected were turned into doll wigs.
After tidying up her hair, Wang Xiao helped her put on her clothes and put her back on the sofa, where she once again appeared as an elegant and charming lady.
The boss washed his hands with a radiant smile, then opened the door and greeted his subordinates with a glowing expression.
Her rosy complexion and sparkling eyes left Miao Jie and the others speechless.
No, if she were a man, this reaction would be normal too.
Of course, the fact that the doll has achieved what it has today is inseparable from the hands-on involvement of researchers. Otherwise, how would it have obtained user experience data?
But this is a girl, and Wang Xiao is a woman. Where did she find the tool to commit the crime?
Although Boss Wang couldn't read minds, most of his subordinates present couldn't hide their emotions, their faces clearly showing their inner thoughts.
Mr. Wang chuckled inwardly, thinking, "They're too naive, my comrades."
You probably don't know about the existence of female attackers. As for the tools used in the crime, anything can be used.
However, she did not intend to discuss this issue with her subordinates.
It's not that she doesn't want to challenge everyone's values, but rather that everyone has their own expertise, and researchers should focus on their research; as for subsequent sales issues, that's the sales staff's job.
The boss first acknowledged everyone's hard work and achievements.
Excellent! This doll's reaction is fantastic; it's definitely a top-tier doll in the world.
What do you think its market price should be?
Researchers have a rather weak concept of money. Note that this is not to say they are indifferent to it, nor does it mean they don't love money.
Rather, they don't understand how to transition from research-oriented to market-oriented, nor do they know how to position their products for sales.
So all they can offer is cost.
The fact that a doll is so exquisitely made, with such a realistic feel and such sensitive response, and even has a constant surface temperature of 37°C, not only signifies the painstaking efforts of the researchers, but also means that it is expensive—really expensive.
The cost of all the materials alone adds up to 100,000 yuan for one doll.
Taking into account the production costs and other expenses, Sister Miao gritted her teeth and quoted what she considered an astronomical figure: "150,000 yuan."
It's true, even though she and her husband had made countless trips between Moscow and Jiangzhimen airports, buying and selling goods, they still made a lot of money.
Even now, if their family needs to pay 150,000 yuan, it's not like they can't afford it.
But she still had to say, 150,000 yuan is really, really expensive.
To put it bluntly, buying a wife now only costs a few thousand yuan.
150,000 yuan is enough to buy 20 living people.
Sister Miao simply couldn't imagine who would buy them at such exorbitant prices.
Wang Xiao showed no surprise whatsoever, and even casually raised the price again: "200,000, it's worth at least 200,000."
Everyone present gasped in shock.
Good heavens, have you gone mad?
Who would be so foolish as to spend 200,000 yuan to buy such a thing?
To put it bluntly, if you put that energy into robots in other fields, you could at least boast about the development of high technology and publish papers like crazy.
But this one—
I don't even know how to write a thesis.
In fact, Sister Miao and her team kept it a secret, always claiming to the outside world that they were making simulation mannequins for medical research and teaching.
They really couldn't see what value it had that justified its price of 200,000.
Wang Xiao casually remarked, "A mobile phone is only a little bigger, and it doesn't have many functions. One mobile phone can be exchanged for a house, yet there are still plenty of people scrambling to buy them, right?"
In fact, current mobile phones are quite terrible, with terribly poor signal. If you're even slightly off-center, the phone is practically useless.
Even so, if Wang Xiao hadn't pulled strings to get in line, he wouldn't have been able to buy that outdated, ugly, and expensive phone at all.
This shows that even the most expensive products, those most closely tied to national income, will never lack a market as long as the right sales positioning is found.
For example, she herself wants to take this doll home right now.
It's nothing. Watching a charming young lady is also a kind of pleasure.
Unfortunately, conditions are currently limited.
Whether she's at home or staying in a hotel, she can't act so brazenly.
The former was far too much of a challenge for Wang Tiejun and Chen Yanqiu.
Winter is a high-incidence season for cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. If a sudden shock causes serious harm, that would be going too far.
As for the latter, she's not afraid of people thinking she's a pervert; she's afraid people will think she's a kidnapper or murderer and call the police.
So, wipe your drool.
Good things come to those who wait. Once the baby is delivered to Moscow, she'll have a harem of three thousand beauties, and she can do whatever she wants.
Mr. Wang was full of confidence: "It's 200,000. Let's start mass production. I want 150 dolls in place before the end of this month."
Good heavens, the initial offer was for a scale of 30 million, with costs alone amounting to 15 million.
Wang Xiao was utterly speechless: "You can't calculate costs like that. Isn't the initial investment a cost? The funds spent on each experiment aren't money."
Sister Miao and the others blushed.
They certainly knew how much money they spent.
The cost of the materials used for the skin tests alone amounted to a staggering five million.
It's equivalent to the total investment of a previous provincial or ministerial-level key scientific research project, which took more than three years.
This is just a skin.
Besides, the lightweight metal used to support the doll's skeleton, and the electronic components needed for its various sensitive responses, all require a huge investment.
We can say without any shame that this doll is less a product of technology and more an achievement built on money.
Wang Xiao continued, "If we don't recoup the costs of our initial R&D investment through subsequent sales, who will be willing to engage in R&D in the future?"
When she first entered university, there was a very popular movie called "Dying to Survive," in which the villain was the representative of the company that produced the genuine Gleevec drug.
Wang Xiao's roommate, a pharmacy student, was extremely disgusted by this plot and even said, "If everyone just falsifies things, nobody should do drug research and development."
For more than a decade, they have been pouring huge sums of money into research and development, resulting in drug development and various clinical trials, each with staggering expenses.
If any unchangeable problem is found in any of these steps, it means that all the previous investment has been wasted.
Hundreds or even thousands of research and development projects may only result in 10, or even one, being unable to be successfully transformed into marketable drugs.
If these invested costs cannot be recovered through the project itself, then who will pay for the pharmaceutical company's losses?
New technological achievements will inevitably have high market prices.
In any business, as long as it's a normal operation, you absolutely cannot lose money just to gain publicity.
Sister Miao and the others fell silent.
Well, when it comes to making money, they really don't have much of a say.
People who are used to arguing with their bosses over research funding are already content if they can get the money and get the work done.
Of course, 150 dolls can't all be exactly the same.
In fact, there are three versions, with the core content remaining the same, but the appearance and figure have changed.
The other two types are: one is the classical Eastern beauty type, with a gentle appearance and a relatively slender figure.
Another type is the typical blonde with blue eyes and an exaggeratedly hot figure.
Of course, there are a total of 10 heads to choose from.
No matter what style of appearance you prefer, you can always find a similar alternative.
Ahem, for Doll, head transplant surgery isn't a joke, it's just a routine operation.
Mass production of dolls certainly cannot be carried out at this research base; orders must be placed with the Aizhili factory.
As for the research base, keep up the good work and think carefully about how to continue to strive for excellence.
Don't assume that once a project is completed, you can relax and have peace of mind.
This track is incredibly competitive; there's nothing they can't do, only things you can't imagine.
Don't underestimate it! With the development of technology, people need more independent and private spaces, and this industry will rapidly flourish.
Research and development is like rowing against the current; if you don't move forward, you fall behind.
The market for female dolls is booming, but what about male dolls? That's a huge market too, and we absolutely can't afford to miss out.
So, when your boss invites you to a celebration party, is it simply to celebrate your success?
You're overthinking it. This is a massive pep talk session, all designed to get you fired up and make you volunteer to be a human laundry tub. Otherwise, this celebration party would have been a complete waste.
In this respect, researchers like Sister Miao and Professor Kalayev are no match for the shrewd and capable Wang Xiao, despite her small stature.
They had barely eaten a few bites of food or drunk a couple of glasses of wine when they started voluntarily making pledges.
Although the process of researching sex dolls is quite bizarre and can be said to challenge one's worldview.
But the boss is incredibly generous when it comes to giving research funding.
This type of boss is a favorite of research work groups that are used to being subservient to funding.
Wang Xiao smiled and accepted their drinks one glass after another.
Even though she only took a sip each time, and the wine wasn't very strong, she still couldn't help but sway when she got into the car after drinking too much.
Ms. Chen Yanqiu made a special trip home from Beijing this afternoon just to see her eldest daughter as soon as possible.
Oh, you're asking why she went to Beijing? To receive an award, of course.
For more than a year, she worked diligently as a tour guide, leading the entire factory's employees and their families on various trips.
Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kyiv, Almaty, the Baltic states, Budapest, and Bucharest.
Was it all for nothing?
The general public has a conscience; they will stand by whoever gives them tangible benefits.
Therefore, Ms. Chen Yanqiu stood out in the national selection of outstanding trade union cadres and became the representative of Jiangdong Province, going to Beijing to receive the bright red award certificate.
Are there any sour grapes? Absolutely.
This clearly shows that it's not about how strong her personal abilities are, but rather who has the most powerful family resources.
Someone else could take over her job.
As a result, the people did not buy this explanation.
Are you kidding me? Anyone can be replaced, but Chairman Chen absolutely cannot be replaced.
It's not because she's the wife of Deputy Factory Director Wang. Changing wives and husbands is nothing unusual; it's been happening since ancient times.
It's not because she's Wang Xiao's mother; who could pop out of a different belly and change their mother?
Therefore, Chairman Chen's strength is genuine and irreplaceable.
If you're not happy about it, then go ahead and do it.
If you can bring more benefits to everyone, no matter how you do it, everyone will definitely support you.
In this regard, the general public follows the "whoever feeds me is my mother" approach, and they are all extremely pragmatic.
Now the factory is fully supporting Chen Yanqiu in her bid to become a March 8th Red Banner Pacesetter. If she succeeds, it will be a great honor for Jiangdong Steel Plant.
After receiving the award, Chen Yanqiu wanted to have a good talk with her daughter, but the bodyguard brought back a drunken drunkard.
The mother was extremely disgusted: "You're the boss now, why are you still letting people make you drink?"
She observed that at the dinner table, leaders coldly watched their subordinates drink.
If a boss is known to force someone to drink alcohol, there's basically only one explanation: he's trying to get a loan from the bank.
Some leaders are really mentally disturbed. If you drink a whole bottle, they'll give you a loan (funding) of 100,000 yuan.
They only feel happy when they've made people so drunk they're unrecognizable, like ghosts, just like them.
But does their daughter Xiaoxiao also drink like this?
Chen Yanqiu tenderly wiped her daughter's face with a hot towel, saying, "We won't suffer like this. Why did you drink alcohol? You're so young, and you're ruining your stomach. You'll suffer for it later."
Wang Xiao waved her hand: "It's nothing, I'm just happy. Sister Miao and the others have made their research results, so I drank two extra glasses of wine."
Chen Yanqiu felt as if she were in another world listening to this.
Oh my goodness, is her hearing broken?
Back then, this girl insisted on taking a leave of absence without pay, determined not to continue doing research honestly at the research institute, and was single-mindedly focused on making money.
Is he regretting it now and wants to go back to work at the research institute?
It's not impossible.
Anyway, she and Lao Wang both have salaries, and now they've moved into a proper cadre building in the factory, so their family doesn't need her money to make ends meet.
Wang Xiao was both amused and exasperated: "How old am I? Do you expect me to support you?"
She supported herself in both her previous and current lives.
"Then what are you so happy about?"
I'm happy for the teacher, that's possible.
It's absolutely impossible for someone to be so happy as to get drunk.
Wang Xiao said seriously, "Because they made research results, I can earn money. Oh, Mom, I'm not talking to you anymore. I'm dizzy, I'm going to take a shower and go to bed."
"Hey, you brat, hurry up and drink the soup."
What kind of soup? It's a milk and rice porridge made with a soymilk maker, which is said to help with hangovers.
As for whether it will be effective? That's hard to say.
However, after finishing a bowl, Wang Xiao had to admit that it tasted quite good.
She brushed her teeth, washed her face, took a shower, and went straight into her room, collapsing onto the bed.
The new cadre housing building is indeed large; her room is about half again as big as before.
Even though this was her first time entering the house since moving, the room didn't feel cold or unwelcoming.
It's clear that her parents often come in to clean and ventilate the house when they have time, and the blankets have been aired out in the sun, giving the house a sunny feel.
Oh, this light and fluffy down comforter.
Dr. Chen has really put in the effort now; he's even willing to spend thousands of yuan on a down comforter. That's absolutely commendable.
Wang Xiao rolled around on the bed twice, feeling a little more awake, but then feeling even more confused.
Because she took the initiative to call Wu Haoyu.
The person who received the call was very surprised. Why was she speaking Russian?
"Because I'm at home, and I don't want my parents to hear what I'm saying."
Wang Xiao proudly showed off the sex dolls she had seen that day.
"It's really great, the feel of it is amazing, it fulfills all my fantasies."
While discussing topics that are considered adult content, she displayed her generous and magnanimous spirit, saying, "I'll give you one, I guarantee you'll be satisfied. By the way, which type do you like? Hot, gentle, slim, or voluptuous? What kind of face do you like? I can make one custom-made for you. But you'd better not compare it to a real person's face, or you'll run into trouble."
Why is it troublesome?
"Hey, are you stupid?" Wang Xiao chuckled. "When the real person sees you, they'll feel uncomfortable if they think you're sexually harassing them. No real person wants to have the same face as a doll."
Wu Haoyu blurted out, "I don't mind, you can make a doll exactly like me."
Wang Xiao laughed even louder, and started rolling around on the bed with the phone in her hand.
Unfortunately, after she finished laughing, she knew perfectly well that she wouldn't make the doll.
If you're going to make a doll, it has to be the perfect image in your mind; it can't be even a little bit off.
But real people can never be perfect.
Perfection is always just a figment of the imagination.
Wang Xiao chatted on and on with someone for a long time, but finally, feeling the effects of the alcohol, he yawned and fell asleep.
She still has a conscience; at least she hung up the phone before going to sleep.
Otherwise, the office staff would go completely crazy when the factory pays the phone bills on their behalf.
Actually, Wang Tiejun had told the factory that he would pay his own phone bill.
Because their phone bills are high, they frequently make international calls, and they simply can't control their phone expenses.
However, the factory leadership unanimously agreed that the factory should pay for the phone call, since the caller was making an international call to conduct business and was contributing to the factory's interests.
Putting aside everything else, just regarding the steel business alone, Comrade Wang Tiejun worked tirelessly from the beginning to the end of the year, generating a net profit of 100 million yuan for the factory.
Why is there so much money?
Because steel prices have gone up; they've more than doubled since the beginning of the year.
What used to sell for 2,000 yuan per ton has now skyrocketed to 4,000 yuan.
The steel mill regretted not building more stockpiles and acquiring another 100 million yuan worth of steel, thus earning twice the money for free.
The next morning, as Wang Xiao directed Liu Ba, who had been quietly eating a traditional Chinese breakfast—rice porridge with salted duck eggs and stir-fried cabbage—Wang Tiejun, who hadn't had a chance to speak with his daughter the night before, started talking about steel.
"Are you going to sell those to the factory now, or continue to stockpile them?"
Wang Xiao took a sip of the rice porridge oil and made up his mind: "Sell it."
She dared not be greedy.
Although she didn't know exactly when it was, she had heard the tour guide mention it briefly when she went to Hainan to film and live stream.
In the early 1990s, the real estate market in Hainan collapsed, effectively bankrupting the entire Hainan Special Economic Zone.
The national real estate market subsequently cooled down, becoming extremely sluggish.
As a result, the country's land finance policy had to be postponed until the housing reform in 1998, which brought about the first real boom in the real estate market.
The price of steel is closely related to the real estate market.
If the real estate market collapses, the demand for steel in the market will definitely plummet, and prices will also drop accordingly.
Take advantage of the current good market conditions and sell.
“We’ll sell them all to the steel mills; consider it our family’s contribution to the steel mills.”
Wang Tiejun chuckled and said, "That's great, the factory is just short of raw materials right now."
The factory leadership has decided to follow in the footsteps of the Capital Iron and Steel Plant and invest in iron ore mines overseas.
He'll probably have to go on a business trip next to visit a few of the factory's potential locations to assess the situation.
Wang Xiao didn't understand these things, so he simply didn't comment and just ate in silence.
She had originally planned to go to Xiaozhou today to give the workers of Love Power another pep talk, to encourage them to work hard to meet their year-end KPIs and strive for more year-end bonuses.
She had just finished breakfast when the phone rang at home.
Deputy Secretary Cao invites you.
Yesterday, when Wang Xiao took his team to a restaurant for a celebration banquet, he was recognized by an acquaintance.
There are no secrets in this circle, and since she wasn't hiding anything, it's no wonder her boss caught her.
As soon as Deputy Secretary Cao saw him, he asked, "When are you going to develop that piece of land that was approved for you? The plan has been in place for at least a year. I see that office buildings in Xiaozhou have already opened, but we haven't even started construction here. There's quite a difference."
Well, comparison is the thief of joy.
Originally, Deputy Secretary Cao was somewhat uncomfortable with Wang Xiao because his subordinates were incompetent and utterly useless.
She only found out about the stupid things the Jiangdong Liaison Office in Beijing had done when she went to the capital for a meeting.
Just because they wanted to take more and get more benefits from others, they insisted on making others buy them houses to use for free, which resulted in them offending Wuzhou Company to the point of no return.
They directly transferred the business that was giving away money to the Beijing liaison office, and even gave half of the seafood business to the Beijing liaison office in Jiangbei.
What's even more outrageous is that these guys didn't utter a single word.
If I hadn't discovered it during a meeting, I don't know how long I would have kept it a secret.
But what good would it do her to find out? Several months had passed, and all their work was back on track, with a pleasant working relationship with the Jiangbei liaison office in Beijing.
If you think you can kick Jiangbei off the table now, that's just wishful thinking.
Deputy Secretary Cao was prepared to swallow this bitter pill, but when she saw the news in the newspaper that the office building next to Xiaozhou Airport had opened and attracted more than 300 companies to move in, she felt like she had a fishbone stuck in her throat.
The affairs of the Beijing liaison office are Jiang Dong's responsibility.
But the office building issue was definitely Wang Xiao's responsibility to procrastinate on.
She hasn't started construction to this day, what exactly is she trying to do?
Wang Xiao blurted out, "It's not that I didn't want to develop it, it just happened to be the right time. I've been busy buying oil fields in Russia for a while, so I really haven't had time to do it."
"Buy an oil field?" Deputy Secretary Cao couldn't believe his ears. "You went to Russia to buy an oil field?"
“Yes,” Wang Xiaojun said frankly. “I have poured my heart and soul into this oil and gas development project, spending countless amounts of money and energy.”
so--
It's not that she doesn't want to develop the real estate market in Jinning; it's that she simply doesn't have the resources right now.
Trying to do both things at once won't work well. It's better to concentrate our efforts on one major task first and manage one side.
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