After returning home, Zhao Yi only rested for a day and became a little restless. It was really because the pressure to make money was a bit high, which made him restless even when he was resting.
In the past year, although his enterprises have invested a lot of money and consumed a lot of money, their operating income has also increased significantly due to the rapid increase in the per capita salary of residents.
This has resulted in their overall profitability being much higher than before. Especially starting next year, the ratio of revenue to investment will further increase, and the profitability of these companies may be stronger.
But all this money has its own purpose, especially in order to hit the average monthly income of residents of 2,000 yuan next year. At a very critical moment, it is best to use this money to deal with these key matters.
Therefore, he must find another way to fund climate transformation and development in the northwest. According to the plan, the average annual investment required is about 500 billion yuan.
The funds required in the first year may be less, because the main work in this year is not soil improvement, but the construction of related infrastructure and artificial rainfall operations.
When rainfall reaches a certain level, sand fixation operations also need to be carried out at this time. There are many mobile sand dunes in the Taklimakan Desert, and they must be fixed.
Starting from the second year, the terrain of the Tarim Basin needs to be transformed, such as plowing the small sand dunes, widening and deepening the current river channels, digging new river systems, etc.
Although these projects may seem ordinary, they actually cost a lot. Plowing the dunes requires a large amount of explosives. Since the amount of explosives is very large, the overall cost is not low.
Moreover, after these sand dunes are blasted and scattered, a large amount of mechanical equipment will be used for land leveling, and the number of mechanical equipment used will be one hundred thousand levels.
Widening and deep-digging rivers and digging new river systems also require the use of a large amount of mechanical equipment. The number is in the order of tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, and the unit price of such equipment will be higher.
Because the amount of earthwork required here is huge, it is no different from digging out a Yellow River in the land area. Fortunately, the overall terrain is relatively flat, and the cost is much lower than digging a Yellow River.
The reason why the earthwork is so large is that in addition to the two main rivers in the north and south, branch rivers of different sizes are also needed to support land irrigation in the Tarim Basin.
If the number of rivers increases, it means that a lot of bridges need to be built. Fortunately, the bridges on the tributaries are relatively small, but bridges on the main rivers still require a lot of bridges, and the construction costs are not low.
At the same time, this year is not just about sand fixation operations. You can also try to carry out soil and water conservation operations, which means spreading grass seeds on these desert lands.
Although the unit price of grass seeds is not very high, it cannot support the large quantity, so the overall consumption will not be very small, which is a big expense.
In fact, starting from the second year, the investment costs will increase because a lot of new equipment needs to be added. On the contrary, starting from the third year, the investment in new equipment will show a downward trend year by year.
In the third year, it is necessary to deepen the traditional water area of Lop Nur according to the water flow to Lop Nur, so that they can accommodate more water flow.
You must know that if you want to form a water area of 16,000 square kilometers, the deepest place is only a few meters deep. In fact, such a water depth cannot hold much water.
The water in Lop Nur cannot flow out except through evaporation, so it is very necessary to deepen the water depth in Lop Nur.
But there is no conclusion yet on how deep to dig. This requires calculation of the amount of water flowing here and the amount of evaporation every year. There needs to be a balance between them.
Because the larger the water area, it means the greater the evaporation. If the amount of water flowing in is too large, it is very necessary to maintain a certain amount of water area in Lop Nur.
And it is also during this year that the entire Tarim Basin needs to be sown with fertile soil grass seeds. The cost of fertile soil grass is higher than the cost of grass seeds that retain water and soil in the second year.
In order to accumulate a thick layer of humus in the Tarim Basin, starting from this year, it is necessary to plant loam grass every year, because loam grass is not a perennial plant and can only last for one year at a time before it withers and rots. .
The main reason why the grass seeds of perennial or fertile soil grass cannot germinate and grow is the use of reproduction restriction technology to prevent theft.
From this perspective, the cost of doing so is very high. Zhao Yi plans to genetically modify the fertile soil grass so that the fertile soil grass can reproduce itself for many years.
According to the situation in the Tarim Basin, it takes about three years of fertile soil grass operation, so the fertile soil grass can completely achieve the ability to reproduce itself in three years, and it will lose the ability to reproduce itself after three years.
This technology may be difficult for others, but for him it is a very simple matter. Just think of it as giving the Fluclight Environmental Management Company a sub-variety of loam grass.
In fact, after five years, the land in the Tarim Basin will already meet the development requirements. At this time, it is necessary to carry out management planning for the entire land and use the mountainous areas to plant trees to form forests.
Farming can be done in areas with relatively dense water systems and flat terrain, while areas with relatively few water systems or frequently undulating terrain can be used as pasture for the development of animal husbandry.
According to convention, such a large area cannot be all used for agriculture, animal husbandry, forestry and development. He plans to build a new city at the intersection of multiple river basins. According to his plan, two cities can be built in the Tarim Basin.
These three cities may be located in the western and central areas of the Tarim Basin respectively, while the eastern area is to build the Lop Nur water city cluster.
The purpose of this is to carry out agriculture, animal husbandry and forestry processing industry on the one hand, and also to allow workers in the Tarim Basin to enjoy the modern commercial services brought by big cities.
In addition to the three large urban areas including the Lop Nur urban agglomeration, it is also necessary to build scattered small cities and villages and towns. Although the individual construction costs may be small, they add up to a lot.
According to past experience, the distance between two villages and towns is best within 10 kilometers. Within this distance, communication and exchanges between people are more convenient, and there is no sense of loneliness when living.
Within an area of 10,000 square kilometers, a county-level town is needed to provide commercial and basic services and other facilities to residents within this range and increase residents' convenience.
It stands to reason that when building a county-level town of 10,000 square kilometers, the furthest distance to the town is about 50 kilometers. If you use a bicycle, the distance is still too far.
But now it is different from the past. In the future, cars will be used to travel. The distance of 50 kilometers only takes more than half an hour to reach by car, which will not have a big impact on the lives of residents.
In addition to building villages and towns, it is also necessary to build a large number of roads to connect these residential areas. According to past practice, the roads between villages and towns only need two lanes in both directions.
The regional main roads leading to towns are at least two-way four lanes and are standard roads, which facilitates the travel of residential areas between towns and facilitates the movement of people and the transportation of agricultural, forestry and animal husbandry products.
Of course, this village is very different from a traditional village. Its main purpose is not for residents to live, but as a base for agricultural and animal husbandry operations, a tool storage and crop storage base, or a breeding base.
As for the residence of people, it is basically a temporary residence. The permanent residence is still in the county seat. After all, there are cars and it is very convenient to travel. It does not need to be as dense as the Mu Us Ranch, where common residential areas are so dense, so that public resources are relatively scattered.
Now Tianji Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Company and Tianji Dairy Company have begun to re-integrate the original plans, appropriately centralize public resources, and form several large market towns instead of the original scattered breeding points.
In the past, due to limited conditions, dispersed settlements were more conducive to breeding operations. Now the price of cars is very low, and at the same time, the large-scale popularization of the Internet and the use of artificial intelligence.
Many things can be monitored remotely and intelligently, without the need for staff to stay at the stronghold day and night. This actually reduces expenses overall, greatly improves efficiency, and greatly improves the people's quality of life.
Judging from the overall investment trend, only the first year has a relatively small investment scale. Starting from the second year, the investment scale will be much larger. After that, the investment level of the second year will basically be maintained.
In other words, there is not much time left for him. He can still make up the first year of investment with the existing resources at his disposal. This is without affecting the existing industrial layout.
It will be very difficult to squeeze out funds from existing industries to meet development needs, so he only has about a year to make money.
His main purpose now is to think about how to make money, and it is best to think about it before the year, so that he can take action after the year to establish a new industry.
The first thing he thought of was naturally domestic robots. As for industrial robots, he had no plans to get involved yet. The industrial robots mentioned here did not refer to the semi-intelligent robotic arms currently used in factories.
It is a highly intelligent factory machinery and equipment. Apart from maintenance, such equipment basically does not require external intervention, and the work done is no less than manual work.
In this case, a large number of workers will face unemployment. He is very concerned about people's employment and has even made a lot of efforts for this. It is impossible to do too much in this regard.
However, the current domestic service field is not developed. Those who can afford domestic help are rich people. In fact, there are not many rich people in China now. We are talking about assets of tens of millions or more.
For the majority of ordinary people, they cannot afford domestic help, but there are many household chores, such as cooking, house cleaning, taking care of children, etc., which require a lot of their energy.
At this time, if the use of low-cost housekeeping robots can help them solve all their worries, then there will be a lot of market space.
Especially for dual-income families, if one of them can only do these things at home, the income will drop sharply, and all the pressure will be concentrated on the male side.
Moreover, if women stay at home for a long time, they will gradually lose touch with the mainstream of society. If they want to go out to work again, they may face certain difficulties.
At this time, domestic service robots can not only help them handle daily family affairs, but also take their children to and from school. Even babies about one year old can be taken care of by domestic service robots.
At the same time, the housekeeping service robot not only acts as an ordinary helper, but also a tutor, able to supervise and guide children's learning.
He had no doubt that such a robot would be welcomed by all ordinary households, but what he was thinking about now was how to operate it.
Although the housekeeping robot is not considered high-end in his eyes, from the outside, it is definitely a high-tech among high-tech, so naturally it needs a price that matches it.
For him, it is not a glorious thing for high-tech products to be sold at cabbage prices. Both he and his companies follow the principle that technological content and price are closely linked.
The various high-tech electronic products in Polaris Company are not low in price and the profit margin is also very high. This not only allows Polaris Company to enter a virtuous cycle, but also provides employees with higher salary levels.
If they all adopt the method of small profits but quick turnover, then they will not have enough profits for other investments and planning, and China Housing Corporation may not exist.
This is why in the past year, employee salaries have increased so much, but his companies have not felt so much pressure, mainly because the profit margins of these companies are very high.
Not to mention that the level of employees has been improved to the current level, but that it has been improved to the level of developed countries. Most of his companies are not under much pressure because most of their profit margins are higher than similar companies in developed countries. Much more.
According to the cost calculated in his mind, the factory cost of the housekeeping service robot can be 10,000 yuan, and the service life of overhaul is about 10 years. In other words, the annual cost is less than 1,000 yuan when apportioned.
Such usage costs are affordable for most domestic people, but the real situation is that the selling price must be at least 10 times the factory price to be worthy of their technological content.
Moreover, the factory cost of 10,000 yuan does not include its core intelligent system. The 10,000 yuan is only the cost of materials, because for him, the cost of the intelligent system is equivalent to nothing.
If the sales price is raised to 100,000 yuan, the domestic market will shrink rapidly, and he will not be able to make any money. Not many people can afford it, not to mention domestically, even abroad.
Therefore, he needs to think about a new business strategy that will not only allow him to earn large profits, but also make ordinary people affordable and willing to consume.
After thinking for a long time, he finally came up with a better business method, that is, leasing. All housekeeping robots are not sold to the outside world, but only rented out. This way, the cost of use for residents will be greatly reduced.
Take the domestic situation as an example. At the end of the past year, the average monthly salary of the domestic labor force was 1,200 yuan, so the monthly rental fee of 600 yuan for a domestic robot is not excessive.
It helps users reduce tedious household work and frees up a workforce, which gives family members more job opportunities, especially for families with children, it is definitely the most cost-effective way.
Anyone who has taken care of children knows that taking care of children is much more tiring and worrying than going to work. Children who are too young need meticulous care and cannot be left even an inch away. Older children need family education and tutoring, which is also a let-down. A headache for people.
All these worries can be left to the housekeeping robot, which is no different from a savior for young couples. It will definitely be popular among these young people, and it will also increase their willingness to have children.
The decrease in the fertility rate in previous lives was mainly due to several reasons. First, the cost of raising children was high. Second, women's employment opportunities were reduced. Third, there were too many worries. For young people who were used to freedom, it was very distressing.
Now, unlike in previous lives, education, medical care, etc. are all free. Young couples only need to bear the cost of living, and domestic service robots help them solve the latter two problems.
In addition, another popular group is the elderly, especially those who are older and have inconvenient hands and feet. It costs more to hire someone to take care of them, and they may not necessarily do their best.
But the housekeeping service robot will not only do its best, but it is also cheaper to use than hiring a person. More importantly, it will never get bored and can keep chatting with the elderly.
The two major difficulties faced by the elderly, especially those who live alone, are loneliness and instability in life. In both of these aspects, domestic service robots can help them.
As for middle-aged couples over 40 years old, their needs in the above aspects may be much less, but domestic service robots can also cook good dishes, and can even be no different from chefs.
Based on our country's population of just over 1 billion, the approximate number of households is around 200 million. Even if half of the households that require domestic service robots account for this, there will still be a demand of 100 million units.
Calculated based on half of the average monthly salary, each robot can bring him at least more than 600 yuan in income every month, and the total domestic income alone in a year reaches 720 billion yuan.
The above data is based on speculation. Even if the actual situation is not completely consistent with this, it is still possible to bring him about 500 billion yuan in income every year.
This is still the domestic market. The foreign market may be larger than the domestic market. Although their number may not be as large as the domestic market, they are rich, so the monthly rent will naturally be more expensive.
Rent abroad still follows domestic rules, which is to pay half of the local average monthly salary. Under normal circumstances, per capita income accounts for half of per capita GDP.
Calculated based on this ratio, the per capita annual income of most developed countries in the world is about US$10,000, and the population of developed countries is about 750 million (calculated based on some data, which may not be accurate).
Since there is no accurate data support, if we calculate it based on 100 million households, it can bring him about 500 billion US dollars in income every year.
To produce 200 million housekeeping robots, the cost would be 2 trillion yuan, which he cannot currently afford, so the first thing he needs to think about is how to further reduce the production cost of robots.
If he can recover the cost of the domestic service robot within a year, then the financial pressure on him will basically be too great.
Because the development funds in the first year can be squeezed from other companies under his ownership, he does not need to make much money, and this first year is just used to recover costs.
Of course, he can also solve the funding problem through loans. After all, he can get much more benefits from this project than interest.
I didn't know it before, but I was shocked when I calculated it. If it was really not much different from what he calculated now, then the robot project would be enough to earn the funds needed for the western climate transformation and development plan.
Because the two items combined can bring him an annual income of 1.5 trillion yuan. Even if it is not as good as what he just thought, the annual income of 1 trillion yuan is still there.
Among the annual revenue of one trillion yuan, the net profit is basically about more than 900 billion yuan, and the remaining 100 billion yuan in costs is needed to maintain global leasing channel construction and daily experience costs.
Since the scale of leasing personnel is too large, in order to maintain these channels, the scale of employees needed globally is also very large. These employees are responsible for marketing on the one hand, and robot maintenance on the other.
Because no matter how good the quality of the robot is, it may face unexpected situations or intentional damage, which requires the support of a global maintenance service system.
Maintenance costs are divided into two situations. The first is non-human damage during normal use. This maintenance cost will be fully borne by its robot companies.
The other type is man-made damage, and the repair costs will naturally be borne by the tenant. If similar situations occur multiple times, there may be punitive fines.
Because what he is doing is a monopoly business, he is not afraid that punitive fines will cause user boycotts. Anyway, a boycott by a few people will not have much impact on him.
Of course, if the tenant is afraid of incurring heavy repair costs, after all, sometimes the home service robot may be damaged unintentionally, such as accidentally pushing the robot into the pool.
At this time, you can purchase robot maintenance insurance from Ping An Insurance Company. It does not require a lot and costs only 50 yuan per year. This will also bring about 10 billion yuan of insurance business to Ping An Insurance Company. (End of chapter)