I Have a Mansion in the Post-apocalyptic World Chapter 661: Interested in cooperation?
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It is not just a vast overseas market. After the completion of Penglai City, the supply of fresh water may become a real problem. At present, 300,000 units have been sold, and even if the occupancy rate is only 50%, the population of Penglai City will be a terrifying number.
Leaving the presidential palace, Jiang Chen got in the car and ordered Aisha to take him to the entrance of CWW Group.
After the car was on the road, he first made a phone call with the people of the CWW Group, and then clicked on the hologram of his left-hand watch.
A faint blue light emerged, and a three-dimensional bust appeared in the car.
Aisha ’s wide eyes were filled with surprise, but she asked nothing, pressed the button to close the window, and continued to stare at the road ahead.
"Jane, start the four-dimensional letter sending device to help me retrieve the catalog of the recovery technology of Refuge No. 27 and match the items related to seawater desalination."
"Observe the order." The woman in the hologram nodded slightly, with a light blue data stream flashing on the outline like a solid.
The four-dimensional sending device was originally a chip hung on the EP. At first, it was used to communicate with Lin Ling across the dimension. Later, it was also connected to the server at the fish bone base, so that Jiang Chen could instantly understand the end time. The situation over there.
Later, since Yao Yao diy's watch already had EP function, Jiang Chenbian implanted that chip in the watch.
"The search is completed, a total of 7 items have been matched."
"Download to my watch."
"Comply, Mr. Chairman." Jane said in a tone without emotion.
As the progress bar on the holographic screen finished, Jiang Chen reached out and poked it on the screen. .
"Received! You can play while you are going."
"Q: What are you doing while playing?"
"Uh, that's what I mean when I need you."
When playing with a computer, someone always feels uncomfortable looking at them. Although she knows that she is AI, she is too close to humans in all aspects except expressions.
"Understood."
Nodded, Jane's figure turned into a faint blue character and dissipated in the air.
Relying on the co-pilot position, Jiang Chen called up the files downloaded to the watch.
As long as the source of infection in the city center was cleared, Refuge No. 27, with the help of the NAC First Corps, began to recycle the technology under the ruins of Wanghai City. Regardless of whether these technologies have been digested, in short, all the data have been logged into the database by more than a thousand researchers in case of unexpected needs.
Seawater desalination technology is a relatively common technology in the 22nd century when the population is overloaded. Although the city of Wanghai at the mouth of the Huangpu River does not experience the pain of water shortage, it does not prevent it from providing technical services to other water-scarce regions in the Pan-Asian Cooperation.
Researchers at the refuge have only collected these technologies, and have not yet digested and organized the specific contents of the technical files, but the conceptual graphics and effect parameters of these files themselves are well documented, so it does not hinder Jiang Chen Check the content of these projects.
Finger swiped on the interface, the blue linear cube immediately outlined the shape of the desalination device.
"Who is she?" Aisha asked curiously.
"Artificial intelligence, her name is Jane." Jiang Chen smiled.
"It's actually a program ... I thought it was your assistant." Aisa whispered, turning her hands around the steering wheel.
CWW Group's new country office is located in the center of Koror Island. Fortunately, the road conditions were not bad, and the two reached the destination in only 15 minutes.
The car stopped steadily, Jiang Chen's five fingers scratched, and put away the holographic screen, pushed the car door and went out.
In this tourist city full of "rickshaws", the sudden appearance of such a flaming Lamborghini is quite eye-catching. Many tourists and tourists even took out their mobile phones to take photos ... although Jiang Chen did not know what they were so excited about.
Walking into the lobby of the CWW Group, a secretary-like person greeted him and took him to the direction of the elevator.
On the way to come, Jiang Chen has called the manager of CWW Group branch. Although he did not want to continue to struggle with the desalination of the new government, considering the identity of Jiang Chen, Jim Atri nodded his temporary visit and moved the scheduled meeting back for an hour.
"Please sit down, Mr. Jiang Chen." Arit pours a cup of coffee for Jiang Chen, and then makes him opposite. "It's surprising that you will visit our company. Is the future group interested in the freshwater business?"
"Accurately, I am interested in the desalination of sea water." Jiang Chen took a sip of his coffee and stopped touching it after putting it down.
His sister, this kind of coffee has a bitter taste of Chinese medicine.
After hearing Jiang Chen talk about desalination, Arit thought Jiang Chen had convinced him, so he sighed.
"There is always such a joke in our company."
"Oh?" Jiang Chenrao looked at him with interest.
"Our company's tap water supply business in the new country has added up the revenue so far, which is not as good as the real estate revenue." Arit tasted the coffee with relish and continued with a teasing tone. "For example, this office building at my feet, with a total of $ 150,000 in decoration, can now be sold for at least 2 million."
"Haha, your joke is quite interesting." Jiang Chen laughed, "Are you not so optimistic about the freshwater market in the new country? There are only 50,000 permanent residents now, but what about one or two years later?"
"The key is not here." Arit shook his head, threw a lump of sugar cubes into the coffee cup, and gently stirred. "The new government on the one hand wants us to expand our business, on the other hand, we want to drink Water is a benefit. We do n’t have the power to raise prices independently on drinking water prices. Although the freshwater resources in Coro Island are tight, we honestly do n’t like the market here. ”
"Then do you have any plans to sell this business?" Jiang Chen asked.
Arit shook his head.
"We are not optimistic, but we do not plan to withdraw."
"That means you plan to maintain the status quo?" Jiang Chen understood their plan.
"Exactly." Ali said headly.
At present, the freshwater supply pipeline in the new country is owned by the CWW Group. Other freshwater companies want to enter the market. There are only two options, either to cooperate with them or to re-lay the pipeline themselves. Even if the government imports fresh water at its own expense, it still sells fresh water to them at a low price according to the contract, and then supplies water to residents through them. This behavior of buying high and selling low can be regarded as a disguised financial subsidy.
Jiang Chen nodded and did not speak.
Arit sipped his coffee, looked at Jiang Chen, and asked with an unexpected tone.
"Is Future Group interested in the freshwater business?"
"Yes." Jiang Chen nodded again, then looked at him and said, "Future people in our group have recently made breakthrough progress in seawater desalination technology. It happened that Zhang Yaping asked me to talk Due to the lack of freshwater resources in the country, I plan to build a seawater desalination plant on the island of Kero, with an estimated daily processing capacity of more than 40,000 tons. "
Forty thousand tons is just a conservative number. For any desalination technology from the 22nd century, the minimum treatment capacity is much higher than this number. But for the new country, this number is enough.
"40,000 tons, that's quite a large scale." Arit said slowly, "But have you considered the cost?"
"At the price of industrial electricity in the new country, our cost per ton of desalinated water can be controlled below $ 0.50."
"Is it 0.5 dollars? That's not bad ..." Arit suddenly froze his hand holding the coffee cup.
Buddenly, the cup fell to the ground, and he couldn't care about the coffee juice on his body. He supported the table and stared at Jiang Chen with wide eyes.
"This is impossible! I have never heard of technology that can reduce costs to this level, even for a matrix company!"
"But we are the future." Jiang Chen said quietly, but he smiled secretly in his heart: this Nima is still because of the high electricity price in this world. If the nuclear fusion technology is mature in the 22nd century, the cost of desalinated water is not much more expensive than tap water.
Arit just wanted to refute, but the words were frozen in his throat. He suddenly remembered that the group of people in the future seemed to be creating miracles forever, subverting people's inherent ideas. From virtual reality to home robot ...
A ridiculous thought came to his mind.
Maybe they can really do it!
"How is it? Are you interested in cooperation?" Jiang Chen asked with a smile while looking at Alite who was not speaking. (To be continued.)