Great warships

Chapter 1273 Our Technology is the Most Powerful
"Boss Qin, there is a Western reporter who wants to interview me."

Listening to Xu Zhengyang's words, Qin Tao subconsciously wanted to wave his hands. It would be better not to meet this kind of person. The conversation might not be pleasant. He might even set traps for him everywhere and he might get fooled into them.

However, he still casually said: "What's your name?"

"Beaumont."

"full name?"

When Xu Zhengyang finished saying her full name, Qin Tao nodded immediately: "Please let her in!"

Soon, a Western woman in her thirties walked in: "Mr. Qin, I'm glad you can accept the interview. I came from France and want to report something that surprised us in the West. I hope to find the answer from you."

"what's up?"

"Why is the cost of producing aircraft carriers so low in your East? According to relevant analysis, the cost of building a Ford-class aircraft carrier in the United States is enough to produce five Type 003 aircraft carriers here. How did you do it? Is it by exploiting the labor force?"

"Our workers all work voluntarily, and their wages are very high." Qin Tao said: "Zhengyang, go to the finance office and get a salary list for ordinary workers."

Xu Zhengyang was very curious, why was Mr. Qin so enthusiastic about such a foreign woman? Why did he even show her confidential information like her salary?
However, since Mr. Qin wants it, you can just go and get it yourself.

Soon, the salary list was projected onto the wall. Beaumont looked surprised: "An ordinary worker can earn more than 8,000 yuan a month!"

"Yes, I can guarantee that this salary table is indeed effective. Next, you can go and ask our front-line workers how much they earn per month."

Now, the minimum wage in the capital is only 700 to 800 yuan a month. Those who can earn more than 3,000 yuan belong to the white-collar class. An ordinary worker of Mingzhou Group can earn more than 8,000 yuan a month, which is definitely a high income.

"Moreover, this is the actual amount left after paying for insurance and pensions. At the end of each year, we also give an extra two months' salary as a year-end bonus. Our ordinary workers should be paid no less than those in the West."

"Yes, if converted, the income is about the same as that of Western workers." Beaumont nodded.

"But prices in our East are low, and the actual purchasing power of this money far exceeds yours in the West."

Beaumont nodded again.

"If it's not low wages, then what is it?"

"Thirty years ago, our country put forward the slogan that science and technology are the primary productive forces." Qin Tao said: "Our low costs are of course achieved through high technology."

“What kind of high technology is needed for shipbuilding?”

For Westerners who have never been to the East, it is indeed difficult to understand the level of technology in the East. In fact, in the impression of many Westerners, the East should be similar to Africa.

Now, Qin Tao wants to correct the other party's impression.

"Next, I'll take you to our shipyard and you'll understand. Zhengyang, make some arrangements and we'll go to Huating Second Shipyard."

"it is good."

Soon, a special plane took off from the capital and flew directly to Huating.

Sitting on the large sofa, Beaumont was very envious: "Boss Qin, is this the life of the rich in the East?"

"No, I'm not an Eastern tycoon, I'm an Eastern entrepreneur. I often need to travel to different places, so I have this special plane to avoid wasting time." Qin Tao said, "You should know that time is the most important thing for entrepreneurs. After I take you to see the equipment in the shipyard, I can come back at night."

"Then Mr. Qin, did I disrupt your schedule?"

"It doesn't matter. As long as you can report everything you see in the East objectively and fairly so that the world can better understand our East, that's enough."

"I certainly will."

The Mingzhou Shipyard is still building aircraft carriers and the confidentiality is very high, so Qin Tao took Beaumont to the Huating Second Shipyard to have a look, and she should understand.

Cong Ju was very curious when she heard that Qin Tao was coming. She became even more curious when she saw that Qin Tao brought a foreign reporter with him.

So, just as Xu Zhengyang was walking in front with Bo Meng, Cong Ju spoke in a low voice from behind.

"Boss Qin, what is the identity of this reporter that deserves your personal accompaniment?"

"Sister Cong Ju, this reporter can report on our Dongfang fairly and objectively, so that the whole world can understand our Dongfang and our Mingzhou Shipyard, so..."

Cong Ju nodded: "Okay, what should I let her see?"

“Look at our production line.”

"it is good."

"Huating Second Shipyard is a civilian ship production base. It currently mainly produces liquefied gas ships, which are also the flagship products of our Mingzhou Group." Qin Tao introduced: "Miss Beaumont, you should know that shipbuilding starts with cutting steel plates, right?"

"Ah."

"Let's start by cutting the steel plate."

It’s definitely a whole new world for Beaumont!

As soon as she entered the factory, she saw several trucks transporting goods, pulling steel coils. However, the trucks only had a cargo box, no front, and no cab!

“These cars…”

"At present, our intelligent driving is already very mature. Some roads in Huating have opened intelligent driving test roads. As for our factory area, it has been fully popularized. All vehicles transporting goods are unmanned."

"So, you saved the cost of the driver?"

"The job of driver will disappear in the future," Qin Tao said. "For our company, the demand for drivers is also decreasing. However, as long as we don't recruit new drivers and the old drivers gradually retire or transfer to other positions, our Mingzhou Group will not fire workers as long as they have no fault."

Beaumont nodded.

"But how are so many cars dispatched?"

"Every vehicle is connected to the Internet, and the program can automatically dispatch and know the status of each vehicle."

"Oh."

Come to think of it, since it is intelligent driving, it must be connected to the Internet.

After the steel coils are transported to the destination, the next step is uncoiling and cutting. You can see that there are only a few workers working on site, leisurely unloading the steel coils, uncoiling them, putting them into the machines, and then, everything is automatic!
"Your technology is indeed the most advanced. In Europe, these are all operated manually, but here, everything is automated! No wonder your construction cost is so low. But..."

"But what?"

"Steel plates are different in thickness and require different equipment. During use, will some equipment be overwhelmed and some idle?"

"This situation does happen, so each of our devices is connected to the Internet so that we can know the operating status of each device at any time." Qin Tao said: "We not only use it for our own use, but also open it to other brother units. If they want, they can check at any time to see which machine is idle."

In shipyards, many equipments are idle, such as plate bending machines. Different plate bending machines are needed to bend steel plates of different thicknesses. This will cause a problem: some plate bending machines are too busy and some are idle. What should we do at this time?
For European shipyards, just wait!

All these have caused huge waste and increased costs, but in Mingzhou Group, these situations do not exist!
Beaumont walked along and was surprised to see that one of the plate benders was actually making a sculpture!
"The Huating government planned to erect this sculpture in Zhangjiang as a model. After completing the design, they came to us to look for a machine. After checking on the computer, they found that the No. 3 plate bending machine had half an hour of spare time today, so they scheduled production and took advantage of this free time to complete this outsourced project." Cong Ju explained.

Many municipal sculptures are also made of steel plates. Thin steel plates are bent into special shapes and then welded. In the past, these were all done manually bit by bit, wasting time and money. But now, everything has become automated!
The plate bending machine bends the thin steel plate into the corresponding shape, and then enters the next process of automatic welding. In half an hour, the municipal sculpture in the shape of mountains and flowing water is made, and a layer of primer is sprayed on it!
After completing this task, the plate bending machine continued to manufacture parts for the ship.

Click, click!
As Beaumont's camera kept taking pictures, she felt a new door slowly opening.

"Every machine can be connected to the Internet, and every machine can check its usage on the computer. What kind of high-tech is this?"

"Internet of Things." Qin Tao said with a smile: "In our future city, there is the concept of Internet of Things. If you have entered this virtual future city, you should be able to have a deeper understanding of what Internet of Things is."

Bo Meng's face was full of doubt. Obviously, she didn't understand what the Internet of Things was at that time.

"You've seen enough here. Let's go to the office and sit down. Then you'll know what the Internet of Things means."

If you just talk about the concept in an empty way, the reporter may not understand it. It's just like big data. Even if you talk to ordinary people for a whole day and night, they still won't understand it. But later, when they find that the price goes up when they buy things often, and the price goes down when others don't buy them, then they will know that this is what big data is used for!

The definition of the Internet of Things is very complex and requires a long paragraph. Even if we can summarize it in one sentence, it means connecting all objects to the Internet through information sensing devices to exchange information, that is, objects communicate with each other to achieve intelligent identification and management.

This won't be understood either.

Or experience it yourself.

"Okay, then let's go through Gate No. 8." Cong Ju said.

At this time, Beaumont certainly didn't know what Gate No. 8 meant. He just followed everyone else. When he was two or three meters away from the gate, he saw the gate slowly open.

It's nothing, it's an automatic door, there's a security guard at the door! Beaumont followed and the door slowly closed. Only then did she realize that there was no one guarding the door!

Surveillance, it must be the surveillance camera nearby. The security guard was in the monitoring room. When he saw Cong Ju and others coming, he opened the door!
"The confidentiality level of this gate is not high, so I can lead you in. But it's not the same for the second gate. Each of you needs to bring a visitor card." Cong Ju said, giving one to Qin Tao, Bo Meng and Xu Zhengyang respectively.

"The security guard won't open the door?" Beaumont was curious.

"Security? Do you think it was the security guard who opened the door just now? There is an IoT terminal on the door, and the camera has facial recognition. When it saw that it was me, it opened the door automatically."

There is no security guard behind the camera, but a special facial recognition system. It can also send commands to the gate, and the gate will open automatically!

Listening to Cong Ju's introduction, Bo Meng opened his eyes wide, then took the radio frequency card representing his personal identity.

"This card is like an ID. As long as you carry it with you, you can enter any door at any time here."

There are also door cards in the West, but these door cards need to be swiped. Now you just carry them with you and the door can sense it. Of course, this is because the door is connected to the Internet, and the information is transmitted between them through the Internet.

"In the future, all intelligent access control systems will be like this. As long as someone approaches, the door will open automatically. Of course, this is just the simplest aspect of the Internet of Things application and is not worth mentioning. We can enter the computer center by entering two more doors."

Beaumont was the first to walk to the second door and watched it slowly open, feeling very curious.

Pass through two doors again and enter the computer center.

The computer room consisting of a row of cabinets surprised Beaumont: "Does the shipyard need such powerful computers?"

If it is a ship design unit, then it will definitely need powerful computer-aided design. However, what does a shipyard do with this kind of cabinet-type computer?
"Of course it's automated production. Come, let's look at the big screen over here."

There were several workers on duty inside, looking at the screen attentively. In order not to disturb their normal work and to see more clearly, Cong Ju brought Bo Meng to the front of the big screen.

It was similar to the big screen at the satellite launch center, and it was very shocking to look at. At this time, the background of the entire big screen was an overhead view of the shipyard, with various icons on it.

Because it was in the form of icons, Beaumont was able to recognize them quickly: those moving icons should be self-driving vehicles, and those fixed icons were machines and equipment.

Green represents work, red represents maintenance, white represents idle, and yellow represents the situation is unclear and someone needs to be sent to check, but there are very few yellow ones, almost none.

The entire big screen is densely packed with what must be tens of thousands of terminals!

Beaumont looked at the doors he had passed through.

As if knowing what she was thinking, Cong Ju picked up the laser pen and pointed it at that location. Then, the area began to enlarge and various information was displayed.

Just then, a worker walked by in a hurry. When he was about 20 meters away from the gate, he appeared in the gate's information display and was being recognized... The recognition was successful, including name, age, job type, authority, and even a photo in the upper right corner!
When he came over, sure enough, the door status showed open!

All of this happens automatically without any human intervention. Isn’t it amazing?
Just then, a white machine appeared on the screen.

"Automatic welding machine number 72 will be free in two hours!"

"We can assign it the task of welding the hydraulic pump base inside the cabin, but we need to transport a batch of materials over in advance. Let's see which car is free!"

Soon, new tasks were arranged.

Beaumont's expression was extremely complicated: "The addition of this Internet of Things system has increased the production efficiency of your shipyard by at least three times, and the cost has also been greatly reduced. You Orientals are really good at shipbuilding!"

"Science and technology are the primary productive forces. With the development of the times and the advancement of technology, the Internet of Things has come closer to us. Now, we only use the Internet of Things within the factory, and later, we will expand it to the whole country."

What would that scene be like?
All machines and equipment can be fully utilized. If an automobile factory needs a special type of bolts, but the supporting factory is too late to produce them, they can immediately find out on the Internet of Things where the machines and equipment are idle, place an order for production, and arrange logistics without wasting any time!

When a mobile phone manufacturer finds that it only has enough inventory of cameras for one day, it immediately places an order from any domestic manufacturer and schedules production. It produces during the day and ships at night, and the cameras arrive at the factory the next day!

In this way, the production of all industries in the whole country will be more efficient! There will be no situation where production is stopped due to lack of any parts. All industrial chains in the whole country will be perfectly integrated together. At that time, the cost will be lower!
Seeing Beaumont lost in fantasy, Qin Tao smiled. It seemed that this reporter had understood!

"It's noon, let's go eat." Qin Tao said, "Let me show you how the Internet of Things can be used in our daily lives."

Bo Meng followed Qin Tao and Cong Ju into the top floor of the staff canteen, which is a pilot project of the smart canteen. As long as you place an order at the table, the kitchen will receive a message, and then automatically cook the food, and finally take it out of the pot and deliver it to the robot.

As he watched the robot food truck coming over, Beaumont's camera started clicking again.

"Boss Qin, I feel like I've arrived in the future."

"Yes, our future world will be like this. When you have time, go and take a look at our future city. It is built according to the future smart city. Inside, reinforced concrete and chips have been perfectly combined together..."

Beaumont nodded: "Of course, of course!"

Qin Tao picked up the chopsticks and tasted the shredded potatoes. No, the taste was terrible. The automatic cooking machine is still far from being practical!

However, Beaumont doesn't care about the taste. In Europe, potatoes are only eaten in two ways: boiled and roasted, and both are used as staple food. Unexpectedly, they can be eaten as a dish here.

Interesting, the East is so interesting!

That afternoon, the special plane returned to the capital. Beaumont said goodbye to Qin Tao at the airport and was still very excited.

"Boss Qin, before I came to the East, I thought it was very backward, but now, I have a completely new understanding of the East. I will definitely report on the real East and the real Mingzhou Group!"

"In Europe, many people still look at us with tinted glasses. Thank you for standing up." Qin Tao replied: "Thank you also for promoting a real oriental world!"

It was not until now that Xu Zhengyang understood Qin Tao’s real intention: to let Europeans understand the East and envy the East!
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