Homo sapiens.

Li Qingye finished his morning work.

On the dining table, meals are already set.

Sanjibada Leyal turned on the TV again and played the rock climbing competition on the sports channel. She knew that Li Qingye didn't like to watch entertainment programs, and his daily pastime programs were sports and chess.

Just after taking a few bites, there was a slight sound of footsteps outside the restaurant.

Sanjibada Leyal suddenly showed a hint of displeasure on his face, and cursed secretly in his heart: "Which bastard is it again?"Run over all day while Mr. is eating! '

In the next second, a middle-aged man with a rough face appeared at the door of the restaurant.

"gentlemen."

"Bageila, sit down! Is there anything else you want to report?" Li Qingye said while picking up vegetables. He was used to this kind of life.

Bagheera, who was sitting on a wooden chair at one side, quickly reported some relatively confidential internal and external information.

"Just three hours ago, under the mediation of America, Tianzhu and Xiba reached an agreement on the Kremlin issue."

Li Qingye paused with his chopsticks, then shook his head with a smile: "I'm afraid it's not just America who is behind the scenes, right?"

"Sir, you are very predictable, and other great powers have also made a lot of efforts in secret." Bagheera nodded.

"Unexpected things."

"Second thing, the Kiev war is also being negotiated in secret, and the secret meeting place is in Hamburg."

Li Qingye was not surprised, and continued to pick up a piece of roast goose and put it in his mouth.

"The third thing is that the Europa Commonwealth, the Kingdom of Judah, and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia have reached an agreement to complete the laying of the West Asia onshore oil pipeline within the next three years."

"Number..."

Bagheera summarized more than a dozen pieces of relatively important international information and reported them to Li Qingye one by one.

After reporting the international intelligence, he turned to the company's internal intelligence.

"The Western Pacific Branch has initially completed the integration, and the headquarters of the branch is located in the east of East Irian Island."

"The sea rice planting area of ​​the Suez branch has reached 274 million hectares, and is currently expanding at a rate of 30 to 40 hectares per month. It is expected to reach 500 million hectares by the end of this year."

"The 23 leased ports leased by the Ceylon Ocean Shipping Group on the coast of Africa have completed modernization, and plan to complete the laying of submarine optical cables around Africa before June next year."

Li Qingye stopped his chopsticks: "We should also pay attention to the submarine optical cables in South America."

Bagheera nodded quickly: "I understand. After I go back, I will let the Communication Division focus on the laying of submarine optical cables in South America."

然后他继续汇报道：“截止7月24日，公司的新人类员工总数已经达到了3亿7145万8803人，自然人员工为6亿1233万7520人。”

"Has it reached that much?"

"Because our overall employee age structure is relatively young, with young adults accounting for about 68%, minors accounting for 19%, and elderly people over 60 accounting for only 13%, the proportion of new human employees still has room to continue to expand. potential."

Li Qingye is very clear about this.

Now Homo sapiens is headquartered in Southeast Asia, and the proportion of new human employees is very high.

The regional branches with a relatively low proportion of new human employees are the recently established Dongba Branch, Suez Branch and Mada Island Branch.

In addition, natural workers who have just immigrated also need a certain amount of time to transform.

Bagheera gave some other inside information.

Including the pull project of the space business department, the dandelion project, and the Homo sapiens space station to be built in the near future.

There are also gamma-ray turrets and gamma-ray armed satellites jointly launched by the External Security Division and the Science Division, and experimental models have also been launched.

"...Recently, the 8092 Laboratory under the Science Business Department discovered a brand new material in the lightning generation model tested by gamma rays."

Li Qingye suddenly became interested: "New material?"

"It is a special lead-tungsten alloy."

"Jasmine, help me call up the internal papers of the 8092 laboratory."

Sanjibada Leyal nodded: "Okay, sir."

Since it was worthwhile for Bagheera to report to him in person, this new material must have extraordinary properties.

Soon Sanjibada Leyal called up the catalog of papers in the 8092 laboratory, and Li Qingye first briefly scanned the paper overview.

After reading the overview of the paper, he knew why Bagheera made a special report on this matter.

This lead-tungsten-gold alloy material has very high strength and hardness, but this is not the point. After all, Homo sapiens has materials with better strength and hardness inside.

The focus is on the thermoelectric conversion properties of this material, which achieves an astonishing 82 percent thermoelectric conversion efficiency.

This conversion efficiency has completely broken through the current limit of human thermal efficiency of power generation.

We must know that the best heat engine for human beings is the supercritical gas turbine of Siemens, and its maximum thermal efficiency can reach 61%.

The thermal efficiency of a heat engine can theoretically reach 70%, but the theoretical figure is often difficult to achieve.

"Lightning quasi-crystal?" Li Qingye carefully read the papers of the 8092 laboratory, and finally revealed the true face of this material.

The so-called quasi-crystal is actually a special material between crystal and amorphous, which is very rare in nature.

Often it can only be synthesized through high temperature and high pressure and certain specific conditions, and its harsh formation conditions are somewhat similar to submetallic hydrogen.

But when he saw the ratio of the materials, he frowned.

Lead 52.3%, Tungsten 26.2%, Gold 21.5%.

In this element ratio, lead and tungsten are not a big problem, but the key is the 21.5% gold.

He continued to read, and the 8092 laboratory obviously knew that gold as a raw material would lead to a surge in cost, so they tried to replace gold with other relatively cheap elements.

However, in 1274 substitution and reduction experiments, no element can perfectly replace gold.

For every 1% decrease in the proportion of gold, the thermoelectric conversion efficiency will decrease by 8% to 12%.

Once the proportion of gold is lower than 15.4%, the thermoelectric conversion efficiency of the material will drop below 5%.

This means that gold is basically an integral part of the material.

Li Qingye fell into deep thought.

The thermal efficiency is 82%. After the three-layer composite, the thermal efficiency can reach 99.41%. The temptation of this thermal efficiency is too great.

But among the materials, that 21.5% gold is indeed very expensive.

The pros and cons of this must be carefully considered, and Li Qingye also understood Bagheera's thoughts at this time.

This is obviously because the Science Business Department knew that it could not make the decision, so it entrusted Bagheera to report this matter to him.

If it is other precious metals, then Li Qingye can approve it without hesitation, but the situation of gold is special.

After all, gold is the most intuitive collateral for gold dollars. If too much is withdrawn at once, it will lead to instability of gold dollars.

Whether it is worthwhile to readjust the currency system for a new material can only be decided by Li Qingye.

He thought for a while, and ordered a few words to Sanzibada Leal.

Then I ate lunch in threes and fives.

Chapter 4 and One: The Golden Age

In the afternoon, 02:30.

Holographic conference room.

Li Qingye summoned the management of the company.

Regarding the situation of this new material, the management is also full of entanglements.

The person in charge of the mining business department was the first to speak: "At present, we can mine 2.4-2.8 tons of gold every month, and we can also extract 86-95 tons of gold from seawater every month."

Looking at the data, Liu Zhifan asked Jiang Mingxuan, the person in charge of the Science Business Department, "How much gold do you need to use for a three-layer composite 100-megawatt thermoelectric generator?"

"..." Jiang Mingxuan did not answer, but directly connected to the researchers of the 8092 laboratory and the researcher of the Electric Power Research Institute.

After more than ten minutes, a rough figure was finally obtained: "About 240-250 kilograms of gold will be used."

"Too much!" Liu Zhifan felt very headache.

According to this amount of use, the monthly production of nearly 400 tons of gold by Homo sapiens is enough to manufacture 100 sets of [-]-megawatt thermoelectric generators.

And the gold content in seawater is not unlimited.

According to the sampling survey conducted by the Mining Business Department in various places, the gold content in seawater in the Hongshawadi coastal area where golden seaweed has been planted for a long time has dropped by about 40-50%.

The same is true of the coast of the Luzon Islands.

Li Qingye was also aware of this situation, and he instructed the Ministry of Mines: "Increase gold seaweed plantations in the Malay Archipelago, the Western Pacific Islands, Mada Island, and Ceylon Island, and increase the gold production capacity to 200 tons per month."

"Yes, Chairman."

Although expanding the planting scale of golden algae can indeed rapidly increase gold production capacity in a short period of time.

But everyone was not too complacent, because this production capacity was far from enough.

We must know that the gold that has been mined in the world is about 19 tons, of which 47% is used in jewelry, and the rest is investment, official reserves, and industrial raw materials.

Homo sapiens reserves 2743 tons of gold.

At this time, the installed capacity of Homo sapiens' thermal power generation devices was 362 million megawatts. If all these thermal power generation devices were to be replaced with thermoelectric power generation devices, 8900 tons of gold would be consumed.

Of course, if you get private gold in Tianzhu, you should be able to extract tens of thousands of tons of gold.

It's just that Tianzhu has strictly restricted the outflow of gold at this stage, and many layouts of the field business department have not been completed, so it is impossible to mess around.

And the material isn't just for generators.

Thermoelectric conversion materials can also be applied to refrigeration.

In addition, the automobile heat engine can be replaced with a thermoelectric generator, and the current micro gas turbine power generation system can be eliminated by cooperating with the storage battery.

Spaceships, artificial satellites, and space stations in outer space all need temperature-difference materials. After using this temperature-difference material, the heat dissipation problem that has plagued spacecraft will be solved.

It can even be considered to install nuclear reactors to generate electricity in space stations and spacecraft.

These applications will push Homo sapiens a step further.

After all, the thermal efficiency has increased from an average of 45% to 99.41%, which means that the same power can be obtained by consuming less than half of the previous fuel.

The changes brought about by new materials tempted everyone present.

After listening to it for a long time, Garfield suggested: "Perhaps we can find a way from the bottom of the sea and deep underground."

The person in charge of the mining business department nodded: "This is a way of thinking. The underground mines and seabed mines we have discovered so far have good gold reserves, about 70 to 90 tons, but mining is more troublesome."

At this moment, the person in charge of the space business department also hurriedly spoke for his department:

"Actually, there are many gold-rich asteroids in the asteroid belt. If such asteroids with extremely high gold content can be captured, our gold production will greatly increase in the future."

His subtext is to pay fast money to support the space department.

The corner of Liu Zhifan's mouth twitched slightly: "The asteroid belt is too far away, so it's not feasible for now."

Li Qingye also agrees with Liu Zhifan's point of view: "Space mining will not start until at least 2025. To mine resources in the asteroid belt, it may take until 2035. The channel of space mining will not be considered in a short period of time."

Hearing this, the person in charge of the Space Division looked a little helpless.

Space mining is indeed immature at this stage, and the asteroid belt is too far away.

Li Qingye continued: "Now we need to discuss how to transfer the reserve gold to industry without affecting the stability of the gold standard of the gold dollar."

For this problem, everyone has one head and two big ones.

If it's a few hundred tons secretly transferred, then it's not a big problem.

But looking at the situation now, it is definitely not hundreds of tons, but most of the gold must be invested in new materials.

Even if it is used in batches, with the current inventory, it still cannot last for too long.

Liu Zhifan hesitated for a while, but still made an objection: "Chairman, I think the application of new materials can be promoted step by step. With the company's current gold production capacity, it can still be satisfied at the initial stage."

Other executives are also leaning a bit more conservatively.

The gold dollar must not be untied from gold at this stage, otherwise it will affect the layout and promotion of many plans.

After more than three hours of intense discussions, the final conclusion was to increase revenue and reduce expenditure.

Increase the scale of gold seaweed planting, fully start the mining of deep underground gold mines and seabed gold mines, increase the gold production capacity to 300 tons this year, and increase it to 500 tons next year.

Strive to complete the upgrading and transformation of the power generation industry within 10 years.