Rebirth 2004: I can make money by writing.

In late July, the sun in Shenzhen was scorching, but it could not stop the city's vigorous development.

Pengcheng Future Technology Group Financial Building has officially decided to be located in the core area of ​​Pengcheng Bay, with a planned investment of 100 billion yuan and a construction area of ​​approximately 35 square meters.

In October 2009, Hao Qiang purchased 600 mu of residential land and 400 mu of commercial land in Pengcheng Bay.

It can be said that it is very forward-looking.

He didn't expect that it would come in handy.

The once deserted bay has now become a hot and prime location.

In just a few years, the land price has increased many times, witnessing the magnificent transformation of Pengcheng Bay from obscurity to prosperity.

More than 100 acres of land are used to build a skyscraper. The remaining commercial land is used to develop a commercial complex integrating high-end CBD, international shopping center and five-star hotel, while the residential land is used to develop high-end residential properties.

If we keep it without developing it, it would be a pure waste.

But unlike other developers, he does not intend to make huge profits through residential projects.

Instead, on the one hand, they are sold preferentially to the group’s employees and long-term partners at preferential prices far below the market price;

On the other hand, subscription is open to honest users with urgent needs who have settled in Shenzhen.

These residences are not only affordably priced, but also meticulously designed and equipped with amenities, striving to provide residents with a high-quality living experience.

It is worth mentioning that the sales of this residential project have adopted a strict review mechanism.

Homebuyers not only need to meet basic conditions such as continuous payment of social security in Pengcheng, but also need to pass the integrity assessment system established by the group.

It can be said that his house cannot be bought with money, after all, his purpose is not to make money.

This kind of operation that goes against business practices will certainly be difficult for many people in the industry to understand.

However, the real estate industry did not dare to say anything bad about Hao Qiang, and was afraid that he would enter the industry and cause trouble.

Another skyscraper has also been officially confirmed to be in the Lujiazui area, with a planned investment of 120 billion yuan.

In early August,

Hao Qiang sat leisurely on the sofa in the office, reading the company's core R&D projects.

The third generation of EBL lithography tools, namely the 4nm EBL lithography tools, are under development and are expected to be successfully developed in 2014.

The flagship mobile processor White Tiger 845 has been successfully developed. Its performance is several times stronger than that of White Tiger 835. It uses a 7nm process technology and is already catching up with high-end processors around 2022.

However, the White Tiger 845 is not yet on the market.

The company has already started developing the White Tiger 855 series.

There are also several other types of mobile phone processors, whose performance is slightly inferior to that of the White Tiger 835.

After the price cut of Huawei Mate S, sales increased significantly and are expected to exceed 50 million units this year.

The first generation of solid-state lithium metal batteries has been successfully developed and is continuing to be optimized.

In Hao Qiang's plan, the energy density of the second-generation solid-state lithium metal battery will reach 2000 Wh/kg.

未来1.0机器狗在2013年5月份研发成功，核心芯片采用7nm制程工艺，性能已经比得上2022年的机器狗了。

The research and development of the Future 2.0 robot dog began in July this year.

The company has not yet released the Future 1.0 robot dog. Hao Qiang plans to exhibit it at the first Future Technology Group Technology Exhibition to be held on National Day.

The product still needs to be launched on the market, and only through market verification can more problems be discovered.

Working in isolation is not the right way.

The flying car EF1 project is currently progressing well. After the team's unremitting efforts, the engineering prototype has been trial-produced.

Solid-state lithium metal batteries have just been successfully developed, and their high energy density and excellent safety performance provide an ideal power solution for flying cars.

At the same time, breakthroughs have been made in key technical areas such as aerodynamic optimization, flight control system stability, noise control, safety redundancy design, and even in autonomous obstacle avoidance systems and emergency landing plans in complex urban environments.

However, there are still many technical challenges to the commercialization of flying cars, and they are still a long way from being put on the market.

Even if mass production is successfully achieved in the future, the improvement of supporting policies and regulations will still be another important challenge.

At present, the domestic low-altitude management regulatory system for flying cars is still incomplete, and key systems such as airworthiness certification standards, airspace use rights, and pilot qualification certification are urgently needed to be established.

At the same time, the massive project of urban air traffic management system requires the concerted efforts of government departments, leading industry enterprises and top scientific research institutions to build a complete solution from airspace planning, communication and navigation to emergency response.

The complete resolution of these systemic problems may take 3-5 years or even longer.

However, Hao Qiang plans to conduct the first practical application demonstration of flying cars on the landmark project Future Avenue.

This intelligent transportation corridor, which is more than ten kilometers long, proactively incorporated the design concept of three-dimensional transportation at the beginning of its planning and construction.

Vertical take-off and landing platforms are set up every 500 meters on both sides of the road, and communication base stations are deployed along the road.

At the same time, the air traffic management system of Future Avenue will adopt a modular design, which is compatible with the drone supervision system and reserves upgrade space for the large-scale commercial use of flying cars in the future.

Therefore, Hao Qiang is not waiting for policies to be improved, but creating a realistic scenario for policy improvement.

In his opinion, only through real demonstration operations can the accelerated formulation of relevant standards be forced.

To this end, Future Technology Group has established a special laboratory to focus on key technologies for the airworthiness certification of flying cars and airspace management systems.

At the same time, Future Technology Group is also actively communicating with the Civil Aviation Administration of China, Industry and Information Technology and other departments to strive to establish the country's first urban low-altitude transportation innovation test zone on Future Avenue.

In early August,

Hao Qiang devoted his energy to the flying car project.

The company has developed five engineering prototypes and plans to exhibit them and demonstrate their flight during National Day.

The flying car EF1 has a total weight of 1100 kg, is made of aviation-grade 7075 aluminum alloy, and has a lightweight honeycomb structure design. The vehicle measures 4790 x 2050 x 1499 mm in length and looks like the Xiaomi SU7, but is wider.

The battery uses lithium metal battery, the battery pack weighs 300KG, which is equivalent to about 450 kWh of electricity, and the theoretical ground endurance reaches 4000 kilometers.

If it is purely flying, the theoretical maximum endurance is about 1000 kilometers.

This flight endurance calculation was discussed in the previous R&D meeting.

【Vehicle weight m: 1200kg (including battery, structure, passengers, etc.)

Ground endurance: 4000 km

Total battery energy: 450kWh.

Air density: 1.225kg/m²

Propulsion efficiency: about 0.7

g=9.8m/s?

Calculated hovering power: P≈120kW

悬停1分钟耗能：120kW*1/60≈2kWh

巡航阶段功率：40kW（固定翼或旋翼巡航的功率需求约为悬停的1/5-1/3，EF1没有飞行翼，需求更大的能耗，假设飞行速度为100km/h）

每百公里耗能：40kW*1=40kWh（对比地面行驶的10kWh/100km，能耗高4倍）。

Therefore,

Energy consumption for 2 take-offs and landings: 2kWh*4 (1 minute each for vertical take-off and landing)

Remaining energy: 442kWh

Cruising range = 442/40 = 1105 km]

Taking into account the need to retain a safe amount of power and more takeoffs and landings, the actual range is about one thousand kilometers.

The unveiling of the EF1 flying car also means the unveiling of its metal lithium battery, which will cause global energy shocks and will certainly trigger severe shocks in related industries in the international market.

Hao Qiang had many concerns before, but after careful consideration, he didn't want to wait any longer.

Today, overseas technology giants can no longer hinder his progress through technological blockades or market suppression as they did in the past.

Hao Qiang's own influence has long surpassed the scope of ordinary entrepreneurs.

Whether it is the resources in the political and business circles or the voice in the global science and technology field, he has enough confidence to promote this change.

What's more, he knew better than anyone that this was just the beginning.

In less than three years, he will be able to unlock the level 10 technology store, and by then, black technology more advanced than metal lithium batteries will be within reach.

The launch of the flying car EF1 and lithium metal batteries is just the first ripple of the future technological wave.

Otherwise, if he really wanted to keep it secret until he could fully develop the Iron Man suit, it would probably take at least five years, or even impossible.

The black technology involved here is very demanding, such as micro ARC reactor or antimatter energy storage, micro vector thruster, super AI, liquid metal, nano carbon tube composite materials, etc.

With the lithium metal battery technology he currently possesses, that is far from achievable.

The difficulty of developing a micro vector thruster is only lower than that of a micro ARC reactor.

The thrust of a single unit must exceed 5000N!

The size must be very small!

Super AI, on the other hand, is easier to achieve. Hao Qiang feels that if a lot of effort is invested in research and development, it can be achieved within a few years.

As for materials, it depends on the technology store. As long as there is relevant technology, it is not difficult to achieve.

As for the genetic technology he dreams of, he doesn't know whether technology stores will have this kind of technology.

Hao Qiang believes that if he wants to rapidly promote the country's high-tech development, he needs to move at a faster pace.

In fact, when it comes down to it, his main reason was that he felt he couldn't keep the secret for that long.

Perhaps an employee could not resist the temptation to disclose, then he lost the initiative and the opportunity to short global energy.

Either control the world before the storm, or be torn apart by the world.

In mid-August,

Hao Qiang came to Hong Kong secretly to meet with his private financial team.

Over the past few years, this financial team has been managing his overseas funds. Hao Qiang gives them high rewards, so loyalty is not a problem.

In the office, Hao Qiang had a private chat with investment manager Zhang Ke.

"This time, our mission is to short all traditional energy futures!"

As soon as Hao Qiang finished speaking, Zhang Ke was slightly shocked.

However, Zhang Ke had been through a lot before, so he quickly calmed down his surprise and asked cautiously:

"Boss, how sure are you?"

"Sixty to seventy percent."

Hao Qiang said calmly, "Future Technology Group will announce a super lithium battery on National Day. Its energy density is more than 5.5 times that of current lithium batteries. It is expected to reach about 10 times within the next five years. Mass production and marketization will not be a problem.

Once it is made public, I suspect it will cause shocks to traditional energy sources around the world.

So, let's take a gamble.

It doesn’t matter whether there is money or not. What is interesting is being able to bring down international energy giants.

Ten days before National Day, I will disclose this information to the relevant departments and let Team Guo Jia take the lead.

Don't disclose the specific details to ordinary employees for now. Just tell them how to operate. You must keep it confidential."

Since you are going to short sell, you must tell them the general situation so that they won’t be restricted when doing so.

"Okay, I understand.

Based on this project's technology, but without mass production and market launch, it's expected to trigger a 10%-30% fluctuation, so it's feasible." Zhang Ke then asked, "How much is the principal this time?"

"About $200 billion!" Hao Qiang replied. "If it's not enough, I'll contact Mr. Huang from the securities company to coordinate."

The Future Technology Group plus his own idle funds are more than 200 billion yuan, but Hao Qiang does not have that much foreign exchange.

In addition, since the financial crisis in 2008, the ratio of leveraged short selling financing for stocks has not exceeded 2 times.

Traditional energy futures are different. The margin for one futures contract is about US$5000, and the actual risk exposure is 50 times the margin.

That is to say, the maximum leverage can reach 50 times!

Of course, the greater the leverage, the greater the risk.

In fact, the actual available leverage for WTI crude oil futures is usually 5-10 times, and for Brent crude oil futures it is 5-8 times.

For non-exchange products, the theoretical leverage can reach 30-50 times. If the amount of funds is large, the actual leverage will be lower.

In addition, Hao Qiang's huge capital may trigger the Dodd-Frank Act's restrictions on commodity speculation.

From a risk perspective, even if he has active information, if there is any upward trend, Hao Qiang's tens of billions of dollars will be lost.

In other words, the leverage cannot be too large, about 10 times is more appropriate.

Zhang Ke is an expert on how to do it.

It is not easy to raise funds because the funds are too large, and we don’t want to cause too much speculation from the outside world, so it is not easy to operate.

It is worth mentioning that with a short-selling capital of US$20 billion and a leverage of about 10 times, the scale of funds has reached US$200 billion. Even if a part is reserved to prevent margin calls, there are still hundreds of billions of US dollars. In the trillion-dollar energy futures market, the average daily trading volume reaches hundreds of billions of US dollars, so there are still enough short-selling contracts.

Of course, the scale of short selling of hundreds of billions of dollars is extremely terrifying.

After Hao Qiang finished explaining things to Zhang Ke, he went to talk to Huang Qi from the securities company.

The two hadn't seen each other for a while, and Huang Qi felt very honored to see Hao Qiang.

"Mr. Hao, long time no see!"

"It's been more than half a year, you've gained weight."

"Yes, almost 180 kilograms." Huang Qi said with a smile. This is what happens to middle-aged men who often drink. Plus, he is 1.8 meters tall, so 180 kilograms is actually nothing.

After the two of them exchanged pleasantries, Hao Qiang got straight to the point and asked him to help exchange currency.

Half an hour later, Hao Qiang left the securities company with satisfaction.