Chapter 468 Lunar Energy Development Plan – “Guanghan Project”

“Who would have thought that Mr. Chen would be able to get to this point today?

Who could have even imagined that China would be so far ahead of America in the field of science and technology that it would have no idea where to start catching up?

Although American still has advantages in many segments, its material advantages around energy and chips can offset all of American’s advantages.

When your longboard is really long, your shortboard can be ignored. “

Chen Hongyi was deeply moved.

Because it can be said that controlled nuclear fusion is the last straw that breaks the camel’s back.

Given China’s past breakthroughs in semiconductors and aerospace, America still has many cards to play.

And now, there are still cards, but the expectations are extremely pessimistic.

Looking at America’s export data, we can see that its top three exports are agricultural products, energy and high technology.

Let’s not talk about high technology for now.

For the first two, agricultural products and energy, energy really has no room for survival in the face of competition from nuclear fusion.

As for agriculture, facing the energy advantage, American agricultural products have no advantage.

Take soybeans as an example. This is America’s flagship export product. At the beginning of the millennium, international grain giants launched a fierce operation that directly destroyed China’s local soybean industry.

Subsequently, China imported large quantities of American soybeans every year.

By the way, downstream soybean meal, grain and oil are all controlled by international grain giants.

This situation has only improved in recent years.

The fundamental reason for the collapse is that the import price of American soybeans is too low. If you grow soybeans locally, no matter how much subsidies you give, the price will be much higher than imported soybeans.

This is determined by soil fertility, soybean variety and planting pattern.

The situation has improved in recent years, not because the above-mentioned fundamental reasons have been reversed, but because the older Chinese have become rich. With money, they can obtain some autonomy in the soybean field through capital operations and can provide more subsidies to soybean farmers.

In this way, we can barely restore some of our local planting capabilities.

However, the energy breakthrough brought about by controlled nuclear fusion can directly and fundamentally reverse this situation.

Because soybeans can be grown hydroponically.

In the past, hydroponics was too expensive. Not only did it require non-natural light to provide illumination, but the water also needed to be replaced regularly.

The significant drop in energy costs has led to the large-scale implementation of seawater desalination, reduced costs for hydroponic soybean cultivation, and automated large-scale hydroponic soybean cultivation will become a reality.

Soybeans are a major component of American agriculture, not to mention other crops.

China can completely centralize and large-scale the cultivation of all agricultural products that support hydroponics based on its modern agricultural technology and energy advantages.

(The Shounong Cuihu Factory under Shounong Food Group in Yanjing HD District has a single intelligent greenhouse with a total area of ​​20 square meters)
In the past, due to cost constraints, only crops with high economic added value could use this technology in large-scale ecological modern farms.

Agricultural products must be labeled as ecological, organic, and healthy and sold to white-collar workers in first-tier cities at five or even ten times the price of ordinary agricultural products.

You can only survive in a place like Yanjing.

In second-tier cities, these farms may not be able to survive.

Why are prices in places like Japan and Korea so high? On the one hand, it is to protect local farmers, and on the other hand, it is because they also use precision planting, and they cannot survive without high costs.

Therefore, before an energy breakthrough is achieved, this type of ecological farm will never become a normalized planting method in China, and will never replace traditional land farming on a large scale.

After the energy breakthrough, let alone 20 square meters, China can build you a super smart farm of 200 million or even 2000 million, relying on economies of scale and ultra-low energy supply to achieve overtaking in the agricultural field.

This is the power of energy breakthroughs.

Without energy and agriculture, what will America rely on for exports?
High-tech? How long can high-tech last? Chinese manufacturers are eyeing it eagerly.

When China becomes strong enough to force countries around the world to create a fair competition environment for Chinese companies and companies from other countries, how long can America’s high-tech advantage last?

And it’s not just China that eats meat, Goryeo also eats meat.

There are 12 million people participating in the world economic and trade cycle, which means you can have a top-notch job working hours a day without a day off in a month.

If China wants to eat meat itself, it must also bring its little brothers in East Asia who have come to it to eat meat together. How long can America’s high-tech last?

This is the fundamental reason for the panic in the global financial capital market.

Before, America still had foreign trade and could sell goods.

What now?
It is expected that America will only consume and not produce in the future. Will other countries still buy dollars?
Even if China does not export nuclear fusion technology and production capacity, it would be a huge loss for America’s energy and agricultural products if they lose the Chinese market.

What’s more, America’s high-tech products will be in direct and brutal competition with China, and they can’t take sides this time.

The entire capital market has entered an unprecedented wait-and-see attitude.

It is not surprising that the U.S. stock market collapsed. Everyone is watching when U.S. debt will collapse.

Except for Japan which is still “foolishly” purchasing a large amount of U.S. debt, other countries appear to be keeping a low profile on the surface, but in fact they are all choosing to sell U.S. debt.

It is just because of the fear of triggering a financial tsunami that everyone has reached a tacit understanding to stop buying U.S. debt and slowly sell off the existing U.S. debt in their hands.

Now the situation is that everyone sells as much as Japan buys.

There is something strange and unspeakable happening in the global financial market.

No one knows where the capital market will go in the future. This is a bit like the collapse of the Bretton Woods system, when capital began to engage in the most basic profit-seeking and harm-avoiding behavior.

Waiting for the reconstruction of a new order.

At this time, China’s top company came up with a 10 trillion RMB financing plan, which was like pouring a drop of water into a boiling oil pan in the entire financial circle.

Everyone has currency now.

Is currency the future form of wealth?

Will China develop a new form of currency tied to electricity?
When all these are unknowns, it would be great to be able to give money to Guangjia Aerospace and participate in this project.

As for what Guangjia Aerospace is going to do with the 10 trillion dollars, no one cares.

“When I was at a dinner party in Beijing, everyone talked about this topic. Do you know what they said?

At the beginning, Old Wu, the old Wu from Sequoia, said that if he had known earlier, he would have teamed up with a few friends to invest in Guangjia Aerospace.

Then everyone started talking about the top projects they had missed over the years.

Finally, a friend brought up the matter and said that if they had known this earlier, wouldn’t the best thing to do be to marry their daughter to Chen Yuanguang?
My daughter’s marriage to Chen Yuanguang was not about money, but a ticket to the present, future and even more distant future,” Fang Huiyu joked.

After listening to this, Chen Hongyi was obviously quite interested in the dinner party that he did not attend this time. He has been in Shenhai for many years and has not participated much in the financial circle in Yanjing, but he knows who the old Wu mentioned by Fang Huiyu is, and they have had dinner together.

“and then?”

Fang Huiyu said with a wicked smile: “Then everyone started to curse Old Lin in unison, asking why he had such good luck.”

The old Lin here refers to Lin Jia’s father Lin Qinghua.

Chen Hongyi understood immediately: “You guys in Yanjing circle also scold him?”

Fang Huiyu said: “Who wouldn’t curse?

They all say that Lao Lin looks like a farmer on the surface, but he is actually a bad guy.

As to whether he is really bad or not, no one cares. Everyone just envies his bad luck.

When they went to Hong Kong to go public, the old guys in Yanjing helped a lot.

In 18, everyone helped him raise money. Many people in Yanjing knew Lao Lin.

Isn’t it normal to scold him? “

Speaking of this, Lin Qinghua is also a big shot in China’s business community.

However, no one is convinced that he has become a famous investor in the science and technology field, invested in a series of aerospace-related listed companies, and become the driving force behind the so-called new quality productivity.

In the eyes of these professional investors, you, a rough guy engaged in real estate, are involved in related industries such as real estate, cement, building materials, and non-ferrous metals. Do you have anything to do with high technology?
As a result, thanks to having a good son-in-law, he became very successful in the investment circle.

Everyone has to give him some face.

Therefore, at dinner parties with this group of people in the financial circle, anyone who knew Lin Qinghua in real life would inexplicably bring up Lao Lin after everyone had drunk a lot of wine, and then take turns “scolding” him.

However, this kind of scolding is nothing more than complaining about his good luck, and no one dares to go too far.

Therefore, even if Lin Qinghua knew, he would not say anything.

But this has become a trend in the financial circle: eating, drinking and cursing Lao Lin.

Chen Hongyi originally thought that this custom only existed in the financial circles in the Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai areas, but he did not expect that it was also practiced in Yanjing.

What if Lin Qinghua was here?
If he were here, everyone would definitely compliment him and tell him not to forget about him when there are good projects.

In a sense, this is also a sweet trouble for Lin Qinghua.

“Lao Lin is a very nice and honest person. In 16, a private equity fund raised million yuan from him, but in the end, only million yuan was left. I went to Lao Lin to apologize and asked him not to throw me into the Huangpu River to feed the fish.

Lao Lin just asked me to drink three cups as punishment and then let it go. We continued to cooperate as usual.

Lao Lin is lucky, but he is a very kind person,” said Chen Hongyi.

Fang Huiyu said: “Yes, no one says that Lao Lin is not kind, it’s just that everyone is envious of his luck.”

The room fell into silence, and they both sighed in unison.

“Haha.”

“Everyone really doesn’t have this fate.”

“So, Hongyi, is it possible for Bencao Venture Capital to participate in Mr. Chen’s project through you?” Fang Huiyu asked.

This is also a common model in the investment circle. It is equivalent to Company A raising 100 billion yuan in financing, of which Company B is the company that apparently pays the money to Company A, but in fact Company B may have only contributed 50 billion yuan, and the remaining 50 billion yuan is contributed by Company C.

Only Company C paid the money, and the agreement was signed between B and C.

Some Company A will explicitly prohibit this kind of thing when raising funds, but very few will do so.

After all, for a startup company, as long as I can get the money, it doesn’t matter whether the money is given by B or C.

For example, in OpenAI’s fundraising, on the surface it seems that SoftBank accounts for the majority of it, but in fact, no one knows how much SoftBank accounts for, except perhaps Masayoshi Son.

Because SoftBank also takes money from others, the contracts signed between others and SoftBank and how much proportion they actually account for in the OpenAI project is a black box.

Chen Hongyi was not surprised after hearing this, as Fang Huiyu’s purpose in looking for him was almost the same as he had guessed.

“I’m not sure whether Mr. Chen will accept this approach. And I’m not sure how much share we can get.” Chen Hongyi neither agreed nor refused.

“If we only have an investment share of 10 or 20 billion, we may not be able to give it to you.”

Chen Hongyi only gave two reasons, but in fact there are many more:
The most important thing is to see how attractive Chen Yuanguang’s financing project, the real purpose behind it and the dividend distribution method are.

If it was a ticket to the future space age, it would be impossible to give them any of it.

If the attraction is not enough, you can talk to the other party.

“As for the division of rights and interests.” Chen Hongyi just started the conversation, and Fang Huiyu said, “Of course I understand this. This is easy to discuss.”

But it is certainly not the case that if you take 100 billion, you will get a share of 20 billion of my 20 billion investment. Rather, if you take 20 billion, you may only get a share of 10 billion, or even less.

This is the same as movie investment. After layers of subcontracting, it reaches individual investors. You clearly invested 50 yuan, but the final dividend is calculated based on the ratio of the investment of 5 yuan.

Of course, everything will be counted as good for you, and a lot of so-called film and television investments will disappear directly.

“it is good.”

Why do we say that we can negotiate? We would rather invest 20 billion and only take 10 billion. That is to say, this project has to double its investment to make a profit, so we have to invest.

Because this project is under the name of Guangjia Aerospace, whether or not a private equity fund can participate in it makes a huge difference for a private equity fund that wants to raise funds from individual investors.

If you participate, the front desk sales staff will be able to openly tell major customers in the future that our underlying assets include the 10 trillion yuan mega project of Guangjia Aerospace.

It sounds so high-end.

Bencao Capital has not been able to expand in size for a long time, and its ecological niche in the entire private equity market is roughly similar to that of a small fish.

Now that they have this opportunity, they naturally want to seize it.

Time soon came to the day of the project presentation.

The financial elites who came were all speechless, because they had never seen such a sloppy project presentation.

In the past, no matter how awesome the project was, there would be gorgeous posters, sign-in counters, brochures, corporate display areas, etc. to create a full atmosphere.

For today’s project, let alone the poster, even the PPT behind it was extremely perfunctory.

Just a few big words on a white background, that’s all:
Lunar Energy Development Plan – “Guanghan Project”

However, this content shocked all the big guys who were already seated, and it sounded very exciting.

(End of this chapter)