#383 - Chapter 383 Chamber of Commerce Releases Mobile Phone
"The Oros country?"
The ground internet is already paralyzed, so he knows very little about the huge changes happening in the world.
The current Firefly Project does not involve foreign countries. In other words, he has no need to extend his reach to those places.
However, having no plan doesn't mean he can't profit from the crystal cores there.
Dongfang Chen believes that not only can he profit, but he must.
As for whether it works or not, that's not a problem at all.
The supercomputing center can communicate in real-time with any micro-queen bee without any delay.
The reason this is possible is that each queen bee integrates a communication module: a quantum crystal oscillator. Don't underestimate its small size; its data transmission rate can crush traditional electromagnetic communication.
Yan Zhengping felt relieved after receiving Dongfang Chen's affirmative reply.
The quantity purchased by the Oros country this time is not very large, only 6 ultrasonic transmitters and 10,000 sets of combat suits.
Baili Ji's wholesale price is 20,000 crystal cores per ultrasonic transmitter and 600 crystal cores per combat suit. Originally, the price was only half of this, but after the Council launched an anti-monopoly investigation into the Huatong Chamber of Commerce, a chain reaction occurred, causing the price to double.
This price is irrelevant to him because the price quoted to Valiev is even higher: 2 million crystal cores per ultrasonic transmitter and 3,000 crystal cores per combat suit.
The original total price of 6.12 million crystal cores was forcibly raised to 42 million by him, nearly a 7-fold increase.
Now gasoline is scarce; according to the proportional conversion, one ton of gasoline is worth 5,000 crystal cores. Then 42 million crystal cores are 8,400 tons of gasoline. With one transaction, Baili Ji is equivalent to a net profit of 7,000 tons.
Just saying a word in the middle, without lifting a finger, he can earn so much for nothing. How can this business not be comfortable?
October 19, 2055 AD.
The second batch of 30 cooperative settlement's chamber of commerce branches and union branches opened simultaneously.
Now the influence of the Huatong Chamber of Commerce is different from what it used to be, so the market response is even more enthusiastic than last time.
In order to take advantage of this wave of popularity to raise the influence to another level, Dongfang Chen decided to launch a new product: the mobile phone.
Mobile phones had actually been developed long ago, and the way they are used is not much different from traditional mobile phones. The main differences are two points:
1. Network standard. The mobile phones launched by the Chamber of Commerce are provided with communication services by the Mercenary Guild's signal towers. Now 50 cooperative settlements have basically covered most areas north of China, and the matrix network composed of these signal towers is fully sufficient to provide this service for everyone.
2. Operating system. The built-in operating system imitates traditional mobile phones as much as possible, but the architecture is completely different. This also means that there are not many native applications, and the usage scenarios are relatively limited.
But even so, it could not stop people's crazy pursuit of it.
Don't even look at what the situation is now. Being able to make and receive calls and send and receive messages anytime and anywhere is so much more convenient.
Back then, Niu Xingwang couldn't survive in the Qinghe Settlement. He used several treasured car batteries to exchange for one minute of talk time from others, which shows how high the cost is for ordinary people to make a phone call.
Dongfang Chen launched this product in all cooperative settlements at the same time, directly pushing the popularity of the Chamber of Commerce to its peak.
Immediately afterwards, the following services were launched in the name of the Chamber of Commerce:
1. Workstation rental. This is mainly aimed at developers. Because the conditions in the settlements are relatively poor, it is very difficult for people to start companies. And they also need office equipment, which ordinary people can't afford at all. In view of this, the Chamber of Commerce has individually launched workstation rental services. It can be rented by the day or by the month, and it comes standard with a computer and shared office equipment such as printers, which is very convenient.
2. Co-creation community. This is an online service platform that provides a full set of quick development tools for computer applications and mobile phone applications, as well as supporting development documents. To help developers get started quickly and complete application development in the shortest time.
3. Cloud services. Provide all developers with data storage, data processing, application deployment and other related services.
People have generally recognized and accepted these things, so there is no need to spend much effort to walk the same road again, or even to promote it. Those who understand will naturally understand, and those who can do it will naturally know how to do it.
Dongfang Chen only needs to set up the framework, and the rest is up to them to play.
So why does he do these things? That's because there are very large strategic implications:
First: Restoring network communication can reopen the channels for information dissemination, so that he can grasp all kinds of intelligence in a timely and comprehensive manner.
Second: Put a tight spell on all potential ambitious people. The rapid spread of the network means that the settlements are no longer closed and isolated. They can no longer carry out barbaric management like before. Public opinion pressure will force them to pay more attention to human rights and scientific management, thereby invisibly restraining the expansion of their ambitions.
Third: Accelerate the turnover of points and materials, and further increase the Chamber of Commerce and the Union's ability to attract money.
