Chapter 324 British Civil Servants
Politics is nothing more than jumping from one pit to another.
As a former die-hard supporter of the Donkey Party, Musk began to have counter-revolutionary ideas in 2020, and officially put them into action in 2024, even risking his own wealth and life.
However, he has never been regarded as one of his own, and his interests have never been important.
Once Dongda’s new energy vehicles are opened to Western society, regardless of whether Dongda car companies can adapt to the American market, this expectation alone is enough to cut Tesla’s market value in half.
Musk held another shareholder conference call, claiming that he is an artificial intelligence company and not a new energy vehicle company. Faced with Dongda’s L4 that is already on the road, why should investors continue to support Tesla with real money?
The new HBM model is a new architecture and requires the use of new chip technology from Dongda. Can Tesla really defeat Dongda car companies in this competition?
In the past, after Neon car companies entered the American market, they occupied more than 40% of the market share. General Motors and Ford could not defend their basic market.
This time the attacker is Dongda University. The group of people on Wall Street who experienced the neon momentum of the 1980s are not dead yet. These people even hold a large part of the actual power. , everyone will subconsciously abandon Tesla.
Tesla’s market value can still be sustained now, and it is completely dependent on it as a new energy vehicle company, monopolizing the entire Amerikan automotive market.
Even if Volkswagen's new energy vehicles want to enter the American market, they will have to be subject to additional tariffs. In addition, they must be new energy vehicles produced in Germany, not Volkswagen produced by Dongda.
Now that Dongda University has been directly admitted, how can Tesla still survive?
Tongda Electric Railway will give you 20,000 US dollars, how can I sell my 35,000 US dollars Tesla? Talk about Musk’s value?
The number of Amerikan consumers willing to pay for this kind of value is not even as large as the number of Dongda.
“This is a good idea. It just so happens that states like New Jersey, Hawaii, and Massachusetts are making trouble to introduce new energy vehicles from Dongda. This is also a way for us to reduce tariffs and increase support rates.
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We can also ask Dongda University to build a factory in Amerikan and bring us jobs, which is in line with what we have been promoting. ”
“This is an excellent opportunity for Dongda to develop the automobile industry, and it has the world’s largest automobile consumer market like Amerikan. ”
The White House bureaucrats were discussing it very enthusiastically.
They all seemed to think that this small favor was enough to satisfy Dongda.
When Terry threw the chips of the White House to After contacting the relevant parties from Dongda University, the other party’s expression was very interesting: “I don’t think Amerikan has any sincerity.
I think we should talk to other countries first. ”
This simply cannot satisfy Dongda’s appetite, because it is still essentially cutting off the flesh of its allies.
America’s car market takes into account the level of power grid infrastructure. The acceptance of new energy vehicles is limited
Even if it is open to Dongda, Dongda can take up at most two Teslas’ market share. Considering the hellish task of building a factory in North America, Dongda feels that it is not profitable at all
It even feels that Amerikan is profitable.
This does not mean that I am helping you train your industrial workers. What will you do if Fuyao Glass is jointly enforced and the factory is taken away by you?
Dongguan University directly rejected such negotiation conditions without the need for internal collective discussion.
In contrast, the EU is much more sincere and directly issued an unprecedented large order.
In the past, Dongda’s export of infrastructure projects in the EU could only be limited to non-core countries such as Serbia, Portugal, Norway, and Croatia.
This time the EU as a whole signed an infrastructure framework agreement with the University of Tokyo, and England insisted on squeezing into this agreement through a supplementary agreement.
Why?
Because the HS2 project is really unbearable. This notorious England Line 2 highway project is a complete disaster.
HS2 plans to run through London and central and northern England. It is a high-speed railway line with a total length of 540 kilometers and a speed of 320 kilometers per hour. After completion, it will be among the fastest trains in Europe.
The total budget has risen from 30.9 billion to 36 billion pounds to 98 billion pounds in 2020, and it is even estimated that 170 billion pounds will be spent in the future.
Similarly, the Jakarta-Bandung high-speed railway built by Dongda in Indonesia cost 7 billion US dollars for 142 kilometers. Let alone the figure of 170 billion, even if it is only 30.9 billion, it is still an exaggerated figure.
Not to mention that England has no money now. Even if England had money, they would not have the money to do it at a price of 170 billion.
But in the end, even if they sold their souls to Dongda and licked their faces and said that they were also part of Europe to sign this infrastructure framework agreement, they still had to give this project to Dongda.
“It’s back to square one, why bother?” Tom Foudy said as he looked at the back of the Secretary of Transportation who happily rushed out of the office with a document.
The new Indian intern next to him asked curiously: "Original point? What origin."
Tom is a veteran who has worked in the transportation department of England for more than 20 years. He said: "Archie, do you know how the original budget of 30.9 billion pounds for this project came from?"
Archie is very sensitive to this figure. This is the earliest budget for HS2. Although he is an intern and does not understand these gossips, he has been here for a while and the basic common sense is still clear: "This is the budget made by England Railways."
Tom shook his head: "It's the University of Tokyo.
We signed a memorandum of understanding with the University of Tokyo in 2011 to strengthen infrastructure cooperation. At that time, our Prime Minister was still Cameron. , he hopes to give HS2 to Dongda for construction.
Including the bidding opening ceremony for the first phase of HS2, the entire budget was calculated for us. br>
At that time, I also participated in the discussion with the University of Tokyo. They even thought that 25 billion pounds was enough. The Minister of Transport at the time desperately asked the University of Tokyo to add more, and then the amount was increased to 30.9 billion to 33 billion. Within this framework
After Cameron left, Boris still hoped to leave it to the University of Tokyo. Even until 2020, Boris thought so. However, unfortunately, England had to give up cooperation with the University of Tokyo.
The honeymoon period between us and Dongda is over, and HS2 is forced to do it on its own.
The entire budget also expanded from more than 30 billion to 98 billion. Unexpectedly, in the end, we had to find Dongda University to do it. "
Tom didn't feel any regret at all. This is a standard British civil servant. I will do whatever you ask me to do. The country's loss is not my loss.
Archie was dumbfounded. , “That’s okay too. ”
"This is the norm in England, you need to get used to it.
It is far more positive for us to prevent something that has not happened yet than to let it happen." Tom joked.
Archie asked: "What about?"
Tom said: "For example, England has not developed any artificial intelligence industry at all, and our parliament is already worried about the threat of artificial intelligence to human society. We need to introduce laws to regulate artificial intelligence. We are always doing these things, and Dongda is cultivating artificial intelligence companies.”
Archie murmured: "Why do I feel that England is not as good as India."
"Otherwise, why can an Indian be the Prime Minister of England, but an Englishman cannot be the Prime Minister of India?" Tom hit the nail on the head.
The bargaining chip offered by Europe is that infrastructure projects will no longer impose restrictions on Dongda companies. Dongda companies will compete fairly with other local European companies in all infrastructure projects. This is not the same as handing over all infrastructure projects to Dongda. the difference.
At the same time, the communications and consumer electronics markets will be opened to Dongda.
In the past, mobile phones equipped with Dongda’s purely domestic chips could not enter the European market, but now they can.
In the past, communication equipment such as switches could not enter the European market, but now it can.
Then lower the tariff barriers set for Dongda’s photovoltaic modules.
These conditions are almost the best treaties that the EU can offer. In other words, its influence has gradually declined in recent years, and the shackles on the EU have been removed. Otherwise, these treaties would not be signed at all. .
If political correctness is not considered, this is a win-win situation. For the University of Tokyo, it has gained a new market to export domestic excess productivity. For Europe, it is also an excellent opportunity to use currency to purchase high-quality services. .
It is precisely because it is a win-win situation that even if it is licking its face, England has jumped on this train. British civil servants are civil servants, and their noses are still sharp enough.
"Yuan Guang, we didn't expect Europe to compromise so quickly this time. We originally thought it would be a long tug-of-war like Amerikan, but it turned out to be a negotiation that cuts through the mess quickly." The Spring Festival of the lunar calendar is approaching. , Lao Zhao suddenly came from the news program to reality, which really made Chen Yuanguang a little uncomfortable.
“I don’t think it has been signed yet.” Chen Yuanguang said.
Lao Zhao said: "The details of the framework agreement have been almost discussed, and we just have to find a time to sign it.
Everyone realizes that the big one is coming, and they in Europe also Wanting to hedge their bets, war-weariness is particularly serious throughout Europe.
They also hope to bring Dongda to their side in this way.”
Chen Yuanguang said doubtfully: "I'm afraid it won't be easy."
"Their logic is that we leave the infrastructure to Dongda. This is a business worth hundreds of billions. Dongda has hundreds of billions in Europe. Business, whether from a moral or practical perspective, will contribute to Europe's security
And this part of the business is not something that Amerikan can do, and it is very costly for them to do it themselves. br>We were not allowed to do it in the past because of political correctness. Now we are allowed to do it because of political correctness.
It all depends on the development of the situation. ”
Chen Yuanguang has a feeling that technology itself is very important, but technology is more of an introduction. When your strength reaches a certain level, some of the original balance will be broken, and the situation will naturally tilt towards you.
Just like the Memorandum of Understanding on Infrastructure Cooperation signed with England in 2011, there was no strength at the time and there was no way to implement it even if it was signed using friendly relations. But today, if you don’t have an agreement, England has to implement it even if it joins in the fun.
Similarly, a hundred years ago England came to Laos and China to build the railway, and a hundred years later Laos and China went to England to build the high-speed railway. History is a cycle.
"Yuan Guang, I would like to know from private channels what impact HBM will have on ordinary people?" Lao Zhao then asked.
Because not only Amerikan is protesting on a large scale, there are also a large number of voices on the Simplified Chinese and Chinese Internet who believe that artificial intelligence should be controlled.
This is another collective expression of opinion after driverless taxis in the past.
Chen Yuanguang heard Lao Zhao say that personal things are personal, and generally personal things are definitely not personal. This statement will definitely become an important reference for the future direction.
He knew he had to think carefully: "HBM is very important. If we extend the timeline to twenty years, then he can replace most high-end positions.
Because of the nature The overall upgrading of the manufacturing industry has led to the fact that standardized work can be done directly with traditional industrial robots, and non-standardized work can be done by HBM robots.
The smaller part can also be done by industrial VR. Top skilled workers do it remotely
It will take about twenty years for the manufacturing industry to be completely unmanned.
But the service industry does not need to worry about being replaced by HBM, because it is not cost-effective.
Factories can take advantage of economies of scale and use overall advantages to dilute costs.
But the service industry cannot do that.
Take the most basic delivery person as an example. The cost of drone delivery is definitely lower than that of HBM robots. Is drone delivery popular? Neither.
The most basic ones can’t be done, and other service industries can’t do it even more.
Or if we want to become a highly command-oriented and strongly distributed society, and everything is reorganized into a highly standardized society, then there is no need for HBM, and it can be done directly with existing technology.
In short, I think what the public is worried about now is essentially a stress response, the stress response of human society to artificial intelligence. ”
After Chen Yuanguang finished speaking, Lao Zhao fell into deep thought, because what Chen Yuanguang mentioned later was exactly what some people advocated.
Now that 600/300 has been issued every month Well, then why not just take care of the food, clothing, housing and transportation?
Dongda will set up a street canteen, and everyone will pay money from their card. If it works, Dongda will set up a self-driving taxi company, and pay you from the same account. Food and transportation will be solved, and clothing and housing will be similar.
We do not distribute money, but provide a comprehensive package of basic necessities for individuals’ basic necessities.
Similar views have emerged recently, and the biggest obstacle is lack of money.
But this time the European blood pack appears, and Amerikan seems to have to compromise. Compared with issuing money, the cost of doing this will not be much higher, so do you want to take this path and become Yan The focus of internal discussions in Beijing.
Of course there are still internal considerations of profit. How many jobs and benefits can be created by providing the entire Dongda with basic necessities, food, clothing, housing and transportation.
(End of this chapter)