"Teacher, this is the financial report from last month."

When it was September, Shen Lang put a thick stack of forms on Luo Jia's desk and said in a deep voice: "After final settlement, Xingchen Washing completed a total sales of US$14.7 billion in the first month of its establishment. However, due to the global large-scale marketing and advertising offensive, we invested more than US$5.5 billion in publicity and distribution funds that month. Coupled with taxes and costs, the net profit was less than US$3 billion."

Shen Lang reported to Luo Jia in a bit disappointed manner. After hearing this, Luo Jia showed a surprised expression. A net profit of 3 billion US dollars? This result is really amazing. After all, the first month of Star Washing was established.

Everything is difficult at the beginning. Luo Jia originally thought that she would lose a lot in the first month, but she didn't expect that she would still make a profit. I wonder if she should praise Shen Lang's powerful marketing methods or lament her female compatriots' crazy about beauty.

"According to our observation of the market prospects, even if we most conservatively estimate, it can bring the company no less than 25 billion US dollars in monthly net profit and about 300 billion US dollars in full year," Shen Lang explained.

Such exaggerated numbers made Luo Jia both surprised and nervous. The annual net profit of 300 billion US dollars is still the most conservative estimate. If the financial director Lu Tao received the news, he would definitely hold Shen Lang and cry bitterly.

Lu Tao, the financial director, has been too difficult recently. The space plan will not make any profit within the foreseeable five years and will spend money wildly. On average, at least one trillion US dollars of astronomical figures will be spent every year.

Of course, Xingchen Technology is rich, but at the same time, Xingchen Technology spends money even more cruelly. Scientists in the company hold the world's highest salary and enjoy the best treatment in the world. Even houses and objects are provided for free, all of which require a lot of money as support.

Moreover, Xingchen Technology is the largest scientific research group in the world. When ordinary people think of scientific research, they may have laboratories and rows of complex equipment in their minds. But the managers who really operate scientific research groups think of money. Is experimental equipment very expensive? From large, from the big ones to the bottles and jars in the chemical laboratory, what is not something that is made of money?

The so-called scientific research is actually a concentrated battle between intelligence and capital. How did North American technology hegemony come about?

Oak Ridge National Laboratory alone burned $110 billion in 2018, and there are at least a dozen of these laboratories in North America, with hundreds of smaller secondary laboratories.

If you fall behind, you will be beaten. Xingchen Technology is a rising star in the global technological competition. Later generations must have the awareness of later generations, spend more money and invest more scientific research forces than their predecessors, so that they can catch up and even overtake.

At present, the Xingchen Technology Store is too big. The total number of engineers and researchers was still 220,000 last year, but by September this year, it had exceeded 260,000. The severely hit Japanese and Korean technology circles came to join us. Luo Jia had the ambition to form the Greater East Asia Alliance to compete with the Western forces, so she accepted it all. Therefore, the settlement and moving fees paid to new employees this year would be an astonishing number.

The Star Washing is 300 billion a year, and it is the time to come, which is equivalent to 30% of the annual funds required for the space program. Luo Jia really wants to praise the great women, they are the best! The Road to the Star Sea depends on them to raise money!

However, Luo Jia was also worried that because Star Clarification not only made money from foreigners, but also from compatriots. The price of Pechoin blue and white porcelain vases in China is as high as 1,000 yuan. Although it is still cheaper than abroad, it also broke the tradition of Star Clarification Technology's always selling low prices in China and benefiting all compatriots.

"Teacher, you can't say that." After learning about Luo Jia's concerns, Shen Lang explained seriously: "Did we benefit our compatriots, a big project that is enough to be recorded in history forever?"

Luo Jia was stunned and said in a deep voice: "Of course there is, the domestic electricity price is one cent at a kilowatt-hour, which is the lowest in the world. We take the initiative to make money. If we want to use technology to make money, it is not too easy. We can set the electricity price at 2 cents, which is also the lowest in the world, but our profit will double."

"The reason why we don't do this is because considering that electricity is a livelihood project, we can let everyone turn on air conditioners in summer and no longer have to worry about electricity bills, which can greatly improve the happiness of life. Therefore, our Carmen vortex power generation project is very popular, but it is actually not as profitable as you sell cosmetics. If this does not benefit your compatriots, what does it count?"

Shen Lang nodded, "It is also based on life science and technology. When a person gets sick, it is our duty to help him treat his illness. If a person feels that he is not beautiful enough, he hopes that we will help her become more beautiful, so there will be a fee. After all, helping everyone become beautiful is an unnecessary added value, not a job within our duties."

"Teacher, I know your love for your hometown, but now we have a goal, a super goal that is great enough to change the fate of all mankind. In order to achieve this goal, we should do whatever we can and at any cost."

Luo Jia didn't say anything. Since he was thirteen years old, Luo Jia had asked Shen Lang to read Machiavelli, and Shen Lang did not disappoint Luo Jia. He was so fierce about his decisive decision, the young Shen Lang was still above Luo Jia.

...

The fall of the sixth year of the founding of Xingchen Technology, it is destined to be uneasy. In this era when appearance is just, Pechoin blue and white porcelain was launched, causing a magnitude 18-magnitude global earthquake. Its influence even surpasses Xingchen Technology's space plan and surpasses Luo Jia's launch of the epoch-making Carmen vortex street power generation.

This is probably the difference between ideals and reality. Luo Jia certainly hopes that everyone can love science and believe in science. However, in real life, what people care about most is pork prices and celebrity gossip.

"Damn Xingchen Technology, the price of blue and white porcelain vase cream is so expensive, so I can't afford to drink that cup of milk tea every afternoon."

"Sister, how can you be so wronged? Instead of not drinking milk tea, you might as well ask your husband to quit smoking. What are the benefits of smoking? The money saved to buy you cosmetics, you will become more and more beautiful, and your husband will also be more and more proud of your face."

"Yes, I'm not dressing up to show those stinky men. I should indeed have my husband pay for the money."

In the mall, two older sisters who were queuing up to share their experience of living at home. Although their income was not high, they were not ruthless when buying cosmetics. After buying all the three-piece blue and white porcelain sets, they took out an additional 1,000 yuan to buy the newly produced Pechoin mask.

There are five masks in total, priced at 1,000 yuan. If you use them every day, the minimum monthly consumption is 6,000 yuan, which is definitely a waste of money without negotiation. After Luo Jia's approval, Shen Lang also took the initiative to speed up the launch of new products and prepare to allow female compatriots to generously contribute to the company's space plan.

The female compatriots lived up to expectations and devoted themselves to the extremely expensive beauty industry with great enthusiasm. All women in China and even the world were rushing to buy them like crazy, and all kinds of bizarre news kept coming out, which was shocking.

In a poor African area, a mother forced her underage daughter to marry an 80-year-old man in order to raise money to buy face cream. A female policewoman from a Southeast Asian country marked her own price with clear marks, how long and deep love can a few bottles of face cream get, etc.

Anyway, women do everything they can to be beautiful, and stage bizarre human comedy, refreshing everyone's three views again and again. Of course, it is not difficult to see from this that the success of Stars washing this money-making machine.

A considerable number of female compatriots are trying to spend money on their bankruptcy, which surprised the straight men of Xingchen Technology.

It is useless for women to hold half of the sky, but they have to be willing to pay at critical moments. As long as they pay, straight men are willing to admit that they are half of the sky, and most of them are fine.

...

Paris, L'Oreal Group Headquarters.

For five consecutive years, L'Oreal Group has ranked first in the list of most popular employers in France. They not only provide high salaries for their employees, but also have paid vacations of up to 45 days. Even on weekdays, employees only need to work 30 hours a week, including one hour of tea drinking time every afternoon.

However, the good days of L'Oreal Group finally came to an abrupt end today. For the first time in thirty years, L'Oreal's monthly statements experienced huge losses, with a loss of as much as 6.2 billion euros. Such an exaggerated number shocked the board of directors, and a storm was brewing rapidly.

"What's going on!" Director Roland roared angrily, "Since its establishment in 1907, the company has been the largest cosmetics group on the earth. In the past 30 years, due to our successful development of the Chinese market with huge potential, we have made huge profits in the financial statements and have never suffered losses!"

"It's good now, I'm losing a lot! I lost 6.2 billion euros in just one month!? Based on this number, it won't take long to close our century-old store! Explanation, you must explain it to the board of directors!"

General Manager Tudor sorted out the collar of his shirt. Faced with the board of directors’ doubts, he was actually panicked, but he still insisted on calmingly and said: "The main reason for the huge loss is that we and Xingchen Cleansing Group had a fierce global attack last month."

"Maybe the directors didn't notice that the ladies wearing cheongsams and selling Pechoin brand cosmetics were stationed outside our group's door, in all shopping malls and supermarkets, and in the area with the most crowded flow of people in every city in the world."

"This fierce offensive is a typical style of Xingchen Technology. As the chief of the industry, we can only use more fierce publicity and promotion offensives than them, which has caused financial losses."

The directors nodded one after another. Although they were separated by the industry, everyone had heard of the name of Star Technology. The group of Chinese barbarians were very powerful. Even the powerful North America is now actively resisting the invasion of China, which shows that they are coming fiercely.

Since Star Technology has begun to challenge L'Oreal's global cosmetics dominance, L'Oreal must counterattack. It has spent more money on this and caused a financial loss, which is reasonable.

"So, after investing huge marketing expenses, we have won the war with Star Technology?"

"The loss this month is only temporary. From next month, everything will return to normal, right?"

"Those Chinese still admire French goods and will still buy cosmetics from our L'Oreal Group in a crazily way. Mr. Tudor, this should be the case?"

The directors questioned one after another. In their opinion, the financial report this month was huge and so much money was spent, so there was no need to see any effect. To defend against the fierce attack of the Oriental Black Hand, or to drive them back?

At this point, General Manager Tudor could no longer hold back. He sweated heavily, his wrist twitched one after another, and his right eyelid twitched wildly.

As a professional manager, he knew very well that the good times of making money in the West were gone forever. Look at the employees of L'Oreal Group. These French people can get dozens of times the salary of Chinese and enjoy amazing benefits and holidays because they are smarter than Chinese and because French civilization is more superior to Chinese?

I'm afraid it's not.

It’s just that they were lucky enough to take the lead in the process of the industrial revolution in the new century.

"Mr. Tudor, are you talking!?"

"What's going on now?"

Facing the silent Tudor, the directors were aggressive.

A bitter smile rose on the corner of his mouth, Tudor sighed powerlessly, and said in a low voice: "Three years ago, when Xingchen Technology launched the industrial software project, the software department of Dassault Group also believed that it would not take long for those Chinese who were trying to be independent to kneel down and beg them to provide software, because with the strength of Chinese people, it is impossible to tie the gap for decades in a short period of time."

The directors were silent. They seemed to have heard of this. At that time, the one who used Dassault's computational fluid mechanics software should be the only seed of COMAC Group, the Huaxia Grand Aircraft Project.

"So what now? Has Dassault's software department restored the business?" Director Roland asked in a deep voice.
Chapter completed!