Chapter 012 Completion
November 27, 2017.
It was still hot in the Caragua Islands of Luzon, and personnel from a professional acceptance company completed the final acceptance work of the laboratory.
Li Qingye, who did not find any major problems, asked Fang Xincheng to pay the completion fee to Xinhai Company. However, according to the contract, there was still a balance of 5% that had not been paid.
In fact, this is also the industry rule. The final payment will usually be settled after a period of time after the product is officially put into use.
The contract between Zhiren Company and Xinhai Company stipulates that the balance will be paid to the other party only if no major problems arise within 18 months after the company is officially put into use.
Li Qingye returned to Caragua Island and summoned a group of management.
"The company's shrimp and pomfret farming this year only made a total profit of US$420,000. Although it's not too much, fortunately we didn't make a loss. Zhaxi, thank you for your hard work."
Zhaxi showed his big white teeth and smiled, "The weather is better this year, and we are luckier."
Li Qingye turned to Li Jinglan and said, "Jinglan, discuss with Zhaxi and give some bonuses to the employees of the breeding base."
Li Jinglan stopped taking notes and nodded: "OK, I'll arrange it as soon as possible."
"Then let me tell you the second thing." Li Qingye said seriously, "You should understand that the company can't continue like this. We must find new business, otherwise we will go bankrupt sooner or later."
Li Jinglan and others deeply agree with this .
Conan, who was taciturn, was worried that his department would be laid off, so he rarely spoke up: "Boss, how about I take the boat to the Solomon Islands in the south to have a look?"
Li Qingye waved his hand: "That's not necessary. I have my own arrangements for the fleet."
Hearing that Li Qingye had arrangements, the others did not speak, but waited for him to speak.
"You should understand that now in the Pacific Ocean, especially in the northwest Pacific Ocean, wild fishery resources are becoming increasingly scarce. Deep-sea fishing is a dead end, so turning to aquaculture is the new direction."
Li Jinglan stopped taking notes. He had put in some effort before and understood Li Qingye's thinking very well. However, aquaculture was not an easy path to take.
After all, the Sapiens company currently engages in the farming of shrimp and pomfret, which are relatively low-tech and almost common farming varieties, and can only earn hard-earned money at best.
Li Qingye continued, "There is no value in further developing shrimp and pomfret, so just maintain the status quo. The next aquaculture species that our company is going to develop is this..."
The slide screen behind him immediately projected a fish.
"Eel?" Tashi frowned and blurted out, "Boss, the cost of eel farming is very high, and the catch of eel fry has been decreasing in recent years. It is difficult for us to buy a large number of fry."
Kang Nan also reminded: "Boss, Zhaxi is right. Eel fry can only be caught and cannot be artificially bred. Our company has gone to the Luzon Trench to fish before, and there are too few wild eels now."
But Li Qingye was confident. He smiled and asked, "It is precisely because artificial reproduction is impossible that it is worth our investment. Otherwise, do you think that I invested 50 million US dollars in a laboratory to make biological weapons?"
"Uh..." Li Jinglan immediately reacted. A biological laboratory with such a huge investment must be researching something.
"I plan to study artificial breeding technology for eels. If we can breed eel fry at a low cost, we will have a huge market. Did you know that the global eel consumption at its peak was 220,000 tons, with an average price of 1.5 to 30 US dollars per kilogram, and a total output value of 3.3 to 6.6 billion US dollars . This is not the limit of the eel industry, but the limitation of the depletion of wild resources. If we can achieve low-cost artificial breeding, it will definitely be a tens-billion-dollar industry."
After hearing the big promises made by Li Qingye, everyone began to breathe faster. The eel industry is indeed a cake walk.
" In addition , I have studied the relevant information on artificial breeding of eels in the past six months and found that the Japanese already have relevant technology, but the production cost is relatively high. What we need to do is to find low-cost mass production technology. I already have some ideas in this regard."
Hearing this, Li Jinglan immediately expressed his support. Now that things have come to this, and the company is owned by Li Qingye, if the investment fails, the worst that can happen is to find another job.
No one else had any objections.
Next, Li Qingye arranged the work.
First, let Li Jinglan take people to the Minnan Province of China to purchase a batch of semi-mature or mature farmed eels, and then transport them back to Caragua Island.
Zhaxi vacated six shrimp ponds and converted them into eel farms.
Connan took his fishing boat to the vicinity of the Luzon Trench to try to catch some glass eels (juvenile eels).
As tasks were assigned one after another, the entire company became busy.
This is also Li Qingye’s purpose. After all, investing in such a large project would be too strange if there were no obvious research projects.
Of course, this eel research project is not a cover-up, he intends to make it real.
On the one hand, it was to cover up the true situation of the biological laboratory; on the other hand, it was also to find a profit-making project for the Sapiens company to avoid going bankrupt.
Inside the experimental base.
After passing through layers of security systems, he did not start the experiment immediately, but rechecked the computer system in the base.
After calling up the underlying data of the computer system, Li Qingye raised his glasses and said, "As expected."
There are quite a few backdoors hidden in the system, some of which can even allow the computer to actively send signals and secretly send information through nearby mobile phones or laptops.
These system backdoors were most likely secretly set up by computer manufacturers, and even Xinhai Company might not be aware of it.
He re-edited and modified these backdoors, but did not block them completely. Instead, he edited a fake database. Even if the backdoors would transmit information, it was false information.
On the other hand, he readjusted the servers, making one of the small servers an obvious loophole, and completely blocked the loopholes in the remaining servers and completely isolated them from the network.
Even the refrigerator fan was locked to several fixed frequencies, cutting off any possibility of transmitting signals to the outside.
In addition to the computer system, he also carefully checked the operating systems of other devices several times and found many backdoors in them. Some were used to steal secrets, and some were used to make the equipment fail "earlier."
When he thought about the little tricks behind these scientific instrument manufacturers, he was very glad that he had completely destroyed the instrument information storage and computers of Jiangcheng Laboratory.
If we hadn't been more careful, once the equipment in Jiangcheng Laboratory was recovered by those manufacturers or carefully tested, some data of the Jianmu factor would have been leaked.
After recording the devices with problems, he quickly cleared the backdoors so that he could conduct experiments with confidence.
However, when he thought about the fact that many of those manufacturers were also suppliers of spare parts for computers and mobile phones, Li Qingye thought of the problem of mobile phones and laptops again.
He asked Chen Jianxiong, who was in charge of security, to adjust the security measures inside and outside the scientific research base.
For example, Li Qingye originally planned to use walkie-talkies for internal and external communication, but now he feels that walkie-talkies are not safe either.
He asked someone to go to Huaqiangbei in Shenzhen to buy a batch of bulk electronic parts and components. He then made his own wired telephone and laid internal telephone lines on Caragua Island.
As for radios and mobile phones, they can only be used in the dock area. Before going to other areas, these communication devices must be unloaded and handed over to security personnel for safekeeping.
Mobile phones and the like are completely isolated from the scientific research base. With such strict defense, the scientific research base can be basically isolated from information leakage.
Of course, these measures are not enough.
Because there is another kind of stealing secrets in this world, called "force attack".
