Chapter 57

To be honest, if not for the fact that these profits were difficult for him to display openly and legitimately,

the Long Kingdom flagship store alone would soon have made Lin Yi the wealthiest man in the country.

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Unfortunately, Lin Yi could not expose the Dragon Nation flagship store.

Otherwise, regardless of what was said domestically, the Ugly Nation would absolutely never let him go.

Precisely because of this, the arms trade was destined to remain hidden in the darkness forever.

Taking advantage of this period, Fengyi Technology also began to get on the right track.

The entire company expanded from an initial size of about 30 people to its current scale of 200 employees in just a short time.

The company established departments for procurement, production, sales, after-sales service, HR, and others.

It could be said that Fengyi Technology was becoming increasingly formal at this point.

It was no longer the makeshift team previously assembled by Lin Yi.

When formulating the company's rules and regulations,

a weekly management meeting was scheduled for 10:00 AM every Monday.

This was also the first time Lin Yi introduced the CEO recruited during this period to everyone in the company.

Yang Chen, 43 years old, English name: Dennis Yang.

He graduated with a bachelor's degree from Yan University.

Later, he went to Harvard to study for a Master of Business Administration.

After graduation, he entered the Hexie Company in the Ugly Nation to engage in administrative work,

eventually rising to the position of Vice President of that company.

He possessed rich experience in managing large corporations.

Annual salary: 3 million.

This individual was also talent provided by the System, with 100% loyalty.

Thanks to Yang Chen's help and guidance,

the company formulated formal rules and regulations, attendance policies, compensation packages, and an official job grading system.

According to specialty, the job sequences were divided into T (Technology) 01, P (Production, Sales), S (After-sales),

and H (Human Resources), along with the Management sequence M.

The T, P, S, and M job levels were each further divided into five grades, from T1 to T5.

The compensation corresponding to each job level would differ.

It could be said that thanks to Dennis Yang,

Lin Yi's company management began to become orderly, with everything appearing clear and distinct.

"This is our company's future CEO, Yang Chen, President Yang; the company's current rules and regulations were formulated by President Yang. Let us welcome President Yang's joining with warm applause!"

Lin Yi said in the conference room.

Immediately, warm applause rang out within the conference room.

Amidst the applause, a middle-aged man standing beside Lin Yi, with a slender figure, hair and clothes meticulously groomed,

and eyes that looked like those of an eagle, slowly rose from his seat and said:

"My name is Yang Chen; I am honored to join Fengyi Technology, and I am very grateful to President Lin for his favor!"

Speaking thus, he scanned the surroundings, gazing at each person's face for a moment before continuing:

"Let us, in the time ahead, all contribute our strength to the company's development; I hope that everyone present, myself included, will keep pace with the company's growth and progress, for I do not wish for anyone to fall behind!"

Once these words were spoken, everyone in the conference room understood

that this CEO, personally recruited by the company boss, was definitely not someone easy to deal with.

After the meeting concluded,

Lin Yi and Yang Chen went to the battery production workshop.

This was where super batteries were produced for Huawei and some mobile phone manufacturers.

Compared to other batteries on the market,

the super battery could be said to have absolutely no rivals.

Huawei had already begun pre-selling mobile phones equipped with super batteries on its official website.

Due to production capacity issues, Huawei was primarily focusing on its MATE and P series phones.

Watching block after block of batteries come off the assembly line, then undergo packaging, inspection, and sealing by skilled workers,

Lin Yi nodded in satisfaction.

Currently, the Fengyi Technology production workshop could produce ten thousand mobile phone batteries per day.

Based on prices of 99 and 199 per unit,

this could bring Lin Yi millions in profit every day.

Of course, Lin Yi was not satisfied with merely mobile phone batteries.

In fact, according to application scenarios, batteries should be divided into two categories.

One of these is energy storage batteries; such batteries need to store huge amounts of energy and release it steadily.

Mobile phone batteries belong to this category.

The other type is power batteries.

These batteries not only require huge energy storage capacity

but also demand the ability to release massive amounts of power, such as for supplying electric vehicles, electric bicycles, electric motorcycles, and so on.

Generally speaking, power batteries can be used as energy storage batteries, but energy storage batteries cannot be used as power batteries.

However, Fengyi Technology's cobalt-free super battery blurred the boundary between power batteries and energy storage batteries.

It could be said that this was a breakthrough.

The battery displayed at the previous press conference held at the Magic City Sports Center still had not reached 100% of the new battery's performance.

At this moment, in a certain research center within the imperial capital.

A middle-aged researcher was testing a battery.

As the development unit for new weaponry, the confidentiality measures here were extremely strict.

And what they were currently researching was laser weaponry.

It must be known that, just as depicted in science fiction films, laser weapons have always been humanity's dream.

Laser weapons possess superior qualities such as speed, flexibility, precision, and resistance to electromagnetic interference, allowing them to play a unique role in optoelectronic countermeasures, air defense, and strategic defense.

Although Dragon Nation started later in the field of laser weapons, it now showed a trend of overtaking others on a bend and rising from behind.

It could now be said that they stood in the first echelon globally regarding laser weapon research.

Overall, they were no weaker than Western developed nations like the Ugly Nation.

However, the crucial factor that had always constrained the development of laser weapons was the energy issue.

It must be known that laser weapons were primarily based on the principle of concentrating minute laser energy.

The wavelength of laser light is dozens of times shorter than visible light; by compressing them, a laser generator can form a massive concentration of energy at a specific location, creating a laser beam capable of generating extreme heat.

When aimed at an object's surface, this causes heating and evaporation, melting the surface into an atomic thermal cloud of the object, thereby causing damage.

As early as 2010, the Ugly Nation Air Force once publicly released data on a laser weapon.

The Ugly Nation Air Force used a Boeing 747 as a platform to carry a laser weapon for intercepting missiles in flight, but the data showed that this 100-kilowatt laser weapon took a full two minutes to burn a small hole in a missile; such a long burning time made it completely impractical for wartime application.

Even when the power was increased to 250 kilowatts, it still failed to meet requirements.

Could the Ugly military not increase the power further?

They could, but every step up in power required a comprehensive challenge to the original energy system, thermal management system, and cooling system, and the inevitable result of such challenges was excessive size.

Since large size had already constrained the development of this type of weapon, making it even larger would likely mean it truly had no market.

This seemingly contradictory dilemma had in fact plagued all nations researching laser weapons.

Among these issues, the demand for miniaturized energy sources was particularly critical.

People needed to find an energy supply device that was small in volume yet vast in power.

Naturally, electrical energy converted from chemical energy was the primary choice, namely, the super battery.

However, the problem was that existing batteries simply could not meet the 350 requirements of laser weapons.