Zheng Li was in a very good mood because his research on the soul had made some progress.
Perhaps the Mage Alliance's research on the soul and high-dimensional space is more in-depth than Zheng Li's results on Blue Star.
But those results will not be open to Zheng Li for free.
It requires a high contribution to purchase.
Everything else about the Mage Alliance is good, except that it is too expensive in terms of knowledge.
After Zheng Li came to Blue Star, he thought about what it would be like if the Mage Alliance opened up knowledge to everyone or all mages for free.
The development of the Mage Alliance will definitely far exceed the current level.
Later, when Zheng Li learned that in Blue Star, traffic was far more valuable than knowledge, he didn't think this phenomenon was right.
Whether they are celebrities or Internet celebrities, they are far superior to scientists in terms of making money. In Zheng Li's view, it is not that they are worth so much money, but that the traffic they represent is valuable.
In the past, this term was called attention, but now it is called traffic. The earning power of top Internet celebrities is as much as that of top celebrities.
In fact, there is no essential difference between the two. They both depend on traffic.
The difference is that celebrities in the past relied on their works to attract traffic, while today's stars rely on marketing to attract traffic. Internet celebrities, on the other hand, rely on certain characteristics to attract traffic.
After seeing the phenomenon that traffic is more valuable than knowledge, Zheng Li felt that setting a high price for knowledge by the Mage Alliance could effectively avoid this kind of chaos, which made sense.
But it's still because Zheng Li doesn't know anything about economics.
If he has a certain understanding of economics, he will realize that the traffic of the Mage Alliance is worthless because the materials of the Mage Alliance are almost free.
The free supply of materials has led to the concept of merchants in the Mage Alliance being almost all merchants in the virtual world. The entire social form has resulted in a much smaller demand for marketing than Blue Star.
Because he had made some progress, Zheng Li wanted to take the opportunity to relax and experience Blue Star's urban life.
Blue Star's urban life is a unique feature here, which is completely different from the Mage Alliance.
Zheng Li's life in Blue Star was too short, and the current offline consumer industry has declined a lot compared to before.
The development of the virtual world will bring about the decline of real-world business.
The reason for the Alliance of Mages is that the virtual world is too developed, and compared with the real world and the virtual world, the price/performance ratio is too low.
Especially after the realization of advanced artificial intelligence, the virtual world can be made into what you want at no cost.
The perfect welfare mechanism makes ordinary people reluctant to work.
If you want to build infrastructure like Blue Star, you can only rely on mages, who are limited.
Therefore, in this context, the Mage Alliance has almost no real-world offline business at all.
The only business that can survive in the real world is the catering industry.
The sense of taste that intelligent life has had since its birth determines that the catering industry can still exist even if technology develops further.
For example, China's prepared food industry is developing rapidly. No matter how perfect the development is, artificial catering cannot be eliminated.
Of course, the market share of artificial catering will be compressed.
"Would you like to go shopping tonight? Tomorrow happens to be the weekend."
Zheng Li sent a WeChat message to Li Miaomiao.
In fact, for business executives, there is no concept of weekends.
Even for them, weekends are busier than usual.
Weekends are often filled with meals and social activities, as well as various research activities, which I also like to put on weekends.
Normally, as long as the company has nothing to do, you can only go for a half day.
Anyway, only the lower-level employees clock in, and at most middle-level management.
There is no need to clock in at the top level.
"???"
"Are you a persimmon?"
Li Miaomiao first sent three question marks, and then an emoticon of "Are you okay?"
"Are you going?" Zheng Li didn't waste much time talking.
Li Miaomiao replied in seconds: "Okay, I'll pick you up after get off work in the afternoon."
"good."
At this time, Li Miaomiao was having a non-nutritious meeting.
Given her position, no one would say anything even if she kept looking at her phone.
Subordinates will take the initiative to figure out what work matters the other party has to deal with.
Among the middle managers sitting opposite Li Miaomiao, those who were interested noticed that the other person had just picked up his mobile phone and looked at it, and then he showed a heartfelt happy smile.
You must know that this meeting is boring and unproductive. Everyone knows that the smile is obviously not because of the content of the meeting.
For enterprises, it is often necessary to hold some formal meetings. The content of the meeting has long been determined by one or a few senior executives, and then confirmed with the decision-makers.
Meetings are just a formality.
People who noticed this scene were silently thinking about what made Li Miaomiao so happy.
You must know that in the past few years, Li Miaomiao has been serious about most of the time in Kechuang Biotechnology.
Li Miaomiao felt happy, but also a little curious and surprised. She was curious about why Zheng Li invited her to hang out at night so suddenly.
This has never happened before.
When in doubt, ask her sister. In Li Miaomiao's opinion, Li Shuyao has much richer emotional experience than she does. If she asks the other party about something she can't understand, the chance that the other party can answer it for her is much greater.
Of course, the richness here is only the experience of two or three relationships during college and graduate school.
After I joined a fund company as a fund manager, I saw the chaos in the financial world and found it difficult to become interested in men in the financial world.
"The Romance of Fairy Wood"
"What? Zheng Li is asking you out tonight?
Take safety measures.
Forget it, let's not take any safety measures. If she gets pregnant, the mother will be more valuable than the child and she will take advantage of the opportunity to get the upper hand.
But you are now the general manager of Kechuang Biotechnology, and there is no way to go up..."
Before Li Shuyao could finish speaking, Li Miaomiao quickly interrupted her: "What are you thinking about!
It's just a date, not even a date in Zheng Li's mind. He just wants to find someone to relax with him? "
There was uncertainty in her voice.
Compared with Li Shuyao, there is an independent office of 50 square meters, and the sound insulation effect is specially strengthened. Li Miaomiao speaks without taking into account the feelings of others.
She was alone anyway.
Li Shuyao walked to the window and looked at the scenery of Lujiazui.
She is now the fund manager of Soochow Fund, and Soochow Securities is one of the shareholders of Soochow Fund.
The headquarters of Soochow Fund is on Yincheng Road, which is right next to the Lu family and surrounded by financial institutions.
Opposite Soochow Securities are the buildings of China Construction Bank, ICBC and Agricultural Bank of China. Apart from the beauty of the steel forest, it looks depressing.
"You and Zheng Li have been together for so many years."
"I have never been with Zheng Li. We are just friends and business partners."
"Okay, a spiritual platonic relationship."
"Without this relationship, you are thinking too much. Please don't add your subjective speculations.
What I need is a relatively accurate judgment and some suggestions.
I want to know Zheng Li’s real purpose for asking me out and what preparations I need to make. "
Li Shuyao stopped joking and said, "Okay, okay, I won't joke anymore.
Maybe Zheng Li simply wanted to go out for a walk and was under a bit of pressure.
Someone needs to go out with him. "
Li Miaomiao didn't want to accept this answer: "No, this is the first time he has taken the initiative to ask me out."
Li Shuyao: "I know you don't want to accept this speculation.
But I personally think this is the guess closest to the truth.
If Zheng Li thought of you as something other than just a friend, you would have become friends long ago.
Judging from what I heard from you, the media, and Zheng Li's performance on official occasions, Zheng Li is most likely under a lot of pressure.
Brain-computer connection technology is already very complete, and it is too difficult to push it further.
The more cutting-edge a technology is, the more difficult it is to advance.
Zheng Li is now at the forefront of brain-computer connection technology, and Blue Star's past research results are more helpful than nothing to him.
My guess is that he wants to relieve stress by hanging out with you.
What did you do on your previous dates? "
Li Miaomiao said without thinking: "Watch a movie, then stroll around the pedestrian street, and then sit and chat."
Li Shuyao asked: "You were the one who invited Zheng Li before, right?"
"Yes."
"Then let's go to the movies this time. It's a similar process. It seems that Zheng Li prefers watching movies.
In addition to watching movies, you can stop chatting and find a quiet bar in the evening to have a drink. "
Li Shuyao continued: "Anyway, don't put too much pressure on yourself. From what I know about Zheng Li, he just wants to go out for a walk."
Li Miaomiao was dubious: Can you understand Zheng Li better than me? It seems that asking my sister is of no use.
Li Miaomiao's office is in the CBD around Jinji Lake, where Kechuang Biotech has two buildings.
The Suzhou R&D Center where Zheng Li works is a specially built biomedical industrial park in the Suzhou Industrial Park.
It can be said that the entire biomedical industrial park is revitalized because of Science and Technology Biotechnology.
Kechuang Biotech is headquartered in Suzhou, which makes Suzhou a natural attraction for biomedical companies in attracting investment.
Many foreign pharmaceutical giants have chosen to set up R&D centers in Suzhou.
After brain-computer connected VR became popular around the world, Suzhou's Internet industry also developed.
So much so that the Internet believes that the development brought by Science and Technology Biotechnology to Suzhou is no less than the changes Ali has brought to Hangzhou.
According to official statistics, scientific and technological innovation enterprises contribute more than half of the total tax revenue to Suzhou every year.
According to anecdotal reports, Jinling, Jiangcheng, Shenhai and Pengcheng have all made great efforts to try to persuade Kechuang Biotech to relocate its headquarters.
The reason why Kechuang Biotech chose to stay in Suzhou is because the housing prices in Suzhou are more friendly than in several other places.
Among these cities, Pengcheng and Shenhai both have an average price of 90,000 yuan, Hangcheng has an average price of 50,000 yuan, and Jinling has an average price of more than 40,000 yuan.
(Here are the house prices in 2026)
Only in Suzhou, the average price has been kept below 30,000.
As for the unit price around Jinji Lake CBD exceeding 100,000, this is a regional imbalance.
However, when Kechuang Biotech communicated with Suzhou, they mentioned suppressing housing prices and claimed that this was their only demand.
The logic behind it is very simple. Innovative work such as research and development has a strong correlation with a person's status.
If house prices are too high, the pressure to buy a house will be great, and those who have not bought a house will be equally depressed looking at the house prices floating in the sky. This mentality is not conducive to the advancement of research and development work.
At the same time, if the housing prices in a place are low and the treatment is good, it can easily attract high-end talents.
With first-class treatment, a relatively relaxed office environment and not-so-high housing prices in Suzhou, Kechuang Biotechnology has become the number one company in the survey of ideal companies for graduates in recent years.
On the other hand, Suzhou City relies on tax revenue from scientific and technological enterprises, and is relatively less dependent on land finance.
The fiscal revenue of local governments is generally only two yuan, taxation and land sales.
For third- and fourth-tier cities, land has not been sold at all in the past few years. On the surface, it has been sold, but in fact it is not bought by state-owned enterprises, which are urban investment platforms. The left hand is the right hand.
Where does the money for platform state-owned enterprises come from? Government funding and local city commercial banks.
The financial situation of third- and fourth-tier cities has worsened in recent years, which is beside the point.
Suzhou is not so dependent on income from land sales, so they have the willingness and ability to control housing prices in order to keep scientific and technological innovations.
When the average price in Jinling was over 20,000, the average price in Suzhou was around 20,000. The average price in Jinling dropped to 40,000, but the average price in Suzhou was still over 20,000.
Of course, Suzhou is one of the few places where land prices are particularly expensive.
Wherever there are scientific and technological innovation companies, the surrounding housing prices must be expensive.
For example, around Jinji Lake.
Even around the Biotechnology Park, housing prices have exceeded 50,000, which is a very remote place in Suzhou.
Only very remote places can get large chunks of land to build industrial parks.
This phenomenon has led to the biggest wish of real estate speculators in Suzhou every day is to hear the news that scientific and technological innovation companies want to buy office buildings near them.
"The sun is out in the west today. It's the first time I've seen you and I want to go out for a walk." Li Miaomiao asked tentatively after picking up Zheng Li by car.
Zheng Li didn't mince words: "Because I have made a breakthrough on a problem, I am in a good mood and want to go out for a walk."
Based on Li Miaomiao's understanding of Zheng Li, this reason can completely convince her.
For a tech geek like Zheng Li, only breakthroughs in scientific research can make him feel better, Li Miaomiao thought.
Then she felt a little curious about what kind of research breakthrough would allow Zheng Lili to come out for a walk.
You must know that when the second generation of brain-computer connection technology was developed, the executives were crazy with joy.
That night, the executives went to a private restaurant in Suzhou for a dinner to celebrate, and Zheng Li did not attend.
Could it be that virtual reality technology has achieved a breakthrough, Li Miaomiao guessed.
She didn't ask what the specific technology was. It was confidential and she would know it when it was time.
Li Miaomiao asked: "What are our plans for today?
Do you have any ideas?
If you don't have any ideas, can I arrange it? "
Zheng Li: “You make the arrangements.
I want to go somewhere with a lot of people, but not too noisy. "
Li Miaomiao was a little speechless. There were many people but there was no noise. These are two contradictory things.
But then I thought about it, and it seems that movie theaters are just such a place.
Because there was a movie going on, it was very quiet and there were a lot of people.
As long as it's not a family movie and there are a lot of children around, the cinema can still be quiet.
Li Miaomiao asked: "How about the cinema?"
"It just so happened that the sequel to Harry Potter was released recently."
