bookbashuk #426 - Breakthroughs
#426 - Breakthroughs
Ren Zhong wasn't just finding something for Li Yunlong to do; the development of the situation genuinely necessitated a rapid reaction force. While it was possible to temporarily assemble an elite team to respond in the absence of such a force, Ren Zhong believed in specialized people handling specialized tasks.
The rapid reaction force construction plan he gave to Li Yunlong wasn't something that could be achieved simply by temporarily drawing elite troops.
Instead, he envisioned it as having individual soldier qualities approaching those of special forces, but with equipment leaning towards the light and heavy firepower configuration of regular combat units.
In the country, on normal flat terrain, such a battalion might be slightly less effective in a head-on confrontation with a regiment.
However, in unfamiliar terrain, Ren Zhong believed that such a battalion would be much more combat-effective than a regular army regiment.
After all, in terms of mobility, the rapid reaction force not only needed to achieve a global deployment capability within 24 hours (PS: most regions of Africa and Latin America), but more importantly, the unit itself needed to be highly mobile, capable of operating within a 300-kilometer radius in various terrains within a single day.
For a regular regiment-sized unit equipped with heavy equipment like armored vehicles, tanks, and trucks, this was impossible in unfamiliar places without road support. And the pure infantry, after losing tanks and armored vehicles, was completely incomparable to the rapid reaction force's powerful firepower.
Moreover, this was just the beginning. In Ren Zhong's view, a single battalion-level rapid reaction force would clearly be insufficient in the future. However, regardless of the ultimate size of the future rapid reaction force, it would basically be expanded according to the battalion level, just like how a combined battalion is the cornerstone of a combined brigade. The future rapid reaction force would also be expanded according to Li Yunlong's model.
Ren Zhong estimated that only 2-3 rapid reaction brigades would be needed to fully cope with future peacekeeping and other tasks in global hotspots.
After dealing with this small interlude, Ren Zhong turned his attention to a groundbreaking new technology: the AsiaSat-1 communications satellite supporting global television broadcasting.
In this era, although television media had greatly developed, without television satellite communication, the world's television networks were regional, basically separated into independent television networks around cities. Taking the Rogue Eagle as an example, thanks to Ren Zhong's promotion of television development, the Rogue Eagle's television penetration rate reached over 90% of households in 1955. This was because the early advent of color televisions led to a premature price drop in black and white televisions, coupled with television programs, greatly stimulating television consumption.
Ma Zhiyuan's Vision company shone brightly in this process, becoming the undisputed number one global television brand, far ahead of other manufacturers. In recent years, they have sold a total of 50 million televisions, earning a fortune, surpassing the market value of GM Motors, the first company in the Rogue Eagle's stock market history to reach a market value of $10 billion, and becoming the first in the Shining Sword world.
Vision Company was incredibly popular, becoming the strongest technology company in the Shining Sword world!
Ma Zhiyuan fulfilled the boasts he had made to investors, but this was not the end of Visio's stock market legend. With the subsequent launch of products such as video recorders and home audio systems, Vision Company began to find new growth points. At the same time, Vision also began to expand its production capacity in displays, providing displays for other television manufacturers. On the one hand, it expanded the production line's products, and on the other hand, it was also accumulating the foundation for occupying the large display market in the future. Now it is CRT displays, and when it is replaced by LCD screens, becoming the mainstream standard for computer displays will be the time for Vision to take off again.
Ma Zhiyuan completely gained a foothold in the Rogue Eagle, becoming a popular CEO of a listed company, another new legend of the American Dream.
Because the popularity of television came so rapidly, many people did not anticipate it, which allowed Lao Chen and Situ, who had received Ren Zhong's guidance in advance, to seize the opportunity. The ATV (American Television) they jointly established picked up a big bargain. They had spent money in advance to build television networks in more than 100 large cities in the Rogue Eagle and 20 large cities in Maple Leaf Country, taking advantage of the opportunity of television popularity to occupy the mainstream of this wave of television development.
Because they focused on entertainment, sports, major international news, and local social news, with basically no political inclination, it was difficult to find any flaws in their development, and they were deeply loved by local residents, occupying nearly 35% of the market share, growing into a television supplier with annual revenue of over 100 million, and in the stock market, they were also the first television media to break through a market value of $1 billion.
Now ATV has begun to expand its business to Europe, and has opened up more than a dozen large cities in Europe to establish local television networks.
However, due to the lack of satellite communication broadcasting, there are still some problems with their program broadcasting and news synchronization.
Ren Zhong's television broadcasting satellite happened to hit the moment of rapid television development. He not only wanted to eat the first piece of the international television signal broadcasting cake, but also firmly dominate this market.
Although the market size is not too large, in the main world, even in 2024, the entire television broadcasting satellite market size is only 80 billion yuan, about 10 billion US dollars, but this money is easy to earn. After taking it down, just keep replacing the satellite every few years, which is very cost-effective.
In the historical timeline of the main world, the first-generation television broadcasting satellite from Dongda could only broadcast 1 channel of color television and 15 channels of radio programs. This was naturally limited by the technology at the time. Dongda did not have much accumulation of electronic technology in the early 1980s, after all, it had experienced such a long special period. As early as the 1960s, the Rogue Eagle had achieved the ability to broadcast 6 channels of color television on the television broadcasting satellites they launched.
Now that Ren Zhong is the knowledge porter in the Shining Sword world, the standard of the first-generation television broadcasting satellite is of course higher than both of these, directly designed according to the 20-channel television broadcasting capability, and also includes 30 channels of radio programs.
The most important technical support for achieving this comes from the fact that solar power generation technology is much stronger than in the historical timeline of the main world. In fact, there is still a lot of margin in terms of power supply. The second aspect is that the foundation of integrated circuits is also stronger than the circuits of these early broadcasting satellites. Now, large-scale integrated circuit production and manufacturing can be achieved.
The core electronic technology is at least ten years ahead of when the Rogue Eagle launched television broadcasting satellites! This allows it to have more than 3 times the broadcasting performance than them under the same volume and weight.
The Satellite Research Center does not have too much fear of difficulty in the research of television broadcasting satellites. After all, after the first-generation communication satellite was developed, they all knew very well how a satellite needs to be researched. The difference between television broadcasting satellites and the previous ones is just that the circuits for forwarding signals are different. The power supply and other aspects are not much different. Now they have achieved modularization, and the design is very fast.
As for the signal repeater, it was developed by the Electronic Research Center. After ground testing, its performance and other aspects were without problems. The ground microwave receiving station had also undergone multiple test connections, and the cooperation between them was very good.
Thus, under Ren Zhong's attention, on New Year's Day of 1956, the first Asia-Pacific No. 1 television satellite was launched into space, covering the Rogue Eagle and Asian regions. This was pre-planned by Ren Zhong for Lao Chen and Situ's ATV. Through related ground microwave receivers, their ATV could first cover the traditional Rogue Eagle territories of the Koreans, Japanese, and Australians. With this satellite relay, ATV had the ability to synchronously develop cable TV customers in the Asia-Pacific region.
Since the appearance of the car exhibition in Europe, Dongda's four major car models achieved the shipment of the first batch of 3,000 pre-ordered cars at the end of 1955, and by January 1956, this number soared to 10,000!
Although most of them are the entry-level compact car, Golf, with the delivery of cars and car advertisements began to constantly brainwash customers in several major car consuming countries in Europe, coupled with the delivery of car reputation is very positive, the cheap and good Golf and practical JETTA took the lead in entering the mainstream market, following the delivery of 10,000 pre-ordered cars in January, the next sales momentum is still unabated, began the era of monthly sales breaking 10,000.
After the successful launch of the Asia-Pacific No. 1 television satellite, Ren Zhong arranged for Dongda's car advertisements to begin landing in Rogue Eagle, and at the same time, the first batch of 3,000 cars sailed across the ocean to North America.
This time, it was still represented by the National Automobile Sales Company jointly established by Situ and Lao Chen. They opened 4S stores in the top 50 cities in Rogue Eagle's automobile sales for the first batch of exhibition cars to be released.
However, the success in Europe was not replicated in North America.
For the small Golf, the Rogue Eagle, who are richer than the Europeans, completely look down on it.
"Mr. Ren, we have invested in Rogue Eagle's car advertisements for two weeks. There are still not many people entering the local 4S stores to see cars. From the effect survey of television advertisements, 50% of the public on ATV television channels have seen the advertisements, but not even one-thousandth of potential customers go to 4S stores to see cars. The situation is not good. Rogue Eagle's cars are deeply rooted in their local market. In addition, the only cars that can enter Rogue Eagle families are the few cars from Sandezi's family that are still competitive. Cars from other countries are not good."
Ren Zhong's secretariat reported.
This matter is a major event that Ren Zhong is watching closely. Car exports are a top priority in Ren Zhong's early industrial design, and no loss can be tolerated.
Ren Zhong finally launched satellite television. On the one hand, he wanted to occupy the market for satellite television broadcasting. On the other hand, he also wanted to take advantage of the opportunity of the first generation of satellite television advertisements to promote Dongda's cars well.
Although the European market has already been opened up, after all, they have participated in more than a dozen large and small exhibitions before and after, and with the help of panda drainage and pre-order activities, nearly 30,000 vehicles have been sold in Europe in the early stage, followed by continuous praise after delivery, making the car's entry into the European market a very good start.
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But America is different. Now, television advertising only has awareness, but no brand influence and trust.
Ren Zhong knew that in this era, it was a bit difficult to rely on other people's marketing, so he prepared to go on his own.
After a few days of research and looking through the successful experiences of predecessors.
Ren Zhong planned a new event to open up the market for cars.
"Golf Family Car Million Bounty Competition!"
According to Ren Zhong's plan, the National Automobile Sales Company invited nearly a hundred family car experts to challenge the Golf and JETTA cars from Dongda on the famous Watkins Glen International Raceway. If they can defeat them and win the first place, then they can take away the million-dollar bounty!
Of course, there are also restrictions on the registration conditions. First, it is limited to mass-produced models sold within 4,000 US dollars; second, considering the large number of potential registrants, before registering, users need to obtain a Watkins Glen International Raceway single-lap speed record within 120 seconds!
The official competition is to run ten laps around the Watkins Glen International Raceway, and the expert who runs the first place will receive a million-dollar bounty alone!
In order to show fairness, ATV will broadcast the entire competition live.
The event planned by Ren Zhong stunned Situ and Lao Chen.
You need to know that a million US dollars is a real big deal in this era!
Now the average income of Rogue Eagle people has just exceeded the level of 300 knives per month, only 3600 knives a year, and a million knives means nearly 30 years of income. If the huge bounty, at once alarmed the vast majority of Rogue Eagle racing experts.
One by one, they were stimulated like they had been injected with chicken blood. One by one, the experts drove their cars to the Watkins Glen International Raceway to compete for registration qualifications.
For a time, cars on the Watkins Glen International Raceway were endless.
Every day, hundreds of cars are speeding on the track, vying for the competition qualification. This wave made the track management party a small profit. You need to know that it costs money to go on the track. The video fee and insurance fee for running a lap is 100 knives!
In this way, the track management party earned more than 10,000 knives a day!
The ten consecutive days of the preliminary period allowed the track management party to earn 100,000 knives in revenue, which was simply a super satisfaction for the National Automobile Sales Company's event!
For the next advertising settings and other activities, they fully cooperated, and even hoped to cooperate with the National Automobile Sales Company for a long time, and hold this event once a year for a long time! (End of this chapter)