Chapter 244: The Moon
After the three parties signed the contract, Hasbro was responsible for hiring direct managers and Random House was responsible for recruiting researchers.
At that time, Liu Hongmin will remotely control future technology, and he will select an agent from among the old people who follow him.
Zhao Zhifang, a graduate of Qinghua University, comes from a small city and likes to repair some technological products such as radios. When he was among the first batch to take the college entrance examination, he was admitted to Qinghua with the last score in the class.
Because of his age, he has a poor acceptance ability. In addition, he is already married and his wife just gave birth to a big fat boy, so he needs to devote his energy to taking care of the family.
So when I graduated, I was assigned to a factory as a technician. It can be said that this was the worst job among all Qinghua graduates.
However, Zhao Zhifang was very satisfied. After he brought his wife and children to Beijing, he worked diligently.
After Mingtian Film Company's Beijing office grew stronger, it wanted to find a technical consultant, and Zhao Zhifang was introduced to him. Ma Weidu saw that he was indeed a good technician, so he kept him.
Later, whether there was a problem with the equipment at Tomorrow Film Company or Liu Hongmin wanted to research some new equipment, they would look for Zhao Zhifang.
Zhao Zhifang was indeed capable and had strong hands-on skills, which left a deep impression on Liu Hongmin.
Therefore, Liu Hongmin offered Zhao Zhifang a chance to work for the Beijing office of Tomorrow Film Company.
In 87, Liu Hongmin founded Hanxian Computer Company and transferred Zhao Zhifang there as general manager. Because he was a senior, the students from Tsinghua University and Beijing University were very obedient.
Now, Liu Hongmin wanted to send an agent to the United States, and Zhao Zhifang became the first choice.
Zhao Zhifang also knew that this was an opportunity. Once he arrived in the United States, his salary would be based on American standards. To be a manager of a company with assets of tens of millions of dollars in the United States, the annual salary would be at least $500,000.
Converted to RMB, that's nearly 2 million, hundreds of times his current salary. Even though the prices in the US are high and the expenses are high, if he saves a little, he can save 1 million. It can be said that he can become a millionaire in one year, so of course he must seize such an opportunity.
In this way, Zhao Zhifang went to the United States with the seal of Future Technology and other items.
After we solved the issues concerning future technology, it was already July.
After the July issue of Science Fiction World was released, the sales rate was much slower than that of the May issue, but it still sold 7 copies within 5 days. This was the guaranteed sales brought by the Transformers comics and the follow-up effect of Source Code.
According to past experience, the July issue can sell about 7 copies. Compared with the period before the revision, it is still a good sales volume. But compared with the May issue, it is completely cut in half. If this downward trend cannot be stopped, then "Science Fiction World" can only rely on the guaranteed sales volume to survive.
Yang Xiao couldn't find any other solution, so he could only call Liu Hongmin.
"Comrade Hongmin, I'm really sorry to have to ask you to help me write another manuscript. The sales of the July issue have dropped sharply, and the manuscripts written by others are too different from yours."
Liu Hongmin smiled and said, "I only have a few science fiction ideas, and you want to get them all!"
Yang Xiao was a little embarrassed, but more surprised.
"If possible, I really hope that other people's manuscripts will never catch up with yours." Liu Hongmin was speechless, "You can't learn from Teacher Liu! He is almost going crazy because of my manuscript."
Yang Xiao laughed, "If I can always get your manuscript, I am willing to do it!"
This little flattery made Liu Hongmin feel inexplicably happy. He readily agreed, "Okay! I'll write another manuscript for you, and I'll mail it to you after I finish it."
"Thank you so much, Comrade Hongmin, you are the savior of our Science Fiction World!"
After Liu Hongmin finished writing the outline of the Frozen Throne trilogy, he finally had a few days off, but he had to get busy again. Since he had promised Yang Xiao that it would be published in the September issue, Liu Hongmin didn't even have a month left to write the manuscript, excluding the time for mailing, printing, and distribution.
But this did not pose a problem for Liu Hongmin. He took out one of the several outlines he had written before.
"Moon" tells the story of a clone working on the moon.
In the future world, with the rapid advancement of science and technology, the pollution of the earth is becoming more and more serious. In order to curb this situation, a company called Yueneng Industrial Co., Ltd. came into being.
The company is committed to the development of lunar energy, and to meeting the Earth's energy needs by collecting helium-3. Lunar Energy has a base on the moon, and Feng Kan is the only staff member on the base. He is a contract worker hired by the company and has lived alone on the moon for three years, with only the intelligent robot Moss to accompany him.
The boring life made Feng Kan eager to return home. When there were still two weeks before leaving the moon, Feng Kan encountered an accident. After waking up, he found that Moss seemed to be hiding something from him, and the company's top management also rejected his request to return. Feng Kan took the opportunity to escape from the base, but found another self at the scene of the accident...
This story warns people whether clones are considered human beings and whether they should enjoy human rights.
Now that cloning technology is becoming more and more advanced, cloning animals has become commonplace. From a human perspective, cloning animals is acceptable. But from an animal perspective, it is unacceptable.
Similarly, from a human perspective, human cloning is also unacceptable. Once a person is cloned, he or she will become a human being in another sense and can enjoy human rights.
Lunar Energy Industries secretly cloned humans and sent them to the moon, which violated both morality and human rights.
Through this story, humans need to reflect on whether or not to conduct human cloning experiments, and if human clones really appear, should they be given human rights.
In addition, Liu Hongmin also had his own agenda. He planned to build the base of Yueneng Industry on the moon as an underground base, which was consistent with the plan of Harbin Institute of Technology.
"Moon" is a novella. Because the scene is limited to the lunar base and there are not many characters, it is unable to show too much technological development on Earth.
Therefore, Liu Hongmin finished writing "The Moon" in about ten days and mailed the manuscript to Yang Xiao, who immediately read it.
Compared with Source Code, Moon is indeed a little worse. However, Moon is still a good work, following the orthodox science fiction path, showing future technology and making people reflect on the issue of cloning.
However, human cloning is still a long way off, so let our future generations reflect on it!
(End of this chapter)
