industrial maniac

Chapter 208 TEP Separation
The South Island in Foreman's mouth is located on the southwest side of Hawaii, in the center of the Pacific Ocean, and belongs to the high seas.

With an area of ​​80 hectares, about 1200 mu, and an altitude of 60 meters, it is barren and uninhabited as a whole.

To the west is Kume Island and Okinawa.

To the east is Midway Island and Hawaii.

The reef island, which sometimes disappears with the ebb and flow of the tide, is located 20 nautical miles south of the South Island, at the junction of the East China Sea and the Pacific Ocean, with an area of ​​only a few tens of square meters.

Comparing each other, the South Island must be more suitable for starting a company.

At that time, with the 1000-kilometer aviation radar in the air finger department, no one will care how to experiment with drones.

As for establishing a company in the South Island, will there be people who are not happy...

These days, the rules around islands in the high seas are vague.

In the front, there was Sealand, which occupied the sea fortress, and in the back, there was Rose Island, which built its own platform.

The reason is mainly because of the Convention on the Seas.

Relevant regulations stipulate that no country or individual has the right to occupy an uninhabited island located in the high seas, but they can live, collect resources, and develop and utilize it.

It sounds a bit contradictory, but to put it bluntly, it is to speak by strength.

such as:

I found an uninhabited unnamed desert island and explored crude oil. If you come to grab it, I can't beat you. Let's cooperate to develop it.

If you come to grab it and I beat you away, then the oil here will belong to me.

Therefore, some powerful regions did not sign the agreement.

As a result, the countries on the home planet have different regulations on desert islands in the high seas.

After all, it is all for self-interest.

And develop the South Island by themselves.

Then it depends on whether someone comes to grab it.

After thinking for a long time, Xu Fei changed the name of Nandao to Feidao.

Devils dare to build lighthouses, we dare to build companies directly.

"It's true, Mr. He is capable of writing and martial arts, expanding the territory, ah, bah, bah, no, Mr. Zheng is capable of writing and martial arts, and regaining his homeland."

Xu Fei looked at the map and felt that after obtaining the base, he finally had to do something serious.

But then again, whatever you do, you have to have righteousness.

Otherwise, the name will not be justified, and the countries that have not signed the Ocean Convention on the home planet will not help us.

Therefore, if you want to win the ownership of the flying island, you need a series of operations.

As for grandpa's grandfather, no one would believe what he said.

Xu Fei immediately took out his mobile phone and contacted Huang Banxia who was more capable.

"Blind, where are you?"

"Sales department, drink tea and read the newspaper."

"Come to my office."

"Okay, uncle."

Seeing that he had nothing to do, Foreman strolled to the office building.

TEP is separated and has many affairs to deal with.

Financial liquidation, personnel division, asset division, technology ownership...

Because a certain factory manager likes to "change licenses", it is difficult to figure out which industries should belong to whom without two or three months.

But sure.

The TEP series belongs to TEP.

The Ironhide series is owned by the Ironhide Company.

The Daze series was handed over to Mr. Xu in the name of Director Xu, and the Daze Group was established.

One American company, one German company, and one private company.

There is also a central enterprise that did not participate in this matter.

"Where should I put this set of cards?"

Xu Fei touched the new business card in his pocket, pondered all the way, and returned to the Hongqi workshop office.

Huang Banyan, who had been waiting for a long time, stood up and said, "Uncle, what do you want from me?"

"Look at this map."

"The Pacific Ocean?"

Lao Huang lowered his head and glanced at the marks left by the signature pen, "Hey? Feidao? Uncle, isn't this our family's?"

"Yeah, ours, tell me about it."

"I remember, your grandpa's cousin..."

"You remember wrongly, it's my grandpa's grandpa."

"Yes, yes, look at my memory."

Huang Banyan patted his forehead, "Your grandfather's grandfather once left a letter from Lafayette Cixi, canonized as the Lord of Flying Island, guarding the East China Sea to repel Japanese pirates, and was recognized by the King of Ryukyu back then. Eight hundred soldiers, your grandfather's grandfather is the general soldier of the East China Sea."

"???"

"Really, it's a pity that the Qing Dynasty died. Your grandfather's grandfather, just before he died, asked your grandfather's father to remember the sacred instructions of Lafayette. Therefore, your grandfather gave you the word 'fly', which means Just don’t forget Feidao.”

"..."

"Uncle, it's true. When you moved, I cleaned up the old house. I saw the handbook. I thought it was very important, so I kept it secretly."

Seeing that Xu Fei didn't believe it, Lao Huang walked to the door of the office in two or three steps, "I'll get it now!"

Xu Fei saw that he spoke in a serious manner, if he didn't know that he made up the nonsense at the beginning, he might have doubted life now.

And the other side.

Lao Huang hurried back to the sales department, clapped his hands, and called the seven men and eight women who called the old leaders to ask for accounts, and called them to him.

"The elders in your family, who is familiar with the museum?"

"I, the curator is my uncle."

"Can I get the seal used by Cixi, just use it a few times?"

"It might work."

"What about the old paper?"

"Remember to have some stock."

"Let's go, take the factory manager's golden version of Gulfstream, let's try to come back tomorrow morning."

"What?"

"Make a set of Lafayette's handbook."

After Huang Banxia finished talking, he flexed his wrists, "I haven't done this for many years, and suddenly I'm a bit unfamiliar. I need to find more vintage cinnabar and practice special processing techniques, otherwise I won't be able to hide it from those experts."

"Uncle Huang, what did you do before?"

"At 36 Fudi Pavilion Zaoshan, I have been in charge of the Taoist sect of the celestial master lineage for more than ten years, and later became the head of the sect. Unfortunately, when I went back to my hometown to visit relatives, the monastery gate was taken back by the local people. When I am free, I have to find I want to come back for my uncle's help, and I still want to have a place to retire."

"What's the problem, come find us!"

"Oh? That's right, let's go, let's get the handle out first, and then let's go and see my mountain gate."

"By the way, Uncle Huang, Gezao Mountain really belongs to you?"

"Sure, there is a letter left by the old head to prove it."

…………

the next day.

Xu Fei continued to adjust the structure of the gear version of Lu Bu.

Thanks to the computer that comes with the basic production line, all aspects of simulation can be performed. After working overtime yesterday afternoon and last night, the lower body can now be driven by a motor.

However, when it comes to the upper body, especially the waist, electromechanical transmission and mechanical transmission are two different things.

The mechanical transmission only needs the synchronous operation of the gears to complete twisting, bending, and leaning back, which belongs to pulling one hair and moving the whole body.

However, the electromechanical is not an integrated transmission, and many micro-motors need to be implanted, and the remote control tank does not have a control chip corresponding to the waist.

For this reason, Xu Fei contacted the electronic laboratory to try to develop it.

It's a pity that there is no six-level basic production line, and complex electronic components cannot be manufactured. In addition, there is no corresponding laboratory, so high-performance chips cannot be designed, and only circuit boards can be used for simplified processing.

In this way, the self-made circuit board is not as good as the black technology chip that comes with the module, which makes the lower body flexible, the upper body flexible, but the middle waist is very stiff.

As the researcher said: the signal is delayed, and the response is a bit slower.

In the end, with the help of the winch system control chip between the 'turret' and the 'chassis', the researchers installed four controllers, that is, while rotating, they can bend over, lean back, lean left, and lean right. Others, such as leaning forward left , Right backward tilt, temporarily unable to take into account.

With the structure diagram and the control chip, all that remains is to manufacture various types of micro-motors and micro-transmission structures, and let the researchers combine all these to form the "mechanical Lu Bu of the electromechanical version".

No, it should be called a robot.

Xu Fei thought about it carefully, imitating the mechanical voice, and connected the gear Lu Bu's megaphone, "Hello, I'm machine No. 1!"

"It's best to have the whole female voice, the sweet one, and then replace Lu Bu's shape with a human-like simple style, and then announce to the public that Director Xu led the Foreman Laboratory to conquer the intelligent robot!"

At that time, relying on the radar signal, let the third secretary operate in the background, let the robot meet with reporters and scientific researchers, and communicate with each other...

"The mother star is still not allowed to explode?"

"Can't technology stocks take off yet?"

"Xu's stock trading method shows its power again!"

"Forget it, I just made nonsense about the big oil field, and I haven't finished digesting it yet, and then I make a nonsense about an intelligent robot. In the future, what will people think of me?"

Xu Fei decided to take it slow while assembling the dismantled gear Lu Bu.

But after assembling the gear version of Lu Bu, he was shocked to find that there were three piles of gears on the desk.

The strange thing is that after tightening the wind-up of Lu Bu, he can still move.

"I'm a genius at cutting corners."

The sound did not fall.

Holding a piece of orange paper in both hands, Huang Banbiao walked in quickly, "Uncle, I have invited you back for the oracle of Lafayette."

"Aren't you afraid of being identified by experts?"

"You forgot, my ancestors made a living by writing calligraphy and painting symbols. Besides, this is made by special techniques. To put it bluntly, the identification methods learned by experts and professors are all deliberately passed on by our profession. .”

"However, your letter from the Ryukyu King is too fake. The Ryukyu Kingdom was destroyed in the [-]s."

"Exile, please help your grandfather's grandfather to restore the country."

"..."

"Of course, I have a second plan."

"How to say?"

"I did my homework last night. The so-called flying island should be called South Island. Let's arrange a group of people to swim there, announce the discovery of an uninhabited island, give it a random name, and use your relationship in North America to find a joint meeting with the home planet. , to apply for a private island."

Lao Huang took out a list, "I came up with this by asking Pupu's cliché. The people in the parent planet's joint meeting often live in his hotel. As long as we get rid of these people and go through the normal process, there are nine out of ten. Get the ownership of the island, after all, no one will go to the field to investigate.”

Xu Fei instantly understood what it meant.

For example, the son of the village chief, Xu Guang.

The whole village knows that he is the son of the village chief Xu Sheng, but they changed his name to Xu xx, saying that he is Xu Fei's younger brother, the son of old Xu. With Xu's status as factory director, the whole village will also nod. account.

And Xu xx sees that Lao Xu is so rich and his eldest brother is so awesome, so he is probably willing to change his father. Even if there is a lawsuit in the future, even if we play blood to recognize relatives, we will still win.

In the same way, the South Island is located near the high seas. Rename it to xx Island, and then register with the United Conference of the parent star. With these people on the list, it is not a problem to register as a private island.

Xu Fei thought for a moment and decided to adopt the first option.

When we work for foreign companies, we must use the thinking of foreign companies to do things.

I say it's mine, and it's mine.

Of course, to learn how foreigners do things, you need to have some real skills.

Otherwise, how to resist the devils from robbing the island?

Xu Fei browsed his existing armaments, and then found information about the Hamburg Port Shipyard.

The Port of Hamburg Shipyard has a long history, spanning two industrial revolutions, and has manufactured many famous warships, such as the Bavarian-class dreadnought during World War I and the battleship Bismarck during World War II.

In modern times, affected by two defeats and learning from the deindustrialization of North America, this shipyard has only produced one Hamburg frigate with a displacement of 20 tons, the Hesse frigate with a displacement of 5780 tons, and two 4700-ton frigates in the past 1700 years. Ton displacement U-series submarines.

Some time ago, due to Carlyle + Bain's confrontation with the "three links", the world's shipbuilding industry was in a great depression.

The Port of Hamburg Shipyard was unable to make ends meet, not only owed huge foreign debts, but also owed three months of wages.

Under the call of the trade union, the workers held the largest strike demonstration after the upheaval in Eastern Europe.

The shareholders of the shipyard fled to North America overnight, planning to sell the company to Boston Shipyard, which is owned by General Electric.

As a Berlin MP who loves Germany, Foreman is very dissatisfied with the relocation of TEP headquarters to North America. This time, facing the evacuation of the Hamburg Port Shipyard, he is even more angry.

In the end, under the firm opposition of the Berlin Parliament, the German government sent someone to evaluate the value of the shipyard and transferred it to TEP (Germany) at a price of 11 billion euros.

Since TEP is being separated, and TEP (Germany) is owned by Forman, the relevant handover work needs to wait for TEP to settle the accounts thoroughly.

To win the flying island, you need to wait for Forman to complete the acquisition project of the Hamburg Port Shipyard.

These are not trivial matters, there is no rush.

Xu Fei sent Huang Banyan away, sat in front of the computer in a daze for a long time, and continued to improve the "robot business" with the help of the computer that comes with the basic production line.

At noon, Lao Xu stepped on his meal and returned from the capital by taking the Y10 small passenger plane.

Grandpa and I chatted while eating.

"Xiaofei, you have come here from TEP so many companies, such as Daze Power, Daze Industry, Daze Agricultural Machinery, Daze Real Estate... In case something happens, we two, who will get in?"

"You go in!"

"I still have so many comrades-in-arms to support."

"Could it be possible for me to go in? I am the only seedling in my old Xu's family, and I have to spread the branches and leaves."

"I always feel that the reason you've been giving business to the construction company every few days, and now you're adding branches, is to let me take the blame one day and inherit billions of dollars."

"You are my father. When it comes to things, if you don't take the blame, who will?"

Old Xu took a bite of the steamed bun bitterly, and chewed hard, "Are you my own?"

"Don't tell me, recently I really asked the medical team of the Citizen's Hospital for an appraisal. The matching rate is 99.99%, and I am sure it is my own."

"I'll kill you bastard!" Old Xu pretended to hit you, "Are you serious?"

"I was curious to try the new equipment made by the physician team..."

As Xu Fei said, he looked around, saw that there was no one in the cafeteria, and whispered: "The Citizen's Hospital has set up a gene database, and recorded all of our Huangnigang people. You don't know, there must be fifty or sixty people who are not biological. It terrified me at the time.”

"This matter is more complicated. It's not abduction. It's because you couldn't support yourself before. Relatives gave relatives. For example, your second cousin is actually the younger sister of the third aunt's family. Huang Banxia should call me uncle. Of course, he is right to call you uncle. .”

The father and father had a short chat all afternoon, before Lao Xu left, he was promoted to the chairman of Daze Group.

Daze Group has a registered capital of 500 billion red notes.

Business includes:

Construction Engineering - Huangnigang Development Company;
Real estate development - Daze real estate development;
Housing lease-Daze Industrial Management Company;

Metal smelting, chemical industry - Daze Industry;

Machining - Daze Agricultural Machinery;

Labor dispatch-TEP labor dispatch, Daze labor service;
Electrical energy sources - wind power towers;
Pharmaceutical Industry-Citizen Hospital...

The nature of the enterprise is collective ownership, Lao Xu holds 5% of the shares, and the rest is distributed equally to all employees to get dividends.

Xu Fei returned to the office at exactly eight o'clock in the evening.

Swishhu released a piece of news that was not too big or too small.

Bo Ruisi, chairman of TEP Asia-Pacific region, placed Director Xu in TEP Automobile, TEP Holdings, Harsco Oriental Industries, and FMC Oriental Corporation.

Furious, Xu Fei ran out of the Hongqi auto workshop office in a huff, and came to the TEP auto workshop office next door, and offered to increase the rent of TEP Group by 5000 million US dollars, otherwise TEP would move out of Daze immediately.

Boris dared not speak out, so he could only make a compromise and pay 10 years of rent, 5 million US dollars.

The news came out, which was staggering.

However, what happened next was even more outrageous.

Earlier, employees of Hongqi Automobile were treated differently, such as meat buns, which were priced at 1 yuan each.

Daze employees buy, 2% discount, 5 pieces for [-] yuan.

TEP employees buy, 3.5% off, 3 pieces for one dollar.

There is no discount for Hongqi employees to buy, one yuan each.

It's different now.

Purchased by TEP employees, price x300%, three yuan each!
Why?

Foreign companies are rich, and the name is: meal supplements.

That is to say, the price of meals has risen, and the expenditure of TEP employees remains unchanged, but the company's expenditure has increased significantly.

As for where the money went.

Still need to ask?

"But I always feel like I'm at a loss."

Xu Fei counted the little money left in his pocket and sighed sadly.

To purchase crude oil, he almost emptied him out. He first took out 200 billion U.S. dollars, then asked the World Settlement Bank for a 50 billion loan, and then borrowed 50 billion everywhere to make up 300 billion U.S. dollars.

For the acquisition of the Port of Hamburg Shipyard, the 11 billion euros that are being prepared are the result of Forman asking the Berlin State Assembly for help and borrowing from the public.

As for the Hazara oil field incident, when the crude oil fell, I was short twice. Later, when Morgan took over the oil field, I was twice as bullish on its stock. How much did I earn?

Because I didn't dare to make it too obvious, I made at most $5 million, and it took a while for the funds to return.

Now if you want to repay 100 billion US dollars, 11 billion euros...

I can only go to Europe to sell dogs.

At this time, the second sister, who was in charge of external liaison, waved a fax and ran in yelling, "Factory Director, good news!"

"Say!"

"Your diploma is here."

"Shouldn't it be an admission letter?"

"When you came back from North America, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology conducted various verifications based on 'galvanized glass', 'oxygen-free steel', and a series of new electrical products launched by FMC.

The school believes that you have met the completion standards in major subjects: high-energy physics and elective subjects: organometallics, molecular spectroscopy, nanotechnology, and sustainable energy. "

After the second sister finished speaking, she took out another fax, "This is an invitation letter for admission to graduate school without examination."

"Can we refund the tuition fees we paid for four years?"

"The copies of the graduation certificates have been sent over, do you think they will return it?"

"Why don't you have a bachelor's degree?"

"I asked Professor Zhang Chaoyang, and he said that at the undergraduate level, the combination of dual certificates is different from ours."

Xu Fei flipped through the invitation letter and called the Admissions and Examination Office of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

"Hi, I'm Xu Fei."

"Director Xu, have you received the fax?"

"Got it, I want to ask, I didn't buy this certificate, did I?"

"Certainly not, your research papers have been recorded in the archives, including electroplating technology and vacuum smelting technology."

"Why don't I remember, I wrote these things?"

"It's the manuscript paper you left behind from your experiments at the headquarters of the Tower Company. Mr. James helped organize it. Are you a genius? You don't need to do these small things yourself."

"I like to hear this, okay, I will report at the end of the year."

"You are always welcome at MIT."

Xu Fei hung up the phone, turned on the computer, and found the technical patents involved in the two papers.

The electroplating process has been developed for more than 200 years.

But at present, no one can do large-area electroplating, or perform detailed electroplating on the appearance of finished products.

Now, the company discloses its unique large-scale electroplating process and micro-electroplating technology. In the future, no matter who it is, and no matter whether the other party invents it independently, once it adopts TEP-related technologies for two kinds of processing, it will pay a patent fee to TEP. .

Otherwise, the other party can only bypass the electroplating process disclosed by TEP.

In the same way, although vacuum smelting technology has decades of history, no one can make vacuum separation, vacuum reduction, vacuum refining, vacuum casting, vacuum heat treatment, vacuum coating, etc., which can be aerobic, anaerobic, or even purified. An integrated equipment that produces 99.995% oxygen-free copper.

And after dismantling the metal conveyor belt of the basic production line, the various types of electric smelting furnaces left behind can do it.

Now publishing a paper and applying for a patent is just to sell the product.

Xu Fei turned to look at the second sister who was tinkering with gears, Lu Bu, "When does the graduate school start?"

"Mid-October."

"So, I don't have to rush to North America in a hurry."

"hold head high!"

As the second sister said, she twisted the mainspring and made the gear Lu Bu move.

Then, with a click, Lu Bu's head fell off.

Xu Fei secretly glanced at the pile of extra gears under the drawer, and said in shock, "You actually broke it for me!"

"No, I'm just the same as before, just trying to show my strength." The second sister hurriedly snapped Lu Bu's head back, "Really."

"If it's broken, it's broken. My room hasn't been cleaned for a week. Go ahead, pay off your debts, and wash your clothes and socks by the way."

"No, your mess is like a doghouse."

"Nonsense, the vicious dog sleeps so well, it must be a kennel."

"Then where do you sleep?"

"For the floor, a blanket is enough."

"You are so kind to the dog."

"Isn't that right? They are all counting on them to make money and pay off their debts."

……

Xu Fei does not need to go to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to report. In the next few days, he will unite with various laboratories to prepare for the Mechanical Three Kingdoms World Championship, and strive to create a remote-controlled mechanical general before the opening ceremony.

At the same time, Tang Mo was arranged to randomly select 200 players from mechanical enthusiasts to serve as internal beta testers. After signing a confidentiality agreement, they jointly designed the venue for 'stealing energy blocks'.

So, a week later.

On August 8, the main body of the air finger department was completed.

The 5000-meter x 5000-meter behemoth has long attracted the attention of many people, and even attracted the attention of the world's construction industry.

At the beginning of the construction, TEP was splitting up, claiming that it was the "world's first air port", which was used to transport toys, cars, electrical appliances, frozen food, etc., to all parts of East Asia.

TEP has a transport plane, and there are more than one, which is also well known to the outside world.

One is to purchase 10 Y12s from Hafei, apply for airworthiness certificates, and transform them into small passenger planes for corporate executives to travel.

The second is FMC Eastern Company, which has invested millions of hectares of land in Siberia to grow potatoes. In order to show its importance to investors, Ice Bear donated two Il-76s (actually, it signed an agreement for self-extraction of crude oil at US$8/barrel) contract).

The personal relationship between Strauss and Boeing's major shareholder has also become a hot topic as TEP is about to exchange shares with Boeing.

Therefore, it is not surprising that TEP invests in airports.

Just whether it will be profitable is still unknown.

After all, 80% of the current airlines are at a loss.

However, while people were discussing heatedly, five days ago, Strauss suddenly announced that the investment in the project was too large, estimated to exceed 20 billion US dollars, and the project was now handed over to the 'Iron Sheet Company'.

At the same time, Boeing publicly announced that it did not plan to sell the transport aircraft to Ironhide.

Obviously, the conflict between Strauss and Foreman has intensified to the point of pitting each other.

Three days ago, Foreman returned to Germany and approached the European Aerospace Defense Group to purchase the Airbus series of transport aircraft.

I never thought that the production line is limited, and the order needs to be arranged until 3 years later.

Yesterday, Foreman returned to Berlin, Germany, took out a blueprint left by his grandfather, and announced the manufacture of an airship.

Wait until today.

The main body of the air finger department was completed. Although it took 1 to 2 years to complete the appearance, Foreman considered various expenses, as well as the US$50 billion and the foreign debt of 11 billion euros equally allocated to the Iron Sheet Company, so he was forced to announce that it was put into use and started the Xu factory at the same time. Chief, responsible for building Zeppelins.

The Zeppelin-rigid airship is a kind of invention of 'Earl Zeppelin', with a wire-wound aluminum shell wrapped in cotton cloth with 16 hydrogen bladders, and then two 16-horsepower engines are added to the aircraft.

During World War I, the speed could reach 22.5km per hour.

During World War II, the speed could reach 100km/h.

At present, companies in the world researching airships can make balloon-type airships reach 150km/h.

But rigid airships...

Sorry, technology is lost.

Director Xu was ordered to stand in the huge "Airport" square with an airship expert who came all the way from Germany, holding the blueprint left by Foreman's grandfather, and took the oath of office.

"I believe that the great Zeppelin airship will come to this world with a new attitude and become the symbol of the Ironhide Company!"

(End of this chapter)