Marvel: I traveled through time a little early

Chapter 29 World Expo [-]
Lockheed booth at expo

While George was looking at the pictures on the display board and thinking, a voice sounded from behind him: "Hello, sir, how can I help you?"

George turned around and saw the young man who had smiled and nodded to him as soon as he entered the booth and continued to communicate with others.George smiled back, and then handed over his business card: "You can call me George, and I will discuss some business with the Lockheed brothers."

"Okay, please wait a moment." Seeing the names of the two companies printed on the back of George's business card, the young man, without asking too much, took George's business card and walked directly towards the two people who had just walked out of the booth.

From their similar appearance, George could tell that these two were the Lockheed brothers.

Then they saw the two brothers walking towards George after listening to the young man's story and looking at the business cards in their hands.

When they arrived, the person walking a little ahead stretched out his hands to shake George's hand and said, "Hello, Mr. Orwell, I am Malcolm Lockheed."

Then he pointed to the person behind him and continued: "This is my brother Alan Lockheed. I just heard from John that Mr. Orwell wanted to discuss a business deal with us?"

"Yes," George looked around and said, "Let's talk in another place." The booths of these two brothers were much different, and there was not even a place to receive guests.

"Of course, please come over here." Malcolm knew that there was really no suitable place to talk in his booth, so he smiled awkwardly and took George to the tea cart at the end of the exhibition that provided rest for the venue.There are also free tables and chairs there.

After the three of them sat down, the waiter came up and asked what they wanted, and all three of them ordered a cup of coffee.Then George introduced himself to each other again with the Lockheed brothers.

After the waiter put down the coffee and left, George took the coffee and took a sip before saying: "You two, that's it. I would like to take the liberty of asking how your company's business is doing now."

"Well, the current business situation is not very good. However, many film and television companies are negotiating business with us. I wonder why Mr. Orwell wants to know this?" This time, Allen smiled awkwardly and asked. .

In fact, they themselves know that their current situation can no longer be described as not being too good.They haven't paid wages for two months now as the U.S. government sells off planes at low prices.

The brothers borrowed money to come to the expo this time, just for a last-ditch effort.Because there was no funds, in addition to the brothers, John also came, and the money was borrowed from John.

"I don't like to beat around the bush. I know that the current situation of Lockheed is very bad. I am also connected in the military. You can see how low the price of aircraft is now by looking at these surrounding companies. So, Let me tell you directly, I am attracted to your company's design capabilities. Although your company's current situation is very bad, it is undeniable that the F-1 aircraft is still very good in terms of design." George said directly.

The two brothers looked at each other and thought for a while before saying: "Thank you Mr. Orwell for your recognition of our company's aircraft. I don't know how you plan to cooperate?" The two brothers just went out to attract investment. Looking for business, but couldn't find it.

So when they heard that George said they were interested in the company, the brothers basically agreed after thinking about it for a while, but the next step would depend on the conditions given by George.

George smiled and said: "I will pay $10 to directly acquire the entire company, including the designer team and aircraft patents."

"Is this a little missing? You must know that the F-1 is a very excellent aircraft."

"You also know that a current aircraft only sells for 300 US dollars, and it takes more than 300 to sell it for 10 US dollars. So you think there is such a big market to sell so many aircraft when the government is disposing of the aircraft at a low price? ?"

George paused for a moment, took a sip of coffee, and then continued: "Moreover, there are so many aircraft companies now, and there is a lot of room for others to choose. So I paid $10 based on the current status of the F-1 aircraft. Given by reputation.”

"However, this is still a little less. I think the F-1 aircraft patent is definitely worth a better price."

"Okay, I do business and I don't like procrastination. In this way, I will pay $15 to acquire Lockheed, and Lockheed's previous liabilities will be borne by me. And later I will give another $10 for research and development expenses. Pitch into the company. How about that?”

"Mr. Orwell, are you telling the truth?" After hearing George's series of quotations, the two brothers could no longer conceal their inner excitement.Let's put it this way, although the two brothers have made some achievements before, as maintenance workers, they have never seen big money.It can be said that this time George knocked the two brothers unconscious with money.

"Of course it's true. If you are worried, I can arrange for someone to come over and sign a contract with you later."

"Of course it would be possible if the contract could be signed earlier."

"Don't be too happy. I've said it before. What I mainly value is the ability of you two brothers and the design team. There are conditions for my payment, and that is the main people in your current design team. You must sign a long-term labor contract with me, and if you break the contract, you will be subject to a large amount of liquidated damages, and you will not be able to participate in the aircraft industry for at least 10 years." George said seriously when he saw that the two were happy too early.

After hearing George's conditions, the two brothers were silent for a while. After looking at each other, they said with embarrassment: "Mr. Orwell, our current design team mainly consists of our brothers and John. We will accept your conditions." The two brothers can accept it, but we still need to communicate with John."

"Of course, what is the full name of John you are talking about? Are you here?" "He is here, his name is John Northrop, he is the young man you saw just now."

"Then go and call him over, and I'll talk to him personally."

"Okay, Mr. Orwell, please wait a moment." After saying that, Allen got up and walked back to the booth. After a while, he saw him coming back with John.

"Hello, Mr. Orwell."

"Hello, John. Allen should have told you about the current situation. I don't know what you think." George looked at the other person through glasses and said.

"Well" John paused for a while and said, "Is this punishment too severe?"

George looked at the real designer of the F-1 aircraft in front of him, and thought to himself that this John was indeed not the John he would be when he matured, and then said: "What I just told them was just the conditions I offered for the acquisition of the company. You can listen to the following conditions and then think about it."

George looked at the three people with exploratory expressions and said: "Based on the previous conditions, I have another reward for the R&D team. In addition to a uniform salary increase of 20%, once the aircraft designed by the designer team is mass-produced, , then I will give 10% of the profit as a bonus to the entire R&D team, and the team will distribute it according to their contribution. Even if there is no mass production, as long as it can be proved that it is a qualified design, I will give 5000 US dollars. rewards. These two points can be written into the contract."

George deeply understands that if you want a horse to run fast, you must feed the horse well. Our ancestors in previous lives taught us that generals should use the wisdom of luring hungry soldiers to lure them.And George is not poor and generous, the key is that they are worth the price.The two brothers were not even close, but the man named John Northrop was definitely a talent.

George remembers John N. Northrop, nicknamed Jack Northrop, born November 1895, 11 in Newark, New Jersey, American aerospace industrialist, founder of the Northrop Corporation and Roxy One of the founders of the German company.In later generations, Northrop was recognized as one of the world's most creative and prolific aircraft designers.

He designed a large number of flying-wing aircraft, but most of the designs were considered too advanced by the industry to reach practical levels.It wasn't until the B-1988's first flight in 2 that Northrop's design was proven to be far-sighted.In later generations, flying wings have become the representative configuration of advanced aircraft, especially in the field of drones, where flying wings are widely used.Low detectability is an important reason why people love flying wings.The first stealth aircraft adopted a flying-wing layout structure.

Northrop, the company he founded, is also one of the five largest arms dealers in the United States.

Thinking of this, George looked at the two brothers.George felt that it was these two brothers that hindered John's development. After leaving these two brothers, John took off directly.

After hearing George's conditions, the three of them immediately became excited.Even though John, the youngest of the three of them, is only 25 years old, I have never seen such an aggressive boss who directly throws money at people.In this era, the per capita income is only a few dollars a day. One design will reward one company with 1 US dollars, which is more than two years' salary per year!
Still hesitating, the three people nodded quickly and expressed their willingness to accept the conditions.then george

Seeing that it was almost time, I invited the three of them to have lunch together.After lunch, George asked the three of them to go back to their booth to pack their things. There was no need to continue to display their booth, and told them that a man named Paul would come over in a moment to talk to them about the next thing.

George walked slowly back to the company's booth. It was lunch time, and there were still a few people here surrounding Paul, sitting on the sofa next to the booth.

When Paul saw George coming back, he quickly got up and walked towards George and said, "Boss, you are back. There are several people here who have been waiting for you all morning."

After that, I introduced several people to George. Two of them were the previous patent owners of sulfuric acid batteries and nickel-iron batteries, and several people were from two car companies, namely BMW and Ford. , and two investment companies. George didn't care which one, because he didn't need this kind of investment.

George and Paul walked to the reception room. After meeting and greeting a few people, they first said to the people from the investment company: "Hello, you two, I'm sorry. I have no plans to raise funds for the time being, so I can cooperate again if I have the opportunity in the future." Sorry, I kept you waiting for so long." This last sentence is addressed to everyone.

Several people said it didn't matter. When the two people from the investment company saw George coming in, they refused to accept him. They understood that George really had no plans to raise funds, so they stood up and left.But before leaving, they all left their contact information and said they would have the opportunity to collaborate again in the future.

Then George looked at the two car companies and said: "You two must have seen the promotion of my battery for the car industry, but now I have not considered the cooperation model with each car company, so after I think about it, I will contact you all, what do you think?"

After the two companies saw no future, they both left. In the end, these two companies can be said to be former wavers.Once their own rechargeable batteries are launched on the market, these two companies will have no room to fight back.Fortunately, these two companies are not listed companies yet, otherwise, they would have fallen directly to the bottom today.

Compared with the previous ones, these two are much more urgent.The representatives of both companies looked directly at George. After George looked at them, he smiled and said, "Don't be nervous. To be honest, after the patent is issued, I plan to take the initiative to talk to you. But you know Traffic is so slow right now, so it just so happens that this is a good opportunity.”

"It's like this. Cooperation is definitely possible, but how to cooperate specifically needs to be carefully considered. I have a specific data about our batteries here, which is more detailed than the data in your hands. You all take it back. Show it to the leadership, and you can come to me after you think about it.”

After saying that, he handed a detailed information to the two of them.But it is not a product, it should be said that they are all upgraded versions of their own products.

After sending them away in their enthusiasm, George had time.Paul first explained clearly the terms drawn up with the Lockheed three, and then he contacted the lawyer to draw up the contract first. After he read it, he signed the contract with the three people.He also asked Paul to arrange for the staff to take turns eating, including Paul himself.Ask him to make arrangements with Lockheed after lunch.

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