The answer was not beyond Fang Mingyuan's expectation, so Fang Mingyuan said with a smile: "If Mr. Sato can't make a decision, can you discuss it with the person in charge of your consortium? You don't have to be so hasty to answer me. Let's do it. Today, you two

We can't let you two go away empty-handed. You can take one of the two oil tankers that are about to be launched. The price? For the sake of former Prime Minister Murayama, it will be 120% of the current market price.

Well. As for the other three ships, whichever one of you two comes up with something that excites me more, which company owns these three ships. By the way, if what you two come up with is good enough, I can use the oil tanker's

Order to pay the excess transfer fee!”

Sato Mitsui and Ishii Mitsui's breathing became rapid immediately. It was not because Fang Mingyuan only wanted 20% of the premium, nor because the winner of the two could get the remaining three oil tankers, but because Fang Mingyuan agreed.

Use the oil tanker order to pay the transfer fee! This is undoubtedly a very favorable condition for them. You know, you can't buy enough oil tankers with money now!

However...another thought occurred to both of them. How many supertankers had Kuok Shipping Group ordered? SK Group took away six, and now it has taken out five more.

According to Fang Mingyuan, part of it will be handed over to East Co., Ltd. Auction Company for auction. Now you can actually use the oil tanker order to pay the technology transfer fee?

"What? Do you two think that I won't have so many orders in hand? Don't forget that the Mawei Shipyard acquired by Guo's Shipping Group Company in mainland China will be renovated and put into production by the middle of this year. Moreover,

By next year, the new shipyard jointly established by Kuok Shipping Group Company, Samsung Heavy Industries, and Feldspar Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. will also be put into operation. Both shipyards have the ability to build super tankers!" Fang Mingyuan chuckled, "Still...

You two don’t believe that I have the strength to fulfill this promise?”

"No, no, Fang Jun, please don't misunderstand me!" Sato waved his hands when he saw me, "Fang Jun has always made a promise, how can we not believe it." Ishii couldn't help but nodded when he saw the water.

The two of them were very excited at this time. If Fang Mingyuan can really come up with the oil tanker order to pay for the transfer fee, then this deal is very promising! If they can get seven or eight super tankers from Fang Mingyuan

order, at least in the short term, it can be regarded as an explanation to the public. As long as this trend passes, there will be relatively plenty of time in the next time to raise ships and gradually replace the company's fleet.

few.

Moreover, if they can get a group of ships from Fang Mingyuan and a group of ships from the auction, maybe the bad thing will turn into a good thing, which will be more conducive to them seizing the crude oil transportation market in East Asia and Southeast Asia. Although, I think

It is impossible to fight with Kuok Shipping Group Co., Ltd., but Kuo Shi Shipping Group Co., Ltd. can eat meat, and they can also drink soup. The losses within the embankment will be compensated by the embankment, squeezing the market share of other competitors. And this

If the batch of ships falls into the hands of their competitors, they will be the ones who have a headache.

Thinking of this, the two of them decided to contact the country as soon as possible and do their best to promote this matter.

Sato Migo and Ishii Mimizu had something on their minds, so naturally they would not stay here any longer. Both of them were thinking about how to capture the three oil tankers promised by Fang Mingyuan, and preferably capture more.

Orders for several oil tankers. As for those at the auction, let others grab them. Maybe that is a bigger pit. Therefore, after the two initialed an agreement to purchase the two super tankers that were about to be launched,

He said goodbye and left. Fang Mingyuan had no intention of keeping them for dinner.

Sato Migo and Ishii Mimizu were sent out of the villa by Lin Rong. Unlike when they came in the same car, they left in separate cars. As soon as the car started, the two of them took out their mobile phones in unison and immediately

Contact the country.

"Rong Rong, what happened just now?" When Fang Mingyuan and Sato Jianwu were talking just now, he noticed that Lin Rong seemed to have answered an important call.

"Just now, Mr. Motyjunas called me to inform me that he has found the manager we are looking for!" Lin Rong smiled happily, "He said to send us an email later. There are a few people in it that you will definitely be satisfied with.

All of them are former key managers of McDonnell Douglas."

"That's great!" Fang Mingyuan couldn't help but waved his arms excitedly. Although China and Boeing of the United States had officially reached an agreement on May 4 to restart the MD90 project, and the new company Qinxi Aviation Manufacturing Group also

It has begun to operate normally, but on Fang Mingyuan's side, in addition to a large number of financial personnel and supervisors, there are still many positions at the management and technical levels that are still vacant. After all, the Fang family is involved in aircraft manufacturing.

, the foundation can be said to be almost non-existent, and there is no sufficient reserve of professionals. Although Fang Mingyuan had already begun to look for suitable talents when he decided to join this project, up to now, the manpower is far from enough.

.

Of course, regarding this point, the major state-owned aviation manufacturing companies of course wanted to hire their own personnel, or hire them from within the country, but Fang Mingyuan insisted that they must hire from abroad, especially after choosing McDonnell Douglas.

A former employee of the company. So he asked Motyjunas to select them for him.

Although, as a result, labor costs will increase a lot, and many people are worried about whether there will be incidents such as technical leaks, but in Fang Mingyuan's view, these are not the main problems.

No matter how high the labor cost is, can it be higher than the huge amount of money that the Fang family has invested in this project? If it is just to save some labor costs and indulge in the possibility of project failure, then it is picking up sesame seeds but losing watermelons.

!As for technology leaks... Fang Mingyuan doesn't attach much importance to it. At this stage, the company's main task is to continue to complete the assembly of the MD90. For the Americans, what major technology can be found in the assembly of the MD90 that is worthy of their attention?

Are you concerned? Moreover, Westerners attach far more importance to professional ethics than Chinese people imagine.

With these former McDonnell Douglas managers joining, on the one hand, they can better control the new company and ensure that they will not be deceived by the managers and technicians sent by these state-owned aviation manufacturing companies. It is also beneficial to the new company's products.

It can meet the previous standards of McDonnell Douglas as soon as possible. After all, this is a product related to the future life safety of a large number of passengers.

This is indeed true! It is indeed a happy event.!

"One more thing, just now, we have contacted the family of Mr. Liu Zhengyan Liu. He is currently attending a scientific conference in South Korea..." Before Lin Rong finished speaking, Fang Mingyuan could not wait to say: "In South Korea

Where is it, is it far from Busan?”

"No, just at Pusan ​​National University!" Lin Rong said.

Pusan ​​National University, founded in 1946, is one of the two major national universities in South Korea. It is a comprehensive national key university in South Korea with 13 schools including humanities, science and engineering, law, economics, art, and medicine. Here,

Many domestic and international academic conferences are held every year, and a large number of well-known scientists are invited to participate.

Today, a conference on space weather science is being held here. Liu Zhengyan, a well-known atmospheric scientist and space scientist currently teaching at the National Central University in Taiwan, is talking about his research experience on the stage.

Fang Mingyuan and Lin Rong walked in quietly and sat on the seats in the back row.

"Hey, Mingyuan, that person is Liu Zhengyan!" Lin Rong lowered her voice and pointed at the man on the podium. She was actually very confused, how could Fang Mingyuan suddenly be interested in this scientist named Liu Zhengyan?

?Not only did he ask people to find his contact information, he actually put aside many things and made a special trip to Pusan ​​National University.

"Yeah!" Fang Mingyuan nodded.

Liu Zhengyan is actually not very well-known in China. This is also related to the fact that his research direction is ionospheric physics and space physics, and the relationship between ionospheric changes and earthquakes is his most important research result.

Fang Mingyuan noticed this person, and it was actually a coincidence. After the big earthquake in Japan in 2011 caused a tsunami, he saw an article in an issue of a popular science magazine about how earthquakes would trigger the creation of ionosphere in the atmosphere.

I saw it in the article about drastic changes.

The ionosphere is an airspace in the Earth's upper atmosphere that extends from about 50 kilometers above the surface to about a thousand kilometers in height. There are a large number of free electrons and ions in it, which can cause radio waves to change their propagation speed and produce effects such as refraction, reflection, and scattering.

As mentioned in the article, Liu Zhengyan's research team used the GPS signal system and the special conduction effect of the ionosphere to detect that when the Taiwan earthquake occurred in 1999, the ionosphere in space also experienced violent vibrations. Later,

After the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, his research team also used GPS ground station monitoring data and found that when the tsunami hit, the ionosphere once again experienced unusually violent disturbances.

Later, Liu Zhengyan summarized this phenomenon as the "coseismic effect". That is, when a major earthquake occurs, it will cause abnormal fluctuations in the ionosphere in space. According to the location and intensity of the abnormal fluctuations in the ionosphere, it can be estimated

The location and intensity of the earthquake can be determined, which can help government departments quickly locate the hardest-hit areas for post-earthquake relief.

If his research results only served this purpose, it would not be worthy of Fang Mingyuan's attention, so that he could still remember them in this life.

Another application of the "coseismic effect" is in tsunami warning. When a tsunami occurs, the surge of waves on the sea level will hit the atmosphere. When this wave reaches space, it will cause drastic changes in the ionosphere.

The tsunami wave reaches the atmosphere. Since it propagates in the air, the speed can reach nearly 3,000 kilometers per hour. The speed of the tsunami, depending on the magnitude, will be about 500 to 800 kilometers per hour. In this way, this speed

If the situation is poor, you can squeeze out time to issue tsunami warnings to people on the coast so that they can move to safe locations in time.

In Fang Mingyuan’s memory, from now to the time of his death in 2012, there are also the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, the 2006 Indonesian tsunami, and the 2011 Japanese tsunami.

All three tsunamis caused serious casualties, especially the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami and the 2011 Japan tsunami, both with tens of thousands of deaths.

From a humanitarian point of view, Fang Mingyuan naturally does not want such a tragedy to happen. Even if it is not from a humanitarian point of view, if Fan Mingyuan wants to seek benefits from it, he must find at least a reasonable reason. To predict earthquakes, he

At least he managed to find a reason, but as for the tsunami, he had no reason to explain why he knew about it first.

Just a week ago, he suddenly remembered this article. Unfortunately, the article only mentioned that Liu Zhengyan was an atmospheric scientist and a space scientist from Baodao. He could only rely on these three clues to ask Lin Rong to send people to Taiwan.

I went to look for him. Unexpectedly, it was such a coincidence that Liu Zhengyan was also in Busan, South Korea.

Liu Zhengyan was the last speaker today. The meeting did not last long and ended. Liu Zhengyan packed up his lecture notes and was thinking in his mind whether he should stay in South Korea for one night and then return to the island, or whether he should rush all night.

go back.

Research on the linkage between ionospheric changes and earthquakes has entered a critical period, but research funds are not abundant. Liu Zhengyan attended this meeting also to see if he could raise some funds from South Korea. But so far,

It can be said that his plan has completely failed. The person in charge from South Korea who came to participate in this meeting was obviously not interested in his topic.

"Hello, Professor Liu Zhengyan, Liu Zhengyan!" Following the greeting, Liu Zhengyan realized that there were two young men, a man and a woman, standing in front of the podium.

"Hello!" Liu Zhengyan was also very happy to hear the local accent from other countries.

"Professor Liu, I am very interested in your theory and have some ideas. I wonder if Professor Liu has time. I will treat Professor Liu to dinner." Fang Mingyuan said with a smile.

Liu Zhengyan looked at Fang Mingyuan in surprise before saying, "Are you an international student from China who came to South Korea?"

"No, no, no, I'm not an international student. I came to Korea for business." Fang Mingyuan handed over the business card with a smile and said, "Professor Liu, I think your theory is very reasonable and has great application prospects in the future. If

If possible, I would be happy to become your research sponsor."

Liu Zhengyan took the business card smoothly, but he was very disapproving of it. This kind of research was very expensive. He didn't think that a young man like Fang Mingyuan could have such a net worth.
Chapter completed!