industrial overlord

Chapter 371 Arcana
Lin Zhenhua's heart jumped violently. He knew that what Wu Jie was going to say now was the core of today's dinner.

"Mr. Wu, as long as the item is good, the price is not an issue." Lin Zhenhua imitated Chen Tian's calm expression and said.

Wu Jie pulled the chair towards Lin Zhenhua, leaned closer to Lin Zhenhua, and said, "I heard Mr. Chen said that you are a person who cares about technology and spends a lot of money on technology every year. Now I can get the technical materials of the Soviet Union. Mr. Lin, are you interested?"

"What kind of technical information do you have?" Lin Zhenhua asked.

Wu Jie said: "There are all kinds of materials. There are a large number of universities, research institutes, and large factories in the Urals. These units have research materials. These materials are all confidential, but now no one cares about them. Technicians Just get them out and sell them. I heard that Americans, Europeans, and Japanese are desperately trying to get these materials, but we Chinese haven’t done anything yet.”

Lin Zhenhua asked: "Have you read these materials?"

Wu Jie said: "I have contacted several Soviet people, they were eager to sell these materials to me, and they also showed me a few copies, which were about special steel formula materials. You know, I came from a steel factory, although I don’t know anything technically, but I also know that this kind of formula information is a treasure. When making steel, what trace elements are added, when are they added, what is the smelting temperature, and how are the various performance indicators of the smelted steel? Write It’s very clear. A kind of steel material can be sold for $100.”

"100 dollars?" Lin Zhenhua gasped.Developing a special steel sometimes requires hundreds or even thousands of trial and error, costing millions of dollars or more.Now selling the results of the experiment for a mere $100 is the ultimate waste.

By definition, special steel refers to steel used in special industries.For example, the deck steel used on aircraft carriers must be wear-resistant, impact-resistant, high-temperature resistant to aircraft exhaust flames, and not easily deformed. This is quite different from ordinary steel and belongs to the category of special steel.There are also some special steels with even more peculiar performance requirements and a narrower scope of use. The annual demand in the world may only be a few tons or even less. Special steel earns hundreds of thousands of dollars, and lives happily.

The former Soviet Union's investment in scientific research was very generous, and it was also very extensive.Sometimes, when the leader's brain is hot and he gives an order, the people below may develop hundreds of strange technologies in one go.After the technology is developed, the leaders forget about it, so these technologies lie quietly in the archives, becoming a pile of waste paper.

If it is really possible to buy these technologies developed by the former Soviet Union at a cost of hundreds of billions of dollars at the price of buying waste paper, then it is really a treasure.Compared with the value of these technologies, fur coats, binoculars and the like are simply rubbish.

"Mr. Wu, let me take a closer look. They are asking $100. Are they selling the final formula or all the experimental materials?" Lin Zhenhua continued to ask.

Wu Jie thought for a while, and said: "I haven't talked about this, but according to what they said, the final formula has been sold, and the experimental materials and the like should be just an addition, right? I've heard them say, The documents recording the experimental process in their archives are piled up to be moldy, and they are discussing taking them to the paper mill to be used as pulp raw materials."

"It's a waste! These experimental materials are also treasures!" Lin Zhenhua couldn't help but lamented.

Some people think that the final experimental results are valuable, but this is actually a misunderstanding.In order to get an ideal result, technicians may have to conduct thousands of experiments, and the records of these failed experiments are also a huge asset, because it can tell you which way is not going to work, so that you can do it in the future. There is no need to repeat the same mistakes.

Lin Zhenhua once heard a story that a certain unit had introduced a foreign advanced technology and was trying to make further development on this basis.Technicians have proposed various improvements, all of which have failed.Later, the other party's technicians came over and told our technicians that they had tried these improvements and they all proved to be ineffective.

If when introducing technology, the failure record of the other party can also be introduced at the same time, then such detours will not appear.

In addition, sometimes failed experiments may contain some important revelations. There are countless such precedents in the history of science. When scientists experimented with a technology, due to mistakes or other reasons, they inadvertently obtained more valuable results. results.

"Mr. Lin, the current situation in the Soviet Union is like this. There are still some people in Moscow. In the Far East, the sky is high and the emperor is far away. There is no one in charge. You can get anything you want. If you are concerned about these If you are interested in the technical information, I can help you get it all." Wu Jie said.

"Of course I'm interested." Lin Zhenhua said, "Mr. Wu, the information you provided is too important. How about this, I will arrange a few people here, please take them to contact the Soviet technicians, and they can judge which The information is valuable, and what information is not. The specific transaction process is up to you, and we can discuss how much you should earn from it.”

"Old Wu, Manager Lin is a kind person, you can't insult him." Chen Tianpi nodded with a half-smile.

"This is impossible!" Wu Jie said anxiously, as if he had been insulted, "Although I am a loser, I am also patriotic. I know, Mr. Chen and Mr. Lin, you are all working for the country." It's a big deal, I can't hack anyone. After some people get these technical materials, they resell them to the Japanese. I don't do this kind of thing. If I want to sell it, I will sell it to our own Chinese. no?"

"Hehe, Mr. Wu misunderstood." Lin Zhenhua quickly smoothed things over, "Brother Chen also cares about me, but I have never been economically savvy, and I don't know much about prices. I fully believe in Mr. Wu's personality. I will ask Mr. Wu for the information issue. I will definitely not let Mr. Wu run errands for nothing, and you have to guarantee the profits that are due to you. This is also Mr. Wu's hard-earned money."

"That's it, that's it." Wu Jie also laughed.

After eating, the three left Donglaishun.Wu Jie took a taxi and returned to the hotel where he was staying.Lin Zhenhua got into Chen Tian's jeep and asked Chen Tian to take him back to the hotel.

As soon as the car was on the road, Lin Zhenhua said gratefully to Chen Tian: "Brother Chen, thank you so much today, the person you introduced to me is very important to me."

"Hehe, I knew you would be interested in him." Chen Tian said, "He found me through someone's introduction. He originally wanted to sell me those technical materials, but I don't know much about technology, and I don't know anything about it. What is the value of the information, so I introduced him to you."

Lin Zhenhua said with a smile: "Brother Chen, what you said is not sincere. Even if you don't know much about technology, there are many capable people in your system. It is impossible that no one understands the value of these materials, right? I think you can find me Come, you obviously want me to be taken advantage of by you."

"The one who knows me is Mr. Lin." Chen Tian also laughed.

It turned out that when Wu Jie sold these technical materials to Chen Tian, ​​Chen Tian had already sensitively perceived the value of these materials.He was originally in charge of collecting technical intelligence and technical equipment on the secret front. Even though he was not professionally compatible, he was much more sensitive to the value of intelligence than Lin Zhenhua.

The reason why Chen Tian himself didn't make a deal with Wu Jie was that he didn't have enough funds at hand.He also went to Hong Feng, Song Dingxiang and others from the Science and Industry Committee. They also showed a deep interest in the technical materials of the Soviet Union, but they were only willing to pay for the materials they needed. limited.

The technical materials that the Soviet Union has lost from various research institutes, universities, and factories are themselves a mixture of good and bad.It is also reasonable for people to offer a price of 100 US dollars for a piece of information, that is, some of the information may be of little value at all.To get rid of the waste and save the essence, and to screen out the valuable information, it will cost a lot of money, and neither Chen Tian nor Hong Feng from the Science and Industry Committee can afford such a cost.

The security department and the national defense science and industry department sound like they have a lot of glory, but in fact they can't move an inch without money.After all, the financial appropriations from the state to these departments are limited. After apportioning all aspects, the money that can be left to do some big projects is very limited.Like Liu Xianghai’s propulsion research institute, the annual funding is several million. After the salary is paid, the remaining money is enough to maintain some daily scientific research work. Don’t expect to have any spare money to buy some Soviet waste paper. .

Under such circumstances, Chen Tian thought of Lin Zhenhua.He knew that Lin Zhenhua had money, and Lin Zhenhua's obsession with technology was unmatched by others.Chen Tian's idea was very straightforward. He hoped that Lin Zhenhua would pay to cooperate with Wu Jie to buy these precious materials from the Soviet Union, and then he would find a way to get the part of the materials he needed from Lin Zhenhua.In this way, it is Lin Zhenhua who pays, and the country gets benefits.Lin Zhenhua said he was being taken advantage of, and that's what he was referring to.

"Mr. Chen, I can tell you that if these materials are in my hands, I will sell them for a price. I also know how much the technology is worth. If you want to get these materials from me, you can also You have to pay me, and I won’t sell it for a penny less.” Lin Zhenhua solemnly declared.

Chen Tian said with a smile: "Zhenhua, don't ask for a price. We are partners anyway, aren't we? You're going to the Soviet Union to get information, and you can't do without our help, right? We will take the small part, and you will take the big part. It's about national defense. We will take away the relevant information, and all the information related to civilian technology will belong to you."

　Thanks to the sunny book friend for pointing out some of the content of this chapter.

　　
　
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