Lockheed booth at the 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 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

I’m George, I’m here to discuss some business with the two Lockheed brothers.”

"Okay, please wait a minute." 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 I 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 came to discuss a business deal with us?"

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

"Of course, please come over here." Malcolm knew that there was really no place in his booth suitable for talking, 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. After that, the three of them ordered a cup of coffee. Then George introduced himself to the Lockheed brothers again.

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 is doing right now."

"Haha, 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 replied.

asked.

In fact, they themselves know that their current situation can no longer be described as not very good. As the US government sells off aircraft at low prices, they have not paid wages for two months.

The brothers borrowed money to come to the expo this time for a last-ditch effort. Since there was no funds, in addition to the brothers, John also came, and they also borrowed the money 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 related 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 didn'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 $100,000 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."

"Haha, as you all know, one aircraft now only costs 300 US dollars, and it takes more than 300 to sell it for 100,000 US dollars. So do you think there is such a big market for selling such aircraft when the government is disposing of them at low prices?

More planes?"

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 $100,000 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."

"Haha, okay, I do business and don't like procrastination. In this way, I will pay 150,000 US dollars to acquire Lockheed Company, and I will bear the previous liabilities of Lockheed Company. And I will give another 100,000 US dollars as a reward later.

How about investing R&D expenses into the company?"

"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

, but as maintenance workers, the two of them have never seen big money. It can be said that this time George used money to knock the two brothers out.

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

"Haha, of course it would be possible if we could sign the contract earlier."

"Don't be too happy too early. I've said it before. What I mainly value is the ability of you two brothers and the design team. There are conditions for me to pay this money, and that is the main people in your current design team.

You must sign a long-term labor contract with me, and if you breach 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 sternly when he saw that the two were happy too early.

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's the full name of John you mentioned? Is he here?"

"Here he comes, his name is John Northrop, the young man you just saw."

"Then go and call him over. 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.

"Um" John paused for a while and said, "Isn't this punishment too serious?"

"Haha" 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 told them just now is that I have no plans for the acquisition company."

Conditions. You can listen to the following conditions and then consider them."

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 5,000 US dollars.

rewards. These two points can be written into the contract."

George knows deeply that if you want a horse to run fast, you must feed the horse well. Our ancestors in previous lives have 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 are not even close, but the man named John Northrop is definitely a talent.

George remembers John N. Northrop, nicknamed Jack Northrop, born November 10, 1895 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 most creative and prolific aircraft designers in the world.

He designed a large number of flying-wing aircraft, but most of the designs were considered too advanced by the industry to reach practical standards. It was not until the first flight of the B-2 in 1988 that Northrop's designs were proven to be far-sighted.

In later generations, flying wings have become the representative configuration of advanced aircraft, especially in the field of drones. Flying wings are widely used. Low detectability is an important reason why people love flying wings. The first stealth aircraft used flying wings.

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 these two brothers had hindered John's development. After leaving these two brothers, John flew straight away.

After hearing George's conditions, the three of them immediately became excited. Even though the youngest of the three, John, 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 yuan a day, and one design is rewarded with 5,000 US dollars, which is nearly two years’ salary per year!

Still hesitating, the three people nodded quickly and expressed their willingness to accept the conditions. Then George

Seeing that the time was almost up, he 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 there would be a man named

Paul's people came over to discuss the next steps with them.

George slowly walked back to Panlong Company's booth. It was lunch time, and there were still a few people 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.

, there are two other investment companies, but George doesn’t care which one, because he doesn’t need this kind of investment.

George and Paul walked to the reception room, and 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." The following 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. However, before leaving, they both left their contact information.

, saying that there would be opportunities to cooperate 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 automotive 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 seeing no future, both companies also left. In the end, these two companies can be said to have given up. Now once their own rechargeable batteries are launched on the market, these two companies will have no room to fight back. Still.

Fortunately, these two companies are not listed companies yet, otherwise, they would fall directly to the bottom today.

Compared with the previous ones, these two companies were much more urgent. The representatives of the two companies looked directly at George. After George looked at them, he smiled and said: "Haha, don't be nervous. To be honest, in

After the patent is issued, I plan to take the initiative to talk to you. But you know that the traffic is too slow now, so this opportunity is good."

"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.

Let the leadership take a look 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 contacted the lawyer to draw up the contract first. After reading it, he would discuss it with the three Lockheeds.
Chapter completed!