usatvline Chapter 256 Signing Completed
Chapter 256 Signing Completed
Mitchell was shocked when he heard Duncan's answer. He was certain that there must be some shady dealings in this bidding. Otherwise, how could Duncan's dilapidated and unknown shipyard be qualified to undertake such a large order?
He secretly made up his mind to report this matter to his family with exaggeration when he returned home. He was just a presidential candidate, and even the president had been easily dealt with by them before. Now this little candidate dared to play tricks on his own family!
He glanced at Duncan with contempt, then turned and left, quickly leaving the state capital without looking back.
Looking at Mitchell's hurriedly leaving back, Duncan secretly rejoiced in his heart. His face was filled with a satisfied smile, as if he had just experienced a victory. At the same time, he waved goodbye to Lu Chen who was standing beside him, then turned around and walked out of the state capital gate.
The sun shone on Duncan, giving him a golden glow. He walked briskly, feeling particularly happy. Passersby cast curious glances at him, but Duncan didn't care and continued to enjoy the joy.
Lu Chen did not leave the state capital like the others. He waited until all the signers had left before he was invited by Franklin to chat in his reception room.
Franklin smiled and said to Lu Chen sincerely, "Mr. Lu Chen, now that the order has been signed, I will start preparing for the election. When the first round of voting comes next month, I hope Mr. Lu can lend a hand. I implore all Chinese to cast your precious vote for me."
Lu Chen's lips curled up slightly, and he responded cheerfully: "Please rest assured, Mr. Franklin, I will do my best to help you with this matter. All the votes in the hands of the Chinese will be in your name."
"That's great, thank you very much!" Franklin thanked gratefully.
After the two of them talked about election-related matters for a while, Lu Chen said goodbye to the state government and left.
The moment Lu Chen stepped out of the gate of the state capital, he immediately threw himself into the tedious finishing work. He passed the good news of his successful signing of the contract with the two shipyards to "Xiao Rizi" who was far away from home through encrypted channels. After receiving this good news, "Xiao Rizi" gave Lu Chen high praise without hesitation and quickly transferred the subsequent 100 million funds to the account designated by Lu Chen.
After praising Lu Chen, "Xiao Ri Zi" immediately took action and issued a major announcement to the outside world: it announced that it had decided to entrust the manufacturing task of the two battleships to the United States. This news was like a huge rock falling into the water, stirring up a thousand waves.
The next morning, major mainstream media in the United States reported on the news that Lu Chen had signed contracts with two shipyards. However, in addition to this, there was also a small section of the page that mentioned the news that Lieqi Shipyard had signed a contract to build two frigates. However, since this only involved the hull engineering of two frigates, the scale was relatively small and did not attract too much attention from those huge forces.
When Mitchell learned that the order was actually placed by Lu Chen, he did not feel resistance as Lu Chen had expected. On the contrary, he was deeply angry at Lu Chen's actions.
In his eyes, as a shareholder of Lieqi Shipyard, Lu Chen should give priority to allocating orders to his own shipyard. However, the facts are completely the opposite. Lu Chen actually gave all the orders to others. This behavior is definitely not what a qualified shareholder would do.
After all, it was a huge order worth more than 400 million yuan! If it could be successfully accepted, Lieqi Shipyard would be promoted from a medium-sized shipyard to a large shipyard. In this way, his position in the shipyard would surely rise, and he would have a great chance of becoming the heir. Whenever Mitchell thought of this, he could not suppress his inner impulse and really wanted to pick up the pistol and shoot Lu Chen to death.
However, this order event also brought some unexpected surprises - the share price of Lieqi Shipyard rose sharply, and its market value is about to break through the 700 million yuan mark. This news made Mitchell feel a little better.
After confirming that he had received the huge amount of money from Xiao Rizi, Lu Chen paid part of the deposit to the several shipyards that had signed contracts with him without any hesitation. At the same time, he also used various means to urge these shipyards to start production as soon as possible and strive to complete the order tasks as soon as possible.
After finishing the orders, Lu Chen began to focus on the affairs of his own factory. After all, dealing with a family like the Washington is not something that can be accomplished overnight.
It was a hot July day, but it was an unforgettable day for Lu Chen - he received a call from Chen Jianghe on that day.
Chen Jianghe's slightly trembling but extremely excited voice came from the other end of the phone: "Xiaochen! I have great news to tell you! The high-strength nylon modified material we have been working hard to develop has finally succeeded! And after repeated tests and verifications, this thing can be used to make gun casings!"
Lu Chen was overjoyed when he heard this, and quickly responded: "Brother Chen, are you kidding? Did you really get the modified material?" His words were full of disbelief and expectation.
Chen Jianghe answered firmly: "It's absolutely true, brother! We really did it!"
Lu Chen was very excited, because as long as the performance of nylon materials could be greatly improved, its use would no longer be limited to making products such as ordinary cloth. You know, in the future, car bumpers are all made of plastic! In this way, this technology will surely have a broad market prospect and application space. Thinking of this, Lu Chen couldn't help but be full of infinite longing for the future...
Lu Chen then asked, "What about the corresponding processing equipment? Have you researched and produced it?"
Hearing this, Chen Jianghe was obviously stunned for a moment, and then asked in confusion: "Does nylon still need specially customized processing equipment? Can't we use ordinary conventional machine tools?"
Hearing Chen Jianghe's answer, Lu Chen felt helpless. He thought: Using traditional and backward machine tools to process and produce plastic materials, wouldn't the work efficiency be greatly reduced! You know, for plastic products, only by adopting advanced and efficient processing methods such as mold molding can the productivity be maximized.
But Lu Chen thought that with the current industrial level, it seemed a bit difficult to realize the mold forming processing method. This made Lu Chen very helpless.
After thinking for a moment, Lu Chen suggested: "Brother Chen, I suddenly thought of an idea. Do you know? The melting point of nylon is not very high, only about 200 degrees. So the question is, if we try to melt the nylon, and then pour the molten liquid into a mold with the same shape as the required part, and finally wait for it to cool down naturally... Hehehe, think about it, wouldn't we be able to get a complete part this way!"
Chen Jianghe said: "Xiaochen, this is a great idea. I will organize some people to experiment right away to see if your method is feasible."