Chapter 741: Visit and Quote
Yang Chen followed Zhang Baoguo to the chairman's office.
Zhang Baoguo took out the company's promotional materials and handed them to Yang Chen, and said with a smile: "Director Yang, take a look at our company's promotional materials first, and let's go to the workshop to have a look later."
Yang Chen took the promotional materials and read them carefully.
There seems to be a lot of information, but there is actually only one piece of really useful information.
The TK01 artificial satellite developed by Sounding Technology is determined to be put into use.
However, as we all know, if you want to send a satellite to orbit, you must have a supporting launch vehicle.
The research and development of launch vehicles for sounding technology is still in its infancy.
If they want to try to put the TK01 artificial satellite into low-Earth orbit now, they must purchase a launch rocket from another company.
According to data, the function of the TK01 artificial satellite is meteorological observation.
One thing to say.
Sounding technology can develop and manufacture a technologically mature artificial satellite within four years, which is indeed amazing.
but!
The function of TK01 is only weather observation, which means it is of no use.
The Daxia Meteorological Bureau has its own meteorological observation satellite, which is absolutely sufficient for weather prediction. There is no need to rent or purchase private satellites such as TK01.
Weather forecasting is something the government does, and it can be said to be unprofitable.
Therefore, there is no need for TK01 to exist at all.
It’s better not to build your own weather forecast system.
This is why sounding technology has been unable to attract investment.
If you want to get investment, you must let investors see the huge benefits that can be gained after the satellite is put into commercial use.
Even if you really build your own weather forecast system, what's the use if it can't be realized?
Who would pay to watch a weather forecast?
It’s not very practical when you think about it.
Without missing a beat, Yang Chen put the information on the table and said with a smile: "Mr. Zhang, let's go to the workshop and laboratory to have a look."
Zhang Baoguo quickly smiled and nodded, saying: "No problem! Let's go, I will take Director Yang over. Director Yang, please come this way."
Yang Chen followed Zhang Baoguo to the laboratory.
Chief engineer Zhang Baoqiang ran over quickly.
It can be seen from their names that Zhang Baoguo and Zhang Baoqiang must be brothers.
It is really rare that both brothers are talented in this field.
Zhang Baoqiang is the chief engineer, so he naturally knows everything in the laboratory and workshop. It is most appropriate for him to introduce it to Yang Chen.
"This is the earth-facing camera system used by our satellites. Through it, the images captured by the satellites can be transmitted to the ground receiving station..."
Zhang Baoqiang introduced all relevant things to Yang Chen very carefully.
However, he did not introduce the principles of these things or the technologies used.
It's like he pointed to the lens of the mobile phone and told Yang Chen that it was a mobile phone camera, but he didn't introduce what principle this camera uses, how many pixels it has, etc.
Of course, Yang Chen doesn't want to know the principles of these things.
In Yang Chen's view, there is absolutely no need for mass production of TK01, and it is useless to know its detailed production principles and techniques.
but!
Yang Chen still wanted to listen to Zhang Baoqiang's continued introduction, because he wanted to know the scientific research capabilities of Zhang Baoqiang and Sounding Technology.
After having a rough estimate, Yang Chen made an offer to purchase it.
After visiting the laboratory, Yang Chen went to the production workshop under the leadership of Zhang Baoguo and others.
The workshop is producing some low-end products such as TV signal receivers, and even "big pot lids" banned by the state.
Zhang Baoguo said with an embarrassed look: "Don't be ridiculous, Mr. Yang. In order to make money to maintain research, we can only do some small side jobs."
Yang Chen smiled and replied: "Haha... Mr. Zhang's perseverance is worth learning from."
Zhang Baoguo: "Haha... Director Yang was joking. Come, let's take our time to visit."
Yang Chen nodded and followed the Zhang brothers around.
Basically, Yang Chen has a general understanding of the situation of Sounding Technology Company.
Several people came to the conference room.
Zhang Baoguo smiled and asked: "Director Yang, what is your impression of our company? If you have any criticisms or suggestions, I hope you can give me your advice. Regardless of whether we can reach cooperation or not, we will definitely benefit a lot from listening to Director Yang's teachings." .”
Yang Chen quickly waved his hand and said: "Mr. Zhang is too polite. I don't know much about this aspect, so I really don't dare to make any comments. Let's get straight to the point and go straight to the topic. I want to set up an airline to first carry cargo. Rockets + artificial satellites are the main products, and Musk's Starlink plan is used as a reference to build our own Starlink. According to my vision, when we launch enough satellites into orbit to operate normally, we will achieve global network coverage. At that time, humans can access the Internet and make phone calls for free. At the same time, our "Starlink" also has a navigation function. In the future, we will rely on the three major businesses of network + communication + navigation to make profits, and there will be nothing in the world that our satellites cannot detect. Place. We can just sit and count money every day.”
Hearing what Yang Chen said, Zhang Baoguo and others clenched their fists in excitement.
In fact, when Zhang Baoguo and others were preparing for sounding technology, they also dreamed that one day they could be the first to realize Musk's goal.
However, their technology and capital are limited, and it is impossible to achieve technological breakthroughs in a short period of time.
Their only hope now is to put TK01 into commercial use and get some funds to relieve the pressure.
Zhang Baoguo said: "I was really encouraged after listening to Director Yang's words. To be honest, several of us had such a dream when we were running a company. But the reality made us lower our heads helplessly. No matter how big the dream is, it must rely on technology. and funds are slowly being realized. So, what is the purpose of Director Yang’s visit to our company for inspection?”
Yang Chen replied very directly: "I'll get straight to the point, I want to acquire sounding technology. To achieve my goal, I must have professional talents. Therefore, acquiring sounding is only the first step. I will do more later. Hi-tech has hired relevant talents to join and expand the company into an aviation company integrating R&D, production, sales, practice, etc. Moreover, artificial satellites and launch vehicles are only the first generation of products. We will also develop into spacecraft in the future. I To realize that as long as you give me money, I can send you safely to outer space, or even travel to the moon and come back. At that time, money is just a string of symbols to us. What do you think?"
Putting aside the feasibility of Yang Chen's goal, his words are really provocative.
Zhang Baoguo and others were so excited that they couldn't sit still. To exit the transcoding page, please download the app and read the latest chapters.
but!
Excitement is excitement, but no matter how excited you are, you still can't get around the real problems.
Zhang Baoguo asked: "How does Mr. Yang want to acquire it? Only part of the equity, or all of it?"
Yang Chen: "My idea is to acquire 90% of the equity and give the remaining 10% to you founders. How you divide it is ultimately your business. The price is tentatively set at 1 billion! You can think about it carefully. "
Yang Chen really didn't know much about this aspect. He could only give a rough estimate based on the information he searched online.
Buying a company is like buying groceries, both parties will definitely bargain.
Yang Chen gave a price for the time being and waited to hear Zhang Baoguo's psychological price before deciding how much to give.