189: Cool! The transformation of the Double Bone Dragon bomber was successful!

【The person above is really brave, directly @ing Director Lu, aren't you afraid of getting beaten up?】

【Can he crawl through the internet cable to hack me? Idiot!】

【It's strange, why has Julong Steel suddenly gone quiet?】

【@Bai Xiaoying, do you know the inside scoop? What are Director Lu and his team doing?】

"Xiao Ying doesn't know, but please trust Julong Steel; Director Lu has never broken his word," Bai Xiaoying said.

【What are you bragging about? Netizens have been urging them for so many days, has there been any movement from Julong Steel?】

【That is the pearl of the industrial crown, something it took Eagle Sauce and Hans Cat decades to master, and you're saying one month?】

【Anyway, bragging isn't taxed, let Julong Steel brag however they want.】

Watching the barrage flying by in the livestream, Bai Xiaoying was also curious about what Lu Shenwei had been doing this past month.

At the Julong Steel Factory, for the past month, Lu Shenwei had buried himself in the Double Bone Dragon modification workshop.

"Uncle Ma, let's take the technical team and check everything again carefully to see if there are any loopholes."

Working day and night, the first Double Bone Dragon ultra-long-range unmanned bomber was finally modified and rolled off the line.

Matte black, fluid tail fins, capable of multi-aircraft formation, and equipped with a more powerful avionics system.

Compared to the smooth design of the first-generation Double Bone Dragon commercial large transport drone, the styling of the Double Bone Dragon unmanned bomber was much wilder and more aggressive.

Ma Quanlin examined the Double Bone Dragon bomber and praised: "We modified it exactly according to the blueprints provided by Director Xu. As long as what they gave us is correct, our aircraft won't have any issues."

"Alright then, let's check it one more time and notify Director Xu to come and take a look next week," Lu Shenwei pondered.

Ma Quanlin nodded and said: "You've been exhausted lately, get some good rest for a couple of days."

"Resting is out of the question; there's a pile of creditors online demanding repayment lately," Lu Shenwei laughed.

Creditors?

Ma Quanlin didn't understand what he meant, and Lu Shenwei didn't explain further.

With the Double Bone Dragon unmanned bomber modification complete, he could finally let out a long sigh of relief.

"Zhou Cun, where are you?"

"Chairman, I'm still in Anniushan, I expect to return early tomorrow morning."

Anniushan? Another massive steel city in Dragon Xia.

"Why did you go there?"

"To discuss business. Didn't you arrange it last month? The three things, including the pen nibs, have all been sorted out."

"Sorted out? That was fast. We'll talk when you get back tomorrow."

Zhou Cun hung up the phone, and the old and young people gathered around him asked anxiously.

"Young Manager Zhou, does your company boss agree to the acquisition plan?"

Zhou Cun said softly: "He agrees. As long as you can guarantee that the refining method is reliable and can produce ballpoint pen balls, never mind a mere six million, even sixty million wouldn't make our boss blink."

"Really? Is your company boss that generous? How come we've never heard of him?"

Zhou Cun didn't explain, but turned and asked: "Six million to acquire 100% of your factory's equity, and we will also accept all 32 workers that need to be resettled."

"Really? The workers won't have to lose their jobs?"

"Of course, but I can only resettle them in Qinchuan."

The old factory manager hesitated: "Qinchuan? Isn't the nationally famous Julong Steel Factory in Qinchuan? Young Manager Zhou, if you bring us old, weak, sick, and disabled folks over there to do steel production, would Julong Steel agree to that?"

Zhou Cun laughed and reassured him: "Is it possible that I am actually from Julong Steel?"

"What did you say? You are a representative of Julong Steel? Then the person you were talking to just now was... Lu Shenwei? Director Lu!!!" the old factory manager said excitedly.

It turned out that the one wanting to acquire their factory was Julong Steel; the old factory manager's hands trembled.

"Um... Young Manager Zhou, I suddenly feel that 6 million to sell the factory to you isn't the right price."

Huh? Trying to raise the price on the spot?

Before Zhou Cun could ask, the old factory manager tremblingly held up his index finger: "Raise the price to ten million?"

The old factory manager shook his head, and Zhou Cun said gloomily: "It can't be one hundred million, can it?"

To pluck the three pearls of industry as quickly as possible, Zhou Cun adopted a dual-track model of independent research and development alongside purchasing technology nationwide.

He arranged for three major teams to research day and night, while he spent nearly twenty days traveling across more than half of Dragon Xia.

Finally, in Anniushan, he found a company capable of refining ballpoint pen balls, pen nibs, and lighter gaskets.

And the workers under this old factory manager in front of him possessed the technology to refine ballpoint pen balls and pen nibs.

However, this old man wanting to raise the price on the spot really gave him a headache.

"Just give me a number, but one hundred million is impossible," Zhou Cun said with a dark face.

The old factory manager hurriedly waved his hands: "Young Manager Zhou, you've misunderstood. How would we dare ask for one hundred million? It's one yuan; we only want one yuan from you."

What? One yuan?

"This... how so?" Zhou Cun asked, stunned.

The old factory manager said slowly: "This is a long story..."

As early as five years ago, the Anniushan region also complied with the national call to eliminate backward steel production capacity.

But there were hundreds of upstream and downstream enterprises supporting steel production in Anniushan; once drastic reforms began, how many families would lose their livelihoods?

But once the document was issued from above, the municipal leaders had no good solutions and could only drag it out.

Just as they couldn't drag it out any longer, the document policy suddenly changed.

From mandatory closures, mergers, and elimination of backward capacity, it changed to a flexible policy.

Allowing backward steel enterprises a five-year transition period for restructuring, during which the city and district levels would provide funds to help them restructure.

And the reason the authorities suddenly changed the policy was precisely because Lu Shenwei had successfully led the transformation of Julong Steel, allowing the policymakers to see hope for the rebirth of backward steel enterprises.

Later, the old factory manager led the workers on the path of restructuring and transformation, and the target technology they chose was the industrial pearl that was then revered by public intellectuals — pen nibs and ballpoint pen balls.

It's just a pity that they spent a lot of money and the technology was becoming mature, but there was no market; they were typically scammed by public intellectual lackeys.

Japan enterprises had long been dumping at prices lower than the market rate; at these prices, the cost of the pen nibs and ballpoint pen balls they produced couldn't even be covered.

Just as the factory's transformation was about to fail, Zhou Cun showed up.

"So, Julong Steel has saved us twice, and Director Lu is a great benefactor to our factory; how could we accept money from our benefactor?" the old factory manager sighed with emotion.

Zhou Cun suddenly realized; he hadn't expected that the success of Julong Steel's initial restructuring would impact steel enterprises nationwide.

"If you put it that way, I will accept on behalf of Director Lu."

Zhou Cun was good at spending money, but he really didn't dare to make the decision himself when it came to taking advantage of someone.

"Young Manager Zhou, when do you have time for us to sign the agreement? I need to report to my superiors, after all, we are a state-owned steel factory," the old factory manager said.

"You report to your superiors first; we'll sign the agreement later when we get to Qinchuan," Zhou Cun said.

He had also been following online information for the past two days; netizens were already in an uproar, saying all sorts of things.

He had to rush back to the steel factory as soon as possible to start production and smelt a few batches of ballpoint pen balls.