Mutual Pit

When Weldon and his colleagues left, An Feng finally couldn't hold back his expression, covered his stomach and laughed... You two idiots, do you really think that everything is under control and you have everyone's handle? It's really interesting, but there are still some problems in the point of changing hands.

  If it is not allowed to be provided to a third party according to what Weldon said, it is obvious that they are very sure to win the order from the US government, but what about the self-developed ones for security companies in the future? To some extent, this should be a performance of grabbing business, so the details must be carefully considered.

An Feng wants to provide a batch of exoskeletons to the security company. It is a very effective way to improve the combat effectiveness and the company's reputation. If this is not allowed in the contract, if you need to pay Raytheon to produce the exoskeletons yourself , wouldn't it mean that if you don't succeed, you will be tricked?

   Moreover, the transfer of technology must be done before the patent of the hybrid booster system comes out.

  He called the British side.

   I don't know what time it is over there. Logically speaking, it should be noon. Hope Goodrich answered the phone.

"Mr. Goodrich, how is the machine company doing now? Has the patent been applied for?" An Feng asked. When talking about work with the British, you have to be more formal. Unlike the Americans, you can call them by their names casually, even by their names. It can be omitted and replaced by nickname directly.

Hope temporarily served as the director of the machine company and was in charge of daily operations. He said: "Sir, the technician you sent has already recorded the drawings and construction instructions. We have submitted them for review three days ago. From now on, the design of this aspect as a commercial secret."

  It takes a long time to grant a patent, ranging from three to five months to one or two years, so after the application is submitted, you can do whatever you need to do and take advantage of the time. After hearing this, An Feng said, "Yes, continue to recruit technicians and prepare to start the machine."

   "Preparation is underway, sir, and the quota will be fully enrolled by the end of the month." Hope said.

  After An Feng hung up the phone, he called and chatted with the company's chief technology officer Hoffman for a while, and learned that he was still teaching those technicians, and it took about half a month to finish teaching the technology. An Feng gave him a good hope: he can continue to develop the exoskeleton when he comes back.

  An Feng re-conceived it again, and everything went according to plan. He dismantled all the money-making parts of the basic exoskeleton, so as to maintain the maximum profit and avoid military sensitive areas. The secret is lost, and the company can't do anything about where the exoskeleton appears.

   Now just hang out with the other party for a while, and then give an answer.

   After Wilden went back, he got to know the robot company again.

On the surface, there is nothing special, just like the tens of thousands of high-tech companies in Silicon Valley, even in the field of robotics, there are a lot of companies that are better than them, but they have strong capital, and foreign companies have invested tens of millions. Ordinary, but has good cooperation with GP company.

It is unpredictable. You must know that the servers or batteries of GP Company are still shrouded in a veil of mystery... Apart from these mysteries, the robot company has very few employees, but they can buy materials with large sums of money time and time again. Run towards the exoskeleton.

  Wilden can't understand, is there really pure interest? He went to investigate the theft again.

As a defense contractor that works closely with the U.S. government, it is easy for official figures to help. Even some of the vacant positions in the company are people from the government. Using their connections, they easily obtained the case records. The Los Angeles Police Department and Santa Clara The LA County Police have them all.

From the beginning of the company's theft to the multi-faceted joint investigation, it can be seen that the robot company is very angry and nervous about the theft, has mobilized so much power, and has many illegal activities, but Weldon is not a policeman, he is too lazy to care about these things, he Only care about the whereabouts of the exoskeleton and blueprints.

  According to the suspect's statement, the exoskeleton has a fixed buyer, but the drawing does not. A group of them took the exoskeleton to the high seas to trade, but failed in the end, and the matter fell through. And another group of people who got the hard disk is going to copy it and sell it at a low price to more countries or companies in need.

   I heard that the exoskeleton was finally recovered, but the police report was missing. Customs and the police have been investigating for a long time, and the state government has also been concerned, but there is still no clue. The background of the robot company is not small... Weldon marked the disappearance record of the exoskeleton, and turned to check the whereabouts of the hard disk.

  Wilden didn't have much to discover.

He turned to the company's security personnel. God knows whether they are undercover agents of the FBI or the NSA. Anyway, it is related to the development of the country. It is necessary for these people to provide help... Soon, an employee who drank coffee and read newspapers all day and had nothing to do, gave He has a precise direction: international intermediary.

  Wilden feels that these agents are still useful at critical moments.

The international intermediary gave an affirmative answer, saying that they had two sets of drawings in their hands, one original and one copy, the first set had already been sold, and the second set was currently looking for a seller. I don't know if it's true. Guaranteed reputation in the industry... But there are not many interested, after all, compared to the asking price of 6 million, there is no sample, and the risk is very high.

  Wilden was also hesitant, but asking a price of 20 million for the robot might not be a deal. If you spend 6 million to buy the drawings now, give up the exclusive technology sharing, and buy a set of samples as a comparison, you will spend up to 15 million. Wouldn't it be more appropriate to save five million?

  According to An Feng's asking price, it will definitely exceed 20 million, but buying the blueprint for 6 million will at most take some time for research. If there are samples for reference, of course it will be faster. The most important thing is that it can save a lot of budget, and the company's investment in this area is not too much.

  Finally Weldon made a move.

The process is very complicated, whether to pay first and then ship, or to pay first and then pay, or to pay first and then deliver... It depends on the international situation. At present, the west coast has severely hit such multi-national personnel. It took a complex method: to see the goods for money.

   To put it bluntly, it is to inspect the goods. After the professionals confirm the gold content, the two parties finally traded for 6 million yuan and got the design drawings. Weldon was curious about who the previous buyer was, but the other party did not disclose the secret, and only gave a general direction: Asia. There are nothing more than two countries - China and Japan.

But after all the calculations, China is unlikely, because the international criminal market has not been opened, international intermediaries are not easy to mix, and the attitude towards machine technology is far less than that of Japan. Japan's robot technology is the world's leading-although it is used for civilian purposes. On, like boring **** = love machine.

  Wilden feels that the Japanese are not to be feared, let the Americans carry forward this technology! And they have an inherent advantage, the robot company is still on US soil. The next day, he took the initiative to call An Fengming and told An Fengming that since both parties would not make any concessions, the second option would be adopted.

   "Talk about your opinion." With that serious British accent on the phone, Weldon always felt that he was talking to an old-fashioned British guy.

  He dismissed this idea and said: "Maybe we don't need to reach an exclusive technology agreement, just order a set of exoskeleton from the robot company, how about it?"

   "I can understand that this is an April Fool's Day joke?" The other party said with a smile.

Weldon explained: "You misunderstood sir. I mean, the sample and the attached conditions are priced at eight million dollars, one transaction, and we have no right to interfere with who your product is supplied to. But within half a year, you How about not being able to transfer technology to other companies?"

  The other end thought for a while, and just when Weldon thought he still had to bargain, the reply came: "Okay, I like this suggestion too."

   "Then let's have a formal talk tomorrow." Weldon said happily.

  An Feng hung up the phone with a strange expression.

  The previous time they said that they could only cooperate at a price of 20 million yuan, so they only need samples and no technology?

Of course, they demand that technology cannot be transferred within half a year, which is fine, but samples can be sold. For example, competitors Lockheed Martin, if they have samples, they will definitely be able to prevent them from being released... An Feng doesn't understand, but he also tends to This plan, technology exclusive or something too painful.

   So they sit together and go over the details.

An Feng couldn't guess what Weldon was thinking. Even if there were samples of the exoskeleton, it would take time to imitate it. Don't you see that the Americans or Russia can safely sell arms to India, and even give them blueprints, but they don't care about China. Careful? Because the overall industrial level is there! For India, which cannot even be self-sufficient in bullets, talking about high technology is too fake and too far away.

  The United States is advanced, but compared to the current manufacturing methods of robot companies, it is only a "little brother". Half a year of research and development is indispensable—unless they have design drawings. It is very difficult to have drawings without samples; it is also difficult to have samples without drawings, but the difficulty is greatly reduced if both are complete.

  An Feng seemed to understand something.

But he still pretended to be crazy and signed a transaction contract with the other party, promising to only sell products within half a year, and not to transfer confidential technology—not much secret, the power system is in the UK, chips and energy are in Texas, and the rest of the framework It's just a little more complicated.

   After signing the contract, 8 million is easy to get.

For An Feng, this seems to have come out of thin air, because no matter what, he hopes that the United States has this technology, and only this aggressive guy can make other countries in the world nervous and let An Feng's "Gifts of favor" have become extremely weighty.

  The original expectation was zero income.

  But now I accidentally took 8 million more, is it the "event budget" that I got somewhere?

   An Feng gave the Americans a thumbs up, spending money to buy free products, amazing!

  Finally, the agreement between the robot company and Raytheon is to provide the individual with a set of exoskeleton as soon as possible after the technicians come back, that is, before September. For robotics companies that are familiar with the process, a set can be built within a week without any difficulty.

   Waving to the Cadillac, An Feng returned to the office to pack his things happily. Recently, the robotics company has nothing major to do. The exoskeleton has stopped, and the rest is the design and production of some small machines, aircraft or bionic machines. His plan is to lay the foundation first, and then make efforts.