I ask you to build tractors, but you build rockets?

After Guo Shen elaborated on the difficulty and technological breakthroughs of manned spaceflight from various angles, Lin Ju had a clear understanding of the difficulty of this matter.

Unless you directly purchase manned spacecraft from various countries around the world, you can definitely only make an iron can in one year, with a safety factor of 10% at most. The space agency will never allow you to take people to space.

It will take at most one year to develop a rocket capable of launching a manned capsule, and it will only be able to carry people after at least two successful unmanned test launches.

But Lin Ju asked the system in his mind that some materials can be outsourced for rocket manufacturing, but the system has a set of evaluation standards. Once it exceeds a certain range, it will be judged as not completely independent and unqualified.

Obviously directly buying a manned spacecraft is not included in this list.

But it was unrealistic to count on himself, so Lin Ju was about to let the four people leave before asking if the system could provide assistance. However, he suddenly received a call and the negotiation team from the Sixth Academy arrived.

He had to stop thinking about the new task and instead prepare for cooperation negotiations with the Sixth Academy.

When he greeted the team, he discovered that Professor Tang was not there. The leader this time was Chief Engineer Zhao from the Sixth Academy, who was also a top expert.

In the conference room, Guo Shen shouted out the quotation for Lin Ju:

"The three engines cost 8 million yuan each, a total of 24 million yuan, and the technical data and production license are 240 million yuan. The produced engines cannot be sold outside, and the installed rocket cannot be accepted for international commercial orders. The total quotation is 264 million yuan."

As soon as Guo Shen finished speaking, there was a chaotic sound from the Sixth Courtyard.

"260 million? If you can buy thirty engines with that much, why should we produce it ourselves?"

"Eight million units is too expensive. Your rockets seem to cost less than 20 million."

"Quiet!"

Fortunately, General Master Zhao immediately stopped everyone's voices, exchanged a few words with a few people around him, and then said to Guo Shen with a troubled face:

"Mr. Guo, this price is too high. At your price of 8 million, we can buy 30 engines, which is enough for seven or eight rocket missions. This is far beyond our psychological expectations.

The Sixth Institute hopes that the unit price of the engine will be around 6 million. As for the production license and technical information, a total of 50 million can be provided. "

This time it was Guo Shen's turn to shake his head. He directly quoted his experience at the Aramco Space Agency and said:

“We don’t make any money at the price of 8 million per unit. The cost of building an engine of this level is around US$1 million, and we all make money by licensing technology.

We invested at least 1.5 billion yuan in the research and development of YF100. The K120 is more advanced, but we only need 240 million yuan to get a production license. If our boss didn't want to support the space agency, the price would definitely be more than 500 million yuan. "

What Guo Shen said seemed to make sense, and his estimate of the YF100 R\u0026D costs was pretty much the same, but General Master Zhao did not accept this:

“The US$1 million includes research and development costs, and we do not lack 120-ton kerosene engines.

We can accept the price of 8 million units, but 250 million is too expensive. The Sixth Institute can pay up to 70 million, which is all I can decide. "

The two sides argued for a few more times, and Guo Shen lowered the license fee to 220 million, but the Sixth Institute refused to let go and even offered to buy the engine at most 120 million.

The gap is too big and it is impossible to reach an agreement at the moment.

In fact, the Sixth Academy knew that objectively speaking, licensing for 240 million was a bargain. However, on the one hand, they had YF100 and were unwilling to do so. On the other hand, the Sixth Academy really could not afford such a large amount of liquidity.

Although the funding of the Sixth House is much larger than this figure every year, it is state appropriation, not discretionary money.

If you want to get that much money out, you need to upgrade the negotiation specifications from the Sixth Academy to the Space Agency.

But in this case, the Sixth Academy will probably have to review it as a whole, and the leaders will ask kindly:

"Comrades, why are we still lagging behind a private enterprise in a project that we have invested in research and development for more than ten years?"

That would be a bad thing. Even if more than two people do a half-year review, it won't be complete.

Even the more than 100 million yuan was found by the Sixth Academy after searching through the small treasury. No more money could be taken out.

The negotiations reached a deadlock, and Lin Ju, who had been the hands-off boss, finally took action.

He leaned forward, and everyone immediately focused their attention on the almost transparent boss.

Lin Ju first looked at everyone in the Sixth Academy, then sighed and whispered a few words to Guo Shen.

Guo Shen first shook his head, then frowned and thought for a while, then crossed his hands on the table, lowered his head and said nothing.

Lin Ju then looked at everyone in the Sixth Courtyard and said softly:

"General Manager Guo has worked at Aramco for a long time, so he is indeed more sensitive to prices. He told me that 240 million cannot be lowered. The development of K120 took seven years, and it cost 30 million US dollars at that time. 240 million is absolute. Discount sale.

But I told him that the price must be lowered, and our private aerospace industry must also support the country, so I made a decision that went against ancestral capital.

100 million including engine and technical information! "

General Manager Zhao was calm when he heard that before, but when he heard that Lin Ju actually reduced the price by 20 million, he was immediately moved, but he stopped the urge to thank him because his intuition told him that it must be more than that.

Sure enough, Lin Ju changed the subject:

“However, as a newly established private enterprise, our strength is still very weak, especially in terms of personnel.

Therefore, we hope that the Sixth Academy can provide us with some talents to help Xinyuan Aerospace tide over the difficulties. "

"I don't know what Mr. Lin means..."

"Oh, I just hope that the Sixth Academy can give us an opportunity and give researchers who are interested in joining us one more choice."

The gratitude that General Master Zhao had just felt immediately disappeared without a trace. Wasn't this just poaching!

Frankly speaking, he would rather pay more than be poached!

These experienced aerospace practitioners are treasures that cannot be exchanged for gold. It would be heartbreaking to let go of any one of them for a long time. If they were let go and allowed to be poached by private enterprises, a lot would definitely be lost.

But the Sixth Academy really had no more money. Chief Zhao knew that he had no authority to make decisions, so he applied for an adjournment of the meeting and reported to his superiors.

After the adjournment, Lin Ju and Guo Shen were not idle, but continued to discuss the talent expansion plan.

"How are the contacts with the people at Nanjing Institute going? How many are willing to come?"

Guo Shen stretched out his five fingers.

"Five? Too few? Didn't I say the salary should be higher?"

Guo Shen shook his head and reached out to grab it.

"No, almost all of them. Except for two people, sixteen professors have agreed to come and serve, and more than ten outstanding students have also signed agreements to sign 10-year contracts directly after graduation."

"Hiss~"

Seeing Lin Ju take a breath, Guo Shen snickered in his heart. In fact, most of the people sent by Nanjing Institute of Technology to provide technical support to the factory were originally working in the factory affiliated to the school. They had long thought about changing jobs. Don't try to persuade them, just go for it. Delivered to your door yourself.

Not to mention the students, as soon as the salary became available, all of them rushed to stay.

Lin Ju didn't expect it to be so easy, but he was still very happy to have added a dozen more brainpowers.

"All researchers and senior technicians must enter the R\u0026D department. Also, I will find two potential senior engineers tomorrow. I will upgrade their skills."

The reason why there are two is because there is another Lin Ju used for other purposes.

Skill upgrade cards are used to upgrade the character's current main occupation and abilities. If there are multiple types, the strongest one will be chosen.

Lin Ju decided to give the last D-level skill card to Cai Yuanfa, the accountant and director of the Publicity Department.

This thin middle-aged man has much better management skills than financial ability. Chen Rong, the deputy factory director, is in name only, and he only has a false position due to his good technology. In the past, Cai Yuanfa relied on Cai Yuanfa to maintain the operation of the tractor factory. This is also the reality of small factories.

Lin Ju had to let go of the company's specific affairs management, and Cai Yuanfa was a good candidate because he had sufficient qualifications and could use skill cards to upgrade his management capabilities and become a reliable system personnel.

Lin Ju used three skill upgrade cards that night, and the System Research Institute immediately had two more senior technicians.

After doing all this, he started to try to apply for assistance from the system for the second time.

"System, I would like to receive technical assistance for the second mission!"

[Host assistance request received, assistance request approved, confirmation type is technical assistance, plan is being developed...]

[Option 1: A reusable two-stage spacecraft, which can carry 1 to 6 members, has its own escape system, has a maximum diameter of 4.8 meters, a length of 7.9 meters, a maximum take-off mass of 19 tons, and an empty weight of 13 tons. It can be changed to a cargo version. , with a transport capacity of 8 tons.

Mission adjustment: Send at least three astronauts into low-Earth orbit and return safely to complete a rocket recovery experiment. 】

[Option 2: Small space shuttle, which can carry 1 to 6 crew members, has an overall length of 13 meters, adopts a central lifting body design, has a maximum take-off mass of 21 tons, and an empty weight of 16 tons. The cargo version can carry two people and 4.5 tons of cargo.

Mission adjustment: Send at least 5 astronauts or 2 astronauts and 3,600 kilograms of scientific payload into low-Earth orbit and return safely to complete a rocket recovery experiment. 】