For Yang Weiping, who seems to be a prerequisite for the lion's big mouth, Pratt is not surprised at all.

As an engineer who has worked in aluminum smelting for more than two decades, Pratt knows all too well what a new alloy material can be.

Like the Y1976 alloy researched by Yang Weiping, as long as the enterprise continues to operate in the smelting industry, it can be used as the mother base to give birth to a variety of alloy materials for other purposes.

If Yang Weiping didn't mention such a condition, Pratt would really look down on him a little bit, and he had no ambitions.

Of course, this is a rare opportunity to make a windfall, but it is also a huge crisis.

The old large-scale smelting companies in Europe and the United States, when they encounter small fish and shrimp like Yang Weiping, they must have already opened their teeth and claws, and found the opportunity to swallow them all.

Pratt accepted a temporary mandate from the headquarters to negotiate with Yang Weiping, and his scope of authority included the conditions to help the other party build a large-scale aluminum smelter with an annual output of 200,000 tons.

If Yang Weiping doesn't open his mouth, Pratt will also take the initiative to highlight the sincerity of their head office's cooperation.

Shopping malls are like battlefields, full of opportunities, but also full of traps.

For a large-scale smelter with an annual output of 200,000 tons, the initial investment scale is at least 50 million US dollars. In the plan of the French, even if Yang Weiping invested in this smelter with technology, it is absolutely impossible to occupy an absolute controlling stake in the plant. If they can reach a cooperation agreement with Yang Weiping before other consortia, EDF may become a global monopoly on Y1976 alloy patents.

Therefore, after Yang Weiping finished speaking, Pratt pretended to bow his head and ponder for a while, and then gritted his teeth and said: "Yang, I can promise you this condition on behalf of the company! However, my authority is limited, and I can only promise that our company can help you build a smelter with an annual output of about 200,000 tons of aluminum, and the location can be in Malaysia. ”

The French are so cheerful? And it's still a scale of 200,000 tons a year? There is a conspiracy! There must be a conspiracy!

Yang Weiping squinted at Pratt's blue eyes for a while, until the cigarette butt between his fingers was a little hot, and then he extinguished the cigarette butt in the ashtray in front of him.

"Mr. Pratt, are you sure it's 200,000 tons, not 20,000 tons?" Yang Weiping looked at Pratt with a smile and asked indifferently.

"The Tiangong smelter in your hand can reach 60,000 tons per year, as the most famous large-scale smelting group in the world, our company's hand, of course, the scale of production will exceed your existing factory. Pratt said proudly: "Yang, you heard it right, it's 200,000 tons! And all the equipment is the most advanced complete set of aluminum smelting equipment in the world today, including a 6,000-ton hydraulic forging equipment." ”

"Hehe, Mr. Pratt, I never believed that pies would fall out of the world. Let's talk about your conditions!" Yang Weiping picked up the cigarette and poured out a cigarette and gently bit it into his mouth, and said while lighting the cigarette with a lighter.

"You use Y1976 alloy patent technology to buy shares, and you own 15% of the equity of the factory. Pratt said very seriously: "The total investment in this factory will be 240 million dollars!"

Yang Weiping didn't answer immediately, squinting quietly at the Frenchman in front of him and smiling silently.

Malaysia is indeed rich in aluminum resources, and the French chose to build a new large-scale aluminum enterprise with an annual output of 200,000 tons in Malaysia.

With an investment of $240 million and a 15 percent stake, Yang Weiping, a shareholder, has obtained $36 million worth of equity with just a patent for Y1976 alloy, but this is only a wealth on paper. …,

It is absolutely impossible for the French to invest in place all at once, and such a large aluminum company, from site selection, groundbreaking, to completion, does not take five years before and after.

If Yang Weiping really reached this cooperation with EDF, it would be equivalent to turning the ownership of Y1976 alloy into the ownership of this large aluminum company that has no shadow, and he only has 15% of the shares in his hand, so it is strange that he can have a say in the company.

If you want to play me,, it depends on who's playing whom!

Yang Weiping scolded secretly in his heart, but his face was silent, and he still said with a smile: "Mr. Pratt, the cycle of building a new smelter is too long, I can't wait." I wonder if your company has other ready-made smelting plants in Southeast Asia, not only aluminum smelting, but also nickel, titanium, chromium, copper and other metal smelting and processing plants. ”

"Our company has wholly owned assets in Vietnam, Myanmar, Thailand, and India. Pratt frowned slightly, and replied in a deep voice: "It's just that these smelters are large and small, and the equipment is also new and old......

Hearing Pratt say that there is a factory in Myanmar, Yang Weiping's eyes suddenly flashed.

When he set out to set up the Red Star International Security Company, Yang Weiping had an overall development plan for this mercenary security company in his mind.

Africa is the most suitable place for mercenaries to survive and develop war-torn places, and Africa is also extremely rich in various mineral resources. Therefore, the headquarters and training camp of Red Star International Security Company is the first choice in Africa!

However, considering that a large amount of investment will be made in the Chinese mainland in the future, the fast fertile land of Asia must not be abandoned. Red Star International Security must have sub-bases and training camps in Asia.

Vietnam is now in the sphere of the Soviets' power, and with the outbreak of the Sino-Vietnamese border war in '79, Vietnam was the first to be eliminated. Although Thailand is close to the Chinese mainland, the current situation in Thailand is relatively stable, and there is no chaos to drill, which is obviously not suitable for the survival of professional mercenaries.

India is the fat that Britain and the United States have been staring at since the end of World War II, and there will definitely be no good fruit to eat at this time.

Myanmar, since the independence of the British colony, independent statehood, the war between the government army and the ethnic minority independence army has not stopped, this situation until the previous Yang Weiping rebirth, the Burmese civil war is still continuing.

Obviously, Myanmar is the most suitable place for professional mercenaries to survive and thrive outside of Africa.

Although Myanmar is an industrially underdeveloped agricultural country, it has a wide variety of mineral resources and rich reserves, mainly oil, tungsten, tin, antimony, lead and zinc, copper, manganese, gold, silver and coal. It has the foundation for the development of industry.

Before 1992, it was simply impossible to develop private enterprises on a large scale in China's mainland. Yang Weiping would never dare to take such a risk.

After the implementation of China's reform and opening up policy in 1979, an appropriate amount of investment was okay, but if the investment was made in units of 100 million US dollars, there was absolutely no return.

Therefore, before that, Yang Weiping had to find an ideal place for himself where he could have the final say.

The situation in Myanmar is now chaotic, and in the Kokang region of northern Myanmar, China originally had the opportunity to turn it back into Chinese territory, but due to a variety of political reasons, it had to choose to give up.

The Huaxia government has concerns, but Yang Weiping, as an individual, does not have so many concerns!

If EDF does have an investment in Myanmar, Yang Weiping can take the opportunity to turn the plant into his private property, which is a great opportunity to enter Myanmar.

With this factory as a springboard, Red Star International Security Company can put on the reasonable and legal cloak of "factory guards" in Myanmar, and then take advantage of the chaos in Myanmar to join forces with Myanmar's ethnic armed forces to grab a piece of territory from the Burmese government army that is sufficient for survival and development. …,

As soon as this thought came to mind, Yang Weiping could clearly feel that his heart was accelerating "babble".

After smoking several puffs of cigarettes one after another, Yang Weiping suppressed the frenzy in his heart.

"Mr. Pratt, I would like to know the specifics of your company's investment in Myanmar?" asked Yang Weiping quietly.

Pratt thought for a moment and then replied, "We have three investments in Myanmar, one in Mandalay, one in Yangon, and one in Kokang, a Bangbang district in northern Myanmar. ”

Hearing Pratt say that EDF has investments in the Kokang area, Yang Weiping's heart beats violently.

"I heard that the Kokang area is rich in manganese, copper, and iron ore resources, could it be that your company also has a smelter there?" Yang Weiping asked with great interest.

"Yang, are you interested in the copper-manganese smelter that our company has invested in in Kokang?" Pratt was overjoyed when he saw that Yang Weiping seemed to know more about northern Myanmar.

If the company's smelter in northern Myanmar can be transferred to Yang Weiping, Pratt can predict that the company's president will definitely give him a promotion and a salary increase.

That damn place, it was such a mess that Pratt would have nightmares all night just thinking that he had spent three full years at that smelter in Kokang.

"I'm interested in any opportunity to make a lot of money. Yang Weiping beckoned Pratt to sit down on the sofa, and then asked Qiu Fang to make a cup of green tea for the guests.

"The copper-manganese smelter in Kokang, I remember, was invested in 1963, and the total investment in the three phases of the project was more than 12 million US dollars. "At the beginning, the output was small, with an annual output of 6,000 tons of copper and 4,500 tons of manganese, but after the introduction of new smelting equipment and the gradual proficiency of locally recruited workers, the factory's output began to increase year by year," Pratt said.

I remember going to the headquarters and looking at the annual report of this factory, the annual output of copper reached 57,000 tons, and the annual output of manganese reached 60,000 tons, and most of these outputs were sold to the military enterprises of the Burmese government, and the relationship between the factory and the local government was also very good, and the economic benefits were still very considerable. ”

With a total annual output of more than 100,000 tons, a smelter of this size can barely do anything. Yang Weiping secretly thought in his heart, and he didn't bother to contact other foreign companies when he inquired about the idea, so he simply bought out the Y1076 alloy to EDF at one time.

Hmph! When all the patent transfer fees are in hand, Lao Tzu will take out the third-generation aluminum-lithium alloy and let the second-generation aluminum-lithium alloy become waste slag!