Chapter 1023 - Forced with an Aircraft Carrier (1400 Monthly Pass Plus Update)
"God knows, I'm only in charge of technology, and the price issue is a bureaucratic thing. "Alex is an old-fashioned guy, he doesn't want to say a word, and he doesn't have a good impression of Hong Tao as a young man.
"Do you really want to buy this ship? I, I was just joking, if I offended you, you don't have to fight with me in this way, this is not in line with your identity, I can apologize to you!" Levin looked at Hong Tao's posture, as if he was going to come to the real thing, and hurriedly came out to play a round. He didn't want to offend Hong Tao, the God of Wealth, because his own more than $2 million had been invested in Crystal Orchid Capital, and he planned to make money with Hong Tao.
"You don't think I'm still a child, I'll get angry after two sentences! If the price is right, I really want to buy it and transform it into a private cruise ship, just be my palace, the sea palace of Mouse Superman, hehehehe...... After seeing that pirate dared to rob me, I directly bombarded them with naval artillery! Amundsen, what do you think of my idea?" Hong Tao became more and more energetic the more he spoke, remembering his heroic appearance on the sea in a 10,000-ton aircraft carrier, he felt that this fun was worth tens of millions of dollars. Hong Tao is not very interested in buying a big yacht, that thing is not interesting, it does not test driving skills or pull the wind, and there is no meaning except to show off wealth. But if a real warship is converted into a yacht, he thinks it's a little interesting, in addition to comfort and safety, warships sound obviously much more windy than yachts, and using aircraft carriers to force is much higher than using yachts!
"Great! You're a genius! Converted from a helicopter carrier into a private yacht...... If you really want to modify it, you have to find me, it's an old one. Built in the 70s, a lot of steel is special. The structure is even more different from that of ordinary ships. I'm confident that I can help you get it back to the best condition if you have any design requirements. You can definitely bring it up to me, we've always had a great time working together, haven't we?" Amundsen belonged to the simpler mind, and he was interested in anything related to ships.
"You two are lunatic! Aite, do you know how much it costs to sail once? The cost of fuel alone is hundreds of thousands of dollars, and if you add in the cost of hiring a crew and the cost of berthing at the port, you can buy a yacht of 100 feet. Why do you have to choose it? Is it because it's big enough?" Levin was really a little anxious this time, he didn't want to let Hong Tao be so bankrupt because of his joke, there was no need for this!
"You don't understand this, anyone can play yachts, you can have money, but you can't play aircraft carriers, right, Amundsen?" Hong Tao felt that he could afford this challenge. Besides, why do you have nothing to do and run thousands of nautical miles? It's not really used as an aircraft carrier, so you have to go on a strategic cruise. When it's okay, just find a shallow place to park, and you don't have to enter any port at all. He had already thought of it, and equipped it with two helicopters to pick up and drop off the ship. It doesn't cost much that way.
"Of course, I've never heard of anyone converting a real aircraft carrier into a private yacht. You are the only one in the world!" Amundsen gave a thumbs up to Hongtao.
"Hahaha...... Levin, don't be so stingy. It's not for you to spend money, but when the time comes, I'll prepare a separate levin cabin for you, and whether you come or not, that cabin will always be yours! And Amundsen, too, and you! Besides, don't you think it's a bit cruel to let an aircraft carrier be dismantled like this? When it was young, it helped humans guard the sea frontier, and no matter how dangerous it was, it took the lead in rushing forward. But when it gets old and useless, no one will provide for it, so it will be chopped up and fed to the dogs, which is unreasonable! I am a soft-hearted person, and I can't watch it end up like this, so I plan to help it support its old age, and let him follow me to exert his residual heat! Oh, by the way, Levin, you must help me this time, help me ask if it sells or not, I have expressed so many feelings, but people don't sell, I'm not talking nonsense?" Hong Tao and Amundsen finished their stinky farts, and went back to persuade Levin, and even used the tragic hero's play, the purpose was the last sentence, so that Levin could help him inquire about the price.
"I'll think about it!" Levin, a cunning fellow, didn't agree or refuse. This is his consistent style, everything that can hold Hong Tao, he is careful to keep it in his hands, once Hong Tao wants to pick a son and not work, he will take it out and exchange with Hong Tao. For Levin's approach, Hong Tao is also right, fair and reasonable, mutually beneficial, very reasonable.
To say that this Poseidon company is really enough for Levin's headache, it is a purely commercial and purely private company, but the projects it operates are too high-end. Help the world launch satellites, spaceships, space station supply capsules...... This Nima is a job that can be done by a private company! Whether it is technology or products, all of them are closely related to national defense and military industry. The most critical technology and equipment in this is the launch vehicle and rocket launch equipment undertaken by Ukraine and Russia, and it also involves satellite technology in the United States.
The distribution of shares among the four shareholders of Poseidon is as follows: Norwegian Kwana Group only holds 10% of the shares, and it is only responsible for the construction, modification and maintenance of the two launch vessels, and by the way provides some technical support, which basically has nothing to do with the later launch work. Ukraine's Southern Design Company, which has a 15% stake, is only responsible for the manufacture of launch vehicles in stages 1 and 2, and nothing else. Russia's Skynet has a 35% stake, and it is responsible for the installation, commissioning and use of the third stage of the launch vehicle and the complete rocket launch system. Boeing is the largest shareholder, with a 40 percent stake, and is responsible for the fairing at the head of the rocket, the satellite launch system inside the fairing, and is also responsible for undertaking launch missions around the world.
In Ukraine's Southern Design Company and Russia's Skynet Company, Hong Tao each holds 60 percent of the shares, but he does not participate in the management of the company, which is the premise. In other words, Hong Tao is the real second largest shareholder in the entire Poseidon company, and he holds 30% of the shares in disguise. However, these shares also have no decision-making power, and he can only indirectly influence the decision-making of the board of directors of Poseidon through Guò Southern Design Company and Skynet. But Hong Tao didn't want to do this, business management was originally a weakness for him, and playing rocket launching, he was even weaker, so let those professionals toss, and don't follow the blind mix of your own layman.
In addition to the shares, the four shareholders of Poseidon have other responsibilities and obligations, almost all of them have signed confidentiality agreements with their own national governments, which stipulate that the technology and equipment related to each country can only be installed, debugged and used by each country's own technical team, mainly to prevent the spread of technology. But in this way, it is very troublesome to work, for example, when the Norwegians build ships, they have to communicate with other people while firmly guarding their own company's technical secrets, which is equivalent to creating artificial obstacles for themselves.
The most troublesome thing is not the Norwegians, but the side of Ukraine, Russia, the United States. Their equipment and technology are the main body of the whole project, but these equipment and technologies can not be exposed to too many technicians from other countries, so what can be done? Let the Norwegians finish the whole ship first, reserve a place to install rocket launch equipment and satellite control equipment, and then tow the ship to Ukraine, where Ukrainian and Russian workers will install their equipment in the Nikolaev shipyard, and then drive it to the Long Island shipyard in the United States to install the Boeing company's satellite control equipment, and no one will peek at anyone.
After the equipment is installed, when it comes to the official use stage, the technicians from the Russian side specialize in operating the rocket launch system, and the technicians from Boeing specialize in operating the satellite control system, and the people on both sides cannot cooperate together and must be separated. For this reason, the Norwegians specially built two command halls and two sets of remote control command systems on the command ship, one Russian and one American, and everyone really became a division of labor and cooperation, each responsible for their own work, no one cares about anyone, and they don't let anyone take care of it.
In this state, an efficient management and communication team has become the key to ensuring work efficiency, and Levin is doing this job, and he is not the only one, there are also four people on the Russian side who are specifically responsible for this work. They formed a small team with Levin and his men, and the daily task was to balance and balance between the four shareholders and try to satisfy everyone.
If you want to say that there are no agents or intelligence personnel here, Hong Tao himself doesn't believe it, he thinks that among the four people on the Russian side and Levin, there must be big spies planted by Russia and the US government, maybe they are all this kind of people, but he can't see it. Think about it, if the big spies could let themselves see it so easily, then the spies would have been thrown into the sea to feed the fish a long time ago.
Hong Tao doesn't have any sense of fear, whether he is a spy or not, anyway, he treats them equally when he gets along with them, and he doesn't have to deliberately hide anything, he has nothing to hide. In addition to not letting others know that he is a reborn, Hong Tao feels that he is very pure from the inside out, and does not affect either the US government or the Russian government, because his purpose is very pure, that is, profit and fun, and it is not pretending, it is true. Every time I have a meeting, I don't want to participate, I can't hide it, I can't hide it, I just finish talking and leave quickly, and the attention to those novelties is much higher than the meeting itself. (To be continued......)