Chapter 51: The Yacht
Because it was still early, Andrew took the lead and took Li Shang and them to the dock together. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
There are six major shipyards in the United States, namely Newport News Shipyard, Electric Boat Company, Ingalls Shipyard, Bath Steel Company, Avondahl Shipyard, and National Steel Shipbuilding Company.
After mergers and reorganizations in recent years, these six shipyards are now subordinate to General Dynamics and Northrop Grumman respectively, accounting for 90% of the total number of employees in the United States, and undertaking more than 80% of the shipbuilding tasks of the United States Navy.
The place where Andrew took Li Shang and them was a large dock under the six major shipyards, which was also the one that Andrew was familiar with when he was a soldier.
Usually the airport is far away from the sea, because Li Shang thought of this when he chartered a flight, so the charter plane booked by Li Shang dropped off at the airport closest to the seaside.
Soon, the group saw this huge dockyard, built along the coast, and as far as the eye could see, there were steel leaks everywhere, and the warships were not yet completed.
Andrew seemed to be familiar with the road, and took Li Shang and them directly to a small dock, saying that it was a small dock, but it was still about 100 meters away, and it was sealed outside.
When the group walked inside, there was a salty smell of seawater, the smell of engine oil, and the burnt smell of electric welding.
And Andrew took a deep breath, very much reminiscent of this breath, everyone who watched it was a little disgusted.
No matter what Li Shang and the others thought, Andrew shouted, "Old man Andy, come to business!"
The workers who were working in the dockyard all listened to the sound in surprise and looked over, wanting to see who dared to call the grumpy old man like this.
"Which kid dares to call Lao Tzu like this, I don't want to live!"
The people who were working in the dockyard all looked at Andrew with schadenfreate in their eyes.
"Old man Andy, I'm back again!" Andrew said excitedly.
Following the sound, an old man with engine oil on his body, his body was disheveled, and his beard was unkempt, but his body was strong, and his muscles could be seen through his two arms.
Andy was also stunned when he saw Andrew, laughed randomly, and hugged him with open hands.
Andrew also ignored the clutter on Andy's old man's body, opened his hands, hugged the two, patted each other's backs, and laughed.
After a while, the two let go, and Andy smiled and said to Andrew, "Why are you so free to come to me!"
Andrew also smiled and said, "I don't have time to come here, if it weren't for my boss to buy a yacht, I'm afraid I really wouldn't be able to come!"
Andrew and Andy have a good relationship, talking and joking.
When Andrew served, because he worked on a battleship, every time the battleship needed to be overhauled, Andrew would run to this yacht dock, and the two formed a friendship because of the yacht.
Andrew, who was talking, was stunned, and hurriedly ran to Li Shang's side and introduced to Andy, "Andy, old man, this is my boss, Mr. Li Shang, you should know, this time I came here mainly to buy a yacht."
Li Shang didn't care about Andy's oily hands, he directly reached out to hold them, and said, "Hello, I'm Li Shang"
Andy looked at Li Shang with some surprise, after all, in his memory, these rich people are not all very clean, and they will not shake hands like this at all, and Li Shang's actions undoubtedly made Li Shang's favor in Andy's heart improve a lot.
Andy held Li Shang's hand and said with a smile, "Mr. Li Shang's name has long been known, this time Mr. Li Shang doesn't know how big a yacht to buy?"
In any case, Andy is a businessman, and although his good opinion of Li Shang has improved a lot, business is business.
Li Shang smiled and said, "Oh~~, how big is your yacht here?"
Andy smiled, "Sir, please move, let's go up to the GK area to have a look!" and led the way towards the dock.
Across the entire dockyard, a road paved with steel appeared in front of everyone, and on both sides of the railway, there were white yachts everywhere.
The yachts here range from large to small, some are one or twenty meters, thirty to fifty meters at most, and even giant yachts are hundreds of meters.
The steel-paved road stretched all the way to the sea, and at a glance, according to Li Shang's observations, the railway was at least 100 meters long.
Andy took the lead, and everyone kept watching on the railway, and Andrew looked at Zhou Sheng's yacht with bright eyes, and explained loudly in his mouth.
Alva quipped at the gushing Andrew, "Andrew, I don't think you're suitable to be a bodyguard, you should go to sales, look at your kid's appearance, as soon as you see the yacht, you will change!"
When Andrew heard the captain's words, he immediately stopped, scratched his head and laughed, and the bodyguards on the side all joked when they saw Andrew's appearance.
Li Shang didn't pay attention to such a thing, he was following behind Andy, looking at the yacht that kept walking by him.
Dazzling, indeed dazzling, there are too many yachts here, so Li Shang couldn't help pinching the corners of his eyes, and asked Andy with a wry smile, "Mr. Andy, I don't know if there are any large, consignment kinds, money is not a problem!"
When Andy heard Li Shang's words, his eyes flashed, and he directly led Li Shang to the very end.
As it got closer and closer, the whole picture of the yacht appeared in front of everyone, and Andy was very satisfied with everyone's reaction, and said with a little pride, "This is the largest yacht in our dockyard, I don't know if Mr. Li Shang is full of dissatisfaction?!"
The yacht is huge, at least a hundred meters away, and all of it is white, as white as jade in the sun.
Andy said to Li Shang, "Mr. Li Shang, I don't know if you are interested in going on the boat to have a look?"
Li Shang nodded, and said excitedly, "Very interested"
Everyone walked back and forth on the boat, and Li Shang kept nodding, obviously satisfied with the yacht.
The yacht is one hundred and thirty-five meters long and has seven suites, which can also be combined into cabins, with a cinema, swimming pool, gym and a helipad in the rear half of the yacht.
Through understanding, Li Shang also knew why this yacht had not been sold until now, it turned out that the guy who ordered the yacht before was unable to pay the high cost of the yacht because he was bankrupt, so he threw it here.
Andy asked Li Shang, "Mr. Li Shang, I don't know if you are satisfied with this yacht?"
Li Shang nodded and said directly, "I'm very satisfied, I don't know how much it costs!"
When Andy heard this, he grinned and said, "Sir, this yacht is sold for $230 million."
Andrew, who was standing behind Li Shang, was full of anxiety, and he wanted to agree for Li Shang immediately, but he couldn't, he was just a bodyguard and couldn't meddle in the boss's business.
Li Shang frowned a little, although he could take out the two hundred and thirty million US dollars, but it was really a bit expensive for this yacht, "Two hundred million US dollars, just do it, if it doesn't work, forget it!"
"Okay!" Andy immediately decided, for fear that Li Shang would regret it.
Looking at Andy with a smile on his face, Li Shang really regretted it, he could see that 200 million US dollars was far from the bottom line of Andy, an old man, and now he could only grit his teeth and agree.