Chapter XXIV, Reaching an Agreement
Ron's mother opened the door, and Strazy and two other people entered, one of whom Ron knew, who was Hailan, and a tall white man, who looked about the same age as Sean's eldest brother. It's just that Ron doesn't know him.
Obviously, Strazy was not the first time he had come to Ron's house, and Ron's mother seemed to be familiar with him.
"Ah, it's Mr. Strazi. You came so early, did you want to find Henry or the old man? Who are these two? ”
"Oh, Miss Lucy," Strazy greeted her, raising his hat slightly, "and when your youngest son returns, you are more energetic than you were the other day. But we're not here to find Henry or Shaun Sr. We are here to visit your son, Mr. Ron. ”
Strazy said, turning his head and nodding to Ron. Ron quickly got up from his chair and nodded. He saw Hailan turn her head and smile sweetly at him.
"Ah, then please come in. You're late, or you can have breakfast with us. Ron's mother hurriedly invited the guests into the house, arranged for them to sit down, and then went to make coffee.
At this time, old Sean and Henry, who heard the movement, also came down from upstairs.
"Ah, Strazi, why did you come here, but you came a little late and didn't have breakfast, but if you'd like to stay a little longer, you might as well have lunch at my place."
"Old Xiao - 一 - book - read - novel {y}{b}{d}{u} well, my congratulations, you have a very good young son, not only a combat hero, but also an excellent weapon expert. Kind of picked up your class...... No, no, it's much better than you old guy, when have you ever designed something that would make me look good. Strazy also stood up and exchanged pleasantries with Shaun Sr.
Hearing the old friend's praise of his son, old Sean was very proud. So much so that the second half of the sentence was almost automatically filtered out.
"Of course, my son still needs to say? All of them are good...... What did you just say, you can't even look at my design? It's your old boy's design that's not eye-catching. Tell me, which of those guns you designed didn't fly around as soon as the bullet came out of the muzzle......"
"Old man, how can you say that about Mr. Strazi." Sean's mother came over with a coffee pot and poured everyone a cup. "Oh, Mr. Strazi, you haven't introduced these two friends yet."
"Ah, I was rude. Let me introduce you to Mr. Chad, the company's financial director. Strazy first introduced the tall white man. Richard stood up, took off his hat and nodded to everyone, and sat down again without saying a word.
"Madam, this guy has never been a talker, don't be surprised." Strazy added on the side.
"As the proverb goes, 'a bird that loves to cry has no meat in its belly,' and it's nice that young people can be so calm." Ron's mother replied with a smile.
"This is Miss Hailan, and she is the vice chairman of the company. This time, she is solely responsible. After a pause, Heinlaisi added, "Although Miss Hailan is young, she has excellent work ability, and the development of the company over the years is inseparable from Miss Hailan's outstanding performance." Today, Miss Hailan represents the company, which also shows the company's sincerity in this matter. ”
Hailan stood up, showed a sweet smile, nodded to everyone, and said, "Hello Uncle Sean, hello Aunt Lucy, I'm actually not as good as Mr. Hine said, in fact, I don't know a lot of things." As he spoke, his face seemed to be slightly red.
"This big sister is Aunt Hailan, she is really beautiful." A crisp child's voice came from the doorway.
When they looked around, they saw Henry's two twins—Jessica and Jacqueline—standing by the door.
"That's right, she looks so cute, just like that doll of yours, not at all like Daddy said."
Hearing the milky praise of the two children, Hailan also showed a happy smile.
Ron's mother walked over and said, "Baby, adults have important things to talk about, I'll take you out into the yard to play." So she took the door and left with the two children. However, just as the door was about to close, a child's voice drifted in with the wind.
"She doesn't look like a witch at all, Daddy must be talking nonsense."
Henry sat there, his face full of embarrassment, not knowing what to say.
Fortunately, Hailan didn't seem to care, but smiled, gently put the coffee cup on the table, and said, "Your coffee tastes very good—well, now let's get down to business." Ron, are you planning to sell the technology all at once, or are you planning to work with us on a licensed production basis? ”
When it was time to get down to business, Ron and the others found that Richard, who had been silent, suddenly became active, but to be honest, the conditions proposed by Python were not the most generous compared to several other companies. It's certainly not the worst. So while La Mer is trying to impress Ron with his old friends, Ron still insists that they raise their conditions a little more.
Finally, just when the negotiations reached an impasse, Hailan, who had been listening from the sidelines, spoke: "This way, Ron, you know that we are not a big company, and we don't have that much money. And once we've got that, we're going to need more money to expand our capacity. I don't think we should be like this, you take a stake in your design, and you are a shareholder of the company. What do you think? ”
"And how many shares are you willing to give me?"
"We can give you ten percent of the equity." Richard said.
"If that's the case, well, then we don't have to talk about it anymore." Ron stood up, "You know, this war is so large, the United States will purchase at least 80,000 fighter jets, plus anti-aircraft guns for ships, this business can make your company a giant in the gun industry all of a sudden." And your company recognizes that such an opportunity is only worth 10% equity? ”
"How much do you think is appropriate?"
"Twenty percent."
"It can't be!" Richard jumped.
"That's too much to ask," Hailan furrowed her eyebrows slightly, "First of all, Ron, I know you're confident in your design, and the prospect you just sketched is also very good. But the outlook is only the prospect after all, and there are many uncertainties. Moreover, 25 percent of the shares will seriously change the structure of equity and bring a lot of variables to the management of the company. Such conditions are unacceptable. ”
"Oh, how much do you think it should be?" Ron smiled and looked at the sea blue.
"Ten percent of common stock, and then three percent of your preferred stock. Couldn't be more. ”
"Five percent of preferred stock!"
"Three percent, no more. It really can't be more. Hailan looked at Ron with wide eyes, looking pitiful.
"Okay, just three percent." Ron looked at her big eyes, and just wanted to continue to reject her, but he didn't know what was going on, and his heart softened inexplicably, so he opened his mouth, and as soon as he spoke, he began to regret it in his heart. But at this time, the words had already been spoken, and they had to admit it.
"Damn, there's definitely something weird about this woman. Is it hypnotism? Or is it the charm of the demon gate mentioned in the martial arts novel? Ron thought silently.
After finalizing the matter, Hailan took Heinlacey and Richard to leave. Although Mrs. Lucy wanted to keep them for dinner, they both reasoned that they were busy with work and left without eating.
For the next few days, Ron spent the next few days in peace, but such days were not destined to be too long, and in the blink of an eye, the time for family leave was approaching.
In two days I will be back in the army. That night, the family sat around again.
"Dad, I'm leaving soon, you have to take care of yourself at home."
"Well, I'm fine, but you, be more careful when you fight. Also," the old man smiled triumphantly, "the experiment with the improvement of the P-38 has been successful. Maybe when you go back to the army this time, the P-38 will be used...... Oh, I can take you to the office tomorrow to try the feel. You have combat experience, and the company would love to know your opinion. ”
"Really?" That's great news for Ron. Compared with the Army's P40 and the Navy's F4F, the P-38's performance is a little bit stronger. In particular, the P-38 was almost the most rugged fighter in the United States, except for the later P-47 Thunderbolt. And the acceleration ability is one of the best among American aircraft. The top speed is much faster than that of Japanese planes, and if there is any danger, the success rate of escape will be much higher.
"But the cannon you tinkered with hasn't had time to be installed on it, so it's too late."
"It's okay, it's okay, in fact, it's good to hit Japanese planes, .50 is already very good. It's good to have 38. Ron was overjoyed to get such good news when he was leaving. But he suddenly remembered some things about when he was playing games.
That was when he first started playing flight simulators and chose a career as a pilot in the U.S. Navy. As a result, when it was time to start, I couldn't cry when I was bullied by AI's Zero War while driving F2A and F4F. Endure it slowly, boil it slowly, and finally usher in a change of clothes F6F after surviving the first few levels. Ron was so happy at the time, Ya Zero, now look at how I bullied you with Hellcat! As a result, the plane flew together, only to find out that it was still a tragedy. The water flying over from the opposite side was a ki84 Hurricane fighter. The total number of ki84s is only about 3000, and less than a quarter can fly. How can you just put on the f6f and encounter this thing!
This time it was changed to 38, but don't go out for the first time and find out that the devil has come up with something new, what Zhong Kui is just down, what purple electric reform, gale, gale and the like don't come out so early.
Early the next morning, Ron, accompanied by the old man, got into the old man's Ford, which was almost as old and sturdy as him, and went to the company where the old man worked, the undisputed No. 1 arms giant in the future world, Lockheed.
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