The party was held in the staff cafeteria of Waigaoqiao Group.

Waigaoqiao Group invited celebrity chefs to cook excellent Jiangsu and Zhejiang cuisines, which are impeccable except for a slightly light taste for carnivores like Luo Jia.

There were hundreds of people at the scene, Jiangnan, Hudong, and even Zhoushan, Jinling, and the CEOs of several major shipyards nearby, in addition to COSCO Shipping, the owner of the Dovetail Butterfly, and some local leaders.

To Luo Jia's surprise, Lu Junlin, the personal secretary of the old general in the capital, was wearing a casual dress and standing alone in the corner, and no one seemed to know him.

Luo Jia found Lu Junlin and hurriedly walked over.

"Mr. Luo, we meet again." Lu Junlin said with a smile.

Luo Jia looked around in surprise, "Yes, it's really unexpected, I didn't expect you to come." ”

Lu Junlin shook his head lightly, "There's no need to look for it, the general occasionally feels cold and his health is not very good, so he stayed in the capital and sent me to Jiangnan Shipyard to find out about the situation." ”

Luo Jia suddenly looked concerned, and said that the general must take care of his health, and asked Lu Junlin what he went to Jiangnan Shipyard to understand.

"Of course, it's the progress of shipbuilding." Lu Junlin said, "The bulk carrier in Waigaoqiao has already been tested, but ours is still building sections, but the general is in a hurry, so no matter what, he must let me take a look." ”

Luo Jia pouted, modern large ships are built in sections, and the whole ship is divided into many parts, and finally transported to the dock for combined welding.

Aircraft carriers are the pinnacle of shipbuilding technology, and there are only a few countries in the world that can build them, and they also use the sectional construction method.

"It's useless to be in a hurry." Luo Jia said, "Warships and civilian ships have never been the same existence, the requirements are too high, how can the construction progress be the same as civilian ships." ”

Lu Junlin shrugged his shoulders, "Of course I know this, and the general also knows it, but I just can't help but be anxious, after all, we want a big ship, and we've been thinking about it for too long." ”

Secretary Lu came here with the people of Jiangnan Heavy Industry, everyone didn't know him, thinking that he was also from Jiangnan, and seeing him chatting with Luo Jia, he couldn't help but look at this side curiously.

Luo Jia simply left the staff cafeteria with him and went outside to find a secluded corner.

Lu Junlin came to Shanghai this time to see the progress of the ship, and to go back to report to the general, there is no matter, and he just came to Luo Jia to chat casually.

The two chatted for a while, and Lu Junlin took his leave.

Luo Jia didn't stay long, and after a brief explanation with several responsible persons, he led everyone back to the company.

The time was only nine o'clock in the evening, Luo Jia usually slept in the second half of the night, and got up before dawn, and it was a waste of time to rest, so he returned to his office and continued to study and work.

As the company gets bigger and bigger, the battle line is getting longer and longer, which forces Luo Jia to work harder to learn and absorb new knowledge.

It was past midnight in a blink of an eye, and Luo Jia felt a little hungry, but he didn't really want to go to the cafeteria for supper, so he pulled out a box of instant noodles from the pantry.

Taking advantage of the instant noodle time, Luo Jia opened news websites and forums.

Sure enough, the news of the successful trial of the swallowtail butterfly occupied the headlines and became the most enthusiastic topic of discussion among the Chinese people.

The popularity is not bad, second only to the scandals of traffic stars, after all, shipping is far away from everyone's lives, and only a few people really know how to do it.

Luo Jia went to the Korean forum again, and found that in the Korean nautical forum, there was a miserable scene like the end of the world.

According to the information provided by the translation software, it turned out that Ms. Park Qingzhu of KBS TV rented a fishing boat with a maximum speed of only 26 knots during the live broadcast of the Swallowtail Butterfly trial.

Normally, this speed is more than enough to track a bulk carrier.

Who would have thought that the Dovetail Butterfly had a cruising speed of up to 35 knots, and it actually threw KBS TV far away.

This situation has brought a huge shock to the South Korean people, who followed the lens of the camera to witness the swallowtail butterfly riding the wind and waves, but they couldn't even catch up, and the embarrassment was about to be committed.

In contrast, the situation on the neon side is better, after all, the family is big, shipbuilding is the pillar industry of South Korea, but it is the sunset industry of neon.

Back then, Neon used to manufacture 50% of the ships on the planet, and was the world's largest shipbuilding power, and it was in the limelight.

Later, it was slowly snatched away by South Korea and Huaxia, and now there are only 17 percent left, so for the frustration of this thing, the neon masses are more experienced, which is like a gambler who always loses the game, and he is used to losing and losing.

The shipbuilding industry is the top three in China, Japan and South Korea, but shipping is the world of Europe, and four of the world's five major shipping groups are in Europe.

South Korea originally had a Hanjin Shipping Group, which was once a global giant, but unfortunately it was officially declared bankrupt on February 17, 2017 due to poor management.

At present, there are only two shipping companies with global competitiveness in the whole of East Asia, COSCO Shipping and Wanwan Gaoguan Rong Shipping, and although the cunning Europeans have handed over the shipbuilding work to China, Japan and South Korea, they firmly control the lifeblood of global ocean transportation.

"Damn the Huaxia people, how can they do that?"

"All-electric propulsion ships are not for sale? Do they want to eat the global maritime market alone? ”

"This trick is so ruthless that the Baltic Dry Bulk Index has plummeted today! European shipping stocks have started to crash! ”

"First cars, now shipping, what is Xingchen Technology going to do!?"

"Why hasn't the European Parliament fought back yet!?"

"Huaxia ships should be banned from entering Europe!"

In the European forum, the news of Xingchen Technology's refusal to sell electric propulsion technology to Maersk spread far and wide, causing an uproar.

The German newspaper Bild published an article on the front page, arguing that the trial voyage of the Dovetail Butterfly is comparable to the significance of Columbus's discovery of the New World, which will completely change the history of human shipping.

According to Bild, it is completely unrealistic to ban Chinese ships from entering Europe, and that one-fifth of the freight rate and two or three times the speed of the ship are temptations that all enterprises cannot resist.

If you don't use Huaxia Shipping Company, the logistics cost will increase, which is like a carriage and a car, which cannot be called competition between the two, but a complete generation difference.

British media such as The Times and the Financial Times of London raised their hands to welcome the electric ships of Xingchen Technology, anyway, there is no shipbuilding and no shipping in the UK, so why not do it if it can reduce freight costs.

In fact, one only has to look at the reports of the European media to see that they are not monolithic at all.

The Danish, French, and Swiss media, which have large shipping companies, almost want to strangle Xingchen Technology to death.

Countries such as Germany, the United Kingdom, and Spain, which have little shipping business, find electric ships acceptable, as long as the freight is cheaper.

"The hustle and bustle of the world is all for profit, and the hustle and bustle of the world is for profit." Luo Jia muttered while eating instant noodles, "It's still our ancestors who are powerful, they have already seen through the world, in the final analysis, everything in the world is nothing more than a benefit." ”