After Guo Shen expounded on the difficulty and technological breakthrough points of manned spaceflight from various angles, Lin Ju had a clear understanding of the difficulty of this matter.

Unless you directly purchase manned spacecraft from all over the world, you can definitely only make an iron can for a year of design, and the safety factor is up to 10%. The space agency will never allow you to take people into the sky.

In a year, a rocket capable of launching a manned capsule can be developed at most, and at least two successful unmanned test launches can be manned.

Ke Lin Ju asked the system in his heart, the manufacture of rockets can be outsourced with some materials, but the system has a set of evaluation standards, once it exceeds a certain range, it will be judged to be not completely independent manufacturing, unqualified.

Obviously, the direct purchase of manned spacecraft is not among them.

But it's unrealistic to expect himself, so Lin Ju was about to let the four of them leave and then ask if the system could buy it for assistance, but suddenly received a phone call, and the negotiation team of the Sixth Academy came.

He had to pause thinking about the new task and instead prepare for cooperation negotiations with the Sixth Academy.

When he greeted the team, he found that Professor Tang was not there, and this time the leader was Chief Master Zhao of the Sixth Academy, who was also a top expert.

In the conference room, Guo Shen shouted an offer for Lin Ju:

"3 engines each 8 million yuan, a total of 24 million, technical data and production license 240 million, the production of engines can not be sold, the installed rockets can not be undertaken by international commercial orders, the total price is 264 million yuan."

As soon as Guo Shen's words fell, a chaotic voice sounded on the side of the Sixth Courtyard.

"260 million? So much can buy thirty engines, and what do we produce ourselves. ”

"8 million is too expensive, and the cost of your rockets seems to be less than 20 million."

"Quiet!"

Fortunately, Chief Master Zhao immediately stopped everyone's voices, and instead exchanged a few words with a few people around him, and then said to Guo Shen with a sad face:

"Mr. Guo, this price is too high, according to your quotation of 8 million, you can buy 30 engines, which is enough for seven or eight rocket missions, which is far beyond our psychological expectations.

The Sixth Academy hopes that the unit price of the engine will be about 6 million, and as for the production license and technical data, a total of 50 million can be issued. ”

This time it was Guo Shen's turn to shake his head with him, and he directly moved out of his experience at Aramco Space and said:

"We don't make any money at the price of 8 million units, and the cost of this level of engine is about 1 million US dollars, and we all rely on technology licensing to make money.

Your investment in the research and development of YF100 is at least 1.5 billion yuan, and the K120 is more advanced, but as long as 240 million yuan will be given a production license, if it is not for our boss's desire to support the space agency, the price will definitely be more than 500 million yuan. ”

What Guo Shen said seems to be very reasonable, and the estimate of YF100's R&D cost is also very different, but Chief Engineer Zhao does not eat this set:

"$1 million is the cost of R&D, and we don't lack a 120-ton kerosene machine.

We can accept the price of 8 million units, but 250 million is too expensive, and the Sixth Courtyard can go out to 70 million, which is all I can do. ”

The two sides pulled a few more times, and Guo Shen reduced the license fee to 220 million, but the Sixth Academy did not let go, and even said that it would be up to 120 million when it bought the engine.

The gap is too big to be negotiated at all.

In fact, one side of the Sixth Academy knows that objectively 240 million is really cheap, but on the one hand, they are unwilling to have YF100 of their own, and on the other hand, the Sixth Academy really can't get so much liquidity.

Although the annual funding of the Sixth House is much greater than this figure, it is a state appropriation, not discretionary money.

If you want to get that much money out, it is to upgrade this negotiation specification from the Sixth Academy to the Space Agency.

But in this way, it is estimated that the Sixth Hospital will have to have a full medical examination, and the leader will ask kindly:

"Comrades, why is there a gap between us and a private enterprise after investing in research and development for more than ten years?"

That's a bad thing, and no less than two people will not be able to complete the review for half a year.

Even the more than 100 million yuan was searched by the Sixth Courtyard in the small treasury, and no matter how much it was, it really couldn't be taken out.

The negotiations reached an impasse, and Lin Ju, who had always been the shopkeeper, finally made a move.

He leaned forward, and the crowd immediately focused their attention on the almost transparent boss.

Lin Ju first looked at the people in the Sixth Academy, sighed again, and whispered a few words to Guo Shen.

I saw Guo Shen first shook his head, then frowned and thought for a while before he crossed his hands on the table, lowered his head and did not speak.

Lin Ju looked at the people in the Sixth Courtyard and said softly:

"Mr. Guo has been working for a long time at Aramco, so he is indeed more sensitive to price. He told me that 240 million really can't be lowered anymore, K120 research and development took seven years, and it cost 30 million US dollars at that time, and 240 million is an absolute cheap sale.

However, I told him that we must reduce the price, and our private aerospace industry also wants to support the country, so I made a ...... against my ancestors The decision of the capital.

Even the engine with technical data, 100 million! ”

Hearing that Chief Master Zhao was still like water in front of him, but when he heard that Lin Ju actually reduced the price by 20 million in reverse, he was immediately moved, but he stopped the urge to thank him, because his intuition told him that there must be more than that.

Sure enough, Lin Ju changed his words:

"However, as a newly established private enterprise, our strength is still very weak, especially in terms of personnel.

Therefore, we hope that the Sixth Academy can provide us with some talents to help Xinyuan Aerospace tide over the difficulties. ”

"I don't know what Mr. Lin means......"

"Oh, I just hope that the Sixth Academy can give us a chance to give researchers who are interested in joining us another choice."

The little gratitude that Chief Zhao had just raised immediately disappeared without a trace, isn't this just digging the foot of the wall!

Frankly, he'd rather pay more than get dug up!

These experienced aerospace practitioners are all treasures that cannot be exchanged, and it will be heartbreaking for a long time to put one, and if they let go of private enterprises to dig, they will definitely lose a lot.

But the Sixth Academy really didn't have any more money, and Chief Master Zhao knew that he had no right to decide, so he applied for an adjournment and reported to his superiors.

After the adjournment, Lin Ju and Guo Shen were not idle, but continued to discuss the talent expansion plan.

"How are the people from the Southern Machinery Institute in contact? How many are willing to come? ”

Guo Shen stretched out his five fingers.

"Five? It's too little, didn't I say that the salary is high? ”

Guo Shen shook his head and reached out to grab it.

"No, almost all of them. In addition to two people, 16 professors agreed to come to the post, and more than a dozen outstanding students also signed an agreement to sign a 10-year contract directly after graduation. ”

"Hiss~"

Seeing Lin Ju gasp, Guo Shen snickered in his heart, in fact, most of the people who were sent to the factory for technical support by the Southern Machinery Institute were originally working in the factory-affiliated factories of the school, and they had already had the idea of changing jobs, so they didn't want to be convinced, and they were sent to the door by themselves.

Not to mention the students, as soon as the salary is bright, they are all scrambling to stay.

Lin Ju didn't expect it to be so easy, but he was still very happy to add more than a dozen brains.

"All researchers and senior technicians will enter the R&D department, and tomorrow I will find two more potential senior engineers, and I will upgrade their skills."

The reason why there are two of them is because there is also a forest torch for other purposes.

Skill upgrade cards are the current main classes and abilities of upgraded characters, and there are many ways to take the strongest category.

Lin Ju decided to give the last D-level skill card to Cai Yuanfa, the director of the accounting and publicity department.

This thin middle-aged man's management level is much better than his financial ability, Chen Rong, the deputy director of the factory, is in name only, just because of the fictitious position given by good technology, the operation of the tractor factory used to be maintained by Cai Yuanfa many times, which is also the reality of a small factory.

Lin Ju has to let go of the company's specific affairs management, and Cai Yuanfa has enough qualifications and can use the skill card to upgrade his management ability and turn into a reliable system personnel, which is very suitable.

That night, Lin Ju used the three skill upgrade cards, and the System Research Institute immediately added two more senior technicians.

With all that done, he made a second attempt to request assistance from the system.

"system, I would like technical assistance for the second mission!"

[Host assistance request received, assistance request approved, confirmed as technical assistance, program development...]

[Plan 1: Reusable two-stage spacecraft, can carry 1 to 6 members, with its own escape system, maximum diameter of 4.8 meters, length of 7.9 meters, maximum take-off mass of 19 tons, empty weight of 13 tons, can be changed to a cargo version, capacity of 8 tons.

Mission adjustment: Send at least 3 astronauts into low Earth orbit and return safely to complete a rocket recovery experiment. 】

[Plan 2: Small space shuttle, can carry 1 to 6 members, the overall length of 13 meters, using a central lifting body design, the maximum take-off mass of 21 tons, empty weight of 16 tons, the cargo version can carry two people and 4.5 tons of cargo.

Mission adjustment: Send at least 5 astronauts or 2 astronauts and 3600 kg of scientific payload into low earth orbit and return safely to complete a rocket recovery experiment. 】