The Grandmother in the Siheyuan

Chapter 496 Strategic Advantages
"I have no choice," Liu Hua said with a smile. "Western society has so many trivial matters. But I also want to make it clear to you beforehand that I will take a share of the sales."

“That’s not a problem, as long as you’re willing to leave us some profit.” The general manager of Nanjing Chemical said happily, “Nanjing Chemical doesn’t mind having less money. What we need is technology. In the future, carbon fiber derivatives will also be a huge market, enough for Nanjing Chemical to make a living.”

The two sides barely haggled and reached an agreement on a sales commission of $12 per kilogram. Even so, Nanhua claimed that they had gotten a good deal.

However, looking back, they did indeed benefit. If they had to research carbon fiber production technology from scratch, the investment would be unimaginable, and the time cost alone would be incalculable.

There was no formal signing ceremony; the contract was signed in Liu Hua's office, under the watchful eyes of leaders from the petroleum sector.

After the contract was signed, Liu Hua stirred up a little fire: "Before you came, people from CNPC contacted me. They also wanted the carbon fiber project and said they could also build a factory in the south. They even wanted to sabotage our cooperation."

The general manager of Nanhua directly complained to the leader of the petroleum department: "Leader, I'm going to have to complain to you about this. It's not fair for people from PetroChina to do this."

"Don't worry about the details. Although there may be occasional setbacks, in the end, the good projects will still be yours." The leader said with a smile, "Don't fall for Liu Hua's tricks; he's stirring things up."

"I'm just telling the truth, how can you call it stirring up trouble?" Liu Hua said innocently, "I'm just worried that Nanhua might be plotted against behind its back."

"You're just here for the show, you don't mind making things worse."

After the contract was signed, Liu Hua selected an elite team of fifty people from his own company. They would go back with the people from Nanhua to guide Nanhua in building its own production line.

After Dongli Chemical's carbon fiber project collapsed, Liu Hua raised the price of carbon fiber back to its original level, which made the American distributors somewhat unhappy.

However, there's no other way. Taiyi New Materials is currently the world's largest distributor. In addition, the manufacturing industry in the United States has not been completely hollowed out yet, and the domestic demand for carbon fiber in the United States is still quite high. These distributors have plenty of money and profits to make, so they don't care too much.

Perhaps in a year or two, when they try to control Liu Hua, they'll pull off all sorts of shady tactics.

However, Liu Hua is not worried about dealing with whatever comes his way. Most importantly, Nanjing Chemical's carbon fiber will be produced within a year at most, at which point the monopoly will be out of the question.

After seeing off Nanjing University of Chemical Technology, Liu Hua was summoned to Tsinghua University by his graduate students. He had been busy with other things recently, which meant that he hadn't been to the lab for at least a month.

Feeling that he was a very unqualified mentor, Liu Hua felt guilty. He was thinking of quitting his job at Tsinghua University when the time was right, because his focus was no longer on semiconductors.

His former students are now teaching assistants at the school, and the current leader of the super-large 3D metal printer project is one of Liu Hua's former students.

"Teacher, please allow me to proudly announce that we have successfully created a 30-meter-long 3D metal printer."

This is a newly built warehouse. Inside the warehouse is a huge piece of equipment. Several students, who are now teaching assistants at the school, are leading a large group of graduate students. They are standing in front of the equipment with beaming smiles.

"Amazing, absolutely amazing." Liu Hua gave a thumbs up: "I'm such a bad advisor. It's been a while since I've asked you about your studies. I never expected you to give me such a big surprise. Each of you has a paper. Let's graduate this year."

The students cheered. Liu Hua picked up the phone and called Sun Guangming: "Old Sun, I'm at Huaxing University right now. My students have built a super-large 3D metal printer measuring 30 meters." Liu Hua heard a thud on the other end of the phone, as if someone had fallen. He could guess that Sun Guangming was startled.

As a member of the General Logistics Department, he knew how useful 3D metal printers were. Many parts of helicopters in China are now printed using 3D printers.

A 30-meter metal printer might even be usable in fighter jets.

Sun Guangming, accompanied by experts, arrived at Tsinghua University in less than forty minutes. When he saw the enormous equipment in front of him, he couldn't stop his mouth from agape. It was astonishing; it was simply a miracle in the history of industry.

"Are you planning to tear this down and move it to our side, or rebuild one for us?"

Liu Hua looked at his students and said, "Let's rebuild one. Tsinghua University needs this too."

After hearing Liu Hua's words, the students were relieved. This was the culmination of their hard work, and it would be very upsetting for the key to be taken away like this.

“Sure, but before that, I’d like to borrow it for a bit,” Sun Guangming said with a smile. “We have a lot of super-large metal components that we hope to manufacture using a metal 3D printer.”

"Of course." Liu Hua nodded. "This big guy is mainly for your service."

Liu Hua didn't know what Sun Guangming was using this equipment to produce. Every time he used it, he brought a lot of security personnel to surround the warehouse. When the goods were transported out, they were all covered with curtains. Although everyone was very curious, no one dared to ask.

Although Liu Hua could ask, he was too lazy to. Sometimes knowing too much is a hassle, because he's a worrier by nature. If he sees that the other party's design is not satisfactory, he might want to take matters into his own hands.

This is why he is now responsible for more and more projects.

On the eve of Christmas this year, Liu Hua saw a news report that the United States announced that their F-22s had officially begun training with the Air Force.

If Liu Hua remembers correctly, the F-22 didn't enter service until 2005 in his previous life, but in this life it entered service as early as 2001.

However, upon closer reflection, the reason becomes clear: in the previous generation, our country's J-10 fighter jets only entered service in 2004, and the American aircraft always held a huge advantage over us.

Our J-10 is now much more mature than the J-10A of the previous generation, and it has entered service so early, so the advantage of the US fighter jets has disappeared.

Under this pressure, they had no choice but to launch new fighter jets ahead of schedule, in order to maintain local strategic advantage.

Liu Hua sneered: "Strategic advantage? Can it last for two years? Ours will be close to that soon too."

(End of this chapter)