Era: Starting from divorce from female college student

Chapter 188, $709 million loan from IBM58 J
On August 2, 1959, it was dark at No. 7, Denglai Hutong.

Zhao Mancang hugged Lin Wan and enjoyed a moment of tenderness.

"Are you leaving tomorrow? I really can't bear to leave you."

Although Zhao Mancang was reluctant, he had to leave now.

When Leader Cai recovered better, it was time for Zhao Mancang to leave.

So, after spending a warm night with Lin Wan, Zhao Mancang left Denglai Hutong at four in the morning.

At 5:30 in the morning, he drove to No. 7 Guozi Lane on time, then changed into Lao Wei's Jinggangshan car and headed for Nanyuan Airport.

People who are treated preferentially have completely different travel choices.

If it were Mo Changzhi and the others, they would probably be treated like a train.

After taking off from Nanyuan Airport, it took Zhao Mancang most of the day to arrive in Baiyun City, and then he went to the Pearl River Wharf and took a ferry to Hong Kong and Kowloon.

After arriving in Hong Kong and Kowloon, Zhao Mancang was soon free to move around.

He didn't need anyone to receive him. After arriving in Hong Kong and Kowloon, he quickly disguised himself.

When he appeared in Yijing Garden on the Kowloon Peninsula, he had already turned into Zhao Changshou.

Xu Wenluo is not here, she must be out.

The room in Yijing Garden was very clean, not covered in dust, and looked uninhabited, so Xu Wenluo should have been fine.

But since he didn't see anyone, Zhao Mancang couldn't be sure.

When he was about to take the ferry to Hong Kong Island, he happened to see Xu Wenluo and Fang Xiaohui who had just returned from there.

At this time, Xu Wenluo was able to walk normally, but behind them, Lin Zhenan was still pushing a wheelchair, so it seemed that Xu Wenluo still needed to sit in a wheelchair occasionally.

Seeing Zhao Mancang suddenly appear, Xu Wenluo and the other two were very happy.

After a conversation, Zhao Mancang did not go back to Yijing Garden with Xu Wenluo, but went to Hong Kong Island.

After watching Xu Wenluo and the others leave, Zhao Mancang checked the system's experience value balance. Well, it increased by 209, which was indeed not much.

Fang Xiaohui and Lin Zhenan are both ranked 5, and Xu Wenluo is ranked 199, so it can be said that they are almost certain to win.

Unfortunately, most of the time, people like Fang Xiaohui and Lin Zhenan can hardly bring any experience points to Zhao Mancang.

The reason why there are 5 this time is probably closely related to the recent "Hong Kong Daily News" and "Ming Pao".

At the Qifa Building, Zhao Mancang called together Bruce, Chen Liangsheng and others for another meeting.

"Hong Kong Daily News", "Ming Pao" and "Women's Wear" are currently the main media of the two companies here. According to Zhao Mancang's previous plan, that is to stabilize.

It is not advisable to add other projects in the short term.

Even so, "Women's Wear" is still very aggressive, and it is making great strides in Europe and the United States. Not only did it break the sales mark of 100,000 copies in New York and Great Britain in June, but it also took another big step forward in July.

Sales in New York exceeded 120,000, while sales in Great Britain exceeded 133,000, showing an unstoppable momentum.

Since Zhao Mancang had promised a big red envelope before, but he had not shown up for a long time recently, the people below thought that the boss did not want to fulfill his promise.

Until this moment, in the conference room, after Zhao Mancang finished listening to everyone's work reports, he immediately said with a smile:

"I told you before that if the sales of women's clothing exceeded 100,000 in June, you would receive a minimum reward of 300 US dollars. You also continued to work hard in July and did a great job. So now I declare..."

In the conference room, several leaders of "Women's Wear" magazine looked at Zhao Mancang with anticipation.

As the big boss, Zhao Mancang did not disappoint his subordinates and directly doubled the cash reward.

Each person needs at least US$600, including the staff at the Hong Kong and Kowloon headquarters.

Some people contribute more and are rewarded more.

But the difference will not be particularly large. For example, the difference between the editor-in-chief and the deputy editor-in-chief is at most fifty US dollars, and the difference in red envelopes between an ordinary editor and the editor-in-chief is also fifty US dollars.

"In addition to Women's Wear, Hong Kong Daily and Ming Pao will also have rewards."

After hearing what Zhao Mancang said, Chen Liangsheng, Bruce, Duan Baozhen and others also shouted "Long live the boss".

In the evening of that day, Zhao Mancang took a quick inventory. Although the experience points he gained this time were not much, not as much as Xu Wenluo alone, it was better than nothing.

Zhao Mancang was not very satisfied, but people like Chen Liangsheng were very happy, because Zhao Mancang distributed almost all the profits for July this time.

This is definitely not a small amount of money.

For example, the daily sales volume of the Hong Kong and Kowloon Daily News is currently maintained at around 76,000 copies, which means a daily profit of HK$7,600.

That’s HK$228,000 per month, which is definitely not a small amount of money.

"I'm fucking idiots! The boss of the Hong Kong and Kowloon Daily is a complete jerk. He's a complete jerk. So why are you so rich?"

At the Sing Tao Daily headquarters located at Liyuan Building, No. 20 Liyuan East Street, editor-in-chief Mou Yanfang became furious and started cursing after learning the news from Qifa Building.

In just a short while, two capable people from Sing Pao are about to resign. How can he not be angry?
But facing the "money power" that Zhao Mancang brought out, Mou Yanfang really had no ability to resist.

It’s going to rain, and my mother is going to get married, who can stop it?

The boss of the Hong Kong and Kowloon Daily is very generous and spends a lot of money. Who would dare to do this to him?

Manager Li Dongyan was originally going to report his work, but when he saw that the other party was so angry, he decided to give up.

At the same time, I was secretly complaining in my heart: People just want to spend money freely because they have money. If you have the ability, why don’t you spend money too?
Unfortunately, the bosses in Hong Kong and Kowloon are all stingy and there are not many generous bosses.

The Sing Tao Daily and other Hong Kong and Kowloon newspapers soon received rumors that Zhao Mancang distributed large red envelopes to his subordinates, and everyone started cursing Zhao Mancang behind his back.

Compared to the newspaper bosses who were cursing, the employees were extremely envious.

"I regret it so much. The Hong Kong and Kowloon Daily invited me for an interview, but I turned it down. Ahhhh, what was I thinking at the time? Why was I so stupid?"

"Fuck! Even an intern who's only been here for less than two weeks got a 500 Hong Kong dollar bonus. Why is there such a huge disparity between people?"

"I don't know if it's too late for me to go for the interview now?"

"I heard that the editors of Women's Wear were all rewarded with over 4,000 Hong Kong dollars. I don't know if it's true or not. Sigh!"

Many people in Hong Kong's newspaper industry quickly received the news, especially "Women's Wear" magazine, where each editor received a red envelope reward of more than HK$4,000.

This is definitely a super big red envelope.

You have to know that the housing prices in Hong Kong and Kowloon at that time were only about 20,000 to 30,000 Hong Kong dollars.

With four thousand Hong Kong dollars, you can buy one or two toilets.

The Peninsula Hotel, afternoon tea time.

Zhao Mancang looked at the beautiful view of Victoria Harbour in the distance and didn't say anything for a long time, while Joseph Grant, who was sitting opposite him, was a little anxious.

Today, Zhao Mancang made an appointment with Joseph and Pu Weishi to discuss the loan issue, but Pu Weishi didn't have time, so only Joseph came to the appointment.

When Joseph Grant learned that Zhao Mancang was going to take out another loan, he wanted to stop it immediately.

Previously, Zhao Mancang borrowed 200 million Hong Kong dollars, or about 30 million US dollars, from HSBC, and used all of this money to buy gold.

After this period of sedimentation, the global gold price has begun to rise slightly, but the increase is not large, only US$35.67 per ounce.

Although the increase is really small, it is already profitable for Zhao Mancang.

The price he bought it at was very low, only US$35.19 per ounce, but now it has increased by US$0.48.

Thirty million seven hundred thousand U.S. dollars can buy 872,400 ounces. In other words, Zhao Mancang made $418,800 from this wave of increase.

Although the interest is not small, I have already made money, which is a good thing.

Besides, how much is it now?
Even so, Zhao Mancang's desire to borrow money again is tantamount to getting something for nothing.

After all, this time he directly borrowed 650 million Hong Kong dollars, which is 100 million US dollars.

Joseph had just received the red envelope with a check from Zhao Man. There was quite a lot of money in it, but now after hearing that it was a loan of 100 million US dollars, he suddenly felt that the red envelope was very hot.

What if Zhao Mancang disappears after taking out the loan?
Just like this time, it disappeared after mid-June and only reappeared now in August.

Who knows how long Zhao Mancang will disappear next time?
Even though Zhao Mancang still has industries such as the Hong Kong and Kowloon Daily in Hong Kong and Kowloon, it is still far from the 100 million US dollars.

What if, after taking out the loan, Zhao Mancang runs to Great Britain to withdraw the gold stored there and runs away?
Don't think it's impossible!
HSBC is currently unable to achieve global networking and cannot obtain news from Great Britain in real time.

In short, the risk of this matter is a bit high, and this check red envelope is too hot to handle.

Joseph Grant wanted to refuse, but when the words came to his lips, he couldn't say them.

That evening, Zhao Mancang successfully had dinner with Pu Weishi and discussed a business of loaning 100 million US dollars.

Both parties had a very pleasant chat. There was no way Pu Weishi could refuse a check for three million Hong Kong dollars.

It's just a loan of 100 million US dollars. The money will be used to invest in gold, and all the physical gold will be stored at the HSBC headquarters in London, Great Britain.

What are the risks?
Almost no risk!

The only risk is the drop in gold prices. Once it drops to US$30 per ounce, the margin Zhao Mancang left at HSBC will be fully deducted.

At this time, HSBC will close all gold positions according to the contract.

Therefore, no matter whether gold rises or falls, HSBC will not be at risk, but will instead make a lot of interest.

Pu Weishi is not stupid and certainly would not refuse such a deal.

"Happy cooperation!"

The next day, Zhao Mancang quickly signed a contract with HSBC, and left the rest of the work to his lawyer.

After completing these things, Zhao Mancang did not stay in Hong Kong and Kowloon, but planned to report to Mindanao.

But before that, Zhao Mancang went to No. 66 Deep Water Bay, where the villa already had a rough outline.

However, the decoration has not been completed yet, and it will take a long time before we can actually move in.

Anyway, Zhao Mancang is not in a hurry, so he can just take it slow. As long as there is no problem with the villa, it will be fine.

Zhuang Xiaoting came here 'by chance' and met Zhao Mancang by chance.

With the experience points contributed by the other party, Zhao Mancang's experience point balance is once again approaching the 10,000 mark. Currently, he is only more than 200 away from a balance of 10,000.

This was the final push, and it was also the closest Zhao Mancang had ever been to 10,000 experience points.

"Damn it! Is there any chance to earn more experience points now?"

After much thought, Zhao Mancang still couldn't think of any other solution and could only leave Hong Kong and Kowloon temporarily.

The plane took off from Kai Tak Airport and arrived in Manila quickly and smoothly.

There are many people gathered in Mindanao today.

Although Mo Changzhi and the others have left, Qiu Shigui and the others are still here.

"Old Zhao, how on earth did you do it? We've been here for over a month, and we haven't seen a single hair."

In an ordinary house on Mindanao Island, after Zhao Mancang and Qiu Shigui confirmed each other's identities, Mi Shouyang couldn't help complaining.

Tie Wanzhong also echoed:
"Yes, they say there are tens of billions of dollars worth of gold buried in Mindanao. However, we've been here for such a long time and haven't even seen anyone from Kimura. Instead, we've been fed a lot of mosquitoes. The mosquitoes here are particularly large."

At this time, Zhao Mancang just listened to their complaints with a smile and did not express any opinions.

Mi Shouyang, Tie Wanzhong, Yuan Zuliang and Qiu Shigui arrived in Mindanao at no particular order and all carried out the same mission.

The result was the same, no progress.

"To be honest, I'm really lucky, but I think we should go out more and get in touch with the locals. If you are brave enough and strong enough, you can look for a local base."

When Mi Shouyang and the others heard what Zhao Mancang said, their eyes suddenly lit up, but then dimmed again.

Because the base that Zhao Mancang was talking about was actually Sam’s base here.

The base here is full of Sam's elite troops. Mi Shouyang and his men do not have the super camouflage skills like Zhao Mancang, nor do they speak fluent American English.

The most important point is the super strong emergency response capability.

If you don't have this ability, everything you say is false.

Especially this kind of disguised sneaking into the base is not that easy.

Once you alert the enemy, it will only backfire and nothing will be left.

After a brief chat with Mi Shouyang and others, Zhao Mancang left Mindanao.

His purpose of coming here was purely to check in, to let them know that he was here, and to let leaders like Wei Huayong know that he was in Mindanao.

Two days later, Zhao Mancang successfully arrived in Cambridge, Massachusetts, North America, where there is a very famous university.

"Hello, John. I'm Peter, the man I wrote to you before."

In a coffee shop outside the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Zhao Mancang met John George, a professor of electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

The George family is a very famous real estate business family in New York. Unfortunately, John George doesn't like business at all, and he is the only person in their family who is engaged in academic research.

"Hello Peter, I don't think I know you."

Although John George is a 52-year-old man, he has a very useful brain.

Seeing that the other party was looking at him with confusion, Zhao Mancang had to use all his skills and try hard to get close to the other party.

Unfortunately, the other party is a otaku who spends most of his time doing scientific research in the MIT accelerator laboratory. It can be said that he rarely comes into contact with outsiders.

Coupled with his quick mind, Zhao Mancang had no way to take advantage of any opportunity.

Since you can't fool people, let's just give you some practical advice.

"Look, John, I'm not here just to make friends with you, but because I actually have a scientific research question that I'd like to ask you."

Zhao Mancang said seriously that he was indeed asking academic questions. Anyway, he would not communicate too much with the other party, nor would he appear timid.

It's just empty talk; his goal is still to get the equipment from MIT.

There are many factories in North America, but if Zhao Mancang needs to go to each one of them, it would be too time-consuming and laborious.

A day later, after getting the contact information from John George, Zhao Mancang began to contact those factories.

With the ability to pay out money, these factories were very happy to accept the orders.

For example, the cyclotrons imported from Moscow are all less advanced and backward gadgets, while the machines that Zhao Mancang got from the factory in North America are the most advanced equipment.

The role of the cyclotron is mainly reflected in the research of deuterium nucleus fission reaction, proton elastic scattering, etc. Anyway, Zhao Mancang doesn’t understand much about it, so getting one or two will be enough, and more will be useless.

As for the technology to make this thing, it is too expensive. He can afford it, but Ma Jiugong and others cannot.

Take accelerators for example. There are many different types, such as cyclotrons, high-performance electron linear accelerators, electron-volt-electron linear accelerators, ion accelerators, medical electron linear accelerators, and so on.

Anyway, Zhao Mancang couldn't name these devices and it gave him a headache just looking at them.

There are many important equipment in atomic bomb research, such as computers.

When Deng Jiaxian and his colleagues were developing the first atomic bomb, they relied entirely on hand-cranked computers and manual calculations. At that time, people including Qin Yuanxun had all left their jobs as pure mathematical theory researchers or university professors, and they kept their identities secret and devoted themselves to tackling these scientific research and calculation tasks.

So, when Zhao Mancang was purchasing equipment, he also visited IBM to purchase a supercomputer from them. However, the computer they found only had a computing speed of 229,000 instructions per second.

Since 701, IBM has begun to develop an all-purpose electronic computer for national defense. This is the IBM mainframe, which has a computing speed of times per second.

The IBM 709 launched by IBM is currently the most powerful computer used for scientific computing and is also the last vacuum tube computer produced by IBM.

But this thing is very expensive, and it's a large computer, so it's not that easy to transport.

What is a vacuum tube?

All of this added together is as big as several houses.

As for the transistor computer that Zhao Mancang wanted, that is, the IBM 7090 with a computing speed of instructions per second, it was not available at the moment.

It’s not that it doesn’t exist, but it hasn’t been launched yet. It’s not sold on the market at all. Even if Zhao Mancang wants to buy it, he can’t.

"Fuck, I can't even afford it!"

Zhao Mancang felt helpless after hearing the other party's offer.

He couldn't afford it unless he robbed or stole it.

More than 200 million US dollars, where does Zhao Mancang have so much money at this time?

You can't just sell all the gold, right?
Even if they sold it and bought it back to the capital, Ma Jiugong and the others wouldn't be able to afford it.

So it’s a bit confusing!
He really wanted to do his best to help, but after learning more about the situation, he found that this era was full of holes that could never be filled.

If our country is to rise in the future, we really have to praise the most lovely people of this era.

"Forget it, I'll just get an IBM 709 first. It's a bit bigger, but it's better than nothing. I'll get a 7090 next time. Transistor computers are definitely much better than tube computers."

Zhao Mancang muttered to himself and quickly confirmed the matter.

However, just when Zhao Mancang thought he could buy it smoothly, something unexpected happened at IBM.

"What did you say? Out of stock?"

Seeing the big customer in front of him getting anxious, IBM sales manager Adam Robert hurriedly explained:
"Peter, don't worry. The thing is, IBM is a large company and we should have enough stock. But you know the IBM 709 is our flagship product and it's been selling very well."

Adam's explanation was very weak. Since there was no product, why should we collect his deposit?
Although the IBM 709 was originally intended to be a large computer for defense-related departments, government departments, etc., the 7090 is almost coming out. Why are those government agencies still scrambling to get the IBM 709?
When mentioning this, we have to mention the current market conditions.

Integrated circuits are a new thing that only appeared last year, but they are only the integrated circuits on televisions. Transistor computers are also available on the market, but their working efficiency is not high and the losses are very large.

In addition, transistor computers have two major disadvantages: high heat generation and high price, which make them inherently daunting.

Why is this happening?

Because transistor computers had just appeared and the technology was not yet mature, it was normal for such unstable factors to occur.

In the history of the original time and space, at the technological fork in the road between transistors and vacuum tubes, Moscow chose vacuum tubes because they had more advantages, while the advantages of transistors were not reflected.

Therefore, at this point in 1959, many people in Washington believed that vacuum tube computers had greater advantages. In addition, compared with transistor computers, this thing was much cheaper, so more people were willing to buy vacuum tube computers.

As a new thing, the IBM 7090, a computer made entirely of transistors, was initially met with doubts.

Even when IBM's general manager, Watson Jr., first proposed launching this full transistorization project, he encountered strong opposition from many people.

The transistor computer project was even shelved for a time.

It can also be seen from here that in today's era, vacuum tube computers are the true love, and transistor computers are just a new and unknown thing, and many people are unwilling to take risks for it.

"So, just because you said it was out of stock, I have to wait for you, right?"

Zhao Mancang looked very ugly and spoke in a bad tone.

The sales manager of IBM in front of me is simply going too far.

As a leading computer company, IBM has every right to be proud. The IBM 709 they bought is the flagship product among the 7 series of computer products.

Since 7, the series products have been very popular in the market.

It is normal that IBM709 is out of stock, but the other party should never cause trouble after receiving the deposit.

"No, no, our company is already producing it. It will only take half a year. In half a year, your IBM 709 will be ready."

Adam quickly explained.

Can anyone who can afford an IBM 709 computer be considered an ordinary person?
Although the company name provided by Zhao Mancang is a shell company located in Los Angeles that sells no products, no guarantees, and no guarantees, it is now 1959, and it is impossible for Adam to go to Los Angeles to check what the company is like.

Anyway, it is impossible for Zhao Mancang to take this computer out of North America, so the other party can buy it at will.

The price of IBM709 is million US dollars, including data input and output channels, memory, power supply unit, card reader, typewriter and some drivers and other components.

For a computer that's so expensive, Adam received a deposit of 500,000, but he has to wait for half a year. Is this a joke?

"Okay, shut up!"

Zhao Mancang heard this and said coldly:
"Since you've broken the contract, return the deposit. I don't want it!"

"what?"

Adam Robert's face changed drastically when he heard this. After confirming it again and again, he knew that Zhao Mancang was determined to get the deposit back. Adam immediately stopped pretending:
"No, this is a deposit, and your IBM 709 has already started production. If you don't want it, who will pay for our losses?"

He is just a sales manager and certainly cannot bear this responsibility.

What's more, his sales commission has already been received, so he doesn't care about that. It is absolutely impossible for Zhao Mancang to take away the deposit of 500,000 US dollars today!

If this wasn't happening in public, Zhao Mancang would definitely use violence to solve the problem.

After staring at Adam with a cold expression for a while, Zhao Mancang stood up and left the cafe.

No one in North America can swallow up his property, not even IBM.

Since he couldn't buy IBM709, Zhao Mancang could only find a way to buy other computers.

Currently, the most powerful computer company in the North American market is IBM, in addition there are Eckert Mauchly Computer Company and others.

But in terms of product quality, IBM, which holds more than 90 percent of the market share in the United States, is clearly more powerful.

So Zhao Mancang had no choice but to choose IBM computers, but he didn't want to buy other products in the 7 series. After all, the computing speed was really slow and the size was super large.

"That's a lot of trouble. If that's the case, don't blame me for buying it for free."

If he was not forced to do so, Zhao Mancang would not want to buy for free at all. After all, buying for free means taking risks.

There are so many gold and US dollars in the system space, and there are also a lot of rutile, all of which are money.

It is unwise to have so much money and then go shopping for zero yuan.

But the current era is different. IBM 7 series computer products are only accepted by order because they are not that easy to sell.

Other outdated products such as 701 and 703 are no longer available for order and are not sold on the market.

It's not like the era of later times, where there is overcapacity and as long as you have money, you can buy anything.
This era is so cruel. Just because you have money doesn’t mean you are awesome. At least, products like computers are not necessarily affordable for people with money.

An IBM 709 computer costs two and a half million US dollars. Is this something that ordinary people can afford?
Even ordinary companies cannot afford it. Most of them are only affordable for government agencies, universities, research institutes, large companies and the like.

For example, computers can be used in airline ticket booking systems.

Nowadays, many North American families have an annual income of only three to four thousand US dollars. Let alone buying a computer, even buying an airplane ticket requires careful consideration.

After deciding on the idea of ​​zero-yuan purchase, Zhao Mancang began to prepare the plan.

But before he could take action, the system sent him a message that his experience points had arrived.

"Is this what happened in Hong Kong and Kowloon? What on earth happened? Why are there so many negative emotion experience points?"

After checking the system message, Zhao Mancang was confused.

Because this time it was Chen Liangsheng and others who provided negative emotions, and Alex also provided some positive emotions.

Therefore, it is very likely that Senior Inspector Alex is causing trouble.

But this shouldn't happen. Hadn't he already caught Alex as a black carp? Why would he suddenly change his mind at this moment?

Is it possible that there is a decoupling?

Although he was speechless, Zhao Mancang still composed himself and prepared for the next zero-yuan purchase plan.

An unusual change in the two companies of "Hong Kong and Kowloon Daily" provided very few experience points, with only more than 200 left to break through the balance of 10,000 experience points. This time, they were unable to break through, which was really enough.

It seems that if you want to get more experience points, you can only fleece the tools like Xu Wenluo, Zhuang Xiaoting, Yuan Yushan, Ma Jiugong and others.

IBM headquarters in Armonk, New York.

When Zhao Mancang came here, he quickly found out the location of their production workshop, but he was soon confused.

too big!
A computer is as big as a house, and the size of the vacuum tube is really too big.

In this case, the production workshop is certainly not small.

Many products have not been completed at all, and after production, they still need to go through a period of debugging and testing. Only after the products are qualified can they be packaged and sold.

In this case, Zhao Mancang can't just take these parts away and test them himself, right?

"It's careless!"

"Forget it, let's not buy the computer for now. Let's talk about it next time."

Zhao Mancang still did not implement the zero-dollar purchase strategy, but Adam refused to return his $500,000 deposit, so this matter was definitely not over.

So, after leaving IBM, Zhao Mancang went to look for Adam Robert.

As a sales manager, Adam definitely needs to run around. It took Zhao Mancang two days to confirm that the other party was actually appearing at the Northrop Research and Technology Center.

Zhao Mancang was not very familiar with the Northrop Research and Technology Center, but he knew something about Northrop Grumman.

In the history of the original time and space, in 1994, Northrop Corporation acquired Grumman Corporation, and eventually they were combined into Northrop Grumman Corporation.

Northrop Corporation is an aircraft manufacturing company. One of its founders is John Northrop, nicknamed Jack Northrop. Although he is not as technically advanced as Lockheed Martin, he is also a very good aeronautical engineer in the North American aviation industry.

Adam came to this place, of course, to promote IBM computers.

However, after Zhao Mancang came here, he originally wanted to take advantage of the fact that Adam was alone to get rid of him, but unexpectedly he met Eric, a technical director of Northrop Research and Technology Center.

Eric and Adam were very engaged in the conversation, because the former needed a computer from IBM but didn't want to pay so much money, and at the same time wanted to make some money, while the latter wanted to get some kickbacks, and the two parties hit it off.

The two colluded with each other and finalized their plan, so Zhao Mancang stopped eavesdropping.

When they left for the parking lot, Zhao Mancang took advantage of the fact that no one was around and knocked the two men unconscious from behind, then took the opportunity to drive them away.

During this process, Zhao Mancang found some technical information about the Pratt & Whitney J58 engine in Eric's handbag.

If Zhao Mancang remembers correctly, isn't the Pratt & Whitney J58 engine the engine on the Blackbird reconnaissance aircraft?

How could this thing actually appear in the handbag of Eric, the director of the Northrop Research and Technology Center? And even be taken out and shown around outside?
You have to know that such engine technical information, even though it is just a sketch, the data inside has not been completely finalized. It is also confidential information. How can it be brought out so openly?

Zhao Mancang didn’t think too much about it. Since he had encountered it, he just pretended not to see it.

It is almost impossible for Zhao Mancang to get such engine technical data.

Not to mention that the Pratt & Whitney J58 engine is still under development, even if it has been developed, he cannot get the technical data.

It's useless even if we get it. We can't produce it in our country in a short period of time. It will take at least 10 to 20 years, or even longer.

Because the Blackbird reconnaissance aircraft still cannot fly at three times the speed of sound, but the Pratt & Whitney J58 engine has a unique variable cycle design, this engine nacelle contributes most of the thrust during Mach cruise.

The Pratt & Whitney J-58 engine is the world's first dual-cycle engine. It is a standard afterburning turbojet engine at subsonic and transonic speeds. When the speed reaches about Mach 58, the J becomes a ramjet engine.

This kind of technical equipment is simply not an engine technology that our country can master in a short period of time. It is too advanced.

Instead of aiming too high, it is better to keep your feet on the ground.

But it seems that it won’t work if Zhao Mancang pretends not to see anything.

It will definitely not work if we don't make things a little more difficult for Sam.

"Fuck, let Eric go see Satan!"

Zhao Mancang thought about it and made a decision.

A technical director may seem insignificant, but in fact he still has a certain influence.

Although Sam has a lot of talented people, it doesn't really have that many technical directors with amazing technical skills, right?

After taking care of Adam and Eric, Zhao Mancang left the scene of the car accident with satisfaction.

There were actually several checks in Adam's handbag, including a check for $500,000 that Zhao Mancang had given to the other party before.

The other checks together amounted to about $200,000.

"Fuck, this bastard is not going to take the $500,000 for himself, right?"

Thinking of this, Zhao Mancang became even angrier. If he had known earlier, he should have killed the other party on the spot last time.

If people are too greedy, they will eventually hurt themselves.

Zhao Mancang left the scene and returned to Los Angeles.

He rented several warehouses in Los Angeles and hired two local white people in each warehouse to help guard the warehouse and receive parts shipped from factories across North America.

Machine tools, food, accelerators, etc., these are things that our country urgently needs at present, so it is right to purchase them in large quantities.

This way, he wouldn't have to go through so much trouble to sign for the goods himself.

However, when Zhao Mancang arrived at the warehouse to receive the machine tools, two policemen came there.

To be precise, it was Agent Fobole, who came to investigate the whereabouts of the machine tools.

"Are you the warehouse owner?"

Randall, one of the Forbole agents, frowned at Zhao Mancang and spoke condescendingly in an interrogative tone:

"We've received a report that your warehouse contains a large number of machine tools of various models produced by factories across the country, as well as machine tool production lines. What are you planning to do?"

report?

Zhao Mancang raised his eyebrows when he heard this. He really didn't know about this.

At this time, the two white warehouse keepers who were supposed to be in the warehouse were nowhere to be found.

The system space did not receive any relevant experience value prompts, so Zhao Mancang did not know what exactly happened.

However, knowing that he owns a warehouse and receives products such as machine tools, it should be the two warehouse managers.

"Could it be those two people who reported it?"

He might have the answer in his mind, but Zhao Mancang had no way to deal with that matter and could only deal with the matter at hand first.

"This is a trade secret. Should I tell you that I collected these machine tools to study their technology, improve them, and then surpass other brands?"

Randall sneered when he heard this:
"We're currently investigating a smuggling case. You've collected so many machine tools and related production lines, and you might even have acquired the relevant technology. Haha, and you're still saying you're not trying to smuggle? Just surrender. Once we get back to the interrogation room, you'll behave yourself."

Although Zhao Mancang was disguised as an old white man at this time, and not Chinese or his original appearance, he was still treated specially by Fo Bole.

This is fucked up!
(End of this chapter)