Xiaomi Heavy Industry, its first entrepreneurial venture!

Chapter 239 No Other Choice! (Second Update!)

After thinking things through, Sale looked at Lin Yi again:

"Are you sure you want to invest in Talison and Galaxy Resources?"

When asked by Saler, Lin Yi shook his head: "It's not an investment! It's an acquisition!"

"According to my initial idea, I did want to invest."

“I don’t have that much money. I just need to get a share to secure my own mineral supply.”

"But now that we have money, and with you all by our side, I've adjusted my plan. I'm going to acquire both companies at once and then use them to gain control of the mining rights for those lithium mines."

After hearing Lin Yi's explanation, Salle subconsciously turned to look at Rabia, hoping to get more information from his servant.

Beside him, Rabia received Sall's signal. He lowered his head, reviewed some of the data he had seen over the past few days in his mind, then closed his eyes and softly recited the data:
Before this round of stock price surge, Talison's market value was approximately $2.3 million.

"In contrast, Galaxy Resources, which is smaller than them, has a market value of only about $1.8 million."

"At the peak of this round of stock price surge, Talison's market value once soared to $28 billion, while Galaxy Resources' market value only soared to around $11 billion."

"But because of the series of information released by Mr. Lin, and his quick withdrawal."

"In the past two days, the market value of these two companies has fallen to a normal to high level."

"Talison's current market value is around $4 million. If some of the inflated figures are removed, the market value will drop further."

"Galaxy Resources' market capitalization is around $2.7 million."

"Based on the amount of US dollars Mr. Lin has, he is indeed capable of acquiring both companies simultaneously."

"Moreover, because of stock speculation during the stock price surge, several shareholders of these two companies are now in deep trouble."

"As long as Mr. Lin acts quickly enough, acquiring these two companies will not be a problem at all."

These words immediately caught Sall's attention.

He frowned, turned to Lin Yi, and asked, "If you can acquire it independently, why bring us along?"

Lin Yi didn't respond, but simply nodded his chin at Labia.

Rabia received the signal, cleared his throat, and continued explaining:
"According to Australian policy, foreign capital is not allowed to control this type of mining company."

"A complete project requires the participation of two companies simultaneously."

"They don't care which company is more powerful; they only care about the results."

"Therefore, even if Mr. Lin acquires these two companies on his own, according to Australian law, he will still have to bring in another competing company."

"Instead of dealing with the trouble later, it's better to find a partner directly and then pretend you don't know them."

"Is that right?" Labia changed the last sentence to a question.

Upon hearing the question, Lin Yi gave a thumbs up: "That's right."

After praising Rabia, he turned to look at Sall:
“My original idea was to work with you and Rashid, each with a company, but that guy went back to the UAE.”

"This opportunity is entirely yours."

"Would you... like to come together?"

His voice was low and gentle, but it made Salle roll his eyes.

He took two steps back and scratched his back: "What about the shareholding ratio?"

Clearly defining the equity ratio is a prerequisite for cooperation.

After all, whoever holds more shares has to do more work.

Lin Yi first raised his right thumb, then pinched his five fingers together, and then raised another finger: "I'll give you 51%, and you 49%. Once the acquisition is complete, I will provide some technology to improve mining and refining efficiency."

“I agree!” Saleh readily agreed to the terms, then turned to look at Rabia:

"I'm leaving the rest to you. No matter what you do, I just want one result."

"I haven't finished writing the acquisition proposal yet!"

Across from him, Rabia placed his right hand on his chest, bowed first to Sal, and then bowed to Lin Yi:

"Mr. Lin, don't be afraid. Whether there's an acquisition plan or not is not important!"

“We have ample funds and few restrictions, and given that they have no other choice, I think it’s only a matter of time before we reach an agreement on this cooperation.”

Hearing his confidence, Lin Yi didn't press further. Beside him, Salle waved his hand: "Then go ahead and get busy. If you don't finish by then, you'll be in big trouble."

After waving Rabia away, Salle turned back, nodded to Lin Yi, and asked curiously:
"I have a question. You said the other day that you were preparing something fun."

"You said it's something we'd really like. Can you tell me what it is?"

“You’ll like it!” Lin Yi didn’t choose to respond directly. Instead, he picked up the documents left by Rabia, tore off two pages, and started folding paper airplanes.

Two or three minutes later, the paper airplane was folded.

He held the paper airplane in front of his eyes, breathed on it, and then threw it away.

The window was open, and as soon as the paper airplane was thrown out, it encountered the wind blowing in through the window, wobbled around in the air, and then landed back in front of the two of them.

Before it even landed, Lin Yi grabbed it again and tossed it into the air once more.

Saller watched all of his actions, and after watching for a while, he asked in surprise and doubt, "A drone?"

The next second, the question was replaced by a cry of surprise. The Saudi prince grabbed the paper airplane that had been blown back by the wind, handed it to Lin Yi, and continued to scream:

"A drone! It's a drone, isn't it?"

Before the person in front of him could speak, he started spinning around in place: "I knew it! So you're making drones."

He spun around twice, tossed the paper airplane into the air, then chased after it in a few steps, grabbed it, and returned to Lin Yi.
"You're absolutely right. If it's a drone, then we really like it and want one!"

"but……"

His excited words paused, the smile on Saller's face vanished, leaving only a serious expression: "If it's just for fun, we don't need it."

The words were serious, but they didn't have much effect on Lin Yi. He folded another paper airplane, threw it, and tilted his head to look at Saler:
Do you have a choice?

"You have no choice!"

“If you had a choice, you wouldn’t have come here to me, nor would you have taken a liking to someone like me.”

"Instead, we should be in the Middle East, undermining America's position."

After saying these words, Lin Yi turned and walked to his office computer, found the modeling images in the drone data, and clicked print.

The printer creaked and groaned, and after a short while, it produced another printed image.

But this printer only prints in black and white.

Therefore, the printed image quality is not good; one can only make out that the image is a quadcopter drone by looking at the different shades of black.

After looking at the picture for a while, Lin Yi handed it to Sale.

"We don't have drones like the Reaper MQ9 yet; for now, we only have this little thing."

"Maximum load capacity 7.5 kg, supports image transmission up to 100 km." "Now, do you want this?"

Swah——

Saller snatched the A4 paper with the picture on it, examined the little thing on it closely, and finally looked up, as if to confirm:
"Are you sure it can carry 7.5 kilograms? And support image transmission up to 100 kilometers away?"

"Confirmed!" Lin Yi nodded, snatched the A4 paper back, and then, under Saler's watchful gaze, folded the A4 paper into a paper airplane, breathed on it, and threw the paper airplane out the window.

He moved with lightning speed. By the time Saller reacted, the paper airplane had already flown out of the open window and into the distance on the late spring breeze.

A short while later, the paper airplane disappeared from Saller's sight. He closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and then turned to look at Lin Yi:
"What price do I need to pay to get this?"

Under his gaze, Lin Yi raised his left hand and gently rubbed his index finger and thumb together:
"This is all I need!"

"How long will that take?"

"The pure version only takes a few months, the full-fledged version requires a ground base station, and the pure version requires satellite launch, with a maximum image transmission range of 100 kilometers, which is the function of the pure version."

"..." Stop talking nonsense. Saler shut his mouth, sat back on the sofa and drank the cup of tea that had gone cold.

While drinking tea, he rolled his eyes at Lin Yi.

If you need to launch a satellite, why don't you just say you need to mine cryptocurrency?
After finishing his tea, he stood in front of Lin Yi again, extending his right hand:

"Give me a new copy of that picture you just showed me."

The printer creaked and groaned, and soon printed another copy of the image.

After receiving the picture, Saller examined the drone in the picture from beginning to end, memorizing all the details of the drone. Only then did he fold the A4 paper, put it in his pocket, and bid farewell to Lin Yi.

Outside the office, Rabia had already arranged the work. Seeing Lin Yi seeing Saler out, she gave Lin Yi a smile and then quickly followed Saler away.

Once in the car, before the vehicle even started, Salle handed him the paper he was holding:
"In the next couple of days, besides dealing with the acquisitions of Talison and Galaxy Resources, also keep an eye on this."

"What is this?" Labia opened the A4 paper, looked at it for a while, but found that she couldn't understand what it was.

A questioning look was cast at Saler.

After mentally organizing his thoughts, Saller explained, "Drones, Lin Yi said they're good stuff."

"But he said that with satellite support, this thing can transmit images up to 100 kilometers away."

"I need you to follow up with research institutes around the world that are conducting related research and see how they are progressing."

As the explanations were being given, Rabia looked at the A4 paper in his hand again and again, but ultimately remained silent.

He wanted to say that it was impossible.

But when he thought about the fact that the other party was Lin Yi, the CEO of Xiaomi Heavy Industry, he didn't dare to make any definitive statements.

After all, America had just gone crazy these past two days, and at the center of that madness was Lin Yi.

What if he can actually make this thing?

If I make a definitive statement now, won't I be contradicting myself later?
It hurts to be slapped in the face!
After carefully folding the paper and returning it to Salle, Rabia started the car.

"Sir, I have a somewhat immature opinion on this matter."

Saller stuffed the paper into his pocket: "Tell me your immature opinion!"

With permission granted, Labia spoke up: "To the best of our knowledge, among all drones in the world, only America's Reaper drone supports image transmission over a distance of 100 kilometers."

"I haven't heard of any other countries or research institutes that have drones that support this feature so far."

"Not to mention these small drones."

"Therefore, my advice is that there is no need to follow up. We just need to wait, and time will give us the answer."

Rabia's first few words made Sall frown, but after he finished speaking, Sall rolled his eyes and said, "You're quite philosophical."

"Since you've said that, there's no need to follow up."

"Get your team in place and have them go to Australia today to negotiate with both companies and put pressure on them."

"All four teams are my people, I refuse to believe these two companies can run away!"

…………

Perth, Western Australia, Australia.

This is Australia's fourth largest city and its most important resource and energy center.

It is also one of the world's largest transshipment ports for iron ore, gold, and natural gas.

Perth's biggest specialty is minerals, and thanks to this, the most numerous businesses in Perth are various mining companies.

They are as numerous as hairs on a cow.

Downtown, on the rooftop of Talison Corporation's headquarters, shareholder Joey sat on the parapet, a cigarette in his left hand and a bottle of liquor in his right, taking a puff of smoke and a sip of liquor, enjoying life to the fullest.

Of course, if you ignore the dozen or so people behind him, his life might actually be quite comfortable.

As he took another sip of wine, a voice suddenly rang out from the crowd standing behind him:
"If you're going to jump, then jump now, or I'll go find your family!"

"You said your company's stock will keep rising, or even if it doesn't rise, it will stay stable."

"And what happened? I put my money on your side and bought more shares at the peak."

"So you, you beast, secretly ran away. You ran away, fine, but you didn't even tell us?"

"You say you want to die, then tell me, what should I do?"

Following this man's questioning, more people stood up and began to condemn and question Joey:
"You said you would find a way to solve it, and we didn't make things difficult for you, but how did you solve it?"

"You transferred your money to your wife and took the debt upon yourself."

"We can only follow behind you and watch you live a carefree and happy life every day."

“Joey, I’m telling you now, the reason I can talk to you properly is because of my upbringing.”

“If you continue with this attitude and threaten us with jumping off a building, then I can only say that I am going to abandon my upbringing.”

The sounds behind him kept coming in one after another, which annoyed Joey. He picked up the bottle again and took a swig of liquor.

This is the last sip of wine.

After downing the last drop of liquor, Joey smashed the bottle on the rooftop, turned around, and faced the crowd:

Do you think I don't want to drag you along?

"Do you remember what you said to me when I told you to run away?"

"This price is good; it's worth holding for the long term!"

“You want to hold it long-term, so you won’t sell.”

"What about me? Do I have a choice? I can only sell!"

(End of this chapter)