Xiaomi Heavy Industry, its first entrepreneurial venture!

Chapter 385 I'm not good at... (First update!)

"Isn't that an exaggeration?" Unlike the flustered Cao Bin, Lin Yi remained calm. He'd been working on the aircraft carrier for so long; if the major research institutes were willing to hand over their tasks, he, Lin Yi, would immediately...

Before he could finish reciting his vow, he saw the name on the document in his hand.

[Aircraft Carrier Support Compartment Planning]

Upon seeing the name of the file, Lin Yi's eyelids twitched, but his good manners stopped him from uttering a curse.

As he opened the document, he finally understood that aircraft carrier support was the main content of the plan.

The core objective is to ensure the daily life of the personnel on board. In the subsequent catalog, it is mainly divided into three major sections: living area, storage area, and medical area.

The core challenge of this plan is that aircraft carriers have limited power output, coupled with limited internal space.

While ensuring sufficient dormitory areas, activity areas must be reduced. However, this is an aircraft carrier, carrying soldiers. Soldiers must have areas to move around in, and these areas must be large enough to accommodate enough people for daily training.

This is a planning issue, and it shouldn't be the responsibility of Xiaomi Heavy Industry at all. The only part of this huge document that could be related to Xiaomi Heavy Industry is those home appliances.

The rest has absolutely nothing to do with Xiaomi Heavy Industry!

Reaching for the pen, Lin Yu quickly signed his comments on the document directory:

I'm not good at planning!

After writing his comments and setting the document aside, Lin Yi was about to speak when a new document was placed in front of him.

[Weapon defense system...]

Lin Yi didn't want to take the documents, but Cao Bin's eyes were bright; his dark eyes sparkled with restlessness and excitement.

"What are you getting so worked up about!" Lin Yi casually took the document and opened it. As soon as he saw the words at the beginning, he immediately raised his hand and slapped himself.

nerve!

[Proximity Defense System: Refer to America MK15 Phalanx Close-In Weapon System]

Requirements: The close-in weapon system must have a caliber of 25 mm or higher and a rate of fire of more than 1 rounds per minute.

Armor-piercing shells and proximity-fused high-explosive shells can be used.

Equipped with fire control radar, it features a full range of infrared and electro-optical tracking systems, enabling it to lock onto targets via radar, infrared tracking, and electro-optical tracking.

It can effectively intercept anti-ship missiles, drones, and small surface boats.

After reading the document, Lin Yi casually closed it again, rested his chin on the document, and pondered for a moment. This thing was not difficult for him, and it wouldn't even cost too much money.

Moreover, with the system's 500% performance boost, the close-in weapon system's lethality will increase several levels.

The problem is that, if I remember correctly, the classic close-in weapon system in China has already been developed and is undergoing testing.

There's really no need for me to interfere.

Thinking of all this, he stopped flipping through the contents, closed the document, picked up his pen, and wrote another string of words on the cover.

I am not skilled with weapons!

Seeing Lin Yi put the weapon system-related documents back on the table, the light in Cao Bin's eyes slowly faded, finally turning into a look of regret.

A fleeting hint of regret crossed his mind, and he picked up two new documents and handed them to Lin Yi:

"This is information on the communication and radar systems. I've taken a look, and there are some special materials and parts that we can manufacture and process."

"Aside from these things, I don't recommend getting involved in the rest."

Lin Yi opened the document and scanned it from beginning to end at an extremely fast speed. The contents of the document were indeed the same as what Cao Bin had said.

Among these documents are parts with special requirements that Xiaomi Heavy Industry can process.

The problem is that the quantity of each part is too small, making it too unprofitable to put on the production line; the only option is to use people.

However, the total number of parts requiring special processing is too large, and there are not enough people.

Irritability!

The pen nib touched the document again, and with a scratching sound, a line of text appeared on the document.

I am only skilled at machining specialized parts!

The document then fell back into Cao Bin's hands, along with an instruction:
"Take some time, take Liao Xiangjun or Wang Bo, and visit all the schools that have relevant majors, and recruit more people."

"After you recruit them, you should assign them to their assigned tasks so as not to interfere with other work."

Putting aside those mysterious documents, the next ones finally showcase Xiaomi Heavy Industry's strengths.

That is, the manufacturing of large special alloy parts.

[Aircraft carrier flight deck!]

[Ski jump deck!]

[Hangar deck!]

Hydraulic lift!

Unlike the previous documents, the overviews of these documents mention the relevant research progress.

Each research institute is in a state of alternation between success and failure.

They are using the most basic method, namely exhaustive search, to improve materials, processing techniques, and testing methods.

Maybe with a bit of luck, I'll succeed next time.

Maybe I'll be unlucky, but next time, next time, who knows how many next times I'll succeed.

Picking up his pen, Lin Yi wrote his comments on the cover without hesitation:

I'm skilled at building these big machines!

In just over 10 minutes, he wrote his comments on all the project documents that Xiaomi Heavy Industry could participate in.

After writing his comments, he casually opened the system he hadn't used in a long time, created a new project called Aircraft Carrier 001, and then imported all the requirements from these documents into the system.

Instead of choosing to conduct research and development directly, he casually closed the system panel, bent down to organize the files, and then handed the files back to Cao Bin.

If the records in these documents are correct, then these research institutes have a lot of obsolete cases.

These filings are not very useful to those research institutes, but for themselves, they can save a lot of money.

Find a way to get it and use it.

At worst, I'll treat them to soy milk, West Lake fish in vinegar sauce, and snails!
As Cao Bin was tidying up the documents, Lin Yi whispered a reminder:

"For projects we cannot participate in, we should return the documents and apologize to Mr. Tan Chuan."

"As for the projects we can participate in, you should explain to Mr. Tan that we need some preliminary information to solidify our direction."

"If we have preliminary data to guide our direction, we can move much faster!"

Cao Bin finished tidying up the documents, nodded, and said, "I understand, I'll go arrange it right away!"

After seeing Cao Bin off, Lin Yi shook his slightly dizzy head, stood up, pressed his temples with both hands, moved to the French window, and looked out the window to relieve the soreness in his eyes from looking at the computer for a long time.

With its base already established in the Middle East, all that's left is to develop gradually to further solidify its roots.

The next step is to expand the customer base.

While weapons and equipment are profitable, the potential customer base is limited. Aside from the Middle East, most potential customers are in Africa; the Americas are out of the question, Europe is irrelevant, and Oceania is completely out of the question.

But the red soil of Africa is filled with words like ingratitude, fickleness, and discarding one's usefulness.

If it's just selling ordinary goods and the profits aren't enough to make the locals envious, then everything is fine.

However, if the goods sold are slightly more upscale and the profits earned are slightly higher, it is enough to make the locals envious.

At that time, trouble will come knocking!
Moreover, although the products he was selling were civilian goods, they were actually military-grade, which would be more likely to cause trouble.

After much deliberation, Lin Yi decided to put aside the expansion into the African market and adjust his plans, focusing on completing the aircraft carrier development project while enriching his own portfolio.

After standing in front of the floor-to-ceiling window for a while, he took out his phone, found Lei Jun's contact information, and dialed the number.

Lei Jun was probably playing on his phone; the call was answered after only two seconds of ringing.

"Mr. Lin? Is something the matter? Or do you have something fun you'd like to take us to do?"

Fun places to go?
Lin Yi tilted his head and thought for a moment. He was seriously considering whether to find an opportunity to send Lei Jun to Africa to work in the mines for a few days.

The thought flashed through his mind, and with his left hand pressed against his temple, he asked the question he had made the call for: "How's your crappy phone doing?"

As soon as Lin Yi shifted the topic to the phone, a clanging and banging sound immediately came from the receiver.

Immediately afterwards, Lei Jun's voice rang out: "Keep doing it, keep doing it!"

"In another two months, our overall plan will be finalized."

"At that time, we can ask you to help us get a few prototypes for testing."

It will take more than two months.

The progress is going reasonably well!

Once smartphones with certain performance capabilities become widely available, some software can catch up.

Especially the cooperation with Lin'an...

Thinking of the cooperation with Lin'an, Lin Yi gently tapped the phone case with his right index fingernail. The tapping sound was transmitted to the other end through the microphone.

The sounds from the other end gradually subsided, leaving only heavy breathing.

In this oppressive atmosphere, Lin Yi lowered his voice and asked:

"Where's Zhang Yiming, whom I asked you to find?"

The next second, Lei Jun's aggrieved voice came through the receiver: "That guy is now completely absorbed in his website. I've tried to meet him several times, but he just won't come out."

"Then the CEO of 360 next door, that big-eyed sly guy, knew that I went to see Zhang Yiming, so he secretly went to Zhang Yiming and whispered in his ear that I was planning to go against them and steal their business."

“Zhang Yiming has been avoiding me. I haven’t even had a chance to tell him that the person he really wants to see is not me, but you.”

"I don't even know what I've been busy with!"

Listening to Lei Jun's protests, Lin Yi suddenly remembered a joke he had seen in his previous life.

Lei Jun and the CEO of 360 challenged each other to a fight, and there are even photos of it online. It's just unknown whether they actually ended up fighting.

He sighed and spoke into the phone again:
"Contact Zhang Yiming again and ask him if he wants to control public opinion worldwide!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Lei Jun's deep voice came through the receiver: "I want to too! Do you have some great project going on behind my back?"

The voice was full of grievance, like that of a resentful woman who had been abandoned.

Lin Yi moved the phone away, and only after the sound from the other end did he put the receiver to his mouth: "Hurry up and fix your phone, that thing is a blue ocean."

"My plans can only proceed more smoothly once your phone is working properly."

"When the time comes, the two of us will be invincible when we join forces!"

"Good, good, good! When we join forces, we're invincible!" Lei Jun repeated this twice on the other end, and when he found that Lin Yi had no further questions, he made an excuse to hang up the phone.

Standing by the French windows for a while, holding the phone that had just been hung up, Lin Yi then found Gao Jin's contact information and sent him a message.

Send me a list of all existing store locations and their numbers across the country to my office; I need it.

After sending the message, he looked up and caught a glimpse of movement in the guardhouse out of the corner of his eye. He tilted his head to look over and found that someone was being blocked at the door by Han Shunfa and his men.

They were too far away to hear the noise from the scene, and they couldn't determine what was going on.

After glancing at it for a few seconds, Lin Yi looked away and returned to his desk to continue working.

Just over ten minutes later, a series of hurried footsteps sounded outside the door, followed by a knock on the door. Han Shunfa's voice rang out immediately after the knocking:

"Boss, a foreigner has come to the door and says he wants to see you."

“I asked him what it was about, but he didn’t say anything except a name, and he said that if I heard that name, I would definitely see him.”

"That name seems to be Dmitri Brown."

Snapped!
Lin Yi paused in his typing and shouted towards the person outside the door:

"What the hell did you say?"

"Dmitri Brown?"

As he shouted, he jumped up from the leather chair, rushed to the door, opened it, and stared intently at Han Shunfa.

This was the first time Han Shunfa had seen Lin Yi like this, so he quickly nodded: "Yes, Dmitri Brown!"

With a clear and resonant voice, he pronounced the name precisely.

Upon hearing the name again, Lin Yi slowly closed his eyes, turned around, and walked towards his desk.

Chinese people value accuracy, elegance, and expressiveness, and this habit is reflected in the translation of names when interacting with foreigners.

This habit was considered a very bad habit in the professional field in earlier years.

However, this habit is a good one when translating people's names.

Because a faithful, elegant, and appropriate translation means that the name will not be repeated, the tone can also be used when pronouncing the name to distinguish some names that may be the same in common translations.

Just like now, Han Shunfa pronounced the name Dmitri Brown with ease and great accuracy.

Then there is only one possibility: the foreigner who arrived spoke Mandarin when telling him the name.

In this world, the only person who has any connection to her and is associated with this name is America, that damned deputy director of the CIA, Dmitry Brown.

In other words, the guy who appeared at the door is connected to that guy.

The fact that the other party dared to appear here suggests that they might even be one of Dmitry Brown's confidants.

Lin Yi closed his eyes and began to think about Dmitry's purpose in sending people over, but after thinking for a long time, he still couldn't come up with an answer.

The only answer is that the guy decided to behead himself, to deliver a decapitation strike amidst a sea of ​​enemies.

Thinking of this possibility, Lin Yi opened his eyes, smiled, and beckoned Han Shunfa to him:

"Go and bring that guy over, but before you do, take him to the security office's shower room and scrub him from head to toe!"

"Change his clothes!"

"Leave his belongings outside the door, and whatever you do, don't let him bring them in!"

(End of this chapter)