The first day of negotiation ended on a pleasant note.
When he returned to the hotel, Wu Weiyu immediately called his boss. The next day, Victoria Construction Company transferred two engineering ships, two reconnaissance helicopters, and a professional construction team from the Xiangjiang headquarters. They circled around the waters near Pannu Island several times to investigate the seabed structure and outline the construction route.
Three days later, Victoria Construction Company produced a macro design plan and determined the length and route of the project, as well as a reference budget. Wu Weiyu immediately took a stack of documents five centimeters thick and found Jiang Chen.
"This is the plan our company came up with. The tunnel starts from Jialin Island at the northernmost tip of Pannu Islands, passes through Coro Island, ends at Ange Island, and connects to the other six islands through branch roads. The tunnel uses a transparent graphene shell and is 319 kilometers long with twelve lanes in both directions. Driving in the tunnel is like driving on the bottom of the sea! The engineering concept is here. I bet that the Pannu Undersea Highway will leave its name in the history of modern architecture! "Wu Weiyu was excited as he patted his chest and swore to Jiang Chen.
The fully transparent undersea tunnel would not only serve as the transportation hub of Xin, but it would also become a world-famous tourist attraction with a length of 319 kilometers. Attracted by the lights, fish would inhabit the vicinity of the undersea pipeline. Enjoying the trip to Pannu while looking at the beautiful scenery outside the window, it was a rare enjoyment.
Jiang Chen took the design plan from Wu Weiyu's hand, flipped through it, and nodded with satisfaction.
It seemed that he had a good eye for talent. Victoria Construction Company was indeed capable of this project.
"How much is the project cost?"
"The graphene pipeline used for construction will be provided by Future Heavy Industries and will not be included in the project cost. Our engineers' budget for this undersea tunnel is 10.17 billion US Dollar, no more than 12 billion US Dollar. "
The average cost per kilometer was around 200-300 million RMB, which was quite cheap. Including the cost of Future Heavy Industries, the graphene material used for the project would only be 500 million US Dollar.
"Very good, I'll leave this project to you. I'll send technicians from Future Heavy Industries to temporarily join your project team as technical consultants for the graphene material." Jiang Chen signed the letter of intent and handed it back to Wu Weiyu. "Give the contract to my CEO before tomorrow, and construction will start the day after tomorrow. Can you do that?"
"No problem!" Wu Weiyu said immediately.
"Then let's go." Jiang Chen smiled.
Just after Wu Weiyu left, Future Group also completed the registration of a subsidiary called "Pannu Seabed High Speed Management Company" and injected 15 billion USD into the subsidiary. The next day, Victoria Construction Company sent a contract, and the subsidiary signed the contract for the Undersea Expressway project.
At this point, the 12 billion USD project had officially begun!
Tens of billions had just been invested in the space elevator, and now 15 billion US Dollar was invested in the submarine highway. Under normal circumstances, Future Group certainly wouldn't be able to squeeze out so much liquidity.
But now, Jiang Chen didn't have so many concerns. Since the establishment of Future Bank, it had 22.49 million depositors, and the total amount of deposits converted to 192.1 billion USD based on the exchange rate. After half a month of tightening lending, it would not be a problem to squeeze 15 billion from Future Bank for Future Group's blood transfusion!
Jiang Chen no longer had to worry about liquidity. Only with sufficient blood flowing through the veins could Future Group, the business behemoth, begin its expansion and transform the world at a faster speed!
Of course, the premise was that there were no major operational mistakes.
On the other hand, Future Bank was in the process of going public. If there were no accidents, it should successfully land on the New York Stock Exchange in mid-May and issue 30% of the shares. According to the news returned by the CEO of Future Bank, Future Bank was now in the asset review stage. With this 15 billion loan, Future Bank could increase the P/E ratio of Future Bank and earn more money from the hands of the UA.
Just after Jiang Chen dealt with the undersea tunnel, three more good news came from Future Technology.
The first good news was that Virtual Image Animation Production Company had completed the modeling of the planet Gliese 581g. Based on the data sponsored by the International Astronomical Organization, the surface environment of Gliese 581g was restored in a 1: 1 ratio.
As a result, "Time Curtain" would enter the second phase of filming. With the help of powerful virtual reality processing technology, Director Nolan would display his unconstrained imagination and show the collision between two "homologous but heterogeneous" civilizations to the audience!
To be honest, although Jiang Chen had read the script, he was still looking forward to what kind of shocking film Nolan would bring to the audience on the screen this time.
At the same time, he sincerely wished his friend could realize his dream and become the first director to win the Academy Award for Best Film.
The second good news came from VRcity. After several months of hard work, the game development department of Future Technology, after integrating the famous Maxis Game Production Company and the designers of R Star Studio, completed the production of the beta version of VRcity.
Although it was only a beta version, the program already had the scale of a city. Satellite images of Shangjing, Wanghai, New York, London, Paris and other major cities taken by the Sky Eye X1 satellite were analyzed and composed by a smart program. More than a hundred technicians completed the modeling of VRcity.
In addition to the rich infrastructure, there were tens of thousands of architectural plans for users to choose from, and a new city mission system designed by R Star. While filling the social needs of users, it also provided a wealth of game content for users.
At present, VRcity had opened a total of 100,000 slots to users in many countries around the world for internal testing of this social media software. If there were no major problems after the test, this VRcity would be logged into the Phantom Helmet in the fall for users to download on their own.
Jiang Chen was very satisfied with this VRcity. The CEO of Future Technology, Ning Huajian, perfectly restored his original vision.
The only regret was that the GTA7 he had been looking forward to might be delayed indefinitely.
Future Group poached 17 employees of R Star in a brutal way, causing the development of the entire GTA7 to come to a standstill. When Jiang Chen made this decision, he was very hesitant.
From Sin City, he had always been a loyal player of the GTA series. But now, this series was ruined in his hands, which was a regrettable thing.
But regret was regret, the decision that had to be made couldn't be taken lightly.
Now that he thought about it, he still couldn't help but shake his head. If Take-Two agreed to sell R Star at that time, then he wouldn't have to poach people. If he poached the entire R Star, with the technical strength of Future Technology, he could create a sequel of GTA based entirely on the VR platform.
Committing crimes in a completely restored real New York, fighting with gangsters and drug dealers, racing with police cars, experiencing the real version of Fast and Furious … Just thinking about it was exciting!
He just didn't know if the crimes that were too realistic would increase the crime rate in reality.
This was not something Jiang Chen could predict.
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