"Haha, Mr. Jiang, you must be joking." Elder Ye laughed. "If Mr. Jiang is just a businessman, then how would the thousands of businessmen in the world feel?"
Jiang Chen smiled and didn't respond. He raised his hand slightly and gestured for Elder Ye to sit.
"It's not appropriate to stand and talk. Elder Ye, please take a seat first."
The three sat down at the table in the reception room. The waiter poured tea for Jiang Chen, Elder Ye, and Ye Yunfei respectively and then respectfully retreated to the side. Ye Yunfei professionally took out a notebook and pen from her briefcase and prepared to record the meeting.
Seeing Jiang Chen sitting there alone, Elder Ye was slightly surprised. Although it was a private visit, the matter to be discussed later was related to the cooperation between the two countries after all. Jiang Chen's attitude was still a bit too informal.
Out of kindness, Elder Ye reminded him.
"Doesn't Mr. Jiang need an assistant to record the meeting?"
"My assistant has arrived." Jiang Chen smiled and pointed to the watch on his left hand and said in a relaxed tone.
Elder Ye was slightly taken aback and didn't understand what he meant. Ye Yunfei, who was sitting next to him, looked at Jiang Chen with a hint of disappointment. The demeanor he showed just now made her slightly approve of him, but now that she saw how he treated this high-level negotiation like a joke, the positive image he built up in her mind was instantly smashed back to its original form.
Jiang Chen didn't pay attention to Ye Yunfei's thoughts, but he saw through the confusion on Elder Ye's face.
Obviously, the old man didn't understand the meaning of what he just said.
Thinking of this, Jiang Chen smiled and reached out to click on the watch. The blue light and shadow crisscrossed around the watch and weaved into a three-dimensional holographic bust of a woman. Looking at the dumbfounded Elder Ye and Ye Yunfei, Artificial Intelligence Jean nodded slightly.
"Jean, that's my name."
Elder Ye looked at everything that happened in front of him, dumbfounded. Although he had heard about the holographic technology of Future Technology, it was far less shocking than seeing it with his own eyes. The expression on Ye Yunfei's face at the moment wasn't any better. Although the Future phone she used also had its own holographic imaging function, it couldn't achieve this level.
"Ms. Jean is my personal assistant."
"She is …"
"It's artificial intelligence." Jiang Chen smiled.
Elder Ye nodded. He had already recovered from the initial shock. He smiled gently and said, "Artificial intelligence? If it weren't for Mr. Jiang's reminder, I would have treated Miss Yiling as a real person. No wonder Future Technology is at the forefront of the world's technology. The things you bring out always surprise us. "
In the early days, Jiang Chen's Future Technology designed a drone system for the military. To this day, the military still praised the system with almost no obvious bugs. The Dragon II high-altitude drone developed by China was able to maximize its performance with the help of this intelligent control system.
Today, when Elder Ye saw the artificial intelligence "Jane" that was almost no different from a real person, he couldn't help but sigh secretly.
It seemed that he had underestimated him back then.
"You're flattering me." Jiang Chen smiled. "Let's get to the point."
Elder Ye nodded, and the smile on his face gradually disappeared, replaced by a serious expression.
"Since Mr. Jiang has said so, then I won't beat around the bush. I came to Xin to visit you this time because of your recently completed space elevator. Although Hua's space activities are not frequent and the market size is quite limited, we are quite interested in the amazing technology you have demonstrated. "
"So, what is your proposal?" Jiang Chen smiled.
Elder Ye cleared his throat and smiled kindly.
"We hope to cooperate closely with you in the development of space resources. After internal discussions, the cooperation plan we have developed is that we will establish a Hua Space Resources Development Company. With a 50-year period, we will sign an elevator track lease agreement with the other party to lease two cargo and passenger elevator tracks for space resource development purposes. "
Lease? Two tracks each?
Jiang Chen was really amazed by Elder Ye's proposal.
Although he didn't expect to have any results on the first day, Old Man Ye's proposal was a bit too wild and imaginative. There were a total of twelve passenger and cargo tracks in the space elevator. You want four, how could we agree!
In fact, Elder Ye couldn't be blamed for coming up with such a proposal. After all, this was a plan developed by senior officials. Currently, space activities in various countries were not very frequent. Although they were optimistic about the prospects of space resource development, no one could estimate this prospect accurately.
Seeing that Jiang Chen didn't speak, Elder Ye thought he was thinking, so he paused and then added.
"The price is negotiable. The number you gave is within a reasonable range."
"If you have any dissatisfaction with the cooperation plan we came up with, please point it out, and we can discuss it slowly."
The silence lasted for a long time at the tea table.
Ye Yunfei's pen stopped writing and frowned at Jiang Chen, who didn't say a word. In her opinion, the conditions proposed by her grandfather were already quite generous, and he even came to Xin to discuss this matter. She didn't understand what he was dissatisfied with.
After a moment of silence, Jiang Chen opened his mouth but didn't speak.
In the end, he sighed and broke the silence in the reception room.
"It seems that we can only discuss it slowly."
When Elder Ye heard Jiang Chen's words, he frowned slightly.
"Oh? It seems that Mr. Jiang has a lot of dissatisfaction with the agreement. You might as well bring up the differences between us — "
"For the agreement itself, we have a lot of differences." Jiang Chen leaned back in the chair and spread his hands. "Celestial Trade has never planned to lease the space elevator, even one of the tracks. We are willing to provide cheap outer space transportation services to all countries, and this is the only service we sell at present. "
There were only twelve tracks in total, six for freight and six for passenger. There were five permanent members. If you rented four, he rented four. If this continued, the space elevator built by Celestial Trade wouldn't be enough. Celestial Trade would never lease the tracks in any form, and they absolutely couldn't open this door.
Jiang Chen's words made Elder Ye's expression slightly stiff.
Just as Jiang Chen didn't expect them to propose a lease agreement, he also didn't expect Jiang Chen to refuse so decisively. In his opinion, this plan developed by the central government was quite fair to them.
However, Elder Ye didn't lose his temper. After all, he still knew that he was negotiating with a foreign company.
However, just as he was about to speak, Ye Yunfei, who had been taking notes, suddenly spoke.
"I don't know if Mr. Jiang is aware of one thing. The United Nations is currently preparing to hold a high-level summit on the development of outer space?"
"Yunfei!" The old man glared at his granddaughter and motioned her to shut up.
However, this time Ye Yunfei didn't admit defeat. Instead, she stared at Jiang Chen and tried to detect a trace of fear from his pupils.
This was a negotiation skill taught to her by her teacher.
At the negotiating table, there was only one way to expand one's advantage, that was to seize the opponent's weakness and force the opponent to make concessions on non-core interests. How to seize the opponent's weakness depended on the bargaining chips in both sides' hands and the art of negotiation.
Although she was the second daughter of the Ye family and lived a life with a golden spoon in the eyes of others, she never thought it was something to be envious of. She received an aristocratic education from an early age, and her fate was already determined when she grew up. For the benefit of the family, she would marry a strange man and spend a lifetime with someone she didn't love …
She originally thought that with a master's degree from Harvard, she could escape this destined fate. However, when she returned to China, she accidentally heard that her father planned to marry her to the disappointing youngest son of the Zhou family. She almost fell into despair.
She didn't want to be a puppet at the mercy of the family and let her fate be dictated by the family. And if she wanted to do this, if she wanted to obtain real freedom, she must achieve enough results to prove herself and prove that her ability was far more than just a tool for political marriage!
The results here didn't refer to TOEFL, SAT, or Harvard degree certificates. For a prestigious family like the Ye family, these titles were just titles. And the reason why she begged her grandfather to take her to Xin and participate in the negotiations as an assistant was to prove herself!
Forcing Jiang Chen to make concessions in the negotiations and gaining an advantage for the country in the originally deadlocked negotiations. What else could prove her ability better than this?
What's more, in her opinion, it was too easy.
She didn't see any elite qualities or knowledge from Jiang Chen. Although he was calm when talking to her grandfather, it was just the arrogance of a newborn calf not afraid of a tiger.
He had neither received a top-notch education, nor had he been influenced by any high-level culture. Even if he was placed in the position of the chairman of a company with a market value of hundreds of billions, he was just a simple-minded nouveau riche. If it weren't for a group of capable subordinates, would he have achieved what he has today?
Thinking of this, a victorious smile appeared on Ye Yunfei's face.
"Hua is one of the permanent members. Mr. Jiang should be very clear about what this means. In addition, the conditions we can give are definitely more favorable than the UA. I believe that if it wasn't us who came to negotiate, but the UA, I'm afraid they wouldn't be asking for a lease. "
Ye Yunfei didn't say anything else and just looked at Jiang Chen with a smile.
The stakes had been clarified, and in her opinion, she already had victory in her hands.
However, she was destined to be disappointed.
Not only did Jiang Chen not show the slightest fear, but he also looked at her with some playfulness.
"So?"
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