Sail across the sea

Chapter 406 I was inherently superior to them

high!
It’s really high!
Gao Fan mentally gave his father a thumbs up, as he effortlessly nipped a trending topic in the bud.

Sure enough, upon hearing Gao Yiping's words, Ran Yuying, who was just about to get up to get a frying pan from the kitchen, was immediately led astray. She stared at Gao Yiping expectantly and asked:

"Really? What does that girl look like? Is she nice? Oh, right, I remember you said that Director Xu's wife is a provincial-level distinguished teacher. A family like that must have excellent upbringing..."

Gao Fan was exasperated. He said to Ran Yuying in an annoyed tone, "Mom, do you want me to go to Xinhua Bookstore tomorrow and buy you a copy of 'Shuowen Jiezi' (a dictionary of Chinese characters), the version personally revised by Su Dongpo?"

"What would I need the Shuowen Jiezi for?"

"To name my grandson."

"..."

Ran Yuying was a little confused. It seemed that what her son said made some sense, but something still felt off.

Gao Yiping said, "You're always thinking about pointless things. Xiao Fan isn't even 19 yet, why are you so worried about these things? Are you afraid your son won't be able to find a girlfriend? By the way, Xiao Fan, you just said that building a rare earth smelter would require an investment of 4000 to 5000 million yuan. How much would the fertilizer company need to invest?"

Hearing the father and son bring up serious matters again, Ran Yuying didn't want to interrupt. She also felt that it was somewhat inappropriate for her to concern herself with such trivial matters as her daughter-in-law when they were discussing a multi-million dollar project.

Hmm, who brought up the topic of daughter-in-law?

Before that, it seems everyone talked about something else. What was it...?

Gao Fan ignored his mother's emotions and said to Gao Yiping, "The province probably can't come up with the money for the smelting plant project, and I don't want the province to take on too much, because that might lead to it being ruined by a bunch of laymen."

"My idea is for the fertilizer company and the Zeyan Institute to take the lead, and then bring in the governments of the various rare earth counties under Zeshan City to participate in the investment, so that the benefits can be shared equally."

"In terms of specific investment, the fertilizer company will contribute about 1500 million yuan, accounting for 3% of the shares; Zeyan Institute will provide the main technology and will also invest 1000 million yuan through a bank loan, also accounting for 3% of the shares. Each county will invest 2500 million yuan, accounting for 3.5% of the shares. The specific allocation will be negotiated internally by them."

“3+3+3.5，这是9成5啊，还有另外0.5成呢？”高逸平问。

Gao Fan pointed to his nose: "It belongs to me, to Canghua Science and Trade. The cascade extraction technology is something that Zeyan Institute alone definitely can't master. I'm going to go to Peking University to find them external help. The expenses will be covered by Canghua Science and Trade, and the results will belong to us. In the future, this 0.5% achievement will be the technology share of Canghua Science and Trade."

Gao Yiping thought about it for a moment and felt that the plan was feasible, so he said, "The fertilizer company can't come up with 1500 million right now. The ammonium to urine conversion of the four small nitrogen fertilizer companies has started at the same time, and the money that Canghua Science and Trade lent us has been fully invested. If we want to invest in the rare earth project, we may eventually have to... borrow money from you."

"How dare you!" Ran Yuying said. "You borrowed money from your son to do government work. In my opinion, this money should have been invested directly by Canghua Science and Trade, so that the future profits would belong to Canghua Science and Trade. Xiao Fan has shares in Canghua Science and Trade."

"What are you thinking?" Gao Yiping said. "How could the government entrust such a major project as ammonium sulfate conversion to urine to a labor service company?"

"What labor service company? Xiao Fan's company is called Canghua Science and Trade, and its reputation is much better than your little fertilizer plant."

"That was also the labor service company of our small fertilizer plant. The fertilizer plant owned 60% of the shares of Canghua Science and Trade."

"Hmph, I really can't understand what you father and son have done. It's not even as good as Xiaomin's Xinglong Paint Factory. Our family still has half of the shares."

"Aren't you satisfied yet? Do you really want to be a big capitalist?" Seeing that the conversation was about to go off-topic again, Gao Fan quickly got back to the point and said to Gao Yiping, "Dad, the smelter project won't start until next year at the earliest. We can consider the money issue then. In the meantime, you can go to the government office and make some moves to create some momentum beforehand, so that the government thinks it's only natural for the fertilizer company to invest in rare earth smelting."

"What do you mean by 'natural'? I think it's just a crooked and unorthodox approach," Gao Yiping muttered, but he had already accepted his son's suggestion.

He'd made up his mind: he'd ask Xu Ying out for dinner alone next week. In his son's words, "It's all set."

After dinner, Ran Yuying cleared away the dishes to wash them. Gao Yiping sat down on his personal sofa, took a sip of tea, and asked Gao Fan, who was sitting next to him:

"Is the matter in Zeshan almost finished?"

"We're temporarily done. As long as those people aren't complete idiots, they can handle the rest themselves."

Where are you going next?

"I don't have any plans for now. I plan to go back to Cangtang to check on the company's situation and also go back to school. If I have more time, I plan to visit Shuainan. My sister said last time she came back that their business is doing well. Chen Xingquan has hinted to her several times that she should come back and ask me to help develop some new products."

Do you have any new products?

"The coatings industry is huge, and reflective coatings account for less than 1% of it. I'll go and see what their current situation is like. If conditions are right, I can find some architectural coating products for them to work on. There's a lot of construction going on in urban and rural areas all over the country right now, so the market for architectural coatings is enormous."

"You know about architectural coatings?"

“We have teachers at our school who know how to do this. They have a lot of research results, but they don’t know how to commercialize them. I’ll connect them with Chen Xingquan, and the rest is up to them to handle.”

“When I was in Cangtang, I talked with Professor Hai and his colleagues. They also said that the university has produced a lot of research results, but they don’t know how to commercialize them. As a result, many of their results are stuck in their hands, while foreign companies get there first, register a patent, and then we are not allowed to use them. You have done a good job of developing the university’s results, making money, and then using it to support the university’s scientific research.”

"Dad, do you understand why I didn't go to school now?"

"What reason do you have? You just like to show off, don't you? Go down to the lower levels and rely on your worldly experience to lead a bunch of old engineers around by the nose, making yourself seem more clever than others."

"I'm inherently better than them."

"so what?"

"Actually, it's not that great..."

The conversation seemed to be dying down, and Gao Fan decided to make an excuse to pee. Just as he stood up, Gao Yiping remembered something and said:

"By the way, someone from the University of Science and Technology of China wrote you several letters and sent them to Cangtang. Your Uncle Xu came to Ruizhang last week and brought them over to you. They're all in your room drawer."

USTC?
Gao Fan paused for a moment, then suddenly remembered that he did indeed know a student from the University of Science and Technology of China.

Xu Yun.

(End of this chapter)