Chapter 47: Military's New Cooperation Request

Time waits for no one!

I must seize the opportunity!

Thinking of this, Su Xin decisively ordered:

"How about this, hurry and arrange for someone to help me acquire or build a new power battery factory. I want to research new energy batteries; the company's next strategic development will be the new energy vehicle industry."

Hearing this, Liu Qingli was instantly stunned.

"Boss, wasn't what we just said all hypothetical? You... really want to research new energy batteries? Isn't this research scope a bit too broad?"

"Even if we really want to research new energy batteries, why don't we wait until we have results before acquiring a battery factory?"

Su Xin waved his hand and said confidently:

"If I wait until I have results to acquire a battery factory, it will be too late. You must act quickly."

"By the way, remember to open a new Tianqi Energy Company and use the new company's name to make the acquisition. It is best to acquire a larger battery factory, or one that is convenient for expansion. If there really isn't a suitable large battery factory, then go buy a larger plot of land and build a new battery factory as soon as possible."

Seeing Su Xin make such a big decision so arbitrarily, Liu Qingli couldn't help but open her mouth, wanting to persuade him, but not knowing how to stop him. In the end, she could only sigh helplessly.

She thought to herself:

"A genius who achieved fame at a young age, possessing current accomplishments and having gained the worship of countless people, it is inevitable that he would develop a sense of arrogance. Even if I try to persuade him, it probably won't be of any use and might even make him develop a rebellious mentality."

"Sigh! So be it. Even if this investment is a loss, as long as there is the Tiantian Assistant, the company won't face a major crisis."

"Instead, I can use this failure to let the boss learn a profound lesson so he won't make similar mistakes in the future."

"A lesson is worth a thousand gold; people must fail once to realize they are not omnipotent. If he doesn't have this failure, he might make an even bigger mistake in the future."

"For this matter, I will still cooperate fully. After it fails, I will properly persuade him then."

Having made her decision, Liu Qingli no longer tried to persuade him. She noted down Su Xin's requirements one by one and began arranging the opening of the energy company and contacting battery factories for acquisition.

As for Su Xin, led by Liu Qingli's secretary, he arrived at his new home.

According to Su Xin's requirements, his new home was bought in the area between Yonghui Building and Tianjing University. This was a quiet and elegant high-end residential complex containing only five elevator buildings that were not very tall. The number of residents was not large, but the area was very spacious, and it had all kinds of supporting facilities such as a playground, fountains, and fitness areas.

Of course, the house price was also very expensive. It was about 150 square meters, including fine decoration and a garage, costing 18.8 million. Adding furniture, appliances, and other daily necessities cost nearly another million.

The total cost was nearly 20 million.

After a brief tour, Su Xin had Di Yuan drive him to the largest Xinwen Bookstore in Tianjing. He bought hundreds of books in one go, including those on Lithium-ion batteries, sodium-ion batteries, electrical engineering, materials science, electrochemistry, energy, and many of the latest books on programming and other fields he had studied before.

Generally speaking, libraries are mainly for storing books, with a rich and complete collection of various types of books, suitable for beginners to build their own complete knowledge system from scratch.

And Xinwen Bookstore is the largest and oldest chain bookstore in Long Country. Many of the books there are relatively new on the market, representing cutting-edge academic achievements in various fields.

Previously, Su Xin had read so many books in the library. Although they were not the most cutting-edge academic achievements, they had accumulated an extremely rich knowledge foundation for him, helping him build a very complete knowledge system, thereby allowing him to innovate and develop the Tiantian Assistant, which was ahead of the world.

And now, seeing the latest academic achievements in various fields, his research and development speed would definitely be able to accelerate further.

Bringing the hundreds of books home and arranging them neatly in a spacious study room specifically set aside, Su Xin sat down to read quietly.

In the evening, he received a call from Hao Zude.

"Tomorrow? Okay, then let's meet tomorrow afternoon. Tell me the address then. Goodbye."

One second after he finished saying "Goodbye," the phone placed to the side hung up automatically. This was also one of the functions of the Tiantian Assistant, which could automatically identify context and specific words to hang up automatically, without even needing specific commands.

In his daily life, Su Xin basically freed his hands from operating the phone. At most, he only held the phone when he needed to look at the screen. Besides being more convenient to use, he could also discover various shortcomings during use, thereby optimizing and improving it in a targeted manner, making the Tiantian Assistant's functions more comprehensive and practical.

The next day.

Su Xin was still sitting alone in the study.

He had already read nearly half of the hundreds of books he bought yesterday. Coupled with one book that detailed the battery research directions of major top car companies, using this as a reference, Su Xin's train of thought became clearer and clearer. He had a rough plan for new energy vehicle batteries in his mind, just waiting to conduct experiments after acquiring a battery factory.

In the afternoon.

He went to the suburbs to meet Hao Zude.

The two sat side by side in Hao Zude's black business car, just like before. The latter said impatiently:

"Student Su Xin, the Fire Control Calculation Program you developed last time received high praise from the superiors. In view of your powerful technical strength, we want to reach further cooperation with you."

"However, this time it is a normal commercial cooperation. You are responsible for developing the technology, and we will arrange for subordinate enterprises to come and discuss cooperation. It's just that we will give you some suggestions on the direction."

"Director Hao, please feel free to speak."

"We would like to ask you to develop an Intelligent Flight Control Technology for drones. Since it is a normal commercial cooperation, you can charge the licensing fee as you normally would, or even a bit more expensive, but the only requirement is that this technology should not be licensed to foreign companies, or at least various restrictions should be imposed on licensing to foreign companies."

Su Xin asked suspiciously: "Is it just customizing software according to your requirements?"

Hao Zude smiled: "In essence, it is indeed customizing software, but I also said before that if you cooperate with the Military, it might be unfavorable for your company's future multinational development."

"Customized software means we ask you to develop specific software according to requirements, which shows that there is a cooperative relationship between you and our Military."

"Therefore, we changed the method."

"You just happened to develop this software, and our subordinate company just happened to have a need, so they came forward to purchase it. This is a normal commercial transaction. We are just one of your customers, and there is no deeper cooperation."

"The two have completely different natures."

Su Xin couldn't help but laugh: "This is simply a modern version of 'covering one's ears to steal a bell'."

Hao Zude shrugged: "Sometimes these superficial efforts are indeed necessary."

After thinking for a moment, Su Xin said:

"I can agree to the customized software, but I don't have time in the near future because I have other important research tasks now. If it's not urgent, let's talk about it in a month or two."

"No problem!"

Hao Zude nodded with a smile.