Chapter 24: If I can't do it, then no one on earth can do it

It is not difficult to guess that America will land on the moon. Various media discussions about aerospace will more or less mention what America needs to do in the future to catch up with Soviet Russia.

Among them, landing on the moon is a popular option.

From academia to the aerospace industry, many experts and professors suggest that we should take one step at a time and choose to land on the moon.

Including Washington, there are also some aerospace-related officials who have expressed their views from a personal perspective, feeling that the White House should launch a moon landing plan.

Anyone with a heart can easily conclude that landing on the moon is the only option for the White House.

But being able to connect these together, from his identity to his intention, and saying it so firmly, as if he could see through his thoughts, this difficulty is too great.

John Morgan has been trying his best to control his expression, trying to make himself look not so out of control. He kept repeating the point of view in the Jewish Talmud in his mind: "Only by being good at controlling emotions can one be invincible. Only by controlling oneself can one control others."

As an aristocrat among American aristocrats, John Morgan received traditional Western elite education since childhood and knew the importance of keeping the initiative of negotiation in his own hands. He did exactly that in this conversation.

From the beginning, he collected Lin Ran's basic information as much as possible, just to master the initiative.

But after meeting, he found that the other party was as deep as the sea, and the information he knew didn't even count as fur. "Are all those who study mathematics so terrifying? Can they infer so accurately?"

He didn't deny it: "That's right, this is my intention.

Professor, I can provide you with an environment that satisfies your personal interests and hobbies, allowing you to fully exert your talent."

Lin Ran asked: "What about the reward? You haven't said the reward yet."

John Morgan saw that the other party did not oppose it, and his heart calmed down. It is a good thing to be willing to talk. Originally, both sides also wanted to build a cooperative relationship:

"An initial reward of 100,000 dollars. If our plan can finally be recognized by NASA, then this reward will be increased to 200,000 dollars.

Subsequent rewards will be discussed separately."

This reward is already a sky-high price at present, because Lin Ran is just a consultant, and a special consultant can get 200,000 dollars.

But Lin Ran was obviously not satisfied: "Not enough.

I can guarantee that General Electric will definitely get this project. I don't lack money. Money is just a number to me.

What I need is the initiative of the project. I need to be the person in charge of this project. Everyone must listen to me.

Actually, I want shares."

Lin Ran still didn't give the other party a chance to interrupt him:

"I know that General Electric's shares are impossible. What I want is General Aerospace.

Now there should still be time before the project starts. What you need to do is to strip out General Electric's aerospace sector. We will use this newly established aerospace company to bid.

From the feasibility plan to the final moon landing, we set a step-by-step goal. I finally want 30% of the shares of the entire General Aerospace.

The feasibility plan passes, I want 10%. After the spacecraft lands on the moon successfully, I will want another 10%. Finally, after the manned moon landing is successful, I want the last 10%.

You can think about it carefully whether this cooperation method is feasible.

If you can, contact me at any time, but you have to be fast. Once the feasibility plan is passed, if you don't strip out the aerospace sector, this business may not belong to you.

Think about it and call me at any time."

Lin Ran drank the coffee on the table and turned to leave. John Morgan sat in his seat with a changing face. He asked: "Professor, are you really that confident?"

Lin Ran said without looking back: "If I can't do it, then no one on earth can do it!"

"Here, return the badge to you."

Lin Ran, who returned to 2020, felt very wonderful.

In 1960, he was a famous ethnic Chinese mathematics professor, a light of the Chinese who proved Fermat's Last Theorem. Everyone would greet him when walking on the Columbia University campus, and he would play top-tier second-generation Americans like John Morgan in the palm of his hand.

In 2020, he was just a small person living in the third floor of a Chinese family villa. Except for being able to pretend to be forced on the simplified Chinese Internet, there was nothing special about him. The major he studied was also a pit in computer science, but now the situation is different again.

Li Xiaoman took the badge from Lin Ran's hand and smelled it. From the smell, she could judge that she was not wrong. It was her family's ancestral badge, "Is it done?"

Lin Ran shook his head: "The whole plan has only taken the first step. I just verified my conjecture, and the rest is waiting to turn the conjecture into reality.

Go, help me move things back to my room. What needs to be done for the rest of the time is to slowly piece the puzzle together."

Li Xiaoman followed Lin Ran downstairs, looked at the trunk of the Corolla, and found that it was full of books and bound printed materials.

She flipped through it roughly:

"Heaven and Earth: Political History of the Space Age", "Militarization of Space: America's Policy (1945-1984)", "Missiles and Space Race", "Challenge to Apollo: Soviet Russia and Space Race (1945-1947)", "Soviet Russia 'Sputnik-1' Satellite and Space Challenge", "Soviet Russia Space Race and Apollo Moon Landing Plan", "Under the Shadow of Soviet Russia Satellite: America and Presidential Science Advisory Committee during the Cold War", "Soviet Russia Satellite Crisis and Early America's Aerospace Policy", "Soviet Russia Satellite: Shock of the Century", "Challenge of Soviet Russia Satellite", "Space Race: From Soviet Russia Satellite to Apollo Plan and Others"...

These can be seen from the title page, all of which are library collections borrowed from Columbia University.

She flipped through the printed materials and found that they were all specific technical data. In addition to common rocket design and landing capsule design, even the circuit diagrams used for spacecraft docking at that time were printed out.

The whole trunk was filled.

This time Li Xiaoman really believed that Lin Ran was going to replicate the Apollo moon landing at this point in time.

Otherwise, why go to such great lengths?

These materials piled Lin Ran's room full, and there was no place to stand.

"Randolph, regarding what you mentioned to me before, I thought of some ways to avoid risks." Li Xiaoman was not completely unprepared during this time.

Lin Ran signaled the other party to continue.

"The first is visa restrictions. F-1 visas cannot work. This is actually easy to handle.

After I set up the company, my company will cooperate with Blue Origin. I will invest the reward of Blue Origin to you through the way of setting up an angel investment institution.

This is easy to handle. On the surface, it is absolutely impossible to see that you have any connection with this project.

Even there is no contract between me and you.

As for what you are worried about, I will run away with the money and not admit it, this is impossible, because once this kind of project is poked out, everyone involved in the project will be finished.

Within the ITAR list of the Federation, rocket propulsion belongs to an absolute forbidden zone." ===== CHAPTER 25 =====