Chapter 27: The World Tides Rise and Fall, I Remain Unmoved

Another point is that he is a new face in Xiangjiang.

It is not appropriate for famous Cultural Huaguo mathematicians like Hua Luogeng and Su Buqing to run to Xiangjiang.

It is neither abrupt nor strange for a young man like Chen Jingrun who is not even thirty years old to participate in the Xiangjiang University seminar.

As for the Xiangjiang University mathematics department, there is no such person as him.

It is fine for Lin Ran to arrange a mathematics seminar for the whole of Xiangjiang at Xiangjiang University, and everyone can sign up for the exam, and those who pass can participate.

This is not a difficult thing.

It is better to have a threshold.

It is too easy to operate.

Even arranging an identity as a student of the Xiangjiang University mathematics department for Chen Jingrun is not impossible for Cultural Huaguo at this time.

In the 1960 timeline, it was only March, and the Cultural Huaguo side was already preparing for things in July.

Because besides choosing people, Chen Jingrun also has to be arranged to accept various training, which also takes time. After all, Xiangjiang is not under control at present.

And Lin Ran, besides teaching at Columbia University and occasionally publishing papers, is dealing with John Morgan.

The day after Lin Ran put forward the conditions, John Morgan accepted his request and said that he would strip out General Electric's aerospace sector as soon as possible.

Originally, he didn't figure it out. It was his mother, Catherine Frances Lovlin Adams, who woke him up at home at night:

"Thirty percent of the shares are certainly a lot. Thirty percent of the aerospace sector stripped out of a behemoth like General Electric is also an astronomical figure.

But if he can really help you get NASA's moon landing order and let General Electric's aerospace department become the leader of NASA's moon landing, then this deal is not a loss.

More importantly, you have to understand, how long can he, an ethnic Chinese, still an ethnic Chinese without background or family, hold these 30% shares?

As strong as Edison, Morgan could drive Edison out of General Electric. Can Randolph Lin be more powerful than Edison?

And even if he can't be driven away while he is alive, what about after he dies? Can his descendants continue to stay on the board of directors of General Aerospace?

After stretching the time span, you will find that Morgan can always be Morgan, and other outstanding figures will disappear with time."

John Morgan's mother, Catherine Adams, was the eldest daughter of Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams III, and her guidance to John Morgan had the domineering spirit of the world tides rising and falling, I remain unmoved.

This was too arrogant, but it also successfully persuaded John Morgan.

Back then, old Morgan and Edison founded Edison General Electric together. Didn't Edison roll away in the end?

Then even if shares were given to Lin Ran, could a Chinese really hold these 30% shares after the technical advantage is gone?

An innocent man is guilty of his crime.

By that time, he, who has become the head of the Morgan family, will have a hundred ways to deal with Randolph Lin.

In the conference room of General Electric in New York, Lin Ran couldn't help but spray directly:

"Fool! The plan you designed uses a super-large rocket directly. Have you ever thought that the whole thing needs 40 million pounds of thrust! With current technology, it is impossible to manufacture such a huge rocket in a short time.

Whether it is materials, propellants, or structures, they are not mature.

Think about how long it takes to research similar rockets. The White House also wants political achievements. Two White Houses together have at most eight years!

In eight years, you can't make this rocket. How can people pass your plan? Can you have some political sensitivity!"

Lin Ran's identity is a consultant, and the person in charge is George Arthur.

George Arthur was previously the department manager of General Electric in Philadelphia, and now he has been transferred to New York to start the whole plan in advance.

And John Morgan participated in the whole process, and every discussion meeting would go to the scene in person, while promoting the split of General Aerospace sector within Morgan.

From beginning to end, George Arthur was a role to be scolded, and Lin Ran didn't give face at all when scolding.

"Let's put it this way, your direct ascent plan has no flexibility.

In November 1957, the Vanguard TV3 satellite was launched. Do you remember?

At that time, the entire American public, Washington, and the White House were watching the live broadcast, and finally saw the rocket ignite and take off, and then the scene of the explosion.

Your plan has one problem, that is, it fails completely, and there is no room for maneuver at all.

Are you embarrassed to take out such a plan?

In my opinion, manned moon landing is divided into three modes.

Direct ascent, that is, putting all the landing cabin and return cabin together into a complete spacecraft, and after landing on the moon, the return cabin returns to the earth, which is the plan you proposed.

The second is the Earth orbit rendezvous mode, launching different cabin sections separately, completing assembly in Earth orbit, and then landing on the moon.

The third is the lunar orbit rendezvous, which is similar to the second, but the final rendezvous is completed in lunar orbit.

I want to say that only the second and third are possible, and the possibility of the third is greater than the second."

After the project team left, Lin Ran said directly to John Morgan: "George Arthur is not good. He treats the moon landing as a setting in a science fiction novel, as long as there is theoretical feasibility, he treats it as feasible in reality.

He is not treating this as a goal we must complete in the next few years at all.

He is more like a science fiction writer than a qualified aerospace engineer."

John Morgan was also very anxious. Although he didn't have the ability to judge, he knew to ask other engineers in the project team, and everyone said that the opinions proposed by Randolph were hitting the nail on the head, while for George Arthur, it was difficult to comment.

"Can you directly serve as the person in charge of the project team? Instead of a special consultant.

Randolph, you also have shares in General Aerospace," John Morgan suggested.

Lin Ran shook his head: "Sorry, I still have teaching tasks at Columbia University."

John Morgan said: "That I can help you communicate, you can get a salary without going to class."

Lin Ran continued to refuse: "No, I like the feeling of teaching young people. This is a kind of enjoyment. John, you can't deprive me of my fun."

This is naturally a foreshadowing for going to Xiangjiang. If he doesn't go to class at Columbia University, it would be too strange to go to Xiangjiang University to give lectures.

"I have a good idea that can solve all the problems you worry about once and for all," Lin Ran said.

"What way?" John Morgan asked.

"Acquire the Glenn L. Martin Company." ===== CHAPTER 28 =====

"I have a good idea that can solve all the problems you are worried about once and for all," Lin Ran said.

"What kind of solution?" John Morgan asked.

"Acquire the Glenn L. Martin Company."