Chapter 199: The Attraction of Light Armor Aerospace
Anyone with a little knowledge of history and geography will know that ports have enormous value because they involve the transshipment of large quantities of cargo. Both Singapore and Hong Kong have developed into unprecedented large cities because of their port status.

The former relies on the Strait of Malacca, while the latter relies on the transit of China's goods and funds abroad.

As a liberal arts student, Lin Jia has a deeper understanding of this. She even did research on port economy when she was in college.

In a region, the largest port will undoubtedly gain the most benefits. In the Yangtze River Delta region, Shenhai Port is the largest, but it does not mean that this is a zero-sum game. Other adjacent ports also have a lot of benefits. Ports such as Ningbo Port, Suzhou Port and Lianyungang Port have also benefited greatly.

Therefore, if the space station really develops into a space city in the future, or even a transit center for space mining, then this price will be too cheap.

If she packages it into a project according to this plan and puts it on the capital market, she is confident that it can be sold for $10 billion.

It is not difficult for them to make a profit by operating the business themselves.

You have to know that there are many ways to operate a space station. Just for space tourism, it is easy to have an annual scale of 20 billion.

Taking the International Space Station as an example, the package price for SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft to send the rich up there is between US$5000 million and US$6000 million.

There are many wealthy people in China who can afford the price. In addition, after the International Space Station is retired, this will be a monopoly business for quite some time.

Lin Jia thought about it again and felt that the price was too cheap. After listening to Chen Yuanguang's grand plan, this thought came to his mind.

"It is just one module. If we develop our space station into a space transfer station, it will have at least hundreds of modules. If it is developed into a space city, it will have thousands of modules.

What we gave to France was nothing more than a complete cabin consisting of 6 modules. If we compare it to a port, then what we sold to France was just a building around the port that overlooks the scenery.

It is different from the port." Chen Yuanguang explained.

Lin Jia looked at Chen Yuanguang, who looked a little haggard on the screen, and he no longer had the mood to continue asking questions, "Okay, as long as you are happy.

It's not without benefits. Considering that we are the only one doing space station business on Earth, setting such a low price can keep later competitors out.

Even after the International Space Station is retired, when NASA wants to re-promote the International Space Station plan, it has to carefully consider whether the price is too high and whether other member states will accept it. Instead of cooperating with the International Space Station, it is better to buy directly from us.

When buying from us, you can buy a complete cabin.

Thinking this way, it may not be a bad thing to cause trouble for America and set an unprecedented high threshold for later competitors. "Lin Jia took the initiative to help Chen Yuanguang find a reason.

Chen Yuanguang smiled and said, “I haven’t thought about it so much.

I just think that with 20 billion, it would be great if we could make a profit of about %."

Lin Jia felt that he still had to correct him: “Yuan Guang, this idea of ​​yours won’t work.

What we are engaged in is high-end manufacturing, no, ultra-high-end manufacturing, a unique business in the entire world.

We are being kind-hearted and only make twice their profit.

Thirty percent is totally inconsistent with market pricing.

In addition, we are responsible for many links in the process, such as the launch of the space station. If we ask SpaceX or China Aerospace, the cost price will be even higher.

Therefore, a profit of only 30% is already close to the cost price.

Forget it, Yuanguang, I'll talk to you about the business quotation issues next time.

The only good thing is that the price advertised by France and us is $50 billion. "

After reaching a cooperation with France, the domestic public opinion in China has begun to regard Guangjia Aerospace as one of the two commercial aerospace giants on par with SpaceX.

Before, everyone might think that if the scope is limited to the commercial aerospace field, then LightMe Aerospace will lag behind SpaceX. After all, SpaceX also has projects such as Starlink, Starship and Dragon spacecraft.

Guangjia Aerospace has only caught up with SpaceX in reusable rockets.

Now, given the expectations for future space stations, people are beginning to think that there is no essential difference between the two.

Of course, SpaceX is still better on foreign social media.

"Tianmin, do you have any internal referral channels? I'm thinking of working in the industry after my postdoctoral research." Jiang Zhanghao, another roommate of Lin Tianmin in college, found him and asked on WeChat.

Similar to Zhou Jin, Jiang Zhanghao also planned to do a postdoctoral fellowship after graduating with a Ph.D. and then stay in the university.

But his goal was higher. He hoped to stay in a 985 university or teach at an overseas university, so he chose to go abroad as a postdoctoral fellow at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.

I even thought about completing a postdoctoral period at Nanyang Technological University and then going to Europe for another period.

Lin Tianmin was very familiar with the preferences of his roommates and knew that they all wanted to go to academia, so he was surprised to see this WeChat message and quickly made a WeChat call:

"Zhang Hao, why do you suddenly want to come to the industrial world?

Didn't you always not want to enter the industrial sector? "

Jiang Zhanghao replied: "Before it was before, now it is now. Before it was because I felt that working in the industry would be boring and the things I would do would not be interesting.

In academia, things are relatively balanced. If you are strong enough, you can get some horizontal projects and also work on topics that interest you.

Now I'm going to the industrial sector, to be frank, I'm only interested in light armor aerospace.

Companies from other industries are still not considering it.”

Lin Tianmin understood the other party's idea. Since the successful launch of the reusable rocket, Guangjia Aerospace's reputation in the aerospace field has grown, and the difficulty of recruiting people has dropped sharply.

Now the threshold has been raised to undergraduate and master's degrees from top prestigious universities because there are too many people submitting resumes.

In an enterprise like Guangjia Aerospace, there are a lot of people competing for even the basic research positions.

In the offer comparison on Zhihu, the offer from the Light Armor series is ranked first, surpassing MiHoYo, which was previously ranked first.

A PhD student from Beihang University received offers from both miHoYo and Guangjia Aerospace. He asked a question on Zhihu, saying that the former offered him 60 yuan, while the latter only offered 40 yuan, so he asked which one to go to.

“Brother, if you can go to Light Armor, don’t consider miHoYo. MiHoYo is good, but it can’t compare to Light Armor Aerospace.

If it's light armor technology, I think miHoYo is better, but if it's light armor aerospace, it will definitely be the highest priority. This is the sea of ​​stars. If it's overseas, no one will choose Google after getting an offer from SpaceX."

"I can only say that miHoYo is only 20 higher. Let's put it this way, in China, the salary must be at least twice as high as that of Light Mech Aerospace to be considered. Otherwise, I suggest you choose Light Mech Aerospace without a second thought."

The answers to similar questions are all from Guangjia Aerospace.

After listening to his roommate’s idea, Lin Tianmin said directly: “No problem, I can recommend you to our human resources.

We are always hiring.

But I want to tell you in advance that Light Armor Aerospace is also very competitive. We have many colleagues who jumped over from the China Academy of Space Technology, and they all said that Light Armor Aerospace is much more competitive than the China Academy of Space Technology.

And this kind of roll is a psychological roll, which requires the brain to work at a crazy high speed.

Extremely high intensity mental work.

Simply put, the management model of the Academy of Aerospace is progress-controlled, and it is based on nodes, without giving you a fixed time for each node.

That is to say, sometimes I am relatively idle, and sometimes I have to work overtime a lot.

In our case, Guangshen is familiar with all projects, and the progress is determined by the team leader. Guangshen will ask about details every time he holds a team meeting and will assign a lot of questions to the team leader.

After the team leader comes back, he can only communicate with everyone to solve the problem.

This will result in that although there is no obvious node in the whole atmosphere, the work in your problem list will pile up more and more.

I never saw the end of it.”

Speaking of this, Lin Tianmin still felt a lingering fear in his heart. He felt that the time when he was the temporary team leader was even more exaggerated than when he was studying for his doctorate. He couldn't sleep the night before the weekly meetings, for fear that Chen Yuanguang would ask him questions.

Later, when Yang Jiashan replaced him as team leader, he did not feel the loss of power, but only the relief of being liberated.

"Does Guangshen know the work of every group?" Jiang Zhanghao couldn't believe it on the other end of the phone.

Lin Tianmin said: "That's right, Guang Shen's achievements in the field of aerospace are no less than his achievements in the field of materials.

Even if he doesn't understand the method you have chosen, he will understand it when we meet again next week.

And be able to ask very targeted questions and suggestions.

Very strong, he is the strongest person I have ever seen."

Jiang Zhanghao took a deep breath on the other end of the phone: "Of course I know that the God of Light is strong, but it's a bit exaggerated to say that he is this strong. He is a full-level scientific research machine with full reading ability, comprehension ability and learning ability."

Lin Tianmin said: "That's right, so under the control of the boss, everyone is under great pressure. Take the reusable rocket as an example. The design plan given by our team of 50 people is not as good as the one designed by Guangshen himself.

Because we were in a hurry to complete the task, Guangshen took a week to come up with a design plan. We later spent three months designing after the project was over, but it was not as good as what Guangshen came up with in just one week.

In terms of feasibility and stability, it is not as good as the version designed by the God of Light.

If we make changes to the version designed by Guangshen, either stability will be affected, or thermal efficiency or cost will be out of control. "

Jiang Zhanghao opened his mouth wide, feeling unbelievable.

Both domestic and foreign media have reported a lot on Chen Yuanguang. Everyone's reports on Chen Yuanguang are concentrated in the field of materials science, and they believe that he is a rare master in materials science.

As for Chen Yuanguang's achievements in the aerospace field, they attributed them to the research team of Guangjia Aerospace, praising Chen Yuanguang for being an outstanding engineer and manager like Musk in addition to being a scientist.

Since Guangjia Aerospace does not actively publicize it, few people outside know about Chen Yuanguang's achievements in the aerospace field.

Jiang Zhanghao's previous understanding was similar to that of the general public. After seeing a few people on social media mention Guang Shen's achievements in the aerospace field, he just regarded it as the deification remarks of Guang Shen's fans.

As a result, Lin Tianmin's words told Jiang Zhanghao that the flattery on social media was still modest.

"Is it so exaggerated?" Jiang Zhanghao's tone was full of disbelief.

Lin Tianmin said: "If you come here, you will know, it is so exaggerated.

I don't want to admit that I'm a loser, but the problem is that compared to the God of Light, the feeling of failure is too strong.

Do you know that feeling? Every group has similar experiences.

The media will attribute the achievements of Guangjia Aerospace to the loosening of restrictions on the private economy and the liberation of rigid thinking. I know best at Guangjia Aerospace that the biggest reason for our success is our boss.

If Guangshen becomes the leader of the Aerospace Research Institute, the achievements of the Aerospace Research Institute will not be worse than ours, or even better. "

Jiang Zhanghao said: “Well, this is too exaggerated.

As expected, he is a man with the nickname God."

Lin Tianmin smiled bitterly: "Yes."

Jiang Zhanghao then asked: "Isn't this a good thing?

The boss has done everything for you.

Or is it that the God of Light has a hot temper when he is inside, and he will rant like Musk, rant if things don’t go his way.”

Lin Tianmin said: "No, the God of Light is very peaceful. Even if you don't do well, he won't criticize you. Not only does he not criticize grassroots employees, but he also doesn't criticize middle-level employees. He is very Buddhist.

Apart from being ruthless to himself, he is very Buddhist to others. To put it in words, no one except Mr. Lin can really know what the God of Light is thinking. "

Jiang Zhanghao asked: "Mr. Lin? Lin Jia?"

Lin Jia is also very famous in the outside world. With the rise in the share price of the Guangjia Group and the continuous decline in the valuation of real estate companies, Lin Jia has ranked among the top three in the list of richest women in China.

Compared with her wealth, what the outside world talks about more is her vision. She chose Chen Yuanguang when she was in college, which was praised by the self-media as an investment comparable to Lu Buwei's rare commodity.

"That's right, if you didn't do a good job, the God of Light won't retaliate against you afterwards, and he won't deduct your year-end bonus or anything like that.

Because here we don't have such a thing as performance. Everyone's year-end bonus is fixed, and you get the same no matter how well you do.

On the contrary, Mr. Lin is more likely to get angry. If you don't do a good job, he will put pressure on you and say that he wants to adjust your position and optimize the staff. It may also be a division of labor. Mr. Lin is responsible for playing the good guy, but Guangshen is really not angry. "Lin Tianmin continued.

“But that’s the way it is. Everyone is not too afraid of Boss Lin, but more afraid of the God of Light. The pressure is too great, and the questions asked are all to the point.

If one didn't answer well, he would be able to sense that something was wrong.

If you bring out someone else's paper as evidence, Guangshenneng will call you the next day to tell you that the paper involves data falsification, and then email you his handwritten manuscript, asking you to read his argumentation process and why he says the data is falsified.

The boss is so powerful that everyone feels pressured to not make mistakes.

Apart from this point, everything else is fine. You should have heard about learning organizations.

That’s all.” Lin Tianmin seemed to have been holding it in for a long time.

In the company, no one would openly discuss the God of Light, except for some hint of that in the eye contact.

After listening to this, Jiang Zhanghao murmured, “I feel stressed just thinking about it.

No wonder you were able to develop a reusable rocket in such a short time."

Guangjia Aerospace has never disclosed its information to the outside world, so the outside world is curious about their achievements but lacks channels to learn about them.

Compared with SpaceX, the outside world can only learn about Guangjia Aerospace and their projects from the official website.

"That's right. Guangjia Aerospace is an organization owned by Guangshen alone. If Guangshen leaves, then I think Guangjia Aerospace will be no different from other commercial aerospace companies on the market."

Jiang Zhanghao complained: “No, you forgot that there are no more commercial aerospace companies on the market.”

When a whale is born, all things fall. For China's commercial aerospace industry, Light Armor Aerospace is like a giant whale. All the previous commercial aerospace companies have gone bankrupt.

In front of Pioneer 2, making rockets is a dead end. From technology to cost to reputation, nothing can compare with Guangjia Aerospace.

The commercial aerospace companies that had previously rejected Guangjia Aerospace's acquisition are now regretting it. If they were acquired, even just 1% of Guangjia Aerospace's shares would be much more valuable than if they took the company public.

When Lin Tianmin heard the other party say this, he corrected him, "It's not that the commercial aerospace company is gone.

The commercial aerospace companies that made rockets are gone, but there are still many commercial aerospace companies that provide supporting services for us.”

Lin Tianmin went on to say: “According to what I have learned, the companies that provide supporting services to us and the startups that have not been listed on the market, as long as they can be stable for more than three years, they can become companies that attract much attention in the market.

It is easy to get investment from financial institutions, and even many of these companies are scrambling to get money from financial institutions.”

Jiang Zhanghao said, "Of course. According to the terrifying requirements of the Light God you just described, they have been able to survive in the Light Armor supplier system for so long. They must have some skills."

Lin Tianmin said: "Haha, but most of them were acquired by us, and only the small part that did not want to be acquired was the turn of investment institutions.

So why did you suddenly want to come to our company? "

Jiang Zhanghao said: "Previously, the reusable rockets did not quite match my direction, but if it is a space station, then I can do a lot in it.

So I thought about joining Light Armor Aerospace.

Guangjia Aerospace is very popular right now. Have many people left your company recently?"

Lin Tianmin thought about it, and then said: "It seems so. Recently, three people left our team. Before, we only saw people coming but no one leaving."

Jiang Zhanghao said: "That's right, I heard from the American people in our group that SpaceX is trying to poach people from Guangjia Aerospace.

And with special federal permission, as long as SpaceX sends you a job offer, you will be given the green light in the green card queue.

You know, SpaceX only hired Americans before, but now it has given the green light to foreigners in spaceflight. It’s hard to believe that it’s not due to commercial competition.”

Lin Tianmin asked: "So you also want to take this path?"

Jiang Zhanghao said: "How is that possible, I'm just telling you this.

These people had a bad ending when they went to America. SpaceX took away everything valuable from them and either kicked them out directly or marginalized them.

Given America's vigilance, it is impossible for them to get involved in any core business of SpaceX.

If I join Light Armor Aerospace, I will never go to America again, even if I leave from here."

"I didn't expect you to be so clear-headed." Lin Tianmin said.

Jiang Zhanghao said: “After spending two years in Singapore, plus the years when the virus was spreading, I have long been disenchanted with America.

Isn't it normal for them to do such a thing?
I will send you my resume later, please help me recommend it to others, and I will treat you to a meal next time I return to China."

Lin Tianmin answered straightforwardly on the other end of the phone: "No problem."

He has helped many people do this and has become very familiar with it, including seniors, juniors and even teachers from Beihang University.

(End of this chapter)