151: Why not sell such an awesome drone for 6 million?

After the meeting, Ma Quanlin muttered, "Little Zhou, don't you think our pricing is a bit of a joke?"

"A joke? Director Lu thinks it's fine," Zhou Cun said, looking up.

Wang Zizhong said, "I also think we should conduct proper market research. Why not sell them for 6 million each?"

"Old Wang, why are you getting more ruthless these days?" Ma Quanlin teased.

"Me? Ruthless? I'm just thinking about our factory employees. Don't you know Director Lu is saving up money?"

"Saving money? What do you mean?"

"Keep your voice down. I happened to hear the Finance Officer girl mention it. She said that whenever Director Lu has some free time, he likes to look out the window at the construction site and mutter, 'When will I finally save up 10 billion?'"

"10 billion? Why does Little Lu need so much money? He can't be saving up for a bride price for someone's daughter, can he?" Ma Quanlin said, half-jokingly.

"Which royal family member would need a 10 billion bride price? The Princess of Britain or the Princess of Japan?"

"Forget Japan and Britain; how could they ever be worthy of the outstanding sons and daughters of my Dragon Xia?"

"If Director Lu wants to save money, we just need to work hard to earn it. I think the price of the Shuang Gu Long Unmanned Aerial Vehicle could be even higher. Nifeng Express is very wealthy."

In the first three quarters of this year, Nifeng Express had a revenue exceeding 190 billion, with profits alone reaching 6.5 billion. Even if the Shuang Gu Long Unmanned Aerial Vehicle were priced at 5.5 million, it would still be peanuts to the wealthy Nifeng Express.

"Speaking of which, how did that matter go with Director Xu from the Air Force? When will he introduce a partner to Director Lu?"

Lu Shenwei was nearly 27 years old, with a successful career, but he still hadn't found a wife.

"He probably forgot because he's busy. I'll remind him later."

Ma Quanlin agreed. The speaker didn't mean much by it, but the listener took it to heart. Zhou Cun, who was nearby, got anxious. "Two leaders, when you're looking for a partner for Director Lu, can you help solve my problem too?"

"What's the rush, kid? With your uncle here, can't you just pick any good girl in Qinchuan?"

"I want to find a good one too," Zhou Cun said, scratching his head.

"Hahaha, you kid."

The people at Julong Steel were busy preparing for next month's drone airshow in the capital, and Wang Jiawei at the Nifeng Express headquarters in the capital wasn't idle either.

"President, we have received news that, apart from the big brother in the green hat who won't be exhibiting, all major domestic express delivery giants, including Crazy Rabbit Express, will be attending."

The three major express delivery companies, Crazy Rabbit Express (which has already merged with Dada Express), Gou Dong Express, and Demacia Express Group, will all be exhibiting. They are all holding back their trump cards, hoping to make a splash at the drone airshow.

"Especially Crazy Rabbit Express and Demacia Express Group, which are launching medium-sized intelligent unmanned transport aircraft and ultra-long-range commercial unmanned transport aircraft, respectively."

Looking through the materials handed over by his assistant, Wang Jiawei frowned.

The matter of the commercial unmanned transport aircraft wasn't settled yet, and the big brother in the green hat issued another window guidance, requiring all express deliveries to be delivered to the door.

Nifeng Express couriers were already delivering to the door, but most of them delivered to the entrance of residential compounds or companies; very few actually went upstairs.

But now, with the issuance of the guidance document, the pressure had increased sharply.

Small packages were fine, but large packages couldn't be moved by one person, and even if they could, it was extremely physically demanding.

At the same time, as other express companies began offering door-to-door delivery services, the advantage of Nifeng Express was no longer obvious, and its expensive unit price attracted criticism from many busybodies.

"What does Julong Steel say? How is the research and development progress of the large commercial unmanned transport aircraft?" Wang Jiawei asked.

Assistant Chen took out a tablet. "They sent over three drone formation flight performance effects. They all look pretty good. Take a look."

"Pick one out of three? Can't we use all three plans? The drone formation performance is just an appetizer; the large commercial unmanned transport aircraft is the main course," Wang Jiawei muttered.

"If we want to use all three, Director Lu means we need to pay a bit more."

"Pay more? Haven't we already paid 2 million? We need to pay more?"

"Director Lu says this money is for the control team, separately calculated."

"Huh? Aren't the ones controlling the drone formation technicians from Julong Steel?"

"They are technicians, but he still insists on charging more."

Uh, what's going on?

"Satisfy Director Lu's request, but tell him that the large commercial unmanned transport aircraft must appear at the airshow, even if it's just a PPT or a model," Wang Jiawei said seriously.

Having invested 900 million in total, if there's no semi-finished product, at least a model would suffice to satisfy the requirements. The stock price couldn't withstand any more turmoil.

"By the way, ask Director Lu if he has any good ideas to help couriers reduce their delivery pressure. We'll pay whatever it costs; even just a concept would do," Wang Jiawei added.

Originally, he planned to make a trip to Qinchuan himself to have a good talk with Lu Shenwei, but now that Nifeng Express was being hit by the industry and its stock price was plummeting, he couldn't get away at all.

"I will head to Qinchuan early tomorrow morning and will contact you if there are any developments."

At noon the next day, in the reception room of Julong Steel.

"President Wang is so busy, yet you, Assistant Chen, made a special trip here. Thank you for your hard work," Lu Shenwei said politely.

Assistant Chen replied respectfully, "The President specifically instructed me to come and check the progress."

"A phone call would have been enough for such a small matter; no need to come in person."

"Our President likes to do things personally, but he really couldn't get away recently, so he sent me."

"Understood. Let's go. Let's go watch the drone formation performance first, and then we'll head to the hangar to see our newly produced big baby."

Big baby?

Assistant Chen nodded blankly. Accompanied by Lu Shenwei, the two headed straight to the southern factory area of Julong Steel.

Along the way, Assistant Chen was amazed by the rapid development of Julong Steel. The four major factory areas—east, west, north, and south—were dazzling.

"Director Lu, your factory has developed quite quickly in the past year, and you've even dug such a large artificial lake."

Lu Shenwei smiled. "That's not an artificial lake; it's our artificial dry dock used for testing ships."

"Ships? Has your factory opened a new production line? Manufacturing surface warships?"

Assistant Chen was astonished. Is Julong Steel playing so fancy now?

Building an artificial lake specifically for ship R&D?

When it comes to quick thinking, it has to be Director Lu.

If there are no conditions, he just digs a lake.

Qinchuan City is also supportive enough of local enterprises to let Julong Steel mess around like this.

"Although the longmao agricultural vehicle and the Longying Drone are selling well, we can't rest on our laurels; we still need to develop in a diversified way," Lu Shenwei said casually.

"Director Lu has vision."

If Nifeng Express dared to do this, the shareholders would probably eat President Wang alive.

The shortsighted shareholders only care about the stock price now; once the stock price falls, it's like their own father died.

Only allowed to rise, not allowed to fall; how can there be such a good thing in the world?

Harvesting leeks crop after crop, do they think investors are fools?

"We're here. This area is our steel mill's aerospace equipment manufacturing zone."

Lu Shenwei raised his hand and pointed to the huge oval factory building. Assistant Chen exclaimed, "It must be at least 40,000 to 50,000 square meters, right?"