Chapter 603

Next to Jinling University.

It's still the cafe.

Chen Yushan, who has been working in Jinling for the past few days, made an appointment with Lu Zhou to meet him after receiving a call from Lu Zhou. On Lu Zhou's side, he just fulfilled his promise the day before yesterday about inviting her to dinner.

"Your lab director was interviewed by the FBI?"

After taking a sip of coffee, Lu Zhou nodded solemnly, and briefly explained the situation: "Well, I received his email this morning, and he told me in the email."

"Then let's get rid of it as soon as possible." Holding the steaming coffee in both hands, Chen Yushan blew lightly, "This is good for both you and that Professor Sarot."

Lu Zhou thought for a while and said, "I don't quite understand."

Chen Yushan: "Understand what?"

Lu Zhou: "The research projects in Sarot's laboratory do not involve sensitive content. I completed most of the more troublesome experiments at the Jinling Institute for Advanced Study... If this is the case, even if the FBI or CIA really Investigating me, what can they find?"

Chen Yushan: "They don't necessarily need to find anything, whether it is evidence or witnesses, they can all be manufactured."

Made it?

A thoughtful expression appeared on Lu Zhou's face.

Looking at Lu Zhou seriously, Chen Yushan said in a non-joking tone: "In short, I will help you contact a few suitable buyers. I believe that many people will be interested in the laboratory of the Nobel laureate. It shouldn’t be a problem to sell it for a good price.”

Lu Zhou: "Then I'll leave it to you... that's right."

Chen Yushan: "What's wrong?"

Looking at the coffee she was holding in her hands, Lu Zhou asked curiously.

"Speaking of which, haven't you always had iced Americano? Why did you suddenly switch to hot drinks today?"

He has been curious about this question since he ordered the meal.

However, for some reason, it was obviously just a small talk, but after hearing his words, Chen Yushan's cheeks flushed suddenly, and her voice stammered a bit.

"A change of taste, can't you?"

Seeing her such a big reaction, Lu Zhou was also stunned.

"It's nothing... I'm just curious, if it's inconvenient, forget it."

"It's not a matter of convenience, it's just me..." The knees that were close together rubbed against each other shyly, Chen Yushan's eyes drifted to the side embarrassingly, and she whispered quickly, "I'm here, don't drink cold of."

Lu Zhou: "...?"

Although I don't know what she is talking about, I always feel that the topic is developing in a strange direction...

...

After talking with his senior sister, Lu Zhou has already made a decision about the future of Sarot's laboratory.

To be honest, when he made this decision, he still had mixed feelings.

Although he has always been careful not to let politics interfere with his research as much as possible, but now it seems that this is impossible.

Even if he doesn't take the initiative to find trouble, trouble will come to him automatically.

According to Chen Yushan's suggestion, starting from today, Xingkong Technology's business in North America will try to retain only necessary management departments and relevant legal teams to ensure that patent rights can be guaranteed.

As for the research and development department, it is still transferred to the country or a neutral third country with low political risk.

Professionals were hired to evaluate the assets of Sarot Laboratory, and then Xingkong Technology released the news of the transfer of the laboratory to the industry.

Just as Chen Yushan expected, almost on the day the news was released, he received eleven quotations about Sarot Laboratory.

Among them are his old partner Umicore in Belgium, international chemical giants such as Nichia Chemicals, Dow, and BASF, and his old rival Exxon Mobil, which once competed with him in the lithium-sulfur battery cathode material project.

These companies all have business needs in the direction of materials, so the prices offered are quite impressive.

After a comparison, Lu Zhou finally chose Exxon Mobil, which is rich and powerful.

For this matter, ExxonMobil CEO Woods made a special trip to Huaguo and had an interview with Lu Zhou in Jinling, Jiangsu Province.

In fact, the CEO originally wanted to talk to Lu Zhou in Los Angeles.

But Lu Zhou directly said to him, "Whether love comes or not, don't come and pull it down" to him, which immediately made him compromise very bad-tempered...

In this way, the venue for the negotiation was set at Jinling.

With the help of his senior sister, Lu Zhou raised the original offer of 45 million US dollars to 50 million US dollars through negotiation.

The transfer price of 50 million U.S. dollars is not a lot, almost the price of a private jet, but for Lu Zhou, who has just bled a lot in "stock trading", it is still somewhat bloody.

In fact, although his usual consumption is not high, his expenses are actually quite large.

Not only the thousands of researchers, research assistants, etc. at the Jinling Institute for Advanced Study have to be supported, but there are also nearly a hundred ongoing scientific research projects that are not the main reason for saving money.

Especially the research on carbon-based chips and Hall thrusters, these are big money burners, and they are also bottomless pits. Even though the national scientific research funding has relieved him of the pressure of some projects, most of the projects involving patents are still done by him.

In addition to the 50 million US dollars, Lu Zhou also included in the transfer agreement a patent for a seemingly useless carbon nanosphere.

Although he has no plans to develop black technology such as lithium-air batteries for the time being, Exxon Mobil got it from him through unfair competition after all.

Now if you get it back in this way, it can be regarded as returning it to the original owner.

Speaking of this, there is actually a small episode.

After learning that Lu Zhou was interested in the patent of the carbon nanospheres, Woods did not intend to sell them at first.

However, after seeing that Lu Zhou easily gave up this idea and asked to raise the price by 1 million US dollars, Woods immediately wavered from his original idea.

Useless patents are worthless.

Rather than procrastinating on the transfer of Sarot Labs for this million dollars, it is better to let it play a little bit of value. After all, in his opinion, that patent document, which is almost like waste paper, is not worth 1 million US dollars...

Finally, the final transfer contract was finalized, and the two parties agreed on the signing time at the Jinling Hilton Hotel at 8:00 p.m.

While signing, Woods had a pained look on his face.

However, almost at the moment when Lu Zhou took the pen and just signed his name, he suddenly seemed to change his face. The expression of heartache disappeared from his face, and he put away his contract with a happy smile.

"I wish us a happy cooperation!" Holding hands enthusiastically, Woods showed the happiest smile in the past few days.

"It's a pleasant cooperation. My old subordinates are very capable. Remember to treat them well, or I will consider poaching them back one day... You seem to be in a good mood? It seems that my asking price is still a little lower." Song Unlocking Woods' hand, Lu Zhou laughed and joked.

"How? Actually, my heart is very heavy, very heavy... But we have to look forward, don't we?" Haha smiled and patted Lu Zhou's shoulder. After the contract was won, Woods didn't bother to act anymore, and his eyebrows were beaming. "Would you like a drink together? I know a nice bar not far from here."

Obviously, 50 million is still lower than Exxon Mobil's psychological expectations, and they even made a lot of money...

At least for now they think so.

Putting away his own contract, Lu Zhou thought for a while, shook his head and said, "No, I have something to do tonight."

"Dating?"

"experiment."

Woods sighed helplessly and said, "Well, it seems that you are a man who has no night life... To be honest, my friend, you have made so much money, you have never considered spending some time and money on yourself, good Do you want to enjoy life?"

Lu Zhou replied in an indifferent tone: "I enjoy it very much, whether it is the result or the process of the experiment."

Shrugging his shoulders, Woods said: "...that's a pity, it seems that I'm the only one to drink to my heart's content."

After the negotiation, Lu Zhou took Wang Peng and left the Hilton Hotel.

Sitting on the black red flag at the door, he glanced at the contract in his hand, then took out his mobile phone and sent an email to Sarot who was waiting for the negotiation result.

[The negotiation is complete, your new owner is Exxon Mobil. 】

After waiting for about three minutes, an email came back.

It is rare to have only one word in the text.

【thanks……】

Lu Zhou smiled and replied casually.

【You're welcome. 】