"Congratulations to Ancient City Shuttle Factory One for becoming one of the First Batch trial units for our small-scale water transport."
When the winning bid envelope was opened, suppressed cheers erupted from a corner of the hall.
The staff who had borne the pressure celebrated with each other, even embracing. But when Wang Xi'er found Lu PingAn, she saw the exhausted young man looking as though he had heard nothing and cared about nothing.
"You don't seem happy at all."
"Hah. I am happy. I just won't get excited over something that was settled a month or two ago."
Just as Lu PingAn said, only the workers below had been anxiously fretting over gains and losses. The big shots had actually decided the outcome long ago.
The order was already secured. Thanks to Lu PingAn's intervention, even the malicious traps that had originally been buried in the contract had been cleared away.
There was still a clause stating that follow-up orders would be canceled if the products failed to meet standards or proved unsuitable, but it had been changed into phased deliveries, with the client required to pay compensation.
Lu PingAn had used all kinds of internal deals to clear the mines for Ancient City.
Shuttle Factory One in the Development Zone. Ancient City would definitely profit from this project. As for how much they would earn, that depended on the final product they could deliver.
After all, no matter how much face Lu PingAn had, he could not let the shuttle factory provide shoddy products and send frontline soldiers to their deaths.
"W-We'll work hard. This time, we'll also hurry to purchase new technologies and recruit new experts."
"Heh, not bad. Get to it."
Lu PingAn gave a casual laugh. The work that followed truly had nothing to do