Zhao Chen picked up the tea cup again, and his tone relaxed.
"Elon Musk, there are some things I can tell you more."
His eyes scanned every face present,
"After the test report comes out, he will fly to Magic City. The time has not been determined yet, but it won't be long.
He came to Magic City for one thing - to see Green Energy Technology's Pilot Line with his own eyes, to meet Mr. Zhou, and to meet Engineer Fang."
Old Fang's fingers stopped on the edge of the teacup.
He raised his head and moved his lips, but said no words.
Zhao Chen's eyes fell on his face.
"Engineer Fang, Elon Musk is much happier meeting an engineer than a CEO.
He squatted under Raptor engine and argued with SpaceX engineers all afternoon.
When he meets you, he will probably ask you a bunch of technical questions--
Where is the upper limit of the process of Energy Storage Density, at which cycle does the Degradation Curve inflection point of cycle life appear, and within what range is the particle size distribution of the Powder Synthesis link controlled.
If you can answer it, he will be very happy. If you can't answer it, he won't be polite."
Old Fang picked up the tea cup and drank it all in one gulp. When he put it down, the bottom of the cup made a muffled sound on the table.
"You can answer it." His voice was not high, but every word seemed to be burned out of Pilot Line.
Zhao Chen raised the corners of his mouth in a slight arc, and then turned to Zhou Bingcheng.
"Mr. Zhou, after Elon Musk arrives at Magic City, he won't stay too long, at most one day.
Watch Pilot Line, talk about technology with Engineer Fang, say a few words to you, and then leave. So--"
He paused and glanced over the faces of representatives Deputy General Manager Zheng, Director He, and Two Central State-Owned Enterprises one by one.
"I will not arrange for you to have dinner with Elon Musk."
Deputy General Manager Zheng's fingers paused on the edge of the tea cup for a moment.
Director He's lips moved, wanting to say something, but Zhao Chen had already continued.
"It's not that I don't want to give you face. It's Elon Musk who hates socializing the most.
During his meal at Magic City, there was only one situation where he would sit down and eat in all these years - the person sitting opposite him was a technician he recognized.
Engineer Fang can eat with him, and Mr. Zhou can eat with him. Everyone here, including me, is a 'capital person' in his eyes.
When a capital investor eats with him, he won't be able to sit still for five minutes."
Deputy General Manager Zheng leaned back on the chair, was silent for a moment, and then nodded.
"Understood."
Director He also nodded.
Two Central State-Owned Enterprises representative picked up the tea cup and took a sip with a calm expression.
Deputy General Manager Zheng put down the tea cup and suddenly smiled.
He smiled lightly, but there were lines at the corners of his eyes.
"Zhao Zong, to be honest, when you said in this Meeting Room three days ago that the stock price of Dening Times was 64.5 yuan and the market value was 140 billion, what I thought at the time was - this person is too ungrateful.
The negotiation went well, and you actually want to be my boss."
Meeting Room There was a burst of low laughter.
Director He tapped his fingers on the table twice, and pressed the corners of his mouth, but didn't press it down.
Two Central State-Owned Enterprises One of the representatives lowered his head and picked up the tea cup to hide the smile at the corner of his mouth.
Zhou Bingcheng also smiled, more relaxed than anyone else--
Three days ago, when Deputy General Manager Zheng said, "Industrial Capital will never have any contact with Green Energy Technology again," he tightened his fingers on the table and relaxed his smile now.
Zhao Chen didn't smile, but there was a hint of warmth in his eyes.
"Zheng Zong, when you said those words three days ago, I was not happy either.
It's not because you are suppressing the valuation of Green Energy Technology - everyone has their own master at the negotiating table, and it is your duty to suppress the price."
The laughter in Meeting Room slowly stopped. Deputy General Manager Zheng's hand holding the teacup paused in the air for half a beat.
"Mr. Zhou has been with Green Energy Technology for four years.
From the small test data in the laboratory to Thousand-Ton Scale Pilot Line, the cost has gone from 40% higher than the market to 35% lower.
Three Co-founder were burned away, and half of the hair turned white.
You are sitting across the negotiating table and you only see the technical parameters of Green Energy Technology, but not the people behind those parameters."
Zhao Chen picked up the tea cup and raised it to Deputy General Manager Zheng.
"You took back those words today. Then let's just read this article."
Deputy General Manager Zheng was silent for a moment, then picked up the tea cup and touched it lightly with Zhao Chen's cup.
The sound of the porcelain cups touching each other was particularly clear in the quiet Meeting Room, like something being put down, and like something being picked up again.
Director He put down the teacup and suddenly thought of something.
"Zhao Zong, Elon Musk to Magic City, Bidiya, is it convenient for you to know?"
Zhao Chen turned his head to look at him.
"It's not about arranging a meal or arranging a meeting."
Director He's speaking speed is slower than usual, and each word seems to be released after careful consideration.
"Bidiya voted for Green Energy Technology, and Elon Musk is the shareholder of Green Energy Technology.
A shareholder visits a company he has invested in. As a co-investor, Bidiya would like to know the itinerary. Isn't it too much?"
Zhao Chen looked at him for two seconds, then raised the corners of his mouth slightly.
"After the itinerary is decided, I will ask Chen Xi to send it to you."
Director He nodded, picked up the tea cup and took a sip.
The tea was already cold, but he didn't care.
Zhou Bingcheng stood up, picked up the teapot and filled everyone's cups with new tea.
Deputy General Manager Zheng was holding a new cup of tea and leaning on the back of the chair. His tone was completely different from three days ago.
"Mr. Zhou, when is Mass-Production Line of Green Energy Technology planned to be put into production?"
Zhou Bingcheng Put the tea cup down.
"After the Series B funds are in place, the equipment procurement cycle for Thousand-Ton Scale Mass-Production Line will be about four to five months, and the installation and commissioning will take two months.
If everything goes well, it will be put into production by the end of the third quarter of next year."
"How much is Capacity Ramp-Up?"
"The first phase of Thousand-Ton Line will be fully produced with an annual output of approximately 3,000 tons of Thermal Storage Composite Material.
In the future, according to the order status, land and factory space will be reserved to expand production to Ten-Thousand-Ton Scale."
Deputy General Manager Zheng tapped his finger lightly on the edge of the teacup.
Three thousand tons, ten thousand tons.
He knows better than most people here what these two numbers mean in the Energy Storage Materials industry.
"Dening Times Energy Storage System shipments next year are expected to be more than twenty Gigawatt-hour.
The Thermal Storage Material needed by twenty Gigawatt-hour cannot be stopped by three thousand tons."
He put down the teacup, "Green Energy Technology's Mass-Production Line, on the day it was put into production, Dening Times sent someone."
Zhou Bingcheng's fingers tightened slightly on the table.
Mass-Production Line hasn't been built yet, but the prototype of the order has already surfaced.
Director He spoke immediately, speaking faster than Deputy General Manager Zheng.
"The same goes for Bidiya. Energy Storage business will be BYD's key direction next year. If Green Energy Technology's Thermal Storage Material can enter Bidiya's Energy Storage System, three thousand tons is just the beginning."
One of the Two Central State-Owned Enterprises representatives opened his notebook, wrote a few words on it, and then raised his head.
"Grid-connected projects and orders from central enterprises in the Industrial Waste Heat Recovery field will be prioritized after Green Energy Technology is put into production."
Zhou Bingcheng picked up the teacup with a steady hand.
"Everyone, it has been four years since Green Energy Technology came from the laboratory to where he is today.
Next, we walked from Mass-Production Line to Commercialization at Scale. It was still a long way.
But the people around this table today can make this road go faster."
He didn't say anything more, but everyone in Meeting Room understood.
Three days ago, these people were sitting on both sides of this table, arguing over the valuation. Industrial Capital said that Green Energy Technology's technology was useless without channels, and he said that the channels could be changed.
Three days later, the same group of people sat together and discussed when Mass-Production Line would be put into production, when orders would be received, and how the production capacity would increase from 3,000 tons to 10,000 tons.
It's not about who convinced whom.
It's because Elon Musk's name is written into Shareholder Register,
It's because the test report of Tesla is on the table,
It's because Era Vanguard repriced Green Energy Technology's technology with a valuation of 1.5 billion US Dollar.
The capital market has always only recognized one thing - not who you are, but how much you are worth.
Green Energy Technology is worth 1.5 billion US Dollar, so the door to Supply Chain of Industrial Capital is open,
So Dening Times sent someone,
So the order for Bidiya started queuing up before Mass-Production Line was built.
It's not because Industrial Capital suddenly became generous, it's because the cards in Green Energy Technology's hand changed.