"The Ye Yuan I know is a good kid. He never bargains with me."
Before Old Xu could finish, Ye Yuan quickly raised a hand to cut him off.
"Stop right there, sir. Don't flatter me. I'm just an ordinary guy, a very practical one. Don't lecture me about lofty principles. Just tell me what benefits you're offering."
Ye Yuan had no intention of listening to the old man keep sweet-talking him.
For all he knew, Old Xu might talk circles around him until he was completely led astray.
"Then tell me, what do you want?"
Before coming here, Old Xu had already figured that Ye Yuan would certainly raise some conditions.
That was in keeping with the kid's personality.
Ye Yuan held up two fingers and said leisurely,
"First, I need enough 980 special steel to build a large fishing vessel.
"Second, I need your shipyard to build a fishing vessel according to my design."
Ye Yuan had proposed those two conditions on a sudden inspiration.
This cargo hold explosion had exposed many of Yushui Hao's current problems.
So even if Yu Hongbo had not mentioned it, Ye Yuan had already planned to order a large fishing vessel of his own next year.
Ye Yuan's dream was to captain his own fishing boat across every ocean in the world.
But accomplishing that was far from simple.
He needed not only a fishing vessel capable of withstanding all kinds of harsh weather at sea.
It also had to operate normally in every kind of temperature and climate.
It might sound simple, but there were truly very few fishing vessels capable of meeting both requirements.
And the 980 special steel Ye Yuan mentioned possessed precisely those qualities.
980 special steel had a yield strength exceeding 785 megapascals.
At the same time,