"Here!" Upon hearing the name, Chief Zhao immediately stood up and responded.

"You are hereby appointed as the chief commander of the FAST-1 project."

"Yes." With that, Chief Zhao gave General Zhang a salute.

Then, General Manager Zhang called out the names of several people to make appointments. Finally, when it came to Xing Baohua, he was given the position of Director of the Electronics Project Department and Chief Commander Advisor!

Xing Baohua's eyes widened. What the hell was this? The power of an advisor could be great or small.

This guy is overthinking it. This consultant is just using his resources to adjust resources in various places.

Whether it's the plane or the engine, it was this guy who brought them back. There are some things that require Xing Baohua's intervention to resolve.

Moreover, some materials needed for the aircraft need to be imported, and since Ermao also produces them, Xing Baohua can get them back with just a few words. If the General Assembly were to get them, it would have to go through several detours.

Some things require money to buy. Xing Baohua has money and can pay in advance. The final assembly requires foreign exchange and various approvals. Sometimes time waits for no one.

After the meeting, everyone ate some food and chatted casually.

Deputy Director Liu called Xing Baohua over, and the two chatted casually. Then he introduced a staff member in plain clothes, also surnamed Liu, and told Xing Baohua to call him Engineer Liu.

This engineer, Mr. Liu, didn't hide anything and said that he was from the Shanghai Ship Research Institute and was currently doing research work at Haiji.

Speaking of which, it was the aircraft carrier that Xing Baohua brought back. First of all, we should thank Xing Baohua for the research work they did. However, according to the reports from the disguised staff, there were no steel cables on the deck.

This thing also has a scientific name: it helps airplanes brake suddenly.

The idea is to ask Xing Baohua to apply to see if he can buy a discarded one and install it on his ship as a tourist attraction.

Xing Baohua understood: we couldn't figure it out, and the Americans didn't want us to. So, when the ship was given to Xing Baohua, this thing was dismantled.

"Have you applied to purchase from the Americans?" Xing Baohua asked.

"No, but some steel cables were found on the Melbourne. We had the metallurgical department study them, and their technology is quite advanced, beyond our capabilities," said Engineer Liu.

"Who said that?" Xing Baohua asked, her eyes wide.

"That's what the experts said."

"Take him out and beat three kilograms of iron peanuts. This is outrageous."

Xing Baohua recalled a joke from her past life, which involved listening to a TV station explain the story of a certain number.

When we needed steel cables for our first ship, we went to the Americans to buy them. They asked for either ten million or eight million US dollars.

Besides, this thing is a consumable! It's so expensive, we definitely can't afford to use it. I inquired about the US's purchase price, and it's around three million.

Look how much they make from each of our products by reselling them! That's incredibly shady!

We were forced to put out a public tender, using the remnants from the Melbourne ship to allow numerous companies capable of producing steel cables to compare their parameters.

One of the companies said, "It looks just like the thousands of ones in our warehouse. Why don't you take them back and test them for a few days?"

Damn it, we finally figured out that an American supplier was posing as a shipyard company, buying goods from us for $400,000 each, and then reselling them to the US for $3 million each.

Look how easy it is to make money like this.

If it were for our own use, it would probably cost around 300,000. Xing Baohua suggested that they hold a public tender and try it out with that amount of money. They call it high-tech? This thing was produced according to the technical parameters provided by the US.