Chapter 1305 Everyone Has Their Own Little Plans

Vanderdale and his team bought the coordinates from Xiao Peng at a high price with the intention of making a profit. Besides reputation, they also didn't want to lose money.

And they did: First, the Netherlands hired the ocean exploration company they invested in to conduct the salvage operation. They used the excuse of "required meticulous salvage" to carry out the work for a full two months. Then, under the pretext of "equipment upgrades," they took 20 million from the national treasury just to salvage the ship. Then there were the costs of media cooperation and subsidies received under the pretext of "scientific research." Although the salvaged items were supposedly "donated" to the country, they received a large amount of subsidies from the government. And their ocean exploration company, thanks to the huge attention this incident brought, performed well in the capital market...

Let's just say, although they paid 30 million, after deducting the cost of the salvage operation, they have at least doubled the 30 million. This is a huge profit for each of them, not to mention the huge reputation they have gained. This time, they will smile even in their dreams.

And now the person who is most respectful to Xiao Peng is Darwin Vanderdale.

Darwin Vanderdale was originally a typical "anti-Xiao faction". He looked down on Xiao Peng and tried to make trouble for him in various ways. He would even send someone to his house to fine Xiao Peng if he went fishing at home. However, this time, he became rich instantly because of a shipwreck from which most of his wealth had been salvaged.

Although they are all traditional aristocrats, they don't actually have much wealth except for real estate. The 30 million yuan they used to buy the coordinates with Xiao Peng was pooled together by the three of them, and as a result, their assets doubled!

If the deep-sea salvage industry is well managed, it can really make money!

So who should you rely on to get into this industry? Of course, it's Xiao Peng, the "Salvage King"!

Vanderdale is so arrogant now: Xiao Peng slapped and kicked me once. Have you two ever had that happen to you?

But he also wanted to slap himself every day: in order to make things difficult for Xiao Peng, the first thing he did after returning was to send those girls to Delft University of Technology. Now it is difficult to get them out: the president of Delft University of Technology, Heintje Hahn, will not let them go!

Why didn't Heintje Hahn let him go? Their school also has the 3mE School, which stands for "Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering." Whether it's the undergraduate program "Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering" or the graduate program "Navigation Technology," they could further collaborate with Xiao Peng!

As a member of the European IDEA Alliance (a strategic alliance of Europe's most prestigious technical universities), TU Delft seems a bit less prestigious than the likes of Germany's RWTH Aachen University, Italy's Politecnico di Milano, ETH Zurich, or Sweden's Chalmers University of Technology. A technical university's most renowned specialty is architecture!

This made Heintje Hahn very unhappy. He was also an ambitious person who wanted to take Delft University of Technology to a higher level, so he came up with the idea of cooperating with Xiao Peng.

Although Xiao Peng is not a scientific researcher but just a shipwreck salvager, Xiao Peng is rich!

Scientific research, after all, is all about burning money! Considering funding, their university can only conduct four deep-sea field research dives a year, and their research on deep-sea working machinery has always been plagued by funding.

And what about Xiao Peng? He could send an HOV into the water 365 days a year if he wanted! It's clearly a shipwreck salvage operation, with all the HOV and ROV collaboration. Even some "national-level" scientific research expeditions don't have that luxury! If we could collaborate with him, funding wouldn't be a problem!

Just for the sake of getting closer to Xiao Peng, these girls can't be let go! Darwin van der Dale now has to maintain his relationship with Xiao Peng without affecting Xiao Peng's image, and he can't tell Heintje Hahn that Xiao Peng's idea is to get rid of these girls... So those girls continue to stay at Delft University of Technology.

Anyway, everyone has his or her own little calculations.

Heintje Hahn was now in high spirits, because in addition to keeping Xiao Peng's 'beloved' girl and completing the renovation work for Orange Garden, he also had the opportunity to further cooperate with Xiao Peng:

"Mr. Xiao, we at TU Delft would like to thank you again for agreeing to establish the panda park here. Although there are many universities in the Netherlands that are more famous than TU Delft, we are the only one with pandas!"

Xiao Peng waved his hand and said, "Well, it's for scientific research after all. But have you ever considered that if the panda park is built on the Delft University of Technology campus, it might increase the difficulty of your school's management."

Heintje-Hahn waved his hand. "Mr. Xiao, please rest assured. After all, our school is a large institution with nearly 15,000 students and faculty. We're not afraid of trouble. Of course, considering we're a school, this is a collaborative project between us and relevant biological researchers in Daxia, and the popularity of pandas in the Netherlands, we have no choice but to open up under certain conditions."

"Conditional?" Xiao Peng was puzzled. "What do you mean?"

Heintje-Hahn explained, "The 'Panda Biodome' our school invested €4 million in has been nearly completed. While the investment wasn't particularly high, it was built entirely with the panda ecosystem in mind, ensuring their comfort. We're limiting admission to only 600 visitors per day. The pandas will be primarily cared for by the twelve experts from your university, supplemented by faculty and students from our school. The research experts will be paid the same salary as our faculty members of the same level. What do you think?"

"Yes. Mr. Hahn is very thoughtful." Xiao Peng said, "This really saves me the trouble. I can help you bring the panda out, but it would be really troublesome to place it in my house. If a group of people surrounded my house every day and clamored to see the panda, I really don't know what to do!"

Heintje-Hahn smiled and said, "Mr. Xiao, you're very polite. Believe me, any zoo or university in the Netherlands would be willing to pay to bring the panda back. You've given this opportunity to our school. Just for this, our school committee is already discussing awarding Mr. Xiao an honorary degree."

Xiao Peng waved his hands hastily: "That's really not possible! I haven't received much education, and I'm unworthy of such an honor."

Heintje Hahn laughed. "Mr. Xiao, you're being too modest. Everyone knows you love reading. Wherever you go, you always go to the library first. Your knowledge is truly admirable. Our school has one of the best libraries in the Netherlands, haven't you visited it yet? And the Panda Ecological Museum is almost finished. How about I invite you to visit our school?"

"Uh... let's talk about it later."