Scholar's Advanced Technological System

Chapter 1647: Taking Over the Ark

The meeting room of the Star Sky Hotel.

Zhong Ziyu, who came back from the Alpha Centauri Colonial Exploration Foundation building, smiled and put a copy of the result in front of Lu Zhou.

“It has already been negotiated that Fuxing Mining Company will recover all debts at a price of 500 million credits. This includes ours and those in the hands of individual investors. Then we only need to cooperate with the Pan-Asian Cooperation by paying a fine of 100 million credits, and you can purchase the entire enterprise at a symbolic price of 1 credit.

“As for the future, whether you intend to directly merge Fuxing Mining into Star Sky Technology, or conduct mergers and acquisitions through other means, it is up to you.”

“I still don’t understand.” After looking at the document on the table, Lu Zhou then looked at Zhong Ziyu and said in a slightly confused tone, “How do you plan to deal with the AIIB and other banks’ bad debts? Or… What do you gain from doing this?”

“Bad debts? I don’t think this is a bad debt. At best, it can only be regarded as a temporary loss.” Zhong Ziyu smiled and continued, “You underestimate your own influence. If you were to build this starship… For a project like this, we even plan to invest a little. Of course, this is after achieving certain progress, but I believe this should be easy for you.”

Lu Zhou cast his sights on the contract in his hand.

On the last line of the third page of the contract, there was a supplementary agreement on the debt of 10 billion credit points. After completing the acquisition of the Alpha Centauri Colonial Exploration Foundation, if there were some creditors who were unwilling to give up their claims, these claims still had legal benefits and would be transferred to the “Noah’s Ark”.

However, they would no longer have the right to dispose of these assets.

If the Fuxing Mining Company really sold the “Noah’s Ark” as scrap, like they claimed, one million credit points worth of corporate bonds might only receive a few hundred credit points.

Of course, if the Fuxing Mining Company was acquired by another company that intended to continue to complete the “Noah’s Ark” project, and the entire plan of colonizing Alpha Centauri was finally completed…

Many people would go crazy because of this.

“In short, you don’t have to worry about money. I estimate that it will be 500 million. In the end, you may not even need to spend 300 million.” Zhong Ziyu smiled and continued, “At least we at the AIIB are willing to continue to hold these company debts. We believe that the unfinished ‘Noah’s Ark’ project will be carried forward in a new form in your hands.”

Lu Zhou: “I don’t care, but doing it like this… Are you not afraid of public outcry?”

Especially from those who sold the corporate debt in their hands.

Once they found out that they had just sold their “waste paper” pennies on the dollar, and the prices rose back to the ceiling again, they would mentally collapse…

“Investment itself is something that has winners and losers. How can there be projects that are 100% profitable? If there are any, please tell me.” Zhong Ziyu coughed lightly and continued without any change in his expression, “Just like I said, of course, you can kindly tell them directly that you plan to buy Noah’s Ark and transform it into a faster and stronger colonial ship, to take our civilization to a more distant world. But you know what this means?”

“I can tell you that this means that the corporate debt they hold will no longer be worthless waste paper. And the decision you make out of goodwill will make you spend hundreds of times the price to buy a company that was about to go bankrupt.”

Looking at Lu Zhou, he paused and continued, “Also, haven’t you noticed?”

Lu Zhou: “Noticed what?”

“This is a result that is satisfactory to everyone.” Zhong Ziyu shrugged and continued, “People can finally go home without setting up tents on the street to camp, and Tiangong City has restored order without having a group of special police to stand there with them stupidly. And the loss for the AIIB and other banks isn’t terrible… At least there is some return.”

Perhaps they could still even make a small profit because of the price difference when trading these corporate bonds.

“Do whatever you want.” Lu Zhou shook his head and said, “I don’t care about those things. But I will complete Noah’s Ark project.”

Worst-case scenario, he could stop by Alpha Centauri on the way to Tau Ceti.

With the warp speed technique that he currently mastered, it was not particularly difficult to go to these two places.

“Well, that would be best.” Zhong Ziyu said with a joking tone while looking at Lu Zhou sitting behind the desk, “My future is all weighing on you.”

…

Like Zhong Ziyu said, faced with this fairly good contract, almost all investors chose to stop their losses and sell their corporate bonds to Fuxing Mining Company.

After the news that the Alpha Centauri Colonial Exploration Foundation was acquired by the Fuxing Mining Company was released, this time bomb buried in Pan-Asia and even the global financial circles was finally removed.

According to Zhong Ziyu, the head office was satisfied with his work and asked him to tell Lu Zhou that they would like to pay Lu Zhou a visit when he was back on Earth.

Lu Zhou just smiled and didn’t say much.

Before completing the first full version of the warp drive engine, he might not go back.

On the other hand, the meeting on Europa’s development plan had finally come to an end due to the fact that the senior management of the Tiangong town hall, the main investor, was replaced.

Although Lu Zhou did not participate in the second half of the meeting, apparently they debated fiercely at the meeting and almost began to throw hands.

When it came to this matter, Professor Wu Qinglai, who was also from the Earth academic community like Lu Zhou, had a disdainful expression throughout the meeting, as if he was discussing with a group of barbarians who did not understand etiquette.

On the last day of the meeting, due to insufficient funds, the final dinner was rather unadorned. After eight o’clock, people began to leave the venue.

After eating a bit at the dinner, Lu Zhou was about to return to his room, but Professor Wu Qinglai suddenly followed him and spoke with a grin.

“Um… Academician Lu.”

Lu Zhou: “Yeah.”

“What date do you plan to return to Earth?”

Looking at him with a strange expression on his face, Lu Zhou replied casually, “I still have something to do. I plan to go back later. Why?”

Wu Qinglai quickly said, “No, no, just wondering.”

Lu Zhou sighed and said impatiently, “If you want something, just spit it out.”

Wu Qinglai scratched the back of his head embarrassedly and coughed. He said, “Um… So, I bought some ship tickets some time ago, right?”

The so-called ship tickets referred to the tickets for Noah’s Ark. Because of the hype surrounding Noah’s Ark, he was quite short-sighted with his investment.

Lu Zhou said, “You haven’t sold it yet?”

Wu Qinglai said with an awkward expression, “I thought it would rise again.”

Lu Zhou: “…”

Wu Qinglai whispered, “I just want to ask, do you have any inside information? Does the AIIB plan to buy back the tickets for Noah’s Ark? Or is there any… compensation plan?”

Hearing these words, the expression on Lu Zhou’s face became even more strange. After staring at him for a long time, he suddenly asked, “Why do you think I would have inside information?”

Wu Qinglai’s expression was one of embarrassment. He coughed and continued, “Didn’t the president of the AIIB Tiangong branch visit Star Sky Hotel yesterday? I happened to see him…”

“Then you saw him enter my room?”

Seeing the look on Lu Zhou’s face, Wu Qinglai waved his hand quickly.

“I swear! I definitely didn’t mean to see it! I just happened to—”

“No plans. Just keep the tickets if you want to and treat it like a lesson.”

Lu Zhou didn’t care about trivial things. After saying this, he left Professor Wu Qinglai frowning on the spot and walked away slowly in the direction of the elevator.

Lu Zhou felt like his hint was obvious enough.

As for whether he could seize the opportunity…

It was all up to himself.