769 Three Pieces of Good News (1/2)
The first day of negotiations ended on a high note.
After returning to the hotel, Wu Weiyu immediately contacted his boss. The next day, Victoria Construction Company moved two construction ships, two survey helicopters, and a professional construction team from the Xiangjiang headquarters. They took several laps around Pannu Island to survey the structure of the seabed, and delineate the construction route and series of other tasks.
Three days later, Victoria Construction Company proposed a macro design plan and determined the project length and route as well as a budget. Wu Weiyu immediately took a stack of documents five centimeters thick to Jiang Chen.
”This is the plan we proposed. The tunnel starts from the northernmost Garin Island in the Pannu archipelago, passes through Coro Island, and ends on Ange Island, connecting the rest of the six islands via slip roads. The tunnel will use a transparent graphene shell. 319 kilometers in length and a two-way 12-lane road - driving in the tunnel will be the same as driving on the sea floor! Here is the engineering concept diagram. I bet the Pannu Undersea Expressway will make its mark in the history of modern architecture!” Wu Weiyu ecstatically pounded his chest and vowed to Jiang Chen.
The transparent undersea tunnel wouldn't only serve as a transportation belt for Xin, but it would also become a world-famous tourist attraction with a total length of 319 kilometers. Under the attraction of light, fish would inhabit the vicinity of the tunnel. While enjoying a tour of Pannu, tourists could enjoy the beautiful scenery outside the window. It would be a once-in-a-lifetime experience.
Jiang Chen took the proposal from Wu Weiyu's hands, flipped through the pages and nodded with satisfaction.
It seemed he had a good vision. This Victoria Construction Company was indeed capable of completing this project.
”How much will the project cost?”
”The construction of the graphene pipeline is provided by Future Heavy Industrial and isn't included in the project cost. Our budget for this undersea tunnel is 10.17 billion US Dollar and no more than 12 billion US Dollar.”
At an average price of around 200-300 million RMB per kilometer, this price was already quite cheap. Including the cost from Future Heavy Industries, the graphene material for the entire project would be around 500 million US Dollar.
”Excellent, this project will be yours. I will send scientists from Future Heavy Industries to your project team temporarily as technical consultants for graphene materials.” Jiang Chen signed the letter of intent on investment. ”Send the contract to my CEO tomorrow and start construction the day after tomorrow. Can you do it?”
”No problem!” Wu Weiyu said without hesitation.
”Then you can go now.” Jiang Chen smiled.
Right after Wu Weiyu left, Future Group also completed the registration of a subsidiary named ”Pannu Undersea High-Speed Management Company” and injected 15 billion US Dollar into the subsidiary. The next day, the Victoria Construction Company sent a contract to the subsidiary to complete the signing of the undersea expressway project.
At this point, this 12 billion US Dollar project was formally announced!
After just spending billions of dollars on the space elevator, 15 billion was invested into the undersea tunnel. Typically, Future Group wouldn't be able to squeeze out so much cash.
But now, there wasn't much concern. Future Bank had already reached 24.49 million depositors since its establishment. Total deposits had been converted into 192.1 billion US Dollar based on current exchange rates. After half a month of tightening the lending rate, there was no issue with providing 15 billion US Dollar of fresh blood for Future Group.
Jiang Chen no longer needed to worry about liquidity for the company. Only when the blood flowing in their blood vessels was sufficient would the behemoth Future Group take off and expand at a faster pace to transform the world.
Of course, the premise was that there were no major operational mistakes.