"Why are you in such a hurry? The superconductor experiment is about to begin, and I need to oversee it!" Professor Parkinson said impatiently to his secretary.
These days, he felt he had rediscovered his passion for being a professor, spending all his time in the laboratory and not wanting to deal with work. To have his secretary interrupt him at this crucial moment before the experiment was truly upsetting to Professor Parkinson!
"Professor, it's an emergency. Yang Yunhe is demanding that we cooperate with him to go abroad. He's leaving China for our country in a few days!" the secretary said anxiously.
"Is he crazy? Who approved him to come over? Wouldn't his sudden arrival in the United States expose him directly?" Professor Parkinson immediately became agitated.
"Yes, none of us ordered him to come. It's his own decision. He says he has completed the initial agreement and helped us obtain the information and manufacturing method for Black Gold. So now it's time for us to fulfill our part of the agreement: help him escape China to the United States, and in return, give him his due reward and the identity of the Black Gold developer!" the secretary said softly.
"Don't come back, never allow him to return. Otherwise, this pawn will lose all its use and instead become a huge burden and a waste!" Professor Parkinson said, his face dark.
Indeed, once Yang Yunhe arrived in the United States, he would not only be unable to obtain any more technical information from Jiangnan Group but would also constantly demand various rewards from Goldman Sachs. This was something Professor Parkinson could not accept.
"More importantly, the technical information he brought is incomplete. Although it does contain the Black Gold manufacturing technology, this method of creating Black Gold using tape cannot be mass-produced. However, Jiangnan Group's production volume has proven that they possess the technology for industrial-scale mass production of Black Gold. This technology is even more important to us, and he must help us obtain it!"
"Furthermore, Black Gold is just a foundation. Jiangnan Group has hundreds of composite materials developed based on Black Gold. All of this technology is also not in the intelligence we have. With just Black Gold in hand, we cannot replicate these technologies. If Yang Yunhe returns, then these technologies will also be impossible to obtain."
"Moreover, with Yang Yunhe's leak, Jiangnan Group will definitely increase the defensive measures of its research center exponentially. It will be difficult for us to insert another pawn like Yang Yunhe again!"
"Considering all this, Yang Yunhe absolutely cannot leave. He must be firmly pinned down there, providing us with intelligence continuously!" Professor Parkinson stated resolutely, completely cutting off Yang Yunhe's path back.
"But this was agreed upon initially. Yang Yunhe is asking us to abide by the agreement. How should we deal with him?" the secretary said with some distress.
"There's nothing to deal with. You simply tell him that the technical information he provided is incomplete, so it's not yet time to fulfill the agreement. He can only truly fulfill the agreement after he obtains the mass production technology for Black Gold and the data for all Black Gold-related composite metals," Professor Parkinson said expressionlessly.
"Yes!" The secretary nodded. "But boss, I'm afraid that if we do this, Yang Yunhe might fundamentally change his attitude towards us. He might become passive in his task, or even defect to Jiangnan Group directly."
"Hmph, he doesn't have the guts. He has already handed over the most critical secrets of Jiangnan Group to us. Even if Huang He were a saint, he would never let such a traitor go. If he defects, it's a dead end."
"So, it's precisely because of this that we can control him completely. If he wants to come to the United States safely, he must cooperate with us to obtain these secrets. This is his only way out, and he will understand!" Professor Parkinson sneered, then added, "However, we still need to appease him on the surface."
"You arrange for someone to explain the situation properly, and also give him some benefits, such as a property in New York, and a professorship at any university, along with the arrangements. Oh, and tell him that we have already started preparing his Nobel Prize. As long as he can obtain those technologies, he will be the developer of these technologies, and he will definitely get a Nobel Prize. Then he will become the world's top scholar, respected and loved by all humanity, possessing endless fame, fortune, and status!"
"Understood!" The secretary nodded. Professor Parkinson had explained things very clearly. If he still couldn't execute it, then he, the secretary, would be replaced, just like his predecessor.
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"Boss, now it seems that my decision to confess everything to you was incredibly correct. Goldman Sachs is toying with me like a slave!" When Goldman Sachs' instructions arrived in Yang Yunhe's hands, Yang Yunhe was reporting his work to Huang He. So, he directly handed over Goldman Sachs' instructions to our Boss Huang.
"Oh, what Goldman Sachs offered is quite good too. A three-story building in New York, a visiting professor at Harvard University, and by the way, they also guarantee to award you a Nobel Prize when you return. This is something many people dream of!" Boss Huang said with a smile.
"Boss, please stop joking with me. Whether it's the three-story building in New York, the visiting professorship, or the Nobel Prize, these are all empty promises to me now. As long as I don't go to the United States, I won't even see these things, let alone enjoy any benefits from them."
"For the future, if I get exposed, then I'll have nothing. But even if I fortunately manage to go to the United States, so what? The total value of these things is less than 10 million US dollars, which is not even as high as my annual income at the company. If I were to work for them for such a mirage, I would be the biggest fool in the world!" Yang Yunhe grumbled.
"It's alright, you've made the most correct choice. Although these things are laughable, they are still helpful for our next plan. You go ahead and do it!"
"However, don't agree so readily to be this sucker. You should still throw a little tantrum to make it more realistic, understand?"
"Understood!"
Huang He smiled and then changed the subject. "How is the site selection going? Is Guizhou suitable?"
"It's suitable, but the problem is that Guizhou is relatively close to the border, and it's also the Thousand Mountains. The security there is insufficient. So, I think it's more reliable to try to place the equipment in some inland provinces! Therefore, I plan to go to Jiangxi, Hunan, Hubei, and other provinces to investigate!" Yang Yunhe said.
"Good, but be quick. Our American friends are getting impatient!" Huang He said with a smile, and Yang Yunhe smiled along.
After a while, his expression became hesitant. "Boss, giving the Black Gold information to the other party, won't that be too dangerous for our company?"
"There is definitely danger, but it is an unavoidable danger!" Huang He shook his head. "The Black Gold technology won't be a secret for much longer. Someone in the European academic journals we control has already submitted a paper discovering that by continuously cutting graphite, a completely new allotrope can be found. However, because it is manufactured by direct cutting, its properties are not quite the same as Black Gold, so it hasn't attracted much attention. But this is already very close to the truth of Black Gold. It's estimated that within a few years, these guys will be able to independently develop the manufacturing technology for Black Gold. There's not much point in us concealing it any longer, so it's better to use it to gain trust."
"Moreover, what you gave him is actually not Black Gold, but Tungsten Hexafluoride. True Black Gold is a brand new material produced after secondary processing of Tungsten Hexafluoride. This material was discovered quite by chance. Goldman Sachs couldn't produce true Black Gold for decades, let alone other compounds."
"So, you can rest assured and go ahead, with my support!" Huang He said finally.
A few days later, Professor Parkinson received Yang Yunhe's reply, which consisted of only one sentence: "We cut ties completely, and there will be no further connection."
"Boss, alas, our conditions did not impress him. Yang Yunhe wants to sever all contact with us," the secretary said helplessly.
"Greedy fellow!" Parkinson cursed, as if the conditions he offered were incredibly generous. If it were in accordance with his normal character, he would have directly killed this ungrateful fellow.
But the problem was that the other party was in China, and Parkinson's reach was limited.
"Reply to him that if he wants to cut ties completely, he must find a way to obtain all the technical data for Black Gold. If he refuses to work for us now, then we will not hesitate to expose a pawn that has lost its usefulness!"
"However, this kid doesn't really want to cut ties with us completely. Otherwise, he wouldn't need to add that extra sentence after ceasing all contact. It's just that the money wasn't enough."
"This way, you try to get him an unregistered bank card with 2 million US dollars prepared in it, as his reward. Give him the cash directly. If he still doesn't comply, then this pawn is not worth keeping!" Professor Parkinson said angrily.
A few days later, Yang Yunhe still refused, and the bank card was returned directly. However, Professor Parkinson was still reluctant to abandon this pawn. After some wrangling and bargaining, he grudgingly gave him a bank card with 20 million US dollars, which finally appeased Yang Yunhe and made him agree to continue obtaining intelligence related to Black Gold.