Chapter Four: The Negative-Value Order

“We can supply them,” Shen Yan told Henderson. “But one clause changes before we discuss price.” The proposed order for thirty thousand microvalves filled the conference-room screen. Eight hundred yuan per unit, ten percent in advance, delivery within sixty days. On its face, Polaris Cloud Computing had brought Guoliang Precision both its first order and ¥2.4 million in life-saving cash. Shen opened Appendix Seventeen. “Final acceptance shall depend exclusively on testing at Polaris’s H-7 laboratory in Iceland. Failure to satisfy ‘project environmental requirements’ requires a full refund and compensation for operational losses up to twice the contract value.” “Our specifications pass,” the production manager said.