"It just so happens that Professor Claire's laboratory has taken on a project from McDonnell Douglas and is responsible for improving their engines. Now, McDonnell Douglas's aircraft are all small passenger aircraft with less than 100 people, and the future development trend of passenger aircraft is towards large passenger aircraft.
, for example, Boeing's 707 aircraft can accommodate 200 people. I also participated in this project, and I am very clear about many details of the McDonnell Douglas engine.
McDonnell Douglas's engine has huge flaws. The technical design and materials need to be improved. This kind of improvement requires tens of millions of dollars of investment, and more critical time. The design, manufacturing, assembly, and test flight procedures do not take two or three years at all.
Unable to complete.
In other words, McDonnell Douglas' technology in large aircraft has lagged behind. Last year, their business dropped significantly and was completely suppressed by Boeing. If McDonnell Douglas does not launch a new aircraft model within a year, I personally feel that they will
They are all in danger of going bankrupt. The production line they sold to our country is worth a lot of money, probably just to make a lot of money from us. However, this production line is already outdated. Even if we buy it, it will be useless to manufacture the aircraft.
of.
After spending countless amounts of money to introduce a set of useless equipment, the Americans now regard us as fools, and we cannot be deceived."
Liu Lang's words are absolutely correct. Professor Claire is not optimistic about McDonnell Douglas's engine improvement project. The fundamental problem will not be solved within at least two years.
Two years have been decisive in the fiercely competitive aviation market, and Europe's Airbus will also rise in these two years. In the future, the world will form a pattern of two airlines competing against each other. As for McDonnell Douglas
, fell into a bankruptcy crisis in the early 1990s, and ended up being acquired by Boeing in 1995 and became history.
In a previous life, McDonnell Douglas signed a cooperation agreement with China, but then there was no news, apparently because they themselves were acquired by Boeing. How could they manage China? China's large aircraft project was stranded and was not restarted until around 2000 years ago.
, autonomous aircraft suddenly lagged behind for more than ten years,
The meaning expressed by Liu Lang is very clear. First of all, large aircraft technology represents the potential of a country's air force. As the saying goes, how can a country's most important weapon be shown to others? The United States is not a fool, can they show its own housekeeping skills to others?
Unless this ability is fake.
The second meaning is even clearer. McDonnell Douglas's aircraft itself has flaws, and they are fatal. Now they themselves are in crisis because of this flaw, and now they are giving this technology to China. The purpose is obviously very obvious.
, just want to cheat money.
Everyone sitting here, including Zhao Hongyang, fell silent. The silence in the conference room was terrifying. Jiang Botao was even more chilly and sweating. He and many department leaders were supporters of this project and felt that
The country can earn a lot of benefits from this project. Volkswagen has made great progress in China's industrial level. Similarly, McDonnell Douglas can also make the country's aerospace industry develop rapidly, which is definitely a major event that benefits the country and the people.
But after hearing what Liu Lang said, he was dumbfounded. If what he said was true, then this project was basically a big conspiracy designed by the United States against China.
"Liu Lang, are your words true?"
Zhao Hongyang's face turned a little pale.
"Grandpa Zhao, I know that this project is very important to the country, and it is also a huge investment project. Although I have not participated in it, I think the investment will not be less than 100 million US dollars!"
"It's $500 million, and McDonnell Douglas promises to move their entire production line here intact!"
Jiang Botao spoke at the side.
"Oh, five hundred million U.S. dollars, good guy. The total market value of McDonnell Douglas is only four billion U.S. dollars. It's really a big deal to ask for $500 million, but the technology is priceless. If we can buy their advanced
Technology, let alone 500 million, I would be happy with even 5 billion, but the Americans would not be so kind. McDonnell Douglas's engine
It has fallen behind. In my opinion, McDonnell Douglas's crisis will completely erupt within two years. Even with these 500 million US dollars, they will not be able to reverse their defeat. The result will be that they will be eliminated from the market and may go bankrupt, but the biggest possibility is
Being acquired by Boeing, if we really sign an agreement with them, the US$500 million will probably be wasted!"
Liu Lang's attitude is very clear, this is a big scam.
Zhao Hongyang frowned when he heard Liu Lang's affirmative answer. He was thinking about whether Liu Lang's words were true. He didn't want to believe it in his heart. Could they be deceived by a company? If so.
If so, wouldn't my group of people become fools?
But his intuition still believed that Liu Lang's words were right. He didn't know anything else. At least Liu Lang said that McDonnell Douglas produced small and medium-sized aircraft with less than 100 passengers. This was completely correct. This meant that Liu Lang was not
Nonsense, but he really knows McDonnell Douglas very well. Furthermore, Liu Lang would never joke about such a thing. Even though he is just a child, no one thinks that he is a child.
Liu Lang saw everyone's entanglement. He understood the other party's psychology and knew that they just couldn't let go.
"During the year I was studying in the United States, I often read some books about American business. These books gave me a lot of inspiration, and the most profound ones were some of their methods of attacking their opponents. Even though the United States advocates free competition,
in targeting business rivals
It can be said that there are all kinds of things to guard against. For example, Coca-Cola and Best Cola are now the two most famous beverage companies in the United States, but they still faced fierce competition when they were founded. If they followed the normal competition method, they probably would not
It has the current scale.
In order to defeat an opponent, the Coca-Cola Company used a trick that seemed to kill the enemy by a thousand and damage itself by eight hundred. They proposed cooperation and spent more than ten million to become a shareholder of the other company, and then used various means to make this
The Coke Company's approach to emasculating a brand that it spent tens of millions of dollars to buy seemed really low-level at the time, but in the long run it would undoubtedly eliminate a potential rival.
A few months ago, Coca-Cola Company found Jianlibao Company and hoped to invest two million US dollars to invest in Jianlibao Company. I met Li Jingtian from Jianlibao Company, so he found me and asked me to come up with an idea, so I made the decision.
This story told him that as long as he sold his shares, the national brand Jianlibao would disappear from the market in less than a year. He listened to my words and did not agree to them.
These large companies have only one purpose, and that is to find ways to gain profits. McDonnell Douglas used another method this time, which was to use their reputation and the asymmetry of information between the two parties to sell us those production lines that are about to be eliminated.
McDonnell Douglas has an insight into the changes in the world's aviation market and knows that large aircraft with 100 passengers will become the mainstream, and their production lines will be eliminated by then. However, we are not familiar with this market, so they took the initiative to come to us, hoping to cooperate with us.
Our cooperation seems sincere on the surface, but in reality
It is a trap for us. The products produced by the production line we spent a lot of money to buy are outdated. If the price is small, forget it, just think of it as a lesson for us, but this 500 million US dollars is not a small amount, and it can even
They want to set up another airline, these guys have terrible intentions!"