The years of red flags

"So you have plenty of time to attend the celebration tonight." Jiang Hua said happily, "Can you just give me some face? I'm the boss of Huaxing Group after all. Can't I change the celebration event to save my face?"

"Okay, for the sake of your boss's meager reputation, we'll give you some face and celebrate tonight." The chief engineer nodded and agreed: "You are not a competent boss at all."

"Is there something wrong?"

"We are ready to work overtime for you to earn money, but you don't want it." The chief engineer smiled and said, "Tell me, are you a qualified capitalist?"

"Don't slander people."

These scientific research staff are a bit weird. They are not willing to work overtime unless they are asked to. During the evening celebration, the chief engineer and the deputy chief engineer kept communicating about work.

The celebratory banquet in the evening was a bit anticlimactic. Even the test pilots couldn't help but discuss work with the scientific researchers. Jiang Hua alone seemed a bit redundant. In the end, he announced the huge bonus in a dejected manner and left without looking back.

Two days later, our CCTV News reported the test flight, which took up a full half minute of news. The last time Huaxing Aerospace launched a satellite for Muhammad, it was just mentioned in passing, and people who didn't pay attention didn't know about it. This time, Huaxing Aerospace made a big splash.

People all over the country finally know the name of Huaxing Aerospace. The previous satellites were too far away from them, they were in outer space, and now the big aircraft are much closer to people.

More importantly, our country was able to launch satellites on its own before, but could not build large aircraft. This time it filled the domestic gap, which naturally made people talk about it with relish.

Lei Jun was sitting in Jiang Hua's office. He took out a bottle of Coke from the small refrigerator and said, "Boss Jiang, I didn't expect your company to be so ambitious that you even built airplanes. Isn't my goal too small compared to yours?"

"Have you figured it out?"

Lei Jun nodded and said: "We are preparing to develop smartphones. I visited Meizu a few days ago. They are the second smartphone company in China after CITIC. I want to form a partnership with them, but their boss is not very happy about it."

"Of course he is not happy about it." Jiang Hua said with a smile: "Why add a partner for no reason? Now he can have the final say, especially when he doesn't even know what your philosophy is."

"I have explained my philosophy to him very clearly." Lei Jun shook his head: "But he doesn't quite agree with my philosophy."

"This is what we call different paths and different plans."

Lei Jun took a sip of Coke and said, "I was thinking about whether I could get you to be my partner. I didn't expect you to start building airplanes all of a sudden. I guess you don't think highly of my smartphone company."

"Huaxing's six subsidiaries are not subordinate to each other, but their businesses overlap." Jiang Hua said with a smile: "My original intention was to build a leading domestic manufacturing industry, at least a leading private enterprise. Your smartphone is also a manufacturing industry. Whether I can become your partner does not depend on the size of your business, but on your business philosophy."

Lei Jun began to tell Jiang Hua about his recently established business ideas. He had thought a lot and done a lot recently, and established the central idea for his future business operations.

Jiang Hua nodded repeatedly: "Are you doing well? I think you will make an indelible contribution to the development of domestic semiconductors and smart phones. If you are willing, I can become your partner."

Lei Jun clapped his hands and said, "I knew you were a connoisseur. When I make enough money, I will buy a plane from your company as my private jet."

"That's good, but you don't have to be so deliberate." Jiang Hua smiled and said, "I believe there will be no shortage of markets for my aircraft in the future. If you want to buy one, you may even have to queue up." Lei Jun shook his head and said, "Don't be so optimistic. I have done my homework in the past two days. It will be quite difficult for your aircraft to obtain an airworthiness certificate from the European Union."

Jiang Hua shrugged his shoulders: "It doesn't matter. From the moment I decided to make a domestic large aircraft, I knew it was a difficult hurdle, and one that I couldn't solve. It required the support of the national grand strategy, but at least I could pass the domestic test flight without any effort. In this way, I could fly many domestic and Asian routes."

Jiang Hua smiled and said, "You know what? There is an advantage to this."

"What's the benefit?"

Jiang Hua smiled and said, "It's the same idea as yours. I can lower the prices of domestic and Asian flights because my planes are much cheaper than Boeing and Airbus."

Lei Bushi nodded: "That's true, but don't you want to get involved in the European and American market in the future?"

"Of course I won't give up." Jiang Hua slapped the table and said, "But that requires an opportunity. In fact, I can foresee that it won't be too far away."

"Europe may be easier to deal with." Rebus held his chin and said, "They are sandwiched between us and the U.S., and no one wants to offend them. For our market, it is only a matter of time before the airworthiness certificate is issued. The U.S. Boeing will not tolerate you coming to its lair to stir up trouble."

Jiang Hua now waved his hands: "It doesn't matter. Boeing's decline is inevitable. I just need to sit quietly and watch, and then he will kill himself."

Lei Jun asked curiously: "I am very puzzled. Why do you think you can sit on the Diaoyutai? Why can you make such a judgment? Boeing is an old airline. Even if it wants to collapse, it will not happen overnight."

"It's God's will that brings rain, but it's man's will that brings death." Jiang Hua shook his head: "Boeing is indeed a well-established brand with enough strength, but it can't stop the ugly Chinese from seeking death themselves."

Lei Bushi shook his head blankly: "I can't think of it, how will he seek death?"

"Do you know the Wolfe Clauses?"

Lei Jun still shook his head, Jiang Hua explained: "It was a bill passed by the United States in the 1990s, which completely banned their country's cooperation with our country in the field of aerospace, on the grounds of fear of leaks."

Reeves nodded. "Understandable. They were much more advanced than us at that time."

"The question is, can a closed-door country make progress?" Jiang Hua asked in return, "Our space program is in full swing. Does the Ugly country have the capability? They landed on the moon in the 1960s. Do they still have the capability now?"

"There should be."

Jiang Hua shook his head: "No, their manufacturing industry has been artificially hollowed out. Even if they want to build a spacecraft to the moon, they don't have the ability to do so. They can't even guarantee the most basic parts."

"That's easy." Lei Jun smiled and said, "Global supply chain management. If we can't make it domestically, we can buy it internationally."

(End of this chapter)