Siheyuan starts from a better life

Chapter 1088 Meeting
Among the information found, what is more interesting is that the local media called him "Honest John". However, this is not a good word. He gives people the impression of being boring and stupid, and he seems helpless when scandals occur frequently in the party. As for his appearance, Major always gives people the impression of his gray hair, broad and flat face and big eyes, which are often exaggerated by political cartoons.

After sitting on the sofa in the living room of the Prime Minister's Office with John Major, the British Prime Minister made full use of the British conversation style. He talked about flights from China to the UK, the comparison between the weather in London and BJ, the cuisine of various countries, and the dishes of state banquets.
During the conversation, Jiang Yan found that this was a very talkative person, and Jiang Yan also found that the Prime Minister had a different temperament from the top leaders in the country. I was able to relax and chat with him aimlessly.

More than an hour later, the Minister of Economic Affairs, Allen, who came with them, could not sit still. He said, "Jiang, is the purpose of your visit to the UK just to buy some engines? Do you have any other investments? We at John Bull welcome your investment very much."

"There is a phrase in our flower-growing family called win-win. I don't deny that my various investments in John Bull over the past few years have yielded great rewards. However, I have also provided a large number of jobs for John Bull. Facts have proved that I am still quite confident in John Bull's economy. It can be said to be friendly,"

At this time, John Major said: "As you said, Mr. Jiang, your friendliness towards the British has touched us."

"Sir, I came here to see the company I invested in, and the main purpose of my visit to the UK is to import turbofan engines for large civil aircraft from the UK. You should know that our Hanshun Bank has invested in a large aircraft manufacturing plant in China to develop the world's largest jet airliner ever.

China is a developing country with a population of 1.2 billion. It can be said that the potential for the development of China's aviation industry is huge. Originally, my Ruyi Airlines ordered large turbofan engines for aircraft from Hewlett-Packard of the United States, but the price of Hewlett-Packard engines was too expensive, and there was also the corresponding maintenance technology. Originally, we were going to use the technology of Russia's large aircraft engines in the past, but we considered the issue of international airworthiness certification. We decided to use Western technology. This time I came to the UK for inspection with great sincerity. "

"Mr. Jiang, what you said involves many issues. It is difficult for me to answer you immediately, but the British people are very happy to see that we can have this kind of cooperation. We will soon have a serious discussion on the matter you mentioned. During this period, I will send someone to take you to visit the achievements of the British aviation industry. I believe we will also have more extensive cooperation in other areas of large aircraft."

"Mr. Prime Minister, what you said makes sense. I agree with it very much. This shows that we share the same views. This time I come to Europe, not only to the UK, but also to Germany and France to seek more partners to achieve a win-win situation."

"But it's not just this one project. After I meet my friends in the British business community, I'll take a tour and see if there are any opportunities to reach more cooperation. We can even expand our cooperation to a larger extent."

"Mr. Jiang, I believe that our people will not let you down. Our government can help you with any difficulties here in order to provide you with a good investment environment. We will discuss the engine issue as soon as possible, and we also hope to have more extensive cooperation in other fields. At the same time, I also hope that Mr. Jiang and your entourage can have lunch here."

I smiled in agreement, but I was laughing inside.

I can enjoy a state banquet when I come to the UK. But this is a food desert, so they won’t make me a dish like “Gazing at the Stars”!
The Prime Minister's lunch was naturally not that disappointing. The only highlight was probably the pudding cake and black tea. However, they were not full, so after coming out, they went to a restaurant run by a family of flower growers to have another meal.

The next day, we met with the experts. The British welcomed us very warmly. We visited the core of the British aviation industry, Rolls-Royce, and some factories related to the aircraft manufacturing industry. Of course, you can't visit those confidential things. Now Jiang Yan has caught up with the good time. If it's a few years later, Airbus may put pressure on the British government. Compared with them, Jiang Yan and his friends are just outsiders, not as good as their own children.

Soon the news of Jiang Yan and his team's visit to the UK reached the United States. HP could no longer sit still and contacted Jiang Yan and his team's company in Huazhongjia again. In fact, compared with John Bull's company, the researchers in Jiang Yan's company were more inclined to buy HP's engines.

Jiang Yan also instructed the company to send his own team to communicate. Of course, Jiang Yan did not give up and was still negotiating.

The leader of the expert group sent by the aircraft manufacturer this time is Wang Yang, a middle-aged man in his forties; he is one of the deputy chief engineers of our large aircraft project.

When Jiang Yan asked if he still wanted to buy engines, he told me this. It was then that Jiang Yan realized that what we really needed was not the engine technology, but the avionics system on the aircraft. The United States would not sell this to us, and the French would not sell it to us, and the Russians were not much better than us. Therefore, among the countries with better aircraft electronic systems than us, the British were the only ones left.

We can also only buy British products.

However, Jiang Yan felt that instead of letting the Eagle Sauce strangle him over the engine, it would be better to buy the British engine as well. After all, this engine is also good.

Wang Yang told me that the gap between us and Europeans in large aircraft technology is not that big. Airbus had designed a wide-body large aircraft in the early 9s, but for various reasons it never got off the ground. It was not until we started developing large aircraft that they also hurriedly started developing their codename

In the 1960s and 1970s, European Airbus was focused on developing supersonic passenger aircraft. So they started at about the same level as us in developing large passenger aircraft. When we purchased equipment from the United States, Boeing heard that their old rival Airbus was going to develop a super large passenger aircraft. So Boeing intended to let us compete with Airbus in the large passenger aircraft project, and Boeing gave us many benefits. The most important thing is that we have innovated many technologies in the field of large aircraft in the past two years, especially in the field of new materials related to large aircraft manufacturing.

If we have enough time, we may be able to produce our own large turbofan engines within eight years. The titanium alloy turbofan blades we developed are the best in the world, which has overcome the biggest difficulty in developing aircraft engines in my country. The remaining part is to study the intake duct ratio of large aircraft engines.

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