Chapter 1296 Breaking away from US dollar settlement (asking for a wave of double monthly tickets)
As mentioned before, Saudi Arabia’s visit covers a wide range of areas.
Although Rogge is already very confident, the aerospace system he is in is the focus of the other party's big sponsor.
But actually...
The situation was really not as simple as he thought.
Or it can be said that the situation is much simpler than he thought.
In the eyes of the Saudis, the efficiency of Chinese people in spending money is really too low.
The manned spaceflight project has been going on for almost 15 years and has already sent three astronauts safely into orbit. Space walks and space laboratories are about to begin.
It cost less than 20 billion yuan before and after.
Converted according to the average currency value over the years, it is about 2 billion US dollars.
Can this be paid for?
So their plan can be described in one sentence-
There are no feints, all are for me to attack!
What's important and not important? How can you really think that a buddy can only sell oil?
From our ancestors, we Arabs have earned money from betting between the East and the West!
Since you want to make a bet, you can't let go of the child and trap the wolf.
So why not spend tens of billions?
Counting from the beginning of the 21st century, the protection fees paid to various countries in the name of arms purchases alone are far more than this amount.
What's more, the money is still an investment, not just consumption.
Even if you think about it in the worst direction, you can still get something back.
So almost at the same time, in many different positions in China, many accompanying representatives like Rogge felt that they were the chosen one who was hit by the pie...
Naturally, this also includes another old employer of Chang Haonan, the Aviation Industry Group.
Therefore, after he and Liu Yongquan talked about the next development plan of the turbofan 10G and personally sent the latter downstairs, before he could go back upstairs to the office, he received a call from the group general manager Lin Zuoming on his mobile phone. Phone number——
Zhu Linyu was already in his old age when the Aviation Power Group was established. It was only because several other team members were not qualified enough that he was pulled over to take over the position for a few years.
He had completely retired a year ago and gave up his position as top leader to Comrade Lao Lin.
In fact, according to general principles, Chang Haonan should be ranked one higher in the team, but among all leadership positions, he is the only chief planner who does not need to bear the tedious administrative work. In addition, his current influence has long been no longer relied on. The position here is why it has not moved.
"Academician Chang, Mr. Luo from the Aviation Industry Group just contacted me and said that we need to discuss some situations together. Do you think when is the most convenient time recently?"
Lin Zuoming's rough voice sounded on the other side of the receiver.
It's an outside call or a mobile phone. Of course, it's impossible to say specific things in it.
So Chang Haonan was just stunned and immediately replied:
"I just don't have much work today. I'm downstairs right now. I can do it anytime."
"Okay, I'll contact him right away."
……
An hour later, the three people sat down in a small conference room next to Lin Zuoming's office.
Although it is less grand than the large conference hall on the top floor, anyone familiar with the group's internal operating rules knows that in many cases, this is the truly influential place.
Lin Zuoming and Luo Hairong were brothers' heads of units, and they had very close business contacts with each other. They could be regarded as seeing each other without looking up, and Chang Haonan also had a relationship with the latter.
When Project 10 had not yet made its first flight, Luo Hairong served as the second-in-command of the 611 Institute and was also the actual person in charge of daily work.
The two also had some exchanges about the aviation industry's publicity work, and they were considered acquaintances.
So after meeting, after just some simple greetings, Luo Hairong got down to the topic:
"Lao Lin, Academician Chang, you should know that a delegation came from Saudi Arabia yesterday, right?"
Lin Zuoming nodded.
As the top leader of the group, he naturally knew about this matter, but as an aviation power company specializing in aviation development, there was really nothing to talk about with a country that didn't even have a complete basic industry, let alone the aviation industry, so it was just a symbolic dispatch. We formed a reception group and planned to take representatives of the Saudi National Oil Company to visit Liming Factory to see if we could sell some industrial gas turbines.
As for Chang Haonan, who has been staying in Huairou Science City recently, he doesn't know the ins and outs of it.
So Luo Hairong and Lin Zuoming talked to each other and spent a few minutes briefly introducing the situation of the Saudi delegation's visit to China.
To sum up, the tone is not high, but the inner meaning is far-reaching.
Even Chang Haonan was a little shocked after hearing it. In the previous life, it was not until 2015 that Saudi Arabia gradually began to make obvious moves to move closer to China.
Now it's almost ten years too early.
While I'm not sure exactly where the joints that have undergone such a big change are, there is no doubt that this is almost the original stock.
Even if inflation is not taken into account, investing one billion dollars today and investing one billion dollars ten years from now have completely different meanings.
Although I was shocked, I was also somewhat concerned——
The dozens of Dongfeng 3s that year were extremely special and cannot be mentioned outside the scope.
After that, although there were some arms sales agreements between China and the GCC countries, they were generally small-scale and focused on army equipment.
When it comes to the arms and equipment trade in the Gulf countries, the sensitivity increases from the army to the navy to the air force——
Yes, the Air Force is even more sensitive than the Navy.
The reason is that both the army and the navy need to be composed of a large number of ordinary soldiers to form a united and experienced grassroots unit in order to exert sufficient combat effectiveness.
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As an absolute monarchy, Saudi Arabia is inherently unable to complete the construction of grassroots military organizations.
Therefore, no matter how advanced tanks or warships are, the combat effectiveness of the army and navy will only be a pile of dregs.
But the Air Force is different.
Only a few hundred elite pilots and a few thousand qualified and trained ground crews are enough to establish a powerful air force.
If we add aircraft with sufficiently advanced performance, it is really possible to do some big things in West Asia.
Therefore, Western countries have been limiting the size and capabilities of the GCC air forces.
For example, for the same F15, the F15I sold to the Kingdom of David is much more advanced than the F15SA sold to Saudi Arabia and the F15QA sold to Qatar.
As for lower-level allies, such as the Pharaoh Kingdom, the F16 they initially received did not even have complete beyond-visual-range combat capabilities.
Moreover, the training time and subjects of pilots from these countries will also be restricted to ensure that their air forces cannot pose a threat to the Great Patriotic Kingdom.
Previous arms sales with the United Arab Emirates were at least nominally conducted by the French and the other party, and they did not involve front-line combat aircraft, let alone personnel training.
Now it would be really difficult to go directly to China to buy the J-10E.
"So... Saudi Arabia came to our aviation system. What exactly are they going to talk about?"
He asked in a rather cautious tone:
"If it is a particularly large-scale arms purchase, I think the conditions are not mature yet?"
"That's not true. Neither Saudi Arabia nor us have any plans to completely break away from the United States, so I want to come to you to find a way..."
Luo Hairong waved his hand, and then said with a troubled face:
"The Saudi Air Force intends to purchase a batch of Y-9 transport aircraft from us, and is willing to put the next batch of Airbus A320 final assembly orders in Luzhou Aviation City... But these are compared with orders from petroleum and aerospace. They are small and small, and their influence is even more negligible. I am afraid it will be difficult to compete with them..."
Although the aviation industry and aviation power have been separated, they are closely related units under the same system after all, and they must stand together on this issue.
Lin Zuoming thought for a moment and then quickly suggested:
"Rolls-Royce has agreed to cooperate with us. The content at least includes the development of a 15-ton class with us as the main body, and the development of a 40-ton class high-bypass ratio turbofan engine with the other party as the main body, especially the first one. , it is expected to be put into use around 2010. By then you will definitely have to independently develop my country’s first mainline passenger aircraft... Are you considering investing in this project?”
This proposal is very feasible, but after Luo Hairong thought for a moment, he still shook his head:
"The demonstration process for domestic mainline passenger aircraft has not even been completed yet. Considering investment is really a bit too far away and cannot solve the immediate problem..."
"Then..."
Lin Zuoming straightened his hair and sounded helpless:
"It seems that it is really not easy to operate..."
After a while, Chang Haonan suddenly raised his head:
"It's better to think differently..."
The other two people cast doubtful glances at the same time.
"Business will continue as it is now, but part of it will not be settled in U.S. dollars or through the SWIFT system... What do you think?"
(End of chapter)