It is impossible to expect Chen Geng to back down, and for Busenmark, who is still counting on this matter to establish his authority and get more benefits for himself, it is even more impossible for him to back down, and he has enough psychological preparation for such a thing: strike, don't engage him for three or five months, it's embarrassing to call it a general strike?

And so it came to a stalemate.

Although the situation seemed to be deadlocked, Chen Geng was not in a hurry at all, and when McDonald Jr. sent him an invitation to come to New York to play golf, Chen Geng immediately agreed.

I haven't seen him for a few months, and the spirit of Little MacDonald looks much better than the last time we met, looking at Little MacDonald with a ruddy face, Chen Geng is also very happy for his old friend: It seems that Little MacDonald has not let Boeing take too much advantage during this time.

"Dude, your complexion looks much better than some time ago," patting little MacDonald's back vigorously, Chen Geng said happily: "It seems that you are in a very good mood during this time." ”

"Of course, it must be much better than yours," patting Chen Geng's back hard, little McDonald said proudly: "I heard that you are in some trouble in the Netherlands, how about it, do you want me to help?"

Chen Geng shook his head with a smile: "What kind of trouble is that?"

After carefully observing Chen Geng's expression and making sure that Chen Geng really didn't care about the protests that took place in the Netherlands, little MacDonald nodded: "OK, you're right, this is really not a problem for you...... Come, come, I'll introduce you to a couple of friends, this is His Excellency Rep. Condells from Minnesota, and this is His Excellency Senator Clink from Oregon......"

"Hello Mr. Condells......"

"Hello Mr. Clink......"

Chen Geng greeted the congressmen introduced to him by McDonald Jr. one by one, in fact, when he saw these bureaucratic old men beside McDonald Jr., who smelled of Capitol Hill a few hundred meters away, Chen Geng already understood that this time McDonald Jr. wanted to ask himself for help probably not too small.

Not small indeed!

After playing golf for about half an hour, McDonald Jr. finally spoke: "Fernandez, there's something I want you to help with. ”

"You say," Chen Geng nodded, "as long as I can help." ”

"Surely you can help, who are you? You are the omnipotent and powerful Fernandez. Little MacDonald glared and said with an exaggerated expression: "Is there anything else you can't do?"

This guy has also learned to put on top hats.

"That's right," Condels nodded and said with a serious expression, "You are Fernandez, the world's recognized king of miracles." ”

Although Clink didn't speak, he nodded with a submissive face.

Chen Geng's heart suddenly became alarmed: these three people, one is the boss of McDonnell Douglas, one of the world's largest aircraft manufacturing companies, a congressman, and a senator are all real big people......

While the alarm bell was ringing in his heart, the expression on Chen Geng's face did not change, and he waved his hand again and again: "Mike, do you remember what I once said to you?"

"What?"

"If you want to harm someone, hold him high," Chen Geng said, "Now I feel that you are ready to trap me." ”

The expressions on the faces of McDonald, Clink, and Condels Jr. froze!

McDonald Jr., in particular, immediately realized that he seemed to be pushing too hard, he coughed and said, "Fernandez, I wonder if you heard the news that TAP and Aerolíneas Argentinas are preparing to purchase a batch of large wide-body aircraft?"

"Yes, I heard. ”

Chen Geng nodded, although the COMAC Group does not have a wide-body passenger aircraft product, but he can be regarded as an industry insider, he still knows this kind of thing, according to the secret gossip, although the two airlines have not officially announced their procurement plans, but there is no impermeable strong in the world, according to the gossip circulating in the industry, Portugal Airlines is ready to purchase 6 to 8 large wide-body passenger aircraft, and as the largest airline in South America, Aerolíneas Argentinas is also interested in purchasing 6 wide-body passenger aircraft, their targets are Boeing 767, McDonnell Douglas' latest MD-11 and Airbus A300.

After answering, Chen Geng frowned and continued, "However, how can I help with this kind of thing?"

Large civil aircraft has never been a simple commodity sales activity, as a special commodity with a unit price of at least tens of millions of US dollars, in any country, the procurement of civil aviation passenger aircraft is inevitably involved in politics, and even in many cases, this special commodity also represents a certain political tendency of the country: why does a certain country suddenly purchase the aircraft of the Boeing Company of the United States instead of the aircraft of the European Airbus Company? Why Boeing aircraft and not McDonnell Douglas aircraft?

There's so much involved.

It is precisely because of this that Chen Geng said, "How can I help with this kind of thing", it is really too deep in the water.

"Don't," Seeing that Chen Geng had the intention of refusing, little McDonald suddenly became a little anxious, and hurriedly said: "Fernandez, only you can help me in this matter...... This is a super big contract with a total amount of nearly 2 billion, and you know how significant this contract is to McDonnell Douglas right now, right?"

“......”

Hearing the pleading meaning in McDonald's words, Chen Geng suddenly hesitated in his heart: Yes, for the current McDonnell Douglas company, if it can win the procurement of Air Portugal and Aerolíneas Argentinas, it will be of great significance!

The most important thing is that if McDonnell Douglas succeeds in bringing these two ...... At least one of the orders...... Successfully snatched from Boeing, you can release to the outside world that "McDonnell Douglas is also a strong, and Boeing aircraft manufacturing company is not lagging behind at all" signal, this signal seems to be meaningless, but for McDonnell Douglas at this stage, the significance is precious!

As for himself, if he can help McDonnell Douglas win one of these orders, it will not only be able to hit Boeing, but also bring some confidence to McDonnell Dalwellwell - in the past few years, McDonnell Donnell Douglas has been too difficult, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is getting worse and worse.

In that case......

"How do you want me to help you?" After a deep groan, Chen Geng finally spoke: "You should know that I basically have no intersection with the governments of these two countries, and it is very difficult to count on me to help you convince the relevant persons in charge of the government departments of these two countries." ”

Little McDonald was suddenly overjoyed in his heart, and hurriedly said: "You don't have to worry about politics, McDonnell Douglas is not unprepared, I ask you to help, it is a place outside of politics." ”

"Oh, outside of politics?"

Hearing little MacDonald say this, Chen Geng was a little interested: "What do you say?"

"As you know, compared to Boeing's 767, our MD-11 is not particularly competitive in terms of competitiveness, and I frankly admit that there is a gap between our MD-11 and Boeing's 767 in terms of product power......"

Speaking of this, McDonald Jr. smiled bitterly and happily admitted his shortcomings.

Chen Geng smiled and didn't speak, but he said secretly in his heart: Even if you still have some self-knowledge.

Compared with McDonnell Douglas's MD-11 with a cabin layout of "2-5-2" (later upgraded to a "3-4-3" seat layout), in fact, the Boeing 767 with a cabin layout (economy class) of a "2-3-2" layout can only be regarded as a quasi-wide-body airliner strictly speaking, after all, compared to the Boeing 737, this seat layout is "3-3" There is only one extra seat in each row of narrow-body trunk airliners, but the Boeing 767 has a great advantage that this aircraft is a twin-engine airliner, and the MD-11, which was born from the DC-10, is a three-engine civil airliner.

And because the MD-11 was born from the DC-10, which is a "God-cursed aircraft", and the aerodynamic shape has basically remained the same as the DC-10, the major airlines actually have considerable doubts about the safety of the MD-11, and it is especially difficult to sell the MD-11: the DC-10 is often destroyed and killed by the whole plane as soon as an accident occurs, which can not stand it on any airline.

McDonald Jr. continued: "But then again, this order is very important to us at McDonnell Douglas, so we have to do everything we can to win at least one of them at all costs, so ......"

Looking at Chen Geng, little McDonald pursed his lips vigorously: "Fernandez, I know it's very difficult, but apart from you, I really don't know who can help us." ”

Is it like this?

Chen Geng's brows furrowed deeply.

Seeing Chen Geng's frowning and thoughtful appearance, little McDonald, Condels, and Clink didn't dare to take a breath, for fear of interrupting Chen Geng's thinking.

Now the first question in front of Chen Geng is: Do you want to do little MacDonald this favor?

For this question, Chen Geng almost did not hesitate for too long and came to a positive answer: for himself now, if he wants COMAC to develop and grow, he must find a way to help McDonnell Douglas live for a few more years - and the only one that can compete with Boeing and bring trouble to Boeing is only McDonnell Douglas in the entire Americas, not even Lockheed, another aircraft manufacturing giant in the United States, so helping McDonnell Douglas is helping himself.

Since we have to help, the second question comes next: how to help?