Chapter 358: A Dragon
"Director of the Economic Commission?"
On the plane, Hu Wenhai nodded after hearing Qin Kai's whispers. Although I don't know why Director Zhu of the Economic Commission went to Xiucheng, he had a relationship with each other when he was in Japan, and if it was unfavorable news, he should have heard some news. Since there is no news, at least don't worry too much.
"Help me bring a good one to Director Zhu, and say that when I get to Xiucheng, I will invite him to dinner when the time comes. ”
"Mayor Wang has come forward to receive him, and Mr. Hu is relieved that the news in the city does not look like a problem. ”
Qin Kai nodded, turned around and exited the first class cabin of the plane.
"Mr. Carter, I'm sorry to keep you waiting. Hu Wenhai smiled and nodded to the person sitting next to him, and stretched out his hand: "It's a great thing that Grumman and Allison can participate in our cooperation with Rolls-Royce. Rest assured, the Chinese market will not disappoint Grumman. ”
Carter did not show excessive pride because of Hu's kind words. On the contrary, his attitude can even be described as humble.
Not surprisingly, although Americans in these days can generally maintain a sense of superiority over the Chinese, illegal immigrants in New York who brush dishes theoretically earn more than violinists in China. Of course, quality of life is a different matter.
If the petty-bourgeois bourgeois and environmental virgins of the United States were offered a week to a month of rural life in southern China, perhaps the quality of life of Chinese peasants would be higher than that of a partner at a New York barrister.
If it weren't for the fact that the publicity couldn't keep up, and the infrastructure construction was not so interesting, in fact, this business really had to be done. Of course. Tourism is a tertiary industry. If your country's economy is not good. No matter how good the travel experience is, the added value of profits will not go up.
It is as if ordinary Chinese in later generations want to travel abroad, the first choice is Phuket, Thailand. In addition to the fact that the service consciousness of Thai people is indeed ten streets stronger than the domestic tourism industry that only pits their own people, another important reason is that the price of Thai overseas travel is cheap. With the same level of service and tourism programs, the price can be several times higher when you go to Hawaii.
This is the same as the tragedy that shocked the world when 180 white skins died in Paris, France, and the hundreds or thousands of deaths in Syria every day did not even make the headlines.
Although this time is equal for all, developed countries are "more equal" than developing countries.
However, in front of Hu Wenhai, Grumman's Vinson Carter was cautious as if he was a gorilla from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Hehe. Just kidding, the lord in front of him is a big man who provides tens of billions of income for Grumman every year. Not to mention the mere envoy, it was Mr. Norton, the president of Grumman, who had a conflict with him, and believe it or not, the board of directors invited Mr. Norton to go home and eat himself every minute.
"Of course, President Norton asked me to convey his greetings to Mr. Hu. We have had a great time working with Viagra, and President Norton hopes to continue this collaboration in more areas. ”
"Oh, speaking of which—" Hu Wenhai first beckoned to the flight attendant who specializes in first-class service, and then asked Carter, "Does Mr. Carter like spicy food?"
"Spicy? I prefer jalapeño sauce, it's spicy and it's very enjoyable!" Carter watched as the stewardess walked over with a bottle. Curious, he asked, "Is this jalapeño sauce?" I think it's best to eat it with tortillas. ”
"Oh no. Hu Wenhai took the bottle from the stewardess and said with a smile: "I asked Mr. Carter to try our Chinese 'Angry Lady' hot sauce, I dare say it must be much better than jalapeño sauce." ”
“really?”
Carter looked at Hu Wenhai curiously, scooped out a spoonful of red fluttering sauce from the bottle, and then spread it evenly on the white bread slices on the plate.
"Mr. Carter can try it. Hu Wenhai pushed the plate containing the bread in front of Carter.
Carter curiously picked up the slice of bread on his plate, held it flat in front of his eyes, and carefully observed the chili sauce spread on the slice.
Finely chopped chili peppers and chopped peanuts, and it seems that there is some beef. There should be some other spices, but unfortunately Carter really can't see it.
Is this thing really edible?
Unlike jalapeño, jalapeño is an extremely delicate sauce that is more in line with the American concept of "sauce". For example, salad dressing or ketchup, but can you eat this oily and suspicious mass of ingredients mixed together by unknown cooking methods?
These questions are constantly testing Carter's heart.
Carter once lived in New York's Chinatown for a while, and was more or less a "China expert" in the company. Although most of the food in the Chinese restaurants in Chinatown can be called delicious, there are also some foods that are not so harmonious. For example, scorpions, insects, pupae, cocoons......
Well, Carter forced himself to interrupt his memories of these foods, and he didn't have the courage to try those special foods. I just don't know if there will be those foods that the Chinese are inexplicable in these chili sauces in front of me.
Compared with eating what you don't want to eat, it may take more courage to disobey the young man in front of you.
Carter closed his eyes, held his breath, and put the slice of bread in his hand into his mouth.
"Huh?"
He opened his eyes suddenly, chewing on the food in his mouth with a hint of inquiry.
There are two different levels of chili sauce and chili oil, and the chili oil is soaked into the bread, with a long-lasting mellow aroma that lingers on the aftertaste. And the chili pepper is mixed with the beef cubes and the crushed peanuts, and the taste is ......
Unlike jalapeño sauce, Chinese chili sauce is not the ultimate in spiciness, but contains multiple layers of spiciness. When you take a bite, it's like eating a feast. The vegetable protein of crushed peanuts is a taste with chili flakes, and it is a taste with beef, and beef with chili peppers is also a taste......
Taking a bite of chili sauce is like opening a box of chocolates, and you never know what flavor will bloom in your mouth next time. Angry lady chili sauce. At least a dozen ingredients. Harmony and sublimation are achieved in the boiling process. Although each ingredient has its own characteristics. But in this way, a "bottle" has become the ultimate art that seems to be one!
Each flavor will be combined with the others, amplifying the advantages of each other. Integrate with each other, promote each other, highlight each other, and perfect each other!
Yes, it's perfect!
Carter slice of bread smeared with chili sauce and calmly and carefully stuffed it into his mouth. It's as if you're not eating a slice of bread with chili sauce, but a slightly sparkling white wine from Moscator Asti in Piedmont, Italy.
He's tasting, not eating.
"It's really ......" Carter thought about it for a long time before he said slowly, "If I could only eat this kind of food for the rest of my life." Then I hope the rest of my life starts as soon as possible!"
"How, Mr. Carter, does he think this kind of food will be popular in the United States?"
"Well, Mr. Hu, I'm sorry I can't be sure. The food experience is very personal, and of course if it were me, I would definitely welcome it!" Carter almost surrendered with his hands.
Hu Wenhai shook his head and smiled, this Carter's tone is really strict enough. He handed over a document and said, "What do you think Mr. Carter thinks this investigation report can tell us about?"
"It's on the streets of New York. The results of the tasting were carried out by 200 randomly selected people. Thirty-five percent of the people showed a fairly satisfying tasting experience with this hot sauce. Considering that the United States is a nation of immigrants. That's a pretty telling percentage, right?"
"Oh, if this report is true, that's pretty pretty numbers indeed!" Carter nodded as he flipped through the report, clearly pleased to think that so many people had the same tastes as himself.
"Of course this report is true, so what if Grumman - no, if Umbrella does the sales of this chili sauce?"
"I think it's going to be a good project, but will it be a little smaller? And the food market, Grumman's channels are not familiar......
Hu Wenhai smiled and shook his head, indeed, who would have thought that a chili sauce would be sold in overseas markets in the future with a sales volume of 200 million bottles a year and an annual sales of 600 million US dollars?
Lao Gan Ma Chili Sauce does have such a charm! But of course, Lao Gan Ma's success is also inseparable from the footsteps of Chinese people who have traveled all over the world. If it were not recommended and promoted by Chinese all over the world, this Chinese chili sauce would probably not be known to the world.
"Of course, the money will not be as easy to make as Viagra, but I don't think Grumman will make money, right? I have invested in a factory in China, and I don't need Grumman to control the packaging and transportation of my products, as long as I am responsible for sending them to the shelves in the United States, I can wait to collect the money. I estimate that the annual profit of this food is 400 million, and isn't that enough money to tempt Grumman?"
Hu Wenhai actually mobilized Chinese products to seize the United States, and he was already asking people to find the whereabouts of the old godmother.
It is not difficult to invest in the construction of a factory to produce chili sauce, and the quality and character of Lao Gan Ma are also worthy of trust and reassurance. Hu Wenhai didn't bother much, only threw down two million yuan, and the old godmother is now flowing down the production line.
"Four hundred million dollars, that's certainly good. But in the end, it will be divided between Grumman and Xinke, and the final profit will ......."
"Okay, then add this. ”
Hu Wenhai slapped another document on Carter's hand, and seemed to have more confidence in the project than the old godmother.
Carter flipped through the file and skimmed through it quickly, and the expression on his face suddenly became indescribably weird.
"Mr. Hu, what is this?"
"Ma Yinglong musk hemorrhoids ointment, a traditional Chinese medicine product. Hu Wenhai explained a little depressed.
Grumman seems to have really made a lot of money on viagra, and even the old godmother's income of $400 million a year is a little unexpected.
"It's a drug, it's used to treat, uh -- hemorrhoids, if it's a drug, it needs to be approved by the FDA, it's not an easy thing to do. ”
"Nope. Hu Wenhai was fed up with the trouble of the FDA, shook his head and said: "This hemorrhoid cream is an over-the-counter drug, so it doesn't have to be so troublesome to go on the market." I've done research and 85 percent of people in the U.S. have hemorrhoids of varying severity, but you use hemorrhoidal injections to treat hemorrhoids in the early stages. Many people will be incurable at a later stage. It can only be operated on. And Ma Yinglong musk hemorrhoids cream. The effect on hemorrhoids is amazingly effective. In our China, the use of this drug is quite common. For Americans who love spicy and meat, I think it will be more useful. ”
Hu Wenhai swears that he is true, but in fact, of course, it is not how familiar he is with the pharmaceutical market, or whether he really has an amazing vision. In fact, he just knew the answer in advance.
Like Lumei Cosmetics and Lao Gan Ma, Ma Yinglong Musk Hemorrhoids Cream is also a Chinese product that sells Changhong on eBay all year round. With the diet of the old beauty. It can almost be said that there are nine hemorrhoids in ten people. And under the page of eBay's Ma Yinglong Musk Hemorrhoids Cream, there are thousands of grateful messages from Americans, and I really don't know how many Americans have been saved from their confidence to continue living.
From the feeling of use and living habits, Americans can say that they have no resistance to this product.
"I hope it's really useful......" Carter nodded hesitantly, taking a closer look at the information in his hand.
Hu Wenhai said confidently: "Of course it is useful, similar formulas have been used in China for thousands of years, and there are almost countless people who have cured them! In fact, you think that Grumman can act as an agent for these two products to form a good complement." People who love spicy food will always have some problems in their intestines, and when the time comes, sell them hemorrhoid cream, is there a more convenient way to make money? The more and better the angry lady's chili sauce sells, the better the business of Ma Yinglong's musk hemorrhoids cream will be. It's a one-stop service. In addition to treating hemorrhoids, this drug also has obvious effects on removing dark circles, and we can produce an eye cream cosmetics to remove dark circles on the basis of it again, and then make a woman's money. ”
Carter listened to it in a cold sweat, and deeply felt that Hu Wenhai's business was like an antelope hanging on its horns, and there was no trace to be found. The front foot sells chili sauce, and the back foot is sent hemorrhoid cream, which can also be used as an eye cream, which is really no chance for others.
"Think about it, if this hemorrhoid cream works just as well for the American physique. This is a huge market of at least 100 million people! As a consumable, how can an eight-dollar hemorrhoid cream have a sales volume of more than 100 million yuan a year? The profit left for Grumman is 300 to 400 million, to say the least. Add in the angry lady chili sauce, and that's a five-billion-a-year business, and that's not enough to interest Grumman?"
Carter hesitated and hesitated, and finally had to nod under Hu Wenhai's gaze: "Mr. Hu's sincerity has always been very sufficient, even if there are no new projects, Grumman is still willing to maintain the current cooperative relationship with you." In addition to the F-14, Grumman is also willing to continue to develop more cooperation projects with Mr. Hu. What about the C-2 transport plane, for example?"
Hu Wenhai thought for a while, shook his head and said, "No, I think the E-2 AWACS aircraft may be better." ”
"That's not going to work!" Carter listened to Hu Wenhai's words, and his voice was raised an octave: "The E-2 early warning plane is absolutely not good! China's purchase of early warning aircraft is useless, what you need is territorial air defense forces, and the E-2 early warning aircraft is a part of the offensive aircraft carrier formation combat system, and it has no national defense significance for China at all! What it can see in the sky, your land radar station will only see more clearly and farther!"
Carter said so much, in fact, it can be summed up in one point: the E-2 AWACS aircraft is a part of the fleet's combat system. You China want E-2 AWACS aircraft, eighty percent not to deal with the Soviet Union. As for the reason for getting up, it's not worth refuting at all.
Carter's argument is not plausible, but the conclusion is correct. If it weren't for the armaments of the USSR, the United States would not have sold.
Hu Wenhai smiled and didn't care. He knew for a long time that it was impossible for the Americans to sell the E-2 AWACS aircraft, and this was just a means of bargaining. Grumman really wants to say that he is willing to sell the E-2, but he is not willing to buy it. At this stage, China has an early warning aircraft to come out, and it has no other role than to make trouble for itself.
With a squadron of F-14s, the effect is not much worse than that of the E-2. But E-2, it's like people who don't drink don't buy a wine opener. And with a wine opener, others know that you want to drink at least red wine. If you want to say that I bought a seahorse knife for self-defense, then someone has to believe it!
Hu Wenhai thought for a while and said lightly: "Then in that case, we don't need the C-2 transport plane." After all, it is also a carrier-based transport aircraft, and we do not have aircraft carriers. ”
"No, no, the C-2 can be used on land, and you can use it as an ordinary air cargo plane. Imported C-2 transport aircraft. can help China quickly master air supply and transportation capabilities......"
It's a pity that forbearance is what Carter said, and it wears out the skin of his mouth. Hu Wenhai just shook his head. Silent.
When Carter was tired of what he said and finally stopped trying to persuade him, Hu Wenhai suddenly said: "The C-2 transport plane is not a good deal for me, but Grumman can still get the agency rights of two products." I have a request, though, and I'd like Grumman to help. ”
Seeing that things had taken a turn for the better, Carter immediately lifted his spirits, and nodded again and again: "Mr. Hu, you said that Grumman is very sincere!"
"Hmm. I hope that Grumman will help me to redesign my country's Y-8 aircraft by American aviation standards and using the technology of the C-2 Greyhound transport aircraft. ”
"Mr. Hu is talking about the Soviet An-12 plane?" asked Carter tentatively.
"No, I'm talking about our country's Y-8 transport aircraft. Hu Wenhai blinked, pretending not to understand what Carter meant.
Redesigning Soviet aircraft to American standards, Carter felt a bit square.
Hu Wenhai intends to use the US-designed Y-8 to replace the 60-seat MA60 regional airliner that China will try to produce its own civil aircraft for the first time in the future. It turned out that the historical Xinzhou 60 was changed from the foundation of Yun Qi. But various congenital deficiencies limit its market scope.
But even so, the total production of the MA60 is still above 100 units. It serves airlines in many third world countries. It can be regarded as the first step of China's self-produced passenger aircraft, and it is quite successful.
If we can come up with the Yun-8 version of the MA60 that meets international standards in the late 80s and early 90s, the domestic passenger and freight demand alone will be enough for Xifei or Shaanxi Fei to survive, and they are still alive and well.
And if Xifei or Shaanxi Fei can have spare strength, maybe they will be able to pick up the MD-82 in a few years. If Xifei can copy the MD-82, with this foundation, it can be regarded as stepping into the threshold of a large aircraft.
And if Hu Wenhai helps them do this, then needless to say, will China's aero engine market be cheaper than others in the future?
This is really a profitable business!
Of course, with the Y-8 transport plane, which is designed with C-2 Greyhound technology, and when the phased array radar comes out, won't we build our own early warning plane? To be honest, Hu Wenhai really doesn't look down on the E-2 level.
This time, if China wants to build the Air Police 200, it can no longer make a half-baked product like a balance beam, at least at the level of the phased array version of the E-2C Hawkeye 2000.
Well, Carter always felt that something was wrong. After changing from **** to tomcat, is it necessary to change hemorrhoids cream for greyhound again?
I always feel like Grumman has dropped something.
With this tangled mind, the plane landed at Xiantao Airport in Shengjing. As soon as Hu Wenhai and his entourage got off the plane, they saw a group of people rushing over not far from the tarmac.
"Comrade Hu Wenhai, hello!"
A young cadre in his thirties, with a smile on his face, confidently stretched out his hand to greet him: "I'm Zhang Lu from the United Front Work Department of the Imperial Capital, let me introduce you-"
This is Mr. Cai Jieming from Baodao, and behind him is a fab management team composed of TI in the United States and Chinese in Singapore. I'm sure they will be able to ...... when they come."
Before Zhang Lu finished speaking, Hu Wenhai had already walked past him. Not only did he not reach out to shake his hand, but he didn't even look at him.
"Mr. Carter, the representatives of Rolls-Royce have already arrived in Shengjing. When we meet up with the Allison people, we can then find a piece of land in Shengjing to establish our turbine research institute and aircraft design institute. When the time comes, I will invite all the major leaders of Bohai Province to attend the inaugural meeting......"
Hu Wenhai and Carter walked side by side, with a slight smile on the corner of their mouths, but they were stunned and disdainful in their hearts.
The bureaucrats in the imperial capital really don't pull out a dime, but when they have benefits, they rob them like jackals. The wafer factory chose to be in the magic capital instead of the imperial capital, and he didn't even dare to start work in advance, for fear that these people would muddy the water. These people may not be able to do things, but the ability to do bad things is a high level of ability. What is a good thing, in the end, it will be able to recite a crooked scripture.
It's just that although they have long known that they will not give up, after they leave the territory of the Demon Capital, there will always be all kinds of temptations. After all, the interests of the fab are too moving, and it is always beneficial to take risks, or to say that it is always beneficial for those who are dizzy.
But Hu Wenhai still didn't expect that how could Cai Jieming from Baodao get involved in this matter?
This is really--sleepy and met a pillow, and the meat bun is going to be used to beat the dog!hahahaha!(To be continued.) )