"I don't think we need to be so tense, do we?" Spacey let out a rather friendly smile after glaring at Douglas for a long time, and couldn't help but sigh. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

"McDonnell Donnell Douglas used to be one of the top three in the civil airliner industry, and I remember flying as a kid and often seeing McDonnell Douglas' DC8 aircraft. ”

"At that time, the world's skies belonged to three companies. Boeing, Airbus and McDonnell Douglas, although McDonnell Doesnnell Doesnnell temporarily ranks third, but there is no level gap between Boeing and Airbus in terms of performance, technology and capital. ”

Spacey's eyes were full of remembrance, but he turned his face and put away his smile: "Look at the present, your DC10 is expensive to operate, and you can't compete with Boeing and Airbus at all." The once top three civil airliners have become a two-strong pattern, and McDonnell Douglas is just eating his own old book. ”

"I want to ask you, do you think McDonnell Douglas today still has the capital that is called the top three?"

By the nineties, McDonnell Douglas' decline was already evident. The best-selling DC8 has been discontinued, and the DC9 caused the McDonald Company's capital chain to break, and was finally acquired by Douglas Company. McDonnell Douglas was the DC10 when McDonnell Douglas was founded and the alternative tripleliner failed in the market.

The failure of DC10 was a huge blow to McDonnell Douglas's confidence. Due to the fiasco in the field of civil airliners, McDonnell Douglas's profits have shrunk greatly, and gradually 70% of the profits contributed by military aircraft have been accounted for. Compared with Airbus, which has been prosperous for a long time and is the son of Europe, McDonnell Douglas is indeed precarious.

It is understandable why McDonnell Douglas lost the right to participate in the fourth-generation aircraft program in the United States, and the confidence of the entire company completely collapsed in a short period of time. To say that although the DC10 passenger aircraft business is not good, the cargo aircraft sells quite well. And in terms of military aircraft, the Navy's F18 is still in production, and no matter how you look at it, it has not reached the point of exhaustion.

The rise and fall of a company is not based on how much money it still has, but on how strong it is developing. After the road ahead was blocked, McDonnell Douglas didn't hurry up while it was still valuable, did he have to wait for it to be finally eliminated and become worthless?

In the face of Spacey's questioning, Douglas was unmoved, and said with firm conviction: "McDonnell Douglas is a great company, as long as we seize the opportunity, we can get back to where we should be at any time." McDonnell Donnell Douglas is not strong because of capital, market or technology, but because we always believe that McDonnell Donnell's difficulties are only temporary, and we will return to our proper position sooner or later. ”

Spacey nodded, and instead of going toe-to-toe with Douglas, he said bitterly, "Yes, McDonnell Douglas is a great company." But weren't McDonald and Douglas two companies in the beginning? McDonnell Douglas was born out of a merger, so why should Grumman be so resistant?"

Douglas groaned, sighed and shook his head, "Because Grumman can't bring new life to McDonnell Douglas." ”

Douglas, as far as his own thoughts are concerned, has no prejudice against being merged by Grumman. Grumman is not a good partner to work with, and if the two sides can achieve a merger, then they can definitely join forces to win the entire U.S. Navy's carrier-based aircraft business. Whether it's an F-14 or an F-18, the congressional veterans will be the winner in how they choose a new company.

But the problem, as Douglas said, McDonnell Douglas is strong because of its pride and dignity. In Chinese terms, attitude is everything, and McDonnell Douglas has always been aiming at the top three in the civil airliner market, or even the best one.

As long as McDonnell Douglas is still in this mood, he will not be able to accept Grumman's compromise, which means that McDonnell Douglas has betrayed his pride.

But in the face of this inexplicable situation, Spacey smiled and asked, "Oh, so what if Grumman's acquisition could bring new life to McDonnell Douglas?"

"Grumman brings new life to McDonnell Douglas? Do you want McDonnell Douglas engineers to sell the little blue pill?" Douglas's words made McDonnell Douglas's negotiators suddenly burst into a crisp smile. He spread out his hands and said helplessly: "Grumman's significance to McDonnell Douglas's reinvigoration, like tan90°, does not exist. ”

"Perhaps. ”

"But there are no certain conclusions in the world. Spacey tapped the papers he threw on the table, opened them and pushed them in front of Douglas: "Grumman can't bring better civil airliner technology, but he has the key to bring McDonnell Douglas back to life. ”

Douglas said disapprerovingly: "Coming back to life? This is too alarmist, McDonnell Douglas is not so embarrassed." ”

"Chinese. ”

"Chinese?"

Douglas took the document pushed by Spacey and quickly skimmed through the contents at a glance, his breath suddenly shortened.

"You mean—"

Douglas swallowed fiercely and said in disbelief: "The big purchase of the Chinese? Can you help McDonnell Douglas and win the Chinese's order?!"

"It's not me, it's Grumman. Spacey smiled and pretended to be relaxed: "Mr. Douglas should know that our Grumman relationship with China is not bad. The Chinese Air Force has a whole hundred F-14 Tomcat fighters. Our cooperation with the Chinese side is not limited to military weapons, in fact we have a very far-reaching influence in China. ”

When Spacey said this, McDonnell Douglas really couldn't refute it. In recent years, Grumman's business development in China has been in full swing, not only the F-14 fighter jet into China, the patent rights of the blue pill and other projects. He also studied the implementation of the Super Seven Project with Cheng Fei and Pakistan, although it was finally shelved due to funding problems. As for whether there is secret cooperation with the Chinese military behind it, this is even more inexplicable.

"And if the Chinese's orders are taken by Boeing - this time the purchase is limited to American companies, Airbus will not have this opportunity." As far as I know, the Chinese will spend at least $5 billion on the purchase of civil airliners this time. Boeing gets five billion, while McDonnell Douglas has zero. The fragile balance between McDonnell Douglas and Boeing will be completely upset. And from now on, China, a huge emerging market, may have to say goodbye to McDonnell Douglas. In such a situation, does McDonnell Douglas still think that he is not in danger?"

Spacey glanced at Douglas meaningfully and said, "Grumman is very sincere in negotiating with McDonnell Douglas, and I hope McDonnell Douglas can also recognize the current facts." ”

What are the facts? Spacey didn't say, but Douglass knew it.

McDonnell Douglas lost $5 billion in orders, is that just a loss of business profits? No, it's a huge setback. For McDonnell Douglas, the enemy is stronger and the self is weaker, and the losses caused are probably much greater than $10 billion.

During this time, McDonnell Douglas was not inactive, and in order to win orders for China's civil airliners, almost all means were exhausted. However, the Chinese do not seem to be in a hurry, and the intention reached by the gas dissipation trip will not be invalidated, but how exactly to spend this money has not yet been determined.

American companies have stuffed a lot of money-making stuff in the negotiations, and in comparison, the cost performance of civil airliners is quite good. If China wants to minimize losses, it is understandable to increase the proportion of civil aircraft in procurement.

However, due to China's unique system and strict secrecy measures, McDonnell Douglas did not even get the bottom line of China's procurement, let alone finalize the order.

The difference between the two sides is almost 108,000 miles.

Now that Spacey has come up with the Chinese procurement plan, the shock to Douglas is self-evident.

If McDonnell Douglas can win these five billion orders, there is no doubt that MD12's funding will no longer be a problem. With this order, McDonnell Doesnnell Douglas will be uniquely positioned to enter the Chinese market in the future. Although China's economy is not strong at present, its huge population base determines that the market for any product will not be small. With the Chinese market, McDonnell Douglas will have the ability to compete with Boeing......

As for Grumman's relationship with the Chinese side, Douglas has certainly investigated it a long time ago. Hu Wenhai, the world's richest man in China, is a huge fan of the F-14 Tomcat fighter. The characters who can pay for the Chinese Air Force to equip fighter jets also know how much they like the F-14.

Just this level of relationship, when the Gulf War had just ended and Hu Wenhai's prestige was in full swing, one can imagine how terrifying the deterrent and influence it was.

Made, why isn't Hu Wenhai a fan of Bumblebee?

Phew, plastic bugs too?

Considering Hu Wenhai's influence in China, it is not surprising to say that he was able to influence the procurement of civil airliners.

Maybe the Grumman relationship can really win the orders of the Chinese? Thinking of this, Douglas's heart suddenly became hot.

"It's an important decision and we have to be careful. Douglas barely kept his mouth shut: "Unless there is further evidence that Grumman was able to help McDonnell Douglas take this order, ......"

Spacey said strongly: "Otherwise, if we lose the Chinese market, McDonnell Douglas will be completely reduced to a second-rate passenger aircraft manufacturer." In the aviation sector, there is never room for second-rate companies to survive. McDonnell Douglas either beats Boeing or goes out outright, there is no third possibility. ”

"Proof, I need proof!" Douglas still insisted, he couldn't rule out the possibility that it was Grumman's negotiation technique.

"Evidence? Spacey leaned back in his chair and nodded to the man next to him.

One of Grumman's negotiators got up and immediately walked out of the room. A short time later, an Oriental who didn't look anything special appeared at the door of the conference room.

"Let me introduce you. ”

Spacey raised his head and lifted the veil of the secret weapon: "This is the executive general manager of China ST Group, the father of Mr. Hu Wenhai. ”

"My name is Hu Jiefang, hello everyone. ”