"The contract is signed, half of the advance payment is paid, and the rest of the funds are paid successively when it is delivered. The Soviets were also ruthless, "If you can't accept such prices and conditions, it will be difficult to achieve cooperation." ”

"No, the price is too high!" Xie Kai was still not satisfied with the price.

Even after more than a decade of inflation, the price of an RD-93 engine is only about $2.4 million.

That's the price in 2005.

How much can a dollar buy now? And how much can a dollar buy in the 21st century?

Two hundred units, that's $300 million.

Xie Jianguo and the others were already completely frightened by Xie Kai.

"Xie Kai, please pay attention to the occasion, this is not a place for jokes. Xie Jianguo reminded Xie Kai, "If the contract is signed and the terms of the contract cannot be fulfilled, it will cause diplomatic disputes at that time." ”

200 engines, if it is a single-engine light fighter, it is 200.

And a twin-engine medium fighter, this will also have to produce a hundred units.

Can Pakistan use so much?

Or, is Xie Kai really counting on the export to domestic sales like the 359 tank?

If the Air Force wants to spend a small amount of money on the purchase of such fighters, unless the performance is so superior as the 359 tank that the Air Force cannot refuse.

No one can guarantee this.

Of course, Xie Jianguo does not know much about the fighter project of the Super Seven Project.

"According to their price, we need 300 million US dollars in foreign exchange, where can we go to get 300 million US dollars in foreign exchange?" Xie Jianguo reminded Xie Kai in a low voice.

Faced with such a situation, other people can't raise any opinions.

The entire team is almost the foil of the Xie family's father and son.

"Up to $50,000 per unit. 200 units, also need $210 million. Even with such an amount, I don't know how much it will cost us to get our superiors to agree to it and let the state approve it...... Xie Kai began to complain, "If you agree to this price, we can accept other conditions." Funds will be paid in accordance with the contract. ”

"Why are you buying so many engines? Is it rusty in the warehouse?" Xie Jianguo asked Xie Kai with some anger.

He didn't think about the impact or anything.

The cub sells Ye Tian and is not distressed.

Xie Kai doesn't take national interests seriously at all.

Hundreds of millions of dollars, if the design fails, the Pakistanis are not willing to join in, and then these engines will become a pile of scrap metal.

The Air Force needs advanced fighters, but the engines are so decisive that it is impossible to increase the performance of fighters too much.

No matter what they say, the Soviets did not make any concessions on the price.

Finally, looking at the time, it was already very late, and the negotiations started from noon, and it was already late outside, and there was still a gap of 420,000 yuan between the two sides in terms of price.

200 units, that's a gap of $84 million.

Xie Kai also only raised the price by $1.08 million, and the Soviets bit on $1.5 million and no longer let go.

Almost, that's their real floor price.

In desperation, the two sides had no choice but to suspend negotiations.

There was no tense atmosphere of negotiation, and neither side even mentioned the matter of negotiation again, Xie Jianguo and Kaletovsky hooked up and took their respective men to the hotel's restaurant.

What Xie Kai didn't expect was that the hotel actually provided drinks!

Yes, drinks are served!

But then I thought about it, Iraq under the rule of Silly Damu can be said to be the most enlightened, women can participate in work, and it is not a religious country, so naturally there is no strict ban on drinking like Saudi Arabia and Persia.

Xie Kai couldn't stand it, after the two old men drank too much, they actually began to recall their youth, Xie Kai also heard a lot of how popular his father was with Soviet beauties when he was studying in the Soviet Union......

"Dad, drink some strong tea and cure hangover. With the help of the hotel waiter, Xie Kai finally helped his father back to the room, asked the waiter to make some tea, and made a cup of strong tea for his father, wanting to relieve his hangover.

Xie Jianguo suddenly sobered up from his drunken state.

"Do you know what you did today? If you sign a contract and can't fulfill it, what will be the impact? You will become a sinner of the country and the nation!" Xie Jianguo's face was serious, where did he still look half drunk?

Before fighting with the Soviets, Xie Jianguo was brave and invincible, and in the end he was even more unconscious......

Now it seems that he was not drunk at all.

Loaded!

The old guy actually played a good job.

Xie Kai felt that he understood, in the Soviet Union back then, it is estimated that this is what made so many Soviet girls like it.

"Dad, it's okay. Isn't it more than 200 million foreign exchange!" Xie Kai said lightly, "Don't worry about this matter, I'll solve it." As long as an agreement is signed, everything is not a problem. ”

"Isn't it more than 200 million?" As soon as Xie Jianguo didn't get angry, he raised his hand and was about to beat Xie Kai, but in the end, he stumbled and sat on the bed weakly, drinking so much wine, and there was no reaction at all, it must be abnormal. "To put it clearly, do you think the base prints money? Where do you get these hundreds of millions of foreign exchange from? And it's still dollars! How big is the capital gap of the base, and you don't have any points?"

Xie Jianguo's anger bubbled up.

"Dad, Iraq has more than two billion dollars in arms purchases!" Xie Kai has long been fighting the idea of the Iraqis for that money.

Even if the contract is signed, the money will have to be settled with the National Bank, and we have no foreign exchange!" Xie Jianguo looked at Xie Kai coldly, "The other party is the Soviet Union, not a small country. ”

"Don't worry, Dad, it's really going to be fine. As long as the Soviets buy it, we will buy it and reserve it, as long as there is an engine, the design over there is completed, and the trial production of the prototype can be carried out directly, and when the time comes, the research and development speed will be much faster while testing and improving...... "Xie Kai can't say that he will get so many engines from the Soviets, but he is worried that the Soviets will be stuck in the supply of engines at that time.

Especially after knowing that the fighter is only used for export, in order to grab profits, the price of the engine will definitely not be cheap.

"200 engines, even if you need so many prototypes and prototypes? Xie Jianguo does not think Xie Kai's explanation is reasonable. "Purchase a few units first, use them, and wait until the development is successful, there is an order, and then order from them, without occupying precious foreign exchange, and it will not cause too much pressure on funds. ”

"After the research and development is successful, if the Soviets use this to blackmail us, propose to increase the price, or add additional conditions, what will we do? Or can the domestic engine break through within five years and give us something to replace?" Xie Kai is also on fire.

Why can't Daddy figure this out?

The engine, that is, I was afraid that the Soviets would get stuck in the neck.

At the beginning, the turbofan-15 had not been fully tested, and the turbofan-10 engine was not completely stable, but the prototype of the J-20 could not wait, and the replacement of the J-10 had to be carried out.

As a result, knowing that the domestic engine and the J-20 fighter were about to succeed, Lao Maozi sold a batch of junk Su-35 fighters that the Chinese Air Force had never been willing to want!

Even, Mao Zi bragged that the Su-35 fighter has better performance than the J-20, is cheaper, and is more in line with China's ......

Xie Kai didn't want to encounter that situation, so he knew that if the funds were kept in the base account, even if they were used for other investments, the income would be much greater than the price increase of the engine.

He didn't want to be constrained.

The domestic power system is now not competitive, the heart disease in the aviation industry cannot be solved, and if he wants to engage in fighters, he has to take precautions.

Internationally, such cooperation can easily be affected.

"Isn't the base cooperating with Rongfei Power and preparing to invest in engines?" Xie Jianguo couldn't refute, and finally said a little weakly.

"Far water can't quench your thirst. Xie Kai shook his head and said. "Dad, there's no way around it. Only with the engine in hand, can you study with confidence. Two hundred units, with Rongfei's production capacity, it is not something that can be digested in a short period of time. And Pakistan will be relieved to invest when it sees this batch of engines. ”

"Will the base agree?"

"They're going to agree, and they're going to have to. But if there is a way, who wants to do such a thing? More than 200 million US dollars, and 6 or 700 million soft sister coins, even if they are deposited in the bank, there will be more than 10 percent interest a year! How many things do you have to do for the expenses of the base?" Xie Kai was very helpless.

The heart disease of the domestic aero engine cannot be solved, the power system is not angry, and Xie Kai is also helpless.

In his time, the engine was just being solved.

The decades-long technology gap cannot be solved in a short period of time.

"Dad, what position is Kaletovsky?" Xie Kai changed the subject, he didn't know how to connect with the Soviet Union.

Unexpectedly, the person on the other side was actually known by my father.

In the USSR, the status was not low.

"Deputy Minister of the Aviation Industry of the USSR. Are you going to start with him?" Xie Jianguo looked at Xie Kai, "There were a lot of contradictions between him and me at the beginning. ”

"Didn't that woman marry him after all?" Xie Kai didn't care, and then gossiped, "Dad, did something happen between you and his daughter-in-law?"

Xie Kai's words were so angry that Xie Jianguo jumped up, but the raised slap was dodged by Xie Kai.

"No old or young, how could I raise such a thing as you!" Xie Jianguo was very unhappy with his son's disrespect for Lao Tzu. "If something really happened, do you think it would be so easy to negotiate?"

"Easy?" Xie Kai didn't think it would be easy to negotiate, "At the beginning, these bastards offered three million dollars, cut the price by half, and they didn't even reduce the price even if they were killed." ”

"Kaletovsky is greedy for money. Xie Jianguo gave Xie Kai a message, "But we don't have a budget, so we only brought tens of thousands of dollars when we came out." ”