Chapter 83: The Wheel of History (4)
In the 80s, the city of Hamburg had two civil airports with mainline passenger aircraft take-offs and landings: Hamburg-Fortsbühl International Airport, located directly north of the Amesbühl district, and Finkenveld Airport, which is now located next to the MBB plant.
In May, COMAC, a subsidiary of Yuanjia, reached an agreement with MBB to establish a joint venture CMB Aerospace to jointly develop the development plan of the next generation of advanced regional airliners, and the MBB plant near Finkenveld Airport was included in CMB Aerospace as a fixed asset and production base of CMB Aerospace.
At this time, CMB Aerospace was negotiating with the Hamburg City Council to acquire Finkenveld Airport, making it the exclusive airport of CMB Aerospace for test flights and improvements after the new aircraft rolled off the assembly line.
Of course, even if CMB Aerospace succeeds in privatizing Finkenveld Airport, it will still be an alternate airport for Forsterbiel, Hamburg's main airport, in the event of an emergency or unforeseen situation.
The Great White Shark leaned towards the pier very steadily, and the more than 10-meter-long hull and the rubber tires on the simple bridge stopped at the touch of a button, showing the captain's incomparably skilled sailing skills.
Coming out of the saloon on the yacht's owner's deck, Liang Yuan squinted his eyes and glanced at the sun hanging high in the sky, and raised his hand to put the sunglasses hanging from the neckline of his T-shirt on the wings of his nose.
"You're all embarrassed to let me carry your bags for you, so I'll lead the way in front today. Liang Yuan turned his head and said with a smile.
There is a very famous line in Hong Kong movies, called "Strength, of course, charm", although there are only a few words to talk about, but it breaks through the hierarchical nature of human society under the catalysis of power and money
For a founder who has built a huge enterprise with one hand, age, appearance and everything are negligible factors, Lu Hengsheng, Li Guowei, and Meng Dawei, who have accompanied Liang Yuan to visit COMAC and CMB Aerospace in the past few days, always subconsciously hug Liang Yuan, and Liang Yuan reminded him several times that it was useless.
At this time, Yuanjia's informal meeting in Europe had already ended. Due to the imminent matter of CNR, Liang Haiping returned to China a few days ago, and the negotiations between Yuanjia and the West German government on the future of Fengyuan trade have entered the early stage of the sky-high asking price, and Liu Wenyue and Zhou Yuanhang jointly lead the overall progress of the negotiations.
It is precisely because of this that Liang Yuan, who suddenly fell into a state of idleness for the time being, had the opportunity to be distracted and take a look at the new factory of COMAC and CMB Aerospace in Hamburg.
"Even if it's a bag, it's still too young for the age of the workplace. Lu Hengsheng, who has been in the company for the longest time and often sees Liang Yuan in Shengjing, who looks like a student, knows Liang Yuan's temperament and can joke freely.
And just learned that Liang Yuan is the big boss. Meng Dawei, who was in charge of the construction of COMAC's new factory in the Federal Republic of Germany, still had the sequelae of relieving from the collapse of his feelings, and his self-confidence and judgment were obviously disturbed by Yan Zhan, but he nodded frequently as if a chicken was pecking rice.
The four of them stepped onto the simple trestle and walked side by side at will, without bringing other staff, under Liang Yuan's construction, Lu Hengsheng and Li Guowei both threw away the secretary and completely handed over the work to the deputy, wholeheartedly using this rare opportunity to accompany the boss to be lazy, but Meng Dawei, who replaced Zhou Yuanhang, was still extremely restrained. Slightly overwhelmed.
"Mr. Meng said something casually, just seeing you nod in the past two days, this is not good for the cervical spine. Liang Yuan looked at Meng Dawei beside him and said a very cold joke.
"Da Shao, let's call me Xiao Meng. Meng Dawei said with a wry smile.
At the age of 18, he was admitted to the Department of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering of Tsinghua University as the top student in the college entrance examination in Hefei, Anhui Province, and at the age of 22, he entered the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States for further study, and at the age of 25, he obtained a master's degree and entered the famous American aerospace company Honeywell.
Not long ago, Meng Dawei was recruited to Yuanjia by Zhou Yuanhang, responsible for the daily management of the COMAC technical team. After the establishment of CMB Aerospace, Meng Dawei was naturally appointed as the executive general manager of CMB Aerospace China.
Of course. Before the establishment of CMB Aerospace in May, the so-called commercial aircraft technical team was simply the name of the Republic of China Xifei after the MPC75 technical team of the Federal Republic of Germany changed the vest.
With Meng Dawei just over the age of 30 to be able to do the position of general manager of CMB Aerospace in China, in terms of personal career, both Chinese and foreign can be called top elites, MBB is close to 50 years old when he is the general manager of CMB Aerospace Germany, which is enough to be Meng Dawei's elder in terms of age.
Before meeting Liang Yuan, Meng Dawei always thought that he was the best group of people. Even in the face of his current boss Zhou Yuanhang and his former boss Louis Martin Meng, president of Honeywell, they can get along with each other with a normal mentality, firmly believing that they can achieve the same workplace status as these two in more than ten years.
Some of Liang Yuan's great achievements completely subverted Meng Dawei's worldview.
I haven't heard that the junior class in my hometown is so powerful? Not only Tsinghua University and Peking University, but also Massachusetts Harvard or anything else have never heard of Liang Yuan's entrepreneurial deeds, after Meng Dawei learned some of Liang Yuan's deeds, he suddenly had the idea of returning to his hometown University of Science and Technology to take a good look. After entering the 80s, there were many juvenile classes in the Republic, but Hefei University of Science and Technology and Shengdong University were the most well-known.
How could Meng Dawei know that a guy like Liang Yuan, who skips school all day, has nothing to do with the juvenile class, and someone who applies for the juvenile class is simply borrowing the reputation of the juvenile class as a genius to fool his relatives.
Tilting his head and glancing at Meng Dawei a few times, Liang Yuan smiled and said: "Manager Meng is much more energetic than Lao Lu at this age, and it is a bit of a loss to call Lao Meng, Xiao Meng still forget it, I am not so mature and old-fashioned." ”
Lu Hengsheng, who was following behind Liang Yuan, listened to Liang Yuan's nonsense about running the train, but he remembered that Liang Yuan was a sister Wang Xin to Wang Xin, who was originally transferred to work in Gangji Power Collector and is currently working in Inspur.
In Lu Hengsheng's eyes, his boss's mind is very interesting, in the Science and Technology Park, all young and middle-aged women Liang Yuan will be called by his sister, which makes Li Yuanling say countless times that Liang Yuan is not big or small, but the men in the Science and Technology Park are not treated so well, except for a few CEOs in the big meeting, the rest of the people Liang Yuan will call their names, similar to Liu Feiyang and Nie Xiaotian.
"Dashao, COMAC's new factory doesn't look very big. Li Guowei's question saved Meng Dawei from his embarrassment.
"Mr. Liu, Mr. Zhou is planning to use the second production line of the CM100 passenger aircraft to give priority to the construction of the British government to take the bait, once successful, a lot of the production share originally attributed to COMAC is likely to be packaged to SCHOTT to do, in the future Hamburg COMAC will only be stored as a pure passenger aircraft design center. Liang Yuan said with a smile.
Judging from the industrial level of the Republic at this time, it is still reluctant to digest and produce BAC1-11 and MD82 class passenger aircraft, and it is indeed impossible to produce a next-generation regional airliner that is more advanced than the Boeing 737-500 series.
This is simply something worse than the wafer production line, even if Yuanjia has a chance to acquire Jardine Matheson in principle, it is impossible to concentrate the strength of the entire group on this, otherwise it is not called radical but suicide.
Li Guowei pondered the meaning of Liang Yuan's words, and suddenly woke up a little, earlier than he joined the company, Zhou Yuanhang and Sun Zhuolin, who are already the core executives of Yuanjia, did not hold any position in CMB Aerospace, but their position in COMAC obviously exposed that Liang Yuan had other thoughts outside the plan of the CM100 passenger aircraft.
Without getting to the bottom of the matter, Li Guowei turned the topic in another direction without a trace.
"Da Shao, if you want to persuade the British to sell Schott to CMB Aerospace, in addition to some inappropriate political factors, the launch user of the passenger plane is also a very important factor, right?" Li Guowei brought the topic to matters related to his old business.
"There are three confirmed launch users for the CM100 airliner. ”
"Lufthansa of the Federal Republic of Germany, United Airlines of the Republic of Germany, and an airline based in Ireland that has not been established for a long time called Ryanair. Liang Yuan said with a smile. (To be continued......)