Chapter 761: The Beginning (Part I)
As the economic complementarity between China and the United States becomes more and more obvious, the flights between the two countries are becoming more and more dense.
"Mr. Jiang, don't you also have to get a private jet, otherwise you won't be worthy of your identity as the richest man in the Heavenly Dynasty," Pi Wei said with a smile on the side.
This time he went to the United States, Jiang Hui brought Kato, Pi Wei, Guan Weidong, Zeng Qingying, Xiang Weiwei and Liao Yun and others, plus security personnel, and basically chartered the entire first-class cabin.
This time I went to the United States to negotiate, in fact, except for the total price, the other aspects have already been discussed in depth, and even some details have been confirmed.
Now they are just waiting for the big guys on both sides to make a decision to see who can take a step back, so the pressure on Pi Wei and them is not very great.
"This can be had, Qingying, you can contact Boeing and Airbus to see if there are any aircraft that others have unsubscribed, and we can consider taking over." Nowadays, in the management of many enterprises, the waste of manpower and time is more terrible than the waste of materials. The waste of materials is visible, but the waste of time is often overlooked. If our group had its own business jet, we would be able to save some executives' time in many cases," Jiang Hui said with a smile.
With the intensification of the financial crisis, more and more companies will cancel their aircraft orders, and even some deposits have already paid a large part of the deposit, but they are also unwilling to pay off the final payment, and would rather lose the deposit than cancel the aircraft.
This is similar to the housing market at the end of 2008, where housing prices in some areas have halved, and the loan amount is higher than the total housing price, and some people would rather lose their down payment and the loan they have already repaid, and stop the loss.
For example, a house bought for 2 million yuan, 30% of the down payment was 600,000 yuan, and 1.4 million yuan was repaid through a bank loan, but it was repaid for a year, and I found that my house was only 1 million in the market, so I still have a hair?
These people decisively refused to repay the loan, thinking that it was better to buy a new set with that money.
However, no one expected that housing prices would fall falsely in 2008 and recover immediately from 2009.
Those who cut off the supply and caused the property to be auctioned by the bank are probably full of remorse in their hearts!
However, in terms of the business jet market, it would be a very good business to be able to buy a few aircraft that others have cancelled at a 50% discount at this point in time.
As the global economy begins to recover next year, the aviation market will soon prosper again, and the price of business jets will also rise.
"Ah, Mr. Jiang, do you really want to buy it?" I just said it casually", Pi Wei said in surprise after hearing Jiang Hui's words.
Pi Wei, who has been in the United States for many years, knows a lot about private jets.
The United States is a big country in terms of navigation and the first country in the world to have a "private jet".
In the field of general aviation in the United States, private jets account for 66 of the total number of general aviation aircraft, and the total number of general aviation aircraft in the United States flies more than 28 million hours per year, while the total number of flight hours of private jets accounts for more than 60 airports with regular routes in the United States, and the number of general aviation airports open to private jets is as high as more than 4,000.
In the United States, one of the most important means of transportation is the car, and the other is the airplane. At present, there are more than 300,000 private jets in the United States, about 700,000 qualified pilots, and more than 250,000 pure private jet pilots.
Americans have the right to use almost all airspace without government approval, or even for the government to know who is flying and where, and without paying royalties (except for a small tax on jet fuel). Americans have the right to use any civilian airport on a first-come, first-served basis.
In this way, it is difficult for private jets not to prosper.
Pi Wei himself used to be a friend's private jet, and it still feels very different!
"No kidding, I think your proposal is good. Anyway, one of the most important tasks of our group this year is to buy, buy, buy companies, buy machines, buy airplanes, buy land, and sell people...... Buy everything," Jiang Hui said.
"Buying people, Mr. Jiang, you are going to be a human trafficker," Zeng Qingying said with a smile.
"Haven't you seen that many companies have recently started to announce that they are going to lay off employees or cancel their hiring plans this year? Although it is said that a company's layoffs must give priority to the poor level of elimination, there are always some people who do not have the opportunity to show their talents are also laid off, and this is when our opportunity comes. Normally, even if we give people a salary increase, we may not be willing to come, but now we may only need to maintain the same salary level to be able to poach people, so why not," Jiang Hui said.
"But many bricks are not optimistic about this year's economic development situation, and have begun to shrink the company's development speed, will it be too risky for us to do this," Zeng Qingying continued.
"Rest assured, the problem is not as serious as everyone thinks, and the fundamentals of the upward development of the global economy have not changed substantially, but the Yankees have blown the real estate bubble too big, resulting in a series of financial problems. If these problems are not resolved, the bubble will continue to grow until one day, it will completely get out of control," Jiang said.
"According to Mr. Jiang, it seems that the Americans took the initiative to squeeze out this bubble," Guan Weidong interjected.
"You can't say that's wrong. There is a group of American elites who are definitely aware of this problem and are pushing for it, and you will find that after this crisis, the development potential of the American economy is greater, and some companies have become stronger," Jiang said.
"Ah, really fake?", Zeng Qingying said in surprise.
"The Celestial Empire and the island countries are the two largest creditor countries of the United States, and they also face the greatest danger in the financial crisis: if the financial market of the United States is not rescued, it may lead to the dereliction of existing bonds and complete losses; if the rescue is carried out, new funds may be trapped in a dead frame and losses will be even greater in the future.
The total debt of the US state is $50 trillion. What it borrows and consumes is real money, and what others hold in their hands is just a handful of white slips guaranteed by the financial credibility of the United States. Now that the United States doesn't want that financial credibility, those white slips are going back and forth between real money and waste paper," Jiang said.
"In other words, the United States has replanned the financial order through this financial crisis and let the Celestial Empire and the island countries pay for it," Zeng Qingying said.
"I guess that's what they think, but the Celestial Empire doesn't have to be fooled, and if they don't, then I guess the Yankees will use other tricks," Jiang Hui said.