【Chapter 861】 A Glimpse of Europe (Subscription Requested!)
February in Paris was colder than expected, but after experiencing the extreme weather in Montana, Xiao Feng and Nini did not feel any discomfort, but found the cold air shocking.
In fact, the bodies of the two of them are much better than ordinary people because of the 'Space Spirit Spring' and perennial exercise, and their usual health is quite good.
After arriving in Paris, Xiao Feng gave Dai Bin, Qi Hong, Ma Xiaotian and the entire security team a holiday, after all, it was rare to come to a shopping paradise and let them sweep the goods.
Next, Xiao Feng and Xu Mengyao want to live a romantic two-person world in Paris, and then visit the Airbus headquarters and assembly plant, which also has a developed high-speed railway, so there is no need to use troublesome private jets.
In the past two years, because of the sharp increase in wealth and special status, Xiao Feng's travel has always been a response, otherwise he will always be a little troubled when he encounters crazy fans in China.
Now that they are abroad, Xiao Feng and Xu Mengyao can naturally enjoy the fun of ordinary people, and as for safety, with Xiao Feng's skills, they don't have to worry too much. Besides, the places where the two go in and out are all bustling business districts and tourist areas, and the European government still attaches great importance to the security of these places.
got the permission of the boss to take a holiday, Dai Bin and the others were okay, and most of the technical otaku were to buy something and return to the airport to overhaul and maintain the 'Nini'; Lu Juan and the others were cheering, after all, Paris has a fatal attraction for women.
Xiao Feng's annual salary for the crew is quite a lot, Dai Bin and Qi Hong's annual salaries are 250,000 US dollars and 200,000 US dollars respectively, and the two flight attendants are not less than one million RMB, which is much higher than that of their domestic counterparts.
First, the performance of the crew is very good, which has brought great convenience to the travel of Xiao Feng's family, but the crew is already familiar with the Xiao family, and there is no problem in paying a little more.
Cowboys who work from Ginkgo Village to Dream Ranch. Engaged in more grass-roots work, the annual income will not be less than 300,000 yuan, the employees of 'Jinghu Group' have always been nourishing.
After all, the wealth of the 'Jinghu Group' and the Xiao family is swelling dramatically, so that the staff around him have a corresponding income and live a rich and dignified life is also what Xiao Feng has always insisted on.
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After sending Dai Bin and the others away. Xiao Feng and Xu Mengyao leisurely took the subway to the city center, and as for the luggage, Ma Xiaotian would arrange for it to be delivered to the hotel where they stayed.
Xiao Feng and Xu Mengyao are still taking the Paris subway for the first time, and every time they came here before, they used to travel in luxury cars, and they rarely had the opportunity to go deep into the daily life of Paris.
Compared with the modest decoration and advertising light boxes all over the country, the metro system in Paris is full of historical vicissitudes because of its age, and graffiti art can be seen everywhere, worthy of being the art capital of Europe.
I've heard that the subways in Moscow, London and New York are more distinctive. It's just that Xiao Feng and Xu Mengyao don't know if they will have a chance to experience one or two in the future.
After arriving in the city center, the first thing Xiao Feng and Xu Mengyao did was to visit their teacher in the restaurant of Ducatse, which is also the embodiment of traditional Chinese virtues. Although Du Kase is a foreigner, Xiao Feng does not have the slightest discount in etiquette, whether it is holiday greetings and gifts.
In this regard, Xiao Feng wants to thank himself for having a virtuous helper to help him remind various details in order to maintain a good relationship in all aspects.
For the arrival of Xiao Feng and Xu Mengyao. Dukase was still quite happy in his heart. Xiao Feng is the true heir to his mantle, enough to spread his concept of food to the world.
As long as he is a craftsman, whether at home or abroad, he is extremely concerned about the inheritance of his skills, and now Xiao Feng has the opportunity to make Dukase's skills and fame known to more people, and his satisfaction with Xiao Feng is naturally rising in a straight line.
This time. Xiao Feng set up the 'Dream Restaurant', and Dukase provided great help, whether it was the selection of Western chefs or the customization of various advanced kitchen equipment, he played a great role in it.
Knowing that Xiao Feng and Xu Mengyao were going on vacation in Paris, Ducater was also very interested in not disturbing him. It's just that I cooked a few big dishes in the restaurant and entertained them.
Coming out of the restaurant, Xiao Feng and Xu Mengyao were not in a hurry to go back to the Four Seasons Hotel where they were staying, but like ordinary tourists, they wandered around the streets of Paris and enjoyed themselves!
In fact, in the past few years, don't look at Xiao Feng and Xu Mengyao's life is quite leisurely, and the usual nerves are still tense, after all, there is a huge group, and there are still a lot of affairs that they need to decide and deal with;
This time, the two of them left all the affairs of the group and their families behind and enjoyed their two-person world to the fullest, which was also a reward for five years of hard work.
In the eyes of foreigners, Chinese and even East Asians look exactly the same, so they would not have thought that this young man, who was hanging out and bargaining like ordinary white-collar youths, was the richest couple in China.
Without fans and media reporters, Xiao Feng and Xu Mengyao can wander around leisurely, kiss on the street like ordinary couples, and enjoy the romance of the fashion capital to the fullest.
For a few days, Xiao Feng and Xu Mengyao were all over the big and small attractions in Paris, and the photos of them showing their affection abused the single Wang to death in various ways on the scarf. Especially on the night of Valentine's Day, Xiao Feng's specially prepared candlelight dinner, roses and fireworks show made many men resentful of Xiao Feng!
After all, Xiao Feng suddenly raised the standard of Valentine's Day so much, doesn't this make other men have a more miserable life in the coming year?
All in all, Xiao Feng and Xu Mengyao's Valentine's Day holiday can only be described as perfect!
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After the Lantern Festival, the couple who had been in Paris for several days and enjoyed the romantic Paris spring set off for Toulouse.
Located in the southwest of France, Toulouse is the fourth largest city in France and the headquarters of Airbus!
The high-speed rail from Paris to Toulouse is part of the French high-speed rail network, and Toulouse is one of the top 10 railway hubs in France.
Located before the Mediterranean and Atlantic coasts, Toulouse, the capital of the Central Pyrenees, is a city full of flowers, and its charm is not only due to its rich and colorful history. It also comes from the perfect combination of humanities and technology, and receives 75 million tourists every year.
For Xiao Feng, the number of tourists is a very sensitive data, and when he saw that the annual reception volume of Toulouse was about 30 times that of the 'Mirror Lake Scenic Area', his sense of urgency was still quite strong.
In terms of population, Toulouse is only about three times the size of the 'Ginkgo New District'. However, there is such a big gap in the number of tourists, which shows that the 'Mirror Lake Scenic Area' still has great potential to be tapped.
In the future, if the tourist reception volume of 'Ginkgo New Area' can break into the 'Ten Million Club', it will also mean that 'Jinghu Scenic Area' has a place in the world tourism market.
Because they had already contacted the account manager of Airbus in advance, when Xiao Feng and Xu Mengyao left the train station, they saw a sign with their names printed on it, and Airbus sent a greeting team.
Xiao Feng noticed that there was also a young man with a Chinese face in the crowd, who wanted to be an international student in Toulouse. to act as a translator.
Although Xiao Feng and Xu Mengyao's French is very good, and the communication between the two sides is not a problem, Xiao Feng still sees the meticulousness and sincerity of Airbus.
"Welcome Mr. Xiao and Ms. Xu!" The handsome middle-aged guy led by him greeted him, welcomed him in English, and introduced himself: "Butters from the despicable Airbus marketing department will become the special manager of the two!"
Butters, the namesake of France's famous bald goalkeeper, is a man of Germanic descent. Handsome middle-aged guy with blonde hair and blue eyes.
"Thank you for coming to pick you up!" Xiao Feng greeted Butters skillfully in French, shaking hands and thanking him!
The group exchanged pleasantries in the hall for a while. Only then did Butters lead him to the parking lot and board the Mercedes-Benz Bulletproof Car that had been prepared for a long time.
As a translator for the reservation, Xiao Huang from Yuzhou, China, also boarded the Mercedes-Benz and accompanied him to the headquarters of Airbus.
The conversation along the way made Xiao Feng understand that Xiao Huang's name is 'Huang Jianfei' and he graduated from Jinling University of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Finally, I was admitted to the French Aerospace School (SUPAERO) as a graduate student, and now I am almost graduating.
The French School of Aerospace is the best engineering school in France and even in Europe, with strong professionalism, and the engineer diploma awarded is a general engineer diploma, which has enough recognition in Europe.
Chatting all the way. The team soon arrived at the Airbus assembly plant near Toulouse Airport, where nearly half of Airbus' production capacity is assembled and delivered to customers.
Airbus has a total of three assembly plants, and in addition to the Toulouse headquarters, the factories in Hamburg and Jinmen, Huaxia, Germany, are also responsible for the assembly tasks.
Because Xiao Feng needed to make a lot of changes to the Airbus A380, the factory in Tianjin was naturally incompetent, and Xiao Feng had to come to Toulouse.
Compared with the Gulfstream assembly plant visited by Xiao Feng last time, Airbus's assembly base is more huge and spectacular, after all, Gulfstream is only a business jet-based enterprise, and Airbus is a super enterprise mainly engaged in large civil aircraft.
In the past 2013, Airbus has achieved an annual output value of 50 billion euros, which is still quite high among the world's top 500 companies. Compared with oil and other energy companies, Airbus undoubtedly has a lot more technology content, which also makes its global influence even greater!
At the door of the assembly base, Butters led Xiao Feng and the others to put on hard hats and hang up their passes, and then began the visit.
Although dozens of airlines around the world have placed orders for hundreds of A380s with Airbus, and the production task has even been scheduled to around 2018, it is still possible to free up a production line to serve a wealthy man like Xiao Feng.
Compared with the standard orders of airlines, the A380 that Xiao Feng needs needs to go through a lot of modifications, which means more profits.
In front of Franklin, even old-fashioned Europeans know how to be flexible!
Walking into the assembly center, huge A380s are being assembled in a huge factory, and various accessories from global suppliers will be transformed here to finally build the world's largest civil airliner.
The A380 is a 4-engine, 550-seat ultra-large long-range wide-body passenger aircraft developed by Airbus, which was the largest passenger aircraft when it was put into production, and was known as a giant in the sky!
After the A380 was put into operation, it broke the 30-year monopoly of the Boeing 747 in the civil aviation market, and allowed Airbus to reverse the decline in one fell swoop, and in the first decade of the 21st century.
With a body length of 72 meters, a wingspan of nearly 80 meters, a height of 24 meters, a fuselage width of 7.14 meters, and a fuselage weight of 275 tons, the A380 is equipped with four Trent-900 engines produced by Rolls-Royce.
In comparison, 'Nini' is much more compact, after all, the two belong to different weight classes!
"The standard price of the A380 is $295 million, but Mr. Xiao needs to personalize the interior of the fuselage, and we need to do cost accounting according to the actual situation!" While visiting, Butters also introduced the relevant situation to Xiao Feng and Xu Mengyao in detail, after all, it is related to his performance commission.
If Xiao Feng orders the A380, he will naturally not be able to adopt the airline's three-cabin layout, but will carry out a comprehensive transformation, reduce the number of seats to less than 100, and all use the top seats in the first class class.
At the same time, the renovated private jet should have a recreation room, study, bedroom, shower room, meeting room and other space to meet the various needs of Xiao Feng's family traveling around the world.
In Xiao Feng's vision, the future A380 should become an existence similar to 'Sky One', which can not only fly to any region in the world without interruption, but also allow the Xiao family to experience the top-level flight enjoyment, and at the same time be able to handle the affairs of the 'Jinghu Group',......。
According to the various suggestions given by Xiao Feng and Xu Mengyao, the design department of Airbus also made several sets of plans in advance for Xiao Feng to choose.
Because Xiao Feng requires all materials and equipment to be used in the best, the estimated price of these renovation projects will not be less than $330 million, which is much higher than the price of airlines.
However, such a price is not unacceptable to Xiao Feng, but a too large body will bring more maintenance and operation costs in the future, which is also a problem that Xiao Feng needs to consider.
Therefore, Xiao Feng could not make a final decision for the time being, and he had to visit Boeing's factory in Seattle and see Boeing's transformation plan for the Boeing 787.
After all, buying an ultra-long-range aircraft is not something you can buy on the street and just buy it!
A380 is currently the world's largest civil airliner, and only 4F-level airports in China can take off and land, which means that "Dream Airport" and "Ginkgo Airport" must be reconstructed and expanded accordingly to meet the take-off and landing requirements of A380.
All in all, there are still many issues involved in buying an A380, and it is a matter of course for Xiao Feng to be cautious......!
PS: PS: 10 days, broadband is finally installed, and what ports are inconsistent, the original optical cat is useless, replaced by a new one, 255 oceans, has been speechless about the telecom monopoly!