When he came to the dining room, he saw a middle-aged man about 40 years old, and when he saw the two of them coming in, the man stood up, Ling Shizhe came to him and said, "Ollie will introduce you, this is Mister Zhou, Mr. Zhou Yuanhang, he will be the president of China Aircraft Industry Corporation, and Zhou Yuanhang, this is Miss Ollie, the chief software engineer of Ambrera." √∟ Top Novel,"

"Hello." "Hello. The two shook hands gently.

"Okay, you're all acquainted, so let's all sit down and eat." After the three of them sat down, Zhao Xiaoyun brought up the dinner with 2 servants, one in front of each of the four large plates, the servants opened the lid, and a tempting aroma exuded a straight hook people's appetite, this is Zhao Xiaoyun introduced: "This is today's dinner, Sichuan sauce roasted pork ribs." ”

"It's such a big pot, I'm worried about whether I can eat or play."

"It's okay, you can eat slowly, this pot looks big, but it's not as much as you think." Ling Shizhe comforted Ollie that the sauce-roasted pork ribs are available in the eight major cuisines of China, but the Sichuan sauce-roasted pork ribs are a little different from other cuisines, and the unique casserole of Sichuan is needed in the manufacturing process, and the sauced pork ribs should be simmered in it for 1 hour, and the taste is delicious and the meat is not firewood.

When Zhao Xiaoyun was cooking this dish, she took into account the amount of food that everyone ates, the pot in front of Ling Shizhe and Zhou Yuanhang is a little bigger, Ollie's pot is a little smaller, and the girl has a smaller amount of food, but the pot in front of Zhao Xiaoyun is as big as the two of them, because she is a person who practices martial arts.

Ling Shizhe, as the host, raised his glass and said some words of blessing, and everyone picked up the chopsticks and started, during which he glanced in the direction of Ollie with the peripheral vision of his eyes, and found that she could use Chinese chopsticks, and she was quite proficient in using them, and it seemed that Ollie had also learned to taste Chinese food over the years.

Chinese pay attention to eating without words, but Ling Shizhe came from the later generations, there is no rule that most Chinese or overseas Chinese in this era do not eat without words, like to eat and chat, just after three rounds of wine, he asked Zhou Yuanhang about the future development of the aircraft company.

Zhou Yuanhang was caught off guard by him, although he has lived in the United States for many years, he has always maintained the inherent tradition of Chinese intellectuals in his bones, seeing that his boss is uneasy and playing cards, he asks questions about work while eating, and he doesn't know how to answer him for a while, and he is embarrassed.

Seeing this, Zhao Xiaoyun hurriedly relieved the siege and said: "Oh, you are really, it's dinner time, what kind of work to talk about." If you want to talk, when you finish eating, you will talk slowly in the study. ”

At this time, Ling Shizhe reacted, at this time, the Chinese were not like the later generations, they liked to chat while eating, so they had to say sorry and stop talking, concentrating on the food in front of them......

After eating, Ollie took her farewell, Zhao Xiaoyun went to see her off, and Ling Shizhe took Zhou Yuanhang to the study.

Ling Shizhe personally brewed him a cup of high-quality jasmine tea, but he did the same as before, just brewed a cup of Sanhua.

Zhou Yuanhang was personally poached by Ling Shizhe from McDonnell Douglas Company, he is a bit of the same as Ling Shizhe's background, Zhou Yuanhang's father is also a national/national/party/military/official pilot, and died on the Hump route in World War II.

At that time, when the death notice reached the family, the mother fainted on the spot, and at that time, Zhou Yuanhang, who was still young, did not know what his father's sacrifice meant to the poor family, and with the help of his neighbors, Zhou Yuanhang handled his father's funeral.

When he was older, he realized that his father's tomb was just a clothed mound, because when his father was flying a plane to fight the Japanese army in the air on the Hump route, he was hit by the Japanese army's Zero fighter plane and the bones were gone, and the plane was imprinted into his young heart for the first time.

A little older, he began to understand things, seeing the old mountains and rivers of the country at that time, the young Zhou Yuanhang's heart was full of national hatred and family hatred, and vowed to build China's own fighter plane to fight back against the invaders, he studied hard, and a few years later he was admitted to Yenching University with excellent results, and later studied in the United States.

When he first came to the United States to study, the founding of New China, at that time, many overseas students returned to the motherland to build their own country, like most patriotic scholars at that time, he also planned to return to the country after completing his studies and serve the motherland.

Many years later, when he got his doctoral diploma and was about to return to China, he suddenly received bad news from his family - his mother had died, and he also learned that the intellectuals who had returned to China had been defeated and some were simply locked up as spies, and he was full of disappointment in the country...... He did not return to the mainland but went to Taiwan/Gulf, but the Kuomintang/Kuomintang/Party authorities and the white terror regime adopted against Taiwan/Gulf stung him deeply......

He left for the United States, and on the recommendation of his American mentor, he joined the Douglas Aircraft Company. He was brilliant and capable, and he reached the pinnacle of his career at Douglas, but everything changed when McDonald merged with Douglas to form McDonnell Douglas:

First of all, McDonnell Douglas, the new company after the merger, overturned Douglas's previous business philosophy, causing great disgust among the original Douglas employees, and the strike marches were wave after wave, the scale was larger and larger each time, and McDonnell Douglas fell into chaos.

Secondly, after the establishment of McDonnell Douglas, his mentor saw that McDonnell Douglas was in chaos, thinking that McDonnell Douglas had no hope, so he resigned and left, as a Chinese without the protection of his mentor, Zhou Yuanhang was soon attacked by his white colleagues, just when he was anxious, the headhunter recruited him, and Ling Shizhe wanted to ask him to serve as the CEO of China Aircraft Industry Corporation.

China Aircraft Industry Corporation? What kind of company is this, I have never heard of it, when he found out that this company is run by Ling Shizhe, he is very unscrupulous, thinking that a person who is engaged in semiconductors is not good to engage in his semiconductors, what is he doing here to do with airplanes? Don't go.

Immediately afterwards, McDonnell Douglas and Ling Shizhe reached a cooperation agreement, and then the so-called Chinese aircraft company started cartoons again, Zhou Yuanhang couldn't understand it, what kind of trouble is an aircraft company going to make cartoons?

China aircraft company has just been established, everything has to start from scratch, although a lot of aviation talents have been recruited, but never found a candidate who can serve as the chief executive officer, the headhunter recommended Zhou Yuanhang to work in McDonnell Douglas, but he is not concerned about Ling Shizhe's company, as a last resort, in line with the idea of rare talents, Ling Shizhe through McDonnell Douglas president, James Smith MacDonald's relationship, contacted Zhou Yuanhang, and had an open and honest conversation with him.

To be honest, Ling Shizhe was not sure about that conversation at all, he didn't expect the other party to bow down after listening to him, he just felt that he wanted to talk to the other party once, if it didn't work, forget it.

The result was unexpected, a month after the two talked, Zhou Yuanhang called, willing to join Ambrera as the president of China Aircraft Company, and some people were also willing to come from McDonnell Douglas, which made Ling Shizhe very happy, and called McDonnell Douglas again, McDonnell Douglas was also willing to let go, so Zhou Yuanhang came to Ling Shizhe's house today.

Zhou Yuanhang took a sip of tea and said to Ling Shizhe: "Mr. Ling, I went to see your aircraft company, and I also went to see where in Hong Kong, there is a sentence I don't know if to say?" ”

"If you have anything to say, just say it."

"Okay, I'll just say it directly," Zhou Yuanhang said directly: "Mr. Ling's initial development plan for the aircraft company is two ways, the first way is to use the profits generated by animation to support the development of new aircraft; The second way is to familiarize yourself with and understand the aircraft industry by OEM F-4 fighters for McDonnell Douglas, and by the way, hone the aviation manufacturing experience of workers, am I right? ”

Ling Shizhe nodded and said: "You're right, that's what I planned at the beginning, Hong Kong has no foundation for the aviation industry, everything has to start from scratch, and the aviation industry is a high-tech and high-capital-intensive industry, and it is impossible to play with airplanes without money, so I thought of the method of raising airplanes with the profits generated by animation, and then started with avionics, until the aircraft company grew up thoroughly." ”

"It's a good idea, but have you ever thought about it, Hong Kong is too small and mountainous, it's not suitable for building an aircraft factory, even an assembly plant, and the most you can do is set up a research and development laboratory."

"I've noticed this problem, it's my ill-thinking, it's my fault! But the headquarters in Hong Kong has already started to be built, and I plan to use it as the headquarters of the aircraft company in the Asia-Pacific region and the avionics laboratory building, and the new headquarters and factories and related laboratories I plan to put here - Raccoon Town, what do you think? In fact, as early as July last year, Ling Shizhe regretted that it was a complete mistake to build the aircraft factory in Hong Kong, and Hong Kong did not have a large enough place for him to toss.

If you look at Seattle, where Boeing's headquarters is located, you will know that there are nearly 1,000 supporting factories alone, and there are as many as 10,000 affiliated enterprises involved. In fact, the whole Seattle is an airplane city, and all the industries in the whole city, including various service industries, revolve around the plane, and Hong Kong has no advantage over Seattle at all, she is too small.

"Here? I think it's good, the terrain here is flat, the place is big, it is a good place to build an aircraft factory, but if you build a factory here, the labor cost here is much higher than that of Hong Kong, and you can't make money on the F-4 fighter jets that you manufacture for McDonnell Douglas. ”

Ling Shizhe shook his head and said: "Don't mention the F-4, it's no longer a show, after the collapse of the Bretton Woods system, the dollar has depreciated sharply, and the U.S. economy has declined in an all-round way, which has caused a global economic crisis; In November last year, the outbreak of the Middle East war, and caused a global oil crisis, under the attack of the two ends, the US government has long been unable to bear, so from this year onwards the US Congress will drastically reduce military spending, first of all, the first to be cut, is the follow-up procurement project of the F-4 fighter, the same is true for other countries, the originally negotiated F-4 procurement project, have been canceled and postponed delivery, F-4 seems to be hopeless. ”

Speaking of this, Ling Shizhe was full of helplessness, after the disintegration of the gold dollar, the dollar depreciated sharply, causing inflation, and the direct consequence was that the price of F-4 fighters has risen sharply, and now the price of an F-4 has broken through the sky-high price of 12 million US dollars per aircraft!

$12 million, the F-4 is just a second-generation aircraft, and it has to be at such a high price, which country can afford to buy it? In the 80s, the price of a Panda third-generation aircraft was only 12 million US dollars, and a second-generation aircraft was actually 12 million US dollars, and no country would spend such a high price to buy a second-generation aircraft, unless this government went crazy, coupled with the impact of the oil crisis, the F-4 tragedy was ruthlessly cut by Congress.

It is simply a tragedy that Ling Shizhe's aircraft company has just been established, and it has encountered such a big setback.