"Mr. Lin, it's really not easy to see you." Baranov smiled bitterly, he looked at Lin Hongfei and sighed sincerely.

"Mr. Baranov, I suppose you didn't meet me for the sake of emotion, did you?" Lin Hongfei looked at the representative of the Yakovlev Design Bureau, and did not be polite to the other party, "I believe you can know that I am very busy and very busy during this time, so if you have anything to say, you might as well say it directly." ”

"This is also what I hope," Lin Hongfei's words were not polite, but Baranov was not angry because of this, he nodded, "That's the case, our Yakovlev Design Bureau would like to cooperate with you, Mr. Lin." ”

"Work with me?" Although it was a questioning tone, Lin Hongfei was not surprised by this. Tupolev had not long conveyed to himself the desire of the Yakovlev Design Bureau to cooperate with him? He nodded, "So, which aircraft patent is the Yakovlev Design Bureau going to sell to me?" ”

In Lin Hongfei's life, apart from this, the Yakovlev Design Bureau had no other reason to find himself: he had purchased the Il-62 and Tu-134, two aircraft that had been discontinued in the former Soviet Union, from the Ilyushin Design Bureau and the Tupolev Design Bureau.

But Baranov's answer greatly surprised Lin Hongfei, "No, Mr. Lin, we are not here to sell you something, we want to seek such a possibility of cooperation with you: our Yakovlev Design Bureau will provide designers and technology, your company will provide money, we will engage in research and development together, and then we will produce aircraft together in your American factory and make money together." ”

This idea really surprised Lin Hongfei. He was stunned for a moment before he said, "If my understanding is correct, what do you mean by the Yakovlev Design Bureau, how many models do you take out and invest in my company with your model technology patents and human resources?" ”

"You can say the same thing." Baranov nodded, and at the same time looked at Lin Hongfei nervously...... He was really worried that Lin Hongfei would reject his proposal.

However, Lin Hongfei's next reaction reassured Baranov a lot: in the face of his proposal, Lin Hongfei was indeed thinking seriously.

Yes, Lin Hongfei is indeed thinking about the possibility and feasibility of this.

The first thing to confirm is, is it good for Guqi Provincial Industrial Manufacturing Co., Ltd. to do so? This is just nonsense!

Guqi Provincial Industrial Manufacturing Co., Ltd. is equivalent to picking up a systematic and experienced aircraft design team with a history of several decades!

The second thing to confirm is a point. Is this good for the Yakovlev Design Bureau? This is, of course, also nonsense! What is lacking in the Yakovlev Design Bureau now? Money!

What is the most important thing for Guqi Industrial Manufacturing Co., Ltd.? Money!

Although the Yakovlev Design Bureau has a rich historical background and the accumulation of technology, this thing cannot be used as food or money, and such a large team has to live after all. And there is no doubt that Guqi Provincial Industrial Manufacturing Co., Ltd. can solve this problem for them.

"There are a few questions that you need to answer, Mr. Baranov...... I'm sure you've thought about these questions before. Lin Hongfei paused. Raising his head and looking at Baranov, "Are you going to cooperate with the North American branch of our company, or with the Guqi Provincial Industrial Manufacturing Co., Ltd." What are the specific areas of cooperation? What are the types of aircraft we work with? Is it a military aircraft or a civilian aircraft?; The third question is, will the Russian government agree to you doing this? Fourth, if you cooperate, how do you ensure that you can be in line with the most advanced international aviation design concepts in real time? Fifth question. From my personal point of view, I would like your Yakovlev Design Bureau to be merged into my North American company, but the Russian government certainly does not want to see this, because this is a huge loss of talent in the Russian aviation industry. How do you solve this problem? ”

After saying this, Lin Hongfei paused slightly, smiled, and added, "Well, after answering these questions, maybe I still have some questions." ”

"Yes, we have seriously considered all this," Baranov said, and sure enough, on this issue, the Yakovlev Design Bureau seriously considered it.

"Our plan is to split the Yakovlev Design Bureau into two divisions, a military aircraft department, a civil aircraft department, and the military aircraft design department will remain in Russia, and at the same time, all the existing assets of the Yakovlev Design Bureau will also belong to the Yakovlev military department. And in order to ensure that it can always be in line with the most advanced international civil aircraft design concepts, the company is ready to relocate the civil aircraft department to the United States. ”

"Of course, the Russian government will definitely be unhappy," Baranov did not deny this, but he smiled slyly, "There are always more solutions to problems than problems, Mr. Lin, don't you say?" ”

"That's right," Hearing this, Lin Hongfei also smiled, with the current chaotic situation in Russia, as long as some people from the Yakovlev Design Bureau are determined to leave, then no one can really stop them, even if these people are the elites of the Russian aviation industry, but there are too many elites in the Russian aviation industry, and it is not inferior to the Yakovlev Design Bureau...... Strictly speaking, the Yakovlev Design Bureau is still relatively low among the major aviation design bureaus in Russia, "well, how many people are there in your civil aircraft department?" Which model do you plan to cooperate with our company? Also, how much stake do you plan to take in it? ”

"We have completed the preliminary statistics internally, about 200 people who are willing to engage in civil aircraft research, and the models we are ready to cooperate with your company are Yak-40, Yak-42 and Yak-48, and before that, we have also begun to work on the improvement of the Yak-42 export to the European and American markets, and the design and improvement of the new, Yak-42 using the specifications of the European and American aviation markets is in progress......"

After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the major aviation industry design bureau groups in Russia and Ukraine once added avionics, engines and other supporting systems that meet Western specifications, so that products can easily obtain Western airworthiness certification, and want to export at a more attractive price than Western products of the same level to earn foreign exchange, in this case, Yakovlev Design Bureau is no exception.

But Lin Hongfei scoffed at the approach of the Yakovlev Design Bureau and the major Russian and Ukrainian aviation groups as a whole: these people were too naïve to think that by changing the plane, they would be able to get orders from Europeans and Americans?

Dream on! No matter how they change it, they will not be able to get an order from a European and American national airline!

Lin Hongfei dared to say it so surely, not only because in his memory, there was not a single Soviet-made civil aviation aircraft in service in Europe and the United States...... There may be small planes produced in Russia and Ukraine that are privately purchased, but the civil aviation companies must not have adopted Russian and Ukrainian products, the reason is very simple, not because the performance of their products is not good, nor because the price of their aircraft is not favorable enough, not to mention the safety and comfort of the Soviet-made aircraft they claim, but because they must protect their own aviation industry!

Boeing and Airbus, European and American aviation companies, spend hundreds of millions of dollars every year on government public relations, and this money obviously cannot be spent in vain, there are countless interest spokespersons advocating for them, unless you can bring real political performance and employment rate to their country and politicians, otherwise there should be no other ideas at all!

The Russians at this time are really naïve. But......

"Wait," Lin Hongfei interrupted Baranov before he could finish speaking, "I know what type of Yak-40 and Yak-42 are?" ”

He had never heard of such a model.

"This is a model that our company proposed in 90 to replace the Yak-40, but you also know that now the economic situation of the Yakovlev Design Bureau and Russia is very bad......"

Baranov didn't say more, but the meaning was clear: this Yak-48 is actually a model that stays on paper, or even in imagination.

Yak-40 and Yak-42 are two models Lin Hongfei still knows, and it is precisely because of his knowledge that Lin Hongfei began to hesitate: these two models and the models of the rear three-release bureau are inherently lacking, especially the Yak-42, the full-motion high flat tail is simply something that all pilots don't want to touch...... It's too hard to control.

There are fewer and fewer models that use the rear three-engine bureau in the world, and now they are almost extinct, but is the layout of the rear three rounds really not promising? Not necessarily!

Isn't the Dassault Falcon 900, which is now sold in the international business jet market, and the 900 upgradeable Dassault Falcon 7X also exactly the same rear triple engine as the Yak 42? What is not good for the post-three release is nothing more than because the right to speak is in the hands of Western countries, and they can say whatever is beneficial to them.

"Just the Jacques-40 and Jacques-42," Lin Hongfei decisively decided, the design team of 200 people was enough to impress Lin Hongfei, and now he was concerned about another question, "How many shares do you want?" (To be continued......)