Now that the decision has been made, let's hurry up and implement it. Li Jingyuan's style has always been vigorous and resolute.

Of course, simply does not mean reckless, after all, the thing to buy is not a car, but a high-priced private jet, so you should inquire more before placing an order.

Before being reborn, Li Jingyuan had watched the issue of "Knee Taoist" that Jackie Chan participated in, and when Jiang Hudong asked him how his itinerary was arranged, he once mentioned that he was traveling back and forth in the world on a private jet. Because of this memory, Li Jingyuan took it for granted that Jackie Chan must have bought his private jet at this time.

felt that Jackie Chan was a senior who had 'bought a private jet', so Li Jingyuan asked Jackie Chan about his experience during the shooting, and wanted to hear advice from him on how to choose the right aircraft model.

"Private jets? I don't have that thing. When Li Jingyuan asked Jackie Chan a question, Jackie Chan gave an answer that he didn't expect: "Who did you hear from that I have a private jet?" ”

"No?" Hearing Jackie Chan's answer, Li Jingyuan was stunned at that time.

Actually, this thing is also a coincidence.

In the original history, Jackie Chan did buy his own private jet, but after careful calculation of the date, the date when he actually got the finished plane was February 3, 2012. Now, it's early October 2011.

Then, it is possible that what happened in history is this: during the filming of "Zodiac", that is, one day in October of 11 years. Jackie Chan thought about the publicity work after the release of the movie, and in order to make these works go more smoothly, he put into practice the ideas he had already considered. An order was placed with Embraer for a private jet, and four months later, in February 2012, four months after the filming was completed, the plane was built and delivered to Jackie Chan.

In other words, Li Jingyuan may have only come a few days early, if he waited a few days to ask. At that time, Jackie Chan may have been actively considering buying a private jet, and the answer Li Jingyuan got must have been completely different.

"Well, not really." Seeing Li Jingyuan's somewhat surprised expression. Jackie Chan subconsciously nodded and confirmed again. However, after nodding, a hesitant expression appeared on his face, and he hesitated for a moment. Jackie Chan continued: "It was indeed not before. But today's question really gave me some ideas. ”

Well, although it is a little different from the historical situation, Jackie Chan still began to think about buying a private jet at this point in time under the reminder of Li Jingyuan.

"Got an idea?" I was indeed a little stunned just now, but as a reborn person, Li Jingyuan had already encountered countless similar situations, and he was already familiar with dealing with them. Soon. He hid his embarrassment and changed his expression to excitement. put forward another opinion to Jackie Chan: "Hehe, Uncle Long, why don't we be together this time?" ”

"Together?"

"Yes, let's place an order together. Isn't there a saying that there are discounts and promotions in shopping malls? This time, we placed an order together and ordered two aircraft at one time, so why should the manufacturer get a little discount, right? ”

"......, do you think you're buying Chinese cabbage?" Although he said that, Jackie Chan couldn't help but be a little moved after listening to Li Jingyuan's words, and the idea of buying a private jet in his heart became more and more obvious.

In fact, Jackie Chan just complained casually, not that he disagreed with Li Jingyuan's words. He also knew that if it was really as Li Jingyuan said, if the two of them placed an order with the aircraft manufacturer at the same time, they would indeed get a certain degree of preferential treatment. Let's not talk about the number of discounts, but in terms of the question of 'whether there is any', the answer is absolutely yes.

Of course, even if there will be a discount in Zhilu Dao, it is still not enough to listen to the wind or rain and make a decision immediately, after all, the price of the plane is there, and it is not tens of thousands of yuan that can be bought. At the very least, tens of millions of dollars are involved, and even if it is a big star like Jackie Chan, he can't make a decision after thinking about it clearly.

Therefore, Jackie Chan did not give an immediate reply to Li Jingyuan's proposal to 'place an order together', but first dealt with Li Jingyuan's 'let me think about it for a few days'.

Think about it for a few days? Hehe. If you had said 'no' right now, you might have had a different outcome. However, as long as Jackie Chan does not veto it at the moment, the result is basically doomed.

The reason is very simple, it is because there is still a Li Jingyuan by his side.

Let's not talk about Jackie Chan's idea, anyway, Li Jingyuan must buy it. Friends may have a similar experience, when one of your friends says to you every day, 'I want to buy XX', you will always subconsciously have some interest in the 'XX' he mentioned.

This is the case with Jackie Chan now, in the past few days when he is 'considering', Li Jingyuan will always muttered 'airplanes' next to him from time to time, once or twice, and after many times, Jackie Chan will inevitably be affected. Maybe in Jackie Chan's original considerations, the idea of affirmation only accounted for two or three out of ten, but he was always talked about by Li Jingyuan, and the proportion of 'yes' and 'no' in his thoughts unconsciously changed, and after the attitude of 'affirmation' prevailed, the result is needless to say.

In addition to talking about Jackie Chan himself, Li Jingyuan often mentions this matter to other people in the crew. So, after the end of each day, those who are idle and have a good relationship with Jackie Chan will definitely say a few more words, or ask, 'Brother Long, I heard that you want to buy a private jet?' Either simply use a joking tone to directly persuade 'Brother Long, buy it, buy it'. In this case, Jackie Chan's ideas were further affected.

I already had an idea, and there were many people on the side who asked or persuaded him, so there is no need to say much about the result. Even if Jackie Chan is a big man with rich life experience, he still didn't survive three days. I don't know what the road is. He agreed to Li Jingyuan's proposal to 'buy planes together'.

Before, it was a person who was worried, and now. With Jackie Chan helping to refer to it, Li Jingyuan felt much more relaxed. In fact, not only Jackie Chan is following the idea, but the crew members who get the news will always help find information on the Internet when they have nothing to do, and put forward some opinions to the two.

It's no wonder these people are so positive. For one, this matter is new to everyone. During the boring filming period, it is equivalent to an interesting thing to adjust the body and mind, and secondly, it is because after Jackie Chan's plane was bought. Jackie Chan is not the only one who benefits, but those under his command can also enjoy the convenience and comfort brought by private jets when they run around with him.

Everyone gathers firewood and the flame is high, and the old saying is always wrong.

Although none of us are professionals. The starting point for helping to make a suggestion will always be limited to superficial factors such as price, size of space, etc. But, then again, it's impossible to have one of the ideas that isn't useful.

For example, it was because of a staff member's reminder that Li Jingyuan and Jackie Chan discovered the misunderstanding in their planning.

Because they have always thought about the word 'together', Jackie Chan and Li Jingyuan unconsciously got into the tip of the horns when choosing the aircraft model, and fixed on the point of 'buying the same model of aircraft'.

But in fact, this is a contradiction that has to be mentioned. Jackie Chan bought the plane. It's for himself, and at most it's a few close staff. Such as brokers, assistants, etc. If you are full, Jackie Chan only needs to have a dozen seats on the plane at most.

However, an aircraft of the same size is not suitable for Li Jingyuan. After he bought the airplane, in addition to using it occasionally, he had to give it to the idols of the S.m company to use. Under this premise, what are the dozens of planes enough for? TVXQ, Shinee, and FX took out a certain combination alone, and there were more than a dozen of them plus their brokers and assistants. In other words, flying can only transport one five-person group and their agents and assistants at a time, and combinations with a little more people like Girls' Generation and SJ can't be transported at one time, and as for several groups to ride at the same time, such as this S.m family concert, it is even more useless.

After buying an airplane, the way of using it is completely different, and the demand for the aircraft is also different, so Jackie Chan and Li Jingyuan naturally should not choose the same type of aircraft. If it weren't for the staff's reminder, Jackie Chan and Li Jingyuan wouldn't have had to make many detours because of this problem.

There are a lot of similar reminders, although most of them are useless, but after listening to these suggestions, Jackie Chan and Li Jingyuan still took a lot of detours, and about a week later, the two finally made the most difficult decision.

Li Jingyuan wanted to buy a larger plane, while Jackie Chan wanted to buy a smaller plane, and the two insisted on placing an order with the same company in order to get more discounts. Because of these conditions, there are few aircraft manufacturers to consider.

Like the original history, Embraer, which Jackie Chan placed an order, did not need to think about it at all. Although the strength of that company's planes is sold cheaply, its strength is still a little worse, and their ability is only enough to build the small private jets that Jackie Chan needs at most, and they can't meet Li Jingyuan's request to provide him with a medium-sized or higher aircraft.

In the same way, other manufacturers that do not have the ability to build large and medium-sized aircraft are not in consideration, and after careful consideration, Jackie Chan and Li Jingyuan set their sights on Airbus.

This company is located in Europe and is a large company that combines research and manufacturing. Founded in France in December 1970. The original intention of the company was to break the monopoly of Boeing and McDonnell Douglas in the field of air passenger transportation in the United States, and to fight for a way out for the domestic aviation industry in Europe. And after thirty or forty years of development, not only has this purpose been fully accomplished, but there is even a trend of surpassing Boeing a little bit. As it stands, Airbus, with an annual turnover of nearly 40 billion euros, is already an authentic giant.

To achieve such results, there is no doubt about the strength of Airbus. And for such a large company, it is natural that all kinds of services will not be bad. Therefore, after buying an airplane here, you don't have to worry about after-sales service at all.

The only thing to consider. It is whether this company can meet the different requirements of Jackie Chan and Li Jingyuan, providing two types of private jets, one large and one small.

The answer is yes, Airbus rarely takes orders for private jets, but they are not completely unreceiving. After consultation, both Jackie Chan and Li Jingyuan received satisfactory answers.

What Jackie Chan needed was a small private jet. Based on his various conditions, the sales experts sent by Airbus recommended him to the A318 business jet. The length of this type of aircraft is about 31 meters, and the number of passengers is 22. Modify it slightly. You can adjust the number of seats inside to about fifteen seats that Jackie Chan needs, and at the same time, the space for each passenger will be larger, and the ride can be more comfortable.

The plane that Li Jingyuan needs needs is a little larger. According to the conditions he proposed. Sales experts recommended the A330-200 aircraft, which is larger than the A318 business jet and belongs to the A330 model extension. The length of such an aircraft is about 59 meters, and if used as a general passenger aircraft, under a typical cabin layout. It's not a problem to fit two or three hundred people at all.

For Li Jingyuan. There are about forty seats in the plane. And this requirement couldn't be simpler for Airbus' designers.

It's not easy to add seats, isn't it easy to reduce? After preliminary discussions, only a day later, Li Jingyuan saw the renderings of the plane taken out by Airbus.

With a length of 59 meters, there is still nearly 45 meters of space that can be used, excluding the cab at the nose and the space where people cannot sit at the tail. The width of the interior compartment of the aircraft is five meters three, which is enough to make various modifications to the design of the interior space.

In the rendering that Li Jingyuan saw, the forty seats in the cabin are not arranged in a regular row like the seats in ordinary passenger planes. It's like a sofa bought at home. Either two or three single sofas are arranged around a small table, or a longer four-person sofa is used instead of a four-person seat. In short, these comfortable sofas alone were enough for forty people to sit down.

In addition to these seats, which are more like a salon layout, there are special designs at the head and tail ends of the cabin. At the nose of the plane, just behind the cockpit, there is a small bar, where passengers can not only have a drink when they are bored, but also serve a much more sumptuous in-flight meal than on a regular passenger plane.

At the rear of the plane, two separate rooms are separated.

One of them is a bedroom, five meters long and four meters wide, with a total of 20 square meters of space, although it is not very large, but it is more than enough to put down a bed. In addition to a bed, there is also a bathroom that is not too large. You won't be showering too often on the plane, but maybe you'll be able to use it? Isn't that what the so-called preparedness is all about?

There is also a room of the same size, which is used as a recreation room and gym. In this room, in addition to several small fitness machines, there is also a space for those who love video games to cool off. The people who will use this plane are basically young people, and they will not be able to sit still like those middle-aged people on long journeys. It is still necessary to create a space for them to move their bodies and minds.

In addition to these two special rooms, the small spaces that are already available on passenger planes, such as lavatories, toilets, and cloakrooms, are also equipped on this specially designed aircraft. In general, even if he hasn't been able to see the real thing yet, this rendering alone has already made Li Jingyuan very satisfied.

Of course, satisfaction is satisfaction, which does not mean that Li Jingyuan will fully accept the current renderings, and then let Airbus make the aircraft unchanged according to this drawing.

Just like when buying a yacht, when buying an airplane this time, Li Jingyuan certainly won't forget the girls closest to him. In his opinion, decorating the interior of an airplane is basically the same as decorating a new room. When he used to decorate the room, he saw how positive and excited Jessica was. After a little thought, Li Jingyuan felt that the girls would definitely be very interested in 'decorating the interior space of the plane', so he just set the most basic framework at this time, and the specific details should be handed over to the girls to discuss and decide after the plane was built to a certain extent.

All aspects have been considered, and the most important thing is the price. The original price of the A318 that Jackie Chan favored was about 60 million US dollars, while the A330 that Li Jingyuan wanted was floating around 190 million US dollars.

Such a price is nothing for Li Jingyuan, but for Jackie Chan, the price of 60 million US dollars is a bit excessive, you must know that the private jet he bought in the original history only cost 30 million US dollars, which is about half of the A318.

This is a big issue that has to be taken seriously. At this time, the benefits of 'placing orders together' proposed by Li Jingyuan were reflected. Because Li Jingyuan's A330 is the big head, the A318 business jet customized by Jackie Chan was placed on the positioning of 'adding heads'.

Because of this positioning, Jackie Chan's aircraft has reduced the price by two percent.

Then, because Li Jingyuan said, 'My plane must be made of the highest standards, and the interior decoration must also use the highest grade materials', so the price of the A330 has fluctuated a little. On the contrary, after finding the price difference, the price of Jackie Chan's A318 can fluctuate a lot, and finally it will drop to about 40 million US dollars. This price is about the same as the cost he spent in the original history.

And the A330 customized by Li Jingyuan, the preliminary price is estimated to be about 210 million, if the girls of Girls' Generation have other requirements when decorating the interior, there will probably be more.

In this way, the combined cost of the two planes is about the same as the original quotation, and considering that Airbus has agreed to Li Jingyuan's pursuit of high-end requirements, such a price can be regarded as taking a lot of advantage. (To be continued......)