"Installing equipment while building a plant can shorten the construction period by one-third, but this puts a high demand on the coordination between the construction team and the installation team."

Li Yaohua and others accompanied Fang Hecheng to inspect the construction site slowly, and it was still Li Yaohua who was responsible for the main report, he continued, "This plan was determined by Li Lu and Mr. Wade, the plan is very perfect, and it is currently being implemented in strict accordance with the plan. ”

Pointing to the tall factory building that has completed the pouring of the main structure, Li Yaohua said, "In order to coordinate the work of the two teams, there is a team of more than 30 people to be responsible for the whole process, which is divided into several paragraphs, each performing its own duties. Now what is being done is the preparation work before installation, and the first batch of equipment has already arrived at the Red Star Pier. ”

Fang Hecheng nodded slightly, suddenly glanced back, pointed at Chen Xiuping, and said, "Xiao Chen, come here." ”

Chen Xiuping, vice president of Zhenxing Company and vice president of Red Star Defense Company, was also in his entourage, but his rank was too low and he was mixed with other staff officers. Even the commander of the garrison area followed behind with great interest, instead of walking up with Fang Hecheng, because he knew that today's inspection had nothing to do with the garrison area, and the chief didn't like him to come together.

Chen Xiuping hurriedly trotted up to listen to instructions.

Fang Hecheng asked, "What is the situation of the goods seized by the customs that you reported?" ”

It turned out to be this matter, everyone thought that Fang Hecheng had forgotten it, and Li Yaohua didn't dare to bring it up easily. The military is still relatively taboo about meddling in local affairs, although the phenomenon of the army meddling in local affairs is still very serious.

Chen Xiuping hurriedly reported, "Chief, it is a shipment to the Persian Gulf, and a batch of arms exported by Red Star Defense represented by the Red Star Factory. Customs believed that there was a problem with the procedures of the Red Star Factory, so it was seized and asked for a new customs declaration. Because the time required by the owner of the goods is very tight, it will definitely be too late to re-declare the customs, so the Red Star Factory will suffer heavy losses. ”

He reports objectively and has no subjective tendencies.

"What do you think about this?" Fang Hecheng looked at Li Yaohua and the others and asked.

Li Yaohua looked at Yao Taihang, this matter can only be said by Yao Lao, who has the highest status. Yao Taihang pondered for a while, and said with a serious expression, "Old Fang, I think this matter can be viewed from two angles. From the point of view of Red Star Defense, the general agent is in the Red Star Factory, and the later things have nothing to do with Red Star Defense. But there is another layer of relationship in this, the Red Star Factory is the majority shareholder of the Red Star Defense Company, and the export trade of the Red Star Factory is affected, and the Red Star Defense Company will not be affected now, but what about the future? ”

After a pause, Yao Taihang said, "I think the troops have every reason to intervene in this matter. Not to mention anything else, the arms export trade itself is rather special, and since a large amount of foreign exchange is at stake, there is no reason why the troops should not come forward to speak out. ”

Fang Hecheng obviously knew what he knew, and it could even be said that he had reported this matter to the leaders of the military region, at this time he nodded slightly, and said to Chen Xiuping, "Xiao Chen, your revitalization company came forward to talk to the customs, the principle is not only to comply with the relevant regulations, but also to let this batch of goods from the Red Star Factory be sent out on time and smoothly." ”

Chen Xiuping straightened his chest and stood upright, "Yes!" Please rest assured! ”

The inland port customs can not give face to the Red Star Defense Company or even sell the face of the inland port city government, but they will not easily offend the revitalization company, because behind the people is the army, and the words can be directly spoken to the General Administration of Customs at any time.

The effect of the revitalization company and the Red Star Defense Company will be completely different, the former is a regular army-level unit, and the latter only has some shares of the revitalization company, and the revitalization company does not care about anything other than sending a deputy division-level cadre to play the role of "military representative".

With Fang Hecheng's words, Su Tong first breathed a sigh of relief. That's the job he is responsible for, regardless of the objective and subjective reasons, he is responsible.

After walking around the construction site of the joint venture tank factory for an hour, when the sunlight was gradually fierce, Fang Hecheng got into the off-road vehicle that he had been following and returned to the office building. When I entered the conference room, I directly summoned the people over, or I still had to have a symposium or something.

The joint venture airliner development project with the West German MBB company is still a construction site, so there is nothing to see, but Fang Hecheng still has to listen to the report of this project, so he changed his mind and decided to hold a symposium, otherwise he will leave directly to the garrison area for a working meal, and basically get off the army in the afternoon.

Fang Hecheng took a sip of tea and said, "Lao Yao, I came here today mainly to listen to the report, basically read it, I didn't have to read it, you verbally reported the report, your S7 aviation development project, the relocation work of the Dawn Aviation Development Plant, and the joint venture passenger aircraft with MBB company, all talk about it." ”

Any one of them is a heavyweight project, and Fang Hecheng does not pay attention to it. The head of the General Logistics Department attaches so much importance to it, so he naturally attaches more importance to it. Of course, in his position, he didn't think that the Red Star Factory would be in a mess if it lost Li Lu. The idea is very different if the position is different, maybe for him in one sentence, the people below will fight for the head and break the blood, and it is not good to compromise.

Li Yaohua looked at Su Tong, pointed, and said to Fang Hecheng, "Chief, Comrade Su Tong will report on the MBB joint venture passenger aircraft project, and he is responsible for the follow-up in the early stage and has a better understanding of the situation." ”

"Chief, let me report to you on the MCH-107 airliner project." Su Tong sorted it out, glanced down at the materials, and began to report.

In cooperation with MBB, Li Lu personally followed up at the beginning, and after finalizing the important details, that is, not long after Su Tong took office, he handed over the follow-up work to him. It can be seen that Li Lu attaches great importance to this mysterious man in his thirties.

Several core executives of the Red Star Factory didn't know much about Su Tong, but they only knew that he was someone invited by Li Lu from other places, and they didn't even know where they came from.

Su Tong said, "Chief, the current situation is that we have completed all the contracts with the West German MBB aircraft company, and the project has been officially approved by the two governments. According to the agreement, the main design work will be completed in Europe, our Red Star Factory selects technical personnel to participate in the design, and the other designs are completed by the R&D team composed of both parties on the dry port side, mainly in terms of material research, relying on the Materials Research Institute of our Red Star Factory. All the production is in the joint venture aircraft factory, which is the land that has been leveled out that we visited before. There is a key issue that has not yet been determined, whether the engine of the MCH-107 passenger aircraft will be redeveloped in cooperation or whether to choose a mature product from other aviation development plants, which is the next high-level discussion between the two sides. ”

Speaking of this, he looked down and said, "The current investment situation is that the Red Star Plant and the MBB Aircraft Company each contributed one billion dollars, a total of two billion dollars, and the Red Star Plant accounted for 52 percent of the shares and obtained a controlling stake. The first funds from both sides have already gone to the accounts of the Red Star Aircraft Manufacturing Company. The next step is to start construction as soon as the design of the plant is confirmed. However, the research and design work has already begun, and we are ready to send personnel to Europe. ”

To Fang Hecheng and several of his senior staff officers, these introductions sounded like a fantasy - that was impossible!

However, they must be soberly aware that this is the biggest project that the Red Star Factory has negotiated.

They didn't even think that the cooperation between Red Star Factory and Grumman would be successful!