Feng Xiangchu is a celebrity in the empire, when he was still in the military academy, Tan Renhao knew about Feng Xiangchu's deeds, and later during the period when he worked in the Naval Equipment Technology Office, Tan Renhao had many opportunities to come into contact with some materials that had nothing to do with the navy, including Feng Xiangchu's personal file. It was also from that time that the Navy selected Hafei into the supplier list, and then cooperated with Hafei.

From a personal emotional point of view, Tan Renhao admires Feng Xiangchu more, he couldn't figure out Feng Xiangchu's position in Hafei before, mainly because the current Hafei is no longer what Feng Xiangchu was when he was founded, until this time, Tan Renhao didn't know that Feng Xiangchu was the general manager of Hafei, that is, the top manager of Hafei, as for whether Feng Xiangchu was Hafei's family, that is, the owner and chairman, it is unknown.

What Tan Renhao admires the most is Feng Xiangchu's business philosophy of refusing speculation, Feng Xiangchu and Duan Yulin parted ways at the beginning, precisely because Duan Yulin is a speculator, and Feng Xiangchu has always held the idea of doing business, and the fundamental views of the two are different. In addition, Feng Xiangchu's strength and persistence are also worthy of admiration, in the face of adversity, he did not fall, and seized the most precious opportunity, and finally succeeded. The third thing that Tan Renhao admired was Feng Xiangchu's keen judgment, not to mention anything else, when he dared to sign a contract with the Harbin local government to buy land, it proved that Feng Xiangchu was a real businessman, but more often than not, others thought he was a pilot. That piece of soil is the current site of Hafei, because the purchase time is early, so the price is very cheap, if you wait until Hafei develops to buy the land, I am afraid it will add a lot of costs. This not only saved Hafei a lot of money, but also when Hafei was rapidly expanding its scale. There has never been a problem that the development could not be continued because there was no land to build a factory.

Overall. Tan Renhao still classifies Feng Xiangchu as a businessman, not a scientist, nor an engineer. As far as Ren Hao knows. The last aircraft designed by Feng Xiangchu was the "Wolf Dove", and Feng Xiangchu was only the nominal chief designer, in fact, at that time, he was mainly fighting for orders from the Navy, so a lot of design work was handed over to other people to complete. Right now. Feng Xiangchu basically no longer participates in the design of aircraft, and the most important contribution he has made is to use his experience and understanding of aircraft to guide designers and engineers in other places, and grasp the development direction of Hafei. Therefore, to a greater extent, Feng Xiangchu is already a businessman, a businessman who is based on industry and moves towards his ideals.

When Tan Renhao sat down at the dinner table. He felt that his judgment of Feng Xiangchu was a little problematic, especially when Tan Renhao noticed a few other people, he really realized that Feng Xiangchu was not a businessman, at most he could only be regarded as an engineer who promoted the aircraft manufacturing industry in the direction of commercialization, because. Among the other senior leaders of the Kazakhstan Enclave, none of them can be regarded as pilots, and none of them even really understand airplanes, they are all businessmen, the kind of businessmen who take money to invest and then make high returns, in the true sense of the word.

The meal was not comfortable, not that the meal was unpalatable, but that it was too tasty. even made Tan Renhao completely change his view of Northeast cuisine. What made Tan Renhao uncomfortable was the attitude of those Hafei executives at the dinner table. Tan Renhao wanted to raise the issue of price several times, but the result was halfway through the conversation. They will be blocked, or interrupted, or diverted to other areas. Anyway, for more than two hours, Tan Renhao was not able to say a serious word, nor did he hear a serious word, which made him feel that his precious youth was consumed in wine, meat and food.

At the same time, Tan Renhao also noticed that the relationship between Feng Xiangchu and several other high-level officials was not very good, at most it could only be regarded as discord between face and heart, and sometimes they even pinched each other's necks. At first, Tan Renhao still felt a little strange, Feng Xiangchu was the top manager of Hafei, and although the other people were also high-level, they were all Feng Xiangchu's subordinates, why did there be infighting? It seems that the internal situation of this factory, which has more than 100,000 people, is not simple.

"General Tan is probably tired after a day of traveling, so let's stop here today." Feng Xiangchu ended the banquet. "Talk about the general, let Feng send you back."

Tan Renhao didn't refuse, he originally took Feng Xiangchu to the place, but now it's midnight, where can he find a car? The Navy Office is still at the other end of the factory, and if you walk back, you will probably have to walk for two or three hours.

Everyone also said goodbye, Feng Xiangchu stayed at the end, and Tan Renhao pretended to give instructions to the adjutant.

"Talk about the general, please." After sending the others away, Feng Xiangchu came over.

"Mr. Feng, please first."

The two looked at each other and smiled, then left the restaurant together.

"General Tan doesn't mind accompanying Feng for a walk, right?" Feng Xiangchu didn't let the driver drive the car, "As I get older, I go to this kind of occasion a lot, and my body deteriorates, and I often feel sick to my stomach." ”

"Mr. Feng is young and promising, he won't recognize his old age so quickly, right?" Tan Renhao felt that Feng Xiangchu's body was still very healthy, at least much healthier than the other people at the wine table.

"Sometimes you can't be old if you don't recognize it." Feng Xiangchu took a step forward and walked towards the other end of the factory. "Talking about the purpose of the general's visit this time, I already know, I heard that the navy's funding will be cut a lot next year?"

Tan Renhao nodded, there is nothing to hide about this issue, Ha Fei is such a big factory, if there is no inside information, it is impossible to survive in the competition, and the cabinet government's restrictions on military spending cannot be kept secret.

"In Feng's view, the difficulties of the navy are our difficulties. The war has been fought for 5 years, and for 5 years, the army and people of the empire have been united, you are fighting in the front, and we are fighting in the rear, all for a common purpose. At the juncture of the life and death of the nation, every citizen of the empire will take the rise and fall of the society and the prosperity of the nation as their own responsibility. ”

Tan Renhao didn't answer, he was looking at the nearby factories, just like other factories in the empire at this time, all the aircraft production workshops of Hafei were rotating 24 hours a day. Workers are divided into two shifts, each shift of 1 hour. There is only one day off every ten days. In peacetime, the empire stipulated that the working hours should not exceed one training hour per day, and at the same time, there were two days off every ten days. Maybe the wages of the workers have not increased much. However, there was no workers' strike because of this, as Feng Xiangchu said, every citizen of the empire was contributing to the motherland he loved at this time, which was also the strong foundation and motivation for the imperial army to defeat the enemy on the front line.

"The price thing, we've been thinking about it as well." Feng Xiangchu slowed down. "Actually, now the profit of the factory has been pressed to zero, maybe General Tan does not know, and now there are still a few payments that should have been paid in 25 years have not been paid. We can also understand the difficulties of the navy, but in order for the factories to maintain normal operation, they must pay their wages and fill their stomachs, and if this is not guaranteed, then how can the workers still work, and can the factories continue to work? ”

Tan Renhao frowned slightly. He didn't expect the problem to be so serious, maybe it was just Feng Xiangchu's bargaining rhetoric.

"General Tan, how much do you know about the process of building aircraft?"

"I would like to listen to Mr. Feng's advice." Tan Renhao doesn't want others to think that he is an expert, and he is indeed not an expert.

"The main cost of the aircraft is actually not determined by the factory, but by the downstream manufacturer." Feng Xiangchu did not detour, "Take the 'Peng' bomber that is about to be put into production." Only about 40% of the parts are directly produced by us. The engine is provided by Shenfei, the horizontal tail is provided by Nanfei, and a large number of parts are provided by some small factories. When we calculated the cost, we did not raise the price at all in this regard, and as much as we bought it, we sold it to the Navy. And in the other forty percent, our profits are quite meager, excluding the wages of the workers. After the depreciation of the equipment, it is even a loss. Last month. We just summed up the operating situation in the first half of '26, and it turned out to be a loss. Although the loss is not large, if it continues like this, there will definitely be problems. ”

Tan Renhao was still not in a hurry to speak, and he was also thinking about these questions.

"Therefore, the only way to really control prices is to let downstream manufacturers reduce prices."

"Mr. Feng, how many manufacturers are cooperating with Hafei now?"

Feng Xiangchu looked at Tan Renhao, and then laughed. "There are at least 200 of them."

"This is a new problem, we can't negotiate with more than 200 manufacturers alone, right?"

Feng Xiangchu laughed. "It seems that General Tan is not ignorant. This is indeed a question, so, does General Tan know about the industrial alliance? ”

Tan Renhao frowned slightly, this was the second person to mention the "industrial alliance" to him.

"Although it is impossible to negotiate with so many manufacturers alone, it is possible to negotiate directly with the industry alliance." Feng Xiangchu hesitated slightly, "But Feng thinks that even if the navy talks with the industrial alliance, the result will not be much better." ”

"Why?" Tan Renhao knew that Feng Xiangchu still had something to say.

"Because the industry alliance itself is just a signboard." Feng Xiangchu smiled bitterly, then shook his head.

"Please also ask Mr. Feng for advice." Tan Renhao knew that the key issues were about to surface, and he would not give up this opportunity to get to the bottom of it.

Feng Xiangchu was silent for a long time, and after walking a few hundred meters, he said, "Does General Tan know about my former partner?" ”

Tan Renhao didn't understand it first, but he did know. "You're talking about Duan Yulin?"

"Yes, it seems that General Tan has put in the effort to do this."

Tan Renhao smiled reluctantly, when he was looking at Feng Xiangchu's profile, he didn't expect that one day he would have a face-to-face conversation with the giants of the empire's aircraft industry, and he was still negotiating for billions of large orders.

"In fact, the current industrial alliance itself is controlled by Duan Yulin's gang." Feng Xiangchu's words were not loud, but he did not have the slightest fear. "Maybe you won't believe it, Duan Yulin didn't disappear, after parting ways with me, he invested in Shen Fei, and then became the owner of Nanfei, and he also has shares in several other aircraft factories. It can be said that his speculation was very successful, except for the fact that he did not have any shares in Hafei, he had his own spokesperson in other aircraft factories. ”

Tan Renhao was secretly surprised. "You're saying he's the big boss behind the scenes?"

"No, he's not really, he's a small boss at best. It's just one of dozens of minority shareholders. Feng Xiangchu smiled bitterly, "Now, there are a total of six large aircraft factories in the empire, three of which are mainly for the navy and three are mainly for the army. Including Hafei, most of the shares of these six large aircraft factories are actually controlled by four big families and dozens of small bosses, and Duan Yulin is a small shareholder. In addition to this, these people also control the peripheral industries of the aircraft industry, that is, those downstream manufacturers. ”

"In other words, the price is in their hands?" Tan Renhao gritted his teeth.

"Yes, they set the price." Feng Xiangchu nodded, "If Ha Fei wasn't my life's work, and it was a dream that my father didn't realize before he died, maybe I would have left Ha Fei a long time ago." Now, I am just the operator of Hafei, not the owner of Hafei. ”

Tan Renhao let out a sigh, which was a bit similar to the previous famous families of the navy.

"I wonder how much General Tan knows about the aircraft industry in the United States?" Feng Xiangchu got an answer from Tan Renhao's gaze, "Relatively speaking, the purchase price of the aircraft obtained by the US military is much lower than ours. Take the U.S. Navy's F6F as an example, the unit price is only 40,000 US dollars, even if the exchange rate is included, it is much lower than our 'Golden Eagle', why? ”

Tan Renhao was also asking why, and then, he understood. "Mr. Feng, are you saying that someone is making a fortune?"

Feng Xiangchu smiled and said nothing, his words were already in place.

"It seems that it is really not an easy task to bring the price down."

"Talking about the general, although Feng is not a decent gentleman, Feng has a clear conscience in his life. As a subject of the empire, Feng can be where he is today because Feng was born in the empire and has been given many opportunities. As soldiers, you can kill the enemy on the front line to serve the country, while Feng can only serve the country in the rear. Feng has nothing to guarantee, he can only do his best to assist the navy, as Feng said before, if you want to reduce the price, you have to use your brains on those people, not to squeeze the workers. ”

Tan Renhao nodded slightly, no need for Feng Xiangchu to say more, he already knew the mystery.