In the manor conference room where Qi Yiming stayed, Bilworth finally met the boy of his destiny.

Although surprised by Qi Yiming's youth, it seemed that this young man did not resemble most of his compatriots, and appeared less rigid, including the clothes on his body, and looked more like an ordinary young Asian American living in the United States than a central official living in Communist China.

Bilworth's energy is now on full display, and there is no American in this spacious conference room, except for Bilworth, an American, and there are no other figures in the U.S. government. On such occasions, the government people must want to come in and hear what they are talking about, but Bierworth has the ability to prevent them from coming in.

There are two people on the Chinese side, in addition to Qi Yiming, there is also a young man who is also not very old, about 30 years old. After returning to China, he was originally in a certain state-owned enterprise, but after Qi Yiming planned to start doing things, he entrusted Liao Huairen to dig up a group of returnees with such knowledge and ability, join the 9527 project, and prepare to build a number of enterprises to directly join the national construction and the arms export project he arranged.

"Hello, Mr. Bilworth, thank you very much for coming. Let me introduce myself first, my name is Qi Jingren, and I am the main person in charge of the military project coordinator in the CPC, and I have no actual government position, but in general, any military project in the Republic is related to me. Qi Yiming gave himself a pseudonym, in fact, it was easy to guess, a blockbuster, he took the homonym of the last two words.

Bilworth was very surprised, he didn't expect that he would actually encounter such a big fish, and said: "Fortunately, Mr. Qi, forgive me for taking the liberty of the work you are responsible for and your age, which is really too surprising. ”

Qi Yiming shook his head and said, "My face is deceptive, of course I can tell you that judging my true age by my appearance can only be very wrong, hehe." ”

Bilworth was even more peculiar and asked, "You look like a young man in your twenties and thirties, aren't you that age?" Oh, offended. ”

Qi Yiming smiled: "I'm not twenty-three years old, and I can't be a teenager, well, I'm not forty years old either, you can guess for yourself, let's just talk about it, this topic doesn't make much sense." ”

Of course, he is not twenty or thirty years old, or forty or fifty years old, and his actual age should be minus five years now......

"Oh, China is such a magical country, if Mr. Qi's method of eternal youth can be promoted, he will definitely be able to make a lot of money!" Bilvos sighed.

"It's a pity, you just treat me as a monster, this skill can't be promoted." Qi Yiming said with a smile. yes, who can cross with a Red Police base car like him.

After some ridicule, the two sides went straight to the point, and Qi Yiming didn't show Bilworth any plans or anything like that, just verbally, which was also for confidentiality.

"Here I can first inform Mr. Bilworth and my American friends that we have secretly communicated and negotiated with Iran and are ready for Iran to transfer a batch of F-14 fighter jets in their hands to China to form our air superiority mission squadron. Of course, even if Iran transfers all their fighters to our country, this number is still not enough, and at the same time, we are not satisfied with some of the performance of the fighters, and hope to be able to customize and upgrade them according to our own requirements, so it is necessary to say hello to Grumman. The Iranian side has preliminarily agreed to transfer their F-14s to us for a fee, and we also intend to purchase a batch of 30 F-14 fighters from your company in advance. If the project goes well, we will start planning for a second batch of F-14 procurement. ”

Surprised, Bilworth's eyes were about to drop, and he asked, "Iran?" Iran is now at war with Iraq, and our F-14s are the most powerful way for them to guarantee air superiority, how could they transfer the F-14s to your country? Can you tell me what you paid for Iranian fighters? ”

Qi Yiming was not afraid to tell Bierworth, saying: "Use the new generation of light fighter FC-1 Thunder Dragon made in China to replace Iran's F-14 Tomcat 1 to 1, and at the same time, China will also provide Iran with a batch of advanced active medium-range bombs that can be used with FC-1, including two early warning aircraft." ”

Although this sentence is only a few dozen words, the amount of information revealed is too great, and Bilworth didn't catch up for a while, and asked for a long time: "Has your country's military science and technology developed to such a high level?" Have you developed active medium-range air-to-air missiles and AWACS aircraft that will make Iran pay? I don't even know that China has made such great achievements in electronic technology and aviation industry. ”

Qi Yiming smiled and said, "You should have heard about the special plane I was on." ”

Bilworth nodded: "A narrow-body passenger plane like a Boeing 737 is not the product of any aviation manufacturing company in the United States or Europe, is it a passenger aircraft independently developed and manufactured by your country?" This...... It's remarkable. The adjective he was going to use was impossible, but in order not to be too rude, he had to change the word.

"Let me give you the bottom line, the military industrial project I led was well hidden somewhere in the interior even during the **** period, rescuing important talents and obtaining funds through various means, while protecting myself, I also harvested a large number of important products that are not inferior to the advanced level of the world after the end of the ****. Of course, compared to the powerful scientific and technological capabilities of the United States, we are still only a small player. But I personally believe that China now has a basis for cooperation with the United States. Qi Yiming's nonsense is to open his mouth.

He paused and continued: "For example, China can develop a good air-to-air missile, develop a relatively advanced avionics system, and develop an early warning aircraft platform, but China does not yet have the ability to develop a heavy air superiority fighter as advanced and powerful as your company's Tomcat." ”

Bilworth's face glowed red when he heard his words, and it was naturally a wonderful thing to be recognized by others.

"Therefore, based on the idea of enhancing military mutual trust and scientific and technological cooperation between China and the United States, combined with China's advantages in some fields and Grumman's advanced experience in developing fighters, China hopes to carry out more comprehensive cooperation with Grumman, and carry out some upgrades and improvements that meet China's national defense needs on the excellent platform of F-14."

Bilworth felt that his ears had heard something wrong, "You plan to work with us to improve and upgrade the F-14?" ”

"That's right, as far as I know, the TF30 engine of the F-14 has many unstable problems, which is a relatively weak foundation for our country, can not tolerate a nerve knife engine, so we are ready to equip a more mature WS-10A engine developed by our country on the F-14 produced by your company. In addition, we also have certain misgivings about the Immortal Bird missile, especially since our side has developed an advanced medium-range interceptor projectile with a range of 120 kilometers and is only half the size of the Immortal Bird, so we hope to integrate China's weapons on the F-14. In addition, although I know that the AGW-9 radar of the F-14 is powerful, I am very excited to say that we still have some achievements in avionics, and we hope to install the radar with better self-produced capabilities on the F-14. ”

Bilworth took a sip of coffee and smacked his lips, only then did he make sure that the Chinese with a serious expression was not telling lies, and it seemed that the Chinese had indeed made a lot of breakthroughs in many techniques. From the perspective of the United States, if China's progress in military science and technology is understood through the cooperation in the development of the upgraded F-14, it is also quite meaningful.

Qi Yiming's words were naturally not finished, he said: "If the project goes well, we will purchase 30 F-14s from your country in the early stage, and we can take a part of the new second-hand phones, and your company's technical personnel need to go to one of our aircraft manufacturing companies to cooperate on the plan to upgrade the F-14." Of course, if that's going to happen, it looks like we're going to need an assembly line for F-14s, after all, if we get more than 100 F-14s from Iran and the United States, we can't fully upgrade them without that. Of course, we won't make it difficult for your company. If the project goes absolutely well, we will add a second batch of production orders, which will be produced in the United States by Grumman, which has mastered the upgraded version of the F-14, with a number of 20 aircraft, all of which will use our new engines and new radars to launch new versions of our country's self-developed air-to-air missiles. Then, we buy the corresponding parts in the United States and assemble them in our own country, and produce another 30 of these fighters. We made a rough estimate, including the transfer of overhaul lines, production lines, and the purchase of a total of 70 F-14 fighters from the United States in three batches, with a total contract value of $3.2 billion. ”

All the doubts and incomprehensions that Bilworth had just now dissipated at this moment, which was $3.2 billion in the eighties, more than doubling the purchasing power of the dollar twenty years later. What makes Bilworth even more excited is that if all the contracts are implemented, then China will build a fleet of 150 F-14s second only to the U.S. Navy, which is a messy cost of after-sales service, maintenance and maintenance. What's more, Bilworth is also ready to sell a batch at a low price and advertise with the shiny big sign of China.

As a result, as soon as Qi Yiming sat here, he immediately gave Grumman an almost big pie. Now the CEO has only one voice in his head constantly recalling: Eat, eat......