Chapter 1296: Breaking Away From US Dollar Settlement (Asking for Double Monthly Tickets)

As mentioned earlier, the scope of Saudi Arabia's visit this time is very wide.

Although Rogge is very confident that the aerospace system he is in is the focus of the other party's big money.

But in fact...

The situation is really not as simple as he thought.

Or it can be said that the situation is much simpler than he thought.

In the eyes of the Saudis, the efficiency of Chinese people's spending is really too low.

The manned space program has been going on for nearly 15 years, and three astronauts have been sent safely into orbit. It is about to carry out space walks and space laboratories.

It has only spent less than 20 billion yuan.

According to the average currency value in recent years, it is only about 2 billion US dollars.

Can this be called money?

So their plan can be described in one sentence-

No feints, all for me to attack!

What is the focus, do you really think that brothers can only sell oil?

We Arabs have made money from betting on both sides between the East and the West since our ancestors!

Since we want to bet, we can't catch the wolf without sacrificing the child.

What's wrong with spending a few hundred billion?

Since the beginning of the 21st century, the protection fees paid to various countries in the name of military purchases alone are far more than this number.

What's more, this money is still an investment, not just consumption.

Even if we consider the worst direction, we can get some back.

So almost at the same time, in many different positions in the Chinese mainland, many accompanying representatives like Rogge felt that they were the chosen ones who were hit by the pie...

This naturally includes another old employer of Chang Haonan, Aviation Industry Corporation.

Therefore, after he and Liu Yongquan talked about the next R&D plan of WS-10G and personally sent the latter downstairs, before he went upstairs to the office again, he received a call from Lin Zuoming, the general manager of the group, on his mobile phone-

Zhu Linyu was already at the age of retirement when the Aviation Power Group was established, but because the qualifications of several other team members were not enough, he was pulled over to take over for a few years.

He had retired completely a year ago and gave the position of the top leader to Comrade Lao Lin.

In fact, according to general principles, Chang Haonan should be ranked one step higher in the team, but among all the leadership positions, only the chief planner does not need to undertake tedious administrative work, and his influence now no longer depends on this position, so he has never moved.

"Academician Chang, Mr. Luo from the Aviation Industry Corporation of China just contacted me and said that there are some situations that need to be discussed together. When do you think it is convenient recently?"

Lin Zuoming's rough voice sounded on the other side of the receiver.

It is an external line or a mobile phone, so it is impossible to talk about specific things in it.

So Chang Haonan was just stunned, and then replied:

"I just don't have much work today. I'm downstairs now and I can be there anytime."

"Okay, I'll contact him right away."

...

An hour later, the three people sat in a small meeting room next to Lin Zuoming's office.

Although it is not as grand as the large conference room on the top floor, people who are familiar with the internal operating rules of the group know that in many cases, this is the place with real influence.

Lin Zuoming and Luo Hairong are leaders of brother units, and they have very close business ties with each other. They can be regarded as people who have seen each other frequently, and Chang Haonan has also met the latter once.

When the No. 10 project had not yet made its maiden flight, Luo Hairong was the second-in-command of the 611 Institute, and was also the actual person in charge of daily work.

The two also exchanged views on the publicity work of the aviation industry, and they were also acquaintances.

So after meeting, after only a simple greeting, Luo Hairong got to the point:

"Old Lin, Academician Chang, you should know that a delegation came from Saudi Arabia yesterday, right?"

Lin Zuoming nodded.

As the head of the group, he naturally knew about this matter, but Aviation Power, a company specializing in aero engines, had nothing to talk about with a country that did not even have a complete basic industry, let alone an aviation industry, so it only symbolically sent a reception group to take representatives of the Saudi National Petroleum Corporation to the Liming Factory to see if they could sell some industrial gas turbines.

Chang Haonan has been staying in Huairou Science City recently, so he is not clear about the ins and outs of it.

So Luo Hairong and Lin Zuoming took a few minutes to briefly introduce the situation of the Saudi delegation's visit to China.

In summary, the tone is not high, but the inner meaning is profound.

Even Chang Haonan was a little shocked after hearing it.

In the previous life, Saudi Arabia did not gradually begin to make obvious moves to move closer to China until after 2015.

Now it is almost ten years earlier.

Although it is not sure where the joints for such a big change are, there is no doubt that this can almost be regarded as original shares.

Even if inflation is not taken into account, investing one billion US dollars now and investing one billion US dollars ten years later have completely different meanings.

In addition to being shocked, there are also some concerns-

The dozens of Dongfeng 3s back then were extremely special cases, so I won't talk about them.

After that, although there were some arms sales agreements between China and the GCC countries, they were generally small-scale and mainly focused on army equipment.

When it comes to the arms and equipment trade in the Gulf countries, the level of sensitivity increases in sequence from the army to the navy and then to the air force——

Yes, the Air Force is even more sensitive than the Navy.

The reason is that both the army and the navy need to be composed of a large number of ordinary soldiers to form a united and experienced grassroots unit in order to exert sufficient combat effectiveness.

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As an absolute monarchy, Saudi Arabia is inherently unable to complete the construction of grassroots military organizations.

Therefore, no matter how advanced tanks or warships are, the combat effectiveness of the army and navy will only be a pile of dregs.

But the Air Force is different.

Only a few hundred elite pilots and a few thousand qualified and trained ground crews are enough to establish a powerful air force.

If coupled with the addition of aircraft with sufficiently advanced performance, it is really possible to do some big things in West Asia.

Therefore, Western countries have been limiting the size and capabilities of the GCC air forces.

For example, for the same F15, the F15I sold to the Kingdom of David is much more advanced than the F15SA sold to Saudi Arabia and the F15QA sold to Qatar.

As for lower-level allies, such as the Pharaoh Kingdom, the F16 they initially received did not even have complete beyond-visual-range combat capabilities.

Moreover, the training time and subjects of pilots from these countries will also be restricted to ensure that their air forces cannot pose a threat to the Great Patriotic Kingdom.

Previous arms sales with the United Arab Emirates were at least nominally conducted by the French and the other party, and they did not involve front-line combat aircraft, let alone personnel training.

Now it would be really difficult to go directly to China to buy the J-10E.

"So... Saudi Arabia came to our aviation system. What exactly are they going to talk about?"

He asked in a rather cautious tone:

"If it is a particularly large-scale arms purchase, I think the conditions are not mature yet, right?"

"That's not true. Neither Saudi Arabia nor us have any plans to break away from the United States. That's why I want to come to you to find a way..."

Luo Hairong waved his hand, and then said with a distressed expression:

"The Saudi Air Force intends to purchase a batch of Y-9 transport aircraft from us, and is willing to put the next batch of Airbus A320 final assembly orders in Luzhou Aviation City... But these are compared with orders from petroleum and aerospace. They are small and small, and their influence is even more negligible. I am afraid it will be difficult to compete with them..."

Although the aviation industry and aviation power have been separated, they are closely related units under the same system after all, and they must stand together on this issue.

Lin Zuoming thought for a moment and then quickly suggested:

"Rolls-Royce has agreed to cooperate with us. The content at least includes the development of a 15-ton class with us as the main body, and the development of a 40-ton class high-bypass ratio turbofan engine with the other party as the main body, especially the first one. , it is expected to be put into use around 2010. By then you will definitely have to independently develop my country's first mainline passenger aircraft... Are you considering investing in this project? "

This proposal was very feasible, but after Luo Hairong thought for a moment, he still shook his head:

"The demonstration process for domestically produced mainline passenger aircraft has not even been completed yet. Considering investment is really a bit too far away and cannot solve the immediate problem..."

"That……"

Lin Zuoming straightened his hair and sounded helpless:

"It seems that it's really not easy to operate..."

After a while, Chang Haonan suddenly raised his head:

"It's better to think differently..."

The other two people cast doubtful glances at the same time.

"Business will continue as it is now, but part of it will not be settled in U.S. dollars or through the SWIFT system... What do you think?"