Chapter 749: Holding Türkiye’s Leverage

"Outside the North Fourth Ring Road..."

Hearing this description, Yao Mengna was shocked:

"Isn't that right next to the school? It must be worth a lot of money, right?"

The Fourth Ring Road sounds like it's very far away, but in fact, with the size and population of Beijing, this place couldn't be considered a suburb even in the 1990s.

If it was the South Fourth Ring Road, it would be fine, it wouldn't be much different from a large rural area, but the North Fourth Ring Road is still different.

Qinghua University, Yanda University, Kunming Lake, Yuanmingyuan... are all outside the North Fourth Ring Road.

And now Beijing Airlines, as well as Beijing University of Science and Technology across the street, just cross the Fourth Ring Road viaduct.

"Uh... no."

Chang Haonan realized that Yao Mengna's understanding was obviously wrong, and quickly waved his hand and continued:

"The land is used exclusively for scientific research sites. Whether it is worth money doesn't mean much to me. Besides, Torch Group is here now, and money is mainly a number..."

The Torch Group's turnover is not high, but as a semi-monopolistic group, it is not in a heavy asset industry, but the rate of return is very scary.

Moreover, although it is a second-tier state-owned enterprise, state-owned enterprises of this era generally implement entrusted management, especially after the de-bureaucratization reform. Under the condition of ensuring the profit submission, the superior unit will basically not interfere with the management of the enterprise.

Therefore, the treatment of Torch Group from management to researchers is generally comparable to that of international large companies.

And Chang Haonan actually has nothing to spend money on.

Now, it is not an exaggeration for him to say "I am not interested in money".

"That's not what I mean."

Yao Mengna shook her head:

"Although that piece of land cannot be exchanged for money, the higher the value, the more attention the superiors pay to us."

This makes sense, but Chang Haonan still explained with a smile:

"This outside the Fourth Ring Road is not the same as the outside the Fourth Ring Road of Yanda... I said outside the Fourth Ring Road because Beijing now has only four ring roads in total, which is actually quite far away. After the Fifth Ring Road is built in a few years, it should still be outside that."

Beijing's Fifth Ring Road is one of the Olympic bid guarantee projects. It was still in the planning process in 1999, and the groundbreaking will have to wait for more than a year.

Most ordinary people who are not well-informed have only heard about the expansion of the outer ring expressway, but they don't have any specific concept.

When he was having dinner after his defense, Tang Lintian directly said outside the Fifth Ring Road because he was directly connected with the urban construction and planning department of Beijing, but when it came to Chang Haonan, he still used the concept that ordinary people were more familiar with.

However, although Chang Haonan talked about it, the excitement in Yao Mengna's eyes did not diminish.

"That's also good. The place is more remote, suitable for calming down and doing scientific research. I always think that the current place of Beijing Aviation is a bit too lively. Whether for safety or environmental considerations, it is not suitable..."

"Puchi-you said all the good and bad words."

Chang Haonan laughed directly when he heard it:

"Besides, how many people are jealous of our school's land...you said it as if it is worthless."

Although the location of Beijing Aviation is a little outside compared to Beijing Normal University and Beijing Post and Telecommunications, which are near the Second Ring Road, it is now located within the Fourth Ring Road. It is not an exaggeration to say that every inch of land is worth a lot of money.

"Well, what else... I must praise my own lab."

Yao Mengna was teased by Chang Haonan, but she didn't blush at all. After a pause, she continued:

"In fact, before I went to college, I always thought that research labs were located in deep mountains and forests or on isolated islands in the lake, unknown to outsiders. Until my freshman and sophomore years, I still thought that the school might have such secret labs outside the main campus."

"Until I joined Teacher Du's research group, the first time I went there, I saw the old and dilapidated house next to our teaching building, and I felt like my dream was shattered."

"This is also inevitable. " "Chang Haonan sat back on the sofa and sighed: "In fact, when Beijing Airlines, of course, including Tsinghua University and Yanda University, were first established, the surrounding areas were not like now." "It's just that the city's scale expanded too fast, just like many airports, which were built in the suburbs, but were incorporated into the city in a few years. Our new laboratory looks far away now, but it will probably be developed in a few years." "This... is not the case..." Yao Mengna had no idea about the outside of the fifth ring road that Chang Haonan just mentioned, but as an outer ring road under planning, it should be very far away. This time, the latter did not explain anything. The development speed of China after entering the 21st century is probably hard to imagine for ordinary people like Yao Mengna, even for today's senior leaders. The land approved by Beijing for the Torch Laboratory is a little further south than the Shahe campus of Beijing Aviation University in the previous life. In the future Olympic North area, that is, near the Olympic Park, a few kilometers away is a super community that has just been put into development and will have a population exceeding that of some small countries in the future...

Moreover, more importantly, as a gathering place for young students and professors, schools actually have strong inherent commercial potential.

Even if a university town is really built in a deserted place, the market will soon bring various supporting facilities and industries to the surrounding area...

"But you are right. When planning the new laboratory, it can indeed be separated from the outside world in terms of vision and hearing. Although it is impossible to really build it in the deep mountains and old forests, it can refer to the atmosphere..."

Halfway through, Chang Haonan was a little stuck.

He originally wanted to refer to the 624th Institute, but he had been to that place many times. Although it is essentially black technology, it looks ordinary and even a little old-fashioned.

"Like Cold Spring Harbor?"

Yao Mengna suddenly interrupted.

"The area of ​​Cold Spring Harbor is more than ten times that of our land..."

Chang Haonan had naturally heard of the legendary holy land of biological research:

"But the style can be referred to..."

"..."

Unconsciously, Chang Haonan chatted with Yao Mengna until noon.

The two of them were planning to relive the feeling of eating in the school cafeteria together, but just as they were about to leave, a phone call came in at the right time.

Yao Mengna looked over Chang Haonan's shoulder and found that it should be the red phone ringing.

Confidential hotline.

"The big boss is so busy, I'll go downstairs first and wait for you downstairs."

After that, she gestured to Chang Haonan, then pushed the door and left the office.

"Hello, Lao Song?"

This phone was only updated once this year, and now it has a caller ID function, so he can see that it is from the Torch Group office.

"Mr. Chang, I asked the group's legal department and archives to check the things you asked me to check before. There are indeed some discoveries. Do you think you should report it over the phone or..."

Chang Haonan hesitated:

"Let's talk about it when I go to the company in the afternoon. This matter is not urgent for a day or half a day."

The thing he asked Song Jingming to check was naturally to see if there were any chips on hand that could be used in Turkey.

Although using the relationship with the EU to exert pressure may have an effect, it is definitely not the best strategy.

First of all, the relationship between China and the EU is simply embarrassing...

Anyway, it is a simple interest relationship. Let alone allies, it is difficult to even be considered a comprehensive strategic partner. It is a literal sense of each taking what they need. Let the other party help in this matter, and they still have to pay something accordingly later.

Secondly, due to the existence of Greece, Turkey's entry into the EU was impossible from the beginning. It was completely a one-sided dream of licking dogs. If they wake up too early, it may not be a good thing.

Therefore, as long as it is not unilaterally blackmailed like in the previous life, Chang Haonan still prefers direct negotiations.

Apart from other things, judging from the subsequent situation, Turkey can be said to be the most unstable link within NATO.

Although the Husky in the middle school does not distinguish between objects when it comes to tearing down the house, considering that the current world order is still dominated by the United States, keeping such a troublemaker is generally beneficial to China.

...

After having lunch with Yao Mengna, Chang Haonan asked Zhu Yadan to send him back to Torch Group.

In fact, he could have called Song Jingming to the school, but since he was a man of many responsibilities, Chang Haonan thought it would be better to separate the laboratory and the enterprise.

"Mr. Chang."

Song Jingming had already prepared the materials, and after receiving a call from Chang Haonan asking him to come over, he arrived at the latter's office in a few minutes.

"Tell me, what did you find out?"

Song Jingming opened the information and then summarized:

"The most direct relationship is that Ankara University, Middle East Technical University, Bilkant University and Turkish Aircraft Industries (TAI) are direct customers of our company's software business department and numerical computing business department. The Middle East Technical University also sent a team to participate in the first computing business training here."

"Yes."

Chang Haonan nodded without comment:

"Anything else?"

Now is a critical period for TORCH Multiphysics to expand the market rapidly. It is also around the millennium, when everyone believes most in the openness of the Internet. If you use software licensing rights to pressure people, although it can achieve results, it will do more harm than good, especially when it involves non-profit research institutions.

TAI is a military enterprise, so there is a lot of room for operation, but if there is a better way, Chang Haonan still hopes to make a fortune quietly.

"Yes."

Song Jingming nodded and continued:

"In October 1996, Ankara announced the launch of a series of domestic production plans for main combat equipment involving the navy, army and air force. However, as you know, they don't have enough foundation in this area, so they mainly adopt the mode of cooperation with foreign countries or imitation production."

"I know this. The Guardian 1 rocket launcher that was exported to that country by the Ordnance Industry was called T300 by their own imitation, but this matter should have come to an end. The Turkish army does not seem to have any plans to purchase the updated model?"

Before Chang Haonan was reborn, he had heard some rumors that the T300 was the production technology obtained through the Varyag incident, but he had specifically asked Rui Xiaoting, who he knew before, to check it out and found that this model did not actually obtain a license, but was simply imitated and had been in service in the mid-1990s.

There is really nothing to write about it.

"It's not included here, but there are some in other areas."

Song Jingming explained:

"TAI launched a research and development plan for domestic general-purpose helicopters and attack helicopters the year before last. The cooperation partner is Italy's Agusta Company. The general model chosen is AC139, which has about 27 key patents belonging to us. According to the contract signed during the joint research and development that year, although we cannot restrict the Italian party from selling AC139 to the object, we can stop their cooperative production and technology transfer."

"That's all?"

This is indeed a good bargaining chip, and the best thing is that Torch Group does not need to come forward directly.

But it feels like the weight is not enough.

Song Jingming shook his head this time:

"At least... these are the only ones related to our group. After all, the other party is not a major country, and we have not carried out key work there before."

"Okay, let's do it this way for now."

Chang Haonan gestured to the other party to leave the information:

"Go and get busy."