Traveling through the sword to engage in military industry.

"Can someone explain to me what's going on?" Eisenhower of the White House said to a group of officials, tapping the headlines of the Washington Post in front of him.

His sharp eyes stared at his number one subordinate, John Foster.

"When did the relationship between us and John Bull become so fragile?"

"Mr. President, our relationship has had problems since we did not stand on John Bull's side during the Suez Canal War." John Foster said stiffly, "At that time, we put pressure on John Bull in order to undermine his dominance in the Middle East, but Dongda clearly stood on John Bull's side in this incident. Since then, their relationship has become closer and closer, and they have become very close through food cooperation, mineral cooperation, etc."

"I think some of our friends have used their influence wrongly to criticize John Bull. These pressures have sent the wrong signal to us. As we all know, John Bull once owned the world. Among most traditional John Bull people, they still have the idea of ​​the old empire. Although the times have changed, this idea has not kept up with the changes of the times."

"So, for the John Bull administration, choosing to continue to maintain the empire's influence is more important than anything else, even at the cost of cooperating with a great power far away in the East."

John Foster briefly explained how the relationship between the two sides has changed over the past two years.

"Nick, what do you think?" Eisenhower did not comment on John Foster's explanation, but turned to his young deputy Nick and asked.

"Mr. President, I think what John said makes a lot of sense," Nick replied. "We occupy a major share of the world's industry in all aspects, which is of course what we deserve, but the John Bull family will not willingly admit this and admit that they are a thing of the past in the world. Their thinking is still stuck in the glory of the old empire. We should not be surprised by these choices now. In fact, there is a trend in Europe now. They seem to be banding together to fight against us. They have even established an economic community. Fortunately, John Bull has not joined their ranks yet, but if we ignore it, maybe one day they will come together."

Although Nick was young, he was no stranger to international affairs and seemed to have put in some effort, which made Eisenhower feel that this was a better reason.

"The current situation is indeed unfavorable for us, but this is not the worst. The worst thing is that the major economies of the entire European continent come together and form a group, which is a more troublesome situation for us. I think we should not provoke John Bull anymore. If we provoke him again, perhaps a stronger economic community will be established quickly."

"As for economic issues, I personally suggest that we should not suppress them at the national level. We should continue to compete by market means, just as we have done in the past few decades. We have won orders from all over the world through market competition."

Nick's words laid the foundation for the future policy direction. After in-depth thinking, Eisenhower felt that he would always have to pass on his mantle in the future, and Nick was the best successor to continue his legacy.

Dongda, Rolls-Royce and British Airways have reached a cooperation agreement with Airbus Aviation Group, but this group is only a brand operator with unified sales and after-sales services. The actual production bases are located in Dongda and Westminster respectively. The initial production model is the A300 100-120 seat passenger aircraft (CAC-120 international version). Since most of the initial research and development was completed by Dongda Yandu Aviation, the core avionics system, aero-engine system, power supply system, overheating protection system, hydraulic system, de-icing system, windshield wiper system, fuel system and other subsystems are all provided by Dongda. The Westminster factory will be mainly responsible for fuselage manufacturing and assembly, which will reduce the workload of John Bull in early models.

However, this also reduces John Bull's early investment, which means it can intervene in the direct production and sales of the aircraft without risk. The difference is that the airworthiness certificate of the Continental will be processed by Airbus, which is based in the foggy city.

Ren Zhong never thought that such a strange aviation group could actually be successful. In his mind, he was mentally prepared for long-term negotiations to achieve such a cooperation. He did not expect that John Bull would make the decision so decisively this time.

Of course, Dongda has given up a lot of economic benefits in this regard. In order to ensure the success of the cooperation, the subsystem developed by Dongda has a markup rate of only 30% gross profit, which greatly reduces the cost of the whole machine. If the current CAC-120 is assembled in Dongda, the cost will be less than 2000 million US dollars, and even if it is assembled in the Westminster factory where the sun never sets, the cost will not be higher than 2000 US dollars. There is a price difference of about 50 to 100 million US dollars between the two places.

This is because this is caused by the different price levels within two different entities.

In terms of labor, including the price of the main materials of the aircraft body, Dongda has a clear advantage.

But these are not problems. In order to protect the early development of the project, Tohoku University has made preliminary amortization of R&D expenses based on the predicted sales volume of 1300 units, even for early models. The additional patent fee for each passenger aircraft is only 8 pounds (22 US dollars).

Directly give partners reassurance.

As a result, with the maiden flight of the CAC-120 model of Dongda, less than three months later, the A3 model produced by the British Airbus factory made its maiden flight and began to strive for its airworthiness certificate.

Everything is proceeding in full swing.

Meanwhile, a new three-rotor large bypass turbofan engine project for the next generation of passenger aircraft was approved, and Yandu Aviation Power and Rolls-Royce were responsible for the joint development of this engine. Prior to this, the two sides also reached an agreement to develop a new model based on the Pegasus engine. This is an engine developed for vertical take-off and landing fighters. Dongda has detailed design data on the Tumansky R-27V-300 lift/propulsion turbojet engine and the RD-38 lift engine. Based on these three engines, the two sides iterated a more powerful new rotatable nozzle engine (the model of the British Airways is the Pegasus II core, and the model of Dongda is the WS-12G).

It powers the British-made Harrier and the East China University of Technology's J-12 Warhawk.

In addition to the cooperation between the two sides in the field of large flat-panel aircraft, Dongfang's large and small flat-panel aircraft carrier-based fighters have now been confirmed. The small flat-panel aircraft carrier-based aircraft is the "Warhawk" J-12, and the large flat-panel aircraft carrier-based aircraft uses the "Sea Hawk" J9H carrier-based aircraft version. The relevant land training bases and early models of fighter jets have begun the prototype production stage.

After all, the WS-12 designed on the basis of the R-27V-300 lift/propulsion turbojet engine and the RD-38 lift engine has been developed. The production according to the drawings has reached the trial production stage. The preliminary test flight plan will be carried out in half a year. When the WS-12G is developed, the engine will be directly replaced and upgraded! For the aviation community of Dongda, the engine research cooperation with Rolls-Royce is a plan to observe and learn from the world's top aviation engines at close range. Although Dongda's aviation power has been forced to grow, it has successively developed turbojet and turbofan engines, as well as rotatable nozzle lift engines, but these are obviously obtained with the help of external forces, and the traditional R&D steps from early principle design to verification have not been completed.

For this lack of courses, we can now gain experience from the research of two new engines with Rolls-Royce.

Therefore, this cooperation is a win-win situation for Todai - after Todai wins once in the market, it wins again in technology!
Ren Zhong is now finding it increasingly difficult to obtain the main world's new generation of technology. In order to reduce the Liangjian world's reliance on the main world's technology sources, he has long been planning a cooperation plan with the Liangjian world's top technology companies. It is not easy to start with the Rogue Eagle, but there are many small and beautiful countries on the European continent, with many partners with profound technological accumulation who can be cooperated with. If these partners are found and the Dongda team is trained, Ren Zhong will not have such great pressure in the future to work hard to obtain detailed design plans.

When the time comes, Ren Zhong only needs to bring some successful product development trends and concepts from the main world back to the world of Bright Sword. Everyone will make innovative designs based on this concept and realize something completely new. That will truly free Bright Sword from its dependence on the main world's technology!

The cooperation with Rolls-Royce is a new attempt. In order to ensure the success of this cooperation, not only a lot of preparations were made to bring the John Bull family closer, but also huge real money benefits were offered. Although the "Airbus" in this world is a little more virtual than the Airbus in the main world, the passenger planes installed in it are indeed real.

According to the development of the aviation industry in the main world, Dongda has 4270 registered civil aviation transport aircraft, including 4013 passenger aircraft and 257 cargo aircraft. Even though the development of Dongda in the Sword World is still far behind that of the main world, the start of economic development has far exceeded the level before the main world was truly opened. Compared with the world level, it is now much stronger than the s, at least with the same level of technology and economic development as the s, which is the rapid growth period of the aviation industry.

Dongda’s aviation needs are far from being met by 1000 aircraft.

Now, the University of Tokyo, which has shown its sword to the world, is fully open. There is a lot of demand for international aviation alone. In addition to the very strongly developed electronics, shipbuilding and steel industries, there are now new products from the information industry and computers. There are thousands of international businessmen attending a global computer conference. These are all signs of the booming demand for aviation.

Now it's not just computers. In the communications industry, the new switches introduced by Ren Zhong have now broken through the thousand-port range and are beginning to evolve towards ten-thousand-port switches. The future development of the communications industry will see a new wave, and ultimately the integration of the communications industry and the information industry will be realized, which means the arrival of a true information society.

Based on the current technological foundation, when Dongda cooperates with any company, it will not just be a unilateral introduction of technology, but each company will have its own advantages, just like the cooperation with Rolls-Royce.

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"We have approved quite a few joint venture projects now. Is it necessary to cooperate in the automotive sector?" Staff Officer Ye came to Ren Zhong with a new question.

"What? Please tell me more." Ren Zhong was a little confused. He had introduced several popular products that had been verified by others, and they were on the right track in the early stage of development. He started to export them, so why were there still people asking for cooperation? What was he looking for?

"It's like this. Aren't our current Golf and JETTA sedans very popular in exports? VW thinks these two products are highly consistent with their product strategy and hopes that we can cooperate with them to jointly build a family sedan production base in Wolfsburg to produce these two sedans and subsequent development models specifically for the European market."

what?
Is this a reverse joint venture? Ren Zhong was confused. Did they join because they couldn't beat them? After all, he directly took away the three most profitable models of the other party. He took away all the three key models of future development: high, medium and low.

Perhaps because of this, VW felt that it was being targeted and decided to join in.

At least this way I can still get a share of the family sedan pie.

After Ren Zhong came to his senses, he began to think about this matter carefully.

We really need to sort out the pros and cons of this matter.

If we only look at the positive side, there is no doubt that this will greatly promote the strong rise of Dongda Auto in the family car segment. After having VW as a powerful ally, it is almost foreseeable that there will be no problem in sweeping across Europe. These two products are very powerful and have begun to sell well in the European market even without the blessing of brand power.

If the normal development trend continues, Ren Zhong feels that after ten years of development, he may be able to open up a new world in the family sedan industry, just like the rise of Toyota and Honda in daily life.

After all, Ren Zhong was planning to thoroughly master the technology of small and medium-displacement high-efficiency engines for automobiles before the oil crisis came. By then, both Golf and JETTA would have a small batch of super fuel-efficient new models to cope with the oil crisis.

Of course, this will have to wait many years later, when the world of Bright Sword has changed so much that the causes and timing of the oil crisis are somewhat uncontrollable.

However, judging from the development of the main world, the outbreak of the first oil crisis was basically inevitable, because it was a fundamental conflict of interest between oil-producing countries and Western oil monopoly companies. Since World War II, international oil monopoly companies have controlled oil prices for a long time, causing serious damage to the interests of oil-producing countries. In the early days, oil-producing countries were often newly independent and had no power to resist. Once these oil-producing countries accumulated a certain amount of strength, coupled with the fact that they were all from the same cultural background and had common interests, they would sooner or later unite and come together to resist!
The interests in this area are so huge and sensitive that even though Ren Zhong proposed the Qianlong Project, he did not have much ambition in this regard. At most, he wanted to let people lurk in and make a little money, rather than trying to dominate this field. In fact, under the condition that the national power cannot guarantee its own overseas interests, no matter how successful it is in business, it cannot keep the fruits of victory.

Only when he can contend with the top ten aircraft carrier battle groups, will Ren Zhong dare to let anyone challenge him! (End of this chapter)