Traveling through the sword to engage in military industry.

"Chen, do you agree to continue the original agreement and expand the production capacity to 400 aircraft at the same time?" President Robert did not expect that the decision would be made so quickly within Dongda, and that the expansion would be based on the upper limit in his mind. "Do you need us to build an additional production line? We will be responsible for 5 production lines, and you will be responsible for 3? In order to avoid too much financial pressure on you? We have now joined forces with Gaul and Prussia, so there is no problem in expanding production capacity. In fact, the three newly expanded production lines will be one for each of us three companies. This is the agreement we have reached. Otherwise, it would not be so easy for the European Space Agency to be established so quickly and come up with the European standard for aviation certification."

Chen Hanyuan understood it. No wonder Rolls-Royce proposed such a large increase in production capacity. On the one hand, there is pressure from reality, and on the other hand, there is a small thought of taking advantage of the situation. If they take advantage of the lack of investment from Dongda to build production capacity there first, they will get greater benefits in the future.

After all, the aviation industry is a high-end industry. The industrial chain involved in a production line involves at least tens of thousands of jobs. Such huge profits are the reason why Rolls-Royce lowered its price to cooperate with Dongda and to make a breakthrough in the Western aviation industry.

You have to know that Rolls-Royce was initially threatened with sanctions by major North American customers, and even had its orders canceled, risking bankruptcy in its fight with the East. But now the storm has passed, and this project has achieved even greater results than expected, and has led Rolls-Royce to become another new giant in the Western world. In terms of airliners, Airbus is already on par with giants like Boeing and Douglas, and is even far ahead of its competitors in the main regional airliners with 100 seats.

This first wave was so successful. If the next long-range A300L can achieve its goals as scheduled, the dominance of this series of passenger aircraft in the -seat aviation market will be unshakable.

With a transcontinental flight range of 6000 kilometers, the A300L will undoubtedly secure the Airbus A300 series' dominant position in the -seat market.

Under such a good situation, Robert would of course try to gain as much benefits as he could. There is no need to talk about the profit sharing. The intellectual property rights originally belonged to others. Now that other people's children have made progress, it is unrealistic to take over the pot. Dongda is not a soft persimmon. If they turn over the table and stop playing, and directly find Gaul, Prussia, or even Portugal, Spain and Italy to continue playing, Robert and his friends have no idea how happy these friends will be.

However, if they take advantage of the insufficient capital investment of Dongda University and discuss with Chen Hanyuan and others to build one or two more new product lines in Westminster or other places on the island, it will be a huge achievement for Robert or Downing Street behind him. The rise of John Bull's aviation industry will be truly unstoppable, and it will slowly be brought back to the same level with its counterparts in North America.

Think about it, John Bull's own aviation foundation is definitely not bad. It has top companies like Rolls-Royce in aviation engines, and its industrial workers are also world-class. What they originally lacked was capital investment and market, and these two are mutually restrictive. If they can't see the market prospects, they dare not invest large amounts of capital. If they want to see progress, they must invest large amounts of capital to develop a competitive large product!

This is what the Airbus A300 means to them. Relying on this big product in the aviation industry, the financial community in the Fog City is now lining up to find Robert for the opportunity to invest in Airbus!

Airbus is now the hottest investment target in Europe. It can be said that relying on the financial market of the Foggy City, Robert is confident that he can take over all 6 new production lines to expand production capacity!
Chen Hanyuan didn't know that before Robert came, they had reached an agreement with several large financial groups. If Dongda gave up the production line to expand its production capacity, they would take it all! No matter how much it was, they would take it all!

However, Chen Hanyuan now has confidence. The 10 billion yuan investment has been promised to directly solve the problem, and there are no financial obstacles for just a few product lines.

"Mr. Robert, thank you for your concern and support. In terms of capacity expansion, we will strictly follow the original agreement. Yandu Aviation Industry is confident that we can fully promote the construction of new capacity as planned." Chen Hanyuan said with a smile, "If Mr. Robert is willing, we may need to purchase some aircraft engine production equipment from some manufacturers in your country. Mr. Robert can mediate on export licenses."

Robert was a little surprised after listening to this. He knew the situation at Dongda University. The huge investment of more than 3 billion US dollars was definitely not something Yandu Aviation Industry could afford. Even if the bank was willing to lend, it could not lend so much, because loans accounted for more than half of Yandu Aviation's current assets, and the debt ratio was at least over 60%, which was similar to Airbus supported by Rolls-Royce.

Nowadays, anyone can easily pay a full amount of US$10 billion to build an aviation production line. When Rolls-Royce and Dongda formed a joint venture to build Airbus, they had to negotiate with Downing Street for a state guarantee before they could get a joint loan to build a production line.

Now that they saw a bright future, private financial groups also came here, and President Robert finally felt that he was rich and powerful. Unfortunately, in front of Chen Hanyuan, his chance to show off was killed in the cradle.

This frustrates Robert.

"No problem. I will do my best to do what I can. Chen, let me ask you a question. Capacity expansion is a huge investment. We have to gather the strength of heavyweight partners from several countries to invest so much fixed assets. How did you solve this problem?"

President Robert seemed to ask casually.

Chen Hanyuan looked at Robert deeply, and thinking that this action would soon no longer be a secret, he responded with a smile.

"We are going to mobilize the whole country to develop aviation this time. We will issue a phase of aviation bonds to domestic and foreign investors, and directly raise 100 billion yuan for our aviation development. The largest investment will be in the new passenger aircraft production line of our Yandu Aviation Industry. Robert, you see, we have our own way to properly solve the problem and ensure that the expansion of production capacity will not affect the progress of the entire project."

"Even with our construction capabilities and speed, I believe our capacity expansion speed will exceed yours."

Chen Hanyuan said with a smile, and he was not exaggerating. Robert became nervous when he heard it. If Dongda's funding solution was like this, then the problem might not be a big deal. With Dongda's reputation as an infrastructure maniac, he really had to hurry up when he got back. After all, the production attitude of his workers was very clear and they were not lazy. However, it was impossible for them to do things in the way that Dongda did, risking their lives to build a business. This was his real shortcoming. It would be funny if Dongda's production capacity had been built up for two or three years while his side was still under construction.

In that case, Airbus, which is facing huge delivery pressure, will definitely not leave Dongda's production capacity idle and wait for their own capacity to be built before production. The imbalance in production share is self-evident.

Originally, he thought that the University of the East would encounter great difficulties in infrastructure construction, and he wanted to take the opportunity to reap some benefits. But now, after listening to the University of the East's plan, Robert suddenly felt that the pressure was now completely on his side!
Robert suddenly broke out in a cold sweat. In this regard, there was really no way he could compete with the infrastructure capabilities of the University of Tokyo!
Robert's mind was working frantically, and suddenly an idea came to him.

"Chen, since there is no problem with you expanding your construction capacity and there is no problem on our side, then we will build it together this time. I have a suggestion. How about letting Dongda take the lead in engineering infrastructure, and we take the lead in equipment debugging and installation? After all, we have many more mature engineers on the production line." Robert asked tentatively.

You know, engineering construction is the most labor-intensive, and the West can never catch up with the speed of the East in this regard. So Robert had an idea and put the equipment commissioning and installation, where he had an advantage, on his side. And the reason was indeed sufficient. Speaking of mature engineers in the aviation industry, there are indeed many more in Europe than in the East, and the gap can basically be said to be an order of magnitude. This is actually the problem that Ren Zhong is most worried about. The production line is easy to build, but mature production line technical workers and engineers are not so quickly trained.

Chen Hanyuan was stunned for a moment, then lowered his head and thought for a while before looking up. "Robert, to be honest, we do have a shortcoming in qualified engineers. The substantial expansion of production line capacity has put a lot of pressure on our demand for production line engineers. Since our situation is very good now, from the perspective of the overall situation, I personally tend to agree with your opinion and work together to make good use of our respective strengths. Similarly, for the needs of our future development, we also hope that in this process, please allow us to send personnel to study one-on-one with your engineers. In addition, we will send a group of young engineers to your country for short-term production line training. You will arrange training and internships. After the production lines are completed, we will be able to quickly bring out the production capacity of these production lines and produce and deliver our orders as soon as possible."

Chen Hanyuan knew that in terms of aviation talent, China was completely inferior to Western countries. Even in Prussia, which was split off, all of its high-end aviation talent had been divided up. However, with more than ten years of development and recovery after the war, half of Prussia's aviation industry now had talent that was similar to that of the University of Tokyo. After all, their training system and accumulation had retained a large part.

This is even more true for John Bull, which had a huge aviation capacity during World War II. The number of talented people in their aviation industry chain now numbers at least in the millions.

During the peak period, each of their airlines had more than a dozen companies capable of producing fighter jets, and some even creatively used wood to produce first-line fighter jets. It can be said that there were many talented people.

The three major European Axis powers, namely Gaul, were not as good as them. After all, their aviation industry was originally much weaker than that of John Bull and Prussia. However, after the war, they got some aviation industry heritage from Prussia and they also worked hard to invest in aviation development. After all, they had suffered enough from Prussia's overwhelming air suppression.

By now, Gaul is as good as half of Prussia in the aviation industry.

Chen Hanyuan's proposal was a small problem for Robert, but not a critical issue.

Now that the cooperation is so in-depth, it is normal that you are in me and I am in you.

"Chen, I don't think this problem is a big deal. I will try my best to coordinate it. Chen, now we have decided on the direction of this major event. Cooperating with you is the wisest decision of my life. Chen, we can open the champagne next." President Robert did not have much objection to the talent training proposed by Chen Hanyuan. Under the current circumstances, the two sides are indeed inseparable in the aviation industry.

Even for Rolls-Royce, after producing this passenger aircraft, except for avionics and aircraft engines, the rest are things that the Rolls-Royce factory can do alone, and even the replacement of avionics and aircraft engines can be solved by them. However, Rolls-Royce cannot work alone without Dongda, because the current A300 intellectual property rights of Airbus are all provided by Dongda, and patents have been registered in both the East and the West.

Unless the door to communication between the East and the West is closed, Rolls-Royce will never be able to produce this passenger aircraft without authorization.

No one can bear such an outcome, especially under the current conditions of the University of Tokyo’s powerful trinity of nuclear shield and nuclear deterrence.

Cooperation and common development are what Robert should care about.

"Then I wish us a pleasant cooperation, Robert. I think our glory in the field of airliners has just begun. By combining our strength with that of Continental, we will be able to reach the top of the aviation industry in no time!" Chen Hanyuan responded with a smile.

"The current good situation of the Airbus A300 series is not our end, but a new starting point. When our intercontinental passenger aircraft is launched, it will once again set off a new round of climax in the intercontinental passenger aircraft field."

"Chen, we are looking forward to this day coming soon!" Robert said with a beaming face.

To be honest, when Robert was cooperating with the University of Tokyo and the North American giant cut off the aircraft engine contract, the pressure he suffered was almost unbearable.

Now the sky is clearing up after the storm. Who in the whole kingdom does not envy his unique vision? He has become the undisputed number one in the kingdom's industry. His influence in the country is growing day by day. Maybe he has a certain chance of running for the position of No. 10 Downing Street!

This is the tangible benefit that cooperation brings to him.

But for Robert, the position at 10 Downing Street may not be more fulfilling than the position he took to bring Airbus to the leading position in the world's aviation industry!
That really suppressed the arrogant counterparts in North America! And at 10 Downing Street, there are several bosses who need to smile along.

Thinking of the way giants like Boeing and Douglas gave them ultimatums in a cold tone, Robert still retains some hatred.

If there is a chance to cripple or even defeat these opponents, Robert would not mind stepping on them hard to make them unable to stand up. It has nothing to do with ideology, it is simply a personal grudge.

Although Robert did not take advantage of Dongda this time, the goal of capacity expansion was achieved, and Airbus will have a smooth road to take-off in the future.

(End of this chapter)