I've already reached the Nascent Soul stage, and you're saying I didn't time travel?

Chapter 19: Orders Explode!

Magic City.

Daqian Commercial Aircraft Corporation (COMAC) Headquarters.

"Mr. Zheng, great news!"

"Fantastic news!"

"We've received a huge number of orders from overseas!"

"They're all buying the C919."

The sales manager and several senior executives rushed in, and General Manager Zheng Yu looked up, completely bewildered:

"What overseas orders? I don't understand."

As China's first domestically designed and developed medium-range trunk passenger aircraft, the C919 has broken the foreign technology monopoly and shaken the global duopoly in the large aircraft market, which is of great significance.

However, after production, due to the short time it has been in operation and the influence of geopolitics, the main buyers are mainly domestic airlines, with very few overseas orders.

Even though the sales team has tried their best to expand the market, the results have been minimal.

Sales General Manager Li Guangxi said with a beaming smile:
"Only a very small number of the orders this time came from major international airlines; the majority were placed by private individuals."

"private?"

Zheng Yu was even more confused:
"Are they planning to customize the C919 and turn it into a private jet? Wait, we don't seem to offer that service right now."

"No, no, no, they said they only want the original passenger plane, without any modifications, with all internal structures exactly the same as those in domestic service, and not even the system language needs to be translated or adapted."

In short, they want the C919 to be exactly the same as the one made in China, without any modifications whatsoever.

Zheng Yu was stunned:

"What's the point of this?"

"Who cares what they're after? If they want to buy it overseas, we'll just sell it. Many customers have already paid deposits in advance, how could it be fake?"

An executive interrupted abruptly.

Seeing the excited crowd, Zheng Yu remained remarkably calm and did not let himself be overwhelmed.

"In the end, private individuals might buy one at most, and the total number would be a few or a dozen, which is less than the number of orders placed by a single airline. Don't get too excited."

"The total number of orders this time is 74, of which airlines bought 28 and private individuals bought 46."

"What did you say??!"

Zheng Yu was completely stunned:

"How can there be so many?"

"The biggest buyers were Barack Barack, a top billionaire who just entered the world's top five richest people, a prince of the oil kingdom, and a telecommunications tycoon from India, who each ordered three. There were also quite a few others who bought two or two."

"There are so many?"

Zheng Yu muttered to himself, completely incredulous.

"not only that."

Li Guang continued:

"According to our communication, some of those people are very eager to get the plane and wish they could have it tomorrow."

Zheng Yu smiled:

"Do they think airplanes are magicians who conjure them up? These things take time to produce, and they need to be tested after production. Moreover, our production capacity is very limited, and we have to serve customers who have already placed orders first. Even if we increase production capacity, they probably won't get their planes for another five or six years."

"They said we could have priority in purchasing passenger planes that were already in production."

"Priority purchase? We have contracts with other airlines, and production is already in the queue."

"They said they could raise the price."

"Raise the price?"

Zheng Yu scoffed:

"Can you add a few more dollars? Do we really need that little bit of money from him?"

"Barack said that one aircraft can be added for 100 million, and if it is delivered tomorrow, it can be added for 200 million."

Zheng Yumeng slammed his fist on the table:

"What are you all standing there for? Give them the passenger plane that just rolled off the production line from Chengdu Airlines!" "What about Chengdu Airlines?"

“I went to them and told them that the order was delayed, and I would compensate them 50 million for each aircraft.”

As he spoke, Zheng Yu had already made a phone call:
"Hey, Lao Wang, I need to talk to you guys about something, about those planes..."

"What? You've already resold them to someone else? Someone offered you an extra 80 million per aircraft?"

"Are you out of your mind? How could you be so out of your mind? I'll offer a hundred million!"

"You said they've raised the price to 110 million? Tell him to come over and tell me in person!"

Before they finished talking, an executive approached with a phone in hand, his expression complex.

"A neighboring country recently approached us through political channels to request the purchase of three C919s, and the higher authorities have already agreed."

Another executive also hurriedly said:

“I just received news that some small countries in South Africa have also placed orders through their embassies, hoping to receive the large aircraft as soon as possible.”

"This this……"

Zheng Yu was completely dumbfounded.

……

The fourth aircraft carrier.

Small meeting room.

"I've already said we don't sell planes! We don't sell planes! We're responsible for landing operations. Why are you coming to us instead of COMAC to buy planes?!"

Xiao Li hung up the phone, completely fuming.
"Are these people crazy? They're trying to buy planes from us. Don't they recognize the phone number that's so prominently displayed on the COMAC website?"

Upon hearing this, Liu Wang smiled and said:

“Aircraft production also has a schedule. They call us simply because they want to get the aircraft from COMAC as soon as possible through us.”

"Is it really necessary? One after another, they rushed up to us. Qi Xuan only mentioned in the live broadcast that time travel might be related to domestically produced passenger planes. Just because of his guess, they bought a large plane that costs hundreds of millions. Don't you think that's too frivolous?"

"You don't understand this."

Liu looked up at the floating continent in the sky and said calmly:
"The West has always been a place where faith spreads. Coupled with the sudden appearance of the floating continent and inexplicable phenomena such as barriers and heavenly palaces, many people have associated it with gods and fanatically believed it to be a miracle."

In such a social atmosphere, it is not surprising that even highly qualified and rational individuals will be influenced to some extent and develop some superstitions.

Moreover, while large airplanes are expensive, they're nothing special to the super-rich at the top of the wealth pyramid. If you had a hundred dollars, and you could gamble on one dollar to travel to a new continent and acquire countless valuable resources, would you gamble or not?

Xiao Li hesitated for a moment and said:
"Are they really planning to replicate Qi Xuan's time-travel process?"

"We've already bought the big planes, so we can't just leave them sitting there. This is a good opportunity for us to see if landing on the New World has anything to do with airplanes."

……

Online.

As the news spread, netizens were stunned:
"The world's richest people lining up to buy airplanes? Impossible, absolutely impossible!"

"Where did this fake news come from? The C919 hasn't even received its foreign airworthiness certificate yet."

"The information is correct. Our friends at COMAC said they have already received orders for over a hundred aircraft."

"Didn't you guys check the internet? Barack himself announced it."

"Just because Qi Xuan landed in the New World in it? That's too superstitious."

"Hehe, if Newton were alive today, he would definitely get a C919 and go up there to take a look."

"I heard that Barak has already obtained the plane through a small country, and if nothing unexpected happens, the test of landing on the floating continent will be conducted tomorrow."

"Holy crap, that fast? Didn't he even bother to check the plane's condition more thoroughly?"

"Top billionaires are more concerned with efficiency; the sooner they reach a new continent, the sooner they can discover more wealth."

"That's true, but aircraft experiments are so dangerous, Barack can't possibly go in himself, can he?"

"I don't know, we'll find out tomorrow anyway."

……

While netizens were still discussing the success rate of the aircraft experiment, someone suddenly shouted excitedly:
"The stock market has exploded!"

(End of this chapter)