RPAGF #466 - repercussions
#466 - repercussions
"Who can explain to me what's going on here?" Eisenhower of the White House said, tapping the headline news of the Washington Post in front of him, addressing a group of officials.
His sharp eyes stared at his top subordinate, John Foster.
"When did our relationship with John Bull become so fragile?"
"Mr. President, our relationship has been problematic since the Suez Canal War when we didn't stand on John Bull's side," John Foster said, bracing himself. "At that time, in order to disintegrate John Bull's dominance in the Middle East, we put pressure on them. However, Dongda clearly stood on John Bull's side in this incident. Since then, their relationship has become closer and closer. They have become very close through grain cooperation, ore cooperation, and other relationships."
"I think some of our friends have misused their influence to criticize John Bull. These pressures have wrongly conveyed our signal. 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."
"Therefore, for the John Bull authorities, choosing to continue to maintain the empire's influence is more important than anything else, even at the expense of cooperating with a distant Eastern power."
John Foster briefly explained the changes in the relationship between the two sides in the past two years.
"Nick, what are your thoughts?" Eisenhower asked his young deputy, Nick, turning away from John Foster's explanation, neither affirming nor denying it.
"Mr. President, I think John's statement makes a lot of sense," Nick replied. "We occupy the main share of the global industry in all aspects. This is certainly what we deserve, but John Bull will not willingly admit this, admit that they are already a thing of the past in the world. Their thinking still remains under the glory of the old empire. We shouldn't find these choices strange now. In fact, there is a trend in Europe now. They seem to be forming a group to confront us. They have even established an economic community. Fortunately, John Bull has not yet joined their ranks, but if we ignore it, they may come together one day."
Although Nick was young, he was no stranger to international affairs. It seemed that he had put in a lot of effort, which made Eisenhower feel that this was a better reason.
"The current situation is indeed somewhat unfavorable to us, but this is not the worst thing. The worst thing is that the main economies of the entire Europe are coming together as a group, which would be an even more troublesome situation for us. I don't think we should stimulate John Bull anymore. If we stimulate him again, perhaps a stronger economic community will be established quickly."
"Regarding economic matters, I personally suggest that we can't suppress it from the national level anymore. We must continue to use market means to compete, just like we have done in the past few decades. We win the orders of the whole world through market competition."
Nick's words laid the groundwork for the direction of the next policy. After Eisenhower thought deeply, he felt that he would always have to pass on his mantle in the future, and Nick was the best successor to take over and continue.
Dongda, Rolls-Royce, and Rising Sun Aviation reached a cooperation agreement for the Airbus Aviation Group, but this group is only a unified sales and after-sales brand operator. The actual production bases are located in Dongda and Westminster City respectively. The initial production model is the A300 100-120 seat airliner (CAC-120 international version). Since most of the initial research and development was completed by Dongda Yandu Aviation, the core avionics system, aeroengine system, power supply system, overheat protection system, hydraulic system, de-icing system, windshield wiper system, fuel system, and other subsystems are all provided by Dongda. The Westminster City factory will mainly be responsible for airframe manufacturing and final assembly, which will reduce John Bull's workload in the early models.
However, this also reduces John Bull's early investment, which is equivalent to risk-free intervention in the direct production and sales of this airliner. The difference is that the European airworthiness certificate will be handled by Airbus, which is located in Misty City.
Ren Zhong didn't expect that such a strange aviation group would actually succeed. In his mind, he had prepared himself for long-term negotiations to achieve such cooperation. He didn't expect John Bull to make a decision so decisively this time.
Of course, Dongda also gave up a lot of economic benefits. In order to ensure the success of the cooperation, the markup rate of the subsystems developed by Dongda was only 30% gross profit, which greatly reduced the cost of the whole machine. The cost of the current CAC-120 assembled in Dongda will be less than 20 million US dollars, and even if it is assembled in the Westminster factory of the Rising Sun, the cost will not be higher than 20 million US dollars. There is a difference of about 500,000 to 1 million US dollars between the two places.
This is because the internal price levels of the two different entities are different.
In terms of labor costs, including the price of the main materials of the airframe, Dongda obviously has an advantage.
But these are not problems. For the purpose of protecting the early development of the project, Dongda's research and development expenses amortization, even for the early sales models, is still initially amortized according to the predicted sales volume of 1,300 units. The markup of each airliner patent fee is only £80,000 (US$220,000).
Directly giving partners a reassurance.
In this way, with the first flight of Dongda's CAC-120 model, less than 3 months later, the A300 model produced by the Rising Sun Airbus factory made its first flight and began to strive for its airworthiness certificate.
Everything is being carried out in full swing.
In the meantime, a new three-rotor turbofan engine project was established for the development of the next generation of airliners. Yandu Aeroengine and Rolls-Royce will jointly undertake the research and 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 of the Tumansky R-27 V-300 lift/thrust turbojet engine and the RD-38 lift engine. The two sides iterated on these three engines to create a more powerful new type of rotating nozzle engine (the Rising Sun model is Pegasus II, the Dongda model is WS-12 G).
Providing power for the Rising Sun's "Harrier fighter" and Dongda's "Warhawk" J-12.
In addition to the cooperation between the two sides in large flat panels, Dongda's large and small flat panel carrier-based fighters have now been confirmed. The small flat panel carrier-based aircraft is the "Warhawk" J-12, and the large flat panel carrier-based aircraft uses the "Sea Eagle" J9H carrier-based aircraft version. The relevant land training bases and early models of the fighter jets have begun the prototype production stage.
Therefore, this cooperation is a win-win for Dongda—Dongda wins once in the market aspect, and then wins again in the technical aspect!
Ren Zhong is now finding it increasingly difficult to obtain new-generation technology from the main world. To reduce the reliance of the Bright Sword world on the technological sources of the main world, he has long been planning cooperation with top technology companies in the Bright Sword world. It is difficult to make inroads with the rogue eagle, but there are many small and beautiful countries in Europe with deep technological accumulation that can be cooperated with. If these cooperation targets are identified and Dongda's team is trained, Ren Zhong will not have as much pressure to painstakingly seek detailed design plans in the future.
Once Ren Zhong only needs to bring back the development trends and concepts of some successful products from the main world to the Bright Sword world, and everyone innovates and designs based on these concepts to create something completely new, that is the real way to make Bright Sword get rid of its dependence on the technology of the main world!
The cooperation with Rolls-Royce is a new attempt. For the success of this cooperation, a lot of groundwork has been laid to get closer to the Brits, and huge real money benefits have been offered. Although the "Airbus" in this world is a bit more virtual than the Airbus in the main world, the passenger planes installed inside are real.
According to the development of the aviation industry in Dongda in the main world, Dongda has 4,270 civil aviation transport aircraft registered nationwide, including 4,013 passenger aircraft and 257 cargo aircraft. Even if the development of Dongda in the Bright Sword world is still far from the main world, the starting point of economic development far exceeds the level before the real opening up of the main world. Compared with the world level, it is at least much stronger than the 1980s, and has at least the technical and economic development level equivalent to the 1990s. It is a period of rapid growth for the take-off and development of the aviation industry.
Dongda's aviation demand cannot be met by just 1,000 aircraft.
Now Dongda in the Bright Sword world is fully open. The demand for international aviation alone is not small. In addition to the very strong development of the electronics industry, shipbuilding industry, and steel industry, there is now a new product in the information industry: computers. The international merchants coming and going from a global computer conference number as many as several thousand. These are all signs of the booming aviation demand.
Now, not only in computers, but also in the communications industry, the new type of switches introduced by Ren Zhong are now evolving from breaking through a thousand lines to ten thousand lines. The development of the communications industry will have a new wave in the future, and the ultimate realization of the integration of the communications industry and the information industry will be the arrival of a true information society.
Based on the current technical foundation, Dongda will not only introduce technology unilaterally when cooperating with any company, but will have mutual advantages, just like the cooperation with Rolls-Royce.
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"We have now approved many joint venture projects. Is it necessary to have cooperation in the automotive field?" Chief of Staff Ye came to Ren Zhong with a new question.
"Huh? Explain in detail," Ren Zhong asked strangely. He introduced several popular models that had been verified by others, and they are on the road in the early development stage, starting to export like crazy. Why are there still people coming to seek cooperation now? What are they trying to achieve?
"It's like this. Aren't our current Golf and JETTA sedans selling very well in exports? VW feels that these two products are also very compatible with their product strategy. They hope that we can cooperate with them and jointly build a family car production base in Wolfsburg, specializing in the production of these two sedans and subsequent development models for the European market."
Ah?
Has reverse joint venture started now? Ren Zhong's mind was a bit confused. Is this because the other party can't beat him, so he joined him? After all, he directly dug away the other party's three major money-making car models. He wiped out the three key models for future development, high, medium, and low.
Perhaps because of this, VW felt that they were being targeted in the dark, so they simply prepared to join in.
At least this way, they can still get a share of the pie in the family car segment.
After Ren Zhong came back to his senses, he began to carefully consider this matter.
Indeed, it is necessary to carefully sort out the advantages and disadvantages of this matter.
If you only look at the good side, there is no doubt that this will greatly promote the strong rise of Dongda Automobile in the segmented field of family cars. After having VW as a strong ally, it is almost foreseeable that sweeping across Europe is not a problem. The product power of these two models is very strong, and even without the blessing of brand power, they have begun to sell well in the European market.
According to the normal development trend, Ren Zhong feels that through ten years of development, maybe he can open up a world in the family car field like Toyota and Honda in the little days.
After all, Ren Zhong is preparing to thoroughly master the small-displacement, high-efficiency engine technology of automobiles before the oil crisis comes. At that time, both Golf and JETTA will 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. The changes in the Bright Sword world have been somewhat large, and 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 is basically inevitable, because this is the fundamental conflict of interest between oil-producing countries and Western oil monopoly companies. Since the long-term period after World War II, international oil monopoly companies have controlled oil prices, which has seriously damaged the interests of oil-producing countries. In the early days, oil-producing countries were often newly independent and did not have much power to resist. Once these oil-producing countries have accumulated a certain strength, coupled with the fact that they are almost under the same cultural background, due to common interests, they will sooner or later unite and come together to resist!
The interests in this area are so large and sensitive that even if Ren Zhong proposed the Qianlong Plan, he did not plan to have much ambition in this area, at most letting people sneak in to make some small money along the way, rather than trying to dominate this field. In fact, under the conditions that national power cannot guarantee its overseas interests, even commercial success cannot protect these fruits of victory.
Only when it is possible to contend with ten aircraft carrier battle groups will Ren Zhong dare to let people challenge!