Chapter 19: Exploding Orders!
Modu.
Da Qian Commercial Aircraft Headquarters.
“Director Zheng, good news!”
“Huge good news!”
“Foreign countries have sent a huge number of orders!”
“They’re all buying C919s.”
The sales manager and several senior executives swarmed in, and General Manager Zheng Yu looked up, bewildered:
“What foreign orders? I don’t understand.”
As Da Qian’s first independently designed and developed mid-range trunk passenger plane, the C919 broke the foreign technological monopoly, shook the global duopoly of large aircraft, and was of great significance.
However, after it was produced, because of the short time it had been in operation, coupled with the influence of geopolitics, the main purchasers were basically domestic airlines, and foreign orders were extremely rare.
Even though the sales team had tried their best to open up the market, the results were still very small.
Sales General Manager Li Guang said with a smile:
“This time, the orders came, and major foreign airlines only accounted for a very small number, and more were sent by private individuals.”
“Private individuals?”
Zheng Yu was even more confused:
“Are they planning to customize the C919 privately and turn it into a private jet? That’s not right, we don’t seem to have this service for the time being, do we?”
“No, no, no, they said they only want the original passenger plane, without any modifications. All the internal structures are exactly the same as those in service domestically, and they don’t even want the system language to be translated and adapted.
In general, whatever the domestic C919 is like, they want it to be, and not a single bit is allowed to be changed.”
Zheng Yu was stunned:
“What, what are they after?”
“Who cares what they’re after? Anyway, foreign countries want to buy, so we sell it. Many customers have already paid a deposit impatiently, can this be fake?”
A senior executive interrupted anxiously.
Seeing the excited crowd, Zheng Yu still maintained considerable composure and was not carried away:
“In the final analysis, private individuals can buy at most one, and the total number is a few or a dozen, which is not enough for the order quantity of an airline. Don’t be 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 dumbfounded:
“How could there be so many?”
“The biggest buyer is Barack, a top rich man who has just entered the top five in the world, a prince of the oil kingdom, and a telecom tycoon from India, all of whom have ordered three, and there are also many others who have bought two.”
“There are so many?”
Zheng Yu muttered to himself, and he was somewhat incredulous.
“Not only that.”
Li Guang continued:
“According to our communication, some of those people are very eager to get the plane and can’t wait to get it tomorrow.”
Zheng Yu laughed:
“Do they think the plane is conjured by a magician? This thing also needs time to produce, and after production, it needs to be tested, and our production capacity is very limited. We have to serve the customers who have already placed orders first. Even if we increase production capacity, they will probably have to wait five or six years to get the plane.”
“They said they can give priority to buying passenger planes that are already in production.”
“Priority purchase? We have signed contracts with other airlines, and the production capacity has already been scheduled.”
“They said they can increase the price.”
“Increase the price?”
Zheng Yu sneered:
“How much more money can they add? Do we lack that little money?”
“Barack said that he can add one hundred million for one plane, and two hundred million for delivery tomorrow.”
Zheng Yu slammed the table:
“What are you still doing? Why don’t you give them the passenger planes that have just rolled off the production line of Cheng Hang?”
“What about Cheng Hang?”
“I’ll go talk to them, postpone the order, and compensate them fifty million for each plane.”
With that, Zheng Yu had already made a phone call:
“Hello, Old Wang, let’s discuss something, that batch of planes…”
“What? You’ve already resold it to someone else? Someone offered you eighty million more for each plane?”
“Foolish? How can you be so foolish? I’ll offer one hundred million!”
“You said the other side has increased it to one hundred and ten million? Let him come over and talk to me in person!”
Before the conversation was over, a senior executive walked over with the phone, his eyes complex:
“Just now, a neighboring country used political channels to hope to purchase three C919s from us, and the above has already agreed.”
Another senior executive also hurried to say:
“I just received news that a small country in South Africa has also sent an order through the embassy, hoping to get the big plane as soon as possible.”
“This, this…”
Zheng Yu was completely dumbfounded.
……
No. 4 Aircraft Carrier.
Small conference room.
“I said we’re not selling planes! Not selling planes! We are responsible for landing. If you want to buy a plane, why don’t you go to the commercial aircraft company? Why are you looking for us?!”
Little Li hung up the phone, and the whole person was furious:
“Are these people sick? They’re buying planes and coming to us. Don’t they know the phone number on the commercial aircraft company’s official website is so obvious?”
Liu Wang listened, but instead smiled and said:
“The production of aircraft also has a schedule. Calling us is nothing more than wanting to get the plane from the commercial aircraft company as soon as possible through us.”
“Is it necessary? One or two are eager to come up. Qi Xuan also mentioned in the live stream that the possibility of crossing might be related to domestic passenger planes. Just because of his guess, they bought a large plane worth hundreds of millions, don’t you think it’s too childish?”
“You don’t understand this.”
Liu Wang looked at the Floating Continent in the sky and said lightly:
“The West was originally a place for the spread of faith. Coupled with the sudden appearance of the Floating Continent, and phenomena such as barriers and the Heavenly Palace that cannot be explained, many people have connected it with God, and fanatically believe it to be a miracle.
In this social atmosphere, even highly educated and purely rational talents will be more or less affected and have some superstition, which is not surprising.
Moreover, although large aircraft are valuable, for the rich at the top of the wealth pyramid, it’s just that. If you have a hundred dollars, and now you only need to pay one dollar, you can gamble on the probability of crossing and entering the new continent to obtain countless valuable resources. Are you going to gamble or not?”
Little Li hesitated:
“Are they really going to replicate Qi Xuan’s crossing process?”
“They’ve already bought the big plane, so it’s impossible to just leave it there. We can also see if the landing on the new continent has anything to do with the plane.”
……
Online.
As the relevant news spread, the netizens were also stunned:
“The world’s top rich people are lining up to buy planes? Impossible, absolutely impossible!”
“Where did the fake news come from? The C919 hasn’t even obtained a foreign airworthiness certificate yet.”
“The news is correct. Friends from the commercial aircraft company said they have received hundreds of orders.”
“Didn’t you go on the foreign internet? Barack himself announced it.”
“Just because Qi Xuan landed on the new continent in it? This is too superstitious.”
“Haha, if Mr. Newton could live to this day, he would have to get a C919 to go up and take a look.”
“I heard that Barack has already obtained the plane in advance through a certain small country. If nothing unexpected happens, he will conduct the experiment of landing on the Floating Continent tomorrow.”
“Damn, so fast? He doesn’t check the condition of the plane?”
“Top rich people pay more attention to efficiency. The sooner they land on the new continent, the sooner they can discover more wealth.”
“That’s what they say, but the plane experiment is so dangerous, Barack can’t possibly go on stage himself, right?”
“I don’t know, anyway, we’ll know tomorrow.”
……
While the netizens were still discussing the success rate of the plane experiment, someone suddenly shouted excitedly:
“The stock market, it exploded!”
