Although he realized that the money was not easy to take, the problem was that Nikolai Malenkov did not plan to return the money to Chen Geng, he frowned, and said puzzledly: "Fernandez, my friend, you do this...... It doesn't seem necessary, does it?"

"That's what I'm going to say next," Chen Geng, who had expected Nikolai Malenkov's reaction, said with a smile: " If what we want to do is only a training aircraft, of course there is no need to do this, but Nikolai, and Yuri, don't forget, the training aircraft is only the basic version, and then we will introduce a light combat model based on the basic model and a ground attack model to the international market, based on such practical needs, do you think that a subsonic aircraft with two engines with a maximum thrust of only 16.78 kN is enough?"

"Not enough" Before Nikolai Malenkov and Yuri Kravchenko could speak, Chen Geng said loudly: "This is far from enough! Since it is a light fighter, the maximum weapon load of 2 tons, the combat radius of 600 kilometers, the maximum flight speed of Mach 1.4, and the price of the MiG-21 are already the minimum requirements, right?

“……”

Nikolai Malenkov and Yuri Kravchenko did not speak, but they began to think about Chen Geng's words in their hearts:

Indeed, as Fernández Chen said, if the Soviet Union only planned to build a jet advanced training aircraft, two single engines with a maximum thrust of 16.78 kN would be enough, but as an advanced training aircraft of the "all-rounder" type that was oriented to the international market, wanted to make money for the Soviet Union, and would develop light combat models and other models in the future, such a level of power was obviously insufficient.

And as Fernandez said, as a light fighter, if it can't fly at supersonic speeds...... Isn't that!

In this way, no matter from which point of view, the existing power is not enough - the power of the training aircraft as a basic model is no problem, but there is simply no way to meet the power needs of future derivative models, and as the power of a light fighter, it is inevitable to have an afterburner.

Thinking about this, Nikolai Malenkov breathed a sigh of relief in his heart: when the USSR Military Equipment Industry Committee asked, he had something to say.

"In this case, it is really necessary for us to develop and improve such a series of engines," Nikolai Malenkov immediately nodded in response: "What about the ownership of this series of engines? Or do we refer to our previous cooperation model: the Ivchenko Design Bureau provides technical support, and the property rights and patents are jointly owned by us?"

Chen Gengdeng smiled: "Of course." ”

Nikolai Malenkov and Yuri Kravchenko were overjoyed.

In today's extremely difficult economic situation, if the central government allocates funds to develop two series of engines based on the AI-26TL, it will be difficult, it will be almost fatal, but since Fernandez Chen is willing to pay for it personally, hehe......

Earn big!

Wouldn't it be a fool not to agree to such a good thing? Nikolai Malenkov immediately said: "If this is the case, then I will do my best to help you convince the relevant leaders...... Well, my friend, what do you ask for?"

Nikolai Malenkov is not stupid, of course he knows that since Chen Geng is willing to pay and share technology and patents with the Soviet Union, it is certainly impossible to say that people have no demands.

Chen Geng did not answer immediately, but asked Yuri Kravchenko: "Yuri, if I need four thrust levels of 22 kN, 25 kN, 27 kN, and 29 kN, as well as six military versions of 22 kN, 25 kN, 27 kN, 29 kN, 32-35 kN, and 45-49 kN with afterburner, adding up to a total of 10 versions of engines, how much research and development will your Ivchenko Design Bureau need?"

Yuri Kravchenko pushed his glasses and said confidently: "Actually, these engines with different thrust levels you want are just being fine-tuned locally, which is not very useful for much money, it is a little troublesome with afterburner, but it is not too troublesome, you need to ...... Probably about 30 million rubles. ”

Now the official exchange rate of the Soviet Union is 1 US dollar to 0.6 rubles, 30 million rubles is roughly equivalent to 50 million US dollars, but this is only the official exchange rate, in the world, the ruble simply cannot reach such an exchange rate, roughly 1.5 rubles are needed to exchange for 1 US dollar, that is, Chen Geng actually only needs to pay about 20 million US dollars is enough, and look at Yuri Kravchenko's flashing, slightly unnatural eyes, you know that he actually misrepresented part of it.

But Chen Geng doesn't care!

At a time when the edifice of the Soviet Union was about to collapse, it was most valuable to be able to get things with money and due process, and nothing else mattered. After some symbolic bargaining, a verbal agreement was reached: the Ivchenko Design Bureau completed the development and testing of an improved version of the AI-25TL engine for a total of 10 military and civilian versions for $18 million.

It was only at this time that Chen Geng said to Nikolai Malenkov: "I don't ask for much, just four points." ”

"Tell me. ”

Nikolai Malenkov subconsciously used honorifics, there is no way, these days, the rich are the uncle.

Chen Geng raised a finger: "The first point is that the entire R&D work must be completed within four years, well, I'm talking about counting from now, today, and here, not from the moment the cooperation agreement is officially signed." ”

It was the beginning of November 1987, and four years later, in November 1991, Chen Geng felt that it was better to be safe than this when he was not sure whether Lao Maozi could live for two more years.

Nikolai Malenkov immediately turned his head to look at Yuri Kravchenko: four years, is it enough?

In this kind of thing, apparently, Yuri Kravchenko, the deputy general designer of the Ivchenko Design Bureau, has more to say.

Yuri Kravchenko nodded without hesitation, and explained to Nikolai Malenkov, and also to Chen Geng: "AI-25TL is a very mature twin-rotor turbofan engine, we have been producing for 20 years, with more than 5,000 units of production experience, it can be said that the Ivchenko Design Bureau knows this engine well, based on AI-25TL, it took 4 years to develop several deeply improved models, I don't think it's a big problem." Of course ......"

Speaking of this, Yuri Kravchenko hesitated for a moment, but still said: "In order to ensure the progress, I hope to get technical and personnel support from Kuznetsov Design Bureau, Soloviev Design Bureau and other units if necessary." ”

"I'll coordinate this. ”

Nikolai Malenkov waved his hand and finalized the matter in a big way.

For others, it may be a little difficult to coordinate the technical and personnel support of the Ivchenko Design Bureau with the Kuznetsov Design Bureau, the Soloviev Design Bureau and other units, but for Nikolai Malenkov, who was in charge of the aviation industry in the USSR Military Equipment Industry Committee, it was a matter of writing an order and signing his name on it. As far as the Kuznetsov Design Bureau is concerned, if it only provides limited technical and personnel support, then it is not a matter at all, and the socialist country is a game of chess.

After speaking, Nikolai Malenkov turned his head to look at Chen Geng.

Chen Geng nodded, satisfied with the result: "The second requirement is that from the very beginning of this project, we must send personnel to participate in the whole process. ”

"This ......"

Nikolai Malenkov hesitated, but nodded: "As long as your funds are in place, I will help you fight for them." ”

At this time, the 10% distribution right of sugar products taken out by Chen Geng worked, and Nikolai Malenkov knew very well that if he did not want to lose the 10% distribution rights of sugar products, this condition had to be agreed.

Yuri Kravchenko wanted to object: so many Chinese engineers went to the Ivchenko Design Bureau, what if they stole something else?

But seeing that Nikolai Malenkov had already agreed, Yuri Kravchenko opened his mouth, and finally said nothing - how dare he offend the head of the Soviet aviation industry for such an impossibility?

Chen Geng was very satisfied with Nikolai Malenkov's reaction: That's right! If you don't want to exert any strength, why did Lao Tzu give you such a great benefit in vain? He went on to say with satisfaction: "The third point is that we should dispatch financial supervisors to ensure that the relevant R&D funds are transparent and reasonable, and that they are not misappropriated or occupied, and that once this situation occurs, it can be corrected in a timely manner. ”

It is impossible to expect that this fund will not be misappropriated and occupied by others, and Chen Geng is also mentally prepared to "include part of the public relations expenses in the R&D funds", but it cannot be that I allocated 1 million US dollars, but in the end the funds used for this project are less than 100,000 US dollars, and the other more than 900,000 yuan have been moved away by various forces under various excuses and reasons, which is too nonsense.

In order to get these things in hand before the collapse of the Soviet Union, Boss Chen, who has a lot of money and has made a windfall, is not afraid of spending money, but he can't tolerate Lao Maozi treating himself as a fool and slaughtering him as a fat pig.

"No problem. ”

Nikolai Malenkov, who was well versed in officialdom and even understood Chen Geng's meaning before he finished speaking, also did not hesitate and happily agreed: Since Fernández Chen has prepared the relevant "public relations expenses", it is easy to say anything.