The leader now touched his chin in embarrassment. With his more than 60 years of life experience, he really couldn't understand what was going on.
Why buy an old plane?
As a target drone?
Or as a decoration in an amusement park?
Or dismantle it and refine the metal?
The leader's guess did not include the option of going to heaven to fight.
Stop joking. If the J-7 is sent into combat, it can't even act as a suicide plane because all countries now have air defense systems.
From a modern perspective, the J-7 flies slowly and low, and its surface-to-air missiles can hit it with absolute accuracy. It cannot escape, let alone launch a missile to fight.
Huang Jinpeng saw that his leader's attitude had softened, so he continued to add fuel to the fire:
"And Boss Lin also said that the old planes he purchased would never be used on the battlefield. If any of them were used in a war between the two countries, Lingnan Hall would be held accountable."
The leader pondered for a long time before muttering to himself:
"If that's the case, it's not impossible to sell it..."
After an aircraft is grounded, it generally goes to three places. The first is professional dismantling and material recycling and waste utilization.
The second option is to store them in an "aircraft graveyard" like Lushan Airport, but all key components have been removed, and they are actually just waiting to rot.
The other is the strategic reserve, which is hidden in caves. In case an unpredictable worst-case scenario really happens and the advanced aircraft are all destroyed, the backward aircraft can still take to the sky to fight.
But this part of the aircraft involves maintenance costs. After all, the machine will become useless if it is not used for a long time. It will be a big trouble if it cannot fly at a critical moment.
But the maintenance costs are huge, and for a developing country, the money is never enough.
"By the way, Xiao Song, if we really sell him the old planes, hundreds of them combined wouldn't be a small sum. Does Lingnan Hall have the money for that?"
Section Chief Song was at a loss for words: "Lingnan Hall really has this much money."
The leader was shocked again after hearing this: "So rich! This is tens of billions of capital, ahem."
The leader was a little embarrassed: "Hey, these are all good planes. They were all meritorious in the past. We can't sell them cheaply."
After hearing this, Section Chief Song and Huang Jinpeng nodded repeatedly, thinking that their leader was also a profiteer.
"By the way, I've heard of Lingnan Hall too. They sell wild ginseng, but is selling ginseng so profitable? Billions of dollars wouldn't be a problem? Is he planning to change careers? Or does he just want to live like this?"
Section Chief Song pulled out a piece of paper from a pile of documents and explained:
"Lingnan Hall is rich, very rich, richer than any of us can imagine. Last time he sold thousands of tons of Hetian jade, all to the top ten jewelers in the country, for a full 200 billion."
Huang Jinpeng slapped his thigh when he heard this and said, "Damn it, I lost money. I lost money on the Xianzhou aircraft."
"Oh my God~~~" The leader was also stunned.
"This is money, not paper. Two hundred billion in cash wouldn't even fit in my office. Where did Lingnan Hall get so much jade? Did they steal a jade vein?"
Section Chief Song took out a few more sheets of paper from the file and said:
"Leader, look, this is a photocopy. The jade was purchased by Lin Sanqi's great-grandfather and grandfather in the 1960s. The Lin family's ancestors had been doing medicinal material business in Hong Kong before.
This is the purchase invoice from that year, this is the shipping invoice, and there is also the export certificate. All the documents are complete."
The leader picked up the information and started reading it.
All the above invoices and certificates have been authenticated by the relevant departments, and the conclusions are attached below, also stamped with the official seal.
Section Chief Song continued to introduce:
"And the Lin family didn't just purchase Hetian jade. I went to the underground warehouse of Lingnan Hall and checked. There were thousands of tons of Lantian jade from Xi'an, Dushan jade from Nanyang, Xiuyan jade, and jadeite from Myanmar.
Just adding up all these jades, if Lingnan Hall wants to extort another sum from the pearl and jade merchants, it will cost tens of billions. Do you think Lingnan Hall has the money?
Of course, they had already reached an agreement that Lingnan Hall could not release any more goods in the short term. If it did, the jewelry market would collapse. And if it did, it could only be sold to the people in the Jewelry Association.
“Hiss~~~”
The leader gasped again and slammed the table in anger:
"Fuck it! If it weren't for the discipline, I'd have confiscated Lingnan Hall. Our military budget is so tight, and they can generate a year's worth of defense funding just by selling jade. It's so unfair."
In front of the big boss, Section Chief Song simply sold out all of Lin Sanqi.
Of course, he did not mean any harm, but it was a technique to hint to the leaders that Lingnan Hall had money, but the money was reasonable and legal.
"It was because of this transaction that Lingnan Hall came into our sight. We immediately dispatched a working group to Lingnan Hall to conduct a comprehensive investigation.
Lin Sanqi is a law-abiding person. After the jade transaction was successful, he paid 50 billion in taxes immediately. In addition, all the information is legal, so it is not convenient for us to take any measures.
But in order to prevent capital outflow or market speculation, I was shameless and stipulated that Lingnan Hall must use the money to purchase domestic products, either for its own use or for export.
So please rest assured, leaders, we are fully aware of every transaction in and out of Lingnan Hall's accounts, and we will not allow Lingnan Hall to release such a huge amount of funds into the capital market to stir up trouble."
When the leader heard this, he leaned back in his chair:
"If your department has investigated, then I'm relieved. As long as the money is clean, there won't be a big problem. The ancestors of the Lin family were truly virtuous. How could they have had the foresight to purchase so much jade back then?"
Section Chief Song joked:
"It's not just jade. The Lin family's warehouse also has large quantities of Moutai. Just the Lai Mao that was auctioned for 10 million, the Lin family has over 300 bottles. There are also thousands of jars of raw liquor from decades ago."
The leader glanced over:
"I know that you, the Song family, all love to drink Moutai. So, how much Moutai did Lingnan Hall give you?"
Section Chief Song smiled calmly, his face calm and his heart still.
"I once drank Moutai in their warehouse. It was a 50-year-old raw liquor. It was so fragrant, a truly top-quality wine. But I can guarantee on my grandfather's reputation that I have never taken a bottle of Moutai from Lingnan Hall."
The big boss breathed a sigh of relief, and then became very interested.
"By the way, you said you wanted to sell the plane to Lingnan Hall. What's a reasonable price for us?"
Huang Jinpeng saw that Section Chief Song had shut up, so in order to avoid a dull moment, he said cautiously:
"Our J-10 costs over $50 million each. Well, the J-7 can't be too cheap, but it can't be too expensive either. I suggest 10 million each. What do you think, leader?"
The leader smacked his lips and didn't immediately express his agreement:
"Ten million dollars? Isn't that a bit too cheap? How about this? Let's sell him a J-7 first. After all, one plane won't cause any trouble.
As for the price, let's set it at $20 million per aircraft. That's the retail price. As for the wholesale price, we can set it at $10 million per aircraft. But it can't go any lower than that."
Section Chief Song did some mental calculations and found that each J-7 cost 10 million US dollars, and there were more than 600 J-7s in inventory, which added up to more than 6 billion US dollars, which is equivalent to more than 40 billion yuan.
If it were him, he would rather buy a J-10 for 50 million US dollars.
$6 billion is enough to buy at least 100 aircraft, which is enough to equip an aviation division, and a combat-capable aviation division at that.
So what if we have 600 J-7s? Modern warfare isn't about quantity, it's about quality. Six hundred aircraft, though a lot, will just serve as targets for others to shoot down.
I have to say that the leader is "really evil" and treats Lin Sanqi as a Japanese and slaughters him.
Huang Jinpeng clapped his hands and said excitedly when he heard it:
"Yes, the leader's instructions are very insightful. This puts the blame on him, Lin Sanqi. You want our advanced fighter jets, right? At this price, if you don't want one, think for yourself."
The leader chuckled and looked at Section Chief Song again:
"And Xiao Song, if Lin Sanqi wants to purchase our fighter jets, we can't use all of them in RMB. At most, we can offer half in RMB and half in US dollars. As for whether Lin Sanqi agrees, that's up to you."
Section Chief Song thought that he had already made a contribution by being a pimp, and now he had to drain other people's foreign exchange, which was a bit unfair.
After all, Lin Sanqi's ginseng is mainly sold domestically, so theoretically they should not have much foreign exchange reserves.
But he had no choice but to obey the tasks assigned by his leader, and there was no room for bargaining.
Song Taichu then stood up and replied seriously, "Yes, I will complete the task." (End of this chapter)
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