Chapter 1332 Qianlong’s Imperial Ring Finger

What Li Cong is focusing on now is France's second largest aircraft manufacturer. The aircraft produced here are not important. The most important thing is that if Li Cong buys this place, the aircraft he built will be available.

There are so many arms dealers around the world who want to get involved, but if we want to do it, we have to be the best. A small selling point like the ak47, can we still call it an arms dealer? At most, we are just an arms dealer.

For street vendors, a submachine gun costs tens of dollars, and it has to carry two boxes of ammunition. How much is this fighter jet? It must cost at least tens of millions of dollars. What is the cost? Twenty million yuan would be good.

, The profit of five or six times is absolutely astonishing, and Li Cong felt that since China started to use force against India, the world has not been so quiet. (,, duk ank

Dassault Aircraft Manufacturing Company is the second largest aircraft manufacturing company in France and one of the world's major military aircraft manufacturers. It has the ability to independently develop military and civilian aircraft. The company has produced a total of more than 7,500 aircraft of various types since 1945. Up to

Cable Aircraft Manufacturing Company has mainly focused on military aircraft for many years. It only began to develop in the field of high-end business aircraft after entering the 1990s. In 1998, the company had 12,583 employees and annual sales revenue of 10.011 billion francs. In 1967, two major French military aircraft manufacturers

Aircraft manufacturer-Marcel Dassault Aircraft Manufacturing Company and Breguet Aircraft Manufacturing Company merged to form Dassault Aircraft Manufacturing Company. This company is a major member of the Dassault Group.

The company is headquartered in Paris, and the general manager is located in Vaucreson, with offices in Saint-Cloud, Velizy-Villacoublay, Blagnac, Argenteuil, etc.

There are factories or testing centers in more than a dozen places.

This company has produced "Mirage" series fighter jets, "Atlantic" 1 anti-submarine patrol aircraft (cooperating with Germany, Belgium, Italy and the Netherlands), "Jaguar" fighter jets (cooperating with the United Kingdom), and "Alfa Jet" ground attack trainers.

aircraft (cooperated with Germany) and "Rafale" fighter jets. The civilian aircraft are "Falcon" series of advanced executive aircraft. These are things that Li Cong is very interested in. They can also be said to be a classic in European aviation. If you acquire this place, you can

Let your own aircraft manufacturing industry develop, but this is not that easy. This is a state-owned group.

Terms like state-owned enterprises are generally more common in China, but they are also found in capitalist countries. These enterprises control the lifeblood of the country. In the past, general energy could be controlled, but now?, Dassault Group is definitely

It is the top priority of France's few military-industrial enterprises. Although France's voice has been very weak after Roche's European turmoil, it is not so easy to cut people's flesh now.

When it comes to the French Dassault Group (LeGroupedAssault), most Chinese people are not as familiar with its ins and outs as they are familiar with the French icon - Citroen Group, French L'Oreal cosmetics manufacturing company and other Fortune 500 multinational companies.

They love its products so much, but they appear to be looking at the flowers in the fog. However, in France and even the entire European continent, the "French Dassault Group" highlights a completely different picture. Not only does everyone

He is highly respected and well-known in the French political, military and business circles, and is regarded as the "white-browed hero" in the field of aircraft manufacturing.

This "long-lived company" founded in 1916 has gone through the entrepreneurial period of Marcel Dassault, the entrepreneurial period of Serged Dassault, and the great success of Laurent Dassault.

During this period, the company transformed from a small manual workshop manufacturing wooden aircraft propellers to a leader in the French military aircraft and civil aircraft manufacturing industries.

New fields such as news publishing, venture funds, etc., are stepping into the 21st century with great vigor and vitality.

As far as the aviation manufacturing industry under the French Dassault Group is concerned, from the early 1950s to the present, it has provided more than 7,500 military and civil aircraft to more than 70 countries around the world; from the 1960s to the present,

Since its bold entry into the field of high-end business aircraft manufacturing in the early 1900s, the "Falcon" business jet, designed and manufactured with ingenuity, has become the "leader" in the global business aircraft market with its production and sales of more than 1,700 aircraft.

With the strong support of the aviation manufacturing industry, the diversification strategy of the French Dassault Group has achieved successive successes: in 2001, sales reached 3.47 billion euros, the total contract value exceeded 3.85 billion euros, and the net income was 2.

As much as 7.4 billion euros; in the first half of 2002, total sales exceeded 1.47 billion euros, total turnover exceeded 22.3 billion euros, and net income reached 14.5 billion euros; in 2003, total sales exceeded 50

The billion euro mark... Of course, only they themselves know how the profits of military industry companies are calculated. Li Cong doesn't really believe in these numbers anyway. Although he does not have a military industry company on the surface, he also knows the costs and reports.

It's obviously wrong to come out like that.

When talking about the reasons why the "French Dassault Group" is quietly sneaking and difficult to gain a reputation, the current chairman of the "French Dassault Group" - Laurent Dassault, always disapprovingly said - "Like many ancient families in Europe, we

It is very low-key and not as well-known as Boeing and Airbus. This is because we have always adhered to the principle of making Dassault products well-known rather than the family.

Marcel Dassault, the founder of the French Dassault Group, was born on January 22, 1892, in a family of Jewish doctors in Paris. His original name was Marcel Bloch. Marcel Bloch liked scientific experiments very much since he was a child.

He has strong hands-on skills and does not like boring theoretical research. As a descendant of doctors, Marcel Bloch has no interest in studying medicine. Instead, he longs to study in higher aviation and machinery manufacturing schools when he grows up. In order to satisfy

Due to their son's preferences and wishes, their reasonable parents sent Marcel Bloch to the "Paris Breguet Electrical Engineering School" which has both industrial design and machine tool operation. Now, Marcel Bloch is really

He felt like a fish in water. While studying at the "Paris Breguet Electrical Engineering School", 17-year-old Marcel Bloch was walking in the school playground one day when he inadvertently caught a glimpse of a plane made by the Wright brothers flying around the sky.

Flying over the Eiffel Tower, the graceful flying posture deeply touched his restless heart. From that time on, Marcel Bloch's favorite saying often was - "Build a good airplane." However,

, in that era, people always held such a prejudice - "Anyone who wants to build an airplane is a daredevil and is destined to fall from the sky." Faced with the mindset that most people are not optimistic about the future of the aircraft manufacturing industry, Marcel

?Block could not change his obsession. Instead, he secretly studied aircraft manufacturing technology and took time to go to the airport to see various aircraft. In 1912, in order to lay a solid foundation of basic aviation knowledge, the 20-year-old

Marcel Block boldly entered the "National Higher Aviation Manufacturing Institute" and became a classmate with Grevich, the famous aviation designer of the former Soviet Union and one of the founders of the MiG Design Bureau. After two years of hard study

, Marcel Bloch walked out of the "National School of Aeronautical Manufacturing" with excellent results, and randomly joined the army and came to the military's "Meudon Aeronautical Laboratory" to engage in aircraft research and development. In this way, after his childhood friend Henry?

With the help of Bottez, Marcel Bloch not only invented the first wooden propeller, but also founded the "Aeronautical Design Company" (the predecessor of the French Dassault Group) in 1916 and built it in 1917.

The "Gadelon G3 reconnaissance aircraft" was improved into a "sea4 two-seat fighter" with 375 horsepower. This original fighter was very popular with the French army. The French Armament Department ordered 1,000 aircraft at once. In the end, the contract ended only due to the First World War.

After the suspension, the "sea4 two-seat fighter" was not able to be mass-produced.

As the smoke of the war cleared, due to the sharp drop in orders for fighter jets, Marcel Bloch had to give up his beloved aircraft manufacturing industry and switch to running the furniture and real estate business with his father-in-law. By 1927,

At that time, another important flight incident once again touched Marcel Block's heart that was unwilling to admit defeat easily. On May 21, 1927, American pilot Lindbergh flew the "Spirit of St. Louis" monoplane,

After a arduous flight of 33.5 hours, he completed the first non-stop flight from New York to Paris. Witnessing this epoch-making flight feat, 35-year-old Marcel Bloch was full of confidence - "I must return

Aviation!" In this way, he took advantage of the mighty east wind that the French cabinet added the Ministry of Aviation in 1928, immediately sold all his real estate, and devoted himself to the aircraft manufacturing industry for the second time without hesitation. This time, he couldn't stop it. Marcel

?Block developed a 3-engine postal aircraft in 1931, designed different types of bombers such as the MB200, MB210, and 131 twin-engine bombers, and manufactured the MB150 series of fighter jets and the MB120 10-seat 3-engine military transport aircraft...

Just as Marcel Bloch was making a fortune in aircraft manufacturing, the Second World War broke out, and the roar of artillery shattered his ambition. In 1944, 52-year-old Marcel

?Block was arrested in Lyon because he categorically refused to develop aircraft and rockets for the Nazis, and was imprisoned in the "Buchwald Concentration Camp". However, it was in the concentration camp that he was inhumanly tortured and even contracted diphtheria, Marcel?

Bullock still couldn't forget aircraft manufacturing, and after he was released and returned to Paris, he designed the 315 biplane liaison aircraft. In 1946, after the end of World War II, in order to wipe away the horrific memory of being persecuted in concentration camps, Marcel

?Block changed his name to the pseudonym his brother had used in the wartime resistance movement - Marcel Dassault, and lost no time in establishing an aircraft manufacturing plant for the third time near the "Bordeaux-Mérignac Airport" -

-Marcel Dassault Aircraft Manufacturing Company, going all out to climb to the top of the aircraft manufacturing industry - designing and manufacturing France's first jet fighter - Storm, India and Israel immediately ordered; designing and manufacturing France's first super jet

Sonic fighter - Mysterious 2; designed and manufactured France's first "super-mysterious" B2 fighter that exceeded the speed of sound in level flight, which later helped the Israeli Air Force win the "Six-Day War" in the Middle East in 1967; designed and manufactured the "Flag"

, the "Super Etendard" carrier-based attack aircraft later assisted the Argentine Air Force in hitting the British warships "Sheffield" and "Atlantic Traveler" with "Exocet" missiles in the "Battle of the Falklands" in 1982;

Designed and manufactured France's first double-sonic fighter - Mirage 3, the first nuclear-capable fighter - Mirage 4, an improved version of the "Mirage" series of fighters - Mirage 2000; designed and manufactured France's first twin-engine aircraft

Business jet-Falcon jet; in 1967, with deep financial resources, it merged with its fierce competitor-Breguet...

Maybe Li Cong didn't know much about other aircraft, but Li Cong knew very well about this Super Etendard fighter, especially the one that sank the British HMS Sheffield. That was something that dumbfounded the whole world at the time, of course.

, what initially shocked people was not the plane, but the Exocet missile, but the plane still had its merits.

The reason why Marcel Dassault has become the "pillar" of the French aviation industry is that he is creative, eager to understand the unique personality of new things, good at practice, pays attention to the work attitude of learning successful experiences, is willing to work hard, and strives to be a

The "small step strategy" of starting a new innovation after the innovation is completed. In his words, it is - "To achieve success, you must work, work, work, and then have a little luck. To get this luck

, it is necessary to combine personal hobbies, technological progress and caution."

On April 18, 1986, 95-year-old Marcel Dassault passed away. French Prime Minister Herak, the Speakers of the two Houses of Parliament, and many dignitaries from the military and industry attended the grand funeral held for him. French Prime Minister Herak

In his eulogy, Lack praised - "The death of Dassault is a great loss to France. He is one of the few surviving pioneers who have made glorious achievements in the history of world aviation. His management skills epitomize

In the well-known French aviation industry's 'gradual innovation method', that is, only one major innovation can be carried out on an aircraft at a time."

In order to prevent a common saying circulating in the French business community - "The father is a dragon, the son is a worm and the grandson is nothing" from being fulfilled in his successor, the founder of the "French Dassault Group" - Marcel Da

Dassault, carefully observed and tested the management ability of his son, Serge Dassault, for a long time. It was not until 1986, on the eve of his death, that the group's scepter was passed on to his son who was qualified to carry on the past and open up the future.

Because Serge Dassault was able to sell 120 aircraft to "Pan Am Airways" in one day. Born in 1925, Serge Dassault had long wanted to take over his father's job, but

Because his father was reluctant to delegate power, he waited until the age of 61 to become the second generation successor of the "French Dassault Group". However, late succession also has the advantage of late succession. The time-tested Seychelles

?Dassault was able to confidently outline the grand blueprint of "keeping the business" and steadily put its new management skills into practice. In this way, Serge Dassault, who had been frustrated for decades, turned himself into a

The talents and wisdom accumulated over the years were unleashed, and they started to fight in the two major fields of "Mirage 4000 fighter jets" and "electrically driven vehicles", striving to have a comparable industrial chain of the "French Dassault Group" in their own hands.

An obvious extension.

As a model of France's heavy twin-engine air superiority fighter, the "Mirage 4000 fighter" was developed by Marcel Dassault, the founder of the "French Dassault Group". It was originally named "Super Mirage 4000 fighter".

The purpose is to compete with the F-15 and F-18 heavy twin-engine air superiority fighters made in the United States. Although the performance of the "Mirage 4000 Fighter" is very superior, it has always been in the test flight stage because it has not been favored by the French Air Force.

It is difficult to put it into military use, which may be a pity that Marcel Dassault will never die in peace. In order to fulfill his father's last wish, Marcel Dassault immediately decided to "let the Mirage 4000 fighter jets put on military uniforms as soon as possible and vibrate them" as soon as he took office.

"Wings soaring in the boundless blue sky of France" was the top priority of his management, and he spared no effort in manpower, material and financial resources to fight a protracted battle - in 1986, he restarted the "Mirage 4000 Fighter" research project and named it

Changed from "Super Mirage 4000 Fighter" to "Mirage 4000 Fighter", replaced its engine with the more powerful M-53P2 model, and changed its painting to desert camouflage to enter the Middle East military aircraft market, and combined it with "Rafale"

"Fighters participated in the "Farm Paul Air Show" together; in 1987, he urged the "Mirage 4000 fighter" to conduct its 267th test flight, using it as a "Rafale" fighter to test the delta-duck test wing layout in turbulent conditions

He made a special appearance at the "Paris Air Show" at the "Paris Air Show"; on April 25, 1987, he made a special presentation to the Chief of Staff of the Saudi Air Force - Fahadh at "Heard Airport" (nice-coastofazure).

The Prince of Germany demonstrated the outstanding performance of the "Mirage 4000 Fighter" in the flight performance, and arrogantly declared publicly - "The United States is not the only one who can build such an advanced and powerful aircraft!"... Who knew that "God would not fulfill his wishes",

No matter how much Serge Dassault tried, the "Mirage 4000 Fighter" could not escape the tragic fate of being abandoned by the times. In 1995, after the "Mirage 4000 Fighter" demonstrator was shipped to Paris, it was about to become the "Mirage 4000 Fighter."

On the occasion of the permanent exhibition of "Le Bourget Museum", Serge Dassault sighed repeatedly - "The opportunity has been missed, because this aircraft is our only trump card that can compete with the American F-15 fighter jet. However, I firmly believe that as a French aviation manufacturer

The culmination of years of accumulation of technology, the Mirage 4000 fighter jet will still be remembered in history together with prototypes of the XB-70 Ares, CF-105 Arrow and other fighter jets!

Facing the dawn of the new century, the successful Serge Dassault took the initiative to retire in 2000 at the age of 75 and let his son, Laurent Dassault, take over. Talking about the motivation for handing over power early, Serge Dassault

?Dassault was deeply touched - "Although the French business community jokingly calls the third generation of family businesses the 'sacrificial generation', I don't believe in this evil! I believe that my son will definitely break the 'no richer than three generations' stereotype."

Prophecy. Human energy is limited. No matter how capable the elderly are, they cannot compare with young adults from the perspective of natural physiological laws. I don’t want to make the same mistake as my father did, waiting until he is old and frail, and will be confused.

Only when you are confused do you have to pass on the heir. This kind of "life goes on and the fight goes on" approach is harmful to the sustainable development of the enterprise but not beneficial!

In June 1991, Laurent Dassault took over the baton of Dassault Investments, a key department of the "French Dassault Group", from his father, and began to fight in his family business.

Fighting in the business world. During the 9 years of assisting his father, Laurent Dassault was fully responsible for industrial investment and emerging business development, and shouldered the important responsibility of operation and management of more than 30 companies under the "French Dassault Group".

Facing the new challenges in the new century, as the "third generation descendant" of the "French Dassault Group", Laurent Dassault takes "attacking from all sides to strengthen his ancestral business" as his driving force and devotes himself to depicting the glory of the "French Dassault Group"
To be continued...