Chapter 855: Ended

On November 13, 1983, on the third day after Tan Zhenhua celebrated his birthday, another boot about McDonnell Douglas finally landed.
Consistent with market rumors, the official finally announced that the huge McDonnell Douglas Company, whose market value is still more than US$12 billion after the cut, was split into two parts. The commercial airliner business was taken by Boeing and the military aircraft part was Owned by Rockwell.
The three parties will complete this amazing transaction by swapping shares and subsidizing part of the cash.
The reason why this matter was announced on this day was because the case of Boeing’s annexation of the McDonnell Douglas airliner sector had a huge impact on the world’s aviation manufacturing and transportation industries, and the United States was an active promoter of this matter. In order to achieve the goal, it did not hesitate to compromise with the European Community and agreed to open the civil aviation passenger aircraft market to it in exchange for the European Community's approval of this spin-off-the acquisition.
As a consideration, the European Community has also cancelled other audits other than airworthiness safety and environmental protection requirements for Boeing passenger aircraft entering the European Community market.
The European Community formally approved the case on this day.
In other words, starting from this day, "Airbus" company can finally sell aircraft in the United States, the world's largest single civilian aircraft market.
From this day on, the world civil airliner field has officially changed from a melee of the Three Kingdoms to a battle between the two powers.
Involved in the spin-off of three giant companies-the complex financial case of the reorganization of course requires professional veterans to handle it. The team led by Jacob Rothschild and assisted by the Citi Consortium and the Mellon Consortium has long been waiting eagerly. With the arrival of this day.
And because the current chairman of McDonnell Douglas, James McDonald, is under investigation by the FBI, and according to the current situation, he is likely to be found guilty and prosecuted. At this time, the McDonnell Douglas headless company is doing the analysis. A good time for the least resistance to demolition.
Therefore, Boeing took the civil aircraft design and manufacturing department of McDonnell Douglas almost without a fight, and Rockwell on the other side went quite smoothly-when Rockwell announced that the new company would be named "Rockwell" When Donald Douglas Jr. became the first CEO of the new company, the internal resistance to the merger was negligible.
Although Donald Douglas Jr. regrets that Eric Tan has not fully fulfilled his promise, the name of this new company is still prefixed with "Rockwell", but this result can already make He accepted, and when he stepped into the gate of the original Douglas and later Macdonald Douglas Long Beach factory in Los Angeles, not far from his home after many years, the shocking cheers and applause left him only All the dissatisfaction with Tan Zhenhua disappeared.
"Eric, I owe you a favor." He said silently in his heart.
Of course there are also the lost.
On the day when this decision was announced by the officials, a man quietly packed his personal belongings, and finally looked around the office where he had worked for many years with complicated eyes, walked out slowly, and finally closed the door gently. .
No one came to see off, and everyone could only silently sympathize with the only former McDonnell Douglas senior vice president who could not find his place at Boeing or Rohdeaux.
Perhaps the yellow skin on his body is his original sin.
Almost everyone thinks so.
And only he knew that all this was due to the young uninvited guest who came to visit at home that day.
He still remembers what the young man said:
Mr. Zhang Zhenzhong, I can tell you responsibly that the fall of McDonnell Douglas is inevitable, because this company has become the fat in the eyes of a group of greedy predators. A detailed plan is being implemented to achieve their goals, and I, the initiator of that plan, will most likely be the terminator of that plan. When that day comes, you can come to San Francisco if you are interested. Find me, I will tell you everything without any concealment. Frankly speaking, you are now a bargaining chip in my trading conditions. As for how you will be after that day, I will give you a chance to choose."
It was after that day that he remained silent in all McDonnell Douglas high-level meetings.
Maybe, I should indeed go to San Francisco and ask him how this happened, why it happened, and what he said gave me a choice. What is that.
Thinking this way, he started the car and drove out the gate of McDonnell Douglas headquarters in St. Louis.
Did not look back.
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"Mr. Donald, congratulations on taking this back here, please allow me to greet you, to your father, Mr. Donald, who founded everything here."
"On behalf of my late father and myself, I would like to express my gratitude to you, Mr. Skeff, for your support and help to our Douglas family."
In the office of the Long Beach factory, Donald Douglas Jr. is having a very secret conversation with visiting Skef Mellon.
"Then, Mr. Skeff, is there anything that I need to do right away? You flew here from Pittsburgh a thousand miles away, surely not just to meet me?"
"Of course, Donald, I'm here, one is to see our factory, and the other is to tell you that besides you need to grasp everything here as soon as possible, there is another work that needs to be carried out immediately."
"what is it then?"
"I will do my best to advance the equipment and service of our F/A-18 fighter jets in the U.S. Navy. The result I hope will be that the navy will no longer give Grumman an F-14 order."
"Mr. Skeff, I'm afraid I have to remind you that the most important product line here is the F-15 orders from the Air Force and overseas. This is the source of our cash flow and profit. As for the F/A-18, it is one after all. For an aircraft that has just entered active service, our production line has only entered a slow production stage, and there are still many problems to be solved. I am afraid it is too hasty to advance this matter hastily."
"But Grumman has a problem now, isn't it? Now is the best time to hit them." Skef Mellon said: "Just considering the company's future economic interests, we should not miss this opportunity. ."
"Not to mention." He suddenly lowered his voice and said in a voice that only two people could hear: "I once promised a kid that when I got Douglas, I must start doing this immediately. This is me. I don’t want to break this promise, let alone owe favor to that kid."