1929 I am a chaebol in the United States

Chapter 348 Buying an Airplane

After the price increase was settled, Lu Chen's attitude towards Green instantly improved a lot. Lu Chen looked at Green's bitter face and said with a smile:

"Brother Green, don't be so sad. This donation is a good deed. God will let you go to heaven in the future. Besides, I'm here to give you money today."

Green was confused in his heart. Who would believe you for giving me money? Green looked at Lu Chen with disgust.

"You will give me money. I will be very grateful if you don't cheat me out of it."

Lu Chen quickly said, "Brother Green, your words are hurtful. I came here sincerely to give you money today."

Green said unhappily, "Okay, I don't need you to give me money anymore, so just forget about the money you asked me to donate."

"No, that won't work. You donating money is a good deed, and I can't exempt you from it on my own initiative."

"Then you are talking nonsense."

Lu Chen said with a smile: "I can't be exempted from donations, but I can buy things from you. Buying things from you is like giving you money."

When Green heard that Lu Chen wanted to buy something from him, he immediately became alert. He looked at Lu Chen with curiosity and said to Lu Chen:

"You want to buy something from me! That's unusual. What are you going to buy?"

Lu Chen smiled and said, "Plane, I want to buy a plane from you."

When Green heard Lu Chen say he wanted to buy a plane, his interest instantly faded.

"Tell me, what kind of private jet do you want to buy?"

Lu Chen waved his hand and said, "I'm not talking about a private jet. I want to buy a fighter jet."

"Fighter jet! Why did you buy that?"

Green looked at Lu Chen in surprise.

Lu Chen said: "I have set up an aviation school in the Middle East, so I want to buy some planes from you to use as training planes."

Green thought for a moment and said, "But my family's company only produces bombers, not fighter jets."

Lu Chen smiled and said, "If we modify this bomber, it can become a fighter."

Green shook his head and said, "The structures of this fighter and bomber are different. They can't be modified randomly."

Then he added: "There is actually no difference between flying a fighter and a bomber. Why don't you just teach with a bomber?"

Lu Chen curled his lips, thinking, are you kidding me? How can there be no difference between bombers and fighters? You know, fighters have to fight in the air. Their maneuverability is many times stronger than that of bombers. Also, what do I need these bombers for? In the future war between China and Xiaorizi, even when Xiaorizi surrendered, China never got air superiority. If I have a bunch of bombers flying in the sky, wouldn't that just make them targets for others?

So Lu Chen didn't think highly of the bomber Green mentioned. He frowned and said:

"Since you don't have any fighter planes here, I'll have to find someone else to buy one."

Seeing the duck was about to fly, Green quickly said, "You want to buy a fighter jet. Actually, I can help you get it. I just don't know which fighter jet you want to buy."

Lu Chen thought about it carefully. It seemed that those famous fighter planes had not been designed yet. For example, the Spitfire was not produced until 1935. The P-51 Mustang fighter plane was not produced until 1941. The BF-191 fighter plane was not produced until after 1935. This made Lu Chen feel uncomfortable. Should he choose to buy some old-fashioned biplane fighter planes?

After thinking for a while, Lu Chen decided to forget it. This old-fashioned aircraft would be a sitting duck on the battlefield. Since he couldn't buy a good aircraft now, he could only buy other aircraft to make do with. He would get some better aircraft when he had better aircraft in the future. An aircraft like the BF-109 would definitely be able to kill the old-fashioned aircraft on the battlefield.

Seeing that Lu Chen was lost in thought, Green quickly spoke up to interrupt Lu Chen's thoughts.

"Hey, Lu Chen, what are you thinking about? Can you please say something?"

After hearing Green's voice, Lu Chen immediately came back to his senses from his contemplation. Then he quickly said to Green:

"I'm sorry, I was lost in thought. So, give me ten of the bombers you mentioned, and ten fighter jets as well. Send them directly to the port of Dammam in the Middle East. Is that okay with you?"

Green was very happy to have sold twenty planes at once. He immediately said:

"Twenty planes, right? OK, I'll notify the factory tomorrow and they'll produce them for you right away."

Lu Chen said with an unhappy look on his face: "We have just started production, don't you have any stock?"

Green smiled and said, "Airplanes are expensive and sold in small quantities, so we usually start production only after we receive an order. But don't worry, our production speed is still very fast. I will definitely build all 20 planes for you in less than two months."

Lu Chen said helplessly: "Okay, you guys hurry up with the production and try to hand over the plane to me before the end of this year."

Then, Lu Chen continued to ask: "By the way, how much does this plane cost?"

Green said, "Since you are buying so many planes at once, I will give you a lower price. For example, a bomber costs $5 and a fighter costs $1.5. What do you think?"

Lu Chen was a little surprised. He didn't expect that fighter jets would be much cheaper than bombers. Then Lu Chen immediately said:

"I want to buy fewer bombers, just five, and give me fifteen fighter planes."

After hearing Lu Chen's words, Green's face immediately fell. He said with a wry smile:

"That's fine. Twenty planes, $47.5 in total."

Lu Chen nodded and said, "This price is fine."

"Since you agree, please give me the advance payment."

Lu Chen asked, "Isn't it a matter of paying for the goods? You haven't even given me the plane, so how can I pay you?"

Green said: "For products like airplanes, which are high-value and not widely available, we require advance payment."

Lu Chen quickly waved his hands and said, "Brother Green, given our relationship, are you still afraid that I will default on my debt?"

Green insisted: "This is a rule that cannot be broken."

No matter how Lu Chen tried to persuade Green, he failed. In the end, Lu Chen had no choice but to give Green a $200,000 advance payment.