"As for the grain ......," Contini said, "this is indeed a problem, but don't worry too much, I have agreements with the Soviet Union and Turkey, and I can get a large amount of grain, and now the restriction is the transportation problem, but I believe that there is no problem with shipping - joint shipping has been established, and my requirement is to reach 300,000 tons of carrying capacity within 3 years, and 1 million tons within 5 years." ”

"You're always generous." "I feel that the United Group has become bigger and more comprehensive, and there is no European consortium that can match your business. ”

Contini smiled: "No one can compare with me in losing money, just half a year later, the financial director told me a loss of 1.6 billion lira, almost 80% of last year's quota was lost, and in the second half of the year, it is estimated that there will be a deficit of 1.8-1.9 billion lira." Of course, this is a paper loss, and I don't count the appreciation of some assets and land...... I don't aim to make money, we are a national policy foundation, the founder of the fascist cause, and the Italian miracle worker, so let's leave the unclassy thing of making money to Fiat. ”

Toth also laughed: This sentence has roots, Mussolini just made a speech two days ago, declaring that Libya is the lifeline of Italy, and he will defend him with "the last Italian life, the last lira", and also declared that the United Group is a typical model of Italy's construction and development of Libya.

"Doctor, when do you expect the pipeline to reach the Algerian oil fields at the earliest? It is said that the installation of the oil field there will be almost completed by September and October at the latest. ”

Toth gritted his teeth: "As long as the manpower and vehicles you promised me are in place, I promise to get the oil pipeline to the predetermined location by November." ”

"Okay, I'll wait for your good news, I'm going to have a showdown with the French in October."

"Showdown? What is the showdown? ”

"The French have been stuck with me about the transportation of crude oil, refusing to let me go to Algiers to build a port, nor can I pass through the oil pipeline......"

Toth was taken aback: he had always thought that Contini had already arranged to go to Tripoli, but he didn't expect such a big episode in the middle, so he said worriedly: "Are the French willing to give up?" ”

"It's impossible! Fight a war of words, an economic war, a political war, and maybe a military war. ”

"Military battles? Are the French crazy? ”

"They're going to buy the Algerian tribes, haven't the British been buying off the Libyan tribes lately?"

"What are you going to do if that's the case?"

"Oil Guard!" Contini was expressionless, "The 6,000-strong oil guards are not security guards, they are trained according to the regular army, even if the French send the Foreign Legion, I will touch the tiger's butt." ”

Toth shook his head in disbelief, but it was in line with the president's personality! Fascist youth leaders are so tough! Tough enough to leave you speechless!

"If the French push me too hard, I can figure out how to do it!" Contini smiled, "I brought a bunch of second-hand weapons this time, all of them from the last Austrian war, which we captured in the last war, but it was enough to send them to the Algerians to cause trouble for the French authorities, and by the way, there are also three treasures of the National Socialist Party - assault trucks, Sickert cocktails and Munich Ray!" This time I also upgraded a good thing. ”

"What's good?"

Contini whispered in his ear: "Suicide vest, I call him Briand vest, the person who wears it only needs to get close to you, and then with a light, the whole world is clean - for all ages!" ”

"Oh God!" Toth touched his forehead and marveled, he was also a member of the National Socialist Party, and of course he knew how powerful the three treasures of the National Socialist Party were: once the Wehrmacht Weimar was unable to move an inch, and half of the regiment was lost in vain, and now with the Briand vest, the French would really cry to death - France is good at everything, but it is afraid of the dead!

He also wondered why Contini wanted to tell him this, in fact, Contini thought that these things could not be hidden from Toth, he did not simply regard the other party as an employee of the United Group, this is the future head of the Tote organization, how can he not have a good relationship?

Now Toth also understands why Contini gave him the planning blueprints for North Africa to build so many airports, railway lines, military stations, material stations, fortifications and other things that are completely unneeded for economic construction - Your Excellency the President is preparing to fight the French in the desert!

However, with the left hand against the French and the British with the right hand, can the small Italy really stand up?

"So it depends on the courage, it is not possible to really fight, not to mention that Britain and France are together, even Italy alone cannot stand it, but if it is not a battle at the national level, the combat effectiveness of the joint group exceeds that of either side." Contini said proudly, "With my 6,000 oil guards armed with the German ** official corps, and with my annual loss of 3 billion lira, no one dares to argue with the United Group!" ”

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The so-called three plastic innovations in Contini's mouth are actually two knockoffs: the first is phenolic plastic, which was invented in the United States 20 years ago, and this year, just as the patent protection expired, United Plastics began mass production, the most typical is the shell of the United Radio; The second is aniline formaldehyde plastic, the invention was 6 years ago, although it is still in the patent protection period, but this is difficult for the president, he let the experts add a little messy material to become a new product, now mainly used in cables, insulation performance is very good; The third is PVC plastic, as early as 1912, the German chemist Colette has invented PVC and applied for a patent, but until the patent expired in 1925, Colette failed to figure out what to use for PVC, but in the joint laboratory, chemists from all walks of life use high boiling point solvents and trimethylphenol phosphate to heat and mix with PVC, which can be processed into soft PVC products, which is not a cottage but an improvement, Contini called it white plastic.

White plastic was soon used in United Properties, where they used PVC pipes in large quantities – plumbing, sewers, all white. Because the PVC pipe is easy to bend, the connection is also convenient, and there will be no rust water residue in the pipe, it is promoted by United Real Estate as a high-end product like aluminum alloy doors and windows. Now there are three criteria to distinguish high-end communities: first, whether the doors and windows are bright or not - aluminum alloy is very bright; Second, the water pipes are not white - the white ones are high-end goods like PVC, and the black ones are backward goods like cast iron pipes or galvanized pipes; Third, is there a telephone line in the unit?

United Film Company also created momentum for this kind of plot: whenever there is a high-end community in the shot, these prominent places must be filmed, so the movies of that time often saw the heroine to close the shiny aluminum alloy window, or must run out to answer the phone, this routine is taught by the president himself - called product placement soft advertising. That's what the little bourgeois of Italy eat!

What's more, the United Group also refused to sell these materials separately under the pretext of insufficient supply, which is only available in the community and the leader new village developed by United Real Estate itself, which makes everyone who buys a house have a sense of pride and is willing to contribute a premium to United Real Estate's residences - the president's fashionable phrase is called brand premium.

These routines were later the classic views of Italian management and marketing textbooks, and every footnote and example was a joint group, and it was not unfounded for later generations to tout Contini as a master of management and marketing. How did they know that His Excellency the President had stolen all this bit of goods from the afterlife, and what they didn't expect was that the President would actually introduce a large number of this high-grade white plastic water transportation in North Africa, where birds don't.

Of course, the use of plastic to transport water is not only to solve the current supply difficulties, Contini also has factors to consider for the future desert war: how to quickly form standardized, storable, impermeable, non-spoiled, small packaging, light and low-cost water tank materials, he has been trying to figure out for a long time, and now he is finally willing to take them out and use them.

If it is used well, he is also going to promote the packaged mineral water in small bottles, and if the advertising is a little better, it can be sold as a high-end product - is the person who buys it drinking water? People drink that mood and different feelings! Of course, the opaque PVC grade is not enough, and other transparent and safer new colors are needed, so the joint laboratory has to work at full capacity!