Chapter 101: Good Business Coming to the Door On

Li Guang accompanied Yuan Ran to spend a wonderful Christmas. Christmas in South America is not a place of snow and ice, but of a blazing sun. As for how wonderful it is, Li Guang said to the author, you can't say.

One night, after the clouds and rain stopped, Yuan Ran made a request to Li Guang to write a song for her. The little girl is jealous, and now Su Zizi is not red in the United States, but really purple.

A Titanic theme song "My Heart is Eternal" became popular all over the United States in just a few days, and more than a dozen Chinese songs launched by her performance team caused a sensation among the Chinese. The popularity of this song is simply beyond expectations, and in just a few days, even Uruguay, a corner of the world, can hear this song on the radio.

Now the fame of the Naval Resistance Army has been established in the United States, and hundreds of Chinese young people have asked to join the army or industry of the Naval Resistance Army. More than $300,000 has been raised in just a few days, and this number is still snowballing. And Su Zizi's single was actually bid $300,000 by a record company, which is a crazy mess.

Su Zizi's beautiful singing voice and beautiful appearance have now become the image ambassador of Chinese in the United States, and there are signs of developing in the direction of the goddess.

Li Guang could only smile bitterly at this request, he racked his brains to search for songs that were more suitable for this era in later generations, but most of them were male voices, and he didn't know much about the songs of female singers, so he made up a total of six songs for Su Zizi. The only song in English is "My Heart Is Eternal"

This kind of god-level song can kill audiences all over the United States as soon as it appears. Where can Li Guang find a god-level song that can be compared with it?

On New Year's Day, Li Guang accompanied Su Zizi to prepare to take a look at his manor (it was originally Laplace's property, but now it has become Li Guang's private property. But the Germans in the war now have to work, come to talk about business, and have an acquaintance.

Li Guangxi, this time the Germans got the news from Ramo that the lead-acid batteries produced by Li Guang are of excellent quality and are interested in buying technology or products.

At the beginning, Li Guang was introduced by Ramo that Claude approached him when he bought periscopes and sonar in Germany. Claude was in charge of procurement and other work at the German Admiralty at that time, and helped Li Guang a lot at that time. Later, Claude fanatically admired his FΓΌhrer, and even gave up his superior job to join the combat army, never to be contacted again.

At that time, after a few years, Li Guang saw Claude again, who was obviously in a bad situation, and actually came to Li Guang with an injury.

Claude was accompanied by the German minister to Argentina, Mokdol, who Li Guang had also met, and the two had contact not long ago during the incident of the Count Spee.

After a little greeting, Li Guang figured out that Claude was actually an officer on the Count Spee, and was sent to the hospital after arriving in Uruguay, so Li Guang did not see him. The German sailors aboard the Count Spees are still under residential surveillance in Argentina, and it is said that some of them will stay in Argentina, and some of them will insist on returning home to fight in the war.

Rameau's torpedo business is not booming now, because his torpedoes can only shoot three kilometers at a speed of 30 knots, and the quality gap between his torpedoes and Germany's electric mines is still relatively large. But the Germans once bought Rameau's torpedoes, and after disassembling and analyzing, it was found that Rameau's torpedoes were inferior to German torpedoes almost everywhere, but the battery quality surpassed German torpedoes.

The Germans sprang into action and eventually found Uruguay. The Germans analyzed that the lead-acid battery used by Rameau would have a 20 percent higher range than the existing one if it were used in the German G7 electric mines. This is already a very good statistic, and the Germans take it very seriously. Are Germans old-fashioned? No, this doesn't happen to be an acquaintance - Claude.

After the Germans expressed their intentions, Li Guang immediately became active. This battery can be used not only on torpedoes, but also on submarines. The amount is quite large, and it is very profitable.

Li Guang has not promoted this battery to the outside world, in fact, the battery has a wide range of uses, but Li Guang has been waiting for a profiteering opportunity. Civilian use is naturally large, but there is no military profit, and now the opportunity has come.

Sales technology, Li Guang did not hesitate to veto. Li Guang said that he was only willing to sell batteries, and gave two quality standards. One is used on the lightning mines of the Maritime Resistance Force, and the other is used on the submarines of the Maritime Resistance Force.

You must know that the batteries used by the Maritime Resistance Army on submarines are still better than the batteries sold to Rameau. The two batteries are actually one craft, except that the superior ones are singled out to equip torpedoes.

In the longing eyes of Claude and Mokdore, Li Guang quoted the price, 6,000 US dollars a ton for high-quality products and 3,000 US dollars a ton for normal products.

Claude knew that Li Guang's sales price for Rameau was 1,500 dollars. Immediately shouted: "Lee, this price is too much, the price should be the same as Ramo." ”

"You know, Mr. Claude, that Mr. Rameau saved my life, and the price I sold to Mr. Rameau not only did not make money, but it was also very much discounted. And my enterprise technology is advancing, and now the quality has been improved by a notch. ”

The war was in full swing, and Li Guang knew that the Germans must be in great need of this kind of battery. Used a day later, the loss was not only of the battleship, but also of lives. However, from the words of the two, Li Guang felt that the Germans had not yet considered equipping submarines with this kind of battery, which was the biggest use. A third of the displacement of a submarine (German submarines do not have such a high proportion now) are batteries, think of the German wolf pack, Li Guang's mouth is full of haras. You have to open up the market, you have to let the Germans use their own batteries for their submarines.

After a while, Li Guangdao: "I have always admired the rigor of German engineers, and I have always liked to buy German mechanical products, but I found a problem. ”

Li Guang paused for a moment, and then said: "It takes more than 80 million marks to build a Count of Spee, but it only sank 50,000 tons of merchant ships. As far as I know, you have a submarine that sank a British aircraft carrier at one time. There are also many submarines that sink tens of thousands of tons of merchant ships within a few months of the war. ”

Claude said: "The bravery of my country's submarine force is obvious to all, I don't know what Mr. Li said about this ......."

Li Guangdao: "I mean, your Admiralty failed math. The cost of one Count Spee is enough to build ten or twenty submarines, and the war efficiency is dozens of times higher. Presumably the Admiralty didn't learn math well enough. ”

The Germans, who had already penetrated rigor into their bones, naturally wanted to refute Li Guang's remarks.

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Claude hurriedly debated the German Admiralty's maintenance of the surname. Li Guang didn't understand, and Yuan Ran simply didn't translate this nonsense.

"As far as I know, your country's submarines can only sail underwater for three or four hours, and if you replace this kind of battery, I estimate that it can be increased by four or five times, that is, it can sail for more than ten hours."

"Looking ahead, the submarine has been in the water for more than ten hours, and the blockade line of the British [***] ship in the Atlantic Ocean is not like a decoration?"

These truths, not to mention Claude, a naval officer, but also the German minister Mokdor also understood them. But there was a problem, after the war began, Germany was short of cash, and it was impossible for Li Guang to accept payment from the Deutsche Mark.

Germany's foreign trade needs are much more important than batteries, and it is impossible to allocate a lot of dollars and pounds or even precious metals to buy batteries. In terms of currency, the Germans have a congenital deficiency, which is also one of the reasons for Germany's failure. So Li Guang's description is very tempting, but for two Germans, funds are limited, no matter how expensive or cheap, they can only buy two or three hundred tons of equipment torpedoes first.

Li Guang, who had already made up his mind, immediately came up with an idea to solve the problems of the German side.

Li Guang's idea was that Germany had now taken Poland, and the Czech Republic would soon be taken as well. Presumably, Germany seized a lot of weapons, and Li Guang was willing to buy these arms with batteries.

Claude said: "And what about the old German rifles? ”

"What model?"

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This gun is the Mauser 98K, the predecessor of the Zhongzheng rifle, and the bullet is the same. Now the Wehrmacht is using a modified short 98k, also called kar.98k. Since 1935, Germany began to be massively armed with kar.98k. But there was still a large stock of 98k rifles, which, according to Claude's memory, were twenty or thirty thousand in stock in the Admiralty alone. The entire German stock is probably no less than 100,000 pieces, or even more.

Naturally, this gun cannot be compared with the improved German surname, but it is definitely not inferior to the Zhongzheng rifle. It doesn't matter if it's old, as long as it's cheap. The German [***] team has few opportunities to fight bayonets, using short 98k, but in China's anti-Japanese battlefield, there are quite a lot of cases of fighting bayonet white-knuckle battles, and the old 98k rifles still have some effect due to the long body of the gun.

Minister Claude and Mockdor looked given carte blanche and the contract was signed very quickly. Germany was responsible for supplying Li Guang with rifles, light machine guns, heavy machine guns, mortars, infantry guns and other weapons and even bullets and shells. And Li Guang paid for the same value of the battery.

Due to this trade, deliveries were enormous, and transportation was not easy for Germany. Li Guang very kindly gave the Germans an idea, submarine transportation.

The Pixiu has transported explosives twice, and it should not be difficult for the submarine to transport it. Moreover, Li Guang said that he could also modify the battery of a German submarine on the spot. That is to say, as long as the German submarine arrives in Uruguay, then it can be replaced with excellent batteries on the return trip, and some lead-acid batteries can also be pulled back. Combat transport is not wrong.

Minister Mokdor said he would ask his superiors for instructions. However, Li Guang looked at Mokdol's expression and knew that his heart was moved. This kind of business is to take what the Germans don't look down on, in exchange for valuable lead-acid batteries, which is definitely good business and is of great benefit to Germany.

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