Chapter 136 Yang Feng's American Industry
Of course, the production process can be patented, and Richard knows this better than Yang Feng, so when Yang Feng said this, he smiled and raised his wine glass.
The two profiteers tacitly agreed not to say anything more, but lightly touched the wine glass, and then drank the wine in the glass.
"Yang, there won't be only one way to produce penicillin, right?" Richard said.
"But what I offer is the most suitable for mass production." Yang Feng certainly understood his concerns.
"Then I'll be relieved." Richard said.
To be honest, Yang Feng was also a little surprised that the secret of penicillin was exposed so quickly, but fortunately, he had always been prepared, all the information on Pfizer's penicillin production process was stored in his computer, and the computer and printer were hidden in the box formed by the shuttle, which was nothing more than a printout.
The train finally arrived at Grand Central Station in New York a week later, and under the flashing lights of reporters, Yang Feng, dressed in a golden dragon stand-up collar, carried a diamond-encrusted cane in one hand and Margaret's small waist in the other, and shouted loudly to the welcoming crowd with his trademark wicked smile: "I, Yang Feng, am back." ”
The scale of his welcome here is far greater than that of San Francisco, and the frenzied patent application a year ago is still fresh in the memory of New Yorkers, and the new techniques he brought with him are like a drop of water in the population of a dying person in the desert, and the economy of the stagnant water of the United States suddenly shakes, although only a little, but it makes everyone excited.
And what will he bring this time? Everyone was looking forward to it, and even some newspapers began to speculate, and sure enough, Yang Feng did not disappoint them, at the train station. Just like the last time he announced streptomycin, he announced in a high-profile manner that Yanhuang Labs had launched a new antibiotic, oxytetracycline.
And he also admitted very frankly that the Tianyi Divine Water he sold was actually the penicillin discovered by Fleming, not only that, but Yanhuang Laboratory also found a way to produce it on a large scale. If his patent for the production process can be granted.
"Then, its price will be reduced to at least 10% of what it is now." Yang Feng raised his fingers and shouted.
The reporters who were interviewing him were completely stunned, knowing that in the American market, the price of Tianyi Shenshui or penicillin is 50 dollars for an injection, and countless patients can only wait to die because they cannot afford the medical bills, and if it drops to 5 dollars, how many lives will have to be saved.
"Yang. That's too low, isn't it? I think one out of five is appropriate. Little Anderson, who came to greet him, said with a frown.
"George, you'll know when the time comes, and we'll be a little unbearable to earn five dollars." Yang Feng said with a smile.
After the show at the train station, he boarded the Lincoln sent by JY to greet him and drove straight to his New York residence, a small four-story classical-style building with a sizable garden and, most importantly, a large basement.
Fluttershy is already waiting at the door. Although she was not as unscrupulous as Margaret, she still couldn't help but throw herself into Yang Feng's arms. Lin Yin, who came with Yang Feng, was stimulated again.
After comforting Fluttershy, Yang Feng then went to his silver vault, where three-quarters of his family property was stored in this time and space, and more than 100 tons of silver were neatly stacked in the basement like bricks, all of which were large silver ingots of 100 kilograms. Seemingly with a straight eye, Margaret, who came in together, screamed and threw herself directly into the silver pile.
Lin Yin was also stunned.
"How much money do you have?" She looked at Yang Feng in disbelief.
"It's not much, it's only a hundred tons, just so-so and just eat!" Yang Feng said modestly.
Lin Yin almost fainted, her family's hundreds of thousands of oceans of wealth were already considered rich. This product is actually a ton of money.
Yang Feng ignored these women who were dazzled by the silver silver, but turned back to Principal Wu who was holding a small teapot and said, "Old man, I have a lot of work for you." ”
The person he trusts the most now is President Wu, an old scholar who has been cultivated by the thoughts of ancient benevolence, righteousness, loyalty, and loyalty in China, which is naturally not comparable to those modern scumbags.
"Don't say such kind words, it's just a matter of duty." The old man waved his hand and said: "When are you going to sell this silver, the price of silver in the United States is now more than eighty cents, and after deducting the depreciation of the dollar, we have also doubled." ”
"A dollar!" Yang Feng stretched out his finger and said.
"But it's ruined our country!" The old man sighed and said, he is not the kind of sour talent who knows nothing about modern knowledge, so he can naturally imagine the impact of the soaring silver price on China's economy.
"There is no way, the country is weak, and it can only be bullied by others, isn't the national government protesting and appealing? Did the Americans take care of it? You see if this is going to be replaced by Japan, will they seriously think about it, and if they provoke it, the Japanese will use the fleet to speak. Yang Feng shrugged and said.
It's okay to think about the things that worry about the country and the people once in a while, making money is the most important thing, slipped out of Margarit, who was already arching into the silver pile, and pushed Lin Yin, who was also dizzy, out of the basement, and the two security guards brought by Principal Wu from the country closed the heavy irons, and the group returned to the living room.
Not long after she sat down, Lin Yin's uncle came to pick her up.
Her uncle, Lu Yongnian, has a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard, has just joined JPMorgan Bank, married a foreign girl, and now lives in New York.
"Brother Lu, are you interested in giving me a job?" Yang Feng was talking about this generation, and Lin Yin on the side gritted his teeth.
"Mr. Yang is preparing to enter the U.S. financial industry?" Lu Yongnian asked suspiciously.
"I'm going to start an investment fund, but I don't have a trustworthy manager right now, and I don't have the talent to do that yet."
"So how much money am I able to mobilize?"
Yang Feng raised his hand and motioned for Lin Yin to speak.
"You have one hundred and forty tons of silver under your feet!" Lin Yin said angrily.
Lu Yongnian gasped.
"Actually, there was more than that, some time ago because of the urgency, I sold a part, of course, all this money will not be invested in the fund, you can mobilize about 30 million US dollars, specifically to invest in those American companies, I will give you a detailed plan in the future." Yang Feng said with a reserved face.
The investment objective is well defined. Looking for those companies that are more miserable now, but have a promising future in the future, you only need to go back and check more history to know the way, but there is one thing that you need to pay attention to, because your own appearance has been troubled, or you can't invest in the company that is preparing for disaster in the future.
Lu Yongnian is naturally happy with this kind of good thing. He was just an ordinary clerk at Morgan, but under Yang Feng, he could mobilize $30 million, which was a predator even on Wall Street.
Yang Feng's schedule was also very tight, and the next day he invited all the American industrial and commercial tycoons who hooked up with him to his home for a dinner, which was regarded as a meeting, and then began to inspect his various industries.
The first, of course, is Detroit.
Cherokee Automobile Company, Boss Yang looked at the busy production line with great satisfaction, the conscientious American workers, and the Wrangler Jeep that was being assembled. Then he patted the manager Lockhart on the shoulder and said, "Well done, you will be rewarded with five percent of the profit at the end of the year." ”
"Boss, shouldn't we expand the scale, now the product is in short supply at all, I think two more production lines can meet the market demand, you don't know that those western cowboys love this car." Lockhart said excitedly.
"Two is a bit too much, just add one more." Yang Feng thought about it and said that it was indeed time to expand production. Otherwise, it will not be available for domestic use.
"Can we expand the product range? For example, cars, trucks. Or even a luxury car? Lockhart asked expectantly.
"No, no, we only do dirt bikes and nothing else." Yang Feng shook his head.
"For what? We have this ability, and we also have a certain brand effect, and we can continue to grow bigger. "Lockhart didn't understand.
"Lockhart. We're a small factory, so the big crocodiles won't care about us, and they don't have the cars we make, so they won't pay much attention to us, but if we go to their territory to hunt. Then they will not hesitate to tear us to shreds, do you think we will be able to withstand GM or Ford? Yang Feng said earnestly.
"Boss, in fact, I think that with JY as the backing, you are fully capable of competing with them." Lockhart is very aware of JY's ability to absorb gold, dozens of bottles of shampoo can be exchanged for a car, and he doesn't believe that the cost of that shampoo can be one-tenth of that of a Wrangler.
"No, no, I don't want to compete with anyone." Yang Feng shook his head and said: "Lockhart, in fact, you should change your thinking, what you are worried about now is nothing more than a single product, but why don't you think of a way to do it on an off-road vehicle?" Why can't an off-road vehicle be more luxurious? Would the rich like to drive the Wrangler around the wilderness? How do you show who they are?
You can tailor a luxury off-road vehicle for them, with a bigger engine, a more spacious cabin, a more luxurious interior, with a brand new brand, Land Rover is a good name! The new model is called Land Rover, and LUHU writes so, and I'll draw you a sketch of the style in a moment. "Yang Feng's version of the Land Rover was born.
As for the sketch, Yang Fengxin naturally drew a Range Rover by hand, and then nodded with satisfaction with his painting skills.
"Just design according to this style, don't be afraid of fuel consumption, you must use a large engine, if you can't use eight cylinders, use twelve cylinders, and then use turbocharging, I will get you a batch of aluminum alloy, and a large number of aluminum alloys can be used in the structure, as for the pricing, it will be set according to the price that makes you feel sorry for your conscience." Yang Feng said as he handed the graffiti-like sketch of the deputy elementary school student to Lockhart.
After inspecting the car factory, it was the turn to negotiate with Pratt & Whitney's engine, Kelly Johnson went all the way from the West Coast to the East Coast, mainly to determine the engine, in fact, the engine has been basically determined, using Pratt & Whitney's R1535 engine, a single power of 750 horsepower, so that he can use four engines, with a total power of 3000 horsepower, so that his four-engine airliner in terms of performance, fully overwhelmed the Douglas DC3 that uses two 1200 horsepower R1830 engines.
However, Yang Feng was still a little unhappy in his heart, thinking that he would have to spend money to buy an inclusive engine in the future, he had a deep sense of humiliation, Nima, modern Chinese can't play people, they can't cross and can't play them!
"Kelly. We must think about producing our own engines! On the train to Hartford, Yang Feng said to Kelly Johnson in a serious manner.
Kelly agrees with this, but the aero engine is not an ordinary cutting-edge thing, not a company can produce it, and now several major engine manufacturers in the United States have a deep background, Curtislet needless to say. The airplane was invented by Wright.
Pratt & Whitney is the result of Curtislett's former general manager and a group of engineers standing on his own, behind Allison stands General Motors, and the rest of Westinghouse is also a bull who can compete with General Electric, no matter how you look at Lockheed in this industry, there is little hope.
"It's really hard for us to develop much in the field of traditional piston engines, but we still have a lot to do in the field of new concept engines, such as jet engines." Yang Feng said lightly.
"You mean the Whittle engine?" Kelly Johnson also seems to be well-informed, with Whittle's turbojet engine just a few years after it was patented. No one has paid attention to him yet, and it is indeed surprising that Kelly Johnson can know that he is in the road.
"Yes, our Yanhuang laboratory is actually already designing turbojet engines, and even has some results, and it is estimated that it will take another two or three years to be able to come up with samples, but you also know that China's industrial base is too poor. So I'm still ready to move the follow-up work to the United States.
I'm going to set up a separate engine division at Lockheed, and this time when I go back. We'll pass through the UK and see if we can contact Whittle and ask him to come to the United States to take charge of our engine project.
Of course, if he doesn't want to do it, we'll have to do it ourselves, so during this time. You have to pay attention to absorbing as much engine talent as possible, and we have designed a high-power piston engine in our lab, but it's not done yet, and I'll bring it when it's done, before our jet engine is developed. Let's start with a small-scale trial production of this engine. Yang Feng said with a serious face.
"How powerful is the engine in your lab design?" Kelly Johnson asked curiously.
"It's huge, 18 cylinders, almost two thousand horsepower!" Yang Feng said with a cruel smile, this is his revenge for Pratt & Whitney to make his money, go back and see if you can buy a few R2800 engines, it is estimated that this thing should not be impossible to build with the current level of technology, isn't it more than two years earlier?
But he didn't expect to make money with this thing, I'm afraid there will be a lot of patent issues involving Pratt & Whitney, but it's okay to take this thing to blackmail Pratt & Whitney, either obediently pay for it, or Lao Tzu will use this kind of engine to find others to cooperate, I believe that Curtis, Allison These companies will be very welcome.
Kelly didn't know that the boss next to him was thinking about how to take revenge on the partner he was about to meet, he was already scared by the eighteen-cylinder 2,000 horsepower, if there was really such a high-power engine, then how many ideals he could achieve could be realized!
There were no twists and turns in the negotiation process, and who would refuse business if Pratt & Whitney supplied engines to any aircraft manufacturing company? The parties quickly confirmed contracts for the R1535 engine for the passenger aircraft, as well as the R1830 engine for the bomber and fighter jet.
Kelly Johnson designed a four-engine bomber, Yang Feng read his design again, and remembered what this thing was, isn't this the B24 Liberator?
Kelly Johnson still chose the P38 for the fighter, and it seems that it is no accident that he later designed the Twin Demon in history, and this product does have a preference for twin-engine fighters.
Yang Feng didn't care much about this, so he rushed to P38 and later killed Yamamoto's results, and it was also very good to produce such a fighter.
After returning to New York from Pratt & Whitney, Yang Feng and Kelly Johnson boarded a train together and traveled to Georgia Asia to inspect his aviation school, along with Huang Zhiying.
Originally, Yang Feng wanted to come back with Situ Meitang, but he obviously underestimated the identity of this Hongmen boss, there were too many juniors in China, how could he come back so quickly, so he was quickly invited by Chen Jitang from Guangdong.
The aviation school is not far from Atlanta, it was originally a farm, and it was later bought by JY Company to build an aircraft factory, and some houses were built around it, surrounded by fences, and the instructors were all retired US military pilots with combat experience, and there were currently more than 200 cadets, half of whom were overseas Chinese children, and half were selected and sent by Yang Feng from China.
The airport is filled with all sorts of aircraft, from Ford three-engine airliners to the latest Hawker biplanes.
The person in charge of the school is a retired lieutenant colonel of the U.S. Army, who has shot down six German fighters in the European theater before, but then he was shot down by others, and lost an arm.
"Woolf, how are these lads compared to when you first went into battle?" Yang Feng looked at the dogfighting plane in the sky with great interest and asked the principal next to him.
"Mr. Yang, before I went to the battlefield, I flew less than two hundred hours in total, and they flew at least two hours every day, our school has been open for almost a year, what do you say will happen to their skills?" Woolf said proudly.
"So they're ready to go to war?"
"Absolutely!"
"In that case, should I consider buying more fighters? In fact, in this day and age, Hawke is still very useful. Yang Feng said to himself.
He should indeed increase his air power now, because soon the national government will begin to levy a silver export tax and a balance tax, and the silver smuggling in eastern Hebei is about to enter its peak, and he is not ready to cheap the Japanese for this kind of good thing, and the Chinese army cannot enter eastern Hebei, but the security brigade is not an army, and it is still possible to join forces with the customs anti-smuggling team to go to eastern Hebei to engage in armed anti-smuggling, and when the time comes, the seized silver will be commissioned, which can not only increase income, but also train soldiers, killing two birds with one stone.
However, in this way, it was inevitable that there would be a head-on clash with the Japanese army, and it was necessary to do a good job of precautionary work, and hoarded hundreds of fighters and bombers in Beiping and Tianjin, so that the Japanese would also be more cool-headed. (To be continued......)