Episode 133 The Jade Flower Age

After Xiang Xiaoqiang saw the "Vulture" dive bomber, that is, the Ming model of Stuka, he looked at BF-. Compared with the "Vulture", the prototype production of BF-109 lagged a little behind, and now it is still being assembled, and no finished product has rolled off the assembly line. However, according to the Nine-Colored Deer Company, the prototype of this fighter is also very fast, and there should be no problem before mid-July.

"Okay, do it with your heart," Xiang Xiaoqiang shook hands with the executives of the nine-colored deer who came to see him off one by one at the airport when he left, and said solemnly, "At present, the biggest military advantage of our Ming Dynasty over the Manchu Qing is air supremacy. So you don't produce airplanes, you produce air supremacy. Whether we can hold the last piece of free land in the East and settle the Central Plains as soon as possible depends to a large extent on what you have on your production line. Come on, gentlemen. ”

Although there are exaggerated ingredients, Xiang Xiaoqiang said quite devotedly, and several nine-colored deer executives present also solemnly promised that they would do their best to make these two world-leading aircraft the best in Daming, make Daming's own, and fully undertake their own historical mission, live up to His Majesty's grace, and live up to the expectations of the people.

After saying goodbye, Xiang Xiaoqiang and his party boarded the DC-3 transport plane and returned to Nanjing.

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Next, it is the most important part of the entire Ming Army's equipment upgrade, and it is also the highlight that costs the most money on a single purchase after the Navy's shipbuilding. That is - army military vehicles.

A military vehicle is not the same as an airplane tank. Aircraft, tanks, armored vehicles are too high-tech, and require quite high investment, the threshold is too high, so there are only a few military enterprises that can produce aircraft and tanks in the Ming Dynasty. And this time, the Ming army has such a large-scale overall redress, and those relatively small military industrial enterprises have no strength to undertake it. So there was no tender, but naturally - aircraft: nine-colored deer, tank: Tai Ping Ji, it was none other than them.

But military vehicles are different. The technological content of cars is very low, and the capital investment in the production of cars is much lower than that for the production of aircraft tanks. So there are many more car companies in Daming. Although Yuhua Cong is the largest domestic automobile manufacturer in Daming, it has not formed an absolute advantage in their respective fields like Jiuselu and Taiping Ji. Moreover, since the general mobilization, the country's industry has entered a wartime state, and there are three automobile companies with a monthly output of more than 1,000 vehicles. And sixty or seventy percent of Damingyue's cars are also from these three automobile companies.

That is to say, there are at least three automobile companies that have the ability to take orders for 35,000 military vehicles. In this case, it will be time to conduct a tender.

Xiang Xiaoqiang naturally wanted Yuhua Cong to take over this order. But obvious fraud certainly doesn't work. This kind of thing is not a joke, if you don't get it right, you have to get off the horse and go in. Once he is involved in the crime of corruption and fraud, even Zhu Yourong will not be able to protect him. Although Xiang Xiaoqiang and Zheng Yuxuan have nothing to do with each other on the surface, sooner or later their relationship will be made public, and Zheng Yuzhang will marry into his own family sooner or later. And even now, if you want to implement your own mineral plan, you have to work closely with Jung Kyung-in. If you want to see the money you make from the minerals, you have to publicly invest in Zheng's Mining Company.

Anyway, the relationship between himself and the Zheng family can't be hidden from the outside world for long. Therefore, even if Yuhuacong is chosen for this military vehicle bidding, it must be done fairly, so that all parties, especially the Metropolitan Procuratorate, cannot find fault.

Therefore, he found Zheng Yuxuan in the Liaoyang Princess Mansion and "had a meeting" with her, explaining that she must play the role of the largest shareholder and exert pressure on the board of directors to let them reduce the unit price of Yuhuacong's military vehicles, and the quality and performance cannot be reduced. It doesn't matter if you make less, don't make money, or even lose money. As long as the company can hold on and not go bankrupt, it must force the other two car companies to retreat and get this order.

When Zheng Yuxuan, a girl who is a fan of wealth, heard him say this, her mouth opened into an O-shape, her eyes widened, and she was about to go crazy, and told Xiaoqiang: Although these 30,000 military vehicles sound astronomical in every automobile company, for the Ming army, it is just the beginning. promised Xiaoqiang that there would be a second 30,000, a third 30,000, and a fourth 30,000...... Orders will be placed in the next few years. Therefore, as long as Yuhuacong received the first large order of the Ming army, then Yuhuacong became the standard military vehicle manufacturer of the Ming army. In order to reduce logistical pressure and facilitate maintenance and maintenance, the military will try to use military vehicles of the same brand and model as much as possible. So in the future, whether it is to purchase another 50,000 or 100,000 vehicles, most of them will still use Yuhua congregation.

Of course, the production capacity of Yuhua Cong alone cannot reach so much. When a war really starts, the government will not care what kind of car or company's products it is, and will definitely use all the country's automobile production lines to produce standard military vehicles for the army. But even so, every standard military vehicle produced is still Yuhua Chong's, and the drawings, standards, intellectual property rights, etc. are still Yuhuacong's. Yuhua Chong is still the largest piece of cake that can be slice of this wartime mass production. And even after the war, Yuhua Chong will take advantage of the war to become one of the most influential big brands in the world.

Xiang Xiaoqiang was a little stronger, and Zheng Yuxuan immediately understood. But she still had some doubts about how the Ming army could be equipped with so many cars. There is no such thing in the armies of any country in the world now. But Xiang Xiaoqiang smiled slightly and said:

"Yes, there is no such thing in the whole world. But I say that the army will be the first army to be so highly motorized. Do you believe it or not? ”

Zheng Yuxuan squinted his eyes and looked at him suspiciously, and at the same time, his mind began to recall the various influences he had on Daming, and recalled the things he had done. Then I thought about his relationship with his cousin......

She grinned, nodded, put her forehead against his chest with a smile, and said very meekly:

"Well, of course I did. You ...... to your lordship Who's that, right? ”

Xiang Xiaoqiang smiled, stroked her back, and was about to take the opportunity to shake a few more words, when he heard Zheng Yuxuan in his arms continue to laugh:

“…… Anyway, you're so good at making money, and you're speculating in futures, and now you're partnering with my dad to open a mine...... Anyway, I can see it, if you give it a year or two, you can earn a Yuhua Cong company. What am I afraid of? Anyway, it's you, hehehe, hehehe......"

Xiang Xiaoqiang was dumbfounded. With the meaning of this Nizi, how much I will lose at that time will be counted as my Xiang Xiaoqiang......

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In early July, 35,000 standard military vehicles of the Daming Emperor ** team were purchased in large quantities and began to bid for bidding from automobile manufacturers across the country. Chief among them is 24,000 standard 5-ton trucks. Then there are 6,000 trucks of other tonnage, such as 8 tons, 10 tons, 3 tons, 2.5 tons...... In addition, there are 5,000 chief cars.

The so-called "chief's car" is actually a small off-road vehicle that is mainly ridden by officers. This type of car is called a "cylinder car" in the German military and a "jeep" in the US military. It's just that the American company "Willis" has not yet produced the kind of "Jeep" car that later became synonymous with off-road vehicles, so there is no such thing as a "Jeep" now. In Daming, this kind of car is called "chief car".

At present, the chief car used by the Ming army is not from Yuhua Cong. The army was not very satisfied with it, because the chief car in service was not very cost-effective. First of all, the unit price is higher, and the purchase price of one car is nearly 1500 Mingyang. And it's dual-drive, and the off-road ability is not enough.

In fact, it is now the thirties, and the armies of various countries have not been equipped with cars for a long time, and there are not many wars in which cars have participated, so military commanders' cars are still the same as civilian cars, with dual-wheel drive as the mainstream. But the Ming army had its special requirements. Whether it is a vehicle or a tank equipped by the Ming army, one of the characteristics is that it has high requirements for cross-country ability.

This is determined by the geographical conditions of Nanming. Most of the Southern Ming Dynasty is mountainous, and a small part of the plains are also covered by hills and water networks, and it is located in the subtropics, with a lot of precipitation. The lightning tanks of the Ming army are also wide-tracked, so for cars, the requirements for cross-country ability will not be low.

In this tender, it was proposed that the chief's car must be four-wheel drive. This also achieves a true "off-road vehicle" standard.

Xiang Xiaoqiang revealed the whole story to Zheng Yuxuan. As a result, Zheng Yuxuan, who usually doesn't care about the company's affairs, was like crazy during this time, and simply flew from Nanjing to the headquarters of Yuhuacong in Guangdong, and soaked in the board of directors all day long, forcing them to improve quality and reduce prices. One of the things she said the most was:

"I am willing, Lord of the County! If you lose money, it's mine! ”

As a result, in the prototype test in mid-July, several military vehicles of Yuhua Cong Company impressed the top level of the army, the General Administration of Military Industry, and the People's Guard with excellent performance. However, the senior management naturally began to worry about whether the unit price would be relatively high with such excellent performance. Military products are different from civilian ones, and military products are purchased in large quantities. If the unit price is a little higher, the total price will be much more expensive, and it may be unaffordable.

But Yuhuacong's offer once again convinced these people. The unit price of a four-wheel drive officer car is 850 Mingyang, and the unit price of a 5-ton military truck is 1240 Mingyang. The average unit price of several other non-standard tonnage military trucks is also 15%-20% lower than that of the other two brands.

So this military vehicle procurement, 35,000 orders belonged to Yuhua Cong Automobile Company without any suspense.

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After the calibration, a press conference was held to announce the decision of the Army. The press conference was held at 8:30 a.m. When the stock market opened at nine o'clock, Yuhuacong's stock price immediately rose wildly. By the time the morning closed, it had more than doubled.