Chapter 241 Establishment of a factory in Germany
The arms business is different from ordinary business in that it has a strong special surname and political factor, and it must also take a long-term view, especially in terms of the weapons that it is best at, as the United States has done, selling its most advanced F-14 and Immortal Bird missiles to an unstable political system, and the result will be that it will have to tie its hands and would rather make less money, and such a mistake of financing the enemy cannot be made.
Although North Korea is said to be an ally of China in geopolitics, coupled with the political system, it should be closer to China than Pakistan and China, but it is a pity that under the control of the Kim family father and son, North Korea is always trying to hold China hostage, feeling that they have made a buffer zone for China, and China should give them everything, in Su Ming's words, they lack a grateful heart, if it wasn't for the fact that we sacrificed so many heroic soldiers to help you, your Kim dynasty would have perished a long time ago, and you didn't even think about repaying the favor, On the contrary, this is what should be done.
And you say that they are reckless in their military force, and the people lack clothes and eat less, even the soldiers can't eat enough and wear well, even if there are more such soldiers, what combat effectiveness can they have, but in the eyes of the Jin family father and son, the army is just a tool for them to maintain their rule, and they don't require strong combat effectiveness to the outside world, just suppress the people's resistance, as for the invasion of foreign enemies, no matter how many troops there are, it is useless, and in the end they still have to rely on China to send troops.
Knowing this, people still don't like China, coupled with the tremendous changes in China's development thinking, the aid to them is no longer responsive, and it is normal for the two countries to be indifferent, but North Korea also knows that there was another backer to rely on in the past, the Soviet Union, and now that the Soviet Union has collapsed, Russia is about to be unable to protect itself.
He thought about extending an olive branch to the United States, but unfortunately the American system decided that they would never accept his friendship, and after turning around, North Korea found that it was still the one in the west who was more reliable, and hurriedly turned his head to curry favor with China, but unfortunately it was too late.
Not to mention anything else, just China's huge manpower and material resources to bid for the 2000 Olympic Games are enough to make people angry, I thought it was quite certain, but it turned out to be stabbed in the back by North Korea, and Sydney is only two votes, if it is not for North Korea to vote for Sydney, then the two sides are a draw, at this time it will be decided by the Olympic Committee President Samaranch, but Samaranch is on the side of China, and North Korea made such a move, is to retaliate against China and South Korea to establish diplomatic relations, Fortunately, he was not arrogant enough to really establish a relationship with Taiwan, otherwise it would not have been the result of indifference to them.
A country is fully in the hands of one person, and its actions are the most unpredictable and graspable, so this kind of country can never be trusted, not to mention that you want to be cheaper, even if you can't give you more money, maybe you will use this game to change the villa that day.
In addition to North Korea, among China's neighboring countries, except for Pakistan, Su Ming doesn't want to sell to them, after all, who knows if it will become an enemy, especially many countries have disputes with China either in territory or in territorial waters, and if they sell to them, they may become treason.
In addition, there will be no problems selling in Europe and the Middle East, and now everyone knows the truth of long-distance friendship and close attack, especially in European countries, the political situation is relatively stable, and they also pay great attention to business reputation, so Su Ming thought about the order from Austria and thought about it, and it was more appropriate to win it.
But in this way, we have to negotiate with Wigmann, which originally said that the entire European market will be promoted by you, but now a Rheinmetall company has emerged, and they have also contacted the business, so Su Ming has to act as a mediator in the past, presiding over the negotiation meeting between the two companies.
Su Ming excused himself several times, unwilling to go over, but the German side knew why Su Ming was unwilling, and directly contacted a US military transport plane, which was personally invited by Mr. Wiegmann, accompanied by a colonel intelligence staff officer of the German Ministry of Defense, to prove to Su Ming that there would be absolutely no problems on this trip, and that Europe was not the Middle East, and even the CIA would not dare to mess around.
In this case, let's go for a trip, Su Ming just wants to set up a large-scale processing plant in Germany, the professional quality of German workers is the world's top, and the machining and design and manufacturing aspects are also very neat and strict side, in addition, Germany is also excellent in the steel industry, Su Ming wants to establish an Odin fuselage production base there.
On the one hand, the domestic production capacity is close to saturation, and the core part of Su Ming is not ready to be put in other places, so Su Ming wants to mainly produce PW-S engine components in China, Thor's shell is produced here, and Odin's is put in Germany, and now it seems that Odin's main market may be in Europe, except for domestic, other countries are not interested in this weapon, basically the same price, why not buy a flying Thor.
However, the Germans' approach can't be said to be wrong, first equip the one that can run, after all, this is a weapon that has never appeared on the battlefield, compared to the one that can fly, it is certainly not safe to run, and after getting used to it, it will slowly become too much to fly, and Odin is not unable to transform into a person who can fly, it can only be said that people are cautious and orderly.
Mr. Wigman came over, and also had the intention of communicating with Su Ming first, for the behavior of the Rheinland Company, Wiegman Company was naturally very dissatisfied, but people have basically got the order, and it will be too late for them to tackle the problem, so it is better to see how to negotiate to solve this matter and try to protect the interests of Wigman Company.
Wigman means that Rheinmetall is limited to this business, you can only do the Austrian business, and leave this field after you are done, because at the beginning, Wiegman took the initiative to cooperate with Su, and the conditions were so good, that is, it took a fancy to the development potential of this weapon, and now Odin is only a land combat type, and it can be developed to an amphibious type in the future, and it does not necessarily have to be an air combat model.
At this time, the German Ministry of Defense has begun to carry out this aspect of the demonstration, once the demonstration is feasible, the German Ministry of Defense will once again allocate a large amount of research funds for the development of amphibious amphibious amphibious air and land mechas, at that time the order is not only a few hundred, the Air Force and the Army need to be equipped, at least a few thousand.
Moreover, the tactics of long-range maneuvering with large transport aircraft as carriers and airborne in close combat are also being demonstrated, and for countries like Germany, which lack a navy, this tactic can effectively solve the problem of insufficient long-range delivery capabilities and can play a role in replacing aircraft carriers.
Rheinmetall also saw this, and began to pay attention to it, they were not willing to be just a small arms supplier, the benefits were taken by Wiegmann, through their good relationship with the Ministry of Defense, after obtaining a lot of data, successfully lobbied the Austrian political axe.
Wiegman told Su Ming that Rheinmetall's connections in Europe are far inferior to theirs, Austria is just an accident, and their strength in Austria is not inferior to Rheinmetall, but they are preconceived, and they are also working hard to sell this weapon to the political axes of various countries, and Belgium and Finland political axes are interested in purchasing this future-oriented cross-century combat weapon, hoping that Su Ming can stand on his side and put pressure on each other together.
Su Ming shook his head, signaling that he couldn't do that, no matter when he didn't put his eggs in one basket, this is Su Ming's consistent principle, why Wigman has such a wide range of contacts, but Rheinmetall can secretly get Austria's intention to order, which shows that Wigman Company did not do the work in front, which led to this incident, of course, at present, Wigman Company is wholeheartedly dealing with German orders This is also one thing, the main reason is that the European market is his anyway, You can expand whenever you want, which is the evil result of insufficient competition and slackness.
Just like now, as soon as I saw that Rheinmetall had received orders from Austria, I was afraid that they would get orders from other countries, so I hurried up and immediately got results, otherwise I don't know when I would have to wait, sometimes active sales and people come to the door are two different concepts.
Of course, it is good for people to take the initiative to come to the door, indicating that their products are not worried about selling, but once they develop this kind of slack thinking and habits, they will become less proactive in the later stage, and now they are not afraid of monopolizing the surname, but it is impossible to monopolize forever.
Therefore, it is very necessary for Su Ming to find a competitor for Wigman Company, lest they not work hard to promote, and besides, the majority of the profits are here anyway, no matter who they cooperate with, it doesn't matter, of course, since cooperating with Wigman Company, Su Ming feels very happy, and the necessary bias should also be there.
Su Ming also told Wiegman his thoughts, and when he heard that Su Ming was going to set up a factory in Germany, Wiegman was very happy, and hurriedly packed a ticket for Su Ming, assuring Su Ming that as long as it was in Germany, Su Ming didn't have to worry about all the problems, and Wiegman could help to the end.
After the intelligence staff officer found out, he also seemed very interested, because of Su Ming's identity, someone has always made a fuss about it, such an important weapon, handed over to a company with a red background, in their opinion, this is unacceptable, this is also an important problem that hinders Odin's purchase, if Su Shi sets up a factory in Germany, then this problem is not so serious.
(To be continued)