Chapter 76 Arms Procurement
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Before Wang Haitao could react, there was already applause in the office, and in the applause, Wang Haitao took an appointment document and an identity tag sent by Alfred.
After receiving these things, Alfred continued: "Because of your contribution to our Krupp company, Mr. Wang, I personally drew up a price list based on the unit price of weapons sent by my subordinates, and asked Mr. Wang to take a look. After speaking, Alfred picked up a form from his desk and handed it to Wang Haitao. This is what Wang Haitao really needs.
Wang Haitao took the form and looked at it seriously. It reads: 1. New pistols, 45 marks each, bullets, 5 rounds of 10 marks, 2. New rifles, 72 marks each, bullets, 3 rounds of 10 marks, 3. New submachine guns, 105 marks each, cartridges, 16 marks each, 4. New light machine guns, 165 marks each, drum cartridges, 30 marks each, bullets, 2 rounds of 10 marks, 5. New heavy machine guns, 310 marks each, cartridges, 15 marks each, bullets, 10 marks each.
Next is a long list of prices for various types of artillery, among which Wang Haitao is most concerned about only three types of artillery, namely, 75 mm infantry guns, with a unit price of 7,000 marks per gun and 80 marks per shell, 18 howitzers, 18,000 marks per gun, high-explosive shells, 120 marks per round, 140 marks per high-explosive bullet with steel balls, incendiary bombs, 90 marks per round, armor-piercing high-explosive shells, 180 marks per round, 150k18 heavy guns, 35,000 marks each, and 360 marks per high-explosive shell.
After reading it, Wang Haitao asked a key question, that is, how long it would take for Krupp to ship the weapons and ammunition he needed to Guangzhou. Only Lucas, the manager of the production department, could answer this question. When Lucas learned from Wang Haitao that he needed 500 new pistols, 10,000 new rifles, 2,000 new submachine guns, 200 new light machine guns, 50 new heavy machine guns, and a total of 100,000 rounds of ammunition.
There were also 200 75-mm infantry guns with 5,000 shells, 18 howitzers with 100 shells and 2,000 shells of various types, and 40 150k18 heavy guns with 4,000 shells.
Almost an hour later, Lucas finally calculated that the weapons Wang Haitao wanted would not be produced until half a year at the earliest, and it would take another month to ship them to Guangzhou, China. Wang Haitao is very satisfied that Krupp can deliver the goods in half a year, because this is a brand-new weapon, not only to build from a new plant, but also to have a new production line. That's why Krupp has this kind of strength.
As for the price, Wang Haitao can see that what Krupp provides is all cost price. Because the Fourth Army imported a K98K rifle cost twenty dollars, which is equivalent to eighty-four marks. What's more, it was this new rifle that cost seventy-two marks. The last time it was 10 rounds for a dollar, this time it was 13 rounds for a dollar. It seems that in their quotations with Bai Chongxi, they can still make a profit.
The next step was to sign a sales contract with the sales department, and at Wang Haitao's request, the guns and artillery were divided into two contracts. The total price of the arms purchase this time was 1,061,000 marks for guns and 6,880,000 marks for artillery. These marks are converted into more than $1.89 million. I still have four tons of gold in my hands, which should be much more than these dollars.
Thinking of this, Wang Haitao was relieved. When the manager of the sales department asked Wang Haitao how to pay for the goods, Wang Haitao said to Alfred: "Mr. Alfred, you must know that it is impossible for me to carry nearly two million dollars in cash on my body. However, I came to Germany this time and brought four tons of gold of three nine purity, and I don't plan to bring it back again, so I will leave it to your Krupp company to deal with. But I hope Krupp can give me a good price. ”
Wang Haitao's words made everyone present stunned, four tons of pure gold, what kind of concept is this, according to the official price is nearly five million US dollars, and the most lacking thing in the German treasury today is gold, but all countries are unwilling to transfer even one ounce of gold to Germany. After everyone was stunned for a while, Alfred, who had reacted, stared at Wang Haitao with glowing eyes and asked, "Where is the gold?"
Wang Haitao smiled and said: "I arrived in Germany from the port of Hamburg, and I naturally stayed in Hamburg with this gold. Alfred said, "In Hamburg?" and then shouted to his subordinates: "Go, gather my guards, bring the armored car, I'm going to Hamburg now, those things are too unsafe in Hamburg." Wang Haitao asked in surprise: "Mr. Alfred, do you mean to go to Hamburg now?"
Alfred said eagerly, "yes, right now, that thing isn't safe every minute in Hamburg." Wang Haitao shook his head helplessly, he completely underestimated the thirst for gold of these people in Germany. Alfred's words have already come to this, Wang Haitao can't oppose it if he wants to, so he has no choice but to accompany Alfred back to the hamburger once.
Just as Alfred was about to leave, Lucas stopped him. Because Krupp tried to produce a new tank, it was inseparable from Alfred's command and dispatch. After Alfred calmed down, he finally gave up his plan to go in person, and instead sent a deputy manager of the finance department and the captain of the escort team to accompany Wang Haitao to Hamburg.
When Wang Haitao and the deputy manager of the finance department walked out of the headquarters building of the Krupp company, a convoy of 200 people, ten ten-wheeled trucks, and two wheeled armed armored vehicles were already waiting downstairs, and in the front was a high-end BMW sedan. The assistant manager looked at it and said, "How did Mr. Alfred send out all his own car?"
Wang Haitao got into the BMW car speechlessly, and the sedan drove outside the city of Essen under the protection of the escort team. Along the way, the deputy manager patted Wang Haitao's ass intentionally or unintentionally, but Wang Haitao had no intention of answering him. Wang Haitao closed his eyes by pretending to sleep, thinking about how to take out all four tons of gold from the storage ring in Hamburg without realizing it.
Wang Haitao, who thought about it, didn't come up with a good idea. At this time, the convoy was not moving fast, firstly because the roads were not very good, and secondly, because the speed of the armored vehicles was too slow. At eight o'clock in the evening, the convoy had only traveled more than half of the way to a small city called Lona, and Wang Haitao asked the driver, which was still 160 kilometers away from Hamburg, and the captain of the escort team decided to rest here for one night and set off again tomorrow morning. Finally, Wang Haitao's opportunity came.
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