At this time, the head of the marketing department was particularly excited. Once this thing is done, Karuizawa Heavy Industries will not only come back to life, but also truly realize the phoenix nirvana and be reborn from the ashes.

Let's not talk about the heavy-duty trucks produced by Karuizawa Heavy Industries, are they good? As long as there is a document from the Karuizawa Group, Karuizawa Steel's transportation vehicles must use heavy-duty trucks from Karuizawa Heavy Industries, so they can directly and without worrying about sales.

The reason why Karuizawa Steel has become the backbone of Wakayama City's economy, accounting for more than 80% of the city's GDP, is that it is a giant steel conglomerate.

The Karuizawa Iron and Steel Plant digests 80 million tons of iron ore every year. Not only that, but steel mills are also big consumers of coal.

This is an annual demand of 15 million tonnes of coal. In addition, the steel plant alone has more than 95 million tons of transportation from the port terminal.

This does not include the amount of steel produced by the steel mill and transported to the Wakayama port, as well as the related ancillary and supporting production of urea, fertilizer, etc.

The general load capacity of a heavy-duty truck is only thirty or fifty tons. How many heavy-duty trucks are needed to handle such a high annual volume?

In addition, it is possible that the location of Karuizawa ships will also be located in Wakayama City. There is also a distance between the shipyard and the steel mill! This transport is absolutely indispensable.

As far as the head of the marketing department knows, large bulk carriers can carry 300,000 tons of iron ore at a time. However, the Karuizawa Steel Plant needs 80 million tons of iron ore a year.

Such a ship, whether it is shipped from Brazil to Japan, or from Australia to Japan...... It also has to run 267 boats.

Not to mention one such ship, even ten such ships will definitely not be able to be transported in a year. After all, it takes at least a month on average just to make a trip.

As long as Karuizawa Steel does not go bankrupt, there will be a steady stream of transportation that will be carried out day and night by sea, road, and even rail.

The head of the accounting department blurted out: "What about the funds? It takes a lot of money. ”

Hideki Ishihara was not painting a big pie for them at all, and said: "In terms of funds, you don't need to worry at all. The president has promised me that I can use my funds without a limit.

The first tranche of $1 billion will be transferred from the Karuizawa Group to our corporate account in Karuizawa Heavy Industries through Karuizawa Commercial Bank in a week. ”

The head of the accounting department said succinctly: "Then I don't have any problems." ”

Makoto Mizukawa also voiced his worries: "The thorny problem that we Karuizawa Heavy Industries will face is not a problem of money, but a problem of talent.

The president has made it clear that we will focus our research and development on heavy-duty trucks first. As for the specific tonnage, it is still up to the technical department to decide.

Universality and versatility are absolutely necessary. Especially for the transportation of bulk commodities such as iron ore, iron ore sand, and coal. It's easy to simply assemble a piece.

We can directly buy related parts from Hino Motors, Mitsubishi Fuso, Isuzu and other car manufacturers. That's not what we want.

Heavy-duty trucks are just the first step in building our true reputation for Karuizawa Heavy Industries. In terms of agricultural machinery, we did not give up directly, but only stopped because of the current shortage of manpower. ”

The head of the technical department and Pan expressed his worries and said: "As the saying goes, interlacing is like separating mountains. Although it was all in the field of machinery, we really hadn't worked on heavy trucks before. ”

Hideki Ishihara encouraged, "No one is born with it. Toyota didn't specialize in making cars in the first place!

The product that the Toyota family was able to start was the improvement of the textile machine, and the Mitsui family's large investment in it, so that the Toyota family had one textile factory after another, and even opened to China.

Is there any direct connection between the car and the textile machine? Not at all! In my opinion, the reason why Toyota has been able to successfully transform is that on the one hand, it has seized an opportunity for the development of the times, and on the other hand, it has received support and a large amount of investment from Mitsui family. As for funding, we've got it all figured out.

In terms of technology, although Japan is far ahead in this field, there have been many scandals.

It is impossible for us at Karuizawa Heavy Industries to manufacture military equipment such as tanks, infantry vehicles, armored vehicles, and self-propelled artillery from the very beginning. One of our best entry points is still in civilian use.

What's more, Japan as a whole made huge economic and political sacrifices in order to develop the automobile industry.

In particular, at that time, the entire Japanese textile industry caused a large number of enterprises to go bankrupt and close down, and workers lost their jobs.

The reason why Japan at that time would rather sacrifice the textile industry than gamble on the automobile industry was to know that the former had no future, and the latter was the real way out.

When the Japanese automobile industry was just starting out, it was also humiliated by Europeans and Americans. The first car built in Japan was regarded as a toy, not a car at all.

It is said that the Japanese can't make cars at all, so they just have to do the textile industry honestly. You've all heard about it! ”

Seeing that the president had made up his mind, the head of the technology department said no more, "I don't have a problem anymore." ”

Hideki Ishihara knows the importance of unifying internal thoughts. Otherwise, someone will inevitably mess around. He learned early on the importance of using carrots and sticks.

While promising them rewards, Hideki Ishihara did not forget to exert the pressure of a job that he deserved: "After you go down, you must pass on the spirit of our meeting."

I'm not a big pie painter, I'm a pragmatist. As long as I do a good job, I will not hesitate to give him a promotion and a salary increase, and even give him an additional high bonus.

On the contrary, don't blame me for taking a salary cut, demotion, or even outright dismissal. To tell you the truth, I've never believed in lifetime employment and seniority.

I believe in meritocracy. If you don't work well, you won't have a place for it in the future.

After Karuizawa Heavy Industries becomes bigger and stronger, they will inevitably be heroes. To put it mildly, when you reach retirement age one by one, you can get more retirement benefits, right?

If Karuizawa Heavy Industries does not make great progress and is still the current one, I am afraid that you will lose your job before you retire.

Retirement pay or something, then don't even think about it. To be precise, Karuizawa Heavy Industries is still not there, both of which are two theories. Therefore, I hope that everyone will work hard in both public and private affairs. ”

(End of chapter)