Chapter 95 Procurement of Weapons
It took a day to draw the saber drawings. The material requires high-carbon alloy steel, which is estimated to cost a lot of money, and is estimated to be no less than $5. It was handed over to Hoffman for patent declaration, trial production, and quotation.
Ask Woody to arrange for personnel to go to Austria to purchase scopes from the Austrian company Kahles, and if he can purchase more than 500 6x scopes. If it can be procured, 100 47-mm guns of Bailu Company will be purchased, and 100,000 shells will be added.
Arranged for the purchase of 1 million rounds of 7.92 mm ammunition to Belgium, 1 million rounds of 7.92 mm ammunition to the Czech Republic, and 20 mm cannons and ammunition to the Swiss company Ericon. The aim was to establish business contacts between Woody's trading companies and to see what was currently going on in those countries' arms export policies and offers.
The news from Bofors, Sweden, is back. This year, only 50,000 rounds of shells for 20 40mm army anti-aircraft guns will be provided for $2,000 each, and $4 per shell. Give 20mm army-type quadruple anti-aircraft guns, 50 with 200,000 rounds of shells, $3,000 each, and $1.5 per shell. A total of $690,000. Buy it, it's so expensive, the 1 million I brought with me is gone.
Things are arranged for Woody, take the children to really travel, and Woody's children also go to school? It doesn't matter, take a leave of absence! Big children, small children plus bodyguards, three Opel self-driving tours! The program starts in Zurich, Bernier, Lausanne, Geneva, Lyon, Marseille, Barcelona, Madrid, Bordeaux, Paris, Luxembourg, and goes back to the estate Strass. Each place is played for three days, and the total time is prepared according to 45 days.
Woody also arranged a special manager, and the nanny followed suit. After just walking through three cities, the children are bored, almost the same scenery and similar buildings, and it is really not interesting to look around. Going directly from Geneva to Paris, at least let the nanny meet her daughter, right? More than 450 kilometers, a day of non-stop running, before arriving in Paris.
Paris is truly extraordinary, almost the most beautiful city in the world in this era. Eating, playing, and watching ......, the humanities are flourishing and there is everything. Do you want to see the tower? Do you want to listen to the opera at the Grand Theater? If you don't go to Notre Dame Cathedral, isn't it in vain? Why do you come to Paris without selling anything?
The nanny's daughter was not interested in seeing herself, so she arranged for the bodyguard to send her over, agreed on a time to pick up someone, and called if she had something. In this city where flowers are not enough to describe, it can be described as an eye-opener. Every building, every road, every bridge and every sculpture that catches your eye reveals the beauty of ingenuity, and it seems that they are trying to tell their own extraordinary experience. It's just that those of us who don't understand their history are blind, and we're just blind.
Chiyo is the most emotional, not to mention the concert, even the violin on the street is full of admiration, saying that it is better than himself, and it seems that his pride has been hit. It doesn't matter, let's solve it with food; If you can't solve it by shopping, there is always one for you! More than 20 days have passed, and even children are not tired or annoying!
Impatient was the nanny, who stayed at her daughter's house for three days and came back! It seems that it is also a mother and daughter. Before leaving, let Chiyo take the child to buy some gifts for the nanny's family and accompany the nanny to say goodbye.
The return trip is directly to the manor, it may be that everyone has exhausted their fun, or it seems that Paris is enough.
Woody reported that the scope was bought for $100 a piece and cost $50,000. A 47-mm gun cost $ 3,000 for $ 300,000, and $ 5 for a shell cost $ 500,000 for a shell. Erlikon's products are 30 percent more expensive than those in Sweden, no. After thinking about it, it's already a serious overspending, don't forget it, I'll talk about it later.
Trim for a few days and prepare to return to the United States. Looking at the sample of Hoffman's saber, it can be said that it is well-made, and it has reached the level of a work of art. The offer is also extraordinary, reaching $10 a handful. Hoffman explains that the main reason is the high cost of hand sanding. Mechanical grinding quotations can be within $6. Ordered Woody to order 1,000 art-grade and 10,000 machine-polished ones. The surrounding enterprises also bought some things, 5,000 barrels of lard from the last specification of the iron tower; 1000 normal watches with fluorescent and 1000 small alarm clocks. No matter how much the nature of the overspending has not changed, it doesn't matter.
This trip can be regarded as a trip that I can be in the mood for before the smoke of gunpowder fills up. Take your sister for a walk, even if there is an unpredictable happening, there is nothing to regret, it's just that sometimes you don't dare to die. I am not a timid person, and I have nothing to be reluctant to give up in times of crisis.
It's the end of May, and I'm leaving Miya to Chiyo, and I'm like an arrow.
Follow Woody's route from the port of Le Havre in France directly to New York. Already on the boat, Xiaoya yelled to get off the boat, saying that she had forgotten to buy a gift for her mother. It's all crazy, and I remember my mother before I arrived in the United States, which is not bad. Hurriedly appeased, Chiyo bought a lot, and when I went back, I said that you bought it!
Looking at Europe in the distance, I don't know when I will come back. Before the Japanese fought him, the level of military equipment of the entire US army was basically the level of World War I, which was much behind Europe; The policy of neutrality has confused both many countries and the United States itself. The industrial base, technology and theoretical reserves were incomparably thick, and they were only exerted when the world war was already inextricable.
There is morality in the eyes of Americans, and morality in their hearts is even clearer. It's just that it's different from the morality of our Chinese nation, and our morality is different from that of others, and it doesn't match the morality of others. As long as you have gold, you can match the morality of the Americans, and if you don't, you won't be in line! In just a few years, the Americans sent the gold accumulated by Britain and Russia for a hundred years, and let the British and Russians send it to the United States.
In the international community, it's all so realistic! When you're at war, someone is willing to sell you weapons at a high price, and that's aid. In the previous life, some people counted how much the Americans helped the British, the Soviet Union, France, and China during World War II, and they were very aggrieved between the lines. Look at the quota ratio stated in those materials, which is basically the same as the proportion of gold reserves in these countries! It was only in the later stage that I saw that everyone really didn't have any gold, so I introduced the "Lease Act" to continue selling, and I had to evaluate your ability to repay. Before the Anti-Japanese War, China was already one of the poorest countries, not only did it have no gold reserves, but silver was also exhausted again and again by indemnities, and even the last bit was looted by the Americans with a silver bill.
What are the conditions for Americans to enjoy the Lease Act for China? The conditions adopted were so simple that the Americans did not think that China could repay, that is, the Chinese gave their lives to consume the Japanese in Burma and help the British hold India; And the British holding India will allow the Americans, who have been beaten by the Japanese to breathe only half a breath, to breathe in Australia.
There will never be one unlucky thing, in response to the famous Chinese saying: Fortune and misfortune do not go alone! The United States sent a "four-star battalion commander" Stilwell! The political level of this "four-star battalion commander" is extremely low, and his main task is to coordinate the joint actions of China, Britain and the United States in Southeast Asia, which has made the contradictions between Britain and China even more acute. Think of a lieutenant general who has just been promoted and dares to give a nickname to the head of state! How foolish and arrogant it is to command the believers of this Führer! What political level can it be? In terms of coordination, it seems that there is only one thing to do, which is to threaten the Nationalist Government and Mr. Chiang Kai-shek with American aid.
At the military level, it is even more arrogant and stupid, a person who is not familiar with the Chinese army, the British army, the Japanese army, and has never led troops, dares to formulate a huge military plan with his own imagination?
As soon as he arrived in China, Mr. Chiang Kai-shek personally explained to him the strength and level of the Chinese and Japanese armies, and this guy was absent-minded and deaf. Also, Americans never take Chinese human lives seriously, not to mention that so many ...... have been buried under the American railroad.