Bright Sword: Follow Kong's fun and build the strongest military industry

This was the first time that Minister Zhang had heard of this theory. You know, China has long been an agricultural country, and any industrial product here is priced sky-high. He had never thought that we could actually make money by exporting industrial products.

He asked hesitantly, "Xiao Kong, as far as I know, industrial products should be very cheap in those industrially developed countries abroad. How is it possible that we can make money by producing them here and shipping them abroad with great difficulty?"

"Minister Zhang, you don't know this. The labor cost abroad is high. An ordinary worker needs at least 20 dollars a month, and a skilled worker needs even more, easily 50 dollars. A senior engineer needs at least 100 dollars. Our technicians and workers only have three meals a day and a place to live, plus some daily necessities, and everyone is the same, with only three dollars at most."

"Moreover, workers abroad have unions and work a maximum of eight hours a day. If they are asked to work overtime, they will have to pay more wages. We work in three shifts here, and the efficiency of the use of machinery and equipment is the highest. This also makes our domestic production costs extremely low."

"It is precisely because of the developed industrialization outside that everything costs money, including various energy sources, water and electricity, and factory buildings. In addition, factory owners also need to make money, and they make the most money, so the cost is definitely high."

"For example, the helmets used in our arsenal, all the costs added up, no more than five dollars, while the Eagle Country's M1 helmets, their military purchase price is twenty dollars, the profit can be imagined, the Bull Country's are even more expensive."

"I plan to open several production lines in Zhaojiayu that specialize in producing this kind of military supplies. I will then try to sell the products to foreign armies. As long as the price is low, we can definitely enter the foreign market."

"We can sell one helmet for twenty dollars. For every helmet we sell, we can add three more helmets to our army. As long as the quantity is large, it is not impossible to make 10 million dollars a year."

After hearing this, Minister Zhang's eyes suddenly lit up. He had never thought of such a thing before. It turned out that he could make money this way.

Now that I think about it, our troops didn't have any equipment that could be considered modern industrial before. Everything had to be captured. There wasn't enough for our own troops, so how could we have thought of exporting it to make money?

However, many things will become much easier once you open your eyes.

Minister Zhang drew inferences from one example and said, "In fact, in addition to exporting helmets, we can also sell them to other local armies, such as the Guangxi Army, the Guangdong Army, the Sichuan Army, and the Yunnan Army. Not only can this improve China's overall strength, but we can also make some hard-earned money."

"Except for the Sichuan Army, other local armies have very rich financial resources. Instead of letting foreigners make this money, it is better to use it to produce a large number of weapons for us. After all, the helmets we produce are more suitable for the head shape of Chinese people."

"We didn't take action before, mainly because we didn't have enough raw materials. If we can really get a large number of steel ingots back from abroad, we can implement many of our plans."

"Okay, I'll report these things to the leaders first, and I'll also arrange for people to go to Wujiang Port in advance to make preparations. I'm leaving now."

"Well, okay, Minister, take care."

After seeing Minister Zhang off, Kong Hao returned to his busy work. Currently, the foundation of the Zhaojiayu Industrial Zone has been laid, and more than a dozen factories have been built one after another. It has begun to take shape.

Kong Hao also specifically asked the engineering troops here to build a secret base and a large secret warehouse according to the model of the arsenal, mainly for research and to facilitate him to take out materials from the space.

Now a large amount of materials are openly transported by cargo ships, while secretly a lot of materials are taken out of space and placed in secret warehouses, and then people are sent to slowly transport them to the factory.

In fact, the amount is not much each time, such as about 10 tons of steel ingots or copper ingots. Through this small batch and multiple times method, we can gradually improve the processing and manufacturing capabilities of our factory.

In addition, the production capacity of the Arsenal Steel Plant can reach about 8,000 tons per month. At the same time, our technicians have been able to develop some ultra-small steel plants, the kind that can produce 300 to 500 tons per month, and the technology is outdated equipment from more than 20 years ago.

Although in the eyes of foreign industrial powers, the things we develop are pure garbage. Not only do the equipment consume a lot of energy, the quality of the products is also poor, and the output is too low. It is simply a waste of resources.

However, this ultra-small steel plant is a treasure among treasures for China. The overall strength of our base is still far behind that of the Japanese.

A medium-sized steel plant with a monthly production capacity of 500 tons can only be placed in an arsenal in the rear for covert production. Other bases close to the front line are more suitable for using an ultra-small steel plant with a monthly production capacity of tons.

It doesn't matter if the quality is a little worse, we can use it to produce less important spare parts, such as equipment casings, bicycle racks, etc., while the good steel produced by the arsenal can be used to produce key components, the two can complement each other.

A super small steel plant can produce 500 tons a month. If there are ten of them, that would be 5,000 tons. If there are a hundred of them, that would be 50,000 tons. This is a huge amount of steel resources.

Take the most popular human-powered tricycle in major bases as an example. In addition to the wooden board on top, the entire vehicle requires about 80 kilograms of steel. One ton of steel can produce 25 vehicles, and 500 tons of steel can produce enough vehicles, which is a huge quantity.

Whether it is used for military logistics transportation or for ordinary people to do ordinary cargo transportation, it is an excellent choice.

As we have put a large number of tricycles into the market in our base area, some smart people have formed special transport teams to carry people or goods. Sometimes, many industrial products produced by the arsenal are also transported by civilian transport teams.

After all, compared to a horse-drawn carriage that requires horses, a human-powered tricycle only requires a bit of strength.

Moreover, as more people ride tricycles, corresponding roads are needed to increase speed. So we have formed a large number of people in our base to build roads, which can also provide everyone with extra income during the slack season.

When ordinary people have money, they will definitely spend it, and the money will start to flow, which will also drive the healthy development of the economy.

The next morning, Chu Yunfei, commander of the 358th Regiment of the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army, came to visit, and Li Yunlong was responsible for receiving him.

The main purpose of Chu Yunfei's visit this time was to buy things, especially when he heard that our army had a foreign drug transportation line. Commander Yan, who was good at business, came up with this idea. They could buy goods from us at a low price, and then sell them to the market or the Central Army at a high price, preparing to make a profit from the difference to subsidize the army's expenses.

But after much deliberation, Chu Yunfei was finally chosen. The main reason was that Chu Yunfei was a pure professional soldier and did not have as many cunning schemes as those people in the war zone logistics department.

Moreover, such matters are best dealt with privately and not made known to everyone. Minister Zhang also has the same idea, to keep this matter within a small scope to avoid attracting the attention of certain people.

In addition, Li Yunlong and Chu Yunfei had fought side by side before and were old friends who were relatively familiar with each other. Their positions were also similar, so they were the most suitable candidates.