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

In fact, they also carried a lot of compressed biscuits on this trip, since this kind of thing is currently standard issue in the Chinese army.

However, these emergency supplies cannot be used casually. Even if they are used, it is basically only a small piece per day, which must be eaten together with other foods.

Relying on compressed biscuits for three meals a day is the behavior of a spendthrift, and even a wealthy family like the Jin-Sui Army could not afford it.

Now that there are free compressed biscuits to eat, everyone is naturally not going to be polite and starts eating them in small bites after opening the packaging.

Lieutenant Sun was also munching on a biscuit, finding it increasingly delicious with each bite.

"Commander, these compressed biscuits are delicious. I think they taste better than the ones our division is equipped with, and the packaging is also very nice."

"Lieutenant Sun, these should be their internally supplied compressed biscuits. They must taste much better than the ones we get from takeout. I've already had some in the Independent Regiment, and they left a deep impression on me."

"Huh, the taste seems to have changed again. Good heavens, which spendthrift came up with this recipe and actually added milk powder to the compressed biscuits?"

Chu Yunfei, as expected of someone from a wealthy family, had tasted good things. Most people would only taste the milky aroma of compressed biscuits and have no idea what they were.

However, precisely because of this, even Chu Yunfei criticized this behavior as wasteful, since cow's milk and goat's milk are definitely luxuries in China today.

Most wealthy people wouldn't be able to afford to drink it every day, and Chu Yunfei only drank some when he was a child, which is why he has such a deep memory of it.

As for ordinary soldiers or civilians, they probably have never even seen what a dairy cow looks like. After all, raising a dairy cow is too expensive, and ordinary people simply cannot afford it. Very few people can afford it either.

The spendthrift son that Chu Yunfei was referring to was, of course, Kong Hao.

In Australia, there is a large stockpile of dairy cows that produce countless amounts of milk every day. According to statistics, the annual output can reach about six billion liters, which is an absolutely terrifying number.

Australia can only consume 20% of its fresh milk locally, and the rest is made into cheese and milk powder for export, after all, their population is so small.

In terms of conversion, this amount of milk could produce 500,000 tons of milk powder.

Chinese people are definitely not used to eating cheese, so Kong Hao ultimately chose to buy a large quantity of milk powder.

Besides cow's milk powder, there's also goat's milk powder. The main reason is that it's considered to have high nutritional value, and for the same weight, it's much more cost-effective than transporting grain.

At the same time, we can also exchange a large number of industrial goods. There are wars everywhere now, and many places in Southeast Asia need a lot of military supplies, which are always at a high price.

Milk powder is a primary agricultural product, and in Australia, there is a surplus of it. This conversion rate means we've gotten a great deal.

By the way, recently the Hans country has been beating up the Niu Niu country so badly that the Niu Niu country is facing a severe shortage of supplies and is now searching the world for military supplies.

Kong Hao's previous arrangements in Australia are now slowly taking effect.

A large number of mechanical parts, such as nuts, screws, washers, bolts, and springs of various types, were produced in the base and transported to Kangaroo Country through Kong Hao's channels to be sold to machine factories at low prices.

These products were 10% higher in quality and 20% lower in price than those on the market, and were immediately welcomed by many military factories, basically squeezing out the local spare parts factories in Australia.

What's even more interesting is that these spare parts are considered substandard in our base area, with performance parameters 30% lower than what we use in all aspects. They are specially produced for export.

This was a special request from Kong Hao, after all, the technology and production equipment in our base area have reached the international leading level, and we absolutely cannot let foreigners take advantage of this.

When Kong Hao handed over the parameters of these defective products to our technicians, it caused a wave of doubts. In everyone's previous understanding, foreign countries had industrialized many years earlier than us, so the products they produced should definitely be more advanced than those in our base area.

Kong Hao didn't explain why the chief consultant needed such inferior industrial products. He simply ordered them to be mass-produced and then transported to coastal areas to be shipped overseas.

The price offered is also very reasonable. If you really want to convert it, one ton of these industrial parts can be exchanged for about a hundred times the amount of grain.

Anyway, Kong Hao doesn't make money from this kind of thing; he just wants to get the goods circulating.

The same was true in Australia. Kong Hao used the funds he obtained by selling industrial products to trade with farmers for beef, milk powder, and various grains, and immediately gained the support of everyone in Australia.

After all, such good things don't happen often, especially for farmers, ranchers, and mine owners, who wield considerable power in Australia. Their combined influence is significant, and they can even affect government elections.

Now there's actually a sucker out of this—no, people in Australia don't have that concept, but it's something like that.

There's someone now buying up large quantities of cattle and sheep with pounds sterling, even offal, even at very low prices, because it's still much better than turning them into feed or burying them.

"The customer is king."

This saying was invented by Westerners. Now that a God has come along, anyone who wants to touch Kong Hao's company is essentially going against all of them.

This is Kong Hao's greatest camouflage. As long as he can continuously purchase massive amounts of agricultural products from Australia, no one will dare to mess with him.

After all, Australia's production of various minerals has increased by 50%, and the domestic market simply cannot absorb so much. If they were to be shipped abroad, the shipping costs would probably exceed the cost.

This is also why Australia has very large mineral reserves but very little exploitable reserves; its meager domestic industry simply cannot consume so much iron ore.

Here's another joke: a few years ago, Australia was even an importer of iron ore.

The situation is even more dire for ranchers and farm owners, since even if they can't sell their iron ore, they can simply leave it piled up in the mining area without incurring significant losses.

But if milk, beef, mutton, and grain can't be sold, it's a disaster for the suppliers.

In the Western world, it's not uncommon for milk to be poured into rivers.

Of course, Kong Hao would not do such an extreme thing; it would be like killing a thousand enemies while losing eight hundred of his own, which was completely unnecessary.

China has 400 million people who are extremely short of meat. No matter how much Australia produces, we can consume it all.

As for various ores, it's even simpler. Even if we can't use them all up due to our industrial capacity, we can simply bury them underground.