The expeditionary force began to dominate Southeast Asia by recruiting defeated soldiers

As the Lunar New Year approaches, Zhang Chi is still busy.

Outside the window is the city of Myitkyina, which is still under construction in full swing. Zhang Chi's office is also very lively. Several senior leaders in charge of civil, political and military affairs, under the arrangement of the secretariat, come into Zhang Chi's office one by one to report on their work.

Having just finished listening to Bai Hongsheng's report on the construction of the engine factory and the motorcycle factory, Zhang Chi was pleased to learn that the first domestically produced authorized imitation Harley WLA military motorcycle (with pictures) has officially rolled off the production line, and a rare smile appeared on his face.

"Great, it's worth it that I spent tens of millions of dollars to negotiate with Harley for the introduction of the product." Zhang Chi happily slapped the table with his water cup, his excitement beyond words.

In this era, as long as the capitalists in the United States have money, they will sell anything. Zhang Chi waved a check and sent someone directly to find Harley-Davidson himself.

"No, you're flattering me." Bai Hongsheng, who was in charge of implementing the three-year plan, pushed his glasses up on his nose with a humble look on his face. "These first 130 cars were assembled directly from parts flown in by air, so naturally they were fast."

Harley-Davidson, which had already won a large order from the military, naturally would not be willing to sell its patents and designs, but the people sent by Zhang Chi impressed the other party with the order.

The initial order for 1000 Harley WLAs included 700 units shipped directly as complete vehicles, and the other 300 motorcycles were sent in the form of parts to be assembled by the motorcycle factory in Myitkyina.

At the same time, Zhang Chi also said that the Security Army will have a shortage of at least tens of thousands of motorcycles. As long as Harley sells the patent and the right to use the design of the WLA military motorcycle, they will continue to place orders with Harley to purchase spare parts until the supporting parts facilities, especially the engine, can be fully produced by themselves.

Not knowing whether its Harley motorcycles would still be popular in the civilian market of the United States after the war, Harley-Davidson was worried that without military orders after the war, its motorcycle factory would have a hard time surviving. Therefore, it was very interested in Zhang Chi's proposal.

(In fact, except for time travelers, no one in industry or commerce can be sure that their products will always be popular, unless they have a monopoly.)

With the huge market in Nanyang in the future as a big pie, Zhang Chi finally bought the Harley WLA authorization and a series of supporting industrial equipment from the Harley factory at only a small additional cost in addition to the purchase price of the motorcycle.

From Harley-Davidson's perspective, this series of contracts still made him a small profit. After all, he did not believe that Zhangchi would be able to completely produce all spare parts in a short period of time. In the future, orders for supplying spare parts such as engines would be enough to ensure the survival of his factory after the war.

In fact, the business logic proposed by Zhang Chi not only shocked Harley-Davidson himself, but also shocked middle and senior management such as Bai Hongsheng who claimed to be elites.

On the one hand, as the top leader, Zhang Chi not only knows how to fight, but also knows how to manage the economy, and seems to be very proficient in it. This makes the technical bureaucrats represented by Bai Hongsheng realize that the big leaders are not easy to fool, and they pay more attention to their work and dare not be perfunctory at all.

(One of the reasons for South Korea's economic boom is that Park Kaka and Quan Kaka, two consecutive Kakas, not only hold the knife handle in their hands, but also understand a little about economics and will not be fooled by their subordinates. On the contrary, the great mathematician Li Kaka and the Kakas after Baima Kaka are easily sidelined by technical bureaucrats.)

On the other hand, if you want to copy other people's technical designs these days, you can either learn from the Japanese and buy one or two samples and then go back to imitate them yourself; or you can spend a lot of money to slowly negotiate formal patent authorization.

Zhang Chi's plan of using the "market" as bait and spending a small amount of real money in exchange for compliant and legal technology transfer is considered a genius idea by Bai Hongsheng, a PhD in Economics from the University of Birmingham.

Bai Hongsheng even believed that Zhang Chi's approach had found a replicable path for all impoverished and weak post-French countries to independently build industries. As long as they had good relations with the West and had money and markets, anyone could use this method to start industrial construction.

However, after seeing a report written by Bai Hongsheng, Zhang Chi smiled contemptuously.

The method he used to exchange market for technology brought from his hometown before traveling through time is definitely not something that ordinary people can replicate.

The premise of economic development is military construction. The 20th century was a century of war. There were a series of conflicts after the two world wars, not to mention that although the two major camps of the Cold War did not open fire face to face, they caused a lot of wars and conflicts around the world.

Without sufficient military construction and an armed force capable of protecting one's own property, no matter how much economic construction is done, it will ultimately be in vain for others.

The saying "If my neighbor hoards grain, I hoard guns; my neighbor is my granary" is a hellish joke in peacetime, but in this era of frequent wars, it is the most realistic portrayal of relations between countries.

Zhang Chi stood up, walked to the window, looked into the distance, and spoke in a low but powerful voice:

"You have to remember that we engage in industry not just to make money and provide livelihoods for the people, but also to survive. The essence of this era is war. Whoever has guns and artillery will survive."

Bai Hongsheng was slightly stunned, thinking about Zhang Chi's words inwardly, and felt that they were very concise. Many of his fragmentary thoughts were clarified by this straightforward sentence.

In fact, if it were not for the current 20-strong Security Army, Zhang Chi would not dare to carry out large-scale economic construction.

In the past few months, there have been steel mills, machinery factories, penicillin factories, and semiconductor factories. The prerequisite for the multi-pronged development of industry is an absolutely stable environment.

"The per capita military expenditure is still a bit low..." Thinking of this, Zhang Chi sat down again and muttered to himself, "Let's expand the army to 40 first."

Bai Hongsheng, who was sitting opposite Zhang Chi, was shocked when he heard the word 40.

He had been keeping his head down, but he raised his eyes cautiously and looked at Zhang Chi.

The forehead is full and the face looks very good.

No wonder he is so ambitious, this is the appearance of a hegemon.

Bai Hongsheng suddenly felt that Zhang Chi in front of him became more and more unfamiliar, as if he was seeing him for the first time.

He felt both fear and secret joy in his heart. In this great era, following an ambitious and capable leader like Zhang Chi, to what heights would Bai Hongsheng's future reach?

In fact, Zhang Chi planned to migrate nearly 10 million people here as soon as possible after taking over the entire territory of Pegu, and then expand the army to 1 million.

After all, he has the help of the system, and the technological level of many projects under his management in the future will surely catch up with the times. Without the support of millions of strong troops, he really can't sleep well facing the greedy Ansa gang.