Rise From Eight Hundred

Laura was not deliberately making things difficult, she was telling the truth.

The main business of the Rockefeller Foundation is oil and daily necessities, but it does not involve arms.

But she knew that as a soldier, Tang Dao or as a representative of the Chinese military, arms were what they needed most to win the war.

Of course, it was not that Rockefeller could not get arms, but it would cost a price.

She waited for Tang Dao to beg her. For some reason, she especially wanted to see this man who seemed to have everything under control bow to her.

Perhaps, she, who has always been competitive, was subconsciously unwilling to accept the fact that an ordinary Chinese man was superior to her!

But she was wrong. Facing Laura's brilliant smile, Tang Dao was not only not frustrated, but also smiled, showing a healthy white tooth, and stretched out a hand: "Well, I wish you a happy cooperation with your company."

"Happy cooperation? Do we have cooperation?" Laura's smile froze slightly, and she instinctively asked a soul question.

We don't even know what the other party needs, what's the point of cooperation! Moreover, being pressed down by an ordinary man with backward civilization, thank you, I really don't feel the slightest pleasure.

It's a kind of oppression of the Chinese legend of 'ghost pressing on the bed'.

"Haha, Miss Laura, didn't you just say that everything is fine except for arms? From the perspective of a soldier, the arms of your federation are really unsatisfactory. For example, your army is still equipped with the main rifle of World War I, the Springfield rifle, isn't it?" Tang Dao smiled as brightly as he looked annoying.

The key is that he still said the truth.

Although the United States is currently the world's top manufacturing power, it is not as good as the current European powers in terms of arms. Even heavy artillery with a caliber of more than 100 mm is mostly copied from France.

"Okay! Colonel Tang, what do you need?" Laura was a little bit angry at Tang Dao's retort, so she had to bite her back teeth and continue to ask.

"I need corn, flour, rice, cotton, copper, cars, motorcycles, bicycles, small troop carriers, trucks, western medicine, and various medical equipment and medical staff. That's all for now. If I think of other supplies, I'll let you know." Tang Dao obviously had a plan in mind, and he kept reporting the list of needed supplies.

Laura's expression did not change. These civilian supplies looked numerous and complicated, but for the United States Federation, which produces a lot of crops, and Rockefeller Company, which invests in all walks of life, it was not a difficult task.

"My company can help raise these supplies, but I don't know how much Colonel Tang needs. In addition, I regret to tell you, Colonel Tang, that in addition to the cost of the supplies themselves, my company needs to charge freight, and my company can only be responsible for transporting them to Tianjin. Whether you can take them away depends on your country's ability." Laura's mouth curled up slightly.

This was the second counterattack Laura tried to launch. She didn't believe that the man in front of her could still take all these supplies away like a magic trick. Did he think that the more than 10,000 Japanese stationed in Tianjin were blind pigs?

"For the time being, we will purchase 100,000 tons of corn, rice, flour, cotton, and brass each! Your company can deliver these materials to the warehouse in the Tianjin Concession within one year.

I will provide the design drawings for bicycles and motorcycles, and ask your company to find a contract manufacturer to produce them, and then ship the finished products here. There is no limit on the quantity, I will take as many as I can;

As for troop carriers, the same is true. I will provide the design drawings and performance parameters, and your company will secretly look for a familiar factory to produce them. The number is preferably 500 vehicles;

As for Western medicines and medical equipment, including medical personnel, they are urgently needed by our army. , I hope Miss Laura can be directly transferred from the hospital in Pingbei City controlled by your family foundation.

The medical staff can be named as the United Nations Humanitarian Red Cross Medical Team. If they are Chinese, our army will pay them five times the current salary. If they are Westerners, the salary will be ten times;

All material costs and freight will be deducted from the interest and principal generated by my order. I believe Miss Laura should believe in my ability to pay. "

Laura's sea-blue eyes were wide open, staring at Tang Dao in horror.

It was not because of this huge order of more than 20 million US dollars. Today's Rockefeller Company is definitely a behemoth. The various industries invested by the family add up to more than 3 billion US dollars. The business of 20 million US dollars would never move the fourth-generation heir of Rockefeller, the first daughter, so much.

Rather, Tang Dao's orders involve agriculture, industry, and medical care. Not only does it cover a wide range, but more importantly, he seems to be very sure that Laura can help him complete all these operations.

What does this mean? It means that he actually knows the importance of Laura's identity in the Rockefeller family.

This is unscientific! You know, in order to protect her, the fourth-generation first heir designated by the first and second Rockefeller generations, the core of the Rockefeller family has done a lot of confidentiality work, and even sent her to the war-torn Far East to avoid the vortex of struggle in the family.

Of course, she, who was mistakenly believed by the outside world to be squeezed out of the core layer, also naturally became the host of the Rockefeller family's family industry in the Far East. She has the highest decision-making power in the Far East family industry.

Within her power, as long as the Far East industry is not completely closed, she can make a decision.

In comparison, Citibank is just the tip of the iceberg of the family's business in the Far East. The reason why she personally negotiated with Tang Dao was that it happened to be the right time and the amount involved in Tang Dao's order was not small, but including Frank No one, including President Depp, knew that Laura, the eldest daughter, had not only not been squeezed out of the family core, but her status had become more stable.

After all, who can ignore the last words left by the family founder before his death?

‘Laura will definitely be a better manager than her great-grandmother! ’ These are the original words that the old Rockefeller left to the current head of the Rockefeller family, Laura’s grandfather.

Laura Rockefeller may have never dreamed that the young man sitting calmly opposite her could clearly see the pulse of the times even though he did not have a prominent family background.

As soon as Tang Dao heard the name Laura Rockefeller, information about her flashed in his mind.

Laura Rockefeller, the fourth generation of the Rockefeller family, never married, but became the helmsman of the Rockefeller family thirty years later. She led this super consortium for more than thirty years, and led this super consortium to the world in the Cold War and post-Cold War era. The huge wealth is comparable to that of a medium to large country.

It's not scary to stand on the shoulders of giants and take off. What's scary is that the reputation of the Rockefeller family is far less than it used to be. In the eyes of ordinary people, it is like a run-down family that only relies on its old foundation to survive.

As everyone knows, the Rockefeller family's strength and influence on American politics continues to increase, and the world's eyes are blinded by the old woman's wisdom.

Even when this beautiful and intelligent woman appeared in front of Tang Dao, Tang Dao also understood why Rockefeller would become the first Western consortium to obtain investment permission when China opens its financial market to attract foreign investment in the future.

The reason may be that they left behind a large, well-equipped Western medicine hospital when they withdrew from China. The more reason is that their leader has been working and living in China for many years.

If such a strong woman can't handle these things, then who else can?

"Colonel Tang, thank you for your trust. I can help you raise domestically the several agricultural raw materials and copper you just mentioned. But for the bicycles, motorcycles and personnel carriers you mentioned, you still need to provide design drawings. Processed by the factory, this..." Laura quickly calmed down from the shock and said with a slight frown. “To be honest, Laura is a little curious.”

The so-called curiosity is already a milder wording that Laura chose to avoid irritating the pride of the man in front of her.

With China's current industrial manufacturing capabilities, let alone motorcycles and personnel carriers, can China manufacture them even if they are given the design drawings of bicycles? As a result, Tang Dao, a Chinese man, looked like he didn't believe in the American manufacturing industry. He insisted on providing some drawings and performance parameters. Why, if he couldn't build it, would he just talk about it on paper?

"Miss Laura, please prepare some paper and pens for me." Tang Dao smiled slightly.

Tang Dao, who has a background in painting, has gone through the proficiency process of complex design drawings of various firearms. Simple industrial products such as bicycles, motorcycles and even personnel carriers are simply not too simple.

The reason why Tang Dao insisted on providing the design drawings and parameters himself was because the civilian bicycles and motorcycles currently on the market did not meet his requirements, and more strictly speaking, they did not meet the requirements for mountain marching.

Nowadays, the mountain march of the Four Lines Regiment mainly relies on manpower and pack horses. The weight requirement for an ordinary soldier of the Four Lines Regiment is 15 kilograms, and the individual soldier of the Scout Regiment can carry a load of 20 kilograms. Manpower is not a machine and will get tired. This also means that the Four Lines Regiment can only march 35 kilometers a day at the fastest in the mountains. , this has already shown its shortcomings in the battle to pursue the second mixed brigade. If the 772nd regiment did not desperately block the second mixed brigade's mad attack, the Four Lines Regiment may not have the chance to completely kill the second mixed brigade.

How to improve the speed of the Four Lines Regiment's mountainous march has long been on Tang Dao's agenda, but it is unrealistic to equip a large number of pack horses. Firstly, packhorses require a large investment in purchasing, but there may not necessarily be horses. Secondly, increasing the equipment of packhorses means that a large number of horses are needed. materials, which undoubtedly increased the transportation volume of the troops.

Bicycles were the least expensive and most simple means of transport that Tang Dao thought about, and could quickly increase the marching speed of the entire regiment.

As long as each person has a bicycle, it is not a problem for an individual soldier to carry 30 kilograms, not to mention 15 kilograms. Moreover, even on a narrow mountain road, the bicycle can move at a speed of at least 5 kilometers per hour and save physical strength. The soldier can leave the bicycle to carry it. You can quickly jump into battle with your gun and don't need a lot of time to recover your stamina.

It's just that in Tang Dao's view, the bicycles of this era are similar to the 28-year-old big bars in China in the 1970s and 1980s. They are just "black and stupid". Riding this kind of bicycle to fight, if you encounter a dangerous road, you have to It's a disposable item.

Therefore, it must be changed. The lightest materials should be used. The weight of the vehicle body should not exceed 20 kilograms. The frame strength is high enough. The load does not need to be too much, as long as it can carry 100 kilograms.

In addition, a special design is added to the frame so that the entire bicycle can be folded. If encountering a dangerous road, soldiers can carry the bicycle behind them.

To put it bluntly, the design of Tang Dao is basically inspired by future mountain off-road bicycles and folding bicycles, which have extremely high requirements for materials. Looking at the world, in this era, only the United States, the top manufacturing country, can produce them.

In order to reduce the weight of the bicycle to less than 20 kilograms, high-strength aluminum alloy materials must be used. If Tang Dao remembers correctly, this material was developed by the American aluminum company in 1933 and widely used in aircraft.

However, no one in this era could afford to use it on civilian bicycles. The wealthy Americans did not get their money from the wind.

For Tang Dao, who was hit by the golden pie, as long as money could solve the problem, it was not a big deal. Even if the cost of a bicycle was more than ten times that of the current bicycle, as long as it could make his soldiers better fight the devils, it was worth it.

Of course, the promotion of bicycles was not achieved overnight. Tang Dao planned to use it in the reconnaissance company first, and then promote it to the entire regiment and even the 80th Army, the Northwest Army, and the Sichuan Army.

As for whether the Japanese could get a few and imitate them, Tang Dao had no worries at all. With their stingy nature, they were reluctant to use the expensive aluminum alloy on airplanes. It would be better to kill them if they were asked to use it to make bicycles.

The motorcycle is naturally the prototype of the future mountain motorcycle. The engine has enough horsepower, the whole motorcycle has enough load-bearing points, the body weight is light, and the fuel consumption is low, which is what Tang Dao needs.

Whether in terms of energy demand or procurement volume, motorcycles are destined to be impossible to promote to the whole regiment, but they are suitable for a small number of elite troops, not even a reconnaissance company that needs to be lurking for reconnaissance, but a rapid response force planned by Tang Dao.

The size of the troops will not exceed a 200-man infantry company. Their role is somewhat similar to that of cavalry. They carry enough firepower equipment and other supplies and can reach the battlefield dozens of kilometers away within half a day or a day and provide battlefield support.

This requires not only strong combat power, but also skilled motorcycle driving skills and the courage to cross mountains and rivers at high speed.

The planning of this unit is still only on paper, but Tang Dao has basically had a rough idea of ​​the candidates and the composition of the troops in his mind. As long as the motorcycles are in place, training can begin.

Originally, Tang Dao planned to slowly negotiate with Lou Dehua to solve these needs, but the appearance of Laura Rockefeller made Tang Dao completely change the candidates.

After all, if you walk on one leg, you can't walk on two legs steadily. What if the German Empire completely abandons China in order to appease the Japanese in two years, and a certain German-Chinese tears up all the agreements with a sentence of "The Empire does not allow it!", can he really kill the Germans with a knife?

What's more, compared with the current manufacturing industry in the United States, the industrial level that the mustache leader has carefully prepared for ten years is really much worse. As long as you give money, the American cowboys can even build you an aircraft carrier.

It's a pity that this thing is really too big. The rough guys under Tang Dao may have a hard time learning to ride a bicycle, let alone playing with an aircraft carrier. It's better to pick up the gun and shoot the devils!

As for the so-called troop carrier mentioned by Tang Dao, it is actually the future JEEP.

What did the United States use to win the Second World War? Some people say it was the powerful navy with 20 aircraft carriers, and some people say it was the countless Sherman tanks in the United States. These are the evaluations of later generations, but what is the evaluation of the American cowboys themselves?

George Coltrane, the Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army during World War II, had a clear answer - Jeep made a great contribution to the victory of the United States.

Who is this JEEP that makes a five-star general praise it? This is the famous Willys Jeep, a ceiling-level technology proposed by the U.S. Army in the pre-war military purchase.

The requirements put forward by the U.S. Army are that the carrying capacity of this military vehicle must reach 272 kilograms, the wheelbase must be less than 75 inches, that is, about 1.9 meters, the body height must not exceed 36 inches, the body weight itself cannot exceed 544 kilograms, it must be four-wheel drive, the engine must operate stably at a speed of 5 to 80 kilometers, there must be a retractable front windshield, the body material must be all-metal, etc.

Such a harsh and almost daunting requirement was almost unimaginable when the automobile industry was less than 100 years old, but there must be a brave man under a big reward. Willys successfully won the bid and manufactured the future famous Willys JEEP.

The appearance of the Willys Jeep is full of the metal beauty of the industrial age. The angular rectangular box design is full of power, and the 441 four-cylinder water-cooled side-valve engine provides 60 horsepower of surging power.

At first glance, this jeep seems to be nothing special except for being handsome, but only after looking at its test data, you will know how excellent it is.

The washboard road causes it to almost jump forward, but the structure will not be damaged at all. It can ensure operation and rush out of the river water and silt when entering a river that almost submerges the vehicle.

The reliable performance makes this JEEP car not only a personnel transport vehicle, but also a fire reconnaissance vehicle equipped with a heavy machine gun and a steel plate shield, a communication vehicle with a radio, and a battlefield ambulance with a stretcher installed after the chair is removed.

This JEEP car, which embodies the excellent manufacturing industry of the United States, has quickly become the darling of American cowboys since its birth. Any American soldier driving a JEEP car will be the most handsome guy on the battlefield.

Drinking Coke, chewing gum, and driving a JEEP at full speed on the battlefield is the most classic image of American cowboys in World War II.

So much so that some allied soldiers believed that the American army was equipped with a JEEP, and that all American soldiers who did not ride in a car were fakes. A group of French soldiers threw a group of American cowboys who were marching on foot into prison because they did not drive... ...

With this ‘black technology’ born before World War II, Tang Dao directly pirated it without any psychological burden.

In front of the beautiful foreign girl who was once again stunned by Tang Dao's saucy operation, Tang Dao took out the design drawings and various performance parameters of three models in one breath, and then told her without any sense of shame: "After production, I authorize your company to sell in your Commonwealth, but I need to collect royalties.”

Laura…

This guy must be an American wearing Chinese skin! How do you even understand patent rights?

"Of course, this is all trivial. Miss Laura and I still have a big business to discuss. I know that your company has been working on research in this area, and I already have samples." Tang Daodan smiled lightly Write three words on another piece of white paper.

Laura's sea-blue eyes suddenly widened again, looking at the man in front of her who had repeatedly shocked her.

If she could, she really wanted to give this guy a shot, otherwise her heart would have problems sooner or later.