The rise of great powers: starting from military industry

Fifth Machinery Department, conference room.

At twelve o'clock in the night, the lights are brightly lit.

Wang Baoguo and other leaders were sitting in the conference room, listening attentively to Liu Tao, who smelled strongly of alcohol and had red eyes, reporting on the situation.

"Dear leaders, this is the situation. After the contract is drawn up, the agreement can be signed." Liu Tao reported, "Same as last time, half of the deposit will be paid first, and the goods will be inspected at the dock, and then the remaining half of the balance will be paid."

Wang Baoguo and others were all excited.

They didn't expect that Liu Tao would get a big order again this time. This big order was much larger than the previous one, worth nearly 100 million US dollars!

One hundred million dollars!

This is almost as much as the US$167 million that the Three Machinery Department brags about every day!

The key is that the US$167 million for the third machine department must be delivered before the money can be obtained. But they are different, they can get half of the deposit soon!

"Comrade Liu Tao, how much is the rebate this time?" a leader asked.

"The situation this time is special. Except for Egypt, a few rich people are footing the bill, and there is no need for rebates." Liu Tao reported truthfully.

Another leader frowned slightly, "Isn't this bad? If they don't pay themselves, is it against the rules?"

"Dear leaders, we are not providing free assistance, but paid assistance. Our current identity is arms dealers." Liu Tao said matter-of-factly, "As long as we can receive the money, does it matter who gives the money?"

Several leaders were stunned and opened their mouths to say something, but after thinking about it for a moment, they felt that what Liu Tao said was correct.

It feels like something is wrong, but it also feels very reasonable!

"Our Panshan Machinery Factory is just an arms dealer. As a businessman, our goal is to sell arms and get money. As for where the other party gets the money, arms dealers should not consider it." Liu Tao said.

He felt that these leaders thought too much.

"Comrade Liu Tao is right, we have to change our previous inherent thinking. We used to provide free assistance. Now we want to be arms dealers and businessmen. When doing business, as long as we can get money, we don't care." Wang Baoguo said .

After discussing it for a while, I felt that there was nothing wrong with it, so no one said anything about it.

A leader said: "Pistols, rifles, and light machine gun bullets are easy to solve. Just take them out from the warehouse. The inventory will be cleared, and the newly produced bullets will be stored in the ammunition depot."

"Only one-sixth of the ammunition prepared for the 'Red Dragon's Roar' has been consumed. There is no problem in clearing the inventory properly." Wang Baoguo nodded, "Panshan Machinery Factory should focus more on the production of firearms!"

If possible, they would prefer to let other military factories produce together and complete the order as soon as possible. After all, if the order is completed early, the money can be used.

It's just very helpless that only Panshan Machinery Factory can produce heavy machine guns, heavy sniper rifles and corresponding bullets.

Other military factories can produce pistols, automatic rifles, and light machine guns, but the quality of their products is not as good as that of Panshan Machinery Factory. From time to time, the military scolds them and returns unqualified guns.

Such an important order was naturally given to Panshan Machinery Factory.

Liu Tao said: "Actually, leaders, the firearms produced in the past can also be cleared out of inventory. They can still be sold at a low price. If they are kept in the ammunition depot, maintenance will cost a lot of money every year."

In the past, pistols, rifles, machine guns, etc. were all second-hand goods, and their performance was also poor, so naturally they could not be sold at high prices.

But this thing can actually be sold if you want to.

After all, most countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America are not picky.

When the war is going on, it's good to have weapons and ammunition. There's no way to be picky.

"That's not possible. If a war breaks out, how can we protect our country without enough reserves?" A leader vetoed it without hesitation.

Although the decision-makers have decided that peace and development are the themes of the times, the future focus will be on economic construction. However, the extreme thinking that has been carried out for many years has been deeply ingrained, and wherever it is said that it has changed, it has changed.

The weapons and ammunition reserves for more than 20 years are massive, and they are all for the S3 season!

The weapons and ammunition reserves in the Southwest alone are terrifyingly large.

The country's weapons and ammunition reserves are huge. It is estimated that when the S3 season starts, these weapons and ammunition reserves can support soldiers to fight for five or six years even if the military factory is blown up.

Liu Tao secretly murmured in his heart that it seemed that these leaders were still too conservative.

However, he believed that when Panshan Machinery Factory develops and continuously produces weapons and ammunition, these leaders will gradually agree to clear the inventory.

As for the consequences of selling so many weapons and ammunition, Liu Tao has no control over it.

A dead Taoist friend will not die a poor Taoist!

As long as it doesn't happen to China, don't worry about the flood.

Now the world is in a situation where two poles are fighting for hegemony. If the sky falls, these two tall men will hold it up.

The next day, near ten o'clock in the morning, three contracts and agreements were drawn up, in six copies, two each in Chinese, English, and Arabic.

Liu Tao stamped it, and the stamp was the seal of Panshan Machinery Factory.

As for the account, it is still the original account.

Liu Tao took the contract agreement and went to sign the contracts one by one. In order to facilitate Liu Tao's signing of the contract, a jeep in the ministry was used by Liu Tao, and a driver was specially assigned to drive Liu Tao in this jeep.

By noon, the contract agreement had been signed.

Returning to the Fifth Machinery Department, Wang Baoguo gave him a document.

But in view of his outstanding performance in the past, the ministry rewarded him with 20,000 yuan.

There is no doubt that this is a huge amount of money.

Liu Tao's current salary is 159 yuan a month and 1,908 yuan a year. 20,000 yuan is equivalent to his total salary income for almost 11 years.

"When you complete this order, I will give you more rewards!" Wang Baoguo emphasized.

You know, his monthly salary is only 355 yuan, and 20,000 yuan is almost equivalent to his total salary for five years.

He has been working for so long and his savings are less than 2,000 yuan.

This reward was also a decision that was finally passed after the ministry discussed it many times.

Of course, the document is not a reward for negotiating the contract, but a reward for his outstanding performance.

"Leader, this is too much!" Liu Tao showed hesitation.

He had previously developed a production line for firearms and semi-automatic bullets, and received many awards, which had long since made him a millionaire.

But 20,000 yuan is still a huge amount of money to him.

The main thing is that there is no precedent and it is easy to fall into the trap.

"Not much, not much at all!" Wang Baoguo said: "That's 22.203 million U.S. dollars, which is very valuable to the ministry and the country."

At this position, Wang Baoguo knew very well how short of foreign exchange the country was.

Foreign exchange is needed in all aspects, and it is far from enough to treat one piece of foreign exchange as ten pieces of foreign exchange.

Without foreign exchange, you can’t import anything you want.

And now, there is a large amount of foreign exchange in the account of the Fifth Machinery Department. During this time, I don’t know how many people want to play with this foreign exchange.

To be honest, if the settlement is given to Panshan Machinery Factory in RMB, Panshan Machinery Factory will suffer a loss.

But there is no way, now everyone is too short of foreign exchange, especially US dollars.