Chapter 1022 Recuperation
But the more Liu Yirong explained that vulcanized rubber was hard-won, the more people were enthusiastic about rubber carts. Wu Menghui had already shouted: "Miss Dislike, the next rubber cart must be left to us Wu's carts. Our carts are the best carts in Haibei. If you want to get the popularity of the wheel rubber carts, our Wu's carts are the best choice!"
Wu Menghui has no longer considered the price factor at all, but this is not an act of impulse.
Now he is considering more about the sensational effect that this rubber cart may bring. Although he is a big shot in Haibei Town, and his Wu's cart shop is the leading land transport business in Haibei Town, unfortunately, his current popularity seems to be insufficient. Many people still don't know Wu Menghui's name, so they must further gain popularity.
Just pull this rubber car into your own store and make sure that there will be a situation where there are thousands of people everywhere. Wu Menghui doesn't care how much money it will lose when introducing this rubber car.
He even felt that as long as this rubber wheel could do the feat of pulling three thousand pounds on a single horse, he would be willing to do anything in the future. Who would not know Wu Menghui's name in the entire Haibei Town in the future?
It was precisely because of this that Wu Menghui and Lu Xuanshui's voices suddenly became louder. Their ideas have now shifted from pursuing economic benefits to sensational effects. Lu Xuanshui even shouted directly: "Miss Disguise, how much does a rubber ** car cost? When you get the price, I'll get the money right away! I'll pay you right away."
For all the military generals, they have financial system constraints, so of course they cannot offer prices as much as Lu Xuanshui. Moreover, Liu Peng is right in front of them, and he just yells out a sky-high price, so he quickly elected Gu Shanhe to express his views.
"Mr. Governor, we have discussed it in advance and are preparing to place an order for two hundred double-set rubber ** cars and five hundred single-set rubber ** cars!"
This is a big order, and now the study institute is just trying to produce a rubber car in the laboratory. Large-scale production is probably a matter of monkey, cow, horse and moon.
Therefore, after hearing such an order, Liu Yirong shook her head and said, "I can't do this at all, uncles and fathers. Not to mention that it has not reached the level of mass production, even energy production may be able to produce a rubber car in a month in the short term. Even rubber materials do not have so much inventory!"
Liu Peng attaches great importance to vulcanized rubber. After all, vulcanized rubber is a black technology in the 19th century. Now it was developed in the 17th century in advance. It is no longer a simple word such as black technology, but a magical tool in black technology.
The role of vulcanized rubber is not just a rubber tire. There are countless places where vulcanized rubber are needed. It can even be said that the invention of vulcanized rubber has directly put many departments at the forefront of upgrading. In this case, Haibei Town’s existing rubber reserves are not enough, and even one-tenth of the order mentioned by Gu Shanhe cannot meet.
That's right, it's not even enough to be one-tenth, although Liu Peng has purchased a certain amount of rubber almost every year as a strategic reserve in recent years.
Before he bought rubber from the Spaniards and the Dutch, rubber was just an insignificant local local product in the Americas. Liu Peng's intervention immediately made rubber an important product in international trade, and the price of rubber has risen by 50% in the past few years.
Many people realize that exporting rubber to the Far East is profitable. Although they do not know where these rubbers will eventually flow, a large number of rubber, rubber trees and rubber trees flow into the strategic reserves of the Haibei Army every year, but the strategic reserves of the Haibei Army still cannot meet the orders after the successful development of vulcanized rubber.
Now this large order from the Haibei Army alone may have increased the price of rubber in the international market exponentially or even several times. As a trade commodity that came from the ocean in South America to the East, the price of rubber is originally quite expensive. If it increases exponentially or even several times, it will be insulated from civilian products.
Even if Liu Peng started cutting rubber in the rubber manor on Hainan Island, it would not solve this problem. After all, the consumption of rubber products will increase by a thousand times or ten thousand times in the next. The rubber manor in Hainan will only solve half of the demand of Haibei Town. Haibei Town must continue to purchase a massive amount of rubber in the international market.
Therefore, Liu Peng quickly made a decision. He felt that he should reduce the rubber consumption in Haibei Town in a short period of time: "The army is not suitable for a large number of rubber vehicles now, and I have summoned you this time to announce that in the short term, our Haibei Town should focus on people's livelihood construction and must consider the long-term national strength issue. Therefore, the first batch of rubber vehicles, our Haibei Army, will not consider it for the time being, we will hide the rich people!"
Speaking of this, Liu Peng continued: "From the first year of Tianqi to this year, the war in Liaodong has lasted for seven years. The war has spread frequently for seven years, and all the pressure has been pressed on the common people in Shandong. Now the Korean War has come to an end. I have discussed with all the old gentlemen of Haiyouhui to give Shandong a period of time to recuperate and recuperate."
Gu Shanhe did not expect that his suggestion would be rejected. It was just that Liu Peng's planning was related to the strategic planning of the Haibei Army, and it was not a category that he could question.
He could only protest on the issue of his own power: "Mr. Governor, as long as we have these two hundred double-set rubber ** cars and five hundred single-set rubber ** cars, the combat effectiveness and logistics support capabilities of our Haibei Army units will have a qualitative leap, and we have a chance to solve the two red flags... And if we are ready to go deep into Liao and Shen, these seven hundred rubber vehicles may not be enough!"
Ji Jinsi next to him said bluntly: "Governor, we have just returned from North Korea. Now Huang Taiji has sent troops to Ningjin again. The front line is fighting fiercely. It is a great time for us to prepare for war. How can you say that you can rest and keep rich for the people?"
But Liu Peng smiled mysteriously. He told Gu Shanhe and Ji Jinsi: "It is because Ning Jin is fighting fiercely that this is a great time for us to let go of construction. And do you think it is a suitable time to attack Haigui at this time?"
"I have a very confident prediction. I dare not say that in a year, at least within half a year, there is probably no big battle on the front line. We can train and adjust the troops. Moreover, if we attack Haigai now, we may only achieve half the result with twice the effort!"
Regarding Liu Peng and his predictions, the generals of the Haibei Army have always regarded him as gods. He said that there was no large-scale war in a year or two. Everyone felt that even if Liu Peng's judgment was wrong, there should be no big problem. Therefore, the generals of Haibei considered the real background behind Liu Peng's judgment.
They quickly came to a conclusion similar to Liu Peng, that is, there may be a temporary easing between the Haibei Army and the Later Jin Army for a period of time. Of course, this temporary easing is just to make all preparations for the next round of military preparation and comprehensive conflict. However, everyone thinks that within a year and a half, there will be no large-scale war conflict between the Haibei Army and the Later Jin Army.
The reason is very simple, that is, the three fires that Huang Taiji's new official should have been almost the same. During this period, Huang Taiji can be said to have fully firepowered, either suppressing Mongolia or sending troops to North Korea. Now he has sent troops to Ningjin to fight against the Guanning army.
If it weren't for the Haibei Army, Huang Taiji's series of conspiracies might have been accomplished, but the problem is that Huang Taiji was born at the wrong time. When he met Liu Peng, a perfect opponent, the Blue Flag attacked North Korea was a panic retreat from the city of Yuanzhou, and even brought Lin Danhan's nearly 10,000 cavalry. Now a large-scale civil war broke out between the Mongolian grasslands and the Chahar tribes.
This Chahar civil war was a standard Mongolian war. Although it was huge, the losses of personnel in the war were extremely limited. The reason why Chaharou, supported by the Haibei Army, could not win a complete victory was entirely because Lin Danhan had a reputation for being righteous.
Moreover, many Mongolian tribes that were originally mortal enemies of Lin Dankhan were unwilling to unify the entire Mongolia, but they were even more unwilling to have the support of Haibei Town Chaharou Erduo become the real owner of the Mongolian grassland, so they came out to support Lin Dankhan.
But even in this situation, Namuzhong and Su Tai and other queens still brought Oerduo's sisters to join forces with the tribes that formed an alliance with the Haibei Army and gradually gained the upper hand. Since the victory or defeat was not decided on the Mongolian grassland, Huang Taiji naturally did not dare to launch an attack on the Haibei Army.
After all, if he sends troops to Jin Fu and Chahar and the Korqin Mongolian cavalry suddenly skip them from behind, it will definitely be a good show that will make thousands of generations laugh at Huang Taiji.
Moreover, the generals of the Haibei Army knew very well that although the fierce offensive launched by Huang Taiji had achieved considerable results, due to the emergence of Haibei Town, the Later Jin army also suffered at least thousands of casualties, and even the strongest Inlaid Blue Flag was unwilling to continue to fight.
Although the Later Jin army should have achieved considerable results in Ningjin's offensive, there are obviously not many ways to deal with the Ming army Huang Taiji who guarded the city of Jinzhou. In this case, the Later Jin army must stop and adjust for a period of time instead of actively launching a challenge to the Haibei Army.
However, the Haibei Army will not actively launch a large-scale offensive in southern Liaoning for no reason. Now both sides of the Liaoning front have carefully built countless lines of defense, which has completely become a situation of weak defense and strong offense. Whoever takes the initiative to launch an offensive will bear greater losses.
Even if the Haibei Army can get a large number of rubber cars, it will still be difficult to successfully solve the many defense lines carefully constructed by Jiannu. In North Korea, it can even use hemp rods to hit both ends of the wolf to describe the current situation, and no one dares to launch a large-scale offensive.
Chapter completed!