"Damn Japs!"

Until he disembarked from Lianyungang, Nikolayev still cursed angrily.

Those Japanese really lowered their prices!

Not just 10%!

The average unit price per car is less than 110,000 yen, which is almost the price of scrap metal.

The Japanese can offer that price, but Nikolayev cannot. Knowing the cost of a forward-looking motorcycle, Nikolayev knows that even if it is sold for 100,000 yuan, the company still has a large profit margin.

The cost of forward-looking motorcycles is not high, which is why he decided to reduce the price.

But in the end, those Japanese meat cuts really scared him.

"I'm very sorry, Mr. Chairman!"

Sitting in front of the chairman, Nikolayev sincerely apologized for his mistake in Hanoi because he spent an extra 10,000 yuan... on bribes!

"Fifteen motorcycles?"

With a twitching brow, Li Zicheng looked at Nikolaev.

"When is their contract delivery date?"

"The first locomotive will be delivered in January next year, and the last locomotive will be delivered by the end of the year!"

Nikolayev's words almost made Li Zicheng laugh out loud. This time the Japanese may lose money so much that they can't even wear their pants. They will deliver the goods next year... The price of steel next year alone is almost equivalent to this year's contract price.

.

Of course, Li Zicheng couldn't say this.

"It doesn't matter, it's just fifteen locomotives. Nicholas, I forgot to tell you that our railway will be built to Tongguan this year, so the locomotive manufacturer will use more productivity to prioritize the needs of the Longhai Railway!

"

Nowadays, the construction speed of Longhai Railway is very fast. The North Anhui branch line is constructed in sections in multiple places, and the Longhai main line is also constructed in sections. As early as two years ago, after the Longhai Railway Company acquired the Bianluo Railway, it began to use the Bianluo Railway.

The railway is being constructed in an east-west direction. According to the progress of the project, the section from Xuzhou to Kaifeng will be opened to traffic in three months. After five months, the western section will be built to Tongguan. By May next year, the railway will be built to Xi'an. By then, Longhai

The railway will truly enter the northwest hinterland of China.

In order to ensure construction and catch up with progress, in addition to using 250,000 road workers, Longhai Railway Company also imported hundreds of large machinery and equipment from the United States.

The opening of the main line and branch lines requires the company to require a large number of locomotives. According to estimates, Longhai Railway Company will need 105 locomotives and at least 6,000 passenger and freight trains by the end of next year. This will be tripled by the end of next year. Accordingly, in order to increase production capacity

, the scale of the motorcycle manufacturing plant is still expanding.

The reason for domestic protection now is simple, low prices, but in the second half of the year, after the European War begins, the production capacity of motorcycle manufacturers will give priority to exports to obtain international huge profits.

"Now the Longhai Railway Company even has to import locomotives from abroad. Nicholas, fortunately, you didn't win the order for those fifteen locomotives, otherwise the railway company would have had a hard time doing business!"

"Dong, Chairman!"

The chairman's words actually made Nikolayev's face turn red. In his opinion, these were simply words of comfort.

"Next time, next time I will definitely..."

"Okay, Nicholas, I have seen your contribution in the past ten months and will keep it in my heart. Without your help, I am afraid that the China-Russia Chamber of Commerce and the China-France Chamber of Commerce would not be so quick.

Come on, China Foreign Trade Company relies on these chambers of commerce for its foreign trade. In the first five months of this year, the trading company’s export value was close to 100 million yuan, and the company’s export value was 20 million yuan. You have contributed to this! Isn’t it just fifteen locomotives?

Well, next year, I dare say, next year you can sell 150 vehicles to the company, and you can even sell 1.5 million tons of ships to the company!"

Although he knew that the chairman was just joking, Nikolayev swallowed a mouthful of saliva quickly and was stunned for a long time before speaking.

"Okay, next year, next year I will definitely be able to live up to the chairman's trust!"

One hundred and fifty locomotives, one and a half million tons of ships!

After Nikolaev left, Li Zicheng just smiled slightly when he thought of what he said. If history did not change, let alone selling 150 motorcycles and 1.5 million tons of ships a year, it would be a year.

It is possible to sell a thousand locomotives or a ship of 10 million tons, as long as there is sufficient production capacity.

After almost two years of construction, Lianyungang's industry has now begun to take shape. However, wanting to complete production on this scale is simply talk. But as long as we can seize this precious development opportunity, by the end of the European War, Lianyungang will

, Well, maybe China may have such industrial production capabilities.

After all, there is a precedent for Japan in history. During World War I, Japan's manufacturing industry increased dozens of times. It was through World War I that Japan jumped from a long-term population superpower since Meiji to a superpower.

The country's industrial structure has also transformed from an agricultural country before the war to an industrial country.

"War! War...well, the dividends of war are the most important!"

Li Zicheng knows better than anyone else about the future historical development, at least better than other people of this era.

The current overall planning and construction of "industry" along Lianyungang and Longhai Railway, and even the supported ones, were formulated by Li Zicheng based on the history he is familiar with. From the beginning of the war, most factories were put into production, until the end of the war, the factories were further expanded, and all

Most of the factories, whether they are enterprises or the "supervisors" of Huaihai Bank, are designed to share the war dividends.

Through the support of the past year, by the end of the year, China will have 62 cotton spinning mills, with as many as 2.4 million yarns, 450 silk reeling mills, 120 flour mills, and 6 weaving mills. The biggest characteristics of these enterprises

Yes, most of them have not yet been put into production and are only under construction. Even the machinery and equipment of most of their factories are now either in the company's production plan or in the factories of foreign companies.

Even if it is the fastest, it is only during sea transportation.

Most of these factories will be put into production at the end of the year and the beginning of next year. They will seize the favorable development opportunity as soon as they start construction. Moreover, among these newly built enterprises, Huaihai Bank has a supervisor seat, because Huaihai Bank is

The factory provided a loan.

As this enterprise makes profits in the future, the supervisors sent by Huaihai Bank will directly influence their decisions, thereby ensuring that these enterprises can develop and grow like a snowball. The development and growth of light industry will further stimulate the development of the machinery manufacturing industry.

Although the company is still operating at "zero profit" until now, the most difficult stage has been passed. We only need to hold on for a few more months, and good days will come!

Once the world war starts, relying on the construction and development of the past two years, the company will enter a real blowout period. The export of steel, machinery, ships, and even fire, explosives and other military products will bring a steady stream of huge profits.

, Only then can we achieve leapfrog development together with China.

"The ammonia synthesis equipment of Nippon Chemical Industry should be almost put into production soon!"

When thinking of military production, Li Zicheng naturally thought of nitric acid! It is the mother of military industry. Gunpowder and explosives are inseparable from nitric acid. Now the nitric acid in the world is extracted from Chilean saltpeter. Once the war breaks out, Chilean saltpeter

That is to say, there will be a situation where supply exceeds demand, and for many years, the Chilean saltpeter market has been mostly controlled by Europe and the United States.

If you want to get involved in the most profitable arms production in World War I, you must solve the problem of nitric acid. Fortunately, the Germans have solved this problem long ago. In fact, it was this war that promoted the progress of synthetic ammonia technology. Last year, in the German world

The first set of ammonia synthesis equipment was put into production, but Germany kept it strictly secret. It was not until Germany's defeat that the Haber Process was spread around the world with Germany's patent compensation.

Compared with Germany, as early as last year, the chemical industry began to build a 50,000-ton concentrated nitric acid plant based on German technical data and drawings from the 1930s. In order to speed up the construction of the factory, he did not hesitate to disperse the drawings to the United States, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, and France.

, Italy, the United Kingdom, Belgium, the Netherlands and other countries.

Once the chemical nitric acid plant is put into operation, the explosives produced by the company will no longer need to rely on saltpeter or purchase it from distant countries such as Chile, and the cost will be much lower than that of European and American countries.

The subsidiary China Rayon Company only needs to fine-tune its production line to have an annual production capacity of 30,000 tons of smokeless gunpowder. What does a sufficient amount of gunpowder and explosives mean? It not only means that the war will be more cruel.

And most importantly...it means wealth!

"Hmph!"

He stood up and walked to the window. Looking at Lianyungang, which had completely revealed what a city should look like, Li Zicheng raised the corners of his lips slightly, and there was a hint of cruelty in the smile on his face.

"It doesn't matter what you say about the fall of European civilization! As long as you fight it, the harder it is, the bigger the better. Anyway, whatever you have eaten from China in the past few years, I have to spit it out with profits!"

Sneering, an illusion appeared in front of Li Zicheng's eyes. The once glorious European cities were reduced to the ground in the war, and the bombs and artillery shells that destroyed those cities were all made in China.

Those Europeans who had committed heinous crimes against China used Chinese-made guns to kill each other, and their tiny bodies were reduced to ashes in the fire.

In the midst of this unprecedented massacre, merchant ships were launched one after another at the slipway of Lianyungang, and then loaded with guns made in China, they were transported across the ocean to Europe to supply the Europeans with massacres. When the merchant ships returned,

, those merchant ships were all loaded with gold and silver, and the gold and silver were eventually turned into factories.

In this process, China is changing rapidly. After the war is over, a completely different China will appear in Asia and in front of the world.

"All is ready except for the opportunity!"

Just wait for the east wind to blow!

"Ping Nan, as long as there is news about Sarajevo recently, you have to tell me immediately, do you understand?"

When leaving the house, Li Zicheng asked Yan Pingnan, "Why hasn't it started yet? History will not be changed by himself?"
Chapter completed!