Siheyuan: Bringing Warehouses to 1959

Sun Tao was very conflicted. These factory managers were not honest and had united to lower prices in order to deal with Zeng Wangcai.

He and Zeng Wangcai have a cooperative relationship with BAIC. He has always been grateful to Zeng Wangcai. It was Zeng Wangcai who injected strength into BAIC. Otherwise, BAIC would have been suppressed and mopped up by FAW.

He was struggling over whether or not to talk to Zeng Wangcai.

If we don't inform them, we will appear to be disloyal; if we do inform them, we will probably be scolded by the factory managers and it will also cause losses to BAIC.

It's a dilemma...

"Old Sun, what are you talking about?" Zhou Bo noticed that Sun Tao's expression was not right during the conversation, and reminded him, "This is a matter of principle. Don't be disloyal. Every penny we lower the price is equivalent to saving money for the country, not for ourselves. Pay attention to your position."

"What are you talking about?" Sun Tao retorted unhappily, "I just think that what we are doing is not fair. Isn't this a conspiracy to cheat Wangcai? I am trying to figure out why he does this. He is not like you guys who only care about money."

"What's the reason for him to do this, other than to make money?" Zhou Tao wondered, "Isn't it just to sell it for a higher price? What's the reason?"

"You don't understand, and I don't understand either, but Wangcai does." Sun Tao explained patiently, "When it comes to patriotism, it goes without saying that we are all patriotic, but Wangcai is not patriotic? He has made much greater contributions than us, right? And he is already very rich, so why would he do this?"

In terms of personal contribution, everyone here, let alone one by one, even if all of them were added together, would not be even a fraction of what Zeng Wangcai makes.

So when Sun Tao refuted this, everyone was speechless.

In fact, these factory managers have no selfish motives in joining together. They just get fixed salaries and just like what Zhou Bo said, they want to save some money for the country.

Furthermore, there is no market, let alone market rules, so they don’t know that it is inappropriate to do so.

However, due to Sun Tao's insistence, this small alliance was not established.

Coincidentally, while the factory directors were holding a private meeting here, some military bigwigs were also holding a meeting in a conference room in Xiyuan. Among them, the retired Yang Mingyuan, Su Ming, and the witness Liu Yong were all invited.

Because it involves commercial matters and drones are too important, Jiao Hua, who understands business, was also invited.

The meeting was chaired by Lin Yuewen, a general who has replaced Yang Mingyuan in the military.

In addition, there is Liu Yunxiao, who took over Liu Yong's job and headed the Third Ministry of Industry.

This conference was attended by many big names, and the importance attached to drones is self-evident.

"Okay, turn on the lights!" Lin Yuewen asked someone to turn on the lights in the dark conference room, looked at everyone and said, "As you can see, drones are a new thing. This is true for us and for the West. Although the West has been developing them, as far as I know, they are still immature. Now, please let Comrade Wu Nandu talk about the basics of drones. After all, he has flown them himself."

Wu Nandu suppressed his excitement and stood up: "My dear leaders, let me tell you directly... The UAV contributed by Comrade Zeng Wangcai, everyone has seen the relevant data, I will just tell you my actual experience, in the experiment, the UAV data are up to standard, and the performance is excellent, in the final target shooting, the accuracy is very high, the error is only one meter, this one meter can be almost ignored under the explosive equivalent...

"This is a new way of fighting, it feels a bit like future warfare..."

The big guys nodded frequently, and their understanding of drones was further deepened.

"Well, now it seems that the role of drones has been confirmed." Lin Yuewen concluded, "Then what remains for us to discuss is how many we want in the first batch, which unit should learn to use them first after we get them, and then promote them after we figure out how to use drones."

In short, drones are definitely needed, the only question is how many we need and which one to equip first.

The latter issue was quickly determined and the garrison air force, that is, Wu Nandu's unit, would be equipped first, after all, Wu Nandu had "experience".

This is not controversial.

Finally, the controversy arose over how many planes to choose.

Before opening the question, Lin Yuewen looked at the three old comrades respectfully: "Mr. Liu, Mr. Yang, Mr. Su, Comrade Zeng Wangcai didn't seem to mention the price of this drone, right?"

"Hey... I have a question!" A big shot raised his hand, "Why would he sell it? Can't he donate it like before?"

"Old Li, what you said is unreasonable." Yang Mingyuan stood up angrily, "Why can't he sell it? We have received so many good things from him, and he never asked for money every time, so we are used to him giving them to us. This time he wants to sell it, and we are not used to it? Do you think he is unpatriotic?"

"Look, why are you so anxious?" The boss surnamed Li quickly stood up and explained, "Mr. Yang, you misunderstood me. What I meant was, why did he want to sell......"

"Isn't that what you meant? Is there any misunderstanding?"

"No, please sit down and listen to me!" The boss surnamed Li didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and quickly cut to the chase, "What I mean is that we can produce it ourselves and master the technology. Aerospace is the main business of the Third Ministry of Machine Building. Comrade Zeng Wangcai has a cooperation foundation with the Third Ministry of Machine Building. Let's build a factory together and produce it, and then we can purchase it. This way, we have the technology and save money, right?"

“Next time, speak fully!” Yang Mingyuan said, taking advantage of his seniority. “I almost cut you with my knife.”

"Hahaha!"

"Mr. Yang is still as impatient as before."

"If you have anything to say, please talk nicely..."

The atmosphere in the conference room was suddenly livened up by Yang Mingyuan, and became much more relaxed.

We discussed the possibility of building a factory for production.

Finally, Wu Nandu, who had the lowest position and rank, raised his hand weakly: "Leaders, have you ever thought that... we may not be able to produce this in a short time, so Comrade Zeng Wangcai said to sell it? If we study it slowly, it may be the same as that ship...

"But procurement is different. It can form combat capability at the fastest speed."

The older bosses fell silent one by one.

What you said...seems to make sense.

The West has the foundation and has been researching for so long, but that's all. We have no foundation, and we have to start researching and imitating from scratch. When will we be able to mass produce it?

The Air Force has been weak for many years. Wouldn’t it be better if it could be equipped in advance?

"Young people are still very smart!" Lin Yuewen laughed, "In that case, we will purchase some and research and produce at the same time, so we can do both."

After confirming this, Lin Yuewen asked Yang Mingyuan and the other three how much a drone cost.

As a result, Yang Mingyuan and the others didn't know and didn't ask, and Zeng Wangcai didn't say anything at the time.

"How about I make a phone call and ask now?" Yang Mingyuan took out the mobile phone Zeng Wangcai gave him from his pocket. The thing was still tied with a rope.

After getting approval, Yang Mingyuan dialed the number: "Hey, Wangcai, a super large cup... a super large plane, how much is it? Wait a minute... how much do you say?"