Reborn in Hong Kong: The Tycoon Grows Up

As expected, the incident of Heiyun Group employees queuing up to buy jewelry at Chow Tai Fook Jewelry Store was reported by all Hong Kong media. After all, the employees of Heiyun Group seem to be buying gold for free, which is definitely a sensational topic in Hong Kong in this era.

After Oriental Daily reported this incident, it once again reported on the welfare benefits of Heiyun employees and looked at the rich, nutritionally balanced, and wide variety of delicious meals in the canteen. The environment in the dormitory is clean, comfortable, and the living conditions are complete with entertainment facilities. All the citizens in Xiangjiang are talking about this matter.

Some gossip news even said that Heiyun Group has many men, most of whom are engineers or senior white-collar workers. Women are a rare species in the Heiyun Group, and most of them are flamboyant. Most of the Chow Tai Fook shopping guides are young and beautiful girls. The purpose of purchasing so many jewelry this time is to attract the attention of Chow Tai Fook shopping guides.

Not to mention that after seeing the media reports, the golden bachelors from Heiyun Group actually found many Chow Tai Fook shopping guides as wives. Chow Tai Fook's female shopping guide's eyes lit up when she saw these engineers. She must have been unintentional!

Bao Zixuan doesn't have time to worry about these things now. With the continuous efforts of old German technicians, the Black Cloud version of Knight XV is finally released.

Bao Zixuan stood in front of this land monster. It was different from the original Knight XV. Due to the technology of this era, great changes were made in its performance.

It is 2.5 meters long and 2.5 meters high. Its shape uses rhombus lines instead of the curves of ordinary vehicles, reflecting the square and square characteristics of armored vehicles. It uses an engine with a maximum output of 380 horsepower and a torque of 5857kgm.

The appearance of Knight XV is very tough and sturdy, giving people the impression that it can break out of a tight siege just by running rampant, like a tank on the road. The body uses tungsten-titanium alloy and glass avant-garde wheel arches and bumpers, and the windows and windshield are made of 70 mm thick bullet-proof transparent material. It can withstand NATO standard steel core bullets with a rate of fire of 7. It can withstand attacks with 20 kilograms of TNT explosives. The military vehicle chassis can also withstand grenade explosion attacks.

The appearance and dimensions of the Black Cloud version of the Knight XV are the same as those of the previous version. The only entertainment facilities are a radio and a car version of a Walkman for listening to news and playing music.

The engine uses the most mature diesel engine from Germany's Rheinmetall, and the Germans are indeed at the forefront of the world in this regard. The diesel engine was developed by German Rudolf Diesel by 18 people and after more than 80 years of research and development, it has become famous all over the world.

This engine was originally designed to be used with light tanks and armored vehicles, but now it is directly used by Bao Zixuan to power off-road vehicles. However, the fuel consumption is too high. If the air conditioner is turned on in the summer, it will consume 53 liters of diesel per 100 kilometers.

Equipped with a 380 horsepower diesel engine, its design speed can reach a maximum speed of 120 kilometers per hour. It's enough if you don't need to drive a car at speed.

As for the safety performance, which is much better than in the previous life, thanks to the continuous deepening of trade with the Soviet Union, many controlled materials are now being shipped to Xiangjiang.

Heiyun Group is not too greedy. It handles all Ming Dynasty control materials internally. This car contains a lot of materials produced by Soviet military factories.

As long as the leaking metal parts of the entire body are made of tungsten-titanium alloy, a layer of hardened ceramic material is added inside. Even the fuel tank is no exception. This makes its body lighter and stronger, even able to withstand 20mm cannons. The car window glass is the one used by the Soviet Union to make bulletproof cars for its top leaders, which can withstand all bullet attacks.

According to Germany's classification of bulletproof cars, this car can definitely reach level four: B7 can withstand stronger fire. For example, various types of hand grenades, pipe bombs, TNT explosive packets and plastic bombs.

Unless it's a missile attack or a direct hit from an artillery shell, it's difficult to break through his armor. However, there is also a disadvantage that the cost is too high, so high that Bao Zixuan was reluctant to give it to Phil Hawkins.

This car took 4,000 working hours. Based on the calculation that a German mechanic works at 40 US dollars per working hour, his labor cost is about 160,000 US dollars.

Eight tons of tungsten-titanium alloy were used, at about US$120,000 per ton, and this was secretly shipped back. You can't buy it in the market at all, and even if you can buy it, it's a sky-high price. After all, this is a material with a relatively high level of control.

Two tons of hardened ceramic material were used, and the price per ton was US$200,000 per ton. This was a friendly price given by the Soviet Union. After all, this was the ceramic insert for the latest version of the body armor.

Miscellaneous accessories such as engines and gearboxes are all imported from Rheinmetall. A car costs US$80,000. After all, they are all military grade, and only Rheinmetall can provide them in the world. They are an exclusive trader.

As for the bulletproof glass, it costs US$50,000 per piece, no bargaining. This is special glass for the cars of top leaders. Not a few pieces are produced every year. Knight XV has 10 pieces of glass of different sizes.

It seems that the production cost is very high. The labor and material cost of each vehicle alone reached about 2.5 million to 2.8 million U.S. dollars, which was fully double the cost of Bao Zixuan's plan when the project was established. This was despite the fact that the overall price of many controlled materials in the Soviet Smuggling Association was not high. . If materials are purchased on the international market, the cost of each vehicle will exceed US$5 million.

There are not many people in this world who have the purchasing power, but this is just a product that you can buy for yourself. Let the workers have work first, and the rest can only be done slowly.

As an aircraft engine engineer, Bao Zixuan is also very familiar with car engines. However, there is no advantage at all in producing cars in Xiangjiang, because all the parts on this car are purchased from outside.

Xiangjiang's exports rely more on light industrial products such as clothing and plastic flowers. Now Xiangjiang can't even produce a single car lamp. If a large-scale automobile factory is built here, it will definitely lose money.

After fully understanding the performance of the car, Bao Zixuan said to Hector: "I have tried it several times. How is the situation?"

Hector: "Boss, we have done all-round monitoring, and there are no problems. After all, our power system and sensor system are mature military products of Rheinmetall."

"We have been dealing with these parts all our lives and have debugged them repeatedly. Moreover, the materials used in the body are the highest-grade alloys from the Soviet Union. Although these alloy technologies are available in Germany, they will never be used in cars. We There are not that many resources. Only the Soviet Union and China have large-scale mineral deposits of tungsten and titanium, and Germany only imported them in large quantities in the 1930s, and now there are very few left."

"I can guarantee that this is definitely the safest vehicle. Even if the container truck rolls over, the people inside may not be in harm's way. Theoretically, its metal strength is sufficient."

Hearing this, Bao Zixuan couldn't wait to sit in the driver's seat. Since it was made of bulletproof thickened glass, the clarity of the front windshield was not very high, but it was completely sufficient.

Bao Zixuan, who hadn't driven for a long time, got familiar with the situation inside the car and started the test drive. After stepping on the accelerator, he saw the car start slowly. After all, this is a 13.5-ton steel behemoth. However, after running, the car was very stable on the road. Fortunately, the Heiyun Group's factory area is large enough, otherwise it would really be impossible to run.

There is also a problem now, and that is the issue of production licenses. If you can't get a mass production license, you can only drive on some roads as a modified car. It seems that Phil Hawkins can only apply for it in the United States first, and it is difficult to get it in Hong Kong. As long as the certification of the American Automobile Industry Association is passed, then the production can be done in Xiangjiang.

The employees of Heiyun Group had no expression after seeing the car, and they would often test drive it recently. But after Bao Zixuan drove the car to the construction site, the construction workers who helped Heiyun build the factory were very frightened. After all, no one had ever seen such a car before.