The rise of great powers: starting from military industry

Noon.

Liu Tao completed all the procedures.

You only need to return to Kunming and go to the bank to have the money appear directly in Panshan Machinery Factory's account in Kunming.

According to regulations, according to the amount of foreign exchange earned, the bank will issue additional RMB accordingly after settlement!

The current exchange rate is 1 US dollar = 1.49 RMB.

Of course, it is impossible for banks to actually settle US$1.75 billion and only print 2.6075 billion yuan.

If this is the case, the Fifth Machinery Department will make a big loss if it settles the payment to Panshan Machinery Factory based on 1 US dollar = 1.75 RMB.

The Fifth Machinery Department can happily settle the settlement with Panshan Machinery Factory every time. Liu Tao knows without thinking that he will definitely make some profit from it.

Liu Tao suspected that the settlement given by the Fifth Machinery Department to the bank was 1 US dollar = 2 RMB or even more!

Regardless of whether the economy is now a dual-track system, in fact, in a sense, bank foreign exchange settlement is also a dual-track system.

The exchange rate ratio for bank foreign exchange settlement is quite different from that in the market.

The operating space here is very large.

After getting the business done, Liu Tao headed to the military base.

This military base is a military base for tank troops, and it is also a training base for tank crews.

The entire base covers a large area with various terrains, including dirt roads, grasslands, hillsides, and trenches.

There are eight Type 80 self-propelled anti-aircraft guns and five Type 80 tanks. Each self-propelled anti-aircraft gun and tank has a crew of one and three people. At this time, we are seizing the time to familiarize ourselves with the self-propelled anti-aircraft guns and tanks.

There are also soldiers operating heavy machine guns, heavy sniper rifles, and anti-aircraft machine guns.

The engineering troops are building bunkers, obstacles, and targets.

This will be the venue for a performance for distinguished guests tomorrow!

Type 78 pistol, Type 78 automatic rifle, Type 78 general machine gun, Type 78 heavy machine gun, Type 78 heavy sniper rifle, Type 78 sniper rifle, Type 78 gun howitzer, Type 78 sniper grenade gun and even the Type 78 sniper grenade gun that was just developed in a few months New types of body armor have all appeared.

In order to obtain orders and cooperate for a long time in the future, Liu Tao spent a lot of money this time.

Coupled with the target drone, the entire performance will cost a huge amount of money.

After checking, there were no problems with the weapons and equipment, and Liu Tao was secretly relieved.

Headquarters, the commander is deploying.

Security work, performance procedures, etc.

Except for a Type 80 self-propelled anti-aircraft gun and a Type 80 tank that just arrived three days ago, everything else is already here.

"Director Liu, are we going to use so many target drones this time? Is it necessary?" the commander said with a pained look on his face.

The commander knows very well how much it costs to perform a play.

Abandoned cars, scrapped tanks, bunker buildings, and more than a dozen target drones!

They have never had such luxury.

All year round, the number of training ammunition used is limited, let alone the current live ammunition.

Bullets are all, the really expensive ones are the avant-garde anti-aircraft missiles, tank shells and target drones!

For example, one shot of that fin-stabilized discarding sabot armor bullet was worth ten years of his salary!

"I can't bear to let my child catch the wolf, no matter how much it costs, it will be used as a practical training for the soldiers even if there is no order!" Liu Tao said.

Liu Tao knew how poor the army was.

For such a long time, no live ammunition shooting has been carried out, and only a few training bombs have been fired.

It is estimated that I only drive tanks and self-propelled anti-aircraft guns out for a short period of time a day, just to save fuel.

Like the Type 80 main battle tank, the fuel consumption per 100 kilometers can be as high as more than 400 liters of diesel, which is a real gas tiger.

So far, the orders placed by the army are only five Type 80 self-propelled anti-aircraft guns and 10 Type 80 tanks, plus corresponding artillery shells and training shells.

This is the price Liu Tao gave for 3 million yuan/vehicle for self-propelled anti-aircraft guns and 1 million yuan/vehicle for tanks.

After the plan to streamline the army was released, the army became more and more stringent.

Currently, four of the eight self-propelled anti-aircraft guns on the base are for personal use, two of the five tanks are for personal use, and the others are foreign trade versions and are temporarily loaned to the troops for training.

From the outside, it is difficult to tell the difference between the personal use version and the foreign trade version.

When guiding customers to read, they are directed to the foreign trade page.

As for firearms, there is no difference between the personal use version and the foreign trade version.

The commander secretly marveled, this Liu Tao is really rich and willful.

With such an expense, you can buy a Type 80 tank.

The next morning, there was a hint of autumn coolness.

Liu Tao, Liu Zhenbang and other people from the Fifth Machinery Department gathered together and arrived at the military base in advance.

The security here today is much tighter than usual.

After waiting for about an hour, the convoy slowly drove into the base.

When he saw the middle-aged man about fifty years old, Liu Tao knew that he was Prince Abdullah.

Such a big shot in a high position naturally has a unique temperament about him.

When Liu Tao saw a leader again, he secretly sighed in his heart. This leader personally accompanied him. It can be imagined how much the country attaches importance to this negotiation.

"Prince Abdul, this is the chief designer of the Type 80 self-propelled anti-aircraft gun and the Type 80 tank." The leader introduced Liu Tao with a smile, and the translator on the side immediately translated it into Arabic.

Prince Abdul praised in Arabic, and the atmosphere seemed very friendly.

Liu Tao spoke in Arabic: "Your distinguished Prince Abdul, welcome to China. I hope you will enjoy your trip."

"I didn't expect you to know Arabic at such a young age. You are indeed a genius." Prince Abdul's eyes lit up and he praised again.

Liu Tao and Prince Abdullah communicated in Arabic. He started learning Arabic last year and can now communicate normally in Arabic.

The leader also looked at Liu Tao in surprise.

He did not expect that Liu Tao would actually learn Arabic.

However, I feel more and more happy and look forward to achieving good results in this negotiation.

Nowadays, the country needs to spend foreign exchange everywhere. The foreign affairs department needs foreign exchange overseas. Government-sponsored overseas students also need foreign exchange to study in prestigious overseas universities. Foreign exchange is also needed to purchase advanced machinery, production lines, and books from abroad. Imported cars and engineering vehicles also require large amounts of foreign exchange. pen of foreign exchange.

If Liu Tao hadn't opened up a new situation in the export of weapons and equipment and earned a lot of foreign exchange, the country's foreign exchange reserves would already be negative.

Instead of like now, the country still has more than 2 billion in foreign exchange reserves.

Now that he saw that Liu Tao could greet Prince Abdullah in Arabic, the leader became more optimistic about Liu Tao.

Afterwards, everyone came to the shooting range, where there were weapon racks with firearms on them.

Liu Tao introduced each firearm to Prince Abdullah, and also asked Prince Abdullah and others to try it out in person.

You can only know whether a weapon is good or not by using it yourself.

This is especially true for an insider like Prince Abdullah.

It is better to experience it in person than to say a thousand words.

Unlike Soviet-style weapons or American-style weapons, which have a strong brand effect, if you want to be competitive, cost-effectiveness is the top priority, followed by service attitude, treating customers as God, rather than being superior and wanting to sell more expensively. I also want to add a bunch of conditions.