Chapter 24 Machinery, Steel, and Guns
Feiteng Machinery Manufacturing Factory, a subsidiary of the new Gaia Group, is the small hardware processing factory that Zhang Quan first found locally. After Zhang Quan finally put into production on a large scale since the steel plant was freed up a large amount of cash, he found a way to acquire the factory, introduced some equipment, and transformed the factory into a certain mechanical processing and manufacturing capability.
As the general manager, Li He has always been puzzled by Zhang Quan's persistence in wanting to invest in this small processing factory. It is just such a small workshop with backward craftsmanship and few professional tools. At best, this factory and the few second-hand engineers in it are of some value. Zhang Quan has started to plan such a big business, and it is like having to build such a small workshop in this countryside.
In his opinion, it is necessary to highlight key points and concentrate resources in business, just like Maling Steel Plant. Since you have a good source of iron ore, it is a natural thing to invest in the steel industry to give full play to your own advantages. Then invest in it, invest desperately, develop new products, open up new channels, and strive to make this stronger and bigger, so that the industry has a very foundation and is full of relationships everywhere, and it is important to the industry, similar to a monopoly position. At that time, it can be said that it has enough competitiveness, and it can be said that it is time to expand into upstream and downstream enterprises in the industry, pursuing greater scale effects and lower costs.
In short, the Maling Steel Plant is just now open and is still in its initial expansion stage. Since the factory has new technology and has generated high profits in the early stage, it should continue to invest in it and try to squeeze out the absolute control of the factory. According to his idea, even purchasing grain and daily necessities should try to reduce investment and maximize the resources in his hands into the steel industry.
Because this is the foundation for everyone in the future and the fundamental interest of Zhang Quan. In this way, even if Zhang Quan's so-called big customer relationship breaks down in the future, the steel plant will be above the scale. Even if the factory does not have the cheap iron ore from the customer, it can survive in the market without the cheap iron ore of the customer. Instead of being passive, it will always hold its lifeline in the hands of the so-called big customer and not develop itself. In that case, once the relationship with the customer breaks down, all the things Zhang Quan has now will be gone in the mirror and will be wiped out in an instant.
Li He was consciously Zhang Quan's own person, thinking about Zhang Quan. He thought that Zhang Quan's approach was wrong no matter what he thought. He was too unplanned. He was just a hammer and a hammer, and he was just squandering his talent and luck value in vain, and he didn't have the sense of crisis that a businessman should have.
It should be noted that he has established many new departments in the group in the past few months. He has regarded the foundation of Gaia Group as everyone's. There is no doubt that there is his efforts here.
If Zhang Quan is unlucky in the future and has nothing, Li He will also be unlucky.
So he was very dissatisfied with Zhang Quan's current business ideas and kept looking for opportunities to talk to Zhang Quan.
The reason for this situation is actually Zhang Quan himself. Of course, when he contacted Li He, he did not explain his actual situation clearly. Zhang Quan's background introduction to Gaia Group and such a vague and somewhat unfair customer account confused Li He's ideas.
This led to huge differences in the two's understanding of the future development of the Gaia Group.
In fact, Feiteng Machinery Manufacturing Factory is very important to Zhang Quan. It is the top priority in his plan for the future, and to some extent, it is even more important than the Maling Steel Factory, the current core profit-making enterprise of the group. He is not an ordinary businessman who is only limited to market operations like Li He. Feiteng Machinery Factory, in his plan, the future will be of great use.
Zhang Quan's idea is very simple. To realize his huge ambition step by step, he must face up to the considerable environment of the two worlds he is facing now. His biggest advantage is that he can travel between the two worlds and use the huge differences between the two worlds to accumulate strength for himself.
The most core and most important of the strength represented by all economic, political and cultural forces is undoubtedly military power. Power comes from the barrel of a gun. So far, all Zhang Quan's efforts are to strengthen his military power.
The earth is a modern industrial society, and the Gaia world is currently in a medieval nomadic civilization society. The biggest difference between modern industry and medieval society lies in the strong industrial manufacturing capabilities of modern society, which is the most important backing that Zhang Quan can rely on. The industrial manufacturing capabilities that are most easily transformed into the strength of the medieval world are undoubtedly the processing and manufacturing capabilities of steel machinery.
In short, it is a gun.
Muskets are the most obvious watershed between the military and technological strength of modern industrial society and the military and technological strength of ancient society. They are the iconic technology of individual force in the armed society of modern industrial society. Since the existence of guns, the huge gap in combat power between individuals in ancient society and individuals in modern society has been forcibly smoothed out. Any weak modern person, with a little foundation for military training, can kill even the most powerful individuals in ancient society.
In the history of the earth, since muskets appeared and began to dominate the world, the measurement of human personal value began to rise in the process of distribution of social resources and became the main universal value. In the face of the power represented by muskets, the essence of the modern civil society formed is that everyone is equal.
This is the most fundamental difference from the Gaia world that Zhang Quan knows.
As far as Zhang Quan knows, the Gaia world is a world where individual strength is paramount, and the power gap between individuals is large enough to determine everything.
The orcs on the wasteland have qualitative differences in strength between races and races. The powerful do whatever they want, are unscrupulous and above others, while the weak can only serve the powerful, lose their own attributes, and become vassals of the powerful.
In such a society, and if Zhang Quan wants to realize his ambitions, such a powerful force and gun are what Zhang Quan must have. This is the foundation of the power that Zhang Quan relies on to change the world.
Moreover, to go further, Zhang Quan not only needs to have a gun, but more importantly, he needs to have a gunpowder military and technological system for the entire earth represented by a gun, and has independent research and development and improvement power on this basis.
The guns currently owned by the Earth World cannot meet Zhang Quan's needs in another world, Zhang Quan is very clear about this.
During the adventures that first entered the Gaia world, Zhang Quan experienced many crises. The most dangerous one was the attack of a jackal that almost died. If Berg Kenya had not arrived to save him, Zhang Quan would have died, and there was no way to talk about any great achievements.
From that moment on, Zhang Quan realized that the weapons in the modern world are completely different from those in the Gaia world. From the needs of mankind as a starting point, the weapons of war born from the war environment in the history of the earth are still inappropriate in this world. Most of the orcs in this world are thick-skinned and ordinary bullets have limited effects on them. The May Fourth pistol is also known as a small hand cannon on earth, but in this world, even an ordinary jackal cannot be fatal.
Of course, Zhang Quan also knows that in terms of power alone, it can be solved by changing to a special type of bullet with greater power. For example, high-specific gravity tungsten alloy warheads or empty-point bullets, the former has strong penetration and the latter has high lethality, which can all play a certain role. However, if the guns bought on the earth's market want to be universal in this world, it is not just the problem of power.
For example, the orcs have different sizes and cannot use the same unified guns. For example, different enemies often need different guns or bullet types, etc. Not to mention anything else, just the trigger, the trigger, which is necessary for all guns, many orcs can't even reach their fingers.
If Zhang Quan wants to promote the use of firearms in this world, then it is necessary to have a military manufacturing system controlled by himself, modify or even redesign the firearms from the earth.
This plan can be said to be planned in his mind from the very beginning, but this goal is not easy to achieve in modern society. The sophisticated modern society divides and controls every right in society in detail. It is absolutely impossible for people at the bottom of society to have uncontrollable violent forces.
All Zhang Quan can do is to expand production based on this small hardware processing factory in Mian County, and gradually carefully cultivate his own mechanical processing system. If we expand the scope, we even put our hands into the steel processing industry before, and accumulating strength in this area is also a supplement to this plan.
Since ancient times, steel cannons have not been separated and steel cannons cannons cannons cannons are not far from being made.
Although Zhang Quan is not a smart person in the urban jungle of modern society, he knows the importance of laying a solid foundation and persistent patience. From the beginning, after seeing and touching the existence of that world, he always acts deliberately to realize his ambitions. After all, there is a whole world waiting for his conquest in front of him.
He must step by step and be careful. Everything he has in front of him can finally let him see some future light. PS: This book will be renamed in the near future to a person's Warcraft. The name is a bit frustrating now, and everyone has seen it. Here is a notice!
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