Laura is not deliberately making things difficult, she is telling the truth.
The main business of the Rockefeller Foundation is oil and people's livelihood department stores, but it does not involve arms in any way.
But she knew that as a soldier, Tang Dao, or as a representative of the Chinese military, wanted to win this war, and arms were what they needed most.
Of course, it's not like Rockefeller couldn't get arms, but it would come at a price.
She was waiting for Tang Dao to beg her. For some reason, she especially wanted to see this man who seemed to have everything under control bow to her.
Perhaps, she, who has always been competitive, is subconsciously unwilling to accept the fact that an ordinary Chinese man is dominating her!
But she was wrong. Facing Laura's bright smile, Tang Dao not only did not feel depressed, but also smiled, showing a healthy white teeth, and extended a hand: "Well, I wish you a happy cooperation with your company in advance.
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"Happy cooperation? Do we cooperate?" Laura's smile froze slightly, and she instinctively asked her soul.
You don’t even know what the other party needs, so it’s hard to cooperate! Moreover, being pressed down by an ordinary man who is backward and civilized, thank you, it really doesn’t feel the slightest bit pleasant.
It feels like the depressive feeling of "ghost pressing on the bed" in Chinese legend.
"Haha, Miss Laura, didn't you just say it yourself, except for arms, everything else is fine? From the perspective of a soldier, your federation's arms are really unsatisfactory. For example, your country's army itself is still equipped for the First World War.
The main rifle at that time was the Springfield rifle, wasn't it?" Tang Dao's smile was as bright as his smile, and how annoying his appearance was.
The point is, what he said is still true.
Although the United States is currently considered the world's top manufacturing country, it is really not as good as the current European powers in terms of arms. Even heavy artillery with a caliber of more than 100 mm is mostly imitated from France.
"Okay! What did Colonel Tang say you need?" Laura was a little bit tempered by Tang Dao's rebuke, so she had to bite her back teeth and continue to ask.
"I need corn, flour, rice, cotton, copper, cars, motorcycles, bicycles, small personnel carriers, trucks, western medicine and various medical equipment and medical staff. That's all for now. If I think of other supplies, I will
Let me inform you." Tang Dao had obviously been prepared for this for a long time, and he kept giving out the list of needed supplies almost non-stop.
Laura's expression remained unchanged. These civilian supplies looked numerous and complicated, but they were not difficult for the US federal government, which was rich in crops, and the Rockefeller Company, which invested in various industries.
"Our company can help raise these materials, but I don't know how much Colonel Tang needs. In addition, I regret to tell you, Colonel Tang, that apart from the cost of the materials themselves, our company needs to charge freight, and our company can only be responsible for the transportation.
When you arrive at Jincheng, whether you can take it away depends on your country's capabilities." Laura's mouth curved slightly.
This was Laura's second counterattack. She didn't believe that the man in front of her could magically take away all the supplies. Did she think that the more than 10,000 Japanese stationed in Jincheng were blind?
pig?
"Let's purchase corn, rice, flour, cotton, and brass at 100,000 tons each for the time being! Within one year, your company can transport these materials to the Jincheng Concession Warehouse;
I will give you the design drawings of bicycles and motorcycles, and ask your company to find a foundry to produce them, and then ship the finished products to this place. There is no limit to the amount. I will give you as much as I want;
The same is true for personnel carriers. I will provide the design drawings and performance parameters, and your company will secretly find a familiar factory to produce them. The quantity is preferably 500 vehicles for the time being;
As for Western medicine and medical equipment, including medical personnel, they are urgently needed items and personnel for our army. I hope that Miss Laura can be directly transferred from the hospital in Pingbeicheng controlled by your family foundation.
Medical personnel can be called the United Nations Humanitarian Red Cross Medical Team. If they are Chinese, our army will pay them five times the current salary. If they are Westerners, the salary will be ten times;
All material costs and shipping costs will be deducted from the interest and principal generated from my order. I believe Miss Laura should trust my ability to pay."
Laura's sea-blue eyes were wide and round, staring in horror at the Tang Dao who was talking eloquently in front of her.
If it weren't for this huge order of more than 20 million U.S. dollars, today's Rockefeller Company is definitely a behemoth. The various industries invested by the family add up to more than 3 billion U.S. dollars. A business of 20 million U.S. dollars will never make Rockefeller's third...
The eldest daughter, who is ranked number one among the fourth generation heirs, looks like this.
Rather, Tang Dao's orders involved agriculture, industry, and medical care, covering a wide range of areas. More importantly, he seemed very sure that Laura could help him complete all these operations.
What does this mean? It means that he actually knows the importance of Laura's identity in the Rockefeller family.
This is unscientific! You know, in order to protect her, the fourth generation heir designated by the first and second generation Rockefellers, the core of the Rockefeller family did a lot of secret work, even delegating her to the war-torn
He came to the Far East to avoid the whirlpool of family strife.
Of course, she was misunderstood by the outside world as being pushed out of the core group and successfully became the host of the Rockefeller family's Far East family business. She has the highest decision-making power in the Far East family business.
Within the scope of her rights, as long as the Far East industry is not completely shut down, she can make a decision.
In comparison, Citibank is just the tip of the iceberg of the family's business in the Far East. The reason why she personally negotiated with Tang Dao was that it happened to be the right time, and the amount involved in Tang Dao's order was not small, but including Frank
No one, including President Depp, knew that Laura, the eldest daughter, had not only not been squeezed out of the family core, but her status had become more stable.
After all, who can ignore the last words left by the family founder before his death?
"Laura will definitely become a better manager than her great-grandmother!" These are the original words that the old Rockefeller left to the current head of the Rockefeller family, Laura's grandfather.
Laura Rockefeller may have never dreamed that the young man sitting calmly across from her could clearly see the pulse of the times even though he did not have a prominent family background.
As soon as Tang Dao heard the name Laura Rockefeller, information about her flashed in his mind.
Laura Rockefeller, the fourth generation of the Rockefeller family, never married, but became the helmsman of the Rockefeller family thirty years later. She led this super consortium for more than thirty years, and led this super consortium to the world in the Cold War and post-Cold War era.
The huge wealth is comparable to that of a medium to large country.
It's not scary to stand on the shoulders of giants and take off. What's scary is that the reputation of the Rockefeller family is far less than it used to be. In the eyes of ordinary people, they are just like a run-down family that only relies on its old foundation to survive.
As everyone knows, the Rockefeller family's strength and influence on American politics continues to increase, and the world's eyes are blinded by the old woman's wisdom.
Even when this beautiful and intelligent woman appeared in front of Tang Dao, Tang Dao also understood why Rockefeller would become the first Western consortium to obtain investment permission when China opens its financial market to attract foreign investment in the future.
The reason may be that they left behind a large, well-equipped Western medicine hospital when they withdrew from China. The more reason is that their leader has been working and living in China for many years.
If such a strong woman can't handle these things, then who else can?
"Colonel Tang, thank you for your trust. I can help you raise domestically the several agricultural raw materials and copper you just mentioned. But for the bicycles, motorcycles and personnel carriers you mentioned, you still need to provide design drawings.
Processed by the factory, this..." Laura quickly calmed down from the shock, frowning slightly and said. "To be honest, Laura is a little curious."
The so-called curiosity is already a milder wording chosen by Laura because she is afraid of irritating the pride of the man in front of her.
With China's current industrial manufacturing capabilities, let alone motorcycles and personnel carriers, even if they are given the design drawings of bicycles, can China make them? As a result, Tang Dao, a Chinese man, still doesn't believe in the American manufacturing industry.
Look, what kind of drawings and performance parameters do you have to provide yourself? Why, if you can’t build it, it’s just a matter of talking about it on paper?
"Miss Laura, please prepare some paper and pens for me." Tang Dao smiled slightly.
Tang Dao, who has a background in painting, has gone through the proficiency process of complex design drawings of various firearms. Simple industrial products such as bicycles, motorcycles and even personnel carriers are simply not too simple.
The reason why Tang Dao insisted on providing the design drawings and parameters himself was because the civilian bicycles and motorcycles currently on the market did not meet his requirements, and more strictly speaking, they did not meet the requirements for mountain marching.
Nowadays, the mountain march of the Four Lines Regiment mainly relies on manpower and pack horses. The ordinary individual soldier of the Four Lines Regiment is required to carry 15 kilograms, and the individual soldier of the Scout Regiment can carry 20 kilograms. Human power is not machinery and will be exhausted, which also causes the Four Lines Regiment to carry weight.
The regiment could only march 35 kilometers in a day at the fastest in the mountains. This had already shown its shortcomings in the pursuit of the second mixed brigade. If the 772nd regiment had not tried its best to block the mad attack of the second mixed brigade, the four-line regiment might not have been able to do so.
There is a chance to completely kill the second mixed brigade.
How to improve the speed of the Four Lines Regiment's mountainous march has long been on Tang Dao's agenda, but it is unrealistic to equip a large number of pack horses. Firstly, the packhorses require a large investment in purchasing, but they may not necessarily have horses. Secondly, increasing the equipment of packhorses means that a large number of horses are needed.
materials, which will undoubtedly increase the transportation volume of the troops.
Bicycles are the means of transport that Tang Dao thinks about, are the least expensive and the simplest and can quickly increase the marching speed of the entire regiment.
As long as everyone has a bicycle, it is not a problem for an individual soldier to carry 30 kilograms, not to mention 15 kilograms. Moreover, even on a narrow mountain road, the bicycle can move at a speed of at least 5 kilometers per hour and save physical strength. The soldier can leave the bicycle to carry it.
You can quickly jump into battle after loading your gun, and you don't need a lot of time to recover your stamina.
It's just that in Tang Dao's view, the bicycles of this era are similar to the 28-year-old big bars in China in the 1970s and 1980s. They are just "black and stupid". Riding this kind of bicycle to fight, if you encounter a dangerous road, you have to
It's a disposable item.
Therefore, it must be modified. The lightest materials should be used, the weight of the vehicle body should not exceed 20 kilograms, the frame strength is high enough, and the load does not need to be too much, as long as it can carry 100 kilograms.
In addition, a special design is added to the frame so that the entire bicycle can be folded. If encountering a dangerous road, soldiers can carry the bicycle behind them.
To put it bluntly, the design of Tang Dao is basically inspired by future mountain bikes and folding bicycles, which have extremely high requirements for materials. Looking at the world, in this era, only the United States, the top manufacturing country, can produce them.
In order to reduce the weight of the bicycle to less than 20 kilograms, high-strength aluminum alloy materials must be used. If Tang Dao's memory is correct, this material was developed by the American Aluminum Company in 1933 and was used in large quantities.
applied to aircraft.
However, in this era, no one has the luxury to apply it to civilian bicycles. Americans can be called wealthy, and their money does not come from strong winds.
For Tang Dao, who was hit by a golden pie, it doesn't matter as long as it can be solved with money. Even if the cost of a bicycle is more than ten times that of the current bicycle, as long as it can make his soldiers more capable
A good fight against the devil is worth it.
Of course, the promotion of bicycles does not happen overnight. Tang Dao plans to use it in the reconnaissance company first, and then promote it to the entire regiment and even the 80th Army, the Northwest Army, and the Sichuan Army.
As for whether it is possible for the Japanese to get a few of them and imitate them, Tang Dao has no worries at all. As stingy as they are, they are reluctant to use precious aluminum alloys on airplanes. It would be better for them to use them to make bicycles.
Just kill them.
The motorcycle is naturally the prototype of the future mountain motorcycle. The engine horsepower is sufficient, the entire motorcycle has enough load-bearing points, the body is light enough, and the fuel consumption is low. These are Tang Dao's needs.
No matter in terms of energy demand or purchase volume, motorcycles are destined to be impossible to promote to the entire regiment, but they are suitable for a small number of elite troops, not even reconnaissance companies that require latent reconnaissance, but belong to the rapid reaction troops planned by Tang Dao.
The size of the troops will not exceed a 200-man infantry company. Their role is somewhat similar to that of cavalry. They carry enough firepower, equipment and other supplies, and can arrive at battlefields dozens of kilometers away within half a day or a day and provide battlefield support.
This requires not only strong combat power, but also skilled motorcycle driving skills and the courage to cross mountains and rivers at high speed.
The planning of this unit is still only a paper plan, but Tang Dao already has a rough idea of the candidates and team members. He only needs to wait for the motorcycles to arrive before training can begin.
Originally, Tang Dao planned to slowly negotiate with Lou Dehua to resolve these needs, but the appearance of Laura Rockefeller made Tang Dao completely change his selection.
After all, if you walk on one leg, you can walk on two legs. If the German Empire completely abandons China two years later in order to appease the little Japanese, a certain German will tear up all the agreements with the words "The empire will not allow it!", he will still Can we really kill the Germans with one knife?
What's more, compared with the current manufacturing industry in the United States, the industrial level that the mustached head of state has carefully prepared for ten years is really far behind. As long as you give money, the American cowboys can even build you an aircraft carrier.
It's a pity that this thing is too big. The rough guys under Tang Dao may have a hard time learning to ride a bicycle, let alone playing with an aircraft carrier. They should just pick up the gun and fight the Japanese!
As for the so-called troop carrier Tang Dao mentioned, it is actually the all-powerful JEEP in the future.
What did the United States use to win World War II? Some people say it was a powerful navy with 20 aircraft carriers, while others said it was the United States’ countless Sherman tanks. These are the evaluations of later generations, but let the American cowboys evaluate themselves. what?
George Cortrait, the U.S. Army Chief of Staff during World War II, had a clear answer - Jeep made a huge contribution to the U.S. victory.
Who is this JEEP that makes all the five-star generals praise it? This is the famous Willys Jeep, a ceiling-level technology proposed by the US Army during the pre-war military procurement.
The requirements put forward by the U.S. Army are that the load-bearing capacity of this military vehicle must reach 272 kg, the wheelbase must be less than 75 inches, which is about 1.9 meters, the height of the vehicle body must not exceed 36 inches, and the weight of the vehicle body must not exceed 544 kg. It is a four-wheel drive, the engine must operate stably at a speed of 5 to 80 kilometers, there is a retractable front windshield, the body material must be all metal, etc.
Such a demanding and almost daunting requirement was almost unimaginable when the automobile industry was less than 100 years old. However, there must be brave men under the heavy reward. Willis Company successfully won the bid and manufactured Out came the future famous Willys Jeep.
The appearance of Willys Jeep is full of the metal beauty of the industrial era, and the angular rectangular box design is full of power. The equipped 441 four-cylinder water-cooled side-valve engine provides 60 horsepower of surging power.
At first glance, this kind of Jeep seems to have nothing special except that it is handsome, but only after reading its test data, you will know how good it is.
The washboard road makes it almost bounce forward, but the structure is not damaged at all. When entering a river that is almost submerged by vehicles, it can ensure operation and rush out of the river water and silt.
The reliable performance allows this JEEP vehicle to be used as a personnel transport vehicle, or it can be equipped with a heavy machine gun and steel plate shield to become a fire reconnaissance vehicle. When equipped with a radio, it becomes a communication vehicle. It can also disassemble the chair and install a stretcher to become a battlefield rescue vehicle. car.
This JEEP car, which embodies the excellent manufacturing industry of the United States, has quickly become the darling of American cowboys since the day it was born. Any American soldier who drives a JEEP car will be the most handsome boy on the battlefield.
Drinking Coke, chewing gum, and driving a JEEP car at speed on the battlefield are the most classic images of American cowboys in World War II.
So much so that some allied soldiers believed that the American army was equipped with a JEEP, and that all American soldiers who did not ride in a car were fakes. A group of French soldiers threw a group of American cowboys who were marching on foot into prison because they did not drive...
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With this "black technology" born before World War II, Tang Dao directly pirated it without any psychological burden.
In front of the beautiful foreign girl who was once again stunned by Tang Dao's saucy operation, Tang Dao took out the design drawings and various performance parameters of three models in one go, and then told her without any sense of shame: "After production,
I authorize your company to sell in your federation, but I need to charge royalties."
Laura…
This guy is an American wearing Chinese skin! How come he even understands patent rights?
"Of course, this is all trivial. Miss Laura and I still have a big business to discuss. I know that your company has been working on research in this area, and I already have samples." Tang Dao smiled faintly.
Write three words on another piece of white paper.
Laura's sea-blue eyes suddenly widened again, looking at the man in front of her who had repeatedly shocked her.
If possible, she really wanted to give this guy a shot, otherwise her heart would have problems sooner or later.
