Chapter 116 Further Expansion (First update, please follow up)
It doesn’t matter whether Berlin can break through its defenses.
Switzerland... I always have to go, after all, Germany needs that tungsten sand.
Of course, the price is not cheap either. Li Yian offered a high price of US$20,000!
Although the price is high, there is a delivery guarantee. Guaranteed to provide 5,000 tons of tungsten sand within one month.
"Are you sure you can transport tungsten sand to Switzerland within a month?"
Faced with Berlin's suspicion, Li Yian shrugged his shoulders and said.
“Don’t be overconfident in your army. After all, Germany is no longer the Germany it was four years ago!”
The Third Reich is now at its end, no matter what No one can stop its destruction.
Thinking of its destruction, Li Yian couldn't help but feel a little regretful. It had been more than a year since he traveled through time, and as soon as he crossed this line, San Dezi perished.
What a pity!
In fact, he doesn't care about the Third Reich at all. He prefers gold to the Third Reich, but it's a bit late now.
The deal with the Third Reich can only be completed for a few months at most.
It’s just a one-time deal!
No, I need to urge my uncle Guo to organize the supply of goods as soon as possible and try to conduct another transaction with the Germans before Germany completely fails.
After all, the opportunity is rare!
In the end, Li Yian did not forget to remind Berlin to help him search for technical personnel. The gold of the Third Reich was important, but more important was the technical personnel, who were priceless treasures.
Although excellent technical personnel from Germany, Italy and other countries are very important, cultivating our own technical personnel is the most important. In order to cultivate our own people, we carefully selected them immediately after acquiring several Italian companies. Two hundred employees flew to Italy immediately, and they will be trained by many companies including Alfa Romeo and Savoia Marchetti.
However, for them, the most important thing is the language barrier. Like other comrades, after arriving in Italy, Zhang Tingpeng first had to learn Italian. Even the engineers of the Savoia-Marchetti Aircraft Company mostly spoke English, but did not know Italian, which was obviously not conducive to the next step. study.
Although this was not a study abroad program, Zhang Tingpeng still seemed very excited. After all, being able to intern at an aircraft manufacturing company was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
"Zhang, look, this is the SM.95 designed by our company. For now, it is one of the best four-engine aircraft in the world. It is no worse than Douglas's DC4, but it is slightly slower..."< br>
Batista took out a model and said with regret.
“It uses four Alfa Romeo 128rc.18 engines, with a wingspan of 34.28 meters and a length of 24.77 meters. It can carry 12,800 kilograms of cargo or 44 passengers. It can even fly to New York. It had a successful test flight two years ago. At that time, Mussolini even wanted to use it to bomb the United States..."
Looking at the model in the engineer's hand, Zhang Tingpeng asked curiously.
"Mr. Batista, why didn't I see it in the hangar?"
"We built two, but they were both taken away by the Germans..."
He shrugged his shoulders helplessly, and then Batista said.
"But it's not a big deal. The drawings are still there, the technicians are still there, and soon, we will build it again, maybe in North Borneo..." "North Borneo?"< br>
Zhang Tingpeng said in surprise,
"Where is that?"
"It's Asia,"
Batista glanced at the young man beside him and said.
"Isn't that where you are from? In the future, we will all work there. After all, our boss is the chairman of the North Borneo Company. Did you know? He owns a piece of gold worth 75,000 A square kilometer of land, equivalent to the size of three Sicilies, he is the king of that land, and all of us work for him!”
King?
North Borneo Company?
What's going on?
Although he was a little confused, Zhang Tingpeng soon forgot all this. Like other alumni and classmates, he relied on English to study with engineers during the day, learning aircraft design and manufacturing, and at night, he also Need to learn Italian in a training class.
For them, what is more important is learning.
Shortly after Zhang Tingpeng and others arrived in Italy, North Borneo Company reached a technical cooperation agreement with more than a dozen American companies, including Boeing, Ford, and Westinghouse. These companies will train technology for North Borneo Company. Talent.
The reason why those big American companies were willing to sign an agreement with the North Borneo Company was not only because of orders for post-war reconstruction of Borneo, but more importantly because of Truman's greeting. Those big companies were naturally willing to sell Truman a favor. After all, Their company was frequently investigated by the Truman Commission, and this favor had to be sold even if it was not for sale.
After the agreement was signed, in addition to the 300 international students who needed to study in the United States, Li Yian also transferred 600 team members from the technical team to enter the American company for training. They all embarked on the journey to the United States from Tunisia. The aircraft he was traveling on was an SM.75 manufactured by the Savoia Marchetti Company. Although this aircraft was a three-engine transport aircraft developed before the war and seemed old, it had a long range and could fly directly from North Africa to New York.
As for the SM.75 they boarded, they all came from the Italian military. It should be said that they were ex-military. After all, the Italians had already fled to Nanshan, and thousands of aircraft were left rusting at the airport. , so Li Yian spent tens of thousands of dollars to buy these transport aircraft, further expanding the scale of North Borneo Airlines. As for the pilots, they were naturally unemployed Italian pilots.
However, while using Italian pilots, Li Nian also established a pilot training class within the airline to train pilots. The pilots were of course selected from the task force, and even on the ship, there were also special task forces Team members are doing internships.
It is precisely because of people that everything is possible.
After allocating manpower in this way, the team of 5,000 people shrank by more than 20% in just one month.
In the eyes of Zhao Xiyong and others, Li Yian's actions were a bit "irrelevant", but he had no right to intervene because those task force members were no longer soldiers, but employees of the North Borneo Company. , the only thing that can make him breathe a little easier is probably that the weapons search went smoothly, and the repair speed in Tunisia was also very fast, and materials such as firearms and ammunition were shipped directly from Marseille back to the country.
Just as the first batch of people going to the United States took a flight to the United States, the merchant ship boarding the second group of people had also passed through the Suez Canal and soon arrived in Marseille. The number of the task force finally exceeded reached five figures, reaching ten thousand people...
(End of Chapter)