Chapter 278: Bad Road Artifact (Second update, please subscribe)
Like many people in this era, Uncle Guo also has the habit of reading newspapers while having breakfast, and the newspapers are particularly British in style. The servants used an iron to iron it in advance. This ensured that the ink was dry and the hands would not be dirty when reading. It can also sterilize and eliminate the odor of ink.
Most of the news in the newspapers is local news from Borneo. There are many news reports about industrial construction. It seems that for Borneo, the war is over and the most important thing now is construction.
Just like Li Yian once said to him.
“Sooner or later the war will be over, and then the most important thing will be to improve the economy.”
Uncle Guo also deeply agrees with Li Yian's view. Even in his opinion, nothing is more important than economic development.
If there was no impact of the war, maybe... While feeling emotional, a piece of news in the newspaper suddenly caught his attention.
“Futian Machinery Company delivered its 500th three-wheeled vehicle today!”
The content of the news made Uncle Guo stunned and said in surprise.
“Borneo can actually build cars.”
After reading the news in the newspaper about the delivery of the first batch of Foton three-wheel trucks, Uncle Guo's eyes were not the astonishing output of 12,000 vehicles a year, but the extreme shock that Borneo could actually manufacture cars.
“Good guy, what this guy has done, no one else could have done in ten years!”
In the past few years, I don’t know how many people have said that they want to create car. But that is to say, just say it.
But what now?
Borneo suddenly took photos of cars.
Instead of just building one or a few cars as a display, we need to build 12,000 cars a year.
This number is amazing when you think about it. What's even more amazing is that it hasn't been a year since that guy returned to Borneo.
A car manufacturing plant has actually been built and mass production has been achieved.
In fact, during the past period, through inspections here, Uncle Guo has been surprised. Although he did not win many shares for his daughter, he is a realistic person. While he was starting to arrange a way out for his daughter to prevent her from being angered, he was also carefully inspecting this place.
Although he was only inspecting the North Borneo area, the results of the inspection subverted his imagination, not only because the investment in the projects under construction was huge, far beyond his imagination, and even beyond his understanding. scope.
And what shocked him even more?
It is Li Yian who seems to have a steady stream of financial resources to support all of this.
Where did he get so much money? No one knows. What is certain is that the boy has a lot of money!
Actually, Uncle Guo almost knows some of the inside story. After all, it was under his arrangement that the tungsten sand was shipped out of the country.
In Europe, tungsten sand is extremely expensive due to the rush to buy it from the United Kingdom and the United States. Even Uncle Guo suspected that he had smuggled tungsten sand to the Germans.
This kind of thing should not be too normal. In a war, underground transactions between the enemy and ourselves are extremely common.
But the price is definitely much more expensive.
Maybe that kid earned unimaginable wealth through such secret smuggling.
Maybe hundreds of millions!
Uncle Guo, who has served as finance minister and bank president, knows very well what it means to have hundreds of millions of dollars.
It’s easy to do things if you have money!
Besides, this guy is not only rich, but also has strong execution ability, plus he has harvested so much wool in Italy and Germany.
The future is limitless!
When this thought came to his mind, Uncle Guo's mood became complicated again. After all, he had taken that boy as his son-in-law, but the result was good...
"Sir, we Arrived.”
Just at this moment, the secretary's shout interrupted Uncle Guo's thoughts and brought him back to reality.
The car stopped at the reclamation point camp. Uncle Guo and others came to the open space of the reclamation point. Two agricultural tricycles parked next to the armored vehicles and trucks looked inconspicuous at all.
Looking at the agricultural tricycle, Uncle Guo said;
“It doesn’t look big. It looks like it’s only four meters at most, right?”
Meters are just that. Meter, Chinese people are still relatively accustomed to this unit.
"The overall dimensions of the vehicle are 3.8 meters long and 1.45 meters wide. The dimensions of the cargo box are 2.2 meters long and 1.45 meters wide!"
Zhao Handong replied from the side. He was sent by the Office to accompany the uncle. inspected. "Although it's not as big as a truck, it's bigger than a Dodge Jeep. It's about to catch up with a car!"
The Dodge Jeep in my uncle's mouth is the Dodge T214 Military off-road vehicle , commonly known as the jeep in China, is not only widely used by the US military, but also supplied to allied countries in large quantities. It is a dual-purpose military jeep for passengers and cargo. The designed load capacity is 1 ton, but in fact it is often "overloaded" and even tows large artillery.
In terms of vehicle size, the Fukang 46 agricultural tricycle is not much smaller than the Dodge T214, and may even be larger.
Zhao Handong explained:
“Make it bigger, easier to pull things, and more practical.”
Walking around an agricultural tricycle, Uncle Guo said:
"Chief Zhao, your cargo box is 2.2 meters long and 1.45 meters wide. Can it really carry two tons of cargo?"
"Actually, the rated load mass is 1,000 kilograms, two tons. It’s overloaded with data.”
Zhao Handong explained:
“Now that the number of cars cannot keep up, there is no one that is not overloaded!”
With a maximum capacity of one thousand kilograms, doubling the overload is definitely not a problem, and it is even relatively easy. Conservative data.
“Can the car still move when pulling so much cargo?”
Uncle Guo said before Zhao Handong could answer.
"Let's go to the site and have a look!"
The roads in the reclamation area are not easy to walk, and there are no roads at all in the new reclamation area. They are just rutted roads made by tractor tracks and cars. So It is a difficult road to walk, but the feeling of sitting on an agricultural tricycle is so comfortable. Not only does the person's butt hurt, his bones are loose.
But after only a while, Uncle Guo, regardless of his dignity, simply stopped riding in the car and squatted directly on the car, holding on to the wooden carriage and posing in a large-sized position. Don't tell me, it's more comfortable this way.
Zhao Handong continued to introduce:
"Sir, look at the road we are taking now. It is said to be a road, but it is actually just a flat dirt road made with wheels on the newly reclaimed land. , in this kind of road condition, if it rains, ordinary trucks will not work, so only tractors will do!”
Of course the uncle knew what the tractor he was talking about was an armored vehicle. There were many British-made Bren machine gun vehicles visible along the way.
"Boom, boom..."
The ear-splitting roar of the engine covered Zhao Handong, who was sitting on the cargo compartment of the three-wheeled agricultural vehicle. "This sound is too loud, isn't it?" !”
“Single-cylinder engine, that’s what it is.”
“The car is too bumpy...”
"The truck's shock absorption is a lot worse."
While he was looking for faults, Uncle Guo looked at the road the truck was driving on. The road was like a mud road in the reclamation area, but it looked like It was driving as if walking on flat ground.
This car is really good!
"The road condition is indeed very bad. If it rains, can it still go this way?"
Uncle Guo said.
"If you don't load cargo, it's basically fine. But when it rains, the road turns into a muddy road. If you load cargo, you can park any car here, but as long as you use a road roller or even a stone rolling After pressing it a few times, it will be fine to walk!"
Zhao Handong pointed at the stone roll on the roadside and said.
“When the truck is empty, the tractor will be mounted on stone rollers and pressed several times, so that even if it rains, the truck will have no problem walking on it.”
Looking at the roadside After several stone rolls, Uncle Guo now understood what these stone rolls were used for.
At this moment, Uncle Guo saw a dozen green agricultural tricycles driving in the distance beside the lush rainforest. When the tractor was struggling to pull out the tree roots, the agricultural tricycles looked like It is like a flexible elf, driving between the village piles, and the workers are shouting slogans to lift the wood onto the car.
In order to see clearly, Uncle Guo stood up and looked at the wood loaded on the tricycle. He just guessed that it was at least more than three thousand kilograms, and it must be able to hold two tons.
Looking at this scene in the distance, Uncle Guo instantly showed an expression of enlightenment.
“I understand, this kind of agricultural tricycle has a relatively small turning radius, so it is much more flexible than ordinary cars in forest areas! Although the body is smaller and the engine is noisier, it is better than It’s cheap and can be loaded with goods. This thing is really a rainforest artifact!”
When Uncle Guo said this, there was a loud "bang" and "ah", and everyone fell. It went on...
(End of this chapter)