"Well, I know." Lin Hongfei nodded in agreement and motioned to Robert. Crumb. Lopez and Carlos. Gutierrez continued.

For an agricultural and animal husbandry country, the role of the tractor is unimaginable, although the Uruguayans are much richer than the current Chinese, but they are definitely not rich enough to take a pickup truck loaded with a high-power gasoline engine as a tractor, the status of the tractor in Uruguay and in the country is almost the same, are acting as a "multi-purpose machine" role, not only to assume the main means of transportation in agriculture and animal husbandry, but also to occupy a place in the transportation of goods, which can be known to themselves, Lin Hongfei does not believe that Robert, who is a local "native" of Uruguay. Crumb. Lopez and Carlos. Gutierrez and the two will not know what to do.

"So we plan to introduce a minimum 50 horsepower output tractor that can tow a full load of standard truck trailers." Carlos. "We hope to be able to reach the capacity of 50,000 high-horsepower tractors per year, so that in addition to satisfying our Uruguayan market, we can also export to other countries in South America." ”

Well? Lin Hongfei was a little surprised, but he didn't expect Robert. Crumb. Lopez and Carlos. Gutierrez and these two people have such great ambitions, not only want to occupy the domestic tractor market in Uruguay, but also plan to export, but thinking of the political identity of the two people, I am relieved, as cabinet members of the Uruguayan government, if the two of them don't even have this kind of surveillance, then it is really a hell.

But a 50-horsepower tractor......

Lin Hongfei's head suddenly appeared in the figure of a certain domestic tractor, which is also a 50-horsepower, in-line four-cylinder diesel engine, and can tow a standard trailer compartment of a trailer truck behind...... Robert. Crumb. Lopez and Carlos. Didn't Gutierrez, these two guys see the tractor and make a request compared to that tractor?

Thinking so and thinking so, on the surface, Lin Hongfei's eyes widened in surprise, "What a coincidence." There is such a tractor product in our country that can meet the requirements of the two, if the two are interested, I can help the two match. ”

"Really? Thank you so much," Carlos said. Gutierrez was not surprised at all and expressed a little joy, "Lin, please believe that if this situation can really be solved, the Uruguayan people will thank you...... In case you don't know, we can only export incredibly cheap agricultural and animal husbandry products, and buy expensive and deadly agricultural machinery from the Americans. If we Uruguayans had their own tractor industry, then we would never have had to let the Americans exploit us again. ”

When the word "exploitation" is spoken, Carlos. A complicated look flashed in Gutiérrez's eyes, and it was clear that the Uruguayan minister of commerce seemed to have been exploited by the Americans.

"That would be unfortunate." Lin Hongfei nodded, with a look of sympathy and indignation. And then. Lin Hong flew to Carlos. Gutierrez asked, "Mr. Minister, do you have steel mills in your country?" ”

"Uh......"

It's not just Carlos. Gutierrez, Robert. Crumb. Lopez was also stupid, they didn't realize for a while that there was any connection between the fact that they were going to build a tractor factory and whether there was a steel plant or not.

Although this is a question that even elementary school students can answer. But for people in a country dominated by agriculture and animal husbandry, it is completely understandable that they can't immediately establish a connection between these two things in their heads, Lin Hongfei sighed, "Only with steel mills." Only then can you produce qualified tractor spare parts, and only with qualified spare parts can you assemble qualified tractors...... I know that there don't seem to be iron ore mines in Uruguay, but please don't tell me that you don't even have a steel mill in your country. ”

Robert. Crumb. Lopez and Carlos. Gutierrez was so ashamed that he almost shrunk his head into the crotch of his pants, almost embarrassed: Lin Hongfei was not wrong, the huge Uruguay has neither iron ore nor a steel plant.

Without iron ore, there is no way to make steel, without steel, there is no way to produce tractor spare parts, without spare parts, the tractor will not run off the paper by itself, this is an unsolvable problem, on the other hand, if the two of them really plan to build a tractor factory, they must first go to a number of spare parts factories, in order to provide raw materials to these spare parts factories, you need a steel smelter, and the steel smelter needs iron ore...... This cycle seems a bit big.

Lin Hongfei looked at the two ministers with sympathetic expressions as they kept calculating what they needed, and the more they calculated, the more they paled, sighed, and added to them, "In addition to this, you probably need to build at least one thermal power plant or hydroelectric power station to provide electricity for your steel mill and tractor factory." ”

Robert. Crumb. Lopez and Carlos. Gutierrez suddenly had a feeling of "just faint by yourself!" "The idea of buying iron ore, building a steel plant, building a tractor parts factory, building a tractor assembly plant, building a power plant...... I don't know what Lu Dao is going to build, and the two of them can be regarded as people with small savings, but now, it seems that the money in their hands is not enough to spend.

"These ...... How much would it cost to build it all? "Carlos. Gutierrez no longer had the vigor he had at the beginning, and asked Li Hongfei tremblingly and cautiously.

"It depends on how big a steel plant you plan to build, if you follow your idea, that is, to build a factory with an annual output of 50,000 tractors, the annual steel demand will be at least 150,000 tons...... The weight of the trailer plus the tractor head is conservatively estimated to be three tons, this two recognize, right? ”

Robert. Crumb. Lopez and Carlos. Gutierrez nodded immediately, a complete set of tractors down, conservatively estimated to weigh three tons, or even more, hesitated, Robert. Crumb. Lopez cautiously said to Lin Hongfei, "It's still 3.5 tons." ”

"Well, according to the calculation that each tractor needs 3.5 tons of steel, 50,000 vehicles also need at least a small steel plant with an annual output of 175,000 tons of steel, obviously the two of you can't just plan to use the smelted steel for their own use, and some of it will always be sold, right?"

Robert. Crumb. Lopez and Carlos. Gutierrez nodded wildly again.

"That's right, conservative estimates, you need a medium-sized steel smelter with an annual output of 500,000 tons of steel, and a power plant that can meet the needs of such a large steel plant, spare parts factory, tractor factory and all production workers at the same time......" said this, Lin Hongfei ignored Robert, who was already a vegetable. Crumb. Lopez and Carlos. "I don't know how much power a power plant needs to meet so much demand, but I can help you two ask." ”

"Well, by the way, in addition to steel, in order to save costs as much as possible, tires, glass, rubber and other accessories can be purchased, but these cannot be saved." After the last, Lin Hongfei added another sentence.

Lin Hongfei even estimated that Uruguay probably needs to import the cement needed for infrastructure construction...... What kind of hard country is this, it seems that they don't even have limestone?

Lin Hongfei was wrong at this point, Uruguayans really have cement factories, and there are a lot of limestone reserves, and there is more than one, a whole two, but the output is ...... Forget it, don't mention it.

Poor Robert. Crumb. Lopez and Carlos. Gutierrez, the two of them were really scared silly, although they didn't know how much it would cost to build these factories, but the fool could also think that it would definitely not be a small amount, and it seemed that it was definitely not something that the two of them, or even the families of the two people, could afford, and asked Lin Hongfei tremblingly, "Lin, my friend's friend, please tell me, how much will it cost to build all these projects?" ”

"A conservative estimate should be between 80 million and 100 million dollars." Lin Hongfei said, of course, Lin Hongfei slightly falsely reported, just a little, but if it is said that the false report is not necessarily, who makes Uruguay's labor costs so high, so-so can also be called a vast and sparsely populated Uruguay, labor costs are much higher than in China.

"80 million to 100 million dollars?!" Robert. Crumb. Lopez and Carlos. Gutierrez exclaimed at the same time!

This is really a lot of money, such a large amount of money, even if their two families smash the pot and sell iron, they can't make up such money, without money, they naturally can't do anything, when they think of a large amount of dollars growing wings away from themselves, the pain in the hearts of the two is like a knife.

Heartache, right? Lin Hongfei smiled: This is what I want.

"Although there is a lot of money, there is always a way," Lin Hongfei said with a smile.

"Is there really a way?" Robert. Crumb. Lopez and Carlos. The two pairs of eyes of Gutierrez's two stupid people who had been gradually extinguishing just now suddenly lit up again like light bulbs with plenty of electricity.

"Of course there is a way," Lin Hongfei said with a smile, "Such a large sum of money is indeed a huge amount of money for the two of you, and it doesn't seem to be easy to take out immediately, but it doesn't matter, you can find a few more people to join the joint venture." ”

That's the way you say? Robert. Crumb. Lopez and Carlos. Gutierrez's eyes lit up and went out again: Do you think there are so many rich people in Uruguay? And not all rich people can give them this opportunity.

"Who says this partner has to be Uruguayan? We Chinese can too! Lin Hongfei smiled thiefly. (To be continued.) )