Happy times are short-lived. In persuading his father to dispel the idea of going to war, Eder, who was about to reach his father's health limit, had to pick up the affairs that were now tense after accompanying his father Carol I all day.

After Eder fought for Romania's war money, Volkswagen, as a leading Romanian company, fell into a hot environment. In the office of Volkswagen General Manager Minoba, he was busy.

"Hey, is it General Manager Katulaski? We need 10,000 tons of steel this month. In terms of price, it is easy to say, you can go up when you want, there is no problem. Now we have too many orders, we must have so many steels, otherwise we will not be able to complete the order. Thank you for the free day, I will treat you to a big meal, no problem, then please eat French food. ”

Minoba put down the phone he had just called the steel mill, and before he could catch his breath, the phone rang again.

"Hey, it's me. The order for 20,000 1.5 ton trucks on the French side, you tell them that the price has gone up no. And after telling them that they have to pick up the goods for 3 months, we can only reach so much capacity now. If he was not satisfied, he told him that the German order was at the front, and that he was to blame for placing the order late. He also wanted to buy more than 800 5-ton heavy trucks from our stock, telling him that they had been picked up by the British and Germans, and that the order had been lined up for 3 months. If you want to buy it, let him hurry up, and it is estimated that it will be 6 months later. ”

After Minoba put down the phone, the door to his office was slammed open. Startled, Minobardine saw that it was the production supervisor Draspar who walked in with a sweaty and frizzy head. Seeing Draspa's rude movements, Minoba, as the general manager, rarely suppressed his anger and asked. "What's so urgent?"

Draspa, who didn't hear Minoba's displeasure, touched the sweat from his forehead with his hand and wiped it on as he walked past the leather sofa in his office. Seeing the action of the production supervisor, Minoba, as his boss, felt his muscles jump. But Draspa walked up to him and said something that made him bother with his couch. "The factory now has too many truck orders, and even the shift can't complete the task, what should we do?"

Hearing Draspa's words, Minoba replied without thinking. "Then let's go and hire someone."

Draspa immediately explained his boss's suggestion. "I've sent people out to recruit people, but now that the truck production line is running at full capacity, no amount of staff will work."

Hearing Draspar's explanation, Minoba knew that the production supervisor probably had an idea, but he just needed his own nod. He immediately asked. "What else do you have to do now?"

Draspa immediately named the two methods he had prepared. "There are two ways to do this, first; A new truck production line will take at least three months to purchase the equipment, build the new plant, transport the equipment and commission the equipment, and train the workers. This is still a situation where we have already done proficiently, and the workers are able to get started quickly with familiarity and newness. ”

Minoba interrupted him as soon as he heard that it would take three months. "Let's talk about the second option."

Draspa, who was interrupted by his boss, immediately said the second and what he wanted. "It was to retrofit the existing production line and convert them to production trucks. We have studied that if the existing T-car production line is changed to a 1.5-ton truck production line, it will only take about 10 days, and many retrofit equipment can be purchased domestically, and only a small amount needs to be purchased from abroad. And the cost is not too expensive, only about 13 million lei. ”

The idea of Draspa asking to change the Model T line to produce 1.5-ton trucks came to his mind. He still has a lot of feelings for this perfect family vehicle that can sit two people and carry half a ton of goods. And most importantly, this car, which brought Volkswagen and Ford to the throne of the world's two largest car manufacturers, is what he likes about this car.

But now that war has broken out in Europe, countries are busy fighting. Sales in the passenger car market have plummeted by 70 percent, and the King T is no exception, with sales now down 65 percent. Two of the three Model T production lines at the Volkswagen plant have already entered a semi-shutdown state. The main thing is that he doesn't know how long this war will take, which makes Minoba, who is the head of Volkswagen, anxious.

Fortunately, the passenger car market has shrunk because of the war, and the trucks that can be used for military transportation have been able to sit because of the outbreak of the war. Otherwise, he would have been trying to figure out how to sit comfortably in an air-conditioned room.

After thinking for a while, Minoba spoke to Draspa, who was standing in front of him waiting for an answer. "You ask people to make a revamped production plan, and I need to look at it before I can make a decision."

Draspa immediately took out a folded piece of paper from his pocket, handed it to his boss with a smile, and spoke. "I've got the plan ready, and it's right here."

Looking at the production supervisor's grinning appearance, Minoba scolded for no reason. "If it weren't for your outstanding ability, I would have let you get out of here with you like this."

Draspa, who smiled more brightly, had long been familiar with his boss's temper, and knew that this was just a love for himself, but he didn't forget to say it back. "It's just that you're willing to be such a competent director as me."

Ignoring the presumptuous production supervisor in front of him, Minoba opened the sweat-filled transformation plan and looked at it. On it was a crooked word written by Draspar, but Minoba looked at the result of the transformation.

As part of the overall retrofit program, Draspa proposed retrofitting the two newest lines for the three existing Model T lines. Among them, the production line with an annual output of 32,000 T-type trucks can achieve an annual output of 24,000 1.5-ton trucks after lengthening the assembly line conveyor belt, installing and renovating equipment to eliminate unnecessary processes. Another T-type car production line with an annual output of 27,000 units will also reach an annual production capacity of 21,000 units after the renovation is completed.

However, in this plan, Draspa mentioned that if you want to change back to the production of the Model T after converting it to a truck production line, then the gain will outweigh the loss. The two production lines, which were originally capable of producing 59,000 Model T, were to be replaced with 43,000 units.

After reading the renovation plan prepared by Draspa, Minoba also suffered from gains and losses, which was obviously a bet on the length of the war. If this European war drags on for more than a year, then the transformation is a huge profit, if it is finished in a few months, then the two truck production lines that are now being renovated will be considered wasted.

Minoba walked back and forth thinking, and Draspar looked at his boss and knew that it was not an easy decision, and that if he made the wrong choice, Volkswagen, which should have been lucrative this year, would probably be working in vain. Minoba himself knew that if he made the wrong choice, the cost of retrofitting and buying a new line would eat up this year's profits, but he made a decision with the piling up of truck orders.

"You go and renovate those two T-car production lines, I hope they can fight for more than a year."

Draspa nodded in reply. "Okay, I'll let my subordinates work overtime to renovate it, and it won't delay the production of trucks."

After saying that, Draspa walked out of Minoba's office, leaving behind his boss, who had just made up his mind.

Of course, Volkswagen is not the only one in Romania that has received the dividends of the war, and there are now too many Romanian companies that have made huge profits because of the war. Some of them took the opportunity to become bigger and stronger, while others did not want to forge ahead, and after the war, they were overwhelmed by competing opponents. However, this war also gave Romania's newly developed industrial system enough profits to allow Eder to plant this small sapling called industrialization with his own hands to grow rapidly.

However, of course, the most lucrative industries were not the automobile industry, but other industries associated with the war.