Chapter 13 The Arms Deal is the Most Profitable
This time, Li Ting, who has a lot of roads, went to the provincial capital, not only to inquire about the situation that someone had noticed here, but also to unexpectedly inquire about the news of some best-selling goods in the surrounding market.
Medicine is a category, Meng enjoyed this golden egg, said to be a thousand gold, and was already very satisfied. Li Ting also heard about another lucrative market, that is, arms.
The information obtained was something that Meng Xiang didn't expect. Previously, he also generally knew that the weapons produced at the base were relatively cheap, but there was not much comparison with the market price in the outside world.
At this time, hearing the market price that Li Ting heard in the provincial capital made Meng Xiang surprised.
The cost of the Mauser rifle in the hands of the fighters is only 10 yuan, while the price outside is more than 30 dollars. You must know that the official price of the US dollar and the ocean has been around 1 to 2 at this time, and the civilian breakthrough has reached more than 1 to 3, that is, the Mauser rifle has been 70 or 80 oceans.
And because with the approach of the Japanese army, the price of weapons has increased by a large margin.
What is even worse is the price of heavy weapons.
The cost of the Makqin heavy machine gun base is only 100 yuan, and the current price outside is generally about 1,000 yuan; The base cost of the Lewis light machine gun is only 50 yuan, and the price outside is generally about 8 or 900 yuan.
In the current war-torn season, the price has also increased a lot, and you may not be able to buy it if you have money.
Although the production of the base is not a pile of machines to process, but directly combined by the way of space-time particle transmission, the energy consumption is very large. But now, the coal used in power plants does not cost much under the premise of not collecting taxes and resource fees. The ultra-low-cost use of resources naturally ignores the huge consumption of energy.
Excluding these, the profit can reach tenfold.
It is no wonder that the international leaders of later generations are in control of the arms business, and even the Citigroup political axe is not immune.
The tenfold profit has already made Meng Xiang extremely excited. Not to mention, there's room for growth.
When Meng Xiang asked about the cost of weapons, Zhi Brain told him that the price of weapons and equipment produced by the base was mostly a fixed amount when he was a novice at the commander level. After the upgrade, you can view the relevant details of the production cost of the base, and there are more favorable conditions. This left Meng Xiang with a lot of room for imagination, forgetting that in many games, the protection of the novice area is still a lot of discounts after all, and he did not realize that the preferential conditions mentioned by Zhi Brain are not necessarily ultra-low-cost.
At this time, Meng Xiang, who was very excited, no longer considered anything else, and directly ordered the logistics equipment center to make every effort to change the production of heavy firepower weapons such as machine guns. He collected 100 heavy machine guns and 200 light machine guns from the soldiers, as well as the corresponding bullets, and handed them to Ma Yi, who immediately contacted the buyer for a transaction.
This is already most of the heavy weapons in Meng Xiang's hands.
In fact, even if Meng Xiang wants to sell more, there are only three weapon production lines in the first-level logistics equipment center, and the production efficiency of light weapons such as rifles, submachine guns, pistols, and grenades at this time is generally one branch per hour in the form of a handicraft workshop, light machine guns and sniper rifles take two hours to manufacture, and heavy machine guns generally take four hours to complete one.
Therefore, Meng Xiang did not have much heavy firepower on hand.
The issue of base security is also not important for the time being.
With the non-stop production of logistics equipment centers, it is not that soldiers do not have weapons in their hands. And as long as the walls and machine-gun bunkers are built and the defense is strengthened, the average petty thief is not afraid at all. At this time, Meng Xiang was no longer the single commander when he first came. After the protection of the base was strengthened, he made a name for himself, and he was not afraid of ordinary officers and soldiers to suppress bandits.
Meng Xiang calculated for a while, but still felt that the machine gun was the most profitable. If this batch of machine guns goes out, it can almost recover 300,000 yuan of funds. If you come three or four times, you will have the money to build a science and technology center. According to the scale of production, the production of light machine guns is the most cost-effective, and there is a net profit of more than 30,000 yuan a day, which is faster than medicine.
The main reason for this is that the drugs produced by the base were all before the end of World War I, and some drugs were popularized relatively quickly and more on the basis of large-scale production in the West. In this way, the profit is relatively less. Unless it is able to produce advanced specific drugs such as penicillin, it will be released, which can be called equivalent to the same weight of gold.
For a long time, the country has been subject to a foreign arms embargo, and can only rely on smuggling and self-production.
Most of the rifles and other large quantities have been made in China, but machine guns and the like are still cost-effective. Machine guns are special bullets, and in the Central Army, machine guns are also treasures. With a large amount of smuggling, this has naturally become a slur-after commodity.
As the tenfold Venus in front of him continued to shake, Meng Xiang suddenly shifted his attention to buying and selling arms. He did not hesitate and immediately built two more logistics equipment centers. In this way, the maximum production volume of a day can reach a net profit of nearly 100,000 yuan.
Of course, there are other factors, such as the need for special production lines to produce ammunition. However, the profitability of ammunition is also very high. For example, the Mauser rifle costs $3 to $5 per 100 rounds, while the cost of the base is only $1, and the profit is super profitable.
This is also the reason why Meng Xiang did not hesitate to launch two more logistics equipment centers after careful calculation.
Of course, there are also soldiers under his command who also need to be equipped, so the machine guns that can be bought and sold are not up to the maximum.
In just five days, the machine guns in the hands of Ma Yi and Li Ting were out of stock, and they also brought back twice the order.
When it came to the safety of the base, they came back very carefully, so it took an extra day to come back. With a dog and a team to follow, I am not afraid of being followed. But there is nothing wrong with being careful, at this time, a little bit of bandits and robbers are not afraid, if they attract the attention of those warlords, it will be troublesome.
"A million is almost there! Wahaha...... "Meng Xiang was emotional again, but Niu Yi and Rabbit Yi next to him were used to it.
More than 300,000 yuan was spent on handling this batch of munitions, mainly because the goods produced by the base were in good condition, some light and heavy machine guns were generally not sold to China, and only some second-hand goods were smuggled in. In this way, coupled with the situation at this time, the price suddenly went up.
Originally, Meng Xiang didn't have much money in his hands, but with more than 300,000 yuan, his wallet suddenly bulged again.
He is not in a hurry to spend money, the science and technology center has not been built yet, so he can't talk about the follow-up development, and save money to build the science and technology center first.
However, before that, the security level of the base needs to be increased a little more. So there were more than a dozen machine gun bunkers costing 2,000 yuan.
With the money, three more trucks were purchased to facilitate the delivery of weapons. Meng Xiang misses the cheap production of the base very much, if the chariot factory produces it in large quantities, where can he spend a lot of money to buy it, and he can't sell it.
Now we can only wait to save enough money and wait for the emergence of science and technology centers.
When he was idle, Meng Xiang continued to train his soldiers. Clones are the most obedient to orders, they are good executors, but not very good thinkers. Their natural limitations make them only good warriors, but they cannot be military strategists who wear a glorious headband.
In several operations, Meng Xiang has discovered that the strategic deployment of the clones is a bit simple, and even the plan formulated by the most intelligent rat is a bit rigid. It's okay to say to the weak, but the tough opponent may have to suffer a big loss.
But half of my military fans are not very proficient in military affairs, and when they encounter tough opponents, they are more likely to make mistakes at the half-level level. And if you make a mistake, it is a mortal danger, and you have to find a way to change it.
Meng Xiang was planning some military measures on this day, and suddenly heard Zhi Brain warn:
"Your Excellency, Commander, there are malicious intruders! Warn! There are malicious intruders! ”
Meng Xiang was startled, and at this time, the shadow of the intruder mobilized by the brain had already begun to appear on the big screen.
(One more chapter before 10:30 p.m.)