industrial maniac

As September approaches, the Mechanical Three Kingdoms Smash Bros. World Championship is counting down.

The unprecedented toy event not only increased the number of registrations of mechanical enthusiasts, but also increased the sales of Mechanical Three Kingdoms and its peripheral products.

According to incomplete statistics.

In April, Mechanical Three Kingdoms - Fighting Edition shipped 4 sets, grand ceremony-level shipments 5 sets, assembly-type shipments 3 sets, and destruction-type shipments 2 million sets, with a total export value of 150 million red notes.

In May, Daze Tin Toy Factory increased capital and expanded production, doubling the data.

In June, the reconstruction of Huangnigang Tin Toy Factory was completed, and the data doubled again.

In July, Harsco Orient Industries and FMC Orient were OEMs, and the overall data was x7.

In August, Qinggang branch factory, Jingang branch factory and Lianyungang branch factory were put into production, and the overall data was x8.

Today, the monthly output of the fighting version exceeds 300 million sets, and the monthly output of the grand ceremony version reaches 180 million sets...

Moreover, since the development of Tin Toys Factory, it not only owns two brands of "Mechanical Three Kingdoms" and "Gua Dynasty".

There are also mechanical marbles, magnetic levitation ornaments, gyroscope series, mechanical booths, mechanical table cards, wallpaper murals, mechanism puzzles, clockwork music boxes, clockwork mechanical alarm clocks, heavy metal players...

In a word, metal science and technology + lighting special effects can sell well no matter what.

In addition, in the past six months, foreign traders have transformed themselves into the overseas sales department of the tin toy factory, and have successively opened up the Nanyang market, European and American markets, and West Asia markets.

Although Director Xu announced that during the Smash Bros. World Championship, all toys will be discounted by [-]%.

However, the turnover of the tin toy factory in the first three quarters still reached the [-] billion mark, becoming a veritable toy factory worthy of the name of the mother star.

Rumor has it that there is another joke here.

It was the first time that Director Xu heard that his company’s sales exceeded 3531 billion, but he was actually very dissatisfied, because manufacturers such as Bandai, Namco, and Mattel announced their turnover as 2219 billion, 1174 billion, and [-] billion respectively.

With its popular mechanical toys all over the world, can it break through [-] billion?
Just as Lou Xiaohu was about to inform Lou Xiaohu to hang the relevant sales management on the riverbank, the person in charge of the operation center quickly explained: People use Japanese coins for statistics, but we use red notes for statistics.

Only then did Director Xu laugh out loud.

At the same time, it also means that the tin toy factory has completed its annual strategy ahead of schedule.

Squeeze out Lego in the high-end market, defeat Bandai in the mid-end market, and complete the monopoly in the low-end market.

In this context, Bandai has long since stopped playing.

First cooperated with Namco to form a subsidiary of Bandai Namco, ran to embrace Nintendo's thigh, continued to update the gashapon gameplay, launched a new generation of electronic pet machine-Pokémon Sonic, and then rushed to the street.

Afterwards, they cooperated with Apple, an entertainment giant and a technological benchmark, to join forces to launch the second-generation Pippin host, but due to poor sales, the two brothers fell into an unprecedented financial crisis.

Recently, Bandai and Namco, which is also having a hard time, formally merged to form the "Bandai Namco Holdings Company", which is second only to Nintendo and Sega in scale, and diverted to making games.

Unexpectedly, in the second half of the millennium, the Internet bubble completely burst.

The Nasdaq plummeted 70%, and trillions of dollars were gone.

About 50% of Internet companies have declared bankruptcy, and the related IT industry has shrunk by 80%. Even many international communication operators are mostly in debt and forced to postpone their 3G network plans.

Wajima's economy is linked to North America, and the Wajima stock market has declined step by step.

Bandai, which merged with Namco and expected to save the financial crisis through stocks, can be described as worse.

Now I have received the "Aite" from Director Xu, and then look at the test video with smooth screen, perfect modeling, full sense of impact, and extremely advanced game engine...

The president of Bandai, who knew that Ironhide had acquired 'West Studios', lost all his hair overnight.

Sega and Nintendo even held high-level meetings on the spot.

Wait until noon.

Sega announced its withdrawal from the series of console game developers, focusing on the development of game hardware and underlying programs.

Nintendo announced that the new home console GAME BOY ADVANCE, referred to as GBA, which is jointly developed with Panasonic and IBM, has a performance superior to that of PS2. It will add 3 million US dollars in research and development funds, and welcomes Microsoft to join in and develop a PC game platform.

'Without competition, where can innovation come from? '

"For the time being, I can inject a little vitality into the stagnant game industry. '

Xu Fei had nothing to do, bragging about it on the forum all morning.

"My game is absolutely unprecedented!"

"Just like Mechanical Three Kingdoms and Transparent Electric, it is destined to trigger a revolution in the game industry!"

During the period, a few wonderful test videos that didn't even have a paint job were released, and the stickers that Tang Mo kept for making animations were uploaded, which whetted the appetite of game lovers, and they just went offline and deleted the account.

"No, everyone knows that I'm the director of the factory, is there any use for deleting the account?"

After Xu Fei was stunned, he contacted Souhu and got his account back again.

Then check the time and walk around the cafeteria.

It was noon, and the staff of the restaurant were facing the wall and thinking about their mistakes.

Tall, short, fat, fat...

All the boards are standing neatly.

"Okay, let's cook, save waiting until shift at 3 o'clock, the workers will have nothing to eat when they come."

There is no such thing as lunch in the Daze Canteen.

One is from 7:9 am to [-]:[-] am, breakfast.

One is from 2:4 to [-]:[-] in the afternoon, shift meals.

One is from 10:12 to [-]:[-] in the evening, dinner.

As for this arrangement, is it good for your health...

Free meals, are you still not happy?

If you really don't like it, then follow the normal way, go upstairs and spend money to buy food, or go to the third floor to open a private room to eat small stoves.

After all, that's life.

With money comes choice.

After Xu Fei gave his orders, he ran to the second floor to have a look.

Using the spliced ​​buildings of ten 'camps', after removing the partitions, the area is as high as tens of thousands of square meters.

Surrounded by a circle of food stalls, tables and chairs of different styles and leisure areas are deployed in the middle.

Food In addition to the original Chinese snacks such as steamed buns and fried dough sticks, Western food, cooking, Xiangjiang cuisine, Nanyang cuisine have been introduced in the past six months, and barbecue huts, baking huts, etc. have been opened.

Compared with the 'working meal' with fixed meals, it is more popular among young people.

Especially this time with 10 new recruits, it is said that the second floors of the three restaurants are full every day from morning till night.

In addition, in some remote corners on the second floor, there are some small stalls selling cards, underwear, and accessories.

There are also small shops for renting books, VCDs and TV sets.

"I should compare it with the 'Dawan Square' in the expansion pack."

"It's just that the overall level is not high-grade, like the country version."

Feeling melancholy, Xu Fei climbed up to the third floor.

The layout here is basically an independent restaurant, which is mainly divided into nine styles.

Northeast, Shaanxi, Jiangnan.

Ice Bear, Europe, North America.

Thai, West Asian, Mechanical.

People who come to eat are either customers, foreign traders, business executives, or young couples in love.

Xu Fei ordered two big bone sticks, ate them all in one sitting, then asked the waiter to pack the bones, and took them back to improve the vicious dog's life, before finishing his unannounced visit.

But with so many new students, if you want to cover everything, you still need the inspectors to implement it seriously.

Therefore, in Xu Sheng's identity, Xu Fei went to the inspection class to make up a lesson, and chatted with Victor, a Hadza from West Asia.

The other party is also the first foreign student of TEP Vocational and Technical College.

If the training is not good, won't it weaken your own name when you graduate in the future?
Fortunately, Victor has worked very hard recently to change the West Asian world.

With the help of the computer left by Xu Sheng to his roommates, he learned to play Half-Life's derivative game-CS, mastered skills such as back flashing and blind sniping, and learned routines such as going around behind and throwing mines.

After Xu Fei left the inspection team, he looked up to the sky and sighed.

Victor's changes reminded him of why few of the talented students who went to study in North America were willing to return to China.

Who doesn't love Fancy World?
"Sure enough, the great Director Xu will never be tempted by sugar-coated bullets."

Back in the office, Xu Fei threw the leftover bones to the vicious dog, turned on the office computer, installed CS, and played a round in the spare time.

then……

"Director, get off work."

"hold head high!"

"Master, good morning."

"hold head high!"

"Director, your eyes are bloodshot."

"do not bother me."

"Director, your father is here."

"..."

Two days later.

Xu Fei rubbed his sleepy eyes and came to the 'Empty Finger Department' on the north side of the test area.

Two metal skeletons for 'show' have been welded.

Many scaffolding and working platforms were built around it, and many nylon fabrics were piled up in the distance.

In the square in the distance, there are still many reporters gathered, as well as great directors who hope to talk to Director Xu through various relationships.

The directors had no other intentions, they just wanted to make an unprecedented sci-fi blockbuster with the help of the grand scene of "Restored Led Zeppelin" and the magnificent scene composed of "Airport", "Daze Industrial Park" and "Surrounding Construction Site".

"Director Zhang, that's Director Zhang. Would you like to see me? It will take up to 5 minutes."

"No time to."

Xu Fei led the vicious dog wearing sunglasses into the lobby of the airport.

The five-storey structure, with a height of 50 meters, does not show how grand it is.

But walking inside, following the terrain downward, and then looking up at the dome, the super space formed by the long-span buildings far beyond the factory building makes people shiver.

You especially took the trolley that came with it, passed through the hangars, and came to the factory...

Seeing what was in front of him clearly, Xu Fei took a deep breath.

This is a huge pit.

It is as deep as [-] meters, and its length is unknown.

In the space illuminated by lights, more than 700 engineers are either riding in the gondola, or standing on the suspended platform, or hanging in mid-air with steel cables, tinkling and busy.

And below.

A shark nearly 500 meters long and more than 100 meters wide showed its ferocious fangs and grinned loudly.

[Kirov airship, construction rate 95%...]
[The fuel is filled. ]
[Engine No. 1 in place…]
[Engine No. 2 in place…]
[number 3……]
[The ground effect flight system debugging is completed. ]
[Ground effect flight mode is on. ]
[Jet propulsion system ready. ]
[Arsenal not filled...]
Xu Fei ignored the prompt, and planned to take a tram ride for a tour, but noticed the 'ground effect flight' mode, and quickly called out the translucent page.

Ground-effect flight system: At a critical moment in the war, engineers developed a new "wing-ground effect airship" based on an ancient "ground-effect aircraft", which increased the airborne load to 1000 tons and was used to break through the enemy. The blind angle of the military radar is used to deliver strategic materials to the front line, but the conditions for 'ground effect flight' are harsh, and the flying height is only the length of the aircraft's wingspan. After a period of use, it was forced to give up.

Later, an engineer transplanted this technology to the Kirov airship, which gave the Kirov the characteristics of low-altitude skimming. In an emergency, when the Kirov is 100 meters away from the landing surface, the ground effect flight mode is turned on, and the speed can reach 320 knots, about 593km/h, the disadvantage is that the fuel consumption is doubled, and it needs to be overhauled after the voyage.

"The speed is 450km/h, adding technology support, the data will increase by 20%, which is 540km/h."

"It's not much different from 593km/h, but it needs major repairs."

"This feature is simply tasteless."

"But if the ground effect flight system is removed and installed on a battleship..."

"A 320-knot cruiser, or a 320-knot aircraft..."

"Too outrageous."

Xu Fei thought about it, and took the trolley to circle the big shark.

Finally, it can be determined that the Kirov airship ≈ 4.5 standard playgrounds are arranged in a straight line.

two hours later.

[The construction of the Kirov airship is completed. ]
Without asking, the engineers removed 12 propellers the size of a house, transported them back to the ground with the help of a carrying trolley, and installed them on a "Zeppelin airship" that was "pretending to be".

At the same time, repair the Kirov airship, remove 12 propellers, and install them on another Zeppelin airship for appearance.

So, two unfinished and one finished.

Then make four more.

Xu Fei worked until midnight, asked someone to take a photo of the Kirov airship, went back to the office, registered on the Swoosh forum account, and chose to upload.

"Break into the Daze air port, my God, look what I found."

[Your post has been deleted, if you have any objection, please contact the Swoosh operator. ]
"..."

10 minute later.

The post was restored, and the forum instantly exploded.

"Created so soon?"

"I seriously doubt that TEP itself has such a thing."

"My God, I am concerned about long-span buildings, where is this?"

"Alien base?"

Seeing that the speculation was about the same, Xu Fei went to the laboratory and asked the mechanical engineer to make a "mechanical Kirov airship" by hand, and then entered it into the system to exchange for 10 basic production lines.

Then let the electromechanical laboratory design several generators, imitate the lines of the Kirov airship in the game, and exchange for 10 basic production lines.

Then let the electronic laboratory design several lights to highlight the horror of the Kirov airship, and exchange for 10 basic production lines.

Finally, throw the blueprints to Tang Mo and integrate them together to form the 'Kirov Airship' sales team.

But when he returned to the office, he thought that the developer of Command and Conquer had already been bought by himself.

It seems a bit of a loss to only manufacture Kirov airships.

Moreover, when the Kirov airship takes off, Command and Conquer is bound to usher in a hot period.

what's inside...

In other words, all the real objects in their own base can be made into mechanical toys and sold for money.

Because if you don't sell it, there will soon be overwhelming people who will sell it blatantly.

"The law firm is too busy, let them be busy for a while."

"Especially those journalists who are preparing to produce Kirov airship hot air balloons."

Xu Fei clearly remembered that someone poured dirty water on him before, such as punishment, abuse of lynching, and disregard for human life...

This group of reporters spread his story to all over the world.

"By the way, big secret, are seven men and eight women coming to the account?"

"It's coming, anyone who pours dirty water on you will pay 1000 million dollars per family, and drink a bottle of foreign ink to nourish your stomach."

"Have you drank?"

"That's not clear, you have to ask seven men and eight women."

Second Sister: "Recently seven men and eight women have bought a lot of good things. I suspect that they accepted gifts and saved the group of people from drinking ink."

"They dare not, otherwise they would drink it themselves."

Xu Fei contacted the sales department of Hongqi and asked how the seven men and eight women were doing. The other party quickly sent more than 30 videos of drinking ink.

"Why bother."

That's when the SEAL liaison called.

"Commander, the 20 General Electric personnel who went to the Hamburg Harbor Shipyard were all arrested, and the location and layout of the General Electric aircraft factory were also interrogated."

"When Foreman returned to Germany, he took a few boxes of new materials. You asked the SEALs to give them to them, and took them back to General Electric."

"Good commander."

Thanks to the basic production line, we can purify some fiber materials that are not currently available in the world.

Some work and some don't.

The ones that Foreman brought back to Germany were not very useful but useful fiber materials.

The laboratory uses the data to disguise it as the skin of the Kirov airship, and throw it to General Electric for research.

As for what if the research finds out why?
It can be mass-produced by itself, making this material worthless.

After Xu Fei finished his work, he contacted the headquarters of the Iron Sheet Company and asked them to issue a global announcement, saying that the new materials used to restore Zeppelin airships had been stolen, and the overall loss exceeded 20 billion euros.

After that, I contacted Foreman and let the other party take the opportunity to apply for the Iron Guard, with 800+ personnel.

If they disagree, in the name of the Berlin State Assembly, Germany will be required to compensate for its own losses.

The next day, August 8th.

Along with the news that the Zeppelin airship is about to reappear in the appearance of a Kirov airship, the headquarters of the Iron Sheet Company and the Hamburg Harbor Shipyard acquired by the Iron Sheet Company were raided by unknown armed forces, which was also exposed by CNN reporters.

Zeppelin airship design drawings and structural drawings, Kirov airship inkjet scheme, airship skeleton materials, skin materials, and helium refining scheme were all stolen.

The direct loss was 20 billion euros, and the indirect commercial loss exceeded [-] billion.

The whole world was in an uproar.

After receiving the news that the headquarters of the Iron Sheet Company was stolen, Director Xu displayed the 'Kirov Airship' that day in order to ensure that the market would not be seized.

The huge monster that can be compared to four standard playgrounds in one piece suddenly appeared in Daze Airport, and the reporters who gathered in the square were scared to sit down on the ground.

"My God, this is the first time I have experienced what oppression is like!"

"I seem to see a big mountain flying towards me!"

"What is written on the banner below?"

"Where will the Smash World Championship Finals be held?!"

"A $10 boat ticket?!"

"It is rumored that the Hindenburg had the most luxurious restaurant and the most luxurious hotel in the world at that time. Is Director Xu also planning to build one?"

"I wonder if Pope will install berths for the Empire State Building."

the other side.

"Xu, your airship must come to the button, even if I take out my wallet and machine, it will stop at the top of my building. Wow, we will definitely send it!"