The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

Chapter 42 No. 25 Xiushui North Street

On January 1 of this year, China and the United States established diplomatic relations!

This is definitely a historic moment between China and the United States, and a major event that will affect the world.

With this improvement in relations, Liu Tao's plan to export weapons and equipment can be realized without interference and obstruction from all parties.

Otherwise, if the ship carrying weapons and equipment is intercepted and inspected, nothing can be done!

In addition, the current world situation is not peaceful and various conflicts may break out at any time.

As long as the weapons and equipment have sufficient cost-effectiveness, there is no need to worry about not being able to sell them.

European, American and Soviet weapons are indeed advanced and well-known, but the problem is that their weapons are not cheap and often come with a lot of political strings attached.

Liu Tao is different. Even if the price of weapons of the same model and performance is only half of theirs, he can still make a profit. Moreover, this is pure trade without any conditions attached.

This is its advantage, super high cost performance, without any conditions!

Just need money!

Precious and rare metals such as gold, or foreign exchange are all fine!

After leaving the Fifth Ministry of Machine Building, Liu Tao had a lot of thoughts.

"Now there is only one thing left, to get the order!" Liu Tao's eyes were full of determination, "As long as we get the order, we can make money!"

The most difficult thing in the world is to create something from nothing. As long as you take the first step and get the first order, the second and third orders will not be far away.

"Next, we will start the action. The first target is the big dog country - Iraq!" Liu Tao's goal was very clear.

The first target, of course, is the wealthy and powerful country "Iraq"!

At this time, Iraq, because of its abundant oil, relied on exporting oil every year and became a veritable dog-eat-dog tycoon.

I can only say that oil is really a good thing.

These big oil producers don't need to struggle, they can just lie down and count their money.

No. 25 Xiushui North Street, this is the Iraqi Embassy in China.

Liu Tao looked at the guard at the gate and stepped forward and said, "Hello, I am Liu Tao, the director of Panshan Machinery Factory. I am here to visit my friend, Al."

The guard looked at Liu Tao in surprise.

Al is the person in charge here.

Although the guard didn't understand what was going on, he still went in to report.

In the office, Al was drinking coffee leisurely. He had been in China for three years, and since there was not much to do, his work was quite leisurely.

"Sir, someone who claims to be your friend is here to visit you." The staff came in and reported to Al.

"Panshan Machinery Factory? My friend?"

Al frowned. He didn't have any friends in China. Even if he had friends, they were in China's foreign affairs department, not in any factory.

After thinking for a few seconds, with interest in his eyes, he nodded and said to the staff: "Please ask him to come over!"

Soon, Al met the Chinese man who claimed to be his friend.

"Young man, I don't remember that we knew each other." Al looked at Liu Tao with interest.

Liu Tao was very young. When Al saw Liu Tao, he even thought it was a prank. Liu Tao said in English: "Hello, Mr. Al. I hope you don't mind my sudden visit. I'm here to do business with your country."

As he spoke, Liu Tao stretched out his hand.

"Hello!" Al shook the hand Liu Tao extended and asked with interest, "Business? What kind of business is it?"

"Weapons business!" Liu Tao said, "Let me introduce myself first. I am the director of Panshan Machinery Factory. Panshan Machinery Factory is a large military factory that can produce 120,000 pistols, 500,000 automatic rifles, and tens of thousands of machine guns annually. We can produce hundreds of millions of various types of bullets annually."

Liu Tao slightly exaggerated the production capacity of Panshan Machinery Factory.

Al's heart was inexplicably shaken.

This production scale is far beyond the combined military production capacity of all of Iraq.

Thanks to the first global oil crisis that broke out a few years ago, oil prices in the international market soared, a number of oil-producing countries along the Persian Gulf coast quickly became rich, and Iraq also made a lot of money. In just a few years, its GDP increased several times, and it became a wealthy country in the world.

But Iraq is not an industrial country and has no industry at all, let alone military industry.

Iraq's weapons are obtained by buying!
So much so that Saddam proudly advertised that their oil wealth could arm the army to become the world's third most powerful military.

In fact, judging from the data on paper, this is indeed the case. Saddam used the income from oil to build a million-strong army, with nearly 6000 tanks, 7500 armored vehicles, more than 3700 artillery pieces and more than 700 fighter jets. This strength ranks fourth in the world.

After the "Red Dragon's Roar", Monkey was defeated and Iraq became the third most powerful military country in the world.

Moreover, Iraq's foreign exchange reserves at that time were nearly 400 billion US dollars, and its per capita income had reached 3900 US dollars, far exceeding that of Saudi Arabia. As a result, Iraq established a complete social welfare system and achieved four free things: free medical care, free pension, free education and free housing.

In comparison, China is poor as hell.

But when it comes to military industry, Iraq is far behind China.

"Your Chinese weapons are very backward. If we want to buy them, we will go to the Soviet Union or Europe and the United States. Soviet-made weapons and American-made weapons are much more advanced than yours." Al shook his head slightly.

Now, if Iraq wants any weapons and equipment, it can just wave its money and buy them from all over the world.

Except for some extremely advanced or powerful weapons, what weapons can’t be bought?!
The impression that China gave to Al was poverty and backwardness.

Liu Tao smiled faintly and said, "Mr. Al, the performance of the weapons produced by our factory has reached the world's advanced level, and this has been tested on the battlefield."

"And we are just doing business, without any conditions attached." Liu Tao said confidently, "If you don't believe it, Mr. Al, we can experience the performance of the weapons on site."

Iraq is now a rich country, so Liu Tao would naturally not recommend backward weapons, but would directly take out the weapons he developed.

He believed that as long as Al tried it, he would definitely like it.

"My weapons are already in the capital. You can try them anytime, Mr. Al. You have time anyway. Give it a try. It doesn't cost any money and you won't be cheated." Liu Tao turned into an excellent salesman at this moment.

Al showed some interest at this moment.

Although China's "Roar of the Red Dragon" was very short, lasting only one month, it attracted attention from all sides.

After all, China had just made the Americans look humiliated. Faced with the data, China was clearly the world's third most powerful military country, but it was defeated by the poor and backward rabbit.

Military experts from various countries are conducting various analyses. No matter how they analyze, they find that the monkey will always win, but the monkey was beaten.

Al felt that if there were weapons that really performed well on the battlefield, it would be worth taking a look and maybe even buying them.

It doesn't matter who you buy from, and it would be best if there were really no conditions attached.

(End of this chapter)