Rebirth in 1989: Building a Chinese Technological Empire

"Boom..."

"Boom..."

"Boom..."

In the shooting range, Salman and his party had a great time.

Tanks, armored vehicles, jeeps, pickup trucks, low-speed unmanned target aircraft, fixed fortresses...

If there were no helicopter target aircraft, I'm afraid Salman and his party would have shot down a few helicopters for fun.

Salman and his party had a great time, and Lin Zuotang and the military were also very happy. The military personnel were even taking notes in a small notebook, mumbling one million and one million, and they looked like they had never seen money and were not afraid of being laughed at by others.

"Xu, this weapon is really great. This is the best anti-tank missile I have ever seen."

In front of the ruins of a tank, Prince Salman looked at the tank he had killed with his own hands, his eyes full of pride. This thing is so cool, much more fun than playing eagle walking dog in Saudi Arabia.

With one shot, a tank became a ruin. This kind of violent aesthetics is simply art.

"By the way, Xu, do you limit the sale of this kind of anti-tank missile?"

Prince Salman asked directly.

Many countries have limited the sale of good weapons. Saudi Arabia has encountered too many such situations when purchasing weapons in recent years, including China's firecrackers. If it weren't for the limited sale, Saudi Arabia would have planned to buy more. How could 35 missiles be enough? It would be good if there were 300 to 500 missiles.

"Prince Salman, of course there is no limit on sales. Not only is there no limit on sales, but if you buy more, there are also some preferential policies."

Xu Huasheng said with a smile.

"What preferential policies?"

Prince Salman asked curiously.

"If you buy more than 1,000 missiles at a time, we will give you an additional 50 unmanned target vehicles. If you buy 5,000 missiles, we allow you to build an assembly plant in your country. We can send them to you in the form of loose parts, and then guide you to self-assemble this missile. If you buy 10,000 missiles at a time..."

Xu Huasheng said with a smile.

"How about 10,000 missiles?"

Prince Salman asked quickly.

"We can transfer technology. In addition to the infrared seeker, we can teach you how to make other parts of this anti-tank missile. When you have the technology and the production line, you only need to buy our infrared seeker to produce this anti-tank missile by yourself. You can not only use the things you produce yourself, but also sell them to make money. For example, sell them to the UAE and Qatar. If you are bolder, you can even sell them to Iraq, Syria, Egypt, Libya, and even Iran. Prince Salman, the cost of producing this thing yourself is lower. If you buy ours, it will cost you $200,000 per piece. If you produce it yourself, it may cost less than $100,000. The greater the production capacity, the lower the unit price..." Xu Huasheng whispered, and Prince Salman was moved when he heard this. Is it really possible for Saudi Arabia to produce such advanced anti-tank missiles by itself? Looking at Salman's expression, Xu Huasheng smiled slightly and continued to add some ingredients. "Prince Salman, it's better to have weapons and equipment yourself than anyone else. Only what you can produce yourself will not be controlled by others. To put it bluntly, we can sell you some now. But if the international situation changes in the future, for example, the United States knows that the weapons we sell to you are not good for Israel, and then threatens our country not to let our country sell you this weapon, otherwise it will break diplomatic relations with our country. What do you think we should do then? But if you master the technology, it will be different. At that time, you can stock up a batch of infrared seekers, which will not be damaged for decades, and are durable and easy to transport. And you have your own production lines and production capabilities, do you still need to worry? If others don't sell to us, we will produce it ourselves, which is not a big deal."

Xu Huasheng's words were like a little devil, making Prince Salman's heart pound. Saudi Arabia's industrial base is very backward. It can be said that there is almost nothing except oil.

Even for oil, they can't even mine it without buying foreign equipment, and even need foreign companies to help them mine it. Everything, even light industrial products, must be imported.

Saudi Arabia is naturally aware of the disadvantages of this form, but there is nothing they can do. They also want to produce it themselves, but they don't have the technology or the ability.

Now China is willing to transfer technology and help them build a missile production line. Although it is just an anti-tank missile, it is of great significance to Saudi Arabia.

Two hundred thousand US dollars per missile, 10,000 missiles is 2 billion US dollars, which is not cheap, but it is not too expensive.

If they have the technology, their production price will be lower than 100,000 US dollars, and they can alsoMake money from takeout. Maybe you can make the money back. As Xu Huasheng said, you can sell it to other countries. At that time, you may sell it for $200,000 or even more. There may be people who want it. For example, Iraq in the north, Saddam was beaten by the United States. He will definitely like it if you sell it to him.

Although Iraq is now under sanctions from Europe and the United States and its economy is not good, Saddam still has a lot of money in his hands.

"Prince Salman, in fact, not only this missile can use this model. Other products can also use this model."

Xu Huasheng said with a smile, which made Prince Salman stunned and looked at Xu Huasheng curiously.

"Prince, your Saudi Arabia's current industrial foundation should be very poor, right?"

Xu Huasheng's words made Prince Salman nod. The industrial foundation is very poor, in fact, it can't be described as poor, it can be described as nothing.

"The prince must be very clear about the importance of industry to a country. So, prince, has Saudi Arabia never thought about developing its own industry?"

Xu Huasheng's question made Prince Salman stunned, and then he smiled bitterly.

"It's not that we don't want to develop, but we don't have the technology, our foundation is too poor..."

Prince Salman couldn't help but say, they also want to, why don't they want to, but they can't do it. Hearing this, Xu Huasheng laughed.

"You don't have what we have, we have technology, you have money, it's just complementary. Prince Salman, do you know what the name of our country's matches is?"

Xu Huasheng's words made Prince Salman stunned, and then shook his head.

"It's called foreign matches, which means foreign matches, Western matches. In the past, we couldn't even produce matches ourselves. We called bicycles foreign cars because we couldn't produce them ourselves. But in just a few decades, look at us now. We have missiles, satellites, our own fighter jets, our own warships, and our own atomic bombs. We have everything that Westerners have. Although we may not be as advanced as Westerners in some things, at least we have them. Although the performance is not as good, we can use them. When Westerners don't sell us these things, we can still eat and wear warm clothes, and we can still defend our country. Moreover, we can continue to invest in research and development of these technologies, catch up with Western countries or even surpass them. For example, this anti-tank missile is the best example. In the past, our anti-tank missiles were bought from the Soviet Union, and then we began to learn to imitate them. Now this weapon directly surpasses the Soviet Union. This is our China..."

Xu Huasheng said with a smile, with pride on his face.

Xu Huasheng's words made Prince Salman take a deep breath, and then he looked at Xu Huasheng solemnly with an expectant look in his eyes.