Warhammer: Starting as a Planetary Governor, Three Hundred Years in Tax Arrears
Chapter 135

Chapter 135

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"Sir, are you sure you want to use the Melta weapon?" Tech-Priest Kallen asked without giving up.

"Yes, Kallen, you and I both know very well that we have no choice."

Fu Haoran Just say it clearly.

"We don't have the high-power Las-cannon, so we can't destroy it with one shot."

"Ordinary cannons are fine, but the powerful recoil is destined to not be used while moving, otherwise the vehicle will overturn."

"Plasma Cannon We don't have much inventory on hand, and we simply can't sustain a decisive battle."

"Only the Melta weapon is our current only anti-armor weapon that can reliably penetrate the Leman Russ armor."

Priest Kallen knew that Fu Haoran was right, but he also expressed his difficulty. "Without a complete STC, we can build up to twenty doors a week, and three hundred doors are simply impossible."

"I know what you want to do, but once this kind of thing is known to Machine Cult headquarters, you will be directly labeled as a heretic."

Fu Haoran didn't take it seriously at all. Tech-priest always said one thing and did another. They were paranoid and often found trouble.

Seeing that Fu Haoran didn't take it seriously, Kallen felt that it was necessary to educate himself.

"Sir, the Melta weapon is a rare weapon in the empire Astra Militarum and even Space Marine."

"Astra Militarum even stipulates that people can die, but guns cannot."

"Even if a company is completely wiped out, the first thing the reinforcements do when they arrive is not to rescue people, but to check the integrity of Meltagun."

"In fact, in our Tech-Priest eyes, the value of a soldier is far less than a Melta weapon."

"So are you sure you want to distribute such precious technology to the death squads... even consumables that can only be used after a few dozen rounds?"

Fu Haoran opened the drawings and said calmly:

"It's precious because it cannot be mass-produced."

"When we can mass-produce it, it will no longer be a piece of equipment more precious than human life."

Fu Haoran hates Mechanicus Cult's logic from the bottom of his heart.

They have only blind religious worship of technology, and they have sealed the fundamental technology for human existence as a sacred relic and shelved it in the closet. They keep saying that it cannot be reproduced and that every one is broken and one is missing. They have turned the technology that can change the fate of mortals into lost technology.

"What I want is not a family heirloom, but a weapon that can win this battle. Even if it is all scrapped after the battle, it is worth it."

Priest Kallen looked at the parts on the drawing that had been disassembled to the extreme, and then looked at Fu Haoran's calm but unquestionable eyes, and suddenly understood that the governor was never discussing with him, but just informing him of the results.

Priest Kallen was silent for a long time, and finally said, "Okay, as you wish, but I must remind you that I cannot make any guarantees about durability."

Fu Haoran patted his shoulder, turned around and walked out.

The communicator suddenly sounded, and Wade's voice was urgent. "Governor, Cole's pioneer battalion has left Hive City, three full days faster than expected!"

Fu Haoran paused in his steps and said in a cold tone, "I know, I'll be back as soon as possible."

Now, he must go back to 2K immediately.

Warhammer World only has two weeks, but there, he has nearly five months, enough to complete the mass production of Melta accessories.

Fu Haoran split Meltagun into core parts and non-core parts.

All non-core structural parts are mass-produced by 2K World.

As long as 2K World can barely meet the standards for the core Melta cavity and focusing crystal, 2K World will also be responsible for it.

No matter how difficult it is, 2K World will complete the basic blank of the core part, and then hand it over to Priest Kallen for further processing, precision calibration and assembly.

Fu Haoran even thought about taking the risk of handing over some rare materials to suppliers for processing.

Shanghai, CBD top-level international conference center.

The conference room that could accommodate 200 people was packed with people, from local state-owned machinery factories in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Guangdong, civilian product companies affiliated to military industrial groups, to small and medium-sized processing plants, and even self-employed people who opened hardware workshops.

In the corner of the last row of the venue, two men in casual clothes were sitting, with dense data streams jumping on the laptop screens in their hands.

Old Zhou of Third Bureau of State Security frowned and whispered to the technician beside him, "Keep an eye on it, Fu Haoran has been put on the key monitoring list above."

Old Zhou I really can't figure it out. When I took over the business a month ago, I was just a young man in his twenties. I don't know where he got the first pot of gold, and then he started his entrepreneurial journey of buying and selling.

Different from other nouveau riche, others spend money like water after they get rich, settle down and make money quickly, dreaming of creating a legend again.

Even if it doesn't work out, you can invest in financial services, or simply sell courses to make money.

But this owner is different. He doesn't touch any financial products.

Real estate is involved, but they are directly building factories!

That's building a factory in Amerikan!

Is this a commendable act of courage, or is it because people are stupid and have too much money?

In a sense, people do spend money like water, buying land, factories, and ports!

Building a factory is not enough, we also built a shipyard!

No, Amerikan's shipyards are almost extinct. What do you think when you open a shipyard there?

What is incredible is that as soon as they came up, they built large ships of hundreds of thousands of tons!

People who don't know think they are building a new aircraft carrier for Amerikan!

In many military forums, something went wrong.

But it was such a shipyard that had been established for less than a year. First it hired people on a large scale, and then it took Amerikan's ship repair orders, making a huge profit of 4 to 5 billion US dollars.

How do you know in China?

Don't forget, all employees' social security is paid in China! Then the minimum wage is paid at Amerikan.

For all other purchases, we use domestic channels, so it is not difficult to calculate rough costs.

This is not the end, after that, they will bring tens of thousands of employees to directly ask for wages!

If a group of "terrorists" hadn't appeared halfway through Washington, this armed wage protest probably wouldn't have been possible.

But the subsequent "Fengtian Jingnan" was also outrageous. They led a group of militiamen to "terrorists" that even the regular army could not deal with, and it took them two days to recapture the capital.

Although no video of the battle has been released, and White House tried its best to cover it up, judging from the damage to the city afterwards, the battle was no less than a large-scale battle.

But afterwards, apart from the battle-damaged Amerikan tank, no other armored vehicles could be found, which was extremely inconsistent with the situation at the scene.

There are too many unreasonable things about the other party.

These are only things that can be confirmed. Rumors spread even more mysteriously, saying that he wiped out mercenaries in one night and destroyed centuries-old families... but these are impossible to verify.

Nowadays, the titles have been piled up to a terrifying level - Washington savior, National Guard youngest honorary major general, military franchised supplier, emergent technology oligarch, North America overlord in the new energy field, Yellowstone uncrowned king of the farm, underground king even feared by the CIA.

Old Zhou doesn't quite believe this.

After all, it is too short to make a fortune. It only lasts three years, so how can you accomplish so many things?

It must have been spread randomly by unofficial historians.

"Today's self-media dares to make up anything for the sake of traffic. Official history may not be correct, but unofficial history is definitely wild enough!"

Originally this was nothing, but the problem lies in the fact that the nationality of Fu Haoran has not changed!

Yes, they didn't change their nationality at all, and they didn't even get the Amerikan green card!

This is very embarrassing.

Should this be considered a normal entrepreneur or a key subject of surveillance?

Just when Old Zhou was thinking about how to characterize the matter, the video conference started.

Looking at the impossibly young Fu Haoran on the screen, there was a burst of whispers in the audience.

"Is this Mr. Fu? He's too young, right?"

"Yeah, have you heard of him?"

"No, we have talked on the phone and via email before. This is the first time we have met online."

National Security Bureau, the old professor arranged by Qin Zhengfeng, pushed up his glasses, his face full of confusion.

This venue is so noisy.

The person sitting on the left is the chief engineer of a local state-owned enterprise, the person on the right is a self-employed person who runs a sheet metal factory, the person in the front is the chairman of a listed heavy industry group, and the person in the back is a small business owner who just graduated and opened a processing factory. The people are mixed like a vegetable market.

From everyone's chat, it can even be heard that many people are participating for the first time.

However, these whispers fell silent instantly as Fu Haoran spoke.

"I'm calling everyone here today, and there's only one thing." Fu Haoran got straight to the point, with split drawings of hundreds of parts popping up on the projection, "Industrial-grade high-precision metal cutting equipment accessories, drawings, tolerances, and material requirements are all on it."

There was another commotion in the audience.

The owner of a small hardware factory leaned into the ear of the people around him and said, "Cutting equipment accessories? Isn't this stuff a piece of shit? Why do you need to call so many people here?"

No one knows that these seemingly unrelated civilian accessories are the Multi-melta in a Warhammer 40K.

Fu Haoran split each part to the extreme, and each supplier could only get drawings of two parts at most. Even if National Security put all the drawings together, he couldn't put together a complete weapon structure, and would only think it was heavy industrial cutting equipment.

Representatives of state-owned enterprises in the audience flipped through the information casually.

They were originally here to accompany me on the run... No, to be precise, it was arranged by the superiors. Come and listen to what this rising star has to say.

As for orders, will their state-owned enterprises value this "sesame"?

Clotting teeth is not enough.

There are many companies with similar ideas. If they were not invited, they would not come at all.

However, Fu Haoran threw out the second sentence, and the whole audience exploded instantly.

"The order rules are very simple. I have marked the basic unit price on the drawing, 15% profit, 50% deposit in advance, and the balance will be paid upon delivery."

"The key point is that every time the output doubles, the unit purchase price will increase by 5%, with no upper limit."

After Fu Haoran finished speaking, the whole place was silent for three seconds, and then deafening discussions broke out.

Everyone thought they heard wrong.

The rule of commercial procurement is that the larger the order quantity, the lower the price.

Is there any reason that the higher the output, the higher the price?

A representative from a local state-owned machinery factory in the front row stood up suddenly. "Mr. Fu, are you right? The output has doubled, but the unit price has also increased?"

"That's right." Fu Haoran said in a calm tone, "I won't negotiate costs with you or lower prices with you. I only want one thing - efficiency."

"Within four months, I want at least 300 sets of complete accessories."

"I want as much as you have, and I can deliver it at any time. Even if you only complete one set, I will pay according to the minimum standard."

"Don't worry about the payment. I have already transferred the full amount of one billion purchase funds into the third-party supervision account of Hong Kong, a top law firm. Payment will be made as soon as the goods arrive, and there will never be any default."

"You can check the fund arrival status on the law firm's official website at any time."

A lawyer in a custom-made suit stood up and bowed slightly. "Hello everyone, I am Shen Jingheng, a partner of Hong Kong Kaisheng Law Firm. Our firm is fully responsible for the fund supervision, contract performance, and compliance review of this purchase."

"Mr. Fu Haoran's one billion purchase supervision funds have been fully transferred to our firm's special supervision account. The relevant vouchers have been uploaded to the shared document of this meeting, and you can check it at any time."

Fu Haoran put away his smile and his tone suddenly turned cold, "But the ugly thing is ahead. If anyone wants to cheat the deposit with nothing, I will let you know what it means to be inhumane."

"I can spend 1 billion to place an order, and I can spend 100 million to make you, your factory, and even your upstream and downstream suppliers completely disappear from the manufacturing circle."

"The legal team of Hong Kong Law Firm will follow up the entire process. Once a breach of contract or fraudulent order is discovered, not only will you not get a penny, but you will also have to bear huge liquidated damages and even face legal liability."

The people in the audience were stunned, but their attention was quickly attracted by the unprecedented order.

The basic profit is 15%. After the output doubles and the unit price increases by another 5%, if the output quadruples, the profit will directly double!

Take this job and work for a year!

The state-owned enterprise representatives who had been careless just now became interested.

However, the number of such lists is too small and not enough to see.

But the profit is considerable, so I took it first and let the subsidiaries below follow up.

However, in the back row of the venue, as a senior military industry professor assigned by National Security, Qin Zhengfeng felt more and more something was wrong.

He stared at the cavity taper, pressure-resistant structural tolerances, and material strength requirements on the drawing, and his mind was running rapidly.

"No! Civilian cutting equipment simply cannot use 0.01 mm level geometric tolerance. This cavity with convergent taper is a typical high-energy jet focusing structure!"

"This pressure-resistant shell has to withstand instantaneous high temperatures of 10,000 degrees and high pressures of hundreds of megapascals!"

"This... this seems to be a powerful military weapon!" Qin Zhengfeng became more and more unsure as he spoke.

"What?" Old Zhou tensed up for a moment, thinking he had heard wrong.

"I should have got it right!" Qin Zhengfeng pointed at the drawing, "When these parts are put together, it becomes a hand-held weapon!"

"Quickly, contact the representatives of the state-owned enterprises we are dealing with, and accept some orders at all costs. Be sure to find out its mass production scale and final use!"

Jiangsu and Zhejiang, Suxi Town.

At one o'clock in the morning, Lao Xu, the owner of the processing factory in the town, called all the bosses of more than a dozen processing factories in the town to his factory.

After being pulled out of bed in the middle of the night, the bosses were all angry and cursing.

"Old Xu, are you crazy? You stayed up so late in the night and got crazy trying to grab orders?"

"That's right, what orders can't be made during the day? My wife thought I was out fooling around!"

Lao Xu didn't waste any time. He slapped his phone on the table and said, "I just came back from Shanghai. It depends on you whether you can take on this big job."

Everyone was dubious. Normally, everyone was on guard against each other, fearing that someone would steal the order. Why did Lao Xu change his gender today and take the initiative to share it?

Someone couldn't help but say, "Lao Xu, this order is too weird. The output is doubled and the price is increased. Is it a scam? Besides, can our small factory achieve the 0.01 mm tolerance?"

Others sighed, "Even if it's not a scam, expanding production requires investment. My factory doesn't even have working capital, so how can we do it?"

Lao Xu was well prepared and clicked on a meeting to share documents. "Look, one billion regulatory funds have been received. The law firm guarantees the whole process and 50% of the deposit is paid in advance."

"Even if something goes wrong in the end, the deposit will be enough for us to get our money back."

"As for accuracy, I have asked Mr. Fu's people. As long as they follow the drawings, even if there are slight deviations, they can still receive the goods. What he wants is quantity, not extreme precision."

As the screen was projected, everyone was attracted by the complex content above.

However, what everyone is concerned about is not the difficulty of the process, but the "reward".

The boss of the sheet metal factory who had scolded me the most just now asked confusedly, "Old Xu, why is it written wrong above? Doubling the output and increasing the price? Pay a 50% deposit in advance?"

"Yes, that's the key." Lao Xu lit up a cigarette, "If we want to make full profits, we must work together to expand production capacity. I will never be able to take so many orders by myself. I called you here because I want to work together as a team."

This was the first time for everyone to encounter such a strange thing, and everyone was dubious.

"Let's do it!" Lao Zhai was the first to make the decision, "My factory is almost out of business, so what if I get cheated? The 50% deposit is enough for me to survive, even if I don't make any money."

This sentence has touched everyone's heart. Today's manufacturing industry is getting harder and harder, and profits are meager.

Everyone's thinking has changed from making less money in the past to now as long as they don't post any money.

Another person slammed the table and took out his cell phone to call his wife on the spot, "Take out my mother's pension money first and expand production! This business is a sure profit!"

Someone next to me laughed and scolded, "Are you fucking crazy?"

"You are crazy! You are a fool not to expand production if you double your profits!"

"I machined it, and I wrapped this bushing! The accuracy is absolutely up to standard!"

"I'm a hardware maker, and I've connected all the screw brackets!"

The small bosses who had fought for tens of thousands of dollars in orders a few years ago were instantly twisted into a tightrope.

No one can struggle with money, and no one can struggle with doubled profits.

Among the bosses present, some people stared at the doubled profits and became jealous.

Of course, more people don't dare to expect double the amount, they just hope that this single order can keep the factory alive.

But without exception, no one is willing to miss this opportunity.

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