Traveling through the sword to engage in military industry.

Chapter 307 Exchange of Products and Technologies
Ren Zhong looked at the well-known representatives of private capital and felt that they looked familiar.

Some of them are aristocratic families with a history of hundreds of years. They naturally have a solid foundation. Even in the early wars, they were not eliminated by the times and continued to survive by betting on multiple forces.

If there were no railway business, if they wanted to take a bite of the big railway cake, Ren Zhong could also let them play a role in other fields.

There are too many areas of construction now. The heavy tasks in all aspects are very clear, and it is impossible for the government to lead all of them.

This is not in line with the objective laws of economic development.

In addition to key industries related to national economy and people's livelihood, Ren Zhong is clear that development must rely on the power of the market. Only in this way can vitality be stimulated and the vast majority of people's livelihood needs be met.

Whether it is food, clothing, housing and transportation or some spiritual needs of the people after solving the problem of food and clothing.

Newspapers, radio, and, in the future, television and movies.

These fields need a large number of enterprises to participate in order to become active. Of course, they cannot develop in an unorderly manner, and necessary regulations must be in place, but this may be a headache for the management department.

Ren Zhong cannot take charge of everything, but when bad signs appear, he can still bring some solutions from the main world. Even though he has no responsibilities and is just staying at the Dawn Research Institute, he still has a lot of say. This is the huge influence that Ren Zhong has accumulated over time, and no one can deny it.

Of course, there is no compulsory promotion capability, which sometimes causes trouble to people.

For example, railway locomotives.

Ren Zhong lowered his head and thought carefully for a while. He raised his head and said to Staff Officer Ye, "Since some people have jumped out, it seems that our plan A can't wait. I think we should just implement plan B and directly import an internal combustion engine locomotive. We don't have to go for full self-development, we can just digest and absorb it."

Originally according to Ren Zhong's plan, the proportion of locomotives in the railway mileage is already high enough, with an average of one locomotive for every few kilometers. He originally planned to build 5 kilometers in five years, and use the current locomotives in the first two years. If the railway travels an additional 5 kilometers, the density of locomotives will not be too seriously diluted, and it will be enough if the dispatching work is done well.

Then, when the internal combustion locomotives developed by the company are ready, the large-scale replacement of steam locomotives will begin. Compared with steam locomotives, internal combustion locomotives are much more efficient and can carry more cargo with fewer locomotives.

For example, some old steam locomotives still run at a low speed of 40 kilometers per hour. Obviously, the transportation efficiency is completely different from that of diesel locomotives, which start at 60 kilometers per hour and can normally reach a speed of 80 kilometers per hour.

According to the self-developed plan, the design of the internal combustion locomotive is based on the current tank engine. From a broad technical perspective, there are difficulties, but they are not insurmountable. Now that the GAA engine has been optimized and improved, it will not be a problem to break through 800 horsepower. If the 12-cylinder water-cooled V-type engine is greatly improved, the maximum output power can reach 1500 horsepower.

This tank engine, which was derived from a 12-cylinder aircraft engine, has a maximum output of 1560 horsepower. After iterative evolution, this technology route can keep up with the world level.

But now it seems that the progress is still a bit slow.

It is necessary to overcome the two difficulties of engine upgrade and iteration and locomotive design at the same time. Some basic work has to take time to complete from a fresh start, which delays the overall progress.

Of course, there is another problem, that is, this model is a gasoline engine, which is somewhat incompatible with the internal combustion engine locomotive that Ren Zhong remembers was mainly based on diesel engines.

Therefore, when the plan was originally formulated, there was a Plan B as a supplement, and it is not difficult to understand why they considered introducing an internal combustion engine head.

"Is there anything we need to pay attention to if we switch to Plan B?" asked Staff Officer Ye. After all, he knew very well that since it was Plan B, it was a spare tire and was more or less worse than Plan A. Now that it was forced to be changed, there must be some problems.

"Of course, we have actually already researched the introduction of diesel locomotives. According to our plan B, we originally chose a diesel locomotive with more advanced technology, but there were several difficulties.

The first difficulty is the high cost of technology transfer. The initial inquiry asked us for 2000 million US dollars. After evaluation, we felt that it was too expensive. We can save a lot of money by doing it ourselves. On the other hand, we also considered cultivating our own technical strength. Our team originally believed that we could iterate on tank power and complete the design of the first generation of gasoline internal combustion engines. Once our diesel engine technology is developed, we will switch to the second generation of diesel-powered internal combustion engines.

The second difficulty is that there are some problems with the import license of this technology. According to our previous research, we are considering importing the E5 diesel locomotive technology of the Rogue Eagle. This technology is somewhat sensitive and can be regarded as a relatively advanced technology at this stage. It needs to be approved by the Rogue Eagle Congress, and according to our initial inquiries, this hurdle is not easy to pass.

If we really want to consider importing, we have to find some resources, such as asking Staff Officer Ye to go to General Shi to mediate. After all, in addition to this internal combustion locomotive technology, we are also preparing to introduce another set of chemical technology and equipment, namely 5 tons of synthetic ammonia technology and complete equipment, to build a domestic backbone fertilizer factory. "Ren Zhong said.

After that, he went into the house and pulled out the documents for Plan B. He chose the Rogue Eagle E5 diesel locomotive, the famous dog-head train!
This is a diesel locomotive developed by EMC/EMD in 1940. It uses diesel power and uses EMD twin V12-cylinder 567 diesel engines with a maximum speed of 800 rpm and a total output of 2000 horsepower. Each locomotive is equipped with two engines. The maximum speed of the driven train can reach 100 miles per hour (160 kilometers). For the railways currently built in the plains, it is completely possible to open high-speed trains with a speed of 100 kilometers per hour.

Pictures of the famous "Dog Head" train

Compared with steam locomotives, diesel locomotives have a simpler structure and smaller size, are easier to maintain, and can be started even faster. It takes one or two hours for a steam locomotive to warm up, but a diesel locomotive can be ready to take off in just 5 minutes!
For the railway, steam locomotives need to add water and coal. Obviously, for the railway transportation that Longguo urgently needs to develop, these shortcomings can be tolerated if there are no diesel locomotives. However, after comparing the advantages of diesel locomotives, this is almost unforgivable for Ren Zhong. It is a typical product that is outdated as soon as it is built, and it will take more than 20 years to digest it. It is not worth the loss.

This is a long-term product with a long lifespan, not a daily consumable. In terms of model selection, Ren Zhong has a deep understanding of this development trend. How could he waste twenty years on this?
Those private capitals are flirting with foreign capitals and are determined to hit a wall. Let them experience the consequences of taking the wrong technical route. By the time the Power Research Institute develops the internal combustion locomotive, they won't even be able to find much of a market for replacements in China.

After all, domestic procurement in this kind of national livelihood industry is calculated by inquiry, and it is difficult to calculate the total account of steam locomotive operations better than that of diesel locomotives, especially in this era when oil prices have not yet risen.

The A5A bogie structure of the E1 diesel locomotive is relatively simple, and compared with the centipede-like front design of similar products, it is much simpler to produce and use.

However, this model is still the flagship locomotive of the Rogue Eagle EMC company. If it is to be introduced, it will inevitably be cut.

After all, a locomotive now costs about 60 US dollars, and the market for 2 units means 12 billion US dollars. The capitalists of Rogue Eagle are not good people and are unwilling to give up such profits easily.

If the price had not been too high before, Ren Zhong would have introduced and digested it long ago.

After all, he doesn't have any moral habits, and he doesn't feel good until he has researched everything by himself. The most important goal of development at this stage is to be able to do these things cheaply and quickly. Of course, the autonomy of technology must be maintained, so he requires the other party to develop all the technologies so that he can iterate on this basis!
Even if the second export requires paying patent fees again, Ren Zhong can accept it.

If it can be developed through digestion and absorption, then a team can be trained. Even if the internal combustion engines currently produced have to pay some tuition fees for export, after more than ten years, Ren Zhong will be able to seize the initiative in the replacement of electric locomotives and fully realize overtaking on the curve.

Ren Zhong certainly would not tell anyone else about these plans. For most people, they had no idea in which direction the train was heading.

The price and approval aspects are not ideal, so Ren Zhong’s only choice is to rely on his own Plan A.

Now that we are forced to speed up, we can only ask General Shi to mediate.

You should know that General Shi and Staff Officer Ye have a deep friendship. In addition to their close cooperation in fighting the Japanese devils, the two have established a relationship of trust. Ren Zhong has other causes and conditions with General Shi. He learned from the main world that General Shi had a serious illness, so he found a national expert in traditional Chinese medicine for him. Through the relationship with Staff Officer Ye, he specifically diagnosed General Shi's pulse and prescribed medicine. The Chinese medicine greatly alleviated General Shi's illness, allowing this rogue Eagle General, who was originally friendly to the border area, to continue to play a certain role as a bridge of communication.

When Ren Zhong first took the lead in making the introduction plan, he was scared off by the price that Mr. Chen and his team asked for.

2000 million US dollars is a truly sky-high price in this era!

You have to know that a locomotive costs 60 US dollars. This huge sum of money can directly buy more than 30 locomotives. In the minds of most people, if they really want to buy one, it is more cost-effective to buy a few and imitate them by themselves.

But in this world, Ren Zhong has registered many heavyweight patents in Rogue Eagle, such as penicillin and transistors. If he follows this mindless imitation idea, his own patents will be ruined.

The current sales of transistor products are worth hundreds of millions of dollars a year, for radios alone. After the transistor computer came out, the market has not yet been opened up. Technically, this is the most advanced computer currently, but Ren Zhong is still only using it domestically and has not exported it abroad.

Therefore, it is not appropriate to simply copy the product for civilian use. We still have to play by the rules. The previous technical exchange with Rogue Eagle has established a certain commercial trust between the two parties, which needs to be retained.

Today's foreign relations are basically maintained by commodity trade.

In addition, Ren Zhong will launch more new technologies in the future. If others copy us, the losses we will suffer will be greater than those of the Rogue Eagle.

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