Traveling through the sword to engage in military industry.

Chapter 31 The beginning of business expansion (seeking follow-up reading)
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A smile appeared on Ren Zhong's face, but it quickly disappeared and he turned back.

By taking advantage of the scrap metal market, Ren Zhong finally managed to purchase copper plates of uncertain use.

Based on his ability to sell goods, Ren Zhong signed a two-year long-term ordering contract with the scrap metal recycling shop after careful negotiations.

In the next two years, Ren Zhong guaranteed to purchase one ton of brass plates every month. The contract stipulated that payment would be made upon delivery. The supplier would cut the large copper plates into small copper plates of 20CM*50CM that were suitable for carrying. Then Ren Zhong would use the Wuling Magic Car to directly pull them to the rented farmyard. A mere one ton was no pressure at all for the Wuling Magic Car.

With the help of this contract, Ren Zhong also finalized a purchase agreement for another metal, nickel plates, at a price of RMB 13 per ton. He would purchase 1 ton every quarter, with an agreed purchase of at least 8 tons.

Unexpectedly, the young boss made an extra big deal. He negotiated a deal worth more than 2 million yuan with Ren Zhong and wanted to treat this big customer, Ren Zhong, to a meal.

For Ren Zhong, it also means that he has found a basically unrestricted channel for purchasing metals. In the scrap market, tens of thousands of tons of various metals are shipped each year, so Ren Zhong's purchase of just a few dozen tons will not be noticed at all.

"Mr. Ren, I've reached an agreement with Teacher Li to provide detailed 3D design drawings of a product for 8 yuan. They're in SW format and have the same structure as the real product. However, she can only provide exploded views of each part, not the complete assembly view." When Ren Zhong was on his way back to the city, Zhao Lidong called to report the latest progress.

"As for the production site, there seems to be no restrictions in Luzon. If you don't have any special arrangements here, I plan to go to Luzon for an on-site inspection."

"No problem, Brother Dong, you take care of it. I hope to make the product as soon as possible." Ren Zhong was quite satisfied with Zhao Lidong's progress. "The MG3 machine gun is also very popular. We should find a way to obtain its design information for this airdrop gun and replicate it together with the SKS."

The MG3 general-purpose machine gun, its predecessor is the famous MG42 general-purpose machine gun, which can be called a legendary machine gun in World War II and is far from comparable to the Japanese Type 92 heavy machine gun.

MG3口径由MG42的7.92毫米改为7.62毫米、发射北约7.62毫米制式子弹。

其全枪空重10.5千克、全枪含两脚架11.5千克、枪长1225毫米、枪管长度566毫米、枪口速度820米/秒、实际射速250发/分钟、弹匣容量50/100/120发、射程1200米，具有出色的杀伤力和射程。

If Li Yunlong's New 54st Regiment had such machine guns, leaving aside the artillery, it would be a direct devastating blow to the Japanese battalion-level infantry!

Actually, this number is not that large. The new regiment has 3 battalions and 9 infantry companies, and each infantry company has only 6 machine guns, which have not yet been popularized to the squad.

However, with the current logistical level of the Eighth Route Army, even if they can be equipped with so many machine guns, they cannot afford the supply of bullets. The basic quantity of a general-purpose machine gun is 4500 rounds. Even if you ask Zhang Wanhe to sell himself, he still cannot get so much ammunition.

Even if we calculate based on the minimum of 800 rounds per machine gun, a regiment would need more than 4 machine gun bullets. How would the Eighth Route Army fare when they only had 5 bullets per person per battle?

Therefore, even if the number is reduced by half, each infantry platoon will be thankful to have one general-purpose machine gun. Ren Zhong asked Zhao Lidong to include the MG1 in the replica category, mainly to customize it for Li Yunlong's independent regiment. With such a good general-purpose machine gun, as long as the shortage of bullets can be solved and the artillery can popularize 3mm mortars and 81mm mortars to battalions and companies respectively, the independent regiment will not have such a hard time directly going to steel a small Japanese regiment.

But there is still a long way to go, and Ren Zhong has not even figured out how to produce sulfuric acid.

However, after Ren Zhong's research, he basically found a channel to purchase sulfuric acid, which is to set up a lead-acid battery assembly plant. Taking advantage of the current popularity of electric bicycles, lead-acid battery factories are also everywhere. Ren Zhong plans to find a micro lead-acid battery manufacturer to acquire, which will be able to perfectly solve the problem of purchasing sulfuric acid.

At the same time, the manufacturing technology of lead-acid batteries is also a technology that is urgently needed in the Liangjian plane. When Ren Zhong solves the problem of weapons, the problems of electricity and communications will become prominent.

Mechanical processing cannot avoid the supply of electricity, and the operation of communication equipment is even more inseparable from electricity.

Looking at the rapidly increasing technical requirements on the computer list, Ren Zhong couldn't help but sigh. It was really too difficult. There were too many problems that needed to be solved for one person to accomplish a systematic task.

No sooner had I solved a problem than more problems came up.

However, this is the path Ren Zhong has chosen, and now he has to keep going even if he has to kneel.

"Mr. Yang, I heard that your Lisai battery is for sale. I wonder if the news is true?" After running around the scrap market, Ren Zhong ran to a lead-acid battery manufacturer that had posted online that it was for sale.

"Where did you get this information?" Yang Deming, boss of Lisai Battery, asked hesitantly as he looked at Ren Zhong's young face.

"Mr. Yang, I don't think this is important? If Mr. Yang is interested in selling the factory, then we can discuss the factory transfer. To be honest, Mr. Yang, I am interested in acquiring a lead-acid battery company to enter the electric vehicle battery market." Ren Zhong knew why the other party was hesitant. "Mr. Yang, let me introduce myself. My name is Ren Zhong, Ren means responsibility, and Zhong means important. I am serious about acquiring companies. I have prepared the money. If the price is right, we can reach a deal quickly."

Ren Zhong had already learned about the situation of Lisai Battery in advance. In the lead-acid battery industry, this is a typical small and micro enterprise. The annual output of its lead-acid batteries for electric vehicles cannot even reach 5, and the basic break-even point is difficult to achieve. Generally speaking, in this industry, it is almost impossible to break even without a production and sales volume of .

"Mr. Ren, to be honest, I do want to transfer Lisi, but in terms of price, I hope to transfer it in the form of net assets." Yang Deming thought that there seemed to be no harm in talking about it, and finally adjusted his mindset and entered the negotiation mode.

"Today, Lisai has about 120 million in inventory, 340 million in plant and machinery, plus some other assets. I hope the transfer price is 500 million."

"Mr. Yang, I don't have too many problems with the principle of net asset transfer, but how much is the company worth now? I want to see a financial statement, as well as a comparison table of property lists and physical objects. We can ask an accounting firm to conduct a fair assessment later. What do you think?"

(End of this chapter)