Traveling through the sword to engage in military industry.

Chapter 310 Everyone has something to gain

"The DC-10000K with a computing speed of 10 times has an export price of 30 US dollars, and the DC-20000K with a computing speed of 20 times has an export price of 100 million US dollars. As for our current top transistor minicomputer MC-360, our current cost price is as high as 2000 million US dollars. This is a special product, and we need to limit its use. With the assistance of our after-sales service engineers, it can be used for teaching, meteorological calculations and other civil and scientific research. Only if you agree to this clause of ours, this minicomputer will be allowed to be exported, and each unit must apply for a separate export license, specifying the specific installation address. In terms of price, the ex-factory price is not less than 3000 million US dollars."

"As for how much it sells for in Rogue Eagle and other countries, we don't care, but our service engineers calculate the service fee on a daily basis, $1000 per person per day."

Facing Amos, the representative of Rogue Eagle Commercial Machines, Anke, the head of Dawn Computer Company, listed the conditions one by one.

Of course, the basic terms had already been discussed before this, and today Amos was here to sign the contract.

Expensive, it’s really expensive!

The DC-10K is about the size of an office desk and is sold for $30. You can imagine the profit.

But there is no other way. The most powerful electronic tube computer ENIAC is as big as a room and weighs more than 30 tons. It costs 48 US dollars to build. It consumes 150 degrees of electricity per hour and has a computing performance of only 5000 times. Moreover, after it is turned on, it uses many electronic tubes, so its reliability is hard to describe. I am afraid that half a year is spent on repairing and checking for faults. Even so, the military regarded this computer as a treasure and wanted to increase the budget for a few more.

However, there is no need to develop this thing now. One DC-10K is at least equivalent to 5 ENIACs!
More importantly, the DC-10K and DC-20K have no limited uses, and for the Rogue Hawk, the value of these two computers is more important than their price.

Amos signed this high-priced product sales strategy agreement with great reluctance.

But I don’t think I’ve suffered any loss at all.

Selling it at double the price is just basic operation. This is the discount for the Rogue Eagle only for military use. If it is purchased by civilians, the price must be at least doubled!
Otherwise, how could Amos fulfill his promise to the congressmen on the Export Approval Committee?

In order to build a five-star hotel in Miami, provide employment for hundreds of people and enhance the competitive attractiveness of the tourism industry, these are the problems that the business machine behind Amos needs to solve.

Although opening a hotel in Miami seems to be a good business, with the post-war recovery, people's enthusiasm for travel and ability to pay for travel will continue to increase, but it cannot stop the construction of a new five-star hotel, which will cost a lot of US dollars.

Thoughts flashed through his mind, and after listening to the entire introduction of the agreement, Amos picked up the pen and signed his name to the agreement.

"Mr. Anke, there is no problem with these agreements. Next, let us work together for the successful implementation of this agreement!"

After signing, Amos smiled and said to Anke, "To celebrate our successful cooperation, we are holding a party tonight. I hope Mr. Anke, the leaders of the relevant departments, and your colleagues will come and celebrate together!"

Almost at the same time, the signing ceremony for the introduction of E5 diesel locomotive and 5-ton synthetic ammonia equipment technology was also carried out in other places.

The price for introducing the E5 diesel locomotive technology was locked at US$2000 million, and this price could not be bargained because it was a one-time deal, including the subsequent patent fees for the 567 diesel engine.

A set of equipment for 5 tons of synthetic ammonia costs US$800 million. Six sets were purchased directly, including the transfer of process technology. This is a relatively reasonable price.

Expensive, this is really expensive!

好在晶体管计算机很快就回血一波，商用机器一下子订购了100台DC-10K和50台DC-20K，同时还申请了2台MC-360小型机，算是大大回血。

Most of the remaining foreign exchange was in the product library of the Rogue Hawk after the war. A batch of second-hand materials were bought at high prices. 200 million US dollars were used to buy 47 second-hand C-100 transport aircraft, 3 million US dollars were used to buy 2 second-hand DC-47 passenger aircraft, and 3 million US dollars were used to buy 20 second-hand Fletcher destroyers. Although C- and DC- can be produced in China, the production capacity is too small, less than per year, which is completely unable to meet the current domestic rapid transportation needs.

Although the C-47 transport aircraft has a poor user experience, it is in short supply on domestic routes with less than 30 aircraft currently in service. So after having the opportunity to make a big deal this time, Ren Zhong presided over this wave of large purchases, which directly led to a leapfrog development of the air transportation industry.

Because the C-47 transport aircraft and DC-3 have a complete operation and maintenance system in China, even the spare parts will be supplied domestically in the future, and they will not rely on foreign operation and maintenance services at all.

But the Rogue Eagle was also ruthless enough. It purchased a C-8.5 transport plane for US$47 and sold it back for US$7.5 second-hand. It also sold a DC-10 for US$3 without any discount and sold it back at the original price!
The same is true for the Fletcher destroyer, but it's because the seller has said so, and there is only one case of this.

Especially the destroyer. When Ren Zhong proposed it, he didn't think it could be done. However, they had too many Rogue Eagles in stock, and Fletcher was nothing in their arsenal. Coupled with General Shi's influence, the purchase of the destroyer was not difficult.

Even the Rogue Eagle promoted the Baltimore-class cruiser! You can take it away for 4000 million US dollars! But for this thing, Ren Zhong did not spend money in vain. The Fletcher destroyer was bought for the Ship Research Institute to use as an actual sample for research and to train the first batch of navy.

After all, we didn’t get any good ships before, and the navy is now too weak to be considered.

However, Ren Zhong actually did not have any interest in these old-style cruisers or even battleships, because in his plan, strong ships and powerful guns were already outdated, and now it was time to enter the era of missile ships.

The maturity of transistor technology has allowed radar guidance technology to gradually mature.

Missile errors will no longer be calculated based on ranges above 100 meters.

After a large-scale purchase, Ren Zhong used the rest to buy various precision products such as instruments and meters that are still in short supply in the country, including some key power equipment such as 110kV power transformers.

A technology introduction agreement was turned into a huge large-scale transaction opportunity.

Although Rogue Eagle did not lose anything in this transaction, the introduction of transistor computers allowed them to enter the transistor computer era and solved some of their most urgent problems, and the cost of these things was just selling a bunch of excess technology and materials.

In particular, the performance and reliability of the computers they purchased far exceeded their current vacuum tube computers and the first generation of transistor computers under development, which solved their urgent needs.

At the same time, the Rogue Eagle middlemen also make a considerable profit from the price difference, making everything seem so good.

However, the Elk Steam Locomotive Company was a little unhappy. They had finally hooked up with a group of middlemen from Long Country and were preparing to make a big splash in the railway industry. But now with the introduction of the E5 diesel locomotive, their technological disadvantage became extremely obvious.

However, the domestic investors were not aware of this and they began to invest and set up factories with great enthusiasm.

They were delighted that they had obtained the operating rights for three branch railway lines with a total length of about 3 kilometers, and believed that this was a huge step forward for them.

Frankly speaking, the three branch lines they obtained, one in the Northeast, one in North China, and one in Huainan, if they work hard for more than ten years, these places will develop with each passing day, and the freight and passenger sources are relatively active areas in the local province. If they are careful with their calculations, there may be opportunities for profit.

According to the latest railway transportation prices, it is still very likely to recover the investment in 20 years. However, for capital, this profit recovery space is obviously too long.

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