Traveling through the sword to engage in military industry.

The second generation fighter aircraft issue has been resolved.

Return to the main world.

Ren Zhong is discussing new product development with Liang Xiaofeng of Yunlong Automobile in Jincheng.

"Are we going to use carbon fiber on our Bobcat ATV?" Liang Xiaofeng was a little surprised when he heard Ren Zhong's idea. "Carbon fiber is a bit redundant on our cars, which offsets our obvious cost-performance advantage."

The sales of Lynx in Black Africa are quite good now. As we all know, there is not much difference between many roads in Black Africa with and without repair. In the hometown of Colonel Kada in North Africa, it is now a busy time. As a new vehicle with good quality and low price, Lynx that costs more than 10 is selling like hot cakes.

Pickup trucks with similar functions, such as the Toyota Tundra, were once very popular and were essential vehicles for North African guerrillas. However, after the advent of the Lynx, which can adapt to a wider range of terrains, has stronger capabilities but is cheaper, the Toyota Tundra immediately became a thing of the past and is not as cost-effective as the Lynx.

Nigeria's Yunlong assembles tens of thousands of these vehicles a year, making it a small hit.

Liang Xiaofeng didn't know why Ren Zhong was still bothering with this. You know, carbon fiber is much more expensive than steel. The carbon fiber that can be used on the car body is 4-5 times more expensive. If a car body is made entirely of carbon fiber, it may cost 5 to 6 yuan! If a car body is made of steel, the cost of a car body is about 1 yuan.

This means the cost is 4 to 5 yuan more expensive.

In Liang Xiaofeng's mind, doing so is not worth the cost.

The Bobcat has lost its cost-effectiveness advantage.

"Lao Liang, you should be more ambitious." Ren Zhong smiled and did not directly refute, "Look, our Bobcat is selling well now, but have you ever thought that it is still a low-end product now, and it is difficult for us to have a chance to break through the brand, right?"

"You see, we are now focusing on the guerrilla market, which seems to be quite good, but these markets themselves are not stable, and the replacement will not be fast. After all, the guerrillas don't have much surplus to constantly replace vehicles."

"If we want to make our products high-end, we must eventually take the path of differentiation, right? How can we achieve this differentiation? Can we optimize the product in terms of the main structure? Whether it is 4 wheels, 6 wheels or 8 wheels, we can increase the number of tires and increase the vehicle's load capacity and passing ability."

"But what do ordinary consumers need? When they buy a car, they don't just want practical functions. If they want practicality, then they can just buy our Yunlong agricultural vehicle. It is durable and can withstand overloading. It is truly a beast of burden."

"But for real individual consumers, what they may need is a car that has both internal strength and external style and soul."

"We have to satisfy their desire for high-end. Engine displacement is one factor, interior modification is another, and the body gimmick is also a very important consideration."

Ren Zhong spoke eloquently, having studied these things thoroughly long ago, so his explanations sounded completely logical.

"Many internationally renowned sports cars use carbon fiber to reduce weight. The concept of carbon fiber cars is equivalent to a high-end concept, so we have to introduce carbon fiber to make the body and ensure that there is enough gimmick to enhance our brand value and product prices."

"The Lynx will still maintain its original production method, but after the carbon fiber and interior upgrades, we will change the new model to a new one called the Lynx Luxury All-Terrain Vehicle. The price will increase by 5 yuan. In the 20-30 yuan market, we will compete with the Touyuta Tundra. I think we have a great chance to replace it."

"It feels a bit unreliable, but you are the boss and you have the final say. Anyway, we now have a car model that can afford to fail." Liang Xiaofeng didn't quite agree with this, but he didn't object either.

Anyway, he still has the awareness of a worker. Ren Zhong owns the major shares of this company. As long as what the boss says is not too outrageous, he will do it!
But soon, Liang Xiaofeng felt that Ren Zhong’s determination was not to simply make a carbon fiber body, but to make the carbon fiber himself starting from the front-end materials!
They directly found the Coal Chemistry Institute of Shanxi Province and bought the polyacrylonitrile-based hollow carbon fiber production technology, invested hundreds of millions of yuan to build a new carbon fiber factory, and spent hundreds of millions of yuan every year to give this institute to overcome the difficulties of new carbon fiber technology.

Since Ren Zhong did not seek exclusive rights to intellectual property rights in the main world, their R&D cooperation was warmly welcomed by the institute, which authorized its T300, T700 and T800 carbon fiber product production processes to Yunlong New Materials under Ren Zhong.

In addition, a team of experts was sent to help Ren Zhong with the construction and commissioning of the factory production line of Yunlong New Materials. Ren Zhong recorded all these things and digitized the complete set of information to obtain a complete set of production process technology information.

According to Ren Zhong's plan for Yunlong New Materials, first of all, through orders from Yunlong Automobile, Yunlong New Materials can get material orders worth over 100 million yuan from Yunlong Automobile every year for the production of Civet all-terrain vehicles.

At the same time, after Yunlong New Materials went into mass production, the sales team began to enter other carbon fiber production and application markets. Since Ren Zhong's goal was to achieve the development of this technology, the sales price of Yunlong carbon fiber was relatively favorable. The sales team could rely on its excellent cost-performance ratio to attack the bicycle, golf and other automobile companies markets. On the one hand, it is the low price, and on the other hand, relying on the golden signboard of the Coal Chemistry Institute, Ren Zhong expects that Yunlong New Materials will not be weak in competitiveness. After entering the mass production period, Yunlong New Materials has great hope of continuously winning new orders.

According to this development trend, Ren Zhong feels that it won't be long before Yunlong New Materials, once the sales volume reaches 3 to 5 million yuan, may be able to break even again, if the nearly 2 million yuan of capital invested in R&D and intellectual property procurement is not counted.

Anyway, Ren Zhong could afford this amount of money, so when selling products, Ren Zhong did not consider amortizing R&D expenses, but mainly deduced sales costs based on production and sales of products, which increased competitiveness immediately. The technology now available is mature T300, T700 and T800 carbon fiber products, which have been developed in the main world for many years and have opened up a relatively wide market. It is not difficult for the new Yunlong New Materials to promote samples.

However, these things on the sales side are all later. The important thing is that Ren Zhong is not making money for the main world, but after getting the carbon fiber technology, he has improved the carbon fiber technology of Dongda in the Liangjian world by decades! He took the lead in applying it in aerospace and strived for the technological advantage of aerospace products.

After obtaining the technology from the main world, the Dawn New Materials of the Bright Sword World soon emerged. According to the production line equipment of the main world, several identical production lines were rebuilt in the Bright Sword World to prepare for large-scale mass production!

This time, they did not apply for many patents for specific processes, and kept the technical details of the carbon fiber production process strictly confidential. The factory was set up as a first-level confidentiality unit, and all of them were located near the refinery in the 51st Industrial Zone of Laobian District, which is very safe, to ensure that the technology would not spread at all.

Only a few vague technical patents were given. Ren Zhong did not intend to announce the introduction of this major technology to the main world so quickly to give his competitors ideas. He carefully studied the development rhythm of the main world and listed several key technologies that the opponent might break through, such as the preparation technology of high-performance rayon-based carbon fibers invented by scientists at the Parmar Technology Center in 1959. In addition, in 1960, Bacon discovered graphite whiskers, and in 1961, Shindo Akio of the Japan Advanced Industrial Science and Technology Research Institute obtained a preparation process for PAN-based carbon fibers with a modulus of 140GPa in the laboratory. He applied for patents first.

Although these patents have some inspirational significance, as basic patents for carbon fiber, the feasibility of practical operation is very low, and there is no possibility of commercial industrial production in the short term. These patents, together with the acrylonitrile precursor technology patent that was registered early, form a solid moat for carbon fiber patents! This combination at least protects Dongda's 20-year priority right to carbon fiber products.

Therefore, for Ren Zhong, the actions in the carbon fiber world are all deceptions to pave the way for him to acquire real technology. Ren Zhong doesn’t really care whether Yunlong New Materials makes money or loses money in the future. What he really wants to do is to promote the application of carbon fiber technology in the world of Liang Jian!
The first to be affected is its application in aerospace at Southeast University.

If qualified carbon fiber is available, carbon fiber composite seats are 35% lighter than ordinary aluminum seats. In addition, by replacing aluminum alloy on the wings, large-scale use of carbon fiber composite materials on the CAC-120 can reduce the weight of the CAC-120J by about 2000 kilograms on the existing basis. If this part of the weight loss is converted into fuel, it can almost extend the flight time by one hour, which is a range of more than 800 kilometers.

This means that the CAC-120's maximum range can be easily pushed to 3800 kilometers, basically without making any design changes, and it can easily cross the 3500-kilometer range. This provides a new starting point for future modifications and optimizations of this passenger aircraft.

If the wing layout is adjusted and the area is expanded, the CAC-120 can be easily upgraded to a larger model with 150 seats based on the existing aircraft engines! After all, based on the average passenger weight of 90 kg, adding 30 passengers means an increase of about 3 tons of load capacity. Proper adjustments to the wing layout and take-off and landing equipment structure can meet the requirements of the new model.

This is the biggest motivation for Ren Zhong to invest heavily in the main world to acquire the mature T700 and T800 aviation-grade carbon fiber production technology.

It not only solves the technical reserve for the next upgrade of passenger aircraft, but also creates new conditions for the further optimization of the new J-9 fighter and Q-9 attack aircraft. Based on the calculation of replacing 30% of materials, the weight of these two fighters will be further reduced by about 10%, which can carry more fuel to increase the range, or further increase the weapon mounts to enhance the strike capability of the fighters.

This technology is crucial to the next development of the aviation industry.

The impact is not just on airplanes, the impact on rockets is even greater. Every 1 kg reduction in the weight of the spacecraft can reduce the weight of the carrier rocket by 500 kg, which is a huge change.

It can provide unlimited possibilities for further improvement of space launches and long-range ballistic missiles!
In the Overworld, the price of regular carbon fiber ranges from approximately $30 to $150 per kilogram, while high-performance carbon fiber can cost as much as $1200.

This is because the production of Overworld carbon fiber is expensive for three main reasons:
1.原料昂贵：现代碳纤维原料主要来源于高分子有机化合物和石油提取物。一般情况下，2-2.2吨原丝只需燃烧1吨碳纤维，成本约为4-6万吨，是钢材的4-5倍。

25. Expensive electricity: The processing technology of carbon fiber is mainly heat treatment, which requires a lot of electricity. The electricity fee accounts for 30%-% of the production cost of carbon fiber, which is a veritable large electricity consumer.

3. Expensive process: As it is a multidisciplinary product, the R&D cost of carbon fiber is extremely high, and various chemical catalytic reactions are also involved in the production process. The entire process is long and complicated. As a high-tech product, many companies have strict protection measures for their own processes and formulas. It can be said that the entry threshold is quite high.

However, for Ren Zhong's foundation in the world of Bright Sword, these reasons can be greatly alleviated. First of all, the raw materials are made by himself, and the raw silk has been mass-produced several years ago. The cost is too different from that of the main world.

Secondly, in terms of electricity costs, coal in the main world is much more expensive than in the Bright Sword world. The coal in the Bright Sword world does not go through the middlemen of the coal bosses to make a profit. In addition, the labor and transportation costs in the Bright Sword world are much lower than those in the main world, and there is no tax impact from the middle links such as mineral mining tax. A ton of coal is now less than 100 yuan. Although the current coal-fired power generation efficiency is much lower than that of the main world, it takes 400 grams of coal to generate one kilowatt-hour of electricity, which is far from the current level of less than 300 grams in the main world. However, after converting the cost, the coal consumption per kilowatt-hour is only 4 cents, and the cost of coal-fired power is only 1 cents after adding all the costs.

In addition, the cost of power transmission and transformation will not exceed 3 cents, which is much lower than the daily cost in the main world, so the cost of electricity will be reduced a lot.

In terms of investment in process equipment, the prices in the Bright Sword world are much lower than those in the main world, especially real estate costs. Now the Bright Sword world supplies land at zero cost, so the cost of building a factory is less than a quarter of that in the main world!
In addition, the main world does not have any hidden costs such as patent fee amortization, so the cost of carbon fiber in the Bright Sword world can be reduced to about one-third of that in the main world.

In this way, even if carbon fiber is used on a large scale, the cost increase for large items such as passenger aircraft and rockets is controllable. According to the calculation based on the full adoption of CAC-120 passenger aircraft, more than 3000 kilograms will be used, and the increased cost will be about 15 US dollars.

But the performance gain is more than enough to offset the price.

Of course, for the A300 cooperation project, the price of this carbon fiber is not the 15 US dollars sold locally. It has to be at least doubled. Anyway, the A300 project cooperation is a two-assembly center model. If it is a component that both parties can produce, then they will each establish a procurement supply chain, as long as the costs on both sides are roughly the same.

Although this loose cooperation has increased costs, it is still the best solution for the time being. (End of this chapter)