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Chapter 478: Chapter 389: Industrial Town (Please Subscribe!)_1
He hung up the phone.
Wangsa immediately rushed back to Xin’an Town.
Though it took nearly an hour to get there and back, he wasn’t walking, so despite the inconvenience, it wasn’t tiring.
At this moment, he was feeling quite excited. Wangsa had no interest in being a soldier, but he had a great passion for making money. However, his family wouldn’t allow him to be so ’willful’, so he had to continue wearing this uniform. Now, he could make money and be a soldier without any conflicts.
If he could continuously get high-quality and reasonably priced mobile phones from this place, the profit from flipping them would be substantial. At seventy US dollars apiece, he could easily sell them for a hundred US dollars each. Selling ten thousand pieces could net him a profit of three hundred thousand dollars, and selling a hundred thousand could make him three million dollars. The mere thought was so exhilarating it could even rival the total profit from his other businesses.
He returned to the familiar conference room.
Wangsa’s mentality was different this time.
"Leader Ling, our family agrees to this transaction. We want to place an order for ten thousand mobile phones first, fully assembled, to try out the market. When can you provide them?" Wangsa asked.
His father had already set the tone—they would not operate the mobile phone business themselves but instead would take a share of the profits. The Clay family was a powerful, decades-old political family in Thailand. In this era, might was right. Therefore, while they certainly weren’t afraid of them, there was also no need to confront them directly.
He recalled that one of his cousins was about to marry a direct descendant of the Clay family, and he understood his father’s intentions. This was indeed a suitable gift.
This arrangement wasn’t bad either. The flip-style business was simple, and it also brought a powerful umbrella into the picture. This way, his family wouldn’t have to bear the trade risk alone.
"Officer Wangsa, if you’re ordering ten thousand units, it will probably take a month before we can provide all of them. After all, we need to build the assembly factory and train the employees, which will take almost half a month. As for assembling ten thousand mobile phones, that’s not difficult," Ling replied.
As long as they built quickly and had sufficient materials, it was not too difficult to construct the factory and install the equipment within this timeframe. Since they were just starting, everything had to be done fast. All the factories would not be multi-storey concrete buildings, but would instead be simple steel structure assembly factories.
They just needed to prepare the foundation, erect the pillars, and weld them all together.
Tang Qing had planned to find a new plot of land to build a modern factory and establish a new industrial town.
Although many equipment and parts had usage restrictions and environmental limitations, the scientists wouldn’t be idle over this month. Their job was to propose solutions under the existing technological conditions.
So, Tang Qing consulted with Tang Yi, asking how long it would take to achieve industrial production of mobile phone parts under such conditions. Tang Yi gave a timeframe of a month and a half. Tang Qing then directly allocated two hundred million RMB of his own money to exchange for twenty additional scientists, which reduced the estimated time to a little over half a month.
He couldn’t afford any more than that. He still had over six hundred million RMB left, and he planned to engage in currency arbitrage with it.
Therefore, supplying the final product within a month was not too difficult.
Hearing this,
Wangsa was visibly surprised. To be able to form stable production capacity in just one month was faster than he had anticipated. Could this really be entirely assembly-based?
But he didn’t want to seem inexperienced, so he put on a poker face and said, "Well then, Leader Ling, if all the mobile phones are of this quality, we agree to the factory price of seventy US dollars." This price was basically a giveaway, and Wangsa, not being a pure businessman and having a soldier’s boldness, didn’t bargain.
There was also an element of sympathy for the ’underdog’. Yes, sympathy. In his view, for such a small and broken place to get these parts, they must have paid a substantial price. They relied on Asia Dollars to ’sustain themselves’ and were very ’poor’, evoking a bit of ’compassion’ in him.
"No problem, we will provide the ten thousand mobile phones on time. Officer Wangsa, we have prepared all the card reading equipment for you. We have also set up our trade settlement bank account. Here is your bank card, specifically for trade settlement. For the sake of convenience, the money in it can only be deposited and checked, not withdrawn. At the end of the month, you can check your accounts using your invoices," Ling handed over a differently colored bank card, and as for the equipment, it was naturally stored downstairs.
Wangsa accepted the bank card and looked it over. He had to admit, the quality and feel were not bad, the craftsmanship was also exquisite, and it was not completely flat, but had various textures. Especially the unnamed science fiction building in the center—it even had a 3D effect. He was not sure who the masterpiece belonged to, but the bank card definitely had a collection value.
Wangsa nodded, "Leader Ling, could I bring a sample mobile phone back? Strictly speaking, this business isn’t being conducted directly by me, but it’s being refracted to an ally for sales. I also need to show them a sample."
Hearing this,
Ling got up, went to the cabinet behind him, and took out ten such mobile phones. All of them were in paper packaging boxes, but none of them had any manufacturer information. They were all pure white and had no brand logo on the phones.
How could these things appear without a factory?
That credit went to the laboratory.
The laboratory.
As the name suggests, it could achieve small-scale production and manufacturing of certain things. The role of scientists was to industrialize products, set up assembly lines, automate processes, and achieve large-scale production. Therefore, producing all the parts and boxes for the mobile phones on a small scale in the laboratory was not too difficult. It was just that the efficiency was very low. For instance, it took these forty scientists an hour to produce these ten mobile phones, even with division of labor. 𝒏𝒐𝒗𝒑𝒖𝙗.𝒄𝒐𝒎
The efficiency was quite underground.
"These are ten samples, which you could take back for inspection. All our products are of this quality. Also, you can tell your allies that we can customize the brand logo and color they want, and even any model or shape they need," Ling said.
"Okay, I will certainly pass the message," Wangsa chuckled. Even though he was surprised at Ling’s tone, he knew it was not his place to worry.
Seeing that there was nothing left for him.
Wangsa got up and excused himself.
Tang Qing, in the Command Room, was delighted to hear this news; it was a good start.
Only that various things about the acquisition of lands that followed had made Tang Qing slightly overwhelmed.
Take for instance the establishment of the Industrial Town. The location had been decided, merely five kilometers away from Xin’an Town. There was a flat piece of land of about six to seven square kilometers, which was more than sufficient.
Building a town required materials and manpower.
Materials were not a problem. The small cement factory and steel factory had just started production, coupled with Wangsa’s and ’smuggling’ from the Teleportation Node, it was enough to supply for the early slow construction. But there was a drastic shortage of manpower.
Without people, everything was illusory.
We certainly can’t aim for fully automated production - that would be absurd.
Command Room.
"Tang Yi, what’s the progress on infiltrating the surrounding forces?" Tang Qing asked.
"Commander, a large number of our people have been implanted into the surrounding forces. A part of them have concealed their identity, and a part of them, relying on their own strength and planning, have ascended to high positions. Many of them are already in key positions, and we can take them over within an hour if we want," Tang Yi reported.
Tang Qing nodded his head. The large-scale deployment of soldiers was showing results; they had deeply infiltrated the two surrounding forces up to the core level. What Tang Yi meant by "we can take them within one hour" was not to charge over and conquer them, but rather to ’peacefully’ get control of those lands without much large-scale conflict.
This was Tang Qing’s solution.
In the past, he didn’t have that much interest in territories and population.
He didn’t fancy conquest, and he thought it perfectly fine living in this small area. But since he got the task of currency issuance, he had to start looking for lands and population, because these two were the basis of issuance. Each person could raise the asset statistics limit by 100,000, while the minerals three kilometers underground would also be included in the total asset calculation. Apart from trade, expanding territories was the only means to increase the volume of issuance.
However, now was not the time to take over the two forces.
Why?
Pretty simple.
Because these two forces had become bargaining chips for negotiations with the Burmese side.
Tang Qing’s territory was not actually adjacent to the part controlled by the Burmese government. There were several local forces in-between. Otherwise, Tang Qing wouldn’t be this leisurely.
The areas bordering Burma were stationed with a large number of soldiers, which were part of the Confrontation Zone in the forefront. Only true powers could survive there. Those without adequate strength, such as Wei Jun, Naidan, and other ’trash’, could not resist the regular soldiers of Burma and would either surrender or be annihilated early on.
There’s no way they could have survived till today.
Once the people from the Burmese government came and proposed the ’conditions’, he could then smoothly offer these two ’The Warlords’ letters of challenge. Not only would he benefit from the Asia Dollar currency policy, but he would also make a ton of money. It’s expected that Tang Qing’s total issuance volume of Asia Dollar would achieve a significant breakthrough, doubling was likely not a problem.
Therefore, now was not the time to move them.
No hare, no falcons.
Tang Qing wouldn’t want to do a ’good deed’ for the Burmese government.
He would only take action once he got what he wanted. By then, he could easily take over these two places. The confiscated wealth could be used to build the Industrial Town. Killing multiple birds with one stone.
"Tang Yi, keep a close eye on those two forces and dispatch more soldiers to monitor the forces further away. I guess, it won’t be long before we can take action," Tang Qing said with a smile.
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