Wang Xuexin did not hesitate and immediately sent another quotation to Sun Erwei:
Rifle production lines cost $750,000 each.
The bullet production line costs US$320,000 each.
Brand new rifle plus 500 rounds of ammunition for $45.
A used rifle plus 500 rounds of ammunition is $31 each.
This quotation shocked Li Yunlong and Zhao Gang speechlessly. Good guy, this foreign devil not only sold the bullets and rifles separately, but also paid them several times more.
The price difference of a few tens of dollars doesn't seem like much, but when you calculate 20,000 pieces, the total price difference is millions of dollars. It's really fucking bad!
What they didn't know was that Sun Erwei was looking at the quotation on the other end, threw the telegram away, and cursed angrily: "Fuck him, how did he know these prices?"
It turned out that the quotation given by Wang Xuexin was basically consistent with the quotation of the military, and the guns and ammunition were even in single digits.
Wang Xuexin was secretly proud. He wanted to know the price. Isn't it easy?
You will know everything as soon as you open the system. It is very convenient to do business. The important thing is that it is free to check the price.
This way, there is no need to worry about guessing or getting any information.
A slightly frustrated Sun Erwei calculated the total price and replied: "The total price now is about 1.9 million. I think you can buy more production lines or more equipment."
"No problem!" Wang Xuexin replied without thinking: "I can buy four more production lines."
Sun Erwei laughed happily on the other end: "I caught you!"
In Sun Erwei's mind, the Springfield rifle is a rifle that is about to be eliminated. This rifle will be discontinued. The production line is of course valuable, because no one is willing to produce such backward things, not to mention there are so many existing guns on the market.
So, if you don’t sell now, when will you wait?
On Wang Xuexin's side, Zhao Gang felt a little strange when he saw him ordering five rifle production lines at once, and asked: "Xiao Dongbei, buy so many rifle production lines...are the bullets enough? Is the steel enough?"
Wang Xuexin replied: "Political Commissar, if we don't have enough bullets, we can buy more. The production of guns must keep up first. There are still so many people in our army who don't have guns!"
Li Yunlong agreed: "If we don't have enough bullets, we can use them separately. If we don't have enough steel, we can tear off the rails. Having a gun is better than not having a gun... If it doesn't work, you can still fight with a bayonet!"
This is what is said.
Although guns and bullets are both important, the Eighth Route Army has long been accustomed to having only ten bullets per capita.
At this time, Wang Xuexin bought 10 million rounds of ammunition from Sun Erwei in one go. Even if each of the 400,000 people in the Eighth Route Army had a Springfield rifle, the average per capita would still be 25 rounds of ammunition.
With the Eighth Route Army's strategy of surrendering while fighting and saving ammunition, there is also a bullet production line in production... I guess it can hold on.
In fact, Wang Xuexin had another consideration when buying this way:
Sun Erwei didn't understand the situation at all. He thought that the Springfield rifle was going to be eliminated, so the production line was worthless, so he wanted to sell it at a low price now.
Little did they know that a few months later, when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and dragged Eagle into the war, Eagle suddenly discovered that the production of M1 Garand rifles could not keep up, and the troops had to equip Springfields in large quantities, so they had to restart the production line and continue to produce them.
It will last until the end of World War II... Then if you want to buy a production line, it won't be at this price.
Soon, Sun Erwei replied: "No problem, there are still US$100,000 left! Can it be replaced with bullets?"
"No, Sun Erwei." Wang Xuexin replied: "Help me save it, but I hope you can open an account in a third country to facilitate our future transactions!"
Sun Erwei on the other side laughed loudly: "These Tuba Road are just lucky enough to have discovered a useful incendiary agent, and they actually thought there would be business in the future."
But of course Sun Erwei would not say that. He replied: "No problem, I can open an account in a Swiss bank for you and deposit the money in it!"
This is not difficult for Sun Erwei. He only needs to contact Swiss intelligence personnel to do it...Swiss banks deposit money without asking the source, and do not allow others to check the account. It can be said that it is for various ill-gotten gains.
and provide convenience for black-box trading.
Now even Li Yunlong couldn't understand it.
"Little Northeast!" Li Yunlong said: "Can these 100,000 US dollars buy millions of bullets? We are short of bullets, and you still have deposits... What kind of bank is that? Is it reliable?"
"Captain!" Wang Xuexin replied: "That's what I was thinking. In order to support our war of resistance, our overseas compatriots donated money and materials in various ways, and many of them believed that the Eighth Route Army donated money to us. But where did the money go? We all
Mao didn’t even see it, right?”
Zhao Gang said "Oh" and nodded repeatedly: "Let's open an account in a Swiss bank ourselves, and then contact overseas comrades to do some necessary publicity, so that we can at least raise some funds!"
"Yes, that's what I think!" Wang Xuexin replied: "If there is money in this account, we can immediately buy equipment and bullets from Sun Erwei. Wouldn't that be much more convenient?"
Li Yunlong rubbed his head and said, "Does this mean that the money donated to us will no longer be corrupted by the prodigal gang of Stubborn Army?"
He said "hehe" and nodded to Wang Xuexin with a smile: "Can't you tell, Xiao Dongbei! Do you still have this knowledge?"
Zhao Gang smiled and said: "If everyone is like you, the leader, who only thinks about fighting and eating meat all day long, how can there be such a big deal!"
"Yes, yes!" Li Yunlong nodded, but then turned around and said: "But I'm telling you, Lao Zhao, these are also the soldiers led by Li Yunlong, right? You go look for other troops, if you can still find the second soldier
Coming from the Northeast...I, Li Yunlong, have your last name!"
"It's full of nonsense!" Zhao Gang shook his head.
However, Zhao Gang did not care about Li Yunlong and immediately reported the good news to the headquarters.
This time it was the chief of staff who answered the call personally...the reason was that he couldn't wait to know the result and couldn't wait for the chief of staff to take over.
But even though the chief had seen strong winds and waves, he was still so surprised that he was speechless when he heard Zhao Gang's report.
"What? What did you say?" the chief asked in disbelief: "Say it again!"
"Chief!" Zhao Gang replied happily: "The deal is done. Comrade Wang Xuexin exchanged five million US dollars for five rifle production lines, one bullet production line, and 20,000 rifles and 10 million rounds of bullets!"
This time the chief confirmed that he heard correctly. After a while, he nodded and said: "Okay, very good! By the way, what kind of rifle is the rifle?"
"It's official in Citi!" Zhao Gang replied.
Because the Springfield rifle is the same imitation Mauser rifle as the Chinese official (it was actually a secret copycat, and was sued for huge patent fees, but ended up escaping because Germany was defeated in World War I), China also called Eagle Sauce "Citi".
, so the Springfield rifle was called the "Citi official".
(Note: Citi is called Citi because there are many stars, stripes, and red, blue, and white colors on the Eagle Flag, which looks more fancy, so it is called Citi)
The chief knew that this was a good gun, and he immediately ordered excitedly: "Continue to track this deal and make every effort to prepare! Make sure the equipment and equipment arrive safely!"