Chapter 2113 Single-handedly supply the global war
In the mainland of Datang Empire, Songjiang Prefecture, inside the headquarters of Datang Arms Trading Company.
A number of senior officials were gathering in the conference room. One of them was holding a report and said: "The reports from overseas branches have been sent back. According to statistics, our company's performance will be greatly improved this year."
, whether it is guns or artillery, or consumable ammunition, military supplies, etc., there has been a substantial increase. Because of the increase in orders, our performance this year can be at least 180% higher than last year."
"This is still based on the inference of existing orders and intended orders. According to the judgment of our colleagues in the marketing department, our actual orders may be even higher. It is estimated that our sales this year may be more than three times that of last year."
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"Of course, the increase in orders has also brought us a lot of problems. The intensive incoming orders have caused supply shortages for some suppliers. Zhenjiang Machinery Company, a subsidiary of Jiangnan Weapon Company, and its A-3
The production line for type flash cap flintlock guns is already in full operation, but if we want to deliver the current orders, we may have to work overtime and continue production until three years later."
"Although Jiangnan Arms Company and several other our cooperative manufacturers have successively promoted the expansion of export equipment production, it is still relatively difficult in a short period of time!"
"At the same time, the three major arms companies have also expressed their stance, saying that they will not unilaterally and unscrupulously increase production on a large scale just because of the surge in orders in a short period of time. They must consider the expansion of production after this batch of orders is over.
The production line maintenance situation, after all, after the expansion of production, it is difficult to fire people after hiring them."
"So increasing production will increase production, but the scale is not as large as we previously expected. At most, it will only increase production capacity by 50%!"
"This also poses a certain challenge to our subsequent supply and transportation work schedule!"
"But there must not be a situation where a certain customer arrives in large quantities in advance, while other customers are unable to supply. In particular, the supply of the two warring parties must be balanced!"
"The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has officially issued a document to us, requiring us to cooperate with the various policies of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The delivery time and quantity must be strictly in accordance with the plan formulated by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. We must ensure fairness and justice, and we must not give special preferential treatment to a certain customer.
Or in the case of special treatment, we will treat everyone equally. This is the basic principle of our company!"
Datang Arms Trading Company has been very busy recently, with high-level meetings taking place one after another. Faced with the sudden influx of large orders from overseas, Datang Arms Trading Company has begun high-intensity and comprehensive operations, from negotiating to obtain orders to organizing
Domestic suppliers produce the goods, then allocate the supply and transport them overseas, and deliver the goods to customers.
Every link here cannot go wrong. Once a mistake is made, it will not be a matter of profit or loss, but a matter that will affect the empire's diplomatic strategy.
Datang Arms Trading Company's overseas market development has always closely followed the changes in the empire's foreign policy. It does not mean that it can sell whatever it wants, let alone sell to whomever it wants.
Every order needs to be approved by the National Defense and Security Committee.
The busyness of Datang Arms Trading Company also reflects the complexity and turmoil of the current overseas situation.
The war seemed to have broken out all at once.
Last year, large-scale wars on a global scale were limited to the Western Front of Europe, but this spring, the Western Front of Europe was still raging, while civil strife broke out in the Ottoman Kingdom.
Immediately afterwards, the Safavid Dynasty launched a war against the Ottoman Kingdom, which was in civil strife.
This is not over yet, the Mughal Dynasty also launched a surprise attack on the Safavid Dynasty.
By the summer, seeing that the Mughal Dynasty had already entered the heart of the Safavid Dynasty, several kingdoms and tribes on the Indian Peninsula united and launched a fierce attack on the Mughal Dynasty.
Now in July, there are wars everywhere from the Indian peninsula to Europe.
Fierce wars are fought every day, which poses a great challenge to the supply capacity of Datang Arms Trading Company.
After all, it is quite difficult to maintain the material supply for a global war by oneself!
Just after the high-level meeting here ended, a large number of guns and ammunition were loaded from the port.
All kinds of military weapons weighing more than 8,000 tons were quickly loaded onto the 10,000-ton cargo ship Nanyang No. 2 under the hoisting of port machinery and equipment.
The 10,000-ton cargo ship loaded with military supplies slowly departed from Shanghai Port. When it arrived at the sea off Guangzhou, two more cargo ships departed from Guangzhou and were also loaded with military supplies. They merged and formed a small formation to enter Nanyang.
Around Malacca and finally across the Indian Ocean to Ceylon.
Today, the Island of Ceylon has become a huge transfer station for exported military supplies.
After the freighter departs from the mainland, it replenishes coal and fresh water here, and then sets off for its destinations.
Nanyang 2 continued its journey the next day, heading straight to the Red Sea Port of Suez.
Although the Suez Canal has not yet been completed, it is worth noting that in order to build the Suez Canal and also connect land transportation between the Red Sea and the Mediterranean, with the approval of the empire, the Datang Railway Corporation built a section of the canal along the canal.
Railway, and it is a double-track railway.
At present, many materials and personnel, especially those with high timeliness, relatively high value, not very heavy weight per piece, and not very large volume, are transported directly through canals.
After all, it is too far to go around Africa. The long voyage takes too much time, and the shipping costs brought by the long voyage are not low.
This has also resulted in the Suez Canal Railway becoming the busiest railway among many overseas territorial railways.
Every day, a large number of trains travel between the Red Sea ports and the Mediterranean ports, transporting large amounts of materials.
After the Nanyang 2, a 10,000-ton cargo ship, berthed at the Port of Suez, the mechanical equipment in the port hoisted and unloaded the cargo on the ship, then hoisted it onto a train and transported it to the port of Alexandria at the other end of the railway.
At Alex Port, these materials will be hoisted onto the ship again, but they are no longer those 10,000-ton cargo ships, but some small and medium-sized cargo ships with several thousand tons or even only a few hundred tons, because these goods have more than one customer, and
It's goods for more than ten customers.
Therefore, this batch of several thousand tons of military supplies will be transported to different places on different small and medium-sized ships.
Although it took six or seven days to transfer this batch of materials through the Egyptian railway, it was still much less time than the time it took to go around Africa.
Even in order to speed up the transshipment, Datang Railway Corporation has begun to negotiate with several major domestic shipping companies to allow shipping companies to use unified standard containers as much as possible when transporting goods.