In 1989, "Tutou" visited flower growers and proposed resuming Sino-Soviet arms sales.
At that time, the alliance's economy was in a mess. Maozi hoped to sell some weapons to make some small money to supplement his family income.
At the same time, Baldzi's economy was developing rapidly on the other side of the Taiwan Strait, his navy and air force had great advantages, and he was arrogant.
The Chinese Air Force is still using short-legged fighter jets such as the J-6 and J-7, which are difficult to defend airports. It urgently needs a heavy-duty fighter with a long range, so it introduced the "long-legged" Su-27.
While introducing the Su-27, the domestic air force also realized that it should have large transport aircraft. However, at that time, the country only had half-baked tactical transport aircraft such as the Y-8, and its output was very pitiful.
Therefore, China also wanted to purchase the Il-76, and reached an agreement in 1991.
However, Mao Xiong encountered a poor and expensive customer like Rabbit. Later, orders for the Su-27 were drastically cut, and now the second-hand Ilyushin Il-76 has squeezed out orders for new aircraft.
Originally, South Germany was too dirty to do business and ruined the great market. It was the turn of the Holy Light to do the business. The delivery was fast and the quality was good. The four Tu-154s were operated by United Airlines.
At present, domestic transportation capacity is extremely tight regardless of road, railway or aviation. Basically, you can make money with airplanes, and the income is very high. Not only did the Holy Light acquire passenger planes, but they also hired pilots and ground staff.
United Airlines thinks this is great. It doesn't cost a penny and it gets four large passenger planes for free. It only needs to plan the routes and make money by selling air tickets.
When the Holy Light acquired ten IL-76s in one go, United Airlines finally couldn't sit still.
Why is it getting easier and easier to fly?
No, Director Ma is coming to see Zhou Qingfeng.
"Excluding routine maintenance, the current four Tu-154s and ten Il-76s basically have an operating efficiency of 70%. This is very good.
In order to make money, various domestic units have modified the transport of transporting sheep to the United Arab Emirates. Recently, they have used IL-76 to transport camels in the Middle East, and the profits are not small."
Director Ma said it like a joke, and Zhou Qingfeng was even more surprised when he heard it.
"My Il-76 was hauled camels?"
"Yes, to earn foreign exchange."
Director Ma suppressed all Zhou Qingfeng's questions with one sentence. After all, it's all about transportation capacity. Earning soft currency at home is naturally not as good as earning foreign exchange abroad.
The wealthy people in the Middle East are very rich now, and the US dollars are very profitable.
It is precisely because of the camel transport that the Air Force discovered that long-distance large-scale air transport is really good. In the past, it took several aircraft to transport it eight times, refuel and make repeated transfers, but one Il-76 can do it.
It's a pleasure to use the capacity of this big plane.
"so what?"
"So I still want to import ten or twenty more. 'Holy Light' has ready supply and sales channels, and there are fleets flying between Moscow and the Imperial Capital every day.
Every time it takes off or lands, it means a batch of high-priced goods is being transported or delivered. Do you know who the recently shipped goods were sold to?"
After all, Mao Xiong is an industrial country with a solid family background. The Holy Light recently opened the door to a combat readiness warehouse in the Moscow Military District, which contains the strategic reserves of the alliance army.
The strategic reserve is all-encompassing, including thousands of engineering vehicles, not only produced by Mao Xiong, but also a large number of East German, Czech, Romanian and other Eastern European goods. It even includes train carriages and locomotives from many railways.
Every time a domestic freight train arrives in Moscow, or a container ship arrives in St. Petersburg, the strategic reserves in the munitions warehouse will be less.
For example, the Type 24 passenger cars in the domestic railway system are imported East German technologies, including soft sleeper cars, air-conditioned cars, dining cars, etc. This was a high-end railway passenger car in the 1990s.
The carriages of the corresponding series did not need to be modified when they were brought back from Moscow, and were happily bought by the Ministry of Railways. The railway transportation capacity was thus easily increased.
"In addition to railway carriages and locomotives, engineering vehicles are also in short supply in the country and have been bought by the Ministry of Railways and the Ministry of Transport. Due to the limited number, ordinary units cannot buy them."
In the 1990s, domestic infrastructure construction began to develop, and the mileage of roads and railways increased rapidly. It was during this period that products from Japan's Komatsu, Kawasaki, and Mitsubishi poured in crazily.
‘Holy Light’ is able to obtain Eastern European goods at super low prices, which makes several domestic ministries and commissions really happy.
"I have a list on hand, which lists the transportation list for the next month. It has detailed cargo types and shipping schedules. These goods already have buyers."
Director Ma showed Zhou Qingfeng a small notebook with dozens of densely written pages. There were buyers of goods on every page, and they all had high profile backgrounds.
"I have to answer at least hundreds of calls every day, just to contact and arrange these supply sources. Many of the priorities are given to the Ministry of Railways and the Ministry of Transport, because they can arrange trains and vehicles for us in the country. It is a win-win situation for everyone."
Ministries and commissions have construction tasks every year. As long as the tasks are completed as quickly, efficiently and cost-effectively as possible, everyone will be motivated to work. Therefore, the goods obtained by ‘Shengguang’ from Damao will not have to worry about sales in the country.
"What do you want to do with me now?"
Zhou Qingfeng looked at Director Ma's small notebook and secretly calculated in his mind. He found that after several months of hard work, he had transported more than 10,000 vehicles and equipment to the country through various means of sea, land and air.
This is equivalent to adding the production capacity of two or three major heavy industrial machinery manufacturers in China out of thin air, without the need for construction, and it will take effect immediately. This kind of blood transfusion supply is really no joke.
In addition, "Holy Light" also provides open supply of machine tool tools and electronic chips, which is like a nutritional supplement for the development of related domestic industries.
"We estimate that due to the contribution of 'Holy Light' this year, the country has saved about 1.5 billion US dollars in foreign exchange. Related industries have generated huge economic benefits, and the annual GDP growth rate can increase by at least 0.5%.
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In 1991, the total domestic GDP was 220 billion yuan. The original growth rate was 9.3%, and the increase was more than 311 billion yuan.
Director Ma's estimate is still conservative. The 'Holy Light' is doing all sorts of things, and the value of the various goods it has brought back exceeds 10 billion soft girl coins.
The chips among them are particularly expensive, and their application output value is extremely high.
In addition, a large number of advanced machine tool tools have enabled major domestic machine tool manufacturers to obtain a technological upgrade. Both product yield and efficiency have improved by leaps and bounds. Many newly developed products have successfully entered the international market and earned a lot of real money.
Zhou Qingfeng also forced various machine tool factories to assemble advanced three-axis CNC machine tools. Technology is often just a layer of window paper. Once you pierce it, it will not be as difficult as imagined.
One thousand three-axis CNC machine tools requested by the 'Holy Light' have been assembled and passed the performance inspection led by the ministry. This kind of machine tool is not the most advanced, but it is the most widely used.
Being able to complete the assembly shows that the engineering and technical personnel have an overall understanding of the machine tool. They began to wonder whether a certain part of the product could be replaced in the next step and gradually complete localization.
After all, you can make money, and no one will compete with economic benefits.
Director Ma was full of emotions when he said it, hot and excited. He rubbed his hands and said, "I have been thinking about it privately with many comrades in the ministry for a long time, and we all feel that the potential of 'Holy Light' has not been fully realized.
Isn't it already 1992? There are new tasks this year. If we plan carefully, we will definitely be able to go further. The foreign exchange saved can be used to purchase more advanced products, and improved efficiency can make GDP grow faster.
Now the problem is transportation capacity, especially air transportation.”