Zhong Yi nodded and said, "That's right, now we should talk about the price."

Speaking of this, Zhong Yi changed his tone and continued: "After all, for the US arms market, it is now in an unprecedented off-season. All arms companies, including your Winchester arms company, can only receive sporadic arms orders. Not to mention making money, it is very difficult to maintain operations."

"Uh..." Little Winchester was a little stunned. This style was not right.

Zhong Yi said again: "In such a super off-season, every small arms order is precious, right?"

"Uh, brother, listen to me..." Little Winchester felt that he could not let Zhong Yi continue, otherwise the situation would be completely out of control.

Zhong Yi waved his hand and continued, "So, I have brought you such a large order to Winchester Arms Company in such an off-season. In return, your Winchester Arms Company must also show enough sincerity, right? So you will definitely give enough discounts for this price, right?"

"No, no, no, no, things are not what you said." said Winchester Jr. "It is the off-season of arms and the survival of major arms companies is very difficult, so profits are needed. My brother, you don't want to see our Winchester arms company go bankrupt, right? More importantly, the prices of raw materials have increased!"

At this time, Little Winchester just wanted to say that it was a big deal. He was ready to mention the price increase, but before he could speak, Zhong Yi had a wave of price reduction, and what he said was very reasonable.

Zhong Yi didn't want to say anything to Winchess little, because he was really busy. McConaughey had arranged more than fifty meetings for book fans for him, and his footprints were almost spread across the East Coast.

In addition to book fans, Zhong Yi has more important things to do.

One of them is to assist Wang Chonghui in negotiating assistance with the US government. In addition, he has to do more important things, that is, to go to General Motors to discuss a business.

So, Zhong Yi really has no time to waste here.

Zhong Yi said now: "Brother, we don't have to waste time talking about prices anymore. I'll just tell you. Before meeting you, I've calculated it repeatedly. Based on the prices of the United States and the wages of workers, the production cost of a complete set of weapons and equipment of an American weapon master is about 400,000 US dollars."

"No, no, how can an American armorer's equipment be only $400,000?"

"I'm talking about the simplified version of the American Artist I've told you before. Are there any problems?"

Little Winchester immediately stopped talking. As an arms manufacturer, how could he not know the production cost of a complete set of equipment for an American armorer?

In fact, Little Winchester has long calculated it repeatedly. The precise production cost of a complete set of equipment customized by Zhong Yi is US$397,100. Since the prices in the United States are relatively stable, the space for up and down will definitely not exceed one percent.

Thinking of this, Little Winchester could only shrug and express his admiration.

When encountering such an opponent, what else can I say more?

Zhong Yi said again: "So, at the previous price of a USD 550,000 USD, each division of your Winchester Arms Company can earn a huge profit of $150,000."

"It's not that much," Little Winchester quickly explained, "There's still a shipping fee."

"The freight is only a few dollars." Zhong Yi shook his head and continued, "So this time, I can only give you a profit margin of 50,000 US dollars. If we can sign a contract now, if we can't do it, then I can only go to another company, such as Cotis, which happens that I have another business to talk to them."

Little Winchester calculated silently in his mind that one division had 50,000 yuan, and twenty divisions had 1 million yuan. Although the profit margin had been reduced, the total profit had not decreased, which was acceptable.

But what Little Winchester is even more curious about is another big business that Zhong Yi mentioned, what business?

At that moment, Winchester shook his head and said, "Okay, okay, I can't tell you, then that's 50,000."

After pausing, Little Winchester said again: "But, Zhong, what is the other business you mentioned?"

"Buy an airplane." Zhong Yi did not hide it and said directly, "I want to buy a batch of P-40 fighter jets from Curtis Company and form an air force unit belonging to the 10th Army."

"Oh Maigao." Little Winchester was stunned, "You want to form your own air force?"

"Yes." Zhong Yi did not hide anything, and said, "The National Government's Air Force is already terrible. As for the reasons, I believe you know it. So if I just buy a plane and go back, the result will only be the same bad. Instead of doing so, it is better to form an air force myself and use it correctly."

Little Winchester has also heard of the Air Force of the National Government.

Regarding the Air Force of the National Government, the main problem is corruption, and the problem appears at the root, which is the de facto supreme leader of the Air Force, Mrs. Chang.

What Mrs. Chang loves to do most is to get money and buy old aircraft from the West at the price of a new aircraft. As for where the difference in the middle goes, there is no need to say more, of course she entered her private pocket.

But even old aircraft still have certain combat effectiveness.

This talks about Mrs. Chang's other problem with the use of the Air Force is blindly passive defense.

To put it bluntly, except for two large-scale active attacks at the beginning of the Sino-Japanese War and during the Battle of Wuhan, the National Government Air Force has never taken the initiative. It seems that the only function of the National Government Air Force is to protect the accompanying capital Chongqing and various administrative agencies of the National Government.

This is what Zhong Yi is most intolerable. The Air Force must take the initiative to act! Are you blindly staying at home and waiting for the Japanese bombers to bomb? How stupid should it be to do this?

So Zhong Yi decided to buy fighter jets and form an air force himself, and he had to command him!

It is not easy to accomplish this, but it is done by man and I haven't tried it. How can I know if it is OK? Anyway, Zhong Yi decided to try it first, what if it really makes him do it?

Little Winchester nodded and then asked, "What aircraft are you planning to buy and how many?"

"The bomber price is too expensive and it doesn't work very much for us, so I decided to buy fighter jets." Zhong Yi said, "How many aircraft are purchased depends on my financial resources. One hundred aircraft is not too small, and one thousand aircraft is not too large."

"A thousand fighters? My God." Little Winchester said, "Are there any pilots?"

"There are aviation schools in Kunming, and there are still hundreds of pilots." Zhong Yi knew that Chennard was running an aviation school in Kunming at this time and had trained at least 200 pilots. It was precisely because of this group of pilots that the later Chennard Airways team, which was the Flying Tigers that made great achievements in the counterattack in the Yunnan-Burma counterattack.
Chapter completed!