What the hell is a private enterprise?

Chapter 396: Departure from the Ship - Join the Group (3200 Monthly Tickets in May)

July 1st seems to be a turning point; after midnight on that day, every minute and every second brought big news.

After Siam announced that the Thai baht exchange rate would be determined by the market, Soros immediately began a large-scale sell-off of the Thai baht he had previously purchased.

The influx of $150 billion worth of Thai baht contracts into the market not only caused its exchange rate to plummet, but more alarmingly, it also led to a shortage of foreign exchange in Siam, making imports difficult.

Even economics students would know what was going to happen if they saw this.

At that time, the outside world only thought that Siam would enter a long period of depression, and did not expect that a financial tsunami that would destroy everything was brewing.

At the same time, Hastings, on behalf of the Empire, proposed placing several northern states of Pakistan under their trusteeship and sent a joint investigation team to investigate, triggering a new round of power struggles.

Even more shockingly, Hastings brought up the Combined Fleet again, and finally looked in the direction of the new domestic representative:
"We sincerely invite the University of Tokyo to share the responsibility for world peace, send its own warships to participate, and contribute more to the fight against the Second Fleet."

The domestic representative refused on the spot, stating that they had no interest.

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大湾
Tang Wen heard that Changbus had completed the design of the Super ME262, so he went to the car factory to find him, only to find that it was quite lively outside.

Several BMWs were blocking the entrance, and they appeared to be holding banners.

However, more people around them stopped them, and in less than ten minutes they were all stuffed into vans and driven away, and the BMWs at the gate were also brought into the factory.

Tang Wen, who had secretly witnessed the whole thing from a corner, then went in and listened to Shen Wei recount the whole story:

"It was that guy named Joachim who caused trouble, accusing us of plagiarism and demanding that we bring out our cars for comparison. I had him kicked out."

"You want our car back?"

Tang Wen asked and then learned what had happened:
After the capital city refused to accept the case, Joshua knew that he might not get good juice in Goose City, but he still took a chance and filed a lawsuit.

Local officials said they took the matter very seriously and immediately accepted Hans BMW's request, and Johashim immediately demanded a trial.

At this point, the official team raised a question:

Hans BMW said that plagiarism must be supported by evidence, not just empty words.

Joshua immediately provided pictures, but they shook their heads, saying that there needed to be rigorous evidence, such as size and detail comparisons for plagiarism of appearance, and physical parameter comparisons for plagiarism of internal engines... otherwise wouldn't that be a false accusation?

But Hanma cars haven't even gone on sale yet, so where would we get a car for comparison?

Left with no other choice, Joshaim could only cause trouble in hopes of gaining attention and forcing Hamma Motors to accept his demands.

Of course, their first attempt obviously failed.

It will take at least several months to get the car and collect evidence, so the lawsuit is not going to happen anytime soon.

On his own turf, Tang Wen didn't concern himself with such trivial matters. When he found Changbus, the latter was checking the progress of the CH47C imitation project.
The aviation machinery factory has mostly moved out, leaving behind a lot of outdated equipment in Shanghai. After moving to the Greater Bay Area, they purchased new imported machinery, and many of it was even second-hand equipment dismantled from McDonnell Douglas.

A fully operational aviation machinery factory mainly does three things:
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Study the maintenance data for CF6 and familiarize yourself with its parameters;
Helping car manufacturers solve minor problems and overcome production issues in many subsystems;
The main difference between copying the CH47C and copying the T55L11 turboshaft engine is that the airframe itself is not a major problem.
The first two tasks were not very demanding, but the last one was their core business, requiring all the engineers to rack their brains.

Fortunately, Tang Wen provided a large amount of paper materials, and a steady stream of technical personnel left their jobs to join the company because of Gaijin's reputation, which made the imitation process very fast.

Right now, Tang Wen is staring blankly at the 2-meter-high test stand in front of him, which is being debugged.

Changbus: "We first made a prototype of the core machine according to the survey and paper data. The first test run was the day before yesterday, and I feel that there are no major problems."

"Won't this cause any problems with the parts being sprayed?"

Tang Wen wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, feeling that something was wrong with the rapid pace of progress.

But Changbus also learned his essence and said with a confident look: "There is no prototype that does not have its parts blown up, but we have enough funds. We can blow it up dozens of times... Oh, here is the Super Swift's plan."

Chang Busi skillfully opened the computer drawing file, which contained airplane blueprints drawn with dense lines:
"The main design has basically met your parameter requirements. By the way, I also tested a model in a wind tunnel. With solid rocket booster, it should be able to maintain Mach 2.3 flight for 4 minutes."

Are you planning to write something like The Man in the High Castle? I've also added some peripheral weapons.

He took out an exquisite wooden Super ME262 model. Tang Wen noticed that there was a pylon on the belly and on each side of the wing, and there were things on the three pylons.

Changbus pointed to the diamond-shaped cross-section model with a tail fin in the middle and said:

"In the middle is my hypothetical improved Fritz 1400X radio-guided glide bomb. The original design was too primitive. I improved the electronic control and made stealth modifications based on 50s technology, increased the range to 15 kilometers, and made it supersonic during the terminal dive. The blueprints have also been drawn up."

Tang Wen stared in disbelief at the model, and couldn't help but say:

"Carrying three 1.6-ton stealth remote-controlled bombs? The empty weight is only 3.5 tons."

However, Changbus simply leaned back tactically:

"I've reduced the empty weight to 3.2 tons. I've calculated that it's theoretically feasible. Besides, you're using it in a novel, right? I've never designed a fighter jet, so it's a bit far-fetched."

Any other questions? If you need it, I'll print out the drawings right now.

"No, that's great."

Tang Wen held the model in his hands as if it were a priceless treasure. Seeing that no one else was around in the office, he earnestly said to Chang Busi:
"You should delete the file after you're done printing, and it's best to forget about it as well."

Changbusi: "Huh?"

……

After obtaining the blueprints for the Super ME262 from Changbus, Tang Wen was planning to rush to the South Pacific to build it when he saw a news report on TV expressing the hope that China would produce warships.

This... I hit myself?

Tang Wen sensed something was wrong and immediately contacted Zhao Hande.

The latter gave him a definite answer in his very first sentence:

“We will not agree to this, not even if the Second Fleet actually exists. They have their eyes on two battleships, but these are uncommissioned ships and would just be targets.”

Tang Wen: "Didn't Hastings make any other demands? Or what the price would be?"

Zhao Hande remained silent for a while, and only answered when Tang Wen thought the call had ended:
"Their condition was that if they sent warships, we could join the WTO immediately."

"!"

Tang Wen stood up abruptly. He really wanted to say yes, because this was an opportunity that came four years early and he had to seize it.

But he soon realized that this was not realistic, and could only sit down and have a headache again.

Joining the WTO is a must, and it would be beneficial to do so as soon as possible, but the cost is simply too high.

This is not just a matter of economic loss; the deeper impact is much greater.

It's obvious that Old Mi resorted to this tactic because he had no meat shield to absorb damage. Was there any other way?

Tang Wen suddenly had an idea:

"Old Zhao, didn't I say there's still a Musashi? If you're not going to buy it, you might as well just sell it."

(End of this chapter)