69novels Chapter 554
Chapter 554
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“The amount of this order is too large. I need to go back and discuss it carefully before making a decision!”
President Roosevelt was very conflicted. He was attracted by Hans’ advanced weapons and wanted to purchase them to arm his own army and use this order to make imitations.
However, the price of this order was too high. Even he felt terrified by the order of more than 4 billion US dollars! If he made a decision without a clear mind, he would definitely be scolded to death after returning home!
“Yes, there are many scenic spots worth visiting in the Iron Tower City. Mr. President can take this opportunity to visit with his wife and relax!”
Mainz smiled and patted Roosevelt on the shoulder, then left in style.
He looked very casual and free and easy, and didn’t take this arms sale to heart at all, as if it didn’t matter whether it was sold or not.
This made President Roosevelt wonder: Is it really like he said, Hans really sold these weapons at cost price?
Otherwise, why did he act so casually, as if he didn’t care about such a large arms sale at all?
With this in mind, Roosevelt returned to the hotel where he was staying, and immediately summoned the officials who accompanied him on the visit. Everyone gathered together to discuss the matter together!
“That’s about it. Do you have anything to say?”
President Roosevelt asked Marshall to introduce his conversation with Mainz, and then looked at everyone, intending to listen to their opinions.
President Roosevelt was accompanied by many high-ranking government officials, including the Minister of State, the Minister of Defense, the Minister of Finance, the Minister of Commerce, the Minister of Industry, the Minister of Agriculture, and the Minister of Energy. Among these people, the Minister of Finance and the Minister of Defense were obviously more concerned than others after hearing the news!
“4.2 billion US dollars? Isn’t this price a bit too expensive?”
The Minister of Finance could not wait to express his opinion:”Mr. President, you should know that our current financial situation is quite bad. There is not much money in the treasury. You have previously proposed to build a large-scale infrastructure in the country, to build new highways, railways, subways and other supporting facilities. This kind of project requires a large investment.
We can’t even raise this amount of money now, where can we get more than 4 billion US dollars of spare money to buy so many arms?”
From the words of the Minister of Finance, it can be heard that he is clearly opposed to this arms purchase.
The reason is very simple, because he is in charge of the national finances. At present, the financial system of the Eagle Sauce is simply in deficit. He wants to spend every dollar in his hand. He has not been able to raise the money for the investment task. Now he is asked to tighten his belt and come up with more than 4 billion US dollars for arms purchases. Isn’t this fate?
“Why not give this order to a domestic company? If these are purchased from our own domestic arms companies, then the money can still stay in our country. After the arms dealers get the order, they will definitely purchase a large amount of raw materials and spend money to hire a large number of workers. In this way, many unemployed workers will find jobs, which can also promote social consumption and have a positive effect on our economy.
But if all this money is given to Hans, then we will not be able to create so many jobs and economic benefits in the country. Therefore, even if there is enough money to support us to complete this arms purchase, I will not support this matter. I would rather invest this money in the construction of domestic infrastructure!”
The attitude of the Minister of Finance was quite firm. Foreign arms purchases were totally unprofitable, at least from his point of view!
Weapons are difficult to create benefits. Unless they are used to wage war, there is basically no benefit. Instead, a lot of money has to be spent on their maintenance and upkeep. This is simply a bottomless pit. Of course, he was not willing to purchase them!
However, we cannot look at the problem purely from an economic perspective. We should also consider it from a higher perspective, such as national security, national interests, and so on.
So after hearing what the Minister of Finance said, the Minister of Defense immediately stood up:”I think we can purchase this amount of arms. If this amount of arms is purchased, it will immediately enhance the combat effectiveness of our army and allow us to have a world-class and powerful army, especially these 1,000 B-29 strategic bombers. With so many of these aircraft, we will have a strong deterrent against all countries!
Moreover, these weapons are also of great help in improving our country’s military technology. We can quickly make up for our technical shortcomings by absorbing and digesting Hans’ advanced technology, boosting our country’s overall military technology level, and allowing us to completely catch up with the world’s most advanced level!”
Although the Eagle is the world’s largest industrial country, their industrial potential is very huge.
However, the Eagle has been prosperous for too short a time, so it is much weaker than Europe in terms of scientific and technological accumulation.
Since the Second Industrial Revolution, various inventions in Europe have sprung up like mushrooms after rain, and various old colleges and universities in Europe have also frequently emerged with top scientists such as Einstein and Planck! Compared with
Europe, the history of universities in the Eagle is relatively short, the strength is relatively weak, the accumulation time is not enough, and the number of celebrities is small, which makes them always at a disadvantage in terms of top scientists and technical talents.
Also Because of this, the Eagle Sauce had a bad reputation in Europe at that time.
Europeans looked down on the Eagle Sauce people, thinking that they were a group of uneducated and uncultured bumpkins, and that they did not know how to invent and create on their own, and only knew how to copy and plagiarize from the Europeans.
The most industrially developed country in Europe is Hans, and Hans’s technological level is also among the best in Europe, so the object of Eagle Sauce’s imitation has gradually shifted from the original industrial power, the British Empire, to Hans over the years.
Basically, as soon as Hans has any new technology or process, they will immediately copy it, and their copycat products use their own industrial products. With the advantages of powerful energy and low product cost, they quickly seized the market with the advantage of cheapness, and even sold back to the European market during World War I, squeezing out and acquiring many European companies. The
Hans are more rigorous and rigid in character, and their production efficiency is not fast. They are definitely not as fast as the Eagle Sauce in terms of speed, so they can only watch the Eagle Sauce use cheap strategies to quickly seize a large part of their market!
This kind of copycat situation is actually very annoying to the Hans, but the patent protection system of this era is not very perfect, so facing the Eagle Sauce’s copycat behavior, European countries don’t have any good way, as long as If the other party doesn’t admit it, they have no way to hold the other party accountable.
And this phenomenon doesn’t only happen to Hans. The Eagle Sauce basically copies the technology of all European countries, so their reputation in Europe has always been bad.
After all, the Eagle Sauce itself knows that their own technological strength is very poor. If they don’t follow behind Europe and copy it, then their products will not be able to compete with Europe at all!
Because they are used to copying Hans’s things, the Eagle Sauce people are very confident in the quality and technical content of Hans’ products!
After all, Hans’ products must be high-quality!