Spy Wars: Get the Predator equipment at the beginning

Chapter 975 A Genius Idea

Zhang Yunhe was surprised: "Not enough? This thing is much more expensive than the Garand rifle. Shouldn't all of Joker's soldiers prefer the Garand rifle?"

"Who told you that?" James asked. "The Garand rifle is indeed much easier to use than bolt-action rifles, since you don't need to pull the bolt to chamber a round after each shot, and it was the first semi-automatic rifle to be mass-produced. However, its magazine capacity is much smaller than that of the AK, and it is only semi-automatic, while the AK is a fully automatic rifle!"

"You could say that if the AK hadn't come out, it would have been the king of rifles. But the appearance of the AK meant that the Garand rifle was on its countdown to being phased out!"

"So your most important task right now is to get your weapons manufacturing company running at full capacity to produce AKs. Expand production capacity as quickly as possible, as much as you can, and sell this groundbreaking weapon all over the world in the shortest amount of time!"

After hearing this, Zhang Yunhe slapped his thigh and said, "I'll give you 20 units this time. Go all out to sell them! I'll give you another 50 units next month. As long as you can sell them, I'll give you even more sales commission!"

James was stunned: "Didn't you just say you only brought 2 this time?"

Zhang Yunhe laughed and said, "I thought the clown soldiers didn't like the AK very much. After all, it consumes too much ammunition. Once the trigger is pulled, a magazine can be emptied in the blink of an eye. The logistical pressure is enormous!"

"Huh? What does the logistical pressure have to do with those soldiers? Is that something for them to worry about? On the battlefield, they only want to win and survive! And a stronger firepower output per unit of time is undoubtedly easier to kill the enemy and protect themselves! You have to understand that on the battlefield, it's either you die or I live. The soldiers don't even have time to think. If the enemy charges in, firing a whole magazine at once is much more destructive than firing a single bullet!"

Zhang Yunhe slapped his forehead: "I was wrong. Your country is rich, extremely rich, and willing to spend money. So I've decided, this time I'll give you 20 AKs!"

"Originally, I planned to give you only 20,000 units and ship the rest to Europe to sell. But since the demand is greater here and the soldiers prefer them, I'll keep the whole batch!"

"By the way, would another 50 units be enough next time?"

James shook his head and said, "I don't know if it's enough. I think it's probably not enough. It might need 200 million, or even more! You don't know, several heads of arms factories have come to me, hoping I can act as an intermediary to get you to authorize them to produce AKs, but I didn't agree!"

Zhang Yunhe gasped: "Two million troops couldn't hold them off? Did the Joker mobilize that many troops?"

James chuckled, flicked his cigarette ash, and said, "Zhang, you underestimate our mobilization capabilities. Do you know how many troops we've mobilized so far, and how many we ultimately plan to mobilize?"

Zhang Yunhe shook his head: "How would I know? I'm not that person."

James whispered, "I have inside information. So far, we've mobilized over 400 million troops. It's only been a little over six months since we joined the war. Do you know what that means?"

"What does it mean?" Zhang Yunhe chimed in, playing the straight man.

James said, "This means that the 400 million is definitely not the final number of troops; the plan is to mobilize more than 2000 million!"

"Fuck!"

Zhang Yunhe swallowed hard, his mind racing. He made a decision in an instant: "If that's the case, I'm not against licensing your weapons company to produce AKs, as long as they pay the licensing fees on time!"

The news James brought made him abandon the idea of ​​using AKs to dominate the Joker's small arms market. With tens of millions of troops, even if the production scale of his arms factories were expanded several times, it would not be able to meet the demand.

If the Joker's arms companies can't get the AK license, but the demand for AKs here is real, the arms companies here will definitely try to circumvent patent laws and produce them privately, or directly modify the weapon design a little bit before producing it.

These arms dealers have no business ethics whatsoever; they'll do anything to make money.

James was stunned and asked incredulously, "You're really willing to license those arms companies to produce AKs? That can't be right. We can produce more AKs ourselves and sell them to the military. Why let these arms companies make money?"

Zhang Yunhe said, smoking a cigarette, "Do you think they won't secretly produce it if I don't authorize them?"

“Uh… well… patent law isn’t just for show. If they dare to do that, they’ll face huge compensation if we take them to court!” James said.

Zhang Yunhe shook his head and said, "It's nothing more than going to court. They have many ways to do it, such as slightly modifying the AK design to make it their own, or they can produce it privately and put our arms company's label on it. If we go to court, it may take a long time, and we may not even be able to win!"

“I have an idea to prevent them from doing this!”

James immediately asked, "What are your thoughts?"

Zhang Yunhe said, "Let them do the work!"

"OEM?" James was puzzled and confused.

Zhang Yunhe nodded affirmatively and said, "Yes, it's contract manufacturing! We place orders with these arms companies, authorize them to produce, then we pay them a contract manufacturing fee, they deliver the goods to us, and then we sell these products to the global market!"

"There are several advantages to doing this: First, it solves our own production capacity problem; second, it solves the problem of them copying or producing without authorization and the potential lawsuits; third, it's a win-win situation, with both sides making money!"

There's another point Zhang Yunhe didn't mention: he can free up time and funds to develop other weapons and equipment. As long as he can consistently place orders with those arms companies, allowing them to make money, their enthusiasm for weapons development will decrease. With this ebb and flow, his technological research and development capabilities will become stronger, while the other side's technological research and innovation capabilities will become weaker.

James was astonished after hearing Zhang Yunhe's idea: "Zhang, your idea is brilliant, really brilliant! I think if the bosses of those arms companies knew about your idea, they would jump for joy!"

Zhang Yunhe said with a smile, "James, how about I entrust this matter to you? You go and meet with the owners of those arms companies and talk to them about this cooperation. I'll give you authorization!"

“Of course, I’d love to!” James quickly replied.