If taken outside, coupled with such an amazing plane, the price might cause the whole world to go crazy!
Especially those camels, probably their eyes would become 1000-watt spotlight!
Thinking of this, Qian Zhizhong and the other looked at each other, both revealing a wry smile.
However, in the midst of the wry smiles, both of them were secretly relieved in their hearts.
Fortunately, Su Heng was born in their Long Village, and fortunately, they had previously established the most friendly relationship with Su Heng.
Otherwise, if those outside villages were to have someone like Su Heng, a being capable of changing the world order, Long Village would likely find itself struggling to move forward at all!
Even a slight mishap could see Long Village once again becoming the "table" for those pirates!!
Just like Long Village hundred years ago!
After an indeterminate amount of time, Qian Zhizhong took a deep breath, suppressing his thoughts, and then turned his gaze back to Su Heng, speaking solemnly:
"Xiao Su, if it were up to you to produce these planes now, how long do you think it would take?"
Hearing this, Su Heng was startled.
After pondering for a moment, Su Heng slowly spoke:
"Old Qian, in fact, I don't think we should massively equip Yeye and Qingniu at this time. We already have the Xianjue modifications for these stealth planes, which are enough for us. Whether it's Black and White Eagles or any other village, they will only be defeated by our Xianjue modifications!"
"Even without mentioning our stealth fighters, just the missiles I gave to Old Qian before are enough for them. They don't need fighter jets to come out. As long as they are combined with double-tail drones and early warning aircraft, it's enough for them to drink a lot!"
"As for Yeye and Qingniu, their costs are too high. The basic construction cost alone is ten times that of the Jianshikai fighters. Given our village's current economic situation, mass-producing these planes would undoubtedly lead to an extreme expansion in fiscal pressure, which is not conducive to our sustainable development!"
Facing Su Heng's voice, Qian Zhizhong and the other two looked at each other before falling into deep thought.
Indeed, as Su Heng said, the fiscal pressure of Long Village is too great now.
Although over the past period of time, Long Village has done a lot of business with the camels, earning an enormous wealth of over a trillion dollars.
Even if you take away the profit split given to Su Heng, there is still an income of hundreds of billions of dollars on the Long Village side!
However, during the past period of time, Long Village's consumption has been enormous as well!
For example, the drones - the twin-tail, thunderous, and thunder god drones provided by Su Heng may be cheap, but with so many drones, the fuel consumption for each takeoff and landing is an astonishing figure!
Moreover, in addition to fuel, there are also the accompanying weapons for these drones.
Take the most basic rockets for example; these rockets are produced by them. Although they have no technological content, even the lowest-grade ones without any guidance functions, which can only be launched up to forty or fifty kilometers, cost thousands of Long coins!
During previous muscle-flexing exhibitions, just one of them would pull out trillions of funds and throw it into it!
And then there are the logistics issues of these drones.
The drones manufactured by Su Heng are indeed cheap, but that doesn't mean they can be carelessly thrown away. They are exposed to wind and sun every day in the natural environment, right?
At least one of them is tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands!
So they all need to prepare corresponding hangars!
Moreover, they had to prevent the Black and White Eagles from finding out, so they couldn't just build hangars at will; they also had to do a good job of concealment and secrecy.
So even the most ordinary hangars, when multiplied by thousands, the cost becomes an astonishing figure!
And the airports needed for these drones……
With the costs for the modification of these drones and all sorts of other expenses, just for these thousands of drones, Long Village has spent hundreds of billions of Long coins on them in just one year!
The planes themselves don't cost much, but all sorts of other stuff really does burn money!
To be honest, if it weren't for Su Heng's drones that are so cheap as to be incomprehensible, and because of their excellent quality and low maintenance requirements, even if the price is only the same as the Yinglong produced by Long Village, just for thousands of them, Long Village's treasury would be emptied even if it were drained.
And the drones are just one of the many things burning money for Long Village now!
In addition to drones, the Jianshikai fighter planes are cheap, but like the drones, the other expenses for these fighter planes are even higher!
According to their planned schedule, they plan to acquire a total of one thousand Jianshikai fighter planes!
The planned purchase for the Jianshikai 11 fighter planes is six hundred!
The planned purchase for the Jianshikai 21 fighter planes is four hundred!
That's a total of two thousand fighter planes!
These two thousand fighter planes will be used to replace all the existing fighter planes in Long Village, becoming the core of its air force!
And according to the lowest price of 50 million Long coins per aircraft, the cost of these two thousand aircraft is 100 billion Long coins!
With all sorts of other expenses included, just for these aircraft, it would at least cost two hundred billion!
That is indeed an astonishing number!
In addition, the navy is also an issue. According to the navy's purchase plan, they plan to acquire a total of thirty-six Longyan warships, forty-eight 52G-type warships, thirty Type Ciwen attack submarines, twenty Type Biixi strategic submarines, as well as ten unmanned carrier vessels that Su Heng helped the navy create not long ago!
So many warships and submarines are all bottomless pits for money!
The expenses are only more than those for the air force!
And Lu Jun's side has even more enormous expenses!
Now, the Lu Jun forces have begun preparations for a full-scale equipment upgrade.
Three million Lu Jun forces, one hundred combined troops, if we average the price of each combined troop at two trillion, the total cost for one hundred combined troops would be two trillion!
Even with many of these equipments being provided by Su Heng, the costs can be significantly reduced.
But the remaining expenses are still an astronomical number!
In addition to the national defense army, because of the blockade, Long Village's economic situation is also quite poor.
It can be said that Long Village is spending money everywhere now.
Would that they could split a coin in two to spend!
If it weren't for the fact that they aren't currently in a state of war and don't need to complete everything in just a few days, and with Qian Huan's financial support on the camel side, Long Village might have long since collapsed under such enormous financial expenses……
Long Village's inability to give up the desert is not only because they really need to keep these little brothers, but also because Long Village needs money from the desert now!
Under these circumstances, Long Village indeed cannot continue to spend large sums of money to purchase such advanced fighter planes.
Just like what Su Heng said, these fighter planes are too advanced, and it's like using a butcher's knife to kill a chicken!
Su Heng took them out probably as a return for Long Village, and also to increase their technological reserves for the national defense army……
Upon pondering these things, Qian Zhizhong and the other two looked at each other and both wore a wry smile.
Before, they didn't have the technology and had to beg and plead everywhere……
Now they have the technology, but the technology seems to be too good. In a way, this is "excessive technology"!
So much so that they even need to reserve the technology!
Thinking about these, with a wry smile, their spirits were somewhat dazed.
When did they even get to enjoy this feeling of "excessive technology" and the sensation of "standing on the peak and looking down upon all the mountains"?
"This may be, the troubles of the Black and White Eagles back then..."
After a long time, Qian Zhizhong and the other two looked at each other, and saw the same idea in each other's eyes.
At this moment, they both somewhat understood the feelings of the Black and White Eagles when Old Polar Bear fell.
"I see, you are just flag-planting!"
But it didn't take long for Qian Zhizhong and the others to shake their heads and dismiss the thoughts in their minds:
"No, we can't be too complacent. We are still weak, the major threats around us have not been resolved, and we cannot claim our rights at sea. Our journey is still long!"
Thinking about these things, Qian Zhizhong took a deep breath and forced the thoughts in his mind down, and then refocused his gaze on Su Heng, saying:
"Xiao Su, you're right. We can't mass-produce and deploy the eight-great and the Qingniao on a large scale right now, nor do we need to. But I think it should be possible for us to produce and deploy them in small quantities. The cost of the eight-great and the Qingniao is indeed much higher than that of the Jianshikai, but their performance is worth spending this money on!"
"By producing and deploying them in small quantities, we can also use these aircraft as our aces. They can be used in combination with the Jianshikai for high and low-level applications. We can use the Jianshikai for routine patrols, and when necessary, we can bring these aircraft out as our killer apps!"
"Similarly, now we can also spend money to have you help build production lines for industrial reserves, preparing for future events. We can prepare for rainy days ahead of time, so that when the need arises, we won't be as helpless as before, having to slowly build production lines and wait for them to gradually produce fighter planes..."
Upon hearing this, Su Heng also fell into deep thought.
After a long time, Su Heng nodded slightly, and then said: "This is also feasible. I currently have only two production lines arranged, one for the Qingniao and one for the Eight Great. If there is an emergency situation that requires them, it's true that it may not be enough..."
Upon receiving Su Heng's response, Qian Zhizhong and the others couldn't help but smile broadly.
After thinking for a moment, Qian Zhizhong continued:
"How is the production capacity of the Qingniao and Eight Great production lines, Xiao Su?"
In response to the question, Su Heng answered directly:
"As for the capacity, it's decent. Due to the advanced nature of the aircraft and for consideration of secrecy, I have used fully intelligent mode for both production lines. Even the most basic material transportation is done by intelligent robots, so relatively speaking, the production efficiency of these two production lines is much higher than that of manual labor."
"The Qingniao production line can achieve a capacity of ten aircraft per year under sufficient raw material supply!"
"The production line for the Eight Great can reach a capacity of sixteen aircraft per year under sufficient raw material supply!"
Ten or sixteen aircraft per year?
Upon hearing these two numbers, Qian Zhizhong and the others looked at each other and both shook their heads slightly.
To be honest, that's not a low capacity.
A single production line can produce more than ten aircraft per year, which is already very good production capacity!
Their Swords Twenty production line in Tianfu, with one production line, can produce only eight aircraft per year!
Even for their Tianlong and Yinglong fighter jet production lines, one production line can only produce ten aircraft per year!
However, the capacity of ten or sixteen aircraft per year is not low.
But it's obviously not enough.
If the need actually arises, this capacity is far from meeting the demand.
Just like the current Jianshikai, Jianshikai 1, and Jianshikai 21 aircraft.
Last year, Su Heng unveiled detailed technical specifications for the Jianshikai, Jianshikai 1, and Jianshikai 21 aircraft, and then proceeded to build production lines for these aircraft.
However, it was only two months ago that the first batches of Jianshikai, Jianshikai 1, and Jianshikai 21 aircraft finally came off the production lines.
Moreover, the first batch was only 36 aircraft, with twelve each of Jianshikai, Jianshikai 1, and Jianshikai 21!
This is the result of "rushing to a Buddha's feet"!
Therefore, in order for the Eight Great and Qingniao to have a large-scale "mobilization of troops" at critical moments, the production capacity, or rather the number of production lines, must be increased!
We must ensure that we can massively produce and deploy these weapons at critical moments!
"Xiao Su, how much does it cost to expand these production lines? One line?"
After pondering for a moment, Qian Zhizhong asked again.
Upon hearing this, Su Heng paused for a moment before saying:
"The cost of a single production line is not high. Since all the production materials are my own, I do not need to pay royalties to anyone, nor do people earn my middle profits, and in a fully intelligent state there are no labor costs either. So the cost of a Qingniao production line is one hundred billion yuan, and the cost of an Eight Great production line is eighty billion yuan..."
One hundred billion yuan, eighty billion yuan?
Upon hearing these two numbers, Qian Zhizhong nodded slightly.
The cost is indeed not high.
As long as we produce ten aircraft, the cost per production line is only ten million or eight million yuan.
Such a cost could be described as very affordable!
After a moment of hesitation, Qian Zhizhong directly said:
"Xiao Su, please help us build ten such production lines directly. Eight for the Eight Great and two for the Qingniao. Your cost for the Eight Great production lines is eight billion yuan, and we can't let you suffer a loss either, so let's calculate it at a price of sixteen billion yuan!"
"The cost of the Qingniao production line is ten billion yuan, so let's calculate it at a cost of twenty billion. Then, what are the annual maintenance costs? Please provide us with a list, and let's follow the double price. I will personally report these matters to be approved..." After saying this, Qian Zhizhong turned to Su Heng and asked.
Upon hearing this, Su Heng nodded directly and said: "Okay, you can arrange this money for us. Mr. Qian, you know I don't make money from this..."
After hearing what Su Heng said, Qian Zhizhong and Tang Jianjun exchanged a look, both showing a bit of helplessness.
Indeed, Su Heng never makes money from this.
Or rather, Su Heng has never made money from their national defense army.
Like the previous Jianshikai, Jianshikai 1, and Jianshikai 21 fighter jets, Su Heng's profit was only 10%!
This is only after they insisted that Su Heng raised the profit to 10%!
More than 20 billion yuan in orders, but Su Heng only made 2 billion yuan!
That may sound like a lot, but Su Heng only sold the Jianshikai fighter jets for around 50 to 60 million Long currency!
Such advanced aircraft would certainly cost billions of dollars at the Black and White Eagle side!
They can still make up for it in other ways, such as when they sold the Tianlong and Yinglong fighter jets to the Camel Corporation before. They directly gave Su Heng half of the profits as compensation.
Or, for example, the public utility in the north...
And, for example, some indirect support...
If they can't make up for it, even if Su Heng really doesn't care about making money, they dare not continue to insist on taking the money.
In short, this precedent cannot be set!
"The people can give it away for free, but officials cannot take it for nothing!"
He shook his head, shaking away the thoughts in his mind, and continued:
"As for the fighter jets, we will temporarily purchase one squadron of the Eight Great, and two squadrons of the Qingniao..."
(Chapter complete)
