"When did you intervene in the field of warship manufacturing?" Mr. Shen looked at Xie Kai with some disbelief. "Now all units are engaged in professionalization. You are better, but you are going against it. Have enough funds and technical strength?"

He even felt a little dissatisfied in his tone.

At present, domestic units still have the same original idea, seeking big and complete ideas, rather than focusing on improving their energy in professional technical fields.

404 has great potential. No matter which field it is built, it will be very fast because it has a lot of funds and military logistics system support.

It originally only involved the fields of army equipment and aviation manufacturing, but now when will it be involved in warships?

"Old Shen, we didn't want to do it at the beginning. Building warships is too expensive and has high requirements for industrial basics. But you also know the current situation of the military system. The country has made the army patient and waited, and a large number of military-industrial units go bankrupt, turning..." Xie Kai said with a bitter face.

He thought Mr. Shen knew that their 404 had entered the field of warship manufacturing.

Hudong Shipyard, that was assigned to 404 by the military. At the beginning, the 404 was really not planned to be accepted, especially Xie Kai, who knew that naval equipment was more powerful than air force equipment.

But later, it was also for the basic supporting facilities to catch up, and inadvertently, there were a lot of orders.

"Your funds are too scattered, concentrated in one field, can achieve very good results and drive the development of related fields..." Mr. Shen sighed.

He has been in charge of the national industrial department for so many years and has the best understanding of the national industrial foundation.

No unit can support the development of the entire national industrial system.

Everyone knows this truth, but the leaders of various units will strive to expand their business scope as long as they have the opportunity, which will cause dispersion of forces and also make the domestic duplicate construction serious, otherwise the country will not conduct macro-control due to the overheating of the economy.

"We are also helpless..." Xie Kai knew what Mr. Shen meant.

Mr. Shen is not unclear.

At present, military expenditure is being reduced every year, and the army has almost only one minimum expenditure. It is not enough to buy new equipment or anything else. If there is less equipment added, where can the funds for scientific research and production units come from?

To survive, you must turn to the field of design and manufacturing of civilian products.

From the reform and opening up to the present, less than one-third of the military factories and supporting factories under the national military industrial system have been maintained. Only some of the most core military factories are still retained.

There are few orders, and these units have a hard time.

We can only rely on strong technical strength to develop civilian products and pursue survival.

"It's not that I won't help you. Your unit is engaged in national linkage technology research, which is different from the country. Once there is a problem with the funding, or the research progress of a certain unit will be slow, it will affect the entire project." Mr. Shen thought about it for a moment and said to Xie Kai very seriously.

This was the first time he told Xie Kai exactly why he was unwilling to help 404 in charge of the core machine project research work.

"Old Mr. Shen, don't worry about this, there will be no problem with the funds. Among all the units in the country, except for the Ministry of Finance, no one has more money than us..." Xie Kai was a little bragging.

The four major banks have been divided into the Ministry of Finance system by him.

There is indeed no unit in the country that has stronger financial strength than them.

"This is not a question of how much money you have. It is true that you have more money. Those who know your unit know. The key is how much you can invest in this project. So far, some projects I know have begun to consume a lot of money, such as your Y-10, Super-7b, flying shield system with stronger defense capabilities, etc.... Now there are also warships added..." Mr. Shen pointed out the problem of the current 404.

There is a lot of money in the small treasury, and similarly, there are many places to spend money in the 404 subordinate units.

What's more, we are still working on construction.

Even if these projects are successful, it will be difficult to recover investment in the short term, which will require greater capital.

For a moment, Xie Kai could not answer Mr. Shen's words.

He couldn't guarantee how much money 404 could mobilize.

In the past, the country carried out technical research and directly issued tasks, and guaranteed special funds from the central government, so it never worried about funding issues.

Now the central government has to ensure economic infrastructure. Once this project is started, it is okay to say that it is successful. It has bright prospects. Whether it is the development of gas turbines based on core engines, aircraft engines, or large gas turbines, it is not a problem.

But what happened?

The consequences are unimaginable.

All projects in the entire 404 will be affected by the break of the capital chain.

Seeing Xie Kai silent, Mr. Shen continued to speak, "High temperature, high pressure, and high pneumatic mechanical load are the core things of core machines. Materials, specialized laboratories, and even R&D technical documents. We have no system, and we have not done pre-research work in this area before... Although developing core machines has great benefits, you know the current technical basic situation in our country, which requires far more funds than foreign countries."

To build the core engine of the engine, you must start with the components.

First design each component, verify it separately, and test the working conditions and various characteristics under harsh working conditions such as high temperature and high pressure.

This makes the project team necessary to invest in basic materials and other research.

When the materials come out, if there are no processing conditions, the processing equipment must continue to be developed, and they also need to invest money.

The United States and the Soviet Union did not have these problems because their manufacturing systems were developed step by step. China either followed their approach, accumulated experience, and made breakthroughs slowly; or spent money to spend the entire system.

404: To build a core machine, we have chosen the next path.

The funds required are beyond imagination.

"The industrial department has also studied this problem. Once it is done, the industrial strength of the entire country can be greatly improved. But you must understand that the national department is different from the problems you are considering. The national industrial system is too large and requires money to develop everywhere. It is impossible to mobilize much money to support you."

What Mr. Shen said was also telling Xie Kai that they were not idle.

Even the Ministry of Industry did not sit idly by.

Want to help, but no money.

What can it be done?

A good wife cannot cook without rice. What kind of things the country needs to do? It is impossible to have no money.

You can't keep printing money, right?

"You go back first and convey my ideas to Director Zheng and others. Then you can see how much funds can be collected on this project, and let's talk about it." Mr. Shen said.

After saying this, Mr. Shen looked tired.

Although Xie Kai did not receive a reply this time, he also understood a lot of questions.

Things are not as simple as they thought.

By now, 404 has reached a barrier.

To do it, the funds needed are not a small amount. The supporting projects may consume billions or even tens of billions in just three to five years, otherwise they will have to wait.

Wait for the matching package to start.

"What did Mr. Shen say so?" Zheng Yucheng and the others were confused about Xie Kai's return at first, but seeing that this boy was rarely serious, they hurriedly convened the management committee's members to a meeting as per his request.

After hearing this, his expression also became serious.

"How much money do we have?" Wang Guilin asked Yang Qian directly.

How much money is in the small treasury determines whether their project can be carried out.

If you can't, you can only take it slowly. At that time, warships will continue to spend money, fighter jets will spend money, and the Y-10 will also have to spend money...

"16.8 billion, of which 1.4 billion is required to pay research funds to various cooperative units and our subordinate units before the end of the year..." Yang Qian memorized the money in their accounts thoroughly.

"so much?"

"That's the point?"

Obviously, people of 404 have different perceptions of money than Xie Kai.

"Is this too little?" Yang Qian even despised Xie Kai a little. "If it weren't for the previous batch of oil settled in US dollars, we wouldn't have exchanged it with the bank for RMB. Every time we had to pay a portion of it, as well as the dividends from other cooperative units... It's not easy to have so many, and the profits of a year would be almost 2 billion!"

Such a huge sum of money, and it's still a small amount!

This is still due to the depreciation of the RMB against the US dollar.

It's already 1:3.8 this year.

“It’s really too little…”

"Nationwide, except for banks, there is no unit with us who has money!" Zheng Yucheng was a little unhappy and Xie Kai.

There are tens of billions of dollars, but I still say I have no money.

"How much money does Song Yanjin have left over there?" Xie Kai asked.

If 404 has only about 15 billion of available funds, put aside the funds that other projects need to use in the next few years, they can use them, and they will definitely not exceed 5 billion.

You should know that during the US stock market crash, Xie Kai went long and short and made a profit of $2 billion. With such a huge unit of 404, thousands of tanks sold, thousands of missiles sold, and warships and aircraft, only so much money...

"There are less than 500 million US dollars over there, most of which are in Japan's real estate, etc." Wang Guilin said, "The money cannot be transferred in a short time."

“How much money can we call?”

"Minister Shen said he didn't say how much he wanted? It's not just us who get the benefits of this matter. The Ministry of Industry has to make some blood, right?" Bai Yanjun was also a little dissatisfied with the Ministry of Industry's failure to pay.

Not only did they not pay, they also divided the funds from them.

"I didn't say it. He just said that if we determine how much money we can transfer, we will go to him. According to my thoughts, the amount will not be small, otherwise he would not have refused us all the time." Xie Kai said with a sad face.

“How much can we squeeze out?”

"If the pre-research of the aircraft carrier is stopped, the pre-research of the 10,000-ton large-wheel drive is also stopped, and the pre-research project of stealth fighter jets is cancelled, we can spend 8 billion." Yang Qian put a small palm-sized abacus she carried with her on the conference table, and then she made up in front of everyone, and then said.
Chapter completed!