"As for food..." Contini said, "This is indeed a problem, but there is no need to worry too much. I have an agreement with the Soviet Union and Turkey to get a large amount of food. The current constraint is transportation. However, I believe that the joint shipping is fine. My requirement is to reach a carrying capacity of 300,000 tons within three years and 1 million tons within five years."

"You are always big." Tot sighed, "I feel that the United Group has become larger and more comprehensive. Now no European consortium can compare with your career."

Contini smiled: "No one compared me to my loss. Half a year later, the financial director told me that I lost 1.6 billion lira. It was almost the same as 80% of the quota last year. I guess I will lose 1.8-1.9 billion lira in the second half of the year. Of course, this is a book loss. Some assets appreciate, and I don't count the appreciation of the land... I don't aim to make money. We are the national policy consortium, the founder of the fascist cause, and the creator of the Italian miracle. Leave the unclassified things like making money for Fiat."

Tot also laughed: This sentence has its roots. Mussolini just delivered a speech two days ago, declaring that Libya is the lifeline of Italy and that he should use "the life of the last Italian, the last lira" to defend him. He also claimed that the United Group is a typical model for Italian construction and development of Libya. Once this high hat is worn, Contini can't escape even if he wants to. Of course, he would not choose to evade Libya. It is the only meaning in the question.

"Doctor, do you expect the oil pipe to be connected to the Algerian oil field as soon as possible? The oil field installation project there is said to be basically completed in September and October at the latest."

Tot gritted his teeth: "As long as you promised to give me the manpower and vehicles, I promised to pass the oil pipe to the predetermined location 11 months ago."

"Okay, I'll wait for your good news. I'm going to show off with the French in October."

"Showdown? What cards are there?"

"The French have been blocking me in the matter of crude oil transportation and refused to let me go to Algiers to build a port, nor can I pass through the oil pipe..."

Tott was shocked: He always thought Contini had already arranged to leave Tripoli, but he didn't expect that there would be such a big episode in the middle, so he said with concern: "Will the French give up?"

"This is impossible! You may have to fight verbal wars, economic wars, political wars, and maybe even military wars."

"Military war? Are the French crazy?"

"They will buy Algerian tribes. Aren't the British buying Libyan tribes' armed forces recently?"

"What should you do if that is true?"

"Go to the oil guard!" Contini's expressionless face, "The 6,000 oil guards are not security guards. They are trained according to the regular army. Even if the French send foreign troops, I will touch the tiger's butt."

Tott shook his head and expressed his incredibleness, but this is in line with the president's personality! Fascisti's young leader is so tough! It's so tough that you have nothing to say!

"If the French force me to get too anxious, I can do something despicable!" Contini smiled. "This time I brought a bunch of second-hand weapons, all of which were bad things that we seized in Austria in the last war, but it was enough to send them to the Algerians and let them mess with the French authorities. By the way, there are also three-piece slaughter trucks of the KMT, Sickett cocktails and Munich Lei! This time, it's also a good thing to upgrade."

"What good thing?"

Contini leaned into his ear and whispered: "Suicide vest, I call him Berian vest. As long as the person wearing it is close to you, then gently, the whole world will be clean and suitable for both young and old!"

"God!" Tot touched his forehead and was amazed. He was also a member of the National Socialist Party. Of course, he knew how powerful the three treasures of the National Socialist Party were: it was once a fight that made the Weimar National Defense Force difficult to move forward, and half of the regiment was lost in vain. Now if you add Berian vest, the French would really cry to death. France would be fine, but it was just afraid of death!

He was also very surprised why Contini told him about this. In fact, Contini thought that these things could not be hidden from Tot. He did not simply regard the other party as an employee of the United Group. This is the leader of the Tott organization in the future. How can he not establish a good relationship?

Now Tot also understood why Contini had to build so many airports, railway lines, military stations, material stations, defensive construction and other things that were completely useless for economic construction by economic development by North Africa. Your Excellency the President is to prepare to fight with the French in the desert!

However, with the left hand to deal with the French and the right hand to deal with the British. Can Italy with a small body really hold up?

"So it depends on courage. It is impossible to fight. Not to mention that Britain and France are working together, even Italy alone cannot withstand it. But if it is not a national level battle, the United Group's combat effectiveness is greater than that of any side." Contini said proudly, "Just with my oil guards armed with the German officers' regiment of 6,000, and my annual loss of 3 billion lira, no one dares to challenge the United Group!"

Contini mentioned three plastic innovations, but actually two of them are counterfeit products: the first one is phenolic plastic, which was invented in the United States 20 years ago. By this year, the patent protection expired, and United Plastics Company began to produce large-scale products. The most typical one is the shell of the joint radio; the second one is aniline formaldehyde plastic, which was invented 6 years ago. Although it was still in the patent protection period, this is not a problem for the president. He asked the experts to add some messy materials and became a new product. Now it is mainly

It is used on cables and has good insulation performance; the third model is PVC plastic. As early as 1912, German chemist Collette had invented PVC and applied for a patent, but until the patent expired in 1925, Collette could not think of what PVC is for. However, in the joint laboratory, chemists from various ways used high-boiling point solvents and tricresol phosphate to heat and mix them with PVC to form soft PVC products. This is not a copycat but an improvement. Contini called it white plastic.

White plastic was quickly used in United Real Estate. They used PVC pipes and water pipes in their residences, and the sewers were all in one go, and they were brushed in white. Because PVC pipes were easy to bend and easy to connect, and there was no residue of rust and water in the pipeline, it was promoted by United Real Estate as the same high-end goods as aluminum alloy doors and windows. Now there are three standards for distinguishing high-end communities: First, whether the doors and windows are bright or not, the aluminum alloy is very bright; second, whether the water pipes are white or not, which are high-end goods such as PVC, and black ones are backward goods such as cast iron pipes or galvanized pipes; third, are there any telephone lines in the unit?

United Film Company also creates momentum for this plot: whenever there are high-end communities in the camera, you must shoot these prominent places, so during that time, you often see the heroines checking out the shiny aluminum alloy windows, or you must run out to answer the phone. This trick is taught by the president himself, called implantable soft advertising. Italian Bourgeois little ones take this!

What's even more excessive is that United Group also refuses to sell these materials on the pretext of insufficient supply. Only the communities and leaders' new villages developed by United Real Estate itself have, which makes people who buy houses feel a sense of pride and are willing to contribute premiums to United Real Estate's residence. The president's fashionable words are called brand premiums.

These routines were later classic views of Italian management and marketing textbooks. Every footnote and example was United Group. Later generations praised Contini as a management master, and marketing masters were not unfounded. How could they know that the President’s reputation was stolen from the scales of later generations? What was even more unexpected was that the President actually introduced a large number of high-end white plastic water transport in North Africa where birds were not shit.

Of course, using plastic to transport water is not just to solve the current supply difficulties. Contini also has factors to consider for future desert wars: how to quickly form standardized, stored, impermeable, deteriorated, small packaging, lightweight and low-cost water tank materials, but he has been thinking about it for a long time, and now he is finally willing to take it out and use it.

If it is used well, he is also planning to promote small bottles of packaged mineral water. If the advertisement is done better, it can be taken out as a high-end product seller. Does the people who drink water? They drink the mood and unique feeling! Of course, the opaque PVC level is not enough, and they need transparent and other safer new products, so the joint laboratory has to work hard!
Chapter completed!