Of course, Vice Chairman Li knew that he would not be called by Mr. Liu for no reason today. Although Mr. Liu basically didn't say anything beforehand, when he saw Duke, Vice Chairman Li basically understood most of the things and knew that it was not easy to come today.

As one of the military's super tycoons, Vice Chairman Li certainly has his own team to serve him. Although Du's acquisition of steel is very low-key, such a far-reaching action is actually a big move at the top of the board. How could Vice Chairman Li not have any understanding of it?

In fact, as a member of the military, he was happy to see this. On the one hand, this incident did not touch his interests. On the other hand, as Mr. Liu said, the latest special steels developed by Dushi Heavy Industry are more important in military sense than in civilian use. Early in the successful development of Xincheng Special Steel, several military leaders had reached an agreement that the main uses of Dushi Heavy Industry will first meet military use.

Therefore, there was no trouble in expanding the capacity of Xincheng Special Steel in the first phase, and it passed the green light. On the one hand, although the production volume of Xincheng Special Steel is not enough to shake this market, on the other hand, the military demand is still in the early stage of prototype production, and the demand is not too large.

However, this time, Du's Heavy Industry's new plan under the leadership of Cai Siqiang seems to be too ruthless. If the Southwest Steel Group was selected this time, it would not have been noticed that such a small opponent, the scale of millions of tons of ordinary steel, could not even be a small role in the country's total plate of hundreds of millions of tons of steel to avoid iron production. For giants such as Baosteel, it is just an embellishment of some monopoly accusations.

At such a small scale, when can you not like it? Just use one trick to subdue it, such as reducing prices, tightening monetary policy, and with the current high debt and low profit margin nature of an ordinary steel plant, whether it is a loan or a payment for goods, it may force you to go bankrupt if it is a three or five months.

So steel mills like Southwest Dexing are small ants in the eyes of bigwigs. They can be destroyed by raising their hands, so that they will not be attracted by their direct eyes, just wait for you to die.

However, the production capacity of this factory is very different in the hands of Dushi Heavy Industry. As mentioned earlier, Dushi Heavy Industry is not short of money or technology now. Even the market has found most of the sales routes. It doesn’t matter if millions of tons of ordinary steel is replaced, but if the production capacity is replaced by millions of tons of special steel, it is not the same concept at all.

For the domestic market, this special steel market has a capacity of more than 10 million tons, and the price is even smaller. If Dushi Heavy Industry does this, it means that the most profitable high-end part will be directly removed. Now no special steel can catch up with Dushi Heavy Industry's products at the technical level. According to normal market rules, it is certain that it will be removed. Moreover, everyone now knows that the military favors Dushi Heavy Industry.

"Old Liu, what are your thoughts on this matter?" Vice Chairman Li asked in a deep voice. Mr. Liu said so much, so he had to figure out what Mr. Liu really meant first.

Although Vice Chairman Li is not very clear about the specific tricks in the steel industry, the key gains and losses are Men Qing. He knows that this matter involves several great figures at the level of the elders. Although he is not very afraid of trouble, the military is one by one, and has always been relatively simple. Vice Chairman Liu and Vice Chairman Li are already top people in this system, which is much better than ordinary vice-national level.

But if there is no special reason, no one is willing to offend these bigwigs who hold power in some aspects of the country.

Whether it is Mr. Liu or Vice Chairman Li, they all retire on the day. If you have to make mistakes, no one will offend anyone, let alone the top-level bosses in China.

So if it is not particularly necessary, everyone will actually put away their minions on weekdays, instead of showing them out at any time to offend people randomly.

Mr. Liu and Vice Chairman Li have a long time to support themselves, but the people around him and his descendants still have to live. They have to leave some connections and incense for the people around him so that these people around him can live a better life in the future, right?

So Vice Chairman Li would not rashly interfere in this matter before he figured out what Mr. Liu meant. He naturally knew who the steel industry was. There was no one in the central powerful figures, and when they were in a mixed relationship with each other, the so-called mountains and rivers could be said to meet each other, and Vice Chairman Li also asked others to ask them to go.

Compared with Mr. Liu, Vice Chairman Li's family's economic power is completely incomparable. Although it is smaller than other elder-level backgrounds, the group controlled by the family also has an output value of more than 100 billion yuan a year. With such a large-scale economic group, if it continues to work safely, a family will be enough to maintain generations of wealth.

"I mean that now is the time to launch a comprehensive upgrade of main combat equipment. Since we can now compare with the international advanced level, we can upgrade our main combat equipment to a new level. I mean upgrading and redesigning the new main combat equipment. Let's see if we can use these new materials to improve the performance of the latest main combat equipment to a higher level when we fully use new materials."

Mr. Liu looked at Vice Chairman Li and said softly in a gentle tone.

When Vice Chairman Li heard Mr. Liu's words, he had a sharp eyelid and his heart was even more calm. Old Liu released this big killer weapon, which was really arguing with those people.

He is a military boss, and of course he understands how huge the overall upgrade of this main combat equipment is. He will definitely need a large number of new special steel materials. If this combat readiness requirement is proposed according to the existing product standards of Dushi Heavy Industry, then other domestic steel companies will only be spectators in this super large order.

Because from now on, only Dushi Heavy Industry has the ability to produce and supply this new material.

Of course, such a big move, from the perspective of demand, is by no means what Dushi Heavy Industry's existing production capacity can provide. This is to use the military's needs to force those who give way.

Vice Chairman Li did not expect that Mr. Liu would spend so much money. At this sensitive moment, he suddenly launched a comprehensive upgrade plan for the main combat equipment. A discerning person could immediately know that Mr. Liu would not hesitate to use the needs of the military to support the development of Du's Heavy Industry.

Only by adopting this very powerful excuse can we convince the No. 1 leader and force several other bosses to give way at the Standing Committee.

It is obviously impossible to get the army to pass such a big move, relying on Mr. Liu alone alone. Among the three major military giants, if Vice Chairman Li expressed his support, it would obviously not be able to pass it within the military. He and Mr. Liu are the three vice chairmen of the military, responsible for national defense security and combat power improvement, and the other is mainly responsible for political affairs. If the two of them unify their opinions, the possibility of this proposal being approved by the Military Commission will greatly increase.

Today, Mr. Liu called Vice Chairman Li over. The most important purpose was to communicate with Vice Chairman Li in advance to see if his attitude was too great to reject this plan.

Of course, from the overall national interests, now with such good external conditions to improve military strength, Vice Chairman Li also believes that it is very necessary to launch the main combat equipment upgrade and transformation plan, and it is better not to be late. After all, national security should be more stable as soon as possible. Otherwise, the country's external decision-making will always be too scrupulous because of too many concerns.

Not winning is of course the most core component of these concerns. The more thorough the research on several modern wars such as the Gulf War, Yugoslav War and Libyan War, the deeper everyone's understanding of the war model under modern high-tech conditions, that is, under the conditions of advantageous equipment, the role that manpower can play is actually smaller and smaller.

Therefore, the military has always shifted its focus to improving combat power to equipment. The emergence of new generation fighter jets, main battle tanks, large destroyers, missile frigates and even aircraft carriers has all invested huge amounts of money to create a new generation of main battle equipment, in an attempt to narrow the gap with the world's advanced level.

However, due to restrictions on raw materials and processing technology, although the performance of the newly developed main combat equipment has improved significantly compared to previous products, it is still nearly a generation behind the world's advanced level. These things are not something that can be followed by slogans. There are too many lessons that need to be supplemented in this system project.

It is precisely because of this background that the military bosses were ecstatic after Du Shi Heavy Industry came up with new materials with excellent performance and the latest machine tool equipment. Now these things have been tested by the military. The main combat equipment prototypes made using such materials and new machine tool processing technology are basically no different from the current international mainstream main combat equipment in hardware, and they can even surpass them in some aspects.

This means that the gap in hardware of main combat equipment has been greatly improved, and the gap has mainly shifted to software such as electronic fire control systems.

And it is this shortcoming. Now that Duke is a genius, Mr. Liu has also seen the dawn of improvement. In the deployment and arrangement of improvement projects, Duke's progress is quite satisfactory. He found many problems in the original system. I believe that after solving these problems, the system will have extremely exciting improvements.

Of course, Vice Chairman Li knew about these things. It was precisely because of this that he was a little embarrassed. The military actually had a world-class level in the design of main combat equipment. The materials and processing technology problems that have always plagued the military have now been well solved. If the first-class fire control system is added and the new main combat equipment created by these new technologies is definitely a surprise to the world. It can be said that now is the best time to improve the level of the military.

(I went out for three days last weekend and used my mobile phone to update it in the middle, which caused the update pace to be a little disrupted. We will try our best to get back on track from tomorrow.)
Chapter completed!