Reborn in Hong Kong: The Tycoon Grows Up

As Koki Iwasaki said, this is indeed a seven-inch pinch of Mitsubishi. During World War II, the most serious loss caused by the United States to Japan was not the atomic bomb. Nuclear weapons are more of a one-time damage, and after understanding their power, no country dares to use them easily.

What really caused Japan's heaviest losses was strategic bombing, which was the most deadly thing.

At the end of World War II, in order to destroy Japan's economic power and undermine Japan's military morale, the United States stepped up its strategic bombing of the Japanese mainland. The 20th Air Force of the U.S. Strategic Air Force dispatched a B-29 heavy bomber formation from the Mariana Islands to attack Japanese airfields and other targets in Tokyo, Yokohama, and southern Kyushu. By the end of the war, the United States had bombed Japan a total of 81 times, totaling 14,569 sorties, and dropped 140,000 tons of bombs, thus accelerating the collapse of Japanese militarism.

If you want to carry out strategic bombing of a certain place, you must have very large aircraft. Mitsubishi had no relevant technical reserves before, and its aero-engine technology was not advanced.

If we can take this opportunity to fully understand the technologies of McDonnell Douglas and Black Cloud, emergencies will occur in the future. Mitsubishi Heavy Industries can produce large aircraft in the first time. This is related to national strategy. Of course Iwasaki Koki will be tempted.

Mitsubishi is a relatively special entity among many consortiums in Japan. The entire country has strong support for them. If they continue to make no progress, they will be criticized. People may even say that they are a waste of national resources.

Now there is a good opportunity in front of us, and it is in line with Mitsubishi's national strategic needs. You must grab it and not let the opportunity slip away. Even if he knew that Bao Zixuan was digging a hole for him, he still had to jump out.

Iwasaki Koki: "What Baosang said is really exciting, and Mitsubishi Group is also very interested. There is no free lunch in the world, everyone is a businessman. You can tell Baosang what you want, and Mitsubishi will show sincerity as long as the conditions are right." .”

Time is limited, and the initiative is still in the opponent's hands. Even if it knew that it was cooperating with McDonnell Douglas, Mitsubishi would not be able to bypass the black cloud and contact them directly. Regardless of whether the two companies have signed a cooperation agreement, if McDonnell Douglas refuses to take the initiative to come to the door, it will be difficult to explain to Boeing in the future.

And there is a high possibility that McDonnell Douglas will reject it without a clear investigation. McDonnell Douglas will definitely consider this a test by Boeing. Of course, it is impossible to have too in-depth contact, let alone trust.

Mitsubishi has been deeply labeled by Boeing, and most aircraft manufacturers will take this into consideration before cooperating.

Iwasaki Koki has made his words clear, and Bao Zixuan knows that he can't hide it.

Bao Zixuan: "I want to get the shipbuilding technology of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, which is of course the most advanced. At the same time, Heiyun Group will send 1,000 technical workers to study. I hope Mitsubishi can cooperate."

Mitsubishi Shipbuilding Industry is not only the most advanced shipbuilding company in Japan, but also one of the most advanced shipbuilding companies in the world.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries is responsible for shipbuilding in the Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering Division, which has a total of four subordinate shipyards.

Nagasaki Shipyard; during World War II, the giant battleship "Musashi" was built, and it is still the most powerful shipbuilding base today. Mainly provides large surface ships for the Self-Defense Forces.

Subordinate headquarters (one 225,000-ton shipyard, one 300,000-ton shipyard, one 95,000-ton shipyard), Koyaki (one 1-million-ton shipyard and one 9-million-ton ship repair shipyard), Sachimachi and Isahaya four factories, of which the first two are One is for shipbuilding, the third one is for shipbuilding equipment, and the last one is for general assembly of some components. Annual production capacity: 1.9 million tons of shipbuilding and 5.5 million tons of ship repair. It can produce almost all types of ships in the world except aircraft carriers.

Kobe Shipyard; produced submarines during World War II. It is now also Japan's main submarine manufacturing base. It is also Japan's main nuclear facility production base.

Shimonoseki Shipyard; this plant is smaller and mainly produces small ships. There is a 33,000-ton slipway and a 600-ton special slipway. One each for 40,000, 17,000, 4,000 and 1,000 tons shipyards.

Yokohama Manufacturing Co., Ltd. It mainly produces marine machinery and sometimes repairs some ships. The only subordinate factory is the Honmu Factory, which has two ship repair docks; this factory has nothing to do with military product production.

Take out any one that is famous all over the world, it is the most valuable asset of the Mitsubishi Group. Before the introduction of industrial computers, Mitsubishi had exchanged technology patents with Heiyun for its civilian shipbuilding technology.

If this request is made now, it must be that civilian shipbuilding technology can no longer satisfy the young man in front of him. This is to build warships, and now it seems to have been basically confirmed.

This guy is too ambitious. It took Mitsubishi more than 100 years to develop to this scale. In less than six years since its establishment, Heiyun has built Heiyun Town in Xiangjiang and launched a new district in Pudong, Shanghai; these are all money-burning behaviors. Now we have to enter the field of warship manufacturing again; don't we worry that our steps are too slow and it will be easy to get ahead of ourselves?

Iwasaki Koki: "I understand what Baosang means, but Mitsubishi Shipbuilding technology involves national secrets. We don't have the guts to sell or exchange it with others. That would be an act of treason."

"The technology of civilian ships can now be decided. Bao Sang can do whatever he wants. But when it comes to warships, it is very troublesome. It can be said that there is no room for negotiation."

Why didn't Mr. Bao know that Iwasaki Koki would definitely refuse? This was more of a test. Mitsubishi Shipbuilding is not necessarily decided by the Mitsubishi Group, and there must be a shadow of the government in it.

Bao Zixuan: "I haven't thought about producing warships. It would be great to be able to produce civilian ships at present. But Heiyun Group definitely has no experience in this area. The shipbuilding technology exchanged last time is still there. The engineering and technical personnel are still there. I haven’t fully understood it yet. Everyone says that building ships is more difficult than building airplanes. I didn’t believe it before, but now I am really convinced.”

"Heiyun engineering and technical personnel must go to Mitsubishi Shipyard for internships in order to learn their skills. If you just rely on yourself to explore, it may take a long time for Heiyun's ship to be launched."

Bao Zixuan's meaning was very clear, he wanted to join the manufacturing of large aircraft. Shipbuilding technology must be opened up to Heiyun, and it must be done without reservation.

This requires balancing interests, for the sake of super large passenger aircraft technology; is it worth cultivating a shipbuilding rival?

Heiyun Group can learn shipbuilding technology in Germany, France, the United Kingdom, the United States and other countries. There may be some differences with Japanese technology; the overall performance will definitely not be much different. There are only three companies in the world that can design and manufacture very large passenger aircraft. Airbus is a product of Europe as a whole, and it is impossible for it to agree to allow Japanese companies to join. Moreover, the distance is relatively far, and in the end, I won’t be able to learn anything. It's almost the same as Boeing. What's the point of being a parts supplier?

Boeing simply looks down on Japanese companies, including Mitsubishi of course. Just do your job as a parts supplier and don’t think too much about anything else.

At present, this is the only opportunity. If this opportunity is lost, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries may have to wait for many years if it wants to possess the manufacturing technology for super-large aircraft.

Bao Zixuan dispatched 1,000 skilled workers, and its purpose was certainly not limited to civilian ship manufacturing. As long as warship technology is strictly guarded, it is unlikely to cause any trouble.

This kid is very ambitious and may even do some outrageous things to achieve his goal. However, Mitsubishi is not a company that is easy to bully, and the worst it can do is break up.

Iwasaki Koki: "I agree in principle with this plan. The final result will have to be reported to the board of directors. Although I am the person in charge of Mitsubishi, I cannot directly make the decision on many things. But I think it is not a big problem. After all, this is a win-win situation. .”

Bao Zixuan knew that this matter was done, and Iwasaki Koki dared to express his position like this. It proves that he is confident. Once his status reaches a certain level, he will not accept anything easily.

Of course, Bao Shaofu's goal is not just civilian ships. Mitsubishi warship manufacturing is the technology he wants most. That is to say, through these 1,000 engineering and technical personnel, a lot of technical information was transmitted back during the exchange at Mitsubishi Shipyard. Combined with the simulation analysis of large-scale industrial computers, Heiyun Group has thoroughly understood all the warships produced by Mitsubishi, making many warships produced by Mitsubishi no secrets at all in front of Heiyun.

Military facilities without secrets are just like living targets, and the military has to ask major shipyards to redesign them. The service life of a warship generally exceeds 20 years, and Japan has set a precedent. Basically, most of the ships were replaced in less than 5 years; all of them were due to Mitsubishi in order to obtain super large passenger aircraft technology.

Koki Iwasaki was almost dug out. It was his short-sightedness and overconfidence that caused Mitsubishi Heavy Industries to suffer such heavy losses.