"How have you been here during this time? Without you here, I feel like those people are not in good shape even when I go to the fourth brigade."
At the Aviation Research Institute, Lao Zhou called Li Hang alone and came to the side.
No one is surprised by this.
After all, in the eyes of outsiders, Li Hang is Lao Zhou's man, a reserve member of the civil engineering department in the Air Force.
"Sir, if the people of the Fourth Brigade heard what you said, I believe those outstanding officers and soldiers would be chilled." Li Hang smiled.
"Only the two of us know this." Lao Zhou smiled slightly when he heard this. "I have read your proposal on the development of the air force several times. It is very comprehensive, but the current problem is the lack of money."
"There are several ways to alleviate the funding problem."
"How many ways? Tell me." Lao Zhou suddenly became curious.
"It may not be suitable. Sir, it's just a humble job. I think we can set up our own company under the Aviation Commission."
"We can build our own planes and set up our own airlines."
"It is estimated that the laminates required for aircraft manufacturing this time will also require a separate factory. This is also a way."
Li Hang talked about many industries in succession.
Including lumber factories, food factories, cement factories, steel factories and so on, Lao Zhou was so surprised.
This is actually an enterprise run by the military, but it is run by the Air Force itself.
This is not a good idea, but the situation of the National Government at this time is that the Air Force wants to develop and cannot get too much funds from the Song brothers and sisters, so it can only find ways to make money on its own.
As for what it will look like later, and it will eventually turn into a military-industrial complex or something, Li Hang has no psychological burden.
Of course, it shouldn’t be possible to build a military-industrial complex. At most, there will be more tertiary industries.
This made Lao Zhou stunned for a moment.
In fact, compared to other factions in the national army, the civil engineering department is still more honest. After all, the core figure is setting an example for himself.
This integrity is relative. After all, the national army has long become a big dye vat.
"How did you come up with all this? There are so many tricks? What kind of ranch is there?" Lao Zhou was a little surprised when he heard this.
"The main reason is that casein is needed for laminate manufacturing." Li Hang explained immediately.
Laminates are made by coating thin wood sheets with glue and then pressing them together.
According to foreign experience at this time, casein extracted from milk skimming and adding a small amount of chemicals can be prepared into casein.
The casein glue made in this way has both a certain adhesive force and a certain waterproof ability, and can also be used at room temperature, unlike phenolic resin glue that requires hot pressing to cure.
So casein requires a lot of milk.
The milk production around Chengdu is not high, so the best way is to open your own dairy farm.
In addition to the milk needed for industrial production, much of it can also be sold in Chengdu, so there is no need to worry about not being able to sell it.
The same goes for steel plants.
"The ideas you mentioned are very good, but they require money and equipment." Lao Zhou asked the key question.
"I can think of ways to make money and equipment. Sir, have you forgotten that I grew up overseas? I still know some people."
Hearing this, Lao Zhou looked at Li Hang doubtfully, a little unsure of what the other party meant by this.
In fact, Li Hang was just taking a precaution first so that Lao Zhou would not be caught off guard when he showed off his overseas connections later.
However, he did not speak too carefully. He was also worried that the industrial development in the United States would not be as good as expected, so he left some room for it.
"Developing industry requires capital and technology, which is not easy. What are the other methods you mentioned? Let's talk about it together." Lao Zhou also guessed that this subordinate's identity may not be simple.
Think about it, someone who knows several languages, can fly an airplane, and can design airplanes is unlikely to be able to do these things in ordinary families.
Just like these domestic pilots, their families are either rich or expensive.
But he didn't ask any more questions.
"Sir, if our new destroyer is really developed, can we name it 'Zhongformal' or 'Meiling'?" Li Hang's mouth raised slightly as he spoke.
"What?" Lao Zhou looked at the other party in shock.
He thought it was some kind of solution and thought about many possibilities, but he didn't expect this.
Name the new fighter plane after those two people?
"Sir, do you think this method is feasible? I think even the secretary-general will give us part of the funds to build an airplane, right?" Li Hang showed a sinister smile.
This is what he is doing.
The reason why he thought of this method was the inspiration given to him by the Chinese official rifle.
Who said planes can't be called "Chinese official"?
Haven’t you seen that there will be IDF fighters in Wanwan in later generations?
This is the highest level of flattery. If this fighter plane really achieves excellent results on the front line, and that fighter plane is named after himself, I will be very excited just thinking about it.
Maybe with a stroke of a pen, millions or tens of millions or something can be directly allocated.
Maybe the unit can be converted into US dollars.
"Who taught you this? Wang Zhu must not have thought of this idea; those intellectuals are very noble, so it's impossible... It's not really you who came up with it, right?
How did you come up with this idea? "Lao Zhou was dumbfounded. After eliminating all the possibilities one by one, he found that this idea might have come from Li Hang.
This is obviously an idea that came up to obtain funds.
You might say it's a bad idea, but it doesn't seem to be the case, but it just gives people a weird feeling.
"Sir, please ask if this idea can be funded from the government?" Li Hang got straight to the point.
Lao Zhou hesitated for a while and nodded helplessly, "If you really do this for your new fighter plane, there is a high chance that you will get funding.
So what name do you want?
"'Chinese formal'? Or 'American-style'?"
"Why can't the two of them work together? I'll make a suggestion to Director Wang and develop a new destroyer and a bomber. Wouldn't this take care of both?"
"You...you really have a lot of ideas in your head!" After hearing this, Lao Zhou didn't know what to say.
Not to mention, he was also in favor of this idea.
It's just a name.
Just like the Chinese official rifle, also called the Type 2 and Type 4 rifle, who said it can only have one name?
"Sir, is it settled then?" Li Hang immediately climbed up the pole.
"I think you can really try it. But the first step is to come up with real things, otherwise it will be easy to fail." Lao Zhou reminded.
"Sir, don't worry. When the prototype of the new destroyer is actually produced, we will make the performance as good as possible before testing it in public."
"Okay, if you can really do it, I can invite senior government officials to Chengdu to watch the test flight in public." Lao Zhou thought for a while and decided to seize this opportunity.
"Sir, don't worry. But sir, it's best for those in Wuhan to be careful about April 29, which is two days away."
