GBP Chapter 339: Welcome Lucky Draw and Spontik Car
Chapter 339: Welcome Lucky Draw and Spontik Car
However, the White Eagle people did not live through such hard times for long.
With the occupation of Pegu by the People's Army, the Air Force's "South China Sea Military Police" PB4Y-2 anti-submarine patrol aircraft hunted Japanese submarines at sea every day. The route from Yangon Port to the west through the Sindhu Ocean and the Mediterranean to the east coast of White Eagle has been fully restored.
Sugar and rubber, two of the most important specialties of Southeast Asia, began to arrive on the east coast of White Eagle in batches.
Previously, due to uncertainty about how long the war would last and how long normal global trade and supply would be restored, Commander Luo naturally signed a rationing order in order not to waste existing supplies.
As the war situation becomes clearer, Commander Luo naturally has to consider that he will need more public support in the next general election.
Campaign staff believed that ending rationing and returning ordinary White Eagle citizens to their daily lives was an obvious good idea.
In addition, Zhang Chi began to stabilize the supply of rubber and sugar to White Eagle. Although the quantity was not particularly large, with a stable supply, the authorities could naturally leak some materials to the civilian market.
Therefore, in June 1945, General Luo finally lifted the rationing order on meat, rubber and sugar.
(Regardless of rationing or not, the actual material living conditions of the people of the White Eagles were much better than those of the blockaded British Isles. The lives of the people of the Republic of China were even worse than those of the former two. Although the White Eagles later resumed rationing in order to aid Europe, that is a story for another time.)
Especially after Zhang Chi used industrial exchange coupons to develop a corn syrup production line that was at the level of the 60s, sugar, a wonderful product that everyone in the world admired and for which wars broke out, became cheap and available in large quantities for the first time.
Although the corn syrup produced by the hydrolysis production line is only 70% as sweet as refined cane sugar, the production volume of this production line is large.
Historically, the annual sugarcane consumption of White Eagle in the 44 years was only about 5.2 million short tons, while Zhang Chikai's Nanhua Second Sugar Factory in Yangon has two continuous hydrolysis production lines with a daily output of 1000 metric tons.
(A metric ton is more than 1.1 times a short ton. That's just how weird the White Eagle measurement system is.)
If it were to produce continuously throughout the year, the annual output of the Nanhua Second Sugar Refinery would be more than 70 metric tons. If all of it were to be exported, it would be equivalent to supplying 14% more sugar to the White Eagle market out of thin air. Even after taking into account shipping costs and tariffs, the final price would still be only 9% of that of cane sugar.
This is because White Eagle was short of sugar due to the war, otherwise the tariff stick would have been immediately imposed on Zhang Chi.
The raw material needed to produce all this sugar is nothing more than cheap corn, which is overproduced this year in agricultural states like Iowa.
And the key to this corn syrup hydrolysis production line in the 60s is the glucose isomerase cultivated on a specially matched catalytic enzyme cultivation line.
This allowed the people of Baiying to live a happy life with cars to drive and candy to eat.
If there was no publicity, the people of White Eagle would only think that this was the result of General Luo's good leadership.
As for the Anmin Army?
Isn't that just an ordinary ally (little friend) (brother) like Luzon?
Zhang Chi naturally would not allow such a thing to happen, so as newspapers openly and secretly presented data and listed the facts, even junior high school students like Emily knew that her family could still drive out and buy candy, and this was due to the Anmin Army and the Chinese.
Soon, the Picards saw the huge two-story concrete building in front of them.
Father Johnson's hands trembled as he gripped the steering wheel. He had just participated in the layout of the electrical facilities inside this large department store last month. He was amazed at the New Era Consortium's attitude of giving out bonuses as long as the work was fast enough.
Who says White Eagle engineers don't work overtime? It's just that no boss is willing to pay overtime.
The Picard family waited in line outside the parking lot for nearly half an hour before finally following the flow of traffic into the parking lot.
"Oh my God, I'm afraid all the families in the state have come here." Mother Martha pushed open the door of the Chevrolet, got out of the car, looked around and exclaimed.
"The parking lot covers a full three acres, and there are probably hundreds of cars parked here!" (18 acres, about 10,000 square meters) As an engineer who participated in the construction, Johnson obviously knows more.
"Won't the department store there be so crowded that people can't get enough?" Martha was obviously a little worried.
Johnson said as he pulled his youngest son Billy out of the car:
"At least you don't need coupons to buy coffee here. I don't know how that powerful boss in the New Age does it, but I'd rather squeeze a little for the coffee."
The eldest daughter Emily jumped out of the car and pointed at the huge poster hanging on the wall of the shopping mall in the distance and shouted:
"Mom, look, it's a raffle!"
The rest of the family of three followed Emily's finger and saw a huge poster of a modern girl dressed as a bunny girl, waving and smiling. Next to her was a red car with smooth lines and elegant appearance.
At the top of the poster, in cursive letters, it read: "Spend $50 or more in a single transaction to enter a drawing for a chance to win a Spontiac sedan."
Below it is written in even smaller font:
'The latest joint model between New Era and Champions & Commanders, featuring a 4.2-liter inline 8-cylinder 115-horsepower engine, satisfies all your expectations of luxury cars!'
(The Spontik factory was busy making armored vehicles and aircraft engine parts during the war, so it was essentially a fresh coat of paint on pre-war stock cars.)
Needless to say, such an inflammatory advertising slogan and the marketing method of offering a lucky draw for purchases over $50 were naturally created by Zhang Chi's synthetic people with a bit of 21st-century thinking.
These marketing methods from later generations were completely useless in Nanyang, which was just beginning to rebuild. After all, the overall market in Nanyang was still in a "hungry" stage, and as long as the products were produced, they could be sold.
At the end of World War II, as the rationing system in White Eagle was relaxed, Zhang Chi knew that if he wanted to seize this prosperous market, he had to make advance arrangements immediately.
These marketing methods from later generations are the best help. For the current business community, they can even be regarded as a dimensionality reduction attack.
And for the Picard family, such an advertisement can be said to be shocking!
Unlike pre-war Ford economy cars that could be bought for thousands or even hundreds of dollars, a Spontiac Crown and Commander series luxury car had a starting price of $1300.
(The site owner's Spontiac sedan is probably a post-war model, and it might cost $2000 including shipping.)
It completely puts those Ford and Chevrolet "flashy goods" priced at $7 or $800, the so-called luxury models such as Ford Deluxe V8 and Chevrolet Master Deluxe (Deluxe means luxury, luxury, pay attention, it will be tested in level 6) below.
At a time when the average annual income of a White Eagle family is only over $1000, such a prize is definitely considered the "first prize".