Chapter 112: A bottomless pit (1/2)

Chapter 112: A bottomless pit

Translated by me, edited by drpetro.

Creating the memory alloy hull only took 20 minutes, yet installing it took the peons more than 2 hours.

That efficiency……

Guess that was the kind of speed at which the New Ports shipyard operates with, otherwise how the heck were they able to build all those carriers.

Ye Qing did a count of his current assets. The bank card received around 50 million in the past couple of days, and taking away all of the capital invested, his profits were exactly 50 million. (Tl: Where’s the change damn it?) (ED: You might have to stick your head deeper down Ye Qing’s deep pockets to hear it.)

Money naturally needed to be spent to be considered money. Currently the majority of the work being done at the the Dragon Creek Beach factory was completed by hand by the monsters. This obviously took must of the monsters’ time, so Ye Qing felt like he must do some automation upgrades to the factory to free up some of the monsters.

Of course, with the tools shopping center in hand, all the small equipment necessary could be conveniently bought.

All Ye Qing really needed to do was buy all the needed materials, and those huge pieces of equipment not available in the tools shopping center yet.

Just when Ye Qing was about to go on another shopping spree, he got a call from General Manager Wang.

Yeah, it was the guy who sold him the pressure press and electric furnace. He informed Ye Qing that his credit card was here, and asked where he was, as he was going to personally deliver the package.

“Don’t worry, I’ll come pick it up.” Having hung up, Ye Qing could hardly contain his excitement.

The ICBC AE Centurion credit card was one of top ranking credit cards in the country. With this card, not only would everyday life become more convenient, there was also the face associated with owning one.

After driving to the local HQ of the ICBC, picking up and setting up the card, Ye Qing had finally joined the the rank of credit card users.

Of course, different from all those credit debtors, Ye Qing’s​ finances were much more robust. His first credit limit was already one of the best in the world, but even if he were to hit the limit ten times in a row, he would still be able to pay off everything on time.

Sitting inside the Lagonda, Ye Qing carefully examined the exquisitely designed card, and had an uncontainable urge to go splurging.

The initial limit on the card had been set at 2,000,000. Generally a credit limit was determined by the user’s spending habits, so it could be a billion or it could be absolutely nothing.

Having not used a card before, there was no real good way to assess the limit, so Ye Qing straight up wired 50 million onto the card.

And all that was left was to buy buy buy. First stop, the machine exchange market to buy more 5 axis CNC lathes.

Many of the parts used in the mechanical engineered chairs needed the precision levels of the 5 axis CNC lathes.

The tools shopping center didn’t currently offer 5 axis CNC lathes because those guys were just as big as a newspaper stand. However, this time, Ye Qing wasn’t prepared to buy any domestically made equipment at all. The precision levels necessary for making the chairs were just too strict, and during the process of creation there existed the need to swap out for multiple different kinds of blades.

Hence the more comprehensive its abilities were, and the more automated it was, the more monster power Ye Qing could free up.

To be completely honest, the industrial strength domestically could create these 5 axis CNC lathes. However, no matter if it were in ability or precision level, it was miles behind their foreign counterparts.

Furthermore, in the field of mechanical automation, the difference between domestic and foreign products was simply drastic. Yet the difference came from the amount of time spent developing and researching. The country so far had only been industrialized for several decades, in comparison all those western nations had at least a century to develop their technologies.

In a regular factory any experienced worker could oversee multiple domestic CNC lathes at the same time.

If the lathes were to include blade storage units, and automated blade change systems, then a single master artisan could completely cover 10 of those machines.

So the more CNC mills available, the less work the monsters had to do.

It cost roughly two million a pop for a German made DMG 400 series lathe and its associated blades. Ye Qing straight up bought 20 of them, but there were only 3 in stock within the entire Zhongyun region, so the rest need to be shipped in from other areas.