[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-arms-tycoon-starting-with-a-scammed-hundred-bill":3,"chapter-arms-tycoon-starting-with-a-scammed-hundred-bill-arms-tycoon-starting-with-a-hundred-billion-doll-chapter-190":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Arms Tycoon: Starting by Conning a $10 Billion Order",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},2079082,3287,"Chapter 190","arms-tycoon-starting-with-a-hundred-billion-doll-chapter-190",190,"\u003Cp>All of this requires a considerable amount of money.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Moreover, the purchase price is calculated separately.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>However, with carbon fiber equipment currently being strangled, Lin Yi had no choice but to spend heavily.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Looking at the 24.3 billion US dollars remaining in the system after deducting the Dragon Nation transactions, plus the cash on Fengyi Technology's books including the Tesla deposit,\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>by mid-March, there was already 1.353 billion Chinese yuan in cash.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>These were all part of Lin Yi's current wealth.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"System, how much does it cost to bundle and upgrade the carbon fiber manufacturing equipment to the 2010 level?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Lin Yi asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Because without an upgrade, the entire technology tree for equipment in the system consisted of products from the 40s to the 80s,\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>just like the weapon catalog.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>However, since production technology inevitably involves multiple types of equipment, upgrading them one by one would be too troublesome.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Lin Yi wanted to ask if a bundled upgrade was possible.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"Ding... Calculating...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Carbon fiber manufacturing equipment includes surface treatment equipment, gas-phase or liquid-phase oxidation equipment, and so on.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>It mainly consists of injection molding machines, melt spinning machines, carbonization furnaces, stretching machines, winding machines, mixing machines, crushers, and more.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"Host can spend 200 million US dollars to resolve all production equipment...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"What if upgrading to the 2020 level?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"Ding... Calculating...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"Host can spend 800 million US dollars to resolve all production equipment!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Hearing this price, Lin Yi found it acceptable.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>In reality, for carbon fiber production technology, the most critical components are the melt spinning machines and carbonization furnaces.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Equipment like injection molding machines, mixing machines, and crushers, even if they were products from the 70s, would not differ greatly from modern ones.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The system's pricing for upgrading these machines was extremely low.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>This was completely different from upgrading the weapon catalog.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"Then upgrade all carbon fiber production equipment to the 2020 level!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"Ding... Upgrade complete, 800 million US dollars deducted.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Looking at the funds in his overseas account, 24.3 billion US dollars minus 800 million,\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>he now had only 23.5 billion US dollars left.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Lin Yi couldn't help but sigh; money really doesn't last long. 2.5\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Just moments ago, he had spent four billion Chinese yuan in one go; probably no one could match him in spending money.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The benefit was that after deducting the 800 million US dollars,\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>the procurement price for carbon fiber production equipment was no longer expensive.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Even for the most advanced production equipment from Japan's Toray Company,\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>a production line with an annual output of 5,000 tons\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>would only cost over 60 million.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Do not mistake this small quantity for insignificance; it is because carbon fiber is difficult to manufacture and very lightweight.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>In the entire year of 2015, global carbon fiber production was only 135,000 tons.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>As long as Lin Yi was willing to build ten production lines,\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>he could achieve nearly one-third of the global production capacity.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>This would deal a heavy blow to Japan and the United States, countries that had always refused to expand capacity in pursuit of high profits.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>It would make them suffer a great loss.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Especially since these countries, relying on their technology and using the COCOM agreement as an excuse, had always refused to export advanced carbon fiber products to Dragon Nation.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Soon, the carbon fiber products from these nations would no longer be the most advanced on the market.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>As for whether they would still be willing to sell, no one in Dragon Nation would likely care.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Thus, quietly and unnoticed,\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>a carbon fiber manufacturing brand was born under Fengyi Technology: the \"Vigorous Dragon\" carbon fiber products.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Although as the company's CEO, Yang Chen had no idea how the boss had managed to acquire such advanced equipment.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>However, as a subordinate, there were some things one should ask about, and others one absolutely should not.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>He was merely the company's manager, after all.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>As the machinery arrived, Dr. Wen Xia, a chubby man wearing glasses, saw them and his eyes lit up.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"This equipment is excellent; it fully meets our technical requirements!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>he said excitedly.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>During this period, he had nearly completed his research on the carbon fiber technology the boss had given him.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Now, with all the equipment beginning to arrive on site,\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>it meant that very soon, another flagship product of the company would be unveiled.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>How could Dr. Wen Xia not be excited by this?\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>After inspecting the equipment one by one, he said excitedly:\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"Boss, everything passes inspection. Moreover, this is a highly advanced fully automated production line, far superior to domestic carbon fiber equipment!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Currently, the global state of the carbon fiber industry is dominated by U.S. and Japanese enterprises.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Just Toray Industries alone from Japan produced as much as 47,000 tons in 2015,\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>while other companies like Japan's Toho and Mitsubishi, and America's Hexcel, each produced over 10,000 tons.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>However, within Dragon Country, most producers had an annual output of only dozens or hundreds of tons.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Dragon Country's total carbon fiber production in 2015 was merely 7,000 tons, not even matching the output of a single Japanese company.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Furthermore, the most critical issue was that most of Dragon Country's carbon fiber products were of medium-to-low modulus, such as T300 and T700 grades.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>This type of carbon fiber had low technical content and cheap finished product prices.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>As for the high-modulus grades like T800 and T1000, which serve as the true benchmark for carbon fiber technology,\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>domestic production volumes were quite limited.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Yet, materials for aircraft wings, such as those on the domestically produced J-20, required very high-modulus carbon fiber.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>This had always been a headache for military scientists.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>However, with the future production launch of Fengyi Technology,\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Dragon Country would completely overtake others in carbon fiber technology, achieving true supremacy.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Moreover, as carbon fiber production expanded massively and flooded the market,\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>the price of this new material would inevitably plummet.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>In fact, for many products that Dragon Country previously had to import at great cost in money and foreign exchange,\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>once the people of Dragon Country mastered the production technology, the price of that product would inevitably crash.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Actually, although products like carbon fiber were difficult to manufacture,\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>those overseas manufacturers were not incapable of expanding their production scale;\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>it was simply that these enterprises wanted to maintain a certain output level to preserve excessive profits.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>After all, scarcity breeds value; if carbon fiber production surged dramatically,\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>the price of this material would naturally drop.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>This would be detrimental to those enterprises wishing to maintain excessive profits.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>At this moment, Lin Yi looked at the equipment he had purchased from the System.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Since there were no nameplates, manufacturer labels, or production dates, no one could trace who had manufactured these devices.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"With this equipment, what is the fastest time our Weilong Carbon Fiber can achieve mass production!?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Lin Yi asked Dr. Wen Xia.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"This equipment still requires debugging, production process design, and employee training;\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>I estimate that the first batch of products can roll off the line in about half a month!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Chr\u002F>\u003Cp>\u003Cem>— Author's Notes —\u003C\u002Fem>\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>(PS: New book seeking flowers, tips, and review tickets; your support is the author's motivation!)\u003C\u002Fp>",1188,"2026-06-16T04:15:30.615Z","2026-06-17T08:50:51.634Z",1,"Qwen3.5 397B","b574b0ec92245f8c1d3e39fa38d2106a90043a39c92c6cb79fd38096aa6f27a9","arms-tycoon-starting-with-a-hundred-billion-doll-chapter-191","arms-tycoon-starting-with-a-hundred-billion-doll-chapter-189",328,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Farms-tycoon-starting-with-a-hundred-billion-doll-cover.jpg"]