Anti-Japanese War, weapons designer at Fengtian Arsenal

Li Qinwu entered the island space and squeezed out the 700 workers that the big machine tyrant wanted. He gave each of them two sets of blue work clothes, two blue soft work hats, two pairs of work shoes, cloth shoes. He originally wanted to give them rubber boots, but he had no rubber, so he had to use cloth shoes. He also gave them two pairs of gloves, two masks, a warm cotton coat and cotton pants, three sets of underwear and pants, two sets of regular clothes, and a set of winter military uniforms for the disciplinary army.

Normally these clones have to lead workers in factories, and in wartime they will take up guns and become soldiers, so they must be issued a set of military uniforms.

Each clone is given so many clothes. If the clothing market was not already operating at full capacity, it might not be able to supply them.

In addition, the clothing factory is researching and producing summer military uniforms and camouflage hoods, as well as some small design-conscious parts of the military uniforms, such as medal systems and so on.

However, the medal system was temporarily suspended because Li Qinwu planned to get a complete set of upper body armor. The medals pinned on the clothes would be covered tightly and no one would be able to see them. He could only wait for the ceramic steel armor to be produced before designing the medals so that they could be worn directly on the armor.

Li Qinwu asked 700 technicians to leave the island space and report to the big mecha, and he began to create the clone with full wisdom points.

The wisdom attribute in the clone system is very expensive. Except for the first point, each point requires 10kg of gold. It takes almost 70kg of gold to max out one point. This price makes Li Qinwu feel extremely painful.

After a while, Li Qinwu clicked on the data and clicked export. Two handsome avatars, 1 meters tall and with full wisdom, appeared.

Li Qinwu pointed at them and said, "Your name is Li Zhi, your name is Li Hui. You two should go and report to Da Jiba first and help him record the data of the Japanese tanks. This will lay the foundation for us to design and manufacture tanks on our own in the future."

As he said that, he scratched his head and asked curiously, "This is the first time I've created clones of yours. Do you feel any different from others?"

The two clones looked at each other, and Li Zhixian said, "I think quickly and can handle things quickly, but the original body had better tell the brothers not to actively use mind sharing to connect with us, otherwise the information flow in our brains will overwhelm them."

Li Hui continued, "I feel like I have a lot of ideas in my head, but the basic knowledge I inherited from you is not enough for me to realize these ideas. I want books, I want to learn more knowledge!"

Li Qinwu nodded and said, "Okay, I will tell my brothers not to use mind sharing to contact you. As for studying, I will ask Li Songwen to lend you a copy of the university books. For more in-depth books, let the brothers in the United States find them."

After saying that, he sent his two clones to find the Big Robot, and he opened the portal and came to Chongqing.

It is nearly 2400 km from Hutou Mountain to Chongqing. Li Qinwu used up all his mental strength to open only a small door that allowed him to crawl through. After he crawled out in a panic, he felt dizzy. This is the disadvantage of opening a portal over a long distance. The consumption is too great. In the future, he will have to set up more transfer stations and open the doors in batches.

Li Jin, who was standing by the portal, helped Li Qinwu up. Li Qinwu shook his head and regained a bit of clarity, then he looked carefully at the surrounding factory buildings.

Li Jin explained to Li Qinwu: "This is a steel plant 40 miles away from the suburbs of Chongqing. It covers an area of ​​more than 300 acres. It is a small to medium-sized plant with more than 20 workshops and more than 30 warehouses.

But this factory is in decline. There is no worker in the factory. Many of the machines in the factory are rusted. Many small machines have been stolen and sold. Only the factory building is sturdy and usable. "

Li Jin led Li Qinwu to walk in the factory area. The hardened road surface was bumpy and the walls were covered with moss. The weeds in the unhardened areas were half a meter high.

Li Qinwu pushed open a large rusty iron door of a factory building, and then started coughing loudly. The dust mixed with the smell of rust made him cry and have snot.

Li Jin handed him a military water bottle.

"Look, everything inside has been rusted clean."

Li Qinwu poured out the water and rubbed his nose. He looked into the factory and asked, "What the hell! What's going on? Are these precious machines just left to rust? Is there nothing left that can be used?"

Li Jin replied: "Several important equipment can still be used, including two 10-ton steelmaking furnaces, a coking furnace, a 200-ton punching machine, and two 100-ton punching machines. Some small equipment can still be used after dismantling for maintenance or replacing some parts.

As for how this factory became like this, ah..."

Li Jin began to speak with great distress, saying that the factory was built in 1921 and has cost more than 3000 million oceans since its establishment, but the steel produced so far has not exceeded 100 tons!

That's right, no more than 100 tons. Two 10-ton steelmaking furnaces, one every 4-6 hours, each furnace has at least 40% molten steel, 100 tons is less than a week's production, even if you add the time for feeding and unloading and machine maintenance, then 100 tons per month should not be a problem, right? But it's been almost 10 years, and you tell me that the production is only 100 tons?

However, Li Qinwu quickly realized that this was the Republic of China. What was the Republic of China government? The Republic of China government was the most typical comprador government, adhering to the principle that it was better to buy than to make, and did not attach importance to the development of national industry at all.

In order to profit from it, the comprador class vigorously suppressed national industries, and a large number of industrial products relied on imports. If national industries developed, they would suppress them in every possible way, refusing to provide loans, maliciously increasing taxes, and plundering.

Like this small and medium-sized steel plant, it has suffered a lot of official difficulties since its construction, such as malicious tax increases on the steel it produces, sudden shortages of the agreed ore and coal mines, sudden power outages from the power plant, surprise inspections by government departments, personal threats from the underworld, etc.

The machines in the steel mill are all huge ones, and many of them are not allowed to stop once they are started. However, under the waves of harassment, the machines were running and stopping all the time, not to mention the heavy wear and tear. The factory owners and workers were exhausted both physically and mentally, and they had no choice but to give in and sell the factory to local officials.

But the official knew nothing about steelmaking. He only knew how to find excuses. He had no idea how to operate the factory. He could only leave it like this, and it has been like this until now, and the machines have become rusty.

What’s even more outrageous is that Li Jin relied on his connections in the Chamber of Commerce to inquire one level after another about who owned the steel plant. When he asked the official, the official looked confused and asked, “Do you have this business under your command?”

If Li Jin hadn't reminded him again and again, this guy would have long forgotten the steel plant he had acquired through various means 10 years ago.

Now the steel mill is in a state of disrepair and most of its machinery has been stolen. The official did not take it seriously and sold the steel mill to Li Jin based on the land price and warehouse house price. He offered such a low price that he only paid 100 million yuan.

At that time, the patriotic capitalist spent countless efforts and invested 3000 million oceans, but in the end, it was held in the hands of this official and turned into a pile of scrap metal. Li Qinwu really sighed.

But what made Li Qinwu sigh even more was yet to come. Li Jin said that he continued to investigate around Chongqing and found 16 large and small steel mills, six of which were forced to close down by the government, five of which stopped production. Even the steel mills that were still in operation were half-dying and could not receive any orders.

Li Qinwu sighed when he heard this.

"Nationalist government, your death is truly not unjust at all!"