Anti-Japanese War, weapons designer at Fengtian Arsenal

Chapter 151 First Arrival in Chongqing

"Master, I have done some research during this period. The lines between this steel plant and the Chongqing Power Plant are well preserved. As long as we tell the Chongqing Power Plant and pay the fee, they will provide us with electricity.

There is a dormitory area inside the factory that can accommodate 600 workers. It can be used after being cleaned. As for food and drink, there are many small villages around where you can buy seasonal vegetables and meat.

In addition, there are several iron and coal mines within 100 miles of Chongqing. It is said that the quality of the iron ore is not good, but the coal mine is very good and the price is not high. As long as we negotiate with the authorities, they can provide us with raw materials. "

Li Jin told Li Qinwu everything he had found out during this period, and Li Qinwu shook his head after listening to it.

“It’s useless to say these things. If we do this, we will just follow the old path of the previous boss and be eaten alive by local officials.

I have no plan to develop heavy industry in the areas controlled by the Nationalist government or the warlords. Once the factory building in Hutoushan is completed, I will dismantle the machines and ship them over there. We will make steel there, and the factory here will only serve as a commodity assembly workshop.

By then, when our products are well known and someone wants to come and pick some, we can just clean them up and send them flying!"

Li Jin nodded, but he still had questions.

"There doesn't seem to be any iron or coal mines over at Hutou Mountain. How can we produce steel if we put the steelmaking equipment there?

Besides, the distance is so far, can you open the portal?"

Li Qinwu had already planned for this issue and was now confident.

"Li Changyin can be asked to handle the coal and iron mines. He will soon become a founding father of the puppet Manchukuo. When the time comes, he can make some operations. Various mines are not something you can just grab at will. And don't forget that there are a lot of high-quality open-pit steel in the north!"

Li Jin also laughed when he heard this.

"You mean the railroad."

"Yes! This stuff is top-quality steel! And it's easy to mine. Just use a forklift to shovel it along the railway, and you can harvest hundreds of tons of rails every day!

The material of this thing is fine. There is no need to remove any impurities when throwing it into the steel furnace to turn it into molten steel. It is so troublesome to smelt iron ore, and you have to remove all kinds of impurities. In the future, we can just shovel the railway. Anyway, the railway in the north is also used by the Japanese. It is better to shovel it down and make it into guns and cannons to give the Japanese a hard time!

As for the transportation problem, I have also thought about it. Didn't we get a Japanese train before? Pull it out of the sea, build a train station in the island space, lay steel tracks on the ground, and build a train station and lay steel tracks on the Hutou Mountain side.

After the semi-finished products are produced in Hutoushan, they are put on the train. I open a portal and the whole train drives into the island space. I then open another portal to Chongqing to unload the goods. With such a large transportation volume, I estimate that I only need to open the portal once or twice a week, which is not too tiring. "

After saying that, Li Qinwu opened the portal and released the 500 clones that he had prepared long ago. Holding various cleaning tools in their hands, they began to clean up the factory and resume production.

Li Qinwu and Li Jin got into a black car and drove to Chongqing city. Li Qinwu had never seen a mountain city of that era and planned to satisfy his curiosity.

Li Jin said to him while driving: "My dear, the Chamber of Commerce I joined is called Minsheng Chamber of Commerce, and the merchants who joined are all engaged in Minsheng business.

Our factory can start with civilian products first, and not rush into military products, otherwise it will easily attract the covetousness of the powerful.

I suggest you try to build relationships with local dignitaries and get their protection. For example, Liu Xiang. I heard that he personally attaches great importance to the development of national industry, but his officials do bad things. If you can build a good relationship with him, you should be able to avoid official troubles. "

Li Qinwu opened the car window and looked at the various passers-by outside.

“Well, I originally wanted to start with consumer goods. Lunch boxes, kettles, pots, etc. can all be made of ceramic steel. We can sell these things at a price lower than the market price and quickly open up the market.

By the way, the products also have to be printed with the Julong Company logo. Didn’t Li Xin register this company in Shanghai? Our factory is covered with the Julong Company logo and we tell the outside world that it is Julong Company that invested and built the factory here.

Let Li Xin think of a way to see if he can let Julong Company use the Americans' tiger skin. With this tiger skin, those corrupt officials will be afraid to take action.

As for Liu Xiang, you should pay attention to him and see if you can get in touch with him."

Li Xin nodded and said yes. The car quickly entered the urban area, but when it was about to enter the city, it encountered a checkpoint set up by soldiers and charged fees for entering the city.

In front of the black car that Li Qinwu was riding in, there were more than 10 horse-drawn carriages waiting to enter the city. The soldiers were very rough. They pulled the goods off the carriages for inspection, damaging a lot of them. Some soldiers even grabbed some of the goods and stuffed them into their pockets. The owner of the goods could only beg for mercy, which made Li Qinwu shake his head.

"With this kind of character, how can national capital possibly develop?"

Li Jin nodded in agreement and said, "It's OK for locals like them to do small businesses, but the most outrageous ones are those who do business across provinces. There is a buddy in our chamber of commerce who does business across three provinces. Every time the goods arrive in a province, they have to pay taxes. If you go from the territory of this marshal to the territory of that commander, you have to pay taxes again. If you pass by a place where there are baozhang bullies, you will be taxed again.

To be honest, I feel that the Republic of China is not a country at all, but a vassal state composed of dozens of big countries and hundreds of small countries. "

These words made Li Qinwu's eyelids twitch wildly. The business situation was so bad that, let alone developing the business to manufacture arms, he would probably lose money even if he used ceramic steel, which had no cost, to manufacture civilian products.

At this moment, he suddenly thought of Li Xi. As one of the three clones that Li Qinwu first released to engage in business, Li Xi was particularly obsessed with development at the grassroots level in rural areas.

After understanding the rural situation, Li Wei gave Li Qinwu an idea. Since he did not want to be independent in public and lead to the current internal strife in China and consume national defense, he could be a shadow emperor!

He said that both the Nationalist government and the warlords had very weak control over China's rural areas. If these regimes wanted to control the countryside, they had to go through local powerful landlords. These powerful landlords, who were huge monsters to the peasants, were nothing but small fry to the punitive army.

He suggested that Li Qinwu bypass the Nationalist government and local warlords and develop directly in the countryside, win over the enlightened landlords and send the unenlightened ones to restart. Every time he controlled a landlord, he could control a village with nearly a thousand people. The price he had to pay was just to open a portal to send Li Jianfeng's special forces out, make the landlord's family disappear, and then leave a work team of less than 10 people in the countryside to carry out local work.

Of course, he did not want to start a revolution in the countryside. Neither he, Li Qinwu, nor his clone wanted to take on this responsibility. All they had to do was distribute goods and do business with the farmers.

Li Wei called his idea rural cooperatives, and he would open a rural cooperative in every rural area with more than a thousand people. The function of the rural cooperatives was to sell various commodities to farmers. For example, Li Qinwu wanted to use daily necessities, farm tools, and even cheap rifles made of ceramic steel, and then buy high-end foods such as grain, meat, eggs, and milk from the farmers to maintain the consumption of the punitive army.

If the rural cooperative develops in the later stage, it can be upgraded to open schools, hospitals, open-air cinemas and special recruitment points for the disciplinary army in the surrounding areas.

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