Anti-Japanese War, weapons designer at Fengtian Arsenal

In the next few days, workers came to the logistics department from time to time to register for car rental, and the number rose to three digits within three days.

More and more workers ride bicycles to work. If you don't buy a bicycle, others will look down on you and you will feel uncomfortable, so all the workers rent bicycles from the factory.

Then, a wonderful sight was born during the Republic of China period. Hundreds of workers rode bicycles to and from get off work in an orderly manner. This was a very strange sight and attracted many reporters to come to Julong Steel for interviews.

Li Jin received the reporter and promoted the factory vigorously, saying that they were a genuine American flag, an old East Coast man! The boss, Bush Gomen, was the most ambitious patriarch of the Mamba family and planned to focus on investing in Chinese industries in the next few years.

He took reporters to visit the factory, photographed the production line, and photographed various parts.

The shutters of the reporters kept being pressed. It is not uncommon for foreigners to come to China to invest in industry these days, but they usually come to sell goods, not to build factories and manufacture goods. I am afraid they don’t know how the Chongqing government treats self-employed people…

Li Jin gave reporters a lot of money and asked them to add large pictures of men's and women's leisure bicycles in the newspaper content, and then help them promote the bicycle rental business. Well, he was buying advertisements.

The reporters returned to the newspaper office and immediately started typeset printing, giving it a whole page of layout, with the opening headline being "Julong Steel Plant Opens, Julong Brand Bicycles Launched!"

Below are photos of hundreds of workers riding bicycles to work. These photos shocked the people of Chongqing. Bicycles are high-end industrial products nowadays. How could Julong Company provide bicycles for its workers?!

After reading the newspaper, many people remembered the Julong Company and the Julong brand bicycles. This shell company registered in Shanghai was actually located in Yangming, Chongqing, thousands of miles away.

This newspaper brought Li Qinwu a lot of sales. The bicycle sales points in the two cities had a wave of revenue. Every day, 50 to 60 leisure bicycles were sold, and 5000 to 6000 yuan were earned every day. This was simply printing money! !

In addition to leisure bicycles, more and more farmers come to rent cargo bicycles and tricycles, mainly around Niujia Village.

The heads of Niujia Village have close contacts with the heads of surrounding villages. Now that they have bicycles, they all show off. Hundreds of people ride bicycles to visit other villages. Hundreds of cars drive into your village, all with their noses raised in the air. If you say it's you, wouldn't you be confused?

Then the village heads started competing with each other. As a result, when the bicycles were brought home, people rode them to the fields, to transport agricultural products, to the mountains to chop wood, and to the city to buy and sell goods. Then someone realized, huh? This bicycle... is very useful!

Li Qinwu did not expect that buying advertisements this time would bring so many benefits. He immediately increased his investment in advertising and gave money to several newspapers, large and small, hoping that they would make the advertisements of Julong brand bicycles permanent to increase their influence.

What Li Qinwu didn't know was that the advertisement not only increased his sales, but also helped him avoid a big trouble.

Do you remember the official who sold the factory to Li Jin? He was the big boss in charge of industry and commerce under Liu Xiang. The industry under Liu Xiang's influence was proposed by Liu Xiang himself, Chongqing Mayor Pan Wenhua formulated a specific plan, and then this big boss in charge of industry and commerce implemented it.

During the years when Liu Xiang was in charge of the area around Chongqing, he vigorously developed the military industry. The military industry strength in the area around Chongqing is one of the strongest except for Fengtian.

Chongqing Military Industry can independently produce special caliber guns and ammunition, such as 47mm mortars, 82.5mm mortars, and 137mm mortars. These calibers run counter to the international mainstream. The purpose is to prevent them from being seized by other warlords during the civil war.

In addition, the military industry under Liu Xiang could also manufacture Thompson submachine guns that fired Mauser pistol bullets, Yuan-year rifles, Czech light machine guns, and the Qilali light machine gun, which was quite rare in China.

The output of these weapons was not low. Under the leadership of Liu Xiang, Chongqing's military industry was thriving.

At this point, someone might ask: Huh? Liu Xiang's military industry was so powerful, so why were there still steel mills going bankrupt?

After all, Liu Xiang was a warlord, and the plunder and backwardness he represented could not be concealed in any way. The thriving military industry under Liu Xiang and the corruption and decline of private factories did not conflict with each other.

In other words, the military industry developed so well under Liu Xiang that it is hard to say that there was no factor of plundering private factories involved. For example, this big boss in charge of industry and commerce used many means to destroy private factories.

Now, this industrial and commercial tycoon has set his sights on the Julong Company because the company took the initiative to pay taxes.

The operating tax at that time was about 3% to 5%. Julong Company had only set up the factory for a few days, but it had already paid 1500 yuan in taxes.

Logically speaking, such a small amount of money was not even enough to qualify for the table of this big boss. However, once when he attended a high-class cocktail party, the German manager of the Laotou brand bicycles came to toast him and said congratulations to him for launching a new bicycle brand during his tenure.

The business tycoon could naturally tell that the German guy in front of him had ill intentions when he said this to him, and when he heard that the other party was talking about bicycles, he knew it was just that the new brand of bicycles blocked the German guy's way, so he was trying to kill him with a borrowed knife.

He didn't care much about it. It was just a bicycle. How much money could he make from it?

But he soon found out that he was wrong. After his subordinates, the young masters and ladies in the powerful circle, and even his daughter all rode the Julong brand bicycles, he smelled the fragrance of the ocean.

He found the files of Julong Company and saw that the two bicycle stores of Julong Company had paid 5 yuan in taxes in just 1500 days of opening. It was the highest tax. After a simple calculation, he took a deep breath. Yuan! Yuan was earned in 5 days!

At this moment, his brain specialized for infighting had already generated a series of methods, such as sending people to cause trouble, power outages at power plants, mining suspensions, police inspections, tax fraud, gang kidnappings, etc., and finally he took the Julong Company into his pocket.

However, he stopped all actions after seeing an advertisement in a newspaper by the Dragon Company, which claimed to be an American company.

Naturally, he knew that the Julong Company might be using another company's name as a banner, so he sent people to investigate the Julong Company carefully. His men wandered around the bicycle shop for several days, and they all said that this was a store opened by Americans.

The main thing is that there is English written everywhere in the store, and there are many posters with photos of foreigners riding bicycles. Also, the store has a weird and unique feeling.

The feeling they were talking about was a modern design and decoration. With limited materials, Li Qinwu tried his best to decorate the store to give it the feeling of a 4S store of later generations. This modern decoration design was considered fashionable by people who inquired about it.

The boss still has doubts, because his subordinates said that there are no foreigners in the shops or factories of the Julong Company, and there is still a possibility that the company is using the tiger's skin to carry out a big business.

But after the promotional essay written by Li Qinwu himself appeared in the newspaper, this big shot became even more restrained.