Anti-Japanese War, weapons designer at Fengtian Arsenal

(Thanks to Kirisame Marisa for the tip, more chapters will be added on 1/3)

Li Qinwu never expected that Colin would switch jobs to come to him.

He was quite disappointed that the automotive engineer did not go with him at first, as the other party was unwilling to travel more than a thousand kilometers to Chongqing. He did not expect that he had changed his mind now.

The expression on Colin's face was helpless.

"To be honest, Mr. Li, if nothing unexpected had happened, the job at the Xiaoyi Arsenal would have been very stable, and I would not have come here as a boy chasing my dreams. But there are no ifs, so I came anyway. Mr. Li, let's build cars!"

"Let's not talk about this yet."

Li Qinwu stared at Colin with an inquiring look.

"What happened at the Xiaoyi Arsenal? Why did you change jobs?"

Colin spread his hands.

"Li, I've traveled thousands of kilometers to get here. Can you at least let me drink some water before sitting down and talking about these things?"

Li Qinwu realized that he was a little rude and hurriedly pulled Colin into the factory reception room. Along the way, Colin looked at the factory in amazement. There are more than 60 large and small factory buildings in the factory. All the factory buildings are connected by hardened roads. Some factory buildings that need to transport heavy objects are connected by steel rails. The animal-powered rail cars coming and going are either pulling coal or steel.

The Julong Steel Plant is still expanding rapidly, with more than 10 factory buildings under construction. Li Qinwu hopes to develop the Julong Steel Plant into the largest factory in the southwest region.

In fact, with the development of the industry, Li Qinwu's original plan of being able to move the factory at any time has become impossible to achieve. If any warlords are plotting against his factory, he can only resort to the ultimate means to deal with it.

Li Qinwu is sending his clones to inquire about the warlords' official system and at the same time to sow doubts in the official system. If there is a real fallout, Li Qinwu will instantly clear out the hostile officials and then quickly send his own people to replace them and stabilize the situation.

The consequences of doing so are immeasurable and may very likely cause large-scale turmoil. He will not use this trick unless he has no alternative. He hopes that the local warlords will recognize the current situation and take the initiative. Otherwise, he, Li Qinwu, will not be able to become a shadow emperor and will be forced to be the open emperor.

Li Qinwu took Colin into the reception room, asked Colin to sit down, and then took out a bottle of Coke from the box and placed it in front of him.

"Tell me, what's going on?"

Colin opened the Coke and took a sip, his face full of satisfaction. He thought to himself that he could actually drink Coke here, this was a once in a lifetime opportunity.

"I also suffered from this kind of disaster."

"An unforeseen disaster."

Li Qinwu reminded.

"Yes, it was an unforeseen disaster. Do you still remember Director Huang? Before you left, he was plotting to seize the workers' year-end bonuses, which caused dissatisfaction among the workers and led to a strike. Later, the factory even mobilized troops against the workers and forced them to go back to work.

The workers were dissatisfied and went to the government to make trouble, but the government ignored them and sent police to disperse them. They even arrested several of the leading workers. Director Huang was not punished and continued to work safely in his position.

When Li Qinwu heard that it was this trivial matter, he roughly knew what would happen next.

"Oh, I was wondering why so many workers came to me all of a sudden. It turns out that they had tried to seek justice from the government but failed. There are so many new faces. I'm afraid that all the local workers from the Xiaoyi Arsenal have come with them.

But what does this have to do with you? Director Huang can't even deduct the Mane of an American engineer like you, right? "

Colin coughed and suddenly felt guilty.

"Ahem... not really. It's just that the way the factory and the government handled the situation angered the workers. Half a month ago, Director Huang was riding his bicycle home when he was shot from behind. He lost too much blood and was sent to the hospital but could not be saved.

The authorities suspected that the workers at the arsenal had stolen parts to make guns to kill people, but when they checked the materials, they found that a rifle barrel was indeed missing, which confirmed that it was the workers who did it.

Li Qinwu's expression became strange. This was a colleague of his. He had also modified his own gun at the Fengtian Arsenal to kill people for revenge. He suddenly felt a sense of sympathy for this hero.

He sighed: "If the factory doesn't treat the workers as human beings, the workers will naturally teach the factory how to behave. Oh, no, what does this have to do with you running away with the bucket? The workers killed those corrupt officials, and you didn't take their money. What are you afraid of..."

He felt something was wrong. Damn, could the Americans also be involved? Otherwise, why are you so scared?

Li Qinwu stared at Colin, which made him panic. He quickly explained, "Don't look at me like that. It wasn't me who took the initiative to ask Director Huang for the money. He stuffed the money into my hands, saying that I had worked diligently for a year and the factory gave it to me. How could I have thought that it was the year-end bonus deducted from the workers!"

Colin had an innocent expression, as if he was also a victim, but Li Qinwu didn't even believe the punctuation marks in his words.

"Haha, a red envelope? A red envelope of 2000 dollars, right?"

Li Qinwu sneered. Director Huang wanted to get him on board and offered him 2000 dollars. Any normal person would know that this amount of money came from an illicit source. Colin, you American, are still pretending to be me!

Colin felt a little embarrassed after being exposed, but he was stunned when he heard the amount of money reported by Li Qinwu.

"2000? That's not right. Director Huang gave me a red envelope of 3000 dollars, right?"

Li Qinwu was also confused.

"3000? Are you sure? He said 2000 to win me over."

Colin scratched his head.

"It's 3000. I counted it, not a single dollar is missing."

"Three thousand... three thousand..."

Li Qinwu murmured something, and suddenly he realized something and slammed the table.

"Damn you old dog! You gave 3000 to the foreigners and only gave me 2000. Who are you looking down on? You are asking for death!"