Anti-Japanese War, weapons designer at Fengtian Arsenal

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

Li Qinwu had someone sort out the underground archives, leaving only the drawings of car and tank engines in them, and taking away all other confidential documents.

Li Qinwu didn't believe in using those tricks against someone he suspected. After all, Colin was a foreigner, and who knew if he would suddenly have a brain attack and do something to damage the factory. So after he signed a five-year employment contract with Colin, he also sent a special forces soldier disguised as an attendant to monitor him.

If Colin dared to do anything dangerous, the special forces soldier would break his neck, but if he devoted himself to contributing to the development of China's automobile industry, Li Qinwu would also help him write a place in history.

Li Qinwu let Colin go to work and prepared employees for him. Now that his industry has been expanded and he also has the need to climb the technology tree, Li Qinwu plans to create a bunch of intelligent clones.

Each intelligent clone required 70 kg of gold. He made 20 at a time, spending 1400 kg of gold. After setting their appearance, he clicked export, and 20 naked men stood in front of Li Qinwu.

Li Qinwu pointed at the clothes prepared for them and said, "Put on your clothes first. From now on, you will be called Li Zhu, Li Ge, Li Liang, Li Pang, and Li Tong. The rest of you guys can name yourselves. I am a bad namer, so please don't embarrass me."

The clones that were given names by Li Qinwu had ugly expressions, while those that were not given names had happy faces.

"Everyone, go find Li Zhi and Li Hui to share knowledge first, then split into two groups. Zhuge Liang, the three of you, take the seven brothers to study automobiles with Colin. It's best to drain all his knowledge. Pang Tong, you two, take the rest of the people to do surveying and mapping. Reverse-map the aircraft we captured and the destroyer Kikuzuki to prepare technology.

After completing these tasks, you can choose your own research direction. That's it, everyone. Dismissed."

Li Qinwu discovered a characteristic from the two intelligent clones, Li Zhi and Li Hui. When they were first created, they were still a little confused and didn't know much about the world. After Li Qinwu assigned them work, they would try their best to absorb knowledge from this work and understand their hobbies.

When their knowledge accumulates to a certain level, they will suddenly develop a strong interest in a certain technology and then devote all their energy to the research of this technology. Until they have done something to what they think is the best, they will not devote their energy to research in other areas.

Li Qinwu felt that he should not interfere with the development of smart people and should just let them develop on their own. Anyway, this laissez-faire attitude had already been successful with Li Zhi and Li Hui.

Li Zhi and Li Hui not only used existing technology to develop large-caliber heavy artillery, but also worked on a set of automatic loading machines. Currently, the automatic loading machine that was damaged by the recoil of the artillery has been dismantled, and a new automatic loading machine has been built.

Li Zhi and Li Hui have gone through three rounds of bombardment tests and no problems have been found so far. So, just let smart people do whatever they want to do, and ordinary people should not guide smart people.

After sending away the intelligent clone, Li Qinwu looked at the balance of the clone system. There were still kilograms of gold left in it. Seeing this, he created 2900 ordinary clones and 100 visually specialized clones, a total of 3000 people, spending 5150 kilograms of gold, to establish the third pure clone punishment army, and the punishment army was also upgraded to a division-level unit.

Then Li Qinwu recruited another 200 heavy grenadiers, and added them to the existing 100 people to form three heavy grenadier battalions. In this way, each regiment of the Punishment Army could be assigned a heavy grenadier battalion.

The price of a heavy grenadier is 20kg of gold. After this series of consumption, Li Qinwu only has 9540kg of gold in his system. This is a bit dangerous number. He plans to keep this gold as insurance.

At this point, the number of soldiers in the Punishment Army was just over ten thousand, but this force was clearly not enough compared to the million-strong enemy army, so he ordered a full conscription!

The first batch of recruits consists of 1 soldiers. The Punishment Army at least has the title of an army, so it must be developed into an army-level unit and become an existence that all forces will place a small flag on the strategic map.

The main source of soldiers he chose was the able-bodied men who had defected to Hutou Mountain. However, Hutou Mountain certainly could not produce so many people, and Li Qinwu did not want to exploit Hutou Mountain's potential. 5000 people was a reasonable number, and he planned to send the rest down the mountain to the Japanese-occupied areas to see if there were any rebels willing to join the army.

Another way is to post conscription notices at the Longlong Convenience Store and recruit as many soldiers as possible.

Someone might ask at this point, if you recruit soldiers through Longlong Store and the Nationalist government finds out, wouldn't that expose Longlong Store as an industry of the Punitive Forces?

In fact, it is no secret that Longlong Convenience Store, including the entire Julong Company, is a punitive military industry.

During the Battle of Shanghai, Li Qinwu mobilized all the owners of Longlong convenience stores in Shanghai to provide support to the 19th Army, which aroused the suspicion of intelligence agencies of various countries.

In addition, the Dragon Daily always gets first-hand battle reports from the front line. Those photos and battlefield analyses are impossible to obtain without the support of the Punishment Army.

Intelligence agencies of various countries are not fools, especially when they vigorously investigated Li Tiandi, this extraordinary man, and found out the relationship between Longlong Convenience Store, Julong Daily and the Punishment Army.

There are innumerable secret intelligence activities carried out by spies from various countries, but what makes Li Qinwu happy is that none of the spies dare to go too far. Li Tiandi's healing technique can make people grow limbs back, and this mysterious method makes the spies from various countries dare not go too far, so they all reached a consensus not to turn against the Julong Company before some kind of turning point occurs. This is also one of the reasons why the Longlong Convenience Store is getting bigger and bigger, and almost no one has come to cause trouble until now.

As for the Nationalist government, a force tried to capture Li Tiandi, control him, and take control of the Longlong Convenience Store at the same time.

But people at that time were superstitious. Emperor Li Tian's supernatural powers were backed up by so many soldiers. Many high-ranking officials did not dare to take action against him. If he had the ability to regenerate limbs, would he also have a method to kill people by stealing their souls?

Besides, we are all human beings. Who can guarantee that they won’t have headaches or fevers? What if you have offended others and they don’t save you when you encounter problems?

After making the conscription arrangements, Li Qinwu immersed himself in weapon drawing. He wanted to try to make a lighter 12.7mm heavy machine gun. The Liao-made Maxim was too heavy, and the water-cooling sleeve was outdated. It could be eliminated with ceramic steel barrels.

However, before he immersed himself in weapons design, he sent a message to Li Xin in Shanghai, asking Li Xin to publish an advertisement in the newspaper about the attempt of Julong Steel Plant to conquer domestic automobiles. Technological progress can also inspire people's hearts, and such things cannot be hidden but must be brought out for the people to see.

As a result, his unintentional action attracted a great talent for him!