Anti-Japanese War, weapons designer at Fengtian Arsenal

Huang Xiansheng approved a two-horse carriage for Li Qinwu, on which a small amount of food and cooking utensils were placed, leaving a lot of space for carrying people.

Li Qinwu picked out seven or eight pregnant women, children under the age of 10, and elderly people who were too old to walk from the refugees and asked them to get on the carriage. As for the others, they were divided into groups of and surrounded the carriage with sticks in their hands.

Li Qinwu picked out a captain from each carriage and told them about how Hu Xiaoming and his men were robbed for helping refugees, and warned them to obey his orders.

The crowd saw countless refugees as they headed south. They were all frightened when they heard what Li Qinwu said and nodded in agreement. In this way, this team, armed with wooden sticks and a small number of rifles, began to head south, looking at other refugees on the road with vigilant eyes.

Perhaps they were eager to leave Jinzhou, so they actually walked 1 miles on the first day! At this speed, they could reach Shanhaiguan in less than 40 days, but this was obviously impossible. The first day was a forced march, and there were men, women, old and young in the team. After that, the team encountered various problems and the marching speed began to slow down.

Later, the speed dropped to 30 kilometers per day. Later, the elderly in the team were seriously exhausted and the speed dropped to 20 kilometers per day.

Li Qinwu did not intend to urge them at all. He even ordered the team to find a place to stop and rest for a whole day.

Anyway, once they had escaped from Jinzhou, they had escaped from the enemy's attack and were temporarily safe. As for the refugees they met on the road, 1000 people armed with wooden sticks and a small number of guns were no pushovers.

Of course, there are other reasons why Li Qinwu is not in a hurry, because he can sneak into the island space to do his business, and just entrust the team to keep moving forward.

At this time, Li Qinwu opened a huge portal in the island space, which connected to the quarry in Henan.

This is an extra-large quarry with a lot of traces of mining. A mountain has been hollowed out in half, exposing the rock inside.

The last person who leased the quarry was a businessman. He built a wall with wooden boards to block out the sight of people inside and outside. This was convenient for him as he wouldn't be spied on by the villagers near the quarry.

At this time, Li Qinwu was standing in a tunnel 500 meters away from the quarrying site. His clones had already set up explosives at the quarrying site and were about to detonate them.

A clone ran up to Li Qinwu and told him to be careful, so Li Qinwu retracted his head back into the tunnel. The next moment, a violent explosion was heard, followed by an earth-shaking movement.

After the explosion was over, Li Qinwu stuck his head out and saw smoke and dust billowing from the quarry in the distance. Thousands of tons of rock had been blown off the quarry by explosives.

Four bulldozers roared over and shoveled the rocks into the sea in the island space.

Li Qinwu's portal was opened to the sea where land reclamation was needed to build the road. The distance from the quarrying point to the reclamation point was less than 10 meters. The ultra-short distance meant ultra-high work efficiency. After three days of non-stop work, the island space had expanded by 2000 square meters of land.

Of course, these reclaimed spaces are not usable yet, as they are all filled with gravel and require cement to create a floor before they can be used.

Li Qinwu has asked Li Xi to find a cement factory and buy it directly. In the future, large-scale infrastructure will be built on the island, and there will be a huge demand for cement. Instead of spending money to buy cement from others, it is better to buy a factory directly and produce it by themselves.

Li Qinwu watched four bulldozers shoveling gravel into the sea. Each time the bulldozers shook, they could push several tons of rocks into the sea.

Li Qinwu was not satisfied with the efficiency. The speed was still too slow and could not meet his needs of building a weapons factory in the island space. The weapons obtained from the Fengtian Arsenal were still gathering dust in the warehouse. If he wanted to get all these machines running, he would need at least 500 acres of land. At the current speed of land reclamation, it would take a long time.

What he urgently needs now is heavy construction machinery. If he could have 100 bulldozers, reclaiming land and building roads would be a matter of minutes.

Thinking of this, Li Qinwu couldn't help but think of Li Xin's clone. This clone had already contacted a Soviet person, and it was unknown what the progress was now.

In a flash, he locked Li Xin's position in his mind and shared his vision with him.

As soon as he got into Li Xin's sight, Li Qinwu scratched his head. Li Xin was in the hospital at this time. In front of him was a bearded foreigner lying on the hospital bed with an IV drip.

Li Xin felt that Li Qinwu and he shared the same vision, and before he could ask, he smiled bitterly and said, "My body, I have been in contact with Tchaikovsky these days, but this bearded guy drinks all day long, and he has never been sober when I was with him!

Look, this idiot drank himself into the hospital today. If I hadn't followed him and found him passed out drunk on the side of the road, he would have died a long time ago!"

Li Xin had a lot of resentment. Li Qinwu shared his thoughts and knew what had happened.

Li Xin has been trying to get in touch with this bearded guy, but this guy's life is so intoxicating that the idiom "living in drunkenness and dreaming of death" was invented exactly for him. He has been drinking all the time and showing off like crazy. In order to make friends with him, Li Xin had no choice but to accompany him to drink several times.

You have to know that all the clones were created based on Li Qinwu. Li Qinwu himself dislikes drinking, so naturally these clones are the same. In order to please the bearded man, Li Xin accompanied him to drink several times. If it weren't for the original body and other clones, he would have gone crazy long ago.

After learning the details, Li Qinwu hurriedly said, "If you don't like drinking, don't drink. We don't need to wrong ourselves. There are so many foreigners in this world. We don't have to buy machines from the Soviets. What we value in life is freedom. We will never be fed shit by the drinking culture in this life."

"Now that I know the true identity, I want to give up on the line with the bearded man. This bastard's mind has never been clear. I suspect he is an alcoholic and his brain has become stupid. This kind of person cannot be trusted. The purchase of the machine cannot fall on him!"

The two talked for a while, and Li Qinwu left Li Xin's sight. Li Xin got up and left. Damn it, he had been treating the bearded man to drinks these days, and he didn't even have the chance to discuss the purchase of the machine with him. This bastard was either drinking or on his way to drink, and now he drank himself into the hospital, and he had to pay for all the medical expenses.

Li Xin went straight to sleep after returning to his rented luxury apartment. He planned to go find a few wealthy "friends" he had just met tomorrow to see if they could introduce him to other foreigners.

Li Xin slept until 2 o'clock the next morning. He got up, washed, and then put on a high-end suit that he had customized for 8 oceans, handmade calfskin boots that he had customized for 50 oceans, and a gold watch that he had bought at a foreign company for a full 20 oceans.

With the money he spent on all these things alone, he could buy a big store in the core business district of Kaifeng City. Anyone who saw him would think he was a rich man. However, even so, Li Xin still couldn't get along in the circle of power and wealth in Kaifeng City.

So far, the powerful circles in Kaifeng City have not accepted Li Xin. They always think that Li Xin is just a nouveau riche from some small place, because they can feel at a glance that Li Xin does not have the nobility that they have who were born and raised in wealthy families. They and Li Xin are simply not of the same class.

But there are only a few people in Kaifeng's upper class circle, and the sudden appearance of a clown can make everyone's life more pleasant, so the powerful people in Kaifeng city intentionally or unintentionally introduced him into their own circle, just to let this clown enrich their lives.

No one took Li Xin seriously. Li Xin was not stupid, so he could see it, but what could he do? The clones were willing to do anything for Li Qinwu and the other clones, even if it meant drinking something they would never drink. This group of clones was like individuals with a hive consciousness, willing to do anything for the collective.

Li Qinwu has already noticed this. He plans to improve the living and working conditions of his clones once the initial foundation is solidified. Li Qinwu will never allow the humiliation that Li Xin is currently experiencing in the circle of powerful people to happen again.

As for the fact that the power is just in its infancy and people look down on it, there is nothing that can be done about it. Li Qinwu can't just slaughter all the dignitaries in Kaifeng just because Li Xin is looked down upon. What kind of Chosen God is Khorne? He is so angry.

We can only wait until we develop in the future and then use our strength to slap the faces of the powerful and wealthy, and then we can turn things around.

This is also the reason why Li Xin persisted even when he was wronged. He wanted to wait until he became successful and then slap the faces of these powerful people himself.

Li Xin packed his clothes, put on his hat and prepared to go out, but just as he reached the door, he heard someone knocking.

He was stunned for a moment. Up to now, there had never been any guests coming to the high-end apartment he rented. Who could be outside the door?

He opened the door carefully and took a look outside. He found that there was a foreign man wearing a military uniform and a wide-brimmed hat on his head. The style of the uniform was easy to recognize. Li Xin recognized at a glance that he was a Soviet man.

When the other party saw the door open, he saluted Li Xin first, and then asked: "Hello, sir, are you Mr. Li Xin?"

Li Xin nodded and asked in confusion: "It's me? Who are you?"

"Hello, Mr. Li Xin. I am the Soviet military attaché in Kaifeng, Major Petrov Alexander Koyevich. You can call me Petrov."

The other person stretched out his hand, and Li Xin also stretched out his hand to shake hands with him, then invited the man into his home and asked him to sit down.

Li Xin wanted to pour tea for the other party, but Bidrov refused.

"Sir, please don't bother me. I'll be leaving soon. I came here to thank you for your help. I learned from the doctor that if you hadn't sent Tchaikovsky to the hospital in time, this idiot would have drunk himself to death."

Li Xin then realized that the Soviet major in front of him came to thank him. He just thought that it was a waste of time to put effort on Tchaikovsky, but now he was giving him gold coins.

Li Xin became excited and began to greet Major Petrov, eventually leading him to say the words he wanted to hear most.

"Mr. Li Xin, thank you for all you have done. If you need any help, perhaps I can do it for you."

A smile appeared on Li Xin's lips.