Code Name: Flame

Chapter 81 The Arms Market
The reason why Chen Jia noticed the arms market was because he bought pistols on the black market in Shanghai.

That time, he only bought fifty Colt pistols, plus a few other miscellaneous things, which cost him five thousand oceans.At that time, there was no comparison. Do you think that weapons are rare items after all, and it is normal for them to be more expensive.

When I arrived at the Colt Company, I found out that a handful of Colts was only 14 dollars, which was only 34 dollars when converted into oceans, and the profit was almost 100%.

The head of state is buying German mechanic divisions, and Chen Jia's original 87th division is one of them. It is said that it costs more than 100 million US dollars for a German mechanic division, which is still a beggar's version.A company has two mortars, one or two heavy machine guns, and eight light machine guns. This firepower can bully the Red Army, and it is far behind the devils.If you add the Devil's Heavy Artillery Division, the gap is not one or two points.

Chen Jia also knew that the final defeat of the national army was inevitable, but if more troops could be armed, wouldn't the casualties be less and the enemy dealt a greater blow, and the situation might improve a bit if we combined it together.

Even if the national army is now equipped with flying cannons, and the weapons are even better than those of Japan, the final outcome is still certain.There is no command of the sea, no command of the air, and if you give you a hundred heavy artillery divisions, you will eventually give the Japanese their heads.

But what about guerrilla warfare?If there were more bullets and better weapons, the blow to the Japanese invaders would not be a little bit bigger.The battles that should be won can be won, the casualties that should be avoided can be avoided, and the accumulation of small things will add up, just like a battle of hundreds of regiments, the results are remarkable.

Another point is that Chen Jia never dared to act recklessly, what if history has been changed?Turn the tide on your own?Isn't it a fool's dream!
It can not only help the country, but also make money. Wouldn't it be a happy ending?These weapons are sold in China every year, earning millions of dollars a year is simply closing your eyes.It can also reduce the cost of national procurement through low cost, and can equip more troops.When the Japanese blockade the sea, land and air traffic, they will all rely on their own arsenal to continue their lives.

Chen Jia, who made up his mind, spent 3000 million U.S. dollars on the stock exchange the next day, accompanied by a lawyer, to buy the stocks of DuPont, Boeing, General Electric and Lockheed, which caused huge damage to the stock exchange. The stock soared within a day, and even Morgan was alarmed.If you don't make a fuss, Citigroup Raymond also invested 3000 million U.S. dollars. The total investment of 6000 million U.S. dollars is considered a sky-high investment.

In Chen Jia's memory, except for the Pearl Harbor incident, the U.S. stock market plummeted, and then it never went down, and it has always been red.After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, the stock market soared even more.Therefore, Chen Jia can harvest US stocks twice, one time during the recovery period before the Pearl Harbor attack.

Morgan immediately sent someone to ask Raymond. The relationship between them was relatively good, so Raymond didn't hide anything. He gave a general account of Chen Jia's affairs. Of course, he didn't say anything about the robbery, let alone about the spies. .

When Morgan learned about the pharmaceutical factory, he was very interested and immediately sent someone to discuss with Raymond to see if they could share some shares with them.Raymond politely declined, how could this cash cow be given to them?Morgan is a vampire, and they will be damned if they don't do anything.

The Morgan representative who didn't give up wanted to go to Gu Minghua again, but he couldn't find him after searching all over New York, so he had no choice but to go back to deal with business.

Out of excitement, Chen Jia felt very inappropriate after receiving Kalong's equipment list.Because the most famous machine gun in World War II in his memory was the MG42, which was cheap not to mention good in performance.The main reason is that a large number of stamping parts are used, which not only reduces the weight, but also greatly reduces the cost.

Although he is a mechanical major, he is still very unfamiliar with stamping machines. Finally, after discussing with Kalong, he decided to purchase a batch of stamping machines. With ordinary equipment, it is not difficult to manufacture stamping dies, but it will involve Heat treatment, so the heat treatment equipment was filled up again.

Kalong had a good impression of this serious Chinese, because Chen Jia told him the disadvantages of copper vernier calipers and suggested using high-carbon steel. Kalong thought it was reasonable and adopted it.

For this reason, Chen Jia also bought a batch of standard blocks for measuring tools, which were used as benchmarks for making measuring tools by himself.Next, a Chinese engineer was recruited. His task was to convert the American standard drawings sent by Kalong into metric ones.

In my spare time, I started to study the process of craftsmanship. I didn’t know if I didn’t look at it.The processing technology is extremely backward, and the assembly line operation is not seen here at all. It is all relying on the masters to check and rely heavily on the level of workers' skills.

Chen Jia was so angry that if such a craft was brought back to China, she would not have the ability to do it well.It is difficult to find such high-level workers and technicians in the United States, let alone China, and it is estimated that there are not even a few people who can turn lathes.

After struggling for several days, Chen Jia broke down the process and greatly reduced the technical difficulty. In addition to adding more equipment, the dependence on people was minimized.The second is the assembly process. The assembly process is also disassembled, and the difficulty of assembly and debugging is also greatly reduced.

Then Chen Jia proposed to simplify the parts without affecting the performance, try not to process stamped parts that can be used, and use equipment as much as possible to solve them manually.His opinion is to let the engineers of Colt's technical department study it, and try to fix the process before the Chinese factory goes into production.

After a few days, the list of equipment has increased a lot. Adding spare equipment and parts, processing and assembly equipment and measuring equipment will cost more than 100 million US dollars. If you add power plants and steel mills, the remaining money is obviously not enough. .

After discussing with Kalong, Chen Jia decided that Kalong would give up 100 points of shares and add 200 million US dollars nominally, which would be deducted from the share in the future, while Chen Jia would take out an additional investment of [-] million US dollars.

In this way, Kalong knew that he had taken advantage of it, and he had a new understanding of Chen Jia's generosity. From this, he felt Chen Jia's confidence in the Chinese market, and his curiosity was also aroused by Chen Jia.He decided to send about 30 of his best engineers, designers, and technicians to form the preparatory training personnel of Colt China. This can be regarded as a reward for Chen Jia's generosity.

The major newspapers in New York also published the recruitment advertisements of Colt China Company. The recruitment conditions are very favorable, and it is allowed to bring a family with you, and the company provides free food and accommodation.The contract period is five years. If you are willing to sign a ten-year contract, your salary will increase significantly.

Many people are recruited, including mechanical engineers, heat treatment engineers, process engineers, architects, lathe workers, millers, planers, grinders, mold workers, primary and secondary school teachers, chefs, farmers, drivers, artillerymen, heavy machine gunners, military training Officer, Chinese translator, financial...

"My friend, what are you doing? Are you playing games? Why do you want so many irrelevant people? You still need a cook, why don't you find a dancer or a brewer?"

"That's right, why did you forget the brewer, do you know Quinn?"

Quinn was almost pissed off by Chen Jia, and almost all the occupations in a city were included in the list.It is not fully included, as he, the banker, does not seem to be included.

Fortunately, Quinn didn't understand or didn't understand, so he brought someone to interview people for Chen Jia, and was busy from morning to night every day.Because there are many unemployed people, the interview workload is huge. There are more than 400 positions being recruited. In the end, more than 5000 people came for interviews. If it were not for the help of Quinn and the others, Chen Jia would probably be exhausted to death.

Quinn admired Chen Jia's interview skills. Thousands of people, each interviewing for one minute, can exhaust a few of them to death.

Chen Jia first categorized 5000 people, those with high education and more work experience were interviewed first, and the interview ended when the quota was full.Even so, it took six days to complete.

The more than 400 people were divided into different groups, forty group leaders were selected, and a man named Johnson was appointed as Chen Jia's deputy management.

Each person was paid fifty dollars for living expenses first, and then arranged to go to San Francisco in several batches, allowing them to bring all their family members with them, and as long as they reported the number, they would be issued train tickets.

What is the concept of fifty dollars?It is a month's wages of a skilled worker in the United States.Everyone is very satisfied, and they are also deeply surprised by the style of this oriental man, aren't they afraid that he won't go after taking the money?

Quinn and the others also asked this question, but Chen Jia's answer was that he could just tell a person's virtue and the value of fifty dollars.

Crazy, bah, stupid Chinese.

Contrary to Quinn's expectations, as many as half of the first batch of people rushed to San Francisco with train tickets. Including their family members, there were more than 1000 people. They almost didn't even have enough train tickets, if Chen Jia hadn't booked in advance. One thousand, it is estimated that many people will have to wait for the next batch.

　Ask for a recommendation ticket

　　


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