Chapter 34: The Surname of Little Japan

  "Commander, I'm telling you, that group of people, their marksmanship is incredibly good. Even the Japanese don't have marksmanship like theirs." At this time, those defeated soldiers had also arrived at the safe zone, where there were several companies of soldiers who were reorganized by Commander Zhou into a reinforced company, although they didn't have any ammunition now, but the organization was still intact, wasn't it.

  They had nothing to do, so they had time to talk about Liu He and those people. "As for them, I think they were completely raised by bullets. Otherwise, you see how they bite the flesh of their guns, even exploding heads. But they also have weaknesses."

  "Then, Lian Chang, what are their weaknesses?" This was a soldier who would not rest until he got to the bottom of things. "This is my guess, maybe it's not a weakness, they're not regular troops, so naturally this battle is very flexible, you didn't see them quickly withdraw when they heard that a large team was coming, did you? They can't fight big battles, I feel that if they can train so many sharpshooters, they should have already reached their limit."

  This regiment commander has really reached his limit, Liu He's extreme is indeed the amount of 156 people, now he doesn't have much money in his hands, maybe he still needs to continue plundering, the next plunder should be the Japanese army, Liu He also has an idea that he wants to train heavy weapons, this time they actually captured two grenade launchers, eight shells, six light machine guns, six boxes of bullets, just right for letting the workers and children practice using grenade launchers and machine guns.

  Before Liu He had time to sort out the results of this battle, Li Shu led the long workers and villagers to start their weaving business. Their woven products are now selling well within a radius of 500 miles. Weaving in Lishang Village has become a big brand, and they don't even need to leave the village to have people come and place orders. However, it's necessary to offer low prices for these orders. At first, Li Shu didn't agree with them coming to place orders, but after Liu He did some calculations for him, he was delighted to take on more orders from outside.

  Before the autumn harvest, weaving became an important source of income for Shangli Village. When raw materials were scarce, they even went to neighboring villages to purchase rattan. As Liu He was a time-traveler from a later era, he naturally brought with him assembly-line production methods, which effectively integrated the village's labor resources. The skilled villagers all focused on weaving, and each person specialized in only one product, never making anything else. There were specialists for sorting rattan, purchasing, harvesting, and now they formed a seamless service chain. Li Shu even established a service company to provide external services. When there were customers at the door, these people would take charge of selling the products, and at this time, not a single person in the village was idle.

  "Boss." "Hehe, Uncle Li, you're looking for me with something on your mind." Uncle Li came to find Liu He with an apologetic expression.

  "Boss, I just signed a contract recently." "Good, is it a big order?" "Boss, this isn't about the size of the order. It's just that after I signed it, I found out that it was for a Japanese buyer who wants to purchase our woven products. But by then, it was too late for me to back out." Li Shu had a very regretful expression.

  "Uncle Li, what's wrong with that? Isn't it better to earn the Japanese people's money?" Liu He said nonchalantly. "I'm telling you, boss, it's not about them paying us money, but rather they're paying us something called military coupons. I don't even know what those are."

  "It's alright, just sell it to them, don't mention the military ticket, even if it's a blank bill we'll take it, but we need their leader to sign for it."

  Liu He's idea was that a few sticks and some labor were nothing, but as long as you dared to beat the white strip, after fifty years, he would settle accounts with them. Liu He knew that any decent day-laborer generally had their name on some kind of divine toilet, and having a name made it easier to collect debts. If they didn't pay back, they could still be embarrassed. Moreover, with this thing, maybe in this village, it would even become a protective umbrella.

  "Tell me, Uncle Li, what is it that they've taken a liking to?" "Ah, this is an embarrassing thing to say."

  It is said that a businessman saw the woven things in Shangli Village were exquisite, so he customized a batch of rattan knife handles. What are these knife handles? They are just the wooden handles on top of a vegetable knife. To make this vegetable knife look more high-end, the businessman replaced the wooden handle with a rattan-woven handle.

  When it comes to this kitchen knife, some readers may not understand it very well, because now there are still wooden-handled knives, all of which are made directly from a stainless steel cylindrical handle. However, in the past, it was an iron knife with a thin iron strip about half a centimeter in diameter trailing behind it, on top of which a wooden handle had to be inserted. Not to mention, the handle wrapped with rattan strips is indeed much more beautiful, and it feels comfortable to hold in your hand as well.

  This wasn't the time when a Japanese military officer's wife bought one back, was it? One day, this Japanese military officer didn't come home all day. This wife thought about it at home and wanted to know that this woman thought about it but it was quite difficult to bear, so she had to find something long and thin to relieve the itch. So, she saw the handle of the knife, which was woven with rattan strips, especially the rattan strips were polished very fine, this was a good thing. So, this wife took down the handle of the knife as a substitute, but when she just put it in, her military officer husband came back.

  Perhaps this officer had been scolded by his superior outside, so he naturally needed to resolve the matter with such a thing. After returning home, he didn't say a word and dragged his wife over. The lady was frightened at that time, her face turned pale, and there was also a knife inside.

  The Japanese military officer didn't know, and in the dark, he inserted it inside, ah, it was so refreshing, never had such a refreshing experience before. The handle of the knife was quite rough, even with thorns, just to make the handle stay still, but unexpectedly, it made this Japanese military officer named Iida feel extremely pleased, and that night, he did it three times, three times! This broke Japan's historical record, as according to Japanese history, the most impressive one was "One Night Three Times", so there was a loud name, called "One Night Three Times" or something.

  "Well, that's fine. If we have a child in the future, let's name him Inokubi Sanjuro." As a result, the story of this sword handle spread among the Japanese army wives, and that's how the order came about.

  "Ah, good, didn't expect this small knife handle to play such a big role, so we have to give it a loud name. Can't be called Knife Handle anymore, let's call it Shuangdai instead. By the way, Uncle Li, what was the name of that company you signed the contract with?"

  "Ah, it seems like some big river corporation, their manager is called Tanabe Jiro or something, you say boss, how can a Japanese person have such a name."

  "It's said that the surnames of these little Japanese are all based on where they were conceived, and they just use that place to name themselves. Moreover, these little Japanese are always doing whatever they want whenever they want, take Tanabe for example, it should be that his mother was thinking at the time when she gave birth to him, 'this might have been conceived by the rice field', and it was a successful conception, so he's called Tanabe Ichiro, but Ichiro doesn't sound good, so it was changed to Tanabe Jiro."

  "That Dong family, wasn't there a few tens of them? But were the little Japanese that fierce?"

  "This naturally isn't that fierce, but aren't Japanese women fierce? I seem to remember one called something fifty-six, it seemed like she was named fifty-six after doing it with fifty-six men, but specifically what her surname was I don't recall."

  "Boss, you're really knowledgeable, no wonder you can be the boss." Li Shu was suddenly confused by Liu He and couldn't find his way.