Chapter 29: The Big Purchase

  Once the plan was set, everything else was easy. After leaving Beiping, Yang Feng rushed to Tianjin and then drove his car to Dagukou. Taking advantage of the dark night and strong winds, he transformed his plane into a flat-bottomed riverboat under the ruins of the Dagukou fort. He slowly sailed out to sea, and after a distance from the shore, he suddenly accelerated, disappearing silently into the darkness of the night.

  When Yang Feng opened his eyes from the light of the broken space, he had already appeared in the workshop of the Ghost City, a large steel structure factory that just accommodated the entire ship.

  "Perfect, too perfect. Just have them deliver all the goods here and it's fine if loading the ship is a bit of a hassle. Never mind, no big deal if I have to suffer a bit myself, using a forklift won't take long anyway."

  "Get a better car, at least you'll be considered rich. Always driving a fake license plate van is no good, besides it's easy to attract the police uncle's salute. If I drove an R8, they probably wouldn't dare salute me either." Yang Feng patted the side of the boat and said, "Get an R8, black one."

  The huge ship's body suddenly shrunk and transformed, a sinister black Audi R8 appeared in the garage, followed by a fierce roar, and rushed out of the garage door.

  "My goodness! Boss, you're too arrogant!" Ye Xuan shouted with wide eyes as she saw Yang Feng get out of the car.

  "Big shot, huh! How can we live up to our status if we don't show off a bit? When we get back to the company, you three will each buy a car, and you can choose whatever style you like!" Yang Feng said with a big-shot attitude, carrying a plastic woven bag on his back.

  Then arrived at Jin Yuan company amidst cheers.

  As soon as he entered, Yang Feng was very dissatisfied.

  "What does this look like? It's empty and feels nothing, go back and recruit a few pretty little girls, special white-collar workers, special petty bourgeoisie, the kind that can easily arouse men's desire to ravage, raising them as decorations is also good!" He said, looking at the empty office space.

  The two monkeys immediately revealed lewd smiles.

  "By the way, how's business been lately?" He asked Ye Yu, leaning back in his chair.

  "We have sold out all ginseng and earned 30 million yuan, with at least 10 kilograms of pre-orders," said Ye Yuxin.

  Yang Feng pointed to the woven bag that had been thrown into the corner of the wall, which was sent to him by Tong Lin Ge from Zhangjiakou when he came back.

  "What's this? Good heavens, it weighs 20-30 kilograms! It's all wild ginseng. What is this thing?" The monkey shrieked as he pulled out a small furry ball.

  "There are twenty-five kilograms of wild ginseng in here, all over fifteen years old, and a few are estimated to be over fifty years old. These are genuine long-white wild ginseng, not those cultivated in fenced-in forests. There are thirty complete musk deer, five Northeastern tiger whips, all wild, three rhino horns, six bear gallbladders, from brown bears. Be careful when selling these things, they're all banned items." Yang Feng said calmly, this is the inventory of all pharmacies in Chahar, but Song Zheyuan, stimulated by that batch of military supplies, didn't care about face anymore and directly ordered to seize them under the pretext of borrowing.

  "Alright, alright, stop researching these things. Come and take your respective tasks." Yang Feng said to the three people who were already stunned: "First of all, our clothes, must be ready within a week, this task is handed over to you, Zhang Zhang, even if you have to move into the clothing factory, they must work overtime to get it done.

  "Monkey, you still need to get a batch of sulfonamide, the same standard as before. This time, at least one hundred boxes are needed. Weige needs twenty boxes and I also want five domestic ones. You have another big task: find a chemistry genius, let him imagine himself as the inventor of sulfonamide, then write an English essay on the value of sulfonamide. Also, compile a set of sulfonamide manufacturing methods for me, which must be feasible in the 1930s."

  "What do you want to do?" The monkey was confused by him.

  "Don't bother about it, just tell him I'll use it for writing novels or anything else." Yang Feng said.

  This is what Yang Feng wants to apply for a patent and then get a Nobel Prize, I guess if it's really implemented, it shouldn't be a problem, and then he can sell the patent license, so he can make more profits, at least he won't spend his own money on that steel factory.

  "As for you, come with me to buy some miscellaneous things." Yang Feng pointed at Ye Xiang and said, "Bicycles, down jackets and the like are still necessary, also need to contact the down jacket processing machinery, and he also wants to try, see if it is possible to process some parts of the recoilless gun in modern times, of course, the barrel can't be processed in modern times, that thing is obviously what it is."

  But the scaffolding, base and so on can be taken to modern times for processing, and then buy a batch of better nickel steel pipes, make a few suitable machines, I estimate that Wang Chuanming's mechanical factory can process cannon barrels, although it is still different from modern mortars, but at least it is much stronger than Jinling Factory.

  The key is speed, and if you casually find a mechanical factory here, the production speed will probably far exceed that of Jinling Factory, which doesn't have CNC machine tools.

  As it turned out, when Yang Feng took the drawings of the tripod to a machinery factory, they told him very easily: "If you want 500 pieces, we can probably finish processing them all within a week at most."

  As for the base, it's even simpler, but Yang Feng didn't dare to make it in a machinery factory just in case, so after finishing these, he ran to the steel market again.

  "What is the best seamless steel pipe?" he asked the sales manager.

  The sales manager looked at his R8 and said with a smile: "Imported high-pressure alloy steel pipe."

  "How solid is it? Which one is stronger compared to a mortar barrel?"

  "In that case, it's naturally a howitzer."

  "If I also want to buy such a steel pipe, can I buy it?"

  "It's hard to come by, those are all custom-made by the munitions factory, and there's no demand for them on the outside market, so it's impossible to buy them. What you can find on the market is just imported high-pressure alloy steel pipes."

  "Can it be used as a mortar tube?"

  "It depends on how thick the pipe is."

  "What is the inside diameter of the thickest pipe wall?"

  "This depends on how much you want."

  "Do you have 82mm?"

  "Can be pre-ordered from the manufacturer."

  "From overseas manufacturers? That's going to take a long time?"

  "If it's Japan, it won't take a few days, but if it's Germany, it'll take a bit longer."

  "Then I'll have Japan's! First give me a hundred and ten tons!"

  You think I'll use Japanese steel to make mortars and then go back and beat up the Japanese, just like how the Japanese take China's iron ore back to make steel and then come back to beat up China.

  As soon as he thought of this, Yang Feng's smile became even more sinister.