Chapter 7: Fukuda Keiji

  May 13, 1914

  A businessman in Guangzhou, as soon as he arrived in GZ, ran to Sun Gongguan and didn't come out until evening.

  Within days, all warlords in China received a letter, the main content of which introduced a type of rifle and military uniform and boots with excellent performance, priced 10% cheaper than buying from abroad, and delivered quickly. As long as they contacted according to the method specified in the letter, they could make a purchase. This news excited all the warlords, who immediately dispatched their trusted men to GZ City to contact and arrange for the purchase.

  May 27, 1913

  It's been over ten days in the blink of an eye. Chen Shao has been here for 20 days now.

  "Bang, bang, bang......"; the sound came from inside the huge barracks, early in the morning a group of villagers walked to their respective workplaces, hearing gunshots was nothing out of the ordinary. Everyone knew that it was just the security team training with guns, because this kind of thing happened every day.

  "Attention, report to the instructor, Qinghe Village Security Team has completed target practice, please instruct?" The one standing up to report was Wang Yunshan, the squad leader of this security team. He wore a military uniform, with a style based on the People's Liberation Army uniforms from later generations. His right hand raised in a standard military salute towards the infantry instructor standing beside him.

  This infantry instructor is the first infantry instructor and also a senior infantry instructor Chen Shao took the name of Step One, a very serious infantry instructor with a Chinese face. The security team behind him was secretly scolding the dead man's face because Step One's face always looked like that. Training won't stop until people are exhausted and can't stand up, even if Chen Shao is training inside it's the same. However, the effect is really good now, the security team looks like professional soldiers, whether it's military posture or military appearance, they can be compared with foreign troops, at least the big-headed soldiers under the domestic warlords are not comparable.

  Although the training was very hard, the food was good, with pork and rice for lunch and dinner every day, plus high military pay, it was a bit bitter, but no one quit, after all, they were all from poor families and could bear it, even if they couldn't bear it, seeing Captain Chen Shao, who was also training hard like them, made them not afraid of hardship, and the others trained even harder.

  "Soldiers, pick up the eggshells and gather them together, now start a 10-kilometer loaded cross-country run." Step one still gave orders with an expressionless face.

  When the instructor gave the order, the security team members did not wail a few sentences like in the previous days, but instead lined up under Wang Yunshan's leadership to receive heavy backpacks, shoulder rifles, and started running along the obstacles on the military camp's playground. Chen Shao was naturally among them. The military camp was very large, with the entire playground being about 500 meters in circumference, which meant they had to run 20 laps.

  The morning training was over and after lunch all security team members gathered in the army camp's classroom to chat.

  "Have you heard? The security team is recruiting now."

  "Uh-huh, I've also heard that they're going to expand enrollment to 500 people."

  I went home yesterday and told several of my cousins that we shouldn't go to the fertilizer plant anymore, but instead come to the security team.

  "Yes, captain (the captain has always been Chen Shao), he is really a kind-hearted person, practical and down-to-earth. If anyone can't get along with the captain, I'll be the first to fight him."

  "Yes, my kid is attending Qinghe Village Primary School, carrying a small school bag every day, and can now recite poems. However, I don't understand them. My wife works at the garment factory, earning 2 yuan per month, while being in the security team earns 4 yuan per month, which was unthinkable in the past."

  Listening to the security guards chatting, Chen Shao felt that everything he did was worth it. In fact, the boss's requirements were really low, being able to eat a full meal, children could go to school, and the whole family lived happily.

  At night, Chen Shao returned to the base and looked at the display in front of him. The previously gray bright spots around the base on the display had all turned green. This indicated that the area around the base could now be considered Chen Shao's territory. However, seeing several red areas deep in the mountains, Chen Shao knew that they were likely bandits on the mountain. But they were quite far away, and usually only came to these small villages during harvest time to cause trouble.

  The grain is still several months away from being ripe, and Chen Shao is not in a hurry. He will wait until the security team has expanded and all of them have been trained to be first-class soldiers before taking action one by one.

  Here is the translation:

  The Red Alert units that have already been built are: Magnetic Reactor, Ore Refinery, War Factory, Barracks, Air Command Center, Battle Lab, and Oil Derrick. Among them, the War Factory and Ore Refinery each have 3 buildings. The Power Plant also has 3 more buildings. There is no way to produce Mining Trucks, only Ore Factories. One Ore Refinery supplies one War Factory with ore consumption, and the Steel Mill operates non-stop for 24 hours. Currently, the Shipyard is still under construction in the build list, and it takes 3 days to build a shipyard, today is the last day. Because the coastal area of Fangchenggang is not like later generations, it is now just a barren land, and there are few fish there, and no fishing boats go there. So Chen Shao is not afraid that others will discover where the shipyard is being built. However, due to the lack of aircraft, the Flight Training Center cannot be established, so the Air Command Center is still just an empty shell.

  There are now civilian factories including: seed base, pig base, cattle base, dairy farm, chicken base, fertilizer plant, steel mill, garment factory, canning factory, lighter factory, cement plant, brick factory, daily necessities processing plant, and oil refinery. Among them, there are 2 steel mills and 2 cement plants.

  From the first cyborg James Bond to now there are 9 cyborgs, and tonight another scientist can be released. Among them, two technical workers, one senior and one intermediate, three scientists, in addition to the previous intermediate scientist Gun 55, another senior machine gun expert and a senior car expert have emerged. In addition to James, five more spies have been produced, from Spy One to Spy Five, among whom Spy One is a senior spy, and the others are intermediate spies. The current main task of the spies is to help Chen Shao sell things, ranging from weapons and equipment to toothbrushes and toothpaste.

  Now three tank factories are operating 24 hours a day, one specializing in rifle production, one producing machine guns, and one producing cars including car engines. Can now produce: Browning wz. 1928 light machine gun, and M2 Browning machine gun.

  M2 Browning machine gun

  Caliber: 12.7 mm

  Rate of fire: 550 rounds per minute

  Range: approximately 7 kilometers

  The M2 has a barrel of about 11 cm and uses 12.7 mm caliber bullets that can hold more than four times the propellant gunpowder than ordinary machine gun bullets. Such range and power make the M2 effective against any target, ground troops, light armored vehicles, light defensive fortifications, and even low-flying aircraft are not a problem. Even in later generations, this machine gun is still in use, with great practical value, which is also why Chen Shao chose this machine gun.

  However, these two machine guns are for training by the security team and not many were produced. They do not belong to the export type. The export-type light and heavy machine guns are: Japan's 92-style heavy machine gun and Czech-style light machine gun, both of which have a good sales route, and domestic warlords are very fond of them. There are three armored vehicle factories, one producing rifles, mainly producing Mauser 98K for the security team, including export-type Mauser 98 and Type 38 Arisaka. Chen Shao is also working hard to promote Japanese equipment, just wanting to disgust the Japanese people. A machine gun factory can produce 50 guns with 100,000 matching bullets per day.

  The car factory can produce 2 trucks per day, even without technical workers.

  Ten days ago, Chen Shao had James go to the United States to set up a company and apply for various patents, as well as recruit skilled workers and hire high-paying professionals. After all, just opening a Red Alert base for biochemical cultivation is too slow and has a large gap. In addition, an intelligence system was established, which is easy for a perfect spy like him.

  But James did not disappoint Chen Shao, just yesterday a production and processing enterprise called Longteng Group was successfully registered in the United States. Moreover, Longteng Group publicly declared that its industry is located in Qinghe Village Industrial Base, Guangxi, China. After all, the status of Chinese people is not high now, and it's better to avoid being remembered by domestic warlords.

  The Longteng Group had 20 patents registered on its first day of operation, ranging from military weapons to civilian products, making the upper echelons of American society curious about this company.

  Tonight, Chen Shao arrived early in front of the biochemical nest and waited. The shipyard had been built, and Chen Shao immediately set up a barracks and a steel mill next to the shipyard. What he was most looking forward to now was the emergence of a shipbuilding scientist. Because without scientists, there were no professional drawings and technical workers, and ships could not be built, which was also the reason why Chen Shao asked James to recruit workers in the United States.

  Although the weapons and products are now being transported out for sale by horse-drawn carts, the daily transportation volume is still very small. The cement plant has also started production, producing a considerable amount of cement every day, it seems that road repairs can start tomorrow. Although there is no engineer, the initial stage will start with widening and heightening the road first, so that cars can directly transport weapons and products later. I wonder how the villagers from Erjiao Village are doing with driving?

  Chen Shaolian stood there lost in thought, and didn't even notice the bio-mechanical person approaching him until it greeted him first.

  "Reporting to superior officer: Fukuda Keiji, reporting in."