"This Brother Wu Luzhen is a great talent that I invited from Tianjin Wei. Shouqing's elder brother joined the Hubei New Army Engineering Battalion as a soldier four years ago, and was admitted to the Hubei Military Academy. The "Throwing Pen from Rong to the First Place" written by him was full of praise to Zhang Zhidong, the governor of Huguang, and a large number of mimeographs were widely distributed in the barracks of the new army and the military academy. The year before last, he was recommended by Mr. Zhang to enter the Japanese non-commissioned officer school to study the army cavalry department, and he was a non-commissioned officer student in the first phase of my stay in the Qing Dynasty. If it weren't for Lao Tzu's three visits to the thatched house, Mr. Wu would not have put down his studies at the Japanese Lu Shi to come to our insurance group. Well, this official appointed Wu Luzhen brother as the head of the former detachment of the insurance group of the Jinan Chamber of Commerce, and everyone will be colleagues in the future, and we must unite sincerely, learn from each other, learn from each other's strengths, and make progress together. By the way, Wu Luzhen is also the deputy head of the night school of our insurance regiment, and in the future, the commander of the Wu detachment will be responsible for the teaching of military system, cartography, cavalry, and other subjects, and all the deputy squad leaders and above must listen to the lectures on time as long as they are in the battalion. I would now like to welcome Captain Wu to speak. I put down the microphone and invited Wu Luzhen to the stage.

"Well, brothers, in Xia Wu Luzhen, the word Shouqing, is from Yunmeng County, Hubei. At the invitation of Mr. Wu, he joined the insurance group. I am a student soldier, and although I have served in the army, I have spent more time in school than in the barracks, so if there is anything inappropriate in leading the soldiers, I ask you to speak up and listen to you. Just borrow the words of Lord Wu, and we must take sincere unity, learn from each other, learn from each other's strengths, and make progress together as the motto. We are willing to work together with all of you to build an iron army. "Wu Luzhen is not stage frightened, he is a passionate soldier, what he said is reasonable and modest, Lao Wei and Du Zicheng are secretly picking on their thumbs, the boss's vision is really poisonous, and the liner can actually pick up treasures when the liner is delayed.

"Welcome to our Xiao Mingfeng brothers, Xiao brothers, everyone knows each other, our neighbor is the eldest young master of the Xiao family in Ping'an Town. However, today I would like to solemnly introduce his other identity, this official now appoints Xiao Mingfeng brothers as the head of the rear detachment of the insurance group of the Jinan Chamber of Commerce. Don't be stunned, let's chirp. Welcome Brother Xiao to join the group, oh, it's to join the insurance group. "I pushed Xiao Mingfeng out again, that's right, after listening to the report of Lao Wei and Da Zhuang, I personally went to Xiao's house to invite Xiao Mingfeng Xiao Dashao, and gave the Xiao family face, Xiao Old Man is also an understanding person, knowing that my status is no less than that of the prefect of a prefecture, and his son can't afford to hold the Four Books and Five Classics, he only likes to dance with guns and sticks, if he doesn't seize the opportunity to join the army, he can only guard the family business and be a small landowner in the countryside for a lifetime in the future, but the army must also have opportunities. It is almost impossible for his own son to get ahead from the training army. How is the combat effectiveness of the insurance regiment, the battle ten days ago can be seen, and it is even more rare for his son to get along well with the head of the insurance regiment, in this case, it is better to let his son give up the chicken ribs of the insurance chief, and seek an errand in the insurance regiment, the boss personally invited the starting point will naturally not be too low, I have to say that although the old man has been in Ping'an Town all his life, he is a clear-eyed person, so the two hit it off, and Xiao Dashao also became the fourth detachment leader.

"Hahaha." Everyone is familiar with it, so Xiao Mingfeng can also let go, everyone laughed for a while, and then held a meeting to decide the next development strategy of the insurance group. The new insurance regiment adopts the method of using veterans to lead the new, and transfers deputies and veterans to form front and rear detachments, striving to make a big difference between the strength and weakness of the detachments; anyway, there are still three or four months of time to suppress bandits before the planned August operation, and it is a big deal to run in while fighting, and the new recruits will become veterans after fighting a few battles against bandits. There were four fast-gun teams (106 men each, divided into eight 12-man squads and one 10-man detachment), each armed with 106 rear-loading repeating Manlisha guns of 8 mm caliber and 10 Model 1896 Mauser military* pistols. In addition, a number of numbers-sensitive recruits and strong workers from several factories who were willing to join the army formed an artillery team of 80 people, temporarily equipped with 3 modified howitzers and 6 Maxim heavy machine guns (2 spare). Because of the spring drought, more than 1,000 construction teams were recruited from the mountainous areas of Lunan Province, and these construction teams were also formed according to the formation of the recruit team, and first carried out half a month of queue training and military physical training before being assigned to work on the construction site. Meng Boss did not waste the benefits he fought for, I selected 3 older veterans from the insurance regiment plus the original security team of Daguanyuan, recruited a hundred poor people from the surrounding villages and towns of Jinan, and formed a security team that does not carry guns on weekdays, with the reputation of the insurance regiment, Yuan Shikai allowed me to put a hundred soldiers outside the city, I can't really let a detachment with loaded guns and ammunition be stationed outside the governor's yamen, although it is authorized by Lao Yuan, but this will definitely make him unable to sleep, and the gains outweigh the losses. This security team also practiced firearms for half a month, and when the renovation of the Grand View Garden was completed, I directly dismantled this detachment and supplemented it into the homes of various shops and factories of the Chamber of Commerce in the name of withdrawing from the insurance group, so as to form a relatively standardized security team of the Jinan Chamber of Commerce.

The insurance regiment's live-fire combat training is in full swing, and the ammunition consumption of the Manlisa rifle can still be supported, and this time another 500,000 rounds were ordered through Winston, which can support the August operation, anyway, I don't plan to use the Manlisa gun for a long time after that, sooner or later I will have to unify the caliber, so the stock does not need to be too much. Makqin's machine gun ammunition is still not young and old, and since the repair institute was repaired by the mechanics of our standard factory after the bullet production line was repaired, although the production was intermittent due to the lack of copper, there was no difficulty in reloading the bullets, so the bullet reloading of the Wuwei Right Army and the insurance regiment was relatively timely, and the reloading of artillery shells was still in practice. After the Qingming Festival, a large number of machinery and some metal materials ordered by Winston on behalf of him arrived, and it took half a month to install the machines in the new plant. Jinan's second thermal power plant was built after Qinglong Mountain, and around the Dangjiazhuang there was a standard machine tool factory, a standard second factory, a government-business joint gun repair institute and a standard chemical and pharmaceutical factory, plus the triangle cement factory in Gushan and the Baimashan Mintian Food Factory, the enterprise under my name has developed into a comprehensive enterprise group with four machinery factories, two power plants, a chemical and pharmaceutical factory, a cement factory and a food factory, of course, this is not counting the Daguanyuan shopping mall. A few days ago, in the report compiled by Du Niang for me, I was surprised to find that my assets have exceeded one million taels, and I am considering whether to create a "Wu Million" brand to hang on my belt, in order to commemorate that I finally have another seven-figure thing that belongs to me in addition to the number of fine * children.

The standard second factory has just been put into trial operation, and the order is scheduled for next year. The standard machine tool factory is the basic equipment for the production of machine tools such as planing, milling, drilling and stamping machines using German machine tools, and is now mainly OEM production. This is also my idea, Winston was a little puzzled by my proposal at the time, not very optimistic about this idea, but when he went to Germany and Krupp and other mechanical processing giants to meet, only to know that this OEM processing method is actually the most popular way of cooperation for the Germans, because they directly monetize the technology and brand, do not have to bear the risk of the long cycle and high cost of building factories in different places, and do not have to bear the cost of expatriate management and technical personnel, they only need to carry out the final check on the quality of OEM products, As long as the quality and German originals are consistent, the money should be made a lot, and there is almost no risk, so it is no wonder that the Germans exclaimed that this plan was simply a genius idea tailored to the rising star of Germany, which lacked colonies. As the earl of the empire on which the sun never sets, Winston certainly can't understand the plight of German companies, and the people who dare to provoke the British Empire in this era have no one but a madman (of course, there is a crazy woman who singles out the whole world, Cixi), but it is difficult to say whether the Germans can guarantee that they will not be swallowed by the locals or competitors such as Britain and France. The efficiency of the Germans was first-class, and they transferred some orders from Japan, Nanyang, and even South America to me, and the German German company also opened a branch in Jinan.

The new standard chemical and pharmaceutical factories are a key part of my plan to make a fortune, and if I want to make a fortune, "except for those who rob the road, they are those who sell medicines." "With the introduction of chemical laboratory equipment, it is possible to produce sulfonamides in small quantities such as aspirin and quinine, aminoglycosides such as streptomycin and gentamicin, and of course paracetamol (acetaminophen) for colds and fevers. These drugs are all drugs that can be produced in Europe, but because they are relatively new, and the output is not large, so the price is very high, I have the help of the base in the purification process, some precision instruments and testing methods are manufactured by Du Niang in the base using high-precision automatic processing machinery, anyway, now the stock of watch movements and phonograph heads is still abundant. These drugs are not OEM, but it is not a problem to export them through the channels of the German foreign company and the Montague family.

Mintian Food Factory is also a new project that I have recently launched, in addition to a canning production line and a baking production line, there is also an instant noodle production line. To put it simply, instant noodles are ready-to-eat foods that can be eaten within a specified time (within 3 minutes) by steaming and frying the noodles that are brushed out of the wire, making the noodles have a fixed shape (generally rectangular or round), brewing them with boiling water before eating, dissolving the seasonings, and heating the noodles to brew. The flour, edible oil, cane sugar, fruits, marine fish, and meat used in the production of Mintian Factory can be solved by the Chamber of Commerce by itself, and the products are almost not limited by raw materials. In addition, Mintian Factory also ordered a production line of chemical products in the standard machine tool factory, although the machine tool factory does not know the end use of the production line, but I understand very well that this production line is to produce monosodium glutamate, that is, monosodium glutamate, and then the "monosodium monoglutamate" of small Japan can probably only become a low-end imitation of monosodium glutamate. After the production of canned food, biscuits, pastries, and instant noodles of the Mintian brand, I plan to put them in the supermarket of Daguanyuan for trial sales and provide some of them as military supplies for the insurance group and the Wuwei Right Army, plus the channels of the Jinan Chamber of Commerce and the Jiangsu and Zhejiang Chamber of Commerce, there are no competitors in China, and I believe that they will soon be able to occupy the rich coastal market, although the products are inconspicuous, but the profits are not low. When the time comes, I will be able to keep foreign goods out of the mainland with food and medicine.

Now my money bag is deflated again, and I have returned to the six-figure era, but the factories and a steady stream of industrial products that have been sprung up in exchange for real money are not a dream sooner or later! Hehe, I fell asleep with a smile on my face, and the leopard sisters nested quietly in their attic, looking at the owner who was flowing in their sleep, licking their sexy little lips, and elegantly stomping to the restaurant outside to find supper.