After returning to Riverside Town, Chu Xue reported to Li Mu that Mike came to Li Mu again, but unfortunately like the last time, Li Mu was still not at home, and Mike could only return in a huff. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Li Mu didn't want to see Mike, and the chance encounter at the door of the city bank fully showed that Mike had found a new partner, so it was normal for Mike not to care about Li Mu's side.

Mike has a new partner, and Li Mu doesn't have it, in Li Mu's opinion, if you want to choose a partner, Will is much more suitable than Mike.

Although Will's future is bleak, he is still the sheriff of Springfield, and at the same time, Will has been a soldier, and there must be old bosses and good friends in the army.

Although Will has no intention of investing in Li Mu now, Li Mu believes that after the stable smokeless gunpowder is developed, Will will definitely choose Li Mu.

If you want to open an arsenal, raw materials are indispensable, so cooperation with Carnegie is also very important, once Li Mu becomes a shareholder of Carnegie-McCandris Iron and Steel Company, although Li Mu does not participate in the actual operation, but Li Mu wants to obtain raw materials for the production of weapons should have no problem.

According to Li Mu's plan, Li Mu will take the train to Pittsburgh early tomorrow morning to sign a contract with Carnegie, so Li Mu will go to Springfield tonight to avoid delaying the train early tomorrow morning.

Pittsburgh is 650 kilometers away from Springfield, and there is no phone call this year, and it is estimated that no one can predict that Li Mu will go to Pittsburgh, so Will does not need to accompany him, Li Mu is enough to take Henry, Yan Hu and Yan Shun.

On the carriage to Springfield, Li Mu and Henry were still studying the work arrangements for the next period of time.

"Smokeless gunpowder could make a breakthrough at any time, and once the research is successful, we can cooperate with the Springfield Arsenal and license them to produce smokeless gunpowder, and we only need to collect royalties and make a lot of money." Li Mu thought of the prospect of smokeless gunpowder, and wanted to laugh three times.

"If you open your own gunpowder factory, you will maximize your profits." Henry considered the problem from Li Mu's point of view and fought for Li Mu to maximize profits.

"The money can't be earned, at most half a year, my arsenal will open, and when the time comes, it will be in direct competition with the Springfield Arsenal, let's eat meat, and we always have to drink some soup from the Springfield Arsenal, otherwise we will inevitably be strongly suppressed by the Springfield Arsenal." Li Mu doesn't want to make enemies on all sides, do business, hello, I'm good, everyone's good is really good.

Li Mu said this is also arrogant, listen to the meaning of Li Mu's words, once Li Mu's arsenal is officially operational, the Springfield Arsenal will be closed, Henry doesn't know where Li Mu's confidence comes from, but Henry sincerely hopes that Li Mu can do it.

The more money Li Mu makes, the more money Henry makes, and from this point of view, Henry hopes that Li Mu is the richest man in the world.

Soon, Henry knew the source of Li Mu's confidence.

"The biggest benefit of smokeless gunpowder is to promote the development of automatic weapons, and now automatic weapons, because the bullets and projectiles used are not up to standard, so there are too many problems left by gunpowder residues, and the range is not long enough, and the accuracy is not high, and after the successful development of smokeless gunpowder, these problems will be solved one by one, so in the next period of time, you go to find those machine gun patents now, see who is in their hands, and buy them if you can buy them." Li Mu only said half of it.

The reason why Carnegie valued Li Mu's screw patent so much was to find a fist product for his factory, and Li Mu opened a factory in the same way, and he also wanted to find a fist product.

But Li Mu is not used to buying this way, and like the factory recruitment, the best way is not to import from the outside, but to explore his own potential.

There are already automatic weapons, such as the Gatling gun, a manual multi-barreled rotary machine gun, which can fire 200 rounds per minute, and is currently the best automatic weapon in the world.

For Li Mu, if you can buy the patent of the Gatling machine gun is the best, if you can't it doesn't matter, compared with the Gatling, like the Makqin heavy machine gun with a short barrel recoil heavy machine gun is the future development trend of the heavy machine gun, and so on after Li Mu's arsenal opened, Li Mu can invest in research, Makqin can complete the research of automatic rifles and heavy machine guns in a year, Li Mu believes that he can too, after all, the study of heavy machine guns does not need to start from scratch, only need to change the concept, to save as much time as possible.

"Okay, I'll go back and find out." Henry agreed very happily, holding a notebook in his hand, recording Li Mu's request at any time.

"Patent application is also very important, smokeless gunpowder not only to apply for patents in the United States, but also in Europe, you had better find a few more people, set up a legal department, in the future we have to apply for more patents, there will definitely be other economic disputes, it is necessary to set up a legal department." Li Mu had already anticipated the potential difficulties.

As long as Li Mu's arsenal opens, it will definitely offend the interests of some people or a certain group, which is normal, if the world's arms market is described as a cake, no matter who wants to take a bite, those people at the current table will take a bite, and this will definitely cause a strong counterattack from some people.

Speaking of which, Li Mu also has to consider the issue of naturalization, since Li Mu does not want to return to my Qing Dynasty to fight for "democracy and freedom" for the rest of his life, then Li Mu must have a suitable identity, so that he can better integrate into the United States.

The issue of nationality is indeed imminent now, and Henry also suggested to Li Mu: "If you don't object, I suggest that you become an American citizen, it will be more convenient, if smokeless gunpowder is really that important, then the U.S. government probably won't allow such an important invention to be in the hands of a foreigner, you'd better decide as soon as possible, once you become an American citizen, then the U.S. government will be your strong backing, no matter who it is, as long as he infringes on your interests, then it is also a violation of the interests of the U.S. government, The U.S. government will do its best to protect your legal rights. ”

In fact, whether it is applying for a patent or conducting business negotiations with partners, it is Henry who presides over it, and Li Mu is still a child and a "foreigner", which adds a lot of unnecessary trouble to Henry's work.

"Well, when I get back from Pittsburgh, I'll become an American citizen." Li Mu was also decisive on this issue.

"It's best that before you go to Pittsburgh, if you give me an authorization document, I can ask my assistant to go to the New York USCIS and take care of this for you, so that when you sign a contract with Carnegie, you can have U.S. citizenship, and I believe that the benefits of this do not need me to explain." Henry was more anxious than Li Mu.

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