In a fancy hotel suite in San Francisco, Haines was invited to meet his boss.

Haines, who is in his thirties, was the owner of an arms company in San Francisco. During World War I, when the United States exported arms on a large scale to make huge profits, Haynes also used all his savings to establish an arms company, and also made war money. But Haynes continued to invest the money he earned in arms production and expanded the scale of production, from guns and ammunition to artillery and tanks, but unfortunately it didn't take long for the First World War to end, and the company's production of a large number of weapons and equipment was also backlogged, and Haynes was forced to borrow money from banks to keep the company running, but his company was a bottomless pit.

Zhang Meng obtained information about the Haines Company through a black market arms dealer, and he decided to search for the arms company. However, Zhang Meng waited until the day before Haines' company was about to enter bankruptcy proceedings before making a move, forcing Haines to sell the Haines Arms Company, worth more than $10 million, to Zhang Meng for $10,000.

Haynes was heartbroken, of course, but it was much better than putting his company in bankruptcy proceedings. Because Haines owes the bank more than 3 million, if he goes into bankruptcy proceedings, not only will he not make a penny, but he will go to jail, and the company will be disposed of as rags.

The two evils were light, so he accepted Zhang Meng's proposal and sold the company to him for $10,000.

For their counterparts in other arms companies, although this company has assets of tens of millions of dollars, none of them has bought this hot potato, and they know that this is a company that cannot be saved by spending no amount of money. Upon learning that Zhang Meng had spent $10,000 to buy the company, which was on the verge of bankruptcy, they all showed ridicule and despised this oriental idiot.

The San Francisco Post also made the matter a topic that day, reporting that a local tycoon named Zhang Meng from China had spent $10,000 to buy the Haines Arms Company. Senior experts in the industry said that in the current bleak arms market, even large arms companies are very sad, and medium-sized arms companies like Haines are like a sunken ship, and whoever pulls it will be dragged into the sea.

Zhang Meng, who read the newspaper that day, just smiled disdainfully, if he was someone else, maybe he would really sink with him. But Zhang Meng is confident that he has the ability to revive this medium-sized arms company, and even become the world's largest arms company.

"Boss, what can you do to save this company?"

Although Haynes is no longer the boss, he is still the manager of this company, and he takes the initiative to help Zhang Meng do things, because it is difficult for him to give up the company that has devoted all his efforts.

Zhang yawned and handed Haynes more than two dozen drawings of the new firearms.

This is what he didn't sleep all night to draw, on it are the engineering drawings of the various parts of the two firearms, although the drawing is a little rough, but the key points are marked, as long as a professional firearms drawing engineer can see the doorway inside at a glance.

Of course, Zhang Meng can't talk about a firearms designer, so he comes up with ready-made firearm designs that became famous decades later. These include the M16 assault rifle and the AK47 assault rifle.

Haines had studied weapon design, otherwise he would not have dared to open an arms company. Seeing the two strange assault rifles that Zhang Meng took out, he immediately studied them, and the more he studied, the more amazing things he found inside, and soon his face was full of joy.

"Boss, you designed this?"

"Ah, yes, is there a problem?"

"Nope! I mean, you're the most gun-design genius I've ever seen, and even Browning can't do it. If he sees your design, he will probably crawl out of the grave to learn from you! ”

"This-I have a lot of respect for his old man, especially the M2 heavy machine gun he designed, it's so powerful!"

"Yes! We all admire him! But I think people in the future will admire your boss even more! ”

Zhang Meng smiled and nodded, his face was not red or panting, no one knew anyway, and no one was thicker than him.

"With these two assault rifles, our company will soon be able to come back to life! Boss, I'll arrange engineers to design engineering drawings and open up production lines! ”

"No hurry!"

Zhang Meng waved his hand and said: "Now the first task is to preemptively register more than 100 patented designs here, and at present, the two assault rifles M16 and AK47 are still in the stage of secrecy, and even if they are produced, they will not be sold to the public." ”

Henston said with a bitter face of disappointment: "Then what should our company do now?" You have to make money to pay the workers, and you have to take out a bank loan, and if you can't pay it, you will soon go into bankruptcy proceedings! ”

Zhang Meng raised his hand and signaled that Haynes didn't have to worry. The reason why I showed him the M16 and ak47 drawings just now was mainly to appease him and give him the confidence to follow Zhang Meng to do things.

Zhang Meng will not take out the classic firearms all at once, although he has made a reputation, it is not a business at all. Because countries will soon copy these two classic assault rifles, then it will be difficult to make any more money.

Zhang Meng's jihua is to gradually improve and upgrade the existing firearms, so that the long-term flow is the way to make money.

At this moment, Zhang Meng took out a few more drawings and handed them to Haines, which was the structural diagram of the M3 submachine gun. Zhang Meng knew that this submachine gun was a big hit during World War II, and it was made by industrial stamping, with low cost, simple structure, easy operation, and good stability, which was enough for the military of various countries to pay for it in large quantities.

After seeing the structure diagram of the M3, although it was not as good as the previous M16 and ak47, he understood it after learning about Zhang Meng's business. Naturally, he also wanted to grow the company, so he readily agreed and immediately led people to start the trial production of the M3 submachine gun.

Zhang Meng came to San Francisco to do a lot of things, and the purchase of arms companies is just one of them, after all, considering the long-term consideration, a stable supply of arms is needed, and blindly counting on black market transactions is not only too costly, but also too uncertain and risky. With this Haines Arms Company, Zhang Meng can produce and manufacture the weapons and equipment he needs.

Through Haines's connections and the arms company, Zhang Meng was able to buy some government-controlled items he needed from other American companies, such as aqua regia (invincible strong acid) and polyisobutylene (a key C4 raw material), which were not available in small quantities on the black market and were expensive, but it was very easy to purchase raw materials from the government on a large scale under the guise of an arms company.

In addition, Zhang Meng bought two 1,000-ton transport ships at the United Iron and Steel Shipyard. The two transport ships looked exactly the same on the outside, and according to Zhang Meng's request, they were pasted with red tin foil and turned into red transport ships, which could be seen from a distance if they drove to the sea, because the red color was particularly eye-catching.

Interestingly, Zhang Meng registered two identical transport ships under the names of shell companies of different nationalities in the United Kingdom and the United States, and hired all foreign employees, and carried out a large-scale modification of the staff lounge of one of the transport ships.

At the same time, Zhang Meng also intends to register a company in New York called Overseas Chinese Investment Bank. To this end, he hired a financial investment team composed of 50 economists, appointed Zhang Wei as the manager, a local overseas Chinese financier named Shao Hua in San Francisco's Chinatown as a consultant, and Zhang Zhong temporarily managed the financial power to ensure that nothing went wrong.

Mr. Zhang poured $8 million into his hands and bought gold futures contracts, as well as the appreciation of shares of General Motors and some steel companies. At this time, the Dow Jones index is still at 313 points, and there are still 50 points to rise from the peak of 363 before the economic crisis, and there is still a lot of money to be made.

When buying shares of General Motors, Zhang Meng deliberately bought eight of the largest large mining trucks in the United States, with a standard load of up to 200 tons.

Half a month later, Zhang Meng took a plane to Tokyo, and before leaving, he arranged for someone to be in charge of managing the Lady Liberty and the Mona Lisa. The Lady Liberty was bound for Tokyo to import a batch of steel ingots from Yawata Steel, while another identical transport ship, the Mona Lisa, was on standby for Oban.

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