Chapter 39: Karma

After completing this inspection of the military industrial complex, Chen Zeyu ordered the reintegration of these explosives research and development factories in the company with the ammunition factories of several previous companies to form an ammunition logistics group company directly subordinate to the Avalanche group.

After the integration, the logistics group company will concentrate the manpower and technical resources and production equipment of the original various departments, so as to more efficiently develop and provide various new models and new uses of weapons and ammunition for the Republic [***] team in the future, codenamed 101 Group.

The first thing the 101 Group did after its establishment was to concentrate the existing technical resources of light weapons for the army of the Republic and develop a new type of oval grenade ordered by Chen Zeyu.

This time, Chen Zeyu did not provide any technical drawings, but only gave development ideas.

The advantages of the 101 Group's own technical reserves were revealed at this time, and in just one week, after the samples passed the acceptance of the Seris National Light Weapons Test Site, the oval handleless grenade named AG-1 has quickly entered the mass production and manufacturing stage.

The grooves on the new grenade divided the whole body into 48 parts, so the workers within the group affectionately called it the "48-petal" grenade.

The grenade is designed to have a delay of 7 seconds, and in addition to being hand-thrown by soldiers, it can also be fired by the standard 50mm grenadier canister equipped with the troops, although the test range is one-fifth less than that of the original conical cannonball. However, from a logistical point of view, this kind of grenade and grenadier configuration can greatly alleviate the logistics supply situation on the front line, and at the same time, it can also disperse the ammunition originally carried on the two people of the grenadier group to the entire squad, platoon, company combat team, and greatly reduce the burden of the former.

While the various military-industrial group companies were busy, several pharmaceutical companies affiliated with the Avalanche group in the Republic of Seris were also busy producing drugs.

Curiously, unlike in the past few companies that focused their production on penicillin, penicillin.

During this period, the workers in the pharmaceutical workshops of various companies began to find that more and more of their production lines began to produce granular drugs that were compacted with a white powder packed in a quantitative and delicate blue bottle.

The reason for the curiosity of the workers is that the company's superiors have made every worker who works on this production line wear all-round protective work clothes, and it is strictly forbidden for workers to touch these drugs with any part of their body.

The external version is that all of these drugs are highly toxic.

What these workers don't know is that what they are doing now is gradually unleashing a "devil".

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At the same time, Singapore.

Outside a makeshift semi-outdoor warehouse made of bamboo and wood by the dock, a tall, lanky British merchant sits outside the door, smoking a cigar in his hand.

Several Malay mercenaries were acting as bodyguards, vigilantly watching every pedestrian walking by the side of the road.

Whenever an interested vendor wanted to come over to see the goods, the blunt-faced hired workers would shake their heads and refuse and signal them to go away......

As the sea breeze continued to blow, a salty smell was unconsciously sniffed by the British merchants.

Intoxicated, he took a deep breath, as if the sea breeze was filled with the smell of pounds.

He took out a gold-carved pocket watch from his bosom, and the British merchant casually looked at it and put it away.

The British businessman said to himself, "It's almost time"

During this time, many local traders came to ask him if he wanted to sell goods, but the British merchant refused.

At this moment, with a whistle outside the port, a medium-tonnage steamship flying the flag of the Kingdom of Siam slowly drove into the port.

Seeing the ship entering the port, the British businessman, who was still sitting on a chair and waiting, jumped up at once.

When the boat came to a halt on the pier and was tied to the cable, a middle-aged man with an Asian face came down the gangway.

The British merchant greeted him at once, "Haha~ My dear Quentsay, you are here!" I knew you were always on time! ”

"Haha, Brother Jim is in a hurry. Don't worry, as long as you still have the goods, I will buy as many as I Kunsai" The Asian man waved his hand and responded quite magnificently.

The English businessman named Jim was overjoyed and said, "Wonderful! I knew you wouldn't let me down, Quinsay! This season I can wipe out all the opium farms in Calcutta. I'm afraid your boat won't be able to put it down, hahaha! ～”

"Look at the ship I brought, you're still short of these goods. You should check it out again in Cuttac City, Jim. Kunsai shook his head, "Okay, then I'll have to buy it elsewhere, and the price of your goods will rise by one percent according to the last calculation, what do you think?" ”

After listening to Quinsay's words, Jim looked at him with some confusion and said, "You actually took the initiative to raise the price, it's just the hell, I thought it was still 8 pounds per kilogram last time."

"Hmph~ It's cheap and good, Jim, even if I still count it last time, you'll make a lot of money"

Quintsay said disdainfully, "Don't worry, we said that in the future, as long as you only sell us one as you do now, let us monopolize the local opium tobacco business, we will all rise two levels on the basis of the market price as before?" ”

"CIF in Guangzhou?"

"Of course, it's the price of Guangzhou!" Quintsay said with a smile.

"Deal!" Jim said excitedly, "I will sign an agreement with you, and in the future, all the opium that Jim bought in the East Indies will be sold to you." If I break the contract, I will pay five times as much...... Uh, no, I'll pay you ten times as much! ”

Quentsey glanced sideways at Jim's bent mouth and sneered to himself.

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A British opium dealer from India discovered a strange thing during this time.

Since six months ago, many Burmese and Thai merchants (in fact, dressed as Chinese) have volunteered to come here by boat to buy their opium.

Although it is a little strange, these Asian businessmen did not bid lowly, and after deducting the cost of their original transportation to Guangdong, they made more money by adding and subtracting.

Wealthy opium traders then competed to sell their opium to these Asian traders.

At the same time, the same thing is happening in the Malay Peninsula and even in the city of Canton......

The local opium merchants who were originally in Guangdong had no choice but to find that the price of opium imports, originally from India, had skyrocketed several times as if they had taken a train overnight.

The raw materials of opium that had already been shipped to the local area for sale in the warehouses of various ports became more and more expensive, and sometimes merchants could hardly buy them.

This situation also caused many "Fushou" restaurants in Guangzhou to fall into recession.

Many "big smokers" who have been out of stock wander numbly in various Fushou halls, and finding a place with goods can even cause a group beating of "smokers".