Although the city of Ogura has now been abolished, it was famous during World War II, and it was one of the four major Japanese military factories during World War II, and the 1.3-kilometer-long and 0.8-kilometer-wide Ogura factory opened in 1933 was accompanied by a railway factory, a machine factory, and a power plant.

On August 6, 1945, the U.S. military dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, and the whole of Hiroshima instantly became a living hell. However, the Japanese base camp was still clamoring to carry the war to the end, so the Americans set their sights on Ogura.

With a population of 400,000 at the time, Kokura was an important industrial city in Japan and one of the cities that Americans looked for as suitable for atomic bombing. In fact, Nagasaki, which was later bombed, was only a "spare tire", and although Nagasaki was also an important port and munitions base, it was geographically inferior to the cities of Hiroshima and Kokura due to its low-lying valley. As a result, Nagasaki was listed as a reserve target when the first two targets could not be dropped, that is, when one of the first two targets could not be realized, Nagasaki would be bombed.

As a result, due to the thick clouds over Ogura City on August 9, and thick smoke billowing on the ground, the pilots could not find the target at all, and finally had to implement the second plan and fly to the alternative Nagasaki, so it was actually the weather that saved Ogura, and Nagasaki was too unlucky, and in the end, it was because of this second atomic bomb that Japan decided to surrender unconditionally.

After the United States occupied Japan, in order to suppress Japan's militarism and prevent the resurgence of Japanese fascism, it not only imposed sanctions in political and economic fields, but also dismembered and destroyed various military enterprises, many military factories were shut down, machinery was destroyed, products were confiscated, and even the cyclotron particle accelerator of the Tokyo Institute of Physics and Chemistry was destroyed under the pretext of "war facilities". Although a major military-industrial town like Kokura escaped the bombing of the atomic bomb, it did not escape the sanctions and destruction of the post-war U.S. military.

Although the city of Ogura has been closed and destroyed for more than a year, most of the industrial base and skeleton are still there, especially the power plant is still supplying the US military base on the outskirts of the city, but most of the locals are unemployed, because the United States will never allow Japan to develop arms manufacturing again.

What Downing values about Kokura is the perfect military enterprise framework and the large number of skilled workers, and the small city, small population, no large forces, and the nearby US military base, in addition to the fact that the loyalty of workers cannot be compared with the Ryukyus, it is the most perfect place for the development of arms enterprises.

In fact, Downing's original intention was to put the Swiss Army Knife Factory in Okinawa, but Okinawa's industrial base is too weak, although it is barely enough to establish the Swiss Army Knife Factory now, but once the arms manufacturing is developed in the future, Okinawa will be subject to too many restrictions. And according to the principle of the three caves of the cunning rabbit, Tang Ning also does not want to put all the industries in one place, and one more territory will have more room for choice and development in the future. ，

If there is a possibility and opportunity, Downing even wants to develop Guam into a tertiary industry base, because Guam has just been captured by the United States in the hands of Japan, and the people on the island have only been ruled by Japan for a few years, and most people's hearts are still oriented to the United States, and as the "unsinkable aircraft carrier" of the United States in the western Pacific, Guam has always been an important military base of the United States, and the climate on Guam is warm and humid, the scenery is beautiful and pleasant, it is very suitable for recuperation vacation, and it is a resort second only to Hawaii. It's just that Downing doesn't have enough financial resources for the time being, otherwise he will definitely build a few factories of his own on Guam.

This time, it was Okubo and Higashino who followed Tangning to Okura, as well as some of the escorts and Hattori Heisei's group of skilled workers. Although Hattori Heisei initially insisted on refusing to join the escort team, after such a long period of education and work, he gradually got used to working in the Downing factory, and his skills were more proficient and his loyalty was somewhat guaranteed, so he was allowed to join the Ogura Pioneer Group this time.

And as the two leaders of the pioneer group, Higashino and Okubo, Tang Ning thinks so, Higashino is highly educated, and has been honed under his own hands for more than a year, most of the affairs are handled very well, the only drawback is that he is a little too cautious, and Okubo is not only flexible in thinking, decisive, but more than a step higher than Higashino in terms of loyalty, with him and that group of escort team members, Tang Ning does not have to worry too much about the loyalty crisis of Ogura and Higashino, but Okubo's temperament is also a little too jumpy, It's also a good thing to have Higashino by his side.

Therefore, Tang Ning felt that the combination of these two people should be able to reassure him, and although Tang Ning will stay in Okinawa for a long time in the future, he will also go to Kokura and Tokyo from time to time, and if there is a problem, he can deal with it when the time comes.

This time, in order to establish the Swiss Army Knife Factory in Kokura, Tang Ning took out almost all of his savings, because he spent almost no money on the property in Okinawa, which was funded by Junichi Aoyama and other Ryukyu families, and part of his shares were purchased by selling the Tokyo property as collateral.

As with the process of development in Okinawa, Downing first met with Anderson, the commander of the local US military base, and after 100,000 US dollars and bribes and regular subsidies to the local troops, Downing received the full support of General Anderson, Anderson's support was much more powerful than that of Robert Sr., and directly opened all the factories and warehouses that had been closed, and Downing selected the machines at will, pulled them away directly if they saw them, and then marked them on the list as invalid and finished.

The recruitment of workers was also extremely smooth, Kokura City was originally a huge military factory, almost all the residents were factory workers, because the factory was closed, everyone was unemployed, life was extremely difficult, and now when they heard the news of recruiting workers, especially the salary is so good, they all rushed to sign up. In accordance with the original practice, the security team recruited a large number of veterans who had been discriminated against and excluded after returning to China, and Captain Akakawa was responsible for training and management.

Although Tang Ning also knew that there must be many members of other forces mixed in both the workers and the security team, he didn't care about it for the time being, as long as the management level was well informed, and for the time being, in addition to the saber, the Swiss Army Knife Factory was also responsible for part of the repair and maintenance of weapons, and there were no secrets to steal.

After arranging all this, Tang Ning planned to return to Tokyo and start handling the relocation of factories and the sale of industries, and at the same time, he also planned to fight back against Mitsubishi once!