This Shu harvest is the mountain world of all other worlds, and the harvest of Luo Gen is incomparable to all other worlds, and a Haotian mirror is worth the trip.

After the space-time bead devoured the Haotian Mirror, it suddenly returned to the level of the medium innate spirit treasure, originally Luo Gen thought that he could recover to the level of the high-level spirit treasure, but after thinking about it carefully, the Haotian Mirror of the Shushan World must be a fake, so there was no expected result.

After returning to the Marvel world, Logan stabilized and was ready to sort out the exercises he had learned in the short term, work hard to practice for a while, and no longer venture to other worlds.

In his spare time, Logan embarked on a journey of "invention".

In fact, Rogan "invented" incandescent light bulbs, movie cameras, color cameras, ballpoint pens, electric shavers, zippers and other items a long time ago, and established Thomas Electric.

This time, Logan wants to take advantage of the first battle to make a big profit.

At the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, under the influence of the law of unbalanced economic and political development of capitalism, the imperialist countries waged a fierce struggle around the struggle for world hegemony and colonies.

The Franco-German contradiction is very acute. France, which was defeated in the Franco-Prussian War, lost its former hegemony in Western and Central Europe, and all strata of the country unanimously demanded revenge.

The Russian-Austrian contradiction manifested itself in the struggle for the Balkans. For many years, under the banner of Great Slavism, Russia expanded to the areas inhabited by the southern Slavs on the Balkan Peninsula, and the Austro-Hungarian Empire, a monarchy in Central Europe, was also expanding to the northwestern part of the Balkan Peninsula.

Proceeding from its traditional foreign policy, Britain strives to maintain a balance of power on the European continent, and does not want Germany to be too strong, nor does it want to see Russia's power expand too much in the Balkans; with the intensification of the conflict over the colonial issue, the Anglo-German contradiction began to intensify and gradually became the main contradiction between the imperialist countries.

In the seventies and eighties of the 19th century, Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy established a Triple Alliance against Russia and France, and in 1879, under the impetus of Bismarck, Germany and Austria signed the "Treaty of Alliance", which had a distinctly anti-Russian character. Later, due to Italy's defeat in the struggle with France for Tunisia, Bismarck took the opportunity to win over Italy and work together against France. In 1882, Germany, Austria and Italy signed the "Treaty of Alliance", and the Triple Alliance was formally established. Germany became the nucleus of the Triple Alliance.

In order to deal with the "Triple Alliance", in 1892, France and Russia reached a military agreement, which stipulated that in the event of an attack by France or Germany-backed Italy, Russia would attack Germany with all its military forces, and in the event that Russia was attacked by Germany or the German-backed Austria-Hungary, France should attack Germany with all its military forces.

After the formation of the Russian-French alliance, a confrontation between the two major military blocs began to emerge in Europe.

It was also the first step in the direction of the Triple Entente. As the Anglo-German contradiction developed into the main contradiction between imperialism, Britain adjusted its relations with France and Russia, and signed the Anglo-French Entente and the Anglo-Russian Entente in 1904 and 1907 respectively.

On June 28, 1914 (Serbian National Day), the Austro-Hungarian Crown Prince Archduke Ferdinand and his wife were shooting dead by the Serbian youth Gavrio Princip while inspecting Sarajevo. Became the fuse of the First World War.

A month later, Austria-Hungary, with the support of Germany, declared war on Serbia under the pretext of the Sarajevo incident. Then Germany, Russia, France, Britain and other countries entered the war one after another. The warring parties were the German Empire and Austria-Hungary of the Central Powers, and the Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria that supported them. On the other hand, the Entente powers of Great Britain, France, and the Russian Empire, as well as Serbia, Belgium, and other countries that supported them, and Italy, which was formerly part of the Central Powers, joined the Allied side of the war because of their interests.

One sunny morning, Logan hurried to the test site behind Thomas Steel, where he had seen the mortar test firing for the second time. Accompanied by Rogan there is also an important guest: Charlie Ferrald, he is Logan's partner, a buyer from Europe, in the past year, he purchased a large number of canned meat from Rogan to supply the front line, at first canned meat, and later, with the deepening of cooperation, the scope of his procurement gradually expanded to steel, petroleum, medicine and so on, almost Rogan company produces what he buys.

After several successful collaborations, Rogan and Charlie Ferard developed a good relationship, and this time Rogan apparently wanted to sell the mortar he had just "invented" to the front lines of the European war through Charlie Ferrald.

"Charlie, there's something interesting for you to show you today." As soon as they met, Logan hugged Charlie.

"Oh, really?" Charlie said, a little curious about what Logan was talking about. Charlie and Logan met through a business, and as the transaction deepened, Charlie slowly discovered that Logan was really not a simple person, not only in Los Angeles, but also in Canada with a large number of farms, and in the United States, it is said that one of the largest oil companies, Occidental Petroleum, is his company, so he began to pay attention to Rogan. Charlie is the arms supplier of the British Army, due to the lack of local production capacity in the United Kingdom, Charlie was sent to the United States to purchase war materials, before his transactions with Logan were mostly food, lighters and other gadgets, today was brought to the steel factory by Rogan, Charlie is a little puzzled, is Logan going to sell steel? Charlie thought to himself.

Rogan took Charlie to the test site, and according to Situ Nan's instructions, a trench was dug in the middle of the test site, and a machine gun position was built, and some barbed wire was arranged on it, a bit like the front line of the European war.

"Oh my God, it's a damn positional trench fortification!" Charlie said in surprise. Charlie, from Europe, is no stranger to this, and countless young soldiers are devoured by these trenches every day.

"Charlie, take a good look! I think you'll love it! Logan smiled mysteriously and said to James White beside him, "It's time to start!" ”

So everyone saw that a hundred meters away from the trench, several testers took out a pipe and a few pieces of iron and assembled it, and in less than a minute it became a small cannon with a bracket, and this is the protagonist of today: mortar!

After aiming the mortar, a tester shoved a shell into the barrel and crouched down with his ears covered. Almost at the same time, there was a "whoosh", and the shells were fired and fell seven or eight meters in front of the trench, and smoke from the explosion of the shells came out.

The testers then adjusted the scope and fired a second shell, this time which landed precisely on the machine-gun position in the trench, which had already been blown to pieces in the wood-simulated machine gun.

The testers adjusted the shelling distance to 200 meters and three times as many meters, and the results obtained were satisfactory. At present, there are 40 caliber and 60 caliber mortars produced by Logan, and tests have proved that both mortars are very effective.

"Charlie, this stuff is good, isn't it?" Logan touched the stunned Charlie with his hand.

"It's amazing! This thing is specially designed to deal with fortifications such as trenches, not only to destroy enemy machine guns and suppress the vitality of the opponent, but also to hit the enemy behind obstacles! With this weapon, the British lads will die a lot less, Logan, I want this thing! Charlie said eagerly.

Well, that's what I've been waiting for! Charlie's performance was expected by Rogan, so Situ Nan smiled: "After all, I am still a subject of the empire, and I am happy to serve the country!" "Logan was born in Canada and belongs to the Commonwealth.

However, Logan is obviously indifferent to the Commonwealth, making money is real, and he wishes that Europe would fight even worse, so that there are so many goods to sell. But it doesn't cost anything to say something flashy, so why not?

The mortar aroused Charlie's interest, and he chased Logan to inquire about the details of the weapon, and Rogan did not know much about it, so he had to send Lyman Suker, the head of the mortar production department, to explain.

Charlie, who got the information, couldn't sit still and rushed away! This will be a big business for him, and the dense trenches on the European continent need this kind of light and nimble mortar, which is an astronomical demand! The various business opportunities made Charlie excited.

There is a saying among these buyers, "God is on the side of the big factories and the big armies!" "The Entente are looting all over the world to arm their huge armies, up to planes, artillery, from small to underpants, there is nothing they don't need! The consumption of the war was beyond imagination, and the mobilization of the British, French, and Russian states was unable to meet the needs of the front.

If he could, the arrogant John Bull would love to put the Royal Navy on land and end this damn war. In short, the Verdun meat grinder, the slaughterhouse of the Somme, not only the attack of the German Yans Hans was contained, but also the sad place of the English John Bull and the French Gallic chicken!

After sending Charlie away, Logan left behind James White, the general manager of the steel plant, and he said to James: "You have also seen the effect just now, this is a weapon that is about to be sold well, and I now inform you to separate the relevant departments that originally studied mortars and merge them into the Thomas Arsenal to specialize in the production of this kind of mortar, and I want to see the finished product as soon as possible."

And the European side may be coming soon, and I hope you will be in charge of the negotiations, and the price of each mortar should not be less than $500, and the cost of licensing patents should not be less than $5 million! The amount of investment in the mortar factory this time will be as high as $5 million, and I will share 5% of your shares, 5% to the management of the factory, and $100,000 to the mortar development and research group, and you are also the person in charge of the mortar factory. We're all going to make a lot of money! ”

Logan had been in the office all morning with James in person, and he was both gracious and powerful, eager to make James like a cow.

As Logan said, after Charlie went back and reported the mortar situation to the British side, less than a week later, the British military came to the door!

A large number of British lads had already been killed in the war, and poor John Bull, who could not afford to die more than Uncle Sam, was conscripting a large number of soldiers from Canada, Australia, South Africa and other colonies, especially the soldiers drawn from colonial India and pouring garbage at the Germans' machine-gun positions could not stop the crumbling front line.

Hearing that the United States produced such a light and flexible mortar that could suppress enemy machine guns and strike at the enemy in the trenches, the British military could not help but be enthusiastic.

James, who had received instructions from Rogan, went well in negotiations with the British military, and finally reached an agreement, under which the Thomas Arms Company of the United States authorized the British side to produce L15 mortars at a price of $5.5 million, and at the same time, the British side also placed an order for the first batch of 500 L15 mortars with Thomas Arms, each of which cost $1,000, with 50 shells, and other shells at a price of $5 each.

The British are really rich! A patent license of $5.5 million, 500 L15 mortars cost $1,000 each, which is $500,000, and 100,000 shells, $10 per shell is $1 million, adding up to $7 million!

What a big cake! This is still the first batch of orders, and when the French, Russians, and maybe Americans see the effect of the L15 mortar, they will come to the door, and then they will count the money until their hands cramp!

Logan, who got the report, said with a smile that the British Empire has been a pirate for two or three hundred years, and his family background is really thick! Such a large sum of money was smashed without even blinking.

While Thomas Arms was busy expanding the production of mortars, within a month, the first $2 million deposit had been paid to Thomas Arms, and Thomas had built a fragrant arsenal branch almost without spending a penny.

Because the initial investment money of Thomas Arms Company was all borrowed from the bank, the bank approved Thomas Arms Company's application at once after seeing the huge order obtained by Thomas Arms Company.

This empty glove white wolf's good show is also the Rogan plan, executed by James, the general manager of Thomas Arms! With his outstanding performance at Thomas Steel and Thomas Arms, James has not only become a popular figure in Thomas, but also a millionaire!

Consider that three years ago, he was the head of a modest steel mill owned by the Bert Ford Laus family, earning less than $100,000 a year.

Now, with the start of World War I, the young proprietor Rogan suddenly invested heavily in expanding the scale of the steel plant, James's status has also risen, and now he is also the general manager of Thomas Arms, the largest local arms company, and is still a shareholder, with an annual salary of hundreds of thousands, and even a little famous in the American arms industry.

Such success came a little too quickly and too suddenly, and for James, who has always been diligent, he admired his boss Logan more and more, a young man who seemed to have a pair of eyes that saw through the future, and was always easy to find the most easily and rewarding investment projects.