After Lu Qi and the others left.

Sean found Reiters, the leader of the research group.

"Retus, how many new rifles are there now?"

"Report to Brigadier General, 48 semi-automatic A1 rifles, six general-purpose T1 machine guns, and six tactical sniper rifles K1."

"It's still a small number..."

Sean frowned.

"Brigadier General, this can't be helped, because we don't have a production line, and we rely solely on laboratories for production, which is slow and extremely costly."

"Take the A1 rifle as an example, we now need to spend 100,000 Baileys to make each one, but if we can lay a production line and mass production, the cost should be reduced to less than 2,000 Baileys."

As he spoke, Reiters handed over a list of the costs of producing these firearms so far.

Among them, there were 48 A1 semi-automatic rifles, which cost 4.8 million Baileys.

Six T1 general-purpose machine guns, costing 6 million Baileys.

There were six K1 tactical sniper rifles, and the cost reached a terrifying 18 million Bailey.

Add up to just 60 guns, and 28.8 million Bailey was used.

The cost is simply too high.

And that's not even counting the purchase of equipment for the scientific department, preliminary research and development, the production of bullets, and the high salaries of more than twenty scientific researchers ...

But if you want to build a production line in the 16th branch, there is no place.

The island itself is not very large, and in the process of reconstruction, almost every available place has been used.

Where is there a large number of free areas for the establishment of factories and the deployment of various production lines?

Gotta figure it out...

"In this way, tomorrow you will deliver all the firearms that have been produced to Lu Qi, let him arrange them, and allocate enough ammunition, as for the problem of the production line, I will find a way to solve it in the near future!"

"Yes, Brigadier General!"

"Well, where is the research on other artillery?"

"We have produced a 130 mm caliber ship twin cannon, which is currently being tested, and if there is no problem, it can be installed on a large warship, but it is not suitable for a medium warship."

"Why, it stands to reason that there is enough space on the deck of a medium-sized warship to install it?"

Sean was slightly stunned.

Although it is true that the medium warship is much smaller than the large warship, the deck is also very large, and the entire two 130mm cannons should be fine.

However, the next moment Reiters gave the answer.

"Commodore General, although there is no problem with the installation, the recoil of the new naval guns is too great, and the medium warship is too small and its own weight is too light to effectively remove this power, unless..."

"Unless what?"

"Unless medium-sized warships are made of better quality wood, such as... Adam Treasure?"

Belch...

Adam Treasure Wood?

The cost of a bare ship for a medium-sized warship is probably more than 500 million Bailey, right?

Let's not talk about whether Sean is willing to spend this money, the key is that Adam Baomu is not something you can buy if you want to!

The so-called price but no market, this is the case.

"Is there no other way?"

"Yes, Commodore told me before, if you can really do it with steel, then it should be fine, but this shipbuilding is not our specialty, and we don't know anything..."

"Okay, in two days, the three medium-sized warships will be taken out by Lu Qi and them on a mission, and the remaining large warships, you can toss them at will, as for the problem of building ships, I will figure it out."

"Yes, Brigadier General!"

Retus stepped back.

Sean pondered for a long time, and finally had the herald call for Luki again.

Two minutes later...

"Brigadier General, is there a plan to change in two days?"

"No, I'm looking for you because of something else, you should have Esbagu's contact information, right?"

"Yes, the brigadier will be—"

"Well, Reiters and their new naval guns are in trouble, because the recoil is too great for medium warships to install, so I need a better new generation of warships, but you also know, although Reiters is very new in terms of weapons research, but they are very good at building ships... I don't know anything about it."

"Understood!"

Roughly speaking, Lucci could already guess what Sean was doing with Esbagu.

Then Luqi left a series of numbers on the paper.

However, it wasn't Esbagu's personal phone bug, it was Carrera's phone.

After all, when Lu Qi left the City of Seven Waters and went to the Navy Headquarters on a mission to bring back the rats, there were still three years before the plot of the original book began.

At that time, he was not the foreman of Carrera's company.

Blu Blu Blu...

"This is the Capital of the Seven Waters, Carrera Corporation, may I ask who you are?"

"I'm the head of the Sixteenth Branch of the Navy, Sean Campbell, please help me transfer Mr. Esbagu, I have important matters to discuss with him."

"Okay, please wait!"

After about a minute, the simulated face on the phone bug changed in vain.

From a girl to an uncle.

"I'm Esbagu!"

"Mr. Esbagu, I'm Sean Campbell!"

"I know, Brigadier General Sean's name has been very loud recently, and I heard from the grapevine that even the cadres of the Seven Martial Seas and Flamingo, two of them have been planted in your hands, and you don't know if you are looking for me today..."

"Well, before you get down to business, is the phone bug you are using now prevent eavesdropping, and is there anyone else around?"

"Yes, and I'm alone in the office right now!"

Esbagu looked confused.

Sean, who has become famous in the past six months, is looking for what he is looking for.

And can you be careful?

"Then I'll be straightforward, my sixteenth branch is going to build a batch of new-generation warships, and I hope that the Carrera Company can undertake it, and in order to keep the plan secret, I need Mr. Asbagu to send a top foreman to the East China Sea to carry it out, well, to put it simply, I need the Carrera Company to establish a branch in the East China Sea to serve my sixteenth branch."

......

......

Esbagu was stunned.

Really, this request is outrageous.

Establish a Donghai branch, just for you to serve a branch?

"Brigadier General Sean, this matter..."

"Mr. Esbagu, when I say that you will serve my sixteen branches, I don't mean that you can only take orders from our sixteen branches, but that when my sixteen branches are in demand, the Donghai branch needs to put the needs of my sixteen branches first, and the rest of the time, you can still receive other orders normally."

Interrupting Esbagu, Sean explained.

"Brigadier General Sean, you also know that our Carrera Company is one of the best shipyards in the world, and this means that our standards for building ships are very high."

"But in this part of the East China Sea, most people's demand for ships is only for short voyages, and the East China Sea does not have the harsh climate of the Great Shipping Route."

"Therefore, there is no such high demand for ships there, and even many shoddy ships can meet the demand, and there is no need for high-standard ships made by Carrera, after all, the price may be several times higher than those shoddy ships, so..."

The meaning of Esbagu is actually very easy to understand.

If you open a branch in the East China Sea, then if you want to make a difference, you can sell those low-cost and low-standard ships, otherwise it will be built according to the standards of the Carrera company, and the people on this side of the East China Sea will not be able to do it at all

Won't buy.

It's too expensive...

It can even be 2-3 times more expensive.

After all, Carrera is definitely a high-end brand in the world's shipbuilding industry, and it can't smash its own signboard and go to the low-end market, right?

If you don't smash the high-end signboard yourself, then opening a company in the East China Sea will definitely lose money in the end.

This is also why, in the original book, Carrera did not develop a relationship with the four seas business.

There is a demand for ships ...

It's so low-end!

At most, you can only take a part of the orders of the nobles who are not bad for money.

And Sean could naturally hear that he was refusing.

But it doesn't matter, Sean has a reason that Esbagu would never be able to refuse.

"Mr. Esbagu, there used to be two workers in your Carrera named Lucci and Kaku, right?"

"Brigadier Sian, how do you know? There are indeed these two people, but they have disappeared separately and have not been able to find them so far!"

Esbagu was surprised.

Luki and Kaku are two people he is very optimistic about, and he has even decided to train them to become foremen.

But one time, Luci said that he was going to take a leave of absence to return to his hometown, and it was that time that he disappeared... It never appeared again.

And a few months later, Kaku also disappeared!

Even his own secretary, Kalifa, disappeared on the same day as Kaku.

"Mr. Esbagu, I can tell you that Luki, Kaku, Kalifa, and the famous bar in the City of Seven Waters, whose owner, Bruno, are all agents of the World Government Flag P9, and you can guess what they are trying to get by hanging around you?"

"Could it be—"

Hearing this, Esbagu's eyes widened, and he immediately realized what Sean was referring to.

But he didn't say those words, after all...

"It seems that you have already guessed, you must have heard about the Campbell family before, although the public news only said that the world government was compensated, and the P5 and P9 chiefs were arrested, etc., but in fact..."

"Because of this, all the agents of P9 were dismissed, including Luci, Kaku, Califa, and Bruno, and now they are no longer agents, but have become marines of my sixteen branches."

At this moment, Esbagu's expression was completely untensive.

In other words, the world government has noticed itself and is starting to figure out the blueprints of Hades?

And the disappearance of Lu Qi was also affected by the Campbell incident?

"Brigadier General Sean, all I can say is that what you are trying to find does not exist."

"I suppose you misunderstood me, Mr. Esbagu, but yes, that thing really doesn't exist anymore, at least not more than five months ago?"

"What do you mean by that?"

Esbagu was puzzled.

Doesn't exist anymore?

Didn't exist more than five months ago?

This can also be understood as having existed.

At least more than five months ago, it still existed!!

Could it be that they already know...

But that's not right, that guy is still alive and kicking, and there is no problem!!

"Let's put it this way, more than five months ago, I gave Luqi and the others an order to go to the Capital of the Seven Waters, and then, without Frankie's knowledge, open the dark compartment on his abdomen, take out one of them, and finally destroy it completely!"

"What !!?"

"Don't worry, the thing has been destroyed now, so no one can get it, after all, that thing is a time bomb, no matter who it falls into, it will be a disaster for the world, it stands to reason that you and Frankie should have destroyed it sooner!"

"This..."

"Alright, that's the end of the matter, no one knows about it except you and me, and Luki

Say!"

Hearing this, Esbagu also nodded.

In fact, he had always been hesitant to destroy the Hades blueprints.

But now that Sean has made this move, it is equivalent to helping him make a decision.

I don't know why, but after knowing this, Esbagu felt a little lighter all over.

There was also a hint of friendliness in his eyes.

You know, Sean can completely hand over the Hades blueprint he gets to the World Government in exchange for *** Houlu's.

But he didn't, but destroyed it without a memory.

"Brigadier General Sean, I can agree to you building a new generation of warships, but it's completely okay to build them in the Capital of the Seven Waters."

"No, no, no, I may not have said very clearly before, the new generation of warships that our branch is going to build will be an epoch-making steel warship!"

"Iron Battleship?"

Esbagu somewhat understood why Sean was obsessed with letting himself go to the East China Sea to establish a branch.

This kind of epoch-making project, if it were him, would not be allowed to be carried out far from his sight.

Otherwise, what if the gadget technology is stolen by pirates?

Or what if the world government picks peaches?

After all, judging from Sean's move to destroy the blueprints of Hades, he is not of the same mind as the World Government.

But in any case, from a business point of view, it would be very unwise to go to the East China Sea to establish a branch.

And at this moment, Esbagu didn't know that Sean's ultimate goal was not to let Carrera come to the East China Sea to open a branch at all.

Rather, it was planned to set up a shipbuilding department within the branch.