Chapter 19 The Mysterious Millionaire

All investors came to the scene for a while, and even the retired Rockefeller brought his son David Rockefeller to Texas to participate in the auction. American newspapers competed to report this grand occasion, and people were very curious about Jaden Collins, who was this and who was this person?

Americans seem to be more interested in this kind of upstart interview, and they are in their blood with factors of adventure and wealth. This man named Jaden Collins wears a mask every time he appears, which makes people even more curious. Many American girls saw the story of Jaden Collins in the newspaper and fell in love with this mysterious explorer.

And just like laughing at "Running for Governor", many people claim that they are Jaden Collins, or women who are in the newspaper, saying that she is pregnant with Jaden's child, and others say that Jaden is his father, Jaden is the greatest explorer in the United States. Others with ulterior motives find Jaden and rob him of his property.

Wang Maoru and his friends lived carefully and had to hide in one place a day without any fixed residence. Many people wanted to assassinate him, and sometimes they had to pretend to be a beggar and escape, in order to wait until the day of the auction.

After evading assassination, he finally waited for the auction and entered the venue. When he entered the venue, Wang Maoru, as if he was reborn, sighed a long time ago, and finally lived to this day.

This unprecedented oil mine auction held in Dallas, the capital of Texas. After several rounds of price hikes, the land and oil extraction rights were finally auctioned by Mobil Oil, the largest oil company in the United States, and three other oil companies, beating several other oil companies for $47 million.

Once this money appeared, it immediately caused a sensation around the world. Another millionaire in the world was born, that is, the mysterious legend, Jaden Collins.

Wang Maoru knew in his heart that the US government would not allow such a large amount of money to flow out, and decided to invest and do business in the United States to solve the employment problems of white Americans. So he registered a company called East (Oriental) in the United States, and acquired a small light weapons manufacturing company called Yuanshan and a mechanical manufacturing research and development company in the United States. Then he asked Fang Hongxin to resign and operate with him. Fang Hongxin also saw that Wang Maoru became a low-key rich man, and there was no one richer in China. So he happily resigned and followed Wang Maoru and became the general manager of East Company. At Fang Hongxin's suggestion, East invested in the retail store and hotel industry, solving the work problems of many white people in Los Angeles, which was quite favored by the local government of the United States.

Among them, the light weapons company was renamed East Light Weapons R&D Company, and Wang Maoru spent another million US dollars to get Fang Hongxin to the UK to purchase the patent rights of the British Lee-Enfield short rifle and bullet North American production rights.

However, after a few days, after Fang Hongxin and others returned to the United States from Britain, the British government regretted it because their army was preparing to expand its troops to deal with the increasingly tense situation in Europe, and lacked domestic production power and had to buy such rifles overseas, which caused the North American production patent to be hyped up to 8 million US dollars in just a few days.

Fang Hongxin and Zhao Jiacheng admired Wang Maoru very much. The two hoped to raise prices while sitting on the ground. Other white managers in the company also hoped to kill the UK. But Wang Maoru knew that this patent was not only a treasure, but also a hot potato. It was abnormal at the company's board of directors and opposed the objections of many middle-level leaders of China and the United States. Through negotiations with the UK and other US military-industrial companies, Li Enfield's short rifle production patent was finally opened to other weapons companies to share.

As compensation, the other five American industrial enterprises compensate East companies for a total of US$5 million, and the UK promised to have arms orders of no less than US$500,000 per year in the next three years.

However, Wang Maoru and others had just signed a contract, but they learned that they had been tricked by the British side. It turned out that the British promised to order arms at least $500,000 per year within three years. However, what the UK wanted was a heavy weapon order, and the east was a light weapon company. The former Yuanshan Ordnance Factory was a factory for civilians to use rifle hunting rifles and did not have the ability to produce large weapons. Because they obtained the production rights and technology of Li Enfield short rifles, they introduced more than a dozen sets of rifles worth millions of dollars and bullet production equipment, which brought the factory back to life.

But the British ordered artillery worth $500,000 from them, which made East suffer a huge loss. We couldn't bear the artillery order. The British immediately accused them of the other side, and East had to tear up the agreement with the UK. The five major military industries seemed to have learned the news a long time ago, and they even set a trap that made East lose money after making $4 million, but the equipment had already lost one million dollars, and the factory was built and recruiting and training, etc. Now that the factory has not started, half of the four million dollars it earned has been spent.

East Light Weapons Company's production equipment and production technology, as well as a large number of skilled technicians, did not accept the orders for rifles from the British Army, and the company complained together.

Wang Maoru suffered this loss and did not feel too painful. He asked the factory to use equipment to continue to produce rifles for civilians to sell them to all parts of the United States, first consolidating his own civil weapons market. At the same time, he sent the company's sales manager Al Howard to negotiate with the U.S. foreign companies in China to sell Li Enfield short rifles to China. However, due to the opposition of the five major military-industrial companies, the major overseas companies in the United States refused to cooperate with East Company and turned against each other. Three thousand rifles that had just been produced could only be accumulated in the cargo hold.

Due to a series of business failures, the management of East privately questioned Wang Maoru's business ability. Wang Maoru himself knew that he was not good at doing business, so he hired a professional manager with a high salary. However, most of the people who came to East's company were scammers and people who wanted to make some money. The real good managers received inside information from the five major military industries, and no one was willing to come.

During the period when there was no official manager, Chairman Wang Maoru ignored those opposition voices. East is his wholly-owned company. He spends tens of thousands of dollars to pay the company's employees every month. Whether you complain or object, you must listen to me. He originally wanted to hand over the East company to Fang Hongxin to operate, but Fang Hongxin's Chinese identity made it difficult for him to survive in the US industry, so he had no choice but to find a white American to be the branch manager. After investigation, he still accepted the company's old man Al Howard as the general manager.

Since there is no order, the company's employees receive their salaries every day and have nothing to do, but Wang Maoru did not let the East Light Weapons company idle, but let the company's scientific researchers develop Japanese weapons. His employees are puzzled. Wang Maoru explained to Al Howard that Japanese weapons have many advantages, such as saving, suitable for Asian tactics, simple structure, easy to repair, and easy to train. In northern China, the wind-proof function of Japanese Type 38 rifles is very practical, and it is difficult to see the Type 38 rifle get stuck. Especially in terms of saving, it makes the cost of Japanese weapons lower than other weapons. At the same time, Wang Maoru sent someone to Japan, hoping to purchase the newly developed Type 38 production rights of Japanese.
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