Chapter 19: The Mysterious Multi-Millionaire

All the investors came to the auction for a while, and even the retired Rockefeller brought his son David Rockefeller to Texas to participate in the auction. American newspapers rushed to report on the event, and people were very curious about this Jaden Collins who had dug up the treasure, who was this, who was this man?

Americans seem to be more interested in this nouveau riche interview, and the element of risk-taking and enrichment runs in their blood. The fact that the man, Jaden Collins, wears a mask every time he appears, making it even more curious, and many American girls fall in love with the mysterious explorer after reading the story of Jaden Collins in the newspapers.

And just as "Running for Governor" is joked, many people claim to be Jaden Collins, or women who appear in the newspaper that she is pregnant with Jaden's child, and others say that Jaden is his father, and Jaden is America's greatest explorer. Others, with ill intentions, found Jaden and robbed him of his property.

Wang Maoru and his family lived cautiously, and they had to hide in one place a day, without any fixed residence. There were many people who wanted to assassinate him, and sometimes they had to disguise themselves as beggars to flee for their lives so that they could wait until the day of the auction.

escaped an assassination attempt, and finally waited for the auction, and the moment he entered the venue, Wang Mao was as comfortable as being reborn, sighed long, and finally survived to this day.

In the unprecedented oil mine auction held in Dallas, the capital of Texas, after several rounds of price increases, the land and oil exploration rights were finally jointly bid by Mobil Oil, the largest oil company in the United States, and three other oil companies, beating out several other oil conglomerates for $47 million.

As soon as this money appeared, it immediately caused a sensation around the world, and another multimillionaire in the world was born, that is, the mysterious legend, Jaden Collins.

Wang Maoru knew in his heart that the U.S. government would not allow such a large amount of money to flow out, and decided to invest the money in the United States to do business and solve the employment problem of white Americans. So he registered a company in the United States called EAT (Oriental), and in the United States he acquired a small arms manufacturing company called Yuanshan and a mechanical manufacturing research and development company. Later, Fang Hongxin resigned and operated with himself, and Fang Hongxin also saw that Wang Maoru had become a low-key rich man, and there was no richer person in China than him. He happily resigned from his post and followed Wang Maoru to become the general manager of EAT. Under Fang's leadership, EAT invested in retail stores and hotels, solving the problem of many local white people in Los Angeles, and was favored by the local government in the United States.

One of the small arms companies was renamed the EAT Small Arms Research and Development Company, and Wang Maoru spent another million US dollars to ask Fang Hongxin to go to Britain to buy the patent rights for the North American production rights of the British Lee-Enfield short rifle and bullets.

However, a few days later, after Fang Hongxin and others returned to the United States from Britain, the British government regretted it, because their army was preparing to expand to cope with the increasingly tense situation in Europe, and the domestic production power was insufficient, so they had to buy this rifle overseas, so the patent right for this North American production was speculated to 8 million US dollars in just a few days.

Fang Hongxin and Zhao Jiacheng admired Wang Maoru, and the two wanted to sit on the ground and raise the price, and the other white managers in the company also hoped to slaughter the UK. However, Wang Maoru knew that this patent was not only a treasure, but also a hot taro, but it was unusually on the board of directors of the company, and he tried to eliminate the objections of many middle-level leaders of Chinese and American companies, negotiated with the British side and other military enterprises in the United States, and finally opened the patent right for the production of the Lee Enfield short rifle to other weapons companies to share.

In compensation, the other five U.S. companies compensated EAT for a total of $5 million, as well as a commitment from the British side to place an annual arms order of not less than $500,000 for the next three years.

However, Wang Maoru and others had just signed the contract, but they learned that they had been tricked by the British side, and it turned out that the British side had promised to place an arms order of no less than $500,000 a year for three years. But what Britain wanted was orders for heavy weapons, while EAT was a light weapons company, and the original company, the Yuanshan Ordnance Factory, was a factory for the production of civilian rifles and shotguns, and did not have the capacity to produce large weapons. Because of the acquisition of the production rights and technology of the Lee Enfield short rifle, the introduction of more than a dozen sets of rifles and ammunition production equipment worth millions of dollars brought the factory back to life.

But the British side ordered them to pay 500,000 US dollars worth of artillery, which made EAT suffer a big dumb loss, we couldn't bear the artillery order, the British side immediately accused them in turn, and EAT had to tear up the agreement with the British. The five major military industries seem to have known the news a long time ago, and even maybe it was a trap they set privately, so that Eat would lose money after making four million dollars, and the equipment alone had already lost one million dollars, and then the factory was built for recruitment and training, etc., and now that the factory is not working, half of the four million dollars earned have been spent.

The EAT Light Weapons Company, which produced equipment and technology, as well as a large number of skilled mechanics, did not accept orders for rifles from the British Army, and the company complained together.

Wang Maoru suffered this loss, but he did not feel too painful, and he asked the factory to use the equipment to continue to produce civilian rifles and sell them all over the United States, first consolidating his own civilian weapons market. At the same time, the company's sales manager, Al Howard, was dispatched to negotiate with the United States in China to sell the Lee Enfield short rifle to China. However, because of the opposition of the five major military industrial enterprises, the major US foreign banks in China refused to cooperate with the EAT company one after another, turned their faces and did not recognize anyone, and the 3,000 rifles that had just been produced could only be backlogged in the cargo hold.

As a result of a series of operational failures, EAT's management privately questioned Wang's business prowess. Wang Maoru himself knew that he was not good at business, so he hired a professional manager with a high salary. But most of the people who come to EAT to apply are scammers and people who want to make a profit, and the really good managers have got the inside information of the five major military industries, and no one will come.

During this period when there was no formal manager, Chairman Wang Maoru ignored those opposing voices, EAT is his sole proprietorship, and he spends tens of thousands of dollars every month to pay the salaries of the company's employees. He originally wanted to hand over the EAT company to Fang Hongxin to operate, but Fang Hongxin's Chinese identity made it difficult for him to survive in the American ** industrial circle, so he had no choice but to find a white American as a branch manager. After the investigation, the old man of the company, Al Howard, was appointed as the general manager.

Since there were no orders, the company's employees had nothing to do every day with their salaries, but Wang Maoru did not let the eat light weapons company idle, but asked the company's scientific researchers to develop Japanese-style weapons, and its employees were 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, easy to train, in northern China, the Japanese Type 38 rifle is very practical in terms of wind and sand, and it is difficult to see the Type 38 rifle jamming. And especially in terms of savings, so that the cost of Japanese weapons is lower than that of other weapons. At the same time, Wang Maoru sent people to Japan, hoping to buy the production rights of the newly developed 38-style Japanese style.

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