usatvline Chapter 323 Road Construction
Chapter 323 Road Construction
Time passed quickly, and more than ten days had passed in the blink of an eye. Today, Lu Chen came back from the factory and immediately lay down on his bed. Because he was too tired, Lu Chen snored soon after lying down.
During these ten days, Lu Chen had nothing to do, so he went to the factory to deal with things. Originally, Lu Chen wanted to help Fu Mingzhuo deal with some documents. But he didn't expect that as soon as he arrived at the factory, he was dragged to the laboratory by Chen Jianghe.
When he arrived at the laboratory, Lu Chen discovered that Chen Jianghe had already started organizing people to develop cannons. Lu Chen remembered that he had never arranged for him to develop cannons. How could Chen Jianghe develop cannons on his own?
Lu Chen felt that this was very wrong. According to Lu Chen's previous understanding of Chen Jianghe, he did not like to develop things related to weapons. For example, the K-type rifle and the weapon information he bought were only studied when he asked him to. Why did he start to change his nature now? This puzzled Lu Chen.
So Lu Chen decided to investigate why Chen Jianghe had such a big change. So Lu Chen started to ask around while at work. After more than ten days of investigation, Lu Chen finally found out why Chen Jianghe had such a big change.
It turned out that some time ago, the Philippine Arsenal sent a message about his elder brother. It was said that his elder brother was in great need of artillery in the country, especially heavy artillery. After receiving this news, Chen Jianghe immediately decided to develop heavy artillery.
But Lu Chen was quite puzzled. He had sent more than 88 mm cannons to his elder brother, which should be enough for his division. Why did he say that he was short of cannons? In order to find out what was going on with his elder brother, Lu Chen sent another telegram to William, asking him to ask Lu Jiaming what was going on.
Today, Lu Chen finally got a call back from William. He also knew why Lu Jiaming said he was short of guns.
The reason why Lu Jiaming lacked artillery was very simple. He was targeted by the Yun family. The Yun family used their connections to transfer him from his original unit. Now his unit couldn't even have one gun per person. That's why he asked for help from the Philippine Arsenal.
When Lu Chen first heard the news, he was furious. He took a team of security guards and went out to find trouble with Yun Qingchen, threatening to teach Yun Qingchen a lesson. But before he even left the factory, he was stopped by Fu Mingzhuo and the Lu couple who came rushing over.
The Lu couple persuaded Lu Chen, "Xiao Chen, don't be impulsive. This place is not like China. You can't go out and cause trouble."
Fu Mingzhuo also said, "Xiaochen, your brother's matter is not a bad thing. He has been transferred to suppress bandits, so he doesn't have to stay in the Magic City. Didn't you say that we will have to fight with China sooner or later? It must be safer for your brother to suppress bandits in the rear than to stay in the Magic City."
After constant persuasion from several people, Lu Chen was ultimately unable to cause trouble for Yun Qingchen, but he had secretly made up his mind that he must find an opportunity to kill that old bitch Yun Qingchen.
Only after Lu Chen repeatedly assured the Lu couple that he would not cause trouble for Yun Qingchen, was he able to leave the factory and return home.
Before Lu Chen had fallen asleep for long, Hans ran downstairs to Lu Chen's bedroom. He quickly woke Lu Chen up and said to him:
"Boss, the president is calling you, do you want to answer the phone?"
Lu Chen was woken up from his sleep by Hans. He felt a little unhappy and thought to himself, what a fool Franklin is. Why is he calling him at this time? Isn't this disturbing his sleep?
Although Lu Chen was very dissatisfied with Franklin, he still climbed out of bed. There was nothing he could do. Who asked him to ask for help?
After Lu Chen got up, he immediately went to his study. He picked up the microphone and said to Franklin:
"Hello, Mr. President. What can I do for you?"
"Lu Chen, you finally answered the phone. I have good news to tell you."
"Good news! What good news?"
"The Ministry of National Defense has decided to change the uniforms. After lobbying by General Pan and I, they decided to purchase both rifles and uniforms from you."
"Really? Those people in the Ministry of Defense really agreed to purchase my rifles!"
"Really? I think tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, the Ministry of National Defense will send someone to your factory to discuss procurement with you."
"Thank you so much, Mr. President. If you have any problems in the future, please let me know and I will definitely help you get things done."
"I have something to ask!"
"What is it, President? Tell me. As long as I can do it, I will definitely help you."
"I want to build some roads. I wonder if you, Lu Chen, can help me contact someone to see if anyone is willing to take on this project."
"Build a highway? Mr. President, what kind of highway do you want to build? And where do you want to build it?"
"I plan to build a highway from New York to Route 66. This way, the highway can also be connected from east to west. People don't have to rely solely on railroads to travel."
Lu Chen thought for a moment and said, "The starting point of Route 66 is in Chicago. If we build it from New York to Chicago, it will cross several states. This is not a project that can be undertaken by one person."
"I know this, so I didn't think of letting one person take over this project. I just wanted you from New York to take over this section of New York State."
Lu Chen curled his lips and complained in his heart, I guess you want me to take over this project, otherwise why don't you just call Morgan, everyone knows that his family is rich enough to rival a country. Of course, I guess that guy will not take over this project, after all, he controls 80 to 90 percent of the railways in the United States. Building a highway, isn't that destroying your own rice bowl?
After Lu Chen complained in his heart for a while, he began to think about whether he should take on this matter. The cost of building roads now is much lower than in the future. After all, the roads built in the United States are all wooden planks. But the quality of these wooden planks is not good, and they need to be repaired in a few years. Moreover, even if it is a wooden plank road, it is a lot of money for hundreds of kilometers. I definitely don’t have so much money. If the government pays for it, then I can take it. After all, building roads will benefit Lu Chen a lot. After the roads are built, cars can run on the road. Once the cars run, they need to burn oil. If they need oil, they have to buy it from the Rockefeller family. I am cooperating with the Rockefeller family to extract oil. The more oil they sell, the more dividends I can get.
So Lu Chen asked, "Mr. President, I don't know how much this road will cost."
“The government will not pay for this road, but will give the right to operate the road for 100 years to the person or organization that builds it.”
If you don't pay, what the hell are you talking about? I'm still worried about money. Lu Chen said:
"Then Mr. President, can the government provide loans to the people or institutions that undertake the construction?"
"That's possible. I don't think it will be much, but you can get a loan from the big banks."
Lu Chen thought it was good to be able to get a loan. So he said:
"Mr. President, let me think about it first, and I will give you an answer later."
"Okay, I'll call you back later."
Franklin hung up the phone after saying that.