In a premium hotel suite in San Francisco, Haynes came to meet his boss as an appointment.

Haines was in his thirties and was the owner of an arms company in San Francisco. During World War I, the United States made huge profits in large-scale exports of arms, so Haines took out all his savings to establish an arms company, and made war money. But Haines continued to invest the money he earned and expanded the production scale, producing everything from guns and ammunition to artillery tanks. Unfortunately, the battle ended soon, and a large number of weapons and equipment produced by the company also accumulated. Haines was forced to lend money to the bank to maintain the company's operations, but his company was a bottomless pit.

Zhang Meng obtained information about Haines's company through black market arms dealers, and he decided to purchase the arms company. However, Zhang Meng waited until the day before Haines's company was about to enter bankruptcy proceedings before he took action, forcing Haines to sell the Haynes' arms company worth more than 10 million US dollars to Zhang Meng for $10,000.

Of course, Haynes felt heartbroken, but it was much better than letting his company enter bankruptcy proceedings. Because Haynes owed the bank more than three million, if he entered bankruptcy proceedings, he would not only not make a penny, but would instead go to jail and the company would be treated as junk.

The two evils were light, so he accepted Zhang Meng's proposal and sold the company to him for 10,000 US dollars.

For fellow arms companies, although the company has assets of tens of millions of dollars, none of them buy this hot potato. They know that this is a company that cannot be saved no matter how much money. When Zhang Meng learned that he spent $10,000 to buy the company on the verge of bankruptcy, he showed mockery and despised this idiot in the East.

The San Francisco Post also regarded this matter as a topic on the same day. It was reported that a rich man named Zhang Meng from China spent 10,000 US dollars to purchase Haynes arms company. Senior industry experts said that in the current bleak arms market, even large arms companies are very sad. Medium-sized arms companies like Haynes are like a wreck, and anyone who pulls it will be dragged into the sea.

Zhang Meng, who had read the newspaper that day, just smiled disdainful of this. If it were someone else, he might have been sank along with him. But Zhang Meng was confident and capable of rescuing this medium-sized arms company, or even becoming the world's largest arms company that is making money every day.

"Boss, what can you do to save this company?"

Although Haines is not the boss, he is still the manager of this company. He takes the initiative to help Zhang Meng do things because he finds it difficult to abandon this company that has devoted all his efforts.

Zhang Meng yawned and handed over twenty new gun drawings to Haynes.

This was drawn by him that he had not slept all night. On it were the engineering drawings of each part of the two guns. Although the drawings were a bit rough, the key points were marked. As long as he was a professional gun drawing engineer, he could understand the tricks inside at a glance.

Of course, Zhang Meng is not a firearm designer, so what he brought out were ready-made firearm designs that became famous decades later. These include the M16 assault rifle and the AK47 assault rifle.

Haines had learned weapon design, otherwise he would not have dared to open an arms company. Seeing these two strange assault rifles that Zhang Meng took out, he immediately started to study them. The more he studied them, the more he found the amazing things inside, and soon he looked full of joy.

"Boss, did you design it?"

"Ah, yes, is there any problem?"

"No! I mean you are really a gun design genius I have seen, even Browning can't do it. If he saw your design, he would probably crawl out of the grave and find you to learn!"

"This - I respect him very much, especially the M2 heavy machine gun he designed, which is really powerful!"

"Yes! We all admire him very much! But I think people in the future will admire you even more, boss!"

Zhang Meng smiled and nodded, his face was neither blushing nor breathing. No one knew about it anyway, and no one was thicker than him.

"With these two assault rifles, our company will soon be able to come back to life! Boss, I will arrange for engineers to design engineering drawings and open production lines!"

"No hurry!"

Zhang Meng waved his hand and said, "The first priority now is to register more than 100 patented designs here. Currently, the two assault rifles, M16 and AK47, are still in the confidential stage, and they will not be sold to the public even if they are produced."

Haynes said with a bitter face and disappointed expression: "What should our company do now? You have to make money to pay workers, and there are bank loans. If you don't pay it back, you will soon enter bankruptcy procedures!"

Zhang Meng raised his hand and signaled that Haines didn't have to worry. The reason why he took out the M16 and ak47 drawings for him just now was mainly to comfort him and give him confidence to do things with Zhang Meng.

Zhang Meng would not take out the classic guns at once. Although it became famous, it was not a business way at all. Because countries would soon imitate these two classic assault rifles, it would be difficult to make money again.

Zhang Meng’s plan is to gradually improve and upgrade existing firearms, so that long-term flow is the way to make money.

At this moment, Zhang Meng took out a few more drawings and handed them to Haines. This is the structural diagram of the M3 submachine gun. Zhang Meng knew that this submachine gun was very brilliant during World War II and was manufactured in industrial stamping. It has low cost, simple structure, convenient operation, and good stability, which is enough for military personnel from all over the country to pay for large quantities to buy.

After seeing the structural diagram of M3, although it was not as good as the previous M16 and AK47, he understood Zhang Meng's business. He naturally wanted to strengthen the company, so he agreed happily and immediately led people to start the trial production of the M3 submachine gun.

Zhang Meng has a lot to do when he comes to San Francisco, and purchasing arms companies is just one of them. After all, considering the long-term, a stable arms supply is needed. It is not only too expensive to rely on the black market transactions, but also too high uncertainties and risks. With this Haynes Arms Company, Zhang Meng can produce and manufacture the weapons and equipment he needs.

Haines became Zhang Meng's arms spokesperson in the United States. Through Haines's relationship with this arms company, Zhang Meng was able to purchase some government-controlled items he needed from other American companies, such as water regia (invincible strong acid), polyisobutylene (C4 key raw materials), etc. These black markets are not large in quantity and are expensive, but it is very easy to buy large-scale goods from the government's nose when producing raw materials with arms companies.

In addition, Zhang Meng bought two transport ships with a load capacity of 1,000 tons at United Steel Shipyard. The two transport ships looked exactly the same in appearance, and according to Zhang Meng's requirements, they were pasted with red tin foil and turned into red transport ships. If they drove to the sea, they could be seen because the red was particularly eye-catching.

Interestingly, Zhang Meng registered two identical transport ships under the name of two shell companies of different nationalities in the United Kingdom and the United States, and all the hired foreign employees were foreign employees, and the employee lounge of one of the transport ships was modified on a large scale.

At the same time, Zhang Meng also plans to register a company called Overseas Chinese Investment Bank in New York. For this reason, he hired a financial investment team composed of fifty practitioners and appointed Zhang Wei as the manager. A local Overseas Chinese financier named Shao Hua in Chinatown in San Francisco serves as an advisor. The financial power is temporarily managed by Zhang Zhong to ensure that there is no accident.

Zhang Meng invested the eight million dollars in his hand, bought gold futures contracts, and the stocks of General Motors and some steel companies appreciated. At this time, the Dow Jones Index was still at 313 points, and there were still fifty points to rise before the 363 highest point before the outbreak of the economic crisis, and he could still make a lot of money.

When buying General Motors' stock, Zhang Meng specially purchased eight of the largest mining trucks in the United States, with a standard load of up to 200 tons.
Chapter completed!