While Marschek was tirelessly traveling across Africa to establish factory production lines and recruit workers, and frequently hopping between countries bordering Great Xia.
Meng Hao had already gone to the land of the Bears.
There was no other way.
Gudeyev and his ilk were playing too sneakily.
Damn it.
They had directly converted the technology related to the Dangui, which Meng Hao had transferred to them, into the Shenhang, a super long-range underwater torpedo.
After several consecutive days of sinking over a dozen heavy surface warships belonging to the United States and its allies.
Meng Hao couldn't sit still any longer.
When he was live-streaming in Great Xia.
His livestream chat was constantly filled with comments calling Meng Hao a complete arms dealer,
and accusing him of collaborating with the Bears to target the United States.
Of course.
Meng Hao had absolutely nothing to do with how many heavy surface warships the United States and its allies had lost.
The tens of billions of US dollars in compensation and survivor benefits paid by the United States also had little to do with Meng Hao.
However.
The constant accusations that his Huarong Technology was a munitions factory,
and that Meng Hao was an arms trafficker,
this was a huge problem.
One must know.
The system had explicitly forbidden Meng Hao from becoming an arms dealer before.
The primary reason was the fear of its existence being leaked.
Furthermore.
Once the existence of Meng Hao's system was exposed,
Meng Hao would be in direct danger of being erased by the system.
For the sake of his own life.
Reluctantly.
Meng Hao had to risk being plied with alcohol by those bears again and travel to the land of the Bears.
After all.
Between getting drunk to the point of unconsciousness and risking his life, Meng Hao knew which was more important.
Upon arriving in the land of the Bears.
Since he was already there.
Meng Hao naturally went to inspect his small lithium mine in the land of the Bears.
It was not bad.
The daily production of lithium ore was quite abundant.
Moreover, the main management positions were selected by Chenghua and dispatched directly from Great Xia, where Huarong Technology was located.
Their salaries were quite substantial.
Meng Hao expressed his most sincere condolences to these citizens of Great Xia and employees of Huarong Technology who were stationed in a foreign land.
Then, Meng Hao discovered a problem.
One must know.
The number of management personnel dispatched from Great Xia to the land of the Bears was only a little over a dozen.
However, the factory had nearly a thousand local employees recruited from the land of the Bears.
This was also something Meng Hao had promised Gudeyev.
To guarantee employment for some of the workers in the land of the Bears.
Of course.
In addition to this group of people.
There were other newly recruited personnel for the manufacturing production line.
Altogether, there were two to three thousand people, plus other support staff for logistics and operations and maintenance personnel, all included.
The total number was close to ten thousand.
For the sparsely populated Far East region, the permafrost area of Siberia.
This was already a genuinely rare large enterprise.
However.
The problem lay with these ten thousand local Russian people.
As everyone knows.
Humans have a herd mentality.
These employees of Huarong Technology, originally assigned from Great Xia to the land of the Bears.
After staying here for a long time, living and working with tens of thousands of Russians daily, they had also picked up a bad habit that gave Meng Hao a major headache.
Drinking.
However.
This was also understandable.
In the Far East region, especially in the frigid, perpetually frozen Siberian region.
Apart from drinking together, there were not many interesting activities.
Of course.
More importantly.
In this Far East region.
It was extremely cold.
If one wanted to work outdoors instead of staying in a heated office.
Besides wearing extremely thick clothes, one also had to bring a bottle or two of baijiu to ensure they wouldn't freeze to death in the icy wilderness.
Therefore.
These dozen or so people from Great Xia working for Huarong Technology in the land of the Bears pestered Meng Hao to drink.
This was something Meng Hao could not refuse.
After all.
They were not only his compatriots.
At the same time.
They had also come to work so far away for the sake of Huarong Technology's cause.
This drink could not be declined.
Then.
My goodness.
All the high-level executives from the land of the Bears also came out to find Meng Hao to drink.
If it were just employees of Huarong Technology, even if they liked to drink and were heavy drinkers, their capacity was still limited.
But those native Russians.
Every single one of them.
Were masters of drinking.
Then.
Before Meng Hao could even meet Gudeyev, he had already been drowning in drink for several days.
Damn it.
This cursed place.
Every time he came, he got drunk.
When he finally met Gudeyev.
Meng Hao was not yet fully sober.
Speaking of which, before he could even bring up his important business with Gudeyev.
The feast of drinks had already begun.
And.
Gudeyev, in order to entertain Meng Hao.
Had specifically purchased a large amount of alcohol from Great Xia.
Such as Feitian Maotai, Wuliangye, and Wuliangchun.
Damn it.
They kept changing the ways to ply Meng Hao with alcohol.
Even more outrageously.
Gudeyev and the other Russians had invented the legality of mixing drinks.
Mixing various types of baijiu together.
They even, in pursuit of sufficient alcoholic potency.
Added carbonated soda.
Damn it.
Meng Hao was almost turned into a drunken sot.
"Last time I visited your country, we didn't drink enough. While Wuliangye and Maotai are good, they are a bit too sweet, not suiting our traditions..."
Damn it.
Maotai and Wuliangye were too sweet?
Not enough potency?
Not interesting to drink?
At first, Meng Hao wanted to argue.
Then he realized.
Compared to vodka, the "Water of Life," with an alcohol content of up to 96%.
Any liquor could be considered sweet water.
Before Meng Hao could bitterly swallow back the words that had already reached his lips.
Gudeyev directly handed Meng Hao a cup of dark, unidentifiable liquid.
Good heavens.
If it weren't for the fact that the liquid was rather thin and bubbling on top.
Meng Hao would have suspected that Gudeyev had directly offered him oil to drink... Not to mention, this terrifying nation and people, the Bears, had actually done such a thing.
During past difficult times.
The land of the Bears had also experienced periods of material shortage.
Thus.
Russians with a craving for alcohol.
Would directly extract engine oil from tanks and cars to drink.
Well.
This was essentially the same as drinking petroleum directly.
Therefore.
In many countries, there were rumors of Russians dying from drinking.
Regarding this.
Meng Hao had previously been skeptical.
However.
Ever since he personally visited the land of the Bears.
He believed this rumor to be absolutely true.
Damn it.
Given the way the Russians drank.
Even if they were said to drink gasoline, Meng Hao would consider it extremely normal.