The smile on Li Chenhe's face gradually faded after seeing Zhang Weimin off, replaced by a profound, unutterable meaning.
"Truly worthy of the headquarters staff!"
"Earlier, I was wondering, how could our J Province's Shilin City produce such a prodigious talent as Meng Hao, yet there be no movement from any quarter!"
"It turns out the headquarters had already taken notice of Meng Hao and his Huarong Industrial."
"One can only imagine that the headquarters staff has already formed an invisible giant umbrella, shielding Meng Hao and Huarong Industrial from all the small and large black and white raindrops of trouble!"
"The headquarters likely wants to see how far Meng Hao and his Huarong Industrial can go without any external interference!"
Without the constraints of military regulations.
Without excessive pressure from the national level.
Allowing Huarong Industrial and Meng Hao to grow wildly.
This, perhaps, was the best path for this "civilian enterprise" that "lacked" military backing!
However.
With the invisible shelter of the National Security Headquarters.
It was likely that any domestic or foreign department, individual, or group that dared to extend a black hand would be utterly bewildered.
The key was.
They probably wouldn't even know what hit them.
It could be foreseen.
Meng Hao's Huarong Industrial had become a forbidden territory for the headquarters staff.
Before the headquarters officially decided to engage with Meng Hao.
If any ill-intentioned party dared to lay hands on Huarong Industrial and Meng Hao.
Whoever moved, would perish!
As for that scoundrel Zhang Weimin.
He was incredibly lucky.
As the first ace pilot of the Great Xia military to pilot a mech produced by Huarong Industrial, completing a low-altitude flight of two thousand kilometers.
It was highly probable that he would become the chief test officer for all future military robot and other Meng Hao-related equipment in Great Xia.
Zhang Weimin's future was immeasurable!
The landscape of military equipment research and development in Great Xia, and even worldwide, was about to change!
"Right, issue a document in the name of the J Province Military Region Headquarters!"
"All information regarding the mech piloted by Zhang Weimin is to be strictly encrypted. Anyone daring to leak it will be prosecuted for leaking military secrets!"
"This document is to be distributed to all officers above the rank of Regiment Commander!"
After saying all this.
Lieutenant General Li Chenhe looked out the window.
The sun shone brightly.
It was as if the Great Xia's military robot field, with its immeasurable and infinite future...
...
Meng Hao was very busy!
Since Huarong Industrial's new model, the Phantom mecha, was launched.
The market response had been overwhelmingly positive.
In the Great Xia military fan community, countless eyes were set on the Phantom mecha.
Especially after players who received their units first released a plethora of operational videos.
Countless hardcore military fans were eager to purchase this "toy mech," which was comparable to the world's top combat robots.
However.
Huarong Industrial's production capacity was extremely limited.
To avoid exposing the existence of the desert base and the system.
Meng Hao had moved almost all raw material procurement, rough processing, and integral welding procedures to Huarong Industrial.
The direct consequence of this was.
A severe shortage of personnel.
The production line capacity could not keep up.
Meng Hao's current orders had already reached over three hundred units.
One hundred of these had to be produced and supplied to Mao Xiong Country as soon as possible.
The remaining over two hundred were for domestic absorption in Great Xia.
This was damn it.
This was after they had quickly closed the pre-order link when the Phantom mecha was first released.
Given its previous popularity.
If Meng Hao hadn't been quick-witted and ordered Qin Muyan to take down the product link immediately.
The pre-orders would likely have exceeded a thousand units.
And this was only from the domestic military fan community.
If the news had spread and the link remained active on the live stream.
It was probable that domestic and international tycoons would have bombarded the link, pushing pre-orders into the tens of thousands.
After all.
With Meng Hao's drastic price cuts, the domestic version of Huarong Industrial's latest product, the Phantom mecha, was only 1 million Great Xia currency, while the international version was a mere 1 million US dollars.
Compared to the mech's comprehensive performance.
This price was practically a giveaway!
The direct consequence of closing the pre-order channel was.
Impatient buyers, unable to get what they wanted, transformed their emotions of having money but nowhere to spend it into anger.
Huarong Industrial's customer service hotline was overwhelmed.
Huarong Industrial's official website crashed repeatedly due to excessive traffic.
The gates of Huarong Industrial were constantly surrounded by domestic and international veteran players and hardcore military fans.
If not for Meng Hao's shrewdness.
And if Cheng Hua hadn't set up a permanent living and working area within the Huarong Industrial factory area early on.
He would have been kidnapped by now!
"Damn it."
"Having money but unable to make it!"
"This is simply torture!"
Looking at the countless pleas from consumers demanding that Huarong Industrial reopen its purchase channels.
Meng Hao felt a pang of heartbreak, as if a towering mountain range of gold and silver, a diamond pagoda, had collapsed before his eyes.
Hiring staff.
Acquiring factories.
Expanding production capacity.
These were now urgent matters.
...
The foreign devil who had previously led the fake foreign devil Dong Jian, attempting to acquire Meng Hao's factory, had finally been released.
This pair of fake and real foreign devils.
Their acquisition of Huarong Industrial was rejected; their request to purchase mechs was denied.
In their rage and embarrassment, they had completely fallen out with Meng Hao.
Especially Dong Jian.
Relying on his influence within Shilin City's underworld, he had even attempted to threaten Meng Hao and resort to sneak attacks to force a sale.
As a result.
Meng Hao completely ignored this pair of fake and real foreign devils.
He even threw them out of the high-rise building where the conference room was located, terrifying them half to death.
Before they could even clean themselves up from their soiled pants.
The two were apprehended by security personnel and detained for nearly a month on charges of damaging private property and polluting the environment with public defecation.
Even more absurd was.
Dong Jian had dropped the names of several influential figures in Shilin City.
Yet the security personnel showed no intention of releasing them.
This left Dong Jian utterly confused.
Normally.
Those who called him brother, claiming to have the power to control half of Shilin City, would have come to his aid.
Why were they not intervening this time?
Finally, after their detention period was over and they were released.
Dong Jian immediately led the foreign gentleman back to his private factory to have a good wash and then indulge in a hearty meal.
At the dinner table.
Bob's Caucasian face had turned the color of a pig's liver.
"Fuck you."
"Why is your Great Xia so inhumane."
"They even deprived me of the right to change my clothes."
"And those guys at the detention center were too much, they made me 'pick up soap,' and no guards intervened!"
In response to Bob's outburst.
Dong Jian's expression was equally grim.
Damn it.
Wearing pants full of excrement for a month, the unsanitary waste had dried from body heat.
However.
Fortunately.
Bob had not experienced any advances from the homosexual inmates and cellmates.
Well.
Perhaps those horny, passionate inmates were more interested in the foreign gentleman Bob's posterior.