The Grandmother in the Siheyuan

Chapter 564 Dual Use
While eating, Ma Shan said, "I never thought that this orange juice with pulp and a rice cooker could be used to make braised pork. It doesn't require any special skills."

"That's right, all roads lead to Rome."

The recipe for braised pork belly with orange juice and a rice cooker was Liu Hua's own idea, but he didn't post it online. He just kept it for himself when he had a craving—it was quick, easy, and satisfying.

Liu Hua was unaware that after he transmigrated, a trend of unorthodox cultivation swept the internet, including a method for making braised pork with orange juice and a rice cooker. It was a pity he transmigrated; otherwise, he could have taken advantage of this trend to become popular again.

I don't know how Ma Shan communicated with the higher-ups, but he actually found four companies that specialize in paint. Although they didn't produce qualified stealth paint, it gave the Air Force a lot of inspiration.

As far as Liu Hua knew, the most impressive thing wasn't that; the most impressive thing was that they had developed a new type of anti-rust paint, which, when applied to warships, had an absolutely fantastic effect.

Warships typically require monthly repainting, but this paint lasted for six months without any issues. Compared to actual maintenance, the cost of repainting is negligible, but repainting over a year adds up to a significant amount. Little by little, it adds up.

The military also found this very appealing, as it marked the beginning of our country's accelerated development of dual-use military and civilian forces.

Originally, our country was going to release relevant documents this year to encourage private enterprises to join the ranks of national defense construction, and now this process has been accelerated.

A month later, when Liu Hua returned home, he saw Rosamund Kwan and her cousin enjoying red wine. There was a saying that drinking red wine could soften blood vessels, so Liu Feifei would drink a glass or two whenever she had nothing to do.

"Brother-in-law, you're back. I need to talk to you about something."

"What do you want?" Liu Hua took the glass of red wine that Rosamund Kwan handed him. "What kind of red wine did you buy for your sister again? It's not even dark yet, and the two of you are already drinking it."

"Does drinking wine even need to be timed? I just bought a piece of Mouton Rosamund Pine from an auction house in Hong Kong." Rosamund Kwan said with a smile, "It tastes really good."

"Let's get back to the point. What do you need me for?"

Rosamund Kwan took out a document: "Brother-in-law, the guidelines recently issued by the state encourage private enterprises to enter the military and national defense construction system."

Liu Hua nodded: "That's right, there really is such a thing. You're interested too? Our soldiers don't care about makeup."

"Look at what you're saying, besides cosmetics, I also have perfumes and the like."

Liu Hua shook his head: "When they're conducting field infiltration, they try to make themselves completely odorless. You expect them to use perfume?"

"No, we also made a mosquito repellent, a product that's really effective at repelling mosquitoes. Soldiers often have to crawl and fight in the wild, getting bitten by mosquitoes and other insects. With our product, things are much easier."

Liu Hua frowned and smiled, saying, "This doesn't even qualify as national defense equipment. It can be sold normally; it's not issued to the military."

Liu Hua thought for a moment and said, "How effective is the mosquito repellent? Let's put it to the test. We have a Beiwan outpost where, every morning when we clean the mosquito lamps, we can collect twenty basins full of mosquitoes. Take this mosquito repellent back and try it out. If it really works, the army will buy it." "So many mosquitoes?" Guan Zhilin said blankly, "Since there are so many mosquitoes there, can't we go somewhere else? So many mosquitoes sucking blood, they'll bite people to death."

"That's a border outpost. There must be a reason why it was built there. National territory cannot be lost."

Rosamund Kwan shook her head: "I still don't quite understand. If it were somewhere else, it wouldn't be so hard. Why build a sentry post in such a godforsaken place?"

“The fact that it’s being built there shows how important that place is.” Liu Hua waved his hand. “Can your vision be as broad as our country’s? Don’t think that the higher-ups don’t care about the hardships of the soldiers. If there’s even the slightest possibility, our country is willing to make our soldiers’ lives happier.”

Rosamund Kwan actually sent her research team to test the product; it's unclear how her research project actually went about its research.

The mosquito repellent spray they researched may not have an immediate effect, but it is definitely very powerful. Before spraying, there were more than 5,000 mosquitoes per cubic meter, but after spraying, the number of mosquitoes decreased significantly, making it no different from a normal summer night.

They brought a lot of products to prepare for a month-long experiment, but after three days, they had to return them. The local outpost leader kept pestering them and took all their products away, leaving them with no test samples.

When the person in charge of the experiment saw how dire the situation was, with the soldiers having to sleep on the edge of their seats, he couldn't bear it and left all the products behind without asking for a single penny.

After returning, he sent a lot of money to the outpost, but a few days later, the company received a remittance specifically for the purchase of mosquito repellent.

Before long, soldiers came to the door, specifically asking to buy mosquito repellent lotion. They also made a request: no fragrance, preferably unscented. Making it with fragrance was difficult, but making it unscented was easy.

"The purchase volume is too large," Rosamund Kwan reported to Liu Hua. "It's almost equivalent to the sales volume of toilet water for an entire province."

"Do you think that only that outpost has mosquitoes and the other outposts don't? There are also a lot of mosquitoes in our southwestern border tropical rainforest. We couldn't do anything about it before, so we didn't talk about it. Now that we have a solution, we should naturally improve the living conditions of our officers and soldiers."

“However, there are some things you need to be careful about,” Liu Hua warned. “Now that you’ve joined this system, you absolutely mustn’t do anything you shouldn’t do.”

“I understand, I understand.” Rosamund Kwan nodded hurriedly. “After signing the contract, an officer gave me a booklet that told me what I could and couldn’t do, and I remember it very well.”

Having tasted success, Rosamund Kwan became particularly interested in this area and even opened a new research lab specifically for military research.

For example, Marines are prone to sunburn and peeling during training, so he specifically researched skincare products that could promote skin recovery. Unexpectedly, these products became popular because of veterans.

A Marine Corps veteran took his girlfriend to the beach. Regular sunscreen couldn't prevent sunburn in the strong sun. But after using this skincare product he brought back from the military, his sunburn was completely healed by the next day. That's how Zhiling's sunburn recovery cream became a hit.

(End of this chapter)