Republic of China: My great warlord, many children, many blessings.

These rewards are truly perfect.

One million silver dollars, who doesn't love money? It's so satisfying.

There was also a guard company, and the key point was that they were all Ming Jin masters. Although there were many martial arts masters in this era, no warlord had the strength to find a hundred Ming Jin masters, and of course, he wouldn't find that many. He would rather use the money to buy some guns than to find masters.

The strength of these 100 people is absolutely amazing.

Then there's Chu Yunfei, whose strength is beyond doubt. He's the elite of the Principal's troops. If Li Yunlong is a maverick, this guy is a regular soldier.

What Shen Hao lacks now is not untrained individuals, but those with formal military backgrounds.

Shen Hao doesn't plan to send such a person out to fight, but rather to have him become a teacher and open his own military academy, because only such a person can cultivate a lot of talent.

No matter the era, talent is always the most valuable asset.

Penicillin is known as liquid gold. Not only is it unique in the world now, but it was also a rare commodity during World War II.

This thing is one of the greatest innovations in 20th-century medicine and a milestone in the history of human development of antibiotics.

Penicillin, as the first drug with powerful bactericidal effects, ended the era when infectious diseases were almost untreatable.

It was this that sparked the peak of the search for new antibiotics, ushering in the era of synthetic drugs.

There was once a movie called "Penicillin 1944", which tells the story of a life-and-death struggle between our party member (Li Nuohao) and the Wang Jingwei regime's army for two boxes of penicillin during the Anti-Japanese War.

During World War II, the cheapest penicillin cost $200 per vial. One ton would have approximately 400 million vials (40 units of injection), which would have cost around $8 million.

It's no exaggeration to say that whoever owns penicillin is the richest person in the world.

However, this thing is too valuable, and it cannot be manufactured domestically at present.

In addition, Shen Hao's strength is weak. Even if he manages to create it, European and American countries will quickly imitate and copy it. Wouldn't that benefit them?

Shen Hao wouldn't be foolish enough to do that.

As for contributing to the world, that's even more impossible. Shen Hao is a selfish and self-serving person. He thinks his own people are living in misery, so why should he care about the world's fate?

This penicillin is worth far more than a million dollars.

Immediately, Shen Hao's gaze fell upon the ten bronze treasure chest villages.

Opening these blind box bronze chests feels like spending money to get skins.

Shen Hao was very much looking forward to seeing what he could come up with.

119. A luxurious ten-pull, awesome!

The last bronze treasure chest yielded a dual cultivation manual called "Human Essence Elixir Method." Although its effects were rather rubbish, it was better than nothing.

At least Shen Hao no longer suffers from kidney deficiency; he's managed to break even, which is already quite good.

Suddenly, Shen Hao noticed a plus sign on the back of the bronze treasure chest.

Out of curiosity, Shen Hao clicked the plus sign.

Suddenly, a huge alchemy furnace appeared, with the character "合" (meaning "together") written on it.

Ten bronze treasure chests can be combined into one silver treasure chest, with a success rate of 30%.

Should we synthesize it?

"No! No! No!"

Shen Hao was stunned for a moment, then hurriedly said;

Thirty percent chance? What the hell?

With such a low probability, isn't this a scam? What's the point of synthesizing it?

In Ma Teng's games, there's a 90% chance you won't get anything good.

What kind of stuff can you possibly get with a 30% chance of drawing it from your system?

Ninety-nine percent of the time, you can't succeed with a knife fight, and there's an even lower chance of success in the remaining thirty percent. Isn't that just a waste of boxes?

Shen Hao was already very satisfied with the bronze reward; he didn't even bother with the silver treasure chest.

It's not rare at all.

"Open the treasure chest"

[Open the Treasure Chest]

Then, a flash of golden light appeared before Shen Hao's eyes.

Dozens of boxes were lined up in a row, and they were opened one by one with a click-clack sound.

A deluxe ten-pull—this lottery feeling is fucking addictive.

[Ding dong! Congratulations, host, you have won a bulletproof Ford car]

[Ding dong! Congratulations, host! Thank you for your patronage. Keep up the good work next time!]

[Ding-dong! Congratulations, host, you have won a radio station!]

[Ding dong! Congratulations, host, you have won $100,000!]

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[Ding dong! Congratulations, host! Thank you for your patronage. Keep up the good work next time!]

[Ding! Congratulations, host, you have won ten rounds of ammunition for a Barrett (M82A1 large-caliber sniper rifle)]

[Ding dong! Congratulations, host, you have drawn a Xuan Tie dagger that can cut through iron like mud and sever hair with a breath (from Wei Xiaobao)]

[Ding! Congratulations, host, you have drawn a Senzu Bean (from the Dragon Ball world)]

[Ding-dong! Congratulations, host, you've won a ton of gasoline!]

[Ding dong! Congratulations, host, you have won a small cement plant with a daily production capacity of 2000-4000 tons.]

Shen Hao was completely dumbfounded; there were actually two "thank you for your patronage" messages.

They didn't mention it before the draw, I've lost out big time.

After reviewing all the rewards, Shen Hao realized that the most valuable one was the Immortal Bean; it was a really good thing.

Even if you are on the verge of death, you can be fully restored after eating it. The only drawback is that it cannot cure diseases.

Overall, these rewards are alright.

It'll do!

Radios and gasoline are also strategic resources that can be obtained.

Wei Xiaobao's dagger is trash and useless.

A cement plant can produce 2000 to 4000 tons of cement a day, which is considered a small cement plant in the 21st century.

If this were during the Republic of China era, it would be considered a large-scale cement plant.

This can be done.

Cement plants are simple and not difficult to operate.

Cement is the most important building material. This amazing material hardens when water is added, making it very suitable for road construction.

Moreover, it can be mixed with yellow sand and pebbles to become artificial stone.

In this day and age, cement concrete is a very fashionable material.

At the end of the 19th century, which was a little over a decade ago.

With the opening of ports such as Guangzhou and Shanghai, more and more foreigners began to build buildings with their own national styles in the concessions, and concrete entered the country in this way.

The earliest cement plant in China was built in Tangshan in 1889, and successfully produced its first bag of cement in 1892.

In this era, people called cement "foreign cement".

Compared to other industries, cement plants have developed rapidly in China. After all, cement plants rely on local resources, and their processes are simple yet cumbersome, making it impossible for imported products to compete with local ones.

In addition, the large demand from both military and civilian sectors has attracted foreign and private capital to invest in this industry.

This thing is still quite profitable.

If it's wholesale, the profit is around 10 yuan per ton. With at least 3000 tons a day, you can earn 3 to 4 yuan a day just by sitting back and doing nothing.

If it's retail, the profit per ton is 2030 yuan.

Large cement plants can easily earn hundreds of millions of yuan a year, while smaller plants can earn millions.

But this is 21st-century income, under conditions of overcapacity.

During the Republic of China era, cement plants were absolutely 100% profitable, even 200% profitable.

Firstly, labor costs are very low.

Secondly, cement plants are supplying less than demand.

Moreover, with Shen Hao's current influence, he could easily create a monopoly, and the money would just keep flowing in.

Upon returning, Shen Hao ordered Qing City and Shao City to prohibit the use of cement from other cement plants and to use only their own cement. Who would dare to defy him?

Monopolies can be very profitable.

Of course, we can't just do whatever we want. We can hold a bidding conference and set a standard that only we can achieve, and that will be fine.