The Cycle of Reincarnation in the Four-Courtyard House: A Journey Through the Heavens

Because Li Xiao had sent four super soldiers to Southeast Asia a year ago, the vast majority of Chinese people in those two places were organized by the four of them.

The production lines "borrowed" from the island nation were quickly installed, and many local Chinese with technical skills became workers and technicians in these arms factories.

Although these two large islands in Southeast Asia have abundant natural resources, their metal mineral resources are not very rich.

Li Xiao immediately dispatched Fu Yun and Zhou Chunping from Beijing to Australia in the Southern Hemisphere.

Currently, many iron ore resources on the Australian continent have not yet been discovered by the local government. Li Xiao sent his team directly there and bought the world's largest iron ore mine located in Hamersley, Western Australia.

Australian cities are generally built around the coastline, while the inland areas are barren and extremely desolate.

Therefore, the land there was extremely cheap. Fu Yun only spent $20 to buy the usage rights to a 5568-square-kilometer iron ore mine in Hammersley.

It's worth mentioning here that, according to Australian law at the time, the iron ore area that Fu Yun bought for mineral exploration and development had a 999-year land lease.

In 1978, Australia enacted a new law stipulating that all mining land could only be leased, not sold, for a period of 21 years, after which the lease had to be renewed with the local government.

Li Xiao was actually extremely envious of this continent, which covers an area of ​​over 700 million square kilometers.

This place is extremely rich in various natural resources, making it an ideal location for developing both industry and animal husbandry.

Unfortunately, the Commonwealth of Australia was formally established here in 1901, and it became an independent country within the Commonwealth of Great Britain in 1931.

This place is extremely far from China, so there are not many Chinese people living here at present.

It would obviously be much more difficult for Li Xiao to completely occupy this vast continent and break free from British control.

Although he couldn't completely occupy this place, he didn't send Fu Yun and Zhou Chunping here specifically for mining.

As instructed by Li Xiao, the couple's main goal here was to gradually develop their own power base, establish a new party that would occupy a majority of seats in both houses of parliament, thus indirectly gaining control of the country.

Li Xiao plans to send some of the older orphans from here to Australia in a few years to help Fu Yun and his wife.

Since acquiring the iron ore mine in the Hammersley region, Fu Yun and Zhou Chunping have used gold as a stepping stone, recruiting 1500 local workers in just one month.

Li Xiao then notified Xu Mo and Du Hongmei in the United States, where they purchased a large amount of mining and steelmaking equipment.

According to Li Xiao's plan, several large steel plants were to be built around the iron ore area, which would greatly accelerate the metal smelting process.

Because of the large amount of gold, these hard currencies are also popular in the United States, so Xu Mo only took a month to reach cooperation agreements with several equipment manufacturers in the United States.

Various types of mining machinery and steelmaking equipment were quickly piled up in a port storage area on the west coast of the United States.

Next, Li Xiao transformed into a porter and used spatial coordinates to travel directly to the United States.

He placed the various large-scale mining and smelting equipment he had purchased directly into the parking lot in front of the Space Supermarket, and then moved it back to Fu Yun's side in Australia.

These mining and smelting equipment are extremely large, and Li Xiao can only transport a few pieces of equipment at a time.

He had to make over thirty trips back and forth, like an ant carrying food, to transport all the equipment to the iron ore mines in Australia.

With ample financial support, the Hamersley iron ore mine in Australia was quickly mined, and the ore was then transported by train to a steel mill ten kilometers away via pre-laid rails for further processing.

As a result, the production schedule of the arms factories located in Borneo and Sumatra was immediately brought to full capacity.

After careful consideration, Li Xiao decided to designate the standard equipment of the Valiant Army as the Type 81 automatic rifle, which would become the standard equipment in later generations.

The Type 81's gas guiding system is a mature design, employing a short-stroke piston-type gas guiding system with an adjustable gas chamber, making it adaptable to harsh environments such as sandstorms, mud, and low temperatures, with a failure rate far lower than that of some light weapons of the same period.

This firearm's most prominent advantage in actual combat is that it can still fire normally even when sand or water gets into the barrel during border operations and high-altitude jungle drills.

The most important point is that the Type 81 rifle is a weapon "born for actual combat". Its reliability and practicality make up for some technical shortcomings, and it perfectly met the national defense needs of my country at that time during its service life.

This automatic rifle is a truly revolutionary weapon in this day and age.

Today, the world's major military powers primarily use bolt-action rifles as their standard-issue rifles, and even semi-automatic rifles are still in the small-scale testing phase.

If Li Xiao's arsenal can mass-produce the Type 81 automatic rifle, it will definitely be able to achieve an overwhelming offensive on the battlefield.

Imagine this: the Japanese Type 38 rifle had to pull the bolt to fire a single shot, while the Type 81 rifle could fire a burst of bullets in one go. Who could withstand that?

In addition, he instructed the arsenal technicians to begin manufacturing the RPG-7 shoulder-fired rocket launcher.

This heavy weapon for individual soldiers was successfully developed in 1961 and became the standard weapon for Soviet infantry squads in 1966. It is also the most representative model in the entire RPG series.

It features an improved barrel structure and an added rocket range extender engine. With a caliber of 40 mm, it fires 85 mm rockets with an effective range of 300 meters against moving targets and a penetration capability of up to 330 mm upon vertical impact.

This model uses a propulsion method that combines recoilless propellant with rocket range extension, and can also be adapted to various munitions such as tandem warhead armor-piercing projectiles and fragmentation grenades.

RPGs became widely known during the 1993 Somali War.

Somali forces used it to shoot down two U.S. Black Hawk attack helicopters, and this model is still in service in 107 countries in the 21st century.

He had RPGs in his space supermarket, so he took out three actual RPG-7 rocket launchers and asked them to disassemble and study them and start mass production as soon as possible.

另外，包括155毫米牵引榴弹炮；60毫米、82毫米以及100毫米这三种迫击炮；82毫米无坐力炮、30毫米机关炮、双联装12.7毫米高平两用重机枪；仿美式M16720毫米六管速射炮等等这些重武器，全都在进行研发。

Since Li Xiao sent out those super subordinates, in addition to making money, these subordinates have also recruited a large number of technicians and researchers.

These key researchers have all been sent to a large research institute in Borneo through various clandestine channels.