Spying in Shanghai, I Become President Overseas

Lu Chengyuan was born into the Republic of China era and became the son of Gusu's richest man.

He had planned to live comfortably as a rich young master, but unexpectedly awakened the [Ten-Thousandfold Military Industry Rebate System].

As long as he spent money, he could receive weapons, cutting-edge technology, and industrial systems worth ten thousand times as much in return!

“You spent 50,000 silver dollars to buy the Paramount Ballroom and received a System reward: an elite German-equipped infantry brigade!”

“You spent 300,000 silver dollars to aid disaster victims and received a System reward: a complete set of equipment for a 10,000-ton steel mill!”

“You spent a million silver dollars to buy a deserted island and received a System reward: a super-dreadnought battleship fleet!”

The Japanese and puppet regime's Special Higher Police regarded him as a “walking cash dispenser” and came up with excuses to extort him every day;

corrupt high-ranking officials in the Nationalist government treated him like an “ATM,” bleeding him dry in every way they could.

Lu Chengyuan laughed. “Extort me? Just make sure your appetites are big enough!”

On the surface, he was Shanghai's most foolish, free-spending playboy;

in secret, countless heavy-industry machine tools and torrents of steel were being shipped nonstop to Borneo in the South Seas.

When the full-scale War of Resistance broke out and the Japanese army tried to push south to seize its resources, it crashed headlong into a colossal power guarded by heavy tanks, radar-based air defenses, and wolf-pack submarines: the Republic of Lanfang!

The Japanese commander wept. “Who said the South Seas only had rubber? This damn place is an empire of steel!”