At six o'clock in the evening, the dinner officially began. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Zheng Lanting, who had made full preparations, took the lead in delivering a speech, warmly welcoming the Nanjing Government military and technical inspection delegation, and the speech was short but full of enthusiasm, and won three warm applause in just two minutes.

In contrast, the speech of Yu Feipeng, the head of the delegation, was much more rigid.

The unique official tone of the KMT dignitaries has not changed at all, and even the content of the thanks is divided into three small paragraphs, without the concise and calm bearing when talking to Zheng Yi in private, but Zheng Yi has always listened with his ears up, and he can also hear a lot of deep charm from it.

After the speeches of the guests and hosts, the participants stood up one after another, raised their glasses and greeted each other, and the atmosphere of the cheerful and warm banquet officially began.

Zheng Yi and Xu Maofu sat down with Zhou Junyan, Yang Jicheng, Dai Li, and other middle-level officers, clinking glasses and taking a big sip from each other, and Zheng Yi, as the host, invited everyone to sit down and dine, and asked for a bottle of cognac from the waiter, and personally refilled the wine for the guests.

The slightly restrained guests felt deeply honored, and their mood unconsciously relaxed a lot, and they stood up one after another to humbly thank Zheng Yi.

Yu Feipeng at the main table and Song Jiyao, deputy head of the inspection group, saw the lively scene at the table in front of the side almost at the same time, both of them were old directors of the early days of the Whampoa Military Academy, both were from Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and they were both old officers of Zheng Yi.

After three rounds of wine and five flavors of food, the atmosphere of the banquet became more and more harmonious, and the members of the delegation were amazed by the splendid and exotic luxurious hall, expensive foreign wine and sumptuous and exquisite dishes, whispering to each other, and marveling at the deep background and wealth of the Zheng family, and many people were still quietly looking at Zheng Yi at the other table.

Zheng Yi was very open, and while holding cups with the guests frequently, he implored everyone to eat more vegetables, and from time to time used chopsticks to pick up vegetables for the happy brother Zhou Junruo around him, and behaved calmly and decently, which made the guests feel like a spring breeze.

At the main table next door, Yu Feipeng and Zheng Lanting finished touching a cup, and asked in a low voice with emotion: "Brother Lanting, the foolish brother has a word that is not unhappy, if it is recruited by the country, is my brother willing to let Xiaoyi return to China to serve?" ”

Zheng Lanting was stunned for a moment, slowly put down the wine glass, approached Yu Feipeng and asked in a low voice: "Is this the meaning of the virtuous brother, or is it ......?"

Yu Feipeng, who felt abrupt, hurriedly explained: "Not only the foolish brother has such feelings, but my Huangpu army thinks so, Xiao Yi is a recognized general in Huangpu, such a rare talent in a century, it's a pity for him to disarm and engage in business!" ”

Zheng Lanting smiled slightly: "Brother Xian, don't be busy, wait until you finish inspecting the precision machinery manufacturing company opened by Xiao Yi and then think about it, maybe Brother Xian will have new views and come to different conclusions, haha!" ”

Yu Feipeng had no choice but to nod, picked up chopsticks and began to eat under Zheng Lanting's warm greeting, but subconsciously looked at Zheng Yi at the next table who was toasting and talking with Zhou Junruo and others.

The atmosphere at Zheng Yi's table was very relaxed, everyone knew Zheng Yi's details, but they avoided mentioning Zheng Yi's defection to the Communist Party.

When Zheng Yi told everyone that the precision machinery manufacturing company, which only produces light weapons, has eight large and small workshops, 12 sets of large universal lathes and nearly 1,000 pieces of machinery and equipment, the guests were shocked and immediately began to discuss enthusiastically, and even Dai Li, who was sitting opposite Zheng Yi, opened his eyes wide.

Zhou Junruo, who was most familiar with Zheng Yi, was also deeply shocked, and hurriedly pulled Zheng Yi and asked in a low voice: "So speaking of which, there is no problem at all with a monthly production of 3,000 rifles?" ”

Zheng Yi smiled: "What are you anxious about? Won't you understand everything after going to inspect it in person tomorrow? ”

"There will be tomorrow's things tomorrow, can you tell me some specific information first, so that I can have a bottom in my heart, and I can also focus on it when I visit and investigate!"

Zhou Jun's anxious appearance caused a burst of laughter from everyone.

Zheng Yi saw that the guests were very interested, so he had to meet everyone's requirements: "Our precision machinery manufacturing company currently has three senior managers, five senior engineers and designers from Europe, and 32 Chinese and foreign senior technicians who have been in the industry for more than ten years, as well as more than 500 technicians and skilled workers. ”

"Most of our processing equipment comes from the United Kingdom, a small part is purchased from Germany, the technology is very advanced, although nearly half of it is old equipment, but it is also two to three generations more advanced than the equipment of all domestic arsenals, such as processing rifle barrels, we just bought back from Germany six sets of very advanced boring machines and broaching machines, can process twelve barrels at the same time, the processing time is only twenty-five minutes, if full production, at least eight hundred barrels can be processed per day......"

Everyone couldn't help but exclaim, they all felt very incredible, if this was the case, the number of rifles that could be made every month was far more than 3,000, but an astonishing more than 10,000!

After everyone was quiet, Zheng Yi continued: "Due to the low profit of rifles, although European and American countries have not lifted the arms embargo on China, they have been transported into China for sale by such means for more than ten years, and the competition is very fierce, and most of the domestic arsenals can produce their own, so we do not plan to produce rifles, only produce M1929 submachine guns and nine-millimeter military pistols with their own patents." ”

"In addition, we have purchased the ZB26 light machine gun production authorization from the Czech National Arsenal, optimized and improved on the original basis, and redesigned a simpler and more durable light machine gun, officially known as the Branson M1930 light machine gun, which has now been included in the mass production plan, and you will be able to see tomorrow that it will enter the mass production stage from next month, and three months later, it will reach the planned goal of producing 3,000 M1930 light machine guns per month."

Everyone was amazed, and considering that they would see the real thing tomorrow, they didn't ask too much.

Yang Jicheng, who was sitting next to Zhou Junruo, was very shrewd, and he asked an important question that was ignored by everyone: "Brother Zheng, what is the current monthly production of your M1929 submachine gun and imitation Colt military pistol?" ”

Zheng Yi hesitated for a moment, and finally decided to tell the truth: "At the end of last year, our M1929 submachine gun reached the target of producing 5,000 units per month, and due to the priority of meeting the purchase orders of the British Royal Navy and the garrisons of the Asian colonies, only 1,000 units were sold to China every month, at least until May. ”

"Before the Spring Festival, we sold 1,500 sticks to the tax police group through the Shanghai Feng family's trading house, all of which were produced by workers working overtime and exceeding the quota."

"The monthly production capacity of the nine-millimeter imitation Colt military pistol can completely exceed 5,000 pieces, but in consideration of the sales problem, we limit the monthly production to 3,000 units, in addition, we have canceled the production of revolvers and sapper shovels, and the sales of steel helmets are not very good, and the monthly output of 2,000 pieces is maintained, and most of them are put in warehouses."

Everyone nodded frequently, and Dai Li, who had been listening attentively, suddenly asked a surprising question: "Brother Zheng, I heard that you have designed two extremely advanced automatic rifles and have obtained patent certificates issued by the United Kingdom, I wonder if Brother Zheng has already produced them on a large scale?" ”