According to the opinion of the Arsenal Supervision Committee, this trip to Shanghai was mainly to purchase machines for the production of mortars and howitzers.

Time is quietly changing the status quo. Originally, the mountain artillery, field artillery, and other heavy artillery of the division's artillery regiment were originally the weak points of the Feng department, especially after the expansion to 10 divisions, they were originally incomplete.

However, the first expansion of the Mukden Arsenal became generous because of the 5 million "gratuitous" loan from the Russian Maoists. Of course, because of the constraints, Zhang Hanqing did not invest all in the arsenal, but did his best to pull up the relevant supporting enterprises together. It may be good to produce all guns and cannons, but the lack of stamina is not conducive to the sustainable development of armaments. What Zhang Hanqing means is that the Fengtian Arsenal is mainly based on excellent strength, and it is not suitable for running volume at present. Therefore, most of the military industry capacity is inclined to civilian use, such as the preparation for the construction of the Fengtian Tractor Factory, and the arsenal has made great efforts.

The reason why the United States became strong in later generations was not only that its military industry was developed, but that it had a strong ability to convert civilian use into military use at any time, and its civilian use has always been ahead of the world. In this way, it is the right way to educate the army and the people.

Despite this, with this huge amount of money, the Mukden Arsenal already has the capacity to produce 150 cannons per year. In another two years, the artillery units will be fully equipped.

So Zhang Hanqing thought of more advanced weapons, mortars and howitzers.

China's traffic situation is a mess, and in the northeast it is slightly better, and in the Guannai, especially in mountainous areas such as the northwest, the role of heavy artillery is far less practical than that of mortars, which are more convenient to carry, and the key is that it is extremely cheap and easy to imitate.

At a time when the Feng army was unable to meet the needs of the so-called heavy artillery, the West had basically eliminated the development and production of its 75mm light guns, and instead focused on equipping them with more powerful and long-range 125mm and 155mm howitzers or cannons. If China wants to catch up, it has a long way to go. It's not okay to keep following people's butts, you have to copy the car in a corner. So, for cannons of a similar caliber, you need to start in advance.

This is the main purpose of Han Linchun and Yang Wenkai's trip.

At this time, the foreign powers were restricting China's arms purchases, and the "Arms Ban Agreement" implemented against China in 1915 basically blocked the way to buy stocks, which was also an opportunity for independent development. In such a big country, you can't buy them all, right?

In the ten-mile ocean field of Shanghai, two rural buns were like the first time they entered the city and were dazzled. Trams and cars are owned by very few people in Mukden City, and there seems to be a constant flow here; Skyscrapers, which are almost invisible in Mukden, are lined up here. Referring only to prosperity and drunkenness, there are few places that can compare to it.

In order to increase the weight of the negotiations, according to Zhang Zuolin's request, they stayed in a luxury hotel. After settling down, the two went their separate ways: Yang Wenkai went to inquire about the auction first, and Han Linchun went to find someone to find out the whereabouts of that Chen Bui.

I am not familiar with the place, and the accent is incompatible with here, and I came out of a big hotel, so it is inevitable that I will be targeted. Han Linchun is a soldier and is very good on the battlefield, but he is still far from the crooked slope.

A rickshaw ran up to him and greeted him courteously: "Get on the bus triangle, the road is close to free". Han Linchun didn't know the path, so he moved and said to the coachman: "Give me the nearest newspaper office." Although I don't know what editor Chen Bui is in which newspaper, since he is a peer, it is estimated that he has some reputation in the industry, just like he originally had a certain status in the military circles.

He was right, and after following the rickshaw driver for a while, he got lost in the streets and alleys. At first, I didn't care, but when I saw that the road was getting bumpy and the environment was getting more and more remote, I gradually became suspicious, and hurriedly said, "Coachman, where are you taking me?" ”

The coachman smiled and said indistinctly in his southern Mandarin, "I'm taking a shortcut." ”

But the shortcut road is not deserted, and it is obvious that it has reached the outskirts of the city. It's true that Han Linchun doesn't know the way, but he is not stupid, he knows that he has met a bad guy. Touching his body, there was also a check of 10,000 oceans given to him by the young marshal, which was cashed at sight. Fortunately, the check for the purchase of arms was stored in the hotel, otherwise I would not have panicked.

Even now I am a little panicked. I've seen a lot of winds and waves, and if the boat capsizes in this gutter, it's a joke. Because the train had to be reversed, no guns were brought, so the gap between a lieutenant general's division commander and an ordinary person was not so obvious.

He shouted, "Stop! Then he jumped out of the car. Fortunately, thanks to his many years of military career, although he has been rich, he is still quite athletic.

Someone next to him laughed and said, "Good skills, brother, you can tell at a glance that it is a practitioner." But when I get to Shanghai, you have to coil it for me, and if it's a tiger, you have to lie down for me. If you know each other, pay some money to avoid disasters! With this sound, a group of men in short shirts walked out menacingly. The man who spoke had an axe stuck diagonally in his waist.

As soon as Han Linchun heard these strange words, he knew that he had met someone on the road. On the beach, either the Qing Gang or the Hong Gang are all masters who are not easy to mess with. I heard that ordinary pawns could be their people, and the corners of the city were controlled by them.

Since they dare to dedicate themselves, it means that this place is absolutely safe for them, maybe it is a nest. After thinking about it, I still didn't dare to act rashly. If it's one-on-one, or even one-to-three or five, he dares. But the other party is a bunch of people! If you don't know how to die here in vain, that's really irresponsible.

He smiled and said, "I don't know which cousin's brother?" Brother is in the three eastern provinces of the patrol envoy and by the heavenly overseer Zhang Zuolin Zhang Dashuai ordered to come to Shanghai on business, if you are willing to appreciate the face, today brother I do the east, please brothers once, it is considered to be a friendship! "No matter who the other party is, show your identity first. Thinking that he is an official, the other party is a thief, and he will sell some face. If you are not familiar with the place, you should not cause trouble first.

The long list of titles really scared the other party into a daze. The group whispered for a while, and one of them said, "What Zhang Dashuai?" I don't know. He is his commander in the Northeast, but he can't control us! Are you using this name to fool us? ”

Han Linchun knows that the current official is not as good as the current management, he is alone, even if the other party cheats him, it is useless for the emperor Lao Tzu to be his backer! At this time, he suddenly remembered that Zhang Hanqing asked him to ask a Shanghainese named Wang Jiuguang to find someone. With the breadth of the young marshal's channels, will the person he entrusts have a little face?

He held the mentality of treating a dead horse as a live horse doctor and said: "Brother has a friend named Wang Jiuguang, I don't know if you know each other?" "If the other party ignores it, then he will slip away, and he has already chosen a way to escape. It is estimated that with the results of his many years of training in the army, it is not the revenge of killing his father, so he will not chase him so hard. Although it is not very elegant to say that a lieutenant general and division commander are spreading like this, it is better than suffering a loss in front of him.

The other party was stunned: "Who is Wang Jiuguang?" ”

Han Linchun sighed, then took a deep breath. In such a state, you can run 800 meters in one breath without panting. At the moment when he was about to escape, the other party's door suddenly became bigger: "Do you know the ninth master?" ”

Han Linchun almost held back his breath, and he didn't wait to play like this.