In the air, the pungent smell has not yet dissipated. A workshop has completely disappeared.

This is an ammunition manufacturing workshop of the Republican Army on the outskirts of Lijiazhuang.

There was a serious accident here. The accident has caused more than 20 deaths and more than 27 missing people according to the current investigation, and the final death toll may increase, because the violent explosion caused some employees working in the core area to be hit by a very serious explosion in the first place. In such a situation, it is naturally difficult to deal with such a situation.

"This is the second such accident in three days. And seven days ago, there was another such thing. Jia Xu said worriedly.

"It's not as simple as we think." Shang Wu said worriedly.

Three days ago. A serious ammunition explosion accident also occurred in Handan, which directly caused the deaths of more than 30 people. And in earlier times. There were two more similar accidents, but they happened in Luzhou. and Hedong. The situation seems to be much worse than they thought.

"The accidents were caused by small workshops that couldn't take care of the safety regulations and couldn't do that for the sake of profit. So, this kind of thing can only happen like this. Jia Xu said. It's hard to avoid. Because the demand for munitions in the Republican Army is very large, the larger arms factories are profitable. In order to save costs, some unnecessary overhead. It's still going to be carried out. For example, ammunition factories, the production of bullets for some factories is not very profitable, and it consumes human resources, and if the management is not done well, it is a loss-making project. Therefore, some large military factories, most of which are contracted out for the purpose of saving costs, and many times, the bullets used by the Republican Army are contracted by some small factories and workshops.

The advantage of this is that it is fast and inexpensive. But the disadvantages are also very big, and sometimes, the pass rate of bullet manufacturing is not too high. Then, accidents are frequent. In order to save costs, many things are, and everything that can be omitted is omitted. In such a situation, the accident happened naturally.

"What are the results of the investigation?" Shangwu asked.

"Cost savings, businessman nature. You know what they're going to do, and in a situation like this, no one can solve something like that completely. Jia Xu said. The nature of a businessman erupts in the face of an accident. The reason is simple, it's as simple as that. A lot of things aren't as simple as they think.

"It seems that we have to promote some improvements. Otherwise, such things will continue to happen, and in the end they will inevitably affect our military production. Security awareness also needs to be strengthened. Shang Wu said. There are some things that could have been avoided. But in pursuit of profit. Naturally, you have to do something out of the ordinary. This kind of thing is inevitable.

Accidents have already occurred, and how to prevent accidents from happening again in the future is the most important thing. Shang Wu believes that only some competitive large enterprises, or in other words, technological progress and elimination of backward production capacity, can promote their greater progress, otherwise, they will not make too much progress in many things.

The IRA has entered a new phase of development, and the extensive development of the past is unlikely to meet the current needs of the IRA. They have to have new developments in order to accomplish better things.

Inside Dong Zhuo's military camp.

"Great. It's wonderful. Dong Zhuo looked at Li Dao's achievements excitedly.

He secretly recruited more than 100 firearms craftsmen from Hedong, as well as some workshops, such as a complete set of firearms processing equipment. artillery shells, as well as the making of barrels, and so on. The Republican Army promised to provide it, but Dong Zhuo needed to pay some expenses of more than 200,000 yuan. This fee is relatively cheap, because he got what he wanted, the military industry. With the military industry, he can expand his strength. With the military industry, he would not be limited to the Republican Army. It's a good, good thing.

"My lord, we should imitate the Republican Army and set up an arms research institute, so that we can study more firearms." Li Dao kept running between the Republican Army and Dong Zhuo, and he knew what was good in the Republican Army.

The things he got were all workshops that the Republican Army didn't want, and there was really a lot of limit to what role they could play. All of them are made of obsolete weapons, although the armament is relatively good. For Luoyang, it is still very advanced. However, Li Wei believes that in order to maintain this superiority, the Republican Army will definitely have something new, and when the time comes, their weapons and equipment will still be backward. In such a situation, the best way to do this is to bring in more advanced weapons research institutes. In this way, they can be at a relatively high vantage point.

"Oh. How much does it cost? Dong Zhuo asked.

"More than 200,000 dollars." Li Dao could only answer like this. In fact, 200,000 is really too little. According to what he knows, many arsenals of the Republican Army have such research institutes, which are the salaries of personnel, which is about this number, if you add some equipment. The cost is likely to increase, and to an unacceptable level. Li Wei felt that this offer was still very low.

"200,000 yuan, and there is plenty of money in your hands." Dong Zhuo said. For Dong Zhuo, it is true, he is really not rich, after all, some money, they still borrowed from the banks of the Republican Army, and he still needs to keep repaying the money in order to borrow more new funds, it is really difficult for him to do such a thing. Asking him to pay for such a thing, Dong Zhuo thought that the cost was still too much, after all, it was a bit too much money for him.

"This matter, there is no need, it is so wasteful of love." Dong Zhuo was very embarrassed, but at the same time made a decision. What Dong Zhuo needs is a weapon, he doesn't know what the relationship between the weapon he needs and the research of the weapon, if he needs it, he can buy it directly. As for the cost, he really didn't want to say anything. After all, many things are not done all at once.

Besides. Spend the money. Without getting results, it is wasteful, and there is no such need.

"But my lord, if I have the weapon to defeat the enemy, it will definitely be of great help to us." Li Dao persuaded. In the long run, this is an inevitability. But this is a long-term investment after all, and it is really difficult to say whether it can be done or not.

"That's it, that's it." Dong Zhuo didn't think much about this matter. First, he didn't have enough money. Second, he doesn't have this interest, it's hard for him to know what kind of benefits he will bring by doing this, and he really can't think of what the benefits of doing this are. Or rather, what is the effect of such a situation on him? Spend some money to do something like this for the unknown future. Dong Zhuo still thinks that it is not necessary. After all, this kind of thing, no one cares too much about things. This matter is over.

Dong Zhuo would not have thought about the impact of the development prospects of weapons on him. For him, spending a sum of money that cannot be said in the future is a waste, a huge waste, such a waste to him. It is difficult to understand, and it is impossible to improve to a greater extent. Therefore, he is naturally not too interested in this matter.

Jingshi, Luoyang. The arrest of spies made the people of Luoyang complain. But many people also dare not speak out. Because the imperial court's attitude towards spies is extremely resolute. No, outside the city gates, a group of spies were executed, numbering more than seventy people. Killing people is terrified. For spies, the people of Luoyang also had to shut up. Because once it is determined that he is a spy, he is really beheaded. The loss of money is small. Losing one's life is great.

"I'm afraid there aren't many real spies." Cao Cao looked at the head of the slain and said helplessly.

Xi Zhicai could only nod silently in agreement. But in that case, it's better to say at least less. His Majesty's mind became more and more difficult to guess. The spy thing is small though. But through this incident, it is enough to see that His Majesty is extremely jealous of the Republican Army, and even has reached an extremely sensitive level.

Captured "spy." "Most of them are civilians, and they simply don't have the money to deal with the extortion of the officials. In desperation, he could only sit through the prison. Who knew that in such a situation, they were actually pushed out and beheaded. Because in the past, many things, at most, were just arrests and detentions for a while. But they didn't expect that they would be directly arrested and killed. This was a big surprise to them.

"Wronged, wronged." The families of the innocent killed can only helplessly cry out for grievances, but this cannot make up for such a thing at all, among which the spies of the Republican Army who were killed may not have it at all, there may be. But for ordinary people, what does this kind of thing have to do with them. They have been in a state of unwarranted disaster. But this kind of thing, no matter how you say it, there is no way to tell such things, and most of the things are dealt with in this way. Therefore, they themselves are also extremely helpless results.

"Ugh." Cao Cao could only sigh helplessly. For such a thing, he is really helpless, after all, there is really no place to reason for this kind of thing. The unlucky people can only bear it silently, and as for how big the consequences are, they can only know it themselves.