He affirmed: "This gun is arguably one of the finest rifles in the world today." ”

Hu Wenkai assembled the rifle and mounted it*, and raised the gun to shoot at 600 meters.

One time, the target reporter will send the target paper; "Sir, five shots, all hit the bull's-eye."

Wu Peifu patted him on the shoulder and said, "Good guy, I didn't see that you still have this hand." Has this gun ever been sold? ”

"We have just equipped the troops with this gun, and we have never sold a single one."

"There are 8,000 guns, and we don't need much ammunition, and we have 1 million rounds of ammunition in the arsenal over there."

The real wealth is rich and generous, and Hu Wenkai nodded and said, "Tomorrow it will be loaded and shipped out with the tank." ”

Dinner was arranged in Tianfen, sitting in the car and seeing the bright lights in front of me from a distance, the towering chimney, it was the flow of people pouring out of the factory at the time of the evening shift to block the convoy. The evening commuter train stopped up and down the factory area, and Wu Peifu was stunned by the scene beyond his imagination.

The militia groups that rushed over maintained order and gave way to a road, and the convoy was able to pass.

"What do these people do?"

"Uncle, these are factory workers, and the afternoon shift and evening shift are handed over time, so it seems that there are a lot of people."

"How many workers did it take?"

"I really don't know the exact number of 10,000 people."

Wu Peifu looked through the car window at the groups of workers with happy expressions on their faces, and looked at the red light emitted by the towering iron-making blast furnace in the distance.

Dressed in a red cheongsam and a purple cloak, Carrotta greeted them in front of the hotel.

"Niece and daughter-in-law Carrotta to see her uncle." A standard Chinese dialect and standard Chinese etiquette made Wu Peifu very happy.

"Don't be polite, it's all family, today is a family banquet, Wen Kai's father is gone, and Ren Gong and I are elders." The final reply made Carrotta very happy, and she turned around and smiled proudly at Hu Wenkai. Beckoning, Bykov handed over a delicate leather briefcase.

"The gift of the nephew and daughter-in-law to honor the uncle, please accept the uncle with a smile." Included in the official bag was an M1911 pistol, a pair of German-made 8x military binoculars, and a Parker gold pen.

"Haha, I only accepted it, and I will make up for your meeting gift." Wu Peifu looked extremely happy, this German-made telescope is 8 times more in demand, and it is difficult to buy it even if you have money, so she casually inserted the gold pen in her breast pocket.

Hu Wenkai looked at Wang Xihai with a smile on his face, who else could there be besides Wang Xihai who was so proficient in etiquette and energy conservation.

Wang Changhui, who got out of the car with Wang Changrong, saw Carotta for the first time, turned around and asked his brother: "Brother, this is Brother Wen Kai's daughter-in-law?" ”

Wang Changrong looked at Carrotta with mixed emotions and said, "Well, Carrota is two years older than you. ”

Wu Peifu has already accepted the fact that Carrotta is Hu Wenkai's daughter-in-law in front of everyone, and her sister has no hope at all unless she is small. He sighed and put his arm around his sister's shoulders and walked towards the hotel.

Wang Changhui didn't give up at all in his heart, there were too many legends about Hu Wenkai during this time in Tianxing Town, and he had already been mythologized, and Wang Changhui began to worship and worship at all costs. What's wrong with having a daughter-in-law, it's a big deal for me to be small, and it's much easier to put down my body in my heart.

As soon as he sat down, Wu Peifu said the question in his stomach: "Wen Kai, how many tons of molten iron a day, and how much steelmaking is there?" ”

"It is not much different from Japan's daily output of 2,750 tons of iron, and the output of steel is about 3,000 tons." He casually quoted the numbers.

"Such a large production? A year to get it up? Wu Peifu's face was surprised.

"For about two years, we mainly sold to Europe and the United States, and the domestic demand has not been high."

"When I came back and sat in the car, I saw a lot of factories, and what factories are here." Curiosity can't be suppressed.

Hu Wenkai didn't know how many factories there were, so he turned his head sideways and asked Yang Siliang.

Yang Siliang cleared his throat and said: "There are a total of 73 factories here in Wu Shuai, including truck factories, farm tool factories, tractor factories, oil drum factories, machine tool factories, wire and cable factories, axle factories, kitchenware factories, ....... ”

"Wen Kai, you kid should be grateful to Qi Xieyuan, if I had been next to you, I would have raised troops to swallow you a long time ago. You kid must be hiding some of my key factories, such as the munitions factory, the ammunition factory, and your troops, and there are more than just a few people I saw. Uncle won't ask you anymore, you have to be careful, if you don't have the power to protect yourself, sooner or later, either Qi Xieyuan or Lu Yongqiang will eat you. After speaking, he became the host and beckoned everyone to eat the dishes first.

The dishes should have been carefully arranged, part of Lu cuisine, part of Cantonese cuisine, part of Weiyang cuisine, two glasses of wine, Hu Wenkai raised his wine glass and pulled Carrotta to pay tribute to Wu Peifu: "Uncle, your nephew and daughter-in-law and I welcome you to Haimen, and I salute my uncle who came from afar." ”

"Brother Wen Kai and sister-in-law brought me to honor my uncle together." Wang Changhui ran to Carrota's side with a small wine glass.

Carrotta looked at Wang Changhui strangely, "Sister-in-law, Brother Wen Kai has known me since I was a child, and I live next door to my house. ”

Carrotta herself is ice and snow smart, how can she not know what Wang Changhui means: "Little sister, I don't care if you want to be together, the key is whether your brother Wen Kai agrees with you to respect together." ”

Wu Peifu laughed rarely: "Changhui, you sit down first, and then toast me with Wen Kai and Changrong later." ”

Wang Changhui returned to his seat and sat down and rolled his eyes at Wu Peifu, and the people at the table couldn't help but snicker.

Wu Peifu pulled Liang Qichao and said that he was a teacher for one day and a father for life, Liang Qichao smiled and said: "I salute you with Wen Kai and Carrota, this is equivalent to my family, Wen Kai is my son, and Carrotta is my daughter-in-law." ”

The four of them drank a full glass of wine, and the conversation at the table made Wu Peifu feel as if he had entered another world, and his novel ideas were so close to the reality of China that he felt that all of them were moving towards an inherent goal in a whole. There is no rhetoric in the north, and the number is immediately followed when talking about something at the table.

Liang Qichao, the great god, sat at the table, Hu Wenkai felt a lot more relieved, and many problems were prevaricated by Liang Qichao, and Wu Peifu did not continue to study them deeply.

Wu Peifu looked at his watch and said: "Wen Kai will accompany your uncle to see the factory after dinner, Ren Gong will trouble you to go to Tianxing Town in the evening, I don't have much time to continue to talk to you at night." Niece and daughter-in-law, you take Changhui and Ren Gong to Tianxing Town first. ”

Liang Qichao drank very little tonight, stood up and said: "Ziyu's factory is worth seeing, I was stunned the first time I saw it." Okay, I'll wait for you in Tianxing Town, Chen Jiaxiang, you go over and arrange the hotel and don't let the hotel close. ”

Wu Peifu stood in front of the iron-making blast furnace with the briefcase given to him by Carrotta for a long time without saying a word, and after waiting for a furnace of molten iron to come out, he turned around and rubbed his eyes, and followed the molten iron charter car containing molten iron to the steelmaking plant.

The steel plates in the continuous rolling workshop are lifted from the rollers by electromagnetic lifting cranes and shipped to the train frame, steel ingots, steel plates, I-beams, rebars, and the various positions in the huge workshop are communicated by telephone.

In the axle factory, dozens of hydraulic presses are lined up, long steel columns are squeezed like noodles, machine tools mill the axles, and forklifts load and unload the axles back and forth.

Old Pete introduced the truck's performance to Wu Peifu in half-baked Chinese, from the manufacture of the engine to the assembly of the finished vehicle and finally to the output, Wu Peifu asked questions from time to time.

In the end, he had to buy ten trucks on the spot and send someone to learn how to repair them, and the adjutant kept following behind to record.

On the way back to Tianxing Town, there were only the two of them in the car, Wu Peifu sighed and said: "Uncle's life's pursuit has been half realized by you, and your kid is now the most powerful person in China, and Uncle can't compare to you." ”

Hu Wenkai just smiled and didn't answer, Wu Peifu glanced at him and said: "Your daughter-in-law gave a gift to your uncle, what did your kid give?" ”

"What? I feel that your kid is not like you Lao Tzu at all, back then, your Lao Tzu Hu Xingbang was able to ...... the family's money, not to mention it and be sad. Can't you trust your uncle? ”

"Uncle, it's not like this, I'm thinking about what is best for you."

"You kid think about it carefully, and if your uncle is satisfied, it will be good for you kid. Uncle can see that the daughter of the Wang family has taken a crush on you, what are your plans for major events in life? ”

"Uncle, Wen Kai feels that while being loyal to his feelings, he can be loyal to himself, otherwise I will lose my direction."

"Well, Wen Kai is not the kind of villain who is rampant when he gets his will, and when he has money and status, he has three wives and four concubines and is addicted to alcohol. After I defeat Zhang Zuolin, find a time, and our uncle and nephew will have a good chat for a few days. ”

"Uncle, I think not only to defeat him but also to make him a big injury, behind him is the Japanese, this time you defeat him, it won't be long before the Japanese will let him recuperate enough energy to enter the customs again."

"It's not easy to say, but it's not a problem to defeat him with your support this time. The Japanese are not very easy to handle, their weapons are more advanced than ours. The industrial base is strong. ”

"Uncle, don't raise the prestige of the Japanese, from my past weapons are at least a generation more advanced than the Japanese. Let's just say that the rifle Japanese Type 38 cannot be compared with the Type 20, and the same is true for tanks. If the Japanese finally can't help but jump out, I will unite France and the United States to suppress him. ”

"Wen Kai, what you said is true?"

"Uncle must be true, is this good, I will prepare a team of Wu Bairen in Pukou, when your attack is blocked, this team will arrive within a day by train to tear apart Zhang Zuolin's defense line for you as a sharp knife." Hu Wenkai knew that after Zhang Zuolin's defeat, Wu Peifu was blocked by Zhang Xueliang's positional defense line, and then the British intervened to mediate.

"Wen Kai just said it, Uncle will not detain your troops, you can rest assured. Outside the gates, wherever your troops go, it will be counted as your territory. ”

"Uncle, that's a later story, let's get Zhang Zuolin back and get back the right to speak in the government."

"You bastard? This time, I will do it according to your method, and if I lose, I will come to you to provide for the elderly. Wu Peifu laughed.

The uncle and nephew talked all the way, and when the car arrived in Tianxing Town, Wu Peifu said solemnly: "Nephew Wen Kai, there are some things that only our uncle and nephew can know, beware of the rumors, others will attack you first." We can't afford to pay for arms and vehicles. Those who achieve great things should pay attention to details. ”

Hu Wenkai was a little moved, nodded and said, "Uncle I know." ”