In September Crown Prince Frederick finally launched, the second round of military bond issuance on the Chilean intervention.

The reason is that every purchase of the Black Hawk Army is unexpectedly expensive, among which, the German government needs to pay 43 gold marks to the Hong Kong company for the official purchase price of HK81A2, that is, 430 marks.

Although in 1895, the British government procured the price of the same Lee Enfield rifle at 18.95 pounds, equivalent to 37.9 gold marks, and the purchasing power of the pound under the gold standard in 1895 was actually less than that in 1879, even if Joy's design and HK company's production were groundbreaking, in fact, HK and Joey invested far less money and time than the Enfield Arsenal, which actually developed a Lee Enfield rifle in history.

But who knows the story behind this, so each HK81A2 rifle was forcibly added with 5 gold marks, which is also reasonable in Joey's opinion.

For those who shouted in the German newspapers that British prices are more expensive than Germany, and the price of German purchases cannot be measured by British price standards, the HK company scoffs, selling weapons is not doing charity, this is an exclusive smokeless propellant rifle, a rifle only 430 marks is already a conscience price, and a bullet 40 pfennig is definitely a preferential price.

The three regiments of the Black Eagle Legion, with a total number of 15,742 officers and soldiers, Crown Prince Frederick placed a total of 20,000 HK81A2 purchase orders for the Black Eagle Legion, plus the purchase of 2 bases in advance for each rifle, that is, 200 rounds of ammunition, 1 million gold marks were spent in an instant, and it was a little insufficient.

Of course, not all of the more than 15,000 people in the corps have rifles, but the wear, tear during training, transportation, storage, and war all need to be taken into account by logistics personnel, and an additional 35% of the firearms wear and tear supplement is really a normal procurement plan.

If you only buy guns by the head, without taking into account all kinds of attrition, you will either be a fool who leads the troops to the battlefield with a pat on the head, or a guerrilla force that has no logistics and quartermaster department at all.

Whether or not an army can correctly calculate all kinds of normal and abnormal military attrition is always the basic factor in whether or not an army can maintain its combat effectiveness.

A force of 10,000 people, only 8,000 rifles were procured..... This kind of thing does not exist in the real regular army, and probably only exists in unreliable mythological novels.

In 1879, this HK81A2 far exceeded the level of rifles in various countries, in the eyes of those who used it, the price was definitely worth the price, but in the eyes of those Mauser M1871 rifle users who used it for a long time and the price was less than 1/4 of it, it was simply burning money.

As more and more generals tried the HK81A2 at Charlottenburg Palace, there were fewer and fewer doubts about the purchase price of Mark 430, and the pressure on the Ludwig Royal Arsenal in Württemberg increased.

Especially when the Ludwig Royal Arsenal was promoting the Mauser M1871/1879 rifle, one of the most common taunting voices appeared, and the talent of the Mauser brothers was not worth mentioning in front of the designers of the HK company.

Under heavy pressure, the Mauser brothers were also forced to start a new design, and strive to draw more design inspiration from more firearm inventions, and rifle designs from other countries, and even from the HK81A2.

Strong competition with each other is definitely much better than the Mauser rifle alone, and competing with each other may lead to a waste of resources, but it is definitely much less wasteful than in the case of monopoly.

With the release of a new bond of 5 million gold marks, the Black Eagle Legion in the procurement of clothing, barrier equipment, bulk equipment transportation and military food supplies has made Germany's financial industry, textile industry, steel industry and transportation industry, and even the grain merchants of the land Junkers get a lot of income.

Originally, Joey suggested that the procurement of grain and meat should be carried out locally in Argentina, but the old prime minister Bismarck resolutely disagreed with the purchase of grain in Argentina.

This war of intervention in Chile is by no means a matter of months or half a year to end, and the food supply of more than 15,000 people for more than a year or even two years is by no means a small amount, and my father must have used such a large grain order to divide and win over the land Junkers.

As for the local procurement of meat, according to the original plan for the cultivation of pro-German forces in Argentina, it was approved without objection, after all, in 1879, the interests of the Junkers of cattle did not need to be taken into account.

When the money is in hand, there will be a lot of praise from nature, and if they do not praise it, it is natural that they will not get the benefits, but the bankers, entrepreneurs, and farmers who have benefited from the benefits have even launched a petition in the newspapers to the German government and the Ministry of Economy for military bonds.

Fortunately, this time Crown Prince Frederick finally kept the bottom line, what are you kidding, 6 million gold marks smashed on the Black Eagle Legion, which is equivalent to spending nearly 400 gold marks on each soldier's head, 4,000 marks per person, enough for a family of four to live happily and carefree in Berlin for two years.

In fact, the 6 million gold marks are not all smashed on the Black Hawk Army at once, it should be said that the 6 million gold marks are the total budget of the Black Eagle Army's 20-month military intervention operation in Chile, which includes the total cost of salaries, pensions, supplies, deployment and withdrawal, and so on.

It must also be honestly said that Crown Prince Frederick's method of calculating the head is too simple and crude, and in the eyes of economists it is not possible to apportion military expenses so simply, but in the minds of ordinary Germans, such a calculation is the most simple and straightforward.

As a result of the people's simple and clear understanding, the Germans enthusiastically signed up to join the army, and many people signed up for each post of a grassroots soldier, and Marshal Mandolfer's heart was very happy to see a steady stream of high-quality recruits reporting to the barracks.

With the promise of Wilhelm I in front and a large amount of military bonds behind, Marshal Mandol and Crown Prince Frederick naturally did not care about the eyes of others, and Joey did not expect that the first pot of gold of the HK company was actually earned from this carnival of intervention in Chile not from the distant Qing country, but from the motherland in front of him, following the German bankers, entrepreneurs and farmers.

With money, everything became much easier, and under Joey's promotion, the logistics team of the Black Hawks, composed of the graduates of the mathematics department of Humboldt University and the Jews among the leading German bankers, established two large logistics supply and maintenance bases in Hamburg and Buenos Aires, Argentina.

All the supplies purchased by the Black Hawks in Germany were first collected by rail to the port of Hamburg, then transported by ocean-going cargo ships to the port of Buenos Aires, then via the Pampas, through the foothills of the Andes, along the Patagonian Plateau, and finally to the Chilean city of Copiapo.

Thanks to the developed livestock industry in Argentina and Chile, the Chilean government has enough animal power to support this South American transportation route, and without considering the transportation capacity of Argentina and Chile, a large logistics base is being built using German building materials on the land purchased through the German Chamber of Commerce near the port of Buenos Aires.

The most striking feature of this logistics base, in addition to the basic barracks and related supporting facilities, is the beginning of the construction of a huge steam cold storage with a slaughterhouse, which was built during the war with the Chilean intervention war, and with the favorable purchase price, like a huge whirlpool to attract the ranchers of the Pampas.

A large amount of beef and mutton, which had been discarded and buried by Argentine ranchers, was purchased and processed by OXO, and began to travel frequently between Buenos Aires and the major ports of developed European countries through a 1,000-ton steam-refrigerated bulk carrier, of course, many years later.

The logistics bases in Hamburg and Buenos Aires are under construction, and the soldiers of the Black Hawk Regiment based in Hamburg are also being recruited, but the process of recruiting qualified regiment officers has encountered great difficulties.