Chapter 27 Joint R&D

"Hi, dear Liu", seeing that the two old foxes were not fooled, von Falkenhausen had to go into battle shirtless, "Look at two million gold marks, how".

"Poof", the two sips of tea squirted out almost at the same time, even if Minister Kong saw more money, it was still not much better than Pang Taishi, and he was frightened by von Falkenhausen's generosity.

Two million gold marks, is it much, that is, more than three million silver dollars, but it seems that buying a German mechanic's equipment, that's all, listening to Falkenhausen's tone, if Liu Yun is not satisfied, he can add some more money, no wonder the Germans want to ask the two of them for help.

The admiring eyes of the two old men made Liu Yun a little uncomfortable, and he hurriedly changed the topic, "Your Excellency General, my design is just an idea, you think this superficial idea is worth two million gold marks, aren't you afraid to buy a bunch of waste paper and go back."

Von Falkenhausen's blinking blue eyes, looking at Dr. Liu Yun's indifferent attitude, gradually became less confident, in order to hide the impatience in his heart, he had to drink water non-stop.

Feeling that the heat was almost over, Liu Yun decided to get straight to the point, "Your Excellency General, just an idea is really worthless, but if it is exchanged for a real thing, two million marks, I think I will suffer a loss, so we might as well change our way of thinking."

Von Falkenhausen blinked his blue eyes and began to wonder if there was a good way.

"It's better to be like this", Liu Yun seemed to be suddenly inspired.

Pang Taishi and Kong Caishen were secretly funny, such inferior acting skills, they could only deceive foreigners, so they gave someone a look, look, the uncle is a benevolent and righteous person, but he didn't come to smash your stage, Liu Yun smiled bitterly, so he had to secretly give up his hand and chat to express his gratitude.

"How", von Falkenhausen really has no patience.

"We can conduct joint research and development", Liu Yuntu said.

Pang Kong and the two couldn't help but move, yes, Germany's weapons are very good, just by buying, always subject to others, if you can set up a factory in China, it will be of great help to the improvement of China's overall strength, while secretly admiring Liu Yun, spontaneously want to help him make this deal.

"United, developed", the German general couldn't help but be stunned, with a look like seeing an undead, he held back a sentence in his heart, and he didn't say it for a while, a country that can't even make a rifle still wants to develop tanks and assault guns, are you sure, you're not joking with me.

"Yes, it is joint research and development, joint construction of factories", Liu Yun nodded, and said very seriously, "Germany has a small territory, insufficient strategic depth, and a strong opponent, so your country's weapons system must meet the needs of powerful and practical at the same time, but also take into account the wartime economy."

"Powerful, functional, wartime economy", Falkenhausen is somewhat uncertain.

"Yes, only with powerful weapons can we defeat Germany's future enemy", this is understandable to everyone, and Liu Yun did not explain in detail.

"Practical, that is, simple and precise, take the French Fcm-2c heavy tank as an example, the tank was finalized in 1921, weighs 70 tons, a 75mm gun, four 7.92mm machine guns, 12 operators, 8-12 kilometers per hour, frontal armor 45mm, the thinnest point 13mm, a total of 10 units were produced, and it is still the main force of the 551 tank regiment in Verdun."

Liu Yun said with some amusement, "20 years ago, it may have been really powerful, but now it is a live target, a veritable iron coffin, not to mention 88mm anti-aircraft guns, 105mm field guns, 75mm cannons, even 47mm battle defense guns, can also kill with one shot."

Everyone saw Liu Yun talking, and suddenly there was a feeling of admiration, the FCM-2C heavy tank, but the treasure of France, has been difficult to see the true face of Lushan, but I didn't expect that in Liu Yun's eyes, it was a pile of garbage, and for Falkenhausen, it was an unexpected gain.

The German army has always taken this type of tank as an imaginary enemy, although a lot of spies died, but there was no gain, but unintentionally inserted willows into the shade, in Liu Yun's here, obtained extremely detailed data, for Germany's future tank development, undoubtedly took a lot of detours.

Falkenhausen no longer has any doubts about Liu Yun's ability, and there are still great doubts about whether to build a joint factory in Huaxia, first of all, the processing problem.

"Economy is not only a matter of money," Liu Yun said very cautiously, "but the necessary cost of manufacturing weapons, and the cost performance of comprehensive performance, no matter how good the tank is, it can't do ten tanks with slightly inferior performance, so find a balance between quantity and quality."

Subsequently, Liu Yun's voice changed, "After the outbreak of the war, the army's demand for weapons will increase geometrically, and it will be absolutely difficult to meet the needs of the front line by relying on regular arsenals."

"Not only that, but the enemy will also use various means to sabotage the arsenal, so that the production of the arsenal will deteriorate, leading to the creation of improvised arsenals, or home-based workshops, which will be a disaster for overly sophisticated weapons."

"Wartime economy" may be too profound for Pang Taishi, but for Kong Caishen, it is really not a strange thing, and it also has a strong reference significance for the future wartime production of China, and inadvertently, Liu Yun's good impression has increased a few points.

Von Falkenhausen is a veteran who has a deep understanding of war, and what Liu Yun said is also the real situation of German military production during World War I.

In other words, if even China can produce, when the war breaks out again in Europe, with Germany's social foundation and popular literacy, as long as it is trained a little, even a family workshop, it will indeed be very productive, no worse than the best arsenal in China at present.

In response to Dr. Liu's proposal, Falkenhausen decided to think rationally, whether to jointly develop or not is not a matter of principle, and the Führer is a racist, so how to unite.

Liu Yun's casual words made everyone feel embarrassed, "Haven't your Führers agreed to work with the Slavs to develop new tanks and aircraft?"

"Slavs, isn't it the Soviet Union, doesn't the Führer hate Jews and Soviets the most, how could it be—", Falkenhausen suddenly found that his head was not enough.

Pang Kong and the two of them can understand it at one point, and when the interests are right, enemies will also become friends.

"The German nation, the greatest nation, has been treated unfairly for a long time, and the restrictions from Versailles should be broken, and Germany is about to rise again."

Seeing Liu Yun, who was foaming at the mouth and waving his limbs vigorously, Falkenhausen seemed to see a little Führer, "Could it be that he is the illegitimate son of the Führer, my God, my Führer, it must be a delusion, it must be that he didn't sleep well last night and had hallucinations."

Falkenhausen couldn't help but analyze quickly, but the more he analyzed, the more scared he became, Hitler was born in 1889, 22 years older than Liu Yun, and had stayed in the home of overseas Chinese.

Because of someone's self-hypnosis, the more I look at Dr. Liu, the more I feel like someone, so I think about it from a different angle, what a great idea and design of a tank design that is ahead of the times, why should he give it to Germany, and even don't want money, is he crazy?

"Impossible, only the little Führer can make sense", Falkenhausen thought that he might have discovered a secret, a secret that he should not know, or perhaps, to cooperate with China to conduct research, which is also the Führer's meaning, yes, it must be so.

"The Slavs are the enemies of Germany, and cooperating with them is a suicidal act, and only Huaxia is a friend of Germany and can form a complementary strategic cooperative relationship with Germany."

Before he finished speaking, Falkenhausen began to applaud, and the sycophants applauded, and Pang Taishi and Minister Kong realized that this German was very abnormal, and he treated Liu Yun like a servant seeing his master, rubbing his eyes, not dazzled, could it be that this guy was already crazy, and the two looked at each other speechlessly.

Liu Yun was also a little embarrassed, cleared his throat, and asked Falkenhausen in a low voice, "Your Excellency General, do you have any opinion on me?"

The German general said solemnly, "Excellent, you see where the right location is."

With such a quick time, Liu Yun didn't even have any mental preparation, and he was stupid all of a sudden.

"Hmph", Kong Caishen's performance time is up, "I think Nanjing is very good, Jinling Arsenal is located near Zhonghua Gate, Jiang Chengcheng is ready to carry out in-depth cooperation with your country's ordnance industry, as long as your country's technical strength and machinery are in place, it will be expanded again, and it is expected that more than 200 acres of land will be acquired, and there is no problem in producing anything."

Falkenhausen squinted his eyes, glanced at the God of Wealth, and motioned for him not to speak.

"Well, that", Liu Yun said with some embarrassment, "that thing needs to be kept secret."

"Secrecy", Pang Taishi finally seized the opportunity, "It is the most suitable in Xikang Province, it is located on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the people are illiterate, even if they tell them the secret, it is estimated that they will not understand, if it is secrecy, it will be kept secret there, so it will be built there."

Xikang, the mysterious Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, Falkenhausen is quite interested.

Your sister, dare to rob the old man of business, Kong Caishen suddenly quit, Xikang Province has not been officially listed, and is still waiting in line in the Executive Yuan for a vote, and there is no need for the old man to allocate funds in the future, glared at the Taishi, coughed dryly twice, and then said with a smile, "Your Excellency General, the construction of a factory in Xikang is very secretive, but it is too backward there, the traffic is inconvenient, and it is too close to India."

India, Falkenhausen suddenly remembered Britain and shook his head regretfully.

Minister Kong put forward a new proposal in a timely manner, "As for secrecy, Wuhan is not bad, it has the foundation of the Hanyang Arsenal and the convenience of water transportation on the Yangtze River, and it also goes deep inland, so that the army is surrounded on all sides, and not even a fly can fly in."

Master Pang rolled his eyes and ignored Minister Kong's threat, "Your Excellency, Xikang is not suitable, well, there is no problem with West Sichuan County, the key is that it is the hometown of the doctor."

Kawanishi, the hometown of the little Führer, Falkenhausen seems to be a little moved.

Pang Taishi immediately pulled out the map of China, well, it was originally used to lobby the Executive Yuan to promote the process of building a province in Xikang, but now it is crooked, pointing out the location of West Sichuan County on the map, it is indeed very far away from India, and the city of Sichuan is only more than 200 kilometers, deep inland and there is no railway, only a few roads and waterways, in addition to no industrial base, the secrecy is indeed very good.

It is not developed and goes deep inland, it is indeed suitable for research, the transportation is inconvenient, and it cannot be transported into large-scale equipment, so it cannot be produced on a large scale, and can only be used for pre-research production, this kind of thankless task, and the Nanjing government is not stupid, they will really agree, Falkenhausen is a little hesitant.