Chapter 92: The Colonel of the Sichuan Army
The generals couldn't sit still any longer, and there was a lot of discussion for a while, Baoshan County, the suburbs of downtown Shanghai, or near the mouth of the Huangpu River, that oil and water are big, Liu Yun is a little helpless, is it the deputy county magistrate of Baoshan County, this is just the uncle of the family to put gold on his nephew.
Liu Xiang did not interfere with the whispers of his subordinates, but asked the adjutant Guo Jiyuan to pour tea for the generals, and he tasted a little Pu'er tea, and motioned to Liu Yun to taste it too.
is so rude, so that the room full of generals were dumbfounded, Liu Yun only reacted at this time, a little sneering, Liu Xiang thinks he is good, like a gentleman, more like the children of the Liu family in Sichuan, to be a man, you should be direct, drink more if it is good, do whatever you want, twist and pinch, and think that he is a politician, this is what he is most annoying.
Seeing everyone staring at Liu Yun like this, Liu Xiang decided to divert his gaze, coughed dryly, pointed at Liu Yun and said with a smile, "This guy doesn't look like a doctor at all, but like us who fight, it's direct enough, refreshing enough, okay, it's worthy of being a child of Sichuan, and you can't forget your roots."
It's really a turn of God, don't say that those generals are stupid, even Liu Yun is a little dizzy, but for everyone's reaction, Liu Xiang seemed to be very satisfied, and immediately explained, "Yicheng, I didn't look at the feng shui treasure land of Baoshan County at all, and even I was sweating at that time."
"Well, that Jiang Gong in Nanjing also thinks that a doctor of mechanics who studied abroad is a bit unreliable to be the magistrate of Baoshan County, is it a bit unreliable, is it necessary to engage in import and export in the future, and decided to show favoritism, and he personally appointed Yicheng as the magistrate of Hanyang County in Wuhan City."
"Boom", the whole house exploded, your sister, it is the magistrate of Hanyang County, these generals can't believe it, saliva flowed all over the ground, if their nephew is in this position, then it will be repaid, Hanyang Arsenal, isn't it their own private land, if you want a rifle and a rifle, you want a cannon and a cannon, and the eyes that looked at Liu Yun changed.
Liu Yun was frightened by the cannibalistic eyes of the generals, Liu Xiang looked at his nephew of the same clan, and said with some regret, "This kid is just high-spirited, and he actually resigned again."
The generals and colonels let out a boo in their hearts, "cut", and no longer stared at Liu Yun, but Liu Xiang's voice changed, and he said with a smile, "But he served as a special assistant to the Hanyang Arsenal, and was responsible for the joint research and development of new weapons with his allies, the German Empire, and great results have been achieved so far, and the allies decided to increase the supplies to assist China, and also publicly declared, 'Huaxia is an ally of Germany', and forbade Japanese imperialism to fight the idea of China."
is so powerful, these Sichuan army generals, I really don't know these inside information, I used to think that someone was a lucky person, and before his mouth hair was shaved clean, he became a colonel, and most of them went through the back door of some big man, such as Uncle Song Guo, Dean Wang, or Kong Caishen and so on.
Liu Yun only smiled slightly bitterly, how can it be so powerful, Germany is just talking about it, and there is still a time limit, "three years", as Liu Xiang said, if Japanese imperialism dares to offend China, Germany will enter the war.
Finally adjusted everyone's appetite, Liu Xiang finally revealed his hole cards, "A few days ago, Nanjing's Jiang Committee flew from Wuhan to Chongqing, held secret talks with me, and decided to help our Sichuan army to build an arsenal, the address was selected in West Sichuan County, and Colonel Liu Yicheng served as the director of the arsenal, and the number was the 101 factory of the Ordnance Industry Administration, so I summoned you to come to discuss."
In addition to going to the Hanyang Arsenal every year and buying some bargains, they have built a few so-called machinery repair institutes, recruited a few gun repair masters who went to the rivers and lakes, and made some messy singles, made in Hanyang, shell pistols and horsetail grenades, when it is really used, don't say anything about the accuracy and power, can not blow up the chamber, it is already the blessing of the gods and Buddhas.
Liu Xiang took advantage of everyone's passion to introduce Liu Yun one by one, the crystal monkey General Deng Xihou, the third leader in the Sichuan army, Colonel Liu had to shout, "Uncle Deng".
The second is that Tian Songyao, who has been entrenched in the area of Daba Mountain for a long time, has been fighting with the Red Army for a long time, although he has lost more and won less, but his strength is strong, and he sits firmly on the throne of the four masters in Sichuan.
Then, the model division commander of the Sichuan Army, known as the first hero in Sichuan, General Li Jiayu, and the future anti-Japanese famous generals, Yang Sen, Wang Lingji and Guo Rudong and other bigwigs of the Republic of China.
Liu Yun is already stupid, it seems that today is indeed the carnival of the Sichuan army, but all the famous generals are basically here, saluting so much that their hands are numb, calling uncles and uncles, they all shout so much that they want to vomit, as for the school officers below the general, they don't remember it at all, they only have a vague impression.
These generals didn't embarrass Liu Yun too much, they just wanted to ask him the truth, how many Hanyang-made and 75mm cannons can be produced in a year by this new arsenal, whether it can reach one-tenth of the Hanyang arsenal, and when it will be put into production, such as producing guns and cannons.
"One-tenth of the Hanyang Arsenal", Liu Yun was also dizzy, it's too scientific, these big guys still know quantification, it's not simple, the problem is that he doesn't know, what is the production capacity of the Hanyang Arsenal, how many guns and cannons can be produced in a year, even the director of the Qin factory is not clear, so he had to say vaguely, no problem, everything is fine, well, only a lot more.
"Only more, not less", but did not deceive these fighting men, Liu Yun has long calculated, the raw materials of the Hanyang Arsenal all rely on the Hanyang Iron and Steel Plant, the steel plant only produces tens of thousands of tons of steel a year, and the special steel that can make guns and cannons is said to be only a few thousand tons per year, and these steelmaking equipment, once the firepower is fully opened, but the annual output of 30,000 tons of special steel, where is one-tenth of the Hanyang Arsenal, in the future, it should be said that the West Sichuan County Arsenal is how many times the Hanyang Arsenal.
As for when it can be produced, this is indeed an embarrassing question, because there are too many variable factors, first of all, when can the steelmaking equipment be transported to West Sichuan County, Liu Yun himself did not count, and then the mineral resources of West Sichuan County have not really been surveyed, just artificial estimates, and it is only speculation, there may be rich mineral resources.
It was still General Deng Xihou who was righteous, and Liu Yun shouted, "Uncle Deng", he thought that West Sichuan County was too remote, so it was better to put the new arsenal in Fucheng, where the nearby resources are rich and the waterways are also very convenient.
Liu Yun was happy at first, Fucheng is indeed more developed than West Sichuan County, and the transportation is convenient, suddenly remembered a thing, as if in the 21st century, I heard some friends in Sichuan talk about it, Fucheng seems to have some iron ore, and also set up a 50,000-ton special steel mill, but unfortunately the mineral reserves are too small, and they will be consumed in more than ten years, and finally it seems to have been acquired by Panzhihua Iron and Steel Plant.
It's not good, the arsenal can't be set in Fucheng, if you only build some guns, Fucheng's iron ore reserves are really enough, the problem is that Liu Yun still has to repair the Sichuan railway network, not to mention anything else, to build a 200-kilometer railway double line, it will cost 60,000 tons of steel, where is the reserve in Fucheng.
Liu Yun also wanted to go directly to Panzhihua, but there was a problem, in the time and space of 1934, there was still a wilderness, and it was not until the 60s, after the opening of the Chengdu-Kunming Railway, that the tide of steelmaking was ushered in, and it was after several twists and turns that there was a rainbow after the rain.
Liu Yun finally thought about it, or start from the western Sichuan County, the initial focus is on secrecy, once the Sichuan railway network is repaired, where is there still not enough iron ore resources, especially Panzhihua's titanium vanadium composite iron ore, just used to build aircraft, tanks and artillery.
However, Fucheng can't let it go, it's best to take a look there first, just divide out a part of the steelmaking equipment, put it there temporarily, if Liu Xiang has someone who can use it, just preheat and preheat it first, and when they get it almost done, the railway from Fucheng to West Sichuan County should be almost repaired soon, and at that time, hum, it's not all their own meal.
Liu Yun then looked embarrassed, and said to Liu Xiang very hesitantly, "Chairman Liu, it's not humble and hypocritical, any arsenal is built on a steel plant, I don't know how many steel plants we have in Sichuan, how many tons of annual output there are, and how many tons of special steel are there."
"Iron and steel plant, output", like a scoop of cold water poured on the head, for a while the enthusiasm of the Sichuan army generals and schools greatly decreased, these people claim to be fighting men every day, but they are not really rough people, even the general Fan Haer, who is known as a fool, has also studied private school for a few years, where do not know the relationship between the arsenal and the steel plant, and what is more terrible is that in 1934 Sichuan, a year can not produce a few tons of wrought iron, listen to Liu Yun's tone, the arsenal to use, or what special steel.
Liu Xiang is eloquent, he has long been prepared to build his own steel plant, thinking that Liu Yun is not an outsider, so he did not shy away from it, and violently attacked the Sichuan Sichuan army's family, well, there is not a steel plant at present, there are many small iron-making workshops, which can produce more than one million catties of iron every year, what is "special steel" for, I have not heard of it, it is the steel used to build ships.
Liu Yun was really thundered, the old Liu family in Sichuan said that Niu Cha, is a well-known warlord in the country, I didn't expect the huge Sichuan, the steel output is still calculated by the catty, I don't know, I thought it was the output of gold and silver, more than one million catties, it sounds like a lot, you must know that one kilogram is equal to two catties, one ton has two thousand catties, even if Liu Xiang ambushed, the steel output of the whole Sichuan is two million catties, but only a thousand tons, this is only wrought iron, there is still a big gap from the steel, on this basis to build an arsenal, It really takes courage.
Liu Xiang saw Liu Yun's stupid appearance, where he didn't know the cruel truth, and he had hit this young man hard, so he hurriedly asked shamelessly and asked Dr. Liu for advice, "Yicheng, my Sichuan army also wants to build a large steel plant, I don't know what to think."
Seeing that Liu Xiang, the king of Sichuan, asked a question in person, Liu Yun was excited, showing a smile that was more ugly than crying, but comforted himself and said, "This is easy to do, the little nephew has purchased a set of steelmaking equipment from France this time, well, the equipment is quite abundant, I can allocate a part of it, first in Fucheng, set up Fucheng Iron and Steel Plant, as for the output, it can produce about 10,000 tons per year."
"10,000 tons", Liu Xiang and a cadre of the Sichuan Army couldn't help but gasp, how much is that, General Li Jiayu, the model division commander, was the first to finish the calculation, and immediately reported the conversion result, "20 million catties", that is, about ten times the current steel output of Sichuan.