Hanyang, at the foot of Turtle Mountain, on the bank of the Xiang River.

In a large group of buildings, Wang Mo walked slowly, occasionally focusing on the buildings on the left and right, as well as the towering chimneys in his sight. He was followed by a large crowd of guards, guards with guns, workers in overalls, and low-level officials in the uniforms of government officials.

"Young marshal, the one to the north is the artillery factory, and further east are the gun and ammunition factory, the machine factory, the boiler factory, the iron-making factory and the sand turning factory." A middle-aged man who looked like an official pointed to the building from north to east and introduced it to Wang Mo.

Seeing the legendary Hanyang Arsenal on the spot, to be honest, Wang Mo was a little disappointed. From the moment he sent troops to Hubei, he was thinking about the Hanyang Arsenal. You must know that this is the largest and most advanced equipment in the late Qing Dynasty, and it is also the most well-known military enterprise in later generations.

Although Wang Mo can buy all kinds of weapons and equipment through industrial machine tools, it is cheaper to produce them himself after all, and he can also disguise the large quantities of weapons and equipment purchased from industrial machine tools. Therefore, as soon as he finished dealing with the military and political affairs in Hubei, he immediately came to inspect the Hanyang Arsenal.

However, the Hanyang Arsenal, no, it should be called the Hubei Arsenal now, does not have a whole row of factories full of industrial atmosphere as many people imagine, and the factories are full of advanced military production equipment that is constantly rotating as far as the eye can see.

Wang Mo only saw a low, dilapidated warehouse-like factory building, and he was even more disappointed by the cannon factory, copper melting factory, and copper shell factory he inspected earlier, which could not be called a factory at all. It's about the same as a larger blacksmith workshop.

"Mr. Liu, how many shells and bullets can the artillery shell factory and the gun and ammunition factory produce every day?" Wang Mo asked Liu Qingen, the general office who introduced him to the details of the arsenal.

This is undoubtedly the time to report his achievements, and Liu Qingen's spirits are lifted. Hurriedly replied: "Back to the young marshal, after taking over the post of general office of the arsenal from a humble position, he changed to a contract labor system and calculated the value by piece, so the output of each factory was greatly increased. Nowadays, artillery shell factories and gun and ammunition factories work day and night if they work in shifts. It is capable of producing 30,000 rounds of ammunition and nearly 2,000 shells in one day and one night! ”

Piece?

The moment I heard this. Wang Mo almost thought that he was inspecting the modern factories of later generations, and such an efficient production management model appeared now?

In fact, Wang Mo has another purpose for this trip. That is to provoke a thorn, and just find an excuse to dismiss Liu Qingen from his position as the general office of the Hanyang Arsenal.

Why?

The reason is very simple, because Liu Qingen was not only a member of the League, but also the post of general office of the Hanyang Arsenal was also appointed by Sun Yat-sen after he became the provisional president in Nanjing. The arsenal is such a critical place, of course Wang Mo wants to be controlled by one of his own people.

However, now it seems that this Liu Qingen is really a talent.

Wang Mo decided to observe and observe, if this Liu Qingen's is indeed a rare and excellent arsenal general office, then there is no need to remove him. It's better to send someone to monitor it.

If even a technical official like Liu Qingen doesn't have the confidence to control it, then how can Wang Mo compete with the top heroes of this era?

It's not bad to be able to produce 30,000 rounds of bullets per day, Wang Mo thought about it. said: "Let's go, let's go see the gun factory." Without waiting for Liu Qingen to answer, he walked towards the gun and ammunition factory.

The situation of the gun and ammunition factory is not bad, the workshop is in good order, and the various ordnance production equipment does not look too old and backward.

"Young marshal, the gun and ammunition factory is divided into three workshops. It mainly produces shells, warheads, and charge primers. Liu Qingen led the way in front. While introducing Wang Mo.

Subsequently, Liu Qingen asked someone to carry a box of bullets over, and said to Wang Mo: "Young marshal, please look, this is the round-headed bullet that our gun and ammunition factory is currently mainly producing. ”

Wang Mo grabbed a handful of yellow-orange-orange bullets, frowned, and asked, "Round-headed bullets?" Can't gun and ammunition factories produce pointed-nosed bullets now? ”

There is a big difference between round-tipped bullets and pointed-nosed bullets, and the Mauser rifles used by the Sichuan army now are basically pointed-nosed bullets.

Pointed bullets have a fast shooting speed, long range, and strong penetration, and are mainly used to hit long-range targets, so rifles mostly use pointed bullets. The round-headed bullet has greater resistance to invading the target, and the damage to the target is greater, and at the same time, it can stay in the target's body and cause continuous damage, which is mostly used in pistols.

For example, in later film and television works, it is often seen that the 38 big covers are pointed-nosed bullets, and those shell guns use round-headed bullets.

Hearing Wang Mo's question, a trace of embarrassment appeared on Liu Qingen's face, and he replied, "This ...... The manufacturing process of pointed bullets is more complicated, especially for warheads, and we do not have such production equipment for the time being, so ......"

When Wang Mo was about to speak, Wang Erhu walked up to Wang Mo and reported in a low voice after hearing a person who ran in and whispered: "Young Marshal, that Yang Shukan Yang Councilor is here again, and now he is outside the arsenal, he wants to see you, saying that he has something important to discuss." ”

How did you find the Arsenal?

Wang Mo said casually: "Let him come in." ”

The arsenal of this era does not have the secrecy requirements of later generations, especially the current Hanyang Arsenal, an ordnance enterprise that is a generation behind the world, and there is nothing that needs to be kept secret, or can be kept secret.

After a while, Yang Shukan was brought over by Wang Erhu.

"I've seen the young marshal!" Yang Shukan gave Wang Mo a salute.

Wang Mo waved his hand and said, "Councilor Yang, the north and the south have also successfully negotiated peace, and the Beiyang Army has also fully withdrawn north. You're still here to find me, what are you doing? ”

Although he was already very familiar with it, Yang Shukan was still very uncomfortable every time he was choked by Wang Mo, a straightforward soldier, and barely squeezed out a smile, and said: "Young marshal, this is the case, after the troops in the southern provinces have suffered very serious losses after the battle with the Beiyang Army, and they urgently need to be replenished. It's easy to do with soldiers, but it's hard to buy guns and ammunition, so ......"

Wang Mo opened his mouth to speak for Yang Shukan: "So you hit me with the idea, right?" ”

This is a bit like the people of the Kuomintang have bad intentions towards Wang Mo. Yang Shukan hurriedly said: "The young marshal misunderstood, we have no intention of taking advantage, what is the market price of firearms and ammunition." How about the explicit transaction between the two of us? ”

No wonder I chased after the Hanyang Arsenal, it turned out that I had taken a fancy to the arms here.

Also the market price?

The market price is just a fart, and in these chaotic years, the market price of arms has always been far lower than the actual transaction price.

But it doesn't matter, the sale of arms will not only allow Wang Mo to make a lot of profits, but also empty all kinds of miscellaneous weapons and equipment captured in the First World War in Wuhan. In addition, the round-tipped bullets produced by the Hanyang Arsenal did not use much. It happened to be packaged and sold to the People's Party.

Wang Mo smiled slightly and said, "No problem." Tell me, how many guns, how many bullets, do you want artillery? ”

Yang Shukan was stunned. He didn't expect that Wang Mo not only readily agreed to sell arms, but also took the initiative to sell them.

What's going on?

It stands to reason that the output of the Hanyang Arsenal is limited, and the Sichuan Army and the Hubei Army that are being reorganized are probably not equipped enough, how could Wang Mo sell them?

Yang Shukan asked with some doubts: "I don't know if Hanyang makes rifles and bullets, what price does the young marshal want?" ”

Wang Mo replied: "Didn't you say it just now, the market price, Hanyang made a rifle for 36 oceans, and a thousand round-headed bullets for 81 oceans." ”

Yang Shu was able to look at Shu, and asked tentatively: "Young marshal." Can we both look at the position of opposing the Beiyang Army and Yuan Shikai, and it will be cheaper? ”

Standpoint?

The anti-Yuan stance is a fart!

Wang Mo believes that as long as there is an opportunity. The KMT would never mind stabbing him in secret.

"I want to be cheap, and there are cheap ones, but I don't know if you want them." Wang Mo said.

Yang Shukan didn't understand what Wang Mo meant, and said, "I don't know what the young marshal is talking about......"

Wang Mo replied: "In the first battle of Wuhan, I captured a lot of weapons and equipment of the Hubei Army and the 2nd Mixed Brigade of the Beiyang Army, including Lin Mingdeng's needle gun, Mauser 1871 rifle, and fast gun. There are also weapons and equipment such as the magic cannon and the Habegkaith machine gun. If you want, I can give it to you at half price. How is it? ”

In fact, even if the people of the Kuomintang don't want these miscellaneous weapons and equipment, Wang Mo will melt all this garbage back into the furnace, and he doesn't want the armed equipment of his troops to become a universal card.

The standardization of weapons and equipment to reduce the pressure and trouble of logistics and supply is something that Wang Mo has always been very aware of and has worked hard to do.

Yang Shukan thought about it, and finally chose to ask for this batch of miscellaneous weapons and equipment, and said: "Okay, as long as it's not a waste gun that can't be fired, we want it." But we still want to buy 50,000 Hanyang-made rifles and 5 million rounds of ammunition, I wonder if the young marshal can provide so much? ”

50,000 Hanyang-made and 5 million rounds of ammunition is not a small business. In this calculation, 50,000 Hanyang-made guns are 1.8 million oceans, and 5 million rounds of ammunition are 405,000 oceans.

It seems that the Beiyang Army has completely woken up the Kuomintang this time, and understands that only with a strong army in its hands can it confront Beiyang, otherwise it would not have purchased ordnance and ammunition so lavishly.

5,000,000 rounds of ammunition were handed over to the Hanyang Arsenal for production, and the profits obtained were just enough to feed the arsenal. As for the 50,000 Hanyang-made guns purchased from the industrial machine machine, Wang Mo can earn at least 1 million oceans, plus those miscellaneous rifles are packaged and sold to the Kuomintang, so he can get about 500,000 oceans.

With this money, it is not a problem for Wang Mo to rectify and expand the Hanyang Arsenal at all.

How could Wang Mo refuse such a good thing, and said without hesitation: "Of course, I can provide as much as you want." If the arsenal can't produce it, even if I take out the rifles of my troops, I will definitely get them together! ”

Yang Shukan was a little surprised by Wang Mo's enthusiasm for arms sales, but this was a good thing for the KMT, nodded and said, "Okay, it's decided." As for the artillery, I had to call the governors of the provinces and ask what they meant. ”

After sending Yang Shukan away, Wang Mo walked around the arsenal with great interest, thinking about where and which factory to arrange what production lines.

He decided to throw all the money he got from this arms sale into the Hanyang Arsenal, at least to expand the entire arsenal by three or four times.

You must know that the First World War is coming, and the spring of the arms business, no, the fiery summer is coming.

If you don't slaughter those foreigners in Europe in the arms business, you're really sorry for yourself! (To be continued)

PS: Sorry for the late update. The main thing is to check the information of the arsenal, and I checked it for most of the day, which is tiring.

But I'm sorry.