Zhang Chunping and Guo Songtao, who received Guo Ye's will, held talks with Gro the next day and communicated about the supply of heavy machine guns to France in advance.

"General Chief, I won't go around in circles, the war between France and Prussia is about to break out, we are now in urgent need of heavy machine gun weapons and heavy machine gun bullets, we hope that within two months, we can receive 2,000 heavy machine guns and related accessories, between 200,000 and 400,000 boxes of heavy machine gun bullets, time is pressing, I hope your country can give us a clear answer to the French Empire as soon as possible!"

Gro was not polite, and directly said his requirements, he also knew that if he wanted to get this batch of arms in advance, he would definitely have to pay a huge price, but as long as he could get enough heavy machine guns, these costs would be worth it, and once Prussia was defeated, wouldn't it be enough to snatch it back from Prussia?

"Fifteen hundred heavy machine guns? Mr. Gro, are you mistaken, do you know how many heavy machine guns our military-industrial complex is capable of producing in a year? It's all given to you, so won't other countries turn their backs on us? ”

Zhang Chunping pouted and replied.

Gro's face did not change, and he replied: "General Chief, if your country can provide us with these heavy machine guns, or even more heavy machine guns, then we will also repay the favor and give back to your country!" However, fifteen hundred heavy machine guns is already the lower limit, after all, the whole of Prussia has more than two thousand heavy machine guns, and this number is increasing as far as I know! If your country had only provided us with 1,800 heavy machine guns, it would have played no decisive role! ”

"Oh?"

Zhang Chunping's eyebrows jumped, and he asked, "Mr. Gro, what benefits can you provide us?" ”

Gro said in a deep voice: "General Chief, we are willing to stand in your country's position in the future struggle between your country and Tsarist Russia, exert diplomatic pressure on the Russians, and help your country get the best results, land ceasion, compensation, you can do it!" ”

This is expected, Zhang Chunping has already expected that the French will do this, not only to harm the interests of their own country, but also to buy a great favor from the Chinese Empire, why not?

However, this alone naturally cannot satisfy Zhang Chunping's appetite!

"What's this? Naturally, we welcome Mr. Minister's statement, but these conditions are obviously not enough! We need something else! ”

Zhang Chunping smiled.

Gro frowned and replied, "Not enough?" So what more does Mr. Chief want? ”

"It's very simple, exempt our Huaxia Empire from all interest on the loans it borrows from your country!"

Zhang Chunping replied.

Gro's heart was shocked, all interest was waived, you must know that the Chinese Empire borrowed a lot of money from several banks such as the Imperial Bank of France, even if it is the interest of the past ten years, it will cost millions of francs!

"General Chief, this is a bit excessive, this is a business between you, you are not borrowing from our imperial government, but from the bank, and our government has no right to exempt this part of the interest!"

Gro replied in a deep voice.

Zhang Chunping said with a smile: "Mr. Minister, this is not my problem, I just put forward conditions, as for how your country will do it, that is your country's business, and we can only provide 1,200 heavy machine guns, no matter how much, we can't come up with it......"

Twelve hundred?

Gro frowned, too little, even if the French army is equipped, it cannot form a huge deterrent, for the Prussian army, this heavy machine gun is not difficult for the Prussian army at all, it only takes a few days of saturation of artillery fire, and these heavy machine guns will be abolished a lot!

"Fifteen hundred, this is our lower limit, General Commander, I have already said, the number is too small, it will not play much role in the war between Prussia, we both have powerful artillery groups, hundreds of artillery pieces attack at the same time, these heavy machine guns will not take long to be blown into a meal of rotten copper and scrap metal!"

Zhang Chunping pouted and replied: "I'm sorry, Mr. Minister, we really can't provide more, so that we can also allocate to you the three hundred heavy machine guns that we are about to equip the Chinese People's Army, right?" However, you must know that our war with the Russian army is not over yet, and in this case, it will greatly weaken the combat effectiveness of our Chinese People's Army! ”

Plus three hundred! That's 1,500 pieces, but that's the limit......

"Can't your country stop supplying the British or Prussia with heavy machine guns first, and give priority to us, and we are willing to pay a premium of five percent for this!"

"Don't you know?"

Guo Songtao was surprised: "Mr. Minister, this already includes some of the arms provided to other countries, otherwise, where do you think the 1,200 heavy machine guns came from?" You know, we can only produce 2,000 heavy machine guns in a year......"

The corners of Gro's mouth twitched, Damn, it was too difficult to pull something out of the mouth of the Huaxia Empire!

"Or, Mr. Minister, we will first provide your country with 1,500 heavy machine guns, and then a month later, our war with Tsarist Russia will basically end, at that time, we are willing to provide your country with more than 1,000 heavy machine guns that the generals are now equipped with, however, the transfer of our heavy machine guns will have a huge impact on the national defense and security of our Chinese Empire, therefore, we demand that these heavy machine guns must be sold to you at the original price agreed with your country......"

Zhang Chunping replied in a deep voice.

Gro's heart jumped, now the heavy machine guns equipped in the Huaxia Emperor**, a thousand, that can also be used, since the Huaxia People's Army can use it, it means that there is no problem with the performance!

"Alright! I agreed to this condition, and a month later, when the war between your country and Tsarist Russia ended, we immediately accepted that the heavy machine guns that your country was equipped with, together with 400,000 heavy machine gun bullets, must be transported to France within two and a half months! ”

"Wait, I just said one condition, in addition to the price, we also hope that your country can support us to obtain ownership of Eastern Siberia, you also know that a hundred years ago, Eastern Siberia was originally our Chinese territory, and now it should be taken back by our Chinese Empire, you should have no objection to this, right?"

Well, the whole of Eastern Siberia......

Gro almost jumped, that was millions of square kilometers of territory!

Millions of square kilometers can top the mainland area of ten French Empires, which is a stab in the heart of Alexander II......

(To be continued.) )

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