After the grenades were produced, Wang Bin immediately sent some grenades to Yuan Shikai.

After Yuan Shikai received the grenade, he was very surprised, although he knew that Wang Bin had a small arsenal in Jinzhou, but he didn't know the production capacity of this arsenal, and he didn't expect to send himself a batch of finished products today, which made Yuan Shikai a little surprised, he didn't expect that Wang Bin's small arsenal could also produce weapons, so Yuan Shikai immediately decided to go to Jinzhou to see the arsenal under Wang Bin.

After Yuan Shikai arrived in Jinzhou, he was naturally accompanied by Wang Bin throughout the whole process.

After arriving at the arsenal, Yuan Shikai's first thing was to see the grenade, Wang Bin then asked the accompanying soldiers to perform a grenade throwing, Yuan Shikai was very interested after watching the live ammunition throwing, but he didn't expect that the power of the grenade was still good, it was really beyond his expectations.

Finally, he asked Wang Bin about the cost of the grenade, Wang Bin told Yuan Shikai that the cost of the grenade was extremely cheap, and Yuan Shikai said after listening to Wang Bin's words: "This grenade is extremely simple to use, and the power is not bad. ”

"My lord, this grenade can be attacked and defended at close range, especially before close combat, it can inflict great damage on the enemy's morale, thus inflicting a great blow to the enemy's morale!"

"If the enemy forces attack in formation, when they are about thirty meters away from our army, they can throw grenades together, and the enemy will collapse in an instant under the blow of this object!"

Wang Bin said to Yuan Shikai.

"Well, what you said is not bad, but I don't know the production of this grenade, if it can be produced on a large scale, then the official will book 20,000 first."

After listening to Wang Bin's words and personally seeing the power of this grenade, Yuan Shikai suddenly placed the first order for the arsenal with a wave of his hand.

After listening to Yuan Shikai's words, Wang Bin was naturally extremely happy in his heart, and immediately said that he would start the production of grenades immediately.

Let's not talk about the number of orders, at least now my arsenal has entered the Beiyang New Army.

Later, Wang Bin introduced to Yuan Shikai what the arsenal can still produce now, and Yuan Shikai was more interested in seeing grenades than before when he learned that this arsenal could also produce rifles.

Before this, Yuan Shikai was heartbroken for the armament of the Beiyang New Army.

Before the war began, Yuan Shikai had been trying to import a large amount of ordnance from Japan, and had also negotiated orders for the required guns and artillery for Beiyang.

But I never expected that not long after this order was placed, Japan was preparing for the situation in the Far East, and began to speed up the pace of military expansion and arms hoarding, which made Yuan Shikai want to cry without tears, and it was impossible to buy ordnance from Japan again, at this time Yuan Shikai had to look at the West, first purchased a batch of arms from Britain, but this price made Yuan Shikai want to vomit blood.

It was precisely because of this high price that Yuan Shikai had to change countries after entering this batch of arms.

So Yuan Shikai began to contact the Germans, wanting to import a batch of arms from Germany, and the Germans did not disappoint Yuan Shikai, in order to retain Beiyang, a huge customer, the Germans also lowered the price of arms again and again.

There is nothing to say about artillery, so naturally I am looking for the artillery family of Krupp, Krupp's artillery has always enjoyed a good reputation in modern times, but the rifle Yuan Shikai is a little cautious.

At the beginning, the Germans recommended Mauser 1898 to Yuan Shikai, but Yuan Shikai still felt that it was a little expensive, so he had to negotiate with the Germans several times

So Yuan Shikai had no choice but to choose the Type 88 rifle.

In today's Beiyang New Army, what is needed is a large number of cheap rifles of uniform caliber, as long as this rifle is a repeating rifle, from this point of view, whether it is a Type 88 rifle or a Mauser Type 1898 rifle, it is not the most important, the most important thing is that one of the rifles has the ability to be mass-produced in China.

Therefore, after considering this problem, only the Type 88 rifle can meet this demand, except for the Type 88, which has a large-scale production capacity, other rifles do not have the ability to produce on a large scale at all.

But now only in the south of the Hubei Gun Factory and Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau can produce this Type 88 rifle, but Beiyang can not manufacture Type 88 rifles, so this has always been Yuan Shikai's heart disease, hoping that his Beiyang system can also manufacture Type 88 rifles, for which he specially imported a set of Type 88 rifle related production lines from Germany, and wanted to establish a Beiyang Machinery Manufacturing Bureau.

But what he didn't expect was that Wang Bin knew that Wang Bin's arsenal could also make rifles, and Yuan Shikai was very concerned about this issue for a while.

If Wang Bin's arsenal can really produce rifles, then his Beiyang system will have its own arsenal.

"My lord, this is the rifle production line of the Arsenal."

Wang Bin took Yuan Shikai to the assembled Mosin-Nagant rifle production line.

"Youde, can your production line produce Type 88 rifles?"

Yuan Shikai raised his own question, if Wang Bin's arsenal could produce Type 88 rifles, it would save him a lot of money.

"My lord, this production line of the Ministry of Duties can only produce Mosin-Nagant rifles, and as for the Type 88 rifles, the Department can only do nothing."

After Wang Bin's words came out, Yuan Shikai was a little disappointed, he thought that he could produce Type 88 rifles here from Wang Bin, but he didn't expect that the machines here could not produce this kind of rifle.

So Yuan Shikai then proposed to put the production line of the Type 88 rifle he purchased into Wang Bin's arsenal, and Wang Bin would be responsible for the ordnance supply of the Beiyang New Army in the future.

This 88-style production line is placed here by Wang Bin, at least saving a sum of construction costs for the arsenal.

After listening to Yuan Shikai's words, Wang Bin was stunned for a moment, and then his heart was a little excited, so that the arsenal in his hand was the only arsenal in the entire Beiyang system, and his status in Beiyang was only afraid that he would have to improve his status again.

So Wang Bin immediately said that after the arrival of this batch of machines, the production of Type 88 rifles would start immediately, and in the end, Wang Bin also proposed that Yuan Shikai give this arsenal a name, and change a more popular name for this Type 88 rifle.

After listening to Wang Bin's words, Yuan Shikai just thought for a moment and said: "Youde, your arsenal is established in Jinzhou, then it is called Jinzhou Machinery Manufacturing Bureau, and the Type 88 is also the first rifle you will manufacture, and there is a Hanyang-made Type 88 rifle in the south, and you are called Jinzhou-made Type 88 rifle, and this official hopes that you can do your part for my Beiyang!" ”