Yang Xingguo smiled confidently and replied directly to Huang Xing: "I will put as many meters as I can in the pot." Pen & Fun & Ge www.biquge.info As for how to defeat enemy cruisers with gunboats and torpedo boats, I definitely have a way! ”

Seeing that Yang Xingguo was so sure, Huang Xing didn't say anything more.

Yang Xingguo directly ordered: "Then this matter is decided." I went to the Germans and asked them to help us build a small shipyard in Yingkou. ”

"Chief of Staff, you complete the reorganization of the four main armies as soon as possible. Within three months, all the main divisions will reach full strength. ”

"Deputy commander, you still have to take care of the money bags of the whole army and ensure the supply of materials for all combat units."

"Governor Huang, no, from today onwards, you, Huang Xing, are the premier of the Government Council of the Governor's Office of the three northeastern provinces, responsible for all government affairs in the three northeastern provinces. All the original departments were moved to Mukden. ”

"In addition, in addition to all the government affairs in the three eastern provinces, you have one more thing to do, and that is to increase government revenue. The establishment of a fur processing factory and a pharmaceutical processing factory in front of us has done a good job, but it is not enough. ”

"I have a few ideas here that you can go down and consider: one is to produce canned beef and mutton, which is very close to Mongolia, and the beef and mutton are very cheap, so we can import technology from abroad to produce canned meat and sell it to Kannai and Russia."

"As far as I know, prices in Russia are rising sharply, and there is a shortage of food, so it must be very good to send the canned food produced to Russia."

"The second idea is wine. In a few months, Liaodong will usher in a bumper harvest. So much grain will definitely not be sold, and even if it is sold, the price is not high. You can build a distillery and process grain into spirits. ”

"Lao Maozi likes to drink spirits the most, and selling spirits to Russians is definitely more profitable than selling grain directly."

"The third is the oil mill, not to mention that the soybeans of the entire three eastern provinces are controlled in our hands this year, and the soybean grain production in Liaodong today is more than five times that of the original. So many soybeans are all pressed into soybean oil for export, which is definitely not possible with the scale of the current oil mill. Therefore, you must plan ahead and expand the oil mill in advance. ”

"The last one, we now control the entire three eastern provinces, plus the immigrants sent by Yuan Shikai, 10 million people must be indispensable. It is impossible to transport all of the daily necessities that are consumed every day from Kannai. The government can completely encourage businessmen to directly build factories outside the Guanguan, such as foreign fire factories and foreign soap factories...... can be built. ”

"As long as they build the factory in Liaodong, then there will be taxes, and your government's revenue will increase."

Hearing this, Huang Xing's face was already covered with excitement.

From his point of view, every idea put forward by Yang Xingguo is feasible. And it's all cash cows.

After quickly recording all the ideas put forward by Yang Xingguo, Huang Xing, who was still undecided, couldn't help but ask: "Commander, is there anything else!" I'm sure you can get what you just said. After I go down, I will find Vice Governor Yan, no, it is Vice Premier Yan who came to discuss and build these factories as soon as possible to earn money from Lao Maozi. ”

Yang Xingguo couldn't help but smile bitterly: "There is only so much that you can think of for the time being, and you will talk about it when you think of it later, you have studied abroad, you have seen a lot of knowledge, and you usually think about it more." ”

Seeing Huang Xing's disappointed face and nodding seriously, Yang Xingguo turned his head to Zhou Zhongju and Sun Liechen and asked.

"If the commander decides to build a small shipyard, I will have enough money to last the whole army for two months. But after two months, I had every penny here, not even the money for the army's salary. Zhou Zhongju replied with a frown.

"Then there's the equipment of the troops. We are no longer stocked of Mosin rifles, and after the expansion of the army, at least 60,000 people are left unarmed. Commander, you see if you should use the equipment of the captured Beiyang Army first. ”

The army is the foundation of one's foothold in the Qing Dynasty, and everything else can have problems, but the army cannot have problems.

Yang Xingguo, who knew this truth well, immediately asked with a serious face: "What kind of weapons do you have?" ”

"The Japanese have the most 38 styles, with 20,000 pieces. And then there is the water of the Russians, with more than 12,000 branches. There were also nearly ten thousand Mauser rifles from the Germans. There are nearly 10,000 rifles left that are American, Italian, and even copied by the Hankow Arsenal itself, and it's a mess! ”

"The light and heavy machine guns are all common to us, and the field artillery and mountain artillery are basically also used, and we have also harvested eighteen 105 mm caliber heavy guns from a heavy artillery battalion of the forbidden army."

Yang Xingguo frowned, and immediately decided: "Light and heavy machine guns and artillery are all replenished to the troops, and the rifles are forgotten." There are too many types, too miscellaneous, after equipping the troops, not to mention anything else, just replenishing ammunition for these troops will be busy with you, the deputy commander. ”

Although the gap in the weapon was a bit beyond Sun Liechen's expectations, Sun Liechen still agreed with a serious face: "The commander is right, the caliber of the weapons equipped by the troops must be unified, otherwise there will be a big problem if the wrong ammunition is accidentally sent to the troops on the battlefield." ”

Zhou Zhongju replied with an embarrassed face: "I know what you say." But the gap in the army is too big, more than 60,000 rifles, and if I don't use the captured ones, I really can't solve this problem. Without equipment, we can't let the newly expanded troops train empty-handed! ”

Yang Xingguo, who was frowning, thought for a minute before deciding, "It's time to equip a weapon of our own." ”

"Deputy Commander, tell us about the situation in the arsenal again!"

In order to ensure the supply of ammunition for the whole army, Zhou Zhongju would go to the arsenal every day during the entire battle with the official army and the Beiyang army.

Therefore, Zhou Zhongju has long been aware of the situation in the arsenal.

"Commander, because of the influence of materials and equipment, the arsenal now has a gunpowder factory, a grenade factory, a mortar factory, an artillery shell factory, two bullet factories, and a firearms repair factory."

"Mainly in the production of ammunition, grenades and mortars, firearms repair shops can assemble rifles in small quantities from damaged rifle parts, but the production is very low, only a few hundred per month."

Yang Xingguo, who had been frowning, immediately decided: "The scale of the Liaodong Army is getting bigger and bigger, and you must have your own rifle." Relying only on battlefield capture and purchase is too constrained by others, and it is not conducive to the development and expansion of troops. ”

"So, I decided that we would produce our own rifles. First get out the rifle factory, and then find a way to get out the light and heavy machine gun factory and the artillery factory. Now we have such a large territory as the three northeastern provinces, and we are fully capable of perfecting our own military industrial system and achieving self-sufficiency in weapons and ammunition. ”

No one wants to produce their own weapons. But setting up a rifle factory to produce its own weapons is not something that can be done with a single sentence.

In addition to sufficient production equipment, a large number of workers and technicians are required, and qualified raw materials are also required.

And these needs, without exception, are all related to silver.

But the two million taels of silver in Zhou Zhongju's hand now have already been used at the beginning, and there is no other silver for the commander to set up a rifle factory. (To be continued.) )