"Commander, there's news from the Americans." Song Bu, the second-in-command in charge of intelligence, hurriedly entered Wang Sirui's office from the outside, still holding a telegram in his hand.

"What do Americans say?" Wang Sirui raised his head and asked.

In fact, I basically have a rough guess about the Americans' reply in my heart, and the price I have offered is not low, and the Americans have no reason to give up this cooperation at all.

"The Americans agreed to cooperate with us and agreed to most of the orders we submitted, but there were some problems in the area of military production." Song Bu responded.

"What's the problem?" Wang Sirui frowned slightly.

He Wang Sirui was able to sit in today's position completely by relying on the army under his command, and at present, Wang Sirui's armaments and weapons are all purchased from abroad.

The Chileans, for their part, are no longer able to cooperate in the same way as before, and it is likely that the powers have become wary of this.

If you can't form your own arsenal and complete your own military-industrial system, what will be the consequences? Without logistical support, Wang Sirui will lose some supplies every day, and even if he does not conduct live-fire training in the later stage, his ammunition storage can only last for about a year at most.

This is still the premise that there is no large-scale battle, but the current situation is telling Wang Sirui that it seems a little unlikely that there will be no war.

Yuan Shikai still has no news, he still has a lot of troops in his hands, whether he can peacefully incorporate these troops, this Wang Sirui is not sure enough.

If the two sides really fight, I am afraid that after this battle, Wang Sirui will lose his foothold.

As for the Tianjin Manufacturing Bureau and the like, Wang Sirui didn't think about it at all, their technology was not up to par at all, and even the equipment was some old equipment.

And if the Americans stuck Wang Sirui's neck in the military industrial system, then for Wang Sirui, other cooperation does not seem to be much necessary.

To give such a large order to the Americans, the main thing is to get support from the military-industrial system from the United States.

"The Americans want to dismantle the existing equipment in their factories and sell it to us at a discount according to the degree of newness, and it is estimated that the Americans want to take this opportunity to eliminate this batch of old equipment from us, and then only spend a small amount of money to replace more advanced equipment." Song Bu analyzed.

Wang Sirui nodded secretly, he felt that Song Bu's analysis was quite reasonable.

The United States wants to sell Wang Sirui equipment, but also wants to update its own equipment, so the best way is to sell those existing equipment to Wang Sirui.

For Wang Sirui, this batch of equipment has advantages and disadvantages.

The advantage is obvious, these are already tuned equipment, and after assembly, they only need a little debugging before they can be directly produced.

Of course, the disadvantages are also obvious, Wang Sirui does not know when these equipment will be used, what kind of equipment can be used to produce, and whether it meets his current needs?

If the equipment arrives, it is found that it can only be used to produce some old weapon styles and cannot be adapted to the production of weapons in the next ten years, then these equipment will be a failed investment for Wang Sirui.

It is impossible for him to spend a lot of manpower and material resources to buy equipment that can only be used to produce old guns.

Obviously, the Americans are trying to find a bad guy to help them digest the obsolete equipment and update their own equipment at the same time.

"Replying to the Americans, equipment that has been manufactured for more than five years to 10 years will be purchased at 40 percent of the original price, and the purchase price will increase by 10 percent for each year less than five years. In addition, in addition to these old equipment, the list of equipment on that list should not be missing. After analyzing the pros and cons, Wang Sirui finally nodded and agreed.

It's just that it's impossible for the Americans to ask for whatever they want, and since you want me to buy those broken equipment from you, then you naturally have to show some sincerity.

Soon, the American consul who remained in the Far East hurriedly returned to Tianjin with Wang Sirui's answer.

In the next few days, the consul traveled frequently between Tianjin and Beijing, constantly negotiating with Wang Sirui.

Eventually, the two sides reached an agreement, and the Americans dismantled the existing equipment in the two arsenals, which were expected to produce 100,000 rifles and 6 million rounds of ammunition per year, to Wang Sirui.

In addition, the Americans will also sell Wang Sirui a completely new set of equipment, which is expected to produce 40,000 rifles and 2 million rounds of ammunition a year.

In the end, with Wang Sirui's nod and agreement, Rou Keyi's side was finally able to put his mind at ease.

With the help of the President of the United States, Jo Keyi distributed the order evenly among each state, as promised by William McKinley in Congress.

Anyway, there are so many orders, Rou Keyi directly left the order there and let them discuss which order they should take?

After three days of bickering and a war of words, the parliamentarians finally settled on the issue of the order. At this time, those businessmen who received the news also went to Washington, D.C., and these people will form a huge business group to go to the Far East to negotiate with Wang Sirui on the price.

Their factories began to produce the required orders, which they could ship to the Far East as soon as the price was negotiated.

For this reason, at the invitation of Wang Sirui, Citibank in the United States has plans to open a branch in Beijing, and Wang Sirui has also made it clear that these payments will only be made through Citibank in Beijing.

This is actually a good thing for American businessmen, at least so that they don't have to worry about the safety of their funds, they only need to get Citibank bills, and they can still withdraw cash when they return to the United States.

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The inner city, next to a residential building near Prince Zhuang's mansion.

In the dark, there were no fingers to be seen, and there were only soldiers patrolling back and forth with torches on the streets.

Around this house, hundreds of soldiers were densely surrounded, and those patrolling soldiers only glanced at them curiously when they passed by, and no one dared to come forward to interrogate these strange-shaped soldiers.

Because before patrolling, they have received orders from their superiors, if they encounter hundreds of soldiers in a certain area, do not come forward to interrogate, just pretend not to see it, and patrol normally.

Of course, for the sake of secrecy, this order was given to them on their third patrol of their area, before they left the check-in point.

In other words, the patrol only learned about this information half an hour ago, and half an hour earlier, this army of hundreds of people had already been dispatched and entered the hiding place before the patrol.

At this moment, around ten o'clock in the evening, Ma Sanru raised his head slightly to look at the sky, and immediately waved his hand to an officer beside him, signaling to start moving.

After half a month of investigation, after using almost all the light and dark forces in the capital, Ma Sanru finally found this house located in the Zhenghongqi area.

This is an ordinary Manchurian courtyard, and it stands to reason that it is difficult to detect any anomalies here.

But that's just how it happened.

Ten days ago, a member of the Sky Eye was wandering around the inner city and stumbled upon a scene that he thought was a little suspicious.

His suspicions were aroused by a conversation between a Manchu man and the shopkeeper of a grain store, who seemed to be buying more grain than before, and buying more frequently.

But the manchu man's answer was that there were relatives in the house, and the economy had eased somewhat, so there was more food.

Afterwards, the member found the shopkeeper of the grain store and asked about the situation in the other party's family, and the food he bought was enough for their family to eat for half a month.

In other words, the food he buys now is at least enough for four or five prime of life to eat for a week, and the number is basically the same, which arouses the curiosity of this Tianyan member.

So I stared at it, and a week later, he reappeared. The members of the Sky Eye followed him to the house, and spent a whole week monitoring the anomalies on the other side.

In the end, at dinner today, this member of the Tianyan found out the result he wanted, so he immediately reported the situation to the upper level, and soon the news reached Ma Sanru, so there was the current scene.

With the cooperation of other comrades-in-arms, more than a dozen soldiers jumped up the wall that was not very high, and then quickly entered the courtyard, most of them were directly on the spot, and the two soldiers covered each other and walked towards the gate.

Immediately afterwards, the gate was opened from the inside, and although the opening was small, the wooden gate creaked.

However, it didn't seem to arouse the idea of the people in the house, and then, more than 20 soldiers torpedoed into the courtyard, and the small courtyard was completely occupied by more than 30 soldiers in an instant.

Outside this courtyard, there are still nearly a hundred soldiers guarding, so it can be said that as long as the target is still here, then he will definitely not be able to escape.

'Boom~~~'

With a loud sound, the doors of several rooms were suddenly kicked open from the outside at the same time, and then, after the soldiers who were ready outside saw the movements of their comrades, they also instantly lit the torches and rushed into the house.

And the Manchurian family of seven, who was sleeping, plus Yuan Shikai and the four of them, were directly arrested. After Ma Sanru personally confirmed Yuan Shikai's identity, he took everyone away at the scene.

And Yuan Shikai regretted not being at the beginning at the moment, secretly hating why he didn't wait one more day? If he had waited one more day to enter the city, he would not have ended up with this result.

(PS: I always thought that everyone could see the content written in the author's words, it seems that I am still a little naïve, not only the book friends in the book city can't see it, but the book friends here at the starting point can't see it, and if you want to see it, you can only go to my radio to see it, I'm sweating...... (To be continued.) )