40,000 pounds can be regarded as a huge amount of money for Wang Bin, according to the price of silver, it is 300,000 taels of silver.

What is the equivalent of 300,000 taels of silver in this era? If you open a factory, it is enough to build a medium and large factory, and if you buy ordnance, it is enough to train a new army by yourself.

Regarding the huge amount of money that suddenly appeared in front of him, Wang Bin immediately frowned, and secretly guessed in his heart what was the point of Ichiro Sato taking out this money?

Could it be that he wanted to bribe himself and let himself send troops to cooperate with the Japanese offensive on the frontal battlefield?

Although Ichiro Sato came to Kanwai as a spy to engage in secret diplomacy, he was originally a soldier so he didn't like to talk half like those politicians, and he couldn't talk about the subject for a long time, and after he took out the check, he didn't let Wang Bin guess for too long, but quickly said to Wang Bin: "General Wang, I heard that you have a huge amount of munitions in your hands, and there is an arsenal under your hands, and our army has consumed too much ammunition in the northeast recently, so the country hopes that General Wang can provide ammunition for our army." ”

Sato Ichiro's words were extremely simple, but Wang Bin frowned after hearing it.

You must know that although there are shortcomings in the current Japanese military industry, the shortcomings only exist in some new weapons, and although the production of ordinary ordnance and ammunition with a consumable nature, although the Japanese are not as good as the Western powers, they are not many times stronger than themselves, so there is no big problem in supplying the army and Lao Maozi's war consumption.

On the other hand, the war has just begun, and the Japanese are fighting quite smoothly at this stage, and there is no stalemate in the war, so although the ammunition has been consumed, the impact on them is not too great.

Historically, the reason why Japan's logistics were bad was because the war had entered a mode of attrition, which was caused by the extremely long duration of the war, and the consumption of ammunition had increased dramatically due to the intensity of the war, and at the same time, Japan's logistics were completely dependent on sea transportation, which led to the problem of logistical supply of Japanese front-line troops in the later part of the war.

As in the case of Lao Maozi, it is not because of the problem of domestic production capacity, but because of the problem of transportation capacity and the intensity of the war, which has led to logistical supply difficulties.

What's more, there is a little problem with Lao Maozi's logistics now, and the logistics of the Japanese, according to Wang Bin's knowledge, does not have the problem of lack of weapons and ammunition at present.

Now the Japanese say that their ammunition consumption is relatively tight, and they want to buy weapons and ammunition from themselves.

This is really a big joke in the world, you must know that Beiyang has been thinking about Japan's large-scale purchase of arms over the years, although this own subordinate has recently established an arsenal, but this arsenal can not produce much munitions, it is already good to be able to use it for its own use, and compared with the output of Japan's arsenal, it is simply one in the sky and one on the ground.

Even if the Japanese are short of arms, they should not buy arms from themselves, they should buy from Britain and the United States, and they should not buy from themselves in any way!

But now something that should not have happened in the early stages of the war has happened.

As a military personnel sent by the Japanese side, Ichiro Sato's identity is not fake, and it is even more impossible for Ichiro Sato to talk nonsense, let alone casually take out a check for 40,000 pounds and put it in front of him.

While speaking, Ichiro Sato put the check on Wang Bin's desk: "If General Wang can provide our army with ordnance in large quantities, then there will be larger orders in the future, and these are just deposits!" Ichiro Sato's words were slightly seductive.

Wang Bin didn't think too much about Sato Ichiro's words, and now Wang Bin was thinking about other things in his mind.

Could it be that this old man's navy suddenly loaded with great luck and cut off little Japan's maritime logistics line, resulting in difficulties in Japan's logistics supply?

Or did Lao Maozi's spies infiltrate the Japanese military factories and cause a series of losses to the Japanese military factories, so that their military industry temporarily began production?

Or is it just an excuse to bribe yourself to turn a blind eye to their activities in western Liaoning?

Or was their deal with Lao Maozi discovered by the Japanese, in order to make themselves no longer provide arms to Lao Maozi, so they wanted to use a higher price to make themselves no longer provide arms to Lao Maozi?

Just when many thoughts flashed in Wang Bin's mind, Wang Bin's face also returned to normal, this time Wang Bin just looked at the check in front of him, and did not reach out to take it, although the money looked tempting, but it was not so easy to take, so Wang Bin needed an explanation, an explanation to let himself take the money with peace of mind.

"If you want to buy arms, you can go to Tianjin, I believe that there will be many foreign companies in Tianjin who are willing to take over this business, how did you find me?" Wang Bin's words were filled with some doubts.

There are so many foreign banks in Tianjin, Wang Bin believes that there will be many foreign banks that will welcome this deal.

But Ichiro Sato still said to Wang Bin with a smile: "If I go to Tianjin and place an order directly, then how can you make money, General?" ”

After listening to Ichiro Sato's words, Wang Bin asked rhetorically, "Oh, what does Mr. Sato mean?" ”

Ichiro Sato continued to smile and said, "General Wang, if we can, we hope to be able to get rifles, heavy machine guns, artillery, and related ammunition and food, medical gauze, and medicine from your hands!" ”

As soon as he heard Ichiro Sato's words, Wang Bin's face changed suddenly, and Ichiro Sato didn't say anything else, but told him about the items he traded with Lao Maozi.

Holding a grass, the Japanese really knew about their deal with the Russians, and now they came directly to the door.

Wang Bin looked at Ichiro Sato again, and a lot of thoughts flashed in his heart.

The arms deal between himself and the Russians can be said to be extremely secret, and only he and Sun Chuanfang, who is in charge of transportation, know a little bit in the fifth town, even Ma Zikai only knows that he is conducting some secret transactions with the Russians, but he does not know what he is trading with the Russians, and it seems that this problem still appears in the Russians.

Although there are not too many people involved in this arms transaction process, it is normal for such a large batch of arms to be detected in circulation, and it is not difficult to find out that it is related to Wang Bin in further excavation, but the Japanese are so clear about the content of the transaction, which makes them a little surprised.