At the beginning of April 1904, Yuan Shikai officially placed the first order in the Jinzhou Arsenal, ordering a full 20,000 grenades, although this was only the first batch of orders, but this marked the Jinzhou manufacturing officially entered the market of the Beiyang New Army.

The most important thing for the arsenal is that because the Jinzhou Arsenal could not meet Yuan Shikai's production needs, it specially transported a lot of equipment imported by itself to the Jinzhou Arsenal, and after adding this part of the equipment, the production capacity of the Jinzhou Arsenal was greatly improved.

The expansion of the Jinzhou Arsenal was extremely rapid, and after receiving the support of Yuan Shikai, Wang Bin decided to purchase a batch of equipment in a joint venture with many officers in Beiyang to meet future production needs.

After Yuan Shikai's consent, Wang Bin discussed this matter with the bigwigs who were Beiyang, and said that in the future, the purchase of arms from the arsenal could be used to purchase arms from the arsenal at a price lower than that of the international market.

As soon as the bigwigs heard the news, they couldn't believe that there would be such a good thing, and after a careful understanding, they knew that this was an arsenal opened by their own people, so Wang Bin took a telegram to a few people who had a good relationship with him.

And this effect is even better than Wang Bin himself imagined, just send a few telegrams, has already harvested 300,000 taels of silver, although most of the people are for Yuan Shikai's acquiescence, and after the joint venture, they can buy into the fire at a low price before they contribute, but this just the list of people who have invested in the shares is enough to frighten most of the officials in the officialdom at the end of the Qing Dynasty.

Just by looking at the people involved in the joint venture, you can see that they are all people who have a huge influence in today's military circles, such as: Yuan Shikai, who bore the brunt, and Duan Qirui, Feng Guozhang, Wang Yingkai and others who followed closely behind.

Of course, this also illustrates some characteristics of the military circles and officialdom in the late Qing Dynasty from the side, but all officials must have a lot of money in their hands, reflecting the ** of the bureaucratic system in the late Qing Dynasty, only a small number of people can barely achieve the so-called "honest and honest", a huge Qing court has such a ** bureaucratic system, and those with foresight can not be faced, so it is strange that a dynasty does not perish!

History is often like this, and the occurrence of an event must have its inevitability and contingency.

In the hands of these Beiyang officers, Wang Bin had already made up 300,000 taels, in fact, it didn't matter how much money Yuan Shikai, Duan Qirui and others invested, the important thing was that Wang Bin's arsenal needed the names of these people.

As long as there is the name of this layer, then Jinzhou Arsenal is no longer a simple arsenal, but an arsenal with this strong Beiyang background, and this name is the future status guarantee of Jinzhou Arsenal in the Beiyang system.

As for why, this name is enough to make all those who want to beat Wang Bin's mind need to weigh their small body carefully, to put it mildly, if anyone wants to hit the Jinzhou Arsenal from the official side, I am afraid that they will face the retaliation of the entire Beiyang system.

In addition, it is precisely because of the name of these people that Wang Bin himself still has to consider the question of whether his arms can be sold?

All in all, the current Jinzhou Arsenal is no longer the arsenal that was once only covered by Wang Bin alone, but an arsenal with countless late Qing Dynasty bigwigs standing behind it, and these bigwigs will be the guarantee of profits.

And now our protagonist is having a conversation with Vladimir.

"Mr. Vladimir, I am a little dissatisfied with your secrecy work."

Wang Bin used the word "Benguan" for the first time in his conversation with Vladimir at this time, expressing his dissatisfaction with the fact that the Japanese knew that they had a deal with the Russians.

After hearing Wang Bin's words, Vladimir knew with his years of diplomatic experience that his side seemed to have some contradictions with Wang Bin, so he knew why under his own doubts.

Vladimir didn't expect that there would be a leak on his side, and Vladimir immediately assured Wang Bin that there would be no such situation in the future, and he would let people strictly investigate the leak after he returned.

But after saying the above sentences, Vladimir saw that Wang Bin was still expressionless, so he gritted his teeth and said: "General Wang, we can increase the price by three percent on the original basis, and hope that General Wang can provide arms for our army in the future, regardless of previous suspicions." ”

"Okay, since you are so sincere, I Wang Bin can't be stingy, recently there is a batch of Makqin heavy machine guns among the expanded ordnance that I have just arrived in the fifth town, I am ready to replace the original "old" heavy machine guns of our army, I don't know if you are interested in this batch of heavy machine guns? ＇

After Wang Bin got the result he wanted from Vladimir's mouth, he said happily to Vladimir.

When Vladimir heard Wang Bin's words, he was immediately a little surprised, and he didn't know why Wang Bin wanted to buy a batch of heavy machine guns for himself, and the motive for suddenly selling heavy machine guns alone was a little doubtful.

And Wang Bin is not the kind of person who has no brains, in several exchanges between Vladimir and Wang Bin, Vladimir found that Wang Bin is still a person with foresight, so Wang Bin suddenly wants to sell heavy machine guns to his own side must have a reason for existence.

It's just that I don't know the reason so far.

Vladimir thought of many reasons, but he didn't expect that Wang Bin simply didn't want Tsarist Russia to lose so quickly, he wanted Tsarist Russia to support in this war for a longer time, supporting rifles has no substantive effect, and heavy machine guns are different.

If the Russians were to be sent heavy machine guns, whether they were used in the Arthur or Mukden theaters, they would definitely inflict great casualties on the Japanese army, and in this way they would also eliminate the Japanese advantage in the Far East after the war.

Therefore, he had to send as many heavy machine guns as possible to the Russians when the countries of the world did not know the advantages of heavy machine guns in positional warfare.

In terms of the current situation in the northeast, which is still evenly matched, he must let the Russians have a little advantage, and once the situation is still like the historical defeat of the Japanese army, then he will have no chance to fish in troubled waters in the Far East.

Now, no matter what, he must find ways to strengthen the superiority of the Russian army in the Far East.

Therefore, he must supply this batch of heavy machine guns to the Russian army in the Far East.

After talking about the heavy machine gun, Wang Bin said another sentence to Vladimir: "Mr. Vladimir, it is a strategic point for your side to go to the 203 heights in Lushun, according to my official. ”

Regarding Wang Bin's sudden remark, Vladimir was a little puzzled, but he still remembered it.

After Wang Bin said this, he thought in his heart that he could only give the Russian side such a reminder at present.