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"War is breaking out in Liaodong now, except for Yingkou, which we control, can still go to sea normally, and several other ports have been affected by the war......"

"We can send a message out because of the war, and any soybean outflow is prohibited outside the border. However, the Liaodong Army is willing to buy all the soybeans outside the border at a price of two taels and five dollars of silver, and we will buy as many as we want......"

Zhou Zhongju's eyes lit up, and he quickly replied: "This method is good, I will let someone arrange it immediately......"

"This time, Director Huang has recruited a lot of talents for us, and several of them are studying economics. I'm going to separate them out and make them a new section dedicated to soybean purchases......"

Yang Xingguo thought for a while and replied: "Not only do they buy soybeans, since they are studying economics, everything related to the economy can be handed over to them in the future." In my opinion, this department is called the Commercial Division, and the Commercial Division is established on the basis of several of them......"

The idea of bringing a large amount of income to the Liaodong Army through soybeans is good.

However, Yang Xingguo did not take into account that the soybean resources in many other places outside the entire Guan, except for Liaodong, are in the hands of Japan and Russia.

It is not easy to snatch such a large piece of cake back from the mouths of the two great powers. Of course, that's all for later.

At this moment, a piece of good news suddenly reached the headquarters.

"Several bullet production lines ordered from Germany have been fully installed and are ready for bullet production."

Yang Xingguo was very excited, and without thinking about it, he rushed out of the headquarters with a few guards and hurried to the arsenal.

After a month or two of reconstruction, the arsenal no longer saw its original dirty mess.

In a large factory, Yang Xingguo saw at a glance Xiao Wenchang, the director of the factory who was debugging machinery and equipment with the Germans. At the same time, dozens of people who have just been dug up from the Hanyang Gun Factory are also carefully inspecting every equipment and part of the entire production line to ensure that there are no problems after the start-up.

Because the power plant had not yet been repaired, the entire production line was driven directly by a huge generator.

After striding to Xiao Wenchang's side, the excited Yang Xingguo asked directly: "Director Xiao, how is the situation......

"Commander, why are you here......" Xiao Wenchang was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly replied.

"A couple of German engineers are good. Almost everything...... The equipment has been checked twice under their guidance and there should be no problem......"

"Then give it a try......" Yang Xingguo, whose eyes lit up, ordered decisively.

Xiao Wenchang, who got the order, immediately commanded more than a dozen technicians to go to the production line, and as the raw materials were all in place, Xiao Wenchang followed and issued an order to start the machine.

Moment. The roar of the engine began to sound in the factory.

Although Yang Xingguo's brows were furrowed, a pair of eyes were firmly fixed on the production line close at hand.

Soon, the entire production line was moving to the roar of the machine.

Then, less than two minutes later, a cry full of excitement reached Yang Xingguo's ears.

"It's out. The bullet came out......"

Yang Xingguo, who was both excited and expectant, hurriedly ran over.

One bullet after another, at the end of the production line, at a speed of about two seconds, slowly appeared in Yang Xingguo's field of vision.

Soon, more than a hundred bullets appeared on a table at the end of the production line.

An arsenal worker immediately moved a wooden box over and stacked the bullets very neatly in the box.

A standard bullet box of 2,000 rounds, when this box was all filled with bullets, the excited Yang Xingguo immediately ordered.

"Director Xiao, take the box to the back of the experimental field to try it and see how the pass rate is......"

Twenty guards. Squatting on the ground, facing the target paper a hundred meters away, repeating the same shooting motion over and over again.

In the crackling of gunfire, each guard fired no less than fifty rounds forward. However, these people still did not have the slightest intention of stopping, and the ninja grew in pain in the shoulder and continued to shoot.

It took a full twenty minutes for the whole shooting experiment to stop.

What made Yang Xingguo excited was that once there were 2,000 rounds, only one stink bomb appeared, and the failure rate was only 1 in 2,000......

"German machinery is a good thing. There is such a high pass rate. If it is Lao Maozi's equipment that produces bullets, there will be at least ten stink bullets in a box of bullets......" Xiao Wenchang, who couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when he saw the result, said happily.

Yang Xingguo was also very satisfied with this result.

What's more. For him, such a high pass rate directly means that this bullet production line can be put into production immediately.

Thinking of this, Yang Xingguo hurriedly asked, "Director Xiao, I am very satisfied with this result." ”

"I want to know if the line can be put into production right away. After full production, what is the output? Also, when will several other bullet production lines be installed and put into production. ”

Xiao Wenchang thought for a while and replied: "There is no problem with production, during this period of time, we have hoarded a lot of raw materials through seizure and trading, and insisted on putting the steel plant and gunpowder factory into production, and there is no problem at all." ”

"As for the production capacity, the German engineer said that if you work overtime, there will be an output of 40,000 rounds of ammunition."

"If the remaining three production lines are all installed and put into production, it will be 120,000 a day. Bullet production. ”

Yang Xingguo nodded with great satisfaction and replied: "This output is okay, but it will be further expanded in the future." ”

"As for production, it's still as I just said, full production. Produce as many bullets as you can. ”

After returning to the headquarters, the smile on Yang Xingguo's face remained unchanged.

Yang Xingguo, who had been worried about silver during this time, came to life again after listening to the bullet production capacity of the arsenal.

In the arsenal, Yang Xingguo subconsciously thought of the United States, which made its fortune through World War I and rose through World War II in later generations.

In later generations, the United States accumulated wealth and developed step by step through the arms business.

Now he has his own bullet production line, plus the war is all around him. By selling bullets to them, he could earn a large sum of money that the Liaodong Army urgently needed.

Of course, at this time, some people may say, didn't the Liaodong Army just get a large amount of silver from the two great powers of Japan and Russia, how could it still be short of silver.

It turned out that excluding the 10 million taels of silver used to reserve, the Liaodong Army was able to go east for more than 3 million taels.

Coupled with the original foundation of the Liaodong Army, it was only five million taels when it was full.

So much silver sounds like a lot, but it can't withstand Yang Xingguo's continuous squandering for two months.

First, the Germans sold the production line and all the equipment of the steel plant, which cost almost 1.5 million taels. “

Then the Liaodong Army issued pensions, expanded the troops, and used up 1.2 million taels of silver again.

With the further expansion of the Liaodong Army, more than 50,000 Liaodong troops had nearly 500,000 taels of silver per month's military salary and other various consumptions.

In the past two months, another million taels have been removed.

Then there is the construction of the arsenal building, the steel factory building, the military academy, the arsenal for two months to buy materials and pay for the silver, all other officials and the government in Liaoning for more than two months to consume, 300,000 taels of silver is indispensable.

In this way, five million taels will be the last million taels.

Even if the Liaodong Army did not invest anything in the next step, only to the army and the local government, it would only last for more than a month. (To be continued.) )