Sure enough, receiving Xiao Yimin's generous promise, Max and a group of Germans were very moved, and they stood up one after another to thank the broad-minded Xiao Yimin.

Watts finally stepped forward to hug Xiao Yimin, and said quite painfully:

"Xiao, I'm sorry, it is estimated that I will soon leave this beautiful place, the company and the military have asked me to return to Germany as soon as possible Due to the recent unrest in Europe, they have passed a special budget plan, asking me to be the head of this plan, after leaving, I and my wife and two children, I am afraid it will be difficult to have the opportunity to come back."

After Xiao Yimin's astonishment, his heart was like a knife, and after a painful struggle, a kind smile reappeared on his face: "Congratulations, my dear friend!" I have long said that you are the best, your talent will not be buried, and the facts have completely proved my point of view, you are the best weapons designer in all of Germany and in the world! ”

Watts' eyes turned red with emotion: "Xiao ......"

Xiao Yimin smiled slightly, patted Watts's hand heavily, invited everyone to sit down, turned to Max and asked, "Max, how many grenades did you throw away at the shooting range at the Ya'an base this time?" ”

Max laughed when he heard this: "Not much, just more than 20, the officers and soldiers of the base threw more, many soldiers like to throw grenades and grenades into the river west of the camp, and as a result, we need to eat fish every day for a week." ”

Everyone couldn't help but laugh, and the atmosphere quickly became relaxed.

The Belgian engineer in charge of the design and manufacture of the grenade, Marveer, said with a smile:

"Dear Xiao, the new equipment of the Ya'an factory has been installed and debugged, and it is completely ready to start the mass production of oval grenades and wooden-handled grenades! These two throwing weapons, which we have spent a year and a half researching, completely surpass the British Mark II cast iron grenade and the wooden-handled grenade in terms of design, lethality and safety, and the production technology is also extremely simple, and the transportation and carrying are very safe, fully meeting the requirements you have put forward......"

Watts interrupted Marveille with a calm face: "Our German [***] team is also very satisfied with these two throwing weapons. ”

Max lowered his head, then turned to Xiao Yimin guiltily, and said with a wry smile: "Xiao, our two representatives are living in the consulate, and they also have a fancy to these two throwing weapons, and they are eager to meet you, so let's sit down and have a good talk." ”

Everyone immediately shut up, and the atmosphere was embarrassing again, after all, it was very immoral to reveal the secrets of the military industry in private without telling the master, especially when Xiao Yimin was so generous, it became more and more despicable that this kind of behavior was very despicable, which made the Germans, who have always valued personal honor and reputation, very guilty.

Are you still afraid of bowing twice? Xiao Yimin could only pretend to laugh generously:

"That's a good thing! Isn't our mortar technology not perfected to the end? The cooperation and joint research between the two sides on this basis will definitely produce results soon, which will be beneficial to both parties...... That's right! I remember that the Rhein company has been involved in the production of weapons since the second half of last year, and the Mauser company also mentioned that it wants to develop a light machine gun that exceeds the equipment of the French [***] team, I wonder if we can cooperate in this regard? ”

"There is no problem at all, both the Rhein Company and the Mauser Company have not accelerated the development of light machine guns because they have not been able to obtain purchase guarantees and research funds from the army. As far as I know, in the past two years, they have developed three types of light machine gun prototypes, but they are hesitant on the final choice of gas and recoil, if they can get the support and cooperation of Huaxi Group Company, they will definitely be ecstatic, even I myself have a preliminary plan to develop light machine guns, Xiao, as long as you ask our military representatives, they will not refuse. "Watts looked very confident.

Xiao Yimin was very happy, stood up and said happily:

"Great! As long as it can meet the technical requirements I put forward before, I am willing to share part of the research funds, once the research and development is successful and the final design is finalized, on the basis of sharing the technical results, I am willing to buy no less than 1,000 units at a time, and it is likely to introduce the production line of the product at the same time. ”

A group of Germans were deeply moved, and they all said that Xiao Yimin was too generous, and he could exchange mortar technology and improved grenade and grenade technology for German light machine gun technology.

Xiao Yimin was full of smiles, not greedy at all, and then asked Max and Watts to take him to meet the representatives of the German [***] side.

Watts asked Xiao Yimin to wait, entered his office in the room, took out a thick leather folder, a small square wooden box, and placed it very solemnly on the table.

Watts opened the small wooden box first, held it in both hands and sent it to Xiao Yimin, and on the red velvet lining inside the box, a shiny and exquisite pistol lay quietly.

Xiao Yimin's eyes widened and he was excited, took out his pistol and admired the beautiful pistol made of high-quality chromium-molybdenum steel, and gently stroked the lifelike flying leopard pattern on the gun's body, the neat German inscription of the Huaxi Metal Products Factory, and the handle guard plate carefully polished with antelope horns engraved with the German words "Friendship lasts forever", and his fingertips finally stayed above a line of serial numbers: m1912.ch.a00001.

"This ...... Can it be finalized for mass production? Xiao Yimin asked in surprise.

The Germans around him smiled comfortably, and it seemed that they didn't need to answer the question at all.

Watts picked up the thick leather folder and handed it to Xiao Yimin with both hands:

"All the design drawings and process flow data of this gun are in it, and the full set of testing molds is in the quality inspection room of the workshop. Dear Xiao, this is our small gift to you, although it is far less than the brotherhood and generous salary you have given us, it represents our high respect and deep friendship with you!

"Xiao, according to your opinions, on the basis of the Colt M1911 military pistol, we have redone some simplified designs, canceled the grip safety, widened the sheet crosshairs, redesigned a more concise aiming gate, and slightly reduced the grip according to the hand shape of the Chinese soldiers, and a new magazine design with nine rounds of full loading, which completely solved the ammunition supply failure of all previous imitation pistols.

"Max and they have perfected the mass production plan, quietly brought back four state-of-the-art rifling machines and three high-efficiency machine tools from the new arsenal equipment, and have been installed and commissioned, and you can start production today if you want."

"Watts, Max, friends, how can I thank you?" Xiao Yimin asked with blazing eyes.

A group of Germans laughed and laughed very happily.

Watts pointed to Max and Marville and told Xiao Yimin that this time he only took two assistants, and also took two smart Chinese young people to Germany to continue training, Max and other four people and their wives did not plan to leave the beautiful Chengdu, their children made a lot of new friends here, so they still chose to stay, and tried their best to mobilize German engineers who were guiding the construction of the new arsenal to work in Huaxi Company, only in this way is the best thanks to Xiao Yimin and Huaxi Group Company

After a noon and an afternoon of friendly negotiations, the apologetic Germans fully satisfied Xiao Yimin's request, and at the suggestion of the consul and military attache Sharpler, the Mauser company and the military representatives quickly notified the manager of Chengdu Deutsch-Hua Bank to come to the meeting, thus facilitating the first loan cooperation between Huaxi Group and Deutsch-Hua Bank.

Deutsch-Hua Bank's general manager Hoddle has worked closely with Xiao Yimin for three years, and has successfully obtained the import and export settlement rights of Huaxi Group, and nearly half of its profits in the past two years have benefited from the close cooperation with Huaxi Group.

Hoddle is very optimistic about Huaxi Group's earnings prospects.

In addition to the completion of the procurement of equipment for the arsenal of up to 5 million marks, the total amount of raw materials imported by the Huaxi Group in the first five months of this year has exceeded the sum of last year, and the trend of increasing purchases is very obvious.

Xiao Yimin is expanding the army at a rapid pace, and his weapons and equipment are relatively tight, so he is naturally happy to carry out such cooperation, and after the loan is negotiated, he generously decides:

"Of the loan of one and a half million marks, I am going to use immediately for the purchase of special steels for the three major German companies, a small amount of supplementary equipment for the manufacture of weapons and military telescopes; One million marks were transferred to the accounts of Mauser and Deutsche Arms and Ammunition Manufacturing (DWM) for the purchase of Mauser M1905 long rifles and 100 MG08 water-cooled heavy machine guns. ”

Facing the ecstatic Germans, Xiao Yimin then threw a big cake:

"The remaining 500,000 yuan as R & D investment, I will entrust Deutsch Hua Bank to manage, has developed a sample gun Mauser company, Rhein Metal Company controlled Thuringia Semoda factory, Switzerland Sorotong company, proportionally to obtain the support of this research and development funds, once a company's product design and final finalization is adopted by us, we will obtain the premise of obtaining technology patents and production licenses in China, a surname in cash to purchase no less than 1,000 shaped light machine guns, do not rule out the possibility of purchasing the entire light machine gun production line from the company.

"I think you should be able to predict that at least in the next ten years, China's chaotic situation will be difficult to change, the huge arms market is like a hungry man who can never fill his stomach, and we are willing to make greater efforts to sell German industrial products in China."

The Germans were pleasantly surprised by this move and stimulated them in all aspects.

The Consul General, Mr. Fu Diegeng, immediately proposed to adjourn the meeting, and he entered the Consul General's office with Hansberg, senior adviser to the Mauser Company, and Colonel Brian, the chief military attache in China.

Fu Diegeng solemnly took out the instructions and analysis materials sent by the German Embassy in China not long ago, selected some of them and distributed them to the public, and then immediately convened an extraordinary meeting.

(To be continued)