Lu Hong's words naturally surprised Weng Tongyi, what other role could this military discipline battalion have? He nodded and motioned for Lu Hong to continue......

"Ge Lao, if the Military Aircraft Department has important matters that need to be handled by the military, the military discipline battalion can be used to urge, report the progress in a timely manner, and even important matters such as military expenses can also be assisted by the military discipline battalion, if this law can be implemented, the military aircraft department order can be unblocked in the army!" Lu Hong talked eloquently, but he concealed one thing, the Manchu army of this era was already terminally ill, and how could a small military discipline battalion reverse it.

Weng Tongyi looked at Huang Tifang and Li Hongzao sitting next to him, these two were looking at their noses and noses at the moment, and they didn't know what to think, and Lu Hong said this, he naturally thought about it, if this military discipline camp can be successful, there is no doubt that he has inserted half a hand in the army...... However, this matter is obviously not easy to do!

He looked at Lu Hong, who was still standing upright, this young man's insight and bearing made him quite satisfied, and suddenly he remembered something, "Lu Hong, what you said to Huang Yushi is that this is the heart of war again, I am afraid this can only be regarded as a conjecture, last month, it was said that the silver wedding celebration of Emperor Meiji was celebrated, and the emperor also sent a congratulatory letter and gift, and Minister Wang Fengzao also said that the emperor wants to be friendly with all generations of China!" ”

His words made Lu Hong secretly ridicule the old man in his belly, and he took care of the things in the court all day long, the real national affairs, this is far less than the dedication of Li Zhongtang, who was recognized as a surrender faction by later generations, fortunately, he already had some plans, "Elder Ge, the matter I reported is by no means a conjecture, the matter of the Japanese people to seize North Korea is probably premeditated for a long time, that is, it is just a mistake, with their cunning, even if nothing happens, it will make trouble, and when the time comes, I am afraid that war or not war will be between their thoughts!" ”

Huang Tifang next to him heard Lu Hong's words, looked up, and asked more, "Lu Hong, the news you said is probably also inferred!" What can I do? ”

Lu Hong smiled slightly, looked at the little old man, and received this well, "Ge Lao, Huang Gong, I saw earlier that the British newspaper published that the Korean civil unrest was quite prosperous, but it has only subsided for the time being, and the Korean royal family is now quite colluding with the Russians, I am afraid it is also a way to take trouble, these are difficult to guarantee that they will not be used by this institute!" ”

These news, Yuan Shikai sent back from North Korea in the fold has been mentioned, Weng Tongyi was more surprised that Lu Hong could also see it from the foreigner's newspaper, he nodded thoughtfully, at this time, Li Hongzao next to him asked: "Lu Hong, according to your inference, if there is a war, the difference between victory and defeat, can the foreigner's newspaper infer it?" ”

Lu Hong looked at this gray-bearded old Qingliu, this person's identity is not lower than Weng Tongxiao, the old man of the Three Dynasties Pavilion and the teacher of the Tongzhi Emperor, however, compared to Weng Tongrong, although this governance method is a little old-fashioned, it is more tolerant, Huang Tifang also respects this big man, so in terms of promoting armaments, this one can borrow a little more!

He arched his hand sideways and said with a smile: "Elder Li Ge, with all due respect, after opening foreign affairs and training the army, foreigners know more about our Korean armaments, a few years ago, when the Beiyang Naval Division was first formed, the Taixi newspapers commented that the Qing Navy was really the first-class combat force in the Far East, and it was impossible to challenge it, but in the past 7 years, none of them said that they did not take our Korea as the enemy and stepped up preparations for war, and they purchased ships year after year, and the warships purchased were all British first-class fast gunboats. 8 years is the limit of the Navy's combat readiness! ”

Speaking of this, Lu Hong glanced at Li Hongzao, who obviously seemed to understand, "Nowadays, Britain and Germany are engaged in a naval competition, and the British evaluate the ironclad ship Saxony that the Kaiser is riding on has long been outdated!" The weakness of our navy and the navy of the DPRK are encountered, and the defeat is slow in ship and slow artillery, and victory cannot expand the results of the battle, and defeat is difficult to evacuate, in fact, the British newspapers have long asserted! ”

At this moment, Li Hongzao and Weng Tongyi both understood very well that the German Saxony was not the same class of warships as Dingyuan and Zhenyuan in Beiyang, and it was obvious that the British also thought that these two ironclad ships, which were known as the first in the Far East, were outdated...... Obviously, Lu Hong only euphemistically expressed his views on victory and defeat, but who wins and who loses has already been made very clear!

However, Li Hongzao obviously had another opinion on this theory, "Lu Hong, didn't this navy repair Lushun and Weihai Weijun Port, with the help of batteries, so many ironclad ships may not be able to win!" ”

"Elder Li Ge, this wartime plan is not something I can predict...... However, the British have already asserted that the battle between China and China is actually a naval battle and a Korean battle! "Fighting there, it's not up to anyone to have the final say, Li Hongzao's head is really too conservative, speaking of which, Lu Hong turned around and arched his hand towards Weng Tongyi, he couldn't have said this more clearly, as for some other words, it is not suitable to say it now, and he still needs to find another opportunity, of course, whether there is a chance to say it, it depends on whether his copywriting and foreshadowing can make these Qingliu bigwigs understand the crisis of the situation today.

In fact, for whether the war will happen, although he listened to Lu Hong's analysis, he actually didn't care, the concept of China, the boss, for this old man Weng, is still a deep-rooted idea, although he opened a new deal, but in his opinion, he will never dare to do it easily.

However, Lu Hong proposed to start from military discipline and meddle in the affairs controlled by the army, he was quite interested, for the huge Huai army system, it has long been a problem that Qingliu has been criticizing, but there is no means to check and balance, and the setting of this military discipline battalion, as an institution under the jurisdiction of the Military Aircraft Department, is indeed a wonderful means, when the time comes, Li Hongzhang's face is iron-clad and uncomfortable!

Of course, Weng Tongyi also understands that it is absolutely very difficult to implement this matter, the Huai system is deeply rooted in that force, how can it be casually able to send people down, that is, if it is sent down, whether it can find out something is very important, Pei Weiyun's excerpt of "Officials and Soldiers Arbitrarily Loot Please Punish Reason" earlier, now is the time to use it!

The topic was asked here, in fact, Lu Hong should have said everything, and then Li Hongzao asked two more words, then waved his hand to let him retreat, and waited outside for more than an hour, only then did he see Huang Tifang's expression come out calmly, he naturally followed the little old man, walked for a while, and the little old man said, "Lu Hong, what you said today is good, stay in my house for a while, I'm afraid Lord Weng will still look for you!" ”

In the next four days, Lu Hong was really fine, he took the time to run to St. George's foreign company, and took a purchase list from the bearded Anderson, many of which made him immediately interested, this is really a big gift! Vertical lathes and horizontal milling machines of Hardinge Company in the United States, this is the overlord of old lathes, and in their own time, the military also had a falling out with a set of Harding XR series five-axis machining centers and American political axes.

The following list of good goods is even more continuous, the British Cincinna company's radial drilling machine, deep hole drilling machine, these are all military-level things, what surprised him even more is that there is a gantry milling milling machine of the American Gleason company, this is a big guy, as for ordinary lathes, milling machines, universal grinders, planers, screw machines and other small machine tools, almost all of them are cabbage prices, and I don't know how Anderson's beard has such a big ability!

In fact, Lu Hong completely overestimated Anderson's ability, the economic crisis that began in Germany three years ago has already swept the United States, and now, Germany's economy has just recovered, in fact, Britain and France and other countries in Europe are at the end of the economic crisis, and the economic situation will soon continue to be negative, but the United States, which finally entered the economic crisis, has closed down in the past three years, and the surviving enterprises have sold a large number of various production equipment without exception. This directly led to the end of a large number of machinery and equipment in the early years, and even being reused to make steel.

If Lu Hong purchases these old machine tools, Anderson's profit from the deduction of goods can be increased, which is a completely win-win situation!

He immediately poured [***] medicine on Anderson, "Dear Anderson, is the United States of America exporting all this scrap of copper and iron?" What about the latest machines? I've heard that the merger of the United Steel Corporation has caused the price of steel in the United States to drop significantly, why are your second-hand machines still selling so expensive?"

With an expectant expression, the beard holding the teacup in his hand, what he wants to do most at this time is estimated to be to stuff the teacup into Lu Hong's big mouth, after four years of economic crisis, how many new machine tools can the United States have, the old ones can't be digested, machine tool factories are relying on layoffs to survive, and the price they give is also a conscience price, after all, these things are not transported thousands of miles away, and they will be bumpy at sea for more than a month, God knows how much damage will be made.

"Dear Lu, this is already an extremely low price, it is really a little more than selling scrap steel! If it weren't for our long-term cooperation agreement, I would never have been able to accept such a price! "The beard is spitting all over the place, and it's raining on his beard!

Lu Hong shook his head, "No, no, I trade with you for high value-added products, so let's help me get a set of university laboratory equipment, how many can be counted, I think, this little request should not be difficult to do!" ”

The bearded man was also stunned when he heard it, his request as a big customer was really unusual, in this era, the laboratory equipment was definitely not as simple as in later generations, however, in addition to the expensive laboratories of those European national institutions of higher learning, ordinary physics and chemistry laboratory equipment was not easy to find, but it was not valuable, he immediately agreed to this condition, however, he also proposed that it might take a certain amount of time.

In the end, Lu Hong did not forget, let this bearded man hire about 10 senior machine tool technicians from the United States for himself, of course, it is best to have engineers, salary, he can only promise to give the United States 3 times the current salary, so 10, 8, he can still afford it, after all, he estimates, many of these machine tools, there may not be in China.

And Qin Tianmin has started to run around frequently in the past few days, and when he comes back, he spits out his bitterness every day, anyway, he has to make money everywhere in this capital, but what he said more is another big thing that has intensified in the court.

[Brothers, ask for a recommendation~~]

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