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After reaching a bargaining chip for an arms deal with Aoki Xuanchun Dazuo, early the next morning, Song Biao personally led Aoki Xuanchun to see his arsenal, and the black pressure was all military equipment, so that he was not lying.

After officially sending Aoki Xuanchun back to the military headquarters, Song Biao asked people to rescue Qiu Tongfu of Tonghua Zhi County, who was imprisoned by himself and the bandits, and this Qiu Zhi County was also acquainted, and was very willing to assist Song Biao's Manchurian Infantry Division in Tonghua to implement military management, and also guaranteed Song Biao, and wrote a letter to Shengjing General Zengqi according to Song Biao's intentions, explaining Song Biao's origin and military power.

Song Biao's origin has a clearer statement at this time, that is, he is a native of Shandong, his uncle served under Song Qing, and after the First Sino-Japanese War, he was disarmed and returned to the field, and stayed in Dongning and Shuangchengzi in the northeast to run the horse gang business.

Song Biao took over the business of the caravan after the death of his uncle, because he was repeatedly robbed by the bandits he supported, and gathered to kill the bandits, and then he was funded by the Russians, built a battalion by himself, and was very good at using soldiers, and had quite military merits in the Liaoshen battlefield, even broke two divisions of the army, killed more than 20,000 people in the army, and his prestige was very high, and the Russians respected him as the "butcher general", and the Russian emperor personally awarded the first-class military merit medal.

Since the founding of Tsarist Russia, this is a unique exception, so it is more important to the Russians, the officer to the colonel of the infantry, his military rank is equivalent to the deputy commander of the Qing army, there are 20,000 elite soldiers under the account, and more than 8,000 elite Russian troops are under his command, and the commander-in-chief of the Russian army, Commander-in-Chief Kuropatkin, has the right to control many Russian troops in the Tonghua, Huinan, Huichun, and Hunjiang areas, and all the troops of the Russian army less than one division are under his control in the locality.

Qiu Tongfu roughly wrote this in the letter, and said that after the Song Department arrived in Tonghua, but in one night, the 6,000 well-armed bandit troops were wiped out, killing more than 3,000 enemies, and the rest surrendered, and none of the more than 300 people in the army survived.

In the end, Qiu Tongfu said that Song Biao had a deep talk with him, but in fact he was not willing to continue to serve the Russian army, but wanted to take this opportunity to be loyal to the imperial court, and the peace of the imperial court in the Tonghua area would be guaranteed, and the Russian army would not dare to invade Tonghua.

Song Biao is saber resting on the table and talking to Qiu Tongfu, how to write this letter is naturally up to him, Qiu Zhixian is also a person who is afraid of death, and he doesn't dare to carry half a sentence of private goods, 1510 advocates for Song Biao, so he sent someone to the Shengjing General's Mansion in Shenyang.

As for General Shengjing Zengqi, Song Biao has already prepared, and Major Turgenier will personally visit him, and Lao Guo Tou will send tens of thousands of taels of silver to General Zengqi as a token of gratitude, on the condition that after the end of the Russian War, he hopes that General Zengqi will find a livelihood for him, so that he can continue to justifiably lead an infantry division to dominate Liaodong.

After finalizing the person and this matter of Qiu Tongfu, Song Biao was going to go to Tiechang Town to take a look at the situation, and easily seized the right to operate the Tonghua Iron Mine, and arranged for Xue Changqing to lead the team back to Niujiabao first, and officially prepared to start transporting grain to Shenyang City.

As long as his 40,000 quintals of grain are transported to Shenyang City, it will be the net income of 3 million taels of silver, and the hard work and hard work of these months are not all for this matter.

The local rich gentry in Tonghua were anxious to see him, saying that they wanted to set up a celebration banquet for him, but in fact they wanted to redeem those land deeds and land deeds from him, which was a dream in vain, Song Biao now did not seek fame, only strength, ignored them at all, and deliberately arranged for Hu Dalin, an old bandit, to deal with these people, and he hurried to the town of Tiechang Town.

Tonghua coal and iron resources are very rich, although can not be compared with Benxi, Anshan, but also can be regarded as the hometown of coal and iron in Jilin, Tonghua Iron and Steel is based on this and established, in Jilin Province is the base and leader of the iron and steel industry.

In addition to coal and iron, Tonghua's nickel ore resources were also developed very early, and they were developed during the occupation period, and were once the earliest nickel ore developed in China.

The iron ore resources of Tonghua are mainly concentrated in the surrounding area of Tiechang Town, especially in the area of Qidaogou, which is famous for producing iron ore in the Hachi period, and there are many blacksmiths and miners who smelt iron ore locally.

After checking around the ironworks, Song Biao returned to the county office again, wondering how this matter should work.

After a little consideration, he asked Major Kornilov to come over, and he found drawings and pencils and drew a sketch in the flower hall of the county office, and as soon as the picture was drawn, Major Kornilov hurried in.

Seeing Song Biao, Major Kornilov also saluted respectfully.

They used to be a cooperative relationship, and now Song Biao has the rank of colonel of the Manchurian infantry specially awarded by the Tsar, which is equivalent to the rank of colonel of the Russian army, and he is considered the superior of the coalition forces in front of Major Kornilov and others.

After Song Biao returned the salute, he invited Major Kornilov to sit down, and showed him the design he had roughly sketched, and said: "I have been thinking about the lightning cannon you invented for this time, the kind of earth-made lightning cannon of the Yue Army, we have also captured a lot, and their design still has some merits, I would like to learn from it." You see, this is a new lightning cannon designed by me, 60mm caliber, let's use bronze cannon body and frame from local materials, as long as we collect some copper coins from our country, we can make it after re-melting the furnace, and even the shells can be made of bronze, or pig iron. My design was to put a little effort into the shells, with a primer on the top and bottom, a firing charge charge underneath, and a firing detonator on top. ”

Major Kornilov took the drawings and looked at them carefully with great curiosity, and praised: "This design is indeed very good, how far do you estimate it can be?" ”

Song Biao said: "There is no problem within 500 meters, even if it is shoddy, temporarily find someone to organize production in Shenyang City, it is estimated that the effect is better than the kind of bamboo cannon of the army." If you can transfer some professional technicians from Harbin and other places, we can produce in Tonghua, I have a copper mine over there, and an iron mine here, it is very easy to find some craftsmen temporarily, but the production of artillery shells needs to be paid attention to. ”

Major Kornilov carefully assessed and said, "We have a temporary munitions factory in Shenyang City, which is mainly responsible for the production of mines, explosive packs, and the kind of mines you originally provided, as well as for the maintenance of artillery and machine guns. If we can manufacture 50 to 100 of these kinds of things in a short period of time and send them to the front line in large quantities, it will definitely produce extremely special combat effects. ”

Song Biao said: "If you want to produce in large quantities, it is more reasonable to directly produce 80mm caliber lightning guns, and the shelling range can be expanded to at least one kilometer, or it can be produced according to the foot standard, directly on the 3-inch barrel and ammunition." If you put more effort into the manufacturing process, the range of one kilometer should not be a problem, but I am afraid that the gun body of this thing will not be able to withstand the pressure of the chamber, and it is better to be safe, after all, it is a rough design, and it is too late to do experiments. ”

Major Kornilov said: "It is good to be able to basically meet the firing range of 500 meters, if you need to pass the test, you also need to carry out various weapon tests, especially the experiment of the gun barrel is inevitable, and it is too late in time, so I think I will build a part of it according to the six-centimeter system." ”

Song Biao said with a smile: "Okay, I'll just draw a schematic diagram, the specific details still have to be figured out by the major himself, you can let the Russian military munitions industry produce it in your own name, if you can make up a patent, maybe there will be some rewards!" ”

Kornilov laughed wryly: "How is this embarrassing? ”

Song Biao didn't care, and said: "We are a brotherly friendship, these words, I have also reaped enough benefits with your help, just to fight this Tonghua county, I am not polite to say, my income is not less than one million rubles." The Chinese have an old proverb that says that if you have money, everyone earns, I make money, and you have to make money, which is called a real good thing. Okay, don't be polite to me, anyway, I just happen to have something to ask you to help with. ”

Kornilov thought about it for a while and decided to accept this gift calmly, because Song Biao did earn a lot of loot from fighting bandits in front of him, but he didn't share some of it.

He said: "Then I thank you, if you need my help with something, then please say it directly, as long as I can help, it will definitely help you." ”

Song Biao nodded, and said in a low voice with Kornilov: "I just went to the iron factory town, and it is said that there are a lot of coal and iron mines in that place. I thought about it, this kind of thing must not be cheap. It just so happens that there is nothing to worry about here in Tonghua, so you should hurry up and go back to Shenyang to implement the production of this lightning cannon, and by the way, you will make a deal with Major Tuvaniel, and the two of you will think of some way together, in the name of your Russian Far East Army, find a Russian middleman to buy out the 30-year monopoly of coal and iron mines in Fushun, Tonghua, and Hunjiang, and pay 600,000 rubles at a time, and then I will make a deal with you and buy it from you at a price of 800,000 rubles. The reason why I want to do this is mainly because your war is nearing the end, and there will definitely be a formal result before the end of the year, I have 20,000 or 30,000 brothers with me at that time, these brothers are all going to eat, and it is impossible to always take the salary of your Russian army, even if the troops on my side and the Manchu court are recruited, the salary of the Manchu court is far inferior to the Russian army. The Manchu army was paid no more than five or six oceans per soldier per month, which was not enough for these brothers in my family. Therefore, I have to plan ahead now, first find a good way for the brothers to live, and find some profitable business to support the brothers later. Maybe one day, you'll have to fight again, and I'll be of use then! ”

Major Kornilov nodded solemnly and said, "Colonel Song, you have always been an extremely intelligent person, and I admire you very much. In fact, when I left Shenyang, I also talked to Brigadier General Madenidov about the problem of your army. The brigadier general had a judgment, he believed that it was impossible for the Russian-Japanese war to strive for a perfect ending, and the Russian army would probably not be able to permanently station in Kwantung after that, at least not be able to send large troops to Manchuria, and at that time, you would be an important force for us to continue to suppress the expansion of the Russian-Japanese war in Manchuria for a long time. You can rest assured that the Commodore will continue to support you in the future. On the one hand, our army will definitely give you great pressure and strong recommendations to ensure that you have enough status and power in the post-war Northeast after the war, and on the other hand, if you have other strategies to deal with the changes that follow, our army will also give you great support. So, Colonel Song, as long as you can ensure the stable operation of the Mandong transportation line, you don't have to worry about the rest at all. ”

Song Biao laughed contentedly, and directly took out a ticket of 50,000 rubles and pushed it to Major Kornilov, and said: "Then let's just say it, I have too many brothers to raise now, and many things are not very beautiful, and the materials are really inseparable, please forgive the major, even if it is some compensation here, as for the brigadier general and Major Tuvaniel, I will send someone to send it, major, you can accept it with confidence." ”

Major Kornilov's heart was indeed not too happy, the hard work was done by the Russians, the front was in Jiang Jiayao, that is, his troops were at the forefront, and the sacrifice was great, but the final credit and benefits were taken up by Song Biao.

Now that he saw the big ticket of 50,000 rubles, his mood suddenly brightened, and he accepted the money with a smile.

Seeing that he had collected the money, Song Biao added with a smile: "Then it's all up to you, major?" ”

Major Kornilov agreed and said, "Don't worry, even if I can't do it with that guy Tuvaniel, it's not like the brigadier general will support you." I might as well tell you something, you have earned a lot of credit to the brigadier general. On the side of our Tsarist Empire, it is not very difficult for you to be promoted to a major, that is, it depends on seniority, if you want to be promoted to brigadier general, it is too difficult, it seems that there is only one step between the colonel and the brigadier general, but in fact, it is really not easy, between the brigadier general and the general, the gap is even greater, and it is even more difficult to be promoted. From what we have heard, it seems that the brigadier general can be promoted, and if the situation is good, he may remain in the Far East as commander. As long as there are brigadier generals who will continue to help you in the future, what else are you worried about? ”

Song Biao smiled, knowing in his heart that he would have to continue to send Brigadier General Madenidov another thicker ruble ticket later.

The Tsarist era was a typical bureaucracy, the wind of corruption and bribery was very alarming, not much worse than the Qing Dynasty, when there was difficulty, everyone riveted their efforts to do something serious, once this strength was relieved, making money was a very important thing.