It is very important to know oneself and the other, now it is the enemy who is strong and I am weak, and it has been planned for a long time, and it is still very difficult for Sichuan as a province to play with a country, so it is very important to conduct research on the surname, after Wang Lingji received the task, he hurriedly went to prepare.

The calculation time has come to April, and soon the First World War will break out, Qiao Yu will focus more on the rectification of the arsenal, this day Qiao Yu will Zhao Baoxuan, Tang Yisheng, Wu Hengchang, Feng Ru and others all gathered together, jointly inspect the Sichuan Arsenal.

Due to the repeated expansion of the Sichuan Arsenal, the land in the city is not enough, so the site had to be moved to the north of the city, the entire arsenal covers an area of more than 40,000 acres, divided into two main factories, that is, two branches, the first branch is responsible for the production of guns, bullets, mortars and grenades and so on.

The second factory is mainly responsible for cannons and machine guns, the director of the arsenal is named Zhang Zhaozhong, when he saw the patrol so that the adults took a large number of adults up to inspect, he also felt a little nervous, after everyone entered the factory, I saw that the workers were busy working, everything was in order, in addition to the Chinese workers, there were many foreign technicians in the guidance, and Qiao Yu's heart also had confidence to see the scene of thriving production.

Everyone simply turned around and came to the large conference room, where Zhang Zhaozhong began to introduce the production of the arsenal to Qiao Yu and others.

"Marshal, now the Sichuan Arsenal has a total of more than 12,300 employees, including 7,600 in the first factory and more than 4,700 in the second factory, last year the Sichuan Arsenal produced a total of 26,000 rifles in the first year of the Republic of China, 3,000 axes were sent to the central government, and the rest are all equipped with the Sichuan army, and so far this year 7,000 rifles have been produced, which basically ensures that all the divisions of the Sichuan army have been redressed, and after the equipment is unified, the logistical pressure has been greatly reduced, and at this point the Sichuan army has gone to the front of all the armies in the country!"

Qiao Yu and others listened to the introduction, and their hearts became more and more joyful, this is the benefit of building a military industry system that reads power, most of the armies around the country are made by all countries, and these weapons are all purchased by the former Qing Dynasty, after the old bureaucrats of the Qing Dynasty were defeated by foreigners, they put all their efforts on buying weapons, and no matter how the weapon surname can be, no matter how the logistics should be handled, in short, buy it back first.

This kind of blind introduction is simply messing around, it is joking with the soldier's surname, being able to unify the army's equipment is the most critical thing, and it is also what Qiao Yu has been focusing on, and now it is really gratifying to finally see some achievements.

"We are sure that we will add two more rifle production lines within this year, and then from the regular army in Sichuan to the local troops will be able to unify the equipment to ensure combat capability, in addition to the introduction of three bullet production lines from Germany, plus the original production line, can produce 200,000 bullets per month, basically meet the needs of the army's peacetime training, but there are still a lot of gaps, in addition to the production of mortars has also increased greatly, through the introduction of German equipment, we are now able to produce 140 mortars per month, The central political axe also took a fancy to this weapon and asked us to give priority to the supply of equipment for the Beiyang Army! ”

Qiao Yu nodded slightly: "They said theirs, we do ours, the Sichuan Arsenal does not give priority to equipping the Sichuan army, do you still have to equip Beiyang, and in addition, we have to raise the purchase price to me by two percent, we also have to make money!" ”

Zhang Zhaozhong was originally very difficult, after the expansion of the Sichuan Arsenal, the scale is unprecedented, and it is second to none in the country, even the Hanyang factory can not be compared, it is precisely because of the big tree that it will attract the covetousness of all parties, he is a small factory director is indeed unbearable, but since the patrol has spoken, then watch them fight with the gods, and they don't have to take responsibility.

"Marshal, the production of cannons in the second factory has also developed rapidly, we have been able to mass-produce the German Krupp 75 mm mountain gun, in addition to the introduction of the same Krupp factory 75 mm 1903 type 29 times the caliber field gun, the same can be mass-produced, now the monthly output is about ten, the main constraint is the material, our steel is not qualified, must be imported from Germany, now Germany domestic demand is also very large, rarely exported, but Yucheng Iron and Steel Plant has been able to produce suitable steel, It's just that it will take some time before mass production, and it is estimated that this constraint will be solved within half a year, and the output of the gun factory will be able to more than triple by then. ”

Although Qiao Yu felt that this number was relatively small, there was no way to blame it, metallurgy as a basic discipline requires a lot of time to accumulate, and the country of the stepwife is almost restricted, and the personnel up and down the Sichuan Arsenal must have paid a high price to do this.

Zhang Zhaozhong continued to introduce the various products of the Sichuan Arsenal, basically the Sichuan Arsenal can basically produce all kinds of equipment in addition to heavy artillery, such as the output of Makqin machine guns has reached 30 per month, the output of light machine guns is also more than 50, and the output of hand grenades has reached 20,000 per month, which is enough for the Sichuan army.

"Director Zhang, how many of our own technicians are there in the arsenal now, and how many qualified workers have been trained?"

As soon as Zhang Zhaozhong heard Qiao Yu ask this, his heart immediately went down a lot, "Back to Dashuai, now our technicians on the production line of the main bullets and grenades have reached about half, and the rifle production line is less than thirty percent, and the cannon production line is even less, only one percent!" ”

When Qiao Yu heard this, his mood was also a lot lower, the Sichuan Arsenal still relied too much on foreign technicians, if the First World War broke out, he would inevitably turn his face with Germany and turn to the Entente, at that time all the German technicians would be withdrawn, if there were no enough suitable workers, I was afraid that the Sichuan Arsenal would be beaten back to its original shape in an instant.

"Director Zhang, Sichuan Arsenal can achieve such achievements can not be separated from your hard work, according to the scale and output, Sichuan Arsenal has been able to dominate the country, but this is far from enough, even said that the achievements of Sichuan Arsenal is built on the beach, the real reading of the military industry system requires us not only to produce guns and cannons, but also to be able to design their own, not just imitation so simple, in addition to we have to achieve self-production from technicians, materials, if you can't do this, Our military industry is not really readable, have you ever thought about it, if Germany withdraws all their technicians, will we still be able to maintain this production, if Germany stops exporting machinery and steel? ”

Zhang Zhaozhong thought that Qiao Yu would praise him, but he knew that Qiao Yu actually pointed out this most fatal problem, Sichuan Arsenal is essentially similar to other enterprises in China, and it has to rely on foreign support, without foreign support, it will not be able to maintain at all, Zhang Zhaozhong also knows very well that what Qiao Yu said makes sense, and immediately seemed a little panicked.

"Marshal, we are complacent, and the arsenal still depends on the support of Germany, but we will definitely study hard and speed up the training of our own workers and technicians!"

"Well, there is a little bit to have this kind of thinking, people are not good, flowers are not red, everything has to rely on themselves, now relying on the Germans is equivalent to putting the knife in the hands of the Germans, no one knows when the Germans will turn their hands to cut us, I think so, transfer some students from the technical school in Yucheng, and then transfer a part from Sichuan University, let them accept social practice in advance, and then let the old workers bring a few more apprentices, as long as they find that there is talent in this area, they must be fully cultivated, Then there is the introduction of a group of senior technicians from the United States, which can cost as much as you want, the key is that we must learn the technology! ”

Tang Yisheng and several others were listening carefully to Qiao Yu's arrangement, they knew Qiao Yu's worries dimly in their hearts, the European war was imminent, once the war started, Sichuan would inevitably have to make a choice, from everyone's tendency, they still thought that Britain would win, if Sichuan fell to Britain, then the Germans would definitely withdraw all the technicians, and now it seems that Qiao Yu's actions are to avoid paralysis of the Sichuan arsenal because of Germany's withdrawal.

"Mr. Feng, how is our aircraft manufacturing now?

"We have created a new type of aircraft, codenamed Feilong, weighing nearly one ton, flying at an altitude of more than 500 meters, reaching a speed of 200 kilometers per hour, capable of carrying 100 kilograms of bombs, the stability of the aircraft is very good, and it has initially possessed combat capability, this level of aircraft is currently the most advanced in the world, but it has the same problem as the arsenal, our engines are also imported from Germany, and we are still not able to produce them ourselves!"

"Relying on others is not a way after all, I have a plan, the Sichuan Arsenal will be comprehensively rectified, the establishment of the Sichuan Military Industrial Complex, the new consortium will be divided into four parts, the first part is based on the current first factory, mainly producing rifles, machine guns, the second factory is responsible for the production of cannons and mortars, and then set up a separate ammunition factory, responsible for the production of bullets, shells, explosives, grenades, etc., and finally set up a munitions factory, responsible for the overall use of military uniforms, tents, food and medicine, etc., each factory has its own stall, In addition, the consortium should also coordinate the production and design of the aircraft factory, as well as the steel, metallurgy, electric power and other departments to jointly escort Sichuan's military production and ensure that Sichuan can realize the military industry as soon as possible! ”

"Dashuai, it is good to be able to rectify comprehensively, but there is definitely not a small amount of money to be invested!" Zhang Zhaozhong was a little worried.

"You don't have to worry about this, I'm going to take out five million taels to rectify the Sichuan factory, you just need to take care of your livelihood!"

The matter of printing fake Yue Yuan has already been rewarded, and Qiao Yu has already made more than 10 million profits in just a few months, and it is with this money that Qiao Yu has enough confidence.