In the afternoon of the same day, Li Guang ran into ashes at the naval headquarters in Nanjing. The war was imminent, and the information Li Guang received turned out to be that the navy had no need for torpedoes. In the end, he was kicked out of the naval command.

This is simply a big joke in the world, Li Guang was so angry that he couldn't cry or laugh. He had heard that the Chinese Navy had pushed mines to bomb warships during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and if there were torpedoes, it would have been impossible to push mines by manpower. (The Chinese army, who had studied abroad, often referred to torpedoes as mines.) )

However, in the evening, a drastic change occurred, and Admiral Chen Shaokuan, Minister of the National Navy and Military Department, personally found the Ariane freighter.

A dignified general, this is a real big man. In the future, it would be even more difficult for Li Guang to see an officer of this level. Li Guang is not angry at the moment, and even has a bit of big man syndrome, and he actually feels flattered.

Li Guang had heard of this name in later generations, but he didn't know anything about the deeds. Li Guang's history is indeed too poor, except for a few well-known figures, he really doesn't know much about this era. Chen Shaokuan is not a passerby, a real figure in the real power of the Chinese Navy. However, the Chinese navy was attritioned so quickly in the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression that later generations almost forgot that at this time there was still a Chinese navy fighting fiercely on the battlefield.

Subsequently, Li Guang also figured out what happened. However, to make a long story and to put it succinctly, the current Chinese Navy military department is not worthy of its name, and there is a lack of real naval officers, except for a few important posts held by naval officers, most of the departments are bureaucrats or unscrupulous officers. And the officer who received Li Guang simply couldn't even tell the difference between torpedoes and mines.

At this time, the War of Resistance had just broken out, and although there were few warships in the navy, the armament was quite sufficient. For example, a weak navy has tens of thousands of mines in reserve to deal with a strong enemy, which is not lacking.

There were still a few officers in the Navy Department who were proficient in naval warfare, and Captain Zheng Xuechang, a staff officer, was unable to interject at the time, but after learning about the incident, he was reprimanded one after another, and immediately reported it to Chen Shaokuan. Zheng Xuechang was a naval officer who had returned from studying in Britain, but he knew the merits of torpedoes and knew the importance of this matter. At this time, Zheng Xuechang was standing next to Chen Shaokuan.

So Chen Shaokuan performed a good scene of chasing torpedoes under the moon.

The battle situation was urgent, and he tested a torpedo under the moonlight that night (with the fuse removed), Chen Shaokuan was a professional naval background and a knowledgeable person. For this silent and traceless, extremely fast, long-range, and powerful weapon, I greatly appreciated it.

In Li Guang's opinion, it is far from being a mature weapon, but in Chen Shaokuan's eyes, it is so perfect. So much so that the clapper was made that night. Torpedo launchers and torpedoes were procured in full, with each torpedo costing five thousand oceans and one torpedo launcher twenty-five thousand oceans (silver dollars).

At this point, Li Guang made his first arms business, totaling more than 300,000 oceans, or about 1780,000 US dollars.

Li Guang didn't make much money in this business. You must know that Rameau took advantage of the Spanish Civil War to sell a 533mm torpedo for 4,000 dollars. Ramo has already developed, and at this time he is no longer the down-and-out he was at the beginning, he has long been worth millions, and he has also mixed with a good position in Franco's army.

And Li Guang finally had four torpedoes left on his ship, just to send samples to Rameau.

The next morning, however, the situation took another turn. The Admiralty is temporarily short of cash, and it will not be able to raise nearly 400,000 oceans for a while. Zheng Xuechang, a captain and staff officer in charge of contact, said that there was a batch of tungsten ore in Jiangxi, which was originally to be transported to Germany, and the value was definitely more than 400,000 oceans, and he hoped to use this batch of ore to pay for the goods.

Originally, Zheng Xuechang was very embarrassed that the navy temporarily proposed this kind of change, and in his opinion, it was not easy to buy such a sharp weapon as electric mines, and the advanced torpedoes in Europe and the United States were not sold to the outside world at all, and now the navy is obviously not doing enough to do it.

However, Li Guang did not care about this, if it were not for the lack of funds, he was even ready to send all the torpedoes to the navy. So he immediately agreed to the Navy, but by the way made a small request. That is, Zheng Xuechang wants to follow him to Germany. After all, the largest buyer of tungsten ore in the world is Germany, and Li Guang said that the extra money will be brought back by Zheng Xuechang.

Chen Shaokuan was now preparing to go to Jiangyin, arrange the fortress, and organize the battle, but he didn't think about Li Guang's request at all, and directly agreed to Li Guang's request. And Zheng Xuechang didn't realize at this moment that Li Guang was planning to poach people.

In the two contacts, Li Guang felt that this Zheng Xuechang should be regarded as a naval talent. Zheng Xuechang's father was a subordinate of Deng Shichang of the Beiyang Navy, and he was deeply ashamed of his defeat in the First Sino-Japanese War, so he sent his son to England to study navy. And Zheng Xuechang's name was given to educate his son to learn from the national hero Deng Shichang.

Since Zheng Xuechang is only a small captain in the Navy Military Department at this moment, and there is no warship for him to gallop, it is better to dig up his own subordinates and make the best use of his talents.

Li Guangshen felt that it was okay to run an industry in Uruguay, but it would be difficult to build a navy, or even a submarine crew. How can a submarine get thirty or forty people, and Li Guang has no shadow of these people until now.

Although he sent Huang Zhonghua to the Fujian Mawei Naval Academy to poach people, it is difficult to say whether it can have any effect. And Xu Zhan, the only soldier under him, has now returned to his hometown in Luoyang, ready to pay homage to his parents' graves and go to the front line to resist.

Li Guang was considered a bare-bones commander at this time, and there was no military talent under him. After all, the direction Li Guang wants to start in is the navy, which is a technology-intensive force and is in great need of technical officers, and Zheng Xuechang is a naval officer studying in the UK, and the conditions are just right.

Zheng Xuechang graduated from the Royal Naval College in Greenwich, a British naval school that is well-known in China, and many Chinese naval generals have graduated from this famous military academy. But Zheng Xuechang has just graduated and has no actual combat experience, and now he is only a captain officer in the Navy Military Department. In fact, if Zheng Xuechang's qualifications are in the British Navy, he will be a second lieutenant at most.

Before Xu Zhan left, Li Guang gave him nearly 1,000 tons of canned meat, compressed dry food and a batch of medicines, rented a warehouse at Pukou Wharf (opposite Xiaguan Wharf) and stored them, and carefully instructed him and agreed on contact information.

The Ariana then continued along the river to Jiujiang in Jiangxi Province to load tungsten ore. Li Guang slowly learned from Zheng Xuechang that the rhyme tungsten ore was actually a special mission of the navy, and sometimes even used the navy warships to transport tungsten ore to Germany in order to raise military expenses.

Which of them is [***], Li Guang can't guess. But the Navy is doing this kind of business very openly, at least it shows that the Navy is really in dire need of funds. The country's weakness makes it difficult not only to purchase warships, but also to maintain the basic training of the navy. In Zheng Xuechang's mouth, it is normal for a warship's main gun to not fire live ammunition once a year. The funds allocated by the state to the navy are to maintain a food finance, and the main guns of warships are worth hundreds of dollars, which is really unaffordable.

Li Guang lamented that the equipment was already far worse than that of the Yue army, and coupled with the lack of training, how could the navy confront the Yue army. The sorrow of the weakness of the country, the sorrow of the soldiers.