"210 caliber heavy artillery?" The two of them frowned, but quickly relaxed. "Is it just production equipment?"

"That's right, I just need production equipment!"

"That's a lot easier."

Indeed, although there was no so-called arms embargo during this period, large-caliber heavy artillery was not a small piece such as a rifle after all, and it was always a little troublesome to buy it directly, but it was not difficult to just buy a full set of production equipment.

"Then I don't know what kind of artillery the Governor intends to use as an imitation object?" Charlie asked cautiously.

"Krupp, of course." Yan Guang replied without hesitation.

"Is it?" Charlie was not too disappointed, in fact, at the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, that is, before World War I, Germany accounted for more than 60 percent of the market share of arms exports to China. Especially in terms of artillery, Krupp is even more dominant, so Yan Guanghui has long been mentally prepared to choose Krupp Charlie.

But...

"Since the production equipment for artillery can't be taken, then let's take down the machine guns." Thinking so, Charlie looked at Yan Guang. "With machine guns, the Governor should choose Makqin and Madsen, right?"

"That's right." The names of Makqin and Madsen had already appeared in the arms list just now, so it was not surprising to be guessed.

"Since the production equipment for artillery has been handed over to Riddle, please leave the production equipment for light and heavy machine guns to me."

"Can you give me the best price?" Yan Guang said with interest.

"Of course." Charlie nodded affirmatively, he would not take Yan Guang for an ignorant Chinese official. Of course, this doesn't mean that he can't deceive Yan Guang, it's just that although Yan Guang is not smart, he is not particularly stupid, and playing smart in this matter will only lose Yan Guang, the owner of the money.

"In that case, I'll leave the matter to you." As he spoke, Yan Guang looked at Riddle. "Mr. Riddle, is it all right?"

"Absolutely." Riddle chuckled, compared with the production equipment of Mauser and Krupp, the production equipment of Maxim and Madsen can only be regarded as a small head, and now that the big head has been in his hands, how could Riddle care about the small head.

The three of them then discussed other matters, such as equipment for mining and smelting, as well as equipment for minting coins. Now that he has control over the whole of Sichuan, it is necessary for Yan Guang to open a bank of his own.

It was discussed until dark, and looking at the two people with slightly tired faces, Yan Guang scratched his head. "Do you want to go and rest first, and wait until tomorrow for business?"

Thinking about the hard work along the way, touching the already hungry stomach, Charlie and Riddle nodded. "Then it's a troublesome governor." After all, it is a business of more than 10 million yuan, although the three parties have reached a preliminary intention, but there are still many things to be finalized in terms of details, especially the price, and such a big business involves many things, in addition to the company's headquarters, they also need to explain to the consulate.

Fortunately, there is a wireless telegraph in Chongqing, so these things are not very troublesome.

"Governor, at this time, Nanjing should have begun to discuss the matter of the temporary political axe." When the two of them left the living room, Feng Nan, who had been staying behind Yan Guang, spoke.

"yes, I guess it's already started." Rubbing his temples, Yan Guang said in a lazy tone.

Just two days ago, that is, on December 6, after trying their last remaining strength, Zhang Xun and Zhao Erfeng still failed to stop the pace of the Jiangsu-Zhejiang coalition army, and finally had to abandon the city. And after paying a huge price, the Jiangsu-Zhejiang coalition army finally occupied Nanjing.

On the day that the Jiangsu-Zhejiang coalition forces captured Nanjing, the governors Chen Qimei, Cheng Dequan, and Tang Shouqian invited representatives of various provinces to hold a meeting, and temporarily designated Nanjing as the location of the provisional political axe, elected Huang Xing as the presumed generalissimo and Li Yuanhong as the presumed deputy marshal, and elected the generalissimo to be responsible for organizing the provisional political axe.

Today, when Yan Guang and Charles met, the representatives of the provinces in Hubei had already arrived in Nanjing, the representatives of those who stayed in Shanghai had also arrived in Nanjing, and even the representatives of several provinces who did not attend the Hankow Conference had gone to Nanjing to discuss the matter of the provisional political axe.

"I don't know who they're going to make the president in the end." Feng Nan said with some curiosity. "It should be Huang Xing, right?" There are three popular candidates today, one is Huang Xing, one is Sun Yat-sen, and the other is Li Yuanhong.

This time, because of Zhao Erfeng's relationship, Nanjing's recovery was postponed for several days, and Huang Xing was able to catch up with the end (in a Xinhai movie, it was said that Huang Xing led the Nanjing Campaign, but Huang Xing went to Nanjing after Hanyang was lost, in terms of time, unless Huang Xing knew how to doppelgänger, otherwise the Nanjing Campaign basically had nothing to do with him), and it was precisely because of the relationship between Nanjing's recovery that Huang Xing became famous, and it was not impossible to compete with Li Yuanhong and Sun Yat-sen with this prestige.

However, after listening to Feng Nan's words, Yan Guang shook his head. "I estimate that the final interim president will be Sun Yat-sen."

"Sun Yat-sen? Isn't it Li Yuanhong? Feng Nanqi said.

Huang Xing's surname is upright, Tan Renfeng commented that Huang Xing treats people with "a kind of rest, kind color, can make people fall in love at first sight", and believes that this is Huang Xing's "longest life".

Of course, there are also shortcomings, such as "and its shortest point is that it is quite rigid and self-contained, does not listen to people, and is good for compliments...... It is no wonder that the reputation is all over the world and the cause cannot be successful. What a pity! ”

In other words, Huang Xing is an upright person, but he is a bit stubborn. And because of the treatment he received in Wuchang at the beginning, he had great contradictions with Li Yuanhong and even Sun Wu, Zhang Zhenwu and other members of the alliance.

In history, when the Nanjing Provisional Political Axe was being established, the two contenders for the presidency were Li Yuanhong and Huang Xing, both of whom had the support of various provinces. And after Sun Yat-sen returned to China, because Sun Yat-sen himself had great prestige among revolutionaries, and there was no contradiction with Sun Wu and others, the constitutionalists and other factions also believed that Sun Yat-sen was the best candidate for Yuan Shikai's previous presidential position anyway, and finally Sun Yat-sen became the president of the provisional political axe.

(It is not without reason to say that Huang Xing is not perfect, how to say it, you can check the list of cabinet members of the Nanjing Provisional Political Axe, except for a vice president of Li Yuanhong, none of the 9 ministers and 9 deputy ministers of the cabinet is from the Wuchang line...) ）

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