PS: This is a different style from the previous book, but please believe the hippopotamus, the hippopotamus is really writing with heart ()!

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"What's the matter, you're deflated?"

As soon as he came downstairs, Xiao Anguo squeezed his eyes at Yang Qiu, making Shen Shukai and Shopkeeper Dong and others next to him also laugh secretly.

"Just send the peacock flying southeast, and the front one will be exempted." Yang Qiu glared at him angrily, and when he saw that his subordinates were still packing their bags, he handed over the telegram address and content to Shopkeeper Dong: "Is Brother Shen still going to Chengdu?" ”

"If you don't go to Chengdu, you go back to Shanghai." Shen Shukai patted Yang Qiu's purse and said with a smile: "There will be a boat in a while, so I plan to go back immediately, it's 1 million here." ”

Yang Qiu didn't stop it, he was more anxious than Shen Shukai about this matter, since the Chengdu bloody case has happened, then Wuchang Shouyi must be close at hand, since the Hanyang factory can't provide a role now, then it is necessary to find some foreign aid, otherwise why block the Beiyang elite.

When they arrived at the wharf, they were already crowded, and most of them were ordinary people who had fled from Sichuan because of the war, and because the shipping route to Chongqing had been cut off, they could only flee by land through Hankou.

The scourge of war caused many more soldiers to fill the streets, and the smell of tension in the air began to grow. After finally squeezing into the crowd to send Shen Shukai away, Xiao Anguo finally couldn't help it, and while holding him and walking to the ferry back to the camp, he asked: "Brother, brother, I'm not an outsider, give me the truth, what is that thing of yours?" ”

"French 340 mm Naval Gun and Submarine Snorkel Design ()."

"Naval guns? Or ventilated? Xiao Anguo listened inexplicably strange, but he was afraid that he would expose his clay nature in front of his brother, so he could only hold back for a while and stop asking.

His strange appearance made Yang Qiu forget the scene just now, but he was still a little worried about Shen Shukai's trip in his heart.

The design drawings he came up with were fine, and he took out the two technologies after carefully selecting them from the data machine. Originally, he first considered selling the information of the legal system "Miss 75", but considering that Germany may not think that its artillery is inferior to France based on the drawings alone, and the "Miss 75" is too strict to keep secrets, so that the whole world did not know that there was such an ultra-high rate of fire field gun after the start of World War I, so unless it was a real thing, Germany would also think it was fake.

The 340 mm naval gun is different, the main naval gun of the French Brittany-class battleship before World War I, the whole of Europe knows that France is building a new battleship, and the power of this naval gun is higher than that of the British 343 mm naval gun, the most important thing is that it has a very special place, that is, it uses a large retreat machine similar to the "Miss 75", and the efficiency has been improved a lot.

Judging from the actual combat at sea, this kind of retreat and re-entry machine is just a romantic idea of the French, but no one knows about it yet! Theoretically, the rate of fire of three rounds per minute is definitely enough to kill Germany!

Although in fact the German Navy and the French Navy in World War I almost never fought each other, but Wilhelm II and the German Navy did not think much, before the First World War, a large part of the German Navy's goal was to defeat the French fleet, so every move of the mortal enemy is the German intelligence agencies are to pay attention to, not to mention the new cutting-edge details under construction, so Germany must also have some information, as long as you see the drawings will definitely understand, you must be willing to pay some price to buy a full set of drawings.

As for the submarine snorkel technology, it is a technology that only appeared after the First World War, you must know that the submarines of the First World War did not have the ability to submerge for a long time, to put it bluntly, they were small semi-submersible torpedo boats, which had to surface most of the time, and could only dive for about an hour or two when they were close to the enemy, and their survivability was extremely poor.

However, with the snorkel, the submarine can potentially carry out underwater activities for a long time, which not only improves the concealment ability of the submarine, but more importantly, allows the submarine to really have a certain strength to compete with surface warships in this era of relying on visual vision and no anti-submarine means.

According to later generations, Wilhelm II never worried about his army, but rather built more and more fleets, a technology that could quickly close the distance with the British navy, and in some cases gain the upper hand, he would certainly be willing to buy.

And the snorkel technology is not so easy to imitate, which is different from his previous desire to sell tank design drawings, the tank of this year is actually just a theoretical breakthrough, but the snorkel, especially the submarine snorkel, is a very complex technology, first of all, the snorkel also needs to be waterproof, there are a large number of twists and turns inside, and dozens of technologies such as strong high pressure and drilling through the pressure-resistant shell also need to be used, according to the data of the data machine, the snorkel technology took five years from the beginning to the successful development, Therefore, he was not afraid that the Germans would regret it when they saw the blueprints, unless they met a genius who would never forget, otherwise the Germans would have to pay obediently.

Even if he doesn't forget it, because he explained that Shen Shukai could only see half of it before the deal, and it was already 1911, it was difficult to say whether Germany could break through the other half of the drawings in three years.

This technology was thought about again and again before he came up with, after all, he couldn't fool these guys without taking some real guys, not to mention Germany, which had the highest mechanical level, fortunately, the submarine technology during World War I was still subject to factors such as engines and torpedoes, coupled with Germany's natural tragic geographical environment and later the unkindness of the United States, this technology was not enough to really change the course of the war, the big deal was that the Royal Fleet lost more ships, which was nothing to Britain in its heyday.

So he is not worried at all about whether he can make money, what he is really worried about is whether Germany is willing to exchange arms, 30 Makqin, 100 Madsen M50 and 1 million rounds of ammunition are just a drop in the bucket for Germany, but for him it is the key to whether he can keep the three towns. The only trouble is that Germany doesn't necessarily have Madsen, but fortunately he has already told Shen Shukai how to hint that Germany has obtained the supply.

Although Hanyang is worse than expected, but finally laid a good foundation, and then the two factories add up to nearly 10,000 skilled workers who have been trained for many years is more valuable wealth, whether it is Hankou or Hanyang, it is the key to this battle, only to keep the largest and most complete industrial base in China, the future can reveal a glimmer of light ().

Ten days later, the shopkeeper Dong who stayed in Hankou brought good news, Shen Shukai was worthy of being a bold businessman, although he did not believe Yang Qiu's words very much, but still sent a telegram to the board of directors of Heshengyuan, and persuaded the shareholders to take precautions as an excuse to adjust the national and even overseas branches, began to accelerate the collection of liquidity, and a large amount of cash and cash were stored in the warehouse and kept secret.

At the same time, he did not delay Yang Qiu's affairs, and he found a down-and-out Vietnamese royal family from there, disguised as a Vietnamese revolutionary who rebelled against France, and also got a leather bag company called the Far East Yunnan Company to negotiate with Germany.

The German envoy in Shanghai did not believe the complete set of blueprints for the French 340-mm naval gun at first, but after contacting China to compare a few known details in detail, he almost shouted out excitedly and immediately agreed to buy the complete set of drawings for $400,000.

$400,000 was not even a drop in the bucket for Germany, but it fired the first shot for Shen Shukai, so when he took out the explanation of the submarine snorkel, the German ambassador immediately sent an urgent telegram to the commander of the Qingdao Far East Fleet and the domestic admiralty, regardless of the surprised eyes around him.

Two days later, the commander of the German Far East Fleet in Qingdao arrived in Shanghai, and the German General Staff and Admiralty immediately demanded that Shanghai must take all the drawings of this technology.

After seeing half of the snorkel design and manufacturing drawings with their own eyes, Germany not only agreed to pay $300,000 for the snorkel design drawings and all the materials, but also agreed to settle the bill in US dollars as required, and paid two full sums of $700,000 on the same day, totaling 140 taels of silver.

Shen Shukai also gave a preliminary agreement to the exchange of arms through the shield, but Germany did not have the Madsen M50 light machine gun in his hand, and finally Shen Shukai conveyed Yang Qiu's hint, saying that Russia had it in its hands, and Germany remembered that Russia did order about 500 Madsen M50 during the Russo-Japanese War, but due to the late delivery, most of them did not participate in the war after being shipped to the Far East, and Nichol II felt that it was troublesome to ship it back, and it was necessary to deter Japan, so they were all stored in Vladivostok.

Yang Qiu has long been paying attention to these guns, but he must have no hope of going to Russia now, so he went around in circles to find Germany, and Germany, who was anxious to get the enemy's naval guns and snorkel technology, immediately contacted the Russian Far East, and I don't know how to persuade in the end, and finally Russia agreed to sell 100 at a price of $500 each, and each one was equipped with four empty magazines, and after getting the news, Germany sent a warship from Qingdao to Vladivostok to get it back that night, and after solving the light machine guns, its own Makqin machine guns made Germany worry again, Because Germany did not have any stock in hand, in the end, in order not to delay the delivery from Europe, it simply removed 20 Maxim machine guns from the Far East garrison, and promised that all machine guns would be delivered in Shanghai in 15 days ().

As for the bullets, Germany was very hesitant, according to the usual practice, countries rarely sell bullets directly, especially such a large-scale smuggling, in the end, Shen Shukai gritted his teeth, quoted 10 rounds of bullets and 2 oceans, which is higher than the market price, and also expressed through the agent that if there is no bullets, it will not trade again, Germany hesitated, and agreed to sell 300,000 rounds of 7.92 mm pointed bullets at this price, also from the Far East garrison.

Yang Qiu was both happy and laughing after getting the news, happy that although Makqin was 10 less than expected, the Madsen M50 finally got it, and he also earned his first money after reincarnation, crying that the submarine snorkel that he thought could be sold at a big price was sold cheaply, and the French 340 mm main gun design data that was originally thought to be worthless The Germans didn't even blink their eyes, but the snorkel hesitated for a long time, and the urgently needed bullets were too few!

If he was here, he would definitely quote $2 million first, but unfortunately Shen Shukai didn't understand technology, he only knew that Yang Qiu said that he would sell at least 500,000 yuan, and the price of the two drawings was slightly exceeded.

Hey, it's still the traditional thinking of giant ship cannons!

However, Shen Shukai is not an ordinary person, taking advantage of Germany's happiness to get new technology, and Germany signed a pre-sale contract with Germany for the purchase of 100 M1908 75mm rapid-fire guns produced by Krupp at a price of 2,000 US dollars each.

After consideration, Shen Shukai still agreed to the contract, according to the meaning of his telegram, buy it first at a cheap price, and then make a lot of money by changing hands.

Sell cannonballs, don't sell cannonballs! This kind of thing is estimated to have happened only in the Far East in the late Qing Dynasty.

Yang Qiu is not looking down on this kind of purely exported field artillery, one is the rate of fire is slow, the other is too heavy, his ideal artillery composition should be the "Type 92 infantry gun" and the German-made 105 Krupp howitzer, as for the French Miss 75, which represents the highest level of artillery before World War I, he didn't think about it, a ton of big guys may still be able to be used as field light artillery in Europe, but it is no different from waste when it comes to China, not to mention that even if you want to buy France, it is impossible to sell 75 mm field guns before the war, as for 105 Germany is willing to sell, but even if he takes the complete Hanyang, the logistics can't afford to play for the time being, but whether it's for the Yangxia War or for future development, he also needs a military transition, so he also promised to sign it first, but on the condition that the first batch of 54 doors must be delivered within two months ().

As for the shells, they are not afraid, because the Hanyang Gun Factory has been producing 75 mm shells for a long time, and as long as they are modified after stabilization, they can make improved shells with good power.

Shen Shukai is a steady person, until everything is negotiated before sending a telegram, although he did not say when the arms can be obtained, but he said that Germany has promised to complete the transaction within ten days, according to the time should be able to catch up with the delivery before the Mid-Autumn Festival, as for how to secretly transport to Hanyang, I believe that Shen Shukai, a big businessman, also has his own way, two totaling 700,000 US dollars, about 1.4 million yuan in China (in addition to specific foreign currencies in the book, The other yuan is calculated according to the equivalent of one tael of silver or a piece of ocean), and he also temporarily deposited in the Bank of America in the name of Yang Qiu.

This amount of money seems quite scary, but now it costs about 200,000 yuan a month to feed a town (excluding equipment), and the Hanyang Gun Factory is even more bottomless, so for Yang Qiu, who wants to wait for the future situation to stabilize the current situation and carry out technological innovation in Hanyang, money is still a big problem.

Seeing Yang Qiu rubbing his temples, Ma Kui smiled. He had already learned about this from Xiao Anguo, but he didn't expect Yang Qiu to come to tell him about the progress in his busy schedule, and he was very happy that he believed in him so much, and he heard that he had exchanged so many good things for dozens of drawings and earned 1.4 million, and he was even more impressed.

But soon he frowned and asked: "Brother Huzi, it's not that my brother said frustrating words, your Makqin and that Madsen M50, no one has used them in the new army at all, who do you go to?" ”

Yang Qiu: ". ”