Since the Pixiu returned to Easter Island, Li Guang has not returned to Uruguay. Pixiu was injured and returned to Uruguay for repairs. But Li Guang did not accompany the ship.

The name Easter Island is so Western that Li Guang simply changed the Chinese name - Stone Statue Island, based on the most famous Stonehenge and stone figure statues on the island. A simple change in a name can bring great benefits, at least even if the name is known to outsiders, it is not the same as on the chart.

Easter Island is an island in the South Pacific Ocean, called Rapa Nui in the local language, located 3,000 kilometers off the coast west of Chile. Easter Island is one of the most isolated islands in the world, more than 2,000 kilometres from its nearest inhabited islands, the Pitcairn Islands. The island is approximately triangular in shape and consists of three volcanoes. Easter Island is famous for hundreds of giant stone statues full of mysteries.

Since renting this island, Li Guang has landed on the island for the first time. The ownership of this island is actually quite complicated. Chile declared annexation in 1888, but there were no garrisons, and the British leased the island. But it was not Chile who rented the island, but a Spaniard. Because at that time there was a Spanish fleet stationed here. In fact, in the thirties, it was very unclear where it belonged. However, the contract signed by Yuan Ran was signed by the British Embassy, and if there was a dispute in the future, there would be a lawsuit. However, no matter how the lawsuit is fought, Li Guang will not suffer.

After learning that Xu Zhan had made a thousand numbers old and weak, he thought of how to operate, this island is undoubtedly a good place, but it takes time to operate.

The island is 23 kilometres long and 11 kilometres wide, with a triangular shape and an area of 163 square kilometres, with its highest point, Mount Terevaka, 600 metres above sea level.

This island is very suitable for defense for the military, the triangular island, the three corners are the high ground, the highest is 600 meters, the other two are also 370 meters and 400 meters.

However, the natural environment of this island is very poor, it is a grassland, and there are no trees higher than 3 meters. The vegetation is dominated by shrubs and grasses. Due to long-term sheep breeding, the vegetation has been seriously damaged, and such a large island can not produce much food, so that there are only more than 1,000 indigenous people on the island, most of whom can only live by potatoes and fishing, and the living conditions are very poor.

Because of this natural environment, Li Guang did not expect to farm here. He is planning to find a way to earn a living for the Chinese who have migrated here on this island.

Industry is definitely not going to work, there are no resources here, and even coal needs to be shipped abroad. Li Guang thought about it and decided to make fishing a pillar industry. The deep-processed product is fish compressed biscuits.

Fishing is easy to say, as long as the shipyard is in a little hurry, it can quickly get a batch of fishing boats of tens or hundreds of tons. Li Guang, who came from later generations, played it again, and he knew that later generations often used lights to lure schools of fish. I don't know if anyone has adopted this thing in this era. But at least the Polynesians on the Isle of Stone Don't know.

Speaking of Polynesians, Li Guang found that these people were neither white nor yellow, closer to Indians, and had some brown skin. According to the aesthetics of the Chinese, it is more acceptable than the Caucasian.

Li Guang claimed to be a pacifist and had no intention of oppressing these natives at all. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you; China is suffering aggression, the Chinese people are enduring the pain of war, and Li Guang's moral outlook does not allow him to adopt a colonial way of rule. He adopted the method of providing food and household goods in exchange for labour, and this is how the port was built.

Now Zheng Xuechang is heading to Europe with a pickup truck and a freighter. Another freighter is heading to Statue Island with refugees.

Li Guang deeply felt that his subordinates lacked talents, and as the only official naval officer under him, Zheng Xuechang was actually sent by him to do business, which was really a great waste.

Zheng Xuechang's trip, Li Guang has already paved the road, and the business is not very difficult. But when a soldier does business, I am afraid it is difficult to be in the best condition.

After two years of turbulent life, Li Guang knows more about this era. The main gun was missing on the Baxia, but it was not known until Li Guang really started to buy it. Arms are not so easy to buy.

From the United States you can buy M1 rifles, even bullets and shells, and even some small-caliber artillery. It is also possible to buy some less advanced weapons from other countries. But when you are ready to buy a large-caliber cannon, you know what the difficulty is, and there is no one to sell you for money.

For example, in Germany, the Germans can sell 150mm howitzers to China, but his most advanced K18, 150mm cannon, China can't buy it even if it has money.

In this era, cannons with a caliber of more than 150mm belong to strategic weapons, and no country is willing to sell them at all. Like later generations, every country refuses to sell its most advanced weapons to the outside world.

The reason why the German 88-mm anti-aircraft guns came to the aid of the Spanish rebels was because the Germans had not yet discovered the greatest advantage of this weapon. I don't know what it's worth.

Yue Kou once captured several 88mm guns of the Chinese army, and the result is like a treasure, and now it is being imitated. And those 88-mm anti-aircraft guns are not the most advanced models that Li Guang has now. In order to prevent this, countries generally do not sell the most advanced artillery.

It is certainly not possible to install only howitzers on warships, which not only have a short range, but also have poor penetration. After thinking about it, Li Guang finally hit the Soviet Union with his idea.

To say that in World War II, Germany was undoubtedly the most powerful armored weapon. But if you compare artillery, there is no doubt that the USSR is the first. Soviet-made artillery is at the forefront of all countries in the world in terms of quantity and quality. Li Guang has watched several Soviet films, and is familiar with its 122mm howitzer and the famous B4,203mm gun and B2,152mm gun.

The purpose of Zheng Xuechang's trip to the Soviet Union this time was to purchase these three types of artillery. At a minimum, a 152mm cannon should also be purchased.

In order to buy Soviet artillery, Li Guangke spent some brain cells. Found a bit of information from the depths of memory.

He once saw an article on the Internet, which said that in early 1939, when the supreme leader of the Soviet Union, Stalin, returned to his hometown, Xiao Yuben got several Soviet defected officers to assassinate him. However, this information was learned by Soviet spies, and the result was, naturally, several assassins were caught, and Stalin was unharmed.

So Li Guang took the news as a gift and told the Soviet embassy in Germany. It can be regarded as an expression of sufficient goodwill, depending on whether the Soviets appreciate it or not. Presumably it will help with the purchase of artillery.

Since he had this idea, Li Guang began to quietly record some information and rumors about the Soviet Union and other countries, and if this trip to the Soviet Union was effective, then Li Guang did not care about selling some intelligence to the Soviet Union or even Germany, Britain, and the United States.

Another thing on Zheng Xuechang's trip was to sell tungsten ore to the Germans. Li Guang made two demands. Now selling tungsten ore to Germany can be tougher.

Li Guang's history is that no matter how bad he is, he knows that on September 1 of the 39th year, Germany launched a war to attack Poland, and World War II began in an all-round way.

It's already February, and the Germans must be looking forward to tungsten ore. Without this thing, there is no way to make the knives of machine tools, many alloy steels have no raw materials, and the sharpest tungsten core armor-piercing bullets are indispensable.

Therefore, Li Guang did not hesitate to increase the price of tungsten sand by fifty percent, and asked Zheng Xuechang to sell tungsten sand from 4 million oceans at a high price of 6 million oceans.

And that's not all, Li Guang asked Zheng Xuechang to get a set of shell manufacturing equipment. In particular, equipment for the manufacture of shell fuses.

China's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression was extremely difficult, but even if the Soviet Union and the European and American countries, which were still supporting China, sold bullets and shells to China, they would not sell the production lines for making shells to China at all.

At present, the level of artillery shell manufacturing in China is extremely poor, and the only artillery shells that can be produced in maturity are mortar shells. And the quality of the fuze is not very good. The production of mortar shells is relatively easy, the vast majority of mortar shells are cast in iron, there is no pre-fragmentation process.

And the process of making shells for barreled artillery is much more complicated. Not only cast steel, but also pre-fragmentation technology. Without such technology, the produced shells exploded in two pieces and were not lethal enough.

The manufacturing process of artillery shell fuses is even more demanding, and Li Guang can manufacture the simplest trigger fuse himself, or he can buy it from the United States. However, there is no professional equipment for time-delay fuzes and customary fuzes.

Li Guang has always been haunted by the 50 dollar 88 anti-aircraft artillery shells. This thing weighs less than 10 kilograms, and it sells for 50 dollars, which is a fool's errand. In those years, $50 was quite a lot of purchasing power, and a car in the United States was only $300. In other words, six shells can be exchanged for a car, and this price is called how Li Guang does not feel pain.

According to the price of shells in the international market, the price of a shell weighing ten kilograms is generally twenty dollars. And this is already a huge profit.

Think of a 152mm shell, a grenade costs $80, a cap-piercing shell costs $120, and a tungsten steel armor-piercing shell costs $200. Li Guang was trembling in his heart when he thought about it, if this was a big war, the consumption would be more powerful than a torpedo.

Now Li Guang knew that the selling price of his torpedoes was indeed low. 4,000 US dollars is already double the profit, but according to Li Guang's inquiry, the sales price of electric mines in Germany is more than 20,000 marks. The price of a thermodynamic torpedo in the United States is 20,000 or 30,000 US dollars.

That is, the torpedo is at least three times more profitable.

Although Li Guang's current production of electric mines is not of the highest level, it is no worse than the torpedoes of other countries. And the thermodynamic torpedo that is being developed now, I dare not say anything else, the engine is definitely powerful enough. If successful, it should not be worse than similar products.

In short, after Li Guang came into contact with the arms business, he had a general understanding of the profits of artillery shells. It should be said that the profit of artillery shells is more than double, and the profit of more advanced armor-piercing shells and anti-aircraft artillery shells is about three times.

Knowing that the world war was still several years away, how could Li Guang let go of such a lucrative business as shells. If it can make artillery shells, it will undoubtedly be a great contribution to China's resistance to the Japanese resistance. Therefore, Li Guang is full of expectations for Zheng Xuechang's trip to Germany.

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