It turned out that Yan Xishan, who was calculating, was not only in comics, but Luo Yaoguo took Wu Ziliang and Qu Ming to Yan Xishan's supervision office every day to talk about business with this businessman with a gun.

"Bang da, bang da...... Yan Xishan's fingers quickly fiddled with the abacus beads: "Forget it, 20,000 Type 38 rifles, 8 million rounds of 6.5mm bullets, including freight, a total of 1,823,000 ......."

"What does Mr. Qu think?" Luo Yaoguo naturally knew that it was expensive after listening to the offer, but well, he still had to look at Qu Ming's opinion.

Where does Qu Ming know the market? Looking at Yan Laoxi's painful face, he thought that the bargaining just now was ruthless, and he was a little sorry for the working people in Shanxi. So he hurriedly agreed: "Okay, okay, this price is very fair, and my party has no opinion." ”

Luo Yaoguo opened the second page of the purchase list in his hand and said: "Yan Gong, let's continue, the water machine guns and flower machine guns to be purchased below, we want to hear the quotation of the Taiyuan factory first." ”

"Okay, good, the quotation of our Taiyuan factory couldn't be fairer, only 5,000 yuan for each water machine gun, and 800 yuan for the flower machine gun." Yan Xishan quoted a price that was obviously slaughtering people with the sincerity peculiar to Shanxi merchants.

"So?" Luo Yaoguo frowned and shook his head slightly. Well, at the end of the banquet the night before yesterday, Luo Yaoguo found that he didn't know when an extra check for 500,000 yuan came out of his pocket. Thinking of the check, Luo Yaoguo quietly leaned into Qu Ming's ear and muttered: "It's a bit expensive, but the quality of the products in the Taiyuan factory is good, much better than that of our Shijing factory, I think 4500 is about the same." ”

"4,000 pieces for water machine guns, 800 pieces for flower machines, Mr. Yan, this is our offer." Qu Ming lowered the price of the water-cooled heavy machine gun by another 500, and Comrade Qu felt that it was cheaper than the water-cooled heavy machine gun, so he accepted Yan Xishan's offer.

"Well, uh, well, let's suffer for the sake of our friendship with your party." Yan Laoxi is really a good actor, especially when doing business.

Luo Yaoguo now finally knows what is wrong with the bearded theory, and now he and Qu Ming are public ownership, well, the kind of system that is said to be able to greatly liberate the productive forces. Yan Laoxi's private ownership here is all evil, and it is the kind of system that greatly restricts the development of productive forces. However, he, a knowledgeable "public ownership", has already received a bribe of 500,000 oceans, and looking at the little fat man next to him who didn't say a word, he must have been settled by Yan Laoxi. Qu Ming, a revolutionary, will definitely not accept money, but this is a layman, he doesn't understand anything, a layman leads an insider, and an insider is bought by others...... Hehe, it turns out that this Soviet Union was probably overturned by the United States in this way, right?

No, our Shaoguan factory can't be like this, it seems that we need to introduce commercial offices and engage in a joint-stock system. A certain big butterfly, who thought that he had discovered a loophole in Marxism, was absentmindedly talking with Yan Laoxi about business, but in his heart he was thinking about making more private elements in the Kuomintang's heavy industrial construction, and whether it was necessary to bring in some private capital and professional managers.

"This cannon, uh, it's going to be delivered a little later." Yan Laoxi's buying and selling has already talked about the trade of cannons. The trade of artillery is the focus of the entire arms trade, and there is no problem in the price of a 75mm mountain cannon for 10,000 US dollars, and a shell weighing a few hundred kilograms can be charged for several hundred oceans! Hehe, in the troubled times of the Republic of China, artillery is very tight.

Yan Xishan's Taiyuan Arsenal imitated the 75mm mountain cannon from 1923, and the object of the imitation was the Meiji 41 mountain gun. This is a very good artillery, its advantages are light weight, the total weight is only 540 kg, the construction is simple, easy to combine and make, and it has the title of "extremely easy artillery". If you want to talk about the shortcomings, there is nothing, but it is a mountain artillery, not a heavy artillery, so the firing range is relatively short. At that time, China's Hanyang Factory, Taiyuan Factory and Fengtian Factory all imitated, but the cannon steel was dependent on imports, only the Fengtian Factory successfully manufactured the cannon steel on the eve of 9.18, and Yan Xishan also spent 8 million yuan in the 30s to establish the Northwest Iron and Steel Plant, with a design capacity of 150 tons, which was completed in October 1937. And it was captured by the army that year! Hum! Look at the pace of aggression of the Yue army, it seems to be synchronized with the construction of China's heavy industry! I wonder if it was premeditated? I hope it doesn't happen again on this plane.

"Sheehan, our intelligence shows that the cannon of the Taiyuan plant has just been imitated." Luo Yaoguo whispered to Qu Ming again. "We asked him to start exchanging from next year and deliver three doors a month, so that by September next year, they will be able to make a mess."

After listening to Luo Yaoguo's suggestion, Qu Ming felt that it made sense, as long as the troops could be equipped with artillery at that time, it would be useless to deliver the goods earlier? So Qu Ming smiled and said, "We only need to get 24 75mm imitation Meiji 41 mountain guns and 10,000 shells by October next year." ”

Is there any mistake? Didn't Qu Ming tell Yan Laoxi about the actions of the New Army in Northern Shaanxi when he said this! Alas, it seems that the GCD of this era has not gone through the big waves, and many comrades who are not very suitable for the revolution are still in leading positions.

In this way, within a few days, Comrade Qu Ming, who cherished the lofty ideal of wholeheartedly working on the revolution, quickly spent not a penny of the $5 million procurement fund, but fortunately, he finally collected the weapons and equipment of the 30,000 people of the New Army in northern Shaanxi. It seems that Yan Laoxi still knows some measure, and then he signed the contract and paid the deposit, and it was Luo Yaoguo and Qu Ming who signed the contract, and the check for one million US dollars was carried by Qu Ming, and it was handed over to Yan Xishan immediately after signing the contract. At this point, the arms purchase negotiations were basically over, and according to the agreement reached between the two sides, Qu Minghui, on behalf of the Kuomintang and the GCD, stayed in Taiyuan and Yan Xishan to coordinate the time and place of delivery, and at the same time pay the remaining payment.

"Yan Gong, you can develop so many railways, highways and industries with the power of a province in such a troubled world, and the younger generation admires it very much, even Mr. Zhongshan is also very admired, this delegation came to discuss arms procurement with Yan Gong, is to hope that you can cooperate with Yan Gong in military construction." This idea has been brewing in Luo Yaoguo's heart for a long time, and this time there is just the opportunity to put it forward.

"Oh, Mr. Nakayama has that idea too?" At present, Yan Xishan is not very interested in fighting wars, but he is not interested in construction, especially military construction.

"Yes." Luo Yaoguo smiled and said: "Now Mr. Zhongshan has borrowed millions of gold rubles from Soviet Russia to build a 150,000-ton steel mill in Shaoguan, from mining and ironmaking to extruder forging machine, which is planned to be built in four years, and then our cannon steel can be produced by itself." Shanxi under the leadership of Yan Gong is rich in coal and iron resources, and it is also a good place to build a steel plant, I wonder if Yan Gong is interested? ”

This meeting was a separate meeting between Yan Xishan and Luo Yaoguo, and Qu Ming and Zhao Daiwen went to handle the check transfer. So to be able to talk about some sensitive issues.

"Well, well, yes, good, but I don't know how we can cooperate?" Yan Laoxi thought about it in his heart, and then felt that this matter was feasible, and this time he made a lot of money by selling arms at a high price, and he just spent it on it.

Luo Yaoguo nodded, took out a draft cooperation plan from his pocket and handed it to Yan Xishan. "Yan Gong, this is the draft of cooperation I have drafted, please take a look at it."

According to Luo Yaoguo's draft, the cooperation between the two sides is mainly in terms of technology and joint procurement of equipment, and the Shaoguan factory will transfer the technical secrets provided by Soviet Russia to Yan Xishan, and Yan Xishan will only need to transfer the technical data of the Meiji 41 mountain cannon to Guangdong. In addition, the Comintern mobilized a number of skilled workers from Germany to aid in the construction, including helping to train a group of Chinese skilled workers, and Shanxi could also send people to participate, and Shanxi could send engineers to participate in the whole process of the construction of the Shaoguan plant, so as to learn from the experience. In addition, Guangdong and Krupp plan to jointly build a steel product on Hainan Island that mainly produces civilian steel, and Shanxi can also send people to participate. Yan Xishan was also most attracted by the fact that Guangdong and Shanxi could jointly purchase German machinery and equipment to reduce costs.

"Good, good, good." Yan Xishan saw this cooperation plan that was obviously beneficial to Shanxi, and said three good words in a row. "It seems that Mr. Zhongshan is really helping us in Shanxi. However, Brother Fuwen, there are no outsiders here, can you give me a thorough understanding of what their purpose is? The "they" in Yan Xishan Pass naturally refers to GCD.

"Yanjing." Luo Yaoguo gently spit out two words.

Yan Xishan nodded thoughtfully, and muttered, "Doesn't Mr. Zhongshan have any thoughts about Yanjing?" ”

Luo Yaoguo shook his head, he couldn't figure it out either, although Mr. Zhongshan said so in front of him, but acting as a leader is always a little unpredictable. "Gong Yan, if the prime minister intends to go north, he will have to ask Shanxi for more assistance at that time."

"Of course, that's of course." Yan Xishan naturally agreed to come down, as for whether it is reliable or not, only God knows.

In history, Mr. Zhongshan also intended to go north, and at that time, Hu Jinyi, the overseer of Henan, supported Mr. Zhongshan, but the two died of illness one after another, which is really ...... This time, Luo Yaoguo has the universal elixir given by God when he was reborn, and Mr. Zhongshan's life can be extended. Therefore, it is necessary to make some preparations in advance for a possible northward trip. If Zhang Fengken lives outside the Guan, and Feng Yuxiang and GCD, who have entered Beijing, are willing to respect Mr. Zhongshan, this result is the most ideal. Uh, however, this kind of ending Luo Yaoguo also feels that he is dreaming.