"But being pushed out and executed with Makqin is somewhat too miserable..."Although it was not himself who was punished, after hearing that it was Makqin who was executed, Tang Yuanshan was still a little frightened.

"Yes, yes..."Thinking about the power of the 12.7 caliber heavy machine gun, Peng Xiu and Mu Tongwu were also a little apprehensive.

They are very aware of the power of 12.7 mm caliber machine gun bullets, and if they are hit by this caliber machine gun bullet, they are really crushed and dead. Especially Tang Yuanshan, when he was clearing out the bandits in Guizhou, he still asked his machine gunners to sweep away the walled gates made of logs.

"But then again, how could the Governor get the people in the arsenal to change the caliber of the machine gun to 12.7? Isn't the original 11.43 also pretty good? ”

The original caliber of the Maxim heavy machine gun was 11.43 mm, so when Yan Guang asked the engineers of the arsenal to change the caliber to 12.7 mm, many people talked about it. However, although many people have spoken out against it, at Yan Guang's insistence, the caliber of Makqin was changed to 12.7 mm.

There may be many people who wonder why the caliber of Makqin was changed, but Yan Guang has his own ideas.

11.43mm may be really good, but Yan Guang knows that at least in later generations, the mainstream caliber of heavy machine guns is 12.7mm, and he is still using 11.43mm caliber heavy machine guns? At least Yan Guang hadn't heard of it. And compared to the 11.43 caliber, the 12.7 caliber has significantly more advantages, both in terms of anti-fortification and anti-armor, and it is more suitable than the 11.43 caliber.

Of course, anti-armor or something was certainly impossible during the First World War, but what about after the First World War?

After World War I, China's greatest enemies were the Soviet Union and the Soviet Union, especially the Soviet Union, which posed the greatest threat to China, especially after China regained its "original territory."

Thinking about the Soviet armored groups during World War II and the Cold War, it is simply a chilling force, of course, the Soviet Union after the end of World War I could not create a huge number of armored groups in a short time, and it will take a long time to build tanks like the KV, T-34, and IS. However, in case of a rainy day, Yan Guang must also start preparing as soon as possible. After all, in the near future, Yan Guang will cut a large piece of the territory of the Soviet Union...

And Yan Guang believes that at least 30 years ago, the two sides would definitely have friction along the border, and in this case, the best response to the Soviet T-18 (MS-1) tank, in addition to its own armor, is a large-caliber 12.7mm heavy machine gun.

The 12.7 mm, or 0.50 inch, heavy machine gun of this calibre could overturn the turret of a Soviet T-18 tank without any pressure when paired with armor-piercing shells, and the bean tanks of this caliber were even more effortless.

And just like the Browning M2 heavy machine gun in the United States, the 12.7 caliber is no pressure even in the 21st century.

Of course, there is no pressure on Yan Guang at the moment, after all, even if the future [***] team sets foot on the European battlefield, the probability of encountering the German armored force is definitely lower than the chance of falling from the sky. But when the Soviet threat appeared, Yan Guang couldn't temporarily change all the caliber of the heavy machine guns to 12.7, right? And even if it is replaced, what about the ammunition produced in the past? It's impossible to change the ammunition at the same time, right?

It's a pity that there are too few people in the Kuomintang who understand Yan Guang's hard work at the moment, after all, no one in the world today knows what a tank is and what a steel torrent is.

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The presidential palace in Yanjing Tieshi Hutong, no, it should be outside the temporary presidential palace, a row of Beiyang soldiers is guarding the gate of the presidential palace like a stake.

And inside the courtyard wall, Duan Qirui was hurriedly walking into Yuan Shikai's study with a telegram.

"Kung Bao, no, the Great President..."

Interrupting Duan Qirui's words, Yuan Shikai, who is now the provisional president of the Ming Kingdom of China, said with a smile. "It's still temporary, just continue to call Gong Bao, and when this big president becomes official, you are calling..."

If it was peaceful, maybe Duan Qirui would have talked and laughed with Yuan Shikai to get closer to each other, but at this moment, Duan Qirui just handed over the telegram in his hand.

"Gong Bao, this is a telegram just sent from Sichuan."

Obviously, Duan Qirui will be so anxious because of this telegram.

"A telegram from Sichuan?" Although he was a little puzzled, Yuan Shikai still took the telegram and continued. "What's going on with that little ghost surnamed Yan again? Now that I'm the provisional president, if he's making some kind of goof, I'm not going to spare him. But when he saw the contents of the telegram, his slender eyes were round.

Looking at the expression on Yuan Shikai's face that would never appear in the future, Duan Qirui also smiled bitterly.

"This is a telegram sent by Yan Guanggang, hoping to apply to the President for the construction of three railways, one is the Sichuan-Han Railway in the past, one is the Chengdu-Lanzhou Railway from Chengdu, Sichuan to Lanzhou, Gansu, and the other is the Sichuan-Yunnan Railway from Chengdu to Kunming..."

In fact, there is also a Sichuan-Guizhou railway from Chengdu to Guiyang, but that railway does not need Yuan Shikai's consent, so Yan Guang did not make it clear in the telegram, after all, the affairs of Sichuan and Guizhou are now "internal" matters of the Kuomintang Socialist Party.

At this time, Yuan Shikai was also stunned after reading the telegram, and only spoke after half a sound. "Is this Yan Guang really an endless amount of money?"

It is no wonder that Yuan Shikai would say this, after all, each of the three railways mentioned in the telegram requires at least 10 million silver dollars to complete, and it is not impossible for all three to add up to more than 50 million. And now Yan Guang proposed to build three railways in one breath, although these three were built in batches, but two or three million a year is also necessary, right?

And after hearing Yuan Shikai's words, Duan Qirui just shook his head and smiled bitterly.

"I don't know if he can't spend all his money, but it's for sure that he's really rich..."

It is no wonder that Duan Qirui would say this, after all, whether it is the large-scale arms expansion plan of the National Socialist Party, or the two Qijiang Iron Works and Yucheng Arsenal that have been partially put into operation, or the Chongqi Railway built by Zhan Tianyou himself is already well-known (because these are all things that Yan Guang asked Deng Xiaoke to focus on). Although Yuan Shikai and Duan Qirui were sitting in Yanjing City, how could they not know about this kind of thing?

"Is it rich..."

Hearing Duan Qirui say this, Yuan Shikai muttered two words in his mouth.

"Zhiquan, do you think you can take this Yan Guang...... Transferred to Yanjing? ”

After all, he has experienced countless ups and downs, and Yuan Shikai knows very well that an opponent like this who has both land and money is the most terrifying.

And Duan Qirui quickly understood what Yuan Shikai meant, and transferred Yan Guang to Yanjing? In fact, it is the same as dealing with Yin Changheng and Cai Ye at the beginning, but the difference is that Yin Changheng during this period was just an ordinary division commander in the Kuomintang Socialist Party, and Cai Ye, the governor of Yunnan, was still having a headache for military spending (a brigade was stationed on the Sichuan-Yunnan border), and now these two people have not yet shown a threat to Yuan Shikai, so Yuan Shikai naturally aimed at Yan Guang.

"Transferred to Yanjing?" Duan Qirui thought for a moment. "It's a good solution, but I'm afraid he won't be so obedient..."

Just like Duan Qirui said, he is in charge of the military and political affairs of the two provinces, and he has thousands of family fortunes, Yan Guang did a good job as the emperor of Sichuan and Guizhou, why did he come to Yanjing?

"And what if I trick him into Yanjing?" Hearing Duan Qirui say this, Yuan Shikai was a little unwilling.

In history, Yuan Shikai once used deception to trick Yin Changheng and Cai Yi into Yanjing, and then put the two under house arrest, especially Yin Changheng, who almost lost his surname in Yanjing. (Yin Changheng was deceived by Yuan Shikai on the grounds of deciding the affairs of the Sichuan side, and after entering Yanjing, he was sentenced to 9 years in prison for the crime of embezzlement of public funds)

I have to say that if Yan Guang didn't know the fate of Cai Yi and Yin Changheng, he might really be recruited, but since it has been written in the history books, then Yan Guang is really a pig's brain.

"Liar? It's possible, but if you want to trick this Yan Guang into Yanjing, at least after Gong Bao officially becomes the president..."Duan Qirui laughed as he spoke. "When Gong Bao becomes the president, he can justifiably govern the whole country, and even if this Yan Guang is rich, can he still compete with the financial resources of the whole country?"

This is true, the Manchu Qing Dynasty's fiscal revenue in 1911 was 300 million taels of silver, and even if Yan Guang took the financial revenue of Sichuan and Guizhou provinces, plus his own income from the Tampico oil field, it was only equivalent to one-third of the national fiscal revenue.

But...

"To be president? Will they be willing to hand over the money? You must know that now the south is the world of the revolutionary party, and they didn't pay when Sun Wen became the president, and now that the president has been replaced by me, they have no reason to pay..."

Hearing Yuan Shikai say this, Duan Qirui smiled bitterly again.

Because, as he said, it was not easy to get the revolutionaries in the South to hand over the money. And the south is precisely China's fiscal and tax powerhouse, without the south's finances, even if Yuan Shikai becomes the president, it is difficult to say how much of the last 300 million taels of silver will fall into his hands.

Even so, Duan Qirui was not too worried.

After all, Yan Guang's annual income is equivalent to one-third of the whole of China, except for the size of Standard Oil, Rockefeller, only Yan Guang himself. No matter how Duan Qirui guessed, he would never have thought that Yan Guang's annual financial income exceeded more than 100 million taels...

And then...

"Gong Bao, do you want to agree to that Yan Guang about the matter on the telegram?" Duan Qirui returned to the topic just now.

"Yes, of course yes, why not? It's not our money that's going to be spent anyway. ”

Yuan Shikai didn't think about refusing, after all, this is not a bad thing, and doing so can also deflate Yan Guang's wallet, why not.

"So, I'm going to call back?"

"Well, there you go."

After Duan Qirui left, Yuan Shikai, who was somewhat obese, sat on the chair and looked at the ceiling.

"I agreed, but Cai Songpo has a grudge against this kid, but I don't know if he will agree..."

Although Yuan Shikai thought so, Yan Guang never worried.

Regardless of the interests of the country for his own personal grievances, at least in Yan Guang's cognition, Cai Ye is not such a person.

(To be continued)