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Although the three major domestic weapons companies are all wholly-owned enterprises of the royal family, even if they are royal enterprises, their operation mode is still to follow the business model, the development of the enterprise, there are huge profits, the middle and senior management of the enterprise can get more dividends, and the employees of the enterprise can get better benefits.

At the same time, only some real executives will be able to achieve alternative political achievements, and then it will be possible to enter the Royal Asset Management Office, the headquarters of all Royal Enterprise executives.

The royal enterprises are not the same as the state-owned enterprises of later generations, and the management of the royal assets is also different from the SASAC of later generations.

Although the name of the Royal Asset Management Office looks like a government agency, the internal structure is actually designed after the corporate headquarters.

The internal structure of the Royal Asset Management Office is more complex, and its highest internal authority is the 'Royal Asset Management Committee', which is composed of the Director, Deputy Director, Financial Director, Personnel Director, Chief Inspector and the heads of some core Royal Enterprises.

It consists of four offices: the Director's Office, the Finance Office, the Personnel Office, and the Inspection Office, which are respectively in charge of the four major powers of administration, finance, personnel, and supervision.

Its core department is naturally the director's office, which consists of various sections, including the financial department, the textile department, the chemical department, the mining department, the national defense department, the machinery department and other major industry departments. To use the more fashionable words of later generations. Roughly speaking, it is the financial division and the textile division. Mining Division, etc.

In addition, there are administrative departments such as the General Affairs Division, the Internal Affairs Division, and the Personnel Division

These departments are either under the direct jurisdiction of the Chief of the Division, or under the direct supervision of the Chief of Division.

Each business department directly manages its subordinate enterprises. For example, the well-known Jiangnan Mining Company belongs to the management of the Mining Section, and the three major domestic defense enterprises are all under the management of the National Defense Section.

This is a somewhat mixed corporate headquarters company and administrative agencies, many of which may sound very low-key, but the actual power is very large, such as the financial department, which manages the Royal Bank and also controls a number of private banks in China. At the same time, it owns shares in other foreign banks.

These departments are taken out at random, and they are all comparable to the headquarters of other largest enterprise groups in China.

And entering the headquarters of the Royal Asset Management Office, especially the Royal Asset Management Committee, is the pursuit of these royal enterprise managers.

At that time, they will not manage the raw silk of a company, based on the great influence of the Royal Asset Management Office on the domestic economy, every decision they make can affect the direction of the domestic economy, and their power will be not much worse than that of the central cabinet elders.

In order to further develop the enterprise, the three major domestic weapons companies are all trying to compete for orders for artillery!

The most powerful Royal Arms Company was the first to come up with the relevant design scheme, and there were several of them. Their artillery design is based on the existing naval guns, and in the eyes of many army generals, these designs are some ship-borne heavy guns, which have little to do with field artillery.

For example, the design of the large-caliber cannon that the Royal Arms Corporation came up with. That was to directly move the Navy's 120-millimeter naval guns to land, with a maximum range of more than 10,000 meters, and the weight was also dead. What's more, the cost is as impressive as his range.

The head of the tender in the ordnance department only glanced at the string of cost figures, and then did not look at other detailed performance data of this gun. Because of the high cost, other performance data is useless even if it is sky-high. Because the army can't afford it.

The army and navy are different, the navy's naval guns basically do not consider weight and cost in order to pursue performance, and only the navy can do this kind of thing that tens of thousands of guns.

And the army wants not one or two, but hundreds or thousands, and for them, the price is far more important than the performance.

As for small and medium-caliber field guns, the Royal Arms Company also greatly refers to the 80-mm naval guns, and the range and accuracy are naturally the top in contemporary times, but like large-caliber cannons, there are problems of high price and excessive weight.

Although the Royal Weapons Company relies on the Shanghai Arsenal and is quite good at large-caliber naval guns, it inevitably has a strong naval gun design style, one-sided pursuit of range and accuracy, and ignores the cost and weight issues.

The Northern Arms Company, which is also one of the three major weapons companies in China, is much more pragmatic, and the aspects they put forward are relatively mediocre, and even relatively inferior in terms of performance, but they have controlled the cost very well, and it is the lowest price among the three weapons companies' design plans.

As for the Huguang Arms Company, they were in between, and the design scheme they proposed for divisional field guns and mountain guns was to abandon many of the traditional Armstrong design features, and instead use a wedge gun bolt similar to the Krupp gun, which had its own advantages and disadvantages compared with the screw gun bolt that the Royal Arms Company was good at.

In terms of technical characteristics, the screw bolt is more suitable for high-power artillery, and this is the reason why the naval guns of the Royal Arms Company all use the screw gun latch.

The wedge bolt is more suitable for small and medium-caliber guns, especially those with high requirements for the rate of fire.

And the wedge bolt is also the most obvious feature of contemporary Krupp artillery!

At the same time, in the past few years, although the Imperial Army has not been equipped with large-scale rear-loading artillery in service, it is not without equipment, and some rear-loading artillery for testing is still equipped, and there are also a small number of large-caliber heavy artillery that are rear-loading guns.

Therefore, these three domestic weapons companies have more or less technical reserves, and the designs they have come up with today are basically capable of immediate mass production.

Now the army needs to consider which artillery to choose as a standard artillery.

And this choice is not something that the Ordnance Department alone can decide. Many senior generals of the army and technical experts from the ordnance department and other military experts have held meetings in succession.

Because of the stakes, this is a decision. However, the army's artillery, which will determine the next decade or so, is no less important than the battleships of the navy.

So for the sake of prudence. The military chose a compromise plan, and at the same time issued a small purchase order to several design plans that met the preliminary requirements, and waited for the major companies to manufacture the prototype gun, and then carried out specific tests, and then chose the best one when the time came.

Because the military was stimulated by the Franco-Prussian War and had a relatively short time limit on the service time of the new artillery, as soon as the three major weapons companies learned the news, they immediately began to manufacture prototype guns and then prepared to participate in the tests. to compete for the last order.

The Franco-Prussian War not only had a relatively large impact on the Imperial Army, but also had a relatively large impact on the Empire's diplomacy, for example, when the news of France's defeat first came, many people in the Empire were aiming at the French colonies in Asia, that is, the French Nanqi, trying to do something in this direction, not to help the Vietnamese recover this territory, but to suppress the French colonial expansion in Asia, so as not to prevent these French from fighting the Khmer, Vientiane, and Vientiane every day. The idea of small countries such as Luang Prabang in Indochina.

For the Empire. At present, the situation in Indochina is relatively stable and clear, and out of the need for peace in the external environment, in order to develop the country with peace of mind, the empire does not want unnecessary chaos in Indochina or other parts of Asia. and then cause war between the Empire and France or with England.

Therefore, the diplomats of the empire hoped to take advantage of this opportunity to suppress and suppress the French, lest they be ready to move.

As for driving the French out of their way. It was not in the interests of the Reich to put it, because the words of the French were driven out. Vietnam will be reunited, even though Vietnam is still very backward and weak. But judging by the experience of later generations, a united Vietnam was not in the interests of the empire.

Moreover, now that Indochina is being contested by China, Britain and France, if the French are driven away, then the empire will have to face the British alone, and this is not a good thing for the empire.

In order to prevent the development of the empire's industry, the empire was more interested in stability in Indochina and even in Asia as a whole.

However, the empire wants to develop steadily, but it is impossible to say what the empire wants, and many unplanned things will always pop up from time to time, which will affect the direction of the empire's policy.

Although the Franco-Prussian War was won or lost, it was not completely over, and while the French republican government was still negotiating with the Germans, the Imperial Consulate in Singapore sent a telegram back to Nanjing, saying that a new round of war had broken out between the Great Port of Borneo and the Lanfang Company and the Dutch East India Company.

Of course, this matter was not worth asking the imperial diplomats to send a telegram to Nanjing, and more importantly, the Dagang Company and the Lanfang Company jointly contacted the diplomats of the Empire, claiming to be vassals of the Empire, and asking the Empire to help them resist the invasion of the Dutch.

Hearing this, the diplomats of the empire were confused, when did you two small mining companies become vassals of my empire?

Later generations may not be familiar with Dagang Company and Lanfang Company, but another name is generally known, that is, Lanfang Republic.

The Republic of Lanfang, very similar in nature to the colonial corporations of various countries, has an armed and political system, and its main business is to dig gold in West Borneo.

But if you have to say that it is a country, it is too much, after all, the British East India Company, which is much larger than Lanfang Company, and the Dutch East India Company do not dare to claim to be a country.

Not to mention these old colonial companies, even if it is the Nanyang Mining Company, which has only been established for a few years, its scale is far greater than that of Lanfang Company.

Nanyang Mining Company's domestic business is naturally relatively formal, but it is worth noting that a considerable number of Nanyang Mining Company's assets are abroad, especially in Vietnam, the Philippines and Indonesia.

In addition to developing coal mines in Vietnam, Nanyang Mining Company has also invested in mines in the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia and other regions, and has been involved in the rubber industry on a large scale in recent years, and its Nanyang Rubber Company has supplied about 30% of the empire's rubber production.

In many foreign mines and rubber plantations, in order to protect the company's assets, the Nanyang Mining Company has its own company guard, only in the northern part of Vietnam, the scale of the mine guard is more than 300 people, and the total number of other guards in the mines and rubber plantations in Nanyang is about 1,000 people, and it is complete with guns and artillery.

It is not a problem to pull out and fight against the colonial armies of Britain and France.

At the same time, in order to obtain the right to exploit resources on some Southeast Asian islands, it is common to sign treaties and contracts with local indigenous tribes in the name of companies.

And such a Nanyang Mining Company did not dare to say that it was a country!

However, it doesn't matter whether this Lanfang company is a country or not, the key is that they came to the door to ask for help from the empire, and they claimed to be vassals of the empire, so how to deal with this is not the consul of a regional consulate can be responsible, so they soon reported the relevant situation to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and finally presented it to Lin Zhe's desk in the form of a foreign affairs briefing.

Lanfang Company? Dagang Company? Lin Zhe was not interested in these two companies or the country itself, but he was concerned that it seemed to give an empire an opportunity to intervene in Borneo.

It's just that if you meddle rashly, I'm afraid it will attract opposition from the British and the Dutch, and the opinions of the Dutch will be ignored directly, as far as the current national strength of the Dutch is concerned, the empire will not take the initiative to bully them, even if they are lucky, but in the words of the British, this is not so easy to do.

The British also have colonies in Borneo, and if the empire is now also inserting its head in the top, with the British people's defensive psychology of the empire, they will definitely not easily sit back and watch the power of the empire intervene in Borneo.

In this case, is it necessary to get involved in Borneo?

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