Zhao Dongyun's sale of this batch of second-hand ordnance is also to further simplify the types of ordnance of the Feng army, so that the logistics are more simplified, even if all kinds of rifles and artillery can be used for shells and bullets, but the different models will inevitably cause differences in details, which will bring certain troubles to subsequent maintenance and soldier training.

Moreover, the Fengjun has long determined the use of the 88-type rifle gun as the standard rifle gun, but there are too many models of the 88-type rifle gun in the Fengjun, most of which are made in Fu, some are made in Germany, some are made in Hanyang, some are made in Jinling, some are made in Jiangnan, some are made in Guangdong, and some are made in Sichuan, and there are even some unknown factories and bureaus of production, basically the 88-type rifle models that can be made in China can be found in the Fengjun.

Although the quality gap between the 88-type rifles produced by different factories and bureaus is too large, the quality of the German-originated and Fuchang factories is relatively stable and reliable, and the ones made in Hanyang are barely feasible, but the quality of the 88-type rifles produced by the Jinling Factory and the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau and several other factories and bureaus, especially the 88-type rifles produced after the second half of 1906, is mostly not good, and is affected by the war.

And this batch of guns is not much, remember about twenty or thirty thousand, after all, other factories and factories can not be compared, Fu Factory can produce more than 10,000 Fu 88 rifles in a month, and all other factories and bureaus add up to not so many, and these miscellaneous 88 rifles in the hands of Feng Jun are all captured, and the total amount cannot be too much.

If it is kept for direct use, it is better to sell it directly to Wang Shizhen and Wu Fengling, although the price is cheaper, but it can also be exchanged for a part of the funds used to buy Fuzao's rifles.

The output of Fuchang's rifles has reached the level of more than 300 per day, and the output of one month is enough to arm a division, not to mention that the Soviet authorities have now taken over the Jinling Arsenal and the Jiangnan Arsenal, both of which can produce 88-type rifle guns, and the management of these two arsenals is improving technology and purchasing additional equipment to improve the performance and reliability of their own 88-type rifle guns, so as to compete with Fuchang for the military's rifle purchase orders. The total output is already enough to meet the needs of Feng's own army expansion.

In the future, not only will we have to eliminate those old-fashioned 88-style rifle guns with unreliable performance, but even those day-made rifle guns, Zhao Dongyun also plans to gradually withdraw the front-line troops, of course, there are too many day-made rifle guns, and it is not possible to throw them away, and it is feasible to use them for the patrol force or sell them directly.

At the beginning of July, Wang Shizhen gathered more than 60,000 troops in the Hanyang area, including not only the Sixth Division, the main force of his lineage, but also the Third Mixed Brigade, another of his lineage troops.

There are three units in Wang Shizhen's hands with the number of the Central Army, namely the Sixth Division of the Central Army, the Third Mixed Brigade of the Central Army, and the Eighth Mixed Brigade of the Central Army. This time, two of these troops were directly mobilized, plus the first, second, and fifth divisions of the Hubei Army that cooperated in the operation. Although the total strength is inferior to the Southern Federation opposite, it is common for Beiyang warlords to fight the Southern Federation and fight more with less, not to mention other troops, just one sixth division is enough for Zhang Zhidong to drink a pot.

And more importantly, Zhao Dongyun has given another promise to Wang Shizhen, and for a period of time in the future, the Soviet Union will continue to maintain the supply of ordnance, especially ammunition, to Hubei.

Why Wang Shizhen couldn't take Wuchang before, not because his troops were insufficient, not because his troops couldn't fight, but because he didn't have enough ammunition in his hands, otherwise in the second half of last year, Wang Shizhen would break through the Yangtze River defense line and take Wuchang in one fell swoop, but at that time, Zhao Dongyun was worried that Wang Shizhen's power would rise sharply if he took Hubei, so he strictly restricted the supply of ammunition to Wang Shizhen.

There is no ammunition for this, and it is hell to be able to take Wuchang.

Now it is different, with the sufficient ammunition provided by the Soviet Union, although these ammunition still need Wang Shizhen to buy with real money, but the price is much cheaper than imports, with the support of a large number of cheap ammunition, Wang Shizhen is confident that he will take Wuchang, thus completely laying the situation in Hubei.

When the Feng army had just taken southern Anhui and had not yet officially entered Jiangxi, Wang Shizhen was the first to strike and led the troops to launch a fierce attack on Wuchang, which forced Zhang Zhidong to draw a large number of troops from the area near Jiujiang to return to Wuchang.

And what impact this will have is to mean that the Fong Army, which has always been regarded as a flank threat, is a much less threat to the Southern Union forces.

At this time, Meng Enyuan, who had just returned to southern Anhui from the Beijing Division, also led his Fourth Army into Jiangxi in a big way, setting off a new round of climax of Feng's army moving south.

When the Fourth Army set out from southern Anhui and launched a fierce attack on Jingdezhen and others, Lu Yongxiang's First Army also launched an attack on the western front, their tactical goal was Jiujiang, and the strategic goal was to continue to march westward and attack the enemy in Hubei.

There are two enemies of Hubei, one is the Southern Federation headed by Zhang Zhidong, and the other one is naturally Wang Shizhen.

Although Zhao Dongyun gave Wang Shizhen a lot of assistance, and Wang Shizhen also followed Zhao Dongyun's intention to launch an attack on Wuchang, but the heart of defense is indispensable, and the heart of harm must be there, no matter whether it is Zhang Zhidong or Wang Shizhen, sooner or later it will be cleaned up, so it is necessary to put a force in this direction.

As long as Lu Yongxiang's First Army took Jiujiang and then deployed in Hubei, then it could effectively cover the flank of the Fourth Army and ensure that the Fourth Army would not be cut off from supply lines and retreats when it went south to Jiangxi in the future.

With the outbreak of major wars in Hubei and Jiangxi one after another, the melee of various warlords in China has also entered a new round of climax.

When the front line was very lively, Zhao Dongyun had already recovered all his energy from the military, and the current situation of the Soviet Feng army was very good, and he no longer had to pay attention to the frontline every day as before.

Now he takes advantage of the better situation to find time to deal with other long-backlogged affairs, such as railway affairs.

Since the beginning of the year and the great powers signed a railway loan, the United States and the British can not care about the outbreak of war in China, just signed the contract is to urge the Chinese side to start the construction of the railway, but also according to the contract sent a large number of technicians, and the first to start construction is the Haizhou to Zhengzhou section of the Longhai Railway, because the survey of this section of the road has begun very early, so soon the route was selected, and then it entered the actual construction stage, the railway from multiple locations at the same time, construction' The most powerful was the Haizhou section, where the land base was quickly leveled and then laid with railroad tracks under the hard work of a large number of hired people.

Although the construction of the railway is a commercial act, but such a large project is naturally inseparable from the government, such as land requisition, relocation of graves, and recruitment of workers along the way, all of which require the vigorous cooperation of local governments, and many problems will inevitably arise in these work.

When the railway construction was carried out in the south, it set off a small upsurge of factories in several northern provinces, especially after the Tangshan Industrial Zone was officially established, which attracted a large number of capitalists to bring huge sums of money to settle in.

Taking advantage of this momentum, Zhao Dongyun personally issued instructions, asking the Ministry of Industry and Commerce not only to attract businessmen to invest in light industries such as textiles, flour, and oil extraction, but also to guide capital to enter heavy industry and mining to a limited extent.

Now China's industry is in its infancy, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is starting from scratch, it is necessary to make money with light industry, but we cannot give up the construction of basic industry, those private capital can not play with too tall projects, but digging mines, getting some small-scale machinery factories, and engaging in small hardware are always no problem.

Zhao Dongyun knows very well that light industry can bring a lot of taxes to the country in a short period of time, but if a country wants to really rise, heavy industry is the focus.

In order to guide domestic capital into heavy industry, Zhao Dongyun also instructed Fuyuan Company to play a leading role.

After years of development, Fuyuan Company has developed into a diversified group company, which has been established in joint ventures with other capitals and dozens of factories on its own, involving a wide range of industries, which can be seen from the names of many subsidiaries of Fuyuan Company.

Fuyuan Ash Factory, Fuyuan Tobacco Company, Fuyuan Yarn Factory, Fuyuan Chemical Factory, Fuyuan Construction Company, Fuyuan Shipping, Fuyuan Waterworks, Fuyuan Flour Mill, Fuyuan Oil Mill, etc.

In addition to the above-mentioned companies controlled by Fuyuan Company, Fuyuan Company also owns shares in many factories and companies, the most obvious example is 26 percent of the shares owned by Fuyuan Machinery Factory, more than 40 percent of the shares in Fulong Bank, and also has shares in Luanzhou Coal Mine.

The above-mentioned holding or shareholding enterprises together constitute Fuyuan Company, a large consortium in the north.

In order to cooperate with Zhao Dongyun's administration, several managers of Fuyuan Company, that is, the helmsman of the Zhao family in business, naturally did not dare to take it lightly, and soon transferred funds to invest in heavy industry.

First of all, the first investment is to set up a machine factory, but this new machine factory is different from the previous Fuyuan machine factory, the machine factory is an arsenal, and this new machine factory is a machine to prepare for the production of machinery and equipment required by the textile industry, that is, looms, spinning machines, silk reeling machines and other equipment.

At present, the domestic textile industry is in the midst of rapid development, every year a large number of textile equipment needs to be imported from foreign countries, and the technical content of these equipment is not high, said low is not low, if Fuyuan company is willing to invest heavily in research and development imitation, the problem of localization is not big, although the quality may not be as good as imports, but as long as the price is cheap, it is not difficult to open a sky in China.