"These corrupt moths, sooner or later, they will all be cleaned up!" After Zhao Dongyun just scolded fiercely, he turned the topic to other directions, because scolding others is actually equivalent to scolding himself!

"Next, the quilts, clothes, shoes, etc. required to recruit new recruits must be prepared one by one, and now Uncle Bin of Fuyuan Yarn Factory has also come to Baoding, and you will go to him later, then those trivial things will be purchased, and you will also sum up with him, see if there are reliable foreign companies in Tianjin or Shanghai, this purchase of ordnance will always be better than three!"

Zhao Dongping naturally said yes.

Zhao Dongyun looked at Zhao Dongping, who was already much more stable, and sighed slightly, this Zhao Dongping can be regarded as being honed.

When he first came to join him last year, he was just a hairy young man, and he was still a little cowering when he saw him, but since he became a bookkeeper by his side, and later went to the machine gun battalion to manage logistics and other affairs, plus he went to Guangzong for several months in the first half of the year, and now he can be regarded as experienced.

If it weren't for the fact that he was much more stable, Zhao Dongyun would not have directly promoted him to the general office of the Ordnance Section of the newly built machine gun battalion, it is true that he is his cousin, but more importantly, his ability is barely feasible.

This person was already a little clever and had the momentum of a young man, but now he has become much more stable, which makes Zhao Dongyun trust him even more.

Originally, Zhao Dongyun planned to send him to the Jiangmu Academy, which was only opened this year, but after thinking about it, it was better to stay in the school for a year or two than to work under him for a year or two.

Anyway, Zhao Dongyun didn't plan to let Zhao Dongping lead the troops to fight, and there was no need to go to military school to buy ordnance and get kickbacks.

"In addition, you and Uncle Bin will also go to inquire and see how much it will cost to build guns!" After Zhao Dongyun finished talking about those trivial matters, he slightly explained the matter of the arsenal in his heart to Zhao Dongping.

Zhao Dongping was also slightly surprised when he heard this, and the first thought in his heart was, could it be that Lord Duxian wants to reuse his third brother and let him set up a factory to make guns?

But after thinking about it, it doesn't feel right, he Zhao Dongping has been mixed in the Beiyang system for more than half a year, and he knows some of the operating rules of the Beiyang system.

Zhao Dongyun is a serious soldier in the Beiyang system, and he has no connection with local officials or foreign officials, and if he wants to build guns and cannons in the Beiyang system, it is Zhou Xuexi's business, and it definitely has nothing to do with Zhao Dongyun.

But why did Zhao Dongyun ask himself about the equipment needed to make guns? Zhao Dongping couldn't understand for a while, and immediately asked in a low voice: "Could it be that Lord Duxian asked the third brother to make guns?" ”

Zhao Dongyun ignored Zhao Dongping, who was curious, and said disapprerovitically: "It's nothing, I just think that now my Beiyang ordnance is imported from foreigners one by one, so it's just to see if it's really as difficult as others say to make guns!" ”

Zhao Dongyun saw that he still wanted to ask, so he immediately interrupted him: "You don't have to think about it, just go and inquire directly, and find out the market of those machines and equipment for me!" ”

Zhao Dongyun naturally didn't spend too much time explaining to Zhao Dongping why he wanted to build an arsenal, and there was no need to explain to Zhao Dongyun how important it was for Beiyang to have an arsenal for himself and for himself.

But Zhao Dongping is not very old in the end, and he has a lot of thoughts in his heart, after he left Zhao Dongyun's small western-style building, he went out and went to the hotel where Zhao Chenbin stayed in a Dongyang car

After a while, he met Zhao Chenbin logically, although the age difference between the two was more than thirty years old, but after meeting, it was like a year-old friend, although they were still called Dongping and Uncle Bin, but the two were sitting opposite each other, obviously not having any seniority.

After taking a sip of tea, Zhao Dongping put down the teacup in his hand and said: "This time, I'm afraid there will be a lot of trouble Uncle Bin, you know, it's okay for me to deal with those arms dealers in Baoding, but it is difficult for me to deal directly with foreign companies in Tianjin!" ”

Zhao Chenbin saw this young man who was a generation shorter than himself, and said while marveling at his old and modest speech: "This matter was personally explained by the master, Dongping, you don't have to worry too much, when the time comes, I will call the Dougal manager of Shangfuyuan Yarn Factory to do this in person, and I won't let your errand be delayed!" ”

It is said that Zhao Chenbin called Zhao Dongyun the master, and Zhao Dongping is Zhao Dongyun's cousin, if it is an ordinary subordinate, I am afraid that he will have to call him a young master, but Zhao Chenbin is not a descendant of the Zhao family, he was originally a member of the Zhao family's partial house, but the bloodline has been several generations away, although he is the shopkeeper of the second room of the Zhao family and the general manager of the yarn factory, but he is not the same as Steward Xu.

As for calling Zhao Dongyun the master, it is not because of the relationship between the house slave and the family master, but because Zhao Dongyun is an official, and he is also a senior official of the third grade, Zhao Chenbin will call him a master, and this lord is a respectful title for officials by civilians.

In the face of Zhao Dongping's words, he didn't have to do this, and directly shouted Zhao Dongping's name by seniority.

Zhao Dongping nodded slightly: "In this way, Uncle Bin will be more troublesome!" ”

Speaking of this, Zhao Dongping paused slightly and said: "The third brother told me just now, let me ask about the market of the equipment needed to make guns, what do you say?" ”

Zhao Chenbin was also slightly stunned: "Make guns? But the boss gave the old man an errand for guns? ”

Zhao Dongping shook his head: "I've never heard of it, and I have never heard that I want to open a factory in Beiyang to make guns!" ”

Zhao Chenbin also showed doubts: "This is a strange thing!" ”

As he spoke, Zhao Chenbin suddenly remembered that Zhao Dongyun had told him in the morning that he would buy or run a machine factory, and he vaguely felt that there was a connection here, and immediately said: "Master here let me run a machine factory, do you say it has something to do with it?" ”

When Zhao Dongping heard this, he subconsciously guessed: "Could it be that the third brother didn't run an errand for the gun factory, but the third brother wanted to do it himself?" ”

"It's possible!" Zhao Chenbin felt that this possibility was not small, because he was considering this issue from the perspective of a businessman, in his opinion, the imperial court is now buying guns everywhere, and these arms businesses are blushing when they see it, if there is enough capital, why can't they make guns and sell them to the imperial court?

Once it can be done, I am afraid that the profit will not be comparable to that of a small yarn mill.

But Zhao Dongping said directly: "This is absolutely impossible!" ”

Unlike Zhao Chenbin who considers the problem from a purely commercial point of view, Zhao Dongping considers this issue from a political point of view, guns and artillery are military weapons, although in recent decades the dynasty has set up many machine factories, manufacturing factories, and gun factories to make weapons, but without exception, these are all government-run enterprises, and I have never heard of a private arsenal making weapons and selling them to the imperial court.

If you can't do it, maybe a hat with bad intentions will be buckled!

Zhao Chenbin and Zhao Dongping were guessing Zhao Dongyun's thoughts there, but in fact, this matter was not as complicated as they imagined, because at this time they both forgot a very important fact, that is, Zhao Dongyun is not a common person, he is an official, and he is also a cutting-edge officer of the Beiyang New Army, which is not a small weight, and it can be said that he has been in the limelight for a long time, and he is deeply important to Yuan Shikai.

And if this kind of person wants to run an arsenal, it cannot be regarded simply as a private arsenal, but somewhat similar to an official supervision and commercial operation.

Take 10,000 steps back and say, Yuan Shikai doesn't care what the nature of your arsenal is, as long as it is built in Zhili, as long as it is built under the land under his Yuan Shikai's jurisdiction, then he will not hesitate to treat this arsenal as Beiyang's own.

It's not that Yuan Shikai doesn't want to run an arsenal now, but he really doesn't have the money to run it, and the arsenal is not something that can be done by letting private capital run it, and ordinary businessmen don't dare to touch it at all, because after ordinary businessmen invest money, they will easily be embezzled by the government.

Even if it is not embezzled, but there are all kinds of official supervision, the imperial court will never let merchants build arsenals to buy weapons everywhere, and this official governor will have to bankrupt this factory in a few years.

Even if it is not a misappropriation, it is not an official governor, but there is still a weapon sales channel, after the construction of this arsenal, it is not up to you to decide who the weapons can be sold to, besides, with the urine nature of the imported goods that the Chinese people like, it is impossible to sell it if it is not allowed to be made, and it will be the same loss when the time comes.

Therefore, in many ways, it was no problem for private capital to invest in light industry in the late Qing Dynasty, and it was okay to invest in steel, coal, and even railways, but only the military industry was something they could not get into.

It's just that the above problems are not big problems for Zhao Dongyun, because he himself is an official, and he represents the Beiyang system in a certain way.

One of the things he had to do was to raise funds, and the second was to convince Yuan Shikai that as long as these two items were satisfied, the rest would not be a problem.

Zhao Dongyun's thoughts were not told to outsiders, and outsiders naturally didn't know, at this time, Zhao Dongping and Zhao Chenbin were thinking that their third brother might be entrusted by Yuan Shikai to set up an arsenal, and the other was thinking that their master wanted to make a fortune in the arms business!

But no matter what they thought, they started to operate these things according to Zhao Dongyun's orders, and even carried out much more than Zhao Dongyun ordered.

According to Zhao Dongyun's idea, running an arsenal can only be regarded as a long-term ambition, and he can get a handicraft workshop in the early stage to meet his own research on mortars, grenades and the like.

But he didn't expect that Zhao Dongping and Zhao Chenbin would really run according to the premise of establishing a large-scale arsenal, and they found many foreign companies in Tianjin with great fanfare to inquire about the equipment of the machine.

He didn't expect that these two people's ability to do things was even stronger than he imagined, and it didn't take a few days to have a frown, and then Zhao Chenbin telegraphed that he had found a set of second-hand gun and ammunition making equipment, and asked Zhao Dongyun if he wanted to buy it-

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