Chapter Eighty-Eight: The Great Purchase
These Russian artillery pieces were captured by Zhao Yun when he was fighting with the Russian cavalry in Outer Mongolia, and they were dismantled and transported or rebuilt by planes, and they were also sold this time.
In fact, this is also Zhao Yun was forced to run out of money, and it is urgent for Outer Mongolia to form a new team, ready to fight again at any time.
In the era of lack of heavy weapons in China, these four guns were finally sold for 150,000 yuan.
"Russian ironclad cars, 50,000 cars!" This is a foreign object, which has just emerged in World War I, but there are many people who know the goods in China, and it was finally sold for 100,000 yuan.
Fang Lingyu could only look at it red, and thought in his heart, "Obediently, with such an auction method like him, won't the last machine gun be auctioned all at once!" These machine guns are their last hope! ”
What do you want! Deputy County Magistrate Xu shouted loudly, "The last batch, 200 Maqinke, the starting price is 60,000, I hope you can exchange the corresponding items!" ”
"6,000 tons of coal!" Representatives of Shanxi stood up!
"4,000 tons of sea salt!" Adjutant Sun is also in a hurry, 200 strong! You can equip two elite divisions!
"600 tons of iron ingots!" People from Hunan are also in a hurry!
After several rounds of fierce competition, the price of 800 tons of iron ingots was finally sold to the Hunan people.
These iron ingots, which were originally intended to be transported to the Jinling Arsenal in Nanjing, are now being transported directly down the Yangtze River to Yixing.
There are some rifles next, Zhao Yun only sold 2,000 in the form of wholesale, and on the grounds that the last order has not been completed, they are not sold for the time being.
Deputy County Magistrate Xu kept the people who were about to leave in a loud voice, "Please wait a minute, there are two things to inform you below, one is that this auction is over, and there will be a batch of goods arriving in Yixing today next month, you can come and take a look." The second is that the county needs some goods, who has salt, tea, grain, cloth, iron, you can negotiate a price here, and send it to the local area within the specified time, and the county will settle with the current ocean. ”
This time they are all from one side, and it is much better for them to prepare these materials than for Zhao Yun to find them slowly.
Many people have salt in their hands, and there are many salt merchants in Yangzhou, which is not far from here, as long as it is transported. There is no shortage of food in various forces, but it is not very convenient to transport it.
Cloth is available in Shanghai, and the textile factories in Shanghai are famous in the Far East, and the Overseer's Office in Zhejiang can also get grey cloth from various textile factories in Shanghai, and then let people dye and send it.
At that moment, Xu Ziming, the representative of the Cao Gang on the Yangtze River, received seven or eight delivery transactions. What was an auction that you were competing for just now immediately turned into a trade fair.
In this way, the money in Zhao Yun's hand will be revitalized, if Zhao Yun hides all the money from this transaction, it is estimated that he will be stared at by countless people.
However, this time there are still some people who have not benefited, Fang Lingyu, who paints cakes everywhere, can't stay in this barter trading place, and the two Tusi representatives from Xiangxi have not gotten what they want, and the tobacco and soil will not work in Zhao Yun, so they can only trade with other forces.
Zhao Yun was very satisfied with the 800 tons of iron ingots that were finally sold, and with these iron ingots, the dilemma of money and resources was greatly alleviated.
As soon as the meeting ended, Zhao Yun arranged for various arsenals to vigorously produce Krupp cannons, and Zhao Yun was ready to take advantage of the resources now to solve the cannons of the Zhejiang overseers first, but only to give cannons, and the shells should be slowly given again.
Someone handed a small note to Adjutant Sun, telling him that the cannon was about to arrive, and Adjutant Sun was very happy that Zhao Yun was on the road like this. But now the two still can't meet, and Zhao Yun is surrounded by spies.
Five days later
The deal is over, but the delivery is not. Inspect the goods, check the money, find a driver to drive, tie up the plane and transport it away. All kinds of things are for Zhao Yun to handle.
The resources of various localities and the present ocean have reached Yixing in the past few days, and after receiving arms and other goods, the forces of all walks of life immediately left as if they were facing a great enemy. Zhao Yun couldn't look at the wounded soldiers from all walks of life who were fighting in the city a few days ago, so he sent monks to heal half of them, so that the various forces could quickly leave this place.
However, as soon as I got out of Yixing's territory, there were constant gunshots. The Jiangsu Overseers are not forbidden to buy and sell, but if you want to transport it out safely, it depends on the object.
Haiyan from Zhejiang had arrived, and Zhao Yun arranged for a plane to be shipped to Outer Mongolia that night.
But just such an ordinary thing, a small probability event happened that night.
The plane crashed!
Before the transport plane left Jiangsu, the group of planes over Xuzhou encountered a dark cloud that I don't know which one was, a flash of lightning, and directly split one, and the blood bar of the guide plane was to the end, and it immediately fell down and fell to pieces.
The movement of the plane falling down was very loud, which alarmed many people around. Since the plane was also the camp's own unit, it quickly turned into clear water and disappeared. But the sea salt transported on the plane was scattered around.
The sea salt shipped from Zhejiang is packed one by one, and the cloth bags are stamped by the Zhejiang Salt Administration.
The local garrison did not find any planes around, but so much scattered sea salt is a big case even if it is smuggled illicit salt.
was directly reported to Nanjing by the locality.
Nanjing Overseer's Office
"Zhejiang Salt Administration?" Qi Dujun touched the poke on the bag, very puzzled.
"It must have fallen from the sky, and some villagers nearby saw this scene, but no planes were found around." Adjutant Lin, who was dressed in a straight Beiyang military uniform, was reporting to the Qi Overseers.
"Smuggling by plane?" It's incredible to think about it.
"It should be that guy in Yixing! They just got a few hundred tons of sea salt from the people of Zhejiang! "Adjutant Lin has never let go of Zhao Yun, and he brought Zhao Yun to the boundary of Jiangsu to facilitate control.
"Hmmm! It's possible! But why go north? "The Qi Overseer Army is also incomprehensible to this Zhao Yun, so many arms can't be obtained from anywhere.
"Map!" The Qi Overseers immediately thought of the salt needed somewhere, and the amount was still very large.
"Here!" The Qi Overseer Army is not very good at fighting, but analysis is his forte, otherwise he will not be defeated repeatedly, but his official position is repeatedly defeated and promoted. Point to a line and head north.
"Here! Only here is the salt that is most needed! That's right! Everything he collects is what is most needed here! "All the way to Outer Mongolia, on the Outer Mongolia dotted.
"Then he was sent by Soviet Russia?" Adjutant Lin said.
"Possibly, but he also has a lot of things in his hands that are German?" Qi Dujun looked at the map carefully, and suddenly asked, "Does he have any Japanese goods there?" ”
"No, this is also the strangest place! Many arms dealers pick up goods nearby, and usually they have Japanese goods, but he doesn't have them there, and he hasn't seen any of them. Adjutant Lin replied immediately.
"It should be to the west, he has a trade route through Europe, or a port nearby that can supply European goods!" Qi Dujun looked at the map and said, "At least one thing is certain, his goods are not produced domestically, and the north is our territory!" ”
"Order, keep cooperating with him in the future, it has been an eventful time in Outer Mongolia recently, no matter which way he goes, don't offend him! Find someone to watch him well! If he wants to develop locally and give full support, these things will be ours in the future! Now all you need to do is support, and it's better to let him produce these weapons locally! Qi Dujun said to Adjutant Lin.
"Yes!" Adjutant Lin stood upright.
Although I was distressed and dropped a plane, the sun still rose every day, and I had to live a small life, and with resources, the first thing was to build farmland.
The 400 plots of farmland are still in production, but due to the lack of manpower available for summer rice, the harvest in July is not high. Because of the riot soldiers and the large amount of food in Outer Mongolia, Zhao Yun's food resources have dropped to 10 million.
Food is the foundation, and the people take food as the sky. This proverb is also inevitable in Zhao Yun.
Whether it is sweet potatoes, potatoes, or corn in various places, Zhao Yun began to buy a large number of grains, but fortunately, this is in the land of fish and rice in the south of the Yangtze River, and there is no shortage of all kinds of food. It's really not good, lotus root in the water! Fish, shrimp and crabs are all used, anyway, Zhao Yun now has the ocean.
Outer Mongolia has also transported rice and other urgently needed daily necessities to Outer Mongolia by air, temporarily alleviating the food crisis there.
Timur even used the salt he transported to start a business with the surrounding tribes, and now the supplies in Outer Mongolia are very scarce, Timur traded at the usual price, and also got a lot of Mongolian war horses.
After the transport plane transported salt and other items, it brought back the anesthetized war horse.
So at the auction in August, Zhao Yun was going to use the war horse as a sales item.
One of the most important aspects of farmland cultivation is to have people, Zhao Yun gave an order, and twisted out the old and weak in the county, and the Cheng brothers were responsible for driving them all to help, even if they made a fire to cook a meal, and brought water.
The cement shipyard was still built in two ships, and Zhao Yun tripled the production of cement. The bamboo sheds of the shipyard have been taken care of, and they were all simple sheds that were originally built, but now they have to be reinforced, and a circle of wooden walls has been built around the perimeter.
The extra cement will be paved and three 400-meter cement runways will be built to meet the requirements of the increasing number of aircraft.
A row of twenty hangars and three large warehouses were also set up. Anyway, many people have already seen the plane, so it's not interesting to hide it, and simply taking it out can also deter those who use their brains.
The airport is under construction, and the airport guard is also going to be reorganized.
The infantry squad was expanded to a squad of 40 men, 16 submachine gunners, 16 riflemen, 4 grenadiers, 4 Machink machine gunners.
Ten squadrons were built in one go, together with the former mountain infantry units, to protect these newly built facilities day and night.
With the addition of the town law enforcement team, Zhao Yun already has a team of nearly 2,000 people in Yixing.
After doing this, Zhao Yun rested for a few days, walked around the city, prepared the materials for the next auction, and waited for the arrival of the August auction.