After Zhao Dongyun watched the test firing of several weapons from his Fuyuan Machinery Factory, he soon took several Type 88 rifles and grenades from the Fuyuan Machinery Factory to Yuan Shikai like a treasure.

Yuan Shikai took the Type 88 rifle in his hand, looked left and right up and down several times, and then took an Type 88 rifle imported from Germany and looked at it, and said after a long time: "It doesn't look like much has changed, if your Fuyuan machine qì factory can be mass-produced, then we don't have to waste words with the Germans!" ”

For the sake of the armament needed by the Beiyang New Army, Yuan Shikai can be said to be heartbroken!

At the beginning, Yuan Shikai wanted to import a large amount of ordnance from Japan, and he also signed two orders before and after, ordering the required guns and artillery for the Beijing Banner Standing Army and the Beiyang Standing Army Zuozhen.

However, after placing these two orders, the Japanese side soon accelerated the pace of military expansion and ammunition hoarding because of the tense situation in the northeast, which Yuan Shikai could not buy if he wanted to continue to buy, forcing Yuan Shikai to choose to import ordnance from Western countries.

First of all, a batch of Manlixia's guns and ammunition and a dozen artillery pieces were imported from the British to supplement the use of the Wuwei Right Army, but the price was so expensive that Yuan Shikai almost vomited blood.

However, you can't help it, seeing that the establishment of the right town of the Beiyang Standing Army is about to be upgraded, and Zhao Dongyun's Third Association is already being rehearsed, but the required guns, artillery, etc. are not yet available, so it forced Yuan Shikai to start contact with the Germans and wanted to import a batch of German guns and ammunition.

There is nothing to say about artillery, just go directly to the Krupp factory to import it, but Yuan Shikai is much more cautious about rifles.

At the beginning, the Germans thought that Yuan Shikai wanted the latest Mauser 1898 in Germany, so the Germans also lowered the price several times to try to get Yuan Shikai to buy the Mauser 1898 rifle, but they didn't know that Yuan Shikai didn't want this Mauser 1898 at all, why? One word: expensive!

Even if the Germans continue to reduce prices, this Mauser 1898 rifle is still too expensive for Yuan Shikai!

Alas, it's not that I don't want this thing, but I can't afford to buy a seventy or eighty taels of silver, and I can't afford to use it if I buy it, because the bullet used in this Mauser 1898 is the S bullet in the Mauser 7.92 rifle bullet series, which is commonly known as the pointed bullet.

If you want to use the 1898 rifle, you have to establish a bullet production line for him, and you can't always rely on imports!

At this time, Zhao Dongyun recruited many people to set up a Fuyuan machine factory, and said unashamedly that trial production could be achieved within half a year, and the design output of 50 pieces per day would be reached within two years, and there was also a bullet production line and a smokeless gunpowder production line.

In this way, the Fuyuan Machinery Factory has rifles, bullets, and propellants, and if it can really reach the design output, it can fully meet the needs of the Beiyang New Army for rifles.

Moreover, the rifle produced by the Fuyuan Machine Qì Factory is also Type 88, so that it can produce the same rifle as the Hubei Gun Factory and Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau in the south, and the bullets will be the same and the guns will be universal.

This is very important for the Chinese unified rifle model.

Yuan Shikai is not Zhao Dongyun in the end, if Zhao Dongyun is to consider the problem from the height of the Beiyang system, he comes to the conclusion that Beiyang needs an arsenal. However, Yuan Shikai needs to consider the problem from the height of the whole country, and he came to the conclusion that Beiyang needs an arsenal, but at the same time, if the rifles and bullets produced by this arsenal can meet the needs of the new army in the country, it will be better.

This involves a problem that has been considered since 1902, that is, the unification of guns and the unification of calibers. Historically, because there was no arsenal for manufacturing rifles in the Beiyang system, Yuan Shikai, who stood and spoke without back pain, directly built yì to use small-caliber Mauser as the standard rifle, and the caliber was also 6.8 mm, which is not reasonable for the size of the Chinese, but it is unreasonable for the military industrial system of today's China.

Because at that time, the only military factories in the country that could produce the Type 88 rifle and the corresponding 7.92 mm bullet were the only ones that could be mass-produced, but the top was to ask the factories to stop the production of the Type 88 rifle, and then spend a huge amount of money to ask the Germans to design a new gun, and then specially introduce the 6.8 caliber Mauser 1898 rifle production line, this decision is completely a decision with too much money to spend.

Today's China, or today's Beiyang New Army, needs a large number of cheap, unified standard rifles and corresponding production and supply lines, and this rifle as long as it is a new type of repeating rifle, from this point of view, whether it is Japan's 30-year model or Germany's Type 88 rifle, in fact, it is not important, what matters is which rifle has large-scale production capacity in China.

Therefore, in the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic period, it is a false proposition to discuss which rifle is more suitable for the Chinese, because there is no choice at all, only the Type 88 rifle \ Hanyang has the ability to mass production, except for the Type 88 rifle, you simply can't get other rifles that can be mass-produced.

If there is no Fuyuan Machinery Factory, then Yuan Shikai's first choice is the Japanese rifle, and the second choice is the Germans' second-hand Type 88, but since there is the Fuyuan Machinery Factory, he is naturally ready to wait for the Type 88 rifle from the Fuyuan Machinery Factory.

"This is a trial version of the Type 88 Z-type rifle, which is definitely better than the old second-hand Type 88 in the hands of the Germans, and better than that of the Hubei Gun Factory and the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau. However, even so, the overall design is slightly backward, especially the design of the barrel holster is extremely redundant, the engineers of the Fuyuan machine qì factory have proposed a new design scheme, which will remove the barrel holster and replace it with a handguard, in addition to the door, the magazine will also refer to some of the design of today's new rifles to improve, and it is expected that a new trial sample will be able to come up at the beginning of the year! ”

Zhao Dongyun explained to Yuan Shikai in detail that this time he not only showed these Type 88 rifles and grenades to Yuan Shikai as a subordinate, but also showed them to Yuan Shikai as an arms dealer.

"Well, it would be better if there could be a better improved model, but there is no need to worry about improvement, now the focus of Fuyuan Machine is still on mass production, and strive to form mass production as soon as possible!" Yuan Shikai looked at Zhao Dongyun when he said this: "Now your Third Association doesn't have a new gun, you can only use Lao Mauser to train, if the Fuyuan Machine Qì Factory can't achieve rapid mass production, I'm afraid you will have to import Type 88 rifles to the Germans.!" ”

Zhao Dongyun said: "I'm afraid it will take more than a year for the machine factory to achieve full mass production, but after the beginning of the year, the machine factory should be able to trial production in small batches, and then it can gradually supply the guns needed by various departments!" ”

Yuan Shikai also knew that this matter was not in a hurry, and the entire Beiyang Standing Army Right Town was far from the time when it became an army, even the current recruits of the Third Association had not recruited all of them, and after recruiting all the recruits and training them with the old-fashioned single-shot Mauser for a few months, it was estimated that at that time, the Fuyuan Machine Qì Factory would also be able to carry out small-scale trial production, even if the trial production period was only fifteen per day, then half a year would be enough to produce rifles except for those used in the Third Association.

And when the Fuyuan Machinery Factory reaches the design output, it will not be a problem to supply the entire Beiyang New Army.

After reading this rifle, Zhao Dongyun showed the grenade to Yuan Shikai again, during which it was inevitable to let the soldiers throw live ammunition, Yuan Shikai was very interested after seeing it, and even threw three grenades himself regardless of the danger, and finally he said: "This grenade is simple and convenient, if the price is really as cheap as you say, it can be used by a large number of sergeants!" ”

"This thing can be attacked, retreat can be defended, it is a sharp weapon for the two armies, watching the Huai army and the many wars of the great powers, our army does not fall behind when the array shoots, but often collapses instantaneously when entering the hand-to-hand combat stage, which shows that our army continues to improve its hand-to-hand combat ability, and grenades can greatly hit the morale and formation of the enemy soldiers before hand-to-hand combat!" Zhao Dongyun even said: "If the enemy forces attack in formation, when the enemy is 20 meters away from our army, our army collectively throws grenades, one person throws one, and 100 people can throw 100 bombs, and when 100 bullets go off in unison, the enemy will not collapse!" ”

"If the energy production of the Fuyuan machine is not there, if you can, you can order two thousand pieces for trial!" Anyway, grenades are cheap, and it doesn't cost much to order a few thousand, so Yuan Shikai soon placed the first official order for Fuyuan Machine.

With the first, there will be the second, Yuan Shikai continued: "Your Type 88 rifle is estimated to be able to be trial-produced in a small amount in the past two months, so first set two hundred for trial!" ”

Zhao Dongyun smiled when he heard this: "No problem, I'll call Tianjin when I go back!" ”

Let's not talk about whether this order is more or less, but at least it has been proved that there is no problem for the products of Fuyuan Machinery to enter the Beiyang New Army.

After bidding farewell to Yuan Shikai, Zhao Dongyun did not go to the military camp outside Dongguan, but returned to the residence in the city, since he presided over the training of the Third Association, because he stayed in the military camp outside Dongguan for a long time, he also had less time to go home, so since he was in the city today, he naturally would not go out of the city directly to return to the barracks.

Seeing Zhao Dongyun coming back, Fang Ruolian didn't react much, just continued to read her book with an 'oh' sound, as if Zhao Dongyun was not as important as the afternoon sun, she didn't even get up.

At this time, she was stuck on the sofa in the living room, covered with a blanket, and the sunlight shone through the glass window that opened the curtains, and a large area was sprinkled in the living room, and the sun shone on her face, showing a faint goose yellow light.

Zhao Dongyun handed the coat to the maid, and then walked over: "What are you looking at, so fascinated!" ”

Fang Ruolian stood up the book in her hand so that Zhao Dongyun could see the cover, and then said, "Bible!" ”

Zhao Dongyun looked at it and smiled: "You won't still think about becoming a nun!" ”

Fang Ruolian asked rhetorically: "Why can't you?" ”

Zhao Dongyun was stunned for a moment, and then thought for a long time but didn't find a rebuttal!

Fang Ruolian sat up and tightened the blanket on her body as if she was afraid of the cold: "Sit here, let me lean on!" ”

Zhao Dongyun was speechless, so he could only sit down and put his thighs on her as a pillow, and then listened to her again: "You're right, this is really comfortable!" ”――

In the new month, I will pull the monthly pass as far as the eye can see, I won't sell cute on a rainy day, I won't pretend to be pitiful, I can only use the gagen to pull the monthly pass!

Tomorrow it will start to erupt until it vomits blood!

I'm about to vomit blood on a rainy day, where is your enthusiasm, where is the fire?