"Oh, thank you Lord Biaotong for coming to visit Gong, you see that I don't have the strength to get up, I'm really sorry!" Gong Zhizhen saw that Xiao Zhenlei was coming and wanted to sit up, but he felt that his whole body was still out of strength, and he couldn't sit up after struggling a few times, so he had to apologize quickly.

"It's okay, it's okay!" Xiao Zhenlei waved his hand to find a chair to sit down, and said: "Staff Officer Gong, I think you probably haven't engaged in such a large amount of training, and you will have to conduct such a large amount of training every morning in the future, I am worried that you will not be able to bear it, if you have any accidents, I really can't explain to Lord Cai, but if you don't participate in the training, other officers and soldiers will definitely say that I have special treatment, and this soldier is not easy to bring!" ”

Gong Zhizhen also said with a bitter face: "Yes, it is embarrassing for Lord Biaotong, and it is all because Gong Mou's body is not good!" ”

Xiao Zhenlei thought for a while and said: "In that case, Staff Officer Gong, I have an errand here so that I don't have to go out for morning exercises every day, but whether you want to do it or not, of course, your position and salary remain the same!" ”

Gong Zhizhen's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he hurriedly said: "What kind of errand, Lord Biaotong, please tell me!" ”

"You also know that our 46th bid is still under the command of the 23rd Mixed Association, and the 23rd Mixed Association Department + is in Suzhou City, if there is any wind and grass over there and we don't know it, then our 46th bid is not a great loss? Besides, until now, the Ministry of Cooperation has not paid us this month's military salary, so I would like to set up a liaison office in Suzhou City for our 46th bid. Specially responsible for liaison and communication with the Ministry of Cooperation and the outside world, if there is any news, send someone to inform us in time. If you wish, I will appoint you as the head of the liaison office. He also holds the rank of staff officer of the standard department! ”

Gong Zhizhen immediately said: "Lord Biaotong, I am good at this kind of thing, it is my forte to pull the relationship through the back door and inquire about the news, Lord Biaotong can rest assured and boldly hand over this matter to me!" ”

Xiao Zhenlei smiled: "That's good, I'm still worried that you don't want to go, since you are willing to go, then I will leave this matter to you, and after you recover, I will transfer a squad from the guard company to be taken over by you to be responsible for the security of the liaison office." In addition, you can find Fan Zhiyong to withdraw the funds for the establishment of the liaison office! ”

"Good, good! Thank you for giving me this errand! Gong Zhizhen was really scared by the huge training load every morning, and only thought about how to avoid this kind of training, now there is such a person who doesn't have to go out to exercise every day, and it is also an errand he likes, of course he is willing to do it.

Xiao Zhenlei reminded: "Staff Officer Gong, you represent our entire forty-six targets in the liaison office, so you must hurry up on this matter of asking Lord Ai of the Association Department for military salaries, if the time is up every month, if the Ministry of Assistance has not allocated the military salaries that belong to us." You must come to the door and find a way to get the military salary back, otherwise thousands of people on our side will go hungry, and if the soldiers are allowed to mutiniate because the military salary has not been paid, it will be a big trouble! ”

Gong Zhizhen also knew that the consequences of the army mutiny were very strict. Therefore, he nodded solemnly: "Don't worry, my lord, since my lord has entrusted me with such an important matter, Gong Someone, I will definitely handle it properly." That's right, sir. Didn't Lord Cai allocate 100,000 taels to us for 46 bids? Is it running out? And I found that our army was much more numerous than it should have been! ”

Xiao Zhenlei took out a metal cigarette case, took out two cigarettes and handed them to him, Gong Zhizhen took one and hurriedly thanked him. After lighting the cigarettes of both of them with a lighter, Xiao Zhenlei took a few puffs and said: "My stupid brother, the 100,000 taels given by Lord Cai are not counted in the normal military salary, our normal military salary should be allocated by the Governor Yamen, but the Governor Yamen bears the military salary of the Ninth Town of Nanyang, and of course he is not willing to bear the military salary of the 23rd Mixed Association of our New Army, so our military salary is allocated by the Daotai Yamen, but the money allocated by the Daotai Yamen has to be transferred by the Governor's Yamen and then allocated to the 23rd Mixed Association of the New Army, and although Lord Daotai gave us 100,000 taels, we still have to allocate a part of the money to the governor's yamen every month according to the normal amount, you are the person next to Lord Cai, isn't this clear? ”

Gong Zhizhen said embarrassedly: "I haven't been with Lord Cai for a long time, and I have been in the capital before, so I really don't know about this matter!" As soon as you say that, I understand, don't worry, begging for money is what I'm best at, and I'm good at it! ”

Xiao Zhenlei nodded and said: "As for the issue of establishment, it is indeed as you see, the number of people is more than 300 more than the normal establishment, and there is an additional guard company and a military police, I have already reported this matter to Lord Cai, since Lord Cai is willing to pay for them, why don't we do it?" Besides, the forty-fifth standard is the governor's person, our forty-sixth standard is Lord Cai's person, the extra soldiers are also his, and Staff Officer Gong has also been mixed in the capital, who doesn't want to let himself hold some more soldiers and horses in his hands these days? ”

Gong Zhizhen nodded and said, "Your Excellency is reasonable, reasonable!" ”

After this conversation, Xiao Zhenlei saw that this Gong Zhizhen and Cai Naihuang are not the same heart, if there is no miscalculation, Gong Zhizhen is Yuan Datou's person nine times out of ten, don't look at Yuan Datou is now at home, but this person's energy must not be compared with ordinary people, you must know that the six towns of Beiyang are his henchmen, although the control of several towns has been changed by the imperial court, but Lao Yuan still holds the six towns of Beiyang firmly in his hands, Gong Zhizhen was sent by Lao Yuan to monitor Cai Naihuang, and Cai Naihuang obviously does not want to put a nail around him, so I thought of sending it to the forty-sixth standard, and Gong Zhizhen was just an opportunist, not the kind of person who died to Lao Yuan, so he did not object to Xiao Zhenlei letting him go to Suzhou, as for Li Biao and Xiang Tiejun, it is not clear for the time being, it may be Cai Naihuang and others, or it may be Lao Yuan's people, but it may also be people from other forces.

On 16 November, Gong Zhizhen took the funds he had withdrawn from Fan Zhiyong to set up a liaison office and took a squad from Xiao Zhenlei from the guard company to Suzhou happily.

After Gong Zhizhen was gone, Xiao Zhenlei did not relax. Li Biao and Xiang Tiejun are still there, whose people are they? He wasn't sure for a moment, but he didn't have the energy to stare at these two people all day. It's enough for Arima Xiaoshuang to send someone to keep an eye on him, he still has a lot of things to do.

On November 18, Xiao Zhenlei and Opiyin drove back to Shanghai Beach, first with Cheng Baguio and Wang Yanan and two women to play together, the two women were very dissatisfied with Xiao Zhenlei for not playing with them for so long, this time Xiao Zhenlei went to look for them a little ignored, but when they heard that Xiao Zhenlei led his troops to suppress bandits during this time, and led his troops to Suzhou to garrison, they forgave him.

After getting rid of the two women, Xiao Zhenlei plunged into Zhenhua Company. Because the relevant preparations have been made in advance, so the establishment of a separate gun production plant and an artillery production plant this time is basically a matter of course, and the machinery factory has already manufactured all the equipment for the production line of guns and artillery, and in this regard, due to the guidance of many gun-making and cannon-making personnel dug from the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau and the guidance of weapons experts who have been fooled by Fast from the American Arsenal, it is not very difficult to manufacture the production equipment for making guns and cannons, and after a few days of preparation, In this way, the gunsmith and the artillery factory were secretly established.

The two new factories are patrolled around 24 hours by factory guards, all of whom are veteran workers from other factories and whose families live in the factories. The salary of working in these two factories is higher than that of the others, but the relative loss of freedom does not allow me to tell my family about my current work.

Xiao Zhenlei was holding a Mauser 98k rifle, which had not survived in the Mauser Arsenal yet. This rifle is a prototype gun made by weapons experts and technical workers in the firearms factory after Xiao Zhenlei drew the drawings according to the memories of his previous life.

Robert, a firearms expert who came from the American Arsenal and is now the chief engineer of the gunsmith, said, "Mr. President. When I saw the design drawings you made, I noticed that this gun is quite similar in terms of design to the German Mauser G98 rifle, but very different. It is undeniable that this rifle should be more in line with the needs of real combat than the Mauser G98. I'm sure this will be a very classic carbine! ”

All the foreigners technicians and weapons research experts who have entered Zhenhua Company have signed a confidentiality agreement with Zhenhua Company, and as compensation, Zhenhua Company has to pay an additional part of the salary, these foreigners have come all the way here to make money, of course, as long as there is money to make, these foreigners are too lazy to care why Xiao Zhenlei opened a secret arsenal!

Xiao Zhenlei pulled the bolt, it feels good, but it is still not as good as the German goods, the main reason is that the quality of the steel used to make the gun is worse than the German steel, and the service life of the gun is shorter than the original German goods. And recently, the Japanese are fighting the idea of Hanyang Iron and Steel Plant, and it is becoming more and more difficult to use Hanyang Iron and Steel Plant to purchase steel, but if you import steel from the United States, the cost is too high, and there are many iron ores in China, but now those iron ores are on other people's territory, and Xiao Zhenlei is not able to reach out to other people's territory.

Robert continued: "Unfortunately, the quality of the steel we use to produce this gun is not good, I believe that if more than 1,500 rounds are fired, this gun will be scrapped, and the life of the guns produced from this steel will be shorter than that of guns produced in other countries!" ”

Xiao Zhenlei smiled bitterly: "This is also a helpless thing, it seems that it is imperative to build a steelmaking plant, although we don't have an iron mine, we can buy scrap pig iron or scrap steel for steelmaking!" (A pie-in-the-sky event, cool phones are waiting for you!) Follow from ~ Dian/Chinese network public account (WeChat add friends - add public account - enter ddxiaoshuo), participate now! Everyone has a prize, now pay attention to ddxiaoshuo WeChat public account! (To be continued......) R1292