Zhao Dongyun listened, and after listening to it, he picked up the report in his hand, looked at it a little and then said: "As long as they place an order for the rifles and heavy machine guns of these companies, they will sell them with enough cash, the price is as good as before, the bullets and shells are slightly tighter, and the purchase of more than 500,000 bullets and more than 1,000 shells shall not be agreed without my approval, light machine guns, mortars and artillery are still the old rules, and no one is allowed to buy!" ”

Although Zhao Dongyun has hoarded a large amount of ordnance in his hand and is ready to sell, he does not plan to sell everything, and the rifles and heavy machine guns are basically in open supply, and the prices are relatively favorable. This is because even if Zhao Dongyun doesn't sell to them, they can still get enough supply from major foreign banks, and it is better for Zhao Dongyun to sell them to make money.

And if you want to sell it to make money, you have to import it to compete, well, mainly the second-hand 88 rifles and Mauser 98 of the Germans and the 30-year and 38-year models of the Japanese 'Ben, the price of the Fuzao rifle is now lower than the Mauser 98 and the Japanese 'Ben 38 type, higher than the second-hand 88-type rifle and the 30-year rifle, and it is not much higher, so the Fuzao 88 rifle of the Fuchang is still quite attractive to the domestic warlords.

After all, in the domestic arms market, the new rifle is the cheapest one, and the price is far lower than that of the German Mauser 98 and the Japanese 38-year-old rifle. As for the second-hand rifle, although it is cheap, it is not as good as the new rifle, and you want to have a second-hand Zhao Dongyun, his third division has been equipped with a Type 88 rifle for several years, if you want a second-hand rifle, Zhao Dongyun will directly replace it with a brand-new rifle, vacate the second-hand and sell it to you, and the price is cheaper than the second-hand 88 and the Japanese 'Thirty Years of the Germans' own.

Heavy machine guns are similar, although the Fuyuan machine factory can produce heavy machine guns, but there are also many heavy machine guns from foreigners, and the Japanese and Russians, as well as the Germans and even the French and British, are all peddling heavy machine guns in the Far East, and it is not a problem to have money to buy imported heavy machine guns, so it is better to earn this money than to let foreigners earn it.

But bullets, shells, and light machine guns, artillery is different, although Zhao Dongyun also sells bullets and shells for the first two, but they are supplied in limited quantities, which is not to say that the production of Fuchang is insufficient, but Zhao Dongyun does not want several other warlords in Beiyang to hoard a large amount of ammunition, in short, to hang them, not to let them have no ammunition but not to them hoard too much, and the price has to be cheaper than the foreigners, to avoid them directly importing from the foreigners.

And the light machine guns and artillery of the latter two are completely banned from being sold, why? Because these two other warlords in China can't get a lot of them from the major foreign companies in a short period of time, and even if they can be bought, the price is basically sky-high, such as the long-barreled artillery that even Zhao Dongyun himself needs to import, with the Germans' 1903 artillery and various improved versions, such as the 1906 model, etc., the price is not low, it is more than 10,000 taels of silver for an expensive weapon, even if Zhao Dongyun, who owns the three eastern provinces, wants to buy these long-barreled tube retreat field artillery, it is also necessary to think before and after.

And usually money can't buy it, after all, the Germans' artillery production is also limited, when the original day' I spent a lot of money to buy hundreds of artillery, the Germans worked hard to produce more than a year before they were delivered, and now these warlords in the country are willing to spend tens of thousands of taels of silver to buy these advanced tube retreat artillery, they don't expect to get too much stock in a year.

Although the Fuchang can't produce field guns, it can produce a short-barreled 75 mm tube retreat gun, which is also a big killer in China, and the output of the Fuchang is not much, Zhao Dongyun himself is not enough, and he has to find a way to import artillery from the Japanese and the Germans, where it will be sold to other warlords in the country!

Light machine guns are similar, now domestic warlords can buy light machine guns only two ways, that is, to find the Danes to buy Madsen light machine guns, but the Madsen company is now very prosperous, orders from Denmark and Germany and even the United Kingdom and other countries have been lined up for several years, these domestic warlords do not expect to be able to get a large number of light machine guns in a year or two, as for the second way, it is Fuyuan machine qì factory, but Zhao Dongyun does not sell it, this light machine gun is not enough for his own use, naturally it will not be sold.

The production of mortars is sufficient, but there is currently no one in the world, there is no semicolon, and other warlords in the country have no way to obtain this weapon from other means, plus mortars have a great tactical effect on the Mukden army, so don't expect Zhao Dongyun to export light machine guns.

Originally, the technical content of this mortar is not high, and if foreign arsenals want to produce and equip it, the problem is that although mortars have appeared in China for several years, they have not actually participated in large-scale wars, and the armies of foreign powers have not noticed or attached importance to this weapon at all, and foreign armies do not have this demand, and those foreign arsenals will naturally not develop and produce them.

Domestically, it is because of the use of a large number of mortars in Zhao Dongyun's troops that has attracted a certain amount of attention, but at present, the two factories in Jiangnan and Hanyang have not carried out imitation production, so the southern warlords have not been able to get mortars for the time being.

As for the many warlords in the north, such as Duan Qirui, there is at most a repair shop under his hands, and it is barely possible to repair guns, but not others. They can't even produce their own rifles, bullets and shells, let alone mortars.

"In addition, you also have to pay more attention, don't delay the payment of the goods on the Fuchang side without delay, they called me again this month, saying that you owe them 300,000 yuan again?" Zhao Dongyun continued: "You must also know the importance of Fuchang, delaying their payment is not good for us!" ”

Zhao Dongping said: "The two batches of artillery shells they shipped over have quality problems, and the chief officers of several artillery regiments have come to me to say that these batches of artillery shells are not only less powerful than the original, but also prone to accidents, and there was an explosion accident in the training half a month ago, our army not only lost a 75 mm mountain gun, but also killed and injured many people, according to the investigation of our ordnance department, it was the Fuchang side that changed the charge of the shells to cause quality problems, so the Ministry of Posts suspended the payment of shell purchases!" ”

Unexpectedly, Zhao Dongyun said: "I already knew about this before, and I asked them to change into new explosives!" ”

"Before, all kinds of artillery shells used imported explosives, and mortar shells were only black explosives, but with the import of explosives in recent years, they have become more expensive, so Fuchang has imitated and developed its own explosives! This has just come out, there will definitely be some problems, and I blame me for letting them use these new drugs in order to lower the price, and I will send them a letter when I go back, asking them to use imported gunpowder first, and you don't drag the money, otherwise their shell factory will have to close! Zhao Dongyun sighed as he spoke.

The difficulty of developing and producing explosives is actually greater than the difficulty of producing artillery!

In history, China until the founding of the People's Republic of China, whether the performance is good or not is another matter, but the artillery is easy to make, but it cannot be mass-produced picric acid or TNT explosives on a large scale, and the artillery shells and explosives required in China from the end of the Qing Dynasty to 1949 for half a century are strictly dependent on imports.

There are generally two kinds of charge of a small and medium-caliber shell, one of which is gunpowder or propellant, as the name suggests, this kind of gunpowder is to launch the shell. There are black powder, maroon gunpowder before the propellant, and smokeless gunpowder after the propellant, and many domestic arsenals have entered the era of smokeless gunpowder in recent years, and there is no problem of zài technology and output.

The second is explosives, the function of explosives is to make the shells explode, and there are generally three types of explosives used today, that is, the traditional black powder, Shimose gunpowder with picric acid as the main ingredient used in contemporary Japan, and TNT used by other powers.

The 75 mm artillery shells imported by Fuchang are also TNT, because the imported TNT is expensive, in order to reduce costs, so another kind of artillery shells produced by Fuchang is mortar shells, and the explosives contained in them are black powder.

In order to be able to produce its own explosives, the Fuyuan Machinery Factory also began to try to imitate picric acid and TNT a few years ago, and successfully imitated picric acid at the end of last year, and began small-scale trial production at the beginning of the year and loaded it into 75 mm shells.

However, the picric acid thing is really not stable enough, and the technology of the Fuyuan machine is still slightly lacking, and the research and development time is too short, so it is not surprising that there was an accident after this hastily reloaded.

It's one thing to make picric acid, but it's also a trouble to use it safely, why don't the other powers use picric acid, it's because this thing is not stable enough, and the whole world will dare to use this thing on a large scale.

At the same time, the Fuyuan machine qì factory is also imitating TNT, but this gunpowder is more difficult to imitate, and countries are also quite secretive about this technology, after trying to buy a patent failed, the Fuyuan machine qì factory can only organize its own scientific research personnel to develop imitations, when it can be made only God knows.

So although he knew that the picric acid was not stable enough and it was troublesome to use, Zhao Dongyun still decided to use a small amount first, and then slowly improve it.

But he didn't expect that this had just been put into trial production, and there was a serious accident!

However, despite the accident, he also plans to stop using picric acid explosives for the time being, but Zhao Dongyun does not plan to give up picric acid explosives, as long as the TNT explosives are not researched for a day, he will have to use this picric acid for a day, no matter what, it is better than the extremely expensive TNT explosives imported every day.

This is equipped with self-produced picric acid explosives, not only the cost of 75 mm shells can be greatly reduced, but also the mortar shells widely used in the Mukden Army can also use picric acid explosives, which can increase at a lower cost to obtain greater explosive power.

After all, it's 1907 now, and even mortar shells can't always use black powder!

After dealing with the affairs related to the Fuyuan Machinery Factory, Zhao Dongping did not leave, but said again: "Marshal, the second batch of artillery we ordered from Germany last year has also arrived, do you want to go and have a look?" ”

"Oh, the cannon arrived?" Zhao Dongyun was overjoyed when he heard this: "The first few 75mm cannons are just that, but these six 150mm cannons are to be seen!" ”

Among the multiple batches of artillery ordered by Zhao Dongyun from Germany, in addition to dozens of 75-mm field guns, there are also twelve 100-mm cannons!