Chen Ruqin accompanied Qin Yu into the armory, saying that it was an armory, but it was just a few low adobe houses. Inside, there were rough wooden boxes, neatly arranged with old-fashioned rifles.

"After these battles, a lot of guns have been scrapped." Qin Yu looked at the damaged rifles in front of him with some pain, Fengtian was going to start forming a new army, and all guns and ammunition had to be given priority to meet the needs of the new army. The supply of ordnance in the court was already tight, even if he had a good relationship with Wang Huaiqing, Wang Huaiqing could not compete with the generals of the new army, and squeezed out more things with Qin Yu, and the supply of bullets every once in a while was already the limit.

There were more than 1,000 rifles of all kinds, most of which were captured from Mongolian bandits, and a small number of them were guns damaged in several battles. However, there are various types of guns, from the single-shot Martini, to the Murata style, the water Lianzhu, the Manlisha, the broken Hanyang-made, and the older Bodan rifle in Tsarist Russia, and there are very few things that can really come in handy.

At this time, Qin Yu's troops did not even have a single artillery, and the most deterrent weapon was the eight Makqin heavy machine guns, as for a few revolver machine guns, after a few battles, the bullets were almost used, and they were also piled up in the armory, which could only be used as broken copper and iron. Machine guns are a big eater of bullets, and they will only be used when fighting against a large group of Mongolian bandits, and small-scale combat rifles are the absolute main force, and the reduction and damage of rifles represent a decline in combat effectiveness.

"My lord, in fact, many of these rifles can be repaired." Chen Ruqin said.

"Will you fix it?" Qin Yu looked at Chen Ruqin.

"I don't have this skill, but I have a cousin who works as a technician in Shandong Dezhou Machinery Manufacturing Bureau, and I should be able to pull a few people over and be responsible for repairing firearms." Chen Ruqin said.

"And what's the matter, how much does your cousin earn a month at the Texas Machinery Factory?" Qin Yu asked.

"Two or three dollars of silver for a month."

"You write to him, saying that I will open the silver taels to four taels a month, and ask him to come and do things for me, and other people who can repair guns will be at this price, at least a dozen people." Qin Yu said.

"Four taels of silver, I will write a letter when I stay in my humble position, where to do things is not to do it, such a high salary, humble duties will definitely be able to pull people over." Chen Ruqin said.

Out of the low adobe house, Qin Yu said, "I see that you should go to Shanghai to buy a lot of machinery, and I should also repair the gun, so I just bought it at the same time, saving a few times of transportation trouble." ”

"My lord, I was looking for you just now, but I didn't expect you to come here." Tian Helin walked over with an account book with an excited face.

After explaining the matter of the armory to Chen Ruqin, Qin Yu looked at Tian Helin, "What, look at Brother Xuguang, you look so good, is there anything good coming to the door." ”

"My lord, Taonan's economic foundation is very thin, and if you want to take root here, you must make great efforts. In the past two months, I have almost run all over Taonan, and my household registration has been re-registered, and most of the handicraft workshops have been seen. At the moment, there is nothing but a few leather shoes and a family workshop for winemaking. Tian Helin said.

"Anyway, it's such a mess, but no matter how bad the mess is, it has to be dealt with." Qin Yu said with a smile, "In my opinion, what Taonan lacks most is not the foundation, but the lack of people. ”

"Taonan relies on the Horqin prairie and has its own unique advantages, Brother Xuguang, don't just tell me about the difficulties, you have to come up with a solution." Qin Yu said.

"This is what the lowly post will say later, first of all, we must fill the stomachs of the Taonan people. Therefore, we have to cultivate a large amount of land. If you want to reclaim the wasteland, you need to have a large number of cattle, and hundreds of cattle have been seized from the Mongolian bandits, but they are still not enough, and you need to buy some more cattle back. The second is to increase the planting of soybeans. Soybeans are easy to grow and require relatively little labor. The yield is also high. ”

"The second is to build a winery, the land in Taonan is fertile, sorghum, the growth of corn is very good, many people in Taonan are using these two kinds of grain to make wine, limited by the problem of too little investment, the output has not been high, the winter in the Northeast is cold, wine is an indispensable cold thing, and winemaking can become the economic pillar of Taonan in the future."

"The third point is to increase the breeding of livestock. With the pastures near Taonan, it is completely possible to raise more livestock. ”

"Fourth, Taonan is prolific with wool and livestock, and if conditions permit, another textile factory and a shoe factory can be built, but this has to be transferred from Benxi, and technicians and technicians must come over."

Tian Helin explained some of the plans and plans for the governance of Taonan, Qin Yu nodded when he heard it, and couldn't help laughing at the end, "It seems that it is really a bit condescending to let Brother Xuguang stay in the army, Cheng, the governance of Taonan will be all handed over to you, and I will let Huaxing Qianzhuang set the semicolon to Taonan, when the time comes, it is inconvenient for me to come forward, and if you are short of money, you will go directly to Huaxing Qianzhuang." Cultivating farmland, raising livestock has a great effect, but the effect is a little slow, wineries, textile factories, and shoe factories can be operated in a big way, especially textile and shoemaking, here is more advantageous than Benxi, I have asked the relationship of the Zhou family to help go to Shanghai to buy equipment. ”

"By the way, if the coal mine is so profitable, if it is mined, the results will be fast, but there is no such talent under the lowly hand, why don't you invite the technicians who are still in Benxi to Taonan?" Tian Helin said, compared with Benxi, Taonan is too remote, and people stay in Benxi well, not to mention that Du Liming is over there to help Qin Yu take care of the industry, without Qin Yu to speak, Du Liming may not be willing to buy his account and release people.

"There is also a shortage of talents in Benxi, so I'll tell Du Liming about this, and let him hire some people who specialize in prospecting for mines at a high salary." Benxi is very rich in coal and iron, and the Japanese power in the northeast has expanded dramatically, and if you don't seize the time to master a few more mines, and the Japanese will occupy them later, then there is no reason. Besides, even if there is a mine in Taonan, the mining value is not as great as that of Benxi, and there are too few people in Taonan after all, adding up to only forty or fifty thousand people.

"It's okay, then the lowly job will transfer people to collect wool, sheepskin, cowhide and other textiles, raw materials for shoemaking." Tian Helin nodded.

"Go ahead." The industry over there in Benxi has embarked on a regular track, the second medium-sized coal mine has been put into operation, and by next year, the income from the coal mine alone will be three or four hundred thousand, as well as Huaxing Qianzhuang and other industries, to say the least, it is also more than 600,000 yuan a year, of course, Huaxing Qianzhuang absorbs silver deposits very quickly, and the funds that Qin Yu can use are much larger than the numbers on the books. The gold and silver stolen from Bai Yin Da Lai are also worth hundreds of thousands, but this money is invested in Taonan, which is a very huge investment in this era.

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