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Under Situ Nan's instructions, little Kadoorie rushed to Hengyang, Hunan again.

On the bank of the Xiangjiang River, under the Yanfeng Peak, a heroic man looked at the green mountains outside the fence, and the rushing river water continued to the east, and he felt a burst of emotion in his heart.

"The fishing boat sings at night, ringing on the shore of the poor Peng Li; The geese were frightened, and the sound of Hengyang's Pusai was different in autumn, and the geese in Hengyang went without paying attention. Throughout the ages, how many literati have left feelings here, and Jin I Wu Ziyu is no exception! ”

The man sighed.

He is the Beiyang warrior Wu Peifu, Xiucai was born, put pen to paper, when he was young, the Russo-Japanese War occurred in the Northeast, and he was used as a scout to collect intelligence on the Russian ** team for Japan, so he was promoted to second lieutenant for meritorious service.

After Wu Peifu entered Yuan Shikai's Beiyang system, he rose all the way to the top and made great achievements, and was promoted to the commander of the third division. His boss is Cao Kun, a cloth general, and Cao Kun is not too talented, so the real core of Cao Wu's faction is the heroic Wu Peifu in front of him.

Well, among a group of Beiyang warlords from a rough background, Wu Peifu is undoubtedly very prominent, not only because he is a high-level intellectual, but also because this person is elegant and talented, and he can be regarded as clean and self-righteous in seeking personal gains, so he is also praised.

Little Kadoorie silently analyzed Wu Peifu in his heart, and before he came, Meihua Company had already contacted Cao Kun in Beijing, so he met Wu Peifu very smoothly.

"General Wu, why don't you have something to say! I wanted to come and talk to you about the arms business. "Little Kadoorie gets straight to the point.

"Good!" Wu Peifu nodded. A pair of big and dark eyes looked at little Kadoorie, the arms merchant who took the initiative to come to the door, and said in his heart: It's really good, it's really timely. Even if Meihua doesn't come to look for him, he will look for them.

"The quality of our goods has already been tested by General Wu, and there is no need for me to nag about the performance. I know. General Wu will soon be heading north, and may even fight the armies of the north. So I wonder how much arms you need this time? Little Kadoorie laughed.

The 3rd Beiyang Division wants to return north. As everyone knows, Wu Peifu himself has not been less than a telegram to shout about this matter, but he has been rejected by the War Department of the Beijing government.

For this reason, Wu Peifu and Duan Qirui had a very unpleasant quarrel. Now the war is about to start. The day Wu Peifu went north was the day the war began.

Prior to that, weapons and ammunition were purchased. It is indispensable to expand the army. Wu Peifu had already thought about purchasing armaments, but he hadn't had time to start yet. Little Kadoorie took the initiative to come to the door.

See little Kadoorie so crisply. Wu Peifu picked up the pen and wrote down the ordnance and equipment to be purchased on the spot.

Brush Brush Brush!

Wu Xiucai waved his pen again and again, but what fell into the hands of little Kadoorie was "30,000 rifles, 2,000 pistols, 1,000 machine guns, 50 75mm cannons, 3 base ammunition, and first-aid medicines worth 500,000 yuan." ”

Little Kadoorie smiled and nodded. "We will deliver the first batch of arms within three months, and the share will not be less than a third." We will send the rest to Hankow in one go. It would be better if General Wu's troops could go to Hankow and fetch themselves. ”

"Hankow?" Wu Peifu frowned, glanced at little Kadoorie, and thought: Wang Zhanyuan, the overseer of Hubei, is incapable of mixing, and temporarily put the arms in Hankou, forgiving him for not daring to swallow his own goods. Moreover, the Meihua company is a foreign company, and if it is kept secret, it will not let too many people know about it.

Thinking of this, Wu Peifu nodded, planning to pass through Wuhan at that time, after getting all the equipment, he would immediately attack the participating army in the north along the railway.

Wu Peifu secretly made up his mind.

At this time, seeing a wild goose flying in the sky, he took an imitation Mauser rifle from the guard, aimed and triggered.

"Smack!" With a sound, the geese fell in response.

"Good marksmanship!" Little Kadoorie praised, at least he had never been so handsome when he played with a gun.

"Maybe it's just a frightened bird!" Wu Peifu smiled faintly, a little complacent, he was still quite confident in his marksmanship. In his heart, Wang Zhanyuan, Zhang Jingyao and others in Beiyang are the birds he snatched.

As long as you want to, no one can stop the Third Division from returning to Zhili!

Seeing the faint green smoke emitted from the blue muzzle, Wu Peifu touched the rifle in his hand, his eyes were a little fascinated.

In his opinion, this imitation Mauser rifle imported from the Meihua Company can almost be compared with the German Mauser rifle, just a little worse, but it is also more powerful than the Japanese-made 38 rifle, and the price is even a little cheaper than the Japanese 38 rifle.

Well, rifles sold by Japan to China are often ridiculously expensive.

Wu Peifu was secretly scolding the Japanese for being black-hearted, and he was also surprised by the Meihua Company, and it was self-evident what an arms dealer with his hands and feet meant to a soldier like him who was interested in reunifying China.

"What a good gun produced by Meihua Company! And when, too, our arsenal will be able to produce such a rifle? Wu Peifu said tentatively.

As far as Wu Peifu knows, there are two kinds of rifles sold by the US-China Company, one is the M1903 rifle used by the US army in World War I, and the other is the imitation Mauser rifle in front of him.

Wu Peifu thought that it was an American product in his hand, but it was actually made in Medan. The barrels pulled out by the steel mills in the Philippines were transported to Medan for processing into various parts, and after being secretly assembled, even Nanyang's own army was shipped to Chinese mainland without having time to equip them.

Even little Kadoorie himself didn't know much about this, but he knew that Meihua was capable of producing the weapons needed for a qiē.

"If given the opportunity, we have no objection to contributing to General Wu's arsenal. As long as you can afford the price, the machine qì technology, anything is easy to say. ”

Little Kadoorie smiled faintly, and he couldn't help but look up at Wu Peifu for Wu Peifu's ambition to establish an arsenal.

Because warlords, large and small, would rather spend 1 million at a time to buy weapons than spend 35 million to build their own arsenal. It is better to buy than to build, it is better to rent than to buy, and it is better to borrow than to rent, and this concept has been deeply rooted in the minds of the major warlords.

The reasons are complicated, but Wu Peifu has such foresight and action, which makes little Kadoorie feel the need to reacquaint himself with the general in front of him, known as General Xiucai.

"By the way, the arsenal, I think of the Hanyang Iron Works, which is almost in the hands of Japanese companies, and I don't think it makes sense for China. I wonder if General Wu thinks so too? Little Kadoorie suddenly remembered something and said.

"Hanyang Iron Works? Ay. The president is not guaranteed to be in the evening. Woe to the country is not shallow!" Wu Peifu said with some heartache.

"That's fine. General Wu, if you gain power one day, please remember to do us a small favor.

To tell the truth, we are plotting to seize the Hanyeping Company. Some shares were also acquired, if you add the shares in the hands of the Chinese government. We are confident that we will repel the Japanese.

If we were to accuse Hanyang Iron Works, I would commit to investing heavily in Hanyang Iron Works to become Asia's premier steel complex. It will also be the most important arsenal in China. This is also the attitude of Meihua Company. When the time comes, you will have as many rifles as you have in your hands. ”

Little Kadoorie is pure and seductive.

"Why?" Wu Peifu glanced at Little Kadoorie coldly. If he says it wildly, who dares to guarantee that the US-China Company will not plunder China's mineral resources only like the Japanese?

However, the U.S. steel industry is developed and far away, so it is impossible to be interested in China's iron ore. If you invest in Han Yeping, maybe you will build an advanced and huge Hanyang Arsenal? If you can use it for yourself??

Come to think of it. Wu Peifu's face eased again.

This is a relatively distant idea, and now the 3rd Beiyang Division can only nest in Hengyang. can't return to Zhili, and whether he can defeat the Anhui system is also for it, so Wu Peifu can only bury the thoughts in his heart.

"Good! If we gain the upper hand, I believe that there will be many opportunities for cooperation with friendly friends. Wu Peifu made a somewhat empty promise.

Little Kadoorie naturally looked at the trap in Wu Peifu's words, but he didn't mind, even without Wu Peifu, Meihua Company could get a more specific commitment from the Hubei Overseer.

Fortunately, little Kadoorie doesn't have to bargain with Wu Peifu, because Cao Kun in Beijing will already pay, that guy has money!

As the boss of the new direct lineage, Wu Peifu and the Beiyang 3rd Division will be Cao Kun's capital to dominate in the future, and he can't help but be reluctant to spend money.

A few years later, Cao Kun was able to spend tens of millions of yuan to buy votes to become president, so he was naturally a rich man. In order to win the war and win the power of the central government, Cao Kun happily paid 10 million yuan, in addition to most of the equipment of the Beiyang Third Division, he also formed other troops.

Wu Peifu was undoubtedly a far-sighted warlord who saw the importance of airplanes and purchased from the U.S.-China Company the Cummins-Lincoln plane, which was a major feature of the U.S. Army Air Corps in World War I.

5 fighters, 5 bombers, and two more sets of accessories, a total of 1.5 million was spent.

Meihua was very active in this, not only sending mechanics, but also saying that it could send pilots, provided that Wu Peifu paid them.

Well, these are all pilots trained in the United States by the US-China company, and it is best to send them to the Chinese battlefield to accumulate experience.

In this way, Wu Peifu, with the help of the US-China Company, secretly organized an aviation unit, which greatly improved its combat capability. When he appeared on the battlefield in the north a few months later, he alarmed all the warlords in one fell swoop.

After seeing the aircraft show their skills, they also formed their own flying teams. However, there is no systematic flight system training, so I can only buy an airplane and go back to serve as a façade. However, it also made the Meihua Company a lot of money, bringing a ray of life to the already troubled Cummins-Lincoln Aircraft Company.

The successful deal between Kadoorie Jr. and Wu Peifu soon reached Situ Nan's ears.

No concubines, no money, no foreign stays, no rentals. Sounds good, and Wu Peifu has done it historically. Regarding this warlord who seems to have a good impression, Situ Nan thought that no matter what Wu Peifu was like first, but with Wu Peifu's future large-scale construction of an arsenal in Luoyang and the objective construction of China's military industry, he should support Wu Peifu a little more.

At least from the perspective of economic interests, he should also maintain a good relationship with Wu. After thinking about it, Situ Nan filled in the word Wu Peifu in the US-China aid list, and the grade was A.

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Little Kadoorie returned to the poster again, and Wu Peifu stood on the bank of the Xiangjiang River for a long time.

"Legend has it that the wild geese in the north are afraid of the cold wind outside the plug, so they migrate to the south in groups, fly over thousands of mountains and rivers, come here with a mild climate and beautiful scenery, set up camp, rest and inhabit, this is the wild goose city of Hengyang."

Now that the wind is sunny and the weather is getting warmer, it's time for me, the northern goose who has been in the south for several years, to return to the nest! Xiao Xuzi, you're going to be unlucky this time!

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