Chapter 13 Buying a Gun and Buying a Cannon

When Han Sen heard Wang Yan say that he would buy some rifles and cannons for teaching, he was a little disappointed, although the profits of weapons were higher than those of ordinary industrial products, but what the four of them meant was just to purchase a batch of weapons for a military school similar to the West, and how many weapons could be used in a military school.

And the Lord Lin in Wang Yan's mouth in front of him is too young, if it weren't for Lin Daxin and they placed a huge order in the British Jardine Matheson yesterday, Hansen might have considered whether Lin Daxin and others were liars.

Han Sen still said with a smile on his face: "Hello this young Lord Lin! A few of you are right, our German military products have always been dominated by the world arms market with their quality, and the troops of your country, Lord Li Hongzhang, have imported many rifles and cannons from Germany! In addition, we also sell military products from many countries. By the way, a few people from the Beiyang Naval Division's academy, I don't know if a few of them brought something called a document from your country, our country has signed an agreement with your Qing Dynasty, and arms and weapons can only be sold to the Qing Dynasty government and its subordinate agencies! ”

Lin Daxin took out a document from the Beiyang Navy Division's Admiral's Mansion from his arms and handed it to Wang Yan, who handed it to Han Sen, and at the same time Wang Yan said: "Mr. Han Sen, this is our paperwork, our Weihaiwei Beiyang Academy is a subordinate institution affiliated to the Beiyang Navy Division, and it also belongs to the subordinates of Lord Li Hongzhang, and it is fully qualified to import arms and weapons!" ”

Han Sen took the paperwork, just took a cursory glance, and returned it to Wang Yan, in fact, as long as you have money, Han Sen will not care whether you are the Qing Dynasty government or a subordinate organization, that is, buy weapons to create a rebellion against the Qing Dynasty, and Han Sen will not mind.

Han Senh stood up at this time and said, "A few people, there are several samples of rifles in the foreign company now, you can come with me to see them!" ”

Lin Daxin and the four of them followed Hansen to a sample display room, where there were many kinds of weapons in one corner of the display room.

Hansen picked up a rifle and introduced: "This is the M71 rifle, now your Qing Dynasty army is equipped with a lot of this rifle, each rifle only costs 20 taels of silver, if you buy more, I can also give you a better price!" ”

Lin Daxin was not interested in this kind of rifle that was loaded with one bullet and was called a single shot, but set his eyes on a rifle sample not far away, "Mr. Hansen, can you introduce this rifle!" Lin Daxin pointed to the rifle and said.

Han Sen saw the rifle that Lin Daxin was pointing at, and continued to introduce: "Okay, Lord Lin! This is an M1888 rifle, the caliber is 8mm, it can fire 8mm steel armor bullet bullet bullets, it uses a magazine feeding system with a magazine pressure bullet and a straight-pull movable bolt mechanism, which can be loaded with five rounds each time, and the rate of fire can reach 22 rounds per minute, which is now one of the most advanced rifles in the world. ”

Lin Daxin has learned in modern time and space that the prototype of the rifle commonly known as Hanyang in China and also known as the old sleeve is this M1888 rifle, and during the Anti-Japanese War, the squadron was also equipped with a large number of this rifle.

In addition to the disadvantages of this rifle with a high failure rate, another problem with the M1888 rifle is that the magazine of this rifle is not very easy to use: it must be loaded with a magazine, and the magazine is left in the magazine, and it cannot be reloaded before the magazine is exhausted.

Although this rifle has many shortcomings, it is undeniable that in 1892 this rifle was indeed one of the most advanced rifles in the world.

Lin Daxin opened his mouth and asked, "Mr. Hansen, how much does this rifle cost?" ”

"This rifle is much more expensive than the M71 rifle, it costs 80 taels of silver!" Hudson said.

Lin Daxin nodded, in fact, he wanted to buy the M98 Mauser rifle This is the most famous rifle developed by Mauser, which has been equipped with the German army for decades, that is, a century has passed, and there are still military and paramilitary units in the modern world using this rifle. However, the M98 Mauser rifle was successfully developed in 1898, and there is no such gun yet, Lin Daxin is ready to use the M1888 rifle to deal with it first, and when he has his own military factory in the future, he will take the design drawings of the M98 Mauser rifle from modern time and space, and produce this classic rifle by himself.

Lin Daxin heard 80 taels of silver and an M1888 rifle, which was not too expensive, anyway, he spent fake pounds.

"Okay, Mr. Hudsonth, we've decided to buy this M1888 rifle! We're going to buy 50,000 of these rifles! Is it possible to get a discount on the price? Lin Daxin said very casually.

"What? 50,000 rifles! O my God! Did I hear me right? Lord Lin, are you sure you want 50,000 rifles? When Han Sen heard that Lin Daxin asked for 50,000 rifles, he asked very excitedly, this is a big business!

Lin Daxin said with certainty: "Yes! Mr. Hudsonh, you heard me right, I'm going to buy 50,000 M1888 rifles! ”

Hearing that Lin Daxin was going to buy 50,000 M1888 rifles, Wang Yan, Jiang Hui and Sun Xitao were also very surprised.

Sun Xitao whispered to Lin Daxin: "Pingshi, do we need to buy so many rifles?" We don't need so many rifles in our school! ”

Lin Daxin explained: "We not only want to use it for the academy, but at that time, I promised Admiral Ding Ruchang that I would take the students of the army discipline of the Navy Academy as the backbone to form a modern Qing Army to protect the safety of our Beiyang Navy Division on land, these rifles are not only for the students of the army discipline of the Navy Academy, but also for the formation of a new army!" ”

At this time, Han Sen said excitedly: "If Lord Lin wants to buy 50,000 M1888 rifles, I can give you a huge discount, 75 taels of silver per rifle!" ”

Wang Yan also wanted to drink Hansen to bargain, but was stopped by Lin Daxin, Lin Daxin spent fake pounds anyway, and he didn't feel distressed at all, and said to Hansen: "Yes!" 75 two M1888 rifles! But this batch of rifles must be sent to Weihaiwei! ”

When Han Sen heard Lin Daxin agree to 75 taels of M1888 rifles, his heart suddenly burst into joy, this is a big deal, "Don't worry!" Lord Lin, 50,000 M1888 rifles can be sent to Weihaiwei within two months, but this is because the amount you need is too large, and we must mobilize them from Europe. ”

Subsequently, Lin Daxin negotiated with Hansen to purchase 10,000 Mauser revolvers, each with 50 taels of silver, and 500 Gatling machine guns, each with 1,000 taels of silver. The three guns amounted to a total of 4,750,000 taels of silver.

Lin Daxin also purchased 400 German Krupp tube-retreat guns, including 200 75-mm field guns, each with 2,000 taels, and 200 75-mm mountain guns, each with 1,500 taels, a total of 700,000 taels of silver.

In addition, Lin Daxin also purchased 200 million rounds of rifle bullets, 200 million rounds of rifle bullets, 20 million rounds of pistol bullets, and 400,000 shells, a total of 4.55 million taels of silver.

Together, a total of 10 million taels of silver, a total of 2 million pounds of large orders have smashed the general manager of Lihe Foreign Bank, Han Sen, Hansen feels that Lin Daxin in front of him is a bunch of Deutschmark! Especially when Lin Daxin took out one-fifth of the deposit of the order, 400,000 pounds in cash, Hansen thought that Lin Daxin was God!