When I went out, it was cold in winter, and I was sweating when I came back.

Yang Qiu already hated this kind of slow intercontinental travel, and what he wanted most now was to make a C47, or not to allow his aunt, at least not to waste time in the train carriage every day.

After returning to Nanjing, he first explained to Li Yuanhong and Tang Shaoyi the problems encountered during the visit and inspection, and then went to the Ministry of National Defense and the National Development and Reform Commission (the Republic of China version of the National Socialization Reform and Development Committee, in fact, the abbreviation of the hippo also has residual thoughts) to deal with the backlog of work. After the temporary conclusion of the Western Front, the work of the Ministry of National Defense was transferred to the Eastern Front and the training of the 15 new infantry divisions in the country, and the Navy continued to keep an eye on the large cruisers of the Anhai-class that would return home at the end of the year. On the contrary, the air force has been sending cadets to the Western Front for several months, and the number has increased from the initial 60 to the current 436 chapter gap of more than 500 pilots. Although Yang Qiu felt that it was a pity to work hard to train pilots to go to the cruel western front sky, because the mortality rate of fighter pilots was very high in these years, he gritted his teeth and agreed to the plan after officially manufacturing silk parachutes in large quantities at the beginning of the year, after all, it is impossible for a new branch of the military to go from birth to glory without bloodshed.

The NDRC has a lot of work. The winter snow disaster caused floods, the Yellow River and the Yangtze River have been hit by as many as one million people after the dam burst, and the grain harvest in the first half of the year has become a foregone conclusion, so Cai Gongshi is actively cooperating with the "Governor's" government to carry out disaster relief and post-disaster reconstruction work. Aside from agriculture, the rest continues to improve. Driven by 5 billion yuan loans, steel, heavy industry, light industry, railways, electric power and communications and other infrastructure have developed rapidly, most of the southwest railway network that began to be built since 1912 has been completed, and it is expected that by the end of 18 years, the trunk line will be fully opened to traffic, and the double line will also be opened to traffic in 20 years, becoming the first national railway network to be completed. The total mileage of the construction of telephone and telegraph lines nationwide, which began at the beginning of last year, has reached 11,000 kilometers. If it weren't for the shortage of telephone lines in the United States due to the European war, several private telephone line factories in China would have been in a state of embryonic production and insufficient production. I am afraid that the number will be magnified several times. The economy still maintains a high Chapter 436 big gap growth, tobacco, leather and other industries take the opportunity to enter the European market after the light industry is booming, European orders and American processing orders are still the main force, the fastest growth is silk and tobacco, the former because of the parachute export monopoly by the Republic of China to obtain huge profits, the latter due to the sudden need to supply millions of troops "military supplies" resulting in a surge in exports.

But there are also many shortcomings, especially after securing huge loans and investing half of them in industrial and infrastructure development, which led to a surge in demand for steel. Although the country's steel output has exceeded 500,000 tons last year, it is far from meeting the current annual demand of at least 3 million. The three steel plants in Hanyang, Chongqing and Dangtu have done their best, and the Sino-French steel plants in Anshan and Changchun in Northeast China are in the early stages of construction and construction. So after Europe, especially the United States, stopped exporting steel. In China, there are even cases where the rails are repaired by the railway embankment, but it takes half a year to arrive.

After listening to the report, it was already midnight, and before Miao Luo enjoyed the feeling of Xiao Biesheng's newlywed, Hanger, who came from Shanghai overnight, woke him up.

"Your Excellency Counsellor, don't you think it's very immoral to wake up a husband who has been away for four months and has just returned home early in the morning?" Yang Qiu looked at Miao Luo's back. Very helplessly, he cast his gaze at Hangel.

The two have been old friends for many years, and they accompanied him throughout the last visit to Meihanger, so they deliberately glared at him and said, "Who told you to call and say that you have arms?" Haven't I been pulled out of my wife's bed by that old bastard of Ryan Shi. After waking up from the tiredness of the overnight journey, he returned to the truth: "Your Excellency, dear Vice President, do you really have any arms?" "American diplomats like Ryan and Hangle have been unlucky enough lately, not only did Wilson need to adjust their diplomatic strategy immediately after the declaration of war, but they also sent telegrams to the world to raise arms and ammunition to arm the American volunteer army, which would eventually reach 4 million. Since the United States was not a major arms manufacturer before the war, and its output was even inferior to that of Italy, all arms produced after the outbreak of the European War were also exported to the treaty. In particular, Russian orders accounted for 60%. Now that he entered the war, he found that in addition to the revolvers carried by the "cowboys" themselves, there were only 300,000 rifles left in the national arsenal that had not yet been delivered to Russia and a few dozen old cannons that had long been eliminated in Europe.

300,000 vs. 4 million, the gap is too big!

Of course, if the United States is given two years, this amount of ammunition can still be easily built, but the problem is that Britain and France can't wait two years at all, but after they support the 35 divisions of the Wehrmacht free of charge, their own arms production has also reached the limit.

At present, the world's largest arms producer is undoubtedly Germany. Six million rifles, 200,000 machine guns and more than 40,000 cannons were manufactured in three years. Britain, France, Russia, and Italy have produced a total of 10 million rifles, 400,000 machine guns, and more than 50,000 cannons in three years, which seems to be a lot, but Russia alone has lost all the equipment of 200 divisions, which is equivalent to the total loss of British and French support and purchases from the United States! In addition, after the Republic of China entered the war, Britain and France have supported 35 divisions of about 700,000 rifles, 30,000 light and heavy machine guns and 3,000 cannons of various types in the past year, so they really can't make up more weapons. For this reason, the governments of Britain, France, and the United States are not allowed to send special telegrams to diplomats to search for second-hand goods all over the world.

Rui Enshi and Hanger also thought about purchasing from the Republic of China, but they thought that they might have no inventory after they themselves participated in the war, so they focused on the day itself, but they didn't think that Yang Qiu's call came before anyone could send it.

Does Yang Qiu really have arms in his hands?

There really is!

In 1914, when Europe broke out, the three factories in Hanyang, Chongqing, and Zhengzhou could produce about 12,000 rifles per month, but by the middle of 1915 this number had increased to 15,000, and by 1916 it had exceeded 20,000 rifles per month. According to the Ministry of National Defense's forecast, by the end of 1919, the monthly output of 40,000 units would be reached after all the military manufacturing equipment that had been brought back from Britain, France, and Russia by the time the "Mehuā Entente" was completed. In addition, because Yang Qiu deliberately delayed by various means, and also delivered 800,000 old guns (600,000 old guns, 200,000 new guns) to Russia instead of new guns, so there are still more than 300,000 rifles left in his hands after three years of accumulation, in addition to rifles, there are 200,000 grenadiers and 100,000 Stern submachine guns. In addition to these, not long ago the expeditionary force captured about 200,000 rifles. There are thousands of cannons and machine guns of different formats, all of which are enough to meet the weapon needs of 600,000 American volunteers at one time.

Of course. At present, the United States is already an ally, and although such a thing as sky-high prices is refreshing, it is easy to give people the feeling that they are taking advantage of others' danger, so the self-made weapons are completely disposed of at the current market price, and the seized weapons are completely half sold and half given away. But even the market price is more than twice as expensive as before the war, but now that it has announced its entry into the war, the US government, which has already made a lot of money for three years, does not care about such a small amount of money, so the two quickly finalized the $120 million arms contract.

Coupled with domestic reserves, after getting the first batch of 1 million volunteer army equipment, Hanger was much more relaxed, and began to turn his attention to the endless new weapon patents in Yang Qiu's hands. Because the United States did not expect that it would intervene in the war, Britain, France and Germany did not participate in the pre-war purchase of weapons patents for the Republic of China. Therefore, the United States, which is seriously backward in its army's weapons and equipment, realizes that it must purchase a batch of patented technology to imitate. The grenadier canister is simple and easy to make, and the Han II light machine gun, which is modeled after the ZB26, is also in demand. The latest 25mm Wild Bee rapid-fire guns, long-range cannons, Haidongqing fighter/reconnaissance aircraft, T2 armored vehicles, mortars, etc., have all proposed to purchase manufacturing patents, and even the 12.7mm fanged heavy machine gun has also been proposed to be purchased by the United States.

According to the tradition of the Republic of China to sell patents. The U.S. also had to purchase a batch, so the final contract total reached $260 million! Since Russia has already paid half of the purchase price in the past three years, the profit from this huge contract after the sale of one goods and two sales is as high as 180 million US dollars.

It can be regarded as revenge for the slaughter of 4 Anhai-class ships!

After bargaining, the two reached this sky-high contract, which also included the US government to give 500 T2 armored vehicle chassis, 2,000 engines and 700,000 barrels (7 barrels a ton) of oil to the Republic of China for free in the name of supporting allies, and at the same time sell 5 million tons of crude steel (pre-war price) to the Republic of China government at a low price in the next two years.

When Song Ziqing and Fang Rui arrived, Hanger had already returned to Shanghai with the draft contract, waiting for the final confirmation by the U.S. government. When he heard that he had sold all the Russian orders to the United States, he could not help but worry that he would make a mistake in this judgment. After the war, Russia may have great trouble pursuing this contract. Yang Qiu not only didn't worry, but also asked him to take out the guns and ammunition that the Wehrmacht had stored himself, and complete the deal as soon as possible, so as not to have too many dreams at night.

After processing the military contract, after personally closing the door of the study, his eyes gradually became serious, and he asked, "How are the preparations for the Sunrise Project?" Fang Rui first took out a thick amount of information. Starting with a pen along the Urals of the Trans-Siberian Railway, connecting Yekaterinburg - Chelyabinsky - Petropavlovsk - Omsk - Tomsk - Irkutsk - Chita along the way, he said: "These are the 8 strategic points that must be controlled after the start of the plan!" According to preliminary information, there were about 10,000 troops in Yekaterinaburg, and less than 3,000 in the rest of the country, but 30,000 in Vladivostok and Boli had to be guarded against.

We had already infiltrated the condominium railway, and if we were suddenly 90% sure that we would be able to quickly take and control the garrison. On this route, Yekaterinburg is undoubtedly the focus! With a steel smelting and processing capacity of 2 million tons, it is the second largest steel center in Russia, the first center of special metallurgy and non-ferrous metal minerals, the fourth largest center for weapons manufacturing and vehicles, and the second largest train manufacturing center According to the calculations of the Ministry of Industry, even if you do not count the cities behind along the way, the value here alone is as high as about 1 billion US dollars! If you count all of it, it is about 1.5 billion US dollars, which is equivalent to 2.2 times the current industry of our country! "Still." Fang Rui scratched his head and turned to the last page of the information: "In order to transport them back safely within five months of winter, at least 150,000 soldiers need to be dispatched to protect and escort them along the way, and at least 2,300 trains need to work continuously. But according to our information, there are only 11,000 trains in Russia in total, only 1,372 trains from the Urals to Vladivostok are in operation, and even if the operation goes smoothly, we will get more than 1,000 at most, and our own broad-gauge reconstruction trains are only 200, with a shortfall of 1,100 trains! “……！！！