"Old friend, what is the matter with being so cautious?" Seeing the eagerness hidden under Egus's calm appearance, Qin Yu went back to the house directly, sat down and asked Egus.

"Senior Commander Qin, in view of the friendly cooperation in the past, this time my country would like to ask you for a favor and provide some help within our ability." Egs Road.

"You say, I'll see if I can help." Qin Yu said.

"My country hopes that Master Qin can blow up the Nenjiang Railway Bridge, if this matter is done by our people, it will be difficult, Master Qin's influence in the Northeast is everywhere, and the industries under his command are countless. As long as Senior Commander Qin can blow up the Nenjiang Railway Bridge, my country is willing to reward Senior Commander Qin heavily, and keep in mind the friendship of Senior Commander Qin. ”

Blow up the Nenjiang Railway Bridge? Isn't this tantamount to cutting off Tsarist Russia's transportation routes from the Far East to Russia and Europe?

"Old friend, you are really difficult for me in this matter, I have a good cooperative relationship with your country, but I have also borrowed a huge amount of loans from Tsarist Russia, and now my debt is not less than 10 million gold rubles. In addition, cooperation with Tsarist Russia was also very close. So the rejection of you is not because of money, and likewise, I will not point the finger at you because of the request of Tsarist Russia. "After all, Germany was still very weak in the Far East, and Qingdao was soon to be stormed by the combined Japanese and British forces.

"Doesn't Senior Qin want to hear about our honorarium?" Egs Road.

"No need, your situation in Qingdao is not optimistic, the future Republic of China will be deeply influenced by Britain, France, Japan and Russia, your request makes me very difficult, if the matter leaks out, the consuls of several countries will be investigated. I'm afraid that even the president of my country can't protect me, so you don't need to say much about this matter, as long as your country's actions in the northeast do not affect the security of Mukden, I can only treat the rest as if I did not see it. In addition, if it is inconvenient for you to leave Qingdao and there is nowhere to go, you can also choose to come to Mukden to provide convenience in terms of residence, which is already the limit of what I can do. Qin Yu shrugged his shoulders and refused Digs's request without hesitation.

"This matter really makes Senior Commander Qin embarrassed, thank you Senior Commander Qin for providing us with convenience." Egus got up and let Qin Yu salute. He also knew that Qin Yu was not easy to do, but being able to acquiesce to the German side's actions in Mukden was already a great convenience for the German side, and Egus knew that he couldn't ask for more.

"You're welcome." Qin Yu smacked his lips, Qin Yu had also hinted that the German side would sell as many weapons as possible to himself on the Qingdao side, but the German side always had illusions about occupying Qingdao, and now it is by land. The sea routes were blocked by the Japanese army, and Qingdao became a dead land. I can't get things out if I want to. It's a shame to think about.

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"Dear Mr. Peyton, I'm the Executive Vice President of the Blackjack Consortium, and it's a pleasure to meet you." Zhang Shun walked into Pettongen's office on his crutches, which were purely for play.

"The Blackjack Consortium? Now that you've become our DuPont's biggest rival, why did you come here to me? Peyton put down the fountain pen in his hand and looked at the young man who was dressed very flamboyantly. If you hadn't seen it with your own eyes, it was hard to imagine that the Blackjack consortium would have hired such a frivolous person to be its vice president.

"Mr. Peyton, the wise people don't talk in secret, and I know the grievances and grievances between you and the DuPont consortium very well. DuPont is so domineering that it wants to dominate the entire American gunpowder market. In fact, for the local market in the United States. I'm not very enthusiastic, and this time I'm targeting the European market, but even this DuPont wants to squeeze in by unfair means, and now it has created enough threats to my consortium. At the level of you and me, money is already just a number for us, but it is simply too unfree to do things all our lives in the hands of others, and we have to obey others' orders. Mr. Peyton, our Blackjack Consortium is also very strong in terms of funds, and we also have a huge factory, as long as Mr. Brownon can join the Blackjack Consortium, you will not get any worse than in DuPont. ”

The bloody monopoly of the DuPont consortium is much more powerful than that of Rockefeller at the same time, and Petton, as the son-in-law of the former president of the DuPont consortium, Yuren, later jumped out and went it alone and established a medium-sized black powder factory called Peyton, which is also half of the DuPont family, but DuPont did not let him go, forcibly bought Peyton's shares, and for this matter, he once made trouble with Fatein, but the powerful DuPont is naturally not something Peyton can oppose.

With the drug mouth quietly opening up the U.S. market, the Blackjack consortium's power in the U.S. underworld has a great influence. But DuPont's influence in American politics is unparalleled.

"The Black Jack Regiment is very human, and if Mr. Peyton joins, it will not be difficult to leave in the future. You must have heard of Waddell, who has always been known for his toughness, and he has joined the Blackjack consortium. ”

Seeing Peiton's hesitation, Zhang Shun added another sentence.

"What, Waddell has also joined the Blackjack Consortium?" Peyton looked surprised.

Waddell, who had been the head of the sales department, had set up his own business since Yuren's death, starting a "Bakai Gunpowder Company" to work against DuPont. Dupont sent Lascob to negotiate with Waddell to buy his company. Waddell refused, and did a great job, breaking DuPont's dominance. But not long after, an explosion occurred at Waddell's gunpowder factory, causing production to cease.

Waddell insisted that DuPont was responsible, and sent confidential letters to various newspapers to expose the scandal. Waddell also exposed the scandal of DuPont's bribery to the president to all U.S. representatives and senators. The news was like a ticking time bomb that suddenly detonated, making the president the target of public criticism.

Waddell is really not easy to mess with. After a lengthy trial, the federal court ruled against DuPont. DuPont was found guilty of violating the Sharman Monopoly Prohibition Act. The court also convicted the President under the law and issued an executive order. However, by this time the president had stepped down because his term of office had expired.

"What is your annual gunpowder production?" Peyton asked again, and the Blackjack consortium had heard that it was from England. Peyton has also heard about this cross-river dragon in several recent high-level meetings of the consortium, but he does not know much about it. If the Blackjack consortium really has strength, the other party's invitation is indeed worth considering, and it was forced to surrender under DuPont's tough hand at the beginning, and Peyton was also aggrieved in his heart.

"Now our consortium has produced more than 12 million pounds of gunpowder per month. It has 9 large and small factories. However, the orders received are all from Britain, France, Russia and other countries. The U.S. local market is still a blank slate for us. "In the course of the engagement. To say that steel, as a strategic consumable material, is more profitable, but it is very complicated to increase steel production and the cycle is long. The mechanical equipment of gunpowder can be produced after it is installed, and the cycle and process are shorter and simpler. After recruiting a large number of workers, and without much increase in machinery, the Blackjack consortium produced six or seven times as much gunpowder as it had six months earlier.

"How can there be such a high yield?" Peyton was taken aback. This production is already more than half that of DuPont before the European war. Of course, DuPont has also increased production massively since the outbreak of the European war, and is still nearly a third worse than DuPont. It's just that DuPont has always been a dominant company in the United States before, and now there is a ridiculously strong opponent like Blackjack, how can he not be surprised, even the current president of DuPont, I don't know that the Blackjack consortium has become so strong.

"How? Is Mr. Peyton interested in joining? Zhang Shun said calmly, Waddell's joining was accompanied by a group. A large number of talents were injected into Blackjack, and at this time, Blackjack also recruited a large number of high-tech talents from universities such as MIT.

"Just let me see with my own eyes what you're capable of. I joined immediately, or I would have jumped out of DuPont again, and they would have taken me as a traitor and would never accept me again. If it weren't for my personal weakness, I wouldn't have failed miserably. "Peyton has suffered a loss at the hands of the DuPont consortium and will not make a hasty decision.

"No problem. I came with sincerity, and I didn't lie to you at all. Zhang Shun nodded.

In order to counteract the DuPont consortium's official advantage in the United States, Zhang Shun must win over more people to join Blackjack's camp. In addition, he borrowed $12 million from the Morgan consortium as collateral for the shares of the current gunpowder factory. All of them were invested in the construction of a new smokeless gunpowder factory, which, once completed, would have the largest smokeless gunpowder factory in the United States. At this time, the Blackjack consortium completely relied on European orders to survive, but after the European war, if the market in the United States was not opened, such a huge scale of gunpowder production would inevitably end in bankruptcy. Of course, even if it's only a few years, the money earned can make Blackjack a mess.

With such a huge consortium, Zhang Shun did not want it to disappear after it was like a firework, and recruited a large number of talents from the university, so he established a special ordnance research institute at this time, and the military factory was also a field to be involved in in the future. This is also the meaning that Qin Yu conveyed from Mukden. It is even more difficult to rely on Mukden alone to develop military industrial enterprises without any foundation and create a complete national defense industrial system.

In addition to money, the biggest shortcoming is technology and talent. Ten years of trees, a hundred years of people, even if Fengtian University of Technology is successfully founded, the first batch of graduates will be cultivated several years later, the number of overseas students returning from overseas is too small, compared with the graduates of a foreign university. Without talent, what can be used to revitalize Fengtian industry. Directly establish a large consortium in the United States, hold a large number of companies, and recruit local doctoral and master's students. It is equivalent to using the crystallization of the American Academy. These factories were built in the United States, which also drove American jobs and the economy, as well as the scale of industry. It's just that this model will make Fengtian take a few years, or even more than a decade, of detours in military production in the future.

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"Chasayev, aren't the Chinese all a bunch of barbarians with long braids, I heard that their place is backward and ignorant, oh my God, it is too far from St. Petersburg to the Far East, if this trip to the Far East is not satisfactory, then the account will be counted on your head." A noblewoman in a red dress, her mouth smeared bright red, looked at Chasayev with a confused look.

"It's just that it's not easy for us to come all the way, and it's really annoying to stay in this tin jar along the way." Trains are for most of the poor. It's not cheap to sit up, but for these upper-class people, the boredom of sitting for a long time is lingering.

"Distinguished Lady Lisa, General Issenovich, rest assured that this trip to the Far East will not disappoint you. Let's be honest. Before Ni Jiting invited me to Fengtian in the Republic of China, I was not interested in this weak country. Including the first time I went before, I was also a little disappointed, but the next two Fengtian were getting more and more interesting, there were all kinds of dramas, songs and dances, including the ballet we like to watch, and the most memorable thing was the kind of life and death struggle that stabbed incomparably. Chasaev, who had just taken drugs in the box, became more and more excited, describing in detail the time spent in Mukden. Due to Qin Yu's layout. At this time, the development of heavy industry in Fengtian was not obvious, but because it was a railway and a highway pivot in Fengtian. Mukden began to gradually become an economic and commercial center. Supporting urban construction and gradually bustling streets, as well as the development of Shenyang Forbidden City, Changzhao Lake, West Tower, Strange Slope, Qipan Mountain and other scenic spots. While Fengtian commerce is thriving, the urban environment has also been greatly improved. For such an aristocratic son as Chasayev. Those industrial factories are not interesting, but the real attraction is to eat, drink and have fun.

"Really? According to you, it's really attractive. The others nodded in disbelief when they heard Chasayev's words. After going south from Harbin before, most of them began to wonder if they had come wrong to go east this time. After hearing Chasayev say this, he regained a little confidence.

"Oh God, look at that building! It is even taller than the tallest building in St. Petersburg. "The railway station is the most populous place in Mukden, and the nearby streets are also one of the most prosperous areas in Mukden. A few streets away. You can clearly see the towering Huaxing Building. Most people who enter Mukden can't help but be surprised when they see Huaxing Mansion first.

After seeing the shops near the driveway, the new aristocrats began to think that maybe they had made a good trip.

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"Good news, master, the shells have been made." Ding Cheng took the newly received telegram and rushed to congratulate Qin Yu as soon as possible.

"Really? The guys at the Shell Factory are really good. After hearing the news, Qin Yu, who was originally sitting, stood up all of a sudden, and reached out to take the telegram handed by Ding Cheng.

"Okay, good, you can produce more than 900 rounds a month in the first month, which is worthy of being a veteran who has stayed at the Hanyang Arsenal." Qin Yu nodded again and again, the 30,000 Feng troops added up to more than 60 artillery, the shells have always been saved in the past, and even the gunners who practice have to be used in treasures, the inventory is just a little, this kind of pure consumables is the most expensive, it is not expensive to buy a cannon, but the problem of cannonballs is not solved, and the consumption of cannonballs alone is far higher than the price of a cannon. And relying on outsourcing, you can't be sure when you will be stuck in the neck.

"Give each technician in charge of the artillery factory a proper reward, and you will be rewarded with fifty oceans." Qin Yu said.

"Master, the salaries of several technicians in the artillery factory are high enough now, you can see if you can save some money. Properly award a medal of honor or something? "The promotion of Fengtian's economy by the European war is also difficult to explain clearly, and with Fengtian's abundant finances, Qin Yu's action seems to be a bit out of moderation. Fifty oceans per technician in charge is not much, and Ding Cheng just wanted to remind Qin Yu appropriately.

"Well, you are also a way to drive the enthusiasm of technicians and workers, not just money." Qin Yu nodded, just like a soldier, the reward can solve part of the problem, and the ancients said that there must be a brave man under the heavy reward. However, if an army loses money, it will not work, and the Japanese merchant division in World War II is an example. The proper establishment of a system of honors and awards will play an extremely important role in both the technicians of the arsenal and the development of the army in the future.

"Since you brought up this matter, it's up to you to figure out a way, and the army will also have to come up with a corresponding system, and you can negotiate with the General Staff there."

"Yes, Master!"

"By the way, how many bullets are produced in Taonan?" Qin Yu asked.

"Qijiu Hanyang produces 2.71 million rounds of bullets per month. The monthly output of water beads is 4.73 million rounds. The German-style Mauser 98 rifle produces 2.35 million rounds per month. The total of the above is 9.79 million rounds. "Qin Yu usually doesn't say much about affairs, but a lot less, if you have to remember every number, it will be too embarrassing.

Half of Shui Lianzhu's equipment in the Feng army, and the production of bullets is so large, part of which is sold to Tsarist Russia.

"How many bullets are in the armory now?"

"Hanyang has planted 20 million rounds, Mauser rifle bullets 30 million rounds, and water bead bullets 15 million rounds. And that's not counting the bullets that have already been issued to the troops. Ding Chengdao.

"Well, the artillery factory is producing at full capacity, and now the consumable shells can be sold at a good price. In addition, just like bullets, a corresponding reserve has been created. Qin Yu thought about it for a while, the bullets can reach the current production scale, which can fully meet the training needs of 30,000 Feng troops, according to the training capacity of 200 rounds per soldier a year, even if the 30,000 police force that began to expand is counted, 12 million rounds is enough. The semi-annual regiment-level confrontation exercises, as well as the annual brigade and division-level exercises, all use the practice of dummy bombs.

"In addition, the artillery shell factory should be expanded as much as possible, and the allocation should be tilted to a certain extent, telling them that the monthly output of 10,000 rounds is not large." Anyway, now that the production can be sold, it can earn several times the usual profit, and this transaction will not lose money.

Ding Cheng nodded, indicating that he had written it down.

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"Distinguished guests from afar, welcome to Mukden." As the host, Qin Yu learned earlier that the group would be coming to Mukden, and after these people had rested for a day, he invited them to a banquet arranged by the Xinrong Hotel.

"Mr. Viscount, I haven't seen you for a long time, you are getting more and more energetic." Qin Yu smiled and shook Chasaev's hand. (To be continued......)