In modern economic theory, there is a view called diminishing marginal utility. It means that the utility of the input of production unit resources to the output of the product is constantly decreasing. Put simply, the less money you spend on the same item, the more benefit you get for every penny. Conversely, the more money you spend, the lower the benefit per unit of money will become. Hu Rui did not study economics, but he can say with certainty that this view definitely does not apply to the New Army! If you don't know that firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce and vinegar are expensive, since picking up the burden of Anhui Xinjun, Hu Rui sighed more and more that this family is really not good.

In later generations, China had a sound military system. The General Staff Department, the Logistics Department, the Equipment Department, and so on are all available, and all you have to do is do your job well, and then get your salary on time every month. However, this will not be the case at all, in the late Qing Dynasty, the Manchu court's jurisdiction and influence over the local area gradually weakened, and the signs of secession and independence of the provinces began to gradually emerge (you can refer to the provincial overseers declared independence because of the entanglement of various interests after the Xinhai Revolution, and it was basically impossible to rely solely on the liliang of the League at that time to achieve things). Naturally, although the new armies of each province were organized and trained separately, although they were called the Ministry of War, they were in fact basically the private armies of the senior members of the provinces. Therefore, in addition to the six towns of Beiyang, the new army in other provinces of the country is self-funded in terms of equipping maritime personnel, and some poor areas are basically equipped with whatever they can find. Naturally, the Anhui New Army is not exempt from vulgarity. Daddy, Hu Rui really has an urge to cry. In the late Qing Dynasty, the domestic industrial base was still very weak, and the military industry was even more difficult to talk about. Don't you see that Beiyang, which is strong and strong, has to rely on purchasing arms to make a living? Modern warfare is fought against a country's comprehensive strength, and to put it bluntly, it is also fought against the entire military-industrial system. One or two advanced weapons can only go to a partial victory, but cannot win the entire war (refer to the Luftwaffe Me262 jet fighter at the end of World War II, whether it is firepower, ceiling or speed, it far exceeds the latest P51 Mustang fighter of the US military at that time.) This state-of-the-art jet aircraft of the time was used intensively, and all the Luftwaffe ace pilots who were still alive at the time were concentrated in this unit, but in the face of the skilled and superior Allied P51 fleet, many air battles did result in more losses than victories. It was impossible to stop the intensifying strategic bombardment, and naturally it could not save the fate of the defeat of the German army. ）。 Rather than equipping a few with advanced weapons, it is better to have access to all people with slightly inferior equipment. Especially after entering a positional battle, the weapons do not have to be more advanced, but the number must be able to withstand consumption! For example, putting aside the quality of personnel and the national system, if we only talk about equipment, the Japanese army during the Anti-Japanese War, the 38 big cover and the crooked light machine gun against the German original Mauser 98 (after imitation became the official in China) and the Czech original ZB26, can take advantage of it, and the ghost believes it! In addition to small recoil, high accuracy, and stable ballistics, the 38 cover really has no advantages, and it is definitely not cheap compared to the most haode Mauser 98 in bolt-action rifles. Speaking of crooked handles, this kind of light machine gun, which pursues extreme economy of steel and manpower, is so bad that it even needs to be oiled when firing. It can be said that at that time, at least in terms of the quality of light weapons, the Japanese army absolutely did not have an advantage, but Weishenme small Japan could still invade half of China? The reason is that the government of the Republic of China at that time lacked a systematic military industrial chain, and basically everything with a bit of jishu content had to be sold! Artillery and shells over 75 mm, as well as high-tech weapons and equipment such as tanks, airplanes, and large-caliber heavy machine guns, are all expected to be purchased from abroad. Even the steel used to make guns was purchased from Germany and Switzerland, and in the later period, after the loss of the southeast coast, foreign aid was cut off and forced to use domestic inferior steel, which led to the reduction of the range and quality of the Hanyang-made and medium-formal production at that time, and the self-produced Czech light machine guns also had the problems of cracked magazines and worn barrels. It is not difficult to understand that equipment and weapons are not superior, coupled with the wrong command, and defeat after defeat on the battlefield.

Everything has to start from scratch, and the days of being a father and a mother are as hard as they are. Since the crossing, Hu Rui has admitted his death and tried his best to slaughter Germany as a wronged man. The famous fifteen grenades (the Chinese name for the SFH150 mm howitzer) and the Bavaria-class battleships were born prematurely, and Hu Ruihou unceremoniously hugged Germain's thigh and bit it after bite. Roughly calculated, just selling the drawings and property rights of these weapons will make almost $3 million! Dollars! That's a currency directly linked to gold, which is a full 6 million taels of silver! It's not a decimal place anywhere. But even 6 million taels of silver were smashed into it, and I didn't hear a few sounds. The stalls are too big, and money is needed everywhere. Not to mention anything else, the Ma'anshan Iron and Steel Plant alone has smashed into almost 2 million taels of silver, and the rest of the money will be used to purchase machinery for the Anqing Manufacturing Institute, expand the plant, purchase arms for the new army, subsidize military salaries, the wages of foreign teachers and technicians, and the establishment of logistics departments and industrial parks......

If it weren't for the income from real estate, I don't know how many things would have been delayed because of money. A penny is hard to beat a hero~

"It's hard to be a man these days, and it's even more difficult to run a new army!"

Hu Rui patted the check for 300 million gold marks in his pocket and sighed sincerely.

The receipt of 300 million gold marks greatly relieved the financial pressure of the new army and provided a material foundation for the growing ranks of the new army. Chinese people are very good at living, and since there is open source, there will naturally be throttling. Hu Rui decisively set his sights on the Committee 1888 rifles stockpiled in the warehouse.

In all fairness, the original design of the Commission 1888 rifle was quite advanced, but because of the premature design and some flaws, it was still a very practical rifle in general. Therefore, after receiving a report from a German technician that the production of the new army-standard Mauser 98 rifle was lagging behind due to the lack of qualified workers, Hu Rui immediately thought of the committee in the warehouse 1888. Later, due to the early arrival of the production line, most of these guns were sealed in warehouses.

Both rifles are German-style firearms, and the age of involvement and equipment is relatively similar, so there are still many similarities in structure and use. In parallel history, before 1915, the first-line units of the German army were equipped with both the Commission 1888 and the Mauser 98 rifles due to the insufficient production of the Mauser 98, and until the end of World War I, the Commission 1888 was also the standard rifle of the German second-line troops and reserves. It can be seen that it is not impossible for two models of rifles to be loaded at the same time. In line with the principle of agreeing on logistics, if the ammunition problem could be solved (the Commission 1888 rifle used round-nosed round-nosed round-nosed round-nosed round-nosed bullets for Mauser 98, which was only mass-equipped in 1903), then the Zuihou obstacle would be removed.

Several foreign technicians in the Anqing manufacturing plant and a group of experts brought in from Krupp according to the newly signed cooperation agreement were all brought together. The task of improving the rifle of the commission of 1888 was carried out quickly. According to Hu Rui's request, this group of German experts first started with several problems such as the easy explosion of the 1888 rifle, the difficulty of unloading and the cracking of the magazine, and then tried to make this old gun in service in 1890 and the existing Mauser 98 fire the same new pointed single through limited modifications to the original design (PS: This is really not a blind fabrication, the author went to check the information during the First World War, the Committee 1888 had supplied a large number of German allies Austria-Hungary and Turkey, etc., It was this improved version that was supplied to the Turkish-Austro-Hungarian army). After a week of fighting, the rectification plan was finally presented to Hu Rui. After test firing, it turned out to work well, and soon all of the twenty thousand branch commission 1888 in stock were of similar modifications.

Not counting all the 20,000 branches in the warehouse, Hu Rui set his sights on the large backlog of inventory in the German Army warehouse. As the Mauser 98 continued to be produced, these committees 1888 were in an increasingly awkward position, waiting for them to be sold or returned to the furnace to make steel. In the previous series of weapons blueprint transactions, Hurui's name was directly registered in the upper echelons of the German army. The Germans, who were in love with the secret help of Krupp at home, were overjoyed to be in a hurry to clear their stocks, and the negotiations went smoothly from the very beginning. The Germans offered a cabbage price of 10 yuan per commission 1888 rifles, and this price also included 100 rounds of old round-headed ammunition per stick, guaranteeing that they were all new guns that were sealed. As for the matching round-headed bullet of 10 yuan for 1,000 rounds, if the quantity is large, you can still negotiate it. After a series of negotiations, Hu Rui bought 100,000 pieces of Committee 1888 in one go, and as for the round-headed bullets, they were no longer considered, and they could not be used when they were bought, so they could only be sold.

After giving a written guarantee that all of the Commission-1888 rifles, which totaled hundreds of thousands of rifles, would not flow into the arms market in the Far East, the Germans readily approved the deal! Both sides tacitly avoided the German foreign arms sales in the Far East, and after payment, they were directly loaded on ships and shipped to Wuhu to hand over the goods. The overjoyed Germans were very generous about the transportation fee, charging 5 yuan per rifle, so that the total cost of an improved commission 1888 rifle was less than 18 yuan! Compared with the 60 yuan per branch of old goods from arms dealers on the market, the cost performance is really unusually high.

At the end of November 1910, merchant ships loaded with commission-1888 rifles quietly sailed from Hamburg. There was still a whole year to go before the chaos of 1911, and Hu Rui, who was far away in Wuhu, also stepped up various preparations.

Note: Commission 1888 rifle performance elements: caliber 7.92, gun length 1250 mm, barrel length 740 mm, gun weight 4.06 kg, rifling 4 strips. The muzzle velocity is 630 meters per second, and the scale range is 2000 meters; The carbine has a total length of 950 mm, a barrel length of 442 mm, a gun weight of 3.4 kg, a muzzle velocity of 400 meters per second, and a scale firing range of 1200 meters. A wordless propellant is used, a round-tipped projectile, a metal-wrapped warhead.

In 1886, the French Army was armed with a completely new Type 1886 "Lebel" rifle, which immediately attracted the attention of the German military department. Because Lebell was the first small-caliber military rifle on the Shijie to use smokeless propellant, this new 8mm caliber rifle cartridge far surpassed the 11mm black powder rifle cartridge fired by the German Mauser 71/84 rifle at the time in terms of lethality and ballistic performance, and the new gun and cartridge would give the French infantry a great tactical advantage in terms of accuracy and range. Under such pressure, Germany immediately formed a rifle shiyan committee (Gewehr Prfungs Kommission, abbreviated GPK).

Soon after the Type 88 rifle entered service, many rumors about the bore were reported. To add fuel to the fire, a Berlin principal named Hermann Ahlwardt blamed Ludwig Løy, who claimed that the company had bribed government weapons inspectors to accept counterfeit products. And the Roy family happened to be Jewish, and the new smokeless propellant was also produced by the factory owned by the Roy family. The German media took advantage of these rumors and criticized the government, deriding the Type 88 rifle as Judenflinte, which means "Jewish rifle". At that time, many Germans asked whether there was a bribery incident if Weishenme did not choose Mauser to design a new rifle, and the fact is that the Type 88 rifle did expose some shortcomings that needed to be improved after entering service, such as the neck of the cartridge case was easy to break when the shell was drawn, and the chamber pressure was too large and easy to explode, etc., although after a series of modifications, the committee 1888 finally became a transitional equipment in the German army. The Germans identified the Mauser 98 rifle as the standard rifle of the army, and the 1888 rifle of the German Army's second-line troops and reserve armament commission during World War I. Regarding the domestic commission 1888 rifle was called the Mauser rifle in the country, which was purely a deliberate borrowing of the Mauser reputation by unscrupulous arms dealers in order to open the Chinese market.

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