"Mr. Zhang, there's something good again!"

Xiong Mengyuan hurriedly found Zhang Tinglan's temporary residence and sent a list over, which was full of all kinds of equipment shipped from Russia, as well as a lot of machines, Zhang Tinglan was also quite excited when he saw it.

The main of these was artillery, twenty-eight seventy-six-mm mountain guns, forty-two ninety-one-mm grenadier mortars, and eight 122-mm howitzers.

After seeing this list, Zhang Tinglan suddenly burst into joy, as long as he got together a few more, he could have a mountain artillery regiment, and as for the 122 mm howitzer, it was a big killer, after Zhang Zuolin had enough of a battalion, he was very precious, and he kept it in his hand as a trump card.

And now after just half a month of trading, I got eight guns, and after a winter, how can I get the equipment of two complete heavy artillery regiments, and this time the equipment of the Feng army will be completely replaced with guns, and the strength will swell up all of a sudden.

In addition to these artillery, the number of Mosinagan rifles traded exceeded eight thousand shots, in addition to a large number of shells and bullets, which were almost piled up.

After sweeping through these munitions, Zhang Tinglan noticed the following machines, which contained two high-power generators and more than 30 machine tools, including lathes, planers, milling machines, punching machines and other types. After seeing these things, Zhang Tinglan's eyes also showed joy.

Xiong Mengyuan said with a smile: "Mr. Zhang, compared to those weapons, I am more interested in machine tools and generators, with these two, the arsenal has the hands and feet, has the power, and can produce more weapons and equipment." Don't look at those rifles and cannons are good, those things are consumables, it won't take long, only these machines are really valuable. ”

"After the European powers went to war, the original accumulation of many years of ammunition, in just one or two months are exhausted, now the fight is the production capacity, from this point of view, machine tools are naturally precious, but the old bear. With these machine tools, it depends on whether you can produce real munitions, otherwise it will still be useless? ”

"Mr. Zhang, you are forcing me to make a military order." Xiong Mengyuan pondered it in his mind, and then said: "It is still difficult to produce mountain artillery and field artillery on a large scale. The main problem is the material, we don't have qualified steel on hand. As for everything else, it can increase the production capacity a lot. For example, pistols can be conservatively estimated to produce 600 units a month. The Water Bead Rifle can reach 800 shots, and the production capacity of bullets and shells can more than double! ”

Sure enough, with the machine, there is production capacity, Zhang Tinglan was also very excited after hearing this number. If you can produce six hundred pistols per month, you have half a year. According to the calculation of one for every three people, the garrison division is almost equipped with a pistol. Of course, according to the current situation, in the next six months, the Feng army will be able to get more equipment from the Russians. The production capacity will be increased several times, or even tenfold, and then the pistol will almost meet the needs of the entire Feng army.

"Mr. Zhang, I have actually been studying the Russians' grenadier mortar for the past two days, and I found that this is a treasure to enhance the firepower of the grassroots, and our Fengjun also needs a lot of equipment. However, 90 millimeters is a bit big, and the weight of nearly 100 catties is also a bit heavy, and the Russians donkeys are tall and big, so they don't care, our soldiers can't do it yet. I'm going to copy it first, and then reduce the caliber to 60 mm, or 80 mm, and the materials for mortars don't have to be so strict, we have a way to solve it, and then with these machine tools, plus the original equipment, within two months, we can produce mortars in large quantities! ”

Listening to Xiong Mengyuan's words, Zhang Tinglan also nodded again and again, it seems that he is really attentive, mortars are indeed a weapon that the Feng army urgently needs to equip.

"Old Xiong, you should hurry up to Jilin now, familiarize yourself with the machine, and then make a list of what you need, and if we can move back from Russia, we will try to move back!"

In fact, in the first few days of the transaction, both the Russians and Zhang Tinglan had a sense of temptation, after all, the two sides could not fully believe it, but after half a month of trading, the two sides were completely relieved.

And the scope of trade is not only limited to the military, ordinary merchants come and go, and the Russian army simply turns a blind eye, as long as the silver is delivered, they don't care what they sell, but the more they sell, the more they earn, especially those Chinese merchants, and they are not empty-handed every time.

The officers above stuffed a lot of money, and the ordinary big-headed soldiers were also polite, smoking and drinking constantly, and these Russian soldiers were finally completely corrupted by sugar-coated shells, lost their combat effectiveness, and gave a green light all the way.

"I really didn't expect the Russians to be so corrupt, it's just a matter of taking the state improper, the first few days we were trading at night, and now it's just broad daylight, I heard that the two sides are going to open a market by the river?"

"Yes, I didn't expect the Russians to be so bold." Zhang Tinglan said with a smile: "The new market is located outside the county town of Fuyuan, as long as we put the goods on the market, the merchants in Russia will come to select and purchase, and then transport them to the black market to sell, as long as the Russian military is fed, there is nothing impossible!" ”

Xiong Mengyuan's eyes rolled, and he said with a smile: "I think this is an opportunity, once these Russian troops lose their vigilance, can we look a little broader, after all, the factories in the Far East are not large, and Jishu is not advanced, I think we should take advantage of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to move some factories and machines from Tsarist Russia in the European part!" ”

"Haha, old bear, it's been arranged for a long time." Zhang Tinglan said with a smile: "Our deal with the Far East military is just a way to buy money, feeding them is equivalent to opening the door of Russia, let's take advantage of their chaos to transport all the machines we need, I have given a death order to Wang Tieshan, who is in charge of this matter, let him get back at least 3,000 machine tools, otherwise he will be severely punished!" ”

Now that we have 30 units, the production capacity of the arsenal will increase by a large amount, and if we get 3,000 units, wouldn't it be skyrocketing! Xiong Mengyuan rubbed his hands excitedly, and there was a light in his eyes.

"Don't be happy too early, one fifth of these machine tools are military, and the rest are civilian, what we need is an industrial system, not just a military industry. In addition, we must get power generation, coal mining, smelting equipment, with these things, the steel industry will also have a foundation, the next step to break through the special steel process, we can produce large-caliber artillery! ”

After Xiong Mengyuan heard this, he jumped up with joy, kept rubbing his hands, and said with a smile: "Mr. Zhang, it's a pleasure to follow you, so soon our military industry has a prototype, and the arsenals built by the Manchu Qing Dynasty can't be officially put into operation in ten or eight years." ”

"The Manchus don't know whether they live or die, we are racing against time, if my estimate is right, whether the Russians can survive this winter, it is definitely between the two, you have also seen Boli on the other side, if we want to get these sacred territories back, we must work hard to develop the military industry and achieve self-sufficiency in weapons as soon as possible!"

After explaining, Xiong Mengyuan and Chen Qiming escorted the goods back to Jilin respectively, as for Zhang Tinglan to continue to sit in Fuyuan, he had to wait for this trade route to be completely stabilized before he could rest assured that he could hand it over to others.

To put it bluntly, this is a nutrient-rich blood vessel, as long as it is firmly grasped, within half a year, the industry of the three eastern provinces can have a qualitative change.

Time passed, the small county town of Fuyuan in these days, suddenly became very lively, a large number of carriages loaded with food, wine, leather clothes and other materials, transported here, and then loaded with arms and equipment, quickly transported back to the province.

This line is day and night, all the people who are running on this road have forgotten their fatigue, and the spirit is hundredfold, and the windfall profits of several times and more than ten times make the businessmen blood rush, and they do not hesitate to join in this feast of gold. As for the people in the military, the same is true, watching those powerful equipment continue to be transported back, everyone seems to be in heaven, happy to faint, and even hope that it will never end.

Zhang Tinglan was the same every day, tired and excited, and after almost a month, almost all the materials hoarded in Jilin were transported to Russia, and a huge amount of materials were also exchanged.

Just when everyone was looking forward to continuing to expand the scale of the transaction, Zhang Tinglan suddenly suppressed the smuggling activities, and the daily shipment volume was reduced by more than 70%, and he himself left Fuyuan and returned to Jilin happily.

"Clumsy words, what are you thinking, why did you take the initiative to stop it, do you want to accept it when you see it?"

"How can you stop it, it's just a little trick, this is called hunger marketing, you can't change as much as the Russians want, let's change as much as you want, now they are begging us, whether the price is to be discussed, whether to negotiate the things exchanged, a month ago, hang their appetite, and then we are slaughtering them."

When Zhang Zuoxiang heard this, his eyes widened, to be honest, he is even more excited than Zhang Tinglan these days, and he runs to see the equipment he got back every day, it is like a dream, so many good things have become his own, he couldn't even dream of it before, but now it is completely the price of cabbage.

"Clumsy words, if you slaughter it again, I'm afraid that the Russians' bone marrow oil will be squeezed out!"

"You must not be polite to deal with the Russians, Dad, I have calculated that the artillery I got back during this period of time is enough for the garrison division, right?"

"Let's go and see for ourselves, these little cubs of artillery, with good things, you can't relax!"

Zhang Zuoxiang and Zhang Tinglan came to the barracks of the artillery regiment, although it was a cold winter, but the atmosphere of the barracks was still very warm, on the school field, there were six 76 mm mountain guns in front of them, and the trainers were handing over the recruits to operate the artillery. (To be continued......)