Zhang Tinglan played the card of the Russian majority party, on the one hand, to strive for more support from the foreign powers, and on the other hand, from the original point of view, Zhang Tinglan even limited the necessity of Russia's development, and the security of China's northern Xinjiang was in this move, so it was necessary to devote the greatest energy.

Just as the so-called striking iron has to be hard, the most important thing to pay attention to now is the production capacity of the arsenal, and the war with Russia, the intensity is bound to far exceed the domestic war, after the leadership of the majority of the party, the Russian army is still quite combative, the Feng army with the three eastern provinces of Liliang, the advantage is not obvious, in the supply of arms to keep up.

Therefore, after the establishment of the Air Force was officially announced, Zhang Tinglan couldn't wait to come to the Fengtian Arsenal, and Tao Jiping, who was in charge of the factory, warmly received Zhang Tinglan.

"Humble words, I usually want to look for you, but I can't find it, but now that you have finally appeared, you have to help us solve the difficulties of the Fengtian Arsenal!"

"Director Tao, I thought you would report good news or bad news, why do you want to help as soon as you meet?"

Tao Jiping also smiled and said: "And the humble words don't need to talk about these fictitious things, originally Fengtian Arsenal was the leader of the three eastern provinces, but the Jilin Arsenal came from behind, and the Harbin Arsenal was also being formed, I heard that there were many elite soldiers and strong generals, Mr. Kuang Jingyang personally helped, and brought a large number of talents from the Guannei, now it is calculated, that is, the strength of the Fengtian Arsenal is the weakest, and if it continues to develop like this, it will be completely at the bottom, I am anxious." ”

Zhang Tinglan also nodded, it is true, the attention to the Fengtian Arsenal over the years is indeed not enough, in addition to helping the Fengtian Arsenal and the United States to reach a cooperation agreement at the beginning, and a part of the parts production, more than eighty percent of the good machines that were obtained in the future were placed in Jilin, and now the focus is on Harbin, it is inevitable that this original big brother will be neglected.

He said slightly apologetically: "Director Tao." Originally, the focus of development was on Jilin and Harbin, but also to avoid the sharp edge of the Japanese, after all, under their noses, we produce a large number of munitions, develop weapons, it is inevitable that they will know our secrets, once the war starts, the arsenal will be in extreme danger, so the focus of investment can not but be selective. ”

As the person in charge of the arsenal, Tao Jiping was also very aware of the Feng army's precautions against the Japanese. Take the current Mukden Arsenal, for example, there are also some Japanese shares, and Japanese technicians also work in the factory, but both sides are wary of each other, and the Japanese are afraid that the Chinese will learn to jishu. Mukden was also worried that the Japanese would snoop on the secrets of military production.

After cooperating with the Americans, Tao Jiping took advantage of the connections. A group of Entente technicians was hired. There were Americans, British, and French, plus a group of Russian technicians that they had obtained, and the Mukden Arsenal basically became an eight-nation coalition.

"To put it mildly, of course I know the consideration of you and the marshal. However, after all, Fengtian is the center of the three eastern provinces, and the industrial base is good, so it is a pity not to focus on development. ”

"What the pottery director said is not bad at all. Next, there will inevitably be a big development in the Fengtian Arsenal, and our strength is enough! Zhang Tinglan said this, showing a meaningful smile.

What is the strength is enough, simply put, the air liliang of the Feng army began to be formed, originally the South Manchurian Railway was like a knife, against the heart of the Feng army, and the Feng army was like a fish in the throat, so it had to avoid the edge.

But now that the Feng army has air liliang, compared with Japan, there are still some advantages, the long Manchurian railway is not a problem, the Feng army can use the air liliang to quickly cut off the railway at any time, so that the Japanese garrison has become a turtle in the urn.

With this killer feature, Zhang Tinglan is ready to let go of the development of the Fengtian Arsenal, and there is another important point, that is, not long ago, Zhan Tianyou had already surveyed the line of the Jifeng Railway, and now Fengtian is in intense preparations.

If the railway is built, the Feng army will be able to bypass the Japanese control and connect Harbin, Changchun, Jilin, Fengtian and other major cities in a line, and the situation in the entire three eastern provinces will be greatly changed, and the transportation will develop, and it will become much easier to mobilize materials.

The weapons produced by Mukden can be shipped directly to Jihei to deal with the Russian threat, and Mukden is also the front line against Japan, and it is very necessary to have a huge production capacity.

As soon as Tao Jiping heard Zhang Tinglan say that he would vigorously develop the Fengtian Arsenal, his eyes immediately widened: "Humble words, what you said is true?" ”

"Of course, how can this kind of thing be a joke, Director Tao, according to my plan, the arsenals in Jilin and Harbin should have their own focus, and the positioning of the Fengtian Arsenal is the largest basic comprehensive arsenal, with this positioning, do you think I can not invest?"

In fact, according to Zhang Tinglan's idea, Jilin and Harbin should engage in some high-level and difficult things, for example, the Jilin Arsenal will produce large-caliber heavy artillery, and Harbin would better develop into a tank factory to produce armored vehicles.

And Fengtian is like the three positions given by Zhang Tinglan in a row, it should be large-scale, with high production capacity, and mainly produce conventional equipment. That is, rifles, pistols, machine guns, bullets, shells, small and medium-caliber artillery, mortars, machine guns, explosives, and so on.

"Director Tao, how many things can the Fengtian Arsenal produce at the moment?"

"It's a shame to say that now the Mukden Arsenal can only produce 500,000 rounds of bullets a month, 300 rifles, 20 tons of black powder, 5,000 grenades, and the rest are production parts."

"This is indeed not a lot, Director Tao, the increase in bullet production is not too much, the Russian threat is becoming more and more urgent, the production capacity of the Feng army must keep up, I am ready to readjust the respective tasks of the arsenal. The Mukden Arsenal was mainly responsible for the production of rifles, bullets, mortars, 76-mm mountain guns, grenades, gunpowder, and so on. Within a year, the production line of bullets should be increased by three, the monthly output should be increased to 3 million rounds, the monthly output of rifles should reach 3,000 guns, 40 82-mm mortars, 5 76-mm mountain guns, 50,000 hand grenades, 100 tons of black powder, smokeless gunpowder, and trial production of light and heavy machine guns! ”

Every time Zhang Tinglan said a word, Tao Jiping on the side couldn't help but gasp, Zhang Tinglan directly increased the output by five times and ten times, it was simply too appalling, if it could be done of course, it would be the best, but Tao Jiping always felt a little unreliable.

Maybe the happiness came too suddenly, and he was still a little uncomfortable, so he asked tentatively: "Humble words, aren't you joking?" ”

"Of course not, for a period of time in the future, the focus of the Feng army will be on the north, to deal with the Russian threat, this weapon is not necessarily enough, it is best to greatly increase production capacity, the more the better, our Feng army will be consumed, and it will be sold to the Russians, how many are not enough."

Zhang Tinglan will definitely intervene in the Russian Civil War, but directly send troops, or support puppets, Zhang Tinglan has not yet made up his mind, but one thing is certain, that is, Zhang Tinglan will inevitably sell a large number of weapons to the White Army, no matter when, let the Russians kill the Russians, this is the most Haode choice.

Moreover, the weapons and equipment of the Feng army are basically the same as those of Russia, and the white army will definitely favor it very much, so they will take advantage of the Russian civil war to make the arms industry of the Feng army swell up and have the capital to become self-reliant.

Tao Jiping was completely attracted by the blueprint drawn by Zhang Tinglan, and couldn't help swallowing a mouthful of spit: "Humble words, to expand production capacity, it's not just talking, it requires enough machines and a large number of workers, do you have a specific way?" ”

Zhang Tinglan smiled and nodded: "Listen to me tell you slowly, now is the most haode opportunity!" ”

Tao Jiping also listened attentively to see what Zhang Tinglan had to say. It turned out that in World War I, the Russian government, which had backward industrial capacity and insufficient production capacity, ordered a total of 3.3 million M1891 Mosinagan rifles and a large amount of ammunition from two American companies, Remington and New England Westinghouse, and at the peak of production, Remington produced 5,000 rifles per day, while Westinghouse set a record of 160,000 rifles per month.

Although the two companies produced a million rifles, only 350,000 were actually delivered to Russia, and after the February Revolution in Russia in 1917, the Russian Provisional Government announced the termination of the contract, which plunged Remington and Westinghouse into an economic crisis.

In order to save the two companies, the U.S. government bought all the rifles for $30 a piece, and also asked for an additional 800,000 guns, which later went to the civilian population, and some were sold to other countries, and of course, more were sent to Russia and handed over to the White Army to intervene in the Russian Civil War.

In addition, this batch of weapons also fell into the hands of the Feng army, when the American troops left Vladivostok, the rifles in the warehouse were handed over to the Japanese troops who were still stranded here at that time, and asked them to destroy them before the arrival of the Russian army, but the Japanese sold the guns to Zhang Zuolin cheaply.

Not many people know about this historical secret, and this is because since Zhang Tinglan engaged in arms on a large scale and continued to smuggle arms on the Middle East Road, he has already been clear about the situation of the United States supplying arms and weapons to Russia, and naturally he also knows about the situation of these two factories.

There is no doubt that two factories in the United States are now in a difficult situation, and the U.S. government does not know what to do with this burden. Moreover, the Americans took the initiative to approach Mukden, hoping to use Mukden's Liliang to fight against the Russian majority.

Since the Americans are sincere, Zhang Tinglan will help the United States solve this trouble, and get the Americans to agree to transfer the production line to Mukden, so that China's ordnance production capacity will definitely expand rapidly like taking a strong pill.

Of course, the Feng army could not have the same strong organizational ability as the Americans, but it could produce 100,000 strokes a year, which is definitely an astonishing number.

Tao Jiping heard Zhang Tinglan's introduction, his eyes were completely red, he clenched them all tightly, after Zhang Tinglan finished speaking, he slapped the table suddenly: "Humble words, you must find a way, these machines must be made to Fengtian, no matter how difficult it is!" (To be continued......)