Since the last quarrel at the executive committee meeting, the rightists and conservatives seem to have stopped mentioning the removal of the commander-in-chief of the Northern Expeditionary Army, so that the political situation in Canton has been much calmer; This made Huang Ke feel very surprised, what are these old guys still thinking? What kind of medicine is sold in the gourd? He couldn't figure it out for a while.

Spring in the south comes relatively early, just after the New Year, and it is already warm; There was good news in the beginning of spring, the first batch of 95 122-mm field cannons and 107-mm mountain guns purchased from the Soviet Union had already been delivered to the port of Guangzhou and were now ready to be unloaded.

When Huang Ke heard the news, he jumped out of bed happily, which he exchanged for rice with Lao Maozi; In addition to these medium guns, Huang Ke also introduced a production line for artillery shells and light artillery, which was built in Liuzhou, Guangxi.

At the time of the initial purchase negotiations, Stalin's military experts wanted to recommend 75-mm mountain guns to Huang Ke, and these Soviet military experts who were familiar with China understood that on the battlefield in China, 75-mm mountain guns were sufficient, and that there were many paddy fields in southern China, which were not suitable for medium artillery.

But Huang Ke didn't think so, he didn't just form a huge artillery to deal with the domestic warlords, but mainly to deal with the Japanese devils, so of course he couldn't be sloppy, he still insisted on 45 122 mm cannons.

The arms package was not easy for Huang Ke.

Lao Maozi has a lot of appetite, and the first batch asked for more than 100,000 catties of high-quality rice and potatoes; In order to get this money, Huang Ke can be regarded as grinding out the skin of his mouth; In addition to finding the president to allocate special funds, he also used the property of his brother-in-law Zhao Tinghui, and also looted the money of a group of businessmen from various chambers of commerce in Fu Wangshan, plus the military treasury bonds led by Mr. Liao, and finally made up enough.

Huang Ke promised these businessmen that if they raised money to invest in the military industry, they would not only be exempted from various taxes, but also enjoy various other benefits, including the legal existence of private property and not affected by land reform.

Listening to Huang Ke's words, Fu Wangshan still felt a faint pain in his heart, his more than 100 acres of fertile land had just been divided by the local land reform team not long ago, and what made him most angry was that after dividing these fields, Huang Ke also sent his children back to persuade him, saying that it was unreasonable, that the land rights should be equalized, and the overall situation should be the priority.

His two children didn't know what kind of ecstasy soup they had poured into them, but they even praised Huang Ke's behavior, and said that his father should not have such good land in the first place, so that more poor people would not be able to eat.

Fu Wangshan can be regarded as understanding Huang Ke's means, he took the money out of your pocket, and asked you to praise it? He had scolded Huang Ke thousands of times in his heart. However, he also understood that Huang Ke would definitely be able to do great things in the future, and it would be good to hold this thigh.

At the meeting to raise funds to set up the first artillery factory, Huang Ke had just finished speaking, and he immediately stood up and said excitedly: "Commander Huang is right, we businessmen are also patriotic, especially us overseas Chinese, how many times have we suffered such losses abroad, how much we hope that the motherland will become stronger and stronger!" ”

Fu Wangshan burst into tears when he said, "What have we come here for so many years? Isn't it just for the sake of the country's strength? Now, on behalf of the Nanyang Overseas Chinese Chamber of Commerce, I will fully support the establishment of factories and the formation of a new army. In addition, I personally will sell a yarn factory in Dongguan and take out at least one million to support the revolution. ”

Seeing that the Overseas Chinese Chamber of Commerce expressed such a statement, other people did not have much to say, and the Guangdong business groups also began to express their full support for the revolutionary cause.

These people are actually in a mess in their hearts, why do they donate the money in a daze?

During this time, there were rumors that Huang Ke wanted to merge all enterprises into state-owned, like land reform; But isn't it a clear hint that the companies that Huang Ke promised to support could be retained?

Compared with Fu Wangshan's foresight, his brother-in-law Zhao Tinghui is not so far-sighted; He thought that his sister was married to Huang Ke, and she should be his own, but he didn't expect that when Huang Ke set up a factory, he asked him for one million.

"Commander Huang, let's donate one million to all of us, how to calculate the shares of the arms company? If the government still accounts for half of it, isn't that taking money out of our pockets? I support the revolution, but I can't do this, so what are the interests of us businessmen? Zhao Tinghui scolded and left the meeting table on the spot.

Huang Ke smiled and said to everyone: "My brother-in-law is angry with me today, don't be surprised, he is just a little stingy, my brother-in-law and I are a family, I made a statement for him, he invested two million to fund the factory this time." ”

After Huang Ke made a few jokes, there was a not hearty laugh in the venue, Zhao Tinghui's opinion represented many of them, and they all thought so in their hearts, but Huang Ke immediately turned the amount of money he raised into two million, and it was not a joke to give an extra hundred yuan at once.

Looking at the people around him who were a little stunned, Huang Ke took over the conversation again: "It's okay, if anyone has difficulties in funding, they can not raise money, fundraising is not for you to donate money, it is to subscribe to shares, when the time comes, the arms company will still have to be purchased by the army, and it will naturally be profitable, and there will definitely be dividends. ”

The more polite Huang Ke spoke, the more uncomfortable these businessmen felt; Everyone knows Huang Ke's position in the new government, and they all understand his skills: how many heads of squires and landlords have been cut off in one fell swoop of land reform? Needless to say, the ongoing crackdown on bandits in the Great Southwest, which is now publicized in newspapers every day; Tens of thousands of troops entered the mountains to suppress bandits, and the bandit troubles that had plagued the southwest for hundreds of years were solved in less than half a year in his hands.

I have to admit that Huang Ke is a character and an aspiring figure. None of the businessmen sitting here for a meeting were stupid, and everyone saw this truth clearly, and when the meeting ended that day, Huang Ke easily raised more than 10 million yuan.

After going back, Huang Ke asked his wife Zhao Xiaowan to go to Luokou Town to find Zhao Tinghui and persuade him to donate money, this time not one million, but two million. Zhao Tinghui scolded his sister instead, saying that this brother-in-law was too much and thought about taking his own things all day long.

Huang Ke knew that he was his brother-in-law, and from the very beginning, he could see that this person had no ambitions, and his vision was only limited to the past few years, and he didn't have any vision at all, and it was more difficult to get money from him than to cut meat, but to deal with this kind of unruly person, Huang Ke had his own means.

That night, Zhao Xiaowan came back and complained, "You know that my brother is a stingy person, and you still let him donate so much money; Could it be that you really want to lead the troops to rob it? ”

As soon as he heard this, Huang Ke smiled: "You don't have to worry about this, I am neither different nor robbed, and I will definitely let the child's uncle hand over the money." ”

"What can you do? But don't you scare him? My brother is a timid man. Zhao Xiaowan looked at Huang Ke suspiciously.

"Don't worry about it, he's my brother-in-law, how can I scare him."

Within a few days, Fourteen Tsai returned to Luokou Town, he was Huang Ke's guard who didn't have many holidays, and he wanted to go back to his old club to see it during the rare vacation.

Zhao Tinghui naturally didn't dare to look at his subordinates like before, since he came back to see himself, Zhao Tinghui was entertained with good wine and food. Fourteen people also like to drink a few sips of wine, and just halfway through the meal, a few bottles of old white dry made in the north have seen the bottom.

Fourteen Tsai's face also flushed, and he leaned over to Zhao Tinghui and said, "Boss, let me tell you a piece of news, Commander Huang is ready to attack a private company. ”

Zhao Tinghui couldn't help but be stunned when he heard it: "Start? What do you mean? ”

"It's just that you're going to nationalize all the companies that didn't fund the revolutionary construction, you're fine, you're Commander Huang's brother-in-law, you're definitely fine." Fourteen was drunk and talked nonsense, and after speaking, he drank babbling.

That night, Zhao Tinghui found Huang Ke and said that he was willing to donate one hundred thousand yuan to support the revolution, Huang Ke couldn't help but smile after hearing this, and Zhao Xiaowan on the side looked at the two of them in surprise, not knowing what means Huang Ke used.

With the funds, Huang Ke bought artillery and factory production lines from the Soviet Union; The formation of factories and the training of artillery personnel were carried out by Soviet personnel.

The first batch of 35 122 mm cannons and 107 mm mountain guns were produced in the Soviet Union, Huang Ke knew that at this time in history, the Soviet military industrial enterprises had not yet fully risen, and the performance of this 122 mm field cannon was far inferior to the later D-74 122 mm caliber cannon, but it was already considered an advanced product at that time.

The biggest advantage of the 107 mm mountain gun is its light weight, the total weight is less than 700 kg, and two mules can pull and fly.

Huang Ke's idea was not to scatter the artillery in different units, he first used 35 guns to form an independent artillery regiment, and when all the guns arrived, Huang Ke was ready to build an artillery division, and concentrating firepower on artillery development was the later model of the Soviet Red Army, which was very effective against small Japan.

This also affected the course of the Northern Expedition later, making several warlord teams with good combat effectiveness invincible; Because at the time of the war, when the divisions of the armies of other warlords were only equipped with a small number of 75-mm field guns, the revolutionary new army in the south was already equipped with all 122-mm cannons, and the firepower was one level higher.

The biggest problem is the light artillery production factory, many provinces in the southwest because of the perennial battlefield industrial base is very poor, this Huang Ke can only start from scratch, the lack of raw materials and manufacturing processes can be spent on buying, but the lack of skilled workers should be done?

The foundation is poor, and it seems that there is only step-by-step cultivation, and there is no shortcut to this road.