During this time, Shoren obtained a very large number of antique paintings and ancient gold coins by robbing the Addams family and trading with the whites. The number of antique porcelain and sculptures has reached 500, all of which are cultural relics produced during the Ming Dynasty and before. There are also as many as 100 oil paintings, including the works of various famous painters in Europe before the 18th century. Many of them are already hard to find in the 21st century. Although some of them are not very valuable because of the painter's own skills and skills, there are five paintings, which can be said to be worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

In addition to these, there are also a lot of gold coins. Of these, they were mainly seized from the Indians of the North American continent and produced when the European continent was still using gold coins. It seems that none of them were newly minted, and although they were considered antiques in the 18th century, they were not very valuable because there was no gold coin collecting craze, and even some gold coins from the early 17th century were traded as gold.

Xiao Lin's previous estimate of about one billion yuan was still underestimated, and Yan Li, as a new valuator, spent two months re-determining the value of these things according to her own knowledge and the guidance of some friends. Now this batch of things is valued at least 2.5 billion yuan. At least, it's also because none of them are experts in this area, and their valuation of some things is not accurate. Yan Li guessed that the price would increase by at least 500 million.

Before and after, Xiao Lin only invested two billion to establish the current Yanhuang Trading Company. There are also almost 300 million funds spent on factories and workers, and Xiao Lin himself enjoys spending less than 50 million. This time, it was directly earned, and there was almost 600 million more funds. This is a timely rain for Xiao Lin, who has already begun to run a deficit in the finances. As long as they survive this period and complete Sorento's next batch of orders, Xiao Lin will be able to obtain about 100 million yuan again.

Xiao Lin, who was in a hurry to use the money, looked around for connections, and wanted to contact a reliable auction house to deal with these things. Yan Li also mobilized her own connections and finally found Christie's auction house. Christie's Auction House, founded in 1918, is a Chinese-backed auction house. This year, Christie's has turned exactly 100 years old. Over the course of its 100-year history, Christie's has become one of the world's leading auction houses, with connections and the business of accepting auctions from unknown sources.

At the beginning of its establishment, Christie's was a wealthy Chinese businessman with an angry temper, and he was not accustomed to seeing Europeans and Americans take advantage of the turmoil in China to steal and sell Chinese antiques on a large scale. This patriotic Chinese businessman is also powerful, with his hands and eyes open to the sky, and he has actually won the auction of objects from many European and American countries, and gradually gained popularity. Because of its particularity, it has been successively protected by the National Government and the New Republican Government, and until now, the state has participated in it.

The current leader of the country is also a rare hard-line hawk, as long as it is not a local antique and art in China, it doesn't matter whether you have obtained it from precious channels or not. Before, the Zhao family and the Dai family had proposed to let Xiao Lin go to them. It's just that Shawlin didn't want to alarm the country, so he didn't go. This time, I'm afraid I won't be able to look for them. However, Xiao Lin will definitely not be able to come forward for the auction. If it is investigated, Xiao Lin will not be able to explain it at all.

Fortunately, the Zhao Dynasty and the two families helped Xiao Lin resist this thunder. Because of Xiao Lin's supply of fine furs and gold ore, the two are now not the leaders of the industry, but they are also standing in the top column. In fact, there are people in the government, and the elders of the two families, one is the deputy commander of the Chengdu Military Region, and the other is the deputy minister of the Ministry of Commerce. It is completely possible to carry this matter down, and the price Xiao Lin paid is the masterpiece of Wu Yanzi, a famous painter of the Northern Song Dynasty, who accidentally fell into the hands of white people.

With this relationship, the people of the auction house came very quickly. A team of 50 people, appraisers, repairers, and specialized transport handlers are available. These things are all genuine, even if some of them already exist, and even if they are kept in major museums by European and American countries, they have confirmed their value. Anyway, the buyers of these things are mainly wealthy businessmen in China, and no matter who they are, they can't prove that the things are not real, so they just sell.

Xiao Lin was a little anxious to ask for money, and some gold coins and oil paintings that were not very valuable were sold directly to the auction house, and he received a billion yuan in funds. Others worth more than 10 million will be officially sold at auction after three months of hype. Many wealthy businessmen in China have expressed great interest in these items. Huaguo has developed to the present, and the number of wealthy businessmen is really too much. And, in addition to possessions, these people also began to pursue antiques and works of art.

Those good things that belong to China can be sold unscrupulously by Europeans and Americans, and of course they dare to buy and sell antique oil paintings of white people. Moreover, these people are thieves and thieves, and they all hide from Europeans and Americans, just waiting to buy these things, and then show off and slap their faces in front of them.

Xiao Lin naturally didn't care, and Yan Li helped watch it. He wants to continue to rush to the territory of Zarqam, the recruitment of people for the factory has basically been completed, and the equipment has entered the commissioning stage, and it will be in a week at most, and it will be officially produced. At present, the main products are the Yanhuang Type 1 rifle (medium formal rifle) and matching bullets, the Type 17 pistol (box gun) and the matching cartridge and butt, the Heavy Fist Type 1 75mm front-loading rifled gun, the Heavy Fist Type II 120mm front-loading rifled gun, the Thunder Grenade (wooden-handled combat grenade) and the Assault Type 1 60mm mortar.

There aren't a lot of them, and it's not very difficult. At the same time, with the presence of the factory, the laboratory side is also idle. The production process of the Assault 1 60mm mortar has also been completely developed by more than 10 engineers in the laboratory, and at the current level of the factory, it can produce 30 mortars and 20 shells per month, a total of 600 shells. The output of the laboratory is completely unnecessary. So, Sholin had to prepare new jobs for the engineers in the lab.

It just so happened that Xiao Lin felt that it was time for the guards to prepare machine guns. Light and heavy machine guns can be said to be the standard configuration of modern armies, and they can fight without artillery, and without machine guns, there is definitely not much powerful combat effectiveness. In particular, the escort team will be in a situation of fighting more with less for a long time in the future. It was impossible to rely on only those thirty revolver-type machine guns. The parts of these machine guns, with the company's current means, cannot be manufactured at all qualified products, that is, the manufacture of machine gun bullets is a difficult problem.

After two days of research with the engineers, Sholin finally decided on the next machine gun style to be produced. Machine guns are divided into heavy machine guns and light machine guns, and heavy machine guns are M1917A1 Browning (water-cooled) heavy machine guns.

The prototype of this gun was the M1917 type, which was designed by Browning. The M1917A1 is an improved version of the M1917 type. The automatic mode of the gun is the principle of short recoil of the barrel, and the cooling method is water-cooled, with an M2 gun mount. It fires 0.30-inch (7.62mm) M1 heavy pointed bullets and M2 pointed bullets, with a muzzle velocity of 807-854m/s, a maximum range of 2377-5029m, fed by a 100 or 250-round cartridge, a body length of 980mm, a barrel length of 610mm, a body weight of 15.2kg, a gun carriage weight of 24.1kg, a total gun weight of 39.3kg, 4 rifling right-hand rotations, a winding distance of 254mm, and a theoretical rate of fire of 450-600 rounds / min.

This water-cooled heavy machine gun has a very stable structure, and the manufacturing process is basically clear to one of the engineers of German origin. Moreover, the method of use and maintenance is not complicated, which is very suitable for the current company escort team.

The light machine gun is naturally the Czech ZB-26 light machine gun, which played a huge role in the battlefield in China during World War II. ZB-26 LIGHT MACHINE GUN IS A KIND OF LIGHT MACHINE GUN DEVELOPED BY THE BRNO STATE ARSENAL IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA IN THE TWENTIES OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, WITH A CALIBER OF 7.92MM AND A GAUGE RANGE OF 1500 METERS.

The caliber of this light machine gun is 7.90 mm, the total length of the gun is 1165 mm, the weight of the gun is 9.0 kg, the aiming baseline length is 568 mm, the barrel length is 602 mm, the number of repetition lines is 4, the muzzle velocity is 830 m/s, the gauge range is 1500 m, the rate of fire is 550 rounds / min, the loading style is the magazine, the loading number is 20 rounds, the automatic mode is steam retreat, and the cooling mode is air-cooled.

The ZB-26 light machine gun has the advantages of simple structure, easy use and maintenance, excellent shooting performance, sufficient lethality, quick shooting training, and convenient and fast barrel replacement. It can be said that it is a very good light machine gun during World War II and before, and basically the biggest flaw is that it has the least ammunition load, with only twenty rounds in one magazine. However, the engineers determined that it should be possible to increase the reload from 20 to 40 rounds after the improvement.

The magazine of forty rounds is enough to use, and it is just the right combination of light and heavy with the M1917A1 Browning heavy machine gun. After determining the style of the machine gun to be developed, the engineers began to study the data and prepare to form a manufacturing process suitable for the current factory. And Xiao Lin, naturally, is to solve the problem of materials. Once you have a machine gun, you will need more bullets. Even if steel-core bullets are still used, they can no longer rely on domestic steel mills.

If steel is used, it is necessary to use ships to transport steel from the country, which is too expensive. There is no steel plant in Zalkam, and their original steel is only imported from the Republic of South Africa, so they are also urging Xiao Lin to build a steel plant as soon as possible.