20,000 heavy machine guns are equipped with 500,000 boxes of heavy machine gun bullets, that is, a heavy machine gun, equipped with 25 boxes of bullets, more than 100,000 rounds, these bullets, in a large-scale battle, are only enough to use for a few days, the real war broke out, that needed too many bullets!

How much wealth will the Jinan Arsenal be able to bring back to the Chinese Empire in the future?

Zuo Guigui swallowed a mouthful of spit with difficulty and asked, "Your Majesty, 20,000 heavy machine guns, can you really sell so much?" And even if we do our best, I'm afraid it will be difficult to produce so many heavy machine guns at once, right? ”

Guo Ye's face was stunned, yes, 20,000 heavy machine guns, if they are really produced, I am afraid that it will take several years, but anyway, it is a profitable business, and they must not be allowed to slip away like this!

Guo Ye said in a deep voice: "Guanting, now that the Austro-Prussian war is inevitable, under the stimulation of the war, do you say that Prussia will order less of our heavy machine guns?" According to intelligence, the Prussian army now has 30 divisions and more than 500,000 people, according to our configuration, each regiment will be equipped with a heavy machine gun company, a division is at least ten heavy machine gun companies, 30 divisions, that is, 300 heavy machine gun companies, each heavy machine gun company, six Gatling heavy machine guns, then Prussia also needs at least 1,800 heavy machine guns, plus heavy machine guns to deal with battle damage, I think, Prussia will definitely not be less than 3,000 heavy machine guns purchased from us! As for the bullets, hehe, the Austro-Prussian war, which lasted for two months, consumed five million rounds of bullets per day, a thousand boxes, don't worry, at least 60,000 boxes of bullets! ”

3,000 heavy machine guns, 60,000 boxes of ammunition, even after two years of running-in and expansion, the current Jinan Arsenal, if you want to produce these things, it will take at least half a year!

"The problem is, Your Majesty, now that our People's Army is being expanded, we also need a large number of heavy machine guns, just to equip our People's Army, we need to purchase at least a thousand heavy machine guns now......"

Zuo Guigui said in a bitter voice, the contradiction is very ah, is it to make money first, or to equip it now?

"Guanting, our army only needs to be expanded, the 200,000 army is not a short period of time to complete the reorganization, even if the reorganization is completed, there is no enough scale of the war, there is no need for us to use large-scale heavy machine guns, we only need to equip the first three legions with enough heavy machine guns, wait for next year or the year after, and then complete our equipment, it is too late, now what we have to do is we must earn the money back!"

Guo Ye said fiercely: "Not only to make money, but also to take this opportunity to let the Wing King get the most advantageous cooperation in Prussia, Prussia, now Prussia's technology is not weaker than England, we need their technology, coal mining technology, equipment manufacturing technology, shipbuilding technology, and even chemical technology, these are what we need!" We must get it in as soon as possible, otherwise, without these foundations, we will be an empty shell, useless, and sooner or later we will still be controlled by others! ”

Zuo Guigui nodded, what Guo Ye said is very reasonable, if you want to produce advanced artillery, you need to have enough advanced explosives, enough advanced lathes, and even casting molds that can produce various parts, these technologies, China is too weak......

"Guanting, send a telegram to the Winged King, entrusting him with full authority to negotiate with the Prussians for heavy machine guns, to obtain as many skills and talents as possible from them, and even to the point that they will provide us with assistance in engineering crosses! I'll tell you, you'll record ......."

Zuo Guigui hurriedly picked up the pen, Guo Ye dictated, Zuo Guigui took the pen, and recorded everything Guo Ye said, and then sorted it out a little and polished it, and carefully put it away. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

"Okay, send it to the Wing King immediately, whether we can go one step further depends on him!"

Soon, Shi Dakai got a telegram from Guo Ye's reply.

Directly appoint himself Minister Plenipotentiary to Europe. This kid is clever and directly tied himself to Europe, but now the Chinese Empire does not have any envoys in Europe at all, and many things are handled with Europeans, which is indeed very inconvenient, and it is much more convenient to come forward by yourself......

Shi Dakai then looked down, the more he looked, the more shocked he became, Guo Ye actually agreed to the arms sales shore, but he had to exchange enough benefits in the arms sales case, in addition to the selling price, he also had to get other benefits!

This is not a small difficulty, but Moltke once said that any benefit can be exchanged, just look at whether the conditions offered are big enough!

Shi Dakai took a deep breath, sat on the sofa, and began to think about how to deal with Bismarck and Moltke next, if the two sides establish diplomatic relations, maybe, there are more than these two people, I am afraid that Kaiser Wilhelm I will also receive him, all of them are cunning foxes, and they are not easy to deal with.

"Master!"

Xu Huai walked in and said, "Just now, the Prime Minister's Office has sent someone to send us an invitation, and Prime Minister Mr. Bismarck has invited you to the Prime Minister's Office to attend the banquet he held for you......

Banquet?

I didn't expect this Bismarck to move so fast, he had just received Guo Ye's reply, and he was already going to meet him.

"Xu Huai, go, Qingfei call me!"

"Yes!"

Xu Huai agreed, turned around and went out to call someone, and after a short time, Qiu Qingfei walked in.

Among the people led by Shi Dakai, Qiu Qingfei is the most flexible, resourceful, and neat, long-sleeved and good at dancing, and the best at dealing with others, and now he is finally used.

"Qingfei!"

Shi Dakai said lightly: "Just now Guo Ye has sent me a letter, appointing me as the plenipotentiary minister of the Huaxia Empire to Europe, in charge of the foreign affairs of all the European powers, and he asks us to get what we need in this arms purchase......

Qiu Qingfei hurriedly asked, "Master, what does Guo Ye want?" ”

"Technology, talents, machines, equipment, if this is useful to the Huaxia Empire, he wants them all, this guy has such a big appetite......"

Shi Dakai sighed softly.

"Master, this is Guo Ye's consistent style, plan and act, act vigorously and resolutely, never drag mud and water, it is really admirable, but now Prussia has a request for us, heavy machine guns, they are bound to get it, I'm afraid it won't be in these things, it's difficult for us, we just need to wait and see, haven't we been in Prussia for a month, those machines have to find a way to get all back, there are still talents, technology ......"

Shi Dakai slowly stood up and said, "Okay, Qingfei, this time we have to use your ingenuity, let's go meet this world-famous iron-blooded prime minister tonight!" (To be continued.) )