Chapter 100: American News

Wang Maoru calmly accepted the Russians' weapons and expressed his support and support for Russia. Of course, this water bead rifle can also be given as a gift in the future, especially when passing through Shenyang, I have to visit Zhang Zuolin and other Beiyang officers in Shenyang, which can be used as a gift. He also bought another 300 with the Russians, making up the number of 500, and the provincial gifts seemed stingy.

However, the Russians also demanded that Wang Maoru must protect the interests of the Russians in Hulunbuir, guarantee the mining rights, diplomatic immunity, and law enforcement rights of the Russian railway and the areas along the railway, Wang Maoru said that I am only a small major general and brigade commander, and these are all under the control of the Heilongjiang Provincial Government and the central government, but if I have power, I will definitely help the Russians. The Russian ambassador expressed his satisfaction and called Captain Sabayev of Hulunbuir Hailar's road escort team to inform him that the new commander of the border guards was pro-Russian and hoped that they would cooperate well.

Coming out of the Russian Embassy, Wang Maoru looked back at the golden black double-headed eagle flag fluttering on the Tsarist Russian Embassy, spit out a mouthful of phlegm hatefully, and scolded: "**Grandma, Lao Tzu will one day take back Jiangdong Sixty-four Tun and Wai Xing'an Mountains." , and kill all the men of you Russians, and snatch all the women to be wives for my subordinates."

Niu Delu and Ren Yuanxing saw that he was in a bad mood, and they didn't dare to speak, so they sighed. In the past few days, with the Russian Zhou Xuan, it can be said that he has endured all the closed-door soup and hardships, and Russia's arrogance has made several people feel uncomfortable.

In addition to reaching a series of unequal conditions with the Russians, Wang Maoru did not forget about other supplies of the troops, and the War Department had set himself to go north in September, but someone deliberately embarrassed him, but fortunately Wang Maoru set off ahead of schedule, and the weather was warmer. Because Hulunbuir is close to Tsarist Russia, the place is cold, generally frost in late September and October, winter is generally from the end of October to April of the following year, sometimes the cold weather lasts until May, the weather is warm at least early April, and the outdoor temperature in winter can reach minus 60 degrees, which is as cold as the North and South poles.

He asked He Rufei of the General Affairs Office to purchase 4,000 sets of winter clothes, quilts, cotton boots, cotton hats, and cotton gloves in Tianjin, the color of which was uniformly black, with white threads inlaid on the edges of the clothes, and gold threads inlaid on the officers. This business was taken over by Zhang Jian, a great industrialist of the Republic of China. Zhang Jian has been appreciated by the central government for his talent since the former Qing Dynasty, he is a model of industrial salvation, known as one of the two major industrialists in the south and north of the north, and Zhang Jian, a native of Nantong, Jiangsu, is different from Zhou Xuexi from Yuan Shikai's protection, he can deal with all forces properly. The second time, because of Zhang Jian's strong initiative, Sun Yat-sen's Northern Expeditionary Army was stunned to bypass Nantong and go north to fight against the Beiyang Army, and Nantong was not damaged at all, which shows that Zhang Jian, who is a native of Nantong, played the role of a mainstay in it.

When Zhang Jian heard that this batch of uniforms and armaments was for the border guards, and that this border guard army was used to recover Hulunbuir and fight against the rebels who split the country, such as Babu Zabu, he specially emphasized that the factory must guarantee the quality and date, and gave the maximum discount on the price. Wang Maoru was busy with other things, but did not have the opportunity to go south to Jiangsu to thank Zhang Jian for his support, but sent a telegram, saying that Zhang Jian was a model of patriotic businessmen, and specially imitated Yang Du's "If the Chinese country is destroyed, unless the people of Hunan die" and wrote "If the merchants of Nantong are not patriotic, unless the people of Nantong are dead", this Nantong people refer to Zhang Jian. Regarding this sentence, Zhang Jian said that he was too much praise, and he didn't dare to take it, and he didn't dare to take it. However, this sentence gave great encouragement to Nantong businessmen, and then many businessmen in Nantong used this sentence to encourage and educate their children and grandchildren.

Fang Hongxin, who is in the United States, called in August to say that the EAT gun company, which had been suppressed by the American Gun Industry Association, has now come back to life because of the European War, and the American Firearms Association has sent an invitation to jointly produce guns for the United Kingdom. Considering that Wang Maoru has become a small warlord in China, Fang Hongxin knows that one of the roles of the EAT Arms Company is to provide Wang Maoru with a steady stream of arms, so he did not take the liberty of accepting a large order from the British side, but only provided some parts for other companies.

Today, EAT is still fully engaged in the manufacture of the E1 rifle and markets the E1 rifle to the British Commonwealth countries. Because the E1 manufacturing workers were Chinese in the United States, the cost of the Lee Enfeld short rifle was a quarter cheaper than that made by other American factories, and gradually, the E1 rifle was accepted by the British countries. The first to make an offer to EAT to purchase an E1 rifle was British New Zealand. British New Zealand is an autonomous republic under the British Commonwealth, because Britain declared war on Germany, New Zealand and other Commonwealth countries declared war on Germany at the same time, New Zealand itself does not have many troops, let alone arms manufacturing companies, so it can only buy from the United States.

The E1 entered the eyes of the New Zealand military, and ordered 50,000 pieces, which were delivered in February 19, officially becoming a common rifle used by the New Zealand Army. This made a big comeback for EAT, and it also attracted the attention of American business associations. For the first time, EAT, a company that mainly produces civilian weapons, has been recognized by other American companies.

After learning the good news, Wang Maoru was very satisfied with the appointment of Fang Hongxin, which completely saved the EAT company and also started the reputation of the EAT company's guns. Otherwise, with Wang Maoru's financial resources to support EAT's production and workers' salaries, Wang Maoru would have become a poor egg in less than ten years. The First World War was also a period of madness for arms dealers, and it would last for four years.

After thinking about it in Beijing, Wang Maoru decided that what his troops lacked now were suppressive weapons, such as light machine guns and heavy machine guns. The Makqin water-cooled heavy machine gun, which is sought after by many Chinese people, is suitable for use in the south, but it is not suitable for the severe cold weather in the north at all. But if there is a war, where to find water to cool down? The surrounding snow melts into water, and it's too late to fill it up unless it cools down by peeing. This is also the reason why the Russians and Japanese heavy machine guns are air-cooled, the Japanese imitated the Hatch Chase air-cooled heavy machine gun, the Type 92 heavy machine gun, which was rated as the worst heavy machine gun in World War II, while the Russian Maxim 1910 heavy machine gun has better performance than the Type 92 heavy machine gun, but it is bulky and abnormally heavy. Before World War II, the best air-cooled heavy machine guns in the world were the G34 and G42 general-purpose machine guns, which appeared later in World War II. So he telegraphed to Fang Hongxin, asking the scientific research department of the EAT company to produce an air-cooled light machine gun in accordance with the principle of Madsen light machine gun, requiring a replaceable barrel, the weight of the whole gun shall not exceed 20 catties (10 kg), the ammunition can be fed by 25 magazines or drums, the manufacturing process is simple, the maintenance is convenient, the whole gun is detachable, the fewer parts, the better, and the bullet is designed to be 7.7 mm, which can be used with rifle bullets. The telegram was sent requesting, and Wang Maoru also returned to Huairou, because the 11th Mixed Brigade of the Border Army was ready to go north immediately.

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