Chapter 11 Decision-making

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Although Leo and Yang Rui are brothers in life and death, they don't leave any room when talking about things, he agrees with Zhong Guanguan's idea, and asks again: "Zhong, Yang, I don't have much say about the forest railway, but no matter what the railway needs a lot of steel and a huge amount of money." And the immigrants, the Russians give a loan of two hundred rubles to each peasant family that emigrated to the Far East, how much can we give to the immigrants? Leo knew Yang Rui's plans and goals, but it was precisely because of this that he reminded Yang Rui that it would take a lot of money to complete such a grand plan, what the army is, the army is industrialization, and to achieve industrialization requires money, especially in China's current uncontrollable low tariff situation, it is even more difficult to raise money to run an industry.

Yang Rui, who knows a little bit about history, is still more confident in immigration, although the Northeast has not yet been completely banned, but the famine in the Guannai will cause a large-scale increase in the number of displaced people in the Northeast, as long as the guidance is good, these immigrants may not be able to come to their own control area, do not need too much money, just give them land, food, seeds and farm tools. "Leo, I know that funding is key to the plan, and I'm pretty sure of that. I'll fix this next year, trust me. Yang Rui replied.

Now that Yang Rui knows about this problem, Leo will no longer have an in-depth conversation on this issue. "There are no problems with transportation and population, then the next thing is the production of weapons. Christian's relatives were able to get their hands on the machine, although it was also German, but it was not from the Royal Arsenal, but from the Earhart Gun Factory. ”

Yang Rui was very inexplicable, he had never heard of the name of this factory at all, "Love Hart Gun Factory? Is the factory big? ”

Leo was still familiar with the situation at this factory, "Yes, the Erhat Gun Factory, in DΓΌsseldorf. It is said that it was named after the founder, and the factory was called Rheinmetall Engineering, which had not done this before, but this company acquired the Somaida Arsenal in 19o1. Now this factory is not small, they took over a lot of Russians at the end of last year. I heard that there were 500,000 detonators for the army's orders, and the news from Christian's side said that after the end of the Russian-Japanese war, the factory would sell some of the temporary additions. If the war ends next year, it will not conflict with your plan to build a factory in O6. ”

Dizzy, it turned out to be Rheinmetall after a long time, and it seems that this company later produced Leopard tanks and 88 anti-aircraft guns. Yang Rui was a little excited for a while, and he didn't expect that this company was still mainly producing bicycles and spring farming tools, and it was not as good as it was later. "Leo, can we send someone to this company for an internship?" Yang Rui thought of Xu Huafeng's gang at that time, and immediately thought of sending someone over there to learn the advanced technology and production experience of Da Niu Company, "There will not be many people, only about twenty people." ”

These words inspired Zhong Guanguan next to him, and he also said: "There are also steel mills, we also need to send people to learn, and those in the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau alone are not enough." ”

"I'll ask Christian about this, it will take some time." Leo fully agreed with Yang Rui sending interns. "However, Yang, there is no way for more than twenty people to support an arsenal."

Yang Rui and Zhong Guanguan glanced at each other and said with a smile: "We have arranged for hundreds of people to intern in the American Arsenal, and this program has been carried out very smoothly, so there is no problem at all." According to Situ Meitang's feedback, the American talent training program has begun to be implemented, and the first batch of personnel has entered the arsenal. Rong Hong didn't have any problems there, and he was able to select personnel and contact the factory with due diligence without any signs of evil. This made Yang Rui feel a lot more relieved, and at the same time, he didn't understand why Rong Hong did that in the first place. The two people who secretly photographed that day were followed by the Zhi Gong Court, and now they are a well-known local detective, as for who hired him, it is not known, but the detective's clients are all those famous people in the society, as long as there is time, it will not be too difficult now.

Wren spread his hands and looked very helpless, "Oh, you've all arranged it, my worries are unnecessary." ”

In addition to coal, steel and military industry, there are actually many things in the construction of the industrial system, such as grain and oil companies with oil mills and flour mills as the core, as well as indigo, ginseng, tussah silk and other Northeast local product sales companies. However, these have been discussed in detail with Zhong Guanguan before, and when they sent people to come this time, dozens of graduates from the management training class in Shanghai came to fully support the operation of these factories and companies with the modern management taught by Yang Rui, and I believe that these companies will soon bring high profits to Fuxing.

The discussion at the meeting soon came to the military aspect, and now there are 2,100 recruits and veterans combined, and they can be organized into a regiment, and the officers of the low-level squad and platoon are sufficient, but at the company and battalion level, it is difficult to have qualified commanders. Military is a science, but experience is also extremely heavy, as far as Yang Rui himself is concerned, it is no problem to let him be a company commander, let him be a battalion commander, regiment commander It is very worried, even if it is not a war and just marching, the team of a thousand people is completely different from a company of one or two hundred people, and if you are not careful, there will be chaos.

"We will continue to expand our army, of course, according to the number of rifles and bullets, each gun is guaranteed to have 500 bullets, so that we can recruit a team of about 6,000 people," Leo said. There is no need for us to worry about the grassroots officers, and when the army is well trained, the second batch of graduates will also come back. ”

Yang Rui doesn't mind his regiment commander becoming a brigade commander, who doesn't like that he has a lot of soldiers, "But, Leo." We don't have so many battalion commanders, such units are not combat-ready and can easily get confused. Yang Rui expressed his worries, which is also the fundamental reason why he has not expanded his army in large quantities.

Leo shook his head, "No. Yang, you're wrong. As you said before, excellent officers can only grow up in actual combat, not by training. We can first lead a regiment of more than 2,000 men to fight, and the other 4,000 men will only serve as a supplement and reserve, and we can set up twenty reserve companies, but not battalion commanders, and when the officers have grown up, then we will form other regiments. ”

This method is practical, but the price is the soldier's life, Yang Rui, who has experienced a battle, knows that there is no mercy on the battlefield, even if it is his own people. There is also a problem that his own group of people is bound to cause a lot of momentum, the news of Lin Qi's death cannot be concealed, and the entire Dongbian Dao knows that another strong bandit has been born, from the Fengtian general Zengqi and below, to the ordinary people, is not worried that this group of bandits will attack the county seat and harm the place, from Anton to Hailong, the nearby counties are strengthening the city defense and waiting for it. Yang Rui really couldn't think of any other solution, and said, "It's the only way to go." Let's recruit troops, there are still a lot of carpenters on the Linjiang side, I didn't dare to recruit more last time, but I can recruit more this time. Now there is only one battalion of soldiers capable of fighting, more than 700 people, so let this battalion go out to fight first. ”

Speaking of which, Yang Rui asked Xiang Zhong again, "How about the grenade I talked about last time?" We don't have a single cannon, we can only count on this. "Before the arsenal was not established, Yang Rui only had to take homemade grenades to fill the number, after the acquisition of the iron factory coal mine, the iron-making furnace inside was also brought over, Zhong Guanguan is now transferred to Erdaojiang by these iron-making masters, there is still this foundation to make a grenade body, gunpowder can only be black powder, saltpeter sulfur in the local solution source, as for the letter tube, because it is black powder detonation is simple, no detonator is needed, the required potassium chlorate, red phosphorus, barium nitrate and glass powder were rushed over last year, and the letter tube is not much, the reserves of these things could be supported until the end of the Russo-Japanese War.

Zhong Guanguan also attaches great importance to this, "Mr. Huafeng sent three students, and now it has been officially finalized, there are only a few hundred pieces this month, but I can give you three thousand pieces next month." "After that, let people go and bring the sample. The grenade is still made of wooden handles common in Yang Rui's old movies, and the iron projectile body is cast into a protruding square shape in order to increase the fragments, and the weight is more than half a catty, but I don't know how lethal it is. Zhong Guanguan took one of them and introduced: "The whole bullet weighs about 650 grams, with a delay of four to five seconds, and can be thrown to about 60 meters, and the black powder is loaded with 400 grams. Just when Yang Rui was secretly happy about his clever and martial arts misappropriation of a certain technology in a novel that traveled through the late Ming Dynasty, Zhong Guanguan said: "But if you want to install all of them like this, the output is very low. There are only 6,000 pieces per month. I am also afraid of accidents, and if I lose another machine, the output will be reduced by half. Shall we also consider ......?"

Black powder suppression is not a safe job, four machines have blown up two, fortunately because of the good safety measures, only a few operators have been disabled, those girls and children were scared half to death - in order to keep the production secret, Zhong Guanguan bought dozens of girls and children along the way when he came back from running the railway in Beijing, and now these people are responsible for the production of hand grenades, and the use of child labor by the Fuxing Society has reached a very common situation - since then the suppression work has become a medical operation because of the safety measures, and the production is extremely slow, Each machine will press 100 medicine columns a day, and the output will be more than 3,000 per month.

The national scolding reappeared, and he had already known that he would be sentenced to ten or twenty, Yang Rui secretly scolded himself in his heart, he thought that explosives would be used in the future, so this kind of black powder press was not fixed. These spiral presses were designed with the assistance of Leo's relative Cole, and were produced in Germany, because they were customized, which made the price expensive, and the high cost made Yang Rui only order four. But no matter how much you regret it, it's useless, so make sure that these two machines don't have accidents. "It's not okay if you don't press the column charge, the lethality of the ordinary charge is too small, it's no different from putting a cannon battle, slow down, don't have any more accidents, we still have many months to go to war with the Russians and the Japanese, and we can afford to wait for a while." In addition, the production of projectile bodies, wooden handles, and letter tubes has been stepped up, and if it is really urgent, it can only be used for artillery battles. ”

When Yang Rui and Zhong Guan were talking, Leo was fiddling with this novel weapon, although he had heard Yang Rui say it many times when he was in Africa, but the research team led by Ludwig had only been working on a fire device with a detonator filled with smokeless gunpowder, and the finished product had never been made, and this was the first time he had seen the real thing. He fiddled and unscrewed the back cover of the wooden handle, twisting the fire rope and curious, "Zhong, is this a detonator?" Leo felt that this should be an arquebus.

Hearing this, Zhong Guanyan hurriedly snatched the grenade and said, "No, black powder is used in it, so don't detonate it, it's a detonator, but if you pull it, we will all die here." ”

Leo was very curious and said, "Yes, yes, I guessed right. Pull down the fire rope and throw it out, right? This thing is a little smaller than I thought it would be, and it should have been thrown far away. How lethal it is. Bell? ”

Yang Rui interrupted Leo's conjecture, and he said, "Leo, you will see the power of the grenade soon, but we still have to discuss the specific details of sending troops. Is it north, south, or west? ”

"To the north to the south?" Leo looked at Yang Rui and didn't know why.

"Here on our back," Yang Rui said, pointing to the location of Jiapigou, "there are about a thousand or so Russians, a small part of them are cavalry, they are mainly defending the gold mines here, to the south is Andong, the Japanese have already landed in Korea, and will soon attack here, about tens of thousands of soldiers on both sides will fight in this area, as for the west, that is, along the Dongqing Railway and at various stations, there are Russians here. The army is stationed for protection. ”

Leo remembered that Yang Rui was biased towards the Russians before, "Yang, didn't you want to help the Russians before, why have you changed now?" ”

At first, Yang Rui wanted to learn a certain novel and stand on the side of the Russians in order to consume the Japanese, but then he changed this idea, the Japanese would occupy the entire Mukden Province in the future, and their lifeline ports and railways were under the threat of the Japanese Navy and the 6th Army, it was not wise to annoy those madmen now, at least wait for the various types of aircraft needed to be transported in before turning their faces. Therefore, secretly resisting Japan and actively resisting Russia has become Yang Rui's only choice.