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After inspecting Manchuria, Wang Maoru returned to Qiqihar and learned that Qiqihar's arsenal had been formally established and would soon be put into production. Although the efficiency of producing weapons in the winter is not high, Wang Maoru's need for munitions is also imminent.

The Qiqihar Arsenal under the auspices of Han Linchun mainly produces E1 rifles, E1S cavalry guns (originally E1S was used as a short rifle in Europe, but it can only be used as a cavalry gun in China), S1 light machine guns, and long-handled grenades, but the raw materials of the bullets that Wang Maoru most desperately wanted to produce had to be imported from Japan.

Now that the European war is in full swing, the prices of various raw materials for making firearms are also rising, and Han Linchun reported that the arsenal can now officially produce long-handled grenades, E1 rifles, and E1S mounted guns.

Han Linchun said helplessly that the cost of producing a gun in the arsenal today is basically not much less than the cost of importing an E1 rifle from the United States, and the quality is not as good, so it is better to buy it, but it is the businessmen who import raw materials from Japan to enrich the businessmen.

Wang Maoru said: "It's cheaper, and we have to build a small day, our Heilongjiang Province is located in the northeast inland, and now the purchase of American fire always has to go through the territory of Fengjun, Jijun and Japan." If there is a military conflict with them one day. We're going to be at the mercy of others. We need to train skilled workers now, raw materials can be produced slowly, steel mills, copper factories, we can slowly exercise. But munitions workers also had to be trained early, and it was much more difficult to train a skilled worker than to build a small steel plant. ”

Han Linchun nodded in agreement, and Wang Maoru said: "Now I am not concerned about the problem of guns, but the problem of bullets, and I am ready to buy another set of production lines for the production of bullets from the United States, specializing in the production of 7.7mm bullets." ”

Han Linchun said: "The bullet is composed of four parts. Respectively, warheads, cartridge cases, ammunition, primers. Among them, the warhead is the most difficult to make, and the primer is installed last. And we also need a large number of chemical plants to produce, and it is really too difficult to produce bullets. ”

"Director Han, I want to ask, can you control the effective killing distance of the bullet within 500 meters?" Wang Maoru asked.

Han Linchun said in surprise: "Xiushuai, why do you want to shorten the killing distance?" ”

"The visual limit of a normal person is 500 meters, and beyond 500 meters, you can't aim at all, and even if you do, you don't know where the bullet flies if it's not a sharpshooter." Wang Maoru sighed that there was a problem with bullet shooting in this era. It seems that everyone thinks that the farther you hit, the greater the lethality, the better, and even the design of the Type 38 bullet in order to pursue the shooting distance and the stability of the bullet trajectory to reduce the lethality. Within 200 meters, as long as the Type 38 rifle does not directly hit the head and heart, basically the bullet can only cause penetrating wounds. It was only after World War I that European countries began to pay attention to the reduction of the effective distance of bullets, from 800 meters to 900 meters to 400 to 500 meters, saving ammunition.

Han Linchun thought about it, but still said that he didn't understand, although after Wang Maoru's explanation. But Han Linchun still said that if he was allowed to produce, he would insist on choosing bullets with a longer effective killing range. Wang Maoru was also helpless, he couldn't convince Han Linchun, an old cow, the shooting field of a person is only 500 meters, why do you want an effective killing distance of 800 meters and 900 meters. But fortunately, although Han Linchun is stubborn. However, he resolutely carried out the commander's orders, and Wang Maoru had no choice but to order Han Linchun to lower the range standard as an overseer.

The dead-eyed Han Linchun sighed. He agreed to the Overseer's orders and tried to change the amount of gunpowder to develop a bullet that could fire at a distance of 500 meters.

"What a bull." After coming out of the military factory, Wang Maoru patted his head and said with a wry smile, ordinary people have already carried out the commander's order when they hear it, but Han Linchun still insists on his own opinions, and his personality can be seen.

However, Han Linchun gave him a good news, because the long-handled grenade is simple to produce and the cost is low, he only needs to buy the delay lead from the "day" himself, but the "day" himself did not increase the price of the delay lead or deliberately embarrassed, the "day" Ben Moriman Arms Company actually reduced the price of sales, this Moriman arms company was the initiative to sell the 38 type rifle to the "China" country, and was later called the Japanese traitor arms company by the "Japan" himself, and was later acquired by Mitsubishi.

Long-handled grenades can ensure a monthly output of at least 6,000 pieces, this news made Wang Maoru very happy, and then got an unhappy news, it turned out that although the role of grenades had been proved during the Russo-Japanese War more than ten years ago, the real large-scale use of grenades was at this time, World War I.

And the squadron realized the role of grenades, and it was only after 918 that they were used on a large scale.

Therefore, when the first batch of grenades was sent to the student division with the highest academic qualifications, although they had already been handed over how to use the grenades, the student soldiers did not care, and actually killed four student soldiers during training. Wang Maoru was so angry that he hurriedly ran to the student division to hold him accountable, and the acting teacher He Anding looked remorseful, but this was indeed not a complaint against the chief, and the result of the investigation was that several student soldiers were curious and wanted to see the power of the grenade. Because the delay lead was purchased from the company "Day" Benmoriman, they had already explained the delay of seven seconds, but the students ignored the power of the grenade, and hurriedly threw the grenade on the wall more than ten meters away and bounced back, and the fragments of the explosion immediately exploded four student soldiers, and were hit in the head by the fragments, two people were killed on the spot, and the two were not rescued in the hospital later.

There is no way to punish his subordinates for this matter, and if it is the instructor's fault, it is too wrong to the instructor, because these four student soldiers are stealing and have nothing to do with the instructor, but their instructor was still punished for poor management and sent to the Yakeshi Army Non-commissioned Officer Academy for restudy.

Later, Wang Maoru gathered the officers together and told all departments to speed up time training, and his subordinates were very strange. Wang Maoru said: "You have to remember. You are soldiers, and now it is a troubled time, and the troubled times must be ended by the soldiers. Therefore, you have to fight at any time, go to war at any time, die at any time, and fight all kinds of enemies at any time, including bandits, other provincial armies, and the Beiyang Army. The People's Army, the Southern Army, the Russian Army, the Japanese Army. ”

Russian army. Japanese Army? This sentence made his subordinates talk about it, Wang Maoru sneered, and said, "What? Sleepy? ”

"Nope!" All the subordinates said in unison.

Wang Maoru finally smiled with satisfaction.

In the middle of the month, an even greater conflict broke out in the south, and because Li Yuanhong repeatedly rejected Duan Qirui's proposal to join the war, Duan Qirui resigned angrily and resigned from the post of general manager of the Republic of China. Duan Qirui's resignation was not left alone, he was the leader of the Anhui family, and his resignation. directly led to the resignation of Fan Yuanlian, the chief minister of education, and the resignation of these two people directly paralyzed the entire Beiyang government. Li Yuanhong had no choice but to ask Vice President Feng Guozhang to reconcile, although Feng Guozhang and Duan Qirui did not deal with each other much, but for the sake of the entire Beiyang government, he still decided to go to Tianjin to personally invite Duan Qirui back.

Feng Guozhang's face was big enough, Duan Qirui really came back, but asked Li Yuanhong to sign a declaration of war against Germany, Li Yuanhong was very helpless, saying that he could only sign the book of absolute virtue and sign the letter of absolute virtue first. Let's test the reactions of various countries. Feng Guozhang persuaded him on the side, and Duan Qirui finally decided to temporarily change the declaration of war against Germany to the book of absolute virtue. The president signed the letter of absolute virtue, and the president also signed the letter of absolute virtue, and when it came to the Congress, everyone thought that the Congress would be smooth. Unexpectedly, there was a problem here in Congress.

What's wrong with Congress?

This starts with President Li Yuanhong. Li Yuanhong became the president, but he didn't rely on it, he didn't have an army under him, so he could only be an angry little daughter-in-law in the face of Duan Qirui, who was in power. But Li Yuanhong has the support of the Congress, because Yuan Shikai dissolved the Congress twice (the first dissolution was because the Kuomintang was an obstruction, and the second dissolution was because he wanted to be the emperor and was afraid of being an obstruction), the members of the National Assembly suffered and suffered, Li Yuanhong was called Li Bodhisattva, friendly to people, and tried every possible way to win over these parliamentarians, plus he had a good temper, so the parliamentarians led by the Kuomintang were very supportive of Li Yuanhong.

They voted against, but the first time Juede actually didn't pass guò, Duan Qirui was so angry that he said in his heart, you parliamentarians are making a lot of fun, so I had to find Li Yuanhong to come forward, Li Yuanhong came forward to persuade him, and the second time he passed guò.

However, Zhang Xun, the envoy of the Zhangjiang Tour, Ni Sichong, the overseer of Anhui, and Wang Zhanyuan, the overseer of Hubei, expressed their opposition and hoped that the country would continue to be neutral. Originally, Tang Shaoyi also ran to Wang Maoru to persuade Wang Maoru to oppose absolute virtue, but Wang Maoru smiled and said: "The participating armies of my two divisions have been trained, why don't you join the war?" If I don't participate in the war, why do I keep these two divisions? Tang Shaoyi was speechless, he was the governor of Heilongjiang Province at this time, and he couldn't express his opinions at will. Realizing that he was on a thief ship, he had to refuse Sun Wen's request and refused to express his opinion. Of course, on behalf of Heilongjiang Province, Wang Maoru supported Duan Qirui's opinion and resolutely rejected morality, but stressed the need to protect the safety of the Germans in China and ensure the personal interests of the Germans in China.

At the end of the month, the province's tax revenue in November of the fifth year of the Republic of China reached two million, which can be said to have set a record over the years, which is mainly due to the stability of the black province's public security, the people live and work in peace and contentment, and the gradual improvement of the tax system. It was only the first time that Wang Maoru's proposal was rejected by the provincial legislature, and only the Hulunbuir state legislators supported the 77 members of the six states, and the other states vetoed the money to encourage childbirth because of the excessive burden, and because the provincial legislature vetoed, Hulunbuir had to stop issuing birth incentives.

The speaker of the provincial parliament is Xu Nailin, but Xu Nailin only has one vote, and the parliamentarians vetoed Wang Maoru's proposal, but they feel very proud, this is the first time that the Republic of China has won the example of a politician winning the military, and Wang Maoru also recognized the veto of the parliament, saying that he respected the parliament.

In December, Wang Maoru negotiated again with the representative of Doi City, and in order to stabilize the Japanese himself, this negotiation included the signing of a series of business contracts with the Japanese himself, including the construction of a 100,000-ton iron and steel plant in Tieli County Iron and Steel Plant, the construction of a 150,000-ton steel plant in Huma County, the establishment of a 200,000-ton copper smelter in Hulunbuir, and the construction of a mining farm with an annual output of 2 million tons in Hulunbuir. After signing an agreement with the Japanese himself, Wang Maoru subsequently signed an agreement with the US delegation to Heilongjiang to build three chemical factories in Qiqihar to produce military gunpowder, to establish a Sino-US shipping company in the Nenjiang River and other provincial basins, to establish a gold mining factory in Sunwu County, and to establish a cotton and wool textile factory in Anda County. It has also reached an agreement with Mobil Oil Company of the United States to import at least 100,000 tons of diesel fuel every year, which will be transported to Heilongjiang Province by Mobil Corporation. (To be continued.)