At one o'clock in the morning on the night of January 12, 1920, Niu Delu committed suicide at home, wrote a deep repentance on the suicide net, and hoped that Xiushuai would not involve his children.

Wang Maoru sighed helplessly after learning the news of Niu Delu's suicide, Niu Delu is too stupid, he is carrying the guilt of his brother-in-law Liu Qun, and he is also carrying his life for the whole family. In order to appease the morale of the army, Wang Maoru told He Rufei that Niu Delu, deputy director of the General Staff, died last night due to a sudden acute heart attack, which was ineffective in medical treatment. Although He Rufei didn't know the truth about Niu Delu's suicide, he also felt that he must have committed Wang Maoru's most unforgivable taboo in some places, so that he wanted to commit suicide to atone for his sins.

But suicide only protects his children, but it does not help Liu Qun get asylum.

On January 14, 1920, Liu Qun, who felt a deep crisis, entered the Japanese consulate in Shenyang to seek refuge in the government, and Wang Maoru immediately ordered Liu Qun to be pursued and killed. His relatives were attacked by agents of the CIA, all Liu Qun's property was confiscated, and all the property of his relatives was confiscated, and only his sister survived because she was Niu Delu's family, but the property embezzled by Niu Delu and Liu Qun was also confiscated.

After investigation by the Central Intelligence Department of the General Security Department, Niu Delu embezzled as much as 2 million silver dollars, and Liu Qun embezzled as much as 1 million silver dollars, and the amount of embezzlement between the two accounted for one-third of the entire cost of resettlement of wounded soldiers. Of the three million silver dollars, two-thirds were deposited by them in the Bank of Japan in Shenyang, which threatened to never hand over the money in order to protect the interests of its customers, and the Wehrmacht lost two million for no reason.

Upon hearing this, Wang Maoru was furious, and he immediately ordered all officers and public officials of the whole army to deposit all their financial revenues into the three designated banks of the Republic of China, namely, the Huaxia National Bank belonging to the Northeast Government, the Bank of Communications belonging to the Beijing Government, and the Northern People's Bank belonging to the Northeast Government. and informed the whole army of the incident, hoping that the soldiers would take it as a warning. In order to prevent the impact from being too bad, He Rujian reported to the army, but asked all soldiers to keep it secret and not to disclose half of the information to the outside world. Obtained Wang Maoru's approval.

It wasn't until Niu Delu and Liu Qun's corruption incident was exposed, Niu Delu's strange death and the first-level pursuit of Liu Qun that the truth was revealed, and it turned out that the two of them had indeed committed the taboo of Xiu Shuai, and embezzlement of military spending and treason were unforgivable felonies.

After learning that Liu Qun was hiding in the Japanese consulate, Wang Maoru urgently summoned the Japanese consul in Shenyang, Matsumoto Masao, and hoped that the other party would hand over Liu Qun. Masao Matsumoto received instructions from the Japanese Kwantung Army. bluntly rejected Wang Maoru's request. was so angry that Wang Maoru scolded Little Japan for waiting for Lao Tzu, get out! Matsumoto Masao didn't expect Wang Maoru to scold him so impolitely and directly, so angry that he couldn't say a word, turned his head and left. Then Wang Maoru let the National Committee let out the news. Huaxia National Bank is preparing to issue a new currency to replace the second-generation renminbi, which has insufficient anti-counterfeiting. This news really surprised the Japanese financial circles, the first generation of the renminbi is exchanged for huàn in a one-to-one ratio with the silver dollar, and the purpose of replacing the second generation of the renminbi is very simple, because the northeast government has no money, and they are going to issue the renminbi indiscriminately. Bonds purchased by the Bank of Japan are settled in RMB. If the renminbi depreciates, the Japanese financial community will lose a lot.

The Japanese government had no choice but to send a secret telegram to Shenyang Consul Matsumoto Masao, asking him to release Liu Qun. However, Wang Maoru has angered the Japanese government several times, which has aroused strong dissatisfaction from the Japanese government.

When Liu Qun was sent by the Japanese, he was already a dead man, and he was afraid of more severe retaliation, so he committed suicide with opium. After the outbreak of the Niu-Liu incident, Wang Mao ordered the first storm of clean government in the whole army. All departments are required to self-examine, and those who should be dismissed should be dismissed, and those who should be handled strictly will not be tolerated. However, the self-inspection can only check the small fish, and Luo Haojian is responsible for the investigation by the CIA. Wang Maoru said in a deep voice: "It is enough to set an example for chickens and monkeys." Luo Hao knew what Wang Maoru meant, so he didn't ask for it anymore, and the Wehrmacht and the Wehrmacht immediately reversed the greed for ink that had just begun to show after this clean government storm.

Tong guò went to Europe to participate in the war and intervene in the war against Russia. The Wehrmacht Army has identified a serious problem in armaments, and that is the problem of rifle bullet jamming. And the way to solve this problem is simple. Because the previous bullets were all flanged bullets, just replace them with concave flange bullets -- but this design is extremely important, that is, the entire army and police force of 450,000 people need to be restructured, and this must be a huge project.

Wang Maoru threw this question to Liu Qingen, the new director of the Military Science Division of the General Logistics Department, Liu Qingen looked at this problem, laughed and said: "Xiushuai, you only need to change three parts, it is enough, and you don't need to replace the gun." Wang Maoru was overjoyed, and immediately ordered Liu Qingen to carry out the restructuring, and first take the Eighth Division of the National Defense Army as a real thing.

Liu Qingen gladly accepted the task, and then reported on the progress of the Northeast Arsenal this year, the Northeast Arsenal now has two systems, one is the three major army arsenals belonging to the Ministry of the Army, and the other is the Saltu Aircraft Factory belonging to the Ministry of the Air Force. In fact, in this era, the air force has not yet become an independent branch of the army, and the air force of all countries is based on the army aviation unit. It is true that the planes at the present stage are mainly auxiliary arms of the army and navy, and they do not yet have the ability to fight alone, so Liu Qingen's construction was approved, and all arsenals in the northeast will be managed in a unified manner, and the aircraft factory will be named the fourth arsenal of the national defense force.

Last year, the No. 1 Arsenal of the Qiqihar Wehrmacht produced a total of 200 million rounds of ammunition, but on average only 444 rounds were in the hands of the 450,000 Wehrmacht troops -- in the Republic of China, this was already an extremely abundant ammunition stockpile, but when Russia was fighting, the Chinese intervention army had to receive 20 million rounds of ammunition from Britain, otherwise the entire Chinese intervention army would have remained there. The total number of E1S, that is, E1 short rifles, is 60,000, and the number of repaired and modified guns is as high as 100,000, which fully guarantees the number of ordnance of the Northeast Army. As the First Arsenal devoted all its energy to the production of rifles and bullets, the rest of the armament came to a standstill.

Last year, the No. 2 Arsenal of the Shenyang National Defense Forces produced 500,000 long-handled grenades and 200,000 steel helmets.

Wang Maoru paid the most attention to the No. 3 Arsenal of the National Defense Force, which was built in Acheng County, Binjiang Prefecture, and is now in full swing and is trying to produce the first tractor-converted tank. According to his memory, Wang Maoru drew the shape of a famous tank in later generations, the Israeli Merkava tank. This is the only tank shape that Wang Maoru remembers, because the birthday gift given by his classmates when he was in college was this Merkava tank assembly. Wang Maoru spent two nights, checked a lot of information, and finally finished assembling, he jokingly told his classmates that in the future, Lao Tzu will be able to make Merkava - of course, this is a joke, but Wang Maoru knows the shape and general internal structure by heart.

However, Wang Maoru's plan was opposed by the American designers of the Third Arsenal, and the reason for their opposition made Wang Maoru unable to refute, because the black soil in the northeast was soft, and the Merkava tank with an overall design of 60 tons was estimated to fall into the soft ground after a few steps. Of course, the most important reason is that no engine factory has yet been able to develop an engine capable of driving 60-ton machinery, which means that Wang Maoru's plan is a fantasy in the eyes of American designers.

However, the American engineers took out the plan of a ten-ton tank light tank they developed in the United States, and the shape of the entire tank is similar to the French Snyder assault tank, this tall shape cannot get rid of the shape of the British Mark V series tank, the strange armored tracks, like a sarcoma-like shape, which makes Wang Maoru unbearable. He said to the American designer: "This tank, which is about to be phased out, no, has already been eliminated. "The American designers had no choice but to come up with another tank scheme, that is, the French 'Renault' FT-17 light tank, the structure and manufacture of this tank have long been well remembered by the American designers, only need to change a few parts, there is no need to consider the issue of special train rights.

However, this tank was also opposed by Wang Maoru, the armored tracks of this seven-ton tank were too vulnerable to attack, and it seemed that too advanced tanks were unacceptable in this era, and the tanks of this era were too backward - of course, this is in line with the historical concept of development. But China did not have time, did not have time to take such a step-by-step, together with the American designers, first determined the place of use of the tank, this tank is suitable for northern China, can be used in cold winter weather and windy sandy weather, due to the vast land, the tank has a long endurance. At the same time, this tank is more than enough to withstand the so-called "75mm heavy artillery" in the war of the Chinese ** valve, in a word, this tank is designed to fight against domestic warlords, not to fight abroad.

Therefore, the first engine to be decided was the tank, which was a four-cylinder water-cooled gasoline engine produced by the British company Rolls-Royce, with a power of 66.3 kilowatts (i.e. 90 hp). Then it was determined that the tank's artillery was capable of producing its own Krupp 75-mm field gun, and the matching machine gun was a Maxim heavy machine gun. The thickness of the tank armor was from 15 to 20 mm, the thickness of the frontal armor was up to 100 mm, and the thickness of the side gears was 60 mm. Due to the caliber of the gun and the power of the engine, this tank was determined to be a light tank, the tank itself weighed 13 tons, had a crew of five, and consisted of a driver, gunner, deputy gunner, machine gun shooter and deputy shooter and tank commander. The height of the tank is shorter than all tanks at this stage, but the width has been increased, which tends to be more modern tank shape, and the turret adopts the rotatable turret of the Renault FT-17 design, but due to the caliber of the gun, the tank only rotates at an angle of 140 degrees.

Wang Maoru was very happy that he participated in this design, but the American designers were not satisfied, because the shape of the tank completely subverted the shape of the European war tank, and it looked so strange in their eyes. The designers took a closer look, I wiped, how to design and design, and Wang Maoru proposed the Merkava tank shape so similar, is a miniature version of the Merkava, it turns out that this Chinese marshal never forgets the 60-ton heavy tank, everyone can't help but shake their heads and smile bitterly.

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