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It was Yang Rui's idea to open a weapon room, which was extremely important. Leo moved everyone to contact China to find relevant personnel. Now people are coming, but the whereabouts of the funds are more headaches, 200,000 yuan seems to be a lot, but when it is used, it is very little. Half of the guns have been spent, and the rest has to buy ammunition, and there was originally a foreign money for the purchase of royalties in Japan, but now because of the Chinese Education Association, this money has been filled in again. In addition to the earmark, he only has an extra nine hundred pounds on himself, and it is less than twenty thousand in the mark, and some of this money has to be set aside.

"How much does it cost?" Yang Rui asked.

"It's about 30,000 marks in the early stage, and that's just for the first few months, and there are more in the later stages." Leo gave a more precise number and explained: "A few of the people who came were friends with Werner, otherwise no one would have left Germany to come here." ”

Yang Rui nodded and expressed his understanding, now that the German economy is booming, few people are willing to go to the colony except for adventurers, and 30,000 marks is not only the salary of personnel, but also the cost of some tools and materials, which is already very tight.

"I have less than 20,000 marks here, so I can pay them first." Yang Rui thought that he still had to find a way to find a factory. "The rest may have to wait for some time, and it will take time for China to raise money."

Leo saw that Yang Rui's face was embarrassed, so he lit a cigarette and took a long puff, "Yang, if I really don't have it, I can pay first," Seeing Yang Rui looking at himself in surprise, he smiled a little, "Don't look at me like this, you also have a share in this money, do you remember the incident in Shanghai, in the end, I took the compensation, and those mongrels were very generous and gave me 60,000 marks." I can pay them the money for the weapons room. ”

"Thank you, Leo. I'll give it back to you soon. Yang Rui only knew that his share of compensation was not much, and he didn't expect that Leo's compensation was so much, which was equivalent to the salary of those high-ranking people in the concession for four or five years.

Leo smiled and turned the topic to weapon research, "Yang, how can you know so much, so many strange weapons," Leo felt that it was not good to say this, and then thought of other words to express this meaning, after all, although these weapons are strange, they are very useful, such as the mortars that are made now, "I mean, why do you know so many weapons, and these weapons are very useful." ”

"Haha," Yang Rui, who had already thought of an excuse, laughed, "The Chinese used gunpowder in the Song Dynasty, that is, more than a thousand years ago, grenades and mines were used very early, and flowering shells were used three hundred years ago. When the Qing Dynasty began, these were banned to prevent people from rebelling. ”

With his trust in Yang Rui, Leo accepted the idea that the ancient Chinese had already developed these weapons. With the advent of weapons researchers, the research of mortars has been accelerated, the horizontal stripes in the middle of the shells have been further improved into a more effective triangular groove, the tail at the bottom and the composition of the gunpowder and the charging method have been adjusted, the effective range of the shells has reached more than 1,100 meters, the accuracy has also been greatly improved, and the scattered points have become more concentrated.

In addition to the improvement of the shells, Werner also added some calibration devices of the breech gun to it, so that the weight of the entire 60 mortar reached more than 20 kilograms, and with the 60 mortar as a basis, the 80 mortar was also quickly studied, the gun weighed nearly 50 kilograms, and the firing range was more than 3,000 meters. Yang Rui didn't know whether this weight was heavy or light, but Schroeder had no doubt about this, the 60 mortar weighed more than 20 kilograms, and a horse could carry at least three guns. If you only carry one cannon, then you can carry more than 20 shells, and if it is an 80 mortar, a horse can also carry it, which is already very satisfactory and convenient for cavalrymen who pay attention to fast mobility. After all, a less powerful mortar is still acceptable compared to a breech-loading mountain gun of several hundred kilograms.

Mortar research has been successful, but industrial mass production is another problem, especially since the shells are cast as a whole, which requires a lot of professional equipment and technicians. What's more, production is simply not possible in Africa, not to mention that there is no money to invest in the construction of artillery factories, even if there are not so qualified workers, and from a business point of view, there is no market for sales in Africa now, of course, after World War II, the market here is very prosperous. Yang Rui had no choice but to let the real room do paper work, and asked the real room to try to write down all the processes on paper, and write down all the possible problems. Even, Yang Rui also made up his mind whether he should transfer some students from the instrument hall to serve as assistants in the weapon room.

"Ludwig," Yang Rui asked, "if you want to build an artillery factory, what machines do you need to buy?" "Ludwig was a weapons expert invited by Werner, and it is said that he had worked in an artillery factory, except for the day he came and when he was sober when he studied weapons, he was confused at other times - he was an alcoholic, the kind that was addicted to alcohol, he drank more wine than he ate - while he was still sober, Yang Rui asked him how to build a gun factory.

"Oh, the artillery factory." Ludwig knew that Yang Rui was the leader of the ** armed forces, but he didn't care. He was already fond of exciting things, so after being fired from the factory while drunk, he responded to Werner's call to come to Africa to "do an exciting and interesting job" (Werner's telegram phrase), and he was not surprised by Yang Rui's question, "Let me think about it." Ludwig shook his head, trying to sober himself up, a highly technical question that appealed to him, even if it interfered with his drinking.

"Yang, there are a lot of things that the artillery factory needs," Ludwig woke up from his daze and thought about the contents, "First, we need to build a steel plant first, and the artillery factory can't produce without a steel factory." ”

I can't imagine that asking artillery will actually pull on steel, but think about it, without good steel, where will the artillery come from. "So what does it take to build a steel mill?" Yang Rui asked according to his words.

"I don't know." Ludwig replied dryly, "I haven't been in a steel mill, so I don't know." He may be telling the truth, but Yang Rui doubts that he is still drunk and unconscious.

Defeated by him, Yang Rui's voice lowered twice and asked, "Okay, Ludwig, we now know that you haven't been in the steel factory, and it's normal to not know where to go." Then let's talk about the artillery factory where you stayed. ”

When Yang Rui spoke, he took out the wine jug he carried with him and began to drink, and after taking a sip, he felt that it was not enough, so he took another sip, but fortunately he did not forget Yang Rui's question. "At least we need two high-horsepower steam engines, then the air hammer, the iron furnace for heating, and then there are some machine tools, the lathe is the most, followed by the drilling machine, slotting machine, planer, scraper, sawing machine, washing machine, wire drawing machine, rubbing and boring machine, hobbing machine, grinding tool machine, and some tools are indispensable, such as centimeter rulers, grinding stones, plate rolling machines, set of gun hoop cylinders, etc., etc......., etc."

Ludwig's nose was red after drinking, and his thick beard was very funny, but Yang Rui still took out the notes on the machine tools he said, and he only knew that he needed lathes and drilling machines to make cannons, but now he was told that nearly ten kinds of machine tools were needed, and some of them were unheard of. With so many machine tools, it would take at least 500,000 marks for an artillery factory to be built.

Yang Rui then asked the gun factory, in fact, the gun factory is similar to the gun factory, except for the addition of some special equipment, such as rough edge machines, guillotines and some grinding wheels for grinding guns, they are also the same lathes, planers, and drilling machines as the gun factory. Although these machines do not need to be as large as those of the gun factory, when it comes to the production of guns, the number of these machines is much more than that of the gun factory, and it must be at least tripled. Yang Rui wrote in his notebook that what he used to think of as a mysterious gun factory is now in its infancy -- although he has no money and does not know where to buy these specialized equipment.

Ludwig was drunk on his head, muttering some words that Yang Rui didn't understand, "Yang, if you run a gun factory, then you also have to run other factories, such as a gunpowder factory, a bullet factory, a shell factory, a primer factory...... yes, yes, and a carpentry factory." Ludwig struggled to recall something,

The conversation between the two lasted for three or four hours, and while Ludwig was not helpful about where to buy the equipment, at least he described to Yang Rui some details of an arms production system. Seeing the dense lathes of all kinds on the notebook, Yang Rui still didn't feel excited, even on paper, but he already knew what he needed.

The next morning, Yang Rui went to the manor to find Leo and gave him the things he had sorted out. When Leo saw what he handed over, he thought it was some kind of genius plan, but when he looked closely, it was indeed similar to an arms factory. "Can you find out the price of these things, and importantly, where can I buy them?"

"Ludwig told you," Leo immediately guessed who had said it, and instead began to wonder who could get the news. "Maybe Christian will know that he has a cousin who is in the trading business. Yang, are you in such a hurry? These things cost a lot of money. Leo knows that his friend has been financially upset lately.

"Yes, I was very anxious when I came out of Ludwig yesterday, and I really wanted to know if these machines could be bought and how much money they would cost," Yang Rui said frankly, "Although funds are very tight this year, it is because we have recently invested two million marks to dig a coal mine, and we have also set up some other types of factories." By next year, all the factories will start to make a profit, and at the end of the year, I estimate that I can take out a few million marks to buy these, and if it is the year after that, then the money that can be provided will be even more. ”

Leo nodded, he was very receptive to his loyal friend's ability to make money, and it seemed that anything could be turned into a lot of Mark in his hands. "Okay, we'll go to Christian in a moment and let him figure it out." He put the paper away, but said worriedly: "Build so many factories and buy so many machines, this big business will attract domestic attention." ”

"So we have to buy as soon as possible, we can buy a lathe this month, a lathe next month, and a guillotine next month to reduce attention as much as possible." Yang Rui thought about it a lot, there are still many things he doesn't understand in this world, if in the future life, these things together will have a huge impact, there is no other way except smuggling, it seems that only by buying separately can the target be reduced, German goods are chosen, if not, then only find a way.

Leo laughed, "Why bother, Yang, these things are special equipment, if someone is willing to sell one, he is willing to sell so many units," Leo is a soldier's thinking, and he went straight to the destination. "If the profit of a machine is too low, then the profit of building a factory is completely tempting."

"Huh. If so, so much the better. Yang Rui smiled, "I'm worried that those factories in Germany won't sell these machines to me, if they can be packaged and sold, then I'm very happy." ”

With deep hatred, Leo gritted his teeth and said, "Believe me, those damned Jews are willing to do anything for money. You wait for me, I'll go and call Christian. "After the arms deal was completed last month, and the deal for the batch of ammunition was negotiated, the negotiations between the guns and the equipment of the small bullet factory have been dragging on according to Yang Rui's wishes, and Christian is not in the mood to make a cameo appearance as an arms dealer, and has returned to the comfortable life of a farmer, and every day at nine o'clock, Christian will go to inspect the whole estate on time, and he has the impression that these black men are not only stupid, but also lazy, and if they are not whipped every day, then the work will be difficult to complete - Leo is going to pull him over before he goes out.