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    "What, are you deflated?"

    As soon as he came downstairs, Xiao Anguo winked at Yang Qiu, making Shen Shukai, Shopkeeper Dong and others next to him also secretly laugh.

    "Just say the peacock flying southeast, and the previous ones will be spared." Yang Qiu glared at him angrily. Seeing that the servant was still packing his bags, he handed the telegram address and content to Shopkeeper Dong: "Brother Shen also wants to  Going to Chengdu?¡±

    "If we don't go to Chengdu, we will go back to Shanghai." Shen Shukai patted Yang Qiu's bag and said with a smile: "There will be a boat in a while, so I plan to go back immediately. Here is 1 million."

    Yang Qiu didn't stop him either. He was more anxious about this matter than Shen Shukai. Since the Chengdu massacre had already occurred, Wuchang Shouyi must be close at hand. Since the Hanyang factory could not provide any help now, it was necessary to find some foreign aid. Otherwise, why should they stop Beiyang?  Elite.

    When a few people arrived at the pier, there was already a sea of ??people. Judging by their accents, most of them were ordinary people who had escaped from Sichuan due to the war. Since the waterway to Chongqing had been cut off, they could only flee by land through Hankou.

    As the war spread, there were many more soldiers on the streets, and the smell of tension in the air began to increase.  After finally squeezing into the crowd to see Shen Shukai off, Xiao Anguo finally couldn't bear it any longer. While grabbing him and walking back to the ferry boat back to the camp, he asked: "Brother, brother, I'm not an outsider, tell the truth, what's your thing?"  What is it?"

    ¡°Design drawing of the legal 340mm naval gun and submarine snorkel.¡±

    "Navy gun? Or ventilated?" Xiao Anguo was inexplicably surprised by this, but he was afraid of exposing his mud-legged nature in front of his brothers, so he could only hold back for the time being and not ask any more questions.

    His strange behavior made Yang Qiu temporarily forget the scene just now, but he was still a little worried about Shen Shukai's trip.

    There was nothing wrong with the design drawings he took out, and both technologies were carefully selected by him from the data machine.  Originally, the first thing he considered was to sell the information of the legal "Miss 75", but considering that Germany may not think that its artillery is inferior to France based on the blueprints alone, and the "Miss 75" was kept secret so strictly that after the start of World War I, all  The world only knows that there is such a field gun with a high rate of fire, so unless it is presented with a real object, Germany will think it is fake.

    The 340mm naval gun is different. It was the main gun of the French Breton-class battleship before World War I. The whole of Europe knew that France was building a new battleship, and the power of this gun was higher than that of the British 343mm battleship.  The most important thing about the gun is that it has a very special feature, that is, it uses a large-scale assist and re-entry machine similar to the "Miss 75", which improves the efficiency a lot.

    Judging from the actual combat at sea, this kind of recovery and recovery aircraft is just a romantic idea of ??the French, but no one knows about it yet!  In theory, the rate of fire of three rounds per minute can definitely make Germany jealous!

    Although in fact the German Navy had almost no fight with the French Navy in World War I, Wilhelm II and the German Navy did not think much of it. Before World War I, a large part of the German Navy's goal was to defeat the French fleet, so every move of the deadly enemy  All the German intelligence agencies should pay attention to, not to mention the details of the new project under construction, so Germany must have some information. As long as they see the drawings, they will definitely understand it, and they will definitely be willing to pay some price to buy the complete set of drawings.

    As for submarine snorkel technology, it only appeared after World War I. You must know that submarines during World War I did not have long-term submersible capabilities. To put it bluntly, they were small semi-submersible torpedo boats. They had to surface most of the time.  You can only dive for about an hour or two when you are close to the enemy, and your survivability is extremely poor.

    But with the snorkel, the submarine can lurk underwater for a long time, which not only improves the submarine's concealment ability, but more importantly, allows the submarine to truly have certain capabilities against surface warships in this era of relying on visual sight and no anti-submarine means.  The strength to compete!

    According to later information, William II never worried about his own army. Instead, he was worried about building more and more fleets. It was a technology that could quickly close the distance with the British Navy and gain the upper hand in some cases.  , he is definitely willing to buy it.

    Moreover, the snorkel technology is not so easy to copy. This is different from the tank design drawings he wanted to sell before. Tanks these days are actually just theoretical breakthroughs, but snorkels, especially submarine snorkels, are a very complex technology.  First of all, the vent pipe also needs to be waterproof. It has a large number of tortuous circuits inside. It also needs to apply dozens of technologies such as strong high pressure and drilling through the pressure-resistant shell. According to the data of the data machine, the vent pipe technology has been fully developed from the initial proposal to the successful development.  It took five years, so he was not afraid that the Germans would regret it after seeing the design drawings, unless they encounteredA genius who never forgets, otherwise the Germans would have to pay the price.

    Even if he has a photographic memory, he told Shen Shukai that he could only see half of the drawing before closing the deal. In addition, it is already 1911, and it is hard to say whether Germany can break through the other half of the drawing within three years.

    He came up with this technology after much consideration. After all, he couldn¡¯t fool these guys without some real stuff, not to mention Germany, which had the highest mechanical level. Fortunately, the submarine technology during World War I was still limited by factors such as engines and torpedoes, plus  Due to Germany's inherently tragic geographical environment and the subsequent unkindness of the United States, this technology was not enough to truly change the course of the war. The worst that could happen was that the Royal Fleet would lose more ships, which was nothing to Britain at its peak.

    So he is not worried at all about whether he can make money. What he is really worried about is whether Germany is willing to exchange arms. 30 Maxims, 100 Madsen M50s and 1 million rounds of ammunition are just a drop in the bucket for Germany, but for him they are  It is the key to whether the three towns can be saved.  The only trouble is that Germany may not have Madsen. Fortunately, he has already told Shen Shukai how to hint Germany to obtain the supply.

    Although Hanyang is worse than expected, the foundation has finally been laid. If not, the two factories¡¯ combined nearly 10,000 skilled workers who have been trained for many years are more valuable assets. Whether it is Hankou or Hanyang, they are the key to this battle. Only  Only by preserving China's largest and most complete industrial base can there be a glimmer of hope in the future.

    Ten days later, Shopkeeper Dong, who stayed in Hankou, brought good news. Shen Shukai was indeed a big and courageous businessman. Although he did not quite believe Yang Qiu's words, he still sent a telegram to the board of directors of Heshengyuan and persuaded the shareholders to prevent the danger.  Weiran used this as an excuse to adjust branches across the country and even overseas, began to accelerate the collection of working capital, and put a large amount of cash and banknotes into treasury for secret storage.

    At the same time, he did not delay Yang Qiu's affairs. He found a down-and-out Vietnamese royal family, a Vietnamese revolutionary who pretended to resist France, and also set up a leather bag company called Far East Southern Yunnan Company to negotiate with Germany.

    The German minister in Shanghai did not believe it at first after seeing the complete set of design drawings of the French-made 340mm naval gun. However, after contacting the country and comparing several known details in detail, he almost screamed with excitement and immediately agreed to pay US$400,000.  Buy the complete set of drawings.

    400,000 US dollars is not even a drop in the bucket for Germany, but it fired the first shot for Shen Shukai. So when he took out the instructions for the submarine snorkel, the German ambassador ignored the surprised looks around and immediately asked Qingdao  The commander of the Far East Fleet and the domestic navy sent an emergency telegram.

    Two days later, the commander of the German Far East Fleet in Qingdao arrived in Shanghai, and the German General Staff and the Navy immediately demanded that Shanghai obtain all the drawings of this technology.

    After seeing half of the snorkel design and manufacturing drawings with their own eyes, Germany not only agreed to invest US$300,000 to purchase the snorkel design drawings and all information, but also agreed to settle the bill in US dollars as required, and paid two full payments of 70 on the same day.  Ten thousand US dollars, a total of 140 taels of silver.

    Shen Shukai also gave initial consent to the exchange of arms proposed by Shen Shukai through shields, but Germany did not have the Madsen M50 light machine gun. In the end, Shen Shukai conveyed Yang Qiu's hint that Russia had it. Only then did Germany think of the Russo-Japanese War.  During that period, Russia did order about 500 Madsen M50s, but due to the late delivery, most of them did not participate in the war after they were shipped to the Far East. Nicholas II felt that it would be troublesome to transport them back, and he wanted to deter Japan, so they were all stockpiled.  Vladivostok.

    Yang Qiu had been paying attention to these guns for a long time, but he definitely had no hope of finding Russia now, so he went around in circles to find Germany. Germany, who was anxious to get the enemy's naval guns and snorkel technology, immediately contacted the Russian Far East, and  I don¡¯t know how they were persuaded in the end. In the end, Russia agreed to sell 100 guns at a price of 500 US dollars each, and each gun was equipped with four empty magazines. After getting the news, Germany sent a warship from Qingdao to Vladivostok to retrieve it that night. After solving the problem,  After the machine gun, its own Maxim machine gun made Germany worry again, because Germany did not have it in stock. In the end, in order not to delay the shipment from Europe, they simply removed 20 Maxim machine guns from the Far East garrison and agreed to all  The machine gun was delivered in Shanghai 15 days later.

    As for the bullets, Germany was very hesitant. As a rule, countries rarely sell bullets directly, especially with such large-scale smuggling. In the end, Shen Shukai gritted his teeth and quoted a price of 2 yuan for 10 bullets, which was twice the market price, and  He also expressed through his agent that he would no longer trade if there were no bullets. After repeated hesitation, Germany agreed to sell 300,000 rounds of 7.92mm pointed bullets at this price, which were also drawn from the Far East garrison.

    After Yang Qiu got the news, he was both happy and dumbfounded. He was happy that although Maxim was 10 less than expected, he finally got the Madsen M50, and he also made his first money after reincarnation. What he was crying about was that he was originally  I thought I could sell the submarine snorkel at a high price.It was sold at a low price. The German guy who originally thought it was worthless the design data of the French 340 mm main gun didn't even blink his eyes. However, the snorkel hesitated for a long time, and there were too few urgently needed bullets!

    If he were here, he would definitely offer 2 million US dollars first. Unfortunately, Shen Shukai didn't understand technology. He only knew that Yang Qiu said that the price would be at least 500,000. When he saw that the price of the two drawings was slightly higher, the deal was made.

    Hey, it¡¯s still the traditional thinking of giant ships and cannons!

    However, Shen Shukai is not just an ordinary person. Taking advantage of Germany's acquisition of new technology, he signed a pre-sale contract with Germany to purchase 100 M1908 75mm field rapid-fire guns produced by Krupp at a price of US$2,000 each.  Originally, Shen Shukai wanted to order some artillery shells, but Germany refused.

    After consideration, Shen Shukai agreed to the contract. According to what he said in the telegram, buy it first if the price is cheap, and you can make a lot of money when you resell it.

    Sell ??cannons, not shells!  This kind of thing is probably only possible in the Far East in the late Qing Dynasty.

    Yang Qiu looked down upon this kind of field artillery that was purely for export. Firstly, it had a slow rate of fire, and secondly, it was too heavy. His ideal artillery composition should be the "Type 92 Infantry Cannon" and the German-made 105 Krupp  Howitzers, as for the French Miss 75, which represented the highest level of artillery before World War I, he didn't even think about it. A big thing with more than a ton might be used as a field light artillery in Europe, but when it is brought to China, it is no different from trash. What's more, even if he wants to  It is impossible for France to sell 75mm field guns before the war. As for the 105, Germany is willing to sell it, but even if it takes the complete Hanyang, the logistics cannot afford it for the time being. However, whether it is for the Yangxia War or future development, he  A military transition was also needed, so we agreed to sign first, but the condition was that the first batch of 54 doors must be delivered within two months.

    As for the artillery shells, I am not afraid, because the Hanyang Gun Factory has been producing 75mm artillery shells. As long as they are modified after stabilization, they can create improved artillery shells with good power.

    Shen Shukai was a prudent person and did not send the telegram until everything was settled. Although he did not say when exactly the arms would be obtained, he said that Germany had promised to complete the transaction within ten days. According to the time calculation, it should be delivered before the Mid-Autumn Festival.  As for how to secretly transport it to Hanyang, I believe Shen Shukai, a big businessman, also has his own method. The two transactions totaled 700,000 US dollars, which is equivalent to about 1.4 million yuan domestically (except for certain foreign currencies in the book, other yuan is based on one tael of silver or an ocean).  Equivalent calculation) He also temporarily deposited in the Bank of America in the name of Yang Qiu.

    This amount of money seems scary, but now it costs about 200,000 per month to feed a town (excluding equipment), and the Hanyang Gun Factory is a bottomless pit, so I just want to wait for the situation to stabilize in the future to carry out technological innovations in Hanyang.  For Yang Qiu, money is still a big problem.

    Seeing Yang Qiu rubbing his temples, Ma Kui chuckled.  He had already learned about this from Xiao Anguo, but he didn't expect that Yang Qiu would come to tell him about the progress despite his busy schedule. He was also very happy that he believed in him so much. He heard that he had exchanged dozens of drawings for so many good things.  He also made 1.4 million, and was even more impressed.

    But soon he frowned and asked: "Brother Huzi, it's not my brother who is saying frustrating things, your Maximand that Madsen M50, no one in the new army has ever used it, you  Who can I ask for help?"

    Yang Qiu: ""

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