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    It was the coldest month of winter when I went out, and I was dripping with sweat when I came back.

    Yang Qiu already hates this kind of slow intercontinental travel. What he wants most now is to get a C47, or Aunt Ke, so at least he doesn't have to waste time in the train carriage every day.

    After returning to Nanjing, he first explained to Li Yuanhong and Tang Shaoyi the problems encountered during the visit and inspection, and then went to the Ministry of National Defense and the National Development and Reform Commission to deal with the backlog of work.  After the Western Front has temporarily come to an end, the Ministry of National Defense's work has shifted to the Eastern Front and the training of the 15 new domestic infantry divisions. The Navy continues to focus on the Anhai-class large cruiser that will return to China at the end of the year.  On the contrary, the Air Force has been transporting students to the Western Front for several months, and the number has increased from the earliest 60 to more than 500 pilots currently.  Although Yang Qiu felt that it was a pity to work so hard to train pilots to fly to the cruel skies of the Western Front, because the death rate of fighter pilots was very high these days, he gritted his teeth and agreed to the plan after officially mass-producing silk parachutes at the beginning of the year. After all, a new military branch has never  It is impossible to be born to glory without bloodshed.

    The National Development and Reform Commission has a lot of work.  Winter snowstorms caused flooding, and the Yellow and Yangtze rivers burst their banks one after another. As many as one million people were affected. A poor harvest in the first half of the year was a foregone conclusion. Therefore, Cai Gongshi is actively cooperating with the Prime Minister's Office to carry out disaster relief and post-disaster reconstruction work.  Leaving aside agriculture, other aspects continue to improve.  Driven by a 5 billion yuan loan, infrastructure construction such as steel, heavy industry, light industry, railways, electricity and communications have developed rapidly. Most of the southwest railway network started in 1912 has been completed, and it is expected that all main lines will be open to traffic by the end of 2018.  , the double line will also be opened to traffic by 2020, becoming the first completed national railway network.  The total mileage of nationwide telephone and telegraph line construction started at the beginning of last year has reached 11,000 kilometers.  Had it not been for the shortage of telephone lines in the United States caused by the European War, several domestic private telephone line factories would have been in their infancy and insufficient in production.  The numbers will probably be enlarged several times.  The economy still maintains high growth. After tobacco, leather and other industries took the opportunity to enter the European market, the light industry continued to be popular. European orders and American processing orders are still the main force. The fastest growing ones are silk and tobacco. The former was blocked due to parachute exports.  The Republic of China's monopoly made huge profits, and the latter's sudden need to supply "military supplies" to millions of troops led to a surge in exports.

    But there are also many shortcomings, especially after receiving huge loans and investing half of them in industrial and infrastructure construction, which led to a surge in steel demand.  Although the country's steel production exceeded the 500,000 tons mark last year, it is far from meeting the current annual demand of at least 3 million.  The three steel plants in Hanyang, Chongqing and Dangtu have done their best, and the Sino-French Steel Plant in Anshan in Northeast China and Changchun are both in the early stages of construction and start-up.  So after Europe, especially the United States, stopped exporting steel.  In China, there are even cases where rails have to wait half a year for the rails to be repaired on railway subgrades.

    It was already midnight after listening to the report, and before he could enjoy the feeling of farewell better than a wedding while holding Miao Luo in his arms, Han Geer, who had come from Shanghai overnight, woke him up.

    "Dear Counselor, don't you think it is very immoral to wake up a husband who has just returned home after being away for four months so early in the morning?" Yang Qiu looked at Miao Luo's charming back.  He cast a helpless look at Hangel.

    The two of them have been old friends for many years. They were accompanied by Hangel during his last visit to the United States, so they deliberately glared and said, "Who told you to call and say that you have arms? I was not treated like the same old bastard Rui Enshi."  Madam, just pull her out from under the quilt." After waking up from the tiredness of traveling all night with a cup of coffee, he returned to the topic: "Dear Vice President, do you really have arms?" American diplomats such as Reinsch and Hangel have been unlucky recently.  After Wilson declared war, they not only needed to immediately adjust their diplomatic strategies, but before they were done at home, they sent telegrams asking the world to raise arms and ammunition to arm the American volunteers that would eventually number 4 million.  Since the United States was not a major arms manufacturing country before the war, and its output was even lower than that of Italy, all the arms produced after the outbreak of the European War were exported to the Entente.  In particular, orders from Russia accounted for 60%.  Now that I am participating in the war, I find that apart from the revolvers carried by the "cowboys" themselves, there are only 300,000 rifles in the national arsenal that have not yet been delivered to Russia and a few dozen old-fashioned cannons that have long been obsolete in Europe.

    300,000 versus 4 million, the gap is really too big!

    Of course, if the United States is given two years, this amount of arms can still be easily produced. The problem is that Britain and France simply cannot wait two years, but they have reached the limit of their own arms production after supporting 35 divisions of the National Defense Force for free.

    The world¡¯s largest arms producer is undoubtedly Germany.  In three years, 6 million rifles, 200,000 machine guns and more than 40,000 cannons were manufactured.  The four major Allied arms manufacturing countries, Britain, France, Russia and Italy, produced a total of 10 million rifles of various types, 400,000 machine guns, and more than 50,000 cannons in three years. This may seem like a lot, but Russia alone has lost all the equipment of 200 divisions, which is equivalent to  The sum total of British and French support and purchases from the United States has been lost!  In addition, after the Republic of China entered the war, Britain and France supported 35 divisions with approximately 700,000 rifles, 30,000 light and heavy machine guns, and 3,000 various artillery pieces in the past year, so it is reallyNo more weapons can be found.  For this reason, the governments of Britain, France, and the United States are not allowed to send special telegrams to diplomats to search for second-hand goods around the world to replenish their income.

    Ruienshi and Hangel also thought about purchasing from the Republic of China, but they thought that they themselves might have run out of inventory after participating in the war, so they focused on Japan, but they didn't expect that Yang Qiu's call came before anyone was dispatched.

    Does Yang Qiu really have weapons in his hands?

    There really is!

    In 1914, when Europe broke out, the three factories in Hanyang, Chongqing and Zhengzhou could produce about 12,000 rifles per month, but by mid-1915 this number increased to 15,000, and after entering 1916 it had exceeded 20,000 per month.  According to the forecast of the Ministry of National Defense, once all the military manufacturing equipment moved back from Britain, France and Russia under the "Plumb Agreement" is completed, the monthly production capacity will be 40,000 by the end of 1919.  In addition, Yang Qiu deliberately used various means to delay and delivered 800,000 old guns to Russia instead of new ones. Therefore, after three years, he still had more than 300,000 rifles in his hands. In addition to the rifles, he also had 20 grenades.  Ten thousand, 100,000 Sten submachine guns.  In addition to these, there were about 200,000 rifles seized by the expeditionary force not long ago.  There are thousands of cannons and machine guns of different standards, which together are enough to meet the weapons needs of 600,000 American volunteers at one time.

    certainly.  At present, the United States is already an ally. Although asking for prices is refreshing, it can easily leave people with the feeling of taking advantage of someone's danger. Therefore, the self-made weapons are based on the current market price, and the seized ones are completely sold and given away.  But even the market price is more than twice as expensive as before the war. But now that it has announced its participation in the war, the U.S. government, which has already made a lot of money in the past three years, will not care about such a small amount of money, so the two quickly finalized the deal.  A $120 million arms contract.

    With the addition of domestic reserves, Hangel felt a lot more relaxed after acquiring the first batch of 1 million volunteers' equipment, and began to turn his attention to the endless new weapon patents in Yang Qiu's hands.  Because the United States did not expect that it would intervene in the war, it did not participate when Britain, France, and Germany were buying up the Republic of China's weapons patents before the war.  Therefore, the United States, whose army weapons and equipment are seriously backward, realizes that it must purchase a batch of patented technology imitations.  The grenade tube is simple and easy to make, and the Han-II light machine gun that imitates the ZB26 is also in demand.  The latest 25mm Hornet rapid-fire cannon, long-range cannon, Haidongqing combat

    Reconnaissance aircraft, T2 armored vehicles, mortars, etc. have all proposed to purchase manufacturing patents. Even the United States has proposed to purchase the 12.7mm Venom Fang heavy machine gun. I really don¡¯t know if Browning will cry with anger.

    ?According to the tradition of selling patents in the Republic of China.  The United States also had to purchase a batch, so the final contract total reached US$260 million!  Since Russia has paid half of the payment in the past three years, the profit from this huge contract after selling two goods is as high as 180 million U.S. dollars.

    It can be regarded as revenge for the slaughter of 4 Anhai-class ships!

    After bargaining, the two reached a sky-high contract. The contract also included the U.S. government giving 500 T2 armored vehicle chassis, 2,000 engines and 700,000 barrels of oil to the Republic of China for free in the name of supporting allies, while also paying low prices to the Republic of China government in the next two years.  5 million tons of crude steel were sold.

    When Song Ziqing and Fang Rui arrived, Hangel had already returned to Shanghai with the draft contract, waiting for final confirmation by the US government.  When he heard that all Russian order stocks had been sold to the United States, he couldn't help but worry that his judgment would be wrong.  After the war, Russia may be in great trouble if it pursues this contract.  Not only was Yang Qiu not worried, he also asked him to take out the guns and ammunition stored by the National Defense Force and complete the deal as soon as possible to avoid long nights and nightmares.

    After finishing handling the military contract, he closed the study door himself, his eyes gradually became serious, and asked: "How are the preparations for the Sunrise Project?" Fang Rui first took out a thick piece of information.  Start with a pen along the Siberian Railway Ural, and connect Yekaterinburg-Chelyabinsku-Petopavlovsk-Omsk-Tomsk-Irkutsk-Chital along the way.  In a straight line, he said: "These are the 8 strategic points that must be controlled after the plan begins! According to preliminary information, there are about 10,000 troops stationed in Yekaterinaburg and less than 3,000 troops in other places. However, Vladivostok and Khabarovsk  There are 30,000 who must guard against them.

    Previously, we had penetrated into the use of co -controlled railways. As long as the action was suddenly grasped by 90 %, we could quickly win and control the garrison.  On this route, Yekaterinburg is undoubtedly the highlight!  It has a steel smelting and processing capacity of 2 million tons. It is the second largest steel center in Russia, the largest special metallurgy and non-ferrous metal mineral center, the fourth largest weapons manufacturing and vehicle center, and the second largest train manufacturing center. According to calculations by the Ministry of Industry  , even if you don¡¯t count the following cities along the way, the value here alone is as high as about 1 billion US dollars!  If all are counted, it is about 1.5 billion US dollars, which is equivalent to 2.2 times our country¡¯s current industry!  "But" Fang Rui rarely scratched his head and turned to the last page of the information: "To transport them back safely within 5 months of winter, at least 150,000 soldiers need to be dispatched to protect and escort along the way, and at least 2,300 trains need to work continuously.  . But according to our data, there are only 11,000 trains in Russia in total, and there are only 1,372 trains from Ural to Vladivostok.If the operation goes well, we will only get more than a thousand trains at most. Our own wide-gauge modified trains only have 200 trains, leaving a gap of 1,100 trains!  ".

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