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Volume 2 Beijing Story Chapter 147 Thousands of Arrows Shooting Together and Thousands of Heads Advance

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    Update time: 2012-08-08

    Finalizing the first batch of U.S. dollar arms list is one thing, but given the lack of U.S. military production capacity and the fact that artillery and aircraft are procured from Britain and France, the delivery cycle for the entire list has been stretched to a long ten months.  , this is because the rifle Wang Geng chose is the m1903 Springfield instead of the m1917.

    The Sino-U.S. loan and arms purchase agreement was officially signed on April 20, 1917. According to the issuance of weapons purchase orders and the production cycle, under normal circumstances, the first batch of guns and ammunition will have to wait at least two months to arrive in China. One month takes  production and one month for shipping across the ocean.

    How could we wait two months? The day lilies were already cold. In the end, Wang Geng used his and the Morgan consortium's influence in Washington to lobby and persuade the U.S. Department of War to sweep away all existing stocks of m1903 Springfield rifle arsenals in the United States.  In the air, we collected 30,000 Springfield rifles and 50 million 7.62mm 30.06 rifle bullets and immediately shipped them by sea. They are expected to arrive at Tianjin Port by the end of May.

    The m1917bar Browning squad machine gun and the m1 Garand semi-automatic rifle have just been designed and finalized, and the U.S. Department of War has not officially announced that these two new guns will be selected as U.S. military standard rifles. Therefore, Colt Arsenal, Marlin Rockway  The three largest small arms manufacturers in the United States, Er Company and Winchester Repeating Arms Company, were unwilling to open production lines for new guns.

    This is human nature. After all, the orders for m1917 rifles issued by the Ministry of Ordnance to various arsenals have exceeded 2 million, and the production lines of various companies are already at full capacity. However, the procurement demand for m917bar squad machine guns in Sino-US loans and ordnance procurement is not enough.  It is 15,000 pieces. Although the price and profit are very good, the order value is equivalent to 100,000 m1917 rifles. It is normal for factories to refuse to transform new production lines when subsequent orders are not implemented.

    Finally, Manhattan Industrial Bank, under the operation of the Vivian and Morgan consortium, cooperated with Colt Company to build a new joint venture arsenal at a remote site in Meridian, Connecticut, mainly used to manufacture m1917bar Browning.  The squad machine gun and the M1 Garand semi-automatic rifle. Anyway, with the order from China, more than half of the factory's investment will be returned after the order is completed.

    Because Colt Arsenal and Browning themselves lacked confidence in when these two guns would be adopted by the U.S. military, 90% of the $5 million investment in the new factory in Meridian came from Manhattan Industrial Bank.  Colt mainly invests in personnel and production lines to hold 5% of the shares, while Browning and Garland each hold 2.5% of the shares using patents. The name of the arsenal is Meridian, a subsidiary of Colt Garber Arms Company.  factory.

    Manhattan Industrial Bank has a pure but brand-new arsenal in the United States. The first production line is the m1903 Springfield rifle production line dismantled from Colt Company, and the second new production line produces m1917 bar squad machine guns (although at this time  There is no concept of light machine gun yet. Americans are accustomed to calling this gun an automatic rifle, but the squad rifle is the most appropriate name given by Wang Geng to the light machine gun).

    The third production line of Meridian Arsenal is used to produce M1 Garand semi-automatic rifles, the fourth production line is used to produce M1917a1 water-cooled Browning heavy machine guns, and the fifth production line is used to produce 7.62mm 30.06 rifle ammunition.  The sixth production line is used to produce Colt pistols, including the .45-caliber Colt m1911 automatic pistol and the Colt .38-caliber revolver.

    With the support of Jack Morgan, Vivian, the partner and general manager of Manhattan Industrial Bank, has completely become the latest to rise to the top of the American fire and pharmaceutical industry. It only took Meridian Arsenal just one month.  Trial production started with preparation, installation and commissioning. After running-in and personnel training, the five production lines entered the stage of full capacity operation from the third month. Of course, this is a story later.

    A medium-sized new arsenal with only an investment of 5 million US dollars, the value of the sub-orders from the first batch of Chinese and American arms purchase lists reached 6.75 million US dollars. Such confidence made the morale of the entire arsenal extremely high, and Jack Morgan finally  Successfully got a share of the foreign arms trade, which has always been one of the exclusive preserves of the Rockefeller family.

    Going back to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs¡¯ consultation with Japan, after learning that China¡¯s consultation with the United States had finalized loans and arms purchases from the United States reaching an astonishing US$98.85 million, the Japanese minister was in the conference room with his beautiful secretary.  Wang Geng jumped up as he came over.

    "Wang Sang! You are so stupid! You let Cao Rulin, a idiot, waste your time with me, but you secretly signed such a large loan and purchase contract with Rui Enshi, as high as 98.85 million U.S. dollars! Don't forget your Gengzi compensation moratorium  It¡¯s only 380 million for ten years. That¡¯s great. In the blink of an eye, 180 million is mortgaged to the Americans. How can the Sino-Japanese loan still be 380 million? The maximum left is 200 million!¡±

    Japanese Minister Hayashi Gonsuke had been talking to Cao Rulin, the president of the Bank of Communications, based on the scale of 380 million. Now he saw that the value of the collateral had been reduced by half. This guy felt that the country¡¯sIt¡¯s hard to explain on the other end!

    "Isn't the 200 million Sino-Japanese loan a good idea? I gave all the fat and oily parts of railways, industry and mining to you, Japan, and Rui Enshi is grinning in pain over there and sucking in the air-conditioning! You got the advantage, but you still  Are you good?" Wang Geng chuckled and sat on the chair in the middle of the conference room, taking out a cigar and smelling it.

    "Your Ministry of Finance has issued a total of 380 million in war-fighting treasury bonds. Now the Americans' mortgage for arms loans has been removed by 180 million, so Japan can only borrow you 200 million at most!" Lin Gonsuke gasped!  The military department has always been worried about the fact that the Chinese participating armies used US military standard equipment.

    "Lin Sang, let me tell you, you Japanese are so stubborn. Just looking at the Boxer reparations is too short-sighted. There are only so many railways in China's 22 provinces. I dare say that as long as you Japanese dare to invest money, there will be  I dare to use it to build railways and highways. How much profit will it bring in the future? 380 million is far from enough! Why else should I ask the president of the Bank of Communications to talk to you about this?" Wang Geng asked Lin with a smile.  Quanzhu said.

    "Wang Sang, I can't believe what you said now. Your Cao Rulin actually said that you plan to build the railway to Lanzhou and Xinjiang?" Lin Quanzhu blinked and stared at Wang Geng.

    "The main line of the Middle East Road is only more than 1,480 kilometers, and the South Manchuria Railway is only more than 960 kilometers. Back then, you and Lao Maozi fought tooth and nail. Why bother? Now that China has declared war on Germany, and the sea transportation route is long and inefficient, I guess it must be  At the same time, we will build railways on land. The first step is to build the Beijing-Suiyuan Road to Suiyuan Road and get on the train. The second step is to build the railway from Suiyuan to Kulun, which is 900 kilometers, and then build the railway from Kulun to the north.  Three hundred kilometers to the Trans-Siberian Railway!¡±

    Wang Geng chuckled and said to the Japanese minister, "Lin Sang, just building such a railway will be as long as the China Eastern Railway. I will also build it from Suiyuan to Baotou. Going to Lanzhou and Xinjiang in the future is not a dream! You  Are you still worried that the investment borrowed from Japan will not return?"

    ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????That?Sun?Dapao?went?to?Shanghai?before?the?Second?Revolution.?When?he?was?preparing?for?the?railway?supervision,?the?plan?he?drawn?out?was?to?build?a?hundred?thousand?miles?of?railway!  How much am I planning to cultivate now?  Are you afraid that you will have nowhere to spend the 380 million yen you borrowed?

    However, under Wang Geng's coercion and inducement, Lin Quanzhu did not dare to be fooled. In the end, the amount of the loan to Japan was reduced to 200 million yen, and the collateral was newly issued by the Ministry of Finance.  Of course, Japan, like the United States, left a tail for the remainder of the national debt participating in the war, calling this the first batch of loans. Subsequent loans will be negotiated separately depending on progress.

    With the disastrous defeat of the French army after launching its offensive on the Western Front in April 1917, there was increasing pressure from public opinion to join the European battlefield as soon as possible after China and the United States declared war. Although the US military's war potential is huge, it can transition from a neutral and peaceful state to a war.  The situation at that time was not so smooth. In fact, the US military was short of everything from rifles and machine guns to tents and medicines.

    Wang Geng's soldiers in Nanyuan were not much better. The recruitment offices stationed in various provinces, counties and cities were busy non-stop. Every day, about a thousand strong men continued to get off the train at Fengtai Station and were led in by the seniors responsible for picking up the troops.  Nanyuan Barracks became a member of the participating armies. The number and organization of the participating armies were constantly increasing, but the arms and equipment in hand were only enough to equip a mixed brigade and a teaching regiment.

    The area around Nanyuan and both sides of the Yongding River became a place of purgatory and phoenix nirvana for the model army recruits who participated in the war. Along with tens of thousands of recruits who participated in the war, there were nearly 100,000 local civilians fighting on both sides of the Yongding River. More than half of the flood control budget of the Department of Civil Affairs of the Ministry of Interior was that year.  Wang Geng directly asked Lu Ding's Ministry of Finance to transfer it to the logistics account of his combat headquarters.

    As a soldier, there is no small matter. Whatever happens in and around the participating army¡¯s station is a major national event!  Wang Geng, the War Supervisor who participated in the war, had a temporary job on his shoulders. He was the Yongding River Flood Control Supervisor of the Ministry of Internal Affairs!
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