In Wang Chenhao's plan, controlling the national military industry was his second goal. Including the Tianjin Machinery Bureau and the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau into the Beiyang Ordnance Industry Group was the first step to control the national military industry.

For this purpose, Wang Chenhao established the Beiyang Ordnance Industry Group, referred to as Beiyang Weapons for short. Wang Chenhao spent 500,000 taels of silver to contract the Tianjin Machinery Bureau, with a contract period of 10 years, making it the Beiyang Weapons Tianjin Branch.

The newly established Beiyang Weapons Tianjin Branch will conduct its second major expansion since 1888. Wang Chenhao has backed the Bank of America and has no problems with the funds, which gives him greater confidence in expansion.

First, the scale was expanded based on the Tianjin Machinery Bureau, and the area occupied by the area increased from 3,000 acres to 4,000 acres; 2,330 employees increased to 5,200, of which 3,500 technical workers and 120 middle and senior engineers, with German engineers as the main body, accounting for four-fifths. The previous chaos of more than a dozen national engineers in the Tianjin Machinery Bureau was the chaotic situation where more than a dozen nationalities of the Tianjin Machinery Bureau were in charge of their own affairs and fighting each other. Wang Chenhao knew that the conflict between China and Germany was the smallest in the short term, so he boldly adopted German engineers and technical workers as supervisors, while Chinese technicians with insufficient skills were the deputy, and hundreds of domestic technical workers with good foundation were selected as apprentices to learn technology and management experience with the Germans so that they could be competent in the future.

Regarding the original Wanguo brand production line and production equipment of Tianjin Machinery Bureau, Wang Chenhao believed that this was a typical phenomenon of eating too much and not chewing it. Instead of being free from everything, it was better to be specialized. Therefore, Wang Chenhao and German Minister Sengko reached an agreement to introduce a complete set of German weapons production equipment, production technology and management regulations to build the former Tianjin Machinery Bureau into a full-scale German weapons production base to support the weapons supply of the new army in the eight towns of Beiyang.

The production lines of many factories of Tianjin Machinery Bureau are very old. Under the influence of the European and American technological explosion, technology updates cannot keep up with the pace of the world. Therefore, Wang Chenhao closed some factories and production lines, and instead only produced various weapons and equipment that were in line with the new army of the Eight Towns of Beiyang.

Finally, after discussing with Wang Shizhen and Hannagan, Wang Chenhao finally made a detailed plan. Beiyang weapons will mainly produce army weapons and equipment, and plan to produce 30,000 Mauser Type 95 rifles, 792 Mauser rifle bullets, 72 Krupp 80 infantry guns, 36 Krupp 105 howitzers, 36 Krupp 150 heavy howitzers, 36 three caliber shells, a total of 150,000 rounds, and 100 smokeless gunpowder.

Ten thousand kilograms. Considering that the original Tianjin Machinery Bureau had to supply the Huai Army weapons stationed all over the country every year, the original black medicine factory, copper cap factory, li medicine factory, and cotton medicine factory were not closed. The black medicine factory maintained an annual output of 300,000 kilograms, and the maroon gunpowder increased to 200,000 kilograms, because it is an excellent launching medicine for giant fortress guns, so it is mainly used for defensive fortress guns in Lushun Fortress and Weihaiwei Base.

Wang Chenhao, the two small steel furnaces, did not close, but as long as the steel furnace of Zhili Steel Company came out of the steel furnace, the two small steel furnaces would definitely be closed.

Wang Chenhao eliminated redundant personnel and added production lines and production technicians, so that the production scale will definitely be increased. However, Wang Chenhao hopes to further improve production efficiency. For example, an annual production of 30,000 Mauser rifles cannot meet the Beiyang Army. If a war breaks out, the huge consumption of ordnance will be even more unsatisfied. The current state is that the Tianjin Branch of Beiyang Weapons will produce weapons as much as possible, and the weapon gap of the Beiyang Army is provided by Mauser Company and Krupp Company. According to Wang Chenhao's training pace, the Beiyang Army will have to purchase equipment from the new army in the three towns by the end of next year.

Wang Chenhao hopes to reduce the degree of dependence on external purchases as much as possible, so it is recommended to implement efficient assembly line operation methods in Beiyang weapons, which will reduce the learning pressure of domestic technicians, and can understand German technology as soon as possible and improve production efficiency.

In Wang Chenhao's plan, the Tianjin Branch of Beiyang Weapons mainly focuses on the production of modern army equipment, temporarily mainly production of all German equipment, and then produces and develops new army equipment that meets its own requirements and standards in accordance with the development of the Beiyang Army. This requires scientific research institutions.

The original Tianjin Machinery Bureau had a weapon research and development institution called the Imitation Bureau. The people inside were specially cracked for foreign weapons and equipment. The Imitation Bureau was chaired by Xu Shou's son Xu Jianyin, and there were 35 craftsmen. The craftsmen here were equivalent to weapons experts from the Qing Dynasty, but they mainly focused on imitating foreign weapons and equipment. They developed weapons by themselves, with no funds, and limited capabilities, and no advanced technology from European and American countries.

However, this did not stop Wang Chenhao from setting up a weapon research and development laboratory. So Wang Chenhao called Xu Jianyin and ordered him to invite and hire experts and scholars in weapons at home and abroad, and at the same time set up the Beiyang Weapons and Equipment Science Laboratory with Xu Jianyin as the dean, adding the fourth-rank alternative. The funds related to the weapon laboratory were allocated by Wang Chenhao.

Xu Jianyin was very happy and patted his chest to ensure that the weapon laboratory would be run well. Xu Jianyin's father Xu Shou was the best scientist in the late Qing Dynasty and had a wide network of friends and relationships between home and abroad. According to Wang Chenhao's request, Xu Jianyin wrote letters to invite his father's friends and his friends to join. Wang Chenhao was not idle either. He used his identity to send telegrams to the embassies of the Qing Empire in various countries, and asked foreign ministers such as Britain, France, the United States and Germany to help invite and hire well-known foreign scientists, professors and scholars to China.

Wang Chenhao's vision is very far-reaching, not only limited to scientific and technological talents in weapons and equipment. Therefore, he did not impose category restrictions on the scientists invited and hired by the embassies abroad. Talents from all aspects will be given high-standard treatment as long as they are willing to come to China to develop.

At this time, Europe and the United States were in the era of science and technology explosion. A large number of scientists and technical workers were interested in invention and creation and improvement of existing machinery and equipment, especially a large number of people who made a living by invention and creation. However, there were many monks and few porridges. The more people participated, the more fierce the competition. Many talented people could not get sponsorship funds, and many scientific and technological inventions were forced to die.

The ministers and staff of the Qing Empire embassy abroad knew that Wang Chenhao had a special identity, and he gave priority to what Wang Chenhao asked them to do. Because Wang Chenhao was well-funded and offered generous conditions, many talented people who were not well-off but had no financial support turned their attention to China and agreed to Wang Chenhao's conditions to join the Beiyang Military Science Laboratory.

For a time, talents from Europe and the United States, arranged by the staff of the Qing Empire's embassy and consulates abroad, boarded the ships to Tianjin. The list was sent back to Tianjin in advance by telegram. Wang Chenhao took a look and saw no name he knew, so he asked Xu Jianyin to be responsible for the reception arrangements, and he had more important things to deal with.

From rectifying the redundant personnel who were in charge of the corpse and introducing technical talents on a large scale, Wang Chenhao's transformation of the Tianjin Machinery Bureau was completed. Li Hongzhang praised him greatly. One of them sang red and the other sang black, which actually brought the Tianjin Machinery Bureau back to life. Although his name was changed to Beiyang weapons and became Wang Chenhao's private property, Li Hongzhang knew that his own health was getting worse and worse, and Wang Chenhao's performance satisfied him. Therefore, for Wang Chenhao's almost open practice of cultivating personal power and digging the corners of Beiyang, Li Hongzhang just turned a blind eye to Wang Chenhao's approach of cultivating personal power and digging the corners of Beiyang. It is most appropriate to describe Li Hongzhang's mood by using birds of a feather flock to describe Li Hongzhang's mood, because he saw from Wang Chenhao that he was the one he was when he started.
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