Such a big thing happened in Fengtian, and Lao Yuan got the report immediately. He was worried about the war in the southwest. Although the Yunnan army was not weak in combat effectiveness, its financial resources were limited. No matter what Lao Yuan calculated, he could definitely win, but
In fact, this is not the case. The Yunnan army advanced with great success and Beiyang suffered defeats one after another, which made the newly minted Emperor Hong Xian's hair turn gray with worry.
The house was leaking but it rained all night, the ship was broken and there was a headwind, the southwest was raging with war, and there was another problem in the northeast. Yuan Shikai even felt a sense of powerlessness in his heart. Faced with the crisis, he could only call all his advisers over and let him
Let's discuss it.
"Your Majesty, I believe that two people are to blame for what happened in Fengtian. Feng Delin had no regard for the king's laws and openly made trouble with his salary. Then he led his men to attack the commander's mansion, which almost caused a catastrophe and must be severely punished. Duan Zhigui was cowardly and incompetent. As a patrol envoy, he failed.
There is no way to restrain his subordinates, and leaving the three eastern provinces to him will only be a bad thing. I suggest that your Majesty grant his resignation and let him return to Beijing as soon as possible."
It was Zhang Zhenfang who made an impassioned speech in front of Lao Yuan. After all, he was Yuan Shikai's cousin and one of the cadres who supported the imperial system. He was very jealous of Duan Zhigui, and he also worked for Lao Yuan. Duan Zhigui became a feudal official, and his subordinates
He held great power, but he gained nothing, so Zhang Zhenfang was willing to take advantage of this opportunity to pull Duan Zhigui down.
"Your Majesty, Duan Zhigui and Feng Delin are certainly at fault, but after both of them are dealt with, who can contain Zhang Zuolin? Are we just going to watch this bandit leader grow up in Fengtian? You must know that Fengtian is far away from Beijing and is closer than Yunnan.
There are too many, and the threat is greater."
"Mr. Liang, you are biased against Zhang Zuolin!" Zhang Zhenfang said with a smile: "Zhang Yuting has the ability and strength. Who else can hold Fengtian except him? Even if he is not given the position of patrol envoy, he still needs more
Give Zhang Zuolin a little reward so that he can know His Majesty's great kindness and let him work more diligently."
Considering his qualifications and prestige, Zhang Zuolin is not qualified to directly take over as the patrol envoy of the three northeastern provinces. However, anyone with a discerning eye knows that the purpose of letting Duan Zhigui serve as the patrol envoy of the three northeastern provinces is to control Zhang Zuolin. This rope will not be used for long before he has to take it.
After coming down, Lao Yuan still felt very unhappy.
But Duan Zhigui, a loser, couldn't control the situation at all, turning a good move into a dead move. Not only could the patrol envoy not be able to restrain Zhang Zuolin, he couldn't even restrain Feng Delin, which turned him into a joke. Lao Yuan also had no regard for this godson.
I have seen through it all, this guy is loyal and filial, but he is incompetent!
"Your Majesty, I think there is something strange about Fengtian." Yang Du, who has always regarded himself as the emperor's teacher, said: "Feng Delin is stationed in the Guangyuan and Beizhen areas. Without Zhang Zuolin's acquiescence, it is impossible for him to lead his troops to Fengtian. Therefore,
In this incident, Zhang Zuolin is definitely not as clean as he seems. He was probably involved, and he was probably the one who directed it. It is really too dangerous to let such a person dominate Fengtian."
After Yang Du finished speaking, Lao Yuan remained silent. In fact, he had been wondering what role Zhang Zuolin played and whether he was as innocent as he appeared. It was not reliable to hand Fengtian completely to him, and Lao Yuan was not sure at all.
"Xizi, everything must be based on evidence. Just relying on imagination is not enough. The situation in Fengtian is very chaotic, and there are Japanese people involved. Does Zhang Zuolin have the ability to control everything? In my opinion, it is mainly an accident.
Yang Shiqi also said: "Your Majesty, the situation in the southwest is corrupt, and there can be no more problems in the northeast. Now you have to use Zhang Zuolin even if you believe it, and you have to use it even if you don't believe it. Apart from him, no one can stabilize Fengtian!"
When Yang Shiqi said this, he did not continue, but the underlying line was already very clear. If chaos breaks out in the Northeast, I am afraid that the emperor Lao Yuan will be completely finished.
Yuan Shikai frowned. Yang Shiqi was right. Now is no longer the time to do whatever you think. This is when you can't help yourself. Old Yuan couldn't help but look at Yang Du meaningfully. He was the one who told him in the first place. , once you become the emperor, you will be able to act decisively and revitalize the country.
As a result, the facts shattered Lao Yuan's dreams. He decided to proclaim himself emperor. Not only did his prestige not improve, but Yunnan rebelled and Beiyang fell apart even more. A sense of powerlessness came to Lao Yuan's heart.
"Let Zhigui come back first. Zhang Zuolin will supervise Fengtian and supervise the suppression of bandits in the three eastern provinces. If he does well, he will be promoted at an appropriate opportunity!" At this time, Lao Yuan finally chose to compromise and handed over Fengtian. The hero was late, There is always too much helplessness!
"Seventh Uncle, you try this bullet." On the shooting range, Lao Zhang Zheng, Sun Liechen, Zhang Zuoxiang and others were planning the target shooting.
Zhang Tinglan handed a golden bullet to Lao Zhang. Although Lao Zhang has been in a high position for a long time, his marksmanship has not fallen behind at all. He loaded the bullets in quantity and gently pulled the trigger. The water rifle made a crisp sound and hit the target. A target eighty meters away.
Sun Liechen and Zhang Zuoxiang couldn't help but cheer. Suddenly a light flashed in Lao Zhang's eyes, "Tinglan, give me a few more bullets to try."
Zhang Tinglan handed over five more rounds. After Lao Zhang pretended, he fired them all and called Sun Liechen and Zhang Zuoxiang.
"Fuchen, you all should try it, this bullet feels very different!" Zhang Zuoxiang and Sun Liechen also fired several bullets in succession, but Sun Liechen fired the third round when a stinky round appeared, which immediately disappointed him. After they finished shooting, they got together again.
"Tinglan, these bullets have less momentum than the previous bullets and are less heavy on the body. Couldn't this be caused by ourselves?"
Zhang Tinglan smiled and nodded: "It is the first batch of finished products we have produced. The bullet production line has been installed at the ammunition factory outside the city. Chen Qiming is in charge there. The production line is already running and we have a continuous supply of energy. It’s time to produce bullets!”
Speaking of this, Zhang Tinglan also felt a little proud. Although he took a lot of risks for this production line, since the bullets were produced, Zhang Tinglan felt that everything was worth it. Arms are the lifeblood of a warlord, but most of them in China Even warlords cannot produce their own weapons.
As a result, they have to import from foreign countries, which is tantamount to handing over their lifeblood to others. Zhang Tinglan will never allow this situation, so he has been thinking of ways to achieve self-sufficiency in weapons.
Now we have finally taken a gratifying step. Fengtian can produce its own bullets. The next step is rifles and cannons. Then there are tanks and aircraft. When these can be produced by themselves, will the mighty Fengtian army still be afraid of those little Japanese?
Zhang Tinglan said with a smile: "Although the water rifle is good, it is designed for the Russians. They are all tall and strong and can withstand it. Our physical fitness is much worse than that of the Russians. If we use Russian bullets, It’s very taxing on the body, so the amount of medicine is reduced by 20%.”
"Reducing the charge will not reduce the range?" Sun Liechen had some doubts. It would be good to have less recoil, but at the expense of the performance of the gun, the gain would outweigh the loss.
"It will indeed decrease. But there is not much difference within the effective range, and our soldiers can only guarantee accuracy within a few dozen meters. At most, it can't be a hundred meters. If it is too far, it will be impossible to shoot accurately. Of course, there are special needs,
It can also be used with the original bullets."
After Zhang Tinglan summarized his experience last time, the independent brigade began to organize a sniper unit, and now it has some ideas. However, Zhang Tinglan is very dissatisfied. The main reason is that the sharpshooters selected from the army are not that accurate.
The best ones are around 100 meters, and only a few can reach 120 to 30 meters. This is already rare.
But Zhang Tinglan knew that compared with Japanese soldiers at the same time, Fengjun's so-called sharpshooters were almost the same as ordinary Japanese soldiers. The Japanese were very strict in training. They could still guarantee a certain accuracy above 200 meters. As for sniping
The hands are even more powerful.
If the two armies shoot at each other, Fengjun will never gain any advantage. On the contrary, he will become the opponent's prey. No matter how much he despises Japan strategically, he has to pay attention to the Japanese at the tactical level. This island country does have some disadvantages.
The unexpected things, especially the spirit of trying to get things right, are even more powerful.
"Good soldiers are fed by bullets. The shooting level of our soldiers is low. It's not that they don't work hard. The biggest reason is the lack of sufficient training. Now that we can produce bullets ourselves, we don't have to worry about consumption, and we can improve the training level."
Come up and strive to make every soldier a sharpshooter." Zhang Tinglan said excitedly.
Zhang Zuolin couldn't help but nodded. Even though Fengjun was guarding the Middle East Road and had plenty of ammunition, Lao Zhang knew that the European War would not go on forever and would end sooner or later. What would Fengjun be pointing at at that time?
If we continue to rely on foreigners to buy, on the one hand, the price will be too high, and on the other hand, it will be accompanied by various privileges, which is unacceptable to Lao Zhang. Zhang Zuolin is a person with strong learning ability. During this period, Zhang Tinglan continued to toss and turn.
Japan and Russia were stirred up, and the United States and Britain also sent representatives to Fengtian.
Lao Zhang gradually saw the faces of the foreigners clearly. These foreign devils are all unprofitable and greedy. When cooperating with them, you have to keep a secret. Be careful of being bought by them. Fengjun's lifeline is
It cannot be left in their hands.
Therefore, Lao Zhang was very satisfied with being able to produce bullets, and immediately decided to take Zhang Tinglan, Sun Liechen and Zhang Zuoxiang to the ammunition factory outside the city to see the bullet production situation in person.
The chief of ammunition was separated from Fengtian Arsenal, and the main body stayed in Fengtian to produce parts such as gun stocks and magazines. Chen Qiming led more than 20 workers to choose a hidden manor outside Dongcheng as an ammunition factory.
's workshop.
Chen Qiming did not expect that Zhang Tinglan would prepare a bullet production line here. He was also surprised. However, Chen Qiming was very smart and did not ask any questions. Zhang Tinglan had already said that no matter whether it was stealing or robbing, he would get production equipment. This production line
This was probably how he came, so he was arranged to go outside the city.
Chen Qiming not only has no objection to this kind of behavior, but also appreciates it very much. If all Chinese politicians could do whatever it takes to make the country strong, China would have become stronger long ago. For them, hard work is everything.
Zhang Zuolin, Zhang Tinglan and others came to this secret production workshop, where the workers were working nervously.
"Commander, there are a lot of explosives here, it's very dangerous."
"It's not like I've never been to a battlefield with real swords and guns, so I still care about this. Can you tell me about the bullet production situation?"
"Commander, we can currently produce 10,000 bullets per day. If the raw materials are sufficient and the workers are more skilled, the quantity will be even greater. There are only two problems. One is that our costs are more than 20% more expensive than foreigners, and
The defective rate is relatively high." Having said this, Chen Qiming's face also turned a little red.
Sun Liechen's eyes immediately widened when he heard this. He had just encountered a bad guy. He thought he was unlucky. It turned out that the defective rate was too high.
"Commander, if our costs are so much higher than those of foreigners, why should we produce them ourselves? We can just buy them. Moreover, the quality of foreigners' bullets is better than ours. Isn't this a loss-making business?"
"General Sun, as long as you give us enough time, we will be able to keep the costs down."
Sun Liechen still shook his head: "Yuting, there are millions of rounds of ammunition a year, which is hundreds of thousands of yuan. It's really better for us to buy them from foreigners. It's not worth the fear and getting some defective products!"
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