Three hundred and ninetieth eight chapters strong pill
Zhang Tinglan played the card of the Russian majority party. On the one hand, he wanted to win more support from the great powers. On the other hand, from his heart, Zhang Tinglan also even restricted the necessity of Russia's development. The security of China's northern frontier depends on this, so it must be invested.
Maximum energy.
As the saying goes, to forge iron, you must be strong yourself. The most important thing to pay attention to now is the production capacity of the arsenal. The intensity of the war with Russia is bound to far exceed that of the domestic war. Under the leadership of the majority party, the Russian army is still quite capable of fighting.
With the strength of the three eastern provinces, Fengjun's advantage is not obvious, and it has to keep up in terms of arms supply.
Therefore, after the Air Force officially announced its establishment, Zhang Tinglan couldn't wait to come to Fengtian Arsenal. Tao Jiping, who was in charge of the factory, warmly received Zhang Tinglan.
"I'd like to say that I usually can't find you when I try to find you, but now you finally show up and you have to help our Fengtian Arsenal solve our difficulties!"
"Director Tao, I thought you would report good news but not bad news. Why do you want to help me as soon as we meet?"
Tao Jiping also said with a smile: "There is no need to talk nonsense about He Zhuoyan. Originally, Fengtian Arsenal was the leader in the three eastern provinces. As a result, Jilin Arsenal came from behind. In addition, Harbin Arsenal is also being established. I heard that many elite soldiers have gathered together.
Mr. Kuang Jingyang personally helped the strong generals and brought a large number of talents from Guan Nei. Now, after all calculations, Fengtian Arsenal is the weakest. If it continues to develop like this, it will be completely at the bottom. I am worried. "
Zhang Tinglan also nodded. It is true. There has not been enough attention to Fengtian Arsenal in recent years. In addition to initially helping Fengtian Arsenal reach a cooperation agreement with the United States and allocating part of the production of parts, more than 80% of any good machines obtained in the future will be placed in Jilin.
, and now that the focus is on Harbin, this original big brother will inevitably be left out in the cold.
He said slightly apologetically: "Director Tao, we originally focused our development on Jilin and Harbin in order to avoid the Japanese. After all, under their noses, we are producing large quantities of munitions and developing weapons. It is inevitable that we will be
They know our secrets. Once a war breaks out, the arsenal will be in extreme danger, so the investment focus must be selective."
As the person in charge of the arsenal, Tao Jiping is also very aware of Fengjun's precautions against the Japanese. Take the current Fengtian arsenal as an example, there are also some Japanese shares, and Japanese technicians also work in the factory, but both sides are wary of each other. Japan
People are afraid that the Chinese will lose their skills. Fengtian is also worried that the Japanese will pry into the secrets of military production.
After cooperating with the Americans, Tao Jiping used his connections to hire a group of technicians from the Allied Powers. There were Americans, British, and French. In addition to the group of Russian technicians he had obtained, Fengtian Arsenal was basically
It became an Eight-Nation Alliance.
"My humble opinion, of course I understand the considerations of you and the Marshal. But after all, Fengtian is the center of the three eastern provinces and has a good industrial foundation. It is a pity that it is not focused on development."
"What Director Tao said is absolutely correct. Fengtian Arsenal will definitely have great development in the future. Our strength is enough!" Zhang Tinglan said this with a meaningful smile.
What does strength mean? To put it simply, Fengjun's air force has begun to form. Originally, the South Manchuria Railway was like a knife, pressed against Fengjun's heart. Fengjun felt like it was stuck in his throat, so he had to avoid it.
Open up your edge.
But now that Fengjun has air power, it still has some advantages over Japan. The long railway to Manchuria is no longer a problem. Fengjun can use air power to quickly cut off the railway at any time. In this way, the Japanese garrison has become a turtle in the urn.
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With this trump card in hand, Zhang Tinglan is ready to develop the Fengtian Arsenal. Another important point is that Zhan Tianyou has surveyed the Jilin-Fengtian Railway line not long ago, and now everyone in Fengtian is making intense preparations.
If the railway is built, the Fengjun army can bypass Japanese control and connect major cities such as Harbin, Changchun, Jilin, and Fengtian. The situation in the entire three eastern provinces will be greatly changed. With the development of transportation, it will be easier to mobilize supplies.
It's become much easier.
The weapons produced in Fengtian can be directly transported to Jihei to deal with the threat from Russia. Fengtian is also the front line against Japan and has huge production capacity, which is very necessary.
As soon as Tao Jiping heard Zhang Tinglan say that he would vigorously develop the Fengtian Arsenal, his eyes suddenly widened: "Is that what you said is true?"
"Of course, how can you joke about this kind of thing? Director Tao, according to my plan, the arsenals in Jilin and Harbin should have their own focus, and the Fengtian arsenal is positioned as the largest basic comprehensive arsenal. With this positioning
, do you think I can not invest?”
In fact, according to Zhang Tinglan's idea, Jilin and Harbin should develop something with high technical level and difficulty. For example, Jilin Arsenal should produce large-caliber heavy artillery, while Harbin would be best developed into a tank factory to produce armored vehicles.
And Fengtian, just like the three positions given by Zhang Tinglan, must be large-scale, high-capacity, and mainly produce conventional equipment. That is, rifles, pistols, machine guns, bullets, artillery shells, small and medium-caliber artillery, mortars, machine guns, and explosives
etc.
"Director Tao, how many things can the Fengtian Arsenal produce now?"
"It's embarrassing to say that Fengtian Arsenal can only produce 500,000 rounds of bullets, 300 rifles, 20 tons of black powder, and 5,000 grenades a month. The rest are parts."
"This quantity is indeed not much, Director Tao. Even if the bullet production is increased ten times, it is not much. The threat from Russia is becoming more and more urgent. Fengjun's production capacity must keep up. I am ready to readjust the respective tasks of the arsenal. Fengtian Arsenal
Mainly responsible for the production of rifles, bullets, mortars, 76mm mountain cannon, grenades, gunpowder, etc. Within one year, three more bullet production lines will be added, the monthly output will be increased to three million rounds, and the monthly rifle output will be
Three thousand guns, forty 82mm mortars, five 76mm mountain guns, 50,000 grenades, one hundred tons of black powder, in addition to the production of smokeless gunpowder, and trial production of light and heavy machine guns!"
Every time Zhang Tinglan said something, Tao Jiping on the side couldn't help but take a breath of air. Zhang Tinglan directly increased the output five to ten times. It was simply too appalling. It would be best if it could be done, but Tao Jiping always felt that there was something amiss.
Not reliable.
Perhaps the happiness came too suddenly and he was still a little uncomfortable with it, so he asked tentatively: "Zhu Yan, are you kidding me?"
"Of course not. In the future, Fengjun will focus on the north to deal with the Russian threat. This weapon may not be enough. It is best to significantly increase production capacity. The more, the better. We are here to
The army has to consume it and sell it to the Russians, so no amount of it is enough."
Zhang Tinglan will definitely intervene in the Russian civil war, whether to send troops directly or support puppets. Zhang Tinglan has not made up his mind yet, but one thing is certain, that is, Zhang Tinglan will definitely sell a large amount of weapons to the White Army, and let the Russians kill the Russians no matter when.
, these are the best choices.
Moreover, Fengjun's weapons and equipment are basically the same as those of Russia. The White Army will definitely favor them very much. They will use the Russian civil war to expand Fengjun's arms industry and have the capital to become self-reliant.
Tao Jiping had been completely attracted by the blueprint drawn by Zhang Tinglan, and couldn't help but gulped: "I'd like to say, to expand production capacity, you can't just talk about it. It requires enough machines and a large number of workers. Do you have any?"
What are the specific methods?”
Zhang Tinglan smiled and nodded: "Listen to me and tell you slowly, now is the best opportunity!"
Tao Jiping also listened to see what Zhang Tinglan had to say. It turned out that during World War I, the Tsarist Russian government, which had backward industrial capabilities and insufficient production capacity, ordered a total of 3.3 million cigarettes from two American companies, Remington and New England Westinghouse.
m1891 Mosin Nagan rifle and a large amount of ammunition. At the peak of production, Remington produced 5,000 rifles per day, while Westinghouse set a monthly production record of 160,000.
Although the two companies combined produced millions of rifles, only 350,000 were actually delivered to Russia. After the Russian February Revolution in 1917, the Russian Provisional Government announced the suspension of the contract, which caused Remington and Westinghouse to immediately
into an economic crisis.
In order to save these two companies, the U.S. government bought all the rifles at a price of 30 US dollars each, and also requested the production of an additional 800,000 rifles. Later, these guns were lost to the private sector, and some were sold to other countries. Of course, more
were sent to Russia and handed over to the White Army to intervene in the Russian Civil War.
In addition, this batch of weapons once fell into the hands of the Feng Army. When the US military left Vladivostok, they handed over the rifles in the warehouse to the Japanese army who were still stranded here at the time, and asked them to wait until the Russian army arrived.
They were destroyed before, but the Japanese sold those guns to Zhang Zuolin at a low price.
Not many people know this historical secret. Ever since Zhang Tinglan started smuggling arms on the Middle East Road, he has become aware of the situation of the United States providing arms and weapons to Russia, and naturally also knows the situation of these two factories.
There is no doubt that two factories in the United States are in trouble now, and the U.S. government does not know how to deal with this burden. Moreover, the Americans have taken the initiative to approach Fengtian, hoping to use Fengtian's power to fight against the Russian majority party.
Since the Americans are sincere, Zhang Tinglan will help the United States solve this problem and get the Americans to agree to transfer the production line to Fengtian. In this way, China's military production capacity will definitely expand rapidly like taking a powerful pill.
Of course, Fengjun cannot have as strong organizational capabilities as Americans, but being able to produce 100,000 rods a year is definitely an astonishing figure.
When Tao Jiping heard Zhang Tinglan's introduction, he was completely jealous. He held everything tightly. After Zhang Tinglan finished speaking, he slammed the table: "Immodestly, you must find a way to get these machines."
Coming from heaven, no matter how difficult it is!" (To be continued...)