Chapter 39 Buy or not?

Zhao Dongyun has rarely analyzed what kind of person he is. If he has to position himself, then Zhao Dongyun will position himself as a rational ordinary person.

As an ordinary person, Zhao Dongyun has countless selfish desires. For example, when he sees Fang Ruolian, he wants to be by his side. For example, he wants to control more power, power, fame, money, and women are all very attractive to Zhao Dongyun, and the specific expression is that he wants to climb. In a higher position, I even thought that when I had enough foundation in the near future, I would directly rebel.

Whether this is a fantasy or not, these ideas have indeed appeared in Zhao Dongyun's mind, and even considered the possibility in detail.

However, as an ordinary person who boasts of reason, he will think about many things before acting, and will not say that he will decide a major event as soon as his head heats up. Therefore, although he has fantasized about the Northern Ocean or rebellion, reason tells him that it is far from the time to think about such things.

Now, only climbing up is the most important thing for him, and in the process of climbing up, he promotes the expansion of the North Ocean.

Zhao Dongyun is a direct officer of Beiyang. His personal interests are actually bound to the interests of Beiyang. Beiyang Rong is glorious, and Beiyang meteorite is also meteorite.

So he took great pains to persuade Yuan Shikai and others to train a machine gun force, because training a machine gun force can not only give him a promotion opportunity, but also greatly improve the combat effectiveness of the Beiyang Army.

At the same time, this is also the fundamental reason why he proposed to Yuan Shikai to build an arsenal, because having an arsenal plays a huge role for the Beiyang system, because it means that Beiyang has its own weapons, and if you want to expand its military development in the future, you don't have to worry about not buying weapons.

At the same time, more importantly, once a war breaks out between Beiyang and other forces, Beiyang can obtain a continuous supply of weapons and ammunition without worrying about the supply of weapons and ammunition being cut off.

Of course, in this process, Zhao Dongyun inevitably has his own selfish desires, because he knows that Manqing will not live for a few years, so he is also consciously preparing for the future, and this preparation is expressed as an attempt to control more voice in the Beiyang system in order to have a major change in the future. Seats.

If he can control an arsenal in his hand, he can help him gain more voice in the Beiyang system.

As for the way to make money for the family, it can only be regarded as added value, which is better than nothing, but it is not important.

However, in Zhao Dongyun's expectation, the arsenal is a long-term plan. Even if it is to start, it will not start until two or three years later. As for now, he just wants to invest a little money to study mortars and grenades first, and not to build a large-scale arsenal, but just hope I just hope to get a workshop for preliminary research.

Based on this plan, he ordered Zhao Chenbin to build a small machine factory, which is to carry out preliminary research and also be regarded as an early investment in training management and technical personnel.

And ask them to ask what the equipment for making guns is. The main reason is that he wants to know how much it will cost to build an arsenal, and see what technology can be found in today's environment. When he knows these premises, he can make a follow-up plan. Plan, such as raising funds, such as serving Yuan Shikai.

The above two points can only be regarded as Zhao Dongyun's forward-looking plan, so he didn't pay much attention to it himself. He just ordered a few words casually. However, what he didn't expect was that when Zhao Chenbin and Zhao Dongping got together, one person guessed that Zhao Dongyun won the trust of Yuan Shikai and wanted to establish a The official arsenal, while another person thinks that Zhao Dongyun is jealous of the arms business and wants to intervene in it.

However, no matter what they think, their ability to do things is far beyond Zhao Dongyun's expectations, or Zhao Dongyun far underestimates the determination of those foreign banks to make money.

After Zhao Chenbin returned to Tianjin, he went to do this matter with great fanfare. Although Zhao Chenbin is only an ordinary businessman and is not familiar with those foreign companies, there are many foreigners in Fuyuan yarn factory.

As soon as he returned to Tianjin, he found Dagger, the manager of Fuyuan Yarn Factory, and the matter was mixed together, except for asking Dagger to help introduce the foreign bank to purchase machine guns, rifles and gun-making equipment.

Although Dagger Brown is a British, he is very familiar with several senior executives of the Tianjin Branch of Dezili and Yanghang. Last year, in order to expand production and purchase equipment, Fuyuan Yarn Factory also introduced Lihe Yanghang, and successfully reached a deal to purchase a batch of tens of thousands of silver of silver machinery and equipment. Of course, Dagger also I got a lot of rebates.

This time, when Zhao Chenbin found him and asked him to introduce Yanghang to buy a batch of ordnance and gun-making equipment, his eyes lit up. The order for this batch of ordnance and machinery and equipment would cost at least 100,000 yuan. How much can he get?

Considering his familiarity with Li and Yangxing, he naturally introduced Li and Yangxing this time.

Lihe Foreign Bank is the largest German foreign bank in contemporary China. It is a Chinese businessman of German enterprises such as the Krper Artillery and Siemens. It has been doing machinery, equipment and arms business all year round.

According to reason, tens of thousands of taels, and orders of more than 100,000 yuan will not cause much shock, but in the past two years, the performance of Lihe Tianjin Branch has not been good, especially the performance of arms.

Lihe Yanghang Tianjin Branch, naturally, there is no need to say more about other businesses, only the relevant arms part, and the sales performance of this arms part can be described as extremely bleak.

The main army in northern China is actually the Beiyang Army, and in the early stage of the large number of military purchases of the Beiyang Army were mainly to purchase subsequent weapons and ammunition for the Wuwei Right Army, mainly Manly Xia's rifles and so on. However, this list has always been controlled by the British-funded Fisherman, and other foreign banks can't get involved at all.

After training the standing army this year, Yuan Shikai and other senior officials in Beiyang have a good impression of Japan's arms, because Japan's industrial progress has progressed relatively quickly in recent years. Although the level of the armored weapons it has been built is not as good as that of the old European powers, it can at least be used, and because Japan originally sought arms exports, the price concession range is relatively large. At the same time, because the wages of Japanese workers are low and close to China, the combination of many aspects makes the price of Japanese ordnance much lower than that of European products in the same period.

Specific examples, for example, the unit price of the seven-five mountain cannon purchased by Yuan Shikai from a British foreign bank is 7,000 or liang silver. However, the unit price of the seven-five mountaine of the same caliber from Japan is only about 4,000 taels of silver, with a gap of more than three or 4,000 taels. There is also a big gap in the rifle. For example, the basic unit price of the European new 1898 rifle is more than 50 or 60 taels. However, the Japanese 30-year rifle, including rifles, bayonet and so on, only takes 27 taels of silver.

Of course, if Yuan Shikai doesn't mind, the German second-hand 88 is cheaper, and you can buy one in less than 20 taels.

Of course, the reason why the above price gap is large is also related to the performance gap between them, but these performance differences have a limited impact and will not have a great impact on the combat effectiveness of the army, so it is not a big problem for Beiyang. In this case, Yuan Shikai naturally cares more on the price of ordnance. !

Based on the fact that the Japanese ordnance is cheap enough, and the small caliber of the rifle is suitable for the Chinese human body, so Yuan Shikai was inclined to purchase Japanese ordnance in the early stage of the preparation of the standing army.

Yuan Shikai wants to purchase Japanese ordnance, so naturally there is nothing wrong with foreign countries.

However, this batch of orders has not been completed, and the situation in Northeast China has begun to be tense. Japan has also begun to reserve weapons and ammunition to prevent accidents, so it does not dare to continue to accept Yuan Shikai's orders.

However, the current Beiyang military expansion operation is still continuing, so how to solve the weapons of the follow-up troops? While annoying Yuan Shikai, it also made arms dealers from all over the world try to get a piece of it.

At this time, someone suddenly came to buy a large number of machine guns and gun-making equipment. Several people in charge of Li and Yangxing suddenly jumped out like cats smelling fishy.

As the largest German foreign bank in China, Lihe Foreign Bank has handled the sales of many German-funded enterprises in China. Want a machine gun? No problem, as long as the money is given, it will be shipped to you immediately. It is guaranteed to be the latest MG01 machine gun produced by the German Weapon Company, with reliable quality and good performance.

Do you want a rifle? No problem, even the German Army has failed to complete all the new styles of Mauser 1898. I dare not say, but tens of thousands of them can still be taken out. If you think it's expensive, there are also cheap and beautiful second-hand 1888 to choose from, and you can sell as much as you want, let alone tens of thousands of them. Hundreds of thousands can be sold to you!

Do you still need equipment to make guns? Although this is not strictly an arms business, it doesn't matter. Except for Emperor William's daring to sell, there is nothing else that it doesn't dare to sell, so it is also a small matter to make guns and equipment. Take the money and immediately start shipping from Germany. How much is needed? There are not many others in Germany, but there are many machines and equipment. Very.

In a word, there are weapons, equipment gifts and foreign banks, which guarantee quality and quantity. As long as you can get real gold and silver, you can immediately deliver the goods to your door with free shipping, support cash on delivery, and return and exchange at any time within seven days, with a one-year warranty!

Zhao Chenbin was scared by the enthusiasm of Li and Yangxing. He didn't know that Li and Yangxing's people were crazy about the Beiyang Army's arms orders.

Besides, he can't decide the purchase of machine guns, rifles and other orders. In fact, he is just an introducer. The details still need to be discussed by Zhao Dongping, and then Zhao Dongyun will decide in person.

He had no decision on weapons and equipment, so he could only tell Zhao Dongping, but at that time, he remembered the equipment for making guns, so he asked a few more questions.

It's not easy to make guns. It's easy for Li and foreign countries to buy them in Germany and ship them to China. The key is whether you have money?