Breaking through Guandong, I became Zhu Chuanwen

Chapter 405 Complex

Does Zhu Chuanwen have no brains?To a certain extent, all the directors of Hanyao are his think tanks. Solving difficulties and creating opportunities are what these directors have to do...

"Zhao Dong, go! Find Gong Yaodao, this meeting cannot be included in Han Yao's files." Zhu Chuanwen implying that Han Yao's meeting can only be included in the hunter department's files in the form of a memorandum.

Because in this meeting, Zhu Chuanwen will put forward a brand new concept to deal with the future development of Hanyao.

Hearing this, Zhao Dong hurriedly closed his notebook. He sat down after distributing the plague prevention documents to all the directors. Recording and forming documents was an important task for him as Zhu Chuanwen's secretary.

But right now, what Zhu Chuanwen means is that the matter of the plague will not be discussed again. Li Weiren, a doctor of medicine from Harvard University, is already in charge. Professionals will do professional things. resolved at the meeting.This matter will be included in the confidential documents of the Hunter Department, and will not be recorded in the Hanyao system.

This is not considered to be taking off your pants and farting. In comparison, the manpower and material resources invested by hunters in the prevention of confidential documents are far more than that of Hanyao headquarters.

Of course, this is also the first time that Hanyao has such a confidential meeting. This meeting will once again clarify the future development direction of Hanyao Gun Factory.

Zhu Chuanwen believes that the time has come. With the establishment of Hanyao Bank, the light and heavy industries that Hanyao participates in, as well as the future of Hanyao Commercial Bank, will provide favorable support for the development of Hanyao Gun Factory.

As we all know, the United States was known as the world's ammunition depot during World War I and World War II, and there were five major military-industrial complexes with far-reaching influence: Lockheed Martin's fighter jets; Boeing's bombers and transport planes; Grumman's warships; Raytheon's radars and missiles; General Dynamics' submarines, military vehicles, etc., are all the supporting industries that the United States will lead in the military in the future.

And Hanyao Gun Factory has to work hard in this direction...

Zhu Chuanwen is not an anti-pacifist. That is something that the weak should consider. The Buddha once said that if I don’t go to hell, whoever goes to hell will go to hell.

In the future, there will be a series of sufferings on this land. As a weak person, we should work hard. It is okay to hide a sword in a sheath, but you cannot turn a sword into a plow.

"Teacher!" Gong Yaodao knocked on the door of the meeting room, looked at the smog in the room, and greeted Zhu Chuanwen directly.

The hunter is a sharp sword held by Zhu Chuanwen.

"Yaodao, this meeting will be recorded by you to form a memorandum. Afterwards, a special person will be sent to issue it to several directors. After reading it, bring the document back and destroy it in a centralized manner."

Gong Yaodao nodded solemnly, and then Zhu Chuanwen said to all the directors of Han Yao except Gu Ansheng: "Everyone, listen clearly, this meeting can no longer be recorded in writing!"

"Understood, Prime Minister!"

"That's good, Yaodao let your subordinates curb this conference room." Zhu Chuanwen ordered, and then continued to discuss with a group of consuls.

"Old Nie, you have a very heavy task in the future. Now Hanyao's European laboratory and American laboratory have been established through Paris' Chuanwu and American Chuanjie. Didn't you say that I was partial and didn't consider you The Gun Research Institute?" Zhu Chuanwen narrowed his eyes slightly, as if teasing.

It is true that before, the Institute of Mechanical Engineering, the Institute of Chemistry, and the Institute of Metallurgy all had lists for training in the United States, but only the Gunnery Institute did not have a place. Is this Zhu Chuanwen's self-styled way?No, but things like guns are too sensitive.

"Don't dare, Prime Minister!" Nie Shi hurriedly stood up.

"It's nothing to be afraid of, but the burden on your shoulders will be even heavier in the future. Your gun research institute needs to break down future research projects, disguise them as civilians, and outsource them to two foreign laboratories. When necessary, the hunter department will intervene." Zhu Chuanwen hit Nie Shize first, and this matter really needs to be taken seriously.

At least before World War I, it could not be discovered by the intelligence agencies of various countries.

"President, so our follow-up research project has started?" Nie Shize's whole face showed enthusiasm.

What are the next projects?It is in the safe of the gun research institute's most confidential design room, where there are many weapon design ideas...

"Well, let's get started. Hanyao's weapon development can't stop! Now we have finalized the drafts of light and heavy machine guns and rifles, and we will start vigorous production in the future.

This Nanyang Quanye will give us a chance to make a name for ourselves. We will produce at full capacity in the future, and even need to expand the scale when necessary. But so many weapons have been produced, who do we sell them to?I'd love to hear your opinion on this! "Zhu Chuanwen looked around at the board members of Hanyao.

Although Zhu Chuanwen had already made up his mind, he had to twist his subordinates into a single rope first, and sure enough, different voices appeared.

"President, can we use these weapons well?" Zhu Chunshan asked in surprise.

"Uncle Chunshan, it seems that you still don't know the current scale of Bingcheng Gun Factory and Xiaoqingshan Gun Factory." Zhu Chuanwen said, looking at Nie Shize.

Nie Shi understood in seconds, "Director Chunshan, let me introduce to you the current output of the gun factory under Hanyao. Judging from the development of the two gun factories under Hanyao, the proficiency of the workers Already fully run-in.

After Hanyao’s standardized construction and electrification reform, the three-year completion goal originally set by the general manager has been completed: from the situation I reported to the general manager last month, the firearms branch factory in Bingcheng alone , each year will have a production scale of 24 rifles, 3 pistols, 8 light machine guns, and 1 Maxim heavy machine guns. The production scale of 4000 Krupp guns.

The branch factory structure of Xiaoqingshan Gun Factory is the same as that of Bingcheng, and its production capacity is half of that of Bingcheng. However, because Xiaoqingshan has completely adopted the new generation equipment from France, Russia and Germany, and the steel has adopted the latest production line in the United States, the quality of the guns is lower than that of Bingcheng. Ice City Gun Factory has better quality and fewer people.

At present, Zhu's insurance team is gradually changing their equipment, and the old firearms are stored in the warehouses of Hanyao and the insurance team.

Just now the Prime Minister said that production can be done vigorously. We can recruit apprentices while ensuring a full shift of workers, which is expected to increase production by 3%. "Nie Shi said and passed his gaze to Zhu Chuanwen.

"So many!" Zhu Chunshan opened his mouth wide open. Since accepting the unified coordination of Bingcheng's security and Xiaoqingshan's security last year, his work focus has been shifting to city management, and Hanyao is another The director was in charge of a lot of things, and finally all of them were brought together to Zhu Chuanwen.

If he hadn't deliberately gone to Zhu Chuanwen to learn about these information, then he could only pay attention to the steel in the steel factory and perform the conversion by himself.

"Yes, Uncle Chunshan, you said that the insurance team can use it themselves, how much can they use? At present, we export about 11 firearms every year, of which 10 are used to exchange copper ore, crude oil and other materials with the Russians. 1 Ten thousand were sold to the North Koreans, and the rest are in warehouses.” Now the stock has exceeded 10, and there will definitely be more in the future. It is undoubtedly a stupid decision to stop gun production.

"President, shall we sell it to the Russians?" Zhu Chunshan suggested.

"Director Chunshan, I think it can be sold to the Russians, but more, we need to open up the market in Shanhaiguan." Mao Guangting accepted Zhu Chunshan's words, "Hanyao Bank will be an important link between us and the industry and commerce in Shanhaiguan in the future. , Then what do we use to protect the interests of Hanyao Bank? I think it is firearms. If we become a supplier of forces that demand firearms, then Hanyao Bank will become their sweet pastry?"

Zhu Chunshan was stunned for a moment, thinking to himself, isn't he digging a hole for himself by selling this firearm to the forces of the Qing court?
Zhu Chuanwen nodded slightly, he also thought so in his heart.

The current advanced firearms in the Qing Dynasty are indeed too few. The most advanced Beiyang uses all German-made firearms and Krupp guns. , both of which are slightly inferior to the Han Yao Mosin Nagant rifle.

Firearms are not necessities of life like flour, but they are the guarantee of necessities of life.

"But..." Zhu Chunshan still wanted to say something, but he didn't know how to persuade him. He could only say that the current situation was slightly inconsistent with his future imagination. He was just phrasing when Qu Zhenggan took over the conversation. , he felt a little deeply. "Director Chunshan, don't you realize that the development of Hanyao has been more and more restricted in the past two years?"

"How do you say it?" Zhu Chunshan asked, he really didn't feel it, he just felt that he was thriving.

"Just taking the current Kanto as an example, although we have a good relationship with the officials of Kyrgyzstan and Fengtian, in recent years, have you ever seen a grain of iron ore and copper ore from the Qing court enter our Heilongjiang Province, and have entered our province? A smelter affiliated to Hanyao?

The Russians suppressed the price of firearms so hard last year, almost buying our firearms at the cost price to replace their copper mines. Is it really just because of the personal relationship between the Prime Minister and Andrei? Qu Zhengqian finally explained Hanyao's current predicament, and directly pointed out why Zhu Chuanwen agreed to sell firearms at a low price last year.

Lack of copper, Hanyao actually lacks a lot of copper!
Where are the copper mines of the Qing court?Taking Kanto as an example, it is distributed in Tianbaoshan, Kyrgyzstan Province. Here, the Japanese are also eyeing it. However, after the Qing government took back the sovereignty forcefully, the copper mines mined here have never been in Heilongjiang Province.

Taking a long-term view, Shanhaiguan is out of the country.During the Westernization Movement, Li Hongzhang opened several copper mines in the Zhili area, Zhang Zhidong opened the Lianghu copper mine, and farther away, Yunnan is known as "the most powerful copper mine in the world". The copper mines in these places, copper Ingots, none of them have ever been to Hei Province, and have never been to Hanyao.

Among them, without Xiliang's secret obstruction, it is obviously impossible.

On the surface, hello, hello, hello, everyone, but behind the scenes, it's a sharp knife to the waist.

In the past, copper was currency, but now copper is a bullet.And Zhu Chuanwen knows that the future copper reserves are actually related to Hanyao's machinery manufacturing industry, and it plays a pivotal role, because an era represented by electricity will eventually come.

The copper mines that Hanyao replaced from the Russians are now being used wisely.

"Then Yashan?" Zhu Chunshan retorted deliberately.

"Director Chunshan, this is related to an incident I reported to the general manager a few days ago. Yashan has copper, as well as gold, silver, and iron, but according to the current survey, the mining of copper is the most difficult. Silver Secondly, gold, iron, and Xiaoqingshan are difficult to mine and produce not much.

Even if we make great efforts to mine and smelt it, it is far more expensive than buying it from Kyrgyzstan and Shanhaiguan. Qu Zhenggan sighed.

"So, you want to sell guns?" Zhu Chunshan couldn't figure out the key point for the time being.

Mao Guangting glanced at Zhu Chuanwen, who was watching from the sidelines, and began to explain, "Director Chunshan, selling guns is not the key point, the key point is that we have to show our favor to the Qing court."

Showing goodwill and neutrality will be a crucial attitude of Hanyao in the future, and it is also an important decision made by Zhu Chuanwen recently. Not everyone has the qualifications to make this decision. Hanyao's current development has two legs, agriculture and industry.But this only ensured that Han Yao, a small giant, stood up temporarily.

"Uncle Chunshan, Hanyao's development policy is constantly changing based on the current situation. We have a lofty goal, which is to make everyone have food, clothing, education, and make the country strong. The goal is lofty, but However, the road is tortuous. The current copper shortage situation of Hanyao is actually restricting the development of Hanyao.

Chu Ke and I want copper to produce machines and industrial products; Qu Zhenggan and I want copper to produce bullets.

But now, to put it bluntly, our copper will be completely exhausted by the end of this month. I actually plan to go to Khabarovsk recently to find Andre and see if it is possible to deploy some for me. " Zhu Chuanwen also sighed.

"Is there no other way?" Zhu Chunshan asked.He knew that if Hanyao began to officially supply firearms to the provinces, copper would definitely come back, but likewise, the dream in his heart was a step further away.

"No, Uncle Chunshan, Xiliang has actually been playing tricks on Hanyao secretly. Last year, Hanyao was restructured into the Hanyao Manufacturing Bureau, which is inevitably a way of compromise and delay.

But now that Hanyao Bank has been established, I need to quickly make another compromise with Xiliang and the governor forces behind him.In fact, you don't have to worry, this is not a bad thing. "Zhu Chuanwen is not worried. Because the location of the Black Province is really good. It is at the northernmost end of the Qing court. This place actually belongs to the buffer zone with Tsarist Russia.

In the future, as long as Zhu Chuanwen doesn't have a convulsion in his head and pulls up any big banners, he will sit firmly on the Diaoyutai in the end.

Tsarist Russia needed this place to maintain a neutrality and a buffer, and the Qing court and even the subsequent Republic of China needed this place to maintain a neutrality and buffer.

Neutrality, of course, is not something that can be achieved by talking about it. It is maintained by the security team, a civilian armed force.

"That's right, Director Chunshan, the general manager agreed that I will start gun manufacturing with all my strength. Apprentices will be recruited from the farmers in the Zhu Family Grain Shop. The workers and the insurance team are all born from the farmers. We have a large Zhu Family Grain Shop. Towering trees may not grow on such a warm land.

However, the mature firearms we will sell will not necessarily be the most advanced firearms in the future.

As far as machine guns are concerned, we will carry out research and development of general-purpose machine guns, which are individual weapons based on the current Madsen machine guns!The Madsen machine gun was too weak, and the Maxim was too bulky, requiring three people to operate it.What happens when the two are combined?Guns are a process of survival of the fittest! "Nie Shi said with certainty that he was quite supportive of Han Yao's sale of weapons to the Qing court.

"Actually, I look forward to the speed of research and development with the help of European laboratories and American laboratories after the gun factory has a lot of funds." Zhu Chuanwen added.

"Director Chunshan, I may be thinking about it, but I always feel that transferring the old club away from Hei Province is a kind of restraint!" Chu Keqiu added, starting from Qu Zhenggan to Nie Shize, these gangsters When they came to Bingcheng, it was Zhu Chunshan who arranged and took care of them. Emotionally speaking, these high-minded intellectuals of Hanyao in the late Qing Dynasty respected Zhu Chunshan very much.

"Director Chunshan, firearms are also commodities, but compared to European countries' unified calibration and custom-made weapons led by the Minister of War, our manufacturing bureaus directly under the various provinces have actually replaced the market, but compared with Hanyao's firearms, Qing Tingshi's weapons are really not good." Mao Guangting said.

"I think so too. Our Hanyao weapons are well-known. Sell them! There is nothing we can't sell. Only by selling these weapons will we have money to invest in higher-level weapon production in the future." Chu Keqiu After the respect, he also showed his usual character.

This is not a group of people coercing Zhu Chunshan to agree, talking to Dali, and persuading Zhu Chunshan.Inevitably, it represented Zhu Chuanwen's persuasion, represented by Zhu Chunshan and Zhu Kaishan, the insurance team forces within Hanyao.

Zhu Chunshan didn't speak any more, apparently acquiescing, at this time Zhu Chuanwen took over everyone's quarrel and patted the table: "Actually, this is the Nanyang Quotation Association this year, and I have thought about one thing clearly. Sell!
I, Zhu Chuanwen, do not sell!Is it not sold in the US?Don't the British sell it?Germans don't sell it?Even the Japanese don't sell it?Now that the Hanyao Manufacturing Bureau has made a name for itself through the Nanyang Quanyehui, it is necessary to sell guns. It is different from the previous small fights, but the amount has become larger.

After selling guns, the money will always go back to Hanyao. It is the last word to turn around and invest in weapon manufacturing research. Isn’t the ultimate goal of European laboratories and American laboratories to increase the speed of Hanyao’s research and development? "Zhu Chuanwen told everyone his thoughts, and then added: "It's just that the matter of research needs to be more secretive. "

Everyone discussed until the afternoon, and even had lunch in the meeting room. At the end, Zhu Chuanwen said decisively: "Yes, that's it. Hanyao is going to take a solid step towards the military-industrial complex."

Since then, a new term has been instilled by Zhu Chuanwen to all the directors. Hanyao Commercial Bank's previous layout on aircraft, the tractors of the No. [-] Ironware Factory, will gradually break through the barriers.

For the future, it will be an inevitable path for Hanyao Gun Factory, and even Hanyao as a whole, to develop into a military-industrial complex.Among them, the shortcomings related to research and development will continue to narrow the gap on the European and American platforms built by Nie Shi with the help of Zhu Chuanwen.

(End of this chapter)