"Boom, boom..."

On the Luhan Railway, a train was rumbling along the railway. In the carriage of the train, Tang Hualong, the deputy speaker of the House of Representatives, was sitting on a soft seat on the sofa, listening to the Prime Minister in front of him.

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"...So, Jiwu, no matter how you say it, this is a good thing!"

After a pause, Li Zicheng glanced at Tang Hualong with a slight smile on his face.

"Prime Minister, it is good to open the Quanye Factory. If the Quanye Factory is successful, it will naturally lead to the gathering of private hot money from various places to the industry. In this way, a small amount will become a large number, thus accelerating the development of industry. However, the copper yuan bureaus of all provinces will be evened out.

Changing it to Quanye Factory requires consideration of various factors such as technology and equipment. Indeed..."

Looking at the Prime Minister, Tang Hualong once again expressed his concerns. After the Ministry of Finance acquired the copper yuan bureaus of Shandong, Henan, Hubei, and Anhui provinces, he had raised objections, but in the end he failed to stop the Ministry of Finance's move.

"**Company can subcontract to those companies, but what about the future?"

Tang Hualong has always been extremely supportive of the State Council's efforts in industrial development. During the establishment of Tianjin Dagang Economic Development Zone, he repeatedly recommended to his friends to invest and set up factories in the Dagang Development Zone, and even took the initiative to purchase 100,000 yuan worth of shares in the development zone.

He also subscribed to the stocks of many companies to show his support, and as the deputy speaker of the House of Representatives, he coordinated development zones and iron ore matters with Tianjin and Hebei on many occasions. People in the capital even used the term "supporter of national affairs" to describe him.

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However, such a "State Council policy supporter" has repeatedly opposed the Ministry of Finance's spending to acquire the local copper yuan bureau. According to his suggestions, the Ministry of Finance should spend nearly 20 million yuan on new factories instead of

Acquire the limited-scale gun bureau and copper yuan bureau from the local area to set up a "Quanye Company".

"Furthermore, gun factories. Since the Westernization period in the Qing Dynasty, all provinces have set up machinery bureaus and manufacturing bureaus for the production of guns and ammunition. These large factories such as Hubei, Jinling, Jiangnan, and Guangdong also have the possibility of expanding modern military factories.

, such as Sichuan, Xi'an, Lanzhou, Hunan, Shandong, Jilin, Zhejiang, Shaanxi, Henan and other provincial machinery bureaus and manufacturing bureaus. Many of these factories have hundreds of old machines. Some have dozens of old machines. They cost huge sums of money to purchase.

. Isn’t it a waste of the central government’s financial resources? Zhou Jizhi founded Qixin Heavy Industry in Tianjin with an investment of only 20 million yuan. However, the Ministry of Finance spent nearly 30 million yuan on acquiring the copper yuan bureaus of various provinces and gun factories.

huge!"

While Tang Hualong was talking about his reasons, Li Zicheng looked out of the window and saw the rapidly sweeping wilderness of dead trees. A group of sparrows were flying in the sky outside the window. At this time, he did not enter anything.

He retorted, but looked out the window quietly, and asked Tang Hualong to accompany him to Henan this time to attend the opening ceremony of Henan Qunye Company, not just to convince him with facts, but for another thing.

Now, the State Council needs Tang Hualong's support. To be precise, Tang Hualong needs his support to persuade his brother, Hunan General Tang Xiangming, to send a call to support the State Council. Now the whole of China is looking at Hunan and Tang Xiangming.

"Jiwu, Henan Copper Yuan was first minted in the 30th year of Guangxu. In that year, Henan Governor Chen Kuilong reported that the Copper Yuan Bureau was established in Kaifeng. In the 32nd year of Guangxu, Kaifeng Copper Yuan Bureau was renamed Du Branch Mint Bian Factory.

In three years, the monthly minting amount reached 480,000 coins. Later, the Qing government restricted the minting amount and stipulated that Henan would mint 300,000 copper coins per month. By February of the 34th year of Guangxu, the Henan Mint had minted a total of 23,000 ten-wen copper coins.

In the early years of the Republic of China, in order to pay huge military and political expenses, the governor of Henan Province increased the amount of copper coins minted. In just two years, as many as 40 million copper coins were minted. It is for this reason that they were among the first batch of coins restructured by the central government.

Tongyuan Factory.”

Looking away from the window and looking at Tang Hualong with a disheveled beard, Li Zicheng had a wry smile on his face...

"If there hadn't been the current surge in copper prices, how would the provinces have given up on making copper coins for profit? If there hadn't been the convenience of purchasing guns and ammunition at low prices with just approval from the Ministry of War, how would the provinces have given up on gun factories?"

In order to acquire the Copper Yuan Bureau and the gun factory, the State Council commissioners coordinated with the local governments, and even after making an agreement that the prices of guns produced by the central factory would not increase for five years, they also made an agreement on discounts for old guns. Now it is summarized by each province.

There are millions of old guns of all kinds, including Remington roller guns, single-barrel old-fashioned Mauser guns, Bertin guns, Henri Martinis, Charmans, etc. from the mid-to-late 19th century.

There are hundreds of types of guns, and dozens of calibers, and these guns are all purchased at a reduced price.

"After the provincial copper coin bureaus are restructured, the central government can adjust the auxiliary coins after taking back the minting rights, so as to avoid the recurrence of bad copper coins that hurt the people. The gun bureaus are taken back, and the localities have no power to manufacture weapons, which can prevent localities from blindly expanding their troops and triggering civil war...

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Looking at Tang Hualong, Li Zicheng pursed his lips slightly and then said.

"The central government did spend nearly 30 million yuan, but it avoided domestic losses and stabilized the domestic situation. Only when the situation is stable can the country achieve real development..."

In front of Tang Hualong, Li Zicheng certainly would not say that in the so-called "national army weapon standardization", there is actually a hidden conspiracy that only a few people in China know about.

When the State Council proposed the plan to the Army Department, the State Council, together with the Army Department, formulated the standard caliber of the Chinese Army and chose the 6.8mm Mauser bullet, which is the only one in the world used by China. What is different from the Mauser bullet is that

The cartridge case is no longer made from a Mauser cartridge case, and is also different.

The reason why it was proposed to the Army Department to adopt the 6.8mm caliber is that in addition to the fact that this caliber has smaller recoil impulse, is more accurate than the 7.92mm caliber rifle, and is more suitable for the Chinese physique, more importantly, it is the only country in the world that uses it.

Weapons of this caliber, after provinces are equipped with a large number of such weapons, their ammunition sources will be limited. Because of the difference in shell size, even German gun and ammunition factories need to consider the cost of "small batch production", from weapons

This source limits local force and is the most effective weapon against local powerful factions.

As long as the source of ammunition is controlled, even if there is chaos in the local area in the future, there is nothing to fear, especially after they equip machine guns one after another. Although machine gun equipment can improve the combat effectiveness of the troops, the most direct negative effect it brings is

Ammunition consumption also increases accordingly.

In fact, this method originated from another warlord in Chinese history. The Shanxi general that Li Zicheng had always wanted to visit - Yan Xishan. Among so many warlords in China, the one known as the "roly-poly" was Yan Xishan. Yan Xishan was the leader of the Jin Dynasty

Over the past few decades, a complete military industry has been established in Shanxi, and the Taiyuan Military Factory can be said to be the largest manufacturer of "Type 38 rifles" outside Japan.

At the beginning, the Type 38 rifles it produced were fully compatible with the Japanese style. After establishing a complete military industry system in Shanxi, especially after its ammunition production capacity could meet the demand, it modified the bore, ammunition size, and cartridge cases of the bullets it produced.

It has been modified to be incompatible with the Japanese system.

In the warlord war that followed for more than ten years, in order to obtain foreign aid from all parties, mass-produced "Made in Taiyuan" spread to half of northern China. As long as the recipients did not break with Yan Xishan, the supply of ammunition was naturally not a problem.

However, the break with Yan Xishan meant that even if they bought Japanese ammunition, they were incompatible, which directly caused the "Made in Taiyuan" to become a useless fire stick.

If it weren't for seeing the only understandable conspiracy behind the "unification of the country's land standard", how could Yuan Shikai agree with his proposal, and even agreed to the Ministry of War to compensate the production of new rifle machine guns at an additional price of fifteen yuan per gun.

Supplier - Lianyungang Machinery Company. The French loan to renovate arsenals will also be used to add and renovate equipment to produce new weapons in each factory...

"Can……"

When Tang Hualong was about to refute, Li Zicheng smiled slightly, pointed out the window and said.

"Jiwu, we have arrived at the Yellow River Bridge now. Well, we will arrive in Kaifeng soon. We will talk about this after Kaifeng. I wonder what Brother Jiwu thinks?"

Facts speak louder than words! Rather than convincing people with words, Li Zicheng prefers to use facts to convince these people.

"Click!"

At the moment when the scissors cut the red silk, thousands of firecrackers were hoisted high at the Copper Yuan Bureau in Kaifeng, Henan Province. No, it should be outside the gate of Henan Qunye Company now. In that burst of gunpowder smoke, Henan General

Tian Wenlie made a gesture of invitation to the young man standing next to him.

"Prime Minister, please!"

At this time, Tian Wenlie seemed extremely proud. He had resold the Henan Copper Yuan Bureau and the Machinery Bureau to the Ministry of Finance at a high price of 950,000 yuan. As for the nearly 100,000 old scrap iron guns purchased by the central government,

The hundreds of thousands of yuan he earned had already been quietly deposited into Huaihai Industrial Bank.

In the past, he wouldn't have thought about selling the copper coin bureau, but it was different now. After the European War, the copper price soared, and the copper coin bureau had an initial huge profit, and now it has been losing money continuously, and the more it is minted, the more it is minted, and it is still losing money if it is not minted, so

, in his opinion, it is just a matter of throwing away the burden now.

"General Tian, ​​please go first!"

While writing the application, Li Zicheng walked into Henan Qunye Company side by side with Tian Wenlie. After the Ministry of Finance purchased the factory, it spent hundreds of thousands of yuan in capital to expand the factory building, add new equipment, and renovate machinery and equipment.

Now we have a factory that mainly processes sheet metal parts.

"... Our company produces various types of stamped wrench parts and has..."

When the manager introduced the company's products, Tian Wenlie wisely chose not to ask any questions. He had always been an outsider in mechanical manufacturing and could not ask Li Zicheng some technical questions from time to time.

"... Stamping generally does not generate chips and scraps, consumes less material, and does not require other heating equipment. Therefore, it is a material-saving and energy-saving processing method. At the same time, the cost of stamping parts is low. Because stamping has such advantages

, so stamping processing is currently widely used in various fields. There are many large, medium and small stamping parts on airplanes, trains, cars and tractors. The body, frame and rims of cars are all stamped.

80% of bicycles, sewing machines, and watches are stamped parts. Of course, due to equipment limitations, our company cannot produce large stamped parts for the time being. However, such as metal can shells and steel pots, which are now in great demand,

Enamel basins and bowls and simple tableware are all stamped products using molds..."

While the manager was making the introduction, Tian Wenlie took out a metal can shell from the product display stand.

"I've seen this before. Isn't it just a can shell?"

While talking, Tian Wenlie seemed to have great contempt for Copper Yuan Bureau for producing such an inconspicuous gadget, but at this moment a voice came from behind.

"Manager Feng, we have agreed that Lida will cover all of this year's canned shells from your Quanye factory..."

"Don't just talk about Lida, give us the auspiciousness..."

Hearing the sound of grabbing goods from behind, Tian Wenlie was stunned. Seeing the strange color on his face, Li Zicheng turned around and explained softly.

"General Tian. After the war in Europe, the participating ** troops were in urgent need of all kinds of field food, especially canned food. Now every month, our country exports tens of millions of yuan in various canned food. All kinds of canned food

The manufacturing procedures and seasoning ratios are provided by various parties. The canning manufacturing equipment is simple and the investment cost is low. However, the canning shell equipment cannot be manufactured by ordinary small factories..."

When speaking, Li Zicheng's words were full of lightness. He used Tongyuan Factory to produce can shells, steel pots, enamel pots and bowls and simple tableware. This was the conclusion the company came to after inspecting the equipment of Tongyuan Bureau. Not only that,

Tongyuan Factory will also mass-produce various types of stamping parts. Most of these stamping parts accept subcontracting orders from ** companies. They produce stamping parts of various sizes on their behalf...

OEM, for this era, is still a brand-new concept, but for Li Zicheng, who lived a hundred years later, it is a very familiar word. The so-called miracle of reform and opening up in later generations was actually the miracle of reform and opening up.

The international OEM trade was developed using cheap labor costs. But now, in this era, Li Zicheng hopes to use these "OEM factories" to create a new Chinese industrial and commercial miracle.

The current OEM production model is completely different from that of later generations. ** companies take orders from countries such as Britain, France, Russia, and the United States, and then subcontract to these companies, which produce various parts or OEM products.

"At present, various types of steel pots, enamel basins and bowls produced by the company have begun to be sold in the market..."

While everyone was talking in front, some reporters could occasionally see one of the people accompanying the Prime Minister to Henan who was very eye-catching - Tang Hualong, Vice President of the House of Representatives of the National Assembly. The reason why he was so eye-catching was

It's very simple. He is the brother of Hunan general Tang Xiangming.

When people noticed Tang Hualong, Tang Hualong looked at the big red washbasin, which was made of enamel. The pattern inside the washbasin was particularly attractive: in the middle were two Chinese characters "Double Happiness" nestled together, which were very big.
To be continued...