The First Warlord of the Republic of China

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At this time, Jiang Yu's troops are the Northwest National Defense Army and the East China National Defense Army. After the war against Russia, the Zhejiang Army also directly joined the East China National Defense Army and was under the direct jurisdiction of Jiang Yu.

After the war, the National Defense Forces had entered a state of reorganization. The war came very suddenly, so the organization was not so clear, and the divisions were not considered elite. The victory in the war against Russia was mainly achieved by fierce firepower and advanced weapons such as tanks and aircraft. come out.

Therefore, reorganization is necessary, and those soldiers who are not good enough will be incorporated into the production corps, and will be sent to the northwest for reclamation one after another, while the elite soldiers will be incorporated into the Class A division.

The plan to expand the scale of the tank factory has been implemented. It is estimated that 6000 Ripper tanks will be produced within three years. With the establishment of 350 tanks for each armored division, 5250 armored divisions will need 6000 tanks, plus some supplementary tanks. chariots, a plan to build [-] vehicles came out.

The Ripper Chariot is a relatively rudimentary chariot, but its performance is already very good, at least it has a strong actual combat capability. [

This batch of chariots will definitely be replaced in the future.

Therefore, these 6000 chariots and the formed production capacity are mainly for export.When the National Defense Forces do not use these tanks, they can be exported and sold.

After these chariots are manufactured, China will have a preliminary accumulation of experience in the large-scale manufacturing of chariots.

After the Russo-Japanese War ended, Jiang Yu immediately inspected the chariot factory. The chariot factory was not an assembly line operation, but the engine factory had already achieved assembly line production. More than 1000 engines of various types could be produced every day. And the production capacity is still expanding.

After the end of the Sino-Russian War, every factory of Huadong Group seemed to be full of limited vitality, which was related to the injection of large sums of money.

At the same time, many industries of Huadong Group are emerging industries. Although the current global industrial production capacity is becoming surplus, the industrial products produced by Huadong Group still have a good market.

In the first three quarters of Renzi alone, the total export of industrial products reached 5 million yuan, which is still under the premise that its own demand has not been met.

The bicycles, motorcycles, tractors, agricultural machinery, and automobiles produced by Huadong Group are in short supply, and the shipbuilding industry has also digested its own production capacity.

The output of steel smelting has also been digested by these projects, so the rapidly expanding steel production has not caused the phenomenon of being unable to sell, and there is even a tendency that the steel production cannot keep up.

For example, automobile production, assuming that each automobile consumes 1 ton of steel, then [-] automobiles will require [-] tons of steel, tractors also require a lot of steel, and agricultural machinery also requires a lot of steel. more steel.

And more steel is needed to build ships.

Steel is also needed to make railways, and the military industry needs steel even more.

There is also a large demand for civil steel, and steel bars, hardware and the like all need a lot of steel.

Therefore, the steel produced by Huadong Group is not exported at all. It is self-produced and used, and the steel is processed into higher value-added commodities for sale.

The second phase of Wuhu Iron and Steel Works has not yet been completed, and the third phase has already started.

The first phase of the Handan Iron and Steel Plant has also started construction.

Under the construction of Huadong Group, the whole of China's heavy industry began to expand rapidly.

The only thing lacking now is time.

"Commander, the British ambassador to China Zhu Erdian wrote a letter saying that the British government wants to purchase a batch of bombers from us." Sun Zhendong took the letter and handed it to Jiang Yu. After Sun Zhendong was sent by Jiang Yu to participate in the negotiation, He returned to Jiang Yu to serve as secretary general. [

"Want to buy bombers? Yes! But we only sell reconnaissance planes, trainer planes and tactical bombers, and medium-range bombers are fine. You can ask Zhu Erdian, how many planes does the British government want to buy?" Jiang Yu said to Sun Zhendong.

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Since the end of the Sino-Russian War, governments of various countries have quickly realized the importance of aircraft.Countries have attached great importance to it before, and governments of various countries have spent a lot of money to hire aircraft researchers.

And China's aircraft manufacturing technology has been at the forefront of the world, and all countries want to buy some bombers to study.

After Zhu Erdian put forward the request to purchase the aircraft, Germany also sent an intention to purchase the bomber.Then France, the United States, and even Japan all expressed their intention to purchase the aircraft.

Jiang Yu had long thought that this would be an opportunity to grab money from the governments of various countries, and immediately stipulated that in terms of aircraft procurement, the order for a single type of aircraft should exceed [-], and the price should be set at a relatively high level.

For example, a tactical bomber is priced at $3 or £6000, which is equivalent to 6 silver dollars.

too expensive?

The problem is that this one is alone!

The price of a 155mm howitzer is almost 5000 pounds, but the power of the bomber is even greater. The effect of a 300 kg heavy bomb dropped far exceeds the effect of the gun.Moreover, the bomber can reach farther targets, and it is a new type of equipment. It is very reasonable to sell it for 6000 pounds.

The British were rich and powerful, and placed orders for 300 trainer planes, 300 reconnaissance planes, and 300 tactical bombers in one go.

The total order amount reached 3600 million silver dollars, which is 360 million pounds. Including the purchase of aviation bombs, the order amount exceeded 4500 million silver dollars.

Although the British cabinet complained that there were too many of them, it was enough to buy one or two planes just for research, but Zhu Erdian told the British cabinet: "China's air force development has been at the forefront of the world, and the British Empire should only keep up with it." , and a war between the British Empire and Germany will inevitably break out in the future, these planes are not a pile of scrap iron when bought back.”

The British Cabinet officially placed the order.

The Germans were not far behind, and Kaiser Wilhelm II also directly placed an aircraft order with an amount of 5000 million silver dollars to the East China Group, and asked for an exchange of technology.

Technology exchange is Jiang Yu's favorite method. At this time, China's military industry has not yet mastered some cutting-edge military technology, so Jiang Yu submitted a technology exchange list to Germany.

Kaiser Wilhelm II directly approved the exchange list and immediately sent technicians to China.

And Jiang Yu also sent aircraft manufacturing technicians to Germany, and handed over the German orders to the German Yuanhua Group for production.

Seeing that Germany had placed an order, France was also unwilling to lag behind, and placed an aircraft order worth 3000 million yuan with the East China Group. Afterwards, the United States saw that all countries had placed orders, and also placed an order of 3000 million silver dollars.

The Japanese government is even more reluctant to see China ahead of Japan in aircraft manufacturing, and has also placed an order for bombers worth RMB 2000 million.

Jiang Yu also took orders from Japan.

"It is useless to have bombers, you must have fighter jets."[

Jiang Yu then made a dirty trick, and soon after, the German Kaiser Wilhelm II got another copy of the 'fighter fighter' research materials submitted by Jiang Yu.

Later, it was also suggested that Germany and the East China Group exchange fighter jet technology. In this way, although Britain and France have many tactical bombers and reconnaissance planes after the war, as long as Germany has enough fighter jets, those planes can be turned into turkeys.

"This boy from the Far East is really amazing." William II exclaimed after reading the research materials, "However, he asked to exchange cutting-edge industrial technologies, such as tungsten knife technology, but it should be carefully considered."

These cutting-edge industrial technologies are a core part of Germany's industrial competitiveness and cannot be easily exchanged.

However, William II considered the importance of supporting an ally in the Far East and the fact that fighter jets have great military uses for Germany.

Therefore, Kaiser Wilhelm II immediately agreed to this technical exchange request.

In this way, Jiangyu either exchanged or independently researched, and quickly absorbed the industrial manufacturing technology of the Westerners. In terms of military technology, it also exchanged with the Germans in exchange for cutting-edge technologies such as heavy artillery manufacturing.

It is not difficult to research these technologies independently, but it obviously costs a lot of money. After all, a heavy artillery manufacturing experiment takes a lot of time and steel, and it takes a certain amount of time to accumulate experience. If it is a direct exchange, it will be much simpler.

At this time, the East China Aircraft Manufacturing Factory has produced a monoplane fighter with a speed of 200 km/h, which weighs only 1 ton, is made of wood and skin, and is very cheap.After installing a device that allows the machine gun to synchronize with the propeller, the world's first mature fighter appeared.

The East China Aircraft Factory has begun research on larger bombers and faster fighter jets.

The East China Chariot Manufacturing Plant began to research self-propelled guns and infantry armored vehicles, and its research projects have left Westerners far away.

The Huadong Artillery Factory began to plan to manufacture heavy artillery independently, and continued to research lighter mortars, machine guns, and anti-aircraft guns needed to deal with the emergence of the Air Force.

The research projects of Huadong Gunsmith Factory are new submachine guns and new machine guns.

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