If one takes care of you carefully and caters to the other carefully, the conversation will go extremely smoothly.
In just two days, a general framework has been determined, leaving only some details to fill in.
Lanfang will provide the Beiyang government with weapons and ammunition, including artillery and tanks, as well as a large amount of food and grass supplies, as well as military staff and military instructors, and arm the Beiyang government with approximately 100,000 troops to quell domestic chaos.
After the rebellion is suppressed, Lanfang's goods will have the most-favored-nation status in terms of tariffs when entering the Republic of China. At the same time, Lanfang can immigrate to the Kuomintang-controlled areas with no upper limit on the number of people.
To be honest, in the current Republic of China, there are not many things that Lanfang can appreciate. After acquiring the iron ore in the Pilbara region, Lanfang has almost no shortage of ore raw materials. Lanfang now has more resources than in the Republic of China.
There are so many things about the Republic of China that Lan Fang really doesn't like.
The only thing Lan Fang envied about the Republic of China was its population.
However, this problem will eventually be fundamentally improved as time goes by. All Lanfang needs now is time.
In fact, Lan Fang had started immigrating from the Republic of China two years ago.
After two years of hard work, the Chinese population in Lanfang now exceeds 15 million, of which nearly 10% are children under the age of two. These children were born after immigrants moved to Lanfang.
The reproductive ability is evident.
As long as the Chinese people who live a stable life are given time, three or four children in each family is a small number, five or six is normal, and seven or eight is not impossible.
Given time, even if Lanfang did not immigrate from the Republic of China, Lanfang would still have a sufficient population.
Of course, if the Koreans are now included, Lanfang's population will be heading towards more than 30 million.
This doesn't matter. The Korean people's immigration direction is to the northern Xinjiang region, where the demand for population is more urgent.
Qin Zhiyuan is not worried about negotiations. The right time, place and people are already there. If this still fails to produce a good result, then Lu Zhengxiang and Huang Bohan can go home and take care of their children.
On the first day of the negotiations, Qin Zhiyuan and Foch took a special plane to Pontianak in Wanghai Prefecture to inspect the arsenal there.
The current Pontianak area has become Lanfang's military industrial base. There are more than 20 large and small arsenals near Pontianak, which can produce all the materials needed by Lanfang's army.
At the same time, there are several research institutes in Pontianak. From the most common small arms to the most high-end battleship main guns, you can find corresponding research departments here, which will greatly promote the development of Lanfang military industry.
The main purpose of Qin Zhiyuan and Foch's visit this time was to test the B2 rifle just developed by the Small Arms Research Institute.
Today's rifles are easy enough to use, with a perfect combination of range and power. Together with various light and heavy machine guns, the firepower level is already very good. The B1 rifle is a standard weapon. If you want to change it, it will be extremely expensive. You can
Think carefully. Foch's thinking is still conservative.
Bolt-action rifles will always be eliminated. Shooting and pulling the bolt once is not only inefficient, but also destroys the continuity of the soldiers' technical movements. We need to be more efficient, especially without the cooperation of machine guns.
Compared with rifles, machine guns are always too heavy. We need to make ordinary soldiers more efficient, especially in individual combat situations. Qin Zhiyuan knows the trend of military development and has never relaxed for a moment in the research and development of weapons.
Uh-huh, I read your idea. To be honest, it's a good idea, but have you considered the cost? Repeating rifles do have advantages in combat, but soldiers have to carry more bullets and have higher logistics requirements.
, if we change the costume ten years later, that would be great, but if it is now, I don’t think it is necessary. Foch still disagrees.
Foch was accustomed to being diligent and frugal in his life. The French Ministry of War never gave Foch a nearly unlimited budget, so Foch was always used to living within his means. Foch's thoughts are also consistent with the current general military thinking.
, in the current world, the large-scale application of new weapons such as tanks and aircraft has caused the status of ordinary infantry to decline again. It seems that ordinary soldiers with only one rifle have really become expendable, and no one values ordinary soldiers.
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Qin Zhiyuan has a different idea. Qin Zhiyuan has a profound understanding of automatic weapons, and also has a profound understanding of the role of tanks and aircraft. There will always be some terrain that is not suitable for armored forces to deploy, and there will always be places that cannot be covered by bombers, and even
There are situations where even machine guns are not suitable for use. In such cases, infantrymen need to use their own strength to solve the problem.
At any time, the human factor is the most important.
We now have an opportunity. The Republic of China requires us to support weapons and ammunition. We can just use this opportunity to support the current B1 rifles to the Republic of China. Then we can replace them with new weapons. This does not require too high cost, at least because of the Republic of China’s
Taking over can make up for some of our losses while maintaining the advanced nature of individual weapons, and will also help our troops develop stronger combat capabilities. The two are not in conflict. Qin Zhiyuan has a way to pass on the cost.
Okay, okay, let’s take a look first and then talk about it. If it’s really as good as you say, then it doesn’t matter if you change the clothes. Foch agreed with reservations.
The current Lanfang is no longer the Lanfang that even needs to import ore from Annan. Iron ore from the Pilbara region is being continuously imported into Lanfang. Although Qin Zhiyuan ostensibly paid, but because
The reason for Angel Jack is that it is equivalent to putting money from one pocket to another. The cost is not as much as it seems, and it is even much cheaper than importing iron ore from Annan.
With sufficient iron ore and a steelmaking plant that is about to be put into operation, Lanfang's military industry is on the right track.
At least we are on the right track.
While they were talking, the car that Qin Zhiyuan and Foch were riding in arrived at the shooting range of the Pontianak Small Arms Research Institute. Director Zeng Ruiqi and rifle development team leader Louis Julian were waiting in the shooting range.
Zeng Ruiqi was originally from Jinmen, and her ancestors once worked in the Jinmen Machinery Bureau. Later, the Jinmen Machinery Bureau was demolished during the Gengzi Incident. Zeng Ruiqi’s grandfather, father, and two uncles all became traveling gun repairers.
Yes, it's a gunsmith, there really is such a profession.
At the end of the Qing Dynasty, chaos arose, and there was actually a large amount of civilian weapons. Especially in the Kanto region, which had been ravaged by war several times, there were all kinds of guns, from old-fashioned carrying guns to modern rapid-fire guns.
One problem is obvious: most of the people who use those weapons don't know how to repair them. So when problems arise with weapons that are already on the verge of being eliminated, the profession of gun repairman comes into being.
Although the profession of a gun repairman could barely make a living, it was not a long-term solution after all. So when the Beiyang government organized a labor team to go to Europe, Zeng Ruiqi joined the labor team and became one of the hundreds of thousands of Chinese who went to Europe.
After arriving in Europe, Zeng Ruiqi relied on her family's skills and quickly joined the Renault factory and became a member of the design department led by Jean Pearce.
With this professional background, Zeng Ruiqi successfully became the director of the Small Arms Research Institute after returning to Lanfang.
As for Louis Julian, this was a good friend of Zeng Ruiqi, who also worked under Jean Pierce. After Zeng Ruiqi returned to Lanfang, he hired Louis Julian with a lot of money to come to Lanfang. Of course, after living in Lanfang for a year, Louis Julian
Li An has applied to become a Lanfang nationality, otherwise he would not be able to serve as the leader of the rifle development team.
Zeng Ruiqi and Louis Julien were very excited to see Qin Zhiyuan and Foch. Especially Louis Julien, who stuttered a bit when introducing the B2 rifle to Foch. They were full of fans who saw their idol's bad behavior.
The B2 rifle is the first rifle we designed independently. No, no, it is the first rifle designed by His Majesty under the guidance of His Majesty. Your Majesty requested that we improve the design. Strictly speaking, His Majesty was the designer of this gun.
After seeing His Majesty's idea, we once organized a demonstration, because we didn't know whether it could be realized, and then we decided to give it a try. Louis Julian was a little excited, and after talking for a long time, he still didn't get to the point.
There is no doubt about Foch's status among the French. It can be said that the current French president does not necessarily have as high a prestige in people's hearts as Foch. For this reason, Foch wanted to come to Lanfang, but Raymond Poincaré did not.
No matter how hesitant, I completely agree.
Hmm, if Foch wants to run for president next year, he probably has a greater chance of being elected than Clemenceau.
So it is understandable that Louis Julian was excited after seeing Foch.
Qin Zhiyuan ignored Foch and Louis Julien, went directly to the shooting position, picked up a B2 rifle and watched.
That's right, it's the same as what Qin Zhiyuan remembers, with the gas-guided principle and the double-row steel leaking clip of 8 bullets. Strictly speaking, this is the M1 Garand rifle once used by the US military.
Of course, with Qin Zhiyuan, the click of this rifle that was once widely criticized has been effectively improved. After the gun has fired all the bullets, the ejector will not eject the magazine, but will use the bolt to
The reset method reminds the shooter to load bullets.
In fact, we are more inclined to use the B3 type. Relatively speaking, the B3 type has more perfect shooting, more ammunition, and better firepower sustainability. The only disadvantage is that the B3 requires too many bullets. If the B3 is used, the soldiers need to carry more bullets.
Multiple bullets will increase the burden on the soldiers. Of course, relatively speaking, the range and power of b3 are not as good as b2, so we have been hesitating before. Now let’s ask your majesty to decide which weapon to use as our standard weapon. Zeng Ruiqi
Explain next to Qin Zhiyuan.
Qin Zhiyuan saw b3
What kind of b3 is this? It is clearly the former sand submachine gun.
