Chapter 499: The Machinery Cannon of the Sino-German Factory

The next morning, Deng Keng came to the South Hall to confirm the funding from the Huangpu Aviation Branch to Wu Shaoting.

After reading the budget report, Wu Shaoting felt a little strange. Deng Keng actually obtained two budget plans. The second was the estimated cost of the German flight consulting team surveyed in Guangzhou before.

"What does this mean?" Wu Shaoting pointed to the second plan and asked Deng Keng.

"Uh...Major Bacon asked me to show you both budgets. He said that if you regret it now, it would be too late." Deng Keng hesitated for a moment and answered truthfully.

Major Bacon is the chairman of the German Flight Advisory Group and is also the Luftwaffe officer with the highest rank among the flight coaches Wu Shaoting hired. The budget sent by Deng Keng is that the construction cost of Luzhou Aviation School is 600,000 yuan, while in Guangzhou, only 400,000 yuan. The latter can even be shortened by more than 30% compared to the former. At the beginning of Chad, Bacon, a foreign friend, was planning for Wu Shaoting's finances.

However, Wu Shaoting knew very well that these German pilots prefer a bustling city like Guangzhou instead of various inconvenient Luzhou in the wilderness, so they kept muttering that he hoped he could change his mind. He smiled coldly, then tore off the second budget, picked up a pen and signed the name after the first budget.

Deng Keng sighed, then couldn't help asking: "Ship Ting, I'm also very curious. Why do we have to build an aviation school in Luzhou? It's too far away and there is no railway. It's too complicated to get out of the Whampoa Military Academy and then transfer to Luzhou."

Wu Shaoting smiled indifferently and said relaxedly: "Don't you think Luzhou is very close to Nanning?"

Deng Keng couldn't help but be stunned, and he had an enlightened consciousness in his heart, but he didn't continue to think about it.

Wu Shaoting didn't say much. In short, there are many factors that establish an aviation school in Luzhou. In addition to strategic needs, it also requires convenient confidentiality and alertness.

"Okay, you should focus more on Luzhou's projects during this period and try to get some as fast as possible. In addition, let the Secretariat propose a letter of appointment. I want to hire a fisherman as the dean of Luzhou Land Aviation School."

"Ah? Mr. Song serves as the principal? This..." Deng Keng felt abrupt. He believed that Song Jiaoren was a revolutionary and political activist, and had nothing to do with the Mainland Aviation School. He hired a person who was not good at anything to take charge of the technology industry. This was simply a bad thing.

"It's not the principal, it's the dean. The Land Aviation School is a branch of the Whampoa Military Academy. Don't worry about other matters, just send the appointment letter as I told you." Wu Shaoting said emphatically.

His move was not because he hoped that Song Jiaoren could bring any development to the Aviation School, but just to take this opportunity to bring Song Jiaoren into the group. The dean seemed to be an important position, but just like he was the principal of the Whampoa Military Academy and Wang Heshun was the principal of the police school, the principal did not necessarily take charge of the affairs, as long as there was a mature team to help the operation. Of course, he also expressed his hope that it would be great if Song Jiaoren could join the National People's Congress and carry out political and ideological work in the Aviation School on behalf of the party organization.

He would not let Song Jiaoren just live in a school in a wilderness, and the position of director of the Land Aviation School was just a throwaway. Once Song Jiaoren agreed, he would arrange some more formal part-time jobs.

"I understand, let's make arrangements now." Deng Keng was about to turn around and leave.

The door of the office was suddenly knocked, and someone walked in was a foreigner full of beards, Chandler, general manager of the Sino-German Zhang Shengting Ordnance Company.

Chandler saw Deng Keng and greeted him with a smile: "Good morning, my respected Adjutant Deng, I was going to find you last night, but after thinking about it, I still felt that I would like to inform the General of the good news to you in person to express my feelings more."

Deng Keng looked back at Wu Shaoting. Wu Shaoting gave up on him and signaled that he would deal with Chandler.

After Deng Keng left, Chandler sat down with a happy look on his face.

Although China-Germany Zhang Shengting Ordnance Company holds a majority of shares, Chandler is nominally just here to work for the Sino-German factory, because behind the scenes is the support of the Germans, Chandler still has some weight.

"Mr. Chandler, I seemed to have heard the good news just now? Everyone loves to hear the good news, please tell me." Wu Shaoting said with some relief.

"God General, that's right, today I specially brought good news. Our Sino-German company successfully developed the third weapon yesterday afternoon after the automatic rifle and mortar. It's really worthwhile to invest in the past year." Chandler said happily.

Wu Shaoting narrowed his eyes. It would be fine if Chandler didn't mention it. This mention immediately reminded him of a financial loophole. Although the Sino-German factory also has its own production line, its main focus is new weapons testing and research and development, and most of the mass production work is still left to the Guangdong factory. However, in the past twelve months, the Sino-German factory has never had any update projects except for paying a fixed amount of standard arms every month. Instead, it consumes similar funds to the Guangdong factory.

If Guangdong hadn't developed very rapidly this year and could not see any deficits in finance, Wu Shaoting would have forgotten this matter easily. With the same money, he could only produce one-tenth of the goods, which would have been a big fool.

He was not in a hurry to pursue this matter. Finally, Chandler found himself today. Let's hear what new arms were. He said slowly: "Is that so? I almost forgot the existence of the Sino-German factory, tell me quickly."

Chandler smiled and said: "The Sino-German factory completely utilized the technical level of Chinese workers to develop a heavy machine gun with an ultra-large caliber that can penetrate a 30-centimeter earth wall at a maximum of 500 meters. The effective range even exceeds all heavy machine guns, and the farthest can reach 4 kilometers!" When talking about the last "four thousand meters", he pretended to be exaggerated and stretched out four fingers.

Wu Shaoting asked word by word: "Large-caliber heavy machine gun?"

Chandler nodded quickly and confirmed: "Yes, the caliber is twenty-two millimeters, much larger than Maxim."

Wu Shaoting smiled gloomyly and immediately asked back: "It's much bigger than Maxim. Where is the caliber of the 1902 rapid-fire machine gun in the Biesen Arsen Arsen?"

He really wanted to stand up and kick Chandler. This bastard actually used a machine gun to fool himself, saying that it was a heavy machine gun with a large caliber. The 22 mm heavy machine gun was at least one squad to carry it on the battlefield.

Chandler was stunned. He didn't expect that Wu Shaoting actually understood the background of the machine gun. He also took out the 1902 dormitory machine gun as an example. He was immediately in an embarrassing situation. After he hesitating for a while, he immediately said: "General, in fact... the machine gun can also be defined as a large-caliber heavy machine gun. After all, his firing principle is almost the same as that of the heavy machine gun. More importantly, this time it was really an artillery developed based on China's technical level... No, heavy machine gun. It is more convenient, lighter, and more advanced than the Essen 1902."

Wu Shaoting snorted coldly and asked: "For a whole year, I spent about 100,000 yuan in funds every month. In the end, I will develop a machine gun for me? Do you know how many machine guns I can buy from Germany for one and two hundred thousand? Let me talk about it, given the current situation of our Chinese Army, where can I use this machine gun?"

Chandler was ashamed. He was worried and naturally nervous. He did not manage the Sino-German company carefully this year. Instead, he squandered a lot of funds. It was not until the beginning of spring that he hastily imitated the technology of the machine gun and developed a small-caliber machine gun. Faced with Wu Shaoting's questioning, he said hesitantly: "God General, in fact, this machine gun has many uses, and can defend the position to provide strong firepower, shore defense, ship-based, and air defense, which are all good choices."

Wu Shaoting's mind flashed. It was really time for the birth of this machine gun. He was just at the stall where he studied the tanks and fighter planes, and he could install the machine guns on these vehicles. However, his face was still not good-looking. After all, a weapon that could be imitated or even imported was at a price that was completely inconsistent with the cost-effectiveness.

"I will give you two choices, either you resign yourself, or from then on, the funding of the Sino-German factory will be reduced to 50,000 yuan per month, and within two months you will have to come up with a more practical new weapon plan for me. What I want is practical equipment from the army. Do you understand?" Wu Shaoting threatened, and he gave Chandler a last chance.

"God General, how can you do this..."

"I don't want to listen to nonsense now. If you are really a warrior of the German Empire, you should show off the spirit of your warriors, rather than just making excuses to shirk responsibility. As for your machine gun, just as a lesson and inspiration, I will name it Chandler machine gun. If you can fulfill my request, it is honor, and if not, it is evidence of shame." Wu Shaoting interrupted Chandler and said very strongly.

Chandler suddenly felt angry when he heard this remark that both soft and hard, and had both honor and disgrace.
Chapter completed!