C1375 Huge military expenses (2/2)
The steel barrels were all manufactured in Prussia, and the rifled threads were cut in Prussia. The firing needles were also loaded onto the ships in hamburger and delivered into Xiao Letian's hands via the sea.
This kind of transaction efficiency was naturally much faster than buying and selling guns as a whole, and the cost had been greatly reduced as well. However, the key parts were controlled by someone else. Even if that person was an ally of theirs, it was still very uncomfortable.
Xiao Letian had a premonition that if the Tangwan Mountain's achievements were to be made known to the world, the British and French people would definitely take action against him.
Those merchant ships floating on the ocean would very likely become the enemy's focus. They would seal off the Suez Canal, seal off the Malacca Strait, and then send the army to search one ship after another. They would deduct all merchant ships that carried barrels and needles to the Chinese.
If that happened, Xiao Letian would immediately fall into an awkward situation where he had money and could not buy any weapons. And this would happen almost 100% of the time.
”We still have to consider the battles in the Far East. We cannot waste the limited resources, so just send more to the Far East …” Send people to contact Americans and ask for help from the Carnegie Family. We are willing to spend an additional 15% of the money as long as the United States guarantees that we will be able to supply arms … ”
”We can't let anything go wrong with the pacific route. This is our lifeline … ”Let our university students go, let the political teams go!”
As the Prime Minister gave the order, the groups of Ryukyu university students who had been on standby in the ocean since long ago began to move. These future high-ranking Chinese intellectuals, all of them with incomparably excited expressions, lined up neatly and started disembarking the ship, flying straight for Tangwan Mountain.
All along the way, all the soldiers looked at them in disbelief. Ma Xiaobao, that's the youngest son of my neighborhood's Ma family! ”He's a top student at the Maritime University. How did he end up on the battlefield …”
”That's right, that's Dragon Lake Mountain, a child from the district of Fusang. He's very close to my home … I know that child as well, and that one over there … ”
”Stinking brats, what are you guys doing here instead of studying?” The veterans asked at once.
The child proudly said, ”We are a newly formed political assault team. The future battles will depend on our abilities!” We are going to the battlefield, straight to the Tangwan Mountain! ”
”What?” Everyone was stunned. Although there was a tradition of an Elementary Scholar in the Chinese Army, but that was only true for military universities. Many of the students that came back were students from ordinary universities!
All the veterans present knew these children. They were studying translation, history of literature, science, physics, mathematics, etc. I heard that these professionals are going to become scientists in the future. Why would they come to the battlefield?
No one could understand, but no one dared to question the Prime Minister's decision. Once these children walked to the frontlines of the trenches under the astonished gazes of the thirty thousand strong army, the rest of the affairs would be completely taken aback.
The children took out iron trumpets from their backpacks and placed them on the edge of the trench. They began to speak in Russian, sounding just like a group of foreign birds.
The Chinese Marines could not understand what the children were saying, but the Russian soldier on the mountain was completely dumbfounded. Although the Russian was not standard, everyone could understand it.