Chapter 69 Military Industry
After completing the reorganization plan of the new army departments, the members of the association felt a little startled and came over and said loudly: "It really needs to be like this."
Everyone was waiting for Wang Shizhen to send out the funds, but Mr. Wang changed the subject and turned to military production.
"Everyone, the army is not good for no weapons, and the army is not good for no guns. I just talked about the arrangements of 20 divisions and 50 elite soldiers. If there is no cooperation with effective weapons, it is nothing more than mirrors and castles in the air. Therefore, when formulating the national defense construction plan, our headquarters pays great attention to the cooperation with weapons, and even the importance of weapons lies in the military strength." Wang Shizhen glanced at everyone, "With China's large and its population is at most, it is always a problem to pick some people to join the army, but if the weapons are not guaranteed, this trouble will be great. The soldiers are called and can be wielded away, but this weapon is not so convenient."
Since the Opium War, China's backward military weapons have been well known. The achievements of the ancient civilization in the world that first invented gunpowder in the thousand-year history have been insignificant in guns and cannons, and even the passive beating situation when the national gates are opened are extremely embarrassing. Since the beginning of the Westernization Movement, the supreme rulers have focused on the domestic production of military weapons and built a large number of armed enterprises, imitating Western weapons, and staggeringly walking on the road to modernizing military weapons - the direction is generally correct, but the results achieved are disproportionate to the price and time paid. Even after half a century, the new army's military weapons still need to be imported and still need to be consumed in exchange for them.
"For decades, various places have worked hard to manage and have successively built a number of military factories. Some are large in scale, can produce guns and cannons, and some are small in scale, which can be used as medicine. But the chief executive can tell the truth today, and the hard work of these years can be summarized in eight words."
What eight words? Wang Shizhen said slowly: "The cost is huge and the results are not obvious. The Ministry of National Defense has inspected Japan's arms industry, which started later than my country. The investment was less than my country at the beginning. However, the momentum and effectiveness of development are far better than my country. Today, not only can it have more than itself, but it can also export to my country. Not only can it be imitated, but it also has no problem with the imitation, but also the equipment independently developed has a place among the countries. If our empire does not catch up, it will only get worse and weaker in the future."
Although Wang Shizhen's comments are a bit frustrating, they pointed out the problem incisively - the formation of the gap between China and Japan in the arms industry does not lie in how smart the Japanese are or invest hugely, but the most fundamental thing is the system and operation of military-industrial enterprises.
The military-industrial enterprises built by the Westernization Party have always existed as vassals of the administrative system. Not only is the highest officials in charge bureaucrats who are ignorant of technology, but their management system and work style are also highly bureaucratic. Under such a system, limited resources have to go through three levels of waste: the first level is the waste caused by corruption and fraud; the second level is the waste of laymen guiding experts and superiors to make decisions. The waste of randomly erecting them; the third level is the allocation and use, without considering input-output at all, and the waste of costs and profits.
Among these three wastes, the third waste is the most amazing. Because the first two are visible and tangible evil deeds, even if they are tacit, they will not be legalized. However, the third waste is the root of the backwardness of the official organization - what weapons to build and what raw materials to buy, the arsenal will ask for funds to be allocated if it is made, regardless of the quality of the things created, the money spent is not a small amount. When using them, the machine unit also requires a document to be called and never consider using funds to purchase.
In this kind of operating environment that does not consider profit and loss, how can the arsenal, as the producer, have the motivation to improve production technology, speed up the manufacturing process, and improve product quality? This has caused deep-rooted backwardness. In the same way, a rifle is produced, and the quality of the country is low and the price is more expensive than imported goods. How can the troops be interested in purchasing? Even if the state power is used to purchase, they can only use limited resources to use infinite black holes, and they can't get along with themselves. Even if some geniuses appear, their talents and inspirations are usually hidden in the incompetent operating system.
After deciding on the various unsatisfactory aspects of military manufacturing, Wang Shizhen then explained the principled ideas for adjusting military production.
"The Ministry of National Defense passed the preliminary investigation, especially under the senate of German military advisers, and gradually became clear about the problems of each factory. In order to reverse this unfavorable situation, this outline was specially formulated." Wang Shizhen took out the "Three-Year Adjustment Plan for the Imperial Armies Enterprise" and read it: "The first article is to eliminate inferior and retain the best, and concentrate efforts. Since the Westernization Movement, various places have built arsenal, with no less than ten, with different sizes and weak capabilities.
Different places. The Ministry of National Defense believes that if the rectification is carried out based on the current situation, it will be collected from the Ministry of National Defense and local governments are strictly prohibited from being re-run. In the future, the Army and Military Industry will focus on organizing the three factories and one bureau. The three factories are called Hanyang Arsenal, Dezhou Arsenal, Guisui Arsenal, and the first bureau is the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau."
Guisui Arsenal? Everyone looked suspicious
Hanyang Arsenal: 400 taels per year, full-time manufacturing, maintenance of rifles, light and heavy machine guns; transfer the artillery manufacturing capacity to Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau, including the Five-Sheng Qishan Cannon, the Seven-Sheng Wu Field Cannon,
Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau, Absorption and Merger Jinling Machinery Bureau
The Texas Arsenal absorbed and merged the former Beiyang Machinery Bureau, and specialized in manufacturing ammunition, including 88 committee type, Mauser 98 gun bullets, and various artillery shells.
Annual funding of 200 taels is required to produce 100 million bullets
After talking about the reorganization plan of the new army units, the members of the association felt a little startled, and then realized it again and said endlessly: "It really needs to be like this."
Everyone was waiting for Wang Shizhen to send out the funds, but Mr. Wang changed the subject and turned to military production.
"Everyone, the army is not good for no weapons, and the army is not good for no guns. I just talked about the arrangements of 20 divisions and 50 elite soldiers. If there is no cooperation with effective weapons, it is nothing more than mirrors and castles in the air. Therefore, when formulating the national defense construction plan, our headquarters pays great attention to the cooperation with weapons, and even the importance of weapons lies in the military strength." Wang Shizhen glanced at everyone, "With China's large and its population is at most, it is always a problem to pick some people to join the army, but if the weapons are not guaranteed, this trouble will be great. The soldiers are called and can be wielded away, but this weapon is not so convenient."
Since the Opium War, China's backward military weapons have been well known. The achievements of the ancient civilization in the world that first invented gunpowder in the thousand-year history have been insignificant in guns and cannons, and even the passive beating situation when the national gates are opened are extremely embarrassing. Since the beginning of the Westernization Movement, the supreme rulers have focused on the domestic production of military weapons and built a large number of armed enterprises, imitating Western weapons, and staggeringly walking on the road to modernizing military weapons - the direction is generally correct, but the results achieved are disproportionate to the price and time paid. Even after half a century, the new army's military weapons still need to be imported and still need to be consumed in exchange for them.
"For decades, various places have worked hard to manage and have successively built a number of military factories. Some are large in scale and cannons, while others are small in scale and cannons can be used to make medicine. But the chief executive can tell the truth today, and the hard work of these years can be summarized in eight words."
Chapter completed!