The end of the military era

1 steel factory

1 arsenal

12 German Wiesbaden-class light cruisers

100 catties of rice 5000 million bags

100 catties of flour 5000 million bags

According to the introduction of the lottery system, the steel plant can produce 500 million tons of crude steel per year, including more than [-] sets of various equipment such as mining, coking, blast furnace, converter, refining, hot rolling, cold rolling, power, and power distribution.

Zhou Rui extracted only these [-] devices from the lottery system.

兵工厂，包含一条德国毛瑟98k步枪的生产线、一条捷克ZB26轻机枪的生产线、一条德国MG34通用机枪的生产线、一条法国1897式75野战炮的生产线。

There is also a production line for 7.9257mm rifle cartridges and a production line for 75mm shells.

In this era, steel represents strength.

Whether it is the weapons of the army or the warships of the navy, steel is needed to make them.

If Zhou Rui can successfully build this steel plant with an annual output of 500 million tons of crude steel, and then build an arsenal with six production lines, it will be equivalent to giving the Zhou family two wings that can take off.

It's a pity that it is by no means an easy task to build a steel factory and an arsenal. The biggest difficulty facing Zhou Rui is the lack of people.

Without enough technicians and workers, even if the Zhou family extracts more than [-] pieces of equipment from the iron and steel factory and six production lines from the arsenal, they can only be used as decorations.

The German Wiesbaden-class light cruiser has a full load displacement of 6600 tons and a top speed of 27.5 knots.

装备了8门45倍口径150毫米主炮，2门45倍口径88毫米高射炮，4具500毫米鱼雷发射管。

The side armor belt is 60 mm, the main deck armor is 25 to 60 mm, the main turret armor is 50 mm, and the crew is full of 474 people.

The coastal defense fleet does not lack capital ships, but it lacks escort warships. It got 12 German Wiesbaden-class light cruisers at once, which can be regarded as making up for the weakness of the coastal defense fleet.

12 50-jin gold bricks are equivalent to 6 million silver coins. Even Zhou Rui, who is now rich and powerful, can't help being a little excited when he sees the first reward of the four-star lottery card.

Zhou Rui only extracted a small part of the 50 billion catties of rice and 50 billion catties of flour that were issued by the four-star lottery card last time. He did not expect that this four-star lottery card would produce another 50 billion catties of rice and 50 billion catties of flour.

It seems that in the future, it will be difficult for the officers and soldiers of the Zhou family to eat rice melons.

Just after New Year's Eve, Zhou Rui paid a high price to buy a small steel factory near Panlong Mountain from a tiger businessman.

This small iron and steel plant has one iron-making furnace and two steel-making furnaces, with an annual output of about 1 tons of iron and about 2 tons of crude steel, including about 1 tons of rails.

Although there is no railway in Fengwu Town, Boting Town, Yannan Town and Beibei Town are all building railways, so the steel rails produced by this small steel factory are not worried about sales.

The small iron and steel factory Zhou Rui acquired also included an iron mine in Panlong Mountain.

The amount of iron ore reserves in this place has not been detected, but the entire mining area is very large, extending to the depths of Panlong Mountain, so the iron ore reserves should not be small.

Zhou Rui plans to hire professionals to conduct a survey of the iron ore reserves of this iron mine. If the iron ore reserves are still good, Zhou Rui plans to sell the steel company with an annual output of 500 million tons of crude steel in the lottery system. The factory was built directly on Panlong Mountain.

And there is another advantage of building this super-large steel plant in Panlong Mountain, that is, there will be no shortage of coal needed for steelmaking. After all, the real coal storage capacity of the Heigou Coal Mine in Panlong Mountain exceeds 40 billion tons. The largest mineable coal mine in the world.

In fact, a small iron and steel factory with only 1 ironmaking furnace and 2 steelmaking furnaces, even with a mining area with no proven iron ore reserves, is not worth Zhou Rui's full 1000 million silver coins.

The reason why Zhou Rui was willing to pay a high price to acquire this steel factory was that what Zhou Rui valued the most was that in addition to the boss being a member of the Tiger clan, the factory manager and the workers down to the ordinary were all human beings.

More than 30 technicians and more than 400 steel workers, many of them were brought from the Red Tiger Empire by the Tiger Clan boss.

With these technicians and steel workers who know how to make steel as seeds, the steel plant with an annual output of 500 million tons of crude steel is no longer a dream.

In addition, Zhou Rui also asked Cheng Xianhou to ask the rebel army to help continue to recruit technicians and workers from steel factories, as well as technicians and workers from arsenals in the six orc countries.

Of course, Zhou Rui will not let go of some steel factories and arsenals in the territory of the Han and Tang Empires, and plans to hire a group of technicians and workers with high salaries.

Anyway, Zhou Rui is willing to spend as much money as long as he can build the super-large steel factory and arsenal opened by the lottery system.

The tree wants to be quiet but the wind doesn't stop. When Zhou Rui was busy preparing to build a super-large steel factory and arsenal, something big happened on Xiangshi Island.

Chapter 93 Don't Admit Cowardly

On the morning of January 1537, 1, in the conference room of the headquarters building of the Ganyang Garrison Division, the atmosphere was very depressing.

Zhou Xiaorong said to Zhou Rui and dozens of high-ranking officers of the Zhou family's navy and army in a deep voice: "Longella, the commander of the Third Fleet of the Silver Wolf Empire Navy, has just issued an ultimatum to Xiangshi City.

Request Xiangshi City to release the two wolf soldiers who were imprisoned within 24 hours, and hand over all the officers and soldiers of the city defense battalion involved in this matter, and compensate the three wolf soldiers who died with 3000 million silver coins, otherwise”

Zhou Rui sullenly said, "What else?"

"Otherwise, the Third Fleet of the Silver Wolf Empire Navy will completely destroy Xiangshi City!"

"Pa" Zhou Rui slapped the table hard, "It's so deceiving! Could it be that Longela thinks that Xiangshi City is a colony of their Silver Wolf Empire!

They werewolves can do whatever they want in Xiangshi City!

If they die, they have to pay for their lives, but what about us!People died here too! "

I can't blame Zhou Rui for being a little out of breath. The Zhou family has a reason for this matter.

A few days ago, a squad of 13 soldiers in the newly established city defense battalion in Xiangshi City encountered five drunk werewolf men who were beating two peddlers on the street when they were patrolling the street.

Thirteen soldiers went over to stop it immediately, but unfortunately one of the peddlers had already been beaten to death at this time, and the other peddler was also exhaling more gas than breathing in, so I don't know if he can be saved.

As for the reason why the five wolves beat up the two peddlers, it was only because one of the peddlers accidentally bumped into one of the hawkers because of the burden he was carrying.

As a result, without saying a word, the five werewolves rushed forward and began to gang up on the two peddlers who were carrying the burden.

In fact, things like this were not news in Xiangshi City before.

Fragrant Stone City is the nearest city to Pusha Island where the Third Fleet of the Silver Wolf Empire Navy is stationed.

The wolf officers and soldiers of the Third Fleet of the Silver Wolf Empire Navy often come to Xiangshi City to play during their holidays, and as long as these wolf officers and soldiers drink alcohol, they will definitely cause trouble.

Before the Zhou family took over Xiangshi City, innocent people in Xiangshi City would be beaten to death by drunk wolf officers and soldiers every year.

However, because the Jinshui Zhou family was afraid of provoking the Silver Wolf Empire, if such a thing happened, the major incident would be reduced to a minor one, and the people who were beaten to death could only consider themselves unlucky.

In order to prevent such a thing from happening again, Zhou Rui specially dispatched a group of officers and soldiers to set up the Xiangshi City Defense Battalion, and strictly ordered the merchants in Xiangshi City to limit the supply of alcohol to the wolf tribe.

The squad leader who led the team, after learning about the cause and effect from the passers-by, immediately ordered the soldiers to arrest all five wolf tribe members.

However, the five werewolves might have drunk too much, and they even took out their pistols to resist.

After a brief gun battle, three werewolves were killed on the spot, and two others were injured and captured. Two of the 13 soldiers in the city defense battalion were also killed and one was seriously injured.

Two surrounding civilians were also shot and wounded by the wolf tribe.