On the night of January 12, 1920, Niu Delu committed suicide at home at one o'clock in the morning. He wrote a deep repentance on the website and hoped that Xiushuai would not implicate his children.

After learning about Niu Delu's suicide, Wang Maoru sighed helplessly. Niu Delu was too stupid. He was taking the crime for his brother-in-law Liu Qun and also taking the life for the whole family. In order to calm the morale of the army, Wang Maoru announced to He Rufei that Niu Delu, deputy minister of the General Staff, died of an acute heart disease last night and failed to treat it. Although He Rufei did not know the truth about Niu Delu's suicide, he also felt that he must have committed Wang Maoru's most unforgivable taboo in some places, so that he wanted to atone for his sins by committing suicide.

However, suicide can only protect his children, but it cannot help Liu Qun get shelter.

On January 14, 1920, Liu Qun, who was deeply in crisis, entered the Japanese Consulate in Chenyang for political refuge. Wang Maoru immediately ordered a first-level pursuit order against Liu Qun. His relatives were attacked by agents from the CIA. All of Liu Qun's property was confiscated, and all of his relatives were confiscated. Among his relatives, only his sister survived because she was Niu Delu's family, but the embezzled property of Niu Delu and Liu Qun were also confiscated.

After verification by the Central Intelligence Department of the General Security Department, Niu Delu embezzled up to 2 million silver dollars, and Liu Qun embezzled up to 1 million silver dollars. The amount of embezzlement of the two accounts for one-third of the total resettlement costs of the wounded soldiers. Two-thirds of the three million silver dollars were found in the Japanese Bank in Shenyang. The Japanese Bank threatened that in order to protect the interests of customers, it would never hand over this part of the money, causing the National Defense Force to lose two million for no reason.

Hearing this news, Wang Maoru was furious. He immediately ordered all officers and public officials in the army to deposit all financial income into the three designated banks of the Republic of China, namely the Huaxia National Bank, which belongs to the Northeast Government, the Bank of Communications, which belongs to the Beijing government, and the Northern People's Bank of China, which belongs to the Northeast Government. He also informed the entire army of this matter, hoping that the soldiers would take it as a warning. In order to prevent the impact from being too bad, He Rufei suggested that the army report but required all soldiers to keep it confidential and not disclose half of the information to the outside world. Wang Maoru's approval was obtained.

It was not until the corruption incident of Niu Delu and Liu Qun was exposed, Niu Delu died strangely and the first-degree pursuit order for Liu Qun were revealed. It turned out that the two of them did commit Xiushuai's taboo, and greed for Mo's military spending and treason were unforgivable serious crimes.

When Wang Maoru learned that Liu Qun was hiding in the Japanese Consulate, Wang Maoru urgently summoned the Japanese Consul in Shenyang Matsumoto Masao Matsumoto hoped that the other party would hand over Liu Qun. Masao Masao Masao received instructions from the Japanese Kwantung Army and refused Wang Maoru's request. Wang Maoru was so angry that he cursed Japan for me to wait. Get out! Masao Masao Masao did not expect that Wang Maoru would scold him so rudely, so angry that he couldn't say a word, so he turned his head and left. Then Wang Maoru asked the State Council to make a noise. Huaxia National Bank was preparing to issue new currencies to replace the second-generation RMB with insufficient anti-counterfeiting. This news really surprised the Japanese financial community. The first-generation RMB was exchanged one-to-one ratio with silver dollars, and the purpose of replacing the second-generation RMB was very simple, because the Northeast government had no money and they were going to issue RMB indiscriminately. The bonds purchased by the Japanese bank were settled in RMB. If the RMB depreciated, the Japanese financial community would suffer heavy losses.

The Japanese Harasu government had no choice but to send a secret message to Shenyang Consul Masao Masao Masao, asking him to release Liu Qun. However, Wang Maoru has angered the Japanese government several times, which has aroused strong dissatisfaction from the Japanese government.

When Liu Qun was sent by the Japanese, he was already dead. He was afraid of being retaliated against more serious revenge and committed suicide by placing opium. After the Niu Liu incident broke out, Wang Mao ordered the entire army to conduct an anti-corruption storm first. He asked all departments to conduct self-inspection. Those who should be dismissed should be severely handled and should never be tolerated. However, the self-inspection can only be investigated. Luo Hao suggested that the Central Information Department be responsible for the investigation. Wang Maoru said in a deep voice: "It is enough to kill the chicken to warn the monkey." Luo Hao knew what Wang Maoru meant, so he never asked again. After this anti-corruption storm, the greed atmosphere that had just begun to be revealed immediately turned back.

By going to Europe to participate in the war and interfering with Russia, the Defense Army discovered a very serious problem in the military, that is, the problem of rifle bullets stuck. The way to solve this problem is very simple. Because the previous bullets were all flange bullets, just replace them with concave bullets - but this design reached an extremely important point, that is, the 450,000 people in the entire army and police force needed to be reorganized, what a huge project it was.

Wang Maoru threw this problem to Liu Qingen, the new director of the Military Department of the General Logistics Department. Liu Qingen looked at the problem and laughed and said, "Xiu Shuai, you only need to change three parts, which is enough, and there is no need to replace the gun." Wang Maoru was overjoyed and immediately ordered Liu Qingen to carry out the reform, and first used the 8th Division of the National Defense Forces for experiments.

Liu Qingen accepted the task happily and then reported the progress of the Northeast Arsenal this year. The Northeast Arsenal now has two systems, one is the three continental armies belonging to the Army Department, and the other is the Saltu Aircraft Manufacturing Plant belonging to the Air Force Department. Liu Qingen's meaning is to incorporate the aircraft manufacturing plant into the Army Department. In fact, in this era, the Air Force has not yet become the first armies, and the air forces of all countries are based on the Army Air Force. Liu Qingen's proposal Wang Maoru considered the characteristics of this era. Indeed, the aircraft at this stage are mainly auxiliary armies of the Army and the Navy, and there is no ability to fight alone, so Liu Qingen's suggestion was approved to manage all armies in the Northeast, and the aircraft manufacturing plant will be designated as the fourth armies of the National Defense Forces.

Last year, the First Arsenal of the Qiqihar National Defense Force produced a total of 200 million ammunition, but the average of 450,000 troops in the National Defense Force was only 444 rounds. In the Republic of China, this was already an extremely abundant ammunition reserve. However, when Russia was fighting, the Chinese Intervention Army had to receive 20 million bullets from Britain, otherwise the entire Chinese Intervention Army would stay there. The switchboard produced e1s, that is, the total number of e1 short rifles was 60,000, and repaired and modified guns was as high as 100,000, which fully guaranteed the number of armies of the Northeast Army. Since the First Arsenal devoted all its energy to rifles and bullet production, other armies fell into a halt.

The Second Arsenal of the Chenyang National Defense Forces produced 500,000 long-handled grenades and 200,000 steel helmets last year.

The most valued by Wang Maoru is the Third Arsenal of the National Defense Forces built in Acheng County, Binjiang Prefecture. It has now started construction and is trying to produce the first tank modified by a tractor. Based on his memory, Wang Maoru drew out the shape of a famous tank, Israeli Mekava tank, in the future. This is the only tank shape that Wang Maoru remembers, because the birthday gift from his classmates when he was in college was the assembly of this Mekava tank. Wang Maoru spent two nights and checked a lot of information and finally finished assembly. He joked to his classmates that he could make Mekava in the future - of course this is a joke, but Wang Maoru knew about its shape and the general internal structure.

However, Wang Maoru's plan was opposed by the American designers of the Third Arsenal. The reason for their opposition made Wang Maoru unable to refute it. Because the black soil in the Northeast is soft, the Mercava tank with an overall design of 60 tons is probably going to fall into the soft land without running a few steps. Of course, the most important reason is that no engine factory can develop an engine that can drive a 60 tons machinery. In other words, Wang Maoru's plan is a fantasy in the eyes of American designers.

However, American engineers took out a ten-ton tank light tank scheme they developed in the United States. The shape of the entire tank is similar to that of the French Snyder assault tank. This tall shape cannot escape the shape of the British Mark V series tank. The strange armored tracks and the shape like a sarcoma, which made Wang Maoru unbearable. He told the American designer: "This kind of tank is about to be eliminated, but no, it has been eliminated." The American designer had no choice but to come up with another tank scheme, namely the French "Renault" ft-17 light tank. The structure and manufacturing of this tank have long been well-known by American designers. Only a few parts need to be modified, so there is no need to consider the issue of special train rights.

However, this tank was also opposed by Wang Maoru. The armored tracks of this tank weighing seven tons are too easy to attack. It seems that too advanced tanks cannot be accepted in this era, and the tanks of this era are too backward - of course, this is in line with the historical concept of development. But China has no time and no time to do this step by step. Together with the American designer, he first determined the use of the tank. This tank is suitable for northern China and can be used in cold winter weather and windy and sandy weather. Due to the wide land, the tank has a long endurance. At the same time, this tank is enough to withstand the so-called "75mm heavy artillery" in the Sino-** Valhalla war. In short, the design of this tank is to fight against domestic warlords rather than to fight abroad.

Therefore, the first thing that was decided was the engine of the tank, which was a four-cylinder water-cooled gasoline engine produced by the British Rolls-Royce Company, with a power of 66.3 kilowatts (that is, 90 horsepower). Then it was determined that the tank's artillery, the Krupp 75mm field gun that could be produced by the Northeast First Arsenal, was able to produce itself, and the machine gun was a Maxim heavy machine gun. The thickness of the tank's armor was 15 to 20 mm, the thickness of the front armor was as high as 100 mm, and the thickness of the gears on both sides was 60 mm.

Due to the gun caliber and the power of the engine, this tank is determined to be a light tank. The tank itself weighs 13 tons and is circulating for five people. It consists of a driver, gunner, auxiliary gunner, machine gun shooter and auxiliary shooter and tank length. The height of the tank is shorter than all tanks at this stage, but its width increases, making it more modern tank shape. At the same time, the turret adopts a rotatable turret designed by the Renault ft-17, but due to gun caliber, the rotation angle of the tank is only 140 degrees.

Wang Maoru was very happy that he participated in this design, but the American designers were not satisfied, because the shape of the tank completely subverted the European war tank shape, which seemed so weird in their eyes. The designers took a closer look, I'm sorry, how to design it, it's so similar to the Mercava tank proposed by Wang Maoru. It's a reduced version of Mercava. It turns out that this Chinese marshal never forgets the 60-ton heavy tank. Everyone couldn't help but shake their heads and smile bitterly.
Chapter completed!