Many people think that Zhang Xueliang can achieve such a high status. This is inseparable from the good country left to him by his father. This sentence still makes sense. Just look at the arsenal left by his father to see the enormous scale. The republic of China period produced the most. He left his son with a pair of good teeth, enough to shake the Japanese helmet.
Although Mr. Zhang has no culture, he knows that "science and technology are the primary productive forces" and watches as foreigners' ship guns bully the old lady Cixi. She understood that in order to have a good body, she must practice her "thick arms and big fists", so in 1921, she sat down in the northeast, established an arsenal in Shenyang, and hired many foreign technical talents to participate in weapons production. Internal research cultivates a group of talents. At that time, there were nearly 8,000 production equipment and 10,000 employees. On the other hand, the Jin Line, the Central Army, and the Gui Line at that time were not enough to match.
With the strong support of the marshal, the production capacity is quite considerable. Each year, it can produce 60,000 self-produced, self-sufficient, non-external guns, hundreds of millions of bullets, thousands of light and heavy machine guns, and even heavy machine guns (that is, unused). Commanders learned advanced techniques from the United States and Germany in terms of weapons. The weapons made were no worse than those of the Japanese.
Unfortunately, the "9/18 Incident" happened. The Japanese army occupied the entire Shenyang military factory without spending a single soldier, and the marshal's painstaking efforts were destroyed. In 1931, the Japanese army launched the September 18 Incident, which shocked China and foreign countries. In less than 24 hours, Fengtian City was taken, and even the built military factory was connected. When the Japanese Kwantung Army entered the arsenal and opened the gates, they were surprised to find that there were hundreds of cannons in the warehouse, including 240 mm field heavy artillery. If such a weapon were put into the battlefield, it would cause heavy casualties to the Japanese army.
According to Japan's post-war statistics, they captured a total of 150,000 rifles, more than 2,000 light and heavy machine guns, more than 600 mortars, more than 200 cannons, and a large amount of ammunition. These weapons are enough to arm several divisions
The arsenal has thousands of employees and tens of thousands of workers throughout the arsenal, including experts hired at high salaries from abroad. In the arsenal, there are thousands of machines, mainly divided into three factories of guns and ammunition. It can produce rifles, light machine guns and heavy machine guns, as well as mortars, mountain guns and field guns. However, having said all this, it is a real pity that with the collapse of the Northeast Army, the arsenal fell into the hands of the Japanese army.