A week later, on the morning of a week, Zheng Yi wore a canvas overalls and stepped on fur shoes, standing at the highest point of the Swire Company's Whampoa Dock on the north bank of the Pearl River. ”

Zheng Yi shook his head after venting, turned around and walked down the cement stairs, originally thought that the Whampoa Military Academy, which was nine out of ten, would never be able to enter, but the most difficult to enter the British imperialist sole proprietorship enterprise easily came in after meeting him. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

"Zheng, from today onwards, you will be responsible for replacing the boiler of the 'Sanshui' shipyard No. 4, and the workers will be selected by you, but there shall be no more than eight people, and it must be completed within five days."

Shipyard manager Mark Brown, who is tall and weighs at least two hundred and fifty pounds. Levin shouted loudly in the shade at the edge of the workshop.

Zheng Yi glanced at the old river steamship in the dock to the east, strode past the material dump that several workers were cleaning, and walked to the one-meter-nine-tall mark. In front of Levin:

"Dear Mark, according to the regulations, it will take me two weeks to gradually familiarize myself with the personnel structure of the shipyard, the management methods, the machining workshop, the foundry workshop, the storage warehouse and all four large and small docks, but today is only my sixth day in the shipyard, and I am not qualified to immediately take on the heavy responsibility of leading a working group, although there is no technical difficulty in replacing two old small steam boilers and completing a routine maintenance."

Mark, whose nose was red, softened in his heart, pointed to the westernmost dock, and said in a low voice: "If you refused the invitation yesterday morning and did not attend the technical meeting chaired by Willy, the proud Willy would not have had to change the overhaul plan, and Mr. White, who drinks coffee in the luxurious office of the Shamian Concession every day, would not have called me and asked me to end your adaptation period and enter the working state in advance." ”

Zheng Yi was quite helpless: "Engineer Willie is unhappy? ”

"No, no! Don't look at him as difficult to accept on the surface, in fact, he admires you very much, when he drank with me last night, he sighed with emotion, how can he not figure out that there is a monster like you in poor and backward China. Mark shrugged, clumsy like a big bear.

Zheng Yi had no choice but to accept it: "Okay, eight Chinese workers are enough, and I wonder why there are 325 people on the employee roster, but now it looks like there are less than 200 people?" ”

Mark smiled bitterly: "Since last year, the shipbuilding and ship repair industry in the Far East has become increasingly competitive, the disgusting American cowboy and the short-sighted Japanese dwarf have multiplied the industrial and commercial investment in the Far East, and wantonly acquired shipyards, and the damn Germans have returned after their wounds, if it weren't for the whole of Guangdong and Fujian as our traditional sphere of influence, our situation would be even worse." ”

"Despite this, our Shanghai shipyard owned by Swire had to be sold to the Shanghai chaebol under the vicious competition of the Americans, so that we could concentrate funds to upgrade equipment and technology and expand the scale of the two major shipyards in Hong Kong and Singapore, so the senior engineers and nearly half of the skilled workers of the Guangzhou shipyard were transferred to Hong Kong."

Zheng Yi could only sigh secretly after listening to it, nodded and did not continue to go deeper on this topic, he didn't plan to wait for a long time, if there was no hope of entering the Whampoa Military Academy before the end of the year, he would not hesitate to leave Guangzhou.

Time flies, time flies, and in the blink of an eye, the hot summer season is hurrying in, and before you know it, Zheng Yi has been in Swire Pacific's Whampoa Shipyard for three months.

In these three months, Zheng Yi's profound knowledge and superb technical ability gradually showed, easy-going personality and rigorous and realistic professionalism won the heartfelt praise of the whole plant Chinese and foreign employees, in three months, he led a team of 25 people successfully completed the overhaul of four small steam cargo ships, two 800-ton bulk carriers power transformation, and also assisted the technical supervisor Willis as the chief technician, bent into the 4,500-ton Norwegian freighter diesel engine technical transformation, his monthly salary also from the beginning of the 60 oceans per month, It soared to the present 150 oceans.

The success of his career did not bring Zheng Yi much happiness, every day he habitually looked at the military academy on the south bank of the river, whether it was heavy rain or dense fog, every day he cared about what happened in that military school and the situation of the entire revolutionary camp.

Although the entrance examination for the first batch of students in the second phase of Huangpu is close at hand, and the registration of the second batch of students is underway, Zheng Yi understands that he will not have his own chance, and he already knows that his complaints on May 1 have caused a lot of negative impacts, offended many people, and it is likely that he will cut off his Huangpu road because of this.

Under such circumstances, Zheng Yi can only patiently wait for things to fade before he can apply again, as long as he can take the third or fourth phase of the entrance exam, he can achieve the set goal.

The long wait was very torturous, and whenever he was bored, Zheng Yi would join a football team of more than a dozen ghost technicians, guards and managers, and after finishing work, he would go wild on the humble court at the back of the factory, gambling a few small bucks and sweating profusely, for which he was often kicked by his annoyed teammates and his legs and feet were bruised, and he still enjoyed it.

In addition to going to Ade for a drink and chat on the weekend, Zheng Yi stayed in the spacious and simple shipyard dormitory every night, either standing on the pile to practice boxing, or studying military books all night, and has written hundreds of thousands of words of experience, reading through the "French Army Artillery Drill Code" presented by Mark, the latest revision of the British Army's "Shooting Training Course" and "Military Surveying", every day is extremely fulfilling, unconsciously the fair skin has become a healthy wheat color, the body is getting stronger and stronger, and the original two sets of youth clothes can no longer be worn, I had to take advantage of my day off to go into town and buy a few sets of clothes.

In August, Zheng Yi learned more about the world's most advanced diesel power technology and received the support of Mr. White, and quietly embarked on two ambitious "patented inventions" program:

The first item: on the basis of the Swiss engineer Butch supercharger, improve the turbine surface and exhaust system, put forward a new calculation method, and design a new revolutionary supercharger, so that the power of the two-stroke marine diesel engine is increased by 40 percent, and the fuel consumption is reduced by 15 percent.

The second item: the invention of submarine snorkel technology, the specific design is to lift the movable air intake pipe out of the water surface by the hydraulic action cylinder, and the air enters the air intake tube and leads to the engine room along the air intake pipeline, which supplies the diesel engine to work normally, and the exhaust gas is discharged into the water along the exhaust pipe. The upper part of the movable air intake cylinder is equipped with a float valve, when the swell makes the seawater enter the air intake cylinder, the float valve automatically closes to prevent the seawater from entering the cabin through the air intake cylinder, and a brake is installed on the guide cylinder to prevent the snorkel from automatically descending after it is raised.

This design greatly enhances the concealment and submarine capability of the submarine, and is of great military significance.

Just when Zheng Yi was devoting all his energy to "invention and creation", the situation in Guangzhou began to be turbulent, and the contradictions between the Nationalist government led by Mr. Zhongshan and the Guangzhou merchant groups supported by British forces became increasingly acute, almost to the point of breaking out.

On 5 August, the company's manager, White, suddenly arrived by boat with more than a dozen guards, convened a meeting of all the management personnel, including Zheng Yi, to give a detailed account of the grim situation facing the Guangdong merchant group and the violent clashes that might be triggered at any time, solemnly warned all the managers not to leave the concession or the factory in the near future, and ordered the shipyard guards to distribute the 50 Enfield rifles and 20,000 rounds of ammunition he had brought with him to the young and loyal workers.

In the end, White gave Zheng Yi a Browning 1910 pistol with a holster and two boxes of ammunition, telling Zheng Yi that he could shoot immediately in case of danger, and that Swire would bear all the consequences.

Only then did Zheng Yi know that the ghosts who usually work with him all had weapons, and nearly half of them had more than two firearms.

At noon on the third day, the Whampoa Military Academy's special transport ship, which had never been close to the Taikoo Shipyard, arrived at the dock of the Taikoo Shipyard under the tow of a small cargo ship.

But no matter how much they pleaded, the guarded factory guards were unmoved.

The shouting alarmed Zheng Yi, who was supervising the production of accessories in the foundry workshop, and he quickly came to the dock by the river, signaled the more and more gunmen who gathered not to act rashly, and then walked to the factory guard captain Felt and asked the reason in a low voice.

After getting Felt's approval, Zheng Yi walked to the edge of the dock and asked kindly in Chinese: "Do you commanders want to repair the ship?" ”

The officers and soldiers on the ship immediately breathed a sigh of relief, and the middle-aged officer led by him walked a few steps to the bow of the ship with a red border flag in the blue sky and white sun, and replied loudly:

"Yes, yes, I, Yu Feipeng, deputy director of the quartermaster department of the Huangpu Military Academy, I am in this newly bought traffic ship engine bearing fracture can not start, these two days all over the large and small shipyards along the river, none of them will repair this complex new diesel engine, everyone said, the whole Guangzhou only your shipyard has the technology to repair and manufacture new diesel ships, no way we can only rush over, please help a lot of hope."

Zheng Yi saw at a glance that this traffic ship of less than 300 tons was a second-hand repainted after refit, and it looked bright on the outside, but it was actually an old old-fashioned inland river transport ship, although it could be repaired by itself, but in the current hostile situation, Zheng Yi did not dare to risk offending most of the management personnel of the factory Next, he couldn't bear to refuse Chief Yu Feipeng, after all, the Guangzhou Revolutionary Government and the Guangzhou business group could fight at any time, and once the war started, this ship was very important.

After several months of observation, Zheng Yi knew very well that the Whampoa Military Academy only had three small diesel boats, and among the three ships, only this one could carry hundreds of people, and the other two were small boats that traveled between Huangpu Port and Tianzi Wharf, with a length of no more than 15 meters, and could carry up to 30 people.

The officers and soldiers on the ship saw that Zheng Yi, who was easy to talk, was silent for a long time, and couldn't help but be anxious, Zheng Yi thought about it for a long time, and returned to Felt's side to explain in a low voice, and then walked to the edge of the dock again regardless of Felt's attitude: "Throw the cable over, I'll go up and check it." ”

Yu Feipeng was overjoyed and hurriedly ordered the guards to throw the cable.

Zheng Yi caught it with one hand and pulled it hard, and without waiting for the ship to get close to the flying body, he strode to the back of the cockpit at the stern, and got into the hatch that had already been opened to inspect it carefully.

Ten minutes later, Zheng Yi asked Yu Feipeng, who came behind him, "Sir Yu, this ship is a refurbished old ship!" The age of the ship is at least 20 years, this diesel engine manufactured by the Swiss company Sulzer is also a product before the world war, the gearbox does not match at all, as long as the speed exceeds the load too fast, it is easy to cause the spindle to break, even if it is repaired, it will not take long, only by replacing the main engine and gearbox can the problem be completely solved. ”

Yu Feipeng said bitterly in his heart, he didn't understand the ship, let alone its technology, but he knew that this was a refurbished ship, but it was Song Ziwen who was in charge of finance who spent 250,000 Hong Kong dollars to buy this ship!

Zheng Yi shook his head and got out of the hatch, Yu Feipeng hurriedly grabbed him: "Your surname?" ”

"Don't let your surname be Zheng, and Chief Yu can tell me if I have something to say." Zheng Yi replied politely.

Yu Feipeng hurriedly made a request: "Xiao Zheng, see if you can help us with this, no matter what happens in the future, thank God if we can repair it as soon as possible and deal with it, this is the only ship in the military academy that can transport troops, it is very important!" ”

Zheng Yi explained apologetically: "I am absolutely willing to help with this, no matter what, I have always stood on the position of the revolution, but I can't call the shots!" ”

"Now that the relationship between the Nationalist Government and the merchants and the British is unprecedentedly tense, the Taikoo Shipyard will never help the military academy repair this ship, alas! I'm sorry, Mr. Yu, I suggest you contact the shipyard in Hong Kong, as far as I know, there are two shipyards in Hong Kong that are not technically under our Swire Shipyard. ”

After Zheng Yi finished speaking, he turned around and left, and quickly jumped on the dock and ordered everyone to disperse.

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