Chapter 102: The Third Great Smoke War (3)

"Dudu, it's finally solved!" Li Ziguo, the head of the steel center, rushed into Wei Ze's office like a firetruck sounding the alarm. That voice really has a deafening momentum.

By this time it was December 1857, and Weeser had been withdrawn from the steel works in November to resume normal work. Just when Wei Ze was dealing with Wen Jiàn, he couldn't help but shudder when he heard a voice. Teng stood up, and Wei Ze stared at Li Ziguo who rushed in.

"After using the new beneficiation and washing machine, the quality of the steel is finally passable!" Standing in front of Wei Ze, Li Ziguo's excited hands were trembling, and the muscles on his face were trembling involuntarily.

"How many tests did you do?" Weezer asked aloud.

"Ten furnaces of steel in a row are fine, and the quality is much better than expected. It seems that this is the problem! The muscles on Li Ziguo's face twitched and said.

Wei Ze couldn't help but feel weak, and sat back in his chair with some weakness. If Li Ziguo came up with other reasons, Wei Ze would not have fully believed it. However, Li Ziguo proposed that the steelmaking problem was solved after the application of the concentrator and the ore washer, and Wei Ze could not help but believe it.

In the end, the industrial exhibition is terrible, and how high the requirements for the will of investors are, Wei Ze really realized it. In the same way, Weeser finally understood what industrial accumulation was. The iron ore base of the Guangfu Governor's Mansion is the Dabaoshan open-pit iron mine in Shaoguan, which has a mining history of thousands of years, and has been mined for thousands of years. There is a problem with the quality of steelmaking, and Wei Ze is not an expert in iron smelting, and he can't solve it. So he could only take out the last of what he had heard and use it. That is beneficiation and washing.

The steel produced by the successful production of open-hearth steelmaking in the early days was used in the manufacture of ore crushing, beneficiation and washing equipment. These are big guys, and the amount of steel needed is huge. In this era, more than a dozen tons of steel is not a small amount, let alone an ordinary resource. The equipment and manpower required to process more than a dozen tons of steel are even more terrible inputs. For the large-scale equipment of this era, the production capacity of many equipment made of more than a dozen tons of steel does not seem to be remarkable. Wei Ze only relied on his ruthlessness to withstand countless complaints.

After a lot of investment and a year of hard work by a scientific and technological team of hundreds of people, it is finally a result. It is nothing more than that Li Ziguo, a cadre at the division level, can be so excited that he can almost hold himself.

After all, Wei Ze is a governor, and he is a person who has seen the industry of the 21st century. The breakthrough of the open-hearth furnace is a big deal, but it will not make Wei Ze feel that it will end here. He ordered: "When I go back, I will start designing an open-hearth that is twice as big as it is now." ”

After finishing speaking, Wei Ze remembered something more important, "I will give everyone a credit and a certificate of honor." Bonus! If you go back and tell your comrades, I will personally hold a celebration banquet to celebrate with everyone! ”

"Good! Good! Li Ziguo said dizzily. He didn't have the insight of Wei Ze to participate in such a project, and he worked hard to complete the work, Li Ziguo only felt that the whole person was fluttering, and whatever Wei Ze said, he answered with "good".

After sending Li Ziguo away, before Wei Ze had time to digest his joy, the secretary ran in happily, "Governor, the comrades who went to Britain are back!" ”

Wei Ze was overjoyed at first, and then couldn't help but slap his hands heavily on the table, "Thank God! They're finally back! ”

Naturally, the attitude of the British towards the Liberation Army will not be friendly, and sending people to Britain is naturally taking a big risk. Now that these comrades have finally returned after nine months, Wei Ze naturally feels extremely lucky.

Going to Britain to lead the team was Ke Gongyu, as well as a number of cadres from military and technical departments. When they returned to their homeland, they were naturally very excited. Especially when I arrived at Foshan Wharf, I saw Wei Ze among the people waiting at the wharf. Ke Gongyu got off the boat and rushed to Wei Ze, Wei Ze stretched out his hand, and Ke Gongyu simply jumped up and hugged Wei Ze, "Dudu, but you want to kill me." After saying that, Ke Gongyu couldn't help crying.

Wei Changrong didn't expect Ke Gongyu to be so excited after not seeing him for a few months. He laughed and said, "What did you encounter along the way?" Why are you crying? ”

Ke Gongyu let go of Wei Ze and stepped forward to grab Wei Changrong's arm, "I have encountered a lot of things along the way, and I have felt several times that I am afraid that I will not be able to return here, and I will never see everyone again!" ”

Hearing Ke Gongyu's words, other comrades also felt the same way, and many people also burst into tears.

"Home! It's good to be back! Weser didn't want to make the situation too much of a crying either.

Ke Gongyu and the others went to rest first, and the next day they held a meeting of the Central Committee members.

"Britain is really good!" As soon as Ke Gongyu opened his mouth, Wei Ze was very satisfied. At this time, Britain, as the world's largest industrial country, naturally had a strong strength. Moreover, London really did not expect that the Restoration Governor's Mansion would send a delegation of more than 20 people to visit the United Kingdom, and I don't know if they thought that they could use the strength of Britain to deter the people who recovered the Governor's Mansion, in short, Britain did not make it difficult for these Chinese who had shaved their shorts. Over the course of more than three months, the delegation visited London, Manchester and other major cities in the UK.

According to the list that Weeser gave to the delegation, they not only visited the city, the port, and took the train. I also visited the university, museum, library and other facilities. There was even a visit to the Royal Academy of Sciences. Members of the delegations also brought back personal photographs taken as well as group photographs.

One of the team members smiled and said: "Dudu, we were afraid that after being photographed in at first, even our souls would be gone." If it weren't for Commander Ke taking the lead in taking pictures, he really wouldn't dare! ”

Weser didn't care about any of this at all, and he asked, "How does it feel to sit on the train?" ”

"It's really scary for that iron dragon to sit on! And he saw the trees and fields on both sides, and they were running back as fast as they could. ”

"Just the front of a car the size of a house and a half can drive so many old cars. This is terrifying! ”

"Governor, we also have to learn to build trains!"

The team members talked about their impressions of the train. While the other personnel looked at the pictures of the train, they listened to the comrades who went to England blowing the thing in the clouds, mountains and fog, some listened stupidly, and some showed strong expressions of envy on their faces. Some of them were too jealous, and they couldn't help but show disapproving looks on their faces.

Wei Ze listened to everyone's story, and he was quite satisfied in his heart. You have to see the industrialized countries for what they really are, so that you can know where to go.

Most of these people who went to England were not good at writing, so Weeser asked them to go and sort out what they had seen and heard with the recorders first. Of course, there are a few members of the staff who know a little bit about sketching. Some of the sketches they brought back were more images for everyone to imagine.

This kind of meeting, which needs to be described by everyone, continued, but Wei Ze called Ke Gongyu and the translator to his office first. Closing the door, Weeser asked, "Have you seen Mr. Marx?" "That's what Weeser cares about the most.

"I saw Mr. Ma." Ke Gongyu replied.

"What does Mr. Ma say?" As soon as Wei Ze saw that there were no foreigners in the team, he knew that the matter of inviting people this time should have failed to achieve the goal.

Ke Gongyu replied: "Mr. Ma asked us a lot of things, and he is very grateful to the governor for giving him money. He said that he would help us contact Mr. En, but whether Mr. En would come to China or not, there was no guarantee. ”

After saying this, Ke Gongyu looked at Wei Ze, and seeing that Wei Ze did not show too disappointed looks, he continued, "Mr. Ma doesn't seem to approve of the construction of an industrial socialist system in an agricultural country that you said about the governor. He thinks you've read some Cumminnathan books, but it doesn't seem to be quite the same as he thought. ”

Wei Ze listened to this evaluation and couldn't help but be happy. Before Lenin founded the Soviet Union, no one really thought that it would be possible to establish a socialist system in an unattainable country.

"However, Mr. Ma is very concerned about the letter you sent to him, and he asked me if you have been to Europe and the United States. I told him that you had been in China, but Mr. Ma didn't seem to believe it. Ke Gongyu said to Wei Ze with a little hesitation.

Wei Ze could only smile at this. The summary of the great social upheaval in Europe in 1848 must have a large amount of information and comprehensive reflection from later generations, and Weeser himself was deeply impressed after reading other people's articles.

Ke Gongyu continued: "Also, Mr. Ma sent you a lot of books. He said that there was a new first draft of his work in it. Be sure to read it and write back to him. ”

Weeser himself was not able to read the English version of the book, and it was not clear to Weeser whether the first draft of Marx was in English or German. He changed the subject, "What do you think after you go to the UK?" ”

"We can beat Britain because Britain is so far away from us!" Ke Gongyu said from the bottom of his heart, "I have seen some British warships from afar at the docks, and the big ships are made of iron. If that kind of ship comes to our side, our current cannon won't be able to hit it at all. When I went to Hong Kong, I saw something amazing. Compared with the British mainland, it is not a problem at all. Governor, can you lead us to become more powerful than the British? If we can be better than the UK, then we can also fight the UK! ”

Wei Ze originally thought that Ke Gongyu could know that the sky was high and the earth was thick, and he could know that he had to learn and progress, which had completely achieved the purpose of sending them to the UK. I didn't expect Ke Gongyu to be able to say such a backbone in the end, nodded heavily, and Wei Ze said loudly: "We will definitely be able to do it!" ”

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