Zhu Jinglun arranged it, and the ministers of his own countries went to be busy. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

To be honest, their work is not difficult to do, and in this era, Europe is still very welcome to communicate with the East, mainly because they are willing to instill their various ideas in the Eastern countries, and they are quite good at being teachers.

The Prussian government expressed its willingness to accept official internships from the Ming Dynasty, in fact, they had accepted a large number of officers at all levels from the Ming Dynasty into their military schools, and now the Prime Minister of Prussia is Bismarck, not only for the Ming Dynasty, but also for the Japanese delegation in history.

The army was mainly sent to three countries, Prussia, France and Denmark, and all three countries had quite excellent army schools, not to mention Prussia and France, Denmark's military education was actually not weak, and Prussia's current chief of general staff, Mao Qi, actually graduated from the Royal Military Academy in Denmark.

Zhu Jinglun thought about it, this time he came with a group of officers, who were originally asked to train in the ocean, but now fortunately they all stayed and discussed with the British to see if they could be arranged to study in the British naval school.

As for the warships they brought, the ten sail steam warships were already facing elimination, so they told the British military academy that if they accepted them, these ships would be given to the military academy as training ships.

On the return trip, Zhu Jinglun only planned to take the Guangdong ironclad ship and some supply ships back, and those sailing ships were not needed.

In the next few days, Zhu Jinglun continued to visit the World Expo, such a big World Expo, there are really a lot of things to see.

He mainly focuses on various industrial equipment in Europe with Chen Qiyuan.

The accompanying members have different hobbies, some like all kinds of handicrafts, some like various luxury goods such as clocks and watches, some people care about new technological products such as telegraphs and telephones, and many people actually like the human exhibitions held by the French in the side halls, and are very interested in the various indigenous races captured by the French from the Americas, Africa and other corners of the world, fortunately there are no Chinese, otherwise Zhu Jinglun must be anxious with the French.

The Japanese later learned the habit of holding exhibitions from Europe, and they were very keen on holding various exhibitions, and once again exhibited the Chinese race at the exhibition, naming them Zhizhi, which also aroused the anger of the Manchu students at that time and almost smashed their pavilion.

In addition to the visit, as an Oriental monarch, he can give the Europeans of this era a sense of curiosity, although he himself dislikes this feeling, always feels as if he is being seen like a monkey, but he still gives interviews to some French journalists.

Not only in France, but also in the World Expo itself, as a major event, various countries have sent some reporters, such as the reporter sent by the United States is the later famous Mark Twain, Zhu Jinglun also accepted his interview, expressing his outlook for the relationship between Ming and the United States, after the interview, he learned that this reporter turned out to be Mark Twain, and he regretted that he did not have a good chat with him.

For three days, I have seen all the things that should be seen, of course the machine is still the best in the United Kingdom, 30 years ago the United Kingdom only licensed the export of machinery and equipment to countries around the world, in just 30 years the countries have not been able to surpass the United Kingdom, basically the countries do not have, the United Kingdom has, the countries have, the British is better.

The Belgian equipment is indeed comparable to that of the United Kingdom, for only one reason, the Belgian steel industry and machinery industry were built by British capital investment.

There is indeed a certain gap between the equipment of other Sweden, the equipment of Germany, and the equipment of France, compared with that of the United Kingdom.

It's just that in individual projects, they have slowly caught up, for example, the bearings made by the Swedes are a must, the Krupp cannons of Prussia, the steam forging hammers of France, and the Swiss, of course, are represented by watches. Even the United States has its own strengths, and Morse brought new long-range telegraph technology this time.

After Zhu Jinglun watched it for five days, he was no longer interested, because basically what he glanced at had already been memorized in his mind, his memory was so amazing, there was no need to go to the expo again, after seeing this expo, he basically had a basic understanding of the current world's technological level.

A few days ago, Zhu Jinglun asked the investment advertisements sent to the newspapers of various countries to continuously receive feedback from various countries, and the situation was much better than he imagined.

This is the industrial age, the most indispensable thing in this era in Europe is that there is a large number of dreamers, they dare to think and dare to do, they don't care about going anywhere, what is good is called the realization of ideals, and what is not good is the desire to make a fortune, or their ideal is to get rich.

A large number of famous inventors enjoy a high position in human history, such as Nobel, such as Edison, in fact, their personal morality is not commendable, their biggest motive for invention, in fact, are vulgar for money, these two people are lucky, they have made a fortune through invention and creation. There are many unfortunate inventors, and there are many who can't find investment in their inventions, and the famous Diesel invented the diesel engine, but finally went bankrupt and committed suicide by jumping into the sea.

Zhu Jinglun claimed in the newspaper that he would give loans to people who went to China to set up factories, and some people saw this as an opportunity for them to make a fortune, so they signed up very enthusiastically.

But the list sent back made Zhu Jinglun quite disappointed, these people reported their simple information, Zhu Jinglun was not satisfied, he originally wanted to attract a large enterprise like Krupp to invest and set up a factory, in his opinion, this kind of large enterprise in this era, they themselves are equivalent to an industry, they go to bring an industry, what can these penniless dreamers bring?

But now in the information sent back, there is no well-known large enterprise, the most reliable is to talk about a few engineers who said that they have been in some factories for a long time, these people may still be useful, but the usefulness is estimated to be not great, Nobel and his father are now operating in Daming in the bleak business, the factories they opened are not happy, these people go, can they do better than Nobel?

Looking at the list in disappointment, Zhu Jinglun's eyes suddenly lit up, and he hurriedly picked up a piece of paper that he had just thrown on the ground.

This is a copy from the Belgian embassy, and the third-to-last name in their list is translated as Mausser, but there are foreign remarks, and Zhu Jinglun almost didn't react.

Mausel, is it not Mauser?

At first, he couldn't see the information of those big enterprises, Zhu Jinglun still thought that big enterprises didn't worry about their livelihoods, maybe they had to come to invite them, and he was not in a hurry, so he thought that it would be good if there were a few reliable dreamers like Siemens and Nobel, but he didn't see Siemens, but he saw Mauser's name.

Like Siemens, the name was exciting, and after thinking about it, he couldn't tell whether Siemens or Mauser was more important.

It's just that Zhu Jinglun is a little strange, why is Mauser obviously a German, how can he be in Belgium?

"Arrange it, I'm going to meet this person as soon as possible!"

Don't guess, just call someone over and ask, and you'll know everything.

The Belgian embassy contacted William Mauser, and the young man was not pretentious at all, and immediately took the train to Paris.

After chatting with Mauser in detail, Zhu Jinglun understood why they went to Belgium, it turned out that this was the most difficult time for William Mauser.

Only then did Zhu Jinglun know that Wilhelm Mauser of this era had nothing to do with the later German Empire.

The later German Empire was a federation formed by Prussia and other German states, but Mauser was not a Prussian, so before Prussia unified Germany, Mauser had nothing to do with Prussia.

Mauser was born in the Kingdom of Württemberg and spent the first half of his life in Obendorf, a small town in the Kingdom of Württemberg, where the King of Württemberg built a royal arsenal in 1811, and Mauser's father was one of more than 100 workers, and the Mauser brothers were apprentices in this factory since childhood.

Therefore, Mauser, like many inventors of this era, is also a grassroots inventor who is not from a professional background.

But with the strict apprenticeship education of the German tradition, so that the technical level of the Mauser brothers is very good, their brothers when they were apprentices, began to explore the design of rifles, and this year by improving the French Chasebo rear-loading rifle, invented a rear-loading rifle with a rotating rear pull bolt, this rifle is later equipped with the famous Mauser 71 rifle of the German Army, but unfortunately there is no shadow of unified Germany now, and their rifles cannot be sold at all.

Even more regrettable, not long ago, the arsenal where the Mauser brothers worked was closed, and the Mauser family lost their jobs.

After a few turnarounds, they took the rifle drawings of their own design and found a sponsor, the representative of the American Remington Gun Company in Belgium, so they went to Belgium to work for this guy named Norris.

They produced their rifles in Norris's arsenal, but they couldn't sell them at all.

Norris was so worried about this, and after only one year of history, Norris ended his funding for them, and the brothers had to return to Germany and open a small workshop to survive, until their designs were valued by the unified German Army, and they turned around and flourished.

But now the German Army obviously has no chance, because Zhu Jinglun has taken the lead.

As for the conditions proposed by Mauser, Zhu Jinglun agreed without much thought.

The Mauser brothers saw in the newspaper that Daming was publishing investment information, they hesitated to sign up, their purpose was actually very simple, hoping to sell their rifles, Mauser said to Zhu Jinglun that if the Ming army was willing to equip the rifles they designed, they would be willing to go to Daming to open a factory.

This is not too much to ask, and it is a good price to dig up the flags of the infantry weapons of the Germans after the Germans at this price. But in this case, what rifles will the Germans call for in the future? (To be continued.) )